Has he started Dragon Slayer yet?

What a Maneuver! “You

@@TriggertheTaco Still need to finish the other stations and get some more quest points I think.

Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you’ll feed him for a lifetime.

Well, one must be a multi-tasker out in the Frontier. Well done, Sir.

I hope he is - that means content for years and years forward

I hope he is. I also hope he makes it accessible to public for visits or to host events and workshops

@@CroatiaSurvival Oh, that would be so cool. I might go there just to see it!

He's preparing you for what's coming.

I hope so! And now we know how to build our own houses too!

I want chicken tho ugh bruh

Yea its really filling the craftsmen jones Primitive Technology has left behind. All the other stone age channels I'm not a fan of. Even better that its on Townsends its honestly one of the few channels I don't get annoyed with. He really somehow manages to have the perfect balance of narration and showing instead of telling. This also feels like a good progression from sticks and stones to frontiersmen. Now if only there was a decent medieval channel that doesn't just have a guy standing infront of a camera talking.

@@pokeman5000 Try "Primitive Skills" for a PT style channel with more of a farming focus to it. It's the only channel of the "primitive" ones I've seen (PT included) that could actually live there and feed himself if he needed to. Mr. Chickadee is another channel you might enjoy, sort of a cross between this new Townsends series on frontier homesteading and PT style of silent crafting, well worth a look if you're into that sort of thing.

@@pokeman5000 Watch Shawn Woods' early primitive crafting videos. They're every bit as good as these, with content similar to this, and showcase just how ingenious our ancestors were in toolcraft and construction.

@@pokeman5000 If you look up 'building a castle medieval method' there is a lot of videos about this interesting project in France. It's exactly what is says on the tin.

I have been kicking around an idea for a gym were you do traditional wood working turn logs into fine planks and build timber frame kits.

@@imchris5000 we could push the idea further and make so that the gym sells what's made by the people who go there... and then give some back to them... if it makes some bucks, maybe the people will come more often, maybe a full day... they could make a whole salary there... idk, it sounds familiar

So they had one massive leg! Then one normal one :P.

@mickey7411 Ok bruh

Yeah, but can you imagine how unbalanced their muscles would be, only ever doing the same few motions.

"no violence" the video: man ax murders living organism and then uses it's dead body to shred it's brothers.

Men like that are becoming rare. What a great example for you.

It's amazing to see how people got things done way back without having to use electricity. There was a show I watched years back on my local PBS station of a man that built furniture using only tools hand tools devices that they used back in the 17th an 18th century. He even hand made tools an devices for the purpose busing certain tools like Jon did in this video.

I have been teaching myself to weave, and will teach myself to spin (and the plan is to grow and harvest and prepare the wool and flax, and perhaps nettles, for the spinning), and the sheer amount of technical skill and innovation that goes into something so "mundane" to an uninformed casual observer is baffling. Little things that you need to develop a feel and a touch for, that are near impossible to explain in written text. Just getting the tension and rhythm right to make fine cloth will take me years. But I'm excited to keep learning.

@@JoeXTheXJuggalo1 The Woodwright Shop. Roy Underhill is pretty dang awesome.

@@BudgetGunsandGearReviews yeah that's it. I can't remember the name of it.

Wood is splintery and it comes from trees. So that's two things I know.

@Herbert Munson ** me also nodding, because I think you are more knowledgeable than me and I'll ask you later**

This is me too

Oh yes of course wouldn’t use anything different

Thats why every larger settlement has a smith to repair them, forge-weld broken pieces together, reshape and sharpen the knife until nothing is left.

@@aenorist2431 even smaller settlements- if you look at old villages you'll always find a forge cottage or something along those lines

And the smallest of towns who did not have a knife sharpener would hire nomadic traveling knife sharpeners.

@@NoobNoobNews Until very recently, you could find those in Spain. A man with a small motorbike and a sharpening stone attached to the engine, anouncing his arrival with a whistle. I'm talking about the 1990's here, in small cities.

Spacehy there’s a guy in my town who rides a three wheel bicycle with a tool box and grinding wheel.

Don't wait until your area goes full cannibal mode to buy your place in the country;)!

dowels for the most part

My thoughs: all sorts of knobs for doors or cabinets, table legs, cup?, decorations for a fireplace? (split round in half) rolling pin?

Also handles for various implements.

The first thing you do with a lathe like his is to build the tools to make a better lathe. The history of technology can be told in the progressive generations of lathes. All of today's best lathes were built on yesterday's best lathes, after all.

@@NoobNoobNews except for the parts that were made on mills

I enjoy them but in my heart they are second two the cooking episodes. But still very enjoyable. I first found Townsend with his dug out canoe episodes.

@Eric Williams I actually think I prefer the episodes where they build and work on tools. The food is always fantastic but the semipermanence of the other projects really appeals to me.

I'll wait until the roof is properly shingled before bringing in soft, valuable textiles haha

I can see Ivy taking one look, making that face when she doesn't like something and saying something like "This needs a woman's touch!"

Thank you!

a lathe-lover, eh? I wonder if you had the same thought I did when he talked about how you only get to gouge on the downstroke like, just make your tool double-sided, obviously! though I'm sure if you asked the blacksmith he'd be like 'just get a continuous lathe'

I didn't catch that, honestly, but technically, you are both right. It is possible to cut on the up stroke as well, however, it is definitely not ideal (or even safe) to do so. Cutting on the up stroke can be dangerous, and unstable, as it lifts the chisel off the tool rest, though safety really is not a big issue on a relatively low speed, non-contunally turning lathe such as this. As for the gouge, it really can be used in one direction only, although there are other chisels which can be utilized for bidirectional cutting. In order to cut on an up stroke, you would have to manhandle the chisel by forcing it into the rest, and taking very shallow depth cuts (to prevent the log from grabbing the chisel), which would sacrifice stability and accuracy (notvto mention wearing out the operator's arm). Using it on the down stroke only, means that you are not fighting physics, as the force of the log is applying the pressure of the chisel into the rest, not away from it.

The precision isn't super necessary, you can bodge together a workable pole-lathe in a less stable and permanent way. Pretty much the only necessary part is that the pikes you turn on stay true and level.

Ae Norist stfu

Watched the whole series on that castle and it was quite amazing.

I was thinking this project reminds me of that castle project, excited to see how this one develops

I need to check back in with that Carle, it’s been a few years

I'm not sure which part of that statement dates you more. Being a young man at 12 or 13, having/knowing your great grandfather, wooden toys, or having emotional attachment to relatives.. either way let's try to get SOME of that back, can we? maybe not the wooden toys.

How? I'm trying to imagine how I would do it but my mind is coming up with Leonardo davinchi esque cog monstrosities.. Thst or just using a water wheel or a donkey mill with a high gearing :/

@@GundamReviver water wheels were popular prior to the steam engine, and some larger lathes might have used a person in a walking wheel. However, if you are serious about a single-person powered wheel, you have a pulley system with a knotted rope connecting two "cogged" wheels that catch on the knots. You spin a large round rock as a mechanical battery much like the spinning wet stone used for sharpening knives. You have a pedal to keep the momentum of the spinning stone up with your foot. It doesn't need to be a stone wheel, as you can make one out of a heavy log of wood, too. But the stone wheel can double as a wet stone to sharpen your tools while you carve on the same lathe. The rope and pulleys don't need to be knotted, but it can help if you are accurate enough with the knotting and carving. Lets you impart more torque with less slippage and lets you cut more aggressively with your tools. there are slightly simpler designs, and I am sure there are better ones, too. This is just one way to do it.

@@GundamReviver Search for "flywheel lathe"

@@GundamReviver Turn your rope into a loop and run it over a wheel you keep in motion by a foot pedal connected excentricaly to the wheel.

@@Bird_Dog00 so basically a flywheel system, yeah that could work