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