hello friends i'm max and this video continues the story of developing my log cabin camp in corellian wilderness last summer in the previous episodes i've shown my on-site preparations which were necessary for beginning the main summer project of making a wooden water wheel and a water wheel powered nail i have already made a topsy-turvy workbench fixed the cabin's door broken brand intruder made a new wood mallet as well as installed and tested a diy clogger's knife everything is growing according to my plans and i will soon be able to start building the water wheel but first it is important to prepare all of the necessary tools and organize a comfortable workspace now using the new topsy-turvy workbench it will be easy to make a tool rack for my outdoor workshop but firstly we need to find the right material for it i have a butt and lock section that wasn't cylindrical enough for my log cabin's construction but it should do fine as a donor for the racks shelves the idea is to cut it into four shelves and connect them with vertical posts into a tool rack i have a separate video on how to mill a log in the perfect boards using a regular chainsaw i will leave a link to it under this video for now i will only mention these free hand milling techniques key points firstly it is important to properly secure and lay out the log then by swinging the chainsaws bottom tip you would make parallel cuts letting the chainsaw to cut the way it wants to cut while keeping the same grip after making three cuts i got four short slabs about two and a half inches 60 millimeters thick the slab's edges can now be trimmed if it is not done the cutting edge of a hand plane's iron would almost certainly be damaged during planing because i turned the log on the ground the sand inevitably packed into the logs ends this is why i did these additional cross cuts before planing the slabs face surfaces now we need to lay out the mortises for the vertical posts so that they are not in the same plane and the upper round mortises do not intersect with the lower ones the holes should not be drilled fully through i drilled blind holes with a forstner drill bit to a depth exceeding the length of the beads shank so i had to periodically check the whole step with my caliper to make my workbench heavier and more convenient i gripped it with a multifunctional attachment today i will only use it as a vice i made a rectangular block and then cut out a large perpendicular groove so i could clamp a work piece to it with wedges to secure the attachment to my workbench i drilled holes coaxial to the rows of holes on the workbench the side of the attachment that will lie on the bench top should be as flat as possible a concave surface is permissible as long as all four corners of the block simultaneously rest on the bench top this work can be done with a regular hand plane if you don't have a joiner plane like me in addition to being used as a vice this attachment will have other functionalities this is why i shaped all of its edges to be as square as possible as well as cut a little rabbit which is not otherwise necessary for the vise function but i will not get ahead of myself this attachment is only advice for now cutting a perpendicular groove with a chainsaw is a matter of seconds however drilling a row of one and a half inch 32 millimeter coaxial holes was not quite that easy i drilled the corresponding holes in both the attachment and workbench at once which ensured a perfect match now using these holes you can quickly secure the vise to the workbench with hold fasts made from branches using device and two wedges it is easy to secure a problematic cylindrical work piece which would not twist even if being worked on with a huge block cutter i could have made and used a primitive wooden pole lathe for the task but the productivity and accuracy would be lower than nevertheless the pole lathe has its advantages and it will certainly build one soon using a tenon cutter you can make a hundred rack posts a day but i don't need a hundred i only need sixteen four which will be the rack's legs i installed the rag's legs at an angle for better stability i made them from a maple branch since it is stronger than older the rack will be collapsible which means the ends of the legs should be trimmed this step is easy to do with a chainsaw when the rack is partially assembled since the posts are standardized and interchangeable the tool rack is assembled without a hitch note this is a heavy duty rack the first two shelves can easily support my weight unfortunately the upper shelf needed some repairs because the lock section noticeably routed on the bottom side of the board made from that section was weakened by the holes and cracked as a result in order to add strength to the weakened shelf reinforce it to be thrown dowels they will reliably keep the cracked slab as one piece even better than wood glue everything used in the bush must be built solidly and reliably all the parts are ready and can now be assembled into a single structure theoretically you can make a rack cover that will protect it from rain or you can add doors but this simple design suits me perfectly as is this mobile rack should hold all my hand tools i just need to come up with a convenient and rational storage spot for each tool for example a knife is conveniently stored in a sheath for my large log dog i found a spot on the side of the shelf the awl can be stuck anywhere there is not much space for my two-handed chisel on the shelf so it will be stored in the back of the rack the tri-square scissors and multi-tool can be hunk on the side i think my comments here are excessive and i will let you take a short break from them to enjoy the sounds of nature however if you have any questions about my tools i will try to answer them all below foreign the new tool rack made me quite happy when you have all tools at hand any project will move noticeably faster most importantly i thoroughly enjoyed the process of building it from the first days of my summer vacation i began the necessary preparations for my water wheel construction i'm convinced that the preparation of the right tools and organizing the workplace is the most important part of the project so last year i cleared a small lot next to the cabin this is where i plan to keep my tools and materials as you might remember i built my log cabin using falling pines knocked down by a severe storm back in 2011 it was the worst storm i can remember uprooted tree trunks laid on the ground for at least four years just riding and during this time they collected a lot of moisture even more than during their life every circumstances has its pros and cons a moist pine log of this diameter is very heavy but it can be easily shaped with hand tools while building my cabin i had to disassemble it during the first year of its construction and cover the logs before winter so that the logs wouldn't dry too fast the following summer when assembled back the cabin still stood ruthless for a while exposed to sun and rain so naturally the log ends got darker there is no real reason to clean up the logs ends but i decided to use my new side grinders attachment to make my cabin look prettier when you have good tools the work gets done quickly as you can see the pine's separate is tinted gray from fungus once the log dries the fungus will die but the pigment will remain it is clearly visible in the shape of a gray ring but the oily core of the northern pine is not so easily overtaken by the fungus the pine's oily core will only begin to rot when the subwood has already crumbled into dust the more the log gets wet the more its end darkens the lower log which protrudes beyond the roof overhang turned black it is good that this particular log consists almost entirely of oily hardwood grinding each logs and is only half the job now it is time to finish them i used an oil-based antiseptic first and then i saturated the log ends cuts with an oil wax mix formulated specifically for it the logs ants have acquired a warm amber honey color and the log cabin now looks more elegant because my roof overhang is extra long and protects them from rain they will keep that look for a while as you might remember i had invited guests who visited my lock cabin last winter when i arrived this season and opened the tempered door i noticed that someone moved things around the cabin my vertically challenged but horizontally blessed cabin guard whom i entrusted to keep order here in my absence refused to end on the subject of the safety of the property entrusted to him when he saw me he decided to avoid a verbal confrontation and ran away well he can't really run away as he has no legs rather he slithered away it should be clarified here that when i left my cabin camp last year i mothballed my unfinished projects for example i overturned the chevy horse and the three-legged cutting board made of raw wood covered them with sawdust and burlap this was to prevent the wood from cracking but when i came back this spring i saw that mice had uncovered both the shaving horse and the cutting board which resulted in the moisture saturated wood cracking so it remains for me is to come down and try to fill the cracks with my leftover polymer resin remaining from our previous kayak making projects this is the mice damage to save time i decided to fill the cracks in both the horse and the cutting board at once practice has shown that duct tape doesn't stick well to oil finished surface so i had to use screws and other materials found around the camp to seal the crack from the side after making a fiberglass reinforced kayak from branches fabric and resin which i talked about last year there is little polymer left and in order to make most of it i decided to use sawdust as a filler i made a simple ram from a large chip poured a handful of sawdust into the crack and compacted it with the rama as a result a minimal amount of resin was used to fill this gap economy must be canonical the plastic bottle in which i mixed the resin components last year came in handy again what is garbage in civilization acquires value in the wild the bottle's narrow neck makes it easier to pour the polymer into a thin slot once the resin hardened i removed the impromptu form work and so that the place where the mice node out a piece of oily wood was not fully bonded to the polymer which did not upset me at all the tiny bubbles on the bottom of the transparent polymer give the visual effect of frost i think it looks interesting i decided to cover the back of my cutting board with the wax finish the cutting board is stored and used in the forest and will certainly be affected by seasonal fluctuations in moisture the wax seals the wood's capillaries which should prevent it from repeated cracking for best protection on the surface i heated the wax with a torch so it saturates deeper into the wood and lastly i recorded the top surface of the cutting board with food safe and grain oil finish having disassembled the form work on the shaving horse i saw that the crack was filled almost to the entire depth and it would no longer grow and that's what i need in order to increase the working stroke of the shaving horse's pivoting lever i chamfered the semicircular edges of the huge mortise in which the clamping lever is located since the chamfer should be removed from the inside of the curved surface i used my homemade curved gouge up until i forged this curved gouge i did not think it was such a useful tool to have around but now i find it plenty of fun to use to save the gouges cutting edge i used the wood file on the side where the crack was filled with the polymer after being stored indoors for over a year the older had dried up noticeably and would be okay as is however i decided to additionally protect my shaving horse with two coats of finishing oil now it looks better and should last me life long by the way to this day no one has guessed how i carved a long hole in my wooden water a perfectly round opening for the cabin's window no the cavity inside my wooden scoop i intend to publish a video describing the carving technique soon so you have one last chance to submit your thoughts i suspect once i publish the video some people will claim they knew about the technique since they were in diapers at the moment i have covered almost all of the preparatory stages for my water will powered mill construction in the next video i plan to begin a story about my path on building a water wheel at my location camp in corellia friends for your convenience i assembled a chronologically arranged list of videos about my efforts in establishing this cabin camp in the off-grid remote location of corellia you can find the list in this video's description below by the way this is the 10th video to a six year series that i've been working on this is maxi goro st petersburg russia 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