Simple Off Grid Log Cabin Build: Easy Wall Construction (Butt And Pass)

so i've decided to shift gears a little bit i was originally going to do a saddle notch log cabin that's how i've always built mine um i think they look sweet and i've gotten pretty efficient at it but i want to kind of try something different and i'm going to go with a method that's very very it's the easiest method that there is and it's also very fast so it's going to be the button pass method they look really nice i think and like i said anybody can do them there's no notching it's just cut your logs to length and spike them on so regardless of what your construction experience is you'll be able to build this let's go chickens here's how easy this method is i got my first two logs set up here i'm going to spike them down into those logs on the corners then we are going to cut a log to length to fit in between these two on both sides we're going to spike that down into this log to fasten them in place then our next one is going to go on this wall i'm going to spike it down into this log and this lug and this log and that'll tie the corners together and make it really solid that'll that'll make more sense as we get going here i think these chickens think this is a nice roost for them as long as they don't poop on it i don't care so these are what i'm using for spikes they're uh galvanized spikes you can find these at any hardware store i mean lowe's home depot is hardware i've seen them everywhere i go pretty much they come in different lengths there's like six inch eight inch 10 inch 12 inch i'm using 10 inch because my logs are pretty much six inch diameter so that's plenty to go through the log and into the log below it but these are insanely strong my uh maul is at my other log cabin so i'm using a framing hammer it works it just takes you a couple more whacks i just want to triple make sure i'm square before i spike the next one on so it's important to see how these are orientated these two logs i have the fat end of this log on that side and the fat end of this log on that side so both the fat ends of these logs i just spiked on are facing the same way so the skinny ends are on this side and as i go i need to alternate that so the next time i put a log on this wall the fat end has to go on this side same with this log because you have to alternate fat side fat side fat side fat side as you go because if you just keep going with the fat side on that end this part of the wall is going to be higher than that side and your wall is going to lean like that so you have to alternate fat end as you go up so now it's as easy as this i'm going to take this measurement in between these two right at my 12 foot inside diameter which is what i wanted so i'll go cut a log at 12 foot this other side should be 12 foot yeah we're good [Music] um [Music] all right so you can see by me running my chainsaw in between the two logs where they were touching that closed up that gap really nice so we have about a quarter inch gap right here now um that's fine we'll accept that um that'll and i'm using my more crooked logs towards the bottom of the cabin um you know i want my my prettiest logs my straightest ones to be at eye level you know where people are gonna be looking most the time so this top log here you can see kind of dog legs up a little bit right here i'm going to take my axe and just chop that away just to have a little more of a level surface so when i put my next log on i don't have to do so much chainsawing in between but again see how this bottom log the fat end is over here and the skinny end is over here also on my next log the fat end is over there and the skinny end is over here so every time you set a log on just make sure that you're going fat into skinny end fat end to skinny end yeah this goes pretty much lightning fast um so now what we're gonna do i have a little bit of uh chiseling away there to get this to sit a little bit tighter but we'll run a spike through here into this log and then a couple along the way into this log and that ties this corner together so now it's this wall is being supported this way with uh the spike being in this wall so it gives it the sheer strength so it's not going to wobble and it'll tie all the corners together and make it nice and strong oh [Music] [Music] [Music] so you can see i'm caught on this little knot right here just which is creating a gap so i'll just shave this off and that'll drop this down and make it a much tighter fit well i gotta say that this method is lightning fast no doubt about it um yeah i mean it's certainly one way to do it and doesn't require much thinking i mean this is going extremely fast um i should be able to get pretty high on my walls today it definitely speeds things up when you don't have to you know take measurements and knock stuff out and you know do all that monkey business i mean this is literally just cut your logs to length put them in spike them next one will go past of course so yeah the button pass method is fast and pretty easy as you can see i'm trying to decide what i'm going to do for chinking on the saddle notches you definitely get a much tighter wood fit you know around here but you know you look at some of those old pioneer lock cabins i mean their gaps are this big i mean any anything can be changed it's just whether or not you want to do it that way or not but these are fitting pretty tight but you know where these lap right here they're not as tight of a fit as what you get with a saddle notch but it'll still seal up i'm trying to decide if i want to use i do have a little bit of moss around here but if i want to do that or make some sort of homemade clay mixture or something but i want to try to get this to i want to build this as cheaply as possible so people can see how cheap you can really you know build an off-grid place but you can see this is how your front will look you know you'll have you'll have them sticking out every other log where with you know saddle notches or other log cabin building methods you know it'll be it would be log log log sticking out so you have one sticking out just every other log but it looks alright you know the same thing here we'll cut these nice and even so it'll all look nice and uniform when we're done but it looks pretty good i think i'm happy with how it's turning out so far what's up buddy okay i've been working around these chickens all day it's all right though they're fun to watch they're good company [Music] yeah like balsam fur logs that's what i built my log cabin a little bit north of here with i mean those are pretty straight for the most part i mean not perfect by any means but a lot straighter than these but this just goes to show you i mean you can make anything work you know it just takes a little bit of time to hew it with the axe and kind of take out some of those crooked spots and uh just do whatever you have to do to get a nice tight fit but yeah if you can i mean this is probably the worst case scenario sort of thing for building a log cabin you know just all this newer growth aspen but like i said you know we're still gonna have a lot of cabin by the time it's over so it's all good so as far as keeping it you know straight on the wall and making sure your wall is plumb um i eyeball it but you can put like little uh saddles right here you know nail a couple pieces of wood up so it kind of cradles it and that way you kind of know how straight you're staying but i just eyeball it down and i tap one end like one end in like this then go to the other one and get it where i want it and tack it in down there and then pound them all the way in right we just finished with a pass so now we got to do a butt to fit in between those two and the next one will be a pass and then a butt so pretty straightforward you know pretty simple so you can see we got a pretty big gap right here but we're gonna be okay with that because the door is gonna be centered on the cabin so this is going to get cut out anyways so that is okay all right so i just butted these two now so now we have a pass and a pass so i think you guys pretty much get the gist of this i mean the button pass method is about as easy as it gets you can read a tape measure swing a hammer and make accurate cuts then you can certainly build this and i think total cost on the build right now i'm less than thirty dollars in spikes and i figure i can build this whole thing realistically for less than five hundred dollars with the floor the roof and everything but um you don't really need to see much else here i'm just going to keep going with these logs until we get up a little higher next video i'll cut in my door my windows and then do the floor construction and then we'll see where we're at might even start on the e vlog overhangs the purlins and then the ridge beam and get going on the roof but i'll keep showing you guys the progress and thanks for watching we'll see you guys next video

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Length: 15min 40sec (940 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 09 2021