{"id":274,"date":"2022-04-03T09:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailygreenhouse.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2022-04-03T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T09:49:00","slug":"24-year-old-builds-mortgage-free-off-grid-cabin-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dailygreenhouse.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/03\/24-year-old-builds-mortgage-free-off-grid-cabin-in-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Year Old Builds Mortgage Free Off Grid Cabin In The Wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to build an off grid log cabin from start to finish<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Mortgage Free Off Grid Cabin Built In The Wilderness. 24 year old builds a nice off grid cabin in a matter of months. The cabin looks great. However, from my experience, the footers (stumps) he used to set the logs on might not be the best idea because the cabin will settle over time and might cause issues with leveling and cracks in the chinking\/logs fitting perhaps causing gaps and drafts. Overall though I think he did a great job! I\u2019m envious, at 48 years old, I\u2019ve never built a cabin, so I admire this young man\u2019s courage and determination to build his off grid cabin dream. It looks great. Just like a traditional pioneer cabin would look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a chainsaw made things a lot easier for sure. But it\u2019s that felling, limbing, and stripping the bark off the logs that is so labor intensive. So much labor involved in those steps, and that is what usually takes the longest to do. The prep work. It\u2019s like painting. The painting is the easy and fun part. It\u2019s the prep work that comes before painting that requires all the labor and goes to teh quality of the paint job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the video of him building the log cabin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally I would have leveled the ground more, packed it down, leveled, gravel, leveled, and more gravel, and level some more. My footers would be stone and homemade mortar, and DEEP down to the permafrost line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After cutting the logs, now the hard part, delimbing and stripping the bark with a draw knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first log laid makes the rest of the easier or harder. That\u2019s the hardest part. Stacking logs is relatively easy. Cutting saddle notches, simple. It\u2019s a simple cabin build and he did a great job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making great progress! Got a big pile of logs ready to go. Time to start stacking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting the first few course of logs laid down is the most important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutting traditional saddle notches in the logs is easy with a chainsaw and chisel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 logs high! Going great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutting a saddle notch from a precarious position. Probably not the safest way to do it, but he got the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming along nicely with ridge log.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got the window and the door cut into the wall and the door framed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finished interior. Looking great!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoying the view!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even doggy seems to like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kyle standing out front his awesome log cabin! That feeling of accomplishment, kind also looks like he a little bit tired from all that hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Credit: Kyle\u2019s Cabin<\/strong> on Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s something a lot of people only dream of doing. And here it it. A log cabin build by hand in the wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like the pioneers in the old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t really get much better than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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