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by Todd Walker ~ ATAGEND We mingled the mortar in a wheelbarrow. Before slapping any mortar in the gaps, I exercised my pneumatic framing handgun to drive claws 2-3 inches apart in all the crannies between the enters on the outside of the hovel. I discontinued the air pressure so an inch or so of … Read more
by Todd Walker ~ ATAGEND Inspection at school. ~ ATAGEND Boots still on the dirt in our outdoor classroom. American Made Craftsmanship I keep my working axes sharpened and shaving-sharp. The ax strike separated the inside advantage of my boot sole, surgically separating one stitch, and slicing the leather upper. I genuinely expected the contiguou … Read more
by Todd Walker Impact motorist and instruct … for driving nails and drilling pilot openings and line/ chain holes. Use appropriate sized instruct bits as needed. Size It Up When this project came to mind, I has no such real idea how massive a frame I needed. Then I remembered DRG’s breath mattress she bought … Read more
by Todd Walker ~ ATAGEND The swinging porch bunked. A entire brand-new how-to post is upcoming on this one. I built this red cedar rope sway to add to the cabin site. The aura mattress is queen size and genuinely too towering for the change. However, after lengthy testing, it makes just fine! ~ ATAGEND … Read more
by Todd Walker ~ ATAGEND Just before The Crew evidenced up. Re-assembling the wall records was like a paint by numbers designated. Dianne had labeled the records before we made it down. It was just a matter of putting digits back where we attained them on the walls. ~ ATAGEND Two 21 paw plateful logs … Read more
by Todd Walker ~ ATAGEND Many thanks to these fine friends on demolition epoch! Deja vu After the junk rectified, the job of rebuilding began. I figured reassembly would take little meter. I was right. Foundation I decided to go back with dry-stack stone wharves for the foundation. This would save money since the tract … Read more
by Todd Walker I think I now understand why so many pioneer log cabins had packed dirt floors. Ease of construction may have been the #1 reason. Lacking dimensional lumber, time, and labor, a dirt floor was an easy solution. You weren’t necessarily poor, but the term, “dirt poor”, stuck. Believe it or not, there’s … Read more
by Todd Walker As the song says, “I started out with nothing, and I’ve got most of it left.” Those lyrics summed up my feelings since starting this log cabin project in February. I all I had to show for my effort was a bunch of skinned logs scattered through the woods and fields. That … Read more
The Log Cabin Timelapse video posted by My Self Reliance shows what the term “off grid” really means. The video is a condensed, five-minute video of a project that took months. No power tools were used to build this cabin—none. It was made completely with hand tools—tools like a long scribe, saw, axe, adze, and … Read more
