the siding between the posts sounds great to me good job I can't wait to see it.

Really look forward to the Wednesday Q and A! I like hearing your thinking about the processes. 👍

@nosaltiesandrooshere7488

4 жыл бұрын

👍

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Gosh, thank you for the nice compliment.

Looking forward to the fix you have so eloquently explained. Loved the question and answer,keep the faith ,stay safe ,looks awesome 👍

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment

Poplar won't twist and check as much as pine, so you made a wise choice brother. That cabin is going to look awesome!

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

the final cabin is going to look stunning with the different contrasts and textures in materials. german architecture is beautiful, as is scandinavian. can't wait to see it finished.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice compliment and welcome to the channel

Good morning, good answering session this morning. You all are doing a great job around there. Really enjoy your videos and content. Thanks for sharing with us.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Good morning my friend, hope all is well. Thank you for the nice compliment

Your Q and A this morning just answered one of my questions. I thought that was poplar . My uncle had a log cabin in Armstrong , Canada just over the border from Jackman , Maine he built by himself in the 1920s with poplar that still stands today although not lived in 60 years or so his log foremost are still very solid . keep up the great work. Your daughter needs to do some more cooking .#timberframe

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Well how about that. Looks like I made a good choice. Thank you for your support

I really like your idea of showing the frame, inside and out! Enjoying watching the build. All the best...😉🇨🇦

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend. Thanks for your support

You're doing great,stay focused on YOUR build,comments can be a blessing and a curse,spring is almost here.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. You are correct. Thank you for the nice compliment and your support.

Enjoying your work process. This should be a great structure when you are completed. Wondering when cutting the beams, that you are using a circular saw & hand saw -- if you had considered a Prazi Beam Saw. Keep up the great work process, think this should look great when completed

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Considered but not willing to pay the price. To expensive. Besides, the hand saw is kind of fun to use.

Creator on the rise!!

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very informative Thank you

Between the foundation, the new plate, the shoshugi treatment, and you plans for stonework.... Your grandkids and great grandkids will be bringing their kids to the cabin : ) Nice Q&A

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice compliment

Great video -!

I love what you're doing! And you give me inspiration to start trying to build a log cabin myself...

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Go Charlie!!! You can do it if this hillbilly can.

@charliecunningham8609

4 жыл бұрын

@@SmokyMountainOutpost I'm a Hillbilly myself and woodworking has Always been my passion! I just enjoy watching your videos!I really appreciate what you are doing.

Good Job Thanks

Good thing you had some extra length on your anchors! Thanks for discussing all of these topics.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support

Good Morning SMO!! Good idea - you might want to squirt a dab of silicone in the slot around the anchor bolt before dropping the posts back down; otherwise, good idea on its face however be aware of the potential for galvanic corrosion to occur btw the steel angle and the aluminum plate; you might want to slip in a piece of 15# felt btw their surfaces. Ultimately keeping water/moisture away from the post bases, with or without the aluminum plates, will be the key to longevity. Loving the idea of keeping the 'bones' of the structure visible, both inside and out... this will look awesome!! We're doing an anti-rain dance up here in NE for you - dang, you can't catch a break!! >> peace

@frankpohl4377

4 жыл бұрын

others use wax and put hot in the borehole overflowing...that is much better then anything else. But that is much work

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Good idea

I wish I had known you were using aluminum under the post. I dug a basement under my first house by hand. The blocks were app 3’ from the foundation. After I finished the floor and stuff, I decided to put short post on the wall to help support the house. I cut pipe and made adjustable screws for them. I cut some scrap aluminum plates on the wall to set the pipe on. After this I poured a 2” cap on the wall. Everything went great until 8-10 years later I noticed the cement cap was raising up 1/2-3/4” gap. Then I found the aluminum and acid in the cement had an reaction, some kind of calisum or something. This was also picking the house up. I took all the aluminum pieces out from underneath and cleaned the stuff off. Then I cut the metal pipe post off and put a steel plate on top of the cement. I know you have finished potting yours in. Maybe what I had and yours are a different mixture. I wished you didn’t have aluminum underneath the post and hope you don’t have and problem. Good luck, stay safe.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, Well hopefully we won’t have any issues. I have an idea that may help. Wait for the video to find out. Cheap and inexpensive cure I hope. Thank you for the comment and your support.

We always use a post base or paint the bottom of the post with a asphalt based coating. The aluminum can react to the concrete from what I have heard.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment

@ArtisanTony

4 жыл бұрын

Nice project by the way :)

👍

For future reference steel and aluminum don’t coexist well if they touch. A simple piece of treated lumber with rubber flashing seal b/w timber works fine for concrete connection.

good work man

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice compliment and welcome to the channel

Love your work sir! I'm from Poland and I'm thinking about building a cabin like that. I think that climate in Poland is temperate/moderate but we had winters with well below 0°F and summers hitting over 100°F. We have a culture of log house building especially in southernmost parts of Poland. But those are mountain houses build with big heavy logs. I'm more interested in building something like your cabin beam post type. Could you tell somethin about how worm this cabin would be and what type of heating is optimal? What is the best natural insulation for that type of cabin? Thanks!

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I will try and cover this in a video. Thank you for your support.

☺️👍🏻❤️❤️

Great explanation on your aluminium plates,question I know the bottom is gonna be a rock wall what's the next layer up just 2x4 construction and what type of siding are you gonna use,I'm gonna guess cedar?

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I will explain that in a q&a

tbh i figured the burning of the wood you did would've stopped any wicking process from happening? But that said, putting the aluminium under is a safe guard and better to be safe than sorry !

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you

Tar paper between them would work

would it not be a good idea to remove the 2by boards beside the footings to not attract termites??

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I will, but have had more pressing issues. But thank you for the good observation and great comment

It might be a good idea to coat your aluminum with something. it will corrode after a time. Aluminum wheels for a tractor just being against a metal hub will corrode and can be a devil to get loose. Something rubber would stop that from happening. Just a thought and my 2 cents.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I have already been thinking about tar and tar paper. great observation

Nice little piece of rawhide you're sitting on

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha. The wood was wet.

is the green wood checking a problem?

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Hasn’t been to bad. A couple of post opened slightly but altogether not bad

John Dearden,just seen your idea with the alloy sq,that will work when you do your stone walls up too them cross beams top,,bottom,,the wall with dpc to stop any water incress just keep it simple matey its a winner .👍👍UK,John,,

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. We appreciate your support across the pond.

Great explanation on what you are doing and I like the idea of the exsposed frame it will look really nice 👍... cut the notch in the aluminum plate so the 2 different metals don’t touch.. looking forward to the up coming vids 👍👍

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your support

Probably could of picked up some good used jacks at a local flea market! but hay if money isn't a problem then new is nicer!

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Copy that, but hard to know if their in working order. If not then always another trip.

Good question session enjoyed it, keep up good job.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

what will you use for insulation in the cabin?

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Insulation, lol. Some modern some traditional

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I think r 19

Can you use Pine I have lots 70 pines on my Property?

@SmokyMountainOutpost

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! -Jennifer

@HomesteadAlabama

3 жыл бұрын

Ok thank you

Estimado amigo, esta muy bien que separe el pedestal de madera de la humedad del concreto, noto que elemento es galvanizado, pero es una superficie "LISA" esto es contraproducente ya que estaríamos montando toda la estructura sobre unos PATINES, a menos que estos elementos al fijarlos se perforen al anclar los pasadores tanto en el pedestal como al concreto, el modelo de angulo que usted coloco inicialmente es muy bueno, pero debería abarcar mas altura en el pedestal por lo menos entres caras del mismo, y de igual manera proyectarse en el concreto un mínimo de 15 centímetros, un abrazo desde Venezuela

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Good moring america! Your architect “Old Germans house-style”: We call this style “Fachwerkhaus” that often was built in areas with not so stabil underground like by rivers or parts of Germany where often storm floated north see or east see and the ground was constant wet. Through that the house “was moving” and had to be flexible in the structure. So farmers build this kind of structure connected the beams with each other and filled the place between “Fach” in German with bricks straw and clay and stones. Fach-Werk-Haus translated “Box-work-house” I thing they are called “Half-timbered house”. Your idea is good- but must be in such a form that the structure will not be damaged by “a wrong material”. Keep it natural then the nature will keep the house in function- I mean the building “nature” or naturel material used for thousands of years. Don’t mix natural material with synthetic isolation (industry). Then the problem starts. Sometimes it is "the Chemical reactions" between diferend metals like aluminium and iron that brings problems in the future. But this is "Building expert knowledge" but right now you have real experts that watch your videos and you can start to ask BEFORE you work. This not like a "Q and A" but like a "What do the experts thing or say" and this would be clever for all of us this is the power of an network- here you are as the artist in the forest building a house- there we have some real experts and the third part is the masses of those how will learn by watching and reading and the last group is only costumer "by watching" with no passion for the quality of building. But we all "work together". Now you have to lift the construction (its not a problem but you loose time) I thing you would be the first US YTer that builds a house and ask experts when a special situation arrise than check the facts and go on! How knows to put melted wax into a borehole to protect the iron from the rust? We put high industry clue into it to keep it secure for 50 years. But wx is a cool natural pruduct! "old fashion trick" Wood and air- the best isolation for a log home or a cabin. In Germany and other country’s we have log homes or wood houses in cold areas that are older than 500 years. Also thousands of “only wood houses” like the one from Albert Einstein. One of my “Building engineer-mentors” a professional in restauration of old castles and old homes (stone or wood) told me, that he had inspections of real old homes that never had a problem with moisture, fungi, or rotten parts- when they were right build in the beginning. (Konrad Fischer Info that is his name) For example: The house from Albert Einstein had a wood structure with 10 centimeter X10 centimeter planking’s (or call them logs) and then for protection from the outside another pine wood that protect the structur from rain. Always an overhang of the roof and mostly a rain gutter- because this is also a good protection. A rain gutter is a “must have”! Lead the water away in pipes keep the house foundament dry. So, first the structure of the house, then 2X4 outside and then on that the pine- horizontal assembled so that the rain could flow faster and will be not come behind the pine. There, where the pine touches each other must be nail a wooden slat to cover this micro-gaps. Wood will expand and wood is a living thing that expand in rain time and in heat summer time it can shrink and if a house is in a real wet forest- it keeps much more humidity than a house in the desert where the air is dry. Hard wood very seldom shrinks,(its hard for the humidity to come in the fiber we use oak for windows or mahogany or beech but if you use hardwood to build a ship sailing- then you put it in the water and it soaks the water and this process keeps the ship dry but if you take the ship out of the water (in wintertime) the hardwood will dry again mext spring ship in the water and the process starts agin) but others wood arts can "soak humidity much more- that has a bigger wood fiber and bigger air parts the "lighter tree arts. Only air circulation/barrier between inside and outside was the “isolation” Wood breathes and wood regulates the moisture/condensation in the house. 10x10 centimeter log is enough for a real winter cabin, but as thicker the wood or the log, as better is the isolation power. Keep the heat in winter inside, and the cold outside. Some build their homes with cellulose as isolation between the 2 different wood- arts- Cellulose also “breath” it can soak moisture and give it away later. Others use wood ships in different sizes. Again, the air between the pieces are the isolation and it also breathes! Danger of “fake-isolation” in wooden houses? Yes, health problems-lunge infections- allergys and fungi and rotten problems in the house. Mineral wool (glass or stone) or other synthetic Isolations are “fake isolations” Mineral wool is often wrong uses and from “nonprofessional misunderstand” many customers are manipulated by the PR and marketing of the building and isolations-industry. Many tread this stuff like “a wool from a sheep” but they don’t know that there is no function in the mineral itself. It’s the dry air INSIDE the wool that isolates. And if the mineral wool has contact with rain or moisture then it soaks this and keeps it like a stalactite cave. After some months the moisture in the wool starts to rotten and produce a danger cancer producing fungi. If it is wet or had it soak moisture, it had lost its isolation capability. And once in the wool it never goes out. NEVER. So that is a reason not to use it between real wood logs or beams because wood always has moisture inside and this moisture will go in the mineral wool and then the mineral wool starts to rotten and then the wood starts to rotten. Paper barrier? Can bring destruction to the house. 1: We must consider the constant humidity from the forest, the rain. This is called “Umgebungsfeuchte” in German surrounding-humidity! This humidity sticks on everythings from the outside and goes into the wood that is breathing. 2: We must consider the humidity that is produced when people live in the house- in summer and in winter. Everyone is breathing how much liter water in an hour? Cooking inside? Not a clever thing in a cab that is not used 7/24. Better building an outdoore kitchen bear secure or wolve secure. Keep the cooking moisture outside.(if you have to cook for many people not for 1 or 2. That would be not a problem but for groups) A “airflow barrier” is contra because it don’t allow the natural air flow of an house to bring the moisture out of the wood/ clothes) bed/ furniture/ the logs the walls and out of the house. Often “opening the windows and doore for air circulation” will also help to dry the house winter and summer. Remember: heat binds water in the air and windflow must bring that package out. A barrier is wrong. A wood house must not be sealed. The sealing of a wood house is dry wood and air between the inside and outside. Styrofoam is also a bad isolation in the “wooden house”. It shrinkes through heat and it becomes porous after some times and then it loses contact with the “walls” and then coldbridges can lead to fungi. The best was and is to build traditional. Only wood and air as an isolation! So “don’t give moisture a chance!” Take a look at some of the teaching videos from NORTHEM traditional building. I belive the best way would be- an wood lath outside but horizontal- then the inside with another wood blank and fill the space with fine your air dried wood dust from the saw! Or by it from someone else. 1: The wood ships or dust can breathe. In times of much humidity from inside is soaks it and later when the climax inside and outside is changed it dry’s automatically. A mineral wool with a barrier can’t do it. Whenever a mineral wool “is open and in touch with wood” the moisture goes in and never dry’s. Such wood ships as isolation can be used for floor roof and walls.And they don’t need or like barriers. Respect the laws of “nature” and the physic of naturel building material and you will have much fun with a house! BOSCH- “be like a BOSCH” There are 3 kinds of machines: China-rubbish- cheap machines with no quality and much danger capacity’s “frustrations”. The second class in Germany is BOSCH and others they are perfect for middleclass home-builders they have a solid quality and can do a lot. I have many BOSCH I love the quality and the ergonomic-style the price is high but it is worth. Carpenters in their workplace or mobile in the home of a customer will pay much $$$ for the best on the market. Reliable is important when you have to drive 100 miles or in a big city driving 1 hour in rush hour and then the machine is broken. The best on the world marked is so expensive, because it created for industrial 6 days and 10 hours Product pressure (also weatherproof cold heat rain outside work). The components are so good that you can use them 10.000 hours without a problem and others will broke after 100 hours. This high quality component in the machines makes the price. More and more US American buy the best of the best: FESTOOL. Quality security (Work secure) accuracy, operability. I worked with them and if I hade to build a house I would buy some of them. Matt Reisinger (The build show) and even Ana Withe in Alaska (YTuber with million abos) loves them. Äh I mean she and her wonderful housebuilder husband! Greeting and love from Hamburg in Germany where the Hamburgers came from

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Hello my friend. I always enjoy reading your comments. Thank you for the advise and I will look into this insulation.

Don't mean to be pessimistic but at your age steel would of been sufficient and far less costly but aluminum looks better Personally I would of drilled a 3/4 hole up in the centre of the post and weld a pin on the plate and set the post on it this way if a tornado comes along the building wouldn't move Think your over killing everything tar ect as I assume you will have walls around it so probably not much worry about rot would be great for at least a hundred years.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Tar around the bottom of the post

the aluminum plates wont last as long as normal tar paper.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Good idea

Oh yes before I forget ..... Who does your soundtrack.? I've got that beat stuck in my noggin ...

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

Epidemic sound

Steel and aluminium should not be used together. They have a negative action between each other. Or should I say reaction..A plastic plate would have been better.

@SmokyMountainOutpost

4 жыл бұрын

I am thinking about tar paper between them