he honestly looks a bit like my grandma

it runs on nutmeg and suet!!

I was about to post the same thing when I seen your comment

@@relybiggunsbigguns5478 Bad joke, I know but I couldn't help it :).

Lol

Sadly, it confirmed for me that he was not, in fact, a time traveler.

What devilry be this horseless chariot yonder?

Someone needs to get him a horse drawn buggy stat! Of course his road trips might take years instead of days 😆

That was my first thought.

Nice chariot, but where are ze horzes?

Yes, it is!

The mountains of North Carolina is my favorite natural environment. Truly a great and beautiful place to call home.

Like you, I enthusiastically follow the Townsends channel. I studied “big” history (such as wars, kings, revolutions, political alliances) from an early age, but as I got older, I became more interested in the day-to-day lives of ordinary people in the past. Congratulations on your excellent English. I do not know even one word in the Thai language, unfortunately. Is “hah-poo” or “haa-boo” a better approximation of “thank you” in Thai? Greetings and best wishes from the U.S.A.

@RavenPoe thank you

@@Tina06019 thank you Tina thank you = ขอบคุณ Women / girl say = ขอบคุณคะ Men / boy = ขอบคุณครับ You can copy the word "ขอบคุณ,ขอบคุณคะ,ขอบคุณครับ" and click to hear the pronunciation in Google Translate. If you want to talk to me. You can you and me through my Instagram.

@@Tina06019 thank you = ขอบคุณ Women / girl say = ขอบคุณคะ Men / boy = ขอบคุณครับ You can copy the word "ขอบคุณ,ขอบคุณคะ,ขอบคุณครับ" and click to hear the pronunciation in Google Translate.

I thought you were thai from mars

Haha

How much is that a gallon? 🤔

@@HealthyandLovingLife free with the right magazine😏

Healthy and Loving Life yes

He gets 80 miles per teaspoon

Would you happen to have photo's by any chance? I would love to see it.

@@charliewecker Yes! I have TONS on a digital camera video stick from like 2012. Keep checking back. I will find it and put it on Imgur before the weekend. I will edit my original comment with a link. Cheers!

@@jamesdooling4139 just gonna leave this here as a reminder.

@@jamesdooling4139 👍

would be nice to see some pic's

thank you for sharing that interesting tid bit :)

@Paul Greening Well! :) Small world! That's just a few miles south of where my ma was born in Olds :) Her grandfather was born in Ontario and migrated to Westerdale between 1880 and 1890. Grandma told me stories about how important school was. When the snow was deep her father would hitch up the sleigh while her mother warmed stones on the fire, put them in cast pots to secure under the seats of the sleigh to keep the children warm on the way to school. The one-room schoolhouse was usually warm by the time they got there because the caretaker lived next to the school. After grade school, Grandma's parents boarded her in Olds so she could continue her education. I asked her once about how they kept food fresh and learned that some had icehouses but her family had an old well that had gone dry. The menfolk would get together in work parties, go down to the lake in the area and cut ice. They hauled it back and packed the icehouses or in gr grandpa's case, dropped the ice down the old well. They eventually filled it with enough ice to last through most of the summer. Instead of a pail on a rope to bring up water....they had a platform they put perishable food on and brought it up and down the well that way.

@Paul Greening When did clrcumclslon become common on the western frontier? How did this start?

Gregory Malchuk- Ok are you trolling or what?? WHY would you ask about circumcision??? 😳

@@corvuscrow5485 I'm not trolling, I'm serious. There are parts of Minnesota and the Dakotas where pockets of Scandanavian immigrants NEVER accepted the practice. It was virtually non-existent among white people until the late Victorian times. When did it start in the Midwest?

Plenty of two hundred year old buildings/homes in the US, but rare to find a 300 year old structure.

​@@chazmichaelmichaels88 mostly because they're made of of straw

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He needs a new head liner

At Walmart collecting colonial items in full period dress & folks expecting a "slash & burn" at the President's tweet

One his early videos was "Do you dress like that all the time?" I'll leave it up to you to brows his old videos to find it.

So does his wife! LOL

thats really cool, but this channel's focus is on 18th century north america and i am not sure of these types of homes where built then and there.

@@Frank-dv4zu I know the focus of the channel. And I know the history. To study 18th century North America, you need to look to Europe, as the immigrants brought the craftsmanship with them, and the tradition of house building. Nothing were invented there and then.

@RavenPoe No, its a real house. Some small cottages and our King even has a big mansion in log. See this link: no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Oppdalsmuseet_Bygdemuseum_Skjørstad-stuggu_Laft_tømmerhus_17c.-19c._Log_house_cottage_Vår_Spring_Benches_Skifer_Slate_etc_Oppdal_Open-air_Museum_Trøndelag_Norway_2019-04-25_5277.jpg

This fantastic log structure is the Kings Mansion outside of Oslo Norway: blogg.tv2.no/kongebloggen/2013/12/23/velkommen-til-jul-pa-kongsseteren/

And here is a more humble settlement, homestead. no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husmann

wow must be big trees there! amazing!

@@mchrysogelos7623 was

American Barns and covered Bridges “ is a book that describes early American life . It has a story about a black walnut tree in Maryland that was 28 ft in diameter . The tree was cut and hollowed to make a store out of .

Ah, ya beat me to it.

How ever did he capture such realistic moving paintings and messenger them to my eyes and ears?

He's a witch! I knew it!

He needs to keep away from Salem!

@@christinamata3405 may we burn him?

Nice

🥁 Bah-dum-bump!

I've been to Cades Cove in Tennessee a couple years ago and I saw some old cabins and churches from the 1820s and stuff like that, it's was cool. I actually like seeing old stuff like old buildings and going to museums to see replicas of old kitchens and places from the 20th century. It's satisfying. And fun!

Jered Timothy Frigillana 😂

Yes, totally. Early American history (colonial times through the Civil War) is taught in middle school in my neck of the woods, and then they take world history in 10th grade and then later American history (Reconstruction to present) in 11th grade. I love Epic Rap Battles of History, and wish teachers could show the truly historical ones to their students... but there's usually quite a lot of profanity in them, so no can do.

That's called learning and we can't have that in schools.

@@mountainghost556 , so true ! I am finding out most schools don't even teach American History any more. The liberals say, that teaches Patriotism and that is bad ! We are so had, since these people took over our once great nation :- ( They don't teach children they indoctrinate them.

Steve Lethal your kids will have social problems in the future then

@@eniggaracer , where does you information come from ? Teachers Union or experience ?

I clicked on this video to see if that's where he was going!

my ex lived in lansdowne

I'm from Bedford, PA & have been to Old Bedford Village so many times. Isn't it both strange & exciting to see something familiar and from home on a show like this? So neat!

That's very cool! I will try to find that one

Loved that show

I remember watching that. Roy underhill. Is still going strong and met him a year or so ago down in NC.

Most never expected the houses to outlive themselves. Especially in the territories. They expected to work on them throughout the years, surely, but never to shoot for 400 years later, no. Houses then weren't like houses now, in the frontiers. People moved a lot, and I do mean a lot. Indian Wars, all kinds of wars, and what have you. Economics too. Marriages & Deaths. It's only been...what...the last 100 years of modern production techniques that suddenly people decided they want their houses to last 200 years, like they live in Paris, London or NY. I am in an Indian Territory house, that was brought in as a kit (the old kind) by one of the first railways. It was picked up, and moved en masse using logs, and rolled 10 miles to where it is now, using a couple mules and 5 or so guys. It was never intended to last 75 years, much less 120, but here it is. From zero electricity and indoor plumbing, to being completely redone with both. From zero insulation (thank God it is a double wall with 3/4 inch thick tongue and groove style walls) to fully insulated. I remember the north wind in the winter blowing thru the dang walls. I didn't have it bad, I knew people in shotgun shacks that literally only had single walls covered with asphalt shingles. COLD ain't the word. The roof alone is a work of insanity engineering of the old way...free standing 20' rafters at a pitch so steep, you barely can crawl it to the peak, pyramid style. The ceiling joists are 20' single stretches on 24" centers, like the floors. At this point, they are so petrified, you almost can't drive a 16 penny COATED nail thru them, they are so hard. And the best part... they ain't no 1 & 3/4 by 3 & 3/4" so-called 2X4's. These are exactly 2 X 4's. With exception to the wall plates and headers, which are 2X6's...exactly. The floor stringers were amazing solid chunks of 6X6's at 20' foot long, but they were too far gone to save. As far as we know, the house was brought in to the territory in 1900-ish. Maybe 1901. I wasn't a carpenter, and neither was Dad, but we rebuilt the house bottom to top. It has parts from other houses as old as it in it. Lumber is dirt cheap that way. Evidently, the guys who put it together weren't carpenters either. Neither were the guys throwing up log cabins and shotgun shacks down the road. You did what you could with what you had, and learned along the way, because there wasn't a town to go to in the frontier, to get help. You had to do it all yourself. It blew my mind that there was something called a "french drain" for moving water away from foundations. That tiny idea, super simple, wasn't ever used here for whatever reason, so a lot of foundations got destroyed over the years. Mind-boggling simple... as simple as 16" centers as an engineering concept. You ain't never had fun until you had your mother holler at you because you are walking on a floor with 24" centers and it is bouncing enough she can feel it on the other end of the house.

@@TheCaptainSlappy thanks for that, interesting info. Good read.

@@TheCaptainSlappy so interesting thank you from Cambridge England

@@tonystoakley5816 Mine is nowhere near as interesting as some of the others I have read on here. Mr. John & the others taught me in one of the vids that they actually sided the old log cabins to update them, which I swear I have never heard of. Here, all they did was walk 200' away & just went and built another house, because of (at that time) all the old growth timber. I remember 2 log cabins from pre-statehood that were still around here, as a kid, but they are long gone. Once sawmills started coming in, you could of course get cut lumber (or you/general store brought it with you out of state during the land-rushes to inside the territory) so you built a one-room shack, then built out one room at a time, from what I was always told, using field stone foundation. Some nice, some really crude, but generally about the same time as you hand dug your cistern, which you collected up rock to line the walls with (some I have seen are massive, 20' across, 50 foot plus deep, dug with shovels and bars to bust through the bedrock) while you also did your foundation. Root cellars were common of course, just not the fancy ones so much. I talked to a feller out here on the 'net who was near London somewhere, 15 years ago or so, who lived in one of ya'lls stone houses. He said it was 500 or so years old & it would drive them insane because the inside of the walls would sweat, so every 10 or 20 years, they would have to redo/maintain the interior walls. A lot of "official" government buildings here were originally stone, and not necessarily cut, just slapped together. It wasn't until the brick manufacturers got started up towards Tulsa way in the 1910's (I think, don't quote me) that fired brick got used in buildings or houses. It boggles my mind that kids now can't conceive of what the old-timers did. You didn't hire a U-Haul to move, you literally got 5 neighbors, cut some trees down, grabbed some poles, hooked 3 or 4 mules to your entire house, rolled it off the foundation, and drove your house across pastures (and creeks too) to wherever you were going with it. People were here in the I.T. long before the U.S. bought it. Running the cow-trails, trading with indians, trapping companies, etc. I mean...there were small, but fully functional towns here during the Civil War, including some battles fought here, and we weren't even a state. Nobody here wanted any part of it, on any side, from what I remember. So almost 100 years of people being here (really, really close to when Mr. John & the others would be in time from what I know) running trading posts...fast forward that 100 years, and land-rushes...fast forward 50 years...just 50 years...and it is fully industrialized agriculture with shipping lanes through here for trains/wagons on coal processing SURPASSING Pennsylvania for the steel mills up north. Then one day...in 1929, the banks collapse. Overnight...it is all gone, and the population evaporates by 75%. That's how FAST it went...from a few towns with trading posts, to full blown rail & industry in about 125 years. From my great grandpa in a dugout house with a cow on top eating the grass, to me in a post-industrial collapse that none of it ever recovered from. From zero courts, government (outside local) or lawmen, to now. I don't think people fully appreciate how fast America moved in expansion. It moved FAST. Sorry. I like it when people tell their stories they know about what their families did and all that. More people should. We got here in 1657 in Mass. Bay Company territory, the old boy was a judge for them, then somewhere around 1700 or so, we started moving, and never stopped. Every time a government was set up, we left for the frontiers. We weren't the only ones. I.T. here is full of old families that did exactly that. The family that started Vicksburg is here, down the road from me. Same thing with them. Not up until my dad and where we are now, did anyone stop moving, because now there ain't nowhere else to go.

And in period costume, no less!

EverywhereWest, wow thank you for adding the information on how to treat the wood. Very interesting. You must be smiling when Americans talk about "old" wooden homes and your home is from 1634. :) I love comments like yours!!

Great info, although here in the states linseed oil is extremely hard to find and illegal in many jurisdictions. You can find boiled type fairly regular but it would seem that the boiling process really kills it's older uses like exterior wood finish. Don't know it that the case in Germany as well.

I have seen a couple of cabins that have three and four foot overhang all around to keep the water off the log walls and help shed it farther away from the foundation

That is so cool you live in a house that is almost 400 years old.... wow incredible.... if only those walls could talk . I'm just wondering if you're near the Black Forest . I grew up walking distance from that Swedish Log Cabin he shows at about 11: 11. That cabin was in really bad shape when I was a kid and young adult.... finally somebody realized what a gem they had there historically . Also everyone I grew up with said we could really feel the spirit of the Indians in those woods , the creek and cliffs . There really was a magical feeling around there .

The timber is only safe if it has been seasoned appropriately, and then treated with Linseed as you have stated. If not seasoned appropriately, it will still hold and soak up moisture.

He wanted a cabin not a broken back

Dkyguy1995 Yeah. Lol I didn’t say it would be easy for him. Just crazy when you think of the amount of work these settlers did

noob noob Thanks noob noob. This guy gets it.

Jacob Morris I recently took a tour of the huge, old cathedral of Cologne/Germany. It’s an incredibly intricate gothic masterpiece and both the largest and the tallest building of its kind in Europe. Construction started around 1250 and took about 200 years. It is indeed staggering to think about. These people did that without machines. No electricity, no steam engines, no nothing. Human beings are capable of astonishing feats.

Rara Avis it’s amazing to think of how many people spent their whole lives devoted to building a cathedral, or similar buildings, that they themselves knew full well they would never see finished.

hahahaha it would!

Benjamin Grist I like seeing museums of old building and history. Lol

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On my grandfathers property, originally settled in the mid 1800's, the first cabin became an animal shelter. The 2nd cabin became a tool and wood shed. The 3rd has three additions, all built using different methods of log construction. The roof on the first cabin collapsed, but the walls are still semi-standing. It's small. Now I'm curious and I'll measure it when I visit in a week. I get a laugh out of the tiny home fad. That's how people used to live.

Oddly nobody pointed out that witch carriage comes with built-in fainting couches for when you catch the vapors.

Of course!

My ancestors as well!

I don't think it is the oldest "standing wooden structure", it is the oldest "timber frame house". There is a distinction between those two.

yesssss... shhhhh... lol

that's maybe why he can't find one lol

The good ole Cadet restaurant. On 422 going towards Indiana, just down the hill from Dairy Queen. Yep my hometown area. Was so shocked to see it but gave me happy memories.

@@sid32965 yep, and the Dairy Queen is still a great one. The Trader Horn is gone though 😢

@@scottmcdivitt2187 I know Trader Horn was my favorite store. I live in GA now so I miss everything about home

SouthernNanny43 I was thinking the same thing! It would be a great collaboration.

Hello beautiful

Is this why I have an overwhelming urge to buy a plot in the middle of nowhere and build a cabin? Lol. Glad to know that sentiment was alive and well in the 1700s

Desert Blacksmith yes! I've loved the Saxon house build. I would think it's gonna get pretty chilly in there though, without a chimney or fire pit.

"adventon" in Germany dose similar stuff.

Indeed! I would like to sit in their inn and have a conversation with Jon... I would even wear period clothing!

The first Tiny House.

Pretty much what I am grateful to have

Sounds like my apartment.

@@mountainghost556 most old settlers cabins ive found where about 12x12 and had 4-5 ppl living inside

@@mountainghost556 you have a löft?

We don't have many men like your Dad left, sadly.

Neat!

Cool.i want it. But the original homestead cabin would be at least 100 years older. I want it. But I live in the West and the only really old structures would be in the SW.

Many hidden from public knowledge. There's one in Ontario that I can think of that is protected but known to the public. Just off a main road too

Apparently the earliest building in Canada thats still standing was built by Zacharie Cloutier in Quebec, which my children are related to through their dad, whose family came to Australia

I would like to start a crowd funding drive to restore and preserve it do you suppose your family would be interested?

Diesel nutmeg.

High Octane Nutmeg

At the very least it should have a nutmeg scented air freshener hanging off of the rear view mirror. @Townsends, feel free to steal my idea. Log cabin shaped nutmeg scented air fresheners with the Townsends logo sounds like a fund raiser to me.

**John has hexed your cow to go dry & produce no further milk** AHAHAHA...the comments on this video are great. I got some laughs.

glad it just isnt me

Period clothing is a business write off!

Jon. Car. 18th century no car. Jon no car. Mind blown.

At least you can drive as fast as you feel like. I can just see the cop going not today,

Fits with ye olde cell phone and laptop!

I have that on my subscription and sometimes watch it.... I haven't seen all of them though . I like his dog also . That is a pretty cool place he has there and it's neat to watch and cook food on that little wood burning stove for him and his dog

Not a bad idea. Many of these cabins and homesteads were, after all, built by first-generation immigrants from countries including Sweden.