And pretty much every town and city in the world! 👍

I watch this the other night and I am building one for myself. I just got the big log split today

Especially in Canada. Really wondering how people kept up with the sort seasons and not freezing to death.

except... you know... where there are no trees. which is like 69% of america

This isn’t just about how the cities were built. This series is like a school teaching us how to be self reliant. How to live with our own 2 hands. Yeah it’s cool but I promise if you were out on your own and couldn’t build things like this you wouldn’t make it so easily. Don’t be so reliant on the concrete jungle you see before you today. The “major cities” are going to collapse and you will be on your own in just a few years. So learn as much as you can.

I'm mad because his store is in the state just north of mine, but it's like a 5-hour drive one way. I might do it anyway!

A Smith Get some friends or family together and make it a day trip!

They’re in Indiana?

Ethan Lundeen Go to their website. They have a big store with all kinds of amazing stuff. They make a lot it on site or locally.

Dead ash tree.... very first thing that came to my mind as well... it’s definitely dead....

Unfortunately, all of the ash trees are dead. The emerald ash borer is everywhere. Virginia in northern Ohio

@@playme129 They got all ours in Tennessee.

Wow! That's terribly sad!

@@playme129 - Indiana, too. We still have the trees, but most, if not all of them, are dead.

Haaaaah!!😆

First, get them in the corral....LOL

😂 This literally made me Lol!

I don’t think they’d let that video on KZfaq

Damnit your making me look that up now

Jon's the boss. 😁

RHIP

The name of that horse is Nutmeg

Perhaps Jon needs to make two new shave horses. And maybe a bowl horse and a spoon mule too.

Had to use something to finish up the pieces for the new one.

I hope this is real Im not trying to be rude it is just all thee people want attention and will make up sad stories But if this real im sorry for your family

@@boltfrog2900 thank you I truly appreciate it. I wish it wasn't real. I truly think people like you're talking about is why as a military family we can't find much help. However Semper Fi Fund has been helping us as they can. It was my worst nightmare come true. Seeing my kids go through this hell is something I wouldn't wish on anyone.

You make a good point sir.

Great idea 💡

Very insightful! This wouldn't make the Greenwood split as it shrinks over the drywood?

But just think of how many wild animals can feed of your carcass and survive.

@brown bird it's sterile.

There's a rich supply of hand-tool woodworking sources on KZfaq and in the real world. PBS's Woodwright's Shop is a good place to start. Also see work by Wood and Shop, Paul Sellers, and others on KZfaq. Lost Art Press is a small publisher specializing in traditional woodworking (run by former Popular Woodworking editors Christopher Schwarz and Megan Fitzpatrick); also see Mortise and Tenon magazine. They all link to one another and many other experts like David Charlesworth and Peter Follansbee. Many of these sources include citations for historical manuals on woodworking such as Joseph Moxon's (17th century) or Andre Roubo's (18th century). Despite being separated by a century, the techniques explained are very similar. They're also very similar to the living hand-tool woodworking tradition of Estonia, and to archeological reproductions of woodworking techniques of the Roman Empire. The particular style used for frontier woodworking is called vernacular woodworking, and there are several excellent books on the furniture itself and the techniques used to make it. While the style and construction of furniture used for the upper classes varies quite a bit by era and nationality, the countries of the West were surprisingly consistent in vernacular pieces used by the common man. Prestige pieces of the 18th century are still greatly prized by collectors, and there are many, many good books on the styles of each country and fashion. For English styles, see the works by Adams, Chippendale, and Sheraton.

You might also check out living history sights such as Sauder Village in N.W. Ohio. They offer classes.

Where there's a will there's a way. Also: necessity is the mother of invention.

From knapping flint in a cave to landing on the moon...hope we can still manage that kind of ingenuity still.

@SeriousName it works well enough! used ash to clean bonfire snacks grease off my hands once or twice

Chop with Chris made his out of more available stock

There are many, many good plans for both modern and traditional shave horses available on the web. Even knock-down models for people working in apartments.

Tbh unless you are super strapped for cash then you can get vices pretty cheap, like $10 or $20

@@AshleyBlackwater Shave horses are used for different workholding situations from normal woodworking vises. That's why there are many types of vise even on a single workbench. That's especially true for chairmaking. It was also faster and more permanent to build than a springpole lathe when you need something rounded but not necessarily circular. The same holds historically. Moxon's early 18th century book shows a plane stop, holdfast, twin-screw face vise, and bench hook. A century later, Nicholson's bench has a face vise, bench dogs so you can do edge planing, and plane stop. The "moravian" workbench of 18th century North Carolina is a portable bench that had a leg vise, bench dogs, and a weird vise I can't identify on the back. So historically woodworkers needed a variety of workholding tools to operate efficiently, even on the frontier. There are a lot of web pages and youtube videos that can give you a sense of why a woodworker with several vises and a workbench might also want a shave horse.

@@crafty1098 I see, thanks for the info

Second episode of the very first season in fact.

Of course, instead of woodworking, the Amish use them to deposit breaded veal

SCOTCH EYED AUGERS! Homesteaders needed tools like that...in varying diameters.

You can still get these scotch eyed augers.. some on amazon, shows how these are time tested tools still have a place even in modern day. Pretty amazing.

@@erasei The better tools are the timeless ones, aren't they?

@@jamesellsworth9673 Any idea as to how many diameter sizes there may have been at the time?

@@rosemcguinn5301 Not definitively. Eric Sloane researched and wrote A MUSEUM OF AMERICAN TOOLS (1964) which included fine drawings of many tools from the mid-1700's until about 1840. The book is still available in a Dover reprint. Sloan was interested in design and working surfaces more than size and variety. He does say he is surprised that a single man could turn some of them. Etsy and EBay offer a very few 'antique' augers and sets: diameters include 1/4-inch, 1/2-inch, 3/4-inch, 1-inch, 1 1/2-inches...to 2 inches. Provenance provided is thin to non-existent.

smoothing and de-barking would have gone a long way to make the original more durable and rot-resistant along w/ a bit or tallow. Just a lot less surface area to water and micro-organisms to stick to. But being ash and out in the sun, there's a limited life anyways. Taking 2-3x longer to build something to last 25% -50% longer may not be worth it.

:)

Those were to mark where to drill, so the holes match up for the dowels.

I thought the same thing but then they mention they used what was available, an axe and surrounding wood. A froe was probably a luxury!