Alaska Cabin: Part 4 (Logs logs logs)

[holdenboy1960]

the hand drill used in this vid is called a Brace & bit i have a couple of them wich i have no intention on useing sinse i have power lol, the brace has a rachet reverse on it to incase the bit gets stuck in the timber

[kegtimothy123]

very educational vedio it was very cool

[GREEVES246]

GIVE HER A MEDAL FOR USING THE HAND BRACE !

[McMaster]

I know I will sound dumb for this, but what is the advantage of tearing the bark off the logs?

[deathmarch5]

Use gators so you dont get crap in your shoe.

[trentonpass]

Hi, How much did it cost to get the suplays to make it? What tools did you use? I am planing on building a cabin in Canada.

[CastingStonez]

On the flooring??? If you didnt have ply wood... then how would you build a log cabin floor???

I have been trying to find this info...

Big Steve

thanks

[JMEMantzel]

just use boards. Cut logs in half lengthwise. Or cut em into multiple boards.

[CastingStonez]

@JMEMantzel

Okay... might be a stupid question coming from a flat lander who just moved to the local mountains in SoCal...

"How did he plain the logs flat?" I know he used his chain saw... but staying true to a straight line had to be a bitch... so... How?"

thanks very much...

[GREEVES246]

@JMEMantzel would also T AND G BOARDS ?

[Rhinoch8]

@JMEMantzel I seen gravel, too

[vallonia]

@CastingStonez see " Alone in the Wilderness" by swererbob here on you tube, for another way of doing it.

[CastingStonez]

@vallonia

I dont know if i watched that yet... but, i will check it out!

thanks,

God bless

[flamedrag18]

@CastingStonez some people used to do exactly what he did for the first logs, just peg and notch the whole thing with logs and flatten the tops, made a solid insulated floor.

[maeflowers03]

i love dancing trees!

[peckiledorf]

try a little bar soap on the threads of them lag bolts

[JMEMantzel]

ha ha ha. you think we had soap! ok ok, wee did. good idea. ...if Ellen didn't drop it in the river!

[zapatista512]

doesn't soap rust? (contains water or something) I think wax is better

[Jack8the8Ripper]

o and we were there the summer you built Kimberly's house...ok i'm done (for this vid anyway)

[JMEMantzel]

No way. did I meet you?/ ...Do you remember Kimberly???

[Jack8the8Ripper]

oh and we had to rescue two people there so y'all stay safe!

[Jack8the8Ripper]

i've been on that glacier...had some good times in McCarthy!

i wanna go back, should check out the neighborhood!

[ztrainx]

lol i have a had drill its a bit difrent but still a hand dril :D

[JMEMantzel]

I got one of those drills from the junk yard. heh heh. They're monsters!

[nomadtoes]

Ellen is probably chinking as I type. I want hand drills!

[JMEMantzel]

Ya, isn't that thing great!? I think I'll just have to make one.

[ytafromonkey0]

I have one of those hand-drills! They're really great, especially with an auger bit, because you can get as much torque as you want.

And $3 for a wondow? that's insane.

I was thinking about the bark and your no wasage policy. I think you can make string and rope from bark, if you boil it up with.. lye(?) maybe i'll look it up. But bark can definitely be useful.

[JMEMantzel]

Thats kinda funny. I was sitting around the campfire making string out of bark.

[turk711]

Brace and bit.

Good tool.

I have truly enjoyed the saga so far.

[JMEMantzel]

ya, I need to get one of those

[JMEMantzel]

bananas bananas bananas!

[edjorg]

I'm counting heavily on the "stuff the goop" maneuver later. A real log builder would have a cow at some of the stuff we did, but hey it works and there's nothing going to go wrong that can't be fixed by a judicious application of spray foam!

[JMEMantzel]

I think you're giving us less credit than we deserve. Most of those logs fit really tight. there are a few corner spots, and the roof gaps, but... other than that, all the stuff thats finished is pretty good.

....thats my story and I'm stickin to it!

[mesofun]

Dude, I really gotta tell you. You keep me motivated. I've been working on my new and improved Koi Pond/ water falls in my back yard. I'll have to make a video of it. What sucks for me is I only did a few shots of video when I was building it. I had wet fish hands most of the time and didn't want to grap the camera. That's way I think it's great of you to shoot while you are building. Oh yeah, did I mention I built...er' ah' still building, my own house as well.

Again, Thanks my friend!

[JMEMantzel]

Oh, no way! Whats your house like? I'm working on clearing and levelling a road this week. its not the greatest video stuff. ....but its all part of a massive operation. operation Crazy operation

[edjorg]

No! I did not mean the construction was faulty. We just did not use the shrink-to-fit notches that are popular these days. I also cheated with the single gasket- most folks seem to put one on each side of the log. I did not know if we would have enough to do that so I went with one line down thwe middle and figured I'd be sealing the sides with caulk anyway.

No way was i dissing our project.

[JMEMantzel]

heh heh. I know. ;-) Did I mention.... I my road negotiations were successful today? Operation crazy operation is a go.

[edjorg]

Awesome!

[muzalot]

My friend just bought acreage in a remote part of AK and is planning to build a somewhat elaborate log cabin, I'll be sending him a link to your vids in case they are helpful to him.. clearly these fresh cut trees will dry out over time, (significant shrinkage) and I'm wondering how well all these green logs will fit after they season? obviously you have worked with this material before on your place so I'm guessing it is not a big problem..

[JMEMantzel]

Ya... I did what I could about the shrinkage. ...countersinking screws and things. ...putting some pretty thick spongy stuff betweem the logs, but there is always the posibility that things will shrink really really unevenly....

[joshandkendra]

That ought to be ok since it's all interwoven, right? So it won't just fall over if one side shrinks more than the others... just stuff some goop into the cracks that show up, and you're good to go!

[JMEMantzel]

Oh, ya. It won't fall over or anything. Maybe a gap somewhere, but I'd put money on it being ok.

[mesofun]

Thats why someone invented "Great Stuff" or you could just use mud like people have for hundreds of years oh and it's free!!!

[JMEMantzel]

spray foam!

[mesofun]

the dancing tree made me laugh. NIce!

Thanks for taking the time to make these.

[JMEMantzel]

oh, you're quite welcome. I like your name. It makes me laugh. me so fun. :-P

[mesofun]

Yeah, It was rough growing up with that name. The kids always wanted my do do funny things.

[JMEMantzel]

ha ha. ya. I bet. Its better than that guy I knew names Harry Dick, though.  ouch.

Or... that other guy. ....and I'm not kidding... "Eric Shin".

[edjorg]

I know a Dick Bieder.

[mesofun]

I did go to high school with Anieta Shue. reallY!

[lemuelbecc]

What kind of tree are you using for the cabin?

[edjorg]

White spruce mostly, with a few black spruce.

[JMEMantzel]

oh! Sweet! Thanks for taking some of the answers. :-)

[FallenAngel890]

If this were an actually emergency, you would have been instructed to go get your chainsaw and go DOOM style on 'em!

Buahaha x]

[JMEMantzel]

Ya.... i play a lot of doom2.... The chainsaw was quite handy.  ...or chainy

[Asdayasman]

Bloody good job it wasn't handy, I guess, in those terms.

[Asdayasman]

I feel so, sort of... Special, that I know what a hand drill is, and how to use one.

We used one to stick a wire round my house ages ago, and I saw, and went fanatical, and started drillingholes in pieces of wood everywhere. I was only little...

Stop giving me that look.

[JMEMantzel]

ha ha. uhh.... what look.... :-P ya nut. ;-)

[joshandkendra]

I like those lines like "What was I going to say".. reminds me of your first giant robot videos... those were hilariously edited.

Cabin's looking great!

[JMEMantzel]

Ya. I think I'm getting better at these documentationismistics. ....but I still look at the camera sometimes with a blank look. ha ha. I think its funny to leave that stuff in there

[edjorg]

Now if only we could have trained that tree to dance over to the cabin site by itself.... :-P

[JMEMantzel]

woo! Then train it to train the other trees!

[JaxNative]

You both make this look easy & I know it's not .. Back long ago in a galaxy far far away I used one of those manual hand drills ... I think my arms are still sore lololol

Cannot wait to see the rest!

You both rock!

Oh ... loved the dancin' tree :o)

[JMEMantzel]

Hey... i tried to make sufficient grunting sounds. ....so it sounded hand. ha ha. Actually, those are real. Drilling felt easy after moving logs, though!

[LLavishman]

I've finally figured it out. These side project are not only for financial gain, but a network of remote "Giant Robot HQ's"......Am I right? lol

[JMEMantzel]

Oh... well, duh. ya.

Actually, I do my own thing most of the time, but any time an interesting project comes up, I jump on it.  I'd way rather do that and put my stuff on hold than work a regular job. blah

[Flalaski]

lol the dancing tree!

i first commented before it finished.

[JMEMantzel]

Ya, for some reason there was a half second clip of that tree.... and it looked really funny playing over and over. :-P I had to put it in.

[Flalaski]

that hand drill sounds awesome the second time you use it!

nice work man.