Recycled Pallet Wood Cabin Build: An Off Grid Wilderness Project

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The one-man Off Grid Pallet Wood Cabin build continues as we use reclaimed Pallet Wood that we had collected for free. The tiny house in the woods is coming along, and now has a roof, door, window, porch, bed and a woodstove to heat it.

The next stage of the primitive cabin build is to use the recycled timber to create a bench for the porch, a chair and a folding table for inside the hut. We decided to light up a swedish firetorch Bushcraft style and used it to boil water for some tea. Now that the woodstove is installed we cooked up some food on the stove.

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previously on the pallet wood cabin build we continue to lumber in the recycled pallet wood by hand the pallets themselves have been broken down into useable pieces of wood with the main structure for the cabin now complete we could begin to focus on the smaller items such as furniture using some larger pieces of pallet wood we bolted together a frame for the raised bed we then used more pallet wood to make the bed slats that also built a headboard and a few other things to give the bed a more aesthetic look now that we have put the bed in it really is starting to feel like a tiny home but we didn't stop there

using his creative albeit slightly bonkers brain dad came up with the idea of building a corner bookcase from reclaimed pallet wood I was skeptical at first but once he had pieced it together it fit perfectly in the cabin at the end of the bed our focus then turned to heating the cabin piecing together the stove pipes we gained a rough idea of how and where it would fit inside we've drilled out a hole in the roof to fit a stove pipe through which we will later seal we then took a break for lunch and cooked up some food on the stove at this point I must thank you the viewer for continuing to follow and support us on this father-and-son project join us now for episode 6 where we will build step a chair for the porch and some more pallet wood furniture inside the cabin [Music]

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well guys welcome to another video of the pallet wood cabin we're here at base camp we've just boiled water if you can see it there on the Swedish fire sauce what do you think Dad I'm really impressed it's unbelievable really effective as being my greenhouse about five months drying out yeah we've had it we've done in one before on ta out those we got a few but we did one before just didn't burn as well and actually that's because we lit it basically inside the wood itself but I did a bit of research and a lot of guys was saying like the fire on top of the Swedish fire torch that way all the embers and things burned down and it just dries the wood as it burns down which makes sense I guess but much much better doing that way and let me show you it's absolutely roaring this is any be going what probably an out know forty minutes half an hour forty minutes it's so hot it's unbelievable so hot so it's been on there maybe a minute no more you can see you're puffing billions pumping out that steam I'm surprised you haven't actually blasted that office goes well of course I've now got clean the kettle but man life is absolutely brilliant I don't think you can leave it alone you've got constantly feed it you just get it go once leave it for what ever it takes a couple of well that's the thing you can you're using it for heat and cooking at the same time but unlike a campfire which you have to maintain look we've lit that that's been in 40 minutes half an hour and that will go for another at least two hours and we don't have to do anything to it we just leave it tell you what guys we'll leave this till dark till it gets dark and we'll see what happens here's a break and we tell you we've only come for an afternoon it's all come fall cause it was 12 degrees below last night yeah this was like I don't know permafrost in England Hampshire permafrost which I don't think I've known for

10-15 years the ice age it's frozen solid you can see all the ice in there and tonight they fall cause rain coming years would be dangerous ice by which time we'll be out of it that hopefully would have finished the chair much going to share the bench we make it to the veranda what you doing Doug well finishes bowls all made out of how that would reclaim these are the joists that we just cut up just now for the pallet wood but rather than just use nails have actually drilled and put like Coach bolts through here make it a little bit stronger it's not going to move anyway I'm just talking about the bolts and put on some supports around the sides here and then we can actually put the seat what do you call the rungs seat slats isn't

the other thing we're suffering from is cold battery syndrome yeah it's killing the camera before we came out but thank God I got the spanner cuz I could time everything with the spam this is our kind of pallet wood bench reason this is all reclaimed they're just old bolts I haven't paid anything we're still on the free yeah we on the free now think we're gonna do now Swedish fire - looking off it's cooking away yeah just put the slats on before it gets dark are we gonna rest these on now yeah just rest them all on there off like a professional did it still boiling and that's hours later no flame there no flame at all just embers and that's still hot enough to boil you trust it that's neat hello talent would bench there so we're on our porch we're gonna call it porch whatever veranda and you've measured it the right width to fitness this poor bastard or that way of it pretty over that side if we want would just pay yeah this one was coming around and we're gonna film from probably not used so much in the winter but still it's another pallet with project guys anyway the idea is we're trying to sort of use as we've said in previous videos is as much pallet wood as possible reclaimed or recycle pallet wood obviously the roof we know it said the wrong the different angle but it's all we had word from recycled materials we've paid nothing so far and we've had so much rain and the cabin is dry so it works in the end day is not practical it's not a practical roof we're not live in it but it but it but it works yeah we're not living in it we will be I'll be doing some overnighters in it for sure because we've got the bed now and we've tested out the stove in there so definitely definitely easily be able to do a few nights we've still got a lot of stuff to do inside to well tink it really and get warm lots of jobs to do I don't work trying get a bit of a step started tonight for that frost comes back it's getting cold now we're losing the light well we're a few hours later is get dark now guys on the the camera and the Swedish fire towards as you can see doesn't really have an ember at the moment which is fine because it's still pumping out some heat and you can see it glowing there it's got some some good coals I'm just gotta test this I've not really done this before but just got load of twigs here dry twigs which I just snapped off of fallen trees these are birch and ironically birch on birch this this the Swedish fire tortoise made it as wood birch as well so let's shove him in there never done this before and just see if they'll catch light again because I reckon that's hot enough that's soaring away for the step and I'm just being that annoying kid that does stuff other than work that's awesome

try the other side hey Dad I gotta go in again with twigs that's just from the Ember

what's he thinking that's just that was going out wasn't it get the kettle on if it's not reported about is gonna it's gonna fall off that was didn't look like it was going out and then it's just got so many embers yeah no no I had some oxygen but look at that yeah but we didn't light it again it's gone no didn't like it just look at that that's even that's just weeks on top it's starting to fall apart now guys that's probably and a half two hours later yes sometimes I think on the rocket when they add a hole in the side look like an intake well you can see us it is fine to fall apart now we've lost we've lost a bit there but those twigs look they've helped her to just catch it again now they're roaring [Music]

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just to put some DPC on there make your step laughter and bit longer keeps a damp off that's what it's for I'm just gonna tack it on well this is a bit of DPC I'm just putting on the underneath of it it just creates it make it last a little bit longer it's taking me all of 20 minutes to make really doesn't matter it keeps the damp off of the wood but the course the idea of it is to make a bridging zone and what really happens is if it was a long term project the hole I'm making with a nail through the DPC would defeat the object of it there we go a bit of TPC on it making lasts a little bit longer I'm not really bothered because at the end of the day we can easily place [Music]

no keycode yeah John Neville just double-check yeah we're spot-on sweet and the other night we flashes it's a goalkeeper school that was is that we're doing that's good sorrow is Hindus you won't be doing that in the batteries out here so we kind of go here do you tomorrow yeah you hold that I get to put the pencil down there ready piss off your shoes it's slowly ah ah that's sweet let's let's get the other screws it forcibly click slowly here we go work out the next Thanks oh I just still have a rest of that hard work yes we tough holding that piece of wood guys [Laughter]

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these are absolutely free porch lights you could be off you can be off in the Danny some way come back get lost in the dark neat barking Haru what these are made out obviously jam jars I'll use copper wire I'm wearing the Flex because I thought well that's not gonna rust and I thought it's quite in keeping I used a key ring at the top here just slot over this piece of angle bracket slotted in there at the bottom one cup cause don't forget that they're domed the bottom with jamjars I've got a piece of hardboard in there with blue tack trying to get it level because the heat comes up here shouldn't create the glass in fact the glass is barely walk or even warm in the bottom there you can use something like little baking foil or something like that put the candle in there and in that one I've actually made a piece of coat hanger wire because how are you gonna get the candle out and you can see I can lift the candle out like that now you guys might come up with some better ideas on that to make that sort of more rigid in there I like that I like this coat hanger warrior because you can lift it out very nice a straight that's sort of a bit fiddly so maybe you guys look at that and think ah it'd be better if you did whatever because you know I just made this totally up myself a nice pair of porch lights well can't wait for it to get dark guys this is our chair we've got a wide angle lens on the camera so hopefully you can see this all this moment that's oh that's put this chair together I have to admit I think it's really neat some of you before we talk about it some of you might think well hold on that's really narrow are these bits gonna dig in your back but they're curved up here to allow for that and actually very it doesn't dig in your back at all because it's down by your kidney area and it's probably quite a give your posture this could be a posture but what you can't we could do is just whack a pillow there and that would eliminate the years you know digging into your back but I'm really impressed that I've got a minute yes good good I think you're sitting there don't forget it's not booty I've shown you have potting is so tiny you know you say one man cabin yeah and there's two men in it yeah we've got a bookshelf a stove a baby bed a chair and also the fall wing table this is probably my favorite piece that so we've got - we got legs up here that one there you have that one one now we made we made hinges which you saw earlier we've just put some hinges on again everything is palpable at the moment everything we've built obviously bar the stove is all pallet wood free this lifts up like this you lock the legs in the bottom in the top by the way we're not junkies today I don't boy let me these who is unfortunately passed in the other side it took too many but yet loads and loads of pills he's very handy because he put screws nails everything everything what we've done here what we've done with this table is we put it obviously by the window so we've got plenty of light so if we may be writing reading a book something like that we've got the natural light from the window to be on here anyway and obviously it's written away at the moment but when you want to get out of the way just lift the legs out let it count down and then we put the legs up there so I love this this is probably one of my favourite pieces of the cabin and dead simple to make it simply anyone could make it we're gonna hook up in a minute but one job we're gonna do it's all growing here because nice and we do quite a lot of filming in here we're gonna paint this white innie and that's gonna throw not unlike that we feel to help with the camera and the cameras exposure yeah if you look above my head here here guys it's dark it's all dark up there and that's because it's the tin roof making it dark so what we're gonna do is paint this on the side white to reflect all of them the general light that's in it to reflect it back and make it a bit easier for filming anyway but stays nice and warm we're gonna get the boiling water to get the water boiled yeah and we're gonna cook up some feed where we eat it oh you'll have to wait and find out for that one somehow I'm starving right onions going

that's making my your eyes stinging so much no wonder the wife likes wearing nice

there's no Friday these are my wife's onion glass is she I saw him using it the other day oh it's all be seen in public with dyes don't tell me there's not all these top brush crafters out there that wouldn't put these on to get a few extra clicks I do anything for a few extra clicks anyway anymore they were joking apart guys it all sealed up and yours he goes well now and talking about this time a dinner average she used to wear a pair of these dollies we're going to be cooking in Australia to buy we gotta be having kangaroo boy with onions and of course I'll whirring by made miss glasses if you think watch they made no you're too young for that trust me he always talks for this voice in an Australian accent that pipe is really hot guys yeah listen people picking things up that's what these war is for this is a spring yes cover even on the screw is so clever yeah I can hold that it doesn't burn me I can hold that doesn't burn me for the party do not touch that well just brought some more skin yeah don't get to go that good yep kettles boiling away burgers better melted cheese onions got some HP I think you guys in America call it a1 a1 a1 sauce I think you guys have that's your that's our version of a1 sauce is HP HP on it no yeah of course now should we put the sauce on the bread at the top or actually over the cheese everywhere yeah onion it's a pretty well cooked awesome I know you're crazy yeah that's a big bad burger boy what mommy's in this people it's not quiet theory there's an inquiry we built with it some parent would the word would you know I believe Canada and America you guys use the word I'm going down the lumberyard okay I can live with that when you carry it around you call it lumber deliverance we say timber young yet when you guys out the forests cut down those real joint crease what do you share timber you share in English they don't go and the other thing I want to know is hitting there we go oh it's a really rubbish job I've really got lumbered with that yeah is that lumbered word lumbered to do with the fact that like we were carrying all this timber in here a years ago before they'd invented horses in the circular will the humans carried around the wood on their shoulders lumber on their shoulders and the word lumbered I really got lumber with a bad job where does it come from a good point

here's guys got the old I've got mine in there the G stay not only is the stove awesome

oh this cook sir don't if that's gonna focus but geez stoke cook sir I mean it's quite impressive is that I got two finger holes yes it's got two little finger holes there this is the first click so I've had with with two holes actually but yeah G Stoke cooks are the guys that juice they sent me that one so thanks so much guys eventually we might do a different type Stoke thing in it but we don't know yet so we're just gonna take it as it comes like dad says we're running out of night so we're gonna try and paint the top of the roof white yeah we've still got to seal the gaps and the holes we know we're you've got everything forget everything we're supposed to do today and it's though short winter nights yeah days so it gets take the darkness sure we can work another hour but we can't film it for you and part the fun of this is filming it and basically watching all the mistakes we make yeah but on a serious note take what you can from it and you know we've had the series is blown up much bigger than we ever expected so we're really grateful for that and thanks for the guys that watch it but we've had a couple of questions which one of just a lot of guys have said can you tell us how many pallets have you used for the project the answer to that is we're not gonna say just yet because we're still building things so we might as well wait till the end of the project and then we'll be able to say roughly how many pallets we've used yeah and the other thing we get is can you send us the dimensions of the cabin now we did do that in a previous video but we'll send you the dimensions of the porch and everything we'll do something on the dimensions later on again one week because we've got a few more additions to add to it come up with something just now

yeah we've literally thinking already but any suggestions you guys would add to this to this one-man cabin it's just a one-man cabin is two of us sort of building it it's a father-son was in it well it's a father-son project that's what it's all about so another thing I just wanted to mention is this is a playlist this is an ongoing series and I've created this on my channel have created this pallet wood cabin playlist so you can go back to episode one and start like dad says from us just raking leaves here in the woods and go all the way up to this current episode and probably a few more episodes if you want to watch that there's a little I in the top of the screen somewhere and you can click that and that will take you to the playlist if not go into the show more section in the video description below and there's a link to the full palette would come playlist as well and fishing oh and fishing they get the fishing dad dad actually has his own YouTube channel I know lot of you guys absolutely love dad and you always say to me keeping your dad on the show I try to as much as possible that has his own YouTube channel good ta fishing again pick the little eye up here or link in the video description below everything you could ever want to know really about fishing especially for beginners and getting kids into fishing isn't it well my toes I do I do nothing with it he said mess around catch the fish film it and do a bit of editing Mike there's all the rest I do not do not run that whole channel myself local SEO how do it I don't do the social media people think I do I don't do it I know Mike does both channels really but the what people don't realize is obviously the amount of effort that goes into as well that's a week that's doing weekly to two episodes a week at the moment but we might go back to weekly on there but that actually started ta fishing was before ta outdoors yeah we started that channel back in 2011 I think it was and now it's just been if you guys are interest and you wanted to know that's how I became onto YouTube is I set that up a YouTube channel because I wanted it to go along with his website which I set up because he was a formerly a writer fishing journalist so that would he's been fortunate enough to travel all over the world and write fishing articles and you know is pretty much everything there is to know about fishing but that's what it was for is to give dad some video footage for his website you ended up getting completely hooked on the video oh yeah cuz he could eat a video I done photography 40 odd years steals all the different magazines at about 42 magazine 16 books yes well familiar with the other side of the camera so to go to video oh man it's so easy don't wait for one shot it's a continuous roll of footage but yeah I like it amid case it keeps me off the streets yeah go get cabin fever zoom boy and it is so long this has been offered I'd say our best project yet and the fact that we're doing it together it's been even better so and people say do you argue we bicker but we're not sort of full-on argument we are for watching I really know we both kill we both have different ideas he's a different generation to me and all you older guys no of course we're right I need you guys if there's anybody over 50 out there I don't world over 50 I'm out of the ballpark get back on my side of the oldies look they might have the strength who's got the knowledge no I have to MIT this has been the brainchild of you really it was your idea just an idea yeah but I've tried to do most of this sort of filming sideways I really enjoy that but it's been great and we've got loads to do so we're not sure if we'll carry on filming today guys if we go thanks very much for watching this episode and we'll see you in the next one if we do carry on filming what you're going to see in a minute what we're doing anyway you