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The original was posted on /r/homesteading by /u/article67 on 2023-10-06 13:48:00.

I made a post here before asking what kind of jobs I could take to acquire the skills for homesteading; I wanted to ask something similar again, but more specific. I want to someday live in a house that I built with my own hands. I’ve done some construction work, obviously doing more would be beneficial toward that end, but I’m not a huge fan of modern style home construction. I want to have the skills and knowledge to be able to enter into a forest, fell trees, process the lumber, and craft a quality log cabin. The problem is, these skills aren’t really in high demand these days, so finding a teacher and a way to apprentice professionally would be difficult.

There is a local lumber mill near me, they fell trees and process them, albeit in a more industrialized/commercial way. I’m thinking getting a job with them would be great experience, but I worry that the skills might not be as transferrable to doing it in the small scale. Any thoughts in this matter?