Arnold, CA…In this weeks video on our work on the Chainsaw Cabin we make extremely budget friendly glue. What we have found in our extreme budget cabin build is that the largest portion of our expenses have been for glue, fasteners, screws, nails etc.

For the chinking or filler between our plank floor boards and to fill the inside gaps on our board n batten walls we are using a sawdust & glue mixture. To make it budget friendly we are making a flour & water glue base and adding sawdust to it to fill the cracks.

On paper it reduces the cost of our glue by over 90%. The thought of saving 90% on anything obviously seems too good to be true. Surprise, surprise for us and for our applications it is working our quite nicely.

This week we also have clips of milling the last log in the backyard behind our house. When we started this project 4 years ago our backyard was filled with logs. Now with logs for the Chainsaw Cabin & several of them milled for our fist batches of outhouses the backyard is almost empty.

Soon we will get to move the mill to the property where it can back to work again.

About The Chainsaw Cabin
The Chainsaw Cabin is our first building, a small 120 square feet shed/cabin on Hewn Hill. All lumber will be hand milled with a small inexpensive electric chainsaw. This is to see if anyone can build a small functional building with literally tools you can find at a garage sale and our only costs will be roofing, fasteners & glass for windows.

The Chainsaw Cabin is single wall construction where the wallboards are a structural component of the build. Many of our primitive and pioneer building were constructed this way. The outside wallboard is also the interior board as well.

Henry David Thoreau’s cabin was only 10 x 15 and not much bigger than you can legally build today without a permit in most counties. For the Chainsaw cabin while it is only 10 x 12 with a sleeping/storage loft. So if you are staying for a night or two at least you will have separate work, living & sleep areas.

In 1845 is cost the tiny home pioneer $28.12 to build his modest abode. With inflation that comes in at $962.80 in today’s shrinking dollars. That is our goal to build our small structure with doors, windows and roofing for less adjusting for inflation than Henry did many years ago.

About hewn.co
At Hewn we believe there is still a Pioneer in All of Us! You can still build a life with your bare hands. Start your journey to see if it is still possible to build a functional, small homestead that anyone, even someone making minimum wage can build and own. We are going to try this in California no less. Join us as we attempt to build an off grid, solar powered, rustic, pioneer style homestead.

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