Hello friends! This video is about my most notable
projects of the past year which are patiently waiting to be edited if you follow my Instagram
you probably know that there is a fair number of videos of completed projects that accumulated
on my hard drive in other words this is a preview of my work which can be demonstrated in full in
the new season and most importantly I want to ask for your advice on what projects should be
edited first taking into account that the all filmed material will never be published fully and
some topics will inevitably have to be sacrificed I will begin with a description of the projects
of my 2020 vacation I was preparing for a summer trip for a whole year and managed to make
an arsenal of tools and devices in advance I will talk about their manufacturing a little
later for now i will only show projects that i needed these diy tools for i've been planning to
build more furniture for my cabin and this year i made this primitive chair in the process of
making some of its parts I decided to turn them which meant I needed a lathe I ended up building
one from the left of a part of black alder that fell last year you might have noticed I used the
DIY chainsaw bar with the unique characteristics in this project for now I will only say that this
extra long bar proved to be a success it is a pity that chainsaw bars with such properties are not
available for sale it turned out that using a pole lathe is easier than using a modern electric lathe
and even more fondant using a shaving horse with a draw knife I didn't need to learn any special
skills everything you do is intuitive first of all if something goes wrong your foot automatically
stops pressing on the pedal instantly stalling the work pieces rotation as a result your body
the cutting tool and even the work piece remains intact you can just make necessary adjustments and
continue working in addition to the pole lathes safety i really liked its quiet operation you can
only hear the rustle of the wood shavings my first impression is exceptionally positive and I can
recommend it for use I forged these hold-down clamps just before this trip and despite their
weight never regretted putting them in my backpack these clamps can securely hold even odd shaped
work pieces with ease to make it more convenient to work with my cloggers knife I modernized its
base both its pin and eye hooks can now be used for full-fledged work on a pole lathe it is
best to have specialized lathe tools so far I have only managed to forge a hook chisel however
now I know exactly what wood turning tools I need forging a second lathe chisel is always easier
than the first one I will need at least four more hook type hollowing tools a roughing gouge
a spindle gouge a parting tool an skew gouge but for now I could turn parts of my primitive chair
using a sharpened screwdriver and regular chisel I also needed a lathe for making cylindrical
parts of my waterwheel-powered washing machine technically it proved to be a rather
complicated project however having properly equipped my workshop with a topsy-turvy
workbench shaving horse cloggers knife tool rack and other helpful devices I was able to complete
the waterwheel project relatively fast the main design's challenge was that for the sake of
washing quality I didn't use a through axle in the drum consequently I had to mount a hollow
drum on a split axle with only one driven side which was not an easy task however as you
can see I was able to finish this project I installed the drum into a square
tub and hooked it up to the waterwheel now I can wash a fair amount of solid work
cloth with almost no effort by loading the drum with dirty laundry and sliced soap
followed by filling the washing machine with water and speeding the drum powered by the
waterwheel while the stream was doing my laundry I could do other things for example I could cook
fat-tailed sheep meat in my earth oven nearby well technically I cooked this meat the day
before and that's when I got my jacket soiled this is when I made the decision to urgently
field-test the washing machine the very next day on laundry day I fisted on fried quail eggs
and homemade Adygei cheese in field conditions with no experience and in a hurry it wasn't
easy to brown the cheese perfectly saying that I wouldn't mind eating this cheesy egg dish
almost every day it is truly a delicious combo the mechanization of manual labor surely frees up
a lot of time but it is important not to forget to stop the washing machine in time while the
waterwheel is doing useful work you can leave it unattained and do other things however the lack
of automation makes it necessary to periodically monitor the operation of the waterwheel
and washing machine as you may imagine a pine cone falling from a tree can jam the drum but
the waterwheel wouldn't stop spinning as a result the damaged axle would have to be repaired among
other things the complexity of manufacturing this washing machine was contributed by the fact
that the washing machine's axle was also used to drive an improvised generator made from an
electric screwdriver my mini-hydroelectric power plant was able to charge a lithium iron
phosphate battery to as much as 105 amp hour this summer I also charged this battery using
two solar panels unfortunately we don't have much sun in the north even during the day so
the hydroelectric power station supersedes in practicality in any case additionally I installed
a mobile signal amplifier on this spine tree there were so many viewers strongly recommending
it under a previous video where I made phone calls from this tree that i simply could not
look past it this mobile signal amplifier needs electricity not to mention
the drone and other video equipment do you think my efforts to install the antenna
on the pine tree paid off? did I manage to lower the signal reception area closer to the log cabin
camp? getting back to the topic of hydroelectric power my homemade power plant allowed me not
only to implement electric lighting in the cabin and to power the signal amplifier but also to
use a corded side grinder through an inverter I completed a project of making a granite griddle
or rather a granite cooking stone last summer I brought this granite slab from the shore of Ladoga
lake to the cabin camp this year I flattened the slab installed it on a Finnish candle heated
its surface and cooked the most delicious fried quail eggs in my life I don't know what was the
special from this cooking technique perhaps it was the huge heat capacity of the granite frying
surface or the candles smoke maybe something else but the fried eggs were simply out of this world
I strongly recommend you to try this out too, by the way, washing such frying griddle is
not difficult at all so I'm not planning to build a waterwheel-powered
dishwasher although who knows…
The waterwheel has an enormous potential this
is why I decided to build a waterwheel-powered sharpening station initially I planned to
make a grinding wheel from a tree stump but was unable to find a suitable log of the
right diameter among the fallen trees they either were too skinny or too rotted and were not
suitable for the task so I decided to assemble the grinding wheel from smaller pieces as a result
the project became more complex and time consuming initially I located half a day for it it ended up
taking much longer I glued the grinding wheel from eight wooden segments I first fitted the grinding
wheel's central hole to the waterwheel's octagonal shaft before gluing the segments together
then I installed the glue-up on the shaft and after having suspended the waterwheel assembly
on standard sliding bearings I shaped the wooden drum to the required diameter using the waterwheel
mechanism as an improvised inertial lathe it sounds tricky but there is nothing really
tricky here in reality this precision work took a lot of time though the difficulty was in the
fact that the drum sanding belt's fit could not be messed up if you shave off too much material
you can't easily restore the drum's diameter I also feared that the slight difference in
the sanding belts' circumference would not allow them to be easily changed on the drum I
think that an ability to quickly change belts of different grit values is important but despite
the difficulties everything worked out well and I was able to use my newly built contraption
for sharpening all the cutting tools such as the clogger's knife two-handed chisel and scrapers I
also shaped and sharpened a recently forged a hook gouge I even managed to sharpen the cutting edge
on my most complex forged hand tool a twist auger or navar the process of forging this auger is
probably worthy of a separate video and of course I've retouched the cutting edges
on my knives axes and small chisels you may get the impression that I was only sawing
planing drilling sharpening digging and planting but this is not so I was still actively
procuring food I fished as well as collected edible mushrooms and wild berries when the
weather gets bad and it rains most of the day it gets harder to stay motivated to do
construction work under the open sky at the same time such weather is good for
other activities which encourages you to put on waterproof clothing get the fishing
gear out and go procure some gifts of nature it's a pity that only pike and perch are found in
nearby lakes but i'm not against such a diet there is a penalty for stocking a forest lake with
trout my flotilla of boats on the local lakes has grown by one more vessel this summer when I
tested it at Ladoga lake I fished out an old tire and decided it was a sign I thought to myself it
is not difficult to cut rubber rings from a tire and use them as driving belts for a gearbox's
pulleys they could make it possible to increase the rotation speed of the generator bearing
in mind the success of bottle cutter video 6 and 80 million views respectively on my English
and Russian channels I thought about making a tire cutter jig the jig would have the bearings in
its design which are not that cheap I can cut the tire with my hands too so i'm not sure
if the world needs my tire cutter jig design what do you think most of the tie remained
unused but I have special plans for it soon I will need more rubber belts for the upcoming water
wheel powered bush machinery using rubber rings you can also make a slingshot cannon which in turn
can be used for unexpected utilitarian purposes or for traditional ones for example storming
a castle but i will not get ahead of myself usually by the end of my stay I run out of
gasoline and thus battery power so I involuntarily switch to hand tools this certainly slows down
a project space but I'm somewhat happy about it working with hand tools is much more enjoyable over time I'm planning to make myself a complete
set of hand tools so you can only hear the rustle of wooden shavings and no rumbling of an internal
combustion engine or the hum of an electric motor returning to the topic of landscaping I
assembled several elements of auxiliary furniture such as a primitive table sawhorses
two racks for my outdoor shop and other items I can't mention everything in the overview
video plus this video is already dragging on so I will now get a schematic description of
my non-bushcraft projects of this season you might remember in the video about making
a viza rope from a fir branch I suggested that such rope could be mated with polyester resin
for creating original furniture's elements nobody seems to have appreciated this idea
so this year I returned to the rope project it turned out that shaping viza into tightly
twisted rings is not so easy it was even more challenging to transport and dry the rope
bundle in this shape so I had to experiment and as a result I assembled a jig
for twisting viza into a spiral the formed spool is securely retained on a
plywood jig for easy storage and transportation I can't describe the whole technique in
a nutshell but I soon plan to show you a finished countertop of the original design
which I nicknamed as the galaxy spiral or perseus arm and of course I will not ignore the
traditional methods of making slab tabletops my slabs already dry and ready for processing in
one case the tabletop support will be cast from aluminum and in the second the support will
be equipped with a variable height mechanism I want to be able to work at my desk both sitting
and standing a healthy back is important after all in the comments people often ask me to
show my workshop but I didn't even have a dedicated workshop I worked in a barn in
a basement or in the open air but this year I finally decided to convert my basement into a
workshop in this footage you can see the basement a year ago and now it took me a year to set it
up the workshop project took a lot of effort and money so it noticeably slowed me down on other
fronts but now I should be able to catch up once I started remodeling my basement for starters
I modernized its anti-flood system that previously couldn't effectively cope with seasonal
flooding then I strengthened and added rigidity to my long workbench as well as replaced
its old drawers with universal wheeled stands I slightly modernized my desktop milling
machine with a minimum set of accessories for it assembled a stable stand with storage drawers for
it and now I'm able to mill just about anything when I bought this milling machine I assumed that
its accessories would not be cheap as I predicted two years later I can say that this already cost
me more than the machine itself however I have no regrets with the incredibly kind Patreon
donations I was able to purchase the quality accessories I needed each new acquisition made
me happy and expanded my workshops possibilities for example using the aforementioned milling
accessories I was able to mill and even drill a large deep hole in this leaf spring harvested from
a truck it wasn't an easy task and my p6m5 drill bit lost almost an inch due to resharpening as a
result I have assembled a forging tool that can almost perfectly straighten a thick spring steel
pin which can be used to forge a draw knife a froe a large carving gouge or a navar also called a
spiral auger that particular auger was probably my most difficult forging project to this day as
far back as i can remember myself i always wanted to forge metal I started with a mini-forge made
from a large tin can but this year I have made significant progress in furnishing my blacksmith
shop I assembled a new forge and made a new burner this winter I'm planning to improve my anvil made
from a huge excavator scoop's tooth I need to mill a hole in it for a punch attachment as well as to
silence its ring I also want to make a blacksmith leg vise which is one of the most important tools
in the blacksmith's shop then I will open new horizons on artistic forging and tool making I
know there is a trend to forge knives from drill bits I forged one this way myself however a knife
is a primitive product compared to a screw auger I love and appreciate the primitive aesthetics
of a knife but it is still a pity that people pay so little attention to other hand forged tools
finding a high quality carving gouge or a navar without breaking a bank is not easy nowadays this
prototype screw auger surpassed my expectations now I can say I know how to quickly make one
that is both high quality and inexpensive I recently acquired a class 1 accuracy granite
surface plate and a metal hand-scraping set which included 3 scrapers and a small roller
with oil-based marking paint first I lapped my straight edges to make sure they are true then I
restored the geometry of my lathe's crucial parts by hand scraping a saddle square a surface
plate a compound slide table and carriage once done I noticed that increasing the latest
rigidity which enhanced the surface finish overall for the next lathe upgrade I want to procure a
granite slab to mount my lathe on it fortunately they are prolific where I live this is when
I might edit a video about this epic lathe improvement adventure I don't know what will
come out of it but I can already say that I like hand scraping no less than turning and I love
turning after 10 minutes of lathing i turned a shiny bushing using it I easily made a holddown
clamp also called a holdfast or a third arm it is hard to overestimate the metal
lathe's usefulness in a workshop another example I turned these side rack
mounting brackets for my Honda timber-carrier they have a perfect fit with my scooter's footrest
you might have already seen how I was transporting logs on my scooter in the video about milling
logs into the perfect boards with just a chainsaw I could not recommend this transportation method
to anyone though obviously this is an abnormal and unsafe use of a scooter however with the new
side rack's design the implementation of this dubious undertaking has become much easier and
safer the rack's design is not complicated at all all you need is two brackets one for
attaching to the scooter's rear rack and the other to the scooter's footrest the
side rack can be used to transport any oversized load in the upgraded side rack there is a gap
between the load and the scooter so i can stop and balance it by leaning my foot
on either side of the scooter by the way I wanted to kindly ask for a favor
from my viewers I don't want to be unoriginal and publish a video on a topic that has been
known to a wide audience therefore in this video I've tried to assemble only my original projects
however lacking the full knowledge of humankind I cannot be quite sure of the originality of
my own ideas therefore if you watched a good video on any of the mentioned topics and ideas
please let me know in the comment section below if possible provide a link to
the video of the author's website this information will help me read out the
non-original projects thank you in advance about 20 years ago my family's bees burned
down in a fire I felt very sorry for the bees and three years ago I restarted beekeeping I have
several ongoing projects that have to do with bees there are many methods of commercial honey
production from the kashkowski to the cebro's method I want to work out a method of swarmless
beekeeping which would be easy for anyone who has a busy work schedule my beekeeping is not
commercial but for the needs of family and friends I use an extra-large frame I
call them high-and-wide frames such unusual frames still fit into a standard
honey extractor all hives frames nuke boxes honey supers feeders and other beekeepers
equipment are homemade since ferromagnets prevent bees from orienting themselves I try not
to use nails in addition I condemn the use of anti-parasitic drug amitras on bees which further
complicates beekeeping work I'm also building a beeswax foundation press for making foundation
wax sheets with a slightly larger cell size in order to selectively breed especially large
bees resistant to cold and parasites the largest of foundation sheets cell size the larger the
honeycombs will be built which will in turn hatch larger honeybees a large bee hibernates better
flies farther lives longer and can deal with the varroa mite on its own it sounds like a magical
solution to all beekeeping problems so it is worth trying to make a beekeeper's dream come true last
year I had several interesting adventures at once across the Vepski Uplands and what is especially
interesting I visited the pole of inaccessibility of Eurasia the Putorana Plateau there are no
roads and settlements for thousands of kilometers you can only move here by rivers or by air this
is absolutely wild territory the north is my love and the Putorana plateau is a quintessence
of everything that I love so much in the north the harsh beauty of northern mossy rocks
reflects in the crystal water I don't know if it is a relevant topic for my channel but if I
get enough interest from my audience I might tell you more about my adventures in the wild ever
since middle school I was interested in slash and burn agriculture typically used as a method
for clearing forest land for farming I really wanted to learn the real price of bread which
was so appreciated by our ancestors who inhibited these risky farming lands I could not carry out
a full-fledged experiment but I implemented a small scale representation of slash and burn
agriculture taking necessary precautions I cleared a small section of open forest land with
fire and made a small clearing then I saw it rye harvested it thrashed the rye ears winnowed it
from the chaff ground the grains into flour and finally baked a loaf of bread in my earth oven
in the process I made some unexpected discoveries for example I was surprised that it was
impossible to fully burn out young moss with a bonfire I had to set fire to it at least
twice obviously our ancestors did not use bonfires but set a controlled ground fire that burned
out everything including bushes and large trees this past year i was also refining some of my
hand-held power tools for example a sliding pair of aluminum on aluminum is obviously not the
best solution for a track saw and its guide rail of course you can buy a top of the line Mafell
or Festool track saw but I don't make a living with the tool so I chose to improve this
budget tracks or in some cases using manual fine tuning you can achieve a better result
than that of a well-known brand as you can see it is not difficult to mill the slots in the track
saw's sole for inserting PTFE anti-friction pads and the result speaks for itself this saw
slides nicely after about a dozen small tweaks of course it takes time but you have to pay
the price for a comfortable and accurate cut by the way this year I made a custom guide
bar for my chainsaw with non-standard features which cannot be found in the store the making
process was quite straightforward and simple with this guide bar it is easy to make perfectly
straight cuts one can easily mill perfectly straight boards even without using swinging
motions equipped with an upgraded chainsaw I feel less constrained in materials than in a lumber
warehouse because I could easily mill a specific piece from a fallen tree right in the woods if
you're watching this video a considerable time past the publication date some projects briefly
shown here might have already been edited and published for your convenience I will be adding
links to them down here as they come out finally I will list a few unfinished projects I have
long wanted to learn to make copper casts using sacrificial burnout molds the technique turned
out to be more difficult to master than I thought I have already ruined 4 sacrificial molds
to make a copper frame for this ambrotype it is known that the higher the melting
temperature of the metal the higher its fluidity and the greater its shrinkage if
you under heat the crucible it won't pour if you overheat it you're risking to spoil the
castings small details here you need experience or advice from a knowledgeable person compared to
aluminum copper is more effectory and therefore it can be heated more without the fear of
excessive shrinkage but its fluidity is noticeably lower in addition when melting copper you have
to use a ceramic crucible which is a big hassle you are looking at a buzzing killing machine that
feeds on honey and was caught near my hives but it was not the honey that attracted the hornet it was
the bees hornets feed their babies with bee larvae one horned family can exterminate a
40 000 bee colony in just two weeks I feel sorry for both the bees and the
hornets so I'm designing and testing a non-lethal hornet strap so I can
catch them and release them elsewhere for eight years now I've been slowly building
this large shed on the ground floor in addition to a sauna there will be a room for beekeeping on
the second floor i'm building a woodworking shop the construction of the shed turned into a
collection of mistakes and construction delays my mistakes are my wealth and all this
wealth is reflected in the video archive perhaps in the new year I will share my experience
of training the body in order to increase resistance to altitude sickness even though I
was the oldest member of a group of mountaineers on a trip to Mount Kilimanjaro I
successfully summited Uhuru peak I think that my apnea training
method was the key to the successful ascent the weather conditions on the day of the
summit forced the absolute majority of those climbing uhuru peak to turn back which makes
the completed climb even more valuable to me however I'm not sure if the world needs
my speculations on a semi-medical topic of oxygen utilization by the body the
intercellular membrane trainability heliox therapy hyperbaric oxygenation and a counter
pulsation procedure for a healthy person finally this long video came to an end it is very
difficult to assess finished work for completeness there is always something to improve therefore a
fair number of projects remain behind the scenes but this is not necessarily bad the new season
will be even more novel and exciting friends I'm very pleased that you watched this video to the
very end which means my efforts were not in vain if you didn't like the video for any reason
then by all means let me know about it I read all the comments post scriptum I would like
to draw your attention to the fact that we are co-authors and your role in the developments of
the channel is arguably more important than mine yes I come up with a plot film it voice it over
edit the video and make the final decision but I'm only a co-pilot I'm pleased that our
channel is in high demand if you liked this video perhaps you could share it with your
friends let good people watch good videos p.p.s. below I left a link to my DIY projects playlist
as well as playlists about my log cabin building bushcraft projects kayak making and outdoor
cooking I hope to see you back on Advoko MAKES…