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4 years ago I felt lost, even though society had clearly paved the path for me. I was 17 and living in Stockholm Sweden. After seeing the documentary “Alone in the wilderness“ by Dick Proenneke, I became completely obsessed with the idea of just packing a rucksack of hand tools and wondering off into the vast forest of Sweden to create my own life, living off the land and build a log cabin. I found my meaning, but I was still in high school. My Grandparents owned forest so I started spending more and more time with them every weekend, wandering out, dreaming of my obsession and asking for advise. I had absolutely no prior knowledge of anything how I was going to do this, just the obsession to learn. When I turned 18 I told everyone of my plans. I received a gopro camera from my parents, so I could at least film some of my adventures. I hadn't even thought about filming anything but I did so and am I glad I did. It is a long story from here of hard work, pain, cold, making many many mistakes and figuring out how to solve problems all alone by trial and error. But I finally built the cabin all alone after 3 years. Along the way I also became passionate in filmmaking, so I invested in a better camera. The whole journey is filmed on a tripod by myself, which was lets just say a struggle (I am insane). Some people will doubt this and say I had a film crew and construction team, which I just take as a big complement. I know my journey and I hope to inspire others the same way Dick Proenneke inspired me. Log Cabin: (0:00) 3 Years Earlier: (0:29) Finding Log Cabin Site: (0:49) Felling the first trees: (1:18) Spring: (2:17) Splitting foundation log: (3:51) Stone foundation: (4:20) Building the log cabin: (5:10) Beaver: (6:45) How to lift the logs alone?: (7:14) Cooking “Kålbullar“: (8:45) Starting to look like a log cabin: (9:25) Windows: (11:04) Door: (12:12) Log Cabin roof structure: (13:00) Winter incoming: (16:26) Roof: (18:00) Splitting stones under the log cabin?: (19:06) Old wood preservation technique: (21:41) My first dog: (23:53) Root cellar: (25:17) Enjoy the Swedish wilderness: (27:37) Water sealing the roof using birch bark: (28:47) Using old abandoned clay tiles as roofing material: (31:42) Growing own food: (34:49) Floor in the log cabin: (36:49) Secret hatch: (39:41) Ladder down the root cellar: (40:23) Shelves: (42:22) Filling the root cellar with the grown food: (46:12) Building a pulk for easier transport: (48:08) Handmade log cabin door: (49:08) Forging: (54:39) Going fishing with the pulk: (58:15) Wilderness food cooking: (1:02:03) Log fire pit for cooking: (1:06:03) Handmade windows: (1:09:05) Preparing food for family visit: (1:20:40) Family feast at the log cabin: (1:27:25)
