Saving the Cabin (DANGER) | Felling a Huge Tree! | Off-Grid Cabin, Loft! Ep4

The small forest cabin build is in danger as we notice a huge dead cherry tree looming over the cabin. It’s too big for us to safely fell so we hire the service of an arborist (JL’s Tree Service).

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In the first part of the video we put together the rest of the framing for the first floor using a combination of handtools, hard work, grit, and power tools like cordless drills, chainsaws and so forth. We’ll put up the loft in the cabin as well using live edge pine trees collected right from the property.

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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