Primitive Log Cabin in the Forest Alone in the Wilderness with Hand Tools

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Building a log cabin completely alone has been my dream since selling my last cabin 15 years ago.I start this video by cutting down cedar trees in winter and end with a standing log cabin in the Canadian Wilderness, up to the top of the walls. In this video, I go into more detail to show exactly how I am doing it. Learn how I cut the notches, lift the logs into place by myself and start preparing my house to live a life like Dick Proenneke did in Alaska.

Get prepared for the apocalypse by building your own primitive off grid log cabin, tiny house in the woods of wilderness Canada.

Learn how to work alone and build your own home using nothing but hand tools - no power tools. Be a modern day lumberjack and outdoorsman capable of self reliant living. Create your own homestead, starting with a tiny home.

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one of the first things you need to do is put a couple of put some holes in the bottom of this barrel and the lowest sections here so it can drain into that into they pay campbellot you want to do that from the inside so that the perforations the folded metal is pointed downwards if it's pointed up it's actually going to hold the resin inside the can careful that's gonna be sharp but you can see what I'm talking about see how the perforations are pointed down now so that'll drain the residue better

so it's a little bit of water in that pail so that's what's floating on top but it's it's a decent amount of tar [Music]

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real interesting lighting out here pretty cool it's the full solar eclipse happening right now I think it's a full peaked sewed in about ten minutes but pretty cool lighting in the bush it's kind of like Twilight and see the just too hard to explain it's not something you ever see so it's not that's something you compare anything to I guess it's like a mist with the a weak Sun burning through it but anyway it's a quite nice out here so last night my wife and I were down in Toronto driving my daughter and her friend to a Toronto FC soccer game the soccer game and the CNE it was just a zoo game ended around 10 o'clock what was 1:30 by the time we got home and it just reinforces why I'm doing it's just so sick and tired of that I can see the life just being drained out of everybody around me and especially myself and my family it's just not not healthy not a healthy environment and it just still like I said it reinforces why I'm up here so birds chirping geese flying overhead sandhill cranes down in the marsh just unwind instantly when I get here so you know when you see the resources used up in the cities you see that concrete jungle you see the steel buildings and the fencing and the hoarding wood hoarding and the cars and the pavement it's just overwhelming how much stuff we've built it and how much resources we've consumed as a as a species and you just take that one little footprint where I was looking and you think about that across the entire world and how much we've used up and of course we're running out of things of course the fish and the oceans are depleted of course the water is polluted of course the soils have have eroded and washed away of course we're reaching peak oil it's not an endless resource of oil in the ground or coal in the ground so this next generation is gonna have to deal with a decline and everything and it's coming rapidly we bought this property away from the cities and away from the major urban centers so that it's never gonna be a targeted place we've got lots of resources around here if I need to grow some vegetables Pervis wild game raise some livestock we've got the room to do it here and it's just so important this day and age so if you're not the work person doing it then I hope you know somebody that can help you out when the time comes it may be a slow decline there may be catastrophes in certain areas that that require people to act more quickly I'm hoping to pass that prepping mentality down to my kids and to their generation so here I am building this cabin is the first thing I'm trying to discover what it costs to set up a life like this what it costs to maintain it and what kind of health benefits there is basically what it is like most people I've just fed up with regular society long ago when I was in my early 20s I did build a cabin and my dream man was to move off-grid and to live a simple wild wilderness alone in the wilderness type lifestyle and things changed I ended up getting married raising a family obviously very happy to have done that [Music]

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got some logs that I cut down earlier in the year that I have to start preparing for the roof framing so that'll be next that's going to be the hard part I have to make some scaffolding and benches so they can start working up higher with risk in my life so looking forward to that

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so about a great big maple that I cut down earlier that will be a nice solid support post for the top rich bowl of the roof anyway I'm rambling tired going to bed and get up early go hunting come back here and they'll see you in the morning I'll see you back here at the cabin about 10 o'clock [Music]