Title: Two Years Alone in the Wilderness | Escape the City to Build Off Grid Log Cabin Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxM9FYSs8V4 Published:May 22, 2019 Author:My Self Reliance Post Date:2019-05-27 17:55:23 by BTP Holdings Keywords:None Views:530 Comments:3
#logcabin #bushcraft #offgrid #survival One man leaves the city life behind to build a cheap off grid log cabin and homestead in the Canadian wilderness, including a log home, an outdoor kitchen, an outhouse, a woodshed and a sauna bathhouse. Building mostly with hand tools, Shawn James harvests building materials from the forests north of Toronto, Canada and crafts them into functional tools and shelters using traditional woodworking tools and methods. He practices bushcraft and survival skills every day, including fire starting, tree identification and harvesting, wild edible foraging, fishing, hunting, camping in the summer and winter, travelling by canoe and snowshoe, navigation and water collection and purification.
Continue watching in 2019 as Shawn finishes the sauna, plants a forest garden for fruit and vegetables, builds an underground root cellar, ice house and cheese cave, a timber frame workshop and a remote hunt camp closer to fish and game.
Very interesting. I don't know who made the videos or how often they were there. However, other then the tools and no power tools, some lumber, sheet metal, and other things, 90% of the log house and items were hand made. The man is double tough to be able to carry logs.
Seeing that made me realize just how tough life must of been before people had the use of steel or iron.
Pretty cool. Didn't expect to watch the whole thing.
As long as there's things to do each day. And the winters in Canada give you very short days and long nights. What do you do in your cabin when there's only lamplight for some 8 hours each night before or after you sleep?
how tough life must of been before people had the use of steel or iron.
I could carry logs when I was younger. Not sure how old this fella is, but definitely under 50.
His tools were made of steel.
Matter of fact, I have some antique timber framing tools. You can tell they are antique since you can see the laminated steel. The harder steel is the part that does the cutting. The softer steel gives a little with the blows of the mallet. ;)
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