Genius Turns An Old Tree Trunk Into A Masterpiece Without Using A Single Power Tool.
Thanks to the slew of shiny power tools that fill up shelves at hardware stores everywhere,
you can build just about anything you set your mind to these days.
Anyone can be a master craftsman with the right tools and a YouTube tutorial!
Still, there are people who like to do things the old-fashioned way.
Take Chris, star of the "Chop with Chris" YouTube series.
Without a single power tool, he's created masterpieces that could go toe-to-toe with
any machine-made mechanism or device.
Recently, Chris tackled a fallen tree stump with his hands-on MacGyver magic and turned
it into something that'll make you howl at the moon.
There's a power tool commercially available for just about anything.
Chopping, sawing, measuring: if you can name a function, something with a cord can probably
do it.
But the host of YouTube's "Chop with Chris" didn't really care about such things.
On his channel, Chris posts videos where he builds incredible, hand-crafted items without
the use of a single power tool.
He's created coffee tables, rocking chairs, and a bow and arrows without burning a single
watt.
Recently, he tackled this stump.
Using little more than his trusty axe and hammer, Chris set to work.
Over the course of 40 hours, he chopped, cut, tied, and sanded until he turned the walnut
stump into an amazing, handy contraption you won't believe!
The first step in Chris's reformation of this log was to split the thing in two.
To do so, he utilized a pretty old-fashioned technique and jammed a few hand-crafted wedges
into an axe-hewn crack on the stump.
After numerous strikes to the wedges, the log split into three beams.
As with most of the steps in this building process, you might want to check out his video
to see exactly how this was done.
With the beams separated, Chris chopped and whittled the face of one of them.
At this point, he was just trying to get the rough shape he wanted, which you can see in
the next image.
There was no need for perfection just yet.
Here was what the finished product from the beam chiseling looked like.
He'd whittled the beam down quite a bit, but he was sure to leave that thicker section
at the end.
He headed indoors for the next step of his project.
What was his vision?
Inside, Chris did a little detail work on his freshly carved beam.
He slid a file over the upward surface to eliminate splinters until he had, for the
most part, a relatively smooth surface.
Whether Chris then split his beam into two symmetrical halves or created an identical
second beam wasn't clear in the video.
Still, by this point, he now had two smooth, indented beams, ending in a slight lip.
Any idea what he might have been making?
The next part of the literal hand-crafting process required a brief diversion from the
two just-carved beams.
Using a rotting log he pulled out of the bushes, Chris started work on a handmade wood steamer.
To do so, he first screwed a hole through the log.
With a handsaw, Chris made a shallow cut into the end of the steamer stump, but he didn't
cut all the way through the wood!
That was so he could then half-cut the face of the log with a chipper, leaving a doughnut
of raised wood around the hand-drilled hole.
Chris set the log aside and went rooting through a rust bin for something.
Oddly, after pulling out a few iron doodads, he grabbed this old pipe, which was perhaps
part of an old exhaust system.
Then, it was time for the truly impressive work.
Next, he created a port on the bottom of an old tin washbasin and fit his exhaust pipe
into the hole of the rotted stump.
Now, if he lit a fire beneath the washbasin, the smoke would drift up through the pipe
and out the log.
Which led to the next step…
Out in the backyard, Chris placed the washbasin inside a cauldron filled with water and put
all of that on top of a burning fire.
Then, he attached the tree stump to a fat log that he'd drilled a hole through.
Remember that doughnut lip?
That was so it could fit perfectly into the hole he'd made on this new, bigger stump.
With the fire roaring beneath the water-filled cauldron, hot steam drifted through the exhaust
pipe and the rotted stump right into the fatter stump.
Then it was time to slide those beams Chris first carved into the steam-filled stump hole.
And would you look at that!
Utilizing leverage and a few wooden pegs, Chris bent the lipped end of the beams he'd
made earlier.
It was crazy to think how much work went into just a small part of the final product.
There was still so much more, too.
Hopefully, if you decide to tackle this project yourself, you have the same affinity for carving
long, lipped beams that Chris did!
Now that he had freshly bent beams, he carved two more of them—but these ones were much
smaller than the first.
What Chris did next could have probably passed for magic if you went far enough back into
time.
Using a tool he'd carved by hand,he placed uniform slots throughout the project's body.
Next, Chris attached the smaller beams to the first beams with a little woodworking
magic.
The beams, which had been end-capped with special digits, slid into the previously-carved
slots, and he locked them in place.
Confused yet?
It all makes sense in the end!
After marking a few precise locations, Chris drilled holes into both the horizontal and
vertical beams before threading flimsy, rope-like strands of wood through each of them.
You might be able to see the final product shaping up now.
As he entered the final stages of the project, Chris handcrafted a few more pieces, each
just a little bit different in its own way.
These would eventually become integral to the structure of the end product.
The new pieces Chris carved fit perfectly between the vertical beams.
however, not only did these beams maintain structural integrity, but they also held up
the thin beams that Chris used for the floor of the final product.
Again, Chris was an old-fashioned kind of guy, and for him, luxuries such as nail guns
were just that: luxuries.
Instead of nailing the floor beams in place,
he actually tiedthem on with water-soaked fibers.
By then, he was almost done.
One last time, Chris had to fashion a few beams.
In this picture, it was the two that crossed in the X-formation.
As he did with the floorboards, he tied these beams together with string and then attached
them to the final piece.
Now can you guess what Chris built?
It was a dog sled!
Sturdy, huge, and without a single power tool, the sled was light enough to be picked up
with one hand and easily transported to the snow.
He just needed one more thing for this sled to work.
That's right: a dog!
Chris harnessed up the ol' family pooch and put him to work pulling the sled through
the snow-packed terrain.
Talk about handiwork!
This thing not only looked great, but it actually functioned really well.
When you check out the video on his channel, you'll see Chris's impressive handiwork
from start to finish .
In just three minutes, you'll see him move and build in a way that's almost magic.
Seriously, this guy is a real pro—and he never needed one power tool!
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