I watched this video again after I did some rail splitting of Cedar logs. Now, my logs were younger and slimmer than the one he used in the video and I didn't get to pick out a straight and knot free trunk. But, I must say Pa Mac is a "WORLD CLASS LOG SPLITTER" to get 19 rails out of a single tree trunk. Comparatively, the most I got was 5.

WOW! Two videos within 30 days of each other! Sounds like temperatures have dropped below freezing in the underworld! What a surprise!! YAY!!

Thanks, Pa Mac! Looks like I've got everything I need now to fence in the homestead. Now all I need are some trees. Let's see here... trees... Darn it. I bet they've all run off and hid in that forest.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Funny how they seem to congregate there, maingun07

@1982MCI

4 жыл бұрын

maingun07 yep, I catch mine hiding out there all the time. But you know, sometimes if they’ve been hiding from ya a lot over the years, they have gotten so good at hiding behind another tree and can stand so still that you can walk all around in that forest and be right beside them and not see em at all because they are standing so still!!

Thanks so much for the amazing content you make. The FMC show is absolutely my favorite place on the internet! It is a calming spot during an uncertain time. Please stay safe and well.

@1982MCI

4 жыл бұрын

slowdaze I second your opinion,, his videos are extremely soothing, relaxing, and educational!! This is by far, in my opinion, the very best channel on KZread for this type of content

Another one of your fine programs. I'd love stay and chat, but I have to split. See ya.

This is a great entertaining and educational channel and we appreciate all your time and effort you put into your work. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.

@attleheideann1469

2 жыл бұрын

Yes: thank you! Good job!

Im soooo glad you still make videos! Theyve been alot of help for me so thank you Pa Mac

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome, okie dokie. Thank you for watching

Awesome video! We just bought a home and I wanted to build one of these beautiful fences! thanks!

I'm not nearly as creative so all I can do is say: awesome, thanks, keep them coming. BTW, never done a Patreon for anyone elses channel but I'm going to see if this old non-tech south Georgia boy can figure it out. I sincerely hope that someone, or something, out there gives you the type of satisfaction we get from "farmhandscompanion".

Lots of great ideas. Thank you for your knowledge and kindness in sharing these things with us.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, Homer. Thanks for takin time to watch

There is so much joy in your childish frustrations of digging ‘Pa! Thank you for yet again, a great video!

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watchin, Kevin

Awsome insight into the old ways. Becoming less spoke of although more and more valuable. Bless you and yours and thank you for your time. Always entertaining and informative. 👍

This was a fun and educational watch. I loved it. Amazing what a simple line from a book will get you to research! "The right of the regiment rested near the dirt road, and at right angles to it. The ground before us was open for more than half a mile. It sloped down gently, then it rose gradually to a long, bare ridge, or slight elevation of ground, which extended parallel to our front. The road was enclosed by an old-time staked and ridered fence, of the "worm" pattern." -The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Leander Stillwell I had no idea what a "worm" fence was, but it appears to be a variation of the split rail fence at the beginning of the video. This was the best video I've found on the various fence designs of early America.

Pa Mac is our children's favorite show creator. Always entertaining and always building our knowledge and appreciation for our fathers of past time.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, Faithful Nation. Tell your kids Pa Mac says "Hey!"

@FaithfulNation

4 жыл бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion I will! Thanks! Edit: Children said hello!

This is the one I was waiting for! If you ever have enough rocks you should consider making a dry stack fence.

Digging out the rock when making the post holes had to be my favorite part 🤣🤣🤣

I dont believe this !!! My favorite show is on. Still say better than 3 stooges. So much info. You put a great deal of hard work into this an we all appreciate your brainstorming. Alabama loves fhc absolutely my favorite. STAY SAFE AN HEALTHY AN EAT WELL MY FRIEND.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Bobby!

@bobbynash282

4 жыл бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion l was wondering something. Did you chainsaw mill most of the lumber on your shop. Or did you buy some. Its alot of work ive been chainsaw milling some so l know how hard an time consuming it is

I'm in charge of 10 acres in Lake Hughes and I am for sure using these methods to build some awesome old-fashioned fences. thanks for sharing!

So good! Very useful information and entertaining as always. When you put a video up I always stop what I am doing and watch it right then and there. Just took a break from clearing our hazelnut orchard to spend a few minutes relaxing - watching some of the very best content on KZread!

Thank you for more videos! Your stuff is fabulous and getting only 1-2 per year is near agony for eager watchers.

Theres ALWAYS a big rock where your digging!!! :>)>

Thank you so much for what you do for these videos ! Makes the soul come alive, the simple ideas of the past forgot by the complex of today !! Awesome video ! 👍👍

You and I are a lot alike, I've been watching your shows since the beginning you inspire me, I have a smaller 30 acres farm in North Carolina and I love it, I'm 35 years old, lords willing I have many more projects to do, thank you for these videos and God bless buddy.

so glad your back, thanks....

Thank you for all the hard work you put into this. It's great!

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, it's my pleasure

So glad to see more of your videos more often!!😃

As always, entertaining and educational. Thanks.

A pleasure and delight watching you work !!

Once again a great video! Thanks and be safe everyone.

This guy is really cool. And I agree, this kind of work and training is definitely a character builder.

Great video!! My grandad was a dairyman. I remember him cutting fence posts from what he called “hedge trees”. He would cut a point on one end with a buzz saw belted to an allis chalmers WD45. When he built or fixed fence, he would start a hole with a rock bar, stick the pointed end in the hole and pound it in with a sledge. He used barb wire for his fences to keep the cows in a pasture. While watching you split that cedar log I was thinking about how good it must have smelled.

Always a good day when pa mac puts out a video. I'm figurin on maybe doin a mortise and tenon fence round one of the garden spots and maybe attaching some wire fencing to it so I can train blackberries up them

It is almost 2am and I am filled with the urge to build a fence… not sure how I got here but I’m glad I did

Since I am tired of digging holes I am giving a lot of thought to growing a hedge and then laying it, like they do in England and Ireland. Have you given that a go yet, Pa Mac?

i remember, it was 1762 i built that fence for my cousins farm exactly like this bad boy, good old days.

WOW! The inside color of that log is incredible!! Beautiful!

Love getting the notifications for your videos!! We just cut a few cedars off a fence row that would be perfect for this. Thank you so much for sharing! God bless y’all❤️

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Cedars are like gold, aren't they? Y'all take care

@1982MCI

4 жыл бұрын

Little Country Cabin those cedars grew up wanting to become a fence one day and now they have Finally accomplished their life long goals!!!

Can't believe I got to see two videos in less than a month! Awesome 👍

This was a joy to watch. Excellent video.

Absolutely love this video! Thank you for showing the various ways to create a oie time homestead fence. Now to find the right trees! Blessings

Thanks for posting another great video.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

You betcha. Thank you for watchin

Made my day this morning with another PaMac video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and ideas with us. You are a literal wealth of information for homesteading.

Good to see you back at the videos again!

Best channel on KZread! God Bless and stay safe!

Another wonderful video!

Excellent. Nice to have a new show to watch while in lockdown mode and spring is coming taking the snow away and the possibility of planting the garden seems like a reality after a long winter. Thanks for sharing.

Yay! How delightful to wake up to one of your spectacular videos! My favorite fence is the wire and board - and the split rail with the double posts connected by blocks that hold the rails. And of course, I love how the boy comes out of you at the end and you can't resist playing with your farm toys!😂💕 Thanks Pa Mac.

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always, TheBereangirl. Hope you're gettin along well!

@TheBereangirl

4 жыл бұрын

@@farmhandscompanion You're welcome, and we are doing well, thank you! And I trust in the Lord, that you and your family are also safe in Him!💗

Great video! Love to build me a split rail fence down the road by my barn! Wish I had those big cedars like that on my place!

@1982MCI

4 жыл бұрын

Fluty Lick Homestead I’m sure you’ve got some good size poplars over there in that hollar tho and those would work just as well and a lot easier to split with the tight straight, and clear grain. Poplar will last a long, long time As long as you don’t have it sitting straight on the ground. Thousands of log cabins were built with poplar logs and many are still standing today. You may even have some poplar logs in your home. Take care buddy and stay safe out there!!!

I’m from Harlan Kentucky and have only seen the remains of a few of these type fences around here. Being that this town is all steep mountains most old timers here used rock fence to keep livestock in. Although speaking about Abraham Lincoln, I visited his birth place and school in Hodgenville Kentucky and all those places has miles of these split rail fences.

You know I really like your videos. You alone taught me how to use a chainsaw to produce my own lumber. Thank you farmhands Companion!.

@farmhandscompanion

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that, Jason. Thank you for letting me know.

pas de problème de sommeil !!!

A really enjoyable video and worth a watch for sure x

This is just what I've been looking for. The power co. dropped some of my cedar and I wanna put 'em to good use. And get a bit of exercise-ha!

What! Steel against steel with no eye protection! Eyes are precious. My cousin lost an eye that way.

Good clear and entertaining information . Nicely done 👍🇬🇧

Oh how I love your show.

...ThankYou Bro & Dankeschön aus Germany...

That is some beautiful cedar! It would make some nice paneling.

How did I miss a new pa mac show?! Great stuff as always. Best darn thing on here.

Another awesomely entertaining and informative vid. Well done Pa

Again, very many thanks!

beautiful video

Hi Pa Mac, KBL Homestead sent us over. Love your channel. I love the efficiency of hand tools and you are a true master. Hope to see more videos in the future.

wow... what a great video. Thank you so much for posting. Here's hoping you don't run into too many more of those boulders when digging post holes!

I love your videos.

Thanks!

This video is fantastic, so well researched and presented 👍

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, torque8899

I think it bears mentioning for the non-woodworking crowd that historically an extremely common type of hardwood used for these post and other things where the American Chestnut tree which covered the forest of the eastern U.S. sadly in the 1900's a rich businessman in New York imported Asiatic ones which contained a blight they held no resistance towards, as a result between 1900 and 1960's millions of trees died before they went all but extinct.

Abe Lincoln - that was an average of 200 logs at 15 splits per log to equal 3000 rails. That was a lot of work!

Got me a load of pine logs for free so I reckon I'll make me some fence like this. Thank ya pa mac. I'm gonna try and make a video of it as well.

Love it. Got lots of ideas now just need the snow to melt lol

Just saw your VOA video that had your family and you spoke! Enjoyed seeing that side with your family and your reasons for the channel etc. Good job my KZread friend!

@farmhandscompanion

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Mark. You're very kind

This was great! Subbed.

If you ever wondered how old timers were so hard of hearing, just remember they rarely word ear protection doing this type of work back in the day.

awesome video. subbed!

Well if nothing else at least that cedar sure smells good!

thank you so much for another history lesson so many ways to build a fence I bet you could use pallet wood for pickets and save some wood for a new pig house or barn

really enjoyed that there vernaculatin’

very interesting.. educational and historic, but for the modern world prob too time consuming

Thanks

Wow👏👏👏

Inspiring, thanks for including the list of trees that make good posts. If post oaks make good posts I wonder if they'll make good rails?

Encyclopedia of knowledge on video

Sometimes when I watch these I feel my ancestors nudging me in the right direction ..

I would have thought another major advantage of this technique was the fact that it could be put up and taken down so quickly, without damaging the materials. Movable when there was new harvest to protect, seedlings etc. Once the logs are split, the can be used time and time again.

Thanks for this....am too familiar with most these methods...and your wisdom and resourcefulness will become even more valuable in the near future....Might add that...on wooden posts....charring with open fire or a torch will lengthen post life past yours....every archaeological site uses embers/carbon for dating.... also...roofing asphalt liberally applied is fine stuff...and no cross contamination to food, ground water or stock.

Lots of good ideas. Didn't know mulberry was rot resistant. Lately I've begun wondering if sometimes the _wild_ poles in the air with split rail fences can be to fend off deer.

i feel yer pain , my yard is 90% rock. so im going to go split rail no holes and put them on bricks i have plenty of 4" and smaller trees i am using then treat them with diesel or Thomson's.

Hey, the link in the video for your book and dvd works great!

I had One horse that knew how to take split-rail fences apart. If I was lucky, the rest of the herd stayed put... LOL

Enjoyed the content, but enjoyed it more when I set the video speed faster. But, again, the content was real good!

Drill some dowels and that will last as long as the wood doesn't rot!

👍👍👍

I need some good old fashioned tools! There's so much wood on my land going to waste.

You make some great deer fencing but what about your bear fencing? They can just swat most of those fences over. Around where I am I have to also plan for bears...

Awesome video I'm thinking there's some fencing happening during the corona virus shut down On my farm.

9:39 lol I've been there done that (what's scary) almost didn't get out.

The sequel...the gate.

When is the still going in

Abraham Lincoln said if you cut your own firewood, you would get twice the heat