![]() I began to cut down trees and film with my phone, learning as I go.” “So I started studying myself the old arts and learning from my grandfather and mentor Åke Nilsson. As an experiment in building a log cabin from scratch with (mostly) just a few hand tools, it is an extraordinary document: “I had no previous experience in building, gathering materials or filming,” Grankvist writes. Or, you might say, “this isn’t a video about laundry but about building a log cabin!” And you would be correct. You may wonder, “who washed his forefathers’ clothes?”… Just like our Forefathers did.” You may notice, or not, the cleanliness of Grankvist’s clothing. ![]() Who did Erik Grankvist’s laundry, we might wonder, while he built a log cabin alone during the year he recorded in the edited video above? Grankvist shows how, at 18, he “ventured out alone with only a backpack full of simple hand tools to actualize my dream… build my own traditional off grid log cabin by hand from the materials of the Swedish wilderness. Henry David Thoreau has at times been upbraided by critics for “everyone’s favorite incriminating biographical factoid,” writes Donovan Hohn at The New Republic: “During the two years he spent at Walden Pond, his mother sometimes did his laundry.” The author who became “America’s original nature boy “played at rugged self-sufficiency,” it is said, “while squatting on borrowed land, in a house built with a borrowed axe” he played at rugged individualism while relying on friends and family to support him.
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