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Grandmom asked me to sharpen her hatchet. What's worth doing is worth over-doing (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If all you have is a hatchet, I'd imagine a more waddle-and-daub situation rather than a cabin. For a proper cabin, you really need an axe with weight behind it, a hammer, wedges, and hopefully a tree saw (and then adz, draw knife (or similar) and so on for finish work). An ax, depending upon the type and health of a tree, is kinda a terrible way to take it down on its own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

this guy frontiers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And if for some reason, in your frontier scenario, you have plywood and bracing material, you could go with a rammed earth structure!

I just learned about rammed earth and got a few books about it, it's so fucking cool. I want to build a house with it now, so my great great great great great grandkids can inherit it