The Minimalist Cabin

[chicom]

Cost......Less than $1000.

Time......About a week to construct (spare time).

Better than a tent, warm and dry, more than enough room to store gear and provisions.

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[RedJohn]

I have to say that you're the shelter master here. Very good job.

[chicom]

A rougher example. This structure is currently being used as a wood shed.

Cost......roughly 50 dollars in fuel.

Materials.....free.

Time.........3 days from smoothing the foundation and getting the timber to screwing down the tin roof.

Butt and Pass method.

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[The Stig]

Butt and Pass method.

Are we going to have to write a new rule for the website now?

On the bigger one, I know it's being used as a woodshed, but how easily could someone inhabit it? How does the log design do with preventing air/wind from passing through the spaces between the logs?

Those are great.

[gunbuilder69]

The Zen of chicom...perfect!

[chicom]

On the bigger one, I know it's being used as a woodshed, but how easily could someone inhabit it? How does the log design do with preventing air/wind from passing through the spaces between the logs?

Those are great.

You would still have to chink the the gaps between logs with either moss, clay, or modern chinking products.

The old way was to pound wedges into the gaps, then cover with a straw and mud mix.

[LUNCHBOX]

I would take the second one on looks alone. Both are very nice.

[bacpacker]

I realy like both of them. The first one has some nice features built in. I like the wood storage area inside the doorway.
I love the overhang area on the second one. IMO would be a great area for an outdoor kitchen to do canning/preserving in.

[Kodiak]

Very nice.

[GunRunner]

Are we going to have to write a new rule for the website now?

On the bigger one, I know it's being used as a woodshed, but how easily could someone inhabit it? How does the log design do with preventing air/wind from passing through the spaces between the logs?

Those are great.

*Snicker*...He said butt...

[gunbuilder69]

I am in no way trying to take from Tom,or by any means link dumping. I saw these 2 houses built in england(not in person,lol) and had to show you guys;

It is an article about a man who built an earthen structure with very little tools and material purchase to create a sweet little home!
A Low Impact Woodland Home (http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm)
Please look at the whole story about the resources used and look at the other house being built.
GB69

[ak474u]

I am in no way trying to take from Tom,or by any means link dumping. I saw these 2 houses built in england(not in person,lol) and had to show you guys;

It is an article about a man who built an earthen structure with very little tools and material purchase to create a sweet little home!
A Low Impact Woodland Home (http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm)
Please look at the whole story about the resources used and look at the other house being built.
GB69

That's pretty cool, funny thing is, they didn't do anything in the construction of this home that their ancestors of the same region didn't do. I would venture a guess that medieval peasants and farmers lived in very similar homes made of locally sourced materials and constructed with little to no experience in construction. I'm waiting to see someone build a pioneer sod house, I always wondered what a modern one would be like.