Saving Our Off Grid Cabin in the Woods (TOTAL RE-BUILD)

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We had to save our off grid cabin in the woods. Watch us relocate and build the pallet wood tiny home in the same forest as the bushcraft camp. When we built the foundation in the first episode of the off grid pallet wood cabin build, we were not aware of the lay of the land of the site itself. Over time, and after much rainfall, it appeared that we had built the cabin in a small hollow which flooded the area around the cabin and could potentially cause it to rot. So we decided to dismantle the pallet wood log cabin and take it to a new site in a pine forest where the ground is much dryer throughout the year.

Although this wilderness project was more about a father spending time with his son, we felt a strong connection with our subscribers throughout the series. It seemed a shame to let it all go to waste. So we re-built the cabin foundations on some engineering blocks to keep it raised off the ground and prevent damp entering it. We then built the walls of the cabin and proceeded to build the roof. Having listened to some subscriber comments and feedback we felt it would be a good idea to stain the cabin to give it slightly more protection against the elements and to make it blend in more with the surroundings. Making it more of a one-man bug out cabin or trapper cabin. Now we can continue to improve our off grid living and survival skills, cast iron cooking on the woodstove, overnight camping, and do more theory time chat with you guys. Stay tuned for more pallet wood projects. Thank you for watching and joining us on the adventure.

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hey folks thank you very much clicking on this episode of ta outdoors it is a slightly different video in fact we probably didn't think we were going to make this this sort of video so the cabin it's not gone we have moved the cabin the pallet wood cabin we have moved it from that site Hawaii why have we moved it dad why do me Wow what it was we put the spirit level on it we had it raised out we had it on the DPC damp-proof course we had it on some slates

so we knew the dry well we didn't realize the slope of the ground the land we're a few yards away was like on a sloping gradient and over a period of time when we had the last winter it just gradually built and built and built the wall the wall came and it puddled up in various areas around us so sometimes it was wet getting to the cabin yeah we realized you made a mistake we couldn't get a surveyor in to tell us what the ground is like you know from one side to the other so we decided you know what we've had it a year it has not rotted so what it was is I know we said when we first started out doing the project we didn't mind if it rotted away or just you know decayed over time but we started to realize that we'd inspired a hell of a lot of you guys to get out there and build something with pallet wood it wasn't just the cabins I've had so many private messages of you guys contacting me saying you've been inspired by this this build and you've gone out and done something similar with your your family and friends and things like that and now we know it's not some big luxurious build you know it's only small and it's only designed to be really a one-man kind of bug-out type type cabin it's not one to live in full time but we felt this connection with you guys and we thought we want to keep we want to keep that going and we you know we ended up enjoying it a lot more than we thought and we actually loved going to the cabin and just talking and doing theory times and cooking so we thought rather than just let the cabin rot and and just decay how can we preserve it a bit longer how can we you know move it and we realized the way we've put it together we could flat pack it we can literally flat pack the whole thing and move it and that's what we've done we've decided to move it to the wooden and where the bushcraft camp is which is on much much higher ground it's very peaty soil and underneath is gravel all the water just flows I very I don't think I've seen it puddle there I don't think I've ever seen it it is like a sponge obviously that means in the summer it's very dry but as far as building the cabin is so much easier and hopefully it makes it last a lot longer and we can continue to make these pilot cabin episodes for you guys so we took it home we took it the dad's place we listened to some of your comments we went through some of the older comments and a lot me so why don't you just stain it and it helps to give it a bit more of a protective layer as well we did is we took it home and we stained it we had it in its sections in different sections it was all flat packed took quite a while actually a new journeys back and forward and we gave it a stain

that's a nice natural kind of brown color and actually we figured it would blend into the woodland a lot more and not be as kind of loud once we did that we then packed it up in the truck and dad's car and we moved it to this wooden and that's another reason why we moved it is we had to keep traveling to these woodlands back and forward and it was soaking up a lot of our time so by having the cabin in the same place as the bushcraft camp we wouldn't have to be traveling all the time in-between these places which means which means we can make more films for you guys and that's hopefully a good thing at the end of the day so I appreciate that the previous site that we were on had some really good things and we built you know some good things there we there's all the episodes you can still watch of its homestead really a whole pallet wood homestead and I'll pop a link up here and you can go through all of those videos this next site we're at we're not going to make it as extravagant because we figured at the end of the day we overcomplicated it it all it needed to be was just a cabin and all we kind of wanted it to be was just a cabin but we went down that rabbit rabbit hole homestead what else could we build yeah what else could be done with pallet wood and we were quite surprised at what we ended up building but so we're going back to basics we're keeping it simple we are what you're going to see now is the footage of us moving the cabin and with a four-wheeler with it with it for here and right with my truck and dad guitar yeah it does oldest a car which is great but it's a good fun we do a cook up again we have a laugh guys that's what it was all about we have a laugh we're going to spend more time together we build it and then we're gonna come back here afterwards and we just close out the video but I hope you enjoy this little segment

so we're now in the woodlands and you might be able to see the truck it's just through there and we've got a what we're trying to do is make a route and clear some logs so that we can get the truck and dad's car through here because the cabin is completely flat packed at the moment in both of our cars and obviously the problem is this there's no track through this woods so we're trying to make our own track here where are we what's the plan you see the truck behind out there and your cars just beyond that mines buried buried in the bracket I won't even get a find that's not got four-wheel drive but we'll be absolutely fine in this stuff it's dry if we can get it in in soil the sections we dismantled it make life partially easier very hugely easy but we still got to carry or 1890 yeah it's my show the guys say we're coming all the way my hand there's the truck coming all the way through the forest and we're try and film it the bushcraft camp it's just Tet there you might be able to see it so it's just beyond us there and where we're gonna put the cabin is literally 15 yards 20 yards away from the bushcraft camp so we've got it all together all on one site all in the same woodland so it's quite it's quite a fun challenge and tasks really to make this this bit of off-road e-track that we're gonna try and go see [Music]

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so well dad is still we're just putting the base back together for the cabin over there obviously I said we're near the bushcraft camp so we're just gonna it's gonna get a fire going because we've got some fresh fish which dad actually caught I think it was yesterday someplace which is a flatfish and a species of flatfish over here in the UK British Isles and it's a really tasty fish so yeah I'm gonna get this fire going

just literally a bit of birch bark on the old tinder pouch and I want to show you am bushcraft made me this I showed it in an unboxing but lovely fire stir which is completely unused at the moment that you can see I've not scraped it a bit I think it's like buffalo horn I think it's Buffalo horn up here or Ironwood desert Ironwood I'm not too sure double check very nice nice big fire steel as well it's on its maiden test so yeah just so he's exciting this part oh it's nice having a bigger faster I give you that wow it's clear it's clearing off that oxidized material on the fire stilts so there won't be sparks to begin with it's a lot of sparks a nice bit perch Park in the tender pouch get some scrapings you've seen this all before die so I'm gonna cut to me lighting it yeah

that is thank you ham bushcraft that's really nice I like that works a treat it just goes into this leather leather holder that he's made and there's a bead that locks it in place slide it on the back pull it up very handy

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Reverend lunch break a moment and this is place which is a species as I'll say another species of flatfish here in British waters you catch them don't if you get them across the world but I get flounders I think in America's you call them fluke either they come on fluke that is lovely you know we haven't we didn't season this at all because generally with we find with a lot of flatfish you don't really need to season it especially dab to remember an island the top got its own taste and salty taste to it the dab is like a real small species of flatfish but we there's a video on our channel I think it was last year

must've been last year we were over in Ireland south of Southern Ireland we did some catch and cook sir and this dab this baby flatfish I'd say it was one of the best no seasoning nothing nothing I don't even think we cooked in oil I think we had nothing so we just fried it and it was the best tasting fish without seasoning it tasted a salt which was weird I don't know is that the dab is he hadn't particular species wouldn't naturally obviously it was a saltwater species but it was a real salty taste - it was lovely and traditionally they used to eat them for breakfast you know dad's for breakfast in Arlen yeah [Applause]

so I was done around the back of the cabin is I've built this it's a roof I like sloping down it's got like that shiplap and this is some wide stuff we still have not spent one penny on the whole cabin build including moving it what petrol that counts in this oh boy Danny's got some brackets here now you can't bend these brackets down because they rigid all the way through the right angle shelf bracket so I cut a notch out with a hacksaw just there and then I was able to crush it and bend it right down a forcing angle on it to give me this slope that I wanted together with that overlap ship now that means it rains gonna run off here which obviously keeps you dry out and they forgive Mike a nice workbench here now you might remember that from the previous tab Ian we had it was on the side of our wash hand

well I'm not gonna make things twice Emily so over the top here and I've screwed it to the best dancers absolutely totally rigid makes a great workbench he's in the dry here can film away and you got space for whatever you want to put underneath so just so people around the world do know that winter here in the UK is a maritime climate now if you have the same latitude if you went across to let's say Russia or Nova Scotia all that way they're gonna be freezing way before we want we will because we've got the influence of the North Atlantic drift which is a an arc or a last teetering little bit of warmth from the Gulf Stream so that's what gives us is temperate climate if we had all those say averages six below for four or five days in a row we think that's the ice age coming here we get a fairly mild winter we do we do we get normally it'd be wet you know the Christmas be wet and if we get snow it's gonna be January or February but don't forget every country has a different winter so what I did fight for cheeking really really good we had a couple of big gaps at the top from the roof we just cut a segment off of this but what I did find is because this is circular originally a circle it goes around copper piping so it's full-on insulating material say we have really need it but the fact that is springy I thought ice could be useful this is a circle if I start cutting at a slight angle like that now we call this a Stanley knife I think in the state's they called it a box cutter they are very sharp I have had a very nasty edge that once with them was in my furniture shop we skidded it was a hospital job with about five stitches do you know what was scary and painful the bill no I was cutting towards himself and it skidded 4cm white down their phone or tendon and that was the pain was nothing compared when the nurse put the needle into the meat right this game so to show you what this looks like so those people who have watched the following us cabin build of the palette all the way through and know that we built it all in sections and the sections we bullets with obviously Liberty by the pallets roughly about 30 inches metric I'm too old to remember so look there's the joint it is pallet wood is homemade but this stuff if you will cut that tape on you might just be I see the triangular taper that's the outside of it I found is just about perfect for just jamming and fitting into that crack and it just fills all the chinking I just using oh don't fancy using a knife I just using the edge of a I spread it like a wallpaper stripper look at that and that blocks the light out which if it blocks the light out blocks the draft out coming through here it's just enough isn't it razor stops what no what happens is is expanding yeah I'm pushing it in it look at that it's an absolute snug fit absolutely eight expands I've got down to there there you go just push that top it in and you can see it it's nice and neat how easy was that no we didn't do that on the first build did we know we were sort of struggling with what we do see we were gonna do clay and stuff like that but it would have taken ages and we wanted to try and do something different really and try and use sort of DIY materials that we had lying around around for one of the property projects so I thought I'm gonna throw anything away don't throw anything away why would I you're only gonna have to go buy more stuff like this doesn't degrade is it Eunice expanding when it absorbs the heat as well I guess that summer so it is insulation pipe insulation don't I tell you I don't think I've used two strips of this long now we got a big big gap here you can see down there yes so those eagle-eye you choose amongst you

those aficionados those purists of the outdoor life might have spotted the enormous mistake that father and son made in as much as we we put it all together yeah one of the panels here don't say burn upside down and we were just doing touch-up staining looking at it and thinking I just know right guess a metal plate a head for the big G stove yeah it's not the heat go into the wood a bit he was tearing the bottom so that will you involved literally stripping the whole cabin down right reinforce the roof I didn't want to do it I took every one of these flats off or reverse and I didn't want to hit it with a hammer so I fired some screws I've got some secondhand screws imprison some bench screws in there to go with the bed nails but you're just watching yest about it'll be short got a cuts triple for this and then hopefully we'll filled out completely you see there's a pretty big gap there we're not too worried about it because we do want some oxygen in here and I just squeeze this in he's just right shape for chinking in the whole lot and of course it expands once you get it started so you can work your way along did easy okay you can do it all naturally we could moss and clay and all that stuff at dynamite this Way's quick I can tell you there we go and you can push this down as far as you want you can jam it right in there with the edge of the blade doesn't look pretty but it's practical it keeps it brass out and again you're not gonna get a lot of wind here because we're in the middle of the forest just get the main ones done I've done all the roofs done all the edges around the edge of the roof

I'm pairing my most of the time here trust me with that G Stoke going yeah yeah the door open no it does benefit of building a small cabin exactly or shared whatever you always was a one-man bucket is a one-man place here one man okay and you can see down below I'm just putting this last bit in that we've changed the yeah we've put some gray dog guitars in there thicker tiles I'd say yeah we bang them as we meet and we cracked some but so we got we found some very ones I think these are from my bathroom my old bathroom ones they did the job obviously it gets damaged when his bathroom now sounds good you see we could do this all the way around yeah basically what else have we done we reinstated this up here with a piece of string so he caught his window we can just slide that piece of string across so at night the Wolverines the Bears can't get through the grounds so it gives their nice lot of light then the night actually does go around that way goes wrong you know there we got the old original table back up working respectively basically flat packs the whole thing I mean yes everybody used to say gosh it's gonna rot out it's gonna fall down it's gonna rain looking in the Bears but we don't have bears we don't have Wolverines we don't have termites we're in England winnings not money that's gonna get us rain we're not living here it's poisonous no we're not living here it's a bug out but Kevin is what it is it's great fun it's been hit it's been at the other place a year in a year we've transported it we have not rebuilt it again if we want no everybody seems nice award is perfect perfect so this folds up as you can see we got the old chair again plan B we put a couple across supports in there so it's nice and rigid pretty strong Mike's got the bed day

serving still up its shelving we replace the shelving obviously there and the bed as you saw goes up like this bring some oil for that Frankenstein a little piece of string called up there that stays up like they're sleeping bag on top job down you can easily leave his bedding in they could men's bent is closed down as bed handy we will bring some oil for that we've reinstated the little corner sure bean unit here because it's such a space saver yeah I think you gonna keep it outside wait now yeah we're gonna christen a building locks door I think yeah yeah so next phase the stove stove is gonna be fitted in there and they basically guys he's trying to enjoy as you can see the cabin is not quite the color that it used to be before that's because we've given it a lick of paint to hopefully preserve it little bit longer we've raised it if you come around this side you can't really see but we've actually raised it on these engineering blocks which dad's you had at yours than you yeah come on up you can see here on this corner look we've raised it up the idea is what of why we built this base is because this is if anything gonna rock first then the cabin would rot I know in the last the reason we moved it from the last site was because of that rain splashing up against that which we said earlier but we're here we've still got look we've still got stuff to stain to paint things like that we've still got things that we're gonna do to the roof but the main thing is we've got this cabin at the new site and how peaceful is it and the base had not rotted whatsoever no no no it's just damp we've had loads of rain at the moment yeah but yeah it's obvious so peaceful here we're really pleased and if you look this way just come this way you may notice that in the background so we have right next to each other the cabin and the bushcraft camp and really we just wanted everything to be together this is very peaty soil there's about this much peat on this ground which is really good because underneath it as well as gravel which means that water when it falls it just completely soaks away we're also a much higher land here the previous site was it clay I think soil and then probably a bit low low nine we didn't realise was low nine and it just paddled all the time loads and loads of puddling so here I mean the bushcraft camp has not rotted away it's been there so many years five years six years yeah and it's still going so this is what I wanted to move everything and keep it all centralized so we can do a mixture of videos we can go to the camp and we want to we can go over to the cabin when we want to I'm still going to build a fire pit and everything over here for the cabin but it's just nice to have everything centralized and we don't have to drive to all the other sites but what it means now what's the future what's happening so weak and as I said earlier we can bounce back and forward from the camp to the cabin now we are gonna build a few more smaller things there I'd like to build a fire pit by the cabin so I don't have to go back to the camp to cook all the time but obviously we can use each facilities all the time and we'll just add a few more small things we're not going for these big extravagant things again just smaller touches I will be doing overnight us there

I've got overnight to Sydney bushcraft camp coming up as well and I've got some other trips that I've got planned throughout the rest of this winter we're looking forward to winter is certainly fresh in the air now isn't it well man did we get now by the mosquitoes oh there's no bugs no no there was one time I don't if you had this way you were in the in your country it was beginning of September it was about the beginning of September we actually thought the bugs had gone we were all the bugs are gone we got eaten alive within within one week there was a hatch of some sort of Mitch and you couldn't see it you couldn't feel it but two days later you would be we were covered well we still Kim still hitching there yeah and having up the doctors scratchy Mike all of my best friends Ichi and Scratchy we really were it was bad I don't know if you guys maybe you guys had that way you were but we lost him when I didn't hear so when I did the video with Dustin that was about the same time as well and Dustin got you know live I got unit live again going to Dustin's place to do that film so yeah maybe you guys how about there was a hatch of something beginning of September nailed us maybe maybe you had it but we appreciate you watching this video autumn it feels like autumn is here now that's cooler we are end of September we've got single figures in the this is Celsius in the evenings down to about five degrees I think this week yeah which is which is cold for this time of year September but it's good I like it it's cooler we can do some more cooking the warmth of a fire is appreciated so much more it's not yeah and we will be back at the pallet with cabin with some theory times with some cooking with some projects oh wait I've got a theory time what's the theory dad well I just I've learned in Canada and Alaska BC oh we're on those areas that they seem to notice of the geese are flying south really early this year now I thought about I thought what is unusual but is it are we going to have a really bad winter because over here in the UK I've noticed the ease the acorns are coming down on the ground they land bugs on a bumper it shouldn't be there so their 20th of September I'll show you what I mean it's not just the acorns you know what I found curious the 20th of September every a call on some of our trees is down they've all broken off because obviously they could pop a flock off the tree like this they're growing out like crazy and some of them look splitting apart and I've noticed it without oak trees this year a lot of branches have come down not through storms it's like there's no SAP in some of the wood I've no idea do you guys know anything about this these are going already is September I've never known it to happen like this and we've just had 2018 probably the best summer I've ever known in my life it's not just these giant a calls look over here these are the conquers horse Jess these are horse chestnuts which come down for those in foreign countries they come down with these little spiky cases on them and then they'll burst apart like this and there's kids we always used to break them apart yeah look at these and you make conkers because they are Congress but these are humongous things man when I was about 10 years old with a catapult I would kill to get those well I'll probably kill somebody else with them the Seas would catapult I can't tell you miles

so where is it all these conkers have come down and they're beautiful mahogany color look at that on there solutely spankings but what I found if you just look they seem there's little ridges on her or that cameras gonna pick them up no I can see them this slightly stretch now if you look at their a called that's also got the same sort of ridges it's like the stretch marks and growing well they're sort of stretching one from growing too much but why are the trees dropping their seeds which is what these are so early in the year I don't understand it

yeah it's bizarre you guys tell us about it have you noticed things like a calls conquers that sort of stuff are we gonna have I wonder with those geese in Canada going South early are we in for an absolute blinder of a cold winter we've had a fantastic summer here in the UK I'm a great believer that it's equal if you have five days good you can have five days mad bad winter coming we've had for three months of the best someone in my life because I've been fishing are we gonna get the three worse ones only one thing to do Mike over here in good old England it's a challenge Oh conquers in years ago when we had these used to soak these in vinegar two weeks you bake them yeah yeah so funny guys guys we love the Aussies really go first age before beauty wait let me stands the size it's gonna hit me to kiss alright with kids what we do you hold the string like this you'd wind it around your two fingers like that you had to boil or let's go hold it between two fingers yeah alright oh crap oh but you watch the spin doesn't come back and take out there too for aunty yeah it's slightly to a sorry okay you only get one swing each okay so that's a test as you're now I just miss cuz the eyes are bad hope you guys can see this oh yes warming up we're getting the distance right so I go underneath this shaking business so a bit nervous I've lost become crispy oh and obviously that would put green string on it so you can't see it I actually had it ready I told Eustatius no wonder they ban it yeah okay for the camera okay can they yeah they can see you Eddie go for it now cuz he's a good Congress he's gonna be all day okay this is coming out of his fingers really hold on that record should I leave my hand in it oh he does his new watch okay I'm slow this is without soaking them in vinegar good wow that was good I can't I can't see any high pitches no no fishes yet that eight bit long grouchy oh okay yeah yeah but you know I'm really gonna give this one okay oh really good Craig it's not split I've gotta walk Jackson Oh No yes can you guys see this problem that has a fissure in the conquer this is it Sam you're going down go to kwik-e-mart conquer too much power for me ones going [Laughter]

that's dodgy not to so this is what we used to call a school I wanna see one one and you can have a 2 a 3 a 4 there we go we're a lot of money could call it a fiver yeah you take that home kids right and soak it in vinegar okay make it really hard some of your guys out there yeah let us know what you think and don't forget to watch yes of weather is good I am going fishing as well as playing conkers yeah watch ta fishing dance YouTube channel weekly fishing videos some really good solo ones long lengthy films on Friday night 7 p.m. go subscribe thank you so much for watching this have fun go outside have some farm you never too old to have some fun and play with conkers and just do things in the outdoors see you soon guys thank you for watching [Music]

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