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This video is a full hour long documentary of I and Marie's adventure building our long-term bushcraft camp, camp Firlend. Follow us as we go through our 9 part building series of the camp, all packed into one video. Also included are some never before seen failed footage including extras that had been cut, and even failed entries. Along with the addition of extra information explaining what we did and why we did it, not shown in the separate entries in the series. So relax, and enjoy the documentary. Sadly I wasn't able to include entry 10, the final entry in the series, mainly because it is nearly another hour long, but also due to the fact that it wasn't us building. I wanted to keep this documentary only on the building of our camp, from start to finish. Huge thanks to TA Outdoors for giving me the idea for this video, go visit his channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTAout...
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on Dec 1, 2016 On
this solo bushcraft canoe camping trip, I bring just the basic
survival gear that I would normally carry in my day pack while out
small game hunting. I never know when my self reliance skills will
be needed. No tent, no sleeping pad, minimal cooking gear, small
tarp, first aid kit. Prepping for emergency preparedness is good
practice for real life emergencies.
No talking,viral timelapse video of Shawn James off grid log cabin build by one man alone in the wilderness of Canada, from 1st tree I cut to last floor board I laid. Please SUBSCRIBE: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXK...
So Why Should You Subscribe To My Channel? To watch me build my next cabin - bigger and better than this one!.. To relax… To
virtually immerse yourself in nature… To see how I live debt
free, stress free and low cost… To see how I build things alone…
To see how I cook with no electricity or gas… To hear what steps
I took to retire in my mid-forties so I could live my dream life…
To interact with the happiest and most helpful community of viewers
on YouTube… To become more self-reliant. If you want to build a
rustic log cabin or tiny off grid home alone in the wilderness and
you haven't seen the rest of my videos, this is a good primer. It's
super fast motion though, so if you are interested in building a
primitive log cabin like this, take a look at the "Log Cabin
The Bear Den" playlist on the channel. At the beginning of the
video, I show a winter drone photo of the cabin in the snow in
December. Then I flashback to the first balsam fir tree I cut down
with a saw and axe near the cabin. I drag the trees into place and
clear the cabin site. All summer, I cut the notches in the logs as
I built the cabin up, offsite. Once I was finished notching the
logs with a log scribe, saw, axe, adze and wood carving gouge, I
loaded up the entire cabin of logs and moved them to my land near
Algonquin Park, Ontario Canada. Once on site, I spent a month
reassembling the cabin on a foundation of sand and gravel. Once the
log walls were up, I again used hand tools to shape every log,
board and timber to erect the gable ends, the wood roof, the porch,
the outhouse and a seemingly endless number of woodworking
projects. For the roof, I used an ancient primitive technology to
waterproof and preserve the wood - shou sugi ban, a fire hardening
wood preservation technique unique to Japan and other areas in
northern climates. Because the cabin is offgrid, I have used
handtools for most of the build and without power, I have no
options on site regardless. The tiny house will continue to be
operated with power, not even renewable energy for now, so I'm
heating the cabin with a woodstove fire place, which I also cook
on. The cabin is made of cedar fence posts, twelve feet long and
the cabin measures 10 feet x 20 feet inside with a one hundred
square foot sleeping loft on the second floor. The floor is made of
two inch thick pine planks, torched to help repel water and to give
them a rustic barn board appearance. Tune off sound if you don't
want to hear the music, - there is no talking in this silent video.
If you are a subscriber or long time viewer, there is some new
footage at the end of the video, but otherwise you have seen most
of this. As always, I'll release a new video on Friday showing the
progress I made this week on the door and the ice box for food
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Published on Jan 26, 2018 #logcabin#offgrid#dog
Relaxing at the cabin with Cali, my Golden Retriever. The weather was
incredible, warm and sunny one day with deer coming out to dine on
the acorns exposed by the melting snow, but the next day, rain ice
pellets fell all night long before changing to snow the following
day. It was not the worst ice storm I've witnessed, not like the ice
storm of several years ago that shut the northeast down for a few
days, but it did some damage. With our drone, my wife got some
incredible aerial footage and photographs of raging rivers, pristine
Canadian wilderness in the snow and the log cabin. The rustic tiny
house is extremely cozy right now, especially when my wife and dog
are there and the fire in the woodstove is burning, the candles and
lanterns are lit and the furs are piled high on the bed. It's
extremely cozy now that the floor is insulated and the spaces between
the logs have been filled. Woodworking and bushcrafting the structure
was very rewarding, but the interior finishes are the icing on the
cake. Whenever I'm inside with the fire burning and I look out
through the windows and the winter storms raging, I'm inspired to
finish the tiny log house as soon as possible so that I can get
working on the front porch, the outdoor kitchen, the cellar,
workshop, maple syrup shack and more. I'm particularly excited to
live off the land, foraging for wild plants and edibles, growing my
own vegetables and becoming self reliant. I can use this off grid
cabin as a shelter and base where I can practice living off the land
and use primitive technology, learn bushcraft skills, improve my
survival skills and my self reliance. Of course, no video would be
complete without the meals that I prepare on the wood stove over the
fire with cast iron cookware. In this episode, I make stewed venison
spiced with garam masala, with leeks, onions and broccoli. For
breakfast, I have fresh chicken eggs from the nearby rural homestead
where they raise chickens and turkeys. I will be showing how I put
the eggs in long term storage, preserving the food for the future. My
dog and I fall asleep to the hooting of barred owls, and the wind
through the trees and the falling rain were a big ASMR triggers for
me. It's deep winter outside, but in the cabin was cosy and warm.
Sometimes I think living off grid in a tiny house seems much easier,
away from the daily stress of life. In fact, dealing with my high
blood pressure and becoming much healthier is my motivation for
building this cabin and living the simple life. Not my only
motivation of course, I'm also inspired by my wife and my parents,
who are living long and happy lives. Inspiration is important in this
crazy world, and of course I'm not the only one who wants to escape
from society and retreat to a cabin in the woods. To accomplish my
goal of living off grid with as little money as possible, living
cheap and saving money wherever possible, I need to continue to hone
my woodworking and bushcraft skills, along with tree identifications,
foraging, making maple syrup, harvesting chaga, catching fish and
game, preserving food for long term storage (dehydrating, salting,
curing, smoking, freezing, drying). Why Should You Subscribe To My
Channel? To relax… To virtually immerse yourself in nature… To
see how I live debt free, stress free and low cost… To see how I
build things alone… To see how I cook with no electricity or gas…
To hear what steps I took to retire in my mid-forties so I could live
my dream life… To interact with the happiest and most helpful
community of viewers on YouTube… To become more self-reliant. Links
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