>>2208520Ok so how realistic was this? Aside from the obnoxious editing and madeup challenger and drama, I'm feeling gaslit by they way they build, namely their foundations.
We live in a similar climate, with ground being mostly clay, and the way we used to do it is dig out wide holes a meter deep, spaced out every couple meters, pour concrete to form wide foundations around brick pillars that would stick out of the ground and support the weight of the house. That's where we'd also insulate those so that moisture wouldn't creep up and damage the load-bearing logs. I think we'd also let the resulting piers settle in the earth for a while.
These guys,however, built a two-storey log (freshly felled) cabin on metal rods they'd patted into the ground with their excavator's bucket, with at least a meter of those sticking out, and in general very little attention had been paid to that part of the construction, there was one scene with the excavator and the next one they were already placing a floor (thin-looking for the climate, I might add). They claim these cabins are made to last generations. To me the whole thing looks flimsy and rushed, but these guys are apparently professionals and I don't see people crying hoax, so idk. Maybe Alaskan soil is firmer and they're ready to burn gasoline by the barrel to keep their huts warm in winter? I know many old settler huts were built on the ground but they didn't have to last as long either, usually weren't two-storey and people's standards and life expectancy were lower. These guys had a helicopter, 2 excavators, a lorry and an industrial woodcutter machine, you'd think a person who can afford that and is building something that should outlast their grandchildren, would approach it differently.
