Building a cabin from scratch

[Thud]

The thing with $600 in tools is it pays for itself in a single job that you don't hire out. Least in my neck of the burbs.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

And, is there a single person here who doesn't thin Terry is a huge douchbag?

Not to mention that there are two of him.

:Proto

Wait, is he a sockpuppet? No way! I am utterly impressed if so.

[Thud]

And, is there a single person here who doesn't thin Terry is a huge douchbag?

Not to mention that there are two of him.

:Proto

Wait, is he a sockpuppet? No way! I am utterly impressed if so.

totes magotes

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

And, is there a single person here who doesn't thin Terry is a huge douchbag?

Not to mention that there are two of him.

:Proto

Wait, is he a sockpuppet? No way! I am utterly impressed if so.

totes magotes

So cool!....I love it.

Someone needs to PM me here or on the FB to let me know who is playing such a quiffy character.

[SubClaw]

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Simple? Not for me. I'm the most incapable handyman ever born on this planet. Doing stuff with my hands (other than punch or grab and throw) is well beyond my capabilities

Fuck you, Subclaw....I am the most incapable handyman ever.

Well, unless you can't change out your light switches and outlets or clean your gutters, then you are indeed the most incapable handyman ever.

I recently replaced a broken light switch, but I wouldn't even know where to start looking with an outlet. I definitely can use a Dremel to drill holes in a wall so my wife can hang pictures, but I couldn't make a simple squat box even if my life depended on it.

So, yes, I win(?) hands down.

[The Venerable Bogatir X]

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Simple? Not for me. I'm the most incapable handyman ever born on this planet. Doing stuff with my hands (other than punch or grab and throw) is well beyond my capabilities

Fuck you, Subclaw....I am the most incapable handyman ever.

Well, unless you can't change out your light switches and outlets or clean your gutters, then you are indeed the most incapable handyman ever.

I recently replaced a broken light switch, but I wouldn't even know where to start looking with an outlet. I definitely can use a Dremel to drill holes in a wall so my wife can hang pictures, but I couldn't make a simple squat box even if my life depended on it.

So, yes, I win(?) hands down.

Yeah, so fucking sucks for you to be the hands down winner, but if it makes you feel better, I had a pal show my how to do the outlets and stuff years ago. The gutter thing needs no training and if you're afraid of heights just don't go there because you will be a mess of eggs at some point.

[Blaidd Drwg]

I don't speak to guys who spend $600 . . . on a cordless tool set.

You are what they call, a mark.

Shit....I've spent nearly that much on a single wrench.

Ouch but true.

That tiny house stuff is pretty slick. I do a lot of work with houseboats and it's not all sleepless in Seattle. Some of the ways they maximize space are freaking incredible.

[Beer Jew]

Meh. Kind of cool, but if the guy had any sense he'd bring his "hobby" to London, and sell them after as studio apartments for £300k a piece.

[DikTracy6000]

Pretty impressive
https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=75&v=P73REgj-3UE

Thanks for sharing this link. This guy's primitive building skills are impressive. I especially appreciated watching him making and firing the tiles for the roof since I spent 21 years in the ceramics industry. Kind of doubt the 28 days quoted, unless that was just days firing.
I designed and built my own cabin along with four buddies in my early or mid 30's. It was primitive from the all the wives' perspective. While we used power tools, and mostly modern materials, a lot of indoor walls, flooring, and support posts were from scrap tubing boxes(10-12 foot pine boards) and native logs. We spent much of the spring, summer and fall building it and my wife coined the term "cabin widows" for the women. Point being building anything of this magnitude is mega time-consuming. Our cabin was two story, 20' X 24' with a 2nd floor loft. Needless to say all the guys and kids loved it. We built a double-barrel wood stove, which we lined with kiln brick and still works great today with no sign of burnout. At least three of us had carpentry skills, masonry skills and electrical skills and it damn near wrecked our marriages from all the time away from home(100 miles away).
Great project to undertake if your age resembles the guy in the video.

[Shapecharge]

There's that "Building Alaska" show on the DIY network which I've watched a couple of episodes...building cabins out of logs is a big part of the show. Interesting to watch. They sort of build it at their main site then disassemble it and drive it to where it's supposed to be and put it back together again.

[TerryB]

:I don't find that interesting at all, tbh.

[ccrow]

I don't know what to make about of hipsters tinkering around like this, maybe it is tiny bubbles coming from the real man drowning deep inside them.

Buy a kid a pocketknife today!

[ccrow]

For me, for a weekend project, a desk would be more ambitious than a deck!

Around the house I think you're better off buying corded tools and hand tools, except for a cordless drill & impact driver set.

[Protobuilder]

:I don't find that interesting at all, tbh.

People think you're a douchebag. Stay out of manly threads like this.

[nafod]

[terra]

I fucking love building shit.
Building things and training, for me these activities are like going to church - I go inwards.
Taking something from where it is, seeing the potential in it and then making that happen, it is most therapeutic.

Thanks for the link. I would love to build a cabin from scratch, though more like a 'pioneer cabin' than a primitive cabin - and may even get to do so. My girl's family has a beautiful farm up the coast and she has a dream to build a cabin on over one of the hills, next to a dam. Then rent it out to artists and the like when she/we aren't using it. The small house / cabin thing is very cool.

I think being handy and able to build things is rewarding. It also comes in useful when faced with challenges where you have to improvise. You can conceive a picture of an end result, work through the resources at hand, then come up with a solution to fit.

Here is my latest project, still not 100% finished.
I renovated the girl's bathroom. It was the only room not renovated and looked crap compared to the rest of the place. I did the lions share of the work (demolishing, rendering, wiring, plumbing, tiling) and hired in a couple of tradesmen to do the finishing and things I can't legally do. It still isn't complete, need a shower screen and I installed undertile heating that needs a registered electrician to wire into the mains.
Don't have many photos but here's 3 showing start of demolitions (removing tiles), midway through, and now nearly complete...

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[TerryB]

You installed the tub backwards.

[nafod]

What's with the handcuffs around that pipe?

I built boats, and thank god for gap-filling epoxy.

[TerryB]

And by "built boats," he means, "sucked cock."