Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

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Make sure your fireplace is prepped and the flue damper is open. Then, start stacking firewood using either the log cabin or ...

Be sure to get your tinder, kindling, and firewood ready ahead of time. If you own a fire pit you should stock a supply of ...

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Some 20 years ago I built a log cabin the old way. It was a group effort; we were learning how to build a cabin from nationally known log cabin builder, Peter Gott. The cabin building project was ...

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...

What does it take to build a log cabin from scratch? TikTok creator in.the.trough (@in.the.trough) showed exactly that with his off-grid winter project. The clip demonstrated everything, from ...