Chainsaw Woodworking with the Cutest Dog on YouTube

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How to build a staircase with natural materials using a chainsaw. As I continue to finish the interior of the log cabin, I finally get around to building a wooden ladder to the sleeping loft. Cali, our Golden Retriever, tries out the bottom step, a slab of ash cut from a dead standing tree on the Canadian wilderness property. I cut and shape dowels of maple, birch and ash from the surrounding forest and use an Alaskan chainsaw mill to cut the stringers for the staircase as well as cordwood, log ends for steps. To keep warm in the unseasonably cold winter weather we are getting here on the American Thanksgiving, I roast a whole chicken with squash and potatoes on the wood stove. The fire is burning steady to fend off the bitter cold, down to -33 celsius, -27 Fahrenheit at night with the windchill and not much warmer during the day. A full moon lights up the cabin, but it's so cold that I only take a few pictures of the night sky before my camera battery dies from the cold. Follow the drone as it flies through the bitter cold, snowy Canadian wilderness, hovering over waterfalls and rivers.

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yes everything -

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I'm not gonna let you know figure it out can you guess which way it's really [Music]

I'm sorry this these slobs here are from one of those dead standing trees dead standing ash trees that I cut down actually it was in the snow so it would have been lost probably March I guess I cut them down down in the valley worked with it it's a kind of a low spot back here behind the wood sheds kind of thing that drains down all the way down to the parking lot and down in there there's a bunch of dead standing ash trees and a couple of they're just about dead so I cut one down last year and cut it into planks now what could I do with that I can't remember what I do with those I still have some of the planks here and then I cut one of the ashes up and put it as the sort of the cord wood floor in the kitchen outdoor kitchen so I needed so you saw me cut those slabs this morning and problem with them is they're not quite wide enough I don't think for proper steps I think I'd be fine walking up those up and down but I'm not sure my wife would be crazy about the narrowness of them so I cut these bigger ones they're about 12 inches to 13 14 inches and I think that's a better tread width and they're drying already so they're not going to shrink like those other ones were realized after I started cutting them then they're a little bit green still so these being completely dry I'll now put them by the fire probably overnight just to make sure they're kind of fully dried that they're not going to shrink and then loosen up in the and the runners of the vehicle they're runners for the stair stringers the stringers help the side of the stairs of the ladder are a little bit green so they're gonna shrink actually straight tighter on this so put these in and then dry them by the fire see what they like tomorrow and if they're still not drying off to my satisfaction then continue on with the staircase day after tomorrow maybe anyway that was a hard pull

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not your blanket over there hey you want to lie over there [Music]

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it's really cool dude good so you're thinking - 20 something just told you I'm not going did you want to [Music]

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standover coming in your frozen already your face is all frosted oh that's just a raven [Music]

Oh Cal you want anyhow you better get in my name before you freeze your face girl go away sitting from the fire [Music]

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