How to build an off grid log cabin from start to finish
Mortgage Free Off Grid Cabin Built In The Wilderness. 24 year old builds a nice off grid cabin in a matter of months. The cabin looks great. However, from my experience, the footers (stumps) he used to set the logs on might not be the best idea because the cabin will settle over time and might cause issues with leveling and cracks in the chinking/logs fitting perhaps causing gaps and drafts. Overall though I think he did a great job! I’m envious, at 48 years old, I’ve never built a cabin, so I admire this young man’s courage and determination to build his off grid cabin dream. It looks great. Just like a traditional pioneer cabin would look.
Using a chainsaw made things a lot easier for sure. But it’s that felling, limbing, and stripping the bark off the logs that is so labor intensive. So much labor involved in those steps, and that is what usually takes the longest to do. The prep work. It’s like painting. The painting is the easy and fun part. It’s the prep work that comes before painting that requires all the labor and goes to teh quality of the paint job.
Here is the video of him building the log cabin:
Personally I would have leveled the ground more, packed it down, leveled, gravel, leveled, and more gravel, and level some more. My footers would be stone and homemade mortar, and DEEP down to the permafrost line.
After cutting the logs, now the hard part, delimbing and stripping the bark with a draw knife.
That first log laid makes the rest of the easier or harder. That’s the hardest part. Stacking logs is relatively easy. Cutting saddle notches, simple. It’s a simple cabin build and he did a great job.
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Making great progress! Got a big pile of logs ready to go. Time to start stacking!
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Getting the first few course of logs laid down is the most important.
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Cutting traditional saddle notches in the logs is easy with a chainsaw and chisel.
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12 logs high! Going great!
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Cutting a saddle notch from a precarious position. Probably not the safest way to do it, but he got the job done.
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Coming along nicely with ridge log.
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Got the window and the door cut into the wall and the door framed.
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Finished interior. Looking great!
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Enjoying the view!
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Even doggy seems to like it.
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Kyle standing out front his awesome log cabin! That feeling of accomplishment, kind also looks like he a little bit tired from all that hard work.
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It’s something a lot of people only dream of doing. And here it it. A log cabin build by hand in the wilderness.
Just like the pioneers in the old days.
You can’t really get much better than that.
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