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    Now this is a tool I have never seen in any stores - a beautiful design and well done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
    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.
    You and me both mate. It is some I need every now and then but I've never bothered making one.

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    I have a 1972 Land Rover Series III Truck Cab/Pick-Up and a 1962 Land Rover Series 2a Carawagon Camper.

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    I would love to have a cabin like this one.
    The problem in the UK is that there wouldn't be anywhere but private land to build one.
    I have a 1972 Land Rover Series III Truck Cab/Pick-Up and a 1962 Land Rover Series 2a Carawagon Camper.

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    Very cool tool besides that beautiful setting

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    I’m not sure what was more interesting your wire tool or the cabin in the woods!!!

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    More from this guy. Bear-proofing a log cabin. 22:33 video:


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    The next time you're in a home improv store, buy a cheap water meter shutoff wrench. They make dandy hose clampers. Add a roll of tie wire (or electric fence wire if you want galvanized) and you're set for hose clamps for a very long time.

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    If you can't make it precise make it adjustable.

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    Oh I can use this.


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    As I don't believe anything can be made to be bear proof. You can only slow them down long enough for them to loose interest and move on. Your idea of opening the door outward is a good start. We had a cabin near the Boundary Waters canoe area. The door opened outward to slow the bears down. The door was two inches thick (50mm). the bear scratched through the door until it could hook it's claws through and pulled it open breaking the latch. The latch was a 2x4 drop down bar. Lucky we were not there. Of course if we were the bear would have been shot or chased off. My uncles built a screened porch with the bottom out of logs extending up about four feet (1.2meters) from the ground. This served to keep the snow away from the door. On top of the logs they installed used sickle bars from a sickle bar mower. from the farm. We would occasionally have to sew the screens back up as the bears would come around and scratch the screens but never enough to get through. The sickle bars must have been annoying enough that they just moved on.
    Great cabin you have built. Keep up the good work.
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    I enjoyed watching the use of basic tools and physics to construct the cabin, yet in one of the photos there appears to be what looks like a drone on the log in front of the cabin. I like the mix. The craftsmanship and demonstration of the use of basic tools was refreshing as opposed to all of the mass produced building techniques used today.

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