Finally finished it! Sorry for the delay in this one - Watch more of the series here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLxnadpeGdTxCwRkZTLMhjbT_EAu6bAIZy

Man sorry the trees were so twisted . Those shingles after you got them finished looked great.Thanks for sharing you successes and fails even thought the fail on the shingles is not your fault. That’s how we all learn . Keep up the great work Mike you and dad do great together it’s always great to see a father and son have such a good relationship specially with all the craziness we have had the past couple years. Bless you and your family.

absolutely love the fact that you used Shou Sugi Ban to treat the cedar shingles to get a longer life out of them.

Good advice on the bricks. Astute observation from the viewer. 👍🏻

Too bad about the brick mix up but great job on whoever pointed it out and also great job on see that and owning up to it. Otherwise another great video update and I look forward to seeing the next one.

Oh goody a vid to watch after my tea... Thanks for sharing. 😊👍

This is sick!!

It's great to watch you using skills that in most cases have been forgotten, when I watch how your reviving these old skills they take me back to the late 50s you see I used to watch my grandad who was born in 1893 use these skills with old hand tools everything was done manually no machinery , I remember him building a workshed in the woods at the back of his house using rustic materials, he made some wooden shingles using an old rachet wagon jack which he had welded a steel blade onto it and he welded a steel base plate onto it and he used a steel pipe on the handle for extra levage. My grandad was extremely industrious he seem to be able to do anything using hand tools and yet he was only self-taught he learned from watching his dad who traveled around as a self employed handyman working and repairing farm buildings and managing woodlands, so, watching you takes me back to those memorable times, thanks so much for the videos.

I wish I had a woodland

Great adventure, great scenery, I recently started documenting my own adventures, I love this direction. Good luck on your adventures. Greetings from a Belarusian tourist! ✌️

Nice job! What a lovely video...enjoyed it. Hope everyone is well in the Family. Kisses to the babies!

Another great video Mike! Between you and your Dad you put some fantastic videos out for us. Just a mention about your clothing range, I received my totally awesome fishing hoodie the other day and it's brilliant. Thanks Dave.

Appreciate the shot you got with the lantern inside and you scanned the sides and roof for us!👍👍

Love the design of your oven and roof. I've made mud ovens in the past but want to try building a brick one next. Going to use yours as inspiration. :)

good vid on the channel keep up the good vid thanks lee

Nothing is ever a Fail in life if you try. Nothing. It was an excellent learning experience and a teaching moment for us. The oven is beautiful to look at, reminds me of Hansel and Gretel story and the house in the woods.

The failures are often more instructive than the successes. I really enjoyed learning about the froe!

Its a good day when he uploads

Wow! This video, and part 1, are so interesting to watch! Your skill level is incredible! The oven looks wonderful!

Oof, I felt that mistake with the fire bricks in my gut. Up there with one of the worst feelings when doing a project. Thinking you are doing everything right, being pretty proud of the results, then realizing you've got the completely wrong material/hardware. Luckily you had a pretty easy solution relatively speaking

I find everything you do there very nice! Keep it up! 👍Even though I don't have time to post comments, you can always count on a big like from me! 😉 All the best!👋

Well done, Mr. Pullen! I have to be careful using a Froe on wood like that... I always end up with the shakes... (Grabs coat and legs it out the door.)

0:12 - That's the craziest looking JENGA game I've ever seen.

Beautiful! Well done.

Picked up a froe a couple months ago. Tried using it on some dried cedar and it was giving me the same trouble, just a lot of work to rive it. I think fresh green wood is ideal. I love your forest/woods they are a treasure. I've watched a lot of Peter Follansbee on KZfaq, he rives ash into basket strips and then weaves them, he shows using a riving "brake" (jig) setup to hold the wood during riving as well as then using a metal hammer and pounding the rived pieces to further separate them into even finer strips for the weaving which was fascinating. I need to make some gluts (wooden wedges) and a beetle (larger wooden hammer) to get more of my green woodworking kit growing.

I absolutely love your woodland

Nice job Mike! Glad you caught and changed those bricks. I can’t wait to see your first meal cooked in it.

Absolutely beautiful

Great video. Thanks for sharing important safety info about fire bricks. We enjoy watching your progress. (good to see Jax too)

love your videos man keep up the good work :)

Wow, you're always learning and teaching. Who knew they'd sell fire bricks that are unsafe for food? Now we all know - thanks to viewers! Bummer about the ash twisting, that must have been frustrating indeed. Well done on finding a functional solution.

always start with the fatter end, used to make chestnut pales/rails, same for shingles/shakes ect follows the grain alot better, splitting the skinny end 1st will 99% run out of the grain

Great video Mike keep em coming bud 👍. Hope the family's doing great too. Looking forward to the next one. Stay safe and be well brother. Strength and Honor... 👊 🤙 🍻

Man, the satisfaction of watching the log fall to pieces when you took the rubber strap off.

A beautifully made brick oven in the woods 👍

Looks great Mike with that roof on. Well done. 👍😁

:O That thing is fantabous!! Nooo!! Please tell me you're not going to cover it up.

I love these ones, I've been planning on making a wood oven, just in my back yard, so I've been checking out various methods. It probably wont be until next summer or the one after that but it's great to see how yours is going.

I do love this fire pit. I know I saw you and your dad working on it for a while and then nothing. I always like watching with you to do together. It is awesome to have a father son relationship like that I bet. I just got into this and so far you’re not talking and I hope it’s not a Silent one because I really don’t like silent ones. But I love watching your videos

Hi Mike. Its a bit late now, but you could probably have set the new bricks on top of the old bricks. The theory of this kind of oven is to have a dense inner material which hold heat, surrounded by an insulator. I think the old bricks would have kept the new hearth bricks insulated from underneath. if you ever need hearth bricks again a good FREE source is old storage heater bricks. You can pick the scrap storage heaters up from gumree, people are generally happy to give them away due to the weight and how difficult they are to take to the tip. I am sure your dad would like the free aspect of these as a building material!

you're lucky to have a father. cherish the time you have with him.

SORRY about the delay on this comment 😁 When spitting shakes don't cut pie wedges instead after the first cut across keep your splits parallel .Often with deciduous wood the heart wood has to be removed when dressing the shakes as it twists . Be careful with the cedar shingles a stray ember and they'll go up in flames.

Super interesting Video! Thank you Mike!👍

Wow that log splitting tehnique is amazing! Loved it. 😯✌️

A great tip for the incoming winter!

Really cool stuff Mike keep it coming loving it at the mo

Like your Dad! This series is broad ranging with many of the pitfalls experienced from the layman who is becoming the master! The thatching video and Viking hut videos were instructive and necessary, but the air raid shelter not so much. You need to have more dogs, wives, kids and your Dad talking too!

I've just convinced the other bailiffs on the lake I'm a head bailiff on, that we need to build one of these, by sending them a link to this. They all got very excited! It's going to be the centrepiece to a social area we're going to build in an unused part of the bankside. Great vid again Mike, really inspiring!

i would love to come to England one day and see your woodlands.

This was really satisfying, like a bushcraft Terry's Chocolate Orange...

Many hours of good cooking in that beast… looking forward to the first fish .

Maybe use the ash wood to make some wooden silverware, like a spoon, some spatulas/scrapers, and of course you need an ash wood pizza peel.

As always, great video! 👍

I have had such a busy day at work. just got in sitting down and this pops up! Thanks just what I need.

Great oven!!!

Love your videos keep up the good work. But as a roofer, i wont criticise too much as its not a house roof so its not that critical, but i can see a few problems, first off the lats are placed too far apart and the shingles arent sat on the lats correctly 19:30 the top of the shingle should sit half way on the next lat above. i see a few places where theres not enough cover (almost straight jointed), there should be a couple inches between the joints of each course of shingles. keep that in mind if ya ever make a building with a shingle roof, it would look excellent, ya did a decent job of it. The biggest problem tho, no cover on the ridge its just open! get that ridge sealed up :D you can get wooden ridge tiles / hips

The work you do is cool Thanks for sharing. Marie from Denver Colorado USA

Thanks for the lesson about fire bricks.

Looks great Mike.....love you and your dads videos keep at it stay humble and keep learning

Brilliant stuff dude

Shakers and mushrooms, lovely intro!

Beautiful

You did a great job on the roof Mike l, hope you used the trusty rusty in its construction? LOL Look forward to seeing the first meal cooked inside.

the blackened cedar looks great over the pizza oven, looks like they have been there a long time. you can always break down those twisted ash pieces for kindling

very nice work you do i love watching the videos helps my urge to get out and do some work in the woods also makes me want to do to it more as well

I love these videos, I’ve been watching your channel for a long time and have been going to a woodland in my town for a year or so building things with my friends. We didn’t have any tools so when it was my birthday 1 week ago I got a Swiss army knife and the book Bushcraft illustrated by Dave Canterbury. Looking forward to testing the Swiss Army knife next week as we get a week of school.😁

Just caught this, the first 'firebricks' you used look like refractory backing board. Easiest way to do a hearth if you do it again is find a local refractory company & buy a bag or two of C28 or equivalent. Good for lining the inside of the dome too.

Amazing 😁

Love vid.

You can make this process a little bit faster and easier, if you use a chainsaw just take a long log fix it in place and cut it into long boards lengthwise from top to bottom, then you get long straight boards (probably can make 5-6 boards) and you can make them into smaller cuts and make shingles.

i know for a fact i would have sat and made up all 150 with a smile on my face

nicely done

Thanks for these awesome videos my man :)

Hey Mike! It's easier to make shingles from a log if you just split it the first few times without the strap on. It's not as accurate but as long as you don't royal screw it up it doesn't really matter.

Oooohhhh hyped to see the pizza that'll come out !

You have the practical idea of using the cedar shakes. As your Dad so aptly put it, the ash splits are 'firewood.' You did need to try it; fortunately, using ash shakes did not become an obsession.

Just use bark for now and then do the shingles another time. Once you make a shaving horse and get a hewing/carpentry axe. *edit* Nevermind you already shingled the roof.

Don’t forget the anchovies Graham!

love the mushroom shots

Very interesting.

Super cool as always I have desert land but no woodland. Juniper and cedar I'm pretty much all I have

Impresivno... Pohvale...

NICE!!!

We learn as we go!

I applaud your literally correct use of the word gnarly.

I know he’s calling the ash log “knotty”, but given that it’s giving him trouble I’m just going to continue to think that it’s a naughty log

I've never used a fro before, but obviously there are a lot of tricks to it. You might want to talk to a professional shingle splitter and get some tips, I would think that would make an interesting video itself

You could use the ash tiles you made to make signs for all the places

The art of making shingles. Im sure there is much more to be learned.

You might want to use those soft bricks you have to line the inside of the wooden door for the oven, over time the inside of the door will char and crack otherwise. Plus it will help with keeping the heat inside the oven where it belongs.

Like the Design of your Oven. The only thing that I would do is attaching the chimny at the backside.

Thanks for the Totally Awesome video :) great as usual. Have you ever considered building a deep well for more consistent water supply? Lots of work I'm sure but I think it would be a great video series to watch evolve. Thanks again!

Any waste can be used to break in your oven so at the end of the day it's not a waste just a learning experience

Rost a whole turkey in there!.. And what you could do with those tiles that were too dried out is sand down to a smooth surface on both sides. Leave the bark on. put a food safe seilent on them and sale them as T.A. cutting board/cheese boards online.

One or two Foxfire books cover riving shingles.

Nice 💪

I also thought it was odd how easy it was to cut those bricks. Glad the mistake was caught before you made some pizzas on it and fed it to your family, especially the little ones.

Awesome Job on the oven!! Turned out very nice and looks great!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Ya gotta try to see if it will work. You could, however, make forks, chop sticks, small spoons, spindles and such out of the thicker parts of those shakes and the thin bits can be kindling. Heck, you can make skewers out of some of them and use them on the fire for kebobs. Wedges. Lots of things.

Those fire brick bit me too. I lined my first knife forge with them…. They melted!