@@noahnaseri2220that’s so cool. I’m definitely going to have to look him up. My son is a history fanatic, and we love building simple structures on our farm. They’re so lovely. He would be amazing to learn more from. I took two classes from Cody Lundin for his survival knowledge, and it was the best decision ever. Learn from the real masters, not just any influencer that pops up.
This video warmed my heart. In 1983, we built our log home from poplar logs. Slightly different laying style (long log, so no chinking really needed). But we dragged the logs with horses, and 10 year old me spent a whole spring and summer with two tanbark spuds peeling all of them. And occasionally…ok…frequently …slipping and getting cut on the little sharp teats that poplar has under the bark. Still can smell it, “feel” the wood, remember all of it. And yes, parents still live in it. 😀
Man, I could listen to this guy for hours. He’s like a Southern version of Joe Pera. Except with an axe and knee high stockings. Any chance you can make him a regular?
My grandmothers both said things like "why would you want to do it the old way when we have so many new things?" They made do but were so grateful for advances. I wish they had shared more stories with me but I'm glad for what I do remember.
People who walk the walk--who really have to live the life just to make it--are very thankful for technology and convenience. We often romanticize primitive lifestyles, but guaranteed they'll jump at the chance to have a well dug so their daughters don't have to deal with cross to get their water.
You help me, I help you. A natural response to hard times and making do with what you had. Helps me better understand the "crisis" in scripture when the servant's axe head fell into deep water. Tools were expensive and the servant was able to borrow the expensive tool. That made the job much easier, faster and better done. Fortunate that God had a good man from which to borrow and to retrieve the expensive axe head when it came apart. God is faithful in both high spiritual things and everyday things such as notching a log. God bless this channel.
Would definitely love to hear more from Jamie. He sounds super knowledgeable and in our times we have no clue if we might need his kind of knowledge. Good content as always.
I can't express how much I enjoyed the explanations given in this video. That people didn't have tools or knew what they were doing they just did it anyway. Loved it.
Two pen structure= dogtrot. My favorite design. I've found that hewing wall logs of pine or fir up to about 14" diameter to be quite ralaxing, so long as you keep your tools sharp and don't get in a hurry.
This 18th century building stuff just never gets old. I think because it was the highest level of building crafting that an ordinary person could accomplish without special training and equipment. I feel if the world ever went crazy, this is something that you could revert to.
@@diavoloalexander485 I wouldn't say that, but it's easier to learn designing cabins like these than many other more safe and durable modern structures.
Great video, I like hearing someone who clearly has researched and thought a lot about this stuff. Something about his accent too just screams "frontier", and I love it.
So exciting & interesting to see how this was done. The narrator is obviously very knowledeable and does a wonderful job in explaining how & why things were done. I have great admiration for these men and this channel. God bless them all.
I'm french Canadian and I'm grateful for the accurate subtitles on this one. Same as I'd be if the gentleman were Scot or Irish. Impressive work. The tools and techniques are fascinating - I especially like all those kinds of axes. Their dedication is fortunate for the survival of this knowledge.
What an absolute legend. Truly, I am a veteran and I tip my hat in respect, the passion and dedication this man has is absolutely beautiful to hear and see 👍🏻
Wow, I disappointed when the video ended. What a wealth of knowledge, passion and enthusiasm. Excellent explanation of why things were done they way there were and healthy dose or reality.
We all need to learn how to do this and break our backs a bit. I dug a 120ft trench with a spade, not a machine, and maybe it's not my suggested way of doing it but it taught me a lot about digging techniques and sloping.
As someone with a very similar accent to this lovely man, it’s so nice to see it represented so competently. 🥰 He’s so freaking smart. I’d love to take a class from him.
At 7:50 and 7:58 you can hear a distinctive marker of Appalachian English. First he’s talking about “pins,” which he also calls pegs just seconds earlier. Then he talks about “pens,” meaning the corrals for holding animals. The i and e sounds are merged for us here. That’s why we have to distinguish between an ink pen and a sewing pin. Audibly there’s no difference.
Townsends have produced so many wonderful videos on 18th century life in America. However, one subject is conspicuous by its absence - glassmaking! I am reliably informed that the first manufactory of the Jamestown settlement was a glassworks. Though it eventually failed as a commercial enterprise by the middle of the 18th century there were glass factories in New York and South Jersey. I would love to see a video on how glass window panes, bottles, and drinking vessels were made in 18th century America.
👍👍👍👍👍- finally, someone who tells it like it is on the frontier, mostly poor people with no possessions, nothing. Instead of elevating everyone to the level of story books and the likes of Laura Ingles' family, Davy Crocket's family and George Washington's lifestyle.
Laura Ingalls' family lived in a cabin in the woods, then a sod hut. Her father was constantly on the moved, ruined crops, failed farms, failed businesses. Not exactly George Washington's lifestyle.
@@sheilam4964 Pa Ingalls had to hoard nails and borrowing them from a neighbor was akin to borrowing a significant amount of money which he made sure to repay as soon as possible so as not to be "beholden" to anyone, friend, relative, or stranger. If he lost a nail while nailing it into the roof boards, his little girls running around the house would look for it until they found it, bring it back to him, and he would carefully tap it back straight to use again. When he didn't have nails, he had to whittle out pegs to pound into holes that he drilled out. You do make a good point that the tools to do this in and of themselves were a very valuable asset and represented a degree of personal wealth. The family homes in Malone, NY, Walnut Creek, MN and in De Smet, SD are historical sites, but the "Little House in the Big Woods" near Peppin, WI, which was turned into a corn crib in her lifetime, and the "Little House on the Prairie" in Indian Territory of now Oklahoma are both gone because, as he says, they were not intended as permanent structures. The TV show was pretty silly and a closer representation of the values of the 1970s rather than those of the 1870s. Reading the "Little House" books as an adult is a revelation! There is the text from the perspective of a child observing her parents, then there is the underlying subtext giving glimpses of the strains and tides in the adult relationship between her parents. It was also over one hundred years removed from the time period that they are representing here. Charles Ingalls was following in well-trod footsteps and had learned considerably from the mistakes and experiences of others.
That accent though. Awesome. Also, "throwin' out the corner cupboard so you can have a nice hoosier cabinet" is an amazing piece of local dialect. This guy is a wonderful study in regional dialects and sociolinguistics. I'd bet you 90% of people in the U.S. couldn't even come close to identifying his accent.
I'm from southcentral Kentucky and he's definitely from Tennessee. I love hearing natural dialect and accent. One of my college professors was from North Carolina and he studied sociolinguistics. He said dialects are bounded by rivers, mountain ridges, and valleys. I loved his classes!
Now I find tools such as these in the metal bin at the town dump. Every single one comes home with me and is a piece of history that needs a little love to be as good as new. The two saws I found last year like shown near the end of the video not only look great on the mantle but made the mantle out of blow down.
Fascinating. I would love to have him do a show & tell with each tool. For example, there are what look like giant staples holding the looks in place. It would be nice to know what they were called, what sizes were used & how common they were. Loggers used something similar to hold chains which joined full logs together in a “boom” of logs to be moved across a lake.
This is very interesting...it's hard work but pays off.. I still haven't made the outdoor oven yet..I been working alot all summer... I did watch the video again ..I've got a bunch of concrete blocks ..I thought about using these when I do get started in this.
What a wonderful and intelligent man. He blessed us with his knowledge and insight in a subject that I, personally, am woefully uneducated in. I hope we see more of him in the future!
I'm curious about the history of log cabin corner joinery. It seems that many were built during this time to be built quickly, not for longevity, but I've been noticing that the homes built by the Scandinavian settlers in places like North Dakota built homes that still stand today because they employed a dovetail style joinery at the corners, angled in such a way to shed water, rather than letting it sit on the flats between logs. I would love to know what types of joinery may have been used in early American history and by whom and the pros and cons of each.
There are still many many log structures all over the US that were built to last. Oftentimes they've been sheathed over and resemble frame structures but the thick walls are a tell. Not many cabins are left, as they were usually a semi-disposable thing. Typically a "log cabin" would be differentiated from a "log house." "Cabins" were where people of little capital would abide, while "houses" were more upscale and permanent, with more attention paid to joinery and square-hewn timber. The half-dovetail notch is my favorite hewn log join, as it is relatively simple to cut, sheds water to the outside of the joint, and tends to pull the logs together, solidifying the structure. There are many other log joinery methods with different virtues and vices, and if your autistic enough it's really fun to look into.
We need way more of this man's knowledge on Townsends! He's absolutely fascinating.
I can't believe how much knowledge just fell out of his mouth, that was amazing.
Jamie is an absolute legend. He gave me all my knowledge to build my light straw clay structure.
it is a great team...
Agreed. I could listen to him for hours.
@@noahnaseri2220that’s so cool. I’m definitely going to have to look him up. My son is a history fanatic, and we love building simple structures on our farm. They’re so lovely. He would be amazing to learn more from.
I took two classes from Cody Lundin for his survival knowledge, and it was the best decision ever. Learn from the real masters, not just any influencer that pops up.
There is nothing silly about learning to build a log cabin. I love log cabins! Bravo to the man who knows how to build a log cabin.
Give this man an entire series on building log homes. Let his knowledge pass on and help him start a channel if you must.
I second this motion. 🍻
I could spend hours listening to someone like him talk! Very interesting video
My thoughts exactly.
It's that accent. U-tensil. Tayhn years. It's super immersive
But luckily for non-native speakers there are subtitles 😉.
This guy is fascinating! More of him please!
This video warmed my heart. In 1983, we built our log home from poplar logs. Slightly different laying style (long log, so no chinking really needed). But we dragged the logs with horses, and 10 year old me spent a whole spring and summer with two tanbark spuds peeling all of them. And occasionally…ok…frequently …slipping and getting cut on the little sharp teats that poplar has under the bark. Still can smell it, “feel” the wood, remember all of it. And yes, parents still live in it. 😀
Man, I could listen to this guy for hours. He’s like a Southern version of Joe Pera. Except with an axe and knee high stockings. Any chance you can make him a regular?
My grandmothers both said things like "why would you want to do it the old way when we have so many new things?" They made do but were so grateful for advances. I wish they had shared more stories with me but I'm glad for what I do remember.
People who walk the walk--who really have to live the life just to make it--are very thankful for technology and convenience. We often romanticize primitive lifestyles, but guaranteed they'll jump at the chance to have a well dug so their daughters don't have to deal with cross to get their water.
Interesting how a service and contracting system develops on the frontier.
You help me, I help you. A natural response to hard times and making do with what you had. Helps me better understand the "crisis" in scripture when the servant's axe head fell into deep water. Tools were expensive and the servant was able to borrow the expensive tool. That made the job much easier, faster and better done. Fortunate that God had a good man from which to borrow and to retrieve the expensive axe head when it came apart. God is faithful in both high spiritual things and everyday things such as notching a log. God bless this channel.
There is no question that I was watching a man that knows his craft. Excellent presentation!
I've always wondered how every pioneer had the tools and skills to build a cabin. Now I know! This man has a wealth of knowledge!
What a well-spoken and knowledgeable man. I honestly could listen to him teach about this subject for hours. That was really enjoyable.
Forgetting the past, we are doomed to relive it again,,, ya done good,, Good to see a traveling man at work!
So great to see Mr. Tyree featured here again. Thanks so much!
Would definitely love to hear more from Jamie. He sounds super knowledgeable and in our times we have no clue if we might need his kind of knowledge. Good content as always.
I can't express how much I enjoyed the explanations given in this video. That people didn't have tools or knew what they were doing they just did it anyway. Loved it.
Two pen structure= dogtrot. My favorite design. I've found that hewing wall logs of pine or fir up to about 14" diameter to be quite ralaxing, so long as you keep your tools sharp and don't get in a hurry.
You’re right!
First mistake people make all too often, going and getting in a big hurry!
This 18th century building stuff just never gets old. I think because it was the highest level of building crafting that an ordinary person could accomplish without special training and equipment. I feel if the world ever went crazy, this is something that you could revert to.
You can build a house without training? AMAZING!!
@@diavoloalexander485 You can be a smartass without training
@@diavoloalexander485 I wouldn't say that, but it's easier to learn designing cabins like these than many other more safe and durable modern structures.
Absolutely, especially without power tools, electronics or advanced chemistry.
Or just revert to the structures that are already here.
Long time fan, I love how cozy your videos are while still promoting a self sufficient lifestyle.
The sounds of the tools working the wood were very satisfying.
Great video, I like hearing someone who clearly has researched and thought a lot about this stuff. Something about his accent too just screams "frontier", and I love it.
Love his way of speaking ❤️
Feels like something important to document as well
John, please bring us more of this man!
Love this guy! Bring him back!
Great Job T!
Great video, I love how Townsends has become a nexus for people with this level of expertise!
Wonderful to know people still know how to do this. Great channel.
So exciting & interesting to see how this was done. The narrator is obviously very knowledeable and does a wonderful job in explaining how & why things were done. I have great admiration for these men and this channel. God bless them all.
Mr. Chickadee and the Northmen have great videos on timber framing as well. Mr. Chickadee builds some really amazing structures.
I'm french Canadian and I'm grateful for the accurate subtitles on this one. Same as I'd be if the gentleman were Scot or Irish. Impressive work. The tools and techniques are fascinating - I especially like all those kinds of axes. Their dedication is fortunate for the survival of this knowledge.
What an absolute legend. Truly, I am a veteran and I tip my hat in respect, the passion and dedication this man has is absolutely beautiful to hear and see 👍🏻
fantastic getting to here someone share all that amazing knowledge
Peeling off that bark does look VERY satisfying ❤. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us.
He does a great job explaining in simple terms. Great video.
Wonderful episode, I learned a lot and it was fun too !
Wow, I disappointed when the video ended. What a wealth of knowledge, passion and enthusiasm. Excellent explanation of why things were done they way there were and healthy dose or reality.
I absolutely love listening to this guy talk!
God bless those who go through so much to learn,teach,and share so that we can carry on our old ways and that that precious knowledge not be lost.
This guy is really smart. Wish you would make some more videos with him and show us more stuff. John. T
Having a love for the craft probably extends to your heart for Masonry! ;)
This is one of my favorite types of Townsends content 💪🏻 Mr. Tyree is a wealth of knowledge 🪙⚒️
We all need to learn how to do this and break our backs a bit. I dug a 120ft trench with a spade, not a machine, and maybe it's not my suggested way of doing it but it taught me a lot about digging techniques and sloping.
This man's accent is so quietly infectious that inside of a matter of minutes, everything you imagine in your mind is coming out in his voice.
As someone with a very similar accent to this lovely man, it’s so nice to see it represented so competently. 🥰 He’s so freaking smart. I’d love to take a class from him.
Great video, reminds me of the Foxfire book series I found years ago dealing with simple backwoods life.
I can almost smell the wood. There is something about working fresh log’s that makes the air so sweet and fresh!😊💚🍀
Thank you, Jamie! Great presentation.
Outstanding!!! Thank you!. Went right back yo beginning a few times to pick up all the details and people working in background
At 7:50 and 7:58 you can hear a distinctive marker of Appalachian English. First he’s talking about “pins,” which he also calls pegs just seconds earlier. Then he talks about “pens,” meaning the corrals for holding animals. The i and e sounds are merged for us here. That’s why we have to distinguish between an ink pen and a sewing pin. Audibly there’s no difference.
My wife got me "A Reverence for Wood" for my birthday this year and I can't think of a better book to change your perspective of historic buildings.
Erik Sloane rules! He has a ton of great books!
Townsends have produced so many wonderful videos on 18th century life in America.
However, one subject is conspicuous by its absence - glassmaking!
I am reliably informed that the first manufactory of the Jamestown settlement was a glassworks. Though it eventually failed as a commercial enterprise by the middle of the 18th century there were glass factories in New York and South Jersey.
I would love to see a video on how glass window panes, bottles, and drinking vessels were made in 18th century America.
I could listen to him talk about logs all day
👍👍👍👍👍- finally, someone who tells it like it is on the frontier, mostly poor people with no possessions, nothing. Instead of elevating everyone to the level of story books and the likes of Laura Ingles' family, Davy Crocket's family and George Washington's lifestyle.
Laura Ingalls' family lived in a cabin in the woods, then a sod hut. Her father was constantly on the moved, ruined crops, failed farms, failed businesses. Not exactly George Washington's lifestyle.
@@stgermain1074 Almanzo’s family had the money in the kids’ books. But I don’t know the non-fiction version.
@@johnsrabe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder
@@stgermain1074 - did they have tools to build that cabin? If they did they weren't as poor as many of them. That's my point.
@@sheilam4964 Pa Ingalls had to hoard nails and borrowing them from a neighbor was akin to borrowing a significant amount of money which he made sure to repay as soon as possible so as not to be "beholden" to anyone, friend, relative, or stranger. If he lost a nail while nailing it into the roof boards, his little girls running around the house would look for it until they found it, bring it back to him, and he would carefully tap it back straight to use again. When he didn't have nails, he had to whittle out pegs to pound into holes that he drilled out. You do make a good point that the tools to do this in and of themselves were a very valuable asset and represented a degree of personal wealth. The family homes in Malone, NY, Walnut Creek, MN and in De Smet, SD are historical sites, but the "Little House in the Big Woods" near Peppin, WI, which was turned into a corn crib in her lifetime, and the "Little House on the Prairie" in Indian Territory of now Oklahoma are both gone because, as he says, they were not intended as permanent structures. The TV show was pretty silly and a closer representation of the values of the 1970s rather than those of the 1870s. Reading the "Little House" books as an adult is a revelation! There is the text from the perspective of a child observing her parents, then there is the underlying subtext giving glimpses of the strains and tides in the adult relationship between her parents. It was also over one hundred years removed from the time period that they are representing here. Charles Ingalls was following in well-trod footsteps and had learned considerably from the mistakes and experiences of others.
THANKS for a fine video interview with a true craftsman!
Another amazing video. If we all had some of these skills our society and civilization would be much more resilient.
Great video, thank you for showing us there real issues and challenges that were important to folks settling in new areas and opening the frontier.
I really enjoyed listing to the man talk and seeing the old way of building.
Wow, wow, wow. His knowledge level is great. If he’s not teaching people to build structures then he should. Great presentation!
You have such a beautiful way of filming and the chemstry is amazing with everyone
0:27 I have never heard this phrase in my life and I love it
Most excellent job. I could listen to this fellow more than a few times ..
Love the information
Love the video
Thank you
That accent though. Awesome. Also, "throwin' out the corner cupboard so you can have a nice hoosier cabinet" is an amazing piece of local dialect. This guy is a wonderful study in regional dialects and sociolinguistics. I'd bet you 90% of people in the U.S. couldn't even come close to identifying his accent.
The closest comparison that I can think of in film is Christopher Guest's character in Best In Show.
This guy needs his own RUclips channel!
Appalachia, Kentucky to be exact
@@kimfleury I mean, except that he's apparently from Tennessee.
I'm from southcentral Kentucky and he's definitely from Tennessee. I love hearing natural dialect and accent. One of my college professors was from North Carolina and he studied sociolinguistics. He said dialects are bounded by rivers, mountain ridges, and valleys. I loved his classes!
Great video. And tons of information. Good to see Keith working with you again. How about a visit with Shawn James? God Bless and stay safe.
I love these educational/informational videos!
Write this down in a book like Foxfire. Teach your kids and grandkids. Never forget these skills or the remarkable people who practiced them.
It's amazing that our ancestors did so much, with so little. We harken back to their time, yet they looked forward to ours.
Well Put Sir.
An excellent presentation. Congrats
Now I find tools such as these in the metal bin at the town dump. Every single one comes home with me and is a piece of history that needs a little love to be as good as new. The two saws I found last year like shown near the end of the video not only look great on the mantle but made the mantle out of blow down.
A wealth of great information! Thank you 🌞
Looking for something to watch while I steam bend a broad axe handle. How fitting! Unfortunately I won't be using it to build a cabin any time soon.
This person is a great teacher as well as a craftsman.
The Colonial Cinematic Universe just added another hero to their ranks.
Fascinating. I would love to have him do a show & tell with each tool. For example, there are what look like giant staples holding the looks in place. It would be nice to know what they were called, what sizes were used & how common they were. Loggers used something similar to hold chains which joined full logs together in a “boom” of logs to be moved across a lake.
The staples are called “dogs”.
Great job Brother! Another fantastic Townsends video!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! A learning experience for me.
This is very interesting...it's hard work but pays off..
I still haven't made the outdoor oven yet..I been working alot all summer...
I did watch the video again ..I've got a bunch of concrete blocks ..I thought about using these when I do get started in this.
What a wonderful and intelligent man. He blessed us with his knowledge and insight in a subject that I, personally, am woefully uneducated in. I hope we see more of him in the future!
I love his accent! Reminds me of my family and my childhood. He speaks like my family and I!
I'm curious about the history of log cabin corner joinery. It seems that many were built during this time to be built quickly, not for longevity, but I've been noticing that the homes built by the Scandinavian settlers in places like North Dakota built homes that still stand today because they employed a dovetail style joinery at the corners, angled in such a way to shed water, rather than letting it sit on the flats between logs. I would love to know what types of joinery may have been used in early American history and by whom and the pros and cons of each.
There are still many many log structures all over the US that were built to last. Oftentimes they've been sheathed over and resemble frame structures but the thick walls are a tell. Not many cabins are left, as they were usually a semi-disposable thing. Typically a "log cabin" would be differentiated from a "log house." "Cabins" were where people of little capital would abide, while "houses" were more upscale and permanent, with more attention paid to joinery and square-hewn timber.
The half-dovetail notch is my favorite hewn log join, as it is relatively simple to cut, sheds water to the outside of the joint, and tends to pull the logs together, solidifying the structure. There are many other log joinery methods with different virtues and vices, and if your autistic enough it's really fun to look into.
My great-great-grandfather's house is dovetail jointed. Built in the 1840's out of cypress.
@@saltwaterinmyveins If he made it out of cypress it could still be here 500 years from now.
Very good description, design and construction.
Great video. It's important to know where we came from.
It's nice to see his accent received warmly in these comments. Makes me less self-conscious of my own drawl.
So glad to see a brother on the channel!
That was fantastic!
This was really awesome to watch. Cheers!
Great video with a bit of history.
“It’s throwing out the corner cupboard so you could have a nice Hoosier cabinet” I’m going to use this
Excellent
This is so amazing. I wish I lived 200 years ago, before modern technology.
Very interesting-thank you for sharing your knowledge
Mr. Jamie Tyree, "Clinkerman", forger of household hardware, and hearth cooking utensils. 👍 What a Chad.
That guy is so cool. True historian.
More of this please!
Watching this was like pulling back the curtains to a window of time.
Can you please make a video on how to make the buckets out of bark?
Thanks for the awesome content and great video!!!!!
This was fascinating! Thanks! Dave J
Mega! The guy’s a genius.
All I have to say about this guy is WOW!
Those are some great saws.