Arnold, CA…Starting on April 1st (Appropriately Enough) we started spending most of our time and sleeping at the unfinished Chainsaw Cabin. If we are ever going to get this project finished it was a step we needed to take.

Now that it has been 45 days or so going back across town to the home my family still lives in seems very odd. The simple basic life in the Chainsaw Cabin now feels not only normal but better.

Most of our meals, morning coffee taking the chill off late spring nights have been done with our little stove designed for a hot tent.

It cooks surprisingly well the only drawback in the firebox is small enough that you basically feed in kindling as if you put normal sized wood there isn’t enough room for it to burn efficiently. On balance though it works amazingly well for a stove that was $115 on Amazon.

All in all the first 45 days at the Chainsaw Cabin have nice and it is actually starting to feel more like home than our normal home. Thanks for joining us! Please subscribe and we will see you next week.

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 todays 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.

We are starting with outbuildings to get the property functional. Places to store tools, a solar shed & a place to sleep if need be. This is phase one and we hope to get that done this year starting with the Chainsaw Cabin then learning how to build a log structure on our next shed.

Next year, Lord willing we will start on our main two story, traditional log cabin built with logs from the property and probably a few other locally sourced ones as well.

About hewn.co
At Hewn we are going take you on a 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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