Man Builds Off Grid Log Cabin Alone in the Canadian Wilderness

https://youtu.be/7rgGEkI510Q   [1:03:28 minutes]
My Self Reliance

Published on Dec 29, 2017

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build process from the cutting of the first tree to the laying of the
last floor board - no food, no talking, no visitors, just carpentry,
bushcraft, timber framing, blood, sweat and tears. My end goal is to
have an off grid, primitive wilderness homestead, where I can
practice primitive technology, bushcraft and traditional skills in an
effort to become as completely self reliant as possible in this day
and age. In late April, I cut the first balsam fir tree down on the
property near Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Next, from June until August, I collected all of the building materials and fabricated the cabin using saddle notches in the corners. I cleared the land in August, laid down gravel for a pad and began erecting the off grid log cabin. By September, the walls were done and I started on the roof framing in October. In November, I burned the roof boards with shou sugi ban, an ancient Japanese technique for preserving wood.
Against convention, I installed the roof in board and batten fashion,
using my roofing background to come up with techniques to keep the cabin watertight. Next, I moved inside where I installed a Vermont Castings wood stove on top of a limestone flagstone floor, which extended from the doorway to the center of the cabin underneath the fireplace. For the rest of the floor, I framed it using 2x4 and 2x6 red pine boards and then installed 2x6x10' boards, which I burned using the same shou sugi ban technique. Now in December, I chinked the walls with moss and clay and have been spending a lot of time in the cabin, starting rustic furniture made with materials from the surrounding forest. Autumn Sunset by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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