Thanks Kris, this looks awesome you have put so much hard work in. I remember you said you are going to go for retrospect planing sure you mentioned some of the big supermarkets do this. So hope this works out ok as you have put in a load of work and if the planners had any doubts i am sure they could reference these videos to see how much design and thought has went in to this building.
Watched both versions 1 & 2. I liked your first intro coming from the house.... Would be great if you could do an update around the house now that the trees are in full leaf and lush with greenery. Either way I think what you are doing is stupendous, especially considering how much is done on your tod. Kudos
Looking very beautiful Kris! Hope the elbow repairs quickly. I had Carpel tunnel a few years ago , treated with a steroid injection. Amazing how limiting an injury can be!
Amazing to see how your workshop is taking shape more and more each video. Oh my, 28 degrees that's rather pleasant some places south. Tendinite tingling is long to heal. Do go easy.
Ive enjoyed this build so much Kris Im almost sad that it will be finished one day, might be worth putting some sedum's as well as turf/grass on the roof would look great and attract the insects/pollinators lots of other plants will just appear/volunteer on it to. Like the idea of a guide to the different timber longevity to as well as there uses thanks again Kris
Kris, I feel you with the tendonitis. I have to wear exactly that same kind of strap on my right forearm. Last summer I worked on the outside of our house so much, it gave me what they call tennis elbow. We installed a patio, which required us to haul roughly 24 tons of material by hand. Also built a nice wooden walkway from the deck to the patio. We stopped work in August and my right forearm still hurts as bad as the day it started hurting. They say it can take a year to recover, which will likely never happen for me because I'm just like you. I'm always doing some kind of work.
Brilliant! Sorry about the pain. My brother is doing a pole garage in New Brunswick, Canada. He will mill his own boards for the board and batten siding.All his posts are in.
Keep going mate! This is so inspirational! I appreciate the effort it must take you to film every step along the way. Must take you twice as long to get the job done due to filming
really nice!! i'm looking foward to do the same thing you've been doing and i recently found your videos, it's already giving me lots of light on the construction part of the process, and really warming my heart to take courage and just do it. thank you very much for that. hugs from the caotic brazil !
Chris your tennis elbow, I used to suffer the same problem, from the same sort of work. A new lady doctor at our practice showed me an exercise which made life much easier. Hold your hand palm up extended in front of you imagine a plate sitting on it and rotate your arm so that the plate remains on your hand in a roughly figure of eight pattern. I am sure you must have seen dancers and plate jugglers doing the same sort of thing, half a dozen full rotations, three times a day after meals ,should put you right there is no need to go mad with this exercise, keep it gentle and regular.Has worked for me and my mates give it a go.
Kris, you are smart, turns the simple into something cool, dimanico. You live in a beautiful place in nature. Marcia Martini and Familia Martini. Congratulations and a lot of happiness. From Brazil 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😄😆😃⛏🔨⚒🔧🛠⚙💗💗💗💗🌹🏵🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Wood durability video would be brilliant, any chance of a ‘how to identify uk species for dummies’, any tips on bark, tree stature would be great.thanks in advance
oak is good underwater but there are other cheaper options that are just as good if kept wet. larch and alder are famous for be the foundations of Venis Oak will also rot any metal fixings in it within a year or two unless you use stainless steel. it really depends on the application
just plowing through your videos, so I know Im late to the game. But two things that you MUST buy! A windshield for your microphone so you can stop saying "sorry for the wind", and a few ripping chains because if anybody ever needed ripping chains that would be you my man. Keep these coming, they are great to watch.
What is the best sustainable roof material that will last if turf is not possible due to klimate? Old school tile or maybe thatch? Metal roofs are yust so ugly. Great video can’t wait for the next one!
Second? I really look forward to your new videos and i think you should not change your video because some people think what you do isnt safe enough for the internet... Keep up the good work i really enjoy watching your videos👍🏽
Hi Kris, I'm surprised no-one has asked, or maybe I'm being thick.. Where is the rain water supposed to go if you put the fascias on before the waterproof membrane? I would have thought you'd have the membrane running down over the end grain of the main timbers and then put the fascia over that, so the water runs in between. Are you going to put the membrane over the inside of the fascias too, using the whole bottom section of the roof as a massive gutter that then dissipates at one end? Greetings from Snowdonia
Kris, any chance you're a ropey (irata) have seen a few things watching your series which suggest to me you might be? Love the series, and your devotion to the project/projects....well done!
Hey Kris, I was wondering how your solar was doing with the recent heatwave. Sunny weather is good of course but too much heat impacts the efficiency. Did you notice your energy levels lower than usual? I'm curious, especially while the hydro is off during the upgrade
Hi great question, I was actualy playing with this the other day. on a cold and sunny day i have seen 980w from my 1000w of solar but on these hot days im seeing 720w. i ran a hose up to them and let the water flow over them cooling them. They instantly went up to about 850w but i think the water itself was blocking some light so they wouldn't get up to the max they can. i was plumping the water with a 250w pump so it would not make sence to do it really but it was an interesting test and confirmed to me that yes heat makes a very big difference. I would always install them on the ground with plenty of space behind to cool. up on roofs in this heat they will run very poorly
We have a fungus that eats wood here in Chile really fast. That with the cool wet weather and buckets of rain make wood dissolve like butter. Good job with the saw. When I use my saw to mill it eats a lot of bar oil Have you had that problem?
I wonder if the woods around you just are not that durable? i wonder how that fungus would deal with something like Robinia pseudoacacia. Yeah i do have that problem, also the oil cant get to the end of the chain and it tend to get hot at the end.
@@KrisHarbour Yes there are a few hard woods there that are really durable but they are also expensive at the same time and I typically use them for furniture or cabinets or windowsills. There is a screw on the Chain saw that regulates the amount of oil that comes out but I do not typically mess with it. So I do get over heated bars. Love the Hydro by the way. You have inspired me to do my own here in Chile. I already have a 10KW solar plant so Hydro is my next upgrade. Jim
Every time I watch you put a screw in, I want to ask - so here goes. How come most screws I put in end up with the cross head bit for the drill slipping and mashing itself? Do you have any advice? Particular bits? Or am I doing something wrong (I'm not talking about the impact driver with the socket on by the way) thanks
How do you make the first cut, when milling the logs using the chainsaw mill? I'm struggling to imagine how you get that flat in order to use it as a reference for the subsequent cuts.
You need to use something as a flat reference for the chainsaw attachment to rest on. I use a ladder which I screw through the rungs to the log to make the first cut.
Last thing you want when useing a chainsaw for fine work is it to be mega sharp. it bites to hard and you end up taking to much off. it far better having it so it cuts fine but doest really pull itself in to the wood. I prefer it that way anyway. Unless you mean the milling? the first log was with a chain that had hit a nail before and had different length teeth right down to the end of there life. the last log was with a new chain.
I meant both - the first milling seemed much more smooth than the last, but that could have been the timelapse. I see your point on the precision work. Maybe you could leave the depth gauge / guard link a bit higher. My concern here is that the chain heats up too much (did i see smoke?) which causes wear. Would sharp teeth with shallow cut and less speed maybe work? Just some thoughts. I have a chainsaw but don't nearly use it as much as you do but I thought I'd chip in (...) anyway.
Anything anywhere above 21DegC doing hard manual labour is tough. I've lived in UK and Australia (since 2000). So, on the flip side Aussies complain about it when it gets below 10DegC and even after nearly 20 years of living here I still wear short sleeves in 10DegC. Its all relative really. People that have lived in one place all their lives don't know any different. Also, what still makes me laugh living here is when it rains and all the drivers slow down to 30kmh..... in the UK everyone can drive in all conditions well and if it ever snowed or heavy ice it would stop Australia dead. Like I said, all relative to where you live and what you know. On a side note, when I've seen it get hot in Australia ( like 35 to 43) the work rate halves and so does the quality of work. The phrase "she'll be alright mate" applies thereafter, so in my line of work I got used to double checking work done as a lot of the time it was poor standard and needed redoing (at their cost and time, love it).
How it comes I wish I got a chainsaw for each hand ? It takes it source in the numbers of fingers used ... Got that one from a Dewalt offer onto "sets" ... Once ordered and delivered ... Well, hell yes it's same stuff as described into catalog, that's kind a contractual pictures if I could say . That how I learned to use a left handed circular saw ... Fore never get it, or . As said 4U2C By the way, not that handy to find silk suture sets ... From France, with .
If you class 28* celecis hot , maybe you need to come to Australia and try our summer out to get a sense off how hot it can get . Stop being a Princess.........
You are a talented and hard working man. Watching you create, craft and build has been a pleasure!
Man the progress you made in the last three years has been awesome and it's been fun watching you.
It occurs to me that with access to logs this would be a very cheap and efficient way of milling timber for raised garden beds too. Thanks Kris!
Wow, those freshly milled boards look gorgeous. That shop is really coming along - looking forward to seeing it closed in and covered up. Great work!
Thanks Kris, this looks awesome you have put so much hard work in. I remember you said you are going to go for retrospect planing sure you mentioned some of the big supermarkets do this. So hope this works out ok as you have put in a load of work and if the planners had any doubts i am sure they could reference these videos to see how much design and thought has went in to this building.
Watched both versions 1 & 2. I liked your first intro coming from the house.... Would be great if you could do an update around the house now that the trees are in full leaf and lush with greenery.
Either way I think what you are doing is stupendous, especially considering how much is done on your tod. Kudos
Looking very beautiful Kris! Hope the elbow repairs quickly. I had Carpel tunnel a few years ago , treated with a steroid injection. Amazing how limiting an injury can be!
Amazing to see how your workshop is taking shape more and more each video. Oh my, 28 degrees that's rather pleasant some places south. Tendinite tingling is long to heal. Do go easy.
Ive enjoyed this build so much Kris Im almost sad that it will be finished one day, might be worth putting some sedum's as well as turf/grass on the roof would look great and attract the insects/pollinators lots of other plants will just appear/volunteer on it to. Like the idea of a guide to the different timber longevity to as well as there uses thanks again Kris
Kris, I feel you with the tendonitis. I have to wear exactly that same kind of strap on my right forearm. Last summer I worked on the outside of our house so much, it gave me what they call tennis elbow. We installed a patio, which required us to haul roughly 24 tons of material by hand. Also built a nice wooden walkway from the deck to the patio. We stopped work in August and my right forearm still hurts as bad as the day it started hurting. They say it can take a year to recover, which will likely never happen for me because I'm just like you. I'm always doing some kind of work.
Brilliant! Sorry about the pain. My brother is doing a pole garage in New Brunswick, Canada. He will mill his own boards for the board and batten siding.All his posts are in.
The definition of 'grafter'. Keep it up Kris!
Keep going mate! This is so inspirational!
I appreciate the effort it must take you to film every step along the way. Must take you twice as long to get the job done due to filming
Looking good. I like the way it seems to be growing out of the ground.
Excellent video, Kris! Good work! Looks amazing! Thank you!
really nice!!
i'm looking foward to do the same thing you've been doing and i recently found your videos, it's already giving me lots of light on the construction part of the process, and really warming my heart to take courage and just do it. thank you very much for that.
hugs from the caotic brazil
!
Chris your tennis elbow, I used to suffer the same problem, from the same sort of work. A new lady doctor at our practice showed me an exercise which made life much easier. Hold your hand palm up extended in front of you imagine a plate sitting on it and rotate your arm so that the plate remains on your hand in a roughly figure of eight pattern. I am sure you must have seen dancers and plate jugglers doing the same sort of thing, half a dozen full rotations, three times a day after meals ,should put you right there is no need to go mad with this exercise, keep it gentle and regular.Has worked for me and my mates give it a go.
Kris, you are smart, turns the simple into something cool, dimanico. You live in a beautiful place in nature. Marcia Martini and Familia Martini. Congratulations and a lot of happiness. From Brazil 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😄😆😃⛏🔨⚒🔧🛠⚙💗💗💗💗🌹🏵🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
Lovely boards with a beautiful effect. Great job again xx
It's such a perfect structure
i think that it is beginning to look proper nice now. well done Kris....
That milling rig is a pretty amazing bit of kit.
Love the way you work great chainsaw skill keep on doing what your doing the way you do it
Wood durability video would be brilliant, any chance of a ‘how to identify uk species for dummies’, any tips on bark, tree stature would be great.thanks in advance
I will try and get around to making that video then. Thanks for the input :)
I would like your comments on the durability of oak in a water environment
@@toothrobber8076 underwater? or in a wet dry cycle?
oak is good underwater but there are other cheaper options that are just as good if kept wet. larch and alder are famous for be the foundations of Venis
Oak will also rot any metal fixings in it within a year or two unless you use stainless steel.
it really depends on the application
Thanks Chris, another good video, hope your arm stops hurting soon
just plowing through your videos, so I know Im late to the game. But two things that you MUST buy! A windshield for your microphone so you can stop saying "sorry for the wind", and a few ripping chains because if anybody ever needed ripping chains that would be you my man. Keep these coming, they are great to watch.
I could feel my elbows hurt when I watched you put those pipes on the other video!
Looking really good Kris.
Love your videos, your can do attitude and yes please, a vid on different wood types and durability would be fab.
Finally a new video , was waiting for it , thnaks
Amazing work Kris, fair play to you man , inspirational stuff👍
Amazing man, i wish i was half as good as you
Cant wait to see the finished product!
Really coming together! Making me want a chainsaw mill myself.
I loved watching you come out of your little house at the beginning of your vid. It must be a marvelous place to live? 🦔🐦
Great job but more importantly take care of yourself.
I have a suggestion for a new slang term: "Dude you really Harboured it!" (to plan and execute something extraordinary)
What is the best sustainable roof material that will last if turf is not possible due to klimate? Old school tile or maybe thatch? Metal roofs are yust so ugly.
Great video can’t wait for the next one!
Oak or cedar shingles are a very long lasting roof if done right. I am a big fan of them.
Thanks for the help!
Second?
I really look forward to your new videos and i think you should not change your video because some people think what you do isnt safe enough for the internet...
Keep up the good work i really enjoy watching your videos👍🏽
I agree. None of their concern. Don't like it,,, don't watch.
Hi Kris, I'm surprised no-one has asked, or maybe I'm being thick.. Where is the rain water supposed to go if you put the fascias on before the waterproof membrane? I would have thought you'd have the membrane running down over the end grain of the main timbers and then put the fascia over that, so the water runs in between. Are you going to put the membrane over the inside of the fascias too, using the whole bottom section of the roof as a massive gutter that then dissipates at one end? Greetings from Snowdonia
Amazing, looks beautiful, thanks :)
Kris, any chance you're a ropey (irata) have seen a few things watching your series which suggest to me you might be? Love the series, and your devotion to the project/projects....well done!
Hard work
Yes brother Kris!
Hey Kris, I was wondering how your solar was doing with the recent heatwave. Sunny weather is good of course but too much heat impacts the efficiency. Did you notice your energy levels lower than usual? I'm curious, especially while the hydro is off during the upgrade
Hi great question, I was actualy playing with this the other day. on a cold and sunny day i have seen 980w from my 1000w of solar but on these hot days im seeing 720w. i ran a hose up to them and let the water flow over them cooling them. They instantly went up to about 850w but i think the water itself was blocking some light so they wouldn't get up to the max they can. i was plumping the water with a 250w pump so it would not make sence to do it really but it was an interesting test and confirmed to me that yes heat makes a very big difference. I would always install them on the ground with plenty of space behind to cool. up on roofs in this heat they will run very poorly
Looks so good.
We have a fungus that eats wood here in Chile really fast. That with the cool wet weather and buckets of rain make wood dissolve like butter. Good job with the saw. When I use my saw to mill it eats a lot of bar oil Have you had that problem?
I wonder if the woods around you just are not that durable? i wonder how that fungus would deal with something like Robinia pseudoacacia. Yeah i do have that problem, also the oil cant get to the end of the chain and it tend to get hot at the end.
@@KrisHarbour Yes there are a few hard woods there that are really durable but they are also expensive at the same time and I typically use them for furniture or cabinets or windowsills.
There is a screw on the Chain saw that regulates the amount of oil that comes out but I do not typically mess with it. So I do get over heated bars. Love the Hydro by the way. You have inspired me to do my own here in Chile. I already have a 10KW solar plant so Hydro is my next upgrade. Jim
Every time I watch you put a screw in, I want to ask - so here goes. How come most screws I put in end up with the cross head bit for the drill slipping and mashing itself? Do you have any advice? Particular bits? Or am I doing something wrong (I'm not talking about the impact driver with the socket on by the way) thanks
I tend to use screws with a torx head 👍 they are so much better
@@KrisHarbour thanks Kris, I'll look into it 👍
i love this design i want to make one. I like the round roof with sky light its beautiful. Did you go to a workshop to learn how?
Can't figure out why you weren't taking advantage of your new overhang to mill that wood in the shade given how hot it was out there...
Looking good!
Don't these fascia boards impede water drainage from the roof? Or am I not understanding how the liner + sod roof system works?
I love the videos!
If I even think about making a cut without eye protection I'll be picking splinters out of my eyes... as my luck goes.
You mill a lot of logs, maybe a mini sawmill would be a good investment? Something you could use for additional income too.
Are you going to just do a gravel floor or have you got some other plan in mind?
Tung oil is the answer for preservation of the wood, natural oil from tung tree (known to man for more than 2000 years)
"The Larch"!
I take it the reupload was do to the random clip in the timelapse haha? Ill comment again then looking good my man!
yep, what a doughnut :D Thanks
Has he ever said whether or not his round cob house is cool inside when it's so hot outside?
Are you planning to be in with a Woodstove by Christmas?
Bet you don't want to do circle roofs again 😂
crafting wooden planks in minecraft be like
Be sure to take magnesium tablet twice a day
composting your weeds and sawdust is a good idea if not already
I keep it for the compost toilet.
How do you make the first cut, when milling the logs using the chainsaw mill? I'm struggling to imagine how you get that flat in order to use it as a reference for the subsequent cuts.
You need to use something as a flat reference for the chainsaw attachment to rest on. I use a ladder which I screw through the rungs to the log to make the first cut.
Looks like a bit more frequent sharpening would do you good. Or is it hard wood?
Result looks awesome :)
Last thing you want when useing a chainsaw for fine work is it to be mega sharp. it bites to hard and you end up taking to much off. it far better having it so it cuts fine but doest really pull itself in to the wood. I prefer it that way anyway. Unless you mean the milling? the first log was with a chain that had hit a nail before and had different length teeth right down to the end of there life. the last log was with a new chain.
I meant both - the first milling seemed much more smooth than the last, but that could have been the timelapse.
I see your point on the precision work. Maybe you could leave the depth gauge / guard link a bit higher. My concern here is that the chain heats up too much (did i see smoke?) which causes wear. Would sharp teeth with shallow cut and less speed maybe work?
Just some thoughts. I have a chainsaw but don't nearly use it as much as you do but I thought I'd chip in (...) anyway.
Does this house have problems with termites? (Earthbag)
😲😀😲😀👍
Looks like a crackhead Bilbo Baggins’ house
"Quit milling around."
28c isn't terribly hot unless it is humid. Here its 35 and 90% humidity.
Anything anywhere above 21DegC doing hard manual labour is tough.
I've lived in UK and Australia (since 2000). So, on the flip side Aussies complain about it when it gets below 10DegC and even after nearly 20 years of living here I still wear short sleeves in 10DegC.
Its all relative really.
People that have lived in one place all their lives don't know any different.
Also, what still makes me laugh living here is when it rains and all the drivers slow down to 30kmh..... in the UK everyone can drive in all conditions well and if it ever snowed or heavy ice it would stop Australia dead. Like I said, all relative to where you live and what you know.
On a side note, when I've seen it get hot in Australia ( like 35 to 43) the work rate halves and so does the quality of work. The phrase "she'll be alright mate" applies thereafter, so in my line of work I got used to double checking work done as a lot of the time it was poor standard and needed redoing (at their cost and time, love it).
You should use Moon Wood great documentary on youtube regarding it resistance to Bugs, Rot even fire 🔥 Moon Wood is the choice for Me.
My girl says she liked you better without the man bun. I don't even know what to think anymore.
With your ability to Mill logs into boards I'm wondering why you're using so many other materials, when you can replace them easily with wood?
such as?
How it comes I wish I got a chainsaw for each hand ?
It takes it source in the numbers of fingers used ...
Got that one from a Dewalt offer onto "sets" ...
Once ordered and delivered ...
Well, hell yes it's same stuff as described into catalog, that's kind a contractual pictures if I could say .
That how I learned to use a left handed circular saw ...
Fore never get it, or .
As said 4U2C
By the way, not that handy to find silk suture sets ...
From France, with .
First
If you class 28* celecis hot , maybe you need to come to Australia and try our summer out to get a sense off how hot it can get . Stop being a Princess.........
Err, why would he care what temperature it gets to in a country he doesn't live in..............??!