Video: Traditional Finnish Log House Building

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Docu in Finnish.

As someone from the tropics, things like this are absolutely fascinating to me, coupled and skilled expertise of the carpenter's and hewing axes is excellent.

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[SubaruSTi]

That's some seriously soft wood, it's like play dough!

 

[VaughnT]

I watch that video at least once a year, and it never ceases to amaze me how easy they make it look. Of course, chopping through pine/spruce is rather easy work, all things considered.

What impresses me the most is the great control that these guys demonstrate. They are quite handy with a hatchet. I'd love to see what the edge geometry is like on those choppers.

 

[SubaruSTi]

No doubt it's all I'm the skills and knowledge of fitting it all together.

 

[VaughnT]

I watch that video at least once a year, and it never ceases to amaze me how easy they make it look. Of course, chopping through pine/spruce is rather easy work, all things considered.

What impresses me the most is the great control that these guys demonstrate. They are quite handy with a hatchet. I'd love to see what the edge geometry is like on those choppers.

 

[North]

That was great. Thanks for posting it!

Bill

 

[JayGoliath]

Salamat!

 

[other memory]

I watched the whole thing. Fascinating. Never pictured myself watching something like that before. Such skill.

 

[sasha]

As someone who never build a log cabin I got a question to ask. Any idea why toward the end of the build a guy used an ax to remove a thin layer of outer wood from outside and inside?? Is it just for the looks to expose the lighter color or there is a better reason for it????

 

[sideways]

The ax is used to smooth out the inside and the outside walls and clean any extra gunk or bugs off the walls. The cabins you find in scandinavia are still very similar in design but they use machines to cut down on the manual labor. No logs are harvested by hand and you will not see an ax at a building site. Chainsaws do the improvised fixes.

The logs all come ready cut from a mill and they use concrete elements for the foundations. The roofing materials and insulation are also modern. Otherwise the process is very the similar. All the pieces fit together the same way and the same considerations apply. For example you still need to leave those strategic gaps in the wood to allow for the wood to compress as it ages. Using nails in some spots is frowned on for the same reason.