This fellow builds a timber-frame cabin homestead. Old tools, old methods.

[OddBall]

Incredible blog and YouTube channel.
This fellow chronicles the work and methods he used to to build his homestead on the side of a Kentucky mountain.
I even learned how some things where done that I had always been curious about. If you were ever thinking of building
something "Old School", you'd definately want to be a student of this site.
He even makes his own block-n-tackle!
Just facinating.

Blog site: https://mrchickadee.wordpress.com/

YT Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYrJ2Fbe7pBjEZvkFzi3A/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd


A few pics from the blog. (He has a lot of pics!)

https://mrchickadee.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_5538.jpg?w=640&h=960

https://mrchickadee.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_5537.jpg?w=640&h=427

https://mrchickadee.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_5642.jpg?w=640&h=427


One of the vids
Raising our timber frame workshop - YouTube

Enjoy! :cert:

[SilverBullitt]

pretty cool. He has way more skill and patience than I do!

[Dan Dlabay]

It's nice to see that there are people that keep the old ways of doing things alive.:seasix:

[78SA]

It's nice to see that there are people that keep the old ways of doing things alive.:seasix:

:iagree:

[OddBall]

I wish I had the time and youth to do this stuff.

[BADRACR1]

There is a documentary on PBS called "Alone in the Wilderness". It's about a man that does the same thing - at age 45 - and lives there alone for almost forty years in the middle of a large wilderness area in Alaska. He has some things brought in occasionally that he cannot make but for the most part lives off the land. It is incredible to watch him make the things that he has to have to survive and build the tools, utensils, cabin and other things he needs.
I've watched it a couple of times. Pretty fascinating.

[Iron Chef]

There is a documentary on PBS called "Alone in the Wilderness". It's about a man that does the same thing - at age 45 - and lives there alone for almost forty years in the middle of a large wilderness area in Alaska.

Ummm...so you're saying he started living alone in the Alaskan wilderness before he was years old? :confused5:

[ToolMaker]

I built my timber frame in 1985. This was not any kind of kit.
Best time I've ever had! :seasix:

[DAB]

people like the idea of hand crafted items, people do not like the idea of paying fair prices for hand crafted items. :DAB:

[OddBall]

people like the idea of hand crafted items, people do not like the idea of paying fair prices for hand crafted items. :DAB:

:iagree:

[Blue Demon]

people like the idea of hand crafted items, people do not like the idea of paying fair prices for hand crafted items. :DAB:

DAB, I think you should add the word "some" prior to the words "people". Just my opinion....

[WalkerInTN]

Pretty darn cool. Nice to see those old world techniques. :seasix:

Not sure how old those ratchet straps he's using are though. :leaving:

[OddBall]

I may have to try building a capstan.

Note the chalkline that hes using

Timber framing a medieval capstan - YouTube

[Kerrmudgeon]

people like the idea of hand crafted items, people do not like the idea of paying fair prices for hand crafted items. :DAB:

Geez........sour grapes much? :bilmem:

[DAB]

Geez........sour grapes much? :bilmem:

Nope. Just my observation.

I'm not running a profit making business. My bills are all paid. I do :DAB: because I enjoy it.

[OddBall]

Geez........sour grapes much? :bilmem:

People do tend to think that they are going to pay the same price for a meticulously and laboriously crafted piece, as for the faux wood piece massed produced out of some Chinese hell hole.

[BADRACR1]

Ummm...so you're saying he started living alone in the Alaskan wilderness before he was years old? :confused5:

He was forty five when he moved there and built the cabin and lived by himself for forty years. Moved to his sons' house at eighty five.