We are all proud to play some part in this very fine undertaking.

How did it fair against the 14°f we had last week? (I live near Lima Ohio)

Townsends very interesting project

It must be so satisfying seeing it all come together after all your hard work

Much thanks to you for keeping the ways of our forefathers still alive.. amazing to see how much we've forgot. God bless!

@FlyingMonkies325 same dude. i also think about the people back then that probably had no home or warm place to get out of weather conditions or just a safe place to sleep. building something like this was probably a huge part of their life

It's true. My friends and I built my cabin with modern materials and modern tools and it felt amazing. I'm far more connected to that little place in the forest than I am to the house I bought. I can only imagine looking around my cabin and remembering felling the trees for it, shaving it's bark, all the hundreds of steps I skipped.

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dbmail545 Yes. These guys are racing for a KZfaq channel. Now imagine it was you 300 years ago with a wife and a couple of young kids. Then that race is life or death.

watchman on the wall, well aren’t you a cynical little person, you.

@@watchmanonthewall9927 His real house, or his kitchen studio building, is made of straw bale construction I think. That is a fairly interesting story in its self . Have a good day.

@@watchmanonthewall9927 Wow! Imagine that! I thought they went back in a time machine and were going to live there! Are you KIDDING?

@@bashkillszombies well said. Like it!

@@bashkillszombies EMBRACE TRADITIONS!

@@user_friendly_9388 Some, yeah.

It's the same. Hes doing it for the same reasons, money.

Modnar laudividni there are easier ways to make money. You have to want to do this.

Agreed. You can see he was lost in the tranquility of it all. That's the appreciation you get when building stuff on your own

Why ? Third tree to the left works . : )

@@hopatease1 Have you ever tried to cop a squat in the snow? Also good luck finding leaves to wipe with....

At least 20 yards downwind from the cabin.

😁 😂 🤣..Definitely need a couple of two holers

@@antr7493 I'm on the lookout for a couple three-holers, but that's a different story altogether.

Such a nice doggie door for "such a good boi".

He is a good boy.

Such good gurl.

0:01 I couldnt tell if he was having angry doggy dreams, or just really working hard on a piece of rawhide.

It’s more like, “what about me?”

I was thinking the same things about food and time.

I...think they bought the meat...it's not like they don't have cars or money. And they slept in their homes I'm pretty sure (while the construction was on going). This is not reality, it's depiction, reenactment but behind the camera it's still the 21st century y'know. P.s. also, how do you think they charged batteries for the camera? and the drone? and their cellphones, which they obviously had. The list goes on but it doesn't change the beauty and the purpose of these videos

@@JohnDoe-dj3lw He's not talking about these guys, he's talking about people that had to build cabins roughly 300 years ago.

At least they had the luxuries of cast iron cooking and coffee, I'm referring to these guys as well as those from the days of yore. There are some things you can't make out of mud or carve from wood. That being said, I've had some awful coffee that might as well have been made from mud, and I own a wood coffee mug. I wouldn't attempt carving one though. For many folks in modern times, 'roughing it' involves a $200 tent and making s'mores. Maybe @ 5% of the population can swing an axe. It'd do us all good to spend even one day building a cabin like this! Mad respect!

OP, very true. It was constant work just to survive. The only day they rested was the Sabbath, because God commanded it. Grow your own fruits and vegetables, husband your own animals (and slaughter them yourself), build your own structures, weave your own cloth and make your own clothes, make your own soap, tend cash crops, etc. They were hardy folks that survived rough times. We owe it to our ancestors to honor them for all they went through so that we could be here.

Its also to make sure the cabins don't burn down. The 18inches. Gives it more insulation material between the fire and the exterior side that is cooling fast which cracking can appear and less chances of the crack and failing going all the way thru and maybe setting the cabin on fire or collapse. Remember a solder's cabin probably heated and cooled many times over its use.(wear & tear). Were as a family cabin fire place usually had a fire going all winter more constant with the heat.

As a sort of side note, not on the chimney itself, but looking at the roof, they would have done better to put more layers of bark on (birch, if it could be found) and covered it in turf. The birchbark is waterproof, keeping out rain and any snowmelt, and the turf weights it down well, keeping it in place, in addition to providing better insulation from the cold. Something else they could think about improving come spring, to make the cabin last through the next winter

I would also not be surprised if it just a in case measurement, as going to thin canbe more an issue than thicker. Washington might have just opted on the high side rather over doing it than risk problems.

(Chimney sweep's wife here.) It's also what modern (ie, post-1902) code calls "clearance to combustables." Basically, if you put wood near heat, it'll slowly bake and catch fire more easily. A couple questions naturally follow. 1) How long were these cabins meant to be occupied? If only one or two winters, you might get away with being a fire trap. But if longer.... 2) What's the insulation factor on daub? Any engineers wanna do fun math on horse poop?

@@storythreads Big fireplace with smaller fire...safer because of less heat?

How about dumping ? Not so much heh ?

@@loxloxington8675 You mean taking a poop?

@@HipHopCantSaveMe Right !

@brown bird You can't fool winter even around the fire hahaha .

Nothing more erotic

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Then you haven’t truly lived. Having that poo in between your toes... magical. Lol.

You would if you had to.

I'm my country we still use that method in very rural areas, is a place stuck in time.

It could have been clay mixed with straw. You can also mix in ash. Doesn't have to be manure to hold well.

Because history channel sucks, and I think he is better on his own

You are 100 percent correct

They would ruin a great thing, as they always do.

Man, the History Channel is sooo history.

This channel and content is too good for boring basic TV. If history channel got involved he would lose all rights to his channel and content and his show here would dissolve into the rest of boring failing shows the history channel has. Notice how none of what the history channel puts out lasts long at all. Ratings are in the trash.

I think he said a foot thick

@@floydlooney6837 He said he built the fireplace with that in mind, but he wound up not using that much liner.

Love the experts on making comments

Same method works for Russian cabins, only theirs work more efficiently because they put their huge stone stoves in the middle of the cabin. Light a blazing fire in the morning and the retained heat will radiate out all day, saving on fuel.

@Drake I am wondering about that too. My guess is that Washington wanted them to start with an 18 inch footing of the cob to support keeping the cob thick all the way up. It may have served for thermal mass too.

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Oh my goddddd that will be incredible

Which begs the question what do you gentlemen want for Christmas? And don’t say a woman! Lol Seriously what should we send you for Christmas? I feel like you are part of my family now. Cheers mates and Merry Christmas

Clothes are more than you think. I'd buy some seeds for growing linen if I were wise. I'm learning how to make a loom so my wife can weave clothing. Not even 200 years ago, clothes were a huge deal. They were rare and most didn't own muvh more than a couple dresses and a couple shirts and trousers.

You need to go to Vincennes this year for the celebration of same era

@@niallebhann3631 I sew my own stuff but never made the fabric myself. Invisible mending and restyling abd adjusting things to fit you really has become a lost art. One we can reclaim, but lost nonetheless

Don't worry, give it a few decades and we'll return to it.

I come from a farmer family and we always had meat even though my family grew stuff in the summer and dad had a job we always had food, mom made clothes grandma and grandpa gave us eggs so we wanted for nothing.

Please dont die from hyperthermia...

To many government restrictions now.days. cant have fire places or wood burners. Global warming is the excuse. Surprised they were able to buy a permit for this episode.

@@lorashampine3522 who says you can't have fire places or wood burners. You need to get away from h.o.a. I sit outside evereynight with a nice fire, glass of bourbon and a pipe to relax from a long day. Winter time. I have a wood fire place

@@303bourbonguy2 lol!! No hoa. I live in the a small city. Hazel park MI. You can not get a permit to install a wood burning anything here. Emissions and the environment you know. If you already have one you are grandfathered in. To have one newly installed is a no go.

land of the free.

There might have been some brick firing back in the day, unless it's not of a grade for that. Places with the best brick firing clays would run out if it was just a seam of the clay pressed among other soils. Other places had clay galore and still have clay after the brick making businesses are long gone and forgotten.

The potter's red clay down here in the south is amazing. Can't believe how awful it can be, but didn't know it was in your area. I'm used to New England dirt.

Sounds like you're an authority on dung.

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No need to imagine, they’re wearing civilian clothes as if they were militiamen.

To be fair, he's always had really good camera work. Example 11:21 I've seen plenty of actual coffee commercials that weren't as scenic. Food presentation is something they're really good at.

That's something those four fellers are going to remember for the rest of their life

Ellie5621 It was a life of necessity first.

@Ellie5621 I'm sure they will soon. First things first! (Plus - these are men. :) We need a woman's touch to make it as home-like as you might be expecting!)

Ya get the amount you think you need... Then double it lol

Like Pratchett said: No family in the mountains ever started off winter without the house being surrounded on three sides by a thick stack of firewood.

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Facts. For anybody passionate about history that right there probably was one of the highest points of their lives

Yes. Fire says: "humans!" And after all that cooperative work, also saying "humans!", it's like the cherry on top of the cake. I've been fed the last days with the recommendation of a socialist site I'm subscribed to, titled something like "work: the missing link in the evolution from ape to man", and I was: "totally not watching that, I hate work". But after watching the cabin building series (with that truly crowning moment of starting the first fire, as you say), I may change my mind, cooperative work is certainly something important and to an extent even enjoyable (anti-alienation).

@@LuisAldamiz "cooperative" can be a misleading term; in socialism, it means everyone participates; in traditional sense, it means "helping someon out." If I agree to help build your house, I am cooperating. But, it's not our house. It's your house. I helped build it. When I need a barn, perhaps you'll help me, too. That's community. Friendship. Mutual aid. And the difference between "mine" and "ours" is vague enough in a small community, where people "help themselves" to each others resources. Families do that all the time. But, when the "cooperative" workers no longer see the beneficiaries of their work, nor are they seeing those whose efforts benefit them, the whole thing falls apart. Socialism can only work in small numbers, within groups of people in agreement. "2nd generation" communes are rare (but, do exist). I know of no 3rd generation communes. Even in small numbers, they tend to fall apart. As a recovering socialist myself, I can state it plainly: it cannot work on a national level. Human nature forbids it. Socialism alsways devolves into oligarchy. Sorry...got carried away! :-)

@@just-dl - Maybe but it's a very subtle distinction and one that gets blurried. For example here in the Basque Country this kind of work would be called "auzolan" (community work or neighbor work) and, as you say, the house will typically be individual property and it's a favor to be repied eventually (and imprecisely), but the very same term was applied to community work for any communitary need, like making a road, repairing a shrine or bridge or whatever else of social interest. You cannot really divorce the individual from the community even in pre-socialist private property polities.

sailonby Ha ha I just commented this. He’s back there sunning himself and playing around.

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No words needed. Only hard work.

I wish to share your enthusiasm some day

report for copyright infringement - commercial use/public broadcasting.. dude should be compensated for loss of earnings.

@@Ghryst dafuq bro why would you turn this nice and warm message into something negative.. youre life must be hard with this mindset

@@Ghryst you suck.

@@Ghryst im pretty sure educational purposes arent forbidden lol, public broadcasting would be on something like radio, or tv right? not a small group of students? and i dont think the teacher was being compensated directly by showing these kids the video. NEXT

and evidently it didnt let snow in. i didnt see if it had a cupola or what

@@KairuHakubi Its a straight shoot, no barrier

@@KairuHakubi in sone areas a flat rock would be put on top to help shed the rain or snow...

but i didnt see a hole in the back so it could draw outside air into the fire to burn, without one it will pull the warm air into the fire from the cabin, use it to burn, and send it out the top. also it will draw cold air into the cabin because of the draft

@@joshmeyer1167 True, but the design fits the technology of the time and place.

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You can do much more than you know if you put your mind to it. This kind of statement honestly makes me a little sad. You just watched 4 men do it. If you're prepared to do the work, so could you. American spirit and a real sense of necessity. If you didn't want to freeze in the winter, you'd better have a good shelter and stores laid in. We're just used to conveniences, but we're every bit as capable. Don't sell yourself short.

Actually, it wasn't that impressive. I'm sure the Colonial soldiers just looked up the instructions on KZfaq.

I wonder how many takes that took

@@gaslightstudiosrebooted3432 Never worked before?? Being good with their hands I'm guessing.... 1!!

Seriously. "Just throw it into my free hand!" _"I got it."_

Agreed! I relish the time my son and grandson and I spend together out in the woods beyond cell service range. The only music is the sounds from the forest and from us as we work on something together. The breathing, occasional whistling, birds singing and the water slinking by in our stream. The one modern object I refuse to give up is my camera. Years from now I want my grandson to be able to show HIS grandson photos of when he was a boy spending time with his father and grandfather.

I don't forget, even though we're amongst the technology...if someone forgets even though the times change, then i think its a personal problem.

@@jazz8000 hard work, fresh air, and friendship are still there, just we dont need to scrape together a log cabin just to survive anymore

Hard work is best done in groups

@@niallebhann3631 we are social animals....

Haha. Yeah, I did too. My hands shot up in the air and my coworkers were like "the hell?"

Why was he able to watch videos

Can't tell you that, I was over the freakin moon when the smoke rolled out. What a piece of history!

Penobscot?

@@malorie8557 Yes, a small woodlands tribe, Panawahpskek or Penobscot in English. Costal Maine.

@@EvilMerlin interesting, thank you for the response

@@EvilMerlin In downtown Detroit there is a Penobscot building. At least there was in the 70's when I worked there.

@@danielmccurdy9948 Yeah the guy that built and owned it, spent his summers in Maine in camps from rich kids along the Penobscot river, which gets it's name from my tribe.

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You mean the carrier pigeon coop? :)

Honestly, if that was the case id pay to live in this house.

Lmeo

We can be historical and enjoy the modern lol Our ancestors would have used the best tool they could get.

That's a good point, I didn't think of that but you're right that could be the difference between waking up in the morning in a warm cabin or waking up in the middle of the night freezing cold.

Yup it works like the big bench style rocket stove heaters

I would line it with cob then a bunch of flat stones for the thermal heat...

North American KZfaqr well I didn’t mean actually living the 18th century life. There are plenty of ways to get water and use filtration systems and have that all cooked up to your old cabin. I personally would want an old cabin like they’re building but with some modern things such as running water, bathroom, etc...

Me too just think of the peace and quiet.

@@GermanChristians i wouldn't have any modern things, i would live an 18th century lifestyle.

@@GermanChristians it is also very easy for pests, rodents and whatsoever to get into these types of building. Yes, it would be great to have something like this (maybe with 1 or 2 windows as a weekend place, but there was a reason people moved to better houses, once they were available

​@@eberbacher007​ - Actually... animals/rodents and bugs still find their way into modern houses... albeit not as much as with the cabin in the video. Still, I think you could rodent/bug proof that cabin better than you think. I was actually thinking rain and drafts (during the Winter) will likely be more troublesome around the door, roof and fireplace... especially seeing how the fire place is not capped last I noticed.

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6inch gaps between the logs all thru the house. i is totally unacceptable even for 1800's construction where i live. most logs house here have such small gaps they used to take hemp rope to stuff the gaps. the roof also covered the wall by almost 2feet to prevent them from ever getting too wet. they also used 2feet thick of sawdust bellow the floors and above the ceilings to insulate them. in the most extreme temperature zone they used to have a house INSIDE the house, with only a bed inside, it was to keep warm with rocks in very deep winter were it was -35 to -50C.

@@Francois_Dupont This is representative of a quick, temporary cabin such as soldiers might build, or landowners would put up to stay alive while a better one could be built. Those well-built cabins you see... probably had one like this, making it possible. After this, it'd be used for storage, smokehouse, barn, coop, or whatever. Eventually, as well-seasoned firewood...

@@Francois_Dupont I suspect those are luxuries time did not allow for them. I suspect it's a representation of building a solid dwelling in a rush with very limited time and availability of labor. What you're describing is what I would suspect be built as the second home that they'll be able to spend more time and resources on without worrying being caught in winter with no shelter.

@@Pygar2 i do not know when they started building and yes maybe as modern man they had other things to do while and they did not have much time to build i understand. but as a representation of a log cabin build this is very poor. if you are interested in seeing real one buildt i saw in the past a self made video of a old man that flew into the north and made by himself a very nice campment. that he lived in for years later on in life. also many German makes very detailed video of good workman ship of building log house. simply use google to translate in German "log cabin buildt" or something similar to video many many good videos.

@@Francois_Dupont its based on plans for temporary soliders barracks from the 1780s. To be built quick and cheap by the soldiers themselves, just to keep the soliders from freezing to death over a single winter. Not last decades.

He’d help us survive during the apocalypse. But you’d need engineers and machinists to actually rebuild what we lost.

Trista Fravel John will build a nuclear bomb fueled by rapid-decay nutmeg

Trista Fravel nobody said John doesn’t own up to date weapons 😀

Three cheers for John T! Hip Hip!

Sad thing is that society won´t. We´re over that hill, my friend. It is too late.

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I couldnt have said it better

One of the coolest things on here right now. No doubt. awesome

These are such skills that I would see a need for even or especially today

While searching for food and firewood and doing all the stuff necessary to survive the harsh winter. I can´t imagine that. But man, what an amazing job they did!

While being in the edge of becoming sick.

Imagine being near sighted or having a chronic illness or injury, I expect those are the ones who died early.

mary shaffer They died long and painful death.

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Yes, physical fitness, love of your fellow man and living simply with man and nature.

I love giving up a good chunk of comfort for a while whenever I can - only to return to a very high tech, high stress life every time. I love it both. I think it is a great gift that so many of us can have a say in how much of a struggle we want.

And the things we traded it for are often of suspect value.

Lol What? Dying at 30 from diseases?

You can live simply in any era. The simplicity of that era and their ways belonged in that time but you can be simple relative to these times. Just remember that if you work with your hands, like this guys did, people 250 years from now will say "The simplicity of once was, is almost lost" Even people in Washington's time could have looked back about times from 1000 years before and said the same comment you made. Simplicity is always present, it's the era that changes.

Me too. It definitely gave me pause when the video ended.

Even with all their skills, our ancestors still died left and right from disease and accidents. Beautiful story here though, so much work to do, you don't even notice there's no TV or radio. just kick back after a long day and listen to to the wind and the fireplace in peace.

@@craftpaint1644 Well put!

This is not "simplicity", this people are working in this for months and its a lot of very hard work. Meanwhile, today we have 3D printed houses that can be built in a day.

It's also super satisfying to see him catch it so casually :D

Morthagg almost as if he’s done it before lol. Muscle memory lol I wonder if that’s where we get the term mud slinger lol

Been wanting to read that! Going to buy it right now. Thanks.

What are some good old books if the era and even medieval?

Is Pilgrim's Progress about this too? I can't find my copies of these. darn.

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@@SonsOfLorgar Yes, as an englishman its still very relevant to me and my surroundings. Walk through any town that hasnt been ruined by modern architecture, and you'll still see medieval townhouses made of the same materials as this cabin, that have stood for centuries. Its incredible.

@@SonsOfLorgar Thats right and i can relate alot aswell from how this construction was made .But not total identical ...as you said regionally availiable materials and traditional building method.I see old log structures all over my country that still stand.,Cheers from Norway

Incredible

Come on over and become an American, if you like! Then you can stretch out and make a little cabin of your own. More paperwork than back in the old days, but it's do-able.

Here in Sweden we are taught in school that danes still live in long houses because they're a little bit behind. Is that not true? =P

We're also a lot more alienated. This kind of work is fulfilling: it's your product, you made it with your own hands, you truly own it in a way no merchandise can ever be owned.

Ahh, but in a hundred years they’ll say that about us.

LARPERS

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@@mikuhatsunegoshujin shut you're mouth cur!

@@Iron-Griffon your*

Am I the only one asking why they aren't using the stuff they used for the chimney on the rest of the cabin to fill in all the gaps instead of that other stuff that needs to be replace ever so often cause they wouldn't need a super thickness like for the chimney they would need 2.5 times what they used for the chimney to do all the cabin gaps in the wood

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You would freeze to death if you did that. Daylight hours are for cutting and splitting firewood.