Building a Dovetail Cabin at Paul Bunyan with Woodland Mills and Friends - An Epic Journey

Okay, the boys just made it back to Timbertown from Bunyan where we've been all week and we got the entire dovetail cabin on our trailer that we built live for you over there at Bunyan. Partnered up with my buddies over at Woodland Mills, ended up with an awesome trailer myself. So guys, our booth was jumping. There were so many people out there. I'm sorry that I could not get with each and everyone, but I want to thank everybody that came out to see us and I'm really sorry. But next year I'm going to make time to make sure that I'm able to meet with everybody that wants to be there. So we're going to show you the highlights from our booth, how we built our dovetail cabin, and yeah, had a whole bunch of fun meeting a bunch of people. Great time, Jay. It was a great time, Dan. It was, buddy. Can't believe all those people really wanted to see you though. Something's wrong with them. They were awesome. Thank you, Woodland Mills. We get to keep this thing? I think so. We're unloading all the big timbers. Two guys timber framing at the Paul Bunyan Timber Framing Festival in Ohio, baby. Got the mill set up. Boom. Gonna build a shed tomorrow. Crowd's gonna go wild. We've got people from all over Canada bringing these guys, maple syrup guys are here. Woodland Mills is here. And then out here you got everybody and their brothers selling anything that has to do with a tree or lumber or whatever. Down there you're going to have saw cutting contests and all kinds of cool stuff. So it's going to be a fun weekend, man. This is where we're going to be set up. People can come watch us put everything together. That's it. See you tomorrow. The swag, man. All right. Tons of merch here. Nice. Matt, you guys really did pack in the merch. Two guys and Paul. Two guys and a kill. We're gonna build a door frame, ladies and gentlemen. Two guys timber framing out of timber. Big heavy timbers. Not these wimpy little two by fours. These are like six by eights. So again, if you push forward or vice versa, I mean, you go the other direction as well. And so then that's your sweep on that thing. Now there's a couple different ways to do it. You can keep, I've kind of created cheats. Like I know where to come so I can stay on one side and come over here and then cut this edge too. But what, like say you have a bunch of them, what we'll do is we'll line them up. I'll go down the beam on one side as much, but then I'll just flip around the other side and cut. So I'm always, you always, you always want to be going to that way anyway. And I don't, the straight cuts down take much longer. So you saw how like on, if you're doing, especially if you're doing oak, this first cut going perpendicular takes twice or three times as long as those sweep cuts do. So theoretically, if you're going to do this with a straight cut, you want to flip around the other way and come down to get it cut out of there. But I've got these cheats that we can talk about. You can ask me the numbers later, but you know, you can text us or whatever. But I'll come over. I've got this little guy, this mark I put on here. So if I do this on the edge, I'm actually there, but now I've got a bigger sweep on the bottom. So I've got to chisel it out a little bit, you know, whatever. But this one's a little, if I do this from that. So what I found out is I've actually got a spot. If I go to eight, I know that sounds weird, but so I've got zero and eight and five and three eights are the numbers that you're going to remember that really are important on this thing. The rest of them are just gauges for whatever you're doing. So I can go to eight. And if you see, if I go one over, if I go, if I don't do the final sweep, if I go down right there, that's my cheat for that side. So I'll come all the way over and then pull over and I don't have to do the spinner. Okay, cool. So, but if you have a bunch, it's way, it's just super easy to run down the thing, run down one side, come down the other All right, we got the door frame going in now. And then all our little pieces on the sides of the door jam will be with the screw right in. It helps make it secure and tight. Put the blocks and we're going to put a screw. Each one of these will get a screw and then your But I mean, does it have to be? That's the opening for the window. We got the window frames in and the door frames in starting to look like a little cabin now, doesn't it? Door frame. Yeah, starting to hang, baby. It's looking good. See how it's dated out? Old school using pegs, man. And we built this cabin for the show and now we got to take it down and haul it back home to Tennessee to Dan's house right here. And you got Jason, both of these guys are two guys, timber framing, and they made this happen, man. Look at this. Beautiful. They always love the thumbs up, don't they, Jay? They do. I love the thumbs up. I wanted to actually give a special thanks to my friend, Buffalo Custom Millwork, that I actually met on the Woodland Mills Community Cage and we actually became friends over Facebook. I even invited him up here the night before. Yeah, the night before the show comes up with this awesome idea and he actually had all of us labeled out who was on the show. So the Woodland Mills people put on a great show. We actually had more fun at this bunion than we ever had, but it's really special thanks. And this is going to go in the Woodland Mills showroom. So this is going to be seen by thousands and thousands of people a week because after the bunion show, who's not going to want a Woodland Mills? So there we go. I love you guys. Thank you. Thank you, my friend. Absolutely. Okay, this is two guys timber framing. I want to thank all my friends that made this possible to do a dovetail cabin tool. My friend, the Kilton Sawyer, Myers Custom Millwork. My friend, George Middlefield cut most of these beams by himself. Nate Bissell from Bissell Maple Farms. Star Hill Timberworks. And yes, my new friends from Woodland Mills. And we had a great time here and I wanted to thank everybody personally, even my buddy, Paul. Thanks, everybody. Love it.