Hello from Dayton Ohio. I love that this has been the most British series on youtube. You drew up a plan, plan went sideways, so you have just Wallace and Grommited the whole thing. As is the way.

Hi Alex, from Robinson Illinois. I love that you are doing this series. It shows how dedicated our ancestors had to be to build things made to last for generations. It’s a good reminder of the hard work and brilliance of builders.

Hi, Alex! Tiago, here, from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I'm excited to follow all the episodes of this project. The construction style reminded me of the first constructions built by Italian immigrants here in the Serra Gaúcha region, Rio Grande do Sul, around the years 1850-1910. Keep it up, greetings.

Hello Alex, when you drill, it's a good idea to pull the drill out from time to time to clear the wood chips out of the flutes, as they cause friction and overheat the drill bit. The reason it's getting stuck is the drill bit will expand as it get really hot making it stick to the walls of the hole you already drilled. Just a friendly tip! I really enjoy your videos though! Rémi from L'ange-gardien Québec, Canada (near Ottawa).

It’s nice to know people’s reactions to construction problems is the same across cultures. A hammer is my go to solution for me also.

Brilliant videos, well done you for braving KZfaq from a DIYer point of view. We need more of you on KZfaq, keep the content coming.

He shows absolute Britishness in his approach to building - fantastic 👏👏👏👏👏Peter Dunmow Essex

In theme with historic moments, greetings from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania! I see a lot of barns like this around here, usually built by old German settlers, I believe. It's really interesting to watch one man build like this and see how much work it must've been to do it all by hand! Also, at 19:56 the tool is usually called a come-along or a power puller, whichever you prefer.

Hey, Cam from Seattle, Washington. Really cool series to start following, been wanting to do exactly this in my backyard in a couple of summers. May steal some ideas from you. Watching from the beginning episodes you can really see your craftsmanship improve greatly and quality and speed as well. Good job with the build.

Cole from NEW England, specifically Topsham Maine, in the USA. I found your channel and have binged it all up to the most recent release, and always eagerly await the new video! I work as a videographer but have some general construction skills, taught by dad who was a general contractor building homes from the 1980s to the 2010s. I'd work with him on summers off from school. I am proud to say that he (with very little help from me) came out of retirement to built my "for ever" home for my wife and I. We are so grateful that we had this opportunity! New England has a lot of old colonial era stone homes, stone walls, stone foundations, and stone barns. It's pretty difficult not to take a walk through the woods or a drive in the car without seeing old stone walls criss cross the landscape. I've always had an urge to construct something in stone, something that would be around long past my time, like I see in the stone structures across New England. What your videos is teaching me is that I, a 30-something guy with some general construction skills might fare similarly or slightly better at building my own stone barn/workshop/studio, and that it is possible to take on with a strong enough will and DIY attitude. How did you convince your wife to let you tackle such a task, without knowing a timeline for construction? That's my only remaining barrier, convincing my wife, and possibly finding a good location on our property to place it. Cheers form Maine!

Cheers Alex! Was a lovely suprise for hubby. Definitely prefer being on the couch watching your progress and cock ups 😂😂

Hi Alex, I'm a big fan of your build. Love the fact that you jumped straight into the build despite zero experience on building anything of such scale. Can't wait for your next episode. The hardest part's almost over. From Singapore with love.

Thankx for all the content. Really appreciate your honesty. Oh and BTW my wife and I are watching from Burton in the province of NEW BRUNSWICK Canada.

I have never seen a drill bit twist like that and not break. Nice job on the build this week.

Man I am loving this series so much. Every time i watch it makes me want to buy a farm property and build my own handmade building. It just seems like such a rewarding project

안녕하세요 from this expat living in Busan, South Korea! I don't miss that weather at all!! 😃

my father would tell you: if that drill had legs, it would kick your ass :D

Alex, this is by far the most entertaining and amusing channel on KZfaq! Great work. You’re going to need to plan a second building, we’ll need a sequel when you finish this! Do you have an aspirational date that you’re aiming to complete the barn by?

I admire what you are building Love a good timber frame build I myself have a woodshop I live in Luttrell Tennessee

Greetings from Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦. Fantastic build.

Great videos! Thanks for sharing your build. I’m in Petersburg, Virginia USA

Hello from Denmark. I live in a small village called Løjt Kirkeby. Assuming you have to look it up. :-) Thanks for some interesting videos. It is very exciting to follow your project. Looking forward to seeing the final result. Good luck going forward Regards, Jan

You are making great progress. Not an easy feat in rainy weather. We have the same problem here in Seattle, Washington, USA! Hugs!

Jeff from the tiny town of Salem in Connecticut, US. Greatly enjoying the video series. I admire your ambition and positive attitude. Not so sure about a few of your sketchier methods, but you still appear to be in one piece and the barn itself looks great. You've inspired me to try something new on my next video: a voice over.

Greetings from Sydney, Australia! Fantastic DIY journey and inspiring for those who thought you had to be a 'Stonemason' or medieval woodworker to build this great structure!

'Das Bosch hammer iz brokun'... brilliant!

It’s looking great Alex!!

I've seen all the videos now (from now on I will follow whenever a video comes out), It's an intriguing series on an impressive build! I did quite some work with natural stones and restored some ruins here in Portugal, but working with those massive beams is something else!! All the best and stay safe. Greetings from the Barbacena backyard in the Portuguese Alentejo!

When it gets stuck put it in revers and back it out, if it has revers. Bosh makes good tools but it's not made for that. If you have a lot more to drill, the Milwaukee hole hawg is a beast. Keep up the good work, I'm pulling for you.

Hello from Mount Isa - outback Queensland Australia

Watching from Melbourne, mate. I’m loving your pragmatic one man approach, when it’s clearly a bunch of guys job 😂 … I can very much relate 🤣🔫

Greetings from Columbus, Ohio in the US. I'm enjoying the build and am impressed by your dedication to continue despite the long periods where the only progress seems to be a bigger mess and more rips in your tarps. This one had to feel pretty good getting those frames banged out. You've got to come up with a better way to drag long timbers to the site. It seems like two wheels and an axel would suffice. Maybe someone has a two wheeled wheel barrow with a rusted out bucket that they'd be willing to part with.

Yassssss. Another episode 🙌

I recently worked with a builder doing some renovations on my house here in Coffs Harbour Australia it is a very old house made of very dense heavy hard wood the carpenter put soap on the drill bit which made the drill go in a lot easier.

Big fan here in Colchester, Essex alex! Been watching for a while and it seems your diy skills are greatly improving!

Great job! I'm Danilo, Cheers from São Paulo - Brazil.

Ya let the smoke out!

It's very enjoyable watching you build. Best of luck from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Hi john here in Darwin in the northern Territory Australia I just whacked every episode and have enjoyed the hole lot great learning experience thank you for all of it okay 😊

No mercy shown to that poor drill :) Looking forward to seeing this pile of logs assume a barn shape, your thumbnail looks fantastic. Now pop a pin in Moraga, California!

Enjoy the series....keep it going and please be safe....Paul From Santa Clarita California

Kia Ora Alex ...another great update ...

Your antics with that poor power drill had me cringing, but what progress! Very much looking forward to the big lift. It's all starting to come together. Crack on, Alex!I Roy.

Alabama like your show

Greetings from Los Angeles - great work and great videos.

The drill bit with the S-bend was a piece of art!! as was the temptation to swat the wasp with the mallet. Fantastic work displayed. I love how you put your gear through maximum effort. Best wishes from Sarah in wet Smithton in Tasmania Oz.

Hi Alex, don't know what kind of drill bit's you're using but I use "wood owl" bits and they'll easilly deal with oak like that without any problems. Oh yeah, if your drill overheats. Take the bit out and run the drill at full speed without any load. The cooling fan will work faster to cool it down that way rather than just letting it cool on its own.

Incredibly cool skills!!! Enjoy the DIY screw-ups 😂 Nice work 😂👍

12:40 Technically, it's a wasp, because the Latin word Vespa actually means hornet. The smaller ones we usually call yellowjackets are Vespula ("small hornets"). But all together belong to the same subfamily Vespinae (real wasps).

Hey Alex, I really enjoy watching your videos! I dream of also building something in the future, maybe a bit more towards half- timbered and your frame work is very inspiring! All the best from Brösarp, Sweden. Famous area for its Scanian houses!

Hi Alex, I've just find your chanel. Nice videos. Folowing from Araçatuba, São Paulo. Brazil.

very good job! greetings from Milano Italy

Your humour is appreciated from a hammock in Curaçao, keep it up champ! Also, wondering what you might use that chain mortiser for in the future…

The rain is brutal! Nice blue skies in Peterborough, Ontario 🇨🇦

Maybe put it in reverse to pull it out when it starts to jam! PS from Shediac NB Canada! Love the content!!!

If that's not an advertisement for Bosch power tools, I don't know what is. That poor drill. Awesome vids, keep 'em coming.

Love watching your build. Always wanted to try timber framing. Following and subscribed from Cape Breton Canada

Hello from Colorado Springs - Olympic City USA. Perhaps an Olympic flag is in order? This is really a fun series. I'm glad I found your channel! Crack on!

Please don’t be stopping in the woods Pre drilling is not always good for me. The best way for me is to let the bit do the work.and not drive it too much. For me it is the start up that is the best

The drill also has a reverse gear. Maybe it would be enough to pre-drill it with a weaker drill bit. Or take a more powerful drill than this kitten.

Hi from Oakridge, OR. U.S.A.

Hi from Malta, where most construction of buildings was from the local yellow limestone. Alas, all concrete now!

Lovely to watch your progress. I've long thought that mortices and tenons are a underutilised technique, so it really is pleasing to see you using it to the fullest. Modern builds just seem to take pieces of wood, place them in the direct vicinity of each other and attach them together using nails or screws. Where's the art in that when you can instead carefully craft massive pieces of wood and then watch them fit together like a big, heavy jigsaw puzzle? Much more rewarding. Greestings from Gothenburg, Sweden!

It looks like one of the reasons that the drill got stuck is that while it was far inside you angled it upwards when pulling.

I love these videos, as a carpenter myself, I'm really impressed with your ambition, and quality of work (I do find myself almost shouting at the screen watching you make life extra hard for yourself at times, yet still youget it done.) But today's video... I was surprised at your complete lack of respect for, and abuse of your tools, You were lucky with that drill, I've seen drills like that break fingers, wrists, and even fracture a man's jawbone, and a couple of young lads knocked clean out while doing what you did. Those drills are over £200, yet you don't seem to care that it's destroyed? I'm really not sure if I'm going to watch any more of your content.

dude, try to use reverse rotation (flag switch on the back of your drill) to unscrew a drill off the wood next time

On the armature of all power tools is a fan, when they are not turning and power is applied they are not getting cooling air flow.

Hello from Biliran Island Philippines

Hi Alex I have had plans in my head for 3 to 4 decades to do what you are doing, now I am too old and infirmed to be able to do it. I doth my cap to you Sir.

Enjoying the series but must say I cringed at the level of tool abuse for that poor Bosch drill 😮 Cheers and beers from sunny Brisbane, Australia.

I love the videos, but your sound levels are really bad sometimes. I can barely hear you without being deafened when you start running a drill.

mmmm they used to drill this by hand...argh. I think you should start with a small drill then the bigger drill bit should be sharp and moved back and forth more often. wet oak just clogs the bit up so keep it moving...good luck

It's also likely that the drill died because of Voltage Drop on a long extension cord. The electrical resistance in a small gauge cord over a long distance causes the volts to drop -- but not the amps. So the drill keeps pulling power and since it can't get the volts it wants, it pulls more amps, which smokes the motor windings. Windings are engineered for higher volts and lower amps but reverse this and you'll smoke your tools. DAMHIK

Getting there…

Have you considered where to put the log burner?

What kind of multipurpose forklift/miniexcavator is that? Looks pretty handy! Also, are those beam actually oak? If so they must have been pricey

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When you drill with big auger bits you need to go in and out. Keeping the flutes clean. The bosch was never designed for the level of vandalism you subjected it to.

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Watching at the edge of our seats from San Francisco what’s the whole map look like?

Demasiadas vueltas para construir..desde que vi como empezaste el arco con todo ese entramado de madera nesesario cuando había método mas simple..se nota que eres inexperto..das muchas vueltas..te complicas en demasiado para algo que al final no termina bien hecho.. De todos modo te dejo un like Saludos

It’s hurt the tree that was used for your gert

Prøv borr for stål. Smør borr med voks. De lange boltene smør de også så setter de seg ikke fast og knekker.

And what kind of midlife crisis do you have