Life In The 17th Century: Turning Wood Into Charcoal

Life In The 17th Century: Turning Wood Into Charcoal | Tales From The Green Valley

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2 жыл бұрын

How do you gauge gas mark 7 when you’re using a 17th-century bread oven? Why did people 400 years ago save up their urine to help with the laundry? Why did farmers in Britain traditionally plough with oxen and not horses? These are just some of the questions five historians and archaeologists asked themselves as they spent a whole year working a farm restored to how it would have been in the year 1620.
Tales from the Green Valley follows the five as they labour for a full agricultural year, getting to grips with period tools, skills, and technology from the age of the Stuarts, the reign of James I. Everything must be done by hand, from ploughing with a team of oxen using a replica period plough and thatching a cowshed using only authentic materials, to making their own washing liquid for laundry and harvesting the hay and wheat with scythes and sickles.
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@reistsolardown Жыл бұрын

I like how these folks always find and way to have a good laugh

@wizardofoz1390 Жыл бұрын

Five very charismatic and lovable participants .Awesome programs....

@brabel0401 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyable to watch. Also makes you realise how tough life was back then.

@noway57 Жыл бұрын

They fucked and drank. Got lit, burned shit

@wizardofoz1390 Жыл бұрын

The Valley Team are Courageous Stars

@Phylonyous Жыл бұрын

I like how they outfit the local experts in period clothes too 😂

@christinecarter6836 Жыл бұрын

Dear Retold producers - I'm really enjoying this series but finding it hard to work out the order of them so I can watch them as they work throughout the year. Adding "Part 1" etc to the titles would be really useful. I've just watched the Christmas episode but I don't think this is the next in order. 😞

@christinecarter6836 Жыл бұрын

Just worked out you search 'tales from the green valley ' and they're all listed in order, 12 parts one per month . That makes me very happy :-)

@atinemassare Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I had the same trouble ;)

@Biman_Goswami Жыл бұрын

don't ever stop making these videos. I'm hooked

@Tsiri09 Жыл бұрын

I was stationed in England in the 80's and lived in a thatched roof cottage. We used a coal stove for winter heat but the kitchen was modern, added on about 20 years earlier,

@d911tru4 Жыл бұрын

Haha, I have just started making earth method charcoal like that this year. Interestingly it makes better quality charcoal than modern methods. Also here in Namibia a lot of charcoal producers like to put in sticks and stones in the sacks with charcoal in the top half. Perculiar is also the tool you used to close the pea seeds, I actually used this this year to even my field for sowing as well...although with a tractor.

@Phylonyous Жыл бұрын

Makes want to drop out of work and sign up for this!

@kellygroce40 Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit obsessed with this program, well done!

@Phylonyous Жыл бұрын

Samesies!

@kille7543 Жыл бұрын

About making butter: after the cream is churned, you need to wash the butter with water to get the rest of the buttermilk out as it will go bad a lot faster than the butter itself, then you salt and press it. You could also make some thyme butter.

@Le0kardia Жыл бұрын

6:16 That's interesting, in Germany we have the sirname Köhler, apperently from the 15century, meaning charcaol-maker.

@Smeiksmeiksmeik Жыл бұрын

wollte exakt das gleiche schreiben ;D

@hampurista Жыл бұрын

Wanted to add that as well

@andrewreaney Жыл бұрын

There's an English language surname Cole which means charcoal.

@MrSteelermania Жыл бұрын

In italian it's Carbone

@jeffdittrich6778 Жыл бұрын

The farmers of the time were blessed that they could not afford much sugar. Those people who could afford it paid dearly with severe tooth decay which contributed to the miserable, painful death of Elizabeth I.

@Joelswinger34 2 жыл бұрын

I bet there were not many overweight farmers back then! So much hard work!

@graceamerican3558 Жыл бұрын

A lot stronger then than now. After watching this - we are way too soft.

@FloutchBW Жыл бұрын

Well, actually they didn't have it that hard most of the year, they were only active in precise seasons and periods where they were obligated to, in order to survive for the next year, but most of the time it was rather chill.

@graceamerican3558 Жыл бұрын

@@rthompson7182 … as you say that TYPING THAT OUT IN A PHONE. Let that sink in sweetie.

@jasonedwards2622 Жыл бұрын

@@FloutchBW 😂😂😂 nope

@wizardofoz1390 Жыл бұрын

The best of KZfaq Thank you!!!

@robertr2731 Жыл бұрын

These are so awesome

@robertdavis3020 Жыл бұрын

Made me homesick and missing my grandmamas

@randymercer7891 Жыл бұрын

Love Watching your videos. I find them so relaxing

@jesser007 Жыл бұрын

That last story tho! 🎣

@AliciaB. 7 ай бұрын

Stuart : "there isn't any English surname that denotes coal-making" Olivia Coleman : "Am I a joke to you ?"

@mythiclords3175 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video

@lasalletxnurse1 Жыл бұрын

I love this channel

@garagelifeink8331 Жыл бұрын

Excellent

@puddingsimon2626 Жыл бұрын

incredible to think that all it takes for milk to hold longer then a few days is to just heat it up for some time.

@sasssquatch1467 Жыл бұрын

Me in the 17th century: I'm looking for a dairy maid. Dairy maid: I'm a dairy maid, how many cows do you have? Me: none..

@lynwood5991 Жыл бұрын

Me: Well, I've got the missus. She's a cow. That's why I need a dairy maid

@mwilson70201 Жыл бұрын

Having watched a few of these episodes I find the lack of detail on any task frustrating. While I come away seeing how difficult life was back then I have not gained the knowledge that would enable me to get by in those circumstances. That is really what I watched for.

@johndowe7003 Жыл бұрын

Charcoal is easy to make hard to master, butter is the same and fishing too lol

@widowrumstrypze9705 Жыл бұрын

Well, it's more about how it was done, rather than how to *do* it. I'm cool with that!

@trevorsmith9162 Жыл бұрын

Absolute History has a Channel - Turn Back Time - Victorian Farm - Tudor Monastery Farm - Wartime farm...They go into more detail with the how to and with some of the same historians and archaeologists. Hope this helps 👍

@loganpollock1689 Жыл бұрын

Drag a net between two coracles. It was legal to fish from coracles in those days.

@kuttinkuddy3905 Жыл бұрын

The two women in this are my type! great sense of humor, strong, determined, not lazy, and great cooks.

@davidlillecrapp2960 Жыл бұрын

I don't want to live in the seventeenth century but I'd love to live it for a month

@redstateforever Жыл бұрын

When I hear the stories of the charcoal dudes cheating customers with bags of rocks, and the guy who fished a lot to get away from his wife, it makes me laugh. Technology changes, human nature does not.

@1337flite Жыл бұрын

I expect them to say "erp, trouble at mill..." a lá the Spanish Inquisition.

@jonathanwilliams1065 Жыл бұрын

What sort of trouble?

@bretcullison135 Жыл бұрын

Prayer for the time period should be in order.

@amadeusamwater Жыл бұрын

I haven't been watching these in order, but I'm not sure it matters.

@shawndyer8140 Жыл бұрын

Did anyone get medical physical before beginning the year?

@bartduynstee1577 Жыл бұрын

really interesting to watch, but it seems their clothes never get dirty and if they do, they turn up squieky clean in the morning. as well as hands and faces. just a bit too clean thru the day, if they are supposed to actually live there on that farm for a year

@ToniGlick Жыл бұрын

They mentioned in one episode they aren't allowed to sleep at the farm since it's not up to code. Not sure how the clothes are washed but my brother was in the peace corps for 5 years and the clothes were beaten on rocks. He said it got them very clean but wore them out quickly. The villagers didn't want to use the washboards someone brought.

@angelacalberto8654 Жыл бұрын

What was the charcoal used for?

@kille7543 Жыл бұрын

Blacksmiths would use it. Others too as it warmed but didn’t smoke.

@WebHead247 Жыл бұрын

Anyone know who the narrator is?

@rolandedrummer9723 Жыл бұрын

Hands like nutcrackers. hahaha. My kind of girl.

@redpill61 5 ай бұрын

May, month 9

@philochristos 2 жыл бұрын

Butter makes everything better.

@noneofyourbeezwax7284 Жыл бұрын

Is Coalman not a surname for coalers?

@vanessashimoni6548 Жыл бұрын

I’m exhausted just watching them work. I don’t think I would make a good farmer.

@darylvogel8991 Жыл бұрын

Too bad the children of the world don't spend the first 12 years of their life doing these kind of chores... No cell phones, TV, or internet... Yes Ruby and Cricket would be fine for play...

@andrewreaney Жыл бұрын

What? No turnips?

@Tactical_Arborist_1776 2 жыл бұрын

I bet those butter churners gave amazing handys when in the mood 🤣🤣 she really had that twisting motion on the stroke down to an art 😍

@mvshenhon8966 2 жыл бұрын

AYO LMAO

@Phylonyous Жыл бұрын

🤦‍♂️🤣

@JhonJrCoffee Жыл бұрын

As an prepper myself,I enjoy this documentary alot, incase ww3 happened anytime soon

@georgiapatriot3617 Жыл бұрын

Same here.

@thatgrumpychick4928 Жыл бұрын

Prepared, not scared

@justinethridge9157 Жыл бұрын

Why I just started watching this. Already deciding exactly what I could do on my land.

@ironboy3245 Жыл бұрын

Could you not just dig a pit and build the fire in there? Primitive technology does that and it seems to work fine for refining iron

@shawndyer8140 Жыл бұрын

How bout surname wood burn.

@dereks1264 Жыл бұрын

I wish they'd stop calling Peter "Fonz". It's jarring given the subject matter - but that's just a small quibble with an otherwise excellent series that seems to be the foundational format for a number of other televised experimental archeology ventures.

@SpacePimp1980 Жыл бұрын

That the hottest 17th century porn, I've ever seen.

@obiwankenobi579 Жыл бұрын

6:31 this is very interesting that English surnames have no mentioning of charcoal makers. In German you can find this profession as surname: 'Köhler'

@thebutchersbill1 Жыл бұрын

Coleman?

@obiwankenobi579 Жыл бұрын

@@thebutchersbill1 Could be - but Köhler is specifically someone who produces charcoal. A Köhler cannot be a miner while a coleman can also be a coal miner.

@Shifty51991 Жыл бұрын

Easier way to make Charcoal would to be just cover it in wet mud lol...the way Primitive Technology does it but i guess you are going for the 17th century way specifically haha