Building a Survival Cabin with Chimney-Fireplace & Wooden Roof in the Wilderness 

Fabulous little cabin, but the way you did the chimney is amazing! Blends so well into the entire build and the the sand as a ‘heatsink’ isn’t something that many would think of. My respect to you for that.

Kudos to you, sir! You not only made a cabin that is true to its predecessors, but is also aesthetically pleasing. You made sure to keep the mud smooth, and kept the logs of a similar size, but you did all of that using hand tools like our forefathers did. Thank you for a very pleasing build and video.

Where in the crap do you find logs straighter than milled lumber? There is no way you could build that in Georgia or Arkansas. It would look like a pretzel.

Очень интересный проект,а главное компактный и уютный домик,а камин вообще шикарный.Исполнитель этого проекта ну просто супер молодец.Удачи в следующих проектах.

Historically, most of these winter quarters used the issued canvas shelter halves for a roof, simply tacked overtop the simple framework shown here in the beginning. :) great work!!! Love to see winter quarters being represented

the wooden house you built is so solid and warm. I like your fireplace design the most. It warms the whole house🏚🏚

WOW very impressive workmanship. Love the fireplace. The best one I’ve seen so far. Thank you so very much Sir.

Lionel Messi builds a cabin

That chimney is a work of art.

You sir are a TRUE CRAFTSMAN!! Job well done my friend!!

The amount of work that goes into simple comforts like food, water, heat, light, and something comfortable to sleep in really makes you appreciate and hate our modern world at the same time.❤❤❤

Your cabin builds are my favorite. They are so perfect

THAT IS ONE BEAUTIFUL CABIN YOU MADE. I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE WAY THE CHIMNEY CAME OUT. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸

I absolutely LOVE that fireplace!!!!

It's like heaven. Free pleasant life. Good luck on your adventures

Hello my friend, you flashed me again with this wonderful construction! The way the chimney you built here I have never seen before. It is so massive with all the stones and sand inside, it should store and save the heat for a long time. also the sealing between all the logs and the following clay-cover will keep it cosy inside. From my point of view you should rename your channel. This is not bushcraft "improvisation" any more. This is PERFECTION! Again I learned a lot. Thank you for this, stay healty and keep going!

That chimney really is something else. Great job.

Some fine axemanship on display! Really shows what a motivated individual can accomplish with the right skills and a sharp tool. Excellent!

Them logs are straighter than the 2x4s at Home Depot.

This is awesome as well as the processing of the planks, the part that isn’t shown, that’s a whole other job in and of itself.

This is one of the most beautiful and well built cabins i've ever seen. And i've watched alot of these. Wonderful.

Дуже-дуже гарний будиночок👍 Ти молодець, талант! Продовжуй і на далі творити, успіху і натхнення👍💙💛

The sounds of raindrops on a wooden roof sound incredible

Природа дарує неймовірний спокій)) Файний будиночок, а головне тепленький❤

Wonderful cozy forest home.

Brilliant! At last, someone who doesn’t just appear to stack sticks elegantly and then put a plastic tarp over it and pretend that it’s Bushcraft. Someone who actually spent time building things properly and had a proper roof - well done sir!

The way you built the chimney gave me ideas. Thanks.

I've been very inspired watching your builds ! I am building a log cabin for my sheep now ! ❤it's been a labour of love so far Look forward to seeing more of you !

Wow, this is extraordinary.. really amazin cabin.. and The Civil War Era and Frontier Mountain Men living is my favorite thing.. from Jim Bridger,Hugh Glas to Daniel Boone.. very impressive job.. thanks for sharin.. from South Carolina

Best example of a bushcraft chimney I've seen excellent 👍

The ingenuity and skill it takes to make this looks so effortless is truly AMAZING 😍

That’s amazing. I made a shelter/cabin a few years ago when everything went crazy, as somewhere to escape to in an emergency. I have been thinking of making another one because I loved the challenge and was proud of how it came out. Now I am definitely going to try again and I have learned so many tips from your video to improve my next attempt. Thank you :)

You sir are an excellent craftsman. I’ve always said if I was in a survival type situation, I would have a chance making it with a hatchet. I’ve read accounts of pioneers having this type of chimney. Sometimes everyone would have to run outside and push the chimney over due to it being on fire. Some families would design release mechanisms or build in hooks to hook to a horse to pull it away. I do think it if I had been constructing this I would have harvested more moss and covered the bunk. Very interesting, thanks for publishing your great work. Cheers!

This is the single greatest Lincoln log set I have ever seen!!!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

This was incredible, loved watching it from start to finish.

I have seen many shelters in the forest, but this house I like the most because of its unique style, he has many unique creative imaginations, it is so difficult for him to come up with it, I admire him.

It was fascinating watching you form the knotches and fit the cabin together. No doubt there was a lot more work in cutting the trees and delimbing and debarking them but anyone could do that part. The fireplace was especially interesting. I don't know that fireplaces were done that way historically but it makes good sense. My grandfather was born in a somewhat larger version of your cabin and he talked about "leaving the latch string out" which meant although the door was closed and latched people could come in from the outside if they wanted to by pulling the string that was threaded out through a small hole in the door. Rather than a sliding latch, the latch lifted to open and the string was threaded through a small hole outside so that you could lift the latch by pulling the string. If you were turning in for the night, you pulled the latch string in and then no one outside could open the door.

For far one of the best I saw on RU-vid. Tanks greeting from Mexico City

I LIKE the quality of the joinery! Good craftsmanship.🤩🤩 I also admire the proper way you are building the fireplace and chimney: providing for extra thermal mass with that sand.

That is so cozy! I could sleep there every night and get away from it all! Great job! 😻

Beautiful little cottage 😍❤❤

High level dedication and hard work. Thoroughly enjoyed 👏👏👏

Not only did you make it, but you made it without a word... not one f* bomb!

That was awesome! I would have like to see some of the log gathering and preparing. 👍🏻

Pretty impressive build there. I liked the way he produced those almost perfectly straight logs. I would some of them for a cabin build.😊

Мне очень понравилась ваша работа.Вы мастер своего дела.Домик получился теплым, красивым, добротным.Удачи и ждем новых видио.

I have studied the civil war and have always wanted to know how to build one of those Thanks that is so cool.

Very Nice ! Best house ! Thanks👍

Uuh, I love the "sandulation" of chimney! Great idea!

Your videos entertain me a lot and I really like what you do with wood to make a little house to stay in. greetings from Mexico

Brother, you're a genius!

What an amazing, cozy little cabin/shelter! Very well done, I found myself wanting to watch every minute to see how you would accomplish each section, and you managed to edit it down to a great time length. Waiting for more.

That cabin is truly part of the environment. Really Really good! Thank you for sharing.

Nice ! Thx for sharing! Best regards, 🫡

Absolutely loved watching the little cabin coming together. So cool!

The imagination is second to none. Another Excellent build!

❤❤❤ love the way you built the chimney ❤❤❤

Apabila kita mengerjakan dengan setulus hati, maka hasilnya akan memuaskan. ❤ salam satu hobi.

Amazing cabin, best one I’ve seen🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Это лучше творение которое я видел! Руки золотые👏👏👏

Great video and great concept for a small short term stay shelter that didnt require a lot of nailing. Downside is it makes it a short lived shelter over time. The two things that stand out to me if it were actually meant for medium to long term sheltering would be the wall support and the flooring not being nailed into place to make a stable shelter base. The walls are pretty much kept in place by roping twine and eight pieces of small diameter timber pounded into the ground. That instantly begins the rotting process on the timbers used for wall and frame support because they are going to be exposed to constant moisture from rain and snow fall. That over time will rot them to the point they loose structural stability and the walls will just collapse. For a short term stay while hunting and fishing locally its actually a great build that required a lot less labor to create. And it was well insulated. The chimney was a nice addition and a great combination of timber use with rock and mud mortar.

Realmente una obra de arte al natural. Saludos desde Uruguay 🌲🌲🌲🙋

Amazing. Thank you for sharing this video. I learned a lot

Beautiful little home, in beautiful woods. I wish I had the land and patience and determination to do something like this. Thank you. 💙💛

Loved the build. I like the chimney idea and thought all that mass heat should be in one corner of a slightly larger floor plan shelter.

Loving the content and just watching you building it is soo relaxing it's like being there in nature. Soooo peaceful

Гарна робота! Молодець! Не хатинка, а витвір мистецтва!👍👍👍👍👍

I am blown away! Wow! Would really like to see what it looked like after a year..🤌🤌💪🙌🤟

A very beautiful and cozy wooden house..

избушка супер! вогт только такая печь врятли зимой обогреет

Awesome build great design . My favorite cabin .

love watching ur videos & watch u build. love the cabin❤

Excellent work… I learned a lot… it looked so nice and warm during the rain… a good space to keep warm and dry and sheltered. Thanks for your hard work. 🙌

One of the better builds I have seen

انا مسلم وسعدت بهذا المقطع كثيرا ، حقا إنه تحفة معمارية رائعة ، سلمت يداك

a struggle that will not betray the results, I like it and this is very cool

Absolutely beautiful. I want to live there.

I admire your courage all the best God bless

Brillant, I wish I had seen this years ago. I really needed that fireplace build idea ...

Your cabin is beautiful💯. You are awesome👍👍I hope you will have often new video

كم اعشق النوم في كوخ الخشب واعشق الطبيعه واعشق الشتاء البارد والممطر ومنظر الثلوج والموقد والنار والطبيعه الجميله الهادئة بعيدا عن المدن والضجيج

Amazing cabin. So neat and perfectly build.

Great Cabin!! Excellent Work!!

Beautiful. I wish I could send a house warming gift.

nice video. Your shelter is strong and sturdy. Good sharing🎉

Grandios 👍👍👍 Das einzigste was mir nicht autark genug ist sind die Nägel,die flachen Bretter und das leckere Steak mit Gewürzen mitten Inder Wildnis 😮

Very impressive! A lot of hard work and skill put into your little cabin. Thanks for sharing!😊

Love ❤to watch you build…..great work! 😊

Felicitări pt ce a ieșit,doua mâini harnice pricepute crează întotdeauna ceva frumos!Singurul lucru ce am de comentat,este prea aproape de sol,trebuia o fundație din piatră mai înaltă!

Great job! Love your cabin! 👍👏👏😍

Well done on the cabin and video

This house is so clever and enchanting:)

I am impressed, nice cabin 👌

This looks like a lot of fun. Must've been exhausting though

Axe length! Flawless tool with precision in the right hands as seen nice work!

pretty little cabin and pretty fireplace

Very coze. Wish I had enough property to do something like this

What more does a man need than a dry place to rest his head and have a meal. I loved this. Best fireplace. Love the simplicity of the build, well shown. Does the fireplace/chimney store and radiate heat? Did you get any leaks from the roof and window?

Man, I love ASMR videos like this, but yours is truly exceptional! Video editing was superb, and length was not too long but not annoyingly short. Love the use of bank line and nails. The attention spent on the fire place/chimney was excellent. The cabin itself is quaint in the best way possible. I especially enjoyed the mix of both moss and dry grass/hay plus the clay usage for insulation and sealing. And the door locking system? **Chef's Kiss** You my friend are a true artist, and I take much inspiration from you. Please...keep being amazing!