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Early Medieval timber work

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A look at early medieval wood work techniques with evidence from documents, and archaeological finds. A team from the East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Partnership demonstrate their skillls in turning round logs into square timber. http://woodlands.co.uk


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very interesting!

Forgotten Fields

June 23, 2014

You never know what you're going to find on UTube!

redradiodog

February 7, 2015

They are wasting the trees. Whatever you do to a freshly cut tree, it will be something different when it dries.

SerJahPhoto

August 13, 2015

Yikes. That axe action is dangerous. He'll lose his nads like that.

Solitaire

August 31, 2015

+SerJahPhoto the timber will move as it shrinks but it will still work. Most traditional wood crafts would have worked the timber to size while it was still green, except for work that needed to be water tight like coopering or shipwright's work.

Michael Bennett

October 8, 2015

Funny how we cant let go of the past.

Derryl James

October 27, 2015

Good grief, can you imagine the noise of a heap of blokes hacking away at tree trunks?

hallets1956

November 24, 2015

The sad thing is that the vast majority of people have no idea of how this skill could help them through their life in very practical things like getting a house, saving money not to mention the sense of achievement ans selfsuffinciency embedded. We live in times where we need this so much, and yet, we are being happily, and firmly pushed away from this, especially in UK and USA. People wake up, there is a something awaiting us, and you see the clues in every aspect of our lives. By the way, TTIP is going to be approved by EU. There is nowhere to escape anymore.

Riccardo1982

January 28, 2016

+hallets1956 I can and it doesn't sound too bad. Trees are tall, as such, they run the risk of killing people within their immediate vicinity should they fall. Therefore, it's more than likely that tree fellers worked reasonable distances from one another.

varun009

March 30, 2016

3:40 look at her. "Oh my fingernail is broken,better go see a doctor" Thats why feminnism works only in wealthy cities with good social care. Nowhere else

Pan Pieczarka

April 15, 2016