Wow that pretty cool insight. Did you burn the canoe on the top, the flip it around dug a hole fill with charcoal then smoke it afterward? Or you burn a d smoke in one step? If the canoe is burned I would figure it already hot enough to melt the resin so you dont have to smoke it again. I never make one before but very intrigued. It gotta be the most difficult small canoe also the mose expensive, and might hurt you back doing it.

I wish i could make a canoe with a tree and go fishing

Well done bro

@@shrippie-4214 bup

What a fantastic story. Thanks for sharing your time.✌️

That's a lot of damage. How bout a little more?

Billy Mays could have a field day with this dugout canoe

Billy Mayes here with might putty

WE SAWED THIS BOAT IN HALF !!!!!!

What about flex seal CoLorS

Thank you donny!

"f*ck!"

I agree with you BUT....it depends which region they're at. If its a hard wood forest then there wont be any conifers around

Or just buy some epoxy.

Add some fine ground charcoal to your resin to make a bit more of an elastic glue cause the wood is going to shrink and expand thew the years

@@JoshuaJonah the good old epoxy george washington used

Joshua Jonah I guess you _could_ buy epoxy, but that kind of defeats the point, doesn't it?

Floating on water does that to you ! when i push my kayak into the water and jump in. it's like all the stresses of the world fall away. the First few paddles are ... i have no words for it. so peaceful and transcendent.

We have a stand of black walnut that size on the farm I grew up on. These days, I think a large maple would be the best bet though since you get the fast growth of a softwood with strength close to a true hardwood.

Ang Abrams I had one that big in my yard that was taken down ~ 20 years ago. Thing was really old.

@@angelaabrams9108 creek / water Elm. Thats what my research has found to be the favorite tree among the natives and frontiersmen of the ohio valley. Very heavy when green , once dried out extremly light. They burnt inside And outside 2" is correct for thickness. They did all forming with fire. Using flat stones from a creek ,they rubed the char smooth inside and out. The creek Elm was desired because the fibers made for a very light and very strong canoe. Once burnt and stone polished they then using large peices of animal fat rubbed it filling the pores and created very light nice transportation. Most had a bowl shaped indentation at the front end thay packed with sand to build a fire in . For mostly hunting purposes. With a animal skin between the fire and the hunters. This shaded the hunters from the light . The prey was blinded by the light of the fire and confused by it. Making for easy pickings. I live in the Kanauga River valley a tributary of the Ohio River. Actually at the mouth were it joins the Ohio. Natives called this place TI-WIN-DA-WEE. ROUGHLY translated ,mingling of waters' home of white caps. The river is so wide here it allows the wind to form white caps , lots of them. We also have alot of seagulls as well. I have a creek Elm about 3/4 feet thick in my back yard . From a low cut stump to where the trunk splits into branches is about 12 -14 Feet. So my canoe will be 3.5 ' wide / 12 feet long, about 2.5 ' deep. I plan to do this very soon. I will take picks as i work ,once complete i will share . May do the gopro thing and uplaod a vlog . Ive done alot of research on this , nice to see this one being built. Very interesting.

@@walliehart2055 coo;!!

I was making Oak 8X8's with my chain saw mill (a wood bug) for a project, at my house out front, and guys kept stopping and trying to buy them from me! :)

Spoken like someone who doesn’t work

@@suspicioustumbleweed4760 I got the opposite vibe.

Imran Rizwan history is amazing

the nerdy outfits make me cringe hard, but i guess its historically accurate. @@MFRiley

Geez, laying it on thick. We get it, you're booksmart but you like the woods.

Hi, did you get around to do it?

My brother is 400 pounds overweight. He gets washed the same way.

Omg I didn't even think of Bart. D'oheth!

@@panzerabwerkanone thats sad, no one should consume that much when so many other people are starving...

true, sand is easily had at the waters edge and easily swept out. That was funny "u can never again use iron tools" edges are easily put back on iron and sand is easily swept up . I wonder what that canoe weighted?

Clays far more compact and has a smaller grain size than sand.

@@harleyrhynes3342 Can you explain that statement, 'u can never again use iron tools with sand'?

Yeah but they are only using materials they had back then so they had to use sand

@@MadGunny River clay is found all over the planet. Human's have been using it for thousands of years. Pottery... blacksmiths use it to control heat in metal they are working, as they have for centuries. I watched them doing this and clay was the first thing I thought of as well, using it to limit the burn on the sides while gaining depth.

check out his cooking series, its the best!

Maybe the Spanish, since they helped too

*1776 lol

Great video. I want to do some out of palm trees any suggestions

1799

Aww i would of said 1799. Like the song but the song goes like its 1999

Same

You must be in Britain...where it would have been about 2300h when this video was uploaded? It was uploaded at about 1700h US Eastern Time, or 1600 Central. Awful early for bed unless you work a strange shift :)

Same for me, just no spouse :D

aw yiss. motha f’n townsends

I love a good geek fest, don't you?

Whats really funny, is in the latter end of the 17th century, there were designs for submersibles, with the idea being there was a drill in front of it, where it could go up to an enemy vessel in harbor, undetected and drill holes in the hull to sink it

That would be the Turtle, built in 1775.

No! The "Unsinkable II"!

@@WelshWebb Considering the titanic had two sister ships, i think Unsinkable 2 and 3 are taken. 4 maybe?

Hello Justin! Nice to see you Here.

Get out of here fam

Plz nobody like justin y's comments, thats what makes him famous

You like townsends too? We seem to have similar interest.

wtf you're everywhere

Not everyone i met my wife online. Married now 15 years

LOLOL!

Hipsterypunkery, I wish I had more hangs so I could give you more than 2 thumbs up.

Indeed too many tinder fungi

@@gabriel300010 indeed too many but not all.

Yes, sometimes it gets real bad.

Um you have no connections to the pioneers… A few mins without electricity isn’t anything close to the ends of living off of what you don’t have

@@aurorabarnes7494 I think you may have missed the point more than somewhat.

Joshua Barnes r/woosh

R/woooosh

Thanks ALOT!!!! for the How to on the gloves, I will be doing that with the pair I will be purchasing soon, just finished off my current pair it was tuff breaking those suckers in, it was them or my hands and I used them till I couldn't use them any more. Good patching material now.

@@terry-1 No problem. I ran across it accidentally while working in a concrete block yard. If you can find saddle soap that is what works best. It can be a bit too cold to wear them for a full day to dry on your hands in the winter, but you can do it on your day off indoors for a few hours and that will get them started.

Good Point, Winter has definately hit. I will poke around here for some saddle soap, makes sence with leather gloves.

KnightsWithoutATable good advice. You have a recommendation for a leather conditioner after treatment?

@@SoapAcademy Saddle soap. If you use the gloves every day in rough jobs they are likely to wear holes in them before you need to condition them again.

Well figures.

He kooks exactly like Peter Griffin :)

I'd love to know how that is pronounced!

@@rosemcguinn5301 Hah. Joys of slavic languages LOL Something like "DWoo-ban-kah". It's an almost exact equivalent of "dugout".

@@FrikInCasualMode Thanks! :) It actually is different than the way I'd imagined it would.

Just like they would have said 300 years ago!

Thanks for coming along!

Richard, thank you for showing everyone how reenactors learn the skills by reaching out to dedicated experts.

Thanks for sharing your skills with us

Portage was common but they didnt carry these in the normal sense they used a roller system dragging the boats by using long logs as a rail and short ones as rollers they easily moved boats loaded with gear.

@Michael RedCrow life back then was a harder life but it was that harder life that spurred the innovation that makes our lives easier. I would also like to add a much lazier generation as life has gotten too easy in my humble opinion.

@@prima164 that is truely one method some used when they had the time to go ahead and build those dug outs. But that took weeks in some cases months to prepare. A portage with log rollers and rails was commonly used and required little time to set up and often times the trail would have already been set up by earlier travelers. In a few places where large boat trips are done they still use this type of portage.

terry- right! it would suck to carry for sure. I will stick to my plastic one!

From what I understand, based on conditions you will go 5 or more feet out into the lake and perhaps in an area 4 foot deep to sink the canoe. In northern Indiana it would have to be an excessively cold winter to freeze down more than about 12 to 14 inches. Their is no way it would freeze 3 or 4 foot down

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure you never want that sort of boat to dry out. It would be very likely to crack and although the crack may swell shut when the boat re-hydrates, probably best not to count on it. Up here in Canada the most common indigenous watercraft adopted by settlor's is the birchbark canoe. My understanding is that birchbark canoes were commonly buried in bogs over the winter, they can apparently last for many years in that state.

@@brocktechnology Exactly..NEVER dry a wooden boat out ever. Even modern ones. At the worst you can store it in open air for the winter where snow can fall on it and melt, but even that is risky since the freezing winter air can get pretty dry and as water gets into the grooves and then freezes, it could also crack it. Sinking it is a brilliant solution to be honest. Or maybe a heavy pitch coating to prevent moisture from getting in or out to stabalize it.

Wood only rots when its humidity changes continuously. These canoes are store underwater to prevent damage, for the same reason that the buildings in Venice are still holding up: the logs supporting them are always underwater.

Check out the construction of Brooklyn bridge.... You'll be surprised...lol