Building a Log Cabin

[Luxman]

I can fix most things around the house, but I wish I had the skills to build a log cabin.
I like watching videos of people making stuff, if for nothing else, it feels like I'm learning something useful.
I've watched a few of this guys videos, not exciting or entertaining, but interesting to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PithvA8vdVY

 

[sean miguel]

Same here. I like watching someone build/create something. And what you said, it's not particularly exciting but there is a sense of contentment if that makes any sense.

I used to love watching Bob Ross paint back in the day.

 

[icytea]

I wish I could do this

 

[Supafly]

That video reminds me of a good friend, whith whom I shared an apartment in the nineties. He was in a stage of his life where he was in theory (On paper) studying chem at our local university, but really had a job - informal - at a small company that did all sorts of big and small metal-related jobs. He learned immensly new and practical things, and as we both were good handien, we did all things making our apartment livable and renovations for friends, too.

He had some books - it was mid-nineties, so only very, very ew peope around had ersonal computers, and internet use was highly costly and sooo sloooow - about the subject in the video above:

Building your own home, doing all things in and around it from scratch with axe, saw, hammer, etc, and was toying with the idea to move to Canada, because he had read that, if you went out into uninhabited land there, built your home on it, and lived there for, say 10 years, or so, you could claim that land then from the government.

No, he chose later to do something else. He is building things here in Germany

 

[Rey C.]

Not so much one that's totally rustic and off the grid, but I wanted to build a log home before I built the frame house that I have now. The log home kits were fairly reasonable, but the issue that I ran into was finding a competent contractor who could assemble it (the right way!) and properly finish out the interior. I know a guy who's had one for about 20 years and last I heard, he's still pleased with it. Exterior maintenance is very light. And if you get one with a powder-coated metal roof and high quality windows and doors, you can largely forget about maintenance issues and your heating bills will be very reasonable.

My land has a great view of the mountains and I thought something similar to this would have been nice.

But, too late now. What I got is what I got.

 

[RASQ]

Cabin builders get all the luck.. This guy, Jacob Witzling, is porking Sara Jean Underwood!

https://www.instagram.com/jacobwitzling/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/saraunderwood/?hl=en

 

[Luxman]

Two Years Alone in the Wilderness | Escape the City to Build Off Grid Log Cabin

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I just built a log cabin about 10 minutes ago. Lucky the plumbing's great.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I just built a log cabin about 10 minutes ago. Lucky the plumbing's great.

...Aaaaaaaand the mudslide just wiped it out. Thank God for Aryan Brotherhood Farmer's Insurance.

Make sure you have a low deductible though. Still an insurance company.

 

[Torre82]

Soo... some brown stuff took out the white guys? That seems oddly coincidental, considering the insurance. Did you engage the brown stuff in some sort of 'war'?

Jus' seeing parallels, here.

 

[FOUser#4510856320198a]

It's all fun and games, until the undead and strangely chaste start haunting the place: https://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?964706-Handjob-Cabin&p=10483716&viewfull=1#post10483716

 

[Prod3]

Been watching these recently on You Tube which are pretty interesting. Its great how they make everythng from their surroundings using ony and tools

 

[afterlights]

That looks amazing!

 

[Luxman]

3 Year Timelapse - Raw Land To An Off Grid Homestead - Debt Free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkjBYgLtqaQ

 

[afterlights]

Wow, that was great!

 

[Luxman]

Off Grid Log Cabin Built by One Man

 

[Luxman]

Living with a Blackbear at the off grid Cabin in the Forest and Installing Windows

 

[Supafly]

I wonder if next door, there lives Mad Jack and Number Seven

 

[D-rock]

I'm not an expert on them or anything, but just from what I've heard about people that have them they eventually become a major pain in the ass to maintain as they get older relative to normal houses.

 

[L3ggy]

I'd rather have a long house.