Building a Saxon House (Grubenhaus) with Hand Tools: Bushcraft Project (PART 5)

We continue building a bushcraft saxon house or grubenhaus in the forest using hand tools only. For part 5 we carry on with building the roundwood timber frame and roof. We use a mixture of traditional tools and modern day hand tools. The bark peeling jig has been really useful when using the drawknife to debark the logs. We finished off putting up the rafters and then continued to put up the roof battens or lath. The whole saxon pit house structure is build using pine, which is not ideal for roundwood cons