Bushcraft Log Cabin Build - 8 Days Winter Camping & Cooking in Primitive Shelter

I got my cell phone as a hotspot and Tommy's sitting there doing online school. Oh 2020 is a weird year man. We're gonna lose our sunlight in about one to two hours and it's supposed to be a low of 27 degrees tonight. It's gonna get cold so I'm gonna bust my sleeping bag out and kind of use it as a template to see the dimensions that we need for our shelter. We're getting Tommy changed and ready for bed before it gets too cold and I've got these adhesive body warmers and these things are awesome. Just take the sticker off there. When it comes to cold weather bags there's not many good kid-sized bags. Big Agnes makes the little red series. There's three different sizes and this is the middle one. It's really good. It's a 15 degree bag and it's got this sleeve on it so that you can insert the kids mat and they don't roll off their mat. Alright I'm gonna start a fire with my blast match. It's a ferrous rod on a spring. It's a little bit of steel here. You go and stab it like that it makes big sparks but the advantage of this is you can do it one-handed. So one hand's holding the tinder and the other's making the sparks. Time to eat and for dinner I got a couple things. I've got some cheese and crackers with fruit and fig marmalade and we've got two beautiful steaks and roasted marshmallows for dessert. Feels so late doesn't it? It's only like six o'clock. A chunk of gouda with the pear, some fig marmalade on a cracker. That's good. Let's just stick this right here. It's time to roast marshmallows. These are the hugest marshmallows. There you go buddy. Well eat as much as you can off your fingers and I'll let you use my hanky. Well our bellies are full of good food and this fire is nice and warm and it's a good thing too because it is cold out here. You can really feel the cold creeping in but this shelter is actually doing a pretty good job. There's an icy breeze out here but it's only six o'clock so me and Tom are going to hang out and tell stories before we go to bed and just having a great time. How's that? Is that warmer? Just right over here. We're gonna put like your donut lady. I'm gonna warm mine up. They're kind of frozen. Hard-boiled eggs are one of those foods that grossed me out so much as a kid and I absolutely love them now. Especially when they're warm and it's cold like this. Oh that's so good. I think it's time to make Tommy a chair for online school. It's getting colder and colder and we even have a small chance of a snowstorm this afternoon so I want to upgrade our shelter. Really all we have is a tarp over us. I want something that's gonna block the wind and retain the heat from that fire a little bit better so we're gonna cut some more wood. It's gonna get dark soon Tom why don't you go and find some firewood and pile up some firewood over there. Oh it's good having him get old and be helpful. I'm gonna make you some pan bread Tom. Just a bag of all-purpose flour with a pinch of yeast and sugar. While we mix up the dough you're gonna set this aside let the yeast do its thing for about an hour. Sitting here in the chair chillin' peanuts by the fire. Pretty nice. Man it's starting to get cold though. I gotta get this fire up. It's all you. Why don't you hold that. You feel warmer buddy? These walls really help. I can feel the heat coming from this side of me as well. It's a bit colder than it was last night. I'm gonna keep working on the walls. I've got a lot of cutting to do You got spears? We gonna hunt bear with those? Tommy are you hungry? I think some steak sandwiches sound real good right now. Nothing fancy just seasoned cooked shaved steak provolone cheese and some ciabattas. Back to work. Is that nice Tommy? Oh my oh that looks good. That heat just gets kicked right back from the wood. Look at that. Yeah we were able to bring a lot of fresh food on this trip because it was so cold when we started out but it's gotten warm so we need to eat all of our meat right away. Is that good? It has been a long day. Alright guys we'll see you in the morning. Well today it's a little bit windier a little bit cooler and it rained pretty good last night. You can see right there yeah we got a lot of water in there but we're done with breakfast so we're gonna tear the tent down and keep working on building this thing. We got the log wall up as high as I dare make it and I learned a couple things. The taller the wall and the longer the wall is the more important it is the logs be symmetrical and straight as an arrow and if you do have a log that's a little bit off it should be near the top not the bottom. So because of that I ended up having to start over after I was about four or five logs deep on this wall and I just realized man these these logs aren't cutting it and I cut them up and used them for this shorter wall instead and they seem to be working just fine over here on this shorter wall. Now I just need to put a couple more rows on this wall I need to shore this thing up a little bit better so it's more sturdy and then we're gonna get started on this wall. I gotta tell you I got a lot of sawing to do and I'm really getting tired and kneeling down on the ground to do it. I think I need to build something to fix that. Oh look at that. That is cool I've never seen one that color before. Oh do we have any empty container? There's an empty water bottle right behind your green backpack. Look I just found that one and that one and that one. They're pretty. I know. I bet they're poisonous. Me too. So don't eat them. You just found two more? Yeah. So you've got what six newts already? More than six actually. You're a newt catching machine. Well we've eaten up most of our fancy food so we're gonna have a little bit of a more simple dinner. We've got some canned stew and some little potatoes we're gonna put in the coals. For dessert we're eating leftover Halloween candy. Dad tax. Well it's already pretty chilly so me and Tommy are hopping in our sleeping bags and we're gonna stay up and watch documentaries on our phone about salamanders. Today's another school day so Tommy's gonna do some more online school. That looks absolutely amazing but I'm hungry and school starts again soon so we better get some lunch made. This cedar barks pretty awesome stuff. That's gonna go up quick. I didn't even have to blow on that. Look at that. I must be really hungry because this is really doing it for me. This is one of those days where it tastes so good. Tommy's doing his online PE. He's playing the turkey ninja game for his PE homework. It's a feather. Oh that looks like a turkey feather man. Yeah yeah yeah I think so too. I think we should hunt and cook up a turkey if we can. There we go we've got a platform to sleep on so when it rains and bottom of this thing fills with mud we'll be okay. Well we've been at this for five days and supplies are running a bit low. My GoPro batteries are almost all dead. We could use some fresh food. We're out of marshmallows and we all badly need a shower but it's Thanksgiving here in two days so we're gonna go home hang out with the family resupply and at the end of the week we're gonna come back and finish this project. Oh look at the shelter here. Look at this. We have a bathtub Tommy. Look at how deep that is. This is stretching the heck out of our rope too. I think if it hadn't been resting on the bread it would have just ripped our tarp off. Hey watch out this is gonna this is gonna make a flood. Oh look at that that is pretty watertight and there's barely any water coming out there. Alright I think we've got a fair amount of work to do. I'm gonna sort it out a little bit. I thought about lashing these to the wood the same way I did this chair but it took so much paracord to do this lashing so it just seemed a lot more reasonable to bring some recycled nails than to go and buy thousand feet of paracord. This is much more level than what we were sleeping on before which means we'll stay on our pads better and won't end up in a big dog pile at the end of the night. Got the bed nailed down now I need to take care of the back wall and for that I'm gonna need a lot of logs. Well I got 11 trees chopped down but the Sun is starting to set on me so I think I better get a fire started and get our tent up because it's supposed to get into the 20s tonight. Tom what'd you find? Oh another salamander? What's in his hand? Oh a little froglet. Is that nice Tommy? For dinner tonight we have a very special tinfoil dinner here and I just need to get it warmed up so we're gonna just sit it here by the fire let it heat up. Okay well Thanksgiving was just a couple days ago so I've got some leftover turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams and homemade cranberry sauce. You like that Tom? Yeah. Alright Tommy you want to watch a movie? Alright let's watch a movie. Oh good morning it's a little bit below freezing. We stayed pretty warm last night just sitting here eating some cherry strudel and I'm gonna get a fire started. We need to warm this place up. Alright today's the day we're gonna get that back wall up. Let's do it. It's hard to beat a hot dog on a campfire. Hey Tom what do you think? I just broke the tip off my knife. I've had this thing for 17 years it was a gift from a friend in Japan. I can fix it though. Man sun's getting low I really want to finish this roof but I gotta get dinner cooking. There we go. Well that's gonna take a long time to cook so while that's roasting go ahead and work on this ceiling. Well we are not done but this is as far as we're gonna get today. Cutting firewood is a constant thing. Look at that roast. This thing looks gorgeous. Tommy's been in charge of cooking this thing. Yep I've been stoking the fire putting my own firewood in it. You've been turning it too? Yep. You like first It's so good dad. Got your plate. That's all right. There's nothing on that but campfire smoke and salt buddy. You're a natural. That is good. Thermometer says it's 33 degrees outside supposed to get down to 21 tonight but this fire is roaring and it is so warm and nice in here it's just cozy. Me and Tommy we're gonna hop in our bags here and we're gonna watch a movie and I'm gonna see you guys in the morning. I have got to get some firewood and get that fire started. Does that feel good to have a night inside? Me and Tommy have been sitting here talking and we think we need to name our little cabin here. I think we should call it Jabba the Hut. I'm surprised this saw has done as well as it has but it is super dull and it's developed quite a bit of play in it so it may not last much longer. Well trimmed up the walls and posts now I'm gonna stake down the tarp real good. She's looking pretty good. Let me give you the tour. Yeah what do you think Tommy? Is this cozy? But still I think there's a few improvements I'd like to make. I think there needs to be some sort of roof structure here so if the winds blowing the rain really aggressively this direction we don't get wet. Additionally I really need to do something with our latrine situation. I'd like to build a proper little outhouse and I think we need to put chinking in between the logs. Get some sort of mud or moss or grass and shove it in between the logs. Well Tommy should we go home to see mama? Yep. 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