Buying a New Keel Timber / Chainsaw Modification - Rebuilding Tally Ho EP14.PART1.
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Buying the biggest pieces of Purpleheart Timber I have ever seen! / Modifying a Chainsaw. Support; www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support-tally-ho Become a Patron; www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco
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THIS episode, I make my decision about Tally Ho’s Keel Timber, and head off in search of some suitable timber. Once I’ve got hold of the Purpleheart, we have to figure out a way to move it! I talk about Scarph Joints and have to modify a chainsaw to do the job.
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14. Part 1; Buying a New Keel Timber / Chainsaw Modification - Rebuilding Tally Ho EP14.PART1.
Pubblicato il 3 anni fa
01:44 - while re-viewing past episodes I Just Realized that Jimi’s ‘Purple Haze’ was playing when they were considering replacing the Keel Timber with ‘Purple Heart’, so Hendrix gave the nod.
That purple heart is extremely dense and heavy, nice job gents.
Too many commercials. Unwatchable. Thumbs down. Boo!
Jesus christ, I don't even wanna guess the price of such a massive piece of purpleheart. It's not exactly available at every street corner.
Just buy a skip tooth sharpen to 10 degrees
Need to move 2 tons of Purpleheart? Need to modify your chainsaw to make a two man Keel Scarfing saw? Call a Bosun. Trust me....
The cost of those timbers is enough to make a hard man weep... Right choice, though. It's the spine of the boat. A cost that had to be swallowed.
A piece of purple hear 10 x 16 by 21 feet must cost an incredible amount. I'm guessing at least 2 or 3 thousand dollars! Mind blowing!!
I love how chickens get into everything, everywhere. Fresh sawdest? Heck yeh!
the spine of the boat.. does the lightning bolt have significant meaning?
Really curious, how much did the Purple Heart timbers cost?
As an engineering student, looking over your explanatory drawings is quite interesting. Working through a statics and mechanics course, It's even better.
You are also creating an excellent educational resource.
I loved the way you moved the timbers. Cairo Technical Institute of Pyramid Building?
Poncho probably thinks you are making him the worlds biggest perching post
You should give those chooks more air-time, Lea! They could easily be stars. Chooks draw viewers, man. Wierd, but true. Give us more chooks and watch your ratings climb!
It's kind of like finding old boat in bad shape taking it apart salvaging what you can. To help build a new boat
Thank you for the free content
Leo you are amazing human being that follows his dream. This series is so inspiring that you are restoring such an old boat that has a lot of history. I love the music and keep it up. I can't believe i stumbled across this.
I love purple heart so much, you could have probably sold the leftover you cut off, honestly.
What was the cost for that solid purple heart timber?
i know its late, but why does your scarf not have a undercutting locking joint at each end, and a center square peg that drives the scarf closed? In this manner, you don't need metal fasteners. Kanawa Tsugi .
This cat made a sawdust guard for the person holding the far side of chainsaw. I love my friends, but would have said close your eyes pussy
Kiel is the heart. My gpa needed a new one. Got one, and guess what... he's still gpa
What do pieces of timber like that cost? Also, will you be able to use the original teak keel timber for making other parts of the boat?
Kudos to the truck drivers for backing down the narrow driveways!
It's pretty amazing that you decided to take on this project in the first place, let alone without a forklift and overhead crane!
Is teak something that you can't buy nowadays for boat building? What was the reasoning behind using Purple Heart?
Robert D'Arcy is another jedi boat master. "I've been thinking about your keel...."
Very good choice to replace! Very hard decision I'm sure. So much fanfare is made of laying the original keel. My wife and I were married on the Victory Chimes a windjammer out of Rockland Maine built as a ram schooner in 1902 as the Edwin Maude. I have been following her since the 1960s. Love your channel and your drive. I repaired submarines for 40 yrs, not much wood as you can imagine but the keel traditions are the same, coin and all!
I've had 4 of them, there is nothing better
I've never worked on something historic before but seeing people work on things from old houses to castles it's always a tough choice between keeping something and making it structurally sound.
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How did you cut the scraf joint being consistently parallel althroughout?
You sure love soprano sax jazz
Oh my goodness, please tell me the purple heart discards went to a good home...
You should look into a Pipe Grasshopper as a alternative for moving big timbers around .
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You made the right choice. Well done. Put the necessary money in the hull and cut corners on the interior finish. use pallet wood if you must. You can redo it anytime. You only get one chance to do the hull right the first time.
Thanks for including the song names in your videos - I was going crazy trying to identify sweet georgia brown
So are you going to resaw the old keal so you can use the teak
Sadly I fear an injury will end this project. A lot of things are trying to kill or injur you on a job site. And you're making it pretty easy for something like that to happen. Good luck I love watching the vids.
Wondering what you call purple heart? Is it what we call redwood?
I enjoy the videos however at some point what is really going to be left of tally ho? The metal part of the Keel? All the frames are going to be replaced. Just wondering If it would’ve been easier to just build another tally ho?
Great video!
I just found this channel 2 days ago and have been on a marathon. My Grandaddy was a master boat builder and foreman of DESCO boatyard in St. Augustine (mainly building shrimp trawlers). He would have loved this. Thanks for the videos.
Ok so why Purple Heart wood? Why not I don’t know cedar or some other wood that’s more readily available? What about Purple Heart made you choose it
Why not make a dinghy from the remaining good keel timber so that it stays with Tally Ho?
These videos are great, thanks!
Bottle of wine was written by Deano Waco....that was the great John Hartford singing it. MY good friend Joh, the good Lord took you to early .....RIP
Scarph... i like it! 62518
Wonderful video ! Any chance that you can give us some information on that old Starboat on the trailer in the backround ?
I really wish you'd give costs for things. Not every day we see timbers like that. You can have your crosscut chains reground for ripping if you can't get one.
Thats a stunning of bit of wood you got there, The boat is coming along nicely, keep up the good work ;)
considering 90% of everything has to be replaced it seems more like you're building a new boat rather than restoring an old one lol
what amazes me as much as anything is that a boat lumber store would just happen to have 2 purple heart timber of that size just laying around. They looked like brand new, never used, clear and straight. Eden Saw made quite a cash commitment in ordering them in the first place; I can't imagine them having too many calls for a timber that is going to cost $3000.
What are you planning for the wooden Star boat??
At 11:38, is that your superbly equipped workshop? Or someone elses?
What chainsaw is it ?
Fascinating to see the details of a scarf joint on a large keel timber. Thanks.
Can you recycle the keel and mill it for say, decking? Or interior furniture?
The Japanese use a 3D jointing process in which there are two holes opposing each other so that square pegs can be driven in and create increased tension throughout the joint. The increased tension means greater load bearing and greater flexibility. The barn timbers I’ve designed at 12”x18” carry 260 metric tonne
I watched your other vid where you bolt the two keel pieces together. If I remember correctly, you used only four bolts. This doesn't seem like much. Any concern?
You guys need to invest in a forklift or a skidsteer. Lol Cool channel. Impressive work you do. Very cool 😎
back breaking work... but they are young. amazing the work they do with the means they have..
Pomeranian!!!
That chain saw mod replicates the old way which would have been a man on each end of a two handed saw. Again a modern way of doing an old and time tested solution.
Hi Leo, I have never seen a man working harder and alongside is able to report about his work with such adorable pictures.
I bet you wanted to get closer with the chain saw. Cord less tools is all I use now. safe than cords. I wanted to say safer but you are safe or not. use what you have. Thanks for sharing .
Just in case anybody's not familiar with that fabulous timber, Purpleheart isn't named after the famous U.S. military service medal, it's just that the wood from the heart of the tree is ... bright purple. Used for everything from high class cabinetwork to wharves and marine dock piles. Proper stuff. Useless bit of info: when freshly planed it makes your workshop smell of strawberry jam! Delicious. Incredibly hard wood to work, though. Insanely dense, durable and heavy. More like metal working than joinery!
Just signed up on Paetreon for you. I live in a trailor in Colorado mountains, but I'm an old salt from California and feel what you are doing is important. Hard work = immense reward. Good on you. Dan
When I was a kid my grandpa was always making things out of that purple heart wood. I think you are right on the money replacing the keel, it will give the boat a solid foundation and with todays technology you can do a much better job of preserving her than in the days of old, it means everything built on that keel now will have a very solid foundation and thus be able to stand the test of time, and you will enjoy your time on her once she is in the water without being plagued by doubts! I am over in Tacoma, once the weather gets better if you are up for it I may have to sail up there and check her out. Seems like a really neat project!
Thanks Very Ambitious project---More Power to you!
I know that bringing this up after watching this video is kind of like closing the gate after the cows are out. But, if you intend to do this on another project perhaps it will be worthwhile. I remember seeing an article in a woodworking magazine several years ago where some guys were rebuilding some timbers in homes not to this scale but still quite large. They fixed a plate to the bottom of a large bandsaw and drilled air holes sort of like an upside down air hockey table so that the band saw would glide across their shop floor. If you could find a bandsaw with enough capacity, you could save a significant amount of time in the initial prep of this joint. I enjoyed watching your craftsmanship.
Did you get the Saw at PA Power? Those guys are great! I bought two dual sport motorcycles from them, a generator, a mower and lots of gear. The owner Mike is a great guy to deal with.
They should have used a crane truck, they could have placed that right along the boat. For what you probably paid for that wood, I would have thought the delivery would have been better.
Liam. I am a US Navy veteran, old farm boy and woodworker. I must say that you know your joinery and woods. It's a pleasure to watch someone with your passion and knowledge. Carry on, and fair winds and following seas!
You can send me your purpleheart off cuts
Can you sell the 100yr old teaque to recoup cost?
The best you can do is a new spine to hold up the old ribs. I know its a boat but the design strangely mimicks human skeletons by structural design. Understand your self and you understand your boat. Followed by a water proof skin and shell (deck) and structural joists after steel bracers for extra bone strength are reinstalled with joiners for the ribs. The idea is to save as much as possible the time consuming part mixed with the part that there simply for structural strength like minor bones to connect to the ribs and spine. A half basic understanding on the human boday helps a lot as i watch old wood boat construction. Everything must be supported sufficiently in some way. The masses are so large. The best part is the freedom of designing your own best way to increasing strength while retaining as much of tally hoe as possible.
Good on ya for taking the Tally Ho on! Awesome vid.. Looking forward to the next.
Great job, I'm addicted to your videos thanks for taking the time to create them. FYI that purple heart wood was gorgeous.
why not use a bunch of epoxy shmoo with the fasteners on the scarf?
Perhaps save the keel timber for provenance and even accent pieces about the boat, that's a lot of timber, the new keel is needed I'd say!
perhaps you can mill down the keel timber and reuse the good parts to replace other rotten bits that could be a nice way to keep history in the boat.
Did you make sure to use seasoned wood? or the wood might start to "work" and warp.
Hi, Stihl is offering a chain for firefighters. Maybe it is the right one for your work.
Leo will you stagger the fasteners on the new keel timber so you don,t get checks/cracks in the centerline?
Love your videos. I ve been a metal fabricator for 38 yrs now (lite industrial and commercial) so I can relate to some of your issues. Watching you struggle moving these heavy parts is killing me.....LOL LOL Warn, a winch company makes a 110 volt winch which would be great for pulling items around your work area (better than your car LOL ) Its small, powerful and inexpensive at around $120.00. Also for lifting items..."chain falls" are great simple lifting tools. You can find them used on craigslist some times and new at Harbor Freight are very reasonable and decent quality. As far as cleaning up some of your metal parts, putting a wire wheel on your grinder works great. Good for cleaning scale off threads on bolts and metal parts, even the bronze pc's. One other thing...I am not a safety freak and dont follow all the recommended rules but one I do follow religiously is wearing a face shield when using a cut off wheel and the above mentioned wire wheels. Ive had cutting wheels come apart and hit my face shield so hard it made my lip bleed...just saying. i wish you were closer cause I would love to come help....maybe I still will. In the mean time if you are struggling with a metal issue please free to contact me kholder2000@yahoo.com and maybe I can help you along. keep up the good work...
4:59 Timber
Your Measurement is going to be WRONG, "IF" you use that measurement from the Bottom side of the Board. The board has an Angle at the rear. You have to figure that in!!!!! It will be about 6 inches longer on the Top side of the board to allow for the angle!!!!! Fist up, Fight for Truth.
Great tunes..
love your work. A 50/50 mix of kerosene/bar oil will help when cutting your seasoned hard wood. We use it whenever we need to cut seasoned iron bark.
Curious why you'd use a scarf joint that doesn't lock. Why not one like this: ithomes.info/net/ndZrtMOHd39pl2k/video
Love watching your work young man. Good for you.
Might be to late but don't buy a ripping chain just re-sharpen the angle to around 10 degrees, it's all I use and it works great
Good work Leo, wise move, and brave, to replace the keel now, it’s a lot of work but it will save so much work later on. loving these videos, take care.
after running out of all your videos I went on to watch some other boat/sailing videos - and some of those people were very unfamiliar with the task - and here you are, rebuilding 100 years old boat - most likely replacing the whole boat piece by piece - you are amazing man Leo !
I love your show, being a yachtsman myself and having a passion for timber boats, I was wondering if you could give us some more history on Tally Ho .. Keep up the great work :)
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Knowing that the Sampson Boat Co has a lot on its plate, it never hurts to investigate other business prospects . . . , and these Concordia's sell for a nice chunk of change once restored; and, there may be profit in it if it could be obtained for the right price. How about a West Coast vs. East Coast competition in restoration projects?! They may give the boat to you for free and, help with restoration as a promotional/video effort to promote the build, class, design, history, etc. . . . www.concordiaboats.com/yawl.php?id=95