(つ◔౪◔)つ━☆゚.*・。゚ The 2023 TKSST Gift Guide ✩°。⋆・゚  
Get smart curated videos delivered to your inbox.   SUBSCRIBE
The Kid Should See This

Log cabin time-lapse: A Canadian man builds a shelter from scratch

Watch more with these video collections:

Outdoorsman, photographer, and travel writer Shawn James has been building an off-the-grid balsam fir tree log cabin by himself without power tools. He edited together this time-lapse video to share his months of work, “from 1st tree cut to last floorboard laid.” He writes of his “real-life Minecraft” experience in the Canadian wilderness:

All summer, I cut the notches in the logs as I built the cabin up, offsite. Once I was finished notching the logs with a log scribe, saw, axe, adze and wood carving gouge, I loaded up the entire cabin of logs and moved them to my land near Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.

Once on site, I spent a month reassembling the cabin on a foundation of sand and gravel. Once the log walls were up, I again used hand tools to shape every log, board and timber to erect the gable ends, the wood roof, the porch, the outhouse and a seemingly endless number of woodworking projects.

For the roof, I used an ancient primitive technology to waterproof and preserve the wood – shou sugi ban, a fire hardening wood preservation technique unique to Japan and other areas in northern climates.

log cabin
Related shelter videos on TKSST include:
• How to build a grass hut
• Hexagon-shaped treehouse time lapse
• Patrick Dougherty’s Stickwork
How to Build an Igloo

via Laughing Squid.

🌈 Watch these videos next...

What is pebble dash or roughcast?

Rion Nakaya

Time lapse: A 30-story building built in 15 days

Rion Nakaya

The precise art of Japanese wood joinery

Rion Nakaya

The art of Japanese marquetry

Rion Nakaya

Thatched Workshop, a 5-week Primitive Technology project

Rion Nakaya

Tents that turn into jackets: Humanitarian fashion by designer Angela Luna

Rion Nakaya

Shelter in 24hrs: An Emergency Concrete-laced Canvas Tent

Rion Nakaya

Plastic Bottle Village

Rion Nakaya

Nomadic Nenet people build a chum (yurt) in the Siberian Arctic Winter

Rion Nakaya