OFF GRID LOG CABIN: Tour And Winter Preperation
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2019
- The cabin is coming along as planned. We got flooring installed, all windows, a few shelves, and the wood shed is filling up nice. There is still a lot to do. I have counters and cabinets to build, our ice box (fridge), coat racks, and trim around windows, door, and floor. I will have videos of all of that soon. Then I will frequently post videos of every day life at the cabin (daily routine, typical day, etc). Stay tuned for much more content of the off grid log cabin life. Instagram: kylehelmberger
I want this to be realistic so people can come along for the adventure and really see what its like for a couple in their early 20's to live off grid and remote. Firewood is a major part of your life when you live off grid in the north. I don't want this to be like reality shows that are scripted and over dramatize everything. I want this to be realistic. I will never clickbait you. I film everything on my phone and am pretty new to videography but will get better! Feedback from you guys is important. I am going to continue to film every day life at our cabin and will go into greater detail on how we accomplish every day tasks. If there is anything you want me to make a video of let me know. Thank you for watching!
One thing will u tell me i wanna know that u people cut the every year than no. Of trees after some will be zero so how do u manage r u plant the tree in favourable month.
Cut the tree
Go on Survival Russia channel and type Russian Hunter Skis. It will make life easier in the winter. Great Video, keep up the good work. P.S. also type BiOSAND WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM on CZcams, perfect for a cabin
Yes , What a good wood burner for a 16x12 (just under 200 sq ft ) would be. And why. DO I need afterburners, updated etc. I know some are $3-4 hundred and some are $3-4 thousand The whole cabin will be less than $10 k
Found this channel earlier last week. Hooked in seeing the start of it all. 24 years old and starting a homestead myself and you're a huge inspiration for that Kyle. Godspeed brother. Grateful to sit with a Coors beverage and watch you, Sierra, and Skeeter build the true American dream.
Cheers from NH.
I have an idea if you are interested. A loft would make great sleeping quarters and then you can put a table and chairs under the loft.
He who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed. Good looking cabin!
That is very true! Thanks
Thrice. You have to get it there too!
1 cutting it down 2 bucking it 3 splitting it 4 stacking it 5 hauling it in 6 hauling out the ashes to the garden!
Steve T- He better hope the wood is dry as you can not burn wet wood or green wood. If he tries to burn wet or green wood, he will have a cabin full of smoke.
My first cabin was the same size as yours....we had bunks along the length of the back wall/queen on the bottom and double on top, that way we could sleep 8 or more, door and window were opposite of yours, wood stove was under the front window close to door and table was under the right window as you walked in, oven /cupboards opposite wall...people on the top bunks roasted in the winter and people on the bottom bunks were comfy. Great channel.
Really like the cabin...plus being self-sufficient. Nothing wrong with hard work or working it out to get what you need.
It’s a beautiful cabin! Well done.
Wow! That’s very organized log cabin. Your dog seems excited to explore with you and thank you for sharing this. I hope it’s not that difficult to work in a snowy day. Keep safe.
I am very impressed with this young man.
You have a place friend... oh and by the way you have a strong back seeing all these works done by you...
Hey man, slide a small piece of pvc of that rope to give you a handle on your sled. Life changing!
You got a great swing Kyle....nice Cabin too. Your smart...
I am so happy for you guy's, you won't regret it.
What a lovely cabin! It must be so satisfying to know you built it yourself.
Awwwwww, Skeeter loves you so much. So sweet how he hugs you and you stop your work to hug him.🥰🥰🥰
Hes the best little friend anyone could ever ask for
Beast mode on swinging that axe!!
I know you have to walk a ways to your cabin, but if you ever get the chance I would bring a tire. You can place your log inside to cut and for the most part it will all stay together making your work load way less. I'm loving your videos!
Sweet cabin.
Nice environment too.
Enjoy your time up there, nothing quite like a cabin in the woods.
Thank you! it is really peaceful here.
I love the cabin!
You have a beautiful cabin there young man thanks for sharing looking forward too more awesome videos
Thank you Susie I appreciate it. Ill have more videos coming!
Cool place brother. I dig the way you work right in front of it, the way people who really live in the backwoods do, not just all manicured and such.
Thank you. My goal is to keep this realistic.
Looks great man, great to see other off-gridders working hard in the winter! Keep it up and keep inspiring folks!
Thanks! i will check out your channel
We never saw the structure of the floor or even how you did the roof. Would be very helpful to see that. Also, over time you may want to put posts on each corner of your porch overhang. Good to prevent age sag, handle heavy snow and something to hang stuff on. Also in the winter you could make removable sides to act as a vestibule to the cabin and better dry your wood and give you a weather break. Just a thought but knowing how innovative you are I bet it’s running through your mind already. Great video and great plans. Great job on this cabin Kyle. Love the way you got the ridge pole up too. Oh don’t forget we would love to see all the roof construction and eave cutting. 👍🏻
Looking great! Thank you for the video.
Thank you I'm glad you like the videos
Story of my life: preps to swing ax at log, then log falls over
Absolutely amazing and beautiful cabin!
Cute and cozy looking cabin . love it.
Thank you Marie!
Looks great - I love your dog too :)
Great cabin you got there. Two thumbs up! Enjoy your peace, quiet, and freedom. (I'd put the propane tank outside if possible)
Thanks buddy I've been watching your channel for awhile. good stuff!
So beautiful...looks so cozy. 😍
Amazing little cabin u built there Kyle and watching u chop that wood made my old body just ache. Just started watching your Channel from Manitoba 🇨🇦.
Nice! Good job on cabin! Thanks
Nice set up. Ill be watching.
Great job 👍
I like your set up,nice size shop,all the best !
thanks Rick!
Gas bottles should be outside .Good :luck Adam
Very great looking cabin awesome video, liked and subscribed! I’d love to do something like this
This is a very good channel. I just found it. You are very good with videography! Looking forward to following. Great job.
I don't think I'm that good yet but I am trying to get better. Thank you I appreciate it!
David M I agree, I think he’s doing a great job (using just a phone camera,). I think it looks great and is as entertaining as the guys with $$$$ in video equipment.
🌿🌲🍁Really nice job, I could live there. I would turn the cooker and put its back against the other wall, that way you could have cabinets right up into the corner (everyone loves a corner for storage) and you get more work top space too AND..... your not cooking right up again the wall which will be a pain with pot handles 🌿🌲🍁
Joanne Forrest would you at a place like that? Really, so remote...
Nice!!! 👍👍👍
It is common for wood stoves to be placed near the door for heating ease of cleaning.
you need a wheelbarrow for around your cabin, all the old people used them when working around the woodpile-saves your back
Maneras as tuas cabanas! Fique encantada, com sua organização.
Meus parabéns! Ah! Adorei seu cachorinho.
yes - - guacamole to you, too!
Thats a really nice cabin you have there!! Love it
Thank you!
@@KYLESCABIN You are very welcome!! I enjoyed it!
Sweet cabin. Just be yourself and present everything the way you want to and you'll enjoy it and it will be authentic. I just subbed and look forward to seeing what you have going on up there.
2Tiedup I agree. I enjoy watching people doing the projects required to build a comfortable home. Maybe add a garden (I just started watching today and I’m on video 4).
Here’s a tip on helping with tracking dirt into cabin. Don’t chop your firewood in front of the door. Keep up good work. Luv your videos.
Your cabin looks awesome man I can’t wait to get mine done
thanks! I cant wait to see yours when it's done.
I’ll be posting more videos real soon here !
Your living the best life right now when my kids grow up and get older I’d like to move in my cabin and live there
that's awesome I'm excited for you
Dang! That woodstove big enough?!? 😁 U dont need a front door!
You're not wrong! The door is wide open a lot lol.
Nice cabin.
It's beautiful.
thats a real nice cabin . you should be real proud of yourself. you need a 4 wheeler to help get to cabin. maybe think about a nice porch on front. keep the videos coming.
yes a 4 wheeler would be nice. its snowmobile season now which would be awesome for pulling supplies in. We will see if I can fit it in the budget this year. I still have some things to get. And I agree, a front porch is a must have. That will be a spring project!
just a thought,, is to fix up that old cabin for storage and your place to work if needed. it doesn't look to bad from here.use it for a work shop.
Or fix it and connect it to the new one or for wood shed too
@@ThisWreathingNurse you can put half logs on the out side of the building make it look like a log dewelling
new subscriber-great video!
Привет! Я смотрю у тебя дом в лесу, ни как у нас. У нас в у славян домики строят по меньше. Может у вас не тайна, а лес? Но мне очень понравился ваш домик просторный, уютный. Даже поставил газовую колонку. Я подписалась и буду наблюдать за твоими походами в лес, и, как ты будешь отдыхать.
Там слово не тайна, а Тайга. Также не газовая колонка, а плита
Fine looking cabin.
Thanks Steven
Nice Cabin and Hats off for your hard work and even attempting to build such a place. Your content from here will only improve as your self.I look forward to watching your channel grow. New subscriber.
Thank you I appreciate it!
THATS a sweat.littel cabin 👍..can't wait trying hard to get mine..but I'm in pgh pa ..not to much land.like yours..but Awsome I'll be watching .
Thank you! Good luck I hope you get yours!
I see a roof on the cabin. Where is the video for that?? Interested to see how you did that. Thank you.
I wonder if...when you start to build a cabin like this...is there a plan in the back of your mind to start with a small cabin...and then slowly add on new space?...or maybe eventually go bigger?
Awesome build! I personally would have or would in the future build a mud room just for extra storage and room with keeping things small
Bathroom first
Looks great. But just one question at the front and rear peaks are those open for a reason? Just curious.
Nice job on ur build just subbed
thank you!
the building in the back are you planning on making that into a cabin too? I love how you care for your dog and by the way nice cabin
well done
Beautiful cabin you need a loft🤠😁
Is spreyfoam really the proper way to insulate between the logs? You dont think there might be an issue with trapped moisture?
looks so good.please put that propane line through the wall and the tank outside,keep up the great work.
Tell us about those rafters too!
Will you be adding an additional room to the back of the cabin? A loft would have been really cool as well. Over all nice little place you have.. The bear tracks, black or Grizzly??? I would definitely keep a fire arm close by...
Enjoy your night bud..
Black bear. A loft might be in the future. Thank you!
and yes I'm adding a room off the back which will have a composting toilet and shower.
Using a splitting maul for puke wood. Come to calif, and i got 36 inch trunks i split with a 2.5 pond double bit. 8 cords worth.
I love 💓 it
I have a similar axe with a splitting head, heavy as f@#k but works well.
Love the cabin. Just a question but why put the wood stove on the far end of the cabin? Seems like it would be better to put it next to the door for bringing in wood. Only a question. I’m looking at videos to make plans for my own cabin.
You're probably right. I mainly designed the cabin based on window placement. I have a big window on the side with a nice view of the pines, and I like looking down the trail while cooking/doing dishes in the front. So having it in the back was more out of the way. However you're right it does get messy when I lug firewood to the back. I just sweep up every time. My girlfriends grandpa has a pretty cool small hatch door close to the woodstove that leads to the outside wood bin. It is pretty slick. I will probably put one in. Lots of projects to do!
I love the cabin. It is the exact size I want when I retire. I want a wood burning stove I can cook on top of but it has to have a fire I can see. Too old and crippled now to do what you guys do, but I sure wish I wasn't. I will just be a prepper.
Cierra really wants a stove with a glass door so we can see the fire. I think next year we will get one because I agree, it is nice and comforting being able to see the fire. Especially at night it adds a comforting light to the dark cabin. 12x16 is plenty of space for us. Nice and simple. I hope you fulfill your dream :)
Hi I follow you all the time! I have a very interesting question! How do you keep warm on winter?
P.s . Since you have a gas stove , why not a gas heater as back up, and a propane hot water heater . be living large ,and maybe 300.00 more !!!!! Just saying. Peace.
I'm from the blue ridge mountains of Va. There are people to this day that live off the grid , they have lived like that their whole lives . Watch tv off a car battery and inverter , charge their batteries with a gas generator. Cook and heat the house with a wood cook stove. Use the propane water heater , instant hot water ,they run off 2 d batteries and small propane tanks .They use a 200 gallon water tank made of plastic , they keep it on a trailer and take it to the river and have a small generator from harbor freight $100 bucks and pump the water from the creek to the tank and back to the house they go . They buy bottled water for drinking. They have everything we have just more work involved . They grew up that way , it's all they know. It's not hard living at all . People today want it easy , no work what so ever , it will there doom one day. Peace.
Where are you going to put the refrigerator/freezer ?
Are you planning on doing a garden? Not sure if the ground would even support a garden?
You did a great job on the build, but I hope you eventually replace that spray foam w/ real chinking.
At 40 below, you would spread peanut butter if you thought it would help.
so far in mid 20 degree weather is ridiculously hot in the cabin. Have to have a window cracked open usually. I'd rather have that than be cold. We will see how it performs in 40 below but so far I think there wont be any problems keeping this thing warm.
Your new cabin moved further away from the old one or at least it looks that way. Get the foundation done? How did you move all that weight?
The old cabin had a room addition that I tore off. Gave me a lot more room between the two.
Okay I have looked everywhere for the price list on your off-grid cabin that you promised. Where is it? Thanks .
What do you do for food storage?
Are you going to finish the ceiling for insulation factor? Everything looks beautiful. Lots of hard work! Congratulations!,,🎉🍾🎊
Thank you! yes I will eventually.
You really need a skidoo!
Too late now, but you need more windows.
Looks so cozy, love log cabins. I guess no water, what will u use to wash, bathroom or doing dishes?
We melt snow. I'll make a video of all that soon! And we have a composting toilet that just runs off sawdust.
I had a cabin in south eastern VT. It was so great well over the years we did get a well, running water and bathroom, but at the end of November till May we did not use it so it was a job, having to drain and prep all the pipes for winter. Miss that place, want to see lots of pictures as you go, thanks , stay warm❄️❄️❄️
Looks good! i also built my own cabin on my channel. Not a log one though
thanks! I'll check it out
@@KYLESCABIN thanks
"You;ve all done well." - - Are You Being Served
Is that a lpg, butane or propane stove & oven? You need to give yourself way more ventilation if so, otherwise there could be a carbon monoxide buildup within the cabin, which is potentially fatal.
Just a thought, you may want to keep a dairy, would be great to look back on in 50 yrs.... Where do you sleep?
I do keep a journal. We sleep on a futon. Before that we slept on the floor or on cots.
Wow, you sure don't need a gym membership! You must be extremely strong dragging that sled with the logs!
I found myself wondering this: I'd like to see a guy that only goes to the gym come and do what you do. I give him a minute.
There are beach muscles and work muscles.
Is this in Alaska?
Your a wood chopping machine.
You remind me of myself 30 years ago
I was going to say the same thing! I have a monster maul that weighs 15 lbs and i could out split a hydraulic splitter with it! I love heating with wood!
Chopping wood is a young mans game
what kind of dog is that??? he is great
Is that wood chopper a semi auto chopper? It that even legal?
Oh, to be young and full of energy again. Mother Earth has been killing and burning trees for millions of years. Oil? I wouldn’t sweat the trees. Good work. Great location. Keep on keeping on. All is good. Your cabin looks very well built. Someone will not like your “chinking”, but that’s like the old game warden joke about the guy that handed the warden a stick of fuse lit dynamite and said, “Now, are you gonna write me up or you gonna fish”?
Hahaha. Thanks for the kind words Karl.
Kyle what's going on with the cabin that we haven't heard from u. Are u ok please let us know......🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
What's the other building?
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My first time viewing one of your videos. Hence, I don't know the history of the cabin. Just an FYI: It appears spray foam is used in place of chinking? Spray foam won't stop water or critters.
yes spray foam is used. Saw it a lot in Alaska and it holds up quite well. It was either moss or carrying mortar 1/2 mile through the woods. We will see how it holds up. So far it holds heat incredibly well. But we will see!
and with my overhang there would have to be some serious winds for the logs to ever see water
@@KYLESCABIN Keep us posted. It'll be interesting to know.
@@JF-fx2qv will do. Thanks for watching!
That wood stove will run ya outta there