Primitive Shelter Camping - Bushcraft Log Cabin in Rain Storm

Any critters in here? Luke and Jake here at the Outdoor Boys YouTube channel and we're back at the log cabin doing some camping and more bushcraft projects. You excited Jacob? Well guys it's the end of October and it is gorgeously warm today. It's like 77 degrees and still got humidity in the air. It's just really nice but we might get some rain any minute now. It could be a sprinkle, it could be a gusher, we don't know. So I'm gonna try to get stuff ready as fast as I can just in case it gets a little nasty tonight. All right first thing I'm gonna tackle today get the fire built and get our cooking rig set up. All right got some cedar bark here. Okay I've got some gorgeous pieces of fatwood. I've shaved one of them up. I'm gonna take this little bit of cedar bark put it right there. There we go. Looks good. That way you won't have to ask. All right now I got a little fire going I'm gonna set up my camp grill. There you go. What do you think Jake? This was really easy to make. I just took some electrical conduit piping, I pounded the end flat, drilled holes in it, then bent two of them about 30 degrees, connected it all with one shackle bolt. Then I attached four chains to a barbecue grill and voila we have the ultimate campfire grill. Just got a little s hook right up here and I got plenty of chain so I can raise or lower the grill depending on what the fire is doing. I can just leave the thing out here or I can fold it up lean against the tree or stick it inside the cabin when I'm not using it. It'll work real well. Well it took me an extra trip but I hauled in five gallons of water and I've got myself a little wash basin here so I can do dishes and wash hands and all that which is going to be really helpful because you know hygiene has been taking a back seat these last few trips. There you go bud. You want to eat some hot dogs? All right looks like we got a sprinkling of rain starting here. Yeah we'll see if this gets serious or not. There we go. Those are beautiful hot dogs. You want some hot dogs bud? Listen to that. It sure is nice to be in here. Oh look at this. We got water dripping down here getting on my pad. That's no good. Some of those logs are sticking out just a little bit and catching the water. Not much water is getting down the chimney pipe anymore. That stove cap's doing a good job. Well now that the rain's stopped I think it's time to move on to our second project. I'm going to try to get another layer of tarp on top of the roof. I want it to come off the sides a little bit better to protect from leaks and also have a little bit of gap between the top tarp and the bottom tarp so they have a little bit of insulation there. Dang it. I am so close to getting this roof done but I still have about a half a dozen grommets to tie down but we are losing our light so I'm going to call it for tonight and I got a little boy who wants to roast some marshmallows. Isn't that right? I'm gonna hang up our thermometer there. It says it's 70. It is warm tonight. You want marshmallows? Yeah. All right let's get marshmallows going. We have three chocolate ones. I'll tell you what it's been so nice to not have to chop firewood. Oh your marshmallow's on fire. You like that? The last moon pie. There you go bud. Well me and Jacob had a great time hanging out here by the fire but it's starting to rain and it's getting close to his bedtime so we're taking this party inside. Oh look at you. You look all fuzzy and warm. You know with all that camo you're kind of like John Cena. I can't see you. Look at this this salamander. He's a pretty one. Got a real thunder and lightning storm rolled in and I'm really glad we got the roof on because this isn't leaking anymore. Well me and Jake are hanging out. I just remembered I brought a couple chunks of Virginia cured ham for food tomorrow and you got to soak that stuff for overnight so I'm really quick to grab the pot and soak some pork. Virginia cured hams are salted and you can leave them out at room temperature for like months and they don't go bad which makes them a great survival food but you don't want to eat them just as is. You got to soak them and get the salt out and rehydrate them a little bit before you cook with them. All right Jake should we go to bed now? Yeah. Well it's been a wonderful day and we've just had a great time together but me and Jake are gonna go to bed and turn off the camera and I'll see you guys in the morning. Oh good morning. I'm tired. We stayed up way too late last night. Did you sleep well last night? Yeah. You have a six pack? Are you hungry Jake? You want some breakfast? Yeah. All right. It's a little cold. We must have got at least an inch or two of rain last night. This basin filled up pretty good. Oh there's another salamander. Well the roof's holding up brilliantly. All right let's get a fire started. You want some breakfast? So yummy. Muffin. Here you want a muffin? You got a whole big muffin all to yourself. Here you can munch on that while I get some eggs cooked okay? All right. All right there we go. Breakfast of champions. A little bit salty. A little bit smoky. Not bad. Well we got breakfast out of the way. I'm gonna immediately start prepping lunch. I want to make a really nice pork stew and I'm gonna have it cooked while we work on the cabin. I'm gonna let that pot simmer over the fire for several hours while I work on other things and by the time we're hungry for lunch should have a nice stew ready to go. All right first thing I gotta do is start staking down this roof a little bit better. Oh we got the roof staked down really tight which is important because when it snows the weight of that snow will make the roof sag inward and then the snow and water won't drain off the roof and it gets saggier and saggier until it collapses. If you keep the roof really tight that snow will slide off and then you'll have a good solid roof. I got about a one foot awning on both sides of the cabin now. That'll go a long way to keep the rain from washing away the mud and from seeping inside the walls. That's boiling up nicely. Next I need to build a fire in the fireplace and test out the stove pipe make sure it's interacting with the roof properly and then I need to start the chinking which is dirty work so I really need to clear everything out of there and make some room inside. The stove pipe's got nice and hot and it's melted away any of the tarp that's too close. The thermometer says it's 109 degrees in here. It's a sweat box in there. That little stove managed to raise the temperature 55 degrees that's not too bad. I'm gonna take a little tin foil and crinkle it up and jam it around the stove pipe. It'll just improve the insulation a little bit and help keep the rain out. Oh my goodness it's hot in there. There we go that is a lovely pork stew. I bought some of these take and bake dinner rolls and we're gonna try uh warming them up and cooking them over the fire. Like that? All the seasonings and brine from the cured pork make the broth really tasty. I didn't have to add salt or pepper or anything. You like your food Jake? Yeah I gobbled it all up I was pretty hungry. Well I put it off and I've put it off but it's time to repair the chinking in this cabin. In the places where the the chinking is really thick where there's large gaps between the logs I shoved pure clay and that clay shrunk and then just fell out and so I'm gonna try adding dry grass and that should act kind of like rebar and make it so that it doesn't shrink and break up and fall out as easily. So I'm gonna grab my bucket which I broke yesterday and we're gonna fill it up full of grass and clay. Let's take this back to the cabin. Hey do you want to piggyback right up the hill? You gotta hold on real tight. For some of these bigger gaps the clay just doesn't seem to cut it so I'm using little balls of straw and that seems to work. Well there we go got it done. Got all the big holes filled up. There's a few small cracks here and there but if you poke at them too much it knocks more clay out so you end up doing more harm than good. So I'm gonna kind of just leave it like this. What do you think? Is this warm inside? Yeah it's very cozy. Well it's been 12 months since we started this log cabin and I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. It's been a great project and a great way to spend time with my boys. If you guys like this sort of video check out our camping and adventure playlist. We have over 50 videos of all of our other extreme camping adventures and if you want to see that I'll put a link in the video description below but don't forget to click subscribe. We put out new videos every Saturday morning. 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