Merry Christmas to all the BCP brethren...

Enjoy this relaxing video, refreshingly free of English blabbing, as you sip your spiked egg nog and dream about building this cabin on your very own timber-rich remote homestead.

https://youtu.be/_3J5wkJFJzE

That is very cool. Lots of skill goes into a seemingly simple structure!

Merry Christmas Zzz and all!!!

That was cool. I didn't see a single power tool and those guys do not look to be young bucks either. Can you imagine sawing the ends and notching all those logs by hand? The hewing of the logs looks tedious. Very cool "old school" building skills displayed in this video. Thanks Zane for posting.

Kurt

The skills are amazing, I know “framers” who’s skills with power that don’t even come close to what those guys can do with an axe.

I think those are Dick Proenneke's old-country cousins.

During a lunch break on a crane job (I was lifting logs for a big new log entry to a high school), and me and the crew were talking about how tedious and labor intensive log building can be, even with power tools. I started spouting off about how the invention of modern balloon framing was instrumental in the development and settling of the West. There was an awkward pause, then I realized I was sitting at a table in a Indian casino restaurant with 5 full blooded Shoshone Bannock native Americans I laughed, they laughed, and it was all good again.

I helped build a cabin very similar to this as a kid in Idaho as part of a multi-family project. Every part of the work is skilled, but it can go pretty fast with good broad axe skills and a person or two to run things who really know what they are doing.

All of us kids put steel toe protectors on our shoes while we got the hang of the axe and draw knife work while adults did the lifting and thinking, and fed us. Half of us had deep clefts in the steel toes by the time we were done from swinging razor sharp axes while perpetually exhausted. The draw knife work was worse though- a real full body workout that is hard to match. After curing in stacks all summer, we returned to raise the cabin and finish the roof, with most of the work being with hand saws, blocks and tackle, and auger bits. It took a week to get the logs felled, swamped, squared, and stacked, another week to dry stack the foundation and mortar in the fireplace, and 2 weeks to raise the roughly 800 square foot cabin.

I had clothes saturated with the odor of spruce and fir pitch and linseed oil for years to remind me of that summer.

Simply amazing! What a video.

The hook notch to join two logs together was beautiful.

The compensation to leave room for everything to settle (2” in some places) is truly some valuable information to know before you waste all this talent.