They say a mans character can be judged by the amount of his time is spent helping those who cant help themselves. Good on you for helping out Fred.

I'm from southern Indiana, I'm 64 and I love your channel, you are an inspiration for me,

That Fred knows how to pick a spot. LOVE

Here's to 2024 and we humbly thank YOU, Peter and Cathy.You have entertained us, informed us, educated us and most of all have touched so many people.Cudos to you both . Please keep us informed about Fred/Fredrika, since I am sure, many people just like me are fascinated by him/her!

Thank you,Peter, for bringing my favorite time in history to light. Your channel is still my favorite channel on KZfaq, or TV in general. Keep up the great programming. The content is the best. Thanks again.

Many thanks to you and Cathy for producing these wonderful snapshots into the past.

Still the best channel on KZfaq. Thanks for all you two do to keep the past alive. Best wishes for 2024!

That's a fine Owl's House. I hope Fred agrees. It's nice touch to your vids to see that Fred is still around. Thx for doing this, filming it and sharing it with us. 👍👍👍👍👍

Your quite welcome Peter. Terrific channel and content.

Who wouldn't like a new tree house? Fred has it made now literally lol. thank you Peter and Cathy for the video content, its always a pleasure to watch

Thanks for taking care of Fred (Frederica)!!

Thank you.

The blue wheel colour is perfect!

You've accomplished more in three and a half years. Then most do in a life time. Congratulations to you and Kathy. Thanks for the channel. I once went on a caribou hunt at lake Minto. I was limited to around 56 pounds. And found it to be difficult to achieve. And I was only going for a week.

Lovin' me some heavy-duty cart action, twice in one week!

You are amazed at the hardiness of the Mormon people at that point in history as I am amazed by your dedication to history. As my wife and I are wildlife rehabers, we’ve had a couple of owls. Amazing creatures, I appreciate Fred and your dedication. Thanks from an old history nut.

Thank you for putting the effort in each week. I look forward to each of your episodes.

How wonderful you made Fred a home. He/she is going to need its own KZfaq site. Becoming such a star and especially if you have a family born there. You have quite the logs stacked now. That looks like you have been very busy.

A nesting box for; Fred or Fredrica! A a fine one at that! When he or she sees the trouble U went 2 for him/her...U will have a 'fine feathered friend' 4 life! WISE move! I thank you most kindly Empress Catherine an' Fort Master Peter, 4 yet another most entertaining and informative sharing. May this New Year bring you both much 'Joy and Adventure', to satiate the greatness within your lives. Calvin Coolidge has a good quote 4 alllllll that faces us in 'these times'..."If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." :)

Great accomodations for Fred!! 🐾🙏🏻✌🏻

Thank you. It’s all coming along nicely.

Love the channel, the knowledge and history is unbelievable. Thank you

Thank you Peter and Catherine for all of your informative videos. I look forward to what’s in store for 2024. Cheers!

Thank you to you both for a truly exciting channel. I’ve shown multiple episodes to my teenagers to prove to them that hard work, ingenuity, and passion makes a fulfilled life. My 13 year old daughter really enjoys the “Wee Bit of History” Thanks Peter and Cathy for letting us into your lives!

Wow you have been busy look at all the logs for the walls great channel keep going your friend Crab

I love your videos and the interesting bits of history that you share! This is true quality!

Really enjoyed the video on the hand cart. Also enjoy you including Fred. Hope he or she enjoys the new nesting box.

And I can thank you both for the wonderful videos. I believe the person before me. Got it right you both have wonderful characters.!!! God bless you both.

Thanks for all the great content and for taking us along on your endeavors. I like the nesting box, Fred has himself a good spot for sure!

Thank you for the excellent content! For me personally, you have changed my own interest from military to frontier man. I do really enjoy and look forward to learning something new each week! Thank you again! PS got my last ( biggest racoon ever!) On Sunday! My faithful Brown Bess did her job admirably! He had my chickens cornered ! In the middle of the day! Bold as brass!

Excelente house for the owl. Congrats for it. To be honest much better than the building of a fort, that is a human barrier anyway. Thanks for sharing

Another fine video sure hope Fred likes the new digs.

Thanks Mr. Peter and Ms. Cathy for each wonderful video. I hope Fred or Freda will like the new house you built.

Nice looking place you guys have there.

Another good one, I learn so much here. Brought me joy to see the new Fred/Freda house. A very happy and prosperous new year.

This channel is one of the best

You are an inspiration, Peter, for helping Fred out. Great job on his house. Another great video as well. Glad that I have saved them all. Keep your powder dry

Thank you so much for this channel. So lucky to have came across your path. Well balanced cart! seems easy to go around with a heavy freight!

Two things Peter, I would try to find a piece of old conveyer belting at a rock quarry to place in the bottom of your carts box, and I would carry a line when I'm working off a ladder to haul up and let down my bucket of tools, hardware and materials and such. Much safer and easier way to work. Nice video as usual.... and a very Happy and Healthy and Prosperous New Year to you and Kathy also.😊

Speaking of enjoying the interactions in the comments, Peter, a few months ago I commented on your ease of starting a fire with flint & steel and you kindly responded about how you used to practice in a rainy forest. That encouraged me and soon after I got my own striker and a couple pieces of chert. I managed to build a fire on my first attempt and found it a very moving experience. Since that was so much fun I set myself a 40 Fires Challenge to gain a bit of skill. It took me about 3 months to get through it but I finished before the end of the year. I had a series of skunked attempts in the middle of my challenge when my charcloth just would not take a spark. Turned out to be (I think) a combination of using a tin that had some sort of paint or coating inside and some fabrics that were not 100% cotton like I thought they were, or maybe they had some sort of treatment on them. Eventually got my char sorted and am back to enjoying catching a spark with the first strike. I've been working in easy conditions, building my fires under a tarp in the backyard and keeping my tinder dry in the house (we've had 99% humidity every night for months and everything outside is damp) so I still need to get out and practice in the field with freshly gathered materials, but this has been a very satisfying beginner's journey, and I'm hooked. Thanks again for modeling good fire building!

It’s been a few episodes since I checked in and boy!! You’ve been busy!🤗 love the handcart you have. I’ve never even heard of the single wheeled cart, so I learned something today. It’s been a great pleasure watching you build a life there on your land. I can’t wait to see what you do next. Happy New Year to you and your lovely wife!❤️🤗🐝🥂👏 Fred/Freda is going to love the new box.❤️

Here's to many more videos from you.

Thank You. Happy New year and God Bless.

Hi Peter, My Name is Raymond W. King, I live in Delta County Colorado, I enjoy the Buck skinning Fur Trade Erra. Building Muzzle Loders, Blacksmithing etc. So, I'm grateful for what you're Doing, it's a wonderful way to study American History!

We have an owl that lives in the neighborhood. Occasionally, I hear its call “This food is for you”. I tell my daughter when I hear her buddy. She teaches school in Louisville and talks to it when she is here and she hears him/her.

Great video Peter. I would love to come up for a week and help with the fort!

I’m looking forward to building my own handcart this spring to use around our fish/hunt camp. Will come in real handy.

Great to see a box for the new Kelly family member. I was hoping for a glimpse off the hand cart chassis 😢

Happy New Year! Hope you all have a blessed and happy 2024!

Howdy Peter Hope Fred comes back soon .... You say it is the 2nd for you ... 9th for me and plenty of snow 12 inches . I saw a one wheel cart , when it was first made ... LOL I did see a real one in a museum in CA long time ago in the 70.s along with some stage coaches . It is hard to think of what they were thinking to go so far with so little ... BUT .... there is plans to go to Mars with so little ... Well another year .... I started to watch when you were just starting your chimney in your cabin . Looking forward to this year ....So happy new to you and Cathy .

It is wild to me that on a platform as vast and populated as KZfaq, the best creators on it are fellow Ontarians. Thank you both for your hard work.

I guess my only wish is that the episodes would be longer ! happy new year to friends in the north.

Happy New Year, Fred will love the new digs.

Cathy is keeping you well fed 😂 you take care of Fred/Frederica hope they work out well. There looks to be a lot of bark on them there pointed logs. Looks like you need to have a debarking party 🎉🥳. Be safe out there.

As mentioned in the last cart episode, our club built 3 of them. They were originally built with drop-in front and rear gates. The gates ended up being lost and probably burned. If anything, that made the carts more useful, especially for long loads.

As soon as I saw Fred with the snow coming down I thought he needs a owl box and the next shot there you are putting one up, I sure hope he investigates it if the weather turns cruel.

Happy New Year to you and Cathy. I always enjoy all your videos, thanks! Blessings

We have burrowing owls in Florida. My son has them in a wood pile, they were disturbed by construction and a hurricane.

youre an inspiration. i hope to someday be able to emulate you and your adventure. thank you so much for doing what you do.

Nice video! Thanks for all the work you put into each episode. It shows, and we appreciate your efforts! Happy New Year!

A hand cart, also commonly known as a hand truck or dolly, is a simple wheeled device designed to assist in the manual transport of heavy or bulky items. It typically consists of a frame, one or two handles, and wheels. Hand carts are widely used in various settings for moving goods, luggage, or other items, and they come in different designs to suit different purposes.

Happy New Year and good health to all ! Looking forward to another year of the most interesting channel on Utube ! Thank you ! ❤😊😊

Happy New Year, thanks for all the great videos and info, much health and happiness to each of you .

Totally fascinating, educational, and inspirational. Thank you so much for your channel!

It's a good thing you happened to have those wheels around! Trying to find some ready made ones is nearly impossible around here unless your pockets are deep and wide! I guess I'll have to haul my stuff in the wheel barrow or the more modern garden cart. With my luck I would overload the cart and be stuck 5 feet in the air any way!

Wow just wow. I have just found y'all's channel and 2 episodes in and have learned so mush. Going to dye everything now with black walnut.

Love your videos, have a great new year!

Nice Peter. A new home for Fred.

Really enjoy your channel im a carpenter and I've always been fascinated by the way things were done by hand.

Howdy from Idaho! A happy new year to you both as well! We greatly enjoy watching your videos! I thought it was interesting you mentioning about the trail that the mormons took. It actually ran through part of the one ranch I worked on when I was younger in Wyoming. Very nice cart hope it serves you well. God bless Glen and Tammy

Well Happy 2024 Peter& Kathy🏹🪵🪓🔨🪚⚙❤ 🛖🏕🎄💚👨‍🌾👩‍🌾🗝⚒🎶✨🪵

Happy New Year.

Happy new year woodland escape from down here in the central US. Love the new house for Fred. The Mormon travels are truly astonishing. I wonder how many miles per day they put behind them since they traveled so light. They must have shared many items such as dishware.

Can't wait to find out if Fred has chosen his new home! I have two old wheel chairs and I was trying to figure out what to use the two large wheels for? I think I will make a hand cart for my garden, I will just have to work out a way to raise up the box? The wheels are not as high as the ones you have and, I will need to stop over otherwise!!

Wouldn't miss a video. There was a fellow around here years ago who would have loved that cart. Matter of fact he had a little surrey his son bought him to go to the store for his grocery. It was pulled by a pair of matching Shetland and was a proud little spectacle going back and forth on the dirt roads for about a month., until the old fellow got drunk and whoopinging and yelling took it down the road full speed. Wrecked his little surrey. Didn't hurt him though. He was the only drunk I've ever seen able to hit a greyhound bus head on and survive. And I do mean head on. He was drunk in the road and knocked the bus headlight out with his head. Got up, whooped and ran into the brush. No harm except to the bus. Don't know if the little surrey had a yellow bed and blue spoked wheels though

God bless the man that invented the endgate.

Looking great Peter. You’ve been busy. When are you coming to Fort Number 4?

That is a fascinating piece of history! You are such an amazing and inspiring couple, and all of your videos are so very interesting, inspiring and educational! I pray 🙏🏽 that your 2024 is prosperous and successful… and I so look forward to seeing all of your new video content in the coming weeks and months!!! ❤ you both! Many Blessings to you both as well…

Usually by February most of the owls out here on the prairies have nested and have eggs in the nests. Most often they’re in old magpie nests; other than burrowing owls out on the treeless flatlands.

It's easy to see how handy a cart like that can be, but it's my understanding that wood spoke wheels like that need special tools to make it and to maintain it. If you can put together a video on making those wheels it would be very interesting.

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY United States my friend and everyone else and A Happy New Year everyone

Hi thank you for another great video we like the hand cart and my mom wants to know where you got the wheels for the hand cart. Looking forward to seeing the next video love and blessings Larry June and Laurie

Another fine video Cathy and Peter. It seems so strange this time of year to see the grounds so barren of snow and so much sun. It looks like an early fall day! Where did you shoot the water scene with the geese and mallards? I also noticed what appears to be a new fire pit!! All the best to both of you and keep the adventures coming!

Absolutely no doubt 2024 will be more schooling of our past. Best wishes.

"Bottoms Up." as the ducks seem to say at the end of this wonderful video. Thanks so much. I am a new subscriber and so happy to have come upon your channel. In Joy

Would it have been better to have the back removable to assist in unloading the cart? Your thoughts!

Some of my wife’s ancestors went with Brigham Young to Utah via the carts.

We thank the two of you for the videos through the years and look forward to all that is to come this year. Would you mind directing me to where you got the dimensions for your hand cart? Happy New Year.

Fred or Frederica? We may never know the difference. I look forward to owlets on your channel.

Hope 2024 is all you wish for (and that you get the fort completed for Winter 2025)

Just got caught up on the last 2 months. My wife's been really sick, but rapidly getting better. Now i can start on the older videos again. Got some time. 3 to 4 videos a week until I'm all caught up.

I can see how you would want to build all kinds of bird boxes to invite and provide suitable “lodging” (lol) and homes for the birds in your woods. Will you also build nesting boxes for those species of ducks that might benefit from them?

What are the dimensions of the hand cart? Are plans available?

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There is no need to thank us we need to thank you

I have an either barred or a great horned owl hanging out around my house, sometimes perching on my rooftop according to my neighbor. Hopefully he is looking out for the random rabbit that runs through my neighborhood instead of my miniature dachshund…… I haven’t seen him yet, but my neighbor has scared him off more than once, but I do hear him. If she goes out after dark me, or the kids make a ruckus and escort her when she does her business.

Hey Peter, another great video, but I do need to complain just a little. 10 minutes is just not enough for me. Yiu could just leave the camera on and I think I would watch it lol. Thanks for your videos, I really love them.

I'm pretty sure this question has been asked a lot but what kind of oil do you use for quenching your knives

Happy new year. I think there is evidence for that single wheeled wheelbarrow being used almost 2 millennia ago in china.

Do the owls there eat squirrels like down here in the states ? Just saying if ya raise owls might not have as many squirrels to hunt for food for yourselves. Ya have a kind heart though