Off Grid Pallet Wood Cabin Build in the Forest for Free - Wood Floor, Wall & Frame Structure

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The second instalment of the off-grid one man cabin build using free reclaimed pallet wood. Now that the pallets have been processed down and the wood floor and foundation is complete, it was time to focus on the main structure of the cabin. We carried the wood in by hand as we have no saw mill. This meant that we could put together the walls of the cabin in the woods using reclaimed nails where possible. We are going for a classic log cabin look to the structure, with an apex roof and a window.

We had to put the frame together in pieces as the original pallets aren't large enough. Once we had each side built, we screwed them in place to create the cabin shape itself.

We also used some Bushcraft Skills with the axe and knife to weave a wall from the log store to the cabin itself. Next time we hope to put up the roof of the shelter. Hopefully you guys enjoy this primitive hut build and we hope to see you again in the next video on TA Outdoors.

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Video Transcription

previously on the pilot wood cabin build myself on my dad collected the pallets for free from various industrial estates and a supermarket we stripped the pallets down and recycled the nails to be used again later on the aim of this project is to try and spend no money at all we decided on a location in the forest and carried in the wood by hand first phase of the build was to create a frame that will be a sturdy base for the cabin we used the thicker parts of wood from the pallets to make joists and then the thinner parts as floorboards join us now for episode 2 where we aim to finish the floor raise it off the ground and begin to build the side frames of the cabin

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so we're just building a bit of a wall at the moment we've taken a bit of a break from the the cabin itself got a bit more bushcraft tea done some steaks and we're just weaving this little wall here that's gonna link our log cabin our log store sorry up to the cabin hopefully what do you think dad's from carry on with us I think now we've made a start

on this we established where the walls gonna go I'd feel much happier now we've got that base done yeah is I get the DPC in there and that way you know don't believe we can work upwards anything to keep the damp out yeah that's what I think

so firstly thanks very much to everyone who watched the sort of first well episode see first phase of the the pallet wood cabin build we got obviously loads of comments it's I think it's had as we're filming this over 140,000 years already or something like that which is crazy we never expected it to be this big but we've had loads of comments and I've done my best to read through as many comments as possible and there's obviously a few themes in the comments that we'd like to address and answer here one of the first things was the base platform itself which we've just finished how are we going to protect it from the damp or the rock so what we've used is DPC which we're gonna do anyway yeah we just didn't think that the video would go so big and we get so many questions we're just doing it it's in a second film which is this one yeah everybody first ah they've jumped ahead of us yeah really they they should have waited before they commented but they right that's fine yeah I'm but I've worked with pallet wood for ie about 30 years about 30 years at least and if it touches the ground in our country a generally I made one it's on youtube if you want to look at it is how to make a picket fence from pallet wood and god it's good I'll put a link in the video description so yeah I mean if you want to check it out so I did this years ago if it touches the ground the base plate it will be okay for about four years obviously different countries with us dry or moist or you have bugs chewing it will be different rate so for year so I think maybe four years not that mine three place and offence it doesn't bother me this is not per in a structure this is a fun bug out the cabbie what's the point of this was guys hopefully say you can get this because a lot of carpentry experts popped up on our last video they pulled out the woodwork as such that's quite good fun but um yeah you know the first point of us building this was actually took for us to spend some time together just a father-son project yeah we are not experts we're not carpentry experts we're not woodworking experts we're just literally a father and son that doing it that came up with an idea dad came up with this idea he doesn't watch much huger but all he makes videos on YouTube but he doesn't watch much so you pretty much came up with this whole concept of this pallet with cabin but that the point we want to get across is that this is not going to be a perfect cabin guys is not there's making it now there's there's gonna be a lot of things wrong with it but we we've accepted that we're okay with that because at the end of the day it's fun it's a it's a piece of wood it's made out of wood like it will not it will rot if it rots in two years we don't mind we'll get some fun out of it you know we'll enjoy some time hopefully make loads of videos in it but we need to tell them is to make your would last longer and I've done building works on will aware of is how we gonna do it it's just everybody jumped on the bandwagon too quick yeah is that we're obviously gonna raise what we came from here we didn't want to raise it on greatly rocks why we don't be rocks on if there's no baby well yeah yeah we've done enough work carrying tons of timber to you to get it all done so basically you want an air gap between the ground and the joist the people to the floor rot out well notice the floors not touching the floors on the ground the floor is on a four inch choice but floor inside we purposely use the pallet wood from other choice it's four inches deep to keep it so there's an air block in there if you like there's plenty of air there yes you can say that the joists you will rot out but no it won't your last one but that's what we put here this DPC's with standard I'll use it my building you put it between Daz just explained so people know do you see is a damp proof course membrane which is a plastic membrane and that is a four inch wide one got it fits four inches that's handy it's a brick width okay so you'd lay this down between what you call your underground or engineering bricks which is subsurface level bring it up and this stops a damp called all houses should have this January would have brickwork to stop then accord it is where it sucks up the moisture you'd have a damp roof membrane I do building work I've got loads of this stuff so we put this all around the edge but we also rather than jack up high and bring a load of bricks in or use slate some yeah a just a month we're trying not to spend any money here you see you've had these at home they're your old house so so with the idea the whole project is to not spend any money we've we've recycled the pallet wood we've recycled some of the nails yeah there's some areas where we've had to get things like screws and things like that but most of it is pretty much all recycled that's the aim yeah but basically this will be on the areas around the outside that are supportive in other words there's gaps a lot the grounds like this we're not building out of concrete by it's not level so we're gonna chain these under as well just to give it an extra little bit of support an air-gap doesn't take much now one of the guys did come up with a very interesting theory on these old pallets which you get from basically industrial areas mana be wise to get one if you got say a chemical plant because you don't know what chemicals been on the wood or leaked into or leached into it my would I get I would get from somewhere let's call it a retail area through a large industrial area it would be food cans of tins tins of food on there or hang on there can't be much wrong with a pallet if they put in our food that we as humans on those pallets basically if you go to somewhere I want to I want to say it out don't know swimming clear waste plant

yeah but what do you want to do is get stuff that say tiles have been stored on engineering stuff I don't mind because they use a stronger palette and that's why we pick up these boys yeah is because they use a heavier pallet don't they yeah so the other thing a question that we did get is about the foundation of the wall the base being quite small I think we said this in episode one I'm not sure but was it now this is a one man cabin it's two of us building it but it's a one man cabin it's yeah it's a bug-out coming we're not coming here to live permanently you could you probably could if there was a bad situation in the world you could probably bug out here and you'd be you you you lost quite a few months definite if you can hunt you justify for a much longer time but the idea is it's a small small cabin it's not a luxurious cabin don't expect too much luxury to be in it but their day is free we're having fun aren't we that's what it's all about really there's a lot of initial work trying to get this done and set up you know you have to get your spirit level out get your base right because you don't if you don't have the base right so I will tell guys that are doing this if you don't have that base level there's a hole your build up the shade then the ship will have a twist on it that will put out the or accuracy of your door frame so if you're making a door you'll find the door changes so just be aware of that that's why we start from the you build from the bottom up stand a building procedure get your base rate get a good foundation and you should be aware next up I think is what we need to do we've done the base it is complete so what we're going to do now is sort out the sides and then probably in a further episode we might actually do

look at doing the roof and things like that but for everyone who watched the first video the off-grid cabin palette would be there there's a link in the video description to it to that one really appreciate the amazing feedback we've had from it great ideas it doesn't really good ideas for this suggest yours as well down below we've got almost a plan of what we want to do in our minds we've written nothing down it's yeah we're kicking it around what you do father and son what Mike says doesn't matter he's my son no we're bouncing it between us we are we are argue we ever rent each other yeah supposed to do it one way I want to do it another but between us I tell you war you might be surprised at the end product and a few films up the road it's gonna look pretty cool let's get the size done yet yeah it more work

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so we made some progress on the cabin as you can see behind us we've actually got the full frame up now yeah so we've made pretty good progress doing that but we just

I'll give the old take the camera off now and just give you a quick sort of tour and dad can show you how we've lent it together because it's not very stable at the moment until we've got the roof on it's not super stable but we had to do it because we you well the rain were the rains and the bad weather was coming as well so we needed to get it done but let's just quickly show you what you got to remember is that Palace come in January it sort of squarish sighs now in the UK they will be a bare 39 inches here but by the time you cut the ends off we'll get split so now as you're down to about three feet so I try to make here sections of 30 inches hey guys I apologize for those who are not metric I'm old school so I'm a 30 inch panel 30 inch panel 30 years panel and these most of these we did down here because it was easier to ship all the wood down there carry it but in a pack rather carry huge big lump like this but we got that down there those are then held together these three panels with crossbars here screws in screws in just there so let's locks it together and then we bring it up and the same with the back I couldn't make all this home we had to do a lot of this here so we used from the nailing on the other side bending over so it locks the wood on this side so you always panel the inside if we want to get really arty but I've made that two sections there and we just took turns him bashing away with the nails cutting it's hundreds and hundreds of cuts involved in this and I've made this just to give you an idea of standardized sort of my feet - they're allowed to wear a little bit we came in

it's a one-man cabin I mean cuckoo sleeping there isn't one man coming I'll be there just over six feet here so I've raised the apex up there a bit higher we're gonna put another bracket on top of this this is holding those panels together as is this one and to hold the whole structure just in place just for like as we're finishing these I've got some right angle 90 degree practice here fire some screws in so look it's solid now but we're gonna fix it at the bottom as well fix some base plates in there screw it to the deck here

our actual floorboards and screw it into the side here we got space for a glass so we're gonna have to fall in maybe some old glass somewhere and greenhouse glass something like that rather than perspex so the next thing is put the ridgepole up in here but I fear with the light going it won't be today so we're trying to do this really on the cheap I won't say cheap I mean free free free nothing so we're using and bending out the nails as well where we can all this is pallet boards as well as all different colors which is quite nice it's all different kind of wood there and on the outside here you can see you can see here look lovely lovely colors in the wood there now I've done this on like side of a barn and providing it doesn't touch the ground you know that the air can circulate it will last a long time if you touches the ground pallet wood life went cheering us about four years if it touches the ground rock from the bottom ah I was sucks a damp up like osmosis I believe you called it so try and keep it raised off the ground and the drips here will go down here it go into the next one down to the next one down to the next row so should be drying there we can always pack or coffee inside here the joints there and then around the front we've got the the access for the door because that's cut in that angle the way I've done it is to raise brackets here and this will take brackets for holding the hinges so that's my hinge bases there so come back I guess in a couple of days and we'll have a go at trying to do that to that Ridge in there might even be tomorrow because I've really enjoyed it [Music]