Building a Viking House with Hand Tools: A Bushcraft Project (PART 1)

[Music] Salo will you join us hey aunty a out those with another build episode I mean their words with Dustin he's working on a cedar tree over there I've got my dad here with us as well and we are building a Viking long house now this is not a historically correct viking longhouse it's gonna be a kind of our adaptation of it traditionally I think they were built with sod or turf they were there were almost turf houses but we're going for a structure that's almost like a cross between these kind of turf style houses and in a way a log cabin but it's not going to be a log cabin at the moment this is episode one it's gonna be a few episodes we're gonna take quite a few days to build this we're gonna work on the foundations the base today we've already been here at Dustin before where we've done the fact we've got the foundations we've got the site laid out we've we've done this kind of cedar log structure for the base however we've realized that it's gonna be fairly narrow so we're now gonna cut some longer cedar trees you can see Dustin in the background there these have already been blown over now I need to say that the other logs that we have there they're cedar logs they have been pre-cut we're at Dustin's woodland so they are pre-cut to about ten and a half feet I think it's about 10 1/2 feet which dad reckons is for floorboards wasn't it dad we reckon it's for floorboards so unfortunately that's that's very narrow 10 1/2 feet across the back means that the shelter when that apex comes in is gonna be quite narrow so we're going for 12 foot back base that length of the bat which means the width of this structure will be 12 feet we're going to be building a Viking long pit in there we're gonna have some rice structures at the front gonna build a good loads of different stuff it's gonna be a really good series I hope you enjoy it let's finish cutting up this and start building the base which ones that this is the katana boy but they do they do a hundred centimeter one really I mean that could felt when you think about it that can throw a tree really yeah yes that's the penalty so you go through that tape measure we're doing this all officially mixture of bushcraft of modern tools we're not doing it primitive so what do we say twelve feet okay okay yeah yeah we're gonna we'll have to do work the notches on whoa that would have been your toes dad yeah it's good that's why that's rotten look at it I mean these have been done yeah that is look at that he's having his Weetabix awesome sure Lisa honey what is he Danny del Vinny a con Centrica are the winning owners King Arthur's fruitcake or something leaning up against that tree up there so it's gonna pinch isn't it yes nicely done yeah those two don't know how to treat an old man do they so we're back at the foundation and because we did this part without any talking we just cracked on uh some work I need to explain what we've done here these are not gonna be the support to keep the base of the logs together because realistically these are gonna though we've burnt the ends to help get rid of the moisture but give a protective outer coating and make these wealth preserved and make them last longer that they will still eventually rot away and this would all fall to pieces the only reason we did these states like this is so that we could put our foundation together as you can see around here then we could get an idea of what the structure is going to look like the shape and we're also gonna notch these we're gonna notch them in the corners kind of blog cabin style notches so that it's self-supporting rather than being supported with these because that's good they are gonna rot away so for those that were wondering what these stakes before they are a guideline for us to be able to see our foundation or footprint of the shelter we've brought the two big heavy white blocks as you can see here these were ten and a half foot these ones and if we notch them over here it's we're gonna lose that much space again so the shelter's becoming smaller and we don't want that so we've actually got some 12 footers over there which are going to expand the shelter which means more resources for us to collect but it means it's going to be a very epic shelter when it's finished we're gonna stop for a quick lunch break and then we're going to crack on with doing some notches [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] that is it the episode one of the Viking house build we've notched out this the sort of foundation logs really which is forming the shape of the shelter just with some log cabin notches they're very basic rudimentary we're just using an axe we don't have a chisel so we just use an ax and a saw and it's taken on from Tom guy's estate for a hell of a long time we just been hammering an axe in a way and we've got obviously different sized cedar logs diameter here so it's really hard to get the notches right so that everything's level so it's not going to be perfectly level but at the end of the day this shelter is not actually the weight of this shelter is not going to be put on these logs so that's you know really they could just sit on each other and it would be fine the weight is going to be on the roof which is the apex sections that Dustin has been building today which I'll show you in a minute that's where the weights going to be on and even then it's not going to be too much weight because we're going all natural roofing gonna keep the shingle material quiet for the moment you have to stick around for episode 2 which will be focused on the wood frame the frame of the the kind of a frame of the viking house roof so obviously it's been myself dad and dustin it might just be me and us the next time I'll try and get dug down as much as I can we are gonna use these again we're gonna be using we are going to be using these burnt steaks which were essentially our guide steaks just to mark out the foundation well we're trying to do this as I say accurately as possible we're trying to do this as good as we can with the tools that we've got which is not a lot it's very it's kind of minimal we've not got loads of woodworking tools but we're trying to keep it yeah as minimal as possible with the tools so yeah we're not like I say it's not gonna be a historically correct Viking shelter it's gonna be our little twist on it but thank you very much if you're still watching and yeah we'll see you soon in episode 2 [Music] you [Music]

Channel: TA Outdoors

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Id: 9cUhoQzwP5o

Length: 26min 47sec (1607 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 21 2019