The end of an era, time to build something new. Keep up the good work Mike.

The pallet cabin that you & your Dad built was my first exposure to TA Outdoors. But, out of all your cool builds my favorite was the enclosed Bushcraft Camp with the Tower

@chiapagringa

10 ай бұрын

I agree!

I think many of us joined the channel for the building process. Hopefully this teardown can be the start of a new build, maybe at the woodland!

I know you had to, but it is still sad to tear down something you worked so hard to build.

@Jack-bp3ns

10 ай бұрын

Rather done by your own hand than someone's else's or nature's

@thomasguery

10 ай бұрын

A new start is on the way, though...

I loved all of the building series that you've done with your dad and bushcraft tools. I think that the 3 of you should build a long house. That would be cool to watch. Thanks for all your videos.

@riuphane

10 ай бұрын

They did do a smaller, long house inspired one a while back, was really cool. I don't recall how much Graham helped, but the fire pit inside was epic!

@FlyingEyeDyes

10 ай бұрын

@riuphane Actually, that was a Viking house. I'm referring to a longhouse that the Native Americans built which houses multiple families.

@riuphane

10 ай бұрын

@@FlyingEyeDyes ah, sorry. "Long House" is rather generic and applies to many cultures, I didn't really think about the options.

@FlyingEyeDyes

10 ай бұрын

@riuphane It's all good I learn something new every day, good chatting with you.

@FlickeringFlame23

10 ай бұрын

Jesus everyone one TA’s channel is so nice and polite

Mike, the rotted post is a really good example of how to find fatwood. In my local pine woodland I harvest it in the Winter once everything has died back. Makes it easier to find. You're looking for a fallen pine tree that is rotting and falling apart. So rotten you can pull it apart with your hands. The centre of the trunk remains solid like the piece you have. The side branches are typically still solid on the bottom 6 inches. These parts are so full of resin that they don't rot. I normally kick off the side branches. Harvesting the centre core of the trunk would take considerably more work. Great video content as always!

A full on log cabin similar to the pioneers of the old west for the family. Builds are something you and your dad are particularly good at, much better than just showing sponsors products.

Well, empty space should be filled with something. I don't know about others, but I would like to see something built. Preferrably, with adobe bricks, or clay involved... Keep going, Mike!

@kiritotheabridgedgod4178

10 ай бұрын

Someone did suggest an upgrade of a stone base Viking House.

Is there enough medium-small stones that you could upgrade to a stone based Viking house?

A hugelkultur plant bed, the demolition literally gives you everything you need, rotting wood and mulsh/compost. Plant with food plants, potatoes, onions, garlic and some herbs. See if the ants keep ot free if insect pests and you might get something to eat.

It's been a long time since we watched your crew build that shelter Mike but in essence it appears to have been such a short time with the pace of life today. The memories there in that woodland will never fade away and in particular some of the great feasts you enjoyed along the way. Thanks for the memories mate. Bushyboy Oz.

12:14 gotta hate that feeling when you’re thinking about all those ants crawling on you and keep scratching and swiping thinking they still all over you 😂

Another way to protect posts is to put stones at the bottom of the post hole. line the post hole with stones after the post is placed in. That lets water drain away from the wood. Not a perfect solution but, buys you more time.

@StellaHulliet

10 ай бұрын

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Suggestion on the what to do next: Tree house(s) would be marvelous, you have all the resources at hand. Great to watch as always!

On this episode of Alone, behind the scenes taking down contestants shelters. Love you Mike!

Bummer, I so enjoyed watching you and your Pop build these. You work together like a right and left hand of the same person 💙🙏 blessings to you

Sad to see it go. It was a good series to watch. If I remember correctly, your dog ended up on the roof at one point.

@TAOutdoors

10 ай бұрын

yes he did!!

I'm glad to see that you dealt with that structure. In the last video where you showed it, I remember thinking, "That's really had it."

I remember watching a video on the village they built up near Sutton Hoo [I think it is] that the school kids/public can visit. One of the videos explains that they constantly have to replace timbers, parts of the woven walls or the woven and thatched roof to ensure that the houses remain safe and dry and, well liveable [so to say]. It goes with having a building made purely of wood and similar materials and unless you are able to constantly replace parts as needed then the entire building suffers.

Great video Mike. If you want to build something why not a forge or workshop/forge, somewhere to work. Like every village.

@tonyjedioftheforest1364

10 ай бұрын

Great suggestion

@ScottOrd

10 ай бұрын

"You have unlocked the skill: Metalworking..." 🔨⚒

Hi Mike. How about a granary/food store? It could be built on raised mushroom shaped staddle stones so would not have the pine foundation problem. Built to protect crops from pests. Love your work.

@lolabiggs6932

10 ай бұрын

Great idea! Would love to see this :-)

Thanks for the video Mike! Make some kind of fort you did years ago. That was sooo nice! 😁👍😁👍

good luck on the next builds in the future mike !

I remember when you were building the woodland fort that was when I started watching your channel and when you tore it down, but it is also awesome to see your videos of over the years. Keep up the good work now.

I never realized the tick/ant dynamic. Good seeing new vids coming on again.

I’d like to see a attempt at a home made wax canvas teepee or yurt get a load of cheap or charity shop bed sheets wax them with linseed oil or something like that make a nice solid frame and apply the sheets👌🏻 we have seen you use different materials to make shelters but to form your own wax canvas and apply it not just as a tarp but in a more semi permanent shelter would be cool 👍🏻 you could even experiment with dyeing the sheets with tie dye methods before waxing it to give it a more camouflage effect helping it blend in and it also will need sowing so could be cool seeing something like trying sail cloth needles and wax string etc😊

My first visit to this site after watching lots of other builds. Great content with lots of information about many subjects. Will be back with interest!

Sad to see it go but totally understand. Looking forward to seeing what's getting built next. 👍

When first got a notification on my phone that a new video was up I read it as "Viking house destroyed!" I thought the vandals had come back and buggered it up! Phew! Sad to see it go though. Looking forward to the next thing :)

I think another Bushcraft camp is in order! Some of my favorite content you produced was building that last Bushcraft camp!❤

I am really looking forward to your new camp. I'm sure you will again incorporate many interesting details and old knowledge on the subject of building with natural materials. Thanks for that, greetings from Bulgaria from a big fan.

I can't wait to see what you build next.

Thank you for your videos. I always learn something different.

Very glad to hear about you geting back to your roots and building a wooden whatsoever building. This is how I got to know this channel, so I am very happy. Not really a bushcraft idea per se, but what about doing a yurt? Not sure it's possible to build one alone or if this even would make sense. I am just fascinated by yurts. Looking forward to watching what comes there! Cheers!

Hey mike keep pushing forward I kno it’s hard sometimes we’re here for you love you friend

I love see you do another Viking project idea

I love watching your video's and look forward to seeing what you do next. Rebuild a permanent camp like you built years ago, and have someone show you on camera how to build and use a non mechanical lathe, you can then make your own bowls. cups and any pillars you need. If there is clay around build yourself a kiln and potters wheel to make pottery products, even do your own charcoal, and make a permanent fire place and cooking pit.

I remember that build, can't wait for the next.

We planted Lemon Balm here in the USA, it can spread relatively fast but mosquitoes hate the stuff just existing there and we can hang it upside down and make tea out of it. It is a really good plant to have but you need to be attentive to how it is spreading, if at all.

Mother nature reclaims one build but leaves you with a blank canvas. Build suggestion: How about an Observation tower , raised wildlife hide, something up into the canopy and above the forest floor. Interesting logisitical build too. Great content as always. One of my favourite channels (Along with TA Fishing of course). 🙂

My vote is an early Dark Age Watchtower of sorts :) Good stuff!

Wonderful that you are once again resourcing the old structures, or what is viable. I know you have dabbled in some blacksmithing and other crafts. How about a Viking style blacksmith shop, a simple one from the 9th or 10th century. An A-frame with a covered awning. Can be used for other things afterward. A multi-tasker build, instead of a uni-tasker!

Id love to see a redo of the bush craft camp the you used to have there in the spot now I personally think it's perfect for that spot and would be a great addition to that place

So sad to see it go chap but as you said a blank canvas to do something new, looking forward to what you have planned, if you need a hand chap just say 😊 take care chap and thanks for another groovy video

If that is the same Viking house you built in a "no-talking" video, it was the single event to catapult me into bushcraft. I look forward to a peaceful night by the fire pit once I build mine. Sorry to see it go. Thanks for the inspiration.

Your building journey of these different shelter made me subcribed on your channel. It was the best. It saddened me to hear about this. Hope you'll build a new one. God bless you always Mike.

Finally back to the good stuff! Livestock enclosures and structures from back in the day would be interesting. Like Stonehenge, you know a good livestock auction structure.

id like to see a redo of the first Viking house you did with the guy from Bushcraft Tools. it would be amazing to see you redo that with all the knowledge you now have vs the way you did it the first time. (The first Viking house you did is my favorite build so far btw.) either that or maybe build a shelter that has a built-in fireplace with a chimney. there was this one magazine I used to get called Backwoods Home magazine, it is not to be confused with The Backwoodsman magazine however. I think they are both American publications, anyway the build is called a trappers tilt. and the magazine actually has a webpage for that build. maybe you could look at the build and then put your own spin on it. I love your build videos and I'm sure anything you choose to build will be a great hit with all your followers.

I would love tosee more forest cleaning, some small and easy cabin build which can survive a winter, make knots. But mostly manage your forest.

I think you and your dad should build a Roman villa next!😂

As someone who's mostly followed the historial builds, I'd love expansion of the Saxon house into a proper little homestead!

I'd like to see you try a raised structure. Mr. Chickadee has a great example on his channel where he set his timber frame building up on large stones to prevent rotting. He also uses shou sugi ban like you to preserve the logs.

Where your talking about the pine log. They will do that, I have a LOT of pine on my land and I've had too cut down a few that were dead and rotting. And there will be a core that is solid while the outer bits are rotting and you can pull the rotten bit off really easily. (One of the tree's I cut down even split while it was falling, and there was a several foot long section of good wood sticking out of a rotting log.). Also if you have some thicker logs, and spend time walking on them, eventually you'll break down the outside portion of the log, and it will flake away until you have that core of solid wood.

The wisdom of aging. Knowing when to pull down what the exuberance of youth produced. For the utilization of the cleared space, - Something equally decomposable to be dismantled in 8 more years. I am loving your work.

Hey Mike, that was kinda sad to see being dismantled but the also exciting to know you will be replacing it. I think maybe an adirondack shelter might be a good project? Cheers dude 👍🏻🔥

I'd say Viking House 2.0. Taking what you learned and improving on it.

Build A Mud Hut With Shaker Style Roof Made Out Of Skid Wood HELLS YEAH BROTHER 🤘😜🤘

Awesome Job!!! The end of a cycle, therefore a new start... again! ;) Anyway you have there such a handsome playground!!! Enjoy your life, Bro: You bring beauty into this world improving Nature's benefits!!! You Roxxx, Dude!!! Cheers from Auvergne, France!! xxx

Some kind of pioneer cabin perhaps with wood plank flooring or a loft sleeping area, would be a unique build

Build something similar to what you had there. However, extend the roof on both the front and back to cover the ends better. The roof I would put on three layers of the hazel panels. However, the panels should be criss crossed as you lay each one down. May add strength to the roof. Also, get some long leaves, and interweave those through the hazel wood. These will add to the protection. I am thinking of like palm leaves. Maybe something along those likes. Long, kind of thin, type reed leaves.

Nice job on cleaning up the old build !! Now you can build something new in its place!! Keep up the good work on videos!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

I can see why, but you sure put a lot of time and work into that. I am glad you are wise and safety conscious.

Bring us a treehouse.

yes please more Saxon house (building) type projects. maybe with some nice mud plastering

A liveable medieval styled house (wattle and dorb would be great)

Sad to see it gone but safety first

It is sad to see it go but that only means that we can see something new

A super shelter 2.0 would be cool. Maybe something to being more utility to the camp.

Nice video. Was great to catch you at WildInUs at the weekend. See you again soon Mate.

I live in SE Texas. When I see a mound of dirt, I instantly think of fire ants. Their bites hurt bad. I have several bits on my hands at the moment from pulling weeds from my garden and finding a hidden mound. Build a cooking shelter. Don’t know if it’s feasible or safe in England, but in Borneo, they are common in the little jungle villages (kampongs).

Loved this! Yes, from me for building more things 😊

Can you run the rotten wood through a chipper? Make mulch to get fruit trees and nut trees started in? Soil might be acidic with all the pine, so a need to change the PH of the soil .

Really interesting to see what pine does after only a handful of years in the ground despite the charring you did to the ends to mitigate the rot. It would be really cool if you had another go but used rocks / mud / daub / cob to anchor your wall / roof timbers into.

I would like to see you try your hand at building an Adirondack-style lean-to with a raised floor and a good overhang to stand under. You might consider using pallet wood for flooring and then doing something a bit longer-lasting than a debris or moss roof.

personally I think it would be cool if you got some brushcrafting friends together and built a whole little village around the saxon house, that would help think out the forest.

Onwards and upwards! 💪

I would love to see you plane the fir trees to make a more modern cabin made out of just pine, treated, and glass windows, so you have a mini house to have your wife over or your dad over. Like the base for your Woodland. Don't know if it's central or not, but having that protection from ticks is GOOD. Any way you can find out how often ants make an anthill then abandon it? (Just in case they aren't permanent.)

So glad you’re going to do more bushcraft stuff… maybe a fortress of sorts?

In terms of what I'd love to see next, perhaps a partly dug-out style shelter? I don't know how viable it is with the ground you have and what permissions you have but it'd be really cool to see something akin to the foxhole video but a little more permanent.

How about an iron age Roundhouse? maybe a reciprocal roof frame? traditional English building and a cool roof design.

Those wicker walls would make a good chicken or pig pen. That would add another level of realism to your homestead.

12:52 pine was used in 18th century in the U.K. so maybe try to mimic that. I don't know how far you'll get if you just used pine wood but you could use that as inspiration

Bush craft camp, please😊

F in the chat for the viking house

Good video bro, i like it 👍

Of all the structure you have built that was the one I wouldn’t want to stay in. 😁😂 Every time we do something it teaches us valuable lessons, so that build was still well worth the effort.

Thanks

how is the saxon house holding up? does the thatched roof protect the timber more and prevent it from rotting in the same way? I always got the impression the viking house style you made was more of a temporary shelter, something to be a place for a few weeks or months but then left or replaced with something more substantial...

Nice

Log cabin build would be cool

Maybe you could build a sauna? Use that wheel fire pit and hang a small metal bowl above it to make the steam.

Cool guy.

good call taking that one down. no doubt you will come up with somethin new and unique to put on that spot

The disappointmenting part is I feel like once they were built, they were never utilized.

@TAOutdoors

10 ай бұрын

They were and are still used many times by Scout groups.

Mike, this was a useful reminder that nothing is permanent, and things move on. Interesting question, how did the Viking house evolve from the general design as you built it? Something to think about and pursue for the science of evolution. Thank you!

try a "new" super shelter 3.0?!

Not that I am an expert but do you think that they would have charred the post ends prior to putting them in the ground? Apologies if this has been done or covered already

I just was just learning about this Phenomenon where it appears to be a complete second tree inside the old. Apparently the tree barley survived a weather event most likely wind that almost killed the tree but it managed to heal itself.

A good way to help prevent rot and insects in your logs and wood in general is to strip the bark and char them completely. Done correctly they will last decades.

First view, like and comment👍 Great video as usual, thanks so much