Building a LOG CABIN in the Woods!
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2021
- We harvest logs from the forest and build a log cabin from scratch to house our maple syrup evaporator. Full Log Cabin Playlist: • Building a Log Cabin
Part 1: • Building a Log Cabin f...
Part 2: • Building a $5 Maple Sy...
Part 3: • How to Quickly Cut 1 Y...
Part 4: • Building a LOG CABIN i...
Part 5: • Building a Log Cabin f...
Part 6: • Installing MASSIVE Roo...
Part 7: • Framing Out the Log Ca...
Part 8: • Building a Roof for th...
Part 9: • Building a BEAR PROOF ...
Part 10: • Installing FREE $4000 ...
Part 11: • Building an ADDITION a...
Part 12: • $100,000 Tree Bucket L...
Part 13: • Finishing the Off Grid...
Part 14:
I cut down dead pine trees that are on my 40 acre property to build a sugar shack that will house a maple sap boiler so we can enjoy some delicious maple syrup in the spring.
With the help of my chainsaw, I'll cut down all the overgrown and shaded out dead pines which I will cut into log to build a sugar shack. The pines in this replanted forest are fat too overgrown and have been grossly mismanaged. The trees should have be cut and thinned nearly a decade ago. Removing the dead trees is a good start to rehabilitating the forest. Later, we will thin even more and get the forest ready for replanting and rejuvenating.
In this part, we will start building the log cabin from the foundation up. I will use the butt-and-pass method which laps one row of logs over the other, while fastening the logs together with spikes. This is simpler and quicker because it does not require the tedious work of scribing each log and notching.
A butt-and-pass corner joint on a log home creates the look of a rustic, old-fashioned cabin. As the logs are laid to create the outside corners of the building, the first log on each layer extends past the corner, and the log forming the other wall butts into the first. As the timbers are laid to build up the corner, the extended logs alternate for an effect that resembles interlaced fingers.
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*Full LOG CABIN playlist:* ruclips.net/p/PLwj3sDjjGtJpaMlqPWZCjyzpH49_53e1K
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That "Wooded Beardsman" guy usually shows up when things are almost done... 😂😂😂
sounds like a party
Awesome, out of the park!
I love ALL YOUR VIDIOS. YOU ARE TRULY A GENIUS. YOU PLAN THEN EXECUTE IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES. CHRIS IS JEALOUS, THAT HE DIDN'T THINK OF IF. BUT HE WILL GET TJE BEST OF ALL. HE GETS TO EAT THE SYRUP. GOD BLESS AND THANK YOU ALL FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL LIFE. 👁👁🇵🇷
Moonshine still followed by livestream "taste test session"=all time highest views count
With Ryan's ruclips.net/user/postUgkxy_pn55PK60wAV3X_C_RoLS_67mNonoCE plan I was like one taken by the hand and led step by step from start to finish. Thank you very much Ryan!
I think you are what every hoarder aspires to be. They justify keeping things with the idea of one day putting it to good use. You are very good at actually putting things to use.
functional hoarder
Bone yard :)
So enjoyable to watch you guys build. Explaining your work as you go. Then the excitement in your voice as the syrup comes to a boil. Your a little kid in a way. Thanks for sharing. Iowa is watching. 58 degrees. Rain tonight, then maybe 8 Inches of snow moving in.
Cabin going up quick!! Maple syrup harvest in full gear!👍 You guys have so much fun. Thanks for letting us tag along👍B Deacon
Again what great comments! WONDERFUL! Be blessed.
Puerto Rico U S A
...I got pretty pumped as the sap boil took off - living vicariously, I guess ☺️. Also, I could sit and watch you guys all day ☺️. Thanks!
Our pleasure!
I think to make pounding the rebar into the logs faster Predrill the top log smaller hole makes pounding the pins easier and straighter.
Traditionally we have built log houses like saunas, barns, hay barns, small houses etc. is by notching the log ends so that they lock to each other. The logs are always skinned too to preserve. Then it is possible to build a complete house without any nails, everything made with an axe. This seems to work also. Thanks for this one.
As Canadians we use what we have at our disposal and we make it work I’m gonna have 100 comments of people saying you shouldn’t do that you shouldn’t do that but at the end of the day we always do it and it seems to work out good job boys
As always fantastic video! I loved seeing the giddy reaction with the quick rolling boil. I think we got a small glymps of how excited Kevin must have gotten as a boy when his mom was cooking a tall stack of pancakes 🥞 and 🍁 syrup!
Great video, respect from the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
If you stay busy you gain knowledge. And your work gets better. Great job.
I really like this project, well done! Its going to be a nice sugar shack!
Great video. I really admire the way you jump into projects, then smooth out the bumps as you go. I love this content!
This is one my favorite channels on You Tube.
Great job Kevin and Don!!!
Great video, thank you for sharing. I see some other people posting about the freezing process, and I think I agree with them. It's the water that will freeze first, just as it's the water that will boil first. When you boil the sap, some of the sugar will be aerosolized with the boiling water. Likewise, when freezing, some of the sugar will be frozen with the water, but a slow freeze will also help concentrate the sugar. I'm just a small hobbyist boiler, though, thanks again!
We boil it all.
DONT YOU JUST LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!!!!! Was looking at your SugarShack progress looks great the pin method looks like the quickest to build although you may have to make the door opening alittle bigger just so the wood stove will pass through it. Floor would be awesome with gravel and fire brick underneath it like would level it effectively. Although make the stack side higher at ground level the mouth side for the wood lower so it would make it easier for the Maple syrup to drain more efficiently. Simple OUTSTANDING JOB GREAT VIDEO Thanks for sharing. God bless be safe stay warm. Jim
The Doors final size hasn't been cut out yet. It'll be 36"
You and Don done good, I do believe Chris did smirk, almost smile, lol ,I enjoyed this chapter very much, looking forward to next episode, keep living the dream, peace my brother.
You are so lucky to have a “Don”. He’s such a good worker and seems like a really great guy. Cheers Don! 🍻
Don is his Dad.
You guys rock! Don is the man. I hope he gets to enjoy some fruits of his labour. Cheers
Good job Kevin! Chris is too cool to be excited.
Yes make a still, would love to see that video of maple whiskey.
Love the setup!
Reminds me of our home in Minnesota and our big evaporator pan.
I am a true maple syrup lover for life!
Just a thought you could have predrilled those hole a size or two smaller then hammer in the connectors love the evaporator shows another creative idea brought to life
How many gallons your tank holds is around 75 gallons, if you only fill it 2inches is about 12.5 gallons.
Width: 24" (60.96cm)
Height: 12" (30.48cm)
Depth: 60" (152.4cm)
Your tank's volume is approximately 17,280.0 cubic inches or 74.8 U.S. gallons, which is approximately 283.5 liters.
Width: 24" (60.96cm)
Height: 2" (5.08cm)
Depth: 60" (152.4cm)
Your tank's volume is approximately 2,880.0 cubic inches or 12.5 U.S. gallons, which is approximately 47.3 liters.
At a 4:1 ratio, that's still a LOT of syrup! This comment is so underrated, thanks for taking the time to do that. :D
@@EnsignLovell 40:1
@@dwrivers47 My bad, swear I listened, just didn't read my message haha
Fantastic! Major success! I'm excited and I'm not even getting any of the syrup! 😂
Love your channel, that Don s a big talker ain't he. Keep up the invention anything homesteading is great.. God speed
Here's one vote for building a maple still. Love the content Kevin. I tapped my maple last week after temps made it above freezing for the first time in months. No evaporator so I just drink the sap as is and use it as potable liquid.
I hear people bottle in and sell it as a "detox"
My intuition for avoiding using branches as pegs in pioneer building would be to avoid using any heart wood and young wood tends to be more flexible.. Just my guess though
Did your metal working guy not make a lid for the container? Gonna get everything from twigs and leaves to beetles and birds falling in that sap and ending up on your pancakes without some kind of lid lol .. And a domed lid with a few holes would help it heat quicker but still allow all the steam to escape
Pretty sure they're still making the oversize lid out of logs. ;) Should have skylights too!
In all seriousness though, yeah, some sort of a lid does sound very reasonable to us city-folk. Even a tarp stretched above would probably prevent most of the junk.
Though everything boils down to tradeoffs due to limited time... ...or maple syrup.
The lid was stood by the side it was the piece that he cut out of the tank, but they just wanted to watch the first boil and get excited that it actually worked.
Don seems like the nicest guy who will do any job and you'll never hear a complaint from him
I just love to watch you and Don work. You always find a way to make it work, even when it looks like disaster is about to happen. Thank you for the video's.
There are very few channels I don’t miss a video from. This is one of them.
Good morning Brother 😁☕ thanks for a great show .... sooooooooon my wife and I will be living deep in the woods .... the land I'm buying is very beautiful.... I will be facing a new lifestyle..... i do have experience cutting lumber and building.... by no means am I the best at anything .... but I'm always willing to learn and practice new ideas as well as learn from others .... I'm thinking of having a RUclips channel as well .... I'm learning it's a lot of work to do what you do ... filming and editing is a lot of work ..... but it may be fun .... and I really Love your channel .... my lady and I enjoy all you do 🍺😁
So exciting!!! You guys are busting your butts on this! That boiler is working great!! 💪Love all the puns along the way! 😅 That is fastest log cabin building I have seen. So impressive. I bet it is going to taste so good! 😋 Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family.
It's my first year doing sap. I have already been thru many evaporator "builds" in NEW HAMPSHIRE. Its alot of fun. One thing I noticed is you should have put baffles in the pan.
Looks like a pickup toolbox could be used to fab the evaporator pan.
By far my favourite channel out there
As a contractor I really appreciate your craftsmanship and knowledge you share with all of us and I learn something exciting every episode Well done and I will be waiting patiently for your next endeavour 🥞🍁
This is so fun to watch! All the work you've put in has paid off nicely. Well done!
Don is one of those guys that you always want on your team. The guy seems to be working even when he’s not. That property is becoming a family dreamland. I can’t wait to see what additions come next!
Oh, I know a little about ice! Basically, if it's just a top-layer (a few inches thick), it's probably mostly water. Because early on, the way water crystallizes tends to push the impurities away. That's when you get really good, clear ice. Eventually even the less-pure water will freeze, trapping that sugar inside it (it will also try to expel the gasses that are trapped in there, which is why you often get those ice cubes that are clear around the edges and then have a lot of bubbles right in the middle).
So, if you find you have a bucket with a relatively thin ice layer on top (like, up to a third of the total contents), yeah, you can probably discard that layer and save yourself some energy with the boiling. But yeah, if it's frozen straight through it's a moot point and you should just boil it all.
That thing is awesome. I’m so glad you started your channel is seriously has become my favorite channel to watch on RUclips.
loving the progress cant wait to see the first jar of syrup
You can also tap walnut trees. I’m pretty sure they have a similar sugar content to maple, and they’re just about every where in the north east and the great lakes.
Oh wow!! heck ya that's super exciting ! grats on a super evaporator! Way to Go!
after watching slow build log homes, its was fun to watch your quick one - well done
I just finished binge watching all of your videos in the past 3 days. When I subscribed and pressed the bell, you uploaded this video about 30 minutes later. It's all come down to this, lol. Thanks a ton for the videos. Needless to say, I absolutely love them.
Wow! Don is a machine out there! He's amazing!
Sugar shack is coming along great. Love the system you're using.
Hey guys!! Good place for a still! Perfect spot! Wow!I can smell that sap from here!! NICE!!!
Love that Don, he keeps up with you on your builds, love your videos
I had no idea maple trees gave off so much sap. I think your evaporator is awesome 👌 good job.
build it your way, thanks for sharing
I always get a kick when you use your multi tool (chainsaw) I didn’t think it would get to a rolling boil great job 👏 👏 👏
That thing about the ice is true. When aqueous solutions (like your maple sap) begin to freeze, the ice crystals exclude most of the stuff dissolved in the water. The ice that forms first has a lot less sugar in it, leaving more sugar per unit volume of liquid sap. The more concentrated the sap gets, the more sugar will end up in the ice, so at a certain point, you're going to start losing more and more product.
If you're interested, look at the process they use to purify silicon for making microchips. They basically use the same principle over and over to get obscenely pure silicon ingots. Fascinating stuff, really.
In the wine industry it's termed fractional freezing.
@@bobbyk6585 I'm not in the wine industry, but I'm a chemist/molecular biologist and I home-brew, so I may have to try that! I've been experimenting with a distillation column, so maybe that will help me along.
I remember slicing birch trees for the sap when I was young in Norway. Quite pleasant.
When i started printing tshirts with industrial equipment vs hobby sized equipment i had the same feeling
“Boy what was i doing with my time these past couple of years.” Now I’m looking at bigger equipment and wondering why I’m wasting my time.
This thing…will have you feeling like you need another one as you start becoming the syrup tycoon of canada.
I dont think I’ve ever tasted natural maple syrup. Whenever i have it its in an ihop or something which is rare, i doubt they serve that backwoods brewed stuff.
The still is a hugely awesome idea and i think a good incentive to get even more of that maple sap goodness.
I went to a maple syrup boil once and drank a small cup of warm maple syrup. Ever since I eat my pancakes with warm maple syrup. 🍁
All for the love of maple syrup. Perfectly justified! ❤️
We learn so much from your videos! Thank you for sharing!
I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!!!
I love it!! Your creativity knows no bounds, I could watch these skill wielding videos all day 👍🏻👍🏻😊
Good job on the boiler looks like it works great
I just love to see you work , guys, forcing... freezing... and me in the that time... I,m knetting... big Kiss to Don!!! and you!! xoxo
Whiskey still in the future would be awesome. Sugar shack doubles as a still shack.
Awesome! Love REAL 🍁 syrup!
I would have thought you would have run the logs through the mill to flatten the bottom and top
They do have the mill...but getting it into the woods in the snow season is another matter.
It's just more work with same results, plus when we put the logs in we can rotate them in the direction they fit best with all the other logs already there. Many of them fit one way best, and you don't really know that until you try them. In a perfect world, each log would be the same size and shape and length, but ours are of various different lengths and widths. It made most sense to do it this way, and then adjust as necessary. The chinking will give it a great look after that you wouldn't get if you shaved off the rounded edges.
Then it's not a log cabin anymore.
now this is a good ol canadian video
Awesome to see the maple shack coming along.. no link in description though for Dennis, the metalworker, i noticed
He hadn't given it yet. It's in there now.
Love this channel. You guys are great entertainers :) Like you said: "Always teachin'"
The time and the wood saved wow!
Maple whiskey sound delicious.
Don is the real deal for sure. What a great guy. On the topic of Maple Whisky Sortilege is amazingly tasty and I'm so irked I can't import it where I live in the USA (in a state that borders Canada no less!)
As always, awesome video. 👍
Question on the cabin chinking, if the chinking material is solid all the way through the gap will it carry the cold temperature from the outside in? Do you need a gap or is there a specific kind of material to use? 🤔
I'm in favor of the still idea! Especially if it helps the party pavillion to materialize! 😉 stay well in the fluctuating temperatures and give the family a big hug from those of us state side.
✌💜🐖💨
Usually you'd use roxul as a thermal break in the middle of the chinking
@@ModernSelfReliance sweet thanks!
Just love all You funny ideas and projects - Best regards from Denmark
Buddy Burgers!!! Oh I so miss them! They closed the border a year ago and very sadly A&W near us a couple months before. We loved going across the border for Buddy Burgers!!
Double Buddy for the win!
@@ModernSelfReliance have one for us! I do hope we get to have them again some day. Hubby likes the doubles!
More Don! We demand more Don! A feature length "All About Don" episode! A behind the scene tell-all about the mysterious man named Don!
Don is Chris and Kevin's Dad.
It's funny I watched you build first cabin on your brothers channel and recently somehow got a recommendation for a sauna video. Now am a subscriber and a fan, keep up a good job 👍💪💪
Welcome aboard!
"We get out of our igloos... to boil sap... to make pancakes"🤣
LOL
Now that’s a Canadian fast build!
You know Dons ready for more work less talk when he puts his ear muffs back on.
Another great video thanks !
When I lived and worked in the desert we were always quite similar in not throwing much away. Granted that was because you couldn’t rip into town for a piece of steel you needed to make something work. The boiler looks great and looks to be working a treat. The cabin will be a great sugar shack and probably a nice place just to relax at. Though I would probably consider either a concrete or compacted gravel floor in there so there is never concern of the boiler sinking/falling either that or weld some plough discs on the feet for a big service area
The bigger feet is probably a good idea!
I really dig your positive attitude. You're living my dream life. :)
Decided to make french toast and ham for breakfast...with syrup of course!
I love your videos, they are inspiring me to do some projects in my wooded property. Especially the plastic wrap and root cellar. Thank you
Go for it!
Great video again. Thanks for the lessons!
Your show is never boring always learning something new and different i love your show keep up the great work 👍
I appreciate that!
YES MAKE A WHISKEY STILL. THAT WOULD BE FREAKING Awesome!!!
Nice to see it up and going
Had stop boiling this morning for 40 minutes to watch this video. Now back at it. 🙂
Free idea: toss some of that syrup in a bourbon barrel and age it. One of my favorite Northern Vermont breweries does this once a year with their local sap and the results are incredible.
Great Video. You need to make a plate on tge back part of the burner. So you can cook your Famous Egg, Canadian Bacon with cheese and fresh Maple Maple Syrup
I love maple syrup and learning how much sap it takes to make 1 gallon of syrup is amazing, I had no idea. No wonder if costs so much.
When I see Chris kinda looking excited he definitely reminds me of Holden
Shout out to Don..What a friend
Your the Jay Leno of bushcrafters!
Ya know , sometimes your videos just aren't long enough. Hahaha..See you next Saturday
No joke I love your videos you need to make video more often we’d love it
I remember your very first Video....asking for Video play's , and share's , and remember sharing your Video's and telling everyone how Great you are !! Look how far you've come now !! Great job, can't wait to see it all finished !! Watching next video now :) Been at a Homeless shelter for awhile and got behind a little bit :)
Hope things are on the up swing now for you!
Just make a lip for the pan to sit in weld someone weld some 2 inch flat stock around the edge of the oil container for the evaporator pan to sit in a nut should eliminate all the gaps
And I wondered what kept the pan on top of the burner aside from just gravity. I mean, one errant nudge, and the thing could go sideways and come off...
it weighs a ton. I don't often knock pots off my stove.
@@ModernSelfReliance I made the comment because I saw the pan shift when you were installing the drain pipe @26:56. Sure the pan is empty, but I wouldn't think a tank near the end of the reduction would be that much heavier.