Cabin in the Woods Build! | Hand Moving LOGS with a CART | Floor Framing, Off-Grid Homestead Ep3

On this cabin build we use a hand cart tomb stone hauler to move pine trees closer to the Norwood Portable Sawmill. The idea is to use as many trees, especially dead ones, as possible to make something that people can live in comfortably. We are now working on the outhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j1N5TOmBLI

The most vital tools we use is the chainsaw in combination with the sawmill. We’ll also hammers, axes an saws and don’t shy away from using power tools when we have enough batteries to run them in the off-grid construction.

When complete the cabin can be used as a homestead for living in and cooking food, sleeping and as a jumping board to the Canadian Wilderness.

We’ll of course need to cut and split a lot of logs for firewood to keep the cabin warm. The design of the cabin should favor a very steeply roofed structure which will shed water and snow very easily. We also factor in a wrap-around porch to make nature more accessible.

In this series we use materials around us to construct a small forest cabin.

We’ll use cedar, pine, ash, maple, and whatever else we can scrounge up from the 30 acres around us. The aim is to avoid using as much store bought material as possible and keep the budget reasonably low.

Originally we set a budget of $1000, but that included the use of a frame from an old camper trailer. As we build, the budget will remain flexible in effort to produce a cabin that we are proud of and one that will last a long while, be comfortable, and sleep real human beings.

In episode 1, we dig in our “foundation” from reclaimed pressure treated 6×6 posts, level, and set the lower foundation in place which will then accept the first floor of the cabin.

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