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    One-man off-grid log cabin build with homemade tools - video

    One-man off-grid log cabin build. Kinda like a Dick Proenneke thing, but less bucolic, and more instructional, with homemade tools and techniques.

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    Rough guess: more than half of our members maintain a "build a log cabin" dream. I know I do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    One-man off-grid log cabin build. Kinda like a Dick Proenneke thing, but less bucolic, and more instructional, with homemade tools and techniques.
    Rough guess: more than half of our members maintain a "build a log cabin" dream. I know I do.
    I do; but I'll prefer brick...cause I'm not interested in moving again. Too many things I like are real tough off-grid.

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    I’m so jealous of people that seem to be cyborgs. I don’t know how a single human being can do so much work. It is just something I don’t have in me. I’ve tried many times but I just don’t have whatever special sauce people like this have.

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    New update today, with plenty more homemade tools.


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    Really liked that Bearing Race draw knife!
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    Fresh episode. I like the log ramps he uses to send cut logs to the cabin. And the various guides for cutting the logs too. 10:05 video:


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    WOW, thank you EXCELLENT

    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    One-man off-grid log cabin build. Kinda like a Dick Proenneke thing, but less bucolic, and more instructional, with homemade tools and techniques.

    4:00 video:



    Rough guess: more than half of our members maintain a "build a log cabin" dream. I know I do.

    Previously:

    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/d...151#post120966
    http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/l...3540#post99383
    GREAT video and life style! All that's needed now is a water wheel, a line shaft, and an of the grid gun smithy. Unregistered of course.

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    Max Egorov asks whether to depend on wedge or lever to raise header at occasion of installing pin hinged door. Found link and he'd acquired plenty of responsible replies.
    My experience says plan to implement both. I wedge and lever frequently, yet they don't seem interchangeable.
    Working against considerable weight is a lot about timing and agility. The advantage in levers gains by distance from fulcrum at operators end, and/or reducing space from load to pivot. Power diminishes with each degree higher initial position.
    So, I use wedges of two varieties to 'park' a load, while preparing a new bite for the prybar, depending on shape/ weight of object. Version 1 are simple inclines, which allow minute increments of adjustment. Oak from scrap pallets for larger sizes, aluminum for smaller; both have tendency to grip floor and object as they are soft without deforming. Version 2 are made simultaneously, two matching wedges just like adjustable parallels. I use a short [6'] fiberglass fishing rod blank to manipulate wedges while I manage the prybar. By combining the two, takes advantage best qualities both offer.
    What I do avoid is knocking wedges in to impart lift, often become increasingly hard to remove. When called for though, I use what pipefitters use, flange separators, quite similar what used by timber cutters known as 'felling wedges'.
    Since I retain all my limbs and respective appendages, system works well. Especially that nearly everything I do is unaided.
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    The same guy posted a video of a homemade wire clamping tool, plus you get to see more shots of his cabin. 10:35 video:


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    The more of these wire clamping tools I see being posted here the more I think I need to take the time and build one for myself.
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