Greetings, great video. Thank you for sharing. A question, I'm assuming that the planks are green wood. How is the shrinking, twisting, and warping as the planks age dealt with in this style of vessel. All of the boats I've built have been with dry wood or plywood. Comments? Ideas? Suggestions? Thank you. And keep up the great work and educating the rest of us. pax. PL
I dont think those were made out of green wood. Those boats were "the machines" of the age, woodwork at its finest, and it doesnt make sense to make it out of green wood and suffer the warping, twisting and "breathing" afterwards. In my humble opinion, they were taking care of the ship so they were checking the seal regularly. I'm far from being a professional in this topic but I know a little bit about wood as a material and trees in general. They also might have been making them on green wood too.
@@Krompierre. I'm not sure about the oak planks on danish ships, just from experience i would imagine that using hand tools it would be too much of a hassle to work on dry oak. Some traditional boat builders working with spruce and pine in Norway intentionally soak the planks in sea water before fitting to make them more playable, when they are fittet and put to the sea they soak up water, filling in the lands between the planks to make it waterproof. That's why we sink boats intentionally if they are dry
@@yeetmachine1737 Dry oak is arms/hands killer, it's really hard and resist twisting and bendind very well but it's slightly brittle, it's critical breaking angle isnt great. It's usefull for fornuture, utensils and it's usually good looking. I doubt it would be used for shipbuilding in dry form while spruce could be used even bone dry
@@Krompierre. I've only worked with oak once in the context of boat building at we used it green. The spruce doesn't need to be dry unless you want to fiberglass, i use it whet as it's much easier to fit
Green wood all the way. Easier to work with. Also you are looking through a modern perspective. They could build a new one every year so why bother preserving an old one?Just think about it: there must have been thousands of them around. Look how few the archeologists find. I don't think these were passed down the generations. In my opinion the lifespan of a boat like this is 3 to 5 years top. Afterwards the wood was used for a chicken coop or heating.
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Greetings, great video. Thank you for sharing. A question, I'm assuming that the planks are green wood. How is the shrinking, twisting, and warping as the planks age dealt with in this style of vessel. All of the boats I've built have been with dry wood or plywood. Comments? Ideas? Suggestions? Thank you. And keep up the great work and educating the rest of us. pax. PL
I dont think those were made out of green wood. Those boats were "the machines" of the age, woodwork at its finest, and it doesnt make sense to make it out of green wood and suffer the warping, twisting and "breathing" afterwards. In my humble opinion, they were taking care of the ship so they were checking the seal regularly. I'm far from being a professional in this topic but I know a little bit about wood as a material and trees in general. They also might have been making them on green wood too.
@@Krompierre. I'm not sure about the oak planks on danish ships, just from experience i would imagine that using hand tools it would be too much of a hassle to work on dry oak. Some traditional boat builders working with spruce and pine in Norway intentionally soak the planks in sea water before fitting to make them more playable, when they are fittet and put to the sea they soak up water, filling in the lands between the planks to make it waterproof. That's why we sink boats intentionally if they are dry
@@yeetmachine1737 Dry oak is arms/hands killer, it's really hard and resist twisting and bendind very well but it's slightly brittle, it's critical breaking angle isnt great. It's usefull for fornuture, utensils and it's usually good looking. I doubt it would be used for shipbuilding in dry form while spruce could be used even bone dry
@@Krompierre. I've only worked with oak once in the context of boat building at we used it green. The spruce doesn't need to be dry unless you want to fiberglass, i use it whet as it's much easier to fit
Green wood all the way. Easier to work with. Also you are looking through a modern perspective. They could build a new one every year so why bother preserving an old one?Just think about it: there must have been thousands of them around. Look how few the archeologists find. I don't think these were passed down the generations. In my opinion the lifespan of a boat like this is 3 to 5 years top. Afterwards the wood was used for a chicken coop or heating.
Denmarks oldest larger city...goes as far back as year 700.