“Have all your firewood cut and split by the Fourth of July,” the old-timers say. That sounds good in theory, but in actual practice, we are doing well to get the wood cut and split a week before we ...

In this video, I share the process of building my sawmill, detailing the techniques and tools I used. I cover the essential equipment for operating a sawmill, including log tongs, peaveys, cant hooks, ...

In the last couple of entries, we’ve covered a range of hand tools used to peel and prep logs to use in log cabin building. This time, we’ll look at some mechanical or power methods to do this job.

In this episode, we begin our flooring project by snapping a chalk line across our main girders and notching out mortises spaced 16 inches apart. We salvaged smaller logs from our forest, typically ...