EP 6: Building a Table from a Single Dead Tree and Cabin Model Design // Cabin Build: EP06 

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Thanks so much!

You bet, Thanks for watching.

Thank you

Thanks man. Yeah it was a lovely week. In our own little world 2020 has been good to us.

Greg's Garage, I know you’re a smart guy Greg and that all makes sense to me. Great points. Thanks

Bob Anderson thanks Bob.

Bob, I second that. I started envisioning First Nation people telling stories about transitioning between worlds and moving through both forests and water. It was fantastical supernatural in its presentation. TT did something really cool! He brought out my imagination.

Thanks!

Yeah, I assumed the dead tree would be dry but it was actually incredibly wet inside.

louiseleu you should probably tone down the verbiage. Laughing at someone for a statement... not a great way to communicate and give “friendly advise”. To give an absolute about something that you have no direct knowledge of is quite arrogant and presumptive don’t you think. This man is on site. He is touching, seeing, even smelling his surroundings including this tree that seems to have you incredulously mocking him. Your attitude is perplexing.

louiseleu I agree with Choya. And idk how your random degrees are relevant. Just sayin don’t act like you know everything just because you lived in the woods for 30 years.

Very kind comment. Thank you. Yeah, I take naps in the sun everyday. I wake up early and get a good start on the day and then just enjoy the afternoons and nap and think catch up on e-mails. Then usually a few good hard hours in the evening. My snacks are similar as well as my teas but I have never heard of wild yam ointment. I;ll look into that. Thanks.

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Exactly what I’m thinking. 👍

Thank you!

Raynola Dominguez Thanks

Amazing. Thank you so much. That was the first purchase in the store. I was wondering who it was. I truly appreciate your support.

@@TrustinTimber Your work is a treasure. Would really love a monthly patreon option to help build the cabin, if feasible ~ bit.ly/2XpNr5u . While many endeavor to take their own small steps forward through the current covid crosswinds, your words, projects and images lead the way; priceless guidance applicable to everyone's situation in these times.

RU-vid marked this comment as Spam. No one just offers to give money out of the goodness of their heart on this platform do they? I don't really know what more I could offer on Patreon but I'll take it into consideration. Thanks for offering to support us. For now your views and comments (and sticking up for me) are all the payments I need to keep going.

@@TrustinTimber It's the goodness of your films that propels it! But I understand, tho I'm not sure patrons need anything but enjoyment of your work and joy in contributing to the community that you've grown as big as a good-sized city. Seeing from your filmmaker's eye, and learning from your inner compass, means all is well, tho. You stick up for all of us, in your many ways, and that's where it's at. PS The sticker arrived super fast and is amazing; thanks for offering the merch!

Still looking. Thanks

Erik Nilsson I also learnt since then having the chimney lower then the top pitch of the roof can effect the draft and not give proper air flow.

Yeah, fair question. It will probably end up north of North Bay give or take a few hours. I was wondering about pitch too. If it was bigger I'd be worried but with the small dimensions (16' x 24' including overhand) I think I'll be ok or am I wrong?

@@TrustinTimber ok. Sorry, it looked like it was dbl that,(to me). Love the merch!

Increase pitch for snow load and astectics. Probably won't have to go to 12 x 12 but at least 8 x 12.

clyde conley yeah, the more I think about I realize I should. Thanks

thank you. Learnt a lot from peoples comments and have made a new model now.

@@TrustinTimber I REALLY ENJOY WATCHING YOUR WONDERFUL VIDEOS KEEP them coming

I making a few changes. Raising the roof pitch and fireplace placement to the centre at the least but have few other ideas. Thanks though. Glad I’m not too far off.

@@TrustinTimber Changes alway happen...LOL!!! Folks often ask me why I spend so much time in the "design phase," of a project? Reply: "...Failing to plan...is planning to fail..." "Changes," now in your design phase is where change is supposed to happen...NOT!!!...after the construction has started. Failing to have a complete set of blueprints (and/or better a scaled model like you're doing!!!) is just asking for trouble on a project. Many DIYers (aka a lot of "RU-vidrs") are way too much "design as you go" rather than planning well and not trying to reinvent the wheel... as they do it... As for your fireplace location, with your design as it is now, you could do something like a "downdraft" flue system to heat a bench, sitting area or bed? Try taking a look at 온돌 (Ondol) or 炕 (Kàng) technology for a guide to how this works. Drafting systems for fireplaces and stoves is one of the least well understood ancient technologies of Western wood/organic matter heating/cooking cultures. Most of what is (and was!!!) done in the Eastern cultures is considered "impossible!!!" by most Western experts. This only speaks to the disconnect in traditional understanding of combustion venting modalities and what can...and allegedly many think "can't" be done... I took note that your floor boards, as they are now, will someday be a subfloor. Since this is a screwed off floor the only challenge I can foresee is you may have screw heads popping off as the wood dries. Modern screws are too hard and snap off at the head overtime from wood movement and/or cyclic bending pressures. A floated and/or jointed floor does not suffer this challenge. As you have noted (and learned) laying this with green wood is not the problem so many “modern” woodworkers and builders claim it will be. Also, oiling a floor on all sides and end sealing will also greatly mitigate any expansion contraction if done properly. I was not clear on whether you actually bothered to take note of or concern over the woods orientation? With understanding of how the wood grew in the tree so that the wood is only bark side up for horizontal placement and top of tree up for posts. This orientation attention with all the tops of the trees oriented in a proper direction to one another...be that "tip to tip” (合掌 - gassho - “praying hands” method), or "follow the leader"...seldom to never in a "divorced" butt to butt (aka: root to root) orientation...is very important to the woodworker of ancient times. Now it is seldom (if ever?) considered. Now wood is treated as if it is “plastic” and/or without regard to actual grain orientation, thus why so many “think?” green wood can’t be used for furniture, floor, or building a home… I look forward to following along on your adventure my friend...Stay safe and stay happy!!! j

@@JayCWhiteCloud a jam packed comment of goodness. Thank you for all of this. Here I go again down the rabbit hole of more research. Should have the next video out Tuesday.

@@TrustinTimber Looking forward to it Brother...Have fun!!!

Sweet. Maine is beautiful

@@TrustinTimber yes it is my aunt lives out side of Bangor

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Geoff Williams I was wondering when someone would finally comment on my hair. It was a covid abandonment but it's growing on me.

That's the plan!

Good observation. We’re in Ontario so no grizzly bears here but there are black bears. You think hardwood doors are necessary? Even if I go 2” think + bracing pine doors?

@@TrustinTimber I am in the west and the clear cut blocks are raging,so are the Kodiak bears .I have small grizzly here at 800lbs, but every now and again you get a 2500lb bruiser ,man that is a challenge on your adrenaline when he is 2ft away from you.

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Yeah, It would be a lot of milling though.

@@TrustinTimber True that

Thanks for the input. I didn't feel like taking the chance and think in the end with the tools I have the full scribe was easier and will look nicer. I'll keep the idea in my back pocket though. Might try it on something smaller at some point.

Stuart B Thank you. I'll give this more consideration

@@TrustinTimber you should be able to test it to some extent by trying to wrack the model and feeling which direction is loose or not. It should give you a better feel for it, even if it's not directly related to the full scale build.

Loved the video! Nice work table! It will be very useful! Enjoyed your explanation of what you are doing and why. You have no fear! You just go for it! Good for you!

wow, That's so obvious now that you mention it. Thanks. We do get a lot of snow but not like in the mountains. Maybe 2 feet max by late winter. Now what? Do I run the chimney internally up and out of the centre or redesign?

yeah, that's what I'm thinking

Thank you. All the wood is white pine. These are from all the dead trees that were suffocated out when the trees around them grew bigger faster. I often only get 1 or two reasonable pieces per tree that are strait enough and the right size so it took a while to collect. The rest becomes good firewood though.

I have links for the Chainsaw mills in the description. The chainsaw is a Husqvarna 565.

Had to add from my other channel Good point on the spline catching water, be weary of the water that would get caught in trench, I would opt for the traditional U method. Is there a dry chinking you could use for when you take the structure down and recycle it? I am not a log builder much more traditional timber framing, and have used heavy timber in plank on frame construction, where the planks are run up and down, with a spline and peg system to give the wall a shear effect. Do you have any method of bracing in your walls? The butted post and log wall may not be a full solution. As for the floor, yeah it will shrink after the roof goes on but the second layer will solve that issue. Its not fine furniture work, its a sub floor. Some people over think things. Don't worry.

Yeah, 1.5 would have probably been a bit better but I'm kind of depending on them structurally as well as a backup;)

Great points. For chinking the first round I'm just going to use sphagnum moss. There is lots growing around and I have been harvesting patches here and there and drying it out. Wall bracing is something I still need to work on. Thanks for the reminder. Any suggestions?

@@TrustinTimber Hummm, typical log structures are tied at the corners and mostly full stacked logs to the top plates, in part providing the wall shear. Yet with your up dated more window approach is where I see a minor issue with the shear/bracing. You may be okay. once you get it up and going you will see how it fairs. It looks like you will put up the frame then infill with logs, so screw on some temporary bracing until the logs get put into place. As I walk around on a timber frame it sways with just the workers moving about and as all the other systems are applied boards etc, it stiffens up. If you have interior walls they will add shear, and or you can apply some braces to interior post and tie beams to add to the system for additional shear. Most loads come from wind and it looks to be fairly protected in the pine stand. All contributing factors. I like the moss chinking. I have often wondered if a timber frame wall system of infill of dried moss and clay would work for a wall insulation system, straw has always been a choice and wood chips and clay in a slip form system, ah but I digress. I may do a cabin build for the utube community some day, a collaboration between my two channels'

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Kevin Allen what the seal log? The bottom log?

@@TrustinTimber yes that would've been the log that went around the floor joist. But all your notches should be that way. That way the outside of the notch will only get tighter with time and weight.

Really watch the how to build a log cabin chanel. It is old information and some is spoty video/audio quality but you will appreciate it I know it.

Thanks. I'm feeling the same way.

Use something different for chinking, rubber tube like a bicycle inner tube.

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Tenho cinco irmão mora nos Estados Unidos eles falam inglês fluente

New cabin model post in my community tap. Made some changes since this video.

I felled and peel a lot back in 2018 for the frame. They are stacked and drying.

Mike Johnson the walls yes, but the vertical posts shouldn't.

Trustin Timber I have seen adjustment post on vertical logs also because the horizontal logs will shrink in diameter. Our log cabin sat for three yrs before assembly and it still shrunk enough to screw up widow trim and door openings once we stacked and finished it the final time!

Josef lol

Because they make it possible for them to pursue their dreams? I only wish I'd had such in-laws in my younger days!

exploring life it was a joke 👍

Yes, really. To each their own dreams, and to those who support each other's dreams, gratitude. Not that hard, really. :}