Building log cabin, Grady Partin and son Stan

[@stephanienuce7711]

This is so wonderful!!!!!!! I'd love to have a little cabin liken this someday in the deep woods!!! Awesome!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@ShaneHerrick]

Good vid :)I have built my share of cabins in my time, but I never get enough of watching others craft them out :)

[@dartshadow2822]

Great job Grady,I have met you a few times and been studying these cabins before I start mine.I would love to see yours in person,once again great job

[@surferdude8086]

Guess you didn't want any bugs getting in. 😂🌊🏄👍 Cool cabin.

[@garygillis5104]

I really enjoyed watching this..... great work. I am starting a cabin with my brother in a few weeks but it wont be a log cabin.....I would have prefers it. but I don't have the time, you must have enjoyed this build with your son as I wish my dad was around to help us ! I would love to see how this cabin look in time, again great work gentlemen !

[@boatrat]

I think the reasoning for the direction on the porch-floor joists, (per your old-timer's instructions) is that it's easier to just have the 3 or 4 long ones going across the whole length of the porch. Having a dozen short floor joists crossing the other way, would be a lot more cutting and fitting, and harder to keep all of them level with one another. So I think it's more about economy with the underlying joist structure, than it is about the advantage of the all-one-length short decking boards (although having no length-wise butt joints in those, is also a benefit).

[@skinnybuddhaboy]

Really enjoyed the video, but is there a second video to see you guys finishing the cabin? I would 'Love' to see that as this is the best cabin building video I've seen, and I've seen quite a few.

[@JoeOutdoors]

Giant Lincoln Logs!!! Pretty cool !!!

[@savetheworld245]

Great technique thanks I'll do the same as you to get my big logs on top

[@philipdove1705]

Full Scribing logs makes them nice and tight

[@thevictordachy]

great video ! take good care, my friends !

[@Grizz270]

cool vidio i hope i can find the rest of your vidios on the log cabin build , my 2 cents on why he told you to run the logs length wise on the porch is less notching on the logs meening less work i agree with you that it would of been better the other way , but im sure that old gent new something we dont

[@kennethmarvin5682]

It looks great! Would you mind if I ask about the deminsions of the cabing, what size your logs are, and what you out the floor joits on center to center?

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

the plate logs, first logs laid, are 12inches in diameter. the wall logs are app. 8 in. all wall logs are 16 ft. long.

[@kennethmarvin5682]

Thank you. Again it looks beautiful. I watched all of your videos on the cabin. I like the way you did your jig. Very smart idea.

[@obiwanjacobi]

Nice video. Why did you leave the gaps between the logs? How are you going to fill them?

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

+Marc Jacobi We were building the style of cabin that was prominent in the Appalachian mountains of the southern USA. We filled the cracks with clay and a little cement.

[@yummboy2]

It is my understanding that the reasoning behind running the porch floor boards perpendicular to the face of the cabin is for drainage from weather. If the boards were run parallel to the cabin's face, they would tend to trap water unless the slope is greater than 1/8" per foot.

[@theshadow1559]

The reason that you run your porch boards length wise away from the cabin, is to allow any rain or water from snow to run away from the cabin with the porch pitched at 1 inch drop per 10 foot of run.

[@56TonyT]

the cup up knotch catch's rain water and invites rot.

[@TheNimshew]

The reason the porch floor is like that is to carry away any water. It's a porch! If the boards cup the water will still run off

[@doctorwork]

Very nice! What kind of logs were those?

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

+Doc Work They were native short nettle pines found in Tennessee . They are called Virginia pine.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

Wait! The joists logs for the floor were sticking up over the log! In the next shot you have the planks laying level with the logs what did you do to have that happen? Thanks.

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

Sorry, I don't understand the question.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

Grady Partin sorry I was afraid I wasn’t clear. At 2:02 you can see the logs used as floor supports stick up above the main sill log by several inches yet a wee bit later when the floor is on the floor boards sit flush with the sill logs, this is a dilemma I am worried about when I start putting my log cabin up in another month or so.

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

OK, I think I see what you are talking about. Please notice that the first four logs laid are or much larger than the wall logs. The front and back logs rest on the side logs which makes them higher. But when I laid the floor joist logs on the side logs and put down two layers of flooring the side logs are covered. The flooring comes up about half way up on the front and back logs. (See 2:33) I hope this helps.

[@lindanwfirefighter4973]

Grady Partin ahhh I see it! Thanks so much.

[@lorenbonds8008]

Mr. Partin, a few years ago there was a video of you and Stan using a froe to split shakes (shingles) and the putting the roof on the cabin. There was also another video where you explained how to build the fireplace along with the how to determine the dimensions of the smoke shelf, the opening to the fireplace and how much to taper the chimney such that the hole at the top of the chimney was smaller than the hole at the bottom that enters the "burn chamber". In that video you described it like holding your thumb over the end of a water hose to make the water (in this case "smoke") shoot out with more force. Seems you said the opening above the 'burn chamber' should be the same size as the face of the fireplace (i.e. the opening facing the inside of the cabin). I've hunted everywhere for those videos and can't find them. Could you repost them or tell me where I could watch them again? Thank you for your faithfulness to Christ, your ministry, and for your demonstration of how our ancestors built their homes with what was available on the land.

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

I am sorry to have to tell you that the man who made that video of me and Stan building that cabin demanded that I take it off of KZbin!

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

Please try Grady Partin on Vimeo. I have some videos there that I made myself. Maybe you would find some info. there.

[@lorenbonds8008]

That is very disappointing. There is no shortage of "how to build a log cabin" videos on KZbin, but there are none as well done as that video was done. My I ask you to describe to me how to determine the dimensions of the fireplace and the chimney? I hate to impose, but I'm unable to find similar information online anywhere. And I've watched a good number of your videos... hence my thanking you for your ministry. My favorite is the "take my yoke upon you".

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

I am working on a drawing that will show the shape and dimensions of my fire place. May take a few days. If I don't get it posted in a week. Please remind me. Always good to hear someone has benefitted from my efforts to share the word of God.

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

I went to town today to buy some graph paper but there was none to buy; so I am going to try to explain some things in written form. The first thing to do is decide what size you wish to make the "mouth" (the opening inside of your cabin into the "fire box") (the place where you build the fire). I may be going into too much detail. Just trying to make things as clear as possible. You can make the mouth as large as you wish. After you determine the size (area) of the mouth, you must build the throat (the opening at the top and to the back of the fire box) one tenth of the size (area) of the mouth.The throat should run across the back of the ceiling of the fire box. The ceiling must have an incline from front to back. Mine rises about 4 inches in a run of about 42 inches from front to back. The lintel rock ( the rock that runs across the top of the mouth of the fire box) must (I say must) hang down 6 or 8 inches below the ceiling. Eight is better. The throat opens upward and on the leading edge of a "smoke shelf" which is the floor of a cavern that opens above the throat and extends 14 inches away from the cabin wall into the chimney. As the hot air from the fire box passes through the throat and into the larger space above the smoke shelf it expands; thus creating a vacuum which makes the fire place "draw". That is my opinion. Where the guy who made the video you spoke of got the idea about the squeezing of the end a water hose I don't know. He did not get it from me. I hope this helps.

[@fierygizzardfarmer]

These logs are native pine logs here in middle Tennessee.

[@cmedbdis]

Good job with the Cabin and the video.

[@jackson4861]

Why so high off the ground?

[@evariation9327]

stops the logs from absorbing as much moisture from the ground, if touching the ground they will rot out faster :)

[@SCHNEKM483BK]

The "old" man knows how to use a chainsaw!

[@mrLumen2]

Полная шляпа. У нас бы за такие дыры в пролетах между брёвнами подзатыльников бы понадавали, - мама не горюй.

[@user-rp5er1fh2d]

this is what? why you leave gaps in walls with wath will you cover it? it's not a proper solid job waste of nice trees!

[@blackoak4978]

xxx1q cyka m6i It is the traditional way of building it. Fill the gaps with chinking and daub. Modern take on it would be foam insulation and concrete. Maybe look something up before claiming that the way someone does something is wrong, as opposed to just different than u are used to.

[@blackoak4978]

MR. NOTPC FEELINGSHURTER III dude, grow up

[@LarryH54]

Mud daubing works when the logs are touching. Those open spaces are an invitation for critters to come burrowing.

[@frschatz3200]

What is the insulating R-value of your 8" pine logs? I'm trying to compare that with a stick framing 2"x6" insulated wall.

[@blackoak4978]

someone needs to learn how to edit... and voice-over

[@yuantronz45]

Waste of precious natural resources for your "Bubba In A Shark Fantasies."