Been watching videos of folks building rough log cabins in the woods, calling it bushcraft

[Billy-o]

I don't know why they do it, but it isn't hurting anyone and it keeps them off the streets. Lots of people have an urge to build a house themselves, but most people don't have the skills or loot or time to build a proper one. So, running up a semi-ept loggy hutlet might do to scratch the itch a bit, I guess.

 

[Falstaff]

Coincidently, I have just spent a couple of hours (and a few beers) in a cabin that a friend built in his 27acre woodland. To be fair, he felled with chainsaws and planked with a transportable bandsaw/mill. He had to fell the trees anyway (there was a desperate need to thin) and he wanted all the wood to come from his wood. He wanted a shelter that would last years and was secure (tools etc. left in). Like me, he's put a wood burner, basic cooking facilities, and LED lighting in. I think any type of temporary shelter would not have been suitable.

Bushcraft? definitely not - more pioneering craft.

His site is PAWS (plantation on ancient woodland site) and he is slowly reverting it to native deciduous (though it will take more than his lifetime).

Glad to hear he is trying to recover it to the original native state. Around here the Councils will jump at a shelter with cooking and lighting as being housing, without planning permissions, and no chance of getting it. They've been burnt by too many gypsies going static and doing this trick to get round the rules. Starting to enforce take-down rulings now.

 

[Tengu]

The smithy in our Iron Age Village has a turf roof.

It leaks like a sieve.

(Our Crannog build will take two years and a vast quantity of logs...but we are shameless status seekers and Living on Water is de rigour here...)