Top 5 Bushcraft Projects at My Log Cabin Camp | Overview of a 30 Day Summer Expedition

Hello friends! I'm Max and this video is an overview of my accomplished projects and bushcraft activities during the last summer vacation spent at my log cabin camp during that month I improved the creek's dam assembled a water wheel powered mill made a bushcraft tool rack fastened and tested a diy cloggers knife repaired the cabin's door that was broken by an intruder established a small garden as well as milled flour and coffee for more bushcraft culinary experiments because it would be impossible to publish a detailed video showing every project this video will be an overview compilation the primary project that I worked on during this 30-day stay was building a water wheel-powered mill I finally fulfilled my old dream to bake hearth bread using homegrown wheat de-husked and milled on the spot as soon as I arrived to my log cabin camp and brought a few basic tools from the boat I began to work on establishing a mini garden to grow lettuce radish and other fast growing vegetables I fenced the raised garden bed using bird cherry branches and filled it with sapropel a dried organic sludge collected from the bottom of my pond that I mixed with leftover compost used at my tree nursery last season this is some onion that re-seeded itself from last year's crop I didn't bring my fishing landing net this season so I had to make one to collect the pond's sludge to make a makeshift landing net i used an old polymer bag and a spare kayak's rib bent from a fur branch to prepare the polymer bag for assembly I first pulled out some threads to make the fabric more water permeable this primitive contraption helped me to clean the pond and to fertilize the vegetable bed all in one step now it is time to plant seeds knowing that I'm pretty far North I use the fastest germinating vegetable seeds for risky agricultural zones however I only managed to grow a mediocre crop by the end of the stay as the summer was particularly cold that year the night temperature dropped to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (80 degrees Celsius) once done with the immediate task of seeding plants and clearing the passage to the lakeshore I continued to move tools and supplies from my boat to the cabin camp in fact I was doing it on and off for the rest of the week as I approached the cabin I noticed that my bear proof door was challenged by a two-legged antagonist armed with a pry bar as evidenced by these pry bar marks the intruder only managed to partially break the door as it was a bear-proof door after all I can see how the door was damaged but I can't understand why someone would want to break an unlocked door perhaps someone has an explanation I am at my wit's end in any case I plan to take out the door from its frame to tighten the gap between the two slabs this season when building the door I knew the wide slabs would fully dry in a year which would result in a gap widening even though I hammered the spline between the slabs this is why I installed dowels only on one end of the door's dovetail rails in order to take my pin-hinged-door out for repair I had to lift the door frame's header along with the whole roof using a post and two wedges this roof lifting procedure is not complicated I've done it more than once when installing the door I even kept the original wedges unexpectedly the next step was more time consuming it took me about 20 minutes to hammer out the rails' dowels the dovetailed door rails came out easier the intruder most likely came here in a snowmobile and had some tools with them since then there was enough time for tampered slabs to slightly warp which means I will need to correct the door's geometry a repair I didn't count on doing luckily I had my giant two-hand chisel with me it is a perfect tool to shave cut and even smooth large surfaces if you don't have a hand plane with you once done with correcting the dovetailed joints' geometry I joined the door's surfaces using a scrap plane a present for my friend Alex Siegfried Alex thank you for such an excellent German tool then I inserted a new spline into the grooves between the slabs assembled the door and hammered in two dowels into each horizontal rail lastly we need to install a door handle I made the handle's metal part from an old railroad spike in advance back home making the door handle is a very basic blacksmithing project while the final result looks quite advanced as long as you have a place to heat up a railroad spike you can easily make such twisted door handle that has an illusion of a fancy design I foresee a question about its ergonomics even though my door is quite heavy the handle's twisted edges don't cause any discomfort during its use to make the handle go along with the cabin's rustic design I made the rest of it from curvy pine branches before fully installing the handle I smoothened the doors surfaces with a hand plane to complete the restoration procedure I'm also planning to finish it with oil so it won't look much lighter than the aged cabin's logs because I'm right handed I decided to install the handle slightly counterclockwise for better economics now with the new handle in place the door carrying task has become much easier in order to install the door back all you have to do is insert the pin hinges into the round mortises and hammer out the wedge the header will drop back under the roof's weight securing the door's upper pin hinge when I installed the door and published a video about it some people warned me that the pins will wear off fast however after using it for two years I haven't noticed any wear on the wooden hinges at all it looks like the handle fits the surrounding style I'm also thinking about making a metal or wooden latch for the door as a functional decoration I would appreciate getting any design ideas from you guys as I couldn't decide on its style for quite some time lastly I finished the door with an end grain wax finish mostly for looks as the roof's extra long overhang provides a good rain and snow protection I hope that next time nobody will try to break in through my unlocked door with a crowbar but rather just use the handle as a courtesy instead after about a week after the door was finished with oil it got noticeably darker and no longer stood out against the old logs meanwhile I have to get ready for my main project of this season the waterwheel powered mill I prefer to start such large projects with time-consuming meticulous preparation it will require making special tools jigs and setting up a workspace i made a wooden mallet and rebuilt an old workbench once I roughly shaped its head with a chainsaw I decided to use my homemade cloggers knife the huge knife requires a base with a properly attached pin to operate I haven't made a dedicated base yet and to save time I decided to install it on my shaving horse for now to do that I installed the metal pin on the side of the shaving horse the pivoting knife has a hole that is coupled with a metal pin fixed to the shaving horse this is not a traditional solution but I decided to make it like this anyway usually a cloggers knife is attached to a base through its upper ridge extension that is shaped as a hook the clogge's knife topic is pretty broad and interesting if there is enough interest from my viewers I will make a separate video about it note the knife's pin attachment will not interfere if the shaving horse is used as a vice I use the draw knife to shape my mallet's head just to prove that point the scrub plane actually works faster and cleaner for such tasks as for shaping or cleaning the mallet head's face the cloggers knife is a perfect tool it literally takes a minute to clean up a smashed or chipped mallet's face using it lastly I shaped a slightly tapered maple handle so that its one end is slightly thicker than the mallet head's eye note the handle's thicker end shouldn't be cylindrical but rather oval so that it spreads the head cylindrical eye along the grain if the handle is wedged across the mallet head's grain it will just split it as a last step I drilled a one and a quarter inch (32 millimeter) heads eye and assembled the mallet now I have a much needed tool that you will soon see in use in my upcoming projects such as making a topsy-turvy workbench building a water wheel making a bushcraft tool rack building a primitive lathe from a log and more and a few words about restoring and modifying my workbench made from a fallen tree that I used as both a lathe and a workbench to make most parts of my water wheel you might remember I milled three long slabs from this fallen pine and then used it as a workbench under a canopy even though I protected this improvised workbench against rain it dried out and slightly warped over the years it is time to straighten its surface I didn't have a jointer plane which would be an ideal tool for the task so I used my trusty scrub plane to flatten the workbench's surface as much as I could you might have noticed a bunch of round openings on the workbench's top and sides they significantly expanded the workbench's functionality some of the openings were used as bench dog holding holes while others were used as a part of an improvised lathe I used the modified workbench to make most of the parts for my water wheel project this lathe-looking contraption was necessary to make precise axial holes in my water wheel's shaft to prevent the shaft's deflection run out and vibration by manually rotating the massive octagonal shaft on the improvised lathe I drilled two perfectly centered axial holes this water wheel project was a case that proved thorough preparation pays off it was later quite easy to properly install the water wheel on a dam with no shaft runout or vibration this is the preliminary story about my summer projects that I organized chronologically as most of them are interconnected you can suggest what project you would like to see in more detail in the next episode this is Max Egorov from St Petersburg 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Keywords: log cabin, off grid log cabin, off grid, log cabin build, off grid living, off grid cabin build, bushcraft skills, cabin living, bear proof survival shelter, water wheel build, survival skills, bushcraft survival, bushcraft primitive, primitive survival, survival in forest, primitive skills, DIY, log cabin building by hand, diy cloggers knife, diy shaving horse, diy waterwheel mill, advoko makes, max egorov

Id: _RM5SD_FZ_0

Length: 14min 35sec (875 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 01 2020

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[u/MaxAdvoco1]

This video is an overview of my accomplished projects and bushcraft activities during the last summer vacation spent at my log cabin camp. During that month: I improved the creek's dam, assembled a water wheel-powered mill, made a bushcraft tool rack, fastened and tested a DIY clogger's knife, repaired the cabin's door that was broken by an intruder, established a small garden, as well as milled flour and coffee for more bushcraft culinary experiments.

[u/sadmadtired]

That’s awesome man. Cheers from America :)

[u/blckravn01]

Wow, that's spectacularly impressive!

[u/TheUnbiasedRant]

I really enjoyed this video

[u/JPurdie1984]

This guys a legend. If you google him, a tornado will hit your house.

[u/ArchBulkov]

Макс Егоров, ваши фильмы очень вдохновляют!

[u/Khyron43]

This is awesome to watch, and he makes it look so easy!!

[u/kikashoots]

Very interesting and your voice is soothing!

How did you ensure the octagonal log was placed correctly so that the holes were centered on each end?

[u/_Neoshade_]

Why did the person use a pry bar on an unlocked door?
Because stupid people do stupid things.