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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2022
- Well folks, here it is the final piece of this epic project! The reason why the door swings out, why the wood stove pipe goes directly outside and why I’ve been sleeping on the pullout couch for a year. We’ve figured out how to do the tuck up, counter-weight elevator bed. I wanted to keep the effect of entering into a big space and also have enough headroom when I’m sleeping in the loft, and this is how it all came together.
Huge thanks to one of my best buddies for gifting me this used weight set that kickstarted the project, the neighbour that welded a load plate, my Dad for helping me figure things out and build it with me, and of course, thank you to all of you who have been with me through this huge project.
I hope to help other people live a tiny life and show the world that it’s not just living with less but adding all these little things all in one place makes for a much richer life! Enjoy this final piece of the puzzle my friends!
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Very ingenious- and lovely! What a dad.
Many Thanks Dad! The Basic Counter- Weight System! No electricity! No dependence on batteries! ❤ it!
What a dream and pleasure it has been to do this with you Denis!! Soo, Soo Grateful!! :)
Yes sir! Clearly couldn’t have done this with our you Dad! What’s next? Hehe
Very cool!!!
Thank you for showing the process. Most elevator bed videos don't. This was very helpful. Your dad seems like a genuinely sweet man.
Your very welcome, knowledge needs to be shared, we’re all in this together.
And yes my Dad is the kindness teacher, father and full of heart. Grateful every day for how generous God’s has been to me. Thanks for watching!
Very nice !
Your dad did a beautiful job
Thanks dad !
So great isn’t he!
This is what I was looking for. That's perfect.
Glad this could help spark the concept for your project 💪🏼
I know alot but the saddle advice was the moment I learnt something new today. Nice simple design.
Yes sir! Love learning from my Dad and hearing about all the know-how he’s gained. Worth passing on!
C’est impressionnant. Y’a plus que de la construction , y’a le temps partagé entre père / fils…. Un cadeau.
Tu la dis! Merci Linda!
Building memories ... the best part of all.
Multi gym weight system! Genius! Love the leap frog idea too! That’s smart thinking!
My house is small, not a tiny home, but I’m watching because I want to make more use from my bedroom during the day, without a folding bed (I’d never fold it up!)
Thanks for the inspiration, really appreciate your effort! Tim
You got it! Same with me, I didn’t want to fold up a Murphy bed, hence why I chose this design. Push up as it out of the way!
This is a great design, I may copy elements of it. I would have the ladder slide out from the platform instead of hinge down, and I would use more slats under the bed and leave it open to vent moisture. The counterweight system is simple and perfect. Now I need to find some old workout equipment.
Yes sir! That’s the idea. Make it your own! Figuring out by our particular puzzle is the best part!
I really enjoyed the love and respect for your father! ❤
It’s a true blessing and I’ve learned so much and just had to share it!
Awesome! Good job! So proud of my boys! 👍😍
Thanks for putting up with our shenanigans and endless tinyhouse talk all that’s years Mom haha!
Thank You, from Sweden, for a great idea!
Omg... That solution is awesome!
Your dad deserves a big dinner and not enough hugs.
Haha, yes, you got that right !
Amazing place Denis. Happy for you. Place looks amazing.
Thanks man! Pretty much at the end, now I’m dreaming up a next project 💪🏼
Beautiful job on the home. Your dad and you are very very skilled to make the concepts in this house come to reality.
Thanks brother! Pretty amazing when you give something some thought, time and effort. You can really design a rich life if you stick with a plan for it!
Now let’s see you build your slice of paradise by the waters of Cape Breton!
Yep your father is a smart dude my own sons where in there mid 20s where there realize I wasn't quite as slow as they previously had thought. Lol we didn't really get any smarter you just realized how smart you are and started listening that's all.
Haha, yes sir. There’s a shift isn’t there. It’s like finally seeing the answer, the resolution to a really tough question of life. Thanks for watching Loyd, and hope you get some cool projects done with your sons!
Thank you. Ive been searching for information for this very option. I want build one and couldnt find inspiration, just expensive companies. Now i understand a few things more that i didnt before.
Any questions, don’t be shy!
No winch, no electricity! You and your Dad can do some really awesome stuff. BTW I have a Douglas mattress too and so far it's been working out good.
Yes sir! That was also the plan, power outage, I can still get to it and it’s much more quite than a chain pulley, not to mention a garage door engine!
What’s life without a challenge to conquer, right!
Glad to hear Douglas is making tracks. Thanks for watching man!
What a sweet bonding experience. Your mutual respect for eachother is very evident..and this build is genius. 👏
Thank you and thanks for watching!
These have been memories I’ll cherish for life. My advice to anyone looking to build a tinyhouse is to find someone else to do it with. It’s an important part of making it a home. The memories are baked in.
Buying a tinyhouse prefab misses this aspect, it’s “just another house” you will have lived in.
Not everyone that has the privilege of partnering up, but if you can’t avoid having someone else build it, at least be there often, feel out the project. Have input on design, ask to help out and learn from them. Not to save cost but to be part of the home.
It’s something that has been lost over the progress society has made to make everything easier. It used to be what you did. Days of “my grandfather built this with his own hands” are fading fast. I’m trying to bring that back with this channel.
WoW! That's awesome brother!
Thank you sir! Turned out pretty good!
Super beau!! Quel accomplissement!! Bravo!!
Merci, c’est bien gentille!
Brilliant bed👏👏👏
Thanks! My castle is complete 💪🏼
This is exactly what I was looking for; a basic install. I just learned about the old time design of the hidden bed in the ceiling & here I thought it was more modern. The designs with the pulleys and such seem much more complicated & hard to adjust.
👍👍👍👍👍❤
Love it. I love no electric mechanics. I want to do something like this. They do in rv’s. It would be for a guest in my tiny home. Nice house. Your so blessed to have your dad
Totally agree. On all fronts! Good luck with your project 💪
Wanting to build a small " freight elevator " that's non electric. Your video came up. Do excited to see it. Had a mechanic tell me I should use the garage door railings/ rollers to keep it stable. Knew there needed to be a pulley system. But mine needs to cover 3 floors,😮. Amy advice from your dad about brakes/ stops at each floor would be greatly appreciated. So glad to see your video, showing me I had the right thought process ! Even though was told no by many. Thank you !😊
Clearly any type of elevator requires safety measures beyond what we can advise on.
That said, if I was to create one that would not carry humans, it could be done with a pulley system and a chain.
I was contemplating using a manual chain system I’ve seen on CZcams as a bed lift, but it’s quite noisy for my liking. But could work for you.
With the chain you could pull on it (from outside the lift) and once it reaches the floor you need, you can hook a chain loop to a metal hook and go up and move the stuff. Much like a “dumb waiter” system could be used.
Again, for small enough box that it wouldn’t fit a standing human to discourage the idea.
Dads are the best.
They truly are. I’ve been so blessed.
your father is a genius. he needs his own channel
Haha true enough, but I think he’s CZcams’s out.
Love your videos man, your place is awesome!!
Thanks Sam! Nothing like building your own home, I hope you get to experience that and live the tiny life 💪🏼
@@TinyLifeTAKEOVER Yessir, hope to build a cabin one day! Also hope you keep making videos, your channel is so fun to watch!
@@samgrenier5651 you got it! If there’s any topics that would be helpful, let me know! Our community of tiny lifers is growing 💪🏼
@@TinyLifeTAKEOVER Honestly I find the closed water setup you have super interesting! Being from Quebec it's cool to see the different ways to have a system and avoid freezing!
@@samgrenier5651 100%! Being in NB Canada, we have the same concerns. Having taken the concept from Ana White’s model in Alaska, everything clicked. More chores, yes, but peace of mind, worth it!
Cool
I was looking at all kinds of ways to do a elevator bed, and brother this by far the best! I've looked at the murphy, but it takes up too much room. I even looked at cutting a hole out of my wall so I could bump out the wall to accommodate the murphy but that's too aggressive. The electric elevator beds are noisy, expensive, and even slow. Plus if your on your own solar power or out of power, your out of business.
I saw something like this awhile back, where someone else had the counter weight out side, so that was odd, why have holes in your house when your counter weight can be in a corner, even hidden in a box if you don't like to see it.
Thank you, you saved me from cutting holes in my outside walls and buying motors.
Great job, thank you thank you thank you,
James
Yes sir, my pleasure. This is why I put this content out there! Sounds like we both watched the same videos and thought the same thing. If you have any questions on the setup, don’t hesitate to ask my friend
Great Job for you and your dad!! 👌 i have some space what I would like to do the same .. greetings from Peru🇵🇪
Great to meet you Hernán! Thanks for watching and enjoy planing out and building your own tinyhome. If you have any questions on solving space issues, or what to keep in mind, don’t hesitate! Different climate yes, but we’re all the same in so many human ways. God bless
15:20 for this advice alone this video paid off!
You got that right!
One thing I'm looking into now is how to make DIY air exchanger. They are around $1000 US. So to DIY is a must, if it can be safe and works.
I hear you James. I’ve had my blauberg running for a few years now, yes $1000 us. Great in the winter, but not much help in the summer. I installed a noma, in window 6000 BTU 110v air conditioner that does humidity and cools the air. It’s a game changer. $300 new.
If you used aluminum for the frame you'd need much less counterweight right? For our conversion cargo van that's what we'll use....like the plan though. Again aluminum ladder like one for the attic stairs would be lighter and easier to store.
Yes, it sure would’ve been an option. For me it was access to material and cost. It was much cheaper to use wood and the counterweight was a gift!
This quote comes to mind: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt (or Arthur Ashe)
Hope your build goes well! Please share the results 💪
Love the counterweight system and love the compactness of the stack weights. However wondering where you got those and further more where I might be able to find some cheap. Even buying a used stack weight exercise machine is pretty expensive and exceeds what I would want to spend on this project.
Thanks for watching Bill! Yeah, my buddy was given an old weight stack from a gym that had closed. That would be your best bet. Old college gyms or even an army surplus store.
Definitely “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” territory here when gyms renovate.
I think you should think about raising your matrass a few inches for airing out.
This thing is a game of inches my friend! But I understand the concern.
Love the simplicity of a counter weight system like this. Impressive build. I'm hoping to make something similar one day, only I'd like the bed platform to come all the way down to like 3' from the floor or whatever level accommodates the backrest height of a couch that will be located below the bed. Could I use this same setup only with lower stops and longer cable? And do you offer any plans detailing your elevator bed build?
I’m sure that would work as long as you can let the weights go high enough.
I don’t have any plans for it because it was a prototype we just decided to keep! But the bed platform is really just a section of wall and I used garage door rollers. The complex part is all the wiring, pulleys and welded bracket. All just prototypes we chose to keep. It’s all so custom.
But as you build yours and have questions, I can tell you what we did for my setup.
@@TinyLifeTAKEOVER Thank you so much! All the best.
Love the plate weight stack idea. I’d like to do this in my home, but don’t have four walls to mount onto. Open to suggestions! The ideas I have are 1. to have a large metal L -shape made to run up the wall and under the bed. No idea if that’s realistic, plus it adds weight, and how would it descend? Into the floor? Or ceiling pulley’s, maybe
Interesting challenge, you can do this without rails, as long as you lock the bottom so it doesn’t swing while you sleep. Feel free to email me dadaigle@gmail.com and we can dive into what’s doable!
@@TinyLifeTAKEOVER Wow, thank you for prompt and generous reply! I will email. (Actually will sleep in lowered position. Would like to free bed space periodically via lift.)
@@Trenchant468 @TinyLifeTAKEOVER did you all come up with something? I want to do a free-standing one too for apartment living...
@@tubesocks Hi I did write but did not hear back. Maybe it ended up in spam?
Y’all are awesome! Can you come help me with a tiny home?
Hey Angela, thanks for watching! Are you in the middle of building it?
How do you keep the bed from coming down unevenly? Other examples I’ve seen the corners seem a bit unruly. Yours seem so smooth. Is it just the pulleys that keep it balanced?
It took some trial and error but we made sure the bed was level at its resting position, made the cables taught and the 4 come together on a rectangular metal plate that then connects with a single line just above the weights. We made sure that plate stayed level and it showed us all 4 cables were equally loaded and balanced. So “eyeballing it” that way I suppose.
I know this is an older video, but did you use any specific calculations to figure out how much weight you would need on your counterweight in order for the bed to stay on the "floor" once the bed platform was pulled down?
Great work. Is there a reason you stopped it from coming down closer to the floor? Did i miss that explanation?
Thanks Ian! Yes, the bed is right over the wood stove. Also the reason why the pipe doesn’t go up to the ceiling.
Hi Denis , You n your Dad are geniuses...love the Counter-weight bed; would you /Dad know if this system could work in a high top van ?? ie ...Sprinter/ Ducati etc...🏴🏴🏴🏴
Hmmm not off hand but I’ve seen videos of electronic winches used in vans (using the battery to power it I’d say)! I’m sure it’s on CZcams!
Thanks for your reply , have a grt day 🏴🏴
Sleep well!
I have an idea for a bed that works like how a Smith machine works at the gym with bearings.
You know what, it just might! If you have access to 2 of them though. Way to use your ingenuity 🧠
Could you share the links to get the equipment/materials used for the elevator bed please
Hey! Honestly my dad and I just talked about how we could make it (garage door hardware for the rails and wheels, pulleys and cable connected to a 2x4 hollow frame with a thin plywood).
We went to the hardware store and bought bits and pieces to make this work. The main pulley holder we had a neighbour weld it together from a wooden prototype.
For the weights a friend of mine gave it to me.
It truly is a project of ideas, trial and error and persistence.
It’s always better when you figure this out like puzzle!
I believe in you
Can the bed come down any lower. How lucky you are to have your father.
Trust me, I appreciate him and always relay the comments here to him.
The bed doesn’t go any lower because the wood stove is under it. Else it could yes, if the tracks were longer.
What would you recommend someone without a welding neighbor use in place?
Hey Jennifer! Good question. Seeing how that corner needs to support 500-600 lbs or more, a steel plate bolted into three rafters was going to be another way we were going to try, but opted for a more compact solution. Tying directly into rafters is key. This said, I’m not an engineer, so I can only provide a layperson’s opinion.
How did you decide how much weight was needed?
Good question! Basically the weight system I was given goes to 220lbs, so that became the max weight for the platform + mattress
couldnt you just get the bed to go down near ground level to avoid a ladder altogether? or one needing a shorter ladder perhaps?
Hey Rose, for this design, I have a wood stove directly under it, plus I wanted to make it so someone can be sleeping and the other person can use the sitting area, tend to the stove and open the door to go outside.
would be nice if you would film more of your dad instead of yourself. He's doing a nice job! I thank your dad for explaining the "never saddle a dead horse" rule so well, I finally understand it now! Really a cool idea with the counterweights.
I know eh, he was a teacher by trade so it’s definitely who he is. Hoping to have some more projects he can show us
What’s wrong with your neck? Not possible to speak to the camera with your head straight? 😂
Haha yeah, I see what you mean
A parts list would be fantastic?
I hear you, it was really my Dad and I going to the hardware stores around and trying stuff out.
-4 garage door sliders with the wheels
-the floor was 2x4s and 1/4” plywood.
-large gauge wire and eyebolts with 8 single pulleys.
-the metal bracket was fabricated by a neighbor
But the main piece, the counter weight is from an old gym set. It’s really what ever we could find to make it safe and make it work.