Can We Make A Chair From A Tree In A Day? Hand Tools Only.
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2018
- A challenge...can we cut down a tree and make a chair from it, all within one day. So that involves splitting out the wood, pole lathe turning, steam bending, assembly and Shaker tape seat weaving..all to be completed in a day.
My website is: bucklehurstleather.co.uk
Many thanks for help from the Kent Bodgers in making this film. - Jak na to + styl
This was extremely entertaining, and I had no idea I needed a foot powered lathe until tonight.
Chris B same
Don't we all..
Likewise, they looked awesome. I was taking notes of how they're constructed as i was watching it haha
I forget who but someone has blueprints for a spring pole lathe made with 2x4's. Also, while they still work well most turning tools aren't designed for a pole lathe and often times standard chisels work better and many people make their own. If I remember correctly wilderness outfitters has a video on making a turning chisel
There are two films on my channel that will show you how to make them...quick and slower builds.
When I saw the title I expected a chair that was mostly sticks that still had bark on them. After watching I am amazed at how much can be done with hand tools. This is much better craftsmanship than most can do with high end electric tools. Excellent job!
Thanks
I would say that you don't know squat about working with power tools.
@@savannah505 Yep, a powered lathe, table saw and plane would turn around most of these components well before midday. Not to take away from how impressive it is to do by hand though.
@@joestevenson5568 "most can do with" he wrote. You can have the most amazing tools, but with limited knowledge, it will still be shitty. And you can have only a pocket knife, but with amazing knowledge, it will be astonishing!
@@joestevenson5568 It would be entertaining to make the same type of chair in a day in a powered shop. Its more about the skill of the craftsmen than how the tools are powered.
In my experience, it takes me 4 days to build up the energy to go to ikea and buy a chair.
Lmao Right?!
Real men build their chairs!
@@brokentoedspoon real men can assemble ikea without the manual
ive never been inside an ikea in my life or have ever seen one
@@dhycee8215 Now that's just madness..
I was thinking, "oh that's easy, you just maybe get some sticks, get a mortise tool, a hole saw, and a couple electric drills. No problem!"
But not only did you guys make a chair, you made a NICE chair. With hand tools. In the woods. In one day.
This was a great watch.
I like how this is a bunch of older gentlemen who are all clearly quite experienced in woodworking. It's also very entertaining and interesting to watch. Good job fellas, you did some excellent work and you should be proud of yourselves.
There's something very satisfying about the sound of those old style lathes.
I find it very soothing
I'm sexually stimulated by the premise of a foot powered handmade lathe powered by a bit of string, and a pliable branch.
Back then machines were made to ease the work of humans and to make it more enjoyable. Nowadays they are being made to enslave us more and more, so nobody cares if the noises they make are nice for the ear.
@@YamiKisara Yes indeed. The sounds of this handwork is maybe engraved into our brain knowing unconsciously we where home save with the community. I don't like the path humanity is going. But on the long run humanity will win. Too many people have good hearts and spirit. Someday, somewhere...revolution.
Alright, coolest group ever, I'm moving there from Florida. Hope you'll have me.
Yes....you are welcome!
Passing on the knowledge to the new generations. I thought maybe someone would nail some pieces and make a chair, but the attention to detail is very refreshing and humbling.
Drying the ends and creating a natural locking system of the pieces was a valuable piece of info.
Thanks
This is historical footage for a new society
If only. Just look at this lot. Not a single one does not have a head full of grey hairs. In just a couple of years, there wouldn't be a single bodger left in the world.
But I am not the person to complain. Interesting to watch all these people using handtools. Marvel at their skills. But I use powertools if I can. How else would I find the time for my other hobby? Watching youtube videos. :)
I am from the Philippines. First time seeing this old method of bending wood. The proper technique of using axe and everything in between is something you could not learned from school it is a combination of your friends putting so much effort and sharing one's idea into a reality. The amount of time your group put into making that wonderful chair is priceless. Thank you very much Harry and Friends....
@@Ian-sp5gs good luck with the house buddy
Maybe during your childhood you play barbie dolls, cmmon men, shame on you if you grew up that dont know anything
This was the way certain kinds of chairs were made through the 1800s. :)
Chair makers here made the stretchers of seasoned wood so I thought the tip about the hot sand to dry the ends was especially interesting. Thanks so much for posting this informative and fun vid.
Dang, when they were in it to make a chair... they meant a legit chair with quality joinery and shape. Excellent!
Very, very cool. I honestly wish things were a little more like the old days. People would appreciate things more.
That was most impressive , what a great example of proper team work, no egos just doing what they do & doing it very well . Nice to see my cousins Carole & Keith having fun and using olde worlde skills .
Was not aware that man powered lathes like that existed until now. Kinda shows my age a bit but so does the minecraft character thats been my profile picture for like 6 years
Minecraft. What is that? Like Legos on a computer?
Wow.
Roblox is lego on computers, minecraft is more of a blocky style game.
I was rather impressed with the variety in designs as well.
I saw at least 3 types so far and I'm not even done watching yet.
Go out learn something ;)
extremely hard to believe such a magnificent piece of workmanship was finished in one day without electric tools! I'm very inspired to make something with my aunt's bamboo that she wants me to get rid of from her back yard!
What's really lovely is the calmness and peace from the lack 0f noisy power tools...bliss and really enjoyable to watch. Well done. Fantastic and informative 👍
That was brilliant Harry, not only was it a load of people coming together with a common goal but man that was a gorgeous chair, you guys didn't go half hearted into it. Never seen the drying the ends technique before but completely makes sense. Loved the whole video.
A well mannered effort and a fine example of collaboration. Truly, well done Gentlemen and Ladies.
now thats a man who know how to handle an ax, excellent work ax guy
Hats off for the hard work from everyone. Thank you for bringing us along.
That David Dunk fella sure knows how to wield an axe
It would have taken me two days to get the tree down. I don't think I've ever hit the same spot twice on purpose with an axe.
Agreed! I was just thinking the same thing!!
No.not to cut trees !!!
Amazing accuracy
My thought exactly in the first minute of the video seeing an axe used that well was worth a like without seeing the rest of this excellent video.
A pity there are no younger people with these interests.
Just in awe how awesome it must be to have a bunch of like minded people, enjoying woodworking. Thanks for creating and sharing this, it was thoroughly enjoyable.
Loved the scene where you bent the legs! Six lads, each with their own part to play. They start by going through those parts in turn, and the interplay between them as they execute it all is gorgeous to watch!
Wonderful.
Men in sheds coming together at it best.
Yes I know you weren't in a shed but it's the image of old retired Englishmen working together using historic skills and artistry.
We live in a world where we purchase stuff that is mass produced with minimum skill required, so to see something that is genuinely 'hand-made' is an education in itself.
Without people like you guys our historic knowledge would be lost.
👍👏👏👏👏👏
An inspiring display of teamwork. The chair is beautiful. Seeing the amount of skill, passion and patience that went into this project makes it a masterpiece. I’ve never been more impressed.
Wow total respect to the skill of all you gentlemen.
Thanks, they are a great bunch...so many really nice people in Bodgers.org.uk
What a beautiful piece, and the lack of power tools is very refreshing as are the friendships & the "3 C's" ~ cooperation, camaraderie and creativity !!!! Thanks for sharing the video
Just a bunch of old dudes in the woods making a chair with old techniques. I can't think of anything more relaxing. Love it!
Fun to see the old lathes in motion. And the hot air balloon. Thank you harry!
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I am very impressed not only by how quickly you all managed to make the chair but also by how nice it looked when it was done. Well done, you all deserve respect for keeping such a lovely skill alive. I am currently building a pole lathe and I hope, someday, to be able to do such fine work as well!
That homemade lathe was the coolest thing ive ever seen a woodworker create!
Hobby, satisfaction, entertainment, creativity, perfection, teamwork and good food. Full packed !!
It's like watching my dad working. I missed him everyday
Incredible work all round, full credit to the range of skills on display and to have accomplished all that in one day, superb! ~Peace~
Thanks Zed.
Thanks Harry and Zed! Great job. I am going to view the video again.
Amazing! Knowing the increadible effort and attention that has gone into making that chair makes it an endlessly more beautiful piece than anything you could buy at the store. Thankyou for sharing this with the world.
Thank you very much!
I dont leave youtube comments a lot, but this was truly an incredible build. The craftsmanship and attention to detail was better than anything I could have done even with electric power tools.
Thanks Aidan...we have a coracle build coming up!
Beautiful. I really enjoyed this video, thanks from America!
Bunch of some amazing people 🙏🙏
As a person from north America, it's interesting to see forests full of coppiced trees, the multiple trunks protruding from a single stump is a product of historical people modifying the trees to produce as much useful lumber as possible, something I don't really get to see in Canadian forests
Harry you truly one of a kind. I enjoy your videos very much. Keeping the old crafts alive is a marvelous thing. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jack
Well done everyone, well made vid too, a chair by committee ! blinkin miracle really.
Nice to see such a group effort and the variations of tools in the individual kits is interesting. I imagine it was nice, a day in the woods and a bit of fire smoke and wood shavings, what more could anybody ask for?!
I love nothing better than the machines in your video! The demonstrations were worth my view!
Imagine getting lost in the woods and then stumbling upon this... you’d think you got sent back in time 😂 This is truly amazing!! I love watching talented people doing what they love!
Seeing these gentlemen working together crafting a masterpiece with craftsmanship like no other.... makes me realize the new generation is moving backwards in intellect and soul. i wish we could be more like you
Don't neg your own generation cuz you saw a bunch of geezers build a chair on youtube lol
I'd say the new generation could probably whip out one in the same time with 2 people, a chainsaw, a band saw , a planer, a cnc router and a cnc lathe. True, it's not as romantic, but it is more efficient and still requires a bit of intellect.
not to belittle the work done here, that's a great demonstration of craftsmanship.
Thats what I meant indeed, but we do depend on machines to get things done. You know what would be cool, old gen vs new gen using same techniques in a video. Anyone up for it?
Man-powered vs. battery-powered machine to spank your little ass.
In germany for joiners you will learn new techniques but you will also learn those old techniques so that when you finished your apprenticeship you could do things like shown in the video and use modern stuff like CNC routers and CAD's. And then you also can go onto journey men years to learn how its done all over the world but only few choose to do it cus there are restrictions to who can do it and also alot of restrictions on how to behave on you journey like you can only travel using your own feet (if possible, you obv cant walk from Europe to America) and you have to be wandering for full 3 years.
Lovely chair, well done!
The axman is an absolute expert! A pleasure to watch and learn from.
Best part was all the cheery banter! I love it!
Nice to see there are still some people around with these skills. Shame there are no young there, but I suppose that is a sign of the times. Good on you putting these kind of things on video for others to see. Like me. :-)
Making a chair: Difficult
Only using hand-tools: Very difficult
In a day: insane
Chair in a day with powertools would be hilariously trivial.
Yeh, even students in high school with 0 woodworking experience can make a near perfect chair with powertools.
These gentlemen, they live their day on hard mode or what? Awesome! Love watching that old woodturning technique
@@orionweiss5418 No, they can't. It will be a chair but no way close to perfect.
The bodgers historically did the pieces for 50 chairs in a day (assembling none). And lived in terrible poverty.
Before watching I thought how hard can it be to make a chair. Today we have many electrical tools that make it a breeze to make a chair.
When I started watching I discovered why this video has been made.
Thank you for showing the old (non electric) way of making wooden things :)
Fabulous !! A bunch of ageing dreamers out in the woods, whittling away - though I had understood that it would be one tree, one man, one day, one chair, not a cast of thousands ! Great tools, too . . .
The coolest part about this is to see exactly what is required in order to make a chair. I'm sure with factories and stuff they can do this much faster but all the steps are the same. Would of loved to help with this. Seems like it would of been fun.
I'm also very impressed that he knew all the right people who had these skills. I also wonder how long set up took.
@@Jaden-lv7kx We practised the steam bending the week before. We are all members of Bodgers.org.uk so meet up regularly. Rgds Harry
Blimey, thats an impressive looking chair. From the title I was expecting something resembling a log. Great video gentleman.
this is what we call 'Artist'. even no had a power tools still can make something useful.
FOOT POWERED LATHE, that is so great. Awesome work guys
Beautiful work fellas! cheers from Canada!
The ending was awesome, watching all those guys smile as they take turns sitting in it.
Too good!! Old skills,simple tools . Old talents just never grows old.
Can 100 people build a chair in one day .. yes ... Whatever, really cool guys. Great Craftsman at work.
I love that the whole thing is hand-chopped and hand-sawn, Harry. Way to go!
I have subscribed! It is such a pleasure to see so much know-how being delivered in such a small time frame by Artisans, Journeymen and other gentlemen with great skill, doing the near impossible with very limited resources, so quickly, with their own treasured tools.
I envy you all.
Hi Bryan..if you are in the UK you would be very welcome to attend some greenwood working events, and join Bodgers.org.uk
A fine display of teamwork and craftsmanship. Really a beautiful chair. Thank you Harry for bringing this to us.
What kind and gentle people. I was amazed by the teamwork :)
I can just imagine they are all James May working on one chair.
The Axemans a legend
Yes a a really nice bloke with it.
I have become mesmerized by this non-electric, all man powered, woodworking team.
Hi Teena...if you are in the UK there is probably a local group near you Bodgers.org.uk Rgds Harry
@@harryrogers Thank you so much, but I am in the US. I will watch some more of your videos tho, including the leather work. I have sewn on my grandmothers antique treadle Singer sewing machine many years ago. Your machines are beautiful.
I absolutely love that manual lathe. This place would be such a treat to browse.
not fair! You didn't say you had an experienced crew and a whole factory.
Agreed! Click bait! I'm kidding, of course. Fine, fine craftsmanship on display all around.
Yep, he may as well have bought an ikea flat pack :-)
It's a get rich chair quick scheme! (@_@) Who has time to air dry lumber for a few years?
He did say we.
if not for the clamps
These guys worked so well they probably majored in chair making Xd.
It's a hobby club keeping an old handicraft alive.
A park full of incredible talented men making chair....I just love watching it...🤗👍👍👍👍
CARPENTER UNCLES YOU DID GREAT JOB.
This chair is priceless
My favorite part was when they took turns sitting in it.
Very interesting and excellent production, Mr. Rogers. In times past, many things were done this way, with friends and neighbors joining together, sharing their time, skills, knowledge, tools and materials, to accomplish something otherwise very difficult, if not impossible. It makes one wonder though, what that chair would have to cost a buyer in order to pay all the craftspeople a living wage for the day, not even to mention, feeding them too! And of course, the cost of the log needs to be included, and perhaps even a reasonable profit. I don't believe many of us could afford that chair now, although I would love to have it. Since cooperative, skilled, communities like yours are very rare these days, I suppose I'll just have to learn to do it myself. And now you've shown us how to do it! Thank you, sir.
Thanks..if you are in the UK consider joining the Bodgers, if you are in a different country perhaps start your own greenwoodwork group? Regards Harry
People in the past did things very differently. They would get things not every couple of years, but every couple decades or even generations; But their stuff also lasted generations.
Though this is a very fancy chair, most people would rather haved used straight pieces, flat boards and square legs.
'Back in the day' it wasn't friends and neighbours who made this is would have been a group of travelling craftsmen who set up camp in a woodland near a town for a few weeks and made as many tables and chairs as were ordered. A lot of the stuff they made is still being used hundreds of years later, as was the plan.
Ok, this is really cool. Not only the chair but this whole organization in general!
I love the gears they use. so surprised ppl still use these. Definitely these are woodworking heritage gems.
I'm thinking this isn't that boy's first rodeo with an axe in his hands.
Set. And play checkers
That was incredible, and the no power tools thing is just fantastic, using spry trees to create a lathe, Beautiful chair.
Such a lovely video about the labour of love by such lovely bunch of people.
Yes it is only 399$
Cannot do thisss!!
But can it do this
@@dylanbutler698 It cannot
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Real lumberjack, yet no beard or flannel. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?!?!
Europe
They are bodgers. :) Not lumberjacks. You could earn a decent living as a lumberjack....
This is magical. I heard of factories that could assemble a 100 chair in a day with 6 man, with power tools, with industrial lumber and equipment. But to see 6 man.. do that with hand tools, and non-electrical equipment?! With wood chisel, with axe and with wood plane? That's outstanding. Would not think that impossible. Even less with cutting and preparing wood!
One thing that I would like on that chair, is to get it cured/covered and sanded. Would look so good with a brownish/red cover. (wood still visible)
Awesome work from a bunch of fine hearted gentlemen
Coincidence...I knocked up a couple of these this morning, then after breakfast, I spent the rest of the day watching CZcams. I came across this video. Gentlemen you did very well and I thank you very much for your time and effort. By the way, I'm ambidextrous.
Thanks
get enough people even a house can be built in a day
Nan... get enough people, with someone able to organise everything, and you can have have a house in one day. The more people, the more organisation will be needed
I do enjoy this film a lot! Just beautiful work, gentlemen!
из сырого дерева сделали ((
этот стул скрутит во все стороны когда он высохнет
Они же вроде как сушили все детали или не поможет?
Ash?
Yes that's right
Thanks. I thought so but didn't hear mention and didn't see it mentioned in the comments.
Thanks 🙏.
Refreshing to see real craftmanship. Anyone can make a table but a chair is pure skill.
That shot of the moon was beautiful! So was the chair. Great video.
Thanks very much
Plant two before u cut one.
That would have taken another day, unfortunately.
:)
poo in loo
Loved it so did my husband who is a retired Carpenter and Joiner.
Thanks
Bravo. Very impressive. Not just a chair.
I love the hand crafted workmanship. Whole team of craftsmen and workshop to make one chair in a day without power tools is fantastic.
Probably not financially viable when you factor in the tea expenses. Very british.
Amazing...beautiful work!!!
How wonderful work you've done!! You showed me .... taught me what is life for human. We should be stopping along with too much technology anymore. I mean more than necessary for living.
One whole day for one chair?! Art sure does take time! More power fellas!
Old is good that's what your team motto should be.Nice team work.
I will start by saying I made a simple chair last year on a camping trip that came out pretty good.
I narrowed the heads of the branches I would be inserting shaving them with my knife.
Then I made vertical cuts on the ends with the saw on my leatherman.
The seat came from a 1/2" thick slice of approx 18" diameter log I then trimmed square with rounded corners.
(The slicing and trimming down with a silky bigboy folding saw. love this saw btw)
The joining of the legs, arch, and spindles to the seat, the spindles to the back verticals, and finally the braces to the legs was done by:
- Drilling holes with a hand drill and two sized drill bits
- Inserting all the pieces
- Hammering a wood wedge in the split ends of the branches to secure them (think wooden axe or hammer handle)
- Trimming everything flush with my saw on my leatherman multitool and then filing the rough away with a file also on the leatherman.
The entire project took one person a little over two hours while not in a particular hurry.
I left the chair the next day and sometimes wonder if a black bear occasionally has a sit on it.