Cordwood Bear Claw, Homemade Cheese | The Forest Kitchen | Off Grid Log Cabin Build, Ep.8 S1

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At the off grid log cabin, a bear has been visiting and it's a matter of time before he checks out the cordwood bear track I added to the forest kitchen under the earthen oven.

For lunch, I eat homemade wholewheat sourdough bread and valencay cheese, a soft cheese that my wife makes with raw cow's milk.

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Video Transcription

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this week's episode I'm working on this oven bass that I'm sitting on behind me it's the first time I've ever tried doing cord wood wall structure but before I start this video I just wanted to quickly thank everybody who has ordered t-shirts and mugs and and the other merchandise that I have on the website really really appreciate that I'm overwhelmed by the response I like this design I'm glad you guys do too I have to thank my wife for coming up with it and for getting that put on some merchandise for all of us the other thing I want to thank you for was for subscribing and liking and commenting really appreciative of everybody who's doing that and I really appreciate your encouragement as well you know it takes about three times as long to do anything whether it's building or fishing or canoeing whatever it is to capture that on film and then another full day typically to edit a video so when you guys give me your feedback and you show that you're enjoying what I'm doing it really makes it worthwhile I could probably have had this cabin built in the outdoor kitchen built and probably in other things by now if I hadn't been doing this video so I really appreciate that you're appreciating the extra effort I'm putting into it [Applause]

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if you're a Mason there's a number of you that are that are watching this or if you've ever done cordwood construction like this and I'm sure you have lots of comments or criticism is about the way I'm doing this and you'd be right because like I've said many times before on other projects I really don't know what I'm doing but I'm doing it anyway and the reason I bring that up right now while working on this is because I'm getting a lot of comments again and I assume they're from younger guys and they're from newer out newer viewers newer subscribers getting comments that they wish they could do this or that they know they couldn't do this do any of this kind of stuff and I've said it many times that this is completely new to me and even though I have a construction background I became a sheet metal worker started taking a sheet metal apprentice when I was late twenty-one years old because I had built that cabin first ended up coming out of the bush going to work with my father as a sheet metal apprentice so I did that I did sheet metal work in a commercial setting for about eight years and then I moved into the office and I haven't really been doing construction since then so some of those skills are transferable obviously once you know how to measure things and cut things and pay attention to little details like that you can transfer those skills to other things so carpentry and masonry to some degree are skills that I don't have but the measuring part of it and the planning and all that kind of stuff it's helpful from what I learned in the other trade but doesn't change the fact that I didn't know what I was doing when I started this didn't know what I was doing when I started sheet metal till you do something you don't know it so it's not an excuse that if I haven't done this before I can't do it now I said to relocate the wind picked up all of a sudden it was really calm this morning and now wind is coming out of the Northwest which is great hopefully it'll cool things down a bit over 30 degrees again today and with no wind starting to get very hot working in the Sun here so what I was saying is that you know when you're younger and what I was younger I thought guys my age were were old and irrelevant and that I didn't have much to learn from them and that they were completely different people than what I was and what you discover as you get older she really don't change yes you gain more experience but you don't change who you are so I think almost exactly the way I thought when I was 20 and if I look back at my journals from that period especially when I was building the cabin or some of my old hunting journals that I started in my teens I still use the same phrases I still talk the same I still think the same so thinking that I needed to do things really quickly when I was younger because I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do those later because I was going to be too old to do them is it's wrong it's just wrong and and some of the risks I took over the years especially when I started my first big business the risks I took were because I thought I had to make a whole bunch of money in a short period of time so that I could enjoy a longer retirement or not be insecure in my financial situation as I got older I wish I had known now that if I had just stuck to it and gone slowly learned things as I went accumulated knowledge in and money as I as I matured I would have been perfectly fine but I put it all on the line I lost it and I had to start over again at 40 41 years old and what I learned over the say the last 25 years is that by working hard I could make more money I could do things that were more suited to my skills and then the next thing I learned is that if I worked smart I could make even more money so I started my own commercial roofing a sheet metal business so I was able to work hard and smart and therefore make quite a bit of money but three times what I was making or more as a tradesman so working hard working smart and then when I lost everything I realized the missing component and all that is that I wasn't doing something that I like to know that was passionate about so in the next big business that I started was in renewable energy something that I felt passionate about and in that business what I learned is that if I worked hard smart and did something that I was passionate about then I could make a lot more money but I think what's most relevant to to the young

generation including my daughters who are eighteen and nineteen you have a tough time ahead of you but it's not overwhelming so I encourage you to follow your passion work smart work hard be curious and live an unconventional life and one of meaning [Music]

now make sure you tune in next week to the next episode the following episode of the outdoor kitchen as I start the cob which is the clay sand and grass or straw mixture that are putting on top of this platform as a thick platform thick to hold the mass or hold the heat and then on top of that I'll be building the earthen oven out of the same material so I'm not only looking forward to continuing to finish this project but really looking forward to having this outdoor kitchen to to about cook all my meals from now on so thanks for watching I really appreciate it look forward to seeing up the cabin next time take care [Music]

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