A little tip for your posts, if you shamfer the tops(the smacky cmacky end) slightly, it stops the post tops splitting so bad when you melt them with the knocking stick. Also, if possible, make yourself a Holly Beadle, rather than using a metal sledge hammer. Way more effective for knocking in and cheaper, lol. I love that you've had the balls to ditch the rat race and spread your wings. I wish you every success in your venture.

@lumberingshenanigans

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Some very solid advice on both counts. And since I already have that staking tool, doing a little chamfer would have been super easy. Next time for sure! 👍

Hell yes! Love the idea of your channel most people posting stuff with your mindset don’t own a forest. I am in your boat where I have a forest and a similar mindset and have been looking for a channel like yours!

@lumberingshenanigans

Жыл бұрын

Yay! Go us! Forests make the best pets. What part of the world is yours in? And thank you, it’s not easy to stay enthusiastic about the KZread thing, so this means a lot. :)

@woodlandtales

Жыл бұрын

I was going to ask the same thing. What an excellent tool.

I’ve found pictures of dead hedges on Pinterest and it’s been on my mind forever to make some. I have an abundant supply of common buckthorn that needs removing and it would be more useful as a fence rather than waiting for it to get dry enough to burn. I also have deer entering my orchard and nibbling on my fruit trees. I’m thinking of making a very wide one so they can’t jump it.

@lumberingshenanigans

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea. I always pile extra branches and logs on the outside of fences to dissuade deer from trying to jump even a 6-8ft fence. Plus it’s a great way to create habitat and sequester carbon. 👏

@lumberingshenanigans

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great suggestion for a garden or micro-farm setting, but I have a feeling my canopy is too dense for them to compete with the blackberries. And if they might thrive, I would be hesitant to introduce a potentially invasive self propagating species into such a wild setting. There are some horror stories of holly and bamboo invasions in the area and I don’t want to be that guy. 😏 So dead hedges are probably a safer option in my setting.

Beautiful

Fabulous! loved watched this video. Thank you

@lumberingshenanigans

Жыл бұрын

So glad! Thanks for watching! I hope you’ll subscribe for more like this when the wether warms up a bit. :)

Looking good

@lumberingshenanigans

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🙏 I’m excited for spring so I can continue with projects like this around the forest. I had a LOT of downed trees this winter, some really huge ones, so dealing with that aftermath will have to come first. Thanks for watching. :)

Thank you for the video! What is the name of the tool that goes on te end of your drill which makes the end of the limbs pointed?

@lumberingshenanigans

Жыл бұрын

Hi! Thanks for watching. Please consider following. :) That tool is a “staking tool” in the same family as the “tenon tool” I used to make the main gate for Lumbering Shenanigans. They’re both from a company called Lumberjack Tools. Throw a dot com after that and you’ll find it. You need a low speed, high torque drill for best results, but my beefiest DeWalt cordless does a good enough job.

Hi nice video. I am also cleaning my forest now. I will try your idea to build dead hedges . Maybe I ask which tool you use to sharp the log at about 12:24? Thanks.

@lumberingshenanigans

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It’s called a “staking tool” from a company called Lumberjack Tools. www.lumberjacktools.com/collections/staking-tool-accessories Thanks for watching and good luck with the hedges! :)

What is the tool that you used to shape the ends of the fence post?

@lumberingshenanigans

3 ай бұрын

Good question! I put a link to it in the description.

Came here from a Gab post.

@lumberingshenanigans

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure what that means, but thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed it. :)

@J8n3eyr3

Жыл бұрын

@@lumberingshenanigans Gab is like Twitter. Your video was posted in one of the groups.