Off Grid Pallet Wood Cabin: Picket Fence Build & Woodstove Cooking

Description

We head back to the rustic off-grid Pallet Wood Cabin in the woods. This is part 9 of the wilderness cabin build where we are using recycled Pallet Wood to create a tiny homestead in the forest. The project has come a long way since we first cleared an area in the woods to make space for the foundations of the off grid cabin.

Since the first episode, we have built the cabin frame and fixed a roof using a piece of reclaimed tin from an old barn. We inserted a small glass window from an old garden shed. To heat the cabin in the cold winter months, we installed a woodstove. The stove we use is the G Stove Heat View with stove pipe oven for cooking fresh bread. We also built a porch from natural materials, and although this is not used much in the Winter, it will be well used during the spring and summer months to relax in nature and listen to the wild animals and birds.

To furnish the cabin we built a pallet wood bed, a folding table, some shelves and a book case. Outside, we built a log store for the firewood. At the back of the cabin we built a lean-to roof and installed a folding sink and mirror. In this particular episode, we show you how to build a picket fence using pallet wood and minimal tools. The method we use makes good use of the pallet and leaves very little waste.

Although not quite a Log Cabin, the structure itself is suitable as a one man shack and is an ideal base camp to use when living off the land. As spring is not far away, I hope to be foraging for wild food and plants, developing survival skills and using bushcraft to learn more about the area. It is a great base to use to learn these skills, and in time I hope you develop more primitive methods to survive. Primitive Technology (the YouTube Channel) is a huge inspiration and he is really helping to pass on these skills to further generations so that the art does not fade away. Find a link to his channel below. Thanks for joining us on the adventure! Stay tuned for more pallet wood projects and diy Dad & Son stuff!

Watch Every Episode of the Pallet Wood Cabin build: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnadpeGdTxDMYqxhMnVMPHzgIuUOKB54

Our video on How to Build a Fence from Recycled Pallet Wood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N08dJ3pWtgM

MCQ Bushcraft: https://www.youtube.com/mcqbushcraft

MCQ Bushcraft Leather Tinder Pouch: http://www.mcqbushcraft.co.uk/product/leather-tinder-pouch-large/

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previously on the pallet wood cabin build using an awl and some brackets I had lying around I fixed a few pallet wood shelves on the inside walls of the cabin I then used an old piece of pipe insulation foam to fill in the gaps in the roof of the cabin to keep out the cold draft dad then joined me later and together we worked on a small lean-to roof at the back of the cabin dad had recently found an old plastic sink from a nearby refuse site so he put some hinges on it and a piece of string either side to allow extra support it also meant that the sink could be folded away when not in use that also found a wing mirror which seemed to be from an old transit ban this we fitted to the outside wall above the sink join us now for episode 9 where we begin work on a pallet wood picket fence which we make using a simple handsaw [Music]

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well there's certainly no shortage of source thanks to one of our subscribers but loads of HP literally an industrial-sized HP that's English us Brits we love a bit of a yeah right let's tuck in serious mouthful so we go you answer the phone it's a real British male for I went for the foal my told you there's a tree yeah I said in the last episode you know you put that cross strap yeah

support on the tree well now the tree moves it just creaks in it you know so strong a bit creepy at night ready for my first overnighter here yeah we'll bring a 12-gauge in case it's not the tree great good hmm warmer winds or prevailing winds southwesterly winds that we get him something of the UK Mina the typical weather we get is a lot of rain but it's also mild down here in the South of England there's probably a watt 6 to 5 to 6 degree difference between the South of England north agree would you say almost tell you in global warming started I feel it started around early 1970 and the reason being we used to go for fishing if any of you watch that it's just a show to do some fishing show you see we do quite a bit float fishing in freshwater and we used to traditionally anything from the 1950s onwards float fishing for species or attention carp it was the norm but we all noticed in about early 1970 there was more wind dragging the float out of position on the lakes that we never had that trouble with before so I feel global warming started my opinion only around early 1970 what do you guys think as anybody else noticed changes in the weather [Music]

so we've got the tea going I've got it as usual in a cook sir wooden cook sir hand-carved by my buddy will Caliban dad has got it in a plastic special because he didn't bring a cook sir today so it's just me one of the questions we do get asked is how long have we sort of been doing pallet wood projects obviously this whole cabins made from pallet wood but it is a question we get asked quite a lot as the thing is do you think are you just er just made that up and start it no no no we've had a film up on YouTube or making picket fence from pallet wood lumber which is what we've done out there time really really well helped a lot people out so cheap method of fencing but when I have my furniture businesses had Bears businesses and your furniture shops was one of them well I have was also a contract from a company to collect their pallets and their cardboard okay so they paid me to dispose of those no problem you know I had my various places you go for that but I didn't want to waste those pallets so I discovered a way of cutting the pallets at that hang with a minimum work in between the customers I had in my shop for do it just down the side then I thought you can paint them you could stain them you can leave them plain you can sell them and I used to sell one panel for 7 pounds 99 which is 110 bucks now Pat ten dollars we strike this is 35 years ago or more was quite decent but years I've got paid get wood anyway and then I discovered people said can you fit those as well we're pay you to fit them so obviously am I going to turn the dollar away who would do so those pallets mean very very good to me and that's why I can mess around doing a lot with Palace because I've been doing it pretty long time this project the cabin man that was something totally different it easy to do I think we're gonna do something we might show people finally at the final stages yes I'm start to finish yeah we give you guys a few dimensions some people forget that some of our original videos I think one of the first videos ever on ta outdoors would actually was actually one of your pallet wood projects so you know we've been doing the pallet wood stuff for quite a while yeah and it's you know it's just it's one of those things where you just want to recycle we're trying to recycle we're trying to do everything on the cheap and you know what the best thing about the pallet wood stuff is that it's doable for most people you know it's achievable for most people especially in the UK here where it's just a lot logs and things like that it's just you can't access that exactly you can't get that so this is buddy everybody space it space is a really tight thing here in the UK it's just it's you know we've got 65 million people in our tiny country and it's just impossible for for us to find space we're very lucky where we are is private land we do have permission so I'm out here in a different wood enough because I had a bit of an idea with regards to the roof the tin roof of the cabin not still not quite sure whether it's gonna work but I'll tell you guys about in a minute I'm actually in a completely different area of woodland at the moment there's much more sort of conifer trees around Scots pine there's still the silver birch around bigger ones older ones but it's mostly Scots pine small ones as well but yeah it's mostly evergreens through here so I'm just exploring scouting around seeing what I can find silver birches greatest rocks from the inside out really so the bark is almost the last piece living on the tree so you can generally harvest it when a tree is falling down you can harvest it quite a while quite a bit later than when actually was down we'll get across stick it through here it's a great spot for a little camp come on still frosty on the trees spot it's only just below freezing today but this part of wooden never seems to get any any sunlight says I'll still about here this is dense I come to this bit before I've been here previously well with me my tinder pouch no tuna pouch with fire lighting gear my knife which is on me hook surf our coffee coz I'm quite a bit away from the cabin folding saw left my other one at the cabin a few extra camera lenses so much in the way of dead dry wood for kindling here my bit spoilt choice or birch I think a bit of pine down there's a lot so much that should be enough kindling to get it yeah I'll explain what I came to this woman for in a minute I just want to get firing a tea or a coffee on and I know it's like fired today by flint and steel sort of traditional Matt bit of a traditional method but I'm going to use the fire steel that I forged with Alec Alec steel so first I need some dry grass this stuff is perfect it's really dry they're to be ideal this should take a spark from a bit of charcoal off anyway one would hope there's two sort of different bits to the grass you've got the sort of long thin hubely apart which won't take the spark too easily but when it burns it will burn for a while and then you've got the kind of blade like part of the brass and this is this is the bit that you want when when basically putting it in the tinder bundle and try not to get these tubular pieces these thick of its in in your tinder bottle try and just get the blades of grass this is all loving dry so it should be fine that's why if you look there's the wet stuff there's different color here on the right you can see it sort of dark golden brown that's not gonna be good for trying to get fried and sort of get rid of that dope it is like the whiter it is the better it is basically it's basically a big sort of handful like that should be enough

this is my tinder pouch about this year's there's actually a video on my channel showing you how I made this just for a piece of leather I think you can buy these there's if you check out Mike mcq bushcraft he's got an awesome channel Mike is like really really top quality leather worker in my opinion and he makes some amazing ones of these with his stamp and everything say you know they're popular you can make all different shapes and sizes they've been around years and years and years or hundred years really but might make some really good ones so I pop a link and rip into my kit mcq he makes some really cool ones and he makes some awesome bushcraft videos as well so just to give you an idea what got in here that's like flint and steel kit my older flint and steel kit and just in this tin is basically I also keep a little a small mountain of fine glass in there as well there's my old but I won't use this one today but my fit my steel striker couple of pieces of flint some jute twine and in that tub is a bit of char cloth but it's not very good shot off it sort of came with the tin as a clip but that's just a handy little tin you can get like Altoids tins and things like that to keep those sort of things do

there's the steel striker I just Forge recently on my channel with Alec I'll pop a link in the description to this one as well which we made that was really awesome to be able to forge my own flint striker so this is what I'm using today

then I've got bits of kind of paper birch but from a silver birch bark but it's more sort of paper you thin a big bigger tin of char cloth here which I'm going to use so I'll get that out and in here some I think right should be some crumples in here which are of binya and centrica which is a fungus that grows on dead ash trees and that is I keep a few of those in here as well so a bit of a kind of traditional tinder bag and also keep Benish man-made stuff just a barbecue fire lighter which is you know important as well so that's in the kit so what I'm gonna need for this bitter Flint let's check this works okay and it sparks coming flat before I do that I'm also gonna use that birch bark that I picked off that tree a minute ago that you just saw I'm gonna use that here but with the the grass that I've just picked off the ground it's quite good to rough it up I like to just break up the fibers expose all the drier fibers inside the garden its years more time-consuming but it makes it way easier for fire lighting so it takes about five to five minutes just rough it all up break the fibers expose the fibers and it will take a spark a lot better so what I'll do to begin with but everything I need close by will do to begin with is I've got birch bark I've got a tinder bundle here which is the grass that I've just dried up and a backup one as well here just to put on top to help light it got everything I need at hand I don't need to turn the bag near anymore so we'll put to the side what I'll do is I'll get a spark on the char cloth first and then I'll change the camera angle so you can see the whole process so find a sharp bit on the Flint usually sharp angles and then you can see where I've been striking it on the striker before I like to keep a couple of millimeters gap here for the sparks to just to allow them to get hot before they hit the the chocolate just something I do in this in this up right okay so you see ya that's glaring I can leave that like that now and that will just smolder away so that's fine so I'll put it with my tinder bundle get all the noise is in the camera back that's just gonna smother away nicely so I'm gonna make a hole in the tinder bottom look at birds nests basically that's still glowing in the just with the window so I'm gonna push that in there how are the tinder over at this point you want to be aware of where the wind direction is going if I'm gonna blow into this tinder bundle and the wind's coming right into my face as this smokes more I'm just gonna get smoked out so just hold your tinder bundle up and I can see the smokes going that way so it probably makes sense for me to stand this side it all goes that way anybody take a breath keep often it Evette just keep that amber going sighs okay you see that yeah get the other bit of grass to go on top at this point should be okay I want to get the birch bark lit really I didn't bring a brace which is a big stick to take basically leading this up so I can hold it here just to let the oxygen get underneath it and catch some of these sticks alike anyway can you guys see that let's get in on this sorry about that

I'm just holding these sticks there now just to let them catch you later get that oxygen just TP it really get that TB shape

gonna do a basic basic pot hanger and I mean really basic Billy is gonna basically slide up over here I found a little bit but not there which is where the off bail arm of the Billy will just sit there and then I just need to spike this side and that should be enough to boil a pot that up doing what but you toriel this

so that's the basic bushcraft set up literally stick in the ground job done but it is just a case of trying to keep these flames now or at least lower that a bit just about there and build those flames up again just enough to boil it that's all it is it's all it needs I could put it directly on the fire but the coals or the embers on aren't big enough yeah so it would just take ages to boil and get it done quicker this way coffee instant coffee in the end mmm this is I'm told by will this cook sir is white oak burl which is apparently really quite rare to get say it's pretty cool I think we'll did an awesome job their offer of carving that here's one incredible green woodworker Cheers hmm whoops it's letting the fire go out and up so nobody need it really so what was tell you guys why I'm here so so the reason I came here is because it's as much more sort of shaded area of woodland and because of that there's there's moss growing around and I've been scouting just general areas where the moss is thickest because what I'm thinking is when I did that when I've been doing the overnighters in them the the pallet wood cabin the with it being a tin roof when it rains and I think there was a subscriber from Australia or something he said he's thought he's had a tin roof before something like that and when they get like monsoons over there it just makes the biggest rocket ever and that's what sort of happens with me on one of the nights it didn't I wasn't a monsoon but the rain really did come down and as a result it was just making such a noise and I had a pretty bad night's sleep so I was thinking rather than take all the roof off and you know just make more work for ourselves maybe putting some sort of chicken wire over the roof or something like that and then putting moss on top obviously that will give it a bit more of an aesthetic look as well but it's more to the moss on top to prevent the noise of the rain as it hits the tin I'm not sure if the moss is going to grow if I'm honest through the the chicken wire itself but I'm just guessing that with it with there being chicken wire on top it gives the roots of the moss a couple of inches to grow I don't know maybe you guys maybe you guys know if that will work or not I really don't have a clue if that's gonna work giggity giggity giggity literally addicted to coffee not a massive fan of the instant stuff but Tony for like general long hikes thank you so much guys for watching this episode hopefully we'll be able to get another pallet wood project episode out soon and we've got sort of quite a few more things that we're gonna do here ideas all the way you will see you soon in the next episode no no I've seen those gifts and that might get what I bought doing something as well but the thing is it's not unboxing he's gonna have to guess it I'm not gonna do sure odds to help him know so I'm not allowed to basically see what dad's got for me here and we're gonna have to we're gonna play basically a game of charades which if you don't know what that is you're not allowed to talk and you have to try and get it yeah you have to try and guess through movement so far away - right Mussa speak at all yeah no more talking okay first word half the first word sounds like car Noorie van

sounds like van but it's a bird with two words half the first word poor screw it's a family show tin at it can can carry the geese it's not plural guys is in fact a single Canada awesome where did you get this heavy yeah I dunno it's made out of concrete it's pretty tough plastic underneath it is a makers mark j-b Garten JB Garten heritage décor decoys as a decoy it's an old-school D is it it also says a limited edition you guys can see that very vintage so this one goes somewhere naked we're gonna put some bird boxes up as well yeah I don't think we're gonna get any of these guys in a / box I rather hope in fact the size e seems grow from Canada where do you send us Canada geese from Canada I'll tell you what we sick of them over here we get so many over here with me everywhere we're fishing you're going down the sleeping on the turn so he's got another it's just told me he's got another item but again it's a game for sure odds so you guys could probably help out a bit if you could if you can if you got simple minds like we have a sense of humor

listen what is life without sense of humor guys come on right and you know he's gonna get he's my son I mean I might be a bit dense but he's good at more but he's got all my genes of brain is in there okay bird definitely a bird first word one word one word after first one okay yeah sounds like

glass would would back up right again nice opinion it was a wool packet now we don't know what toilet is gonna boil eggs yeah little wine XL that's really name I'm thinking it's a green woodpecker and I think the green will pick here in England I don't even actually go on the trees too much the ones I've photographed have been on the ground drilling away round three in the sky son zombie moon dark night nighttime bird ow ow scowl that was supposed to be scaled here we have it almost look plane a couple of bar nails what's up and down his head oh you only fellas just out there should know exactly what they are we have a pair of owls to reside here at Badgers rest one word first

shoot as a game but a shooting bird shooting you can eat it pecking pecking seeds farm lat farm crops it secret secrets crop seeds pheasant pigeon pigeon no where's the cold is not are you sure that's a pigeon - that's magnet agent that is not look at the size of that dumpy they are no actors pigeon it's not one of those stun grenades pull the feathers out and throw it

are you sure that's a pigeon where else can you call it do you guys outta me is that it's not look I know pictures are pretty fat but they're used on crops yeah that's

it's full of leg shop yeah see in a cricket ball anyway we have fun guys hope you enjoyed it thanks so much for watching this episode great and we'll see seeing the next one [Music]