Having a Ball at the Bodgers Ball - Green Woodworking

[@stuartdavey]

Thank you, Harry! I've looked forward to catching your videos of the Bodgers Ball since last year's video. Can't wait to see the subsequent videos, and your experimentation with making the planing chisel.

[@lutherhgrindstonemtn3456]

Wow! I'd be like a kid in a candystore, I won't know which way to run first! All those wonderful tools to be had! Great things to see, Thanks for taking us along. Take care.

[@MrSkeeter18]

Thanks Harry. Great as always. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks for sharing.

[@harryrogers]

Thats great - thanks for your comments.

[@RichieMcBride]

Thank you Harry, great edit, as usual, excellent voiceover, professional and really enjoyable. I spent so much time showing Walnut planks that I didn't see half of the event so your video is much appreciated. Got your channel marked as favourite now!

[@harryrogers]

They were lovely planks - and good to meet you.

[@DaveBardin]

Loved the show HArry! Love the tools.

[@disconeil]

Another belter of a film Harry,Thank you for sharing matey. I have been busy so I am late in watching this video but it was worth waiting for, my only gripe is.....it ends to soon, to me it seems about 1.5 minutes long!!! I look forward, as always to future uploads Harry. Neil.

[@harryrogers]

Thanks Neil......great to get your comment.

[@UPGardenr]

Thanks for posting

[@freydablack9027]

Thanks so much for sharing a look at these events. I would love to come to the UK when many of these events are going on. Is there any central listing of such events to help planning a time to travel?

[@voodooalpaca]

Thanks Harry, this and other Bodgers Ball videos are now linked from the Bodgers.org.uk website. Looking forward to the racing!

[@robertk3850]

Great video enjoyed it a lot. Digger

[@JohnBare747]

Always great fun to see your trips out and about. On that army forge at the end the shiny new bolt on the vice kind of spoiled the effect it looked way out of place but a great forge none the less.

[@NotJustSawdust]

Now did I see a forge made out of a old car wheel? I've seen some examples of "how to" video's on mini forges, but this one seems interesting. Did you see how it was made? (we can't all have such a nice one as showed in the last minute)

[@harryrogers]

Yes you did and its car blower based with a pipe feeding into the base of the wheel with a grate above the air feed pipe.

[@drivesthecar3247]

I've seen them made from cast-iron brake drums too. I'm pretty sure you could find some of those here on KZbin.

[@CogInAVice]

I have one of the tools you said were for lambs tails. Only I use it to remove the bollocks off bull calves.

[@harryrogers]

Yea - I guess I was given the 'polite version'......but makes sense it does both! Thanks for elaborating.

[@deezynar]

Harry, when did these activities start to get popular again? Here in the states the hippies started to bring some of these skills back in connection with their back to the land pursuit in the '60's and '70's. A few of them ended up writing books on traditional woodworking and the whole thing started to grow from there. Did it happen like that in GB as well?

[@harryrogers]

I was making greenwood chairs in the late 70's, but I was in a strong minority. Its probably only really taken off some more with the advent of the internet and people able to share stuff more....bodgers.org.uk is a steadily growing organisation....we like it that way - gets the best members, and a great community.

[@deezynar]

Harry Rogers What got you interested in green woodworking in the '70's?

[@harryrogers]

deezynar I was lucky enough to meet someone called Fred Lambert who was a craft teacher who had met some of the old time High Wycombe bodgers, and made it all so interesting that I was hooked! I have always been very keen on woodwork, and Fred provided what were to me unique insights of how things used to be done.

[@deezynar]

That's great. It looks like there was still a fairly solid continuation of those skills over there. I think there were far fewer people over here who still had those handwork skills by the '60's and '70's. Here's my theory on how it came back over here. Because the hippies over here were eschewing 9-5 working careers and trying their hands at small farming and crafts, they found people who still had the skills and learned from them. Drew Langsner (sp.?) and Roy Underhill had been hippies and they ended up writing books on hand woodworking. I actually became interested by reading a few books on American colonial, and frontier trades by Edwin Tunis. They weren't How-To books, but they planted the seed in me. Tunis had not been a hippie, but I did benefit from Langsner's and Underhill's books later on.

[@tookclosely5480]

Bravo

[@alexeypyzhov120]

вот бы мне такой механический токарный станок))))чертежи есть в природе?))

[@AllenGoodman]

Great video,I enjoyed every minute ! ^ l l { l\l

[@harryrogers]

Thanks! There will be some more on turning chair legs from logs...at speed....and on the craft competitions.