I agree with your analogy of the lath functioning like rebar. I'd also say that the fact you can't really notice your work with the lath when you stand back a take a look just means you did a really good job of keeping it very neat and tidy.

Love how you bring scripture into your vids! Thanks and God bless!

Really appreciate hearing your scripture reading. God bless you my friend. Stay strong in The Lord.

I just want to take a second to thank you for bringing us on this journey. I also would like to say your family is in my prayers on this mother's day 🙏.

Greetings from the U.k. Have been watching your videos for a while now and it is deeply therapeutic to watch man and nature work in harmony and see a man work with his hands to create something from nothing. Hope one day to visit your great and beautiful country and maybe build a cabin of my own here. Keep up the good work Chris A.

When I was a kid I liked watching Mister Rogers, because of the pacing of the show and his voice was soothing. I now like watching The Outsider for exactly the same reasons.

I truly like that you and your father work together--it adds a charm very few other channels have. I also like your humility, referring to the Bible at times, keeping a level head, going slow, showing not telling, and much more, all these add to the charm I said earlier. Sending prayers to you and your family. May God continue to bless you, keep you safe, and I hope to see a lot more videos, they are for the family, made by a family doing good things.

Re the logs....I'm a big fan of Yakisugi or Shou-sugi-ban...ie charring the wood to preserve it. I have done this on the board and batten siding of my cabin. It's supposed to seal the surface, and burn the edible part of the exterior so there's nothing for algae or wood boring insects to munch on. I noticed it made the wood much harder too. The deeper the burn, the more protected it is. Mine's been standing for a year now. It was black to begin with, but has lightened over time. I haven't used any other form of protection, as I'm sensitive to chemicals. The Japanese have been using this method for centuries. Cheap too, but time consuming. Congratulations on the amazing work you've done so far. It's one of the highlights of my week watching you both. I've learnt so much.

nice touch tapping the bolt through with the clapping in the music ! and the tossing the wood onto the trailer in slow mo was nice

that shot with the thrown wood was awesome :) I love that you share your reasoning with us about your decisions for the cabin and encurage the exchange of opinions and experiences. Thank you for sharing parts of your life with us.

Your cabin build is an engineering marvel. Should stand for better than 100 years. Kudos

Progress is good! You and Sr O have done an amazing job. As it’s grandpa’s land I love that you always look out for him, we’re some wouldn’t. Your a phenomenal person, son and grandson from all you do. Blessings to you and the O fam. 🌲🔦

I have never built a log cabin without treating the logs FIRST, I had the pleasure of staying in wade phillips “Phillips 66 “cabin many years ago and he pretreated his logs, it seems to be the best way to me ,your doing a great job keep it up.

Good Saturday Morning Mr Outsider and Dad! Thanks for visiting with your amazing journey. Great inspiration and ingenuity! God Bless, good luck!

Love watching people of faith. God bless

I used what your using and I had no issue of a problem, now my brother bought a log home that has that store bought stuff and last year he had to go over it but what I've realized with a log home of a friend a wrap around porch took care of everything, plus it look great. That's what my brother going to do.. God speed..

I agree with the metal lath, My Dad and Mom moved my uncles cabin down by the lake ( away from the in-laws back yard!) right after they got married, in the late 1940s. This is in NW Wisconsin. It was re-chinked in the way you describe at that time. It was never re-chinked and was moved to Fort Folle Avoine historical site back up the hill a few years ago, still in good shape other than the roof. Basically went it back to the in-laws back yard. Funny thing is, Dad even at 97 does not like it there!

I am now 69. I used the 'diamond' for the three cabins I built in the 70s and 80s and 90s. All three cabins have not had any issues... YET... with their lathing! Oh, and do NOT use linseed oil for the logs. Keep safe, you two.✨🤗✨

We have a log house in Oregon, wet area, but we did as you did and extended our roof over to cover the logs. We used a boric solution to keep bugs away. We used fir off our property. Not bug resistant 🥴 Enjoy watching your show. God bless you n your family

...love seeing the quality of craftsmanship that you guys are doing; It's pleasant to see a father and son come work together on tasks, while we viewers get a glimpse into a good relationship, built over the years. ...and very refreshing to notice that your life is based on Christian principles and scripture (Bible). AWESOME!

Like your quote about beginnings .... its the little things, that show the least, that you gain the most from ultimately! Great video ! Stay safe my friend. !!

Well done. Love the camera angles & the music. Thanks for the update tell Senior outsider that we are holding him up in prayer as well as the whole family.

Your attention to detail,is great,it helps us all,and educates us all, keep up the good work,and hi from OZ

I’m enjoying your building projects I turn 80 tomorrow I’m getting active way to being able to do these things myself so I certainly enjoy watching you accomplish that way you work

Awesome this is what I need.. , I'm just about to finish my shift in Icu, and will relax with your latest video, when I get home thankyou sir😉👍

I most definitely agree 💯 I also ready like how you very simply explain in simple detail what your doing. Keep up the good work! -This is Bill from Houston!

I always find it so encouraging and enjoyable for men of faith to speak the word during the course of their day. Especially on KZfaq and especially in this day and age. I appreciate the humor. My prayers for your family and your endeavors. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26 Blessings to you & yours!

To preserve wood here in Maine I use something I call “boat soup” . The mix is 1/5 pine tar, 2/5 boiled linseed oil, and 2/5 mineral spirits. It will darken the wood, but it works and it is cheap.

I really appreciate your videos. They are different from anything else on KZfaq and that's awesome.

Your photography is so good and creative, adding to the enjoyment of the video.

Coming to your place every week is an amazing journey, be safe💖🇦🇺

Me and my children love your videos, take care and be safe amidst this horrendous pandemic, respect to you and your family.

I like your idea about doing the rock infill around the base of your cabin and raising the grade around there also. I’ve been wondering what you were planning to do with that area. We always tried to get the roof on first before installing the windows, less chance of breaking something if you work from the top down. The cabins looking great, weather’s getting nice, woods are greening up, roofs going on, life’s good! Keep it up!

The scripture you included in this video made it all the more beautiful than it already is. Thank you for taking us along on this journey. Your videography is beyond beautiful. God bless you and your family.

You just got another big thumbs up for caring to share this update.! Thank you and well done..!

I enjoy seeing hard work with a nod to the Lord! Great work!

Loved the shot of being throw into the trailer from the logs perspective

Hello Outsider, As I watched this video and Mothers day is comming I wanted to let you know that I said a prayer for your family being the first Mothers Day without your mother. I also prayed for your wife. In these times we feel that we are alone but that is not the case. As we know we are never alone. We are promised in Gods word that he will never leave us or forsake us. God's word brings comfort to me when I feel that way and I hope it helps you and your family at this time also. I just want to let you know. Keep up the faith and all you good work and may God's blessings of health be on you and your family.

Hadn't seen any work on your cabin for a very long time.. thought you gave it up for good...

Man log cabins take a lot of work. God bless.

These videos along with other KZfaqrs changed my perception( towards positive) about Canada and Canadians, I'm also hooked to Joe robinet, shawn James, doug linker. P. S: (all the years of brain bleaching by U.S main stream movies making fun of Canada, during my growth years, I was dumb 🤦‍♂️)

Looking great, you're doing a fantastic job. Getting it dried in is a wonderful feeling, I remember when hubby and I got the 2x6 ceiling/roof on, we put rubber membrane on the whole roof, insulation on and metal roof on at least the inside should stay drier and then doors (little more secure) and then the windows...totally dried in, what a wonderful feeling. Reliving what we built by watching you build. Keep up the good work, stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep dry....God Bless you and your family, keeping you all in my thoughts and prayers. Oh, we used Sikkens products on the logs.

I am watching your channel for more than a year and today for the first time I realized that you are using your left hand!!

I can't wait to see your progress. Hope your wife is feeling well. I have prayed for her and will often think of how she is going in her recovery? So nice your dad is helping you still it must help him as well to get through his days. May God bless you and your family 🙏❤️ Australia

I dont own or live in one, my elders tell me back in the day the Mi'kmaq people used spruce gum and tree sap with berch bark flower make it a paste, mix all and add water, its like making bread but you dilute the mix into water and paste the final product on their tar shack buildings, was mainly for patching and water proofing and glue but it's also used for bug control and preserving wood tools and ceremonial pipes and wooden staffs leather shoes boots etc etc

It is good to hear the Word of God on your Channel my friend.

We built a full log home 22 years ago and are still in it today. We decided to use foam backer rod and synthetic chinking. Best decision we ever made. The log will move around with temperature changes and mortar will always crack out. This chinking is guaranteed for 50+ years and I believe it as it looks like the day it was applied 22 years later. It's also much easier to apply with no screwing around with mortar and looks great.

I love to hear you preach brother ! I’m a total believer. I love your channel

When you are doing the windows on the top floor I really recommend you do a dormer window as that greatly increases the usable space and also looks nice. Great job!

Methyl Ester (biodiesel) is great for wood treatment. It has no glycerol so less greasy and if you don't wash it** the slight alkalinity helps with protecting the wood. Methanol is best but you can make it with any pure alcohol. Mix 1 200ml of alcohol with 2% lye (NaOH) and shake until mixed. Pour the resulting paint stripper into 800ml of oil warmed to 50 degs C and shake like mad for 2 minutes. Allow to settle. The soap at the bottom is excellent stuff. The clear above is methyl ester.

My husband and I think the Finish job looks fantastic . My husband also a carpenter worker he is very impressive with the results. We enjoyed watching you .

In my log cabin we used Tikkurila's Valtti Color Satin almost ~20 years ago, and now it's finally time to re-treat the log cabin this summer. But since Valtti Color Satin is no longer produced (after 2007) I guess I'm going with Tikkurila's Valtti Color, which is almost the same, an oil-based, solvent-borne tintable wood stain that protects the wood against weathering by slowing the effects of moisture and sunlight. The Valtti Color Satin worked for almost 2 decades and now only the most sunny poles of the front terrace that are under the weather have lost the brown tint that rest of the cabin still has, so finally time to give the whole cabin a new treatment. I can only recommend this type of oil-based wood stain for logs, since it doesn't chip like paint, it only just slowly wears out under the burning sun, and then very easy to give a new treatment, since no need to scrape off any chipped paint. Just a little wirebrushing to remove bird poops and then you're ready to go. tikkurila.com/products/valtti-color

My good friend, excellent monitoring the Moisture in the woods, I will recommend to get a little bit lower than 14% ideally less than 10 , but your right about because the woods is outsite exposed.

Seeing how you used that threaded rod was genius. Its funny because that helped my mind incase I ever built a cottage myself, because I noticed how you made the end clean with an angle grinder. I am very familiar with using an angle grinder but to achieve the result you did, can't be explained, it's just how you work the tool with using the nut! Kind of neat to see because you would never know with the results showing after! Awesome work!

Very inspiring! Building a small cabin in MT. God bless and thank you for sharing.

Thank you for creating this and your other videos! It's great to see you and your dad working on this huge huge project together. I have an idea for you for making a tremendously effective preservative: Basically...make your own pine/cedar/birch tar and mix it with linseed oil and turpentine. For the tar: in your stone ring fire pit, dig a hole in the dirt in the center and put in a small can, a 1 gallon paint can works well.....it needs to stay cool relative to the fire. Put a steel garbage can with a 4 inch hole cut in the center bottom over the can. Put pine bark, cedar bark, or birch bark into the garbage can. Put the lid tightly onto the metal garbage can. Arrange firewood around the garbage can...and light it up and wait. When it cools, you will carefully retrieve the paint can from the ground. It will contain tar....which while smelling great and feeling wonderful, will kill anything that lives. (Dont get any of it on your tender skin parts.....it contains Benz alpha pyrenes which are mutagenic and carcinogenic) Mix this tar as follows: tar:linseed oil: turpentine= 1: 3:1 Slop this on your logs with a crude brush, emphasizing the endgrain. It looks terrific and will preserve against any microbe. PS it's too much trouble trying to distill your own turpentines from the garbage can. Forget that idea and purchase linseed oil and turpentine.....the tar is what you want which is difficult to find and expensive, and easy to make. Very satisfying, since it smells so good and makes the wood look so good. PS if you stuff conifer needles in the garbage can with bark, your tar will be thinner, and will contain, not turpentine, but larger aromatic alkenes which, ,like tar, are highly effective preservatives but not as good looking when applied to wood, looking more like a muddy muddle. PS2 Dont get any of the dark tar onto your testicles....we dont want you getting testicular cancer! PS3 The amount of pine tar, or Stockholm tar ( a mystery mix that is strongly preferred for its beauty and smell and overall greatness) (The pine tar that is in Tegrin shampoo is vanishingly small...look at the ingredient percentages. But that stuff, in the low amounts, stimulates replicative cell growth (on skin and scalp) which kills microbes and stops dandruff and may cause cancer in larger amounts even though is smells wonderful and makes wood look beautiful. (By the way, creosote is more toxic, more carcinogenic, looks terrible and smells terrible....but is a better preservative) PS 4 the flames that you see initially emanating from the edges of the lid are from methanol....wood alcohol, (not drinkable)( it will blind you and kill you) then after that are from vaporized turpentines.....lighter organics. PS5 The material in the garbage can after the burn is biochar .....it contains about 38% of the energy of the original wood material but is really easy to light up (an awesome fire starter with a spark) and when mixed with compost, will slowly release nutrients for years and years in your garden. I think i have made this too complicated sounding.....set the cans up and let the fire go and check the can in the ground the next day for the tar.....it's that simple. Ted

Good time to use a box blade or similar to fill in some of those massive ruts in the trail before the summer dries it like concrete.

hey Outsider-how is your wife doing? I know she had been thru (all of you in fact) difficult times, just hoping she is doing well still! Great Channel !!!

Eugene from illinois . i love your log cabin its graet . a youtuber BEARDED CARPENTER building log cabins , ckedk im out it seems to me he nows what he is doing . god bless Eugene from Illinois . Be safe

Amazing! Great job! Greetings from Argentina!

I always look forward to your videos!

I love watching your videos. You're doing an amazing job!

I used to do above-grade parging, which involves the same mesh you're using in the video. We used concrete nails which had the smaller head. Once you get it started you can put the nail in the narrowest space of the mesh hole and pull it tight and that would be satisfactory. Once concrete goes on it doesn't make a difference either way.

I agree with your ideas on using the lath. The video was great as usual and I thank you for sharing it. Prayers for your dear wife.

Love and respect from California. Love the bible reference. Amen brother.

Outsider, I really appreciate and enjoy how you bring together your love of the outdoors, your woodworking skills and practical knowledge, your artistry in filming and producing these videos, and honoring God as you do so.

Thank you for integrating some very useful life lessons that you learn or apply throughout your daily work. It's good to hear. ❤

Love watching today 🙏 hello from Australia

I loved that intro music

Great Video. 👍 With the Chincon. I think the wire mesh sounds like the best way to go to reinforce it. I Guess that you will have to put that also on the inside (?). There will also have a air gap in between, I believes that will help in Insulation (?). #STAYSAFE.

Zechariah 4:10 It is one thing to be adventurous but to have fear of God and know the word of God is a great combination. God bless you Outsider. Have a blessed life in that cabin your are building. Stay in touch with God as always. I read the whole chapter of Zechariah 4. Loved it and I appreciate very much for quoting the verse. For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

Glad to have found you! Ive been watching your vids since 11:00 this evening. It's now 3:45.

Proverbs 11:14 Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

My Self Reliance channel put Dried ground moss in between the homemade, Clay/Ash/Grit mortar, to insulate the cabin Gaps. He is in Algonquin, Canada.

I was thinking about it ,I started to argue with you, and then I realized that you pretty much got it all sewed up. I totally realize how mesh could crack and packing it with more doesn't necessarily solve the problem, but your cool ass mesh design just might. Dooooooope👍😀

Good call on the diamond mesh!!! Thanks for the videos in this crazy time to help pass the time! God bless!

Good morning. The cabin is looking great.

You sound like the man who used to do the commentary for the Disney wildlife films.

Amazing tutorial... will use the scripture at my job ....thank you god for this message and the disciple!

Our cottage (quite large) was built around 1933 and used oakum stuffed between the logs. It required re-pointing of oakum over the years, here and there when it dried after time or the logs changed enough to make a bit of gap. The value of oakum is it's naturalness and it never cracks like mortar. I'd put this into the decades until it needs help. No mortar at all. No cracks or loosening inside or out.

Love what your doing. My son and I have often talked about building a cabin or two on our 700 acre property. Had you thought about using galvanized staples in place of the ardox and roofing nails? Just something that came to mind as I watched. What are you going to use for chinking. A couple of builder friends have built cabins and they used cement on some place (per owners request) and on the others they use a type of silicone based material (came in powder form I think) that would expand and contract as the weather dictated. Keep the great videos coming, can't wait to see it when your finished.

Watching you back your rig into your grandfather's "woodshed," reminded me of the security measures you put into place to prevent wood theft. Has it helped?

After a recommendation from a log home builder, we washed our cabin down with a dilute bleach solution then applied 2 coats of Sikkens. The Sikkens was great. It shines, so when it gets dull, just apply more sealer. We have a slightly bigger cabin than yours in the north woods of WI. It only took 4-5 gallons. The cold weather affects some products. The only downside we had was the bleach wash.attracted a porcupine who thought our cabin quite tasty.

Wishing for you and family and others fine you well. Your doing a great job on the cabin. 🙏💖

It is so nice to see the cabin coming along and knowing this is the year she'll be finished...mostly finished, I figure. I'm getting more & more excited to see these final pieces of construction come together and see the cabin finished. I keep imagining how beautiful she's going to look and you couldn't have picked a more peaceful & serene setting to build in than where your at right now. It's good to see your dad still working on it with you as well. Let him know you have a subscriber that says hello to him and I look forward to seeing you both on here next week with more accomplished on the cabin. Til then stay safe & take care.❤ BTW, I love your narration to the videos & I especially loved this week's, when you chose to speak of God by referring to the book of Zachariah in the bible, 😊 wonderful 😇. Most ppl your age & the times in which we live in, don't have the nerve to talk about God, in any way whatsoever let alone even care about God.

Great job on the cabin build. My preferred treatment on log cabin logs is no treatment at all.Logs last a very long time, even spruce, when left alone when they are far enough off the ground and a good overhang helps too. Dick Proenneke’s cabin didn’t have treatment and it did very well.

Cherish these times with your Dad. Time waits for no one except God. After all, He invented it. Its amazing what we take for granted.

i have not bee following you like some but the bond you and your dad needs a mention as i have similar with both my sons and i mast say it fells great your build is looking good no one does this over here some further south but we just don't get the snow like you guys and that's a good thing as i don't like the cold just needed to say these things i hope it makes sense to you stay safe

About the lath/no lath - yes lath will considerably strengthen the mortar exactly like rebar add strength to concrete, so I'm pretty sure you made the right choice, especially taken the quite big gaps between some of the logs in mind.

4:42 Amen to that.

Good to see you back. Good luck on your project and stay safe

Many years ago we visited a place near Williams Lake in BC. Their log cabins were chinked with a substance that was made up of coarse saw dust and a kind of binder material. I asked the owner about it and he said it was proprietary. Looked great on the cabins as the colors blended with the logs.

I have a pine wood fence. I installed it 10yrs ago. One of the knots in the pine had sap run down it dried. Its still there in all the weather, still hard as a rock and it sticks to wood. Just a thought for your log protection.

Love the Bible quotes 🙌 ❤

Thanks for sharing brother! Holy Crap almost 40,000 views in 9 hours!! Hope that cha ching makes it easier so you can keep the videos coming! God bless you and your family!

Just watched the lathe video. Our cabin was sprayed every late spring w/linseed oil. Just a garden pump nothing fancy. And now a days they make a concrete product with mesh fibers in it. I do believe it would work well with the lathe. We used a coving knife which is what plasters use to create the cove between ceiling & walls. It's rubber and flexible. It made chinking easy.

Did you consider creasing the lath horizontally to give a deeper fit?

While I have experience in use of boiled linseed oil, some have had negative and some positive. What I learned that is positive is applying it (literally hot) during the heat of the summer so it will soak into the wood. Then you will not have the black mold patches that form from air pockets that formed between the oil and the wood. One could also do a burn on the outside, light charing of the wood that makes it water-resistant, bug and critter resistant as well. Also, having a portable air tank and a construction air stapler makes the process of installing the mesh easier and faster. Ok, that is my two cents worth. God bless y'all and glad your winter is pretty much over.

Wow. That throwing wood shot was really good. I really like how you don’t feel the need to it music behind all of your shots. It’s nice to just hear nature and the sound of your work. Great editing

Springtime can be so exciting..! Your cabin looks fantastic..! The chinking is going to be cool! Can’t wait to see the windows. 👍