You obviously never heard of Richard Proeneke. A book and a documentary were made about him circa 1970s. He, by himself, with primitive hand tools, built a cabin, root cellar, and gathered and stored all supplies and food (for the winter) he would need to live in the wilderness of Alaska, in a few months time. He had to cut down the trees by hand, mill them, dimension them, and notch them by hand, build the roof, the fireplace, the doors and windows with shutters, all by hand! I have read the book and watched the documentary with original footage. He is one of many who have done accomplished such feats that by modern western stanadards most would consider impossible.
However, if you are in good physical condition and are an experienced user of hand tools and have the know-how, it can certainly be accomplished. Richard did all this at 52 years of age, and continued living there until he was 82 years of age, after which he donated the cabin and acreage to the US park service. The craftmanship he displayed in the construction of these is evidenced by the fact that the cabin still is in great shape to this day. Again, he built this to standards of excellence in a few months.
Noah, his three sons, his wife and three daughters-in-law were on hand, over possibly as much as a 100 year period (Genesis 5:32-6:14) to build the ark, in an area where gopher wood was abundant.
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