Youtube

[Bama5150]

Is there a running list anywhere on this forum that shows current active Teardrop builds that are being shown on youtube?
I have done a search and was able to find a few, but i am sure there are more than what I am able to find.

[RJ Howell]

Not so sure there's a list.. yet.. Several of us have posted here and on YT. I suggest you get a bit more specific on the type of build you you're thinking.

I get you are looking at options of, yet start with how do you camp, how many are with you, what are you using to tow with, etc... Basic items of wishes/wants/needs.

You'll find many here that will jump in once they have an idea of what you hope to build!

[dbhosttexas]

I would seriously doubt it. Not all teardrop builders doing builds on Youtube are on TNTTT, and a good number of folks don't tag their videos well so being able to find them is all up to the viewer... Sorry...

[Tom&Shelly]

I think you just have to search, and even then. Last year Shelly and I were taking French classes, and I wanted to find the names of tools and woodworking terminology actual French and Quebecois woodworkers use. (Not that easy--the folks who write the French books and teach French are seldom woodworkers themselves. The literal translations from Google Search is often quite wide of the mark.) I found a nice series on Youtube by a French woodworker: Olivier Verdier and sacre bleu!, he had built a teardrop! ('Caravane teardrop.' You'd never get that from a French textbook or computer language translater--it's a combination of French and English, but that's what he calls it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmX7GmJfPxg&list=PLl6oWl7WZt59l0UYPBqAVyyuKuuzI0jy1&index=1

Anyway, I haven't found a Youtube search that brings up all teardrop videos in every language, or even all in English.

Tom

[JasenC]

The youtube algorithm is odd. search teardrop camper or squardrop build. Once you watch a number of them others will start to pop up in your recommended videos. Plus scroll down to the next videos to play.

Of course this falls apart once you go back to watching cat videos.

[MickinOz]

I think you just have to search, and even then. Last year Shelly and I were taking French classes, and I wanted to find the names of tools and woodworking terminology actual French and Quebecois woodworkers use. (Not that easy--the folks who write the French books and teach French are seldom woodworkers themselves. The literal translations from Google Search is often quite wide of the mark.) I found a nice series on Youtube by a French woodworker: Olivier Verdier and sacre bleu!, he had built a teardrop! ('Caravane teardrop.' You'd never get that from a French textbook or computer language translater--it's a combination of French and English, but that's what he calls it):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmX7GmJfPxg&list=PLl6oWl7WZt59l0UYPBqAVyyuKuuzI0jy1&index=1

Anyway, I haven't found a Youtube search that brings up all teardrop videos in every language, or even all in English.

Tom

Thanks for posting the link. I just started watching it. Having fun trying to remember the French I haven't used since high school classes.
I'm pretty sure he said one day he will buy a TIG when he was stick welding the chassis.

[rjgimp]

Hilarious!

I'm pretty sure he said one day he will buy a TIG when he was stick welding the chassis.

When he was crawling around on the floor gluing up the wall panels I'm sure he was saying something like 'Sacre bleu!!! Why am I crawling around on this %^&*(#!!! floor when I'm just going to lop a third of this &*#$%^!! panel off out in the driveway?!?'


Surprising a woodworker would not at least use saw horses or build himself a nice portable work table for such a task.

[Tom&Shelly]

Hilarious!

I'm pretty sure he said one day he will buy a TIG when he was stick welding the chassis.

When he was crawling around on the floor gluing up the wall panels I'm sure he was saying something like 'Sacre bleu!!! Why am I crawling around on this %^&*(#!!! floor when I'm just going to lop a third of this &*#$%^!! panel off out in the driveway?!?'


Surprising a woodworker would not at least use saw horses or build himself a nice portable work table for such a task.

I've wondered how much of what Olivier does are the way he does things, vs the "French woodworking culture" and the way they do things. I wonder where he learned the craft and how he was taught.

In old fashioned traditional woodworking, there are many differences between the British/Americans, Europeans, Japanese, etc. (For example, the Japanese worked on the floor, or so I've been led to believe from books on the subject. I've seen several different styles of shaving horse depending on the origins of the woodworkers who made and used them, for another example.) With more interaction, and similar power tools, it would seem like we would all move to common ways of doing things, but maybe not. Italian band saws still tend to have shorter tables, for example, so we haven't lost all of our minor differences yet.

Of course, some of what Olivier does probably depends on what he has available. The crane, for example...

Tom

[Capebuild]

Mr. Verdier sure has a nice shop and very beautiful grounds and homestead.