Building Cabin from Scratch with Portable Sawmill! | 80-Year Old Tree into Siding

In this episode we work hard to seal up more of the exterior of the cabin with live edge cedar siding milled up with our HD36 Norwood Portable Sawmill. We also being work on the ginger breading lap siding. We are now working on the outhouse:    • Building Outhouse at Off Grid Cabin i...  

A big struggle with our cabin is keeping it warm using natural materials that are inherently leaky. So we really need to close in all the gaps and get the windows in.

We throw in a temporary door using a grocery store plastic door opening.

We look at our cabin loft and start thinking about putting in our circle window.

We talk about using big cedar and why the seem to be hollow in the middle and the trouble with finding very wide planks. We'll also talk about why cedar makes a great siding with water repelling properties due to the oils they have.

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Whenever we run out of lumber, we just mill more wood from trees that are right on the property. We'll use handtools like hammers, axes, saw, shovels and prybars, but will also use power tools including chainsaws, winches, atv's, and a chopped up SUV whenever it is convenient.

We will be using cedar and spruce trees that are standing dead so we don't have to kiln dry the wood or let it season.

Please follow along with the full playlist in order to understand the full construction of the tiny cabin.

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.

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