Making a Dutch Door for My Off Grid Timber Workshop from a Dead Standing Spruce Tree
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Date: 2021-02-20
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Hanneke
That is a beautiful door, and a very sensible idea to make it a Dutch door so you can let in some air without needing to open the whole door and lose all the warmth.
I loved seeing the whole process in one go, from the standing dead tree, then cutting it down and clearing it of all the branches (I like that you explained that part, which looked risky to me) and dragging it home, through squaring the log and cutting the planks, to the door hung and protecting the workshop!
Maybe you'll add a small hook (or a few of different lengths, to give you more options, when you make the latches, so you can set the top ajar at a small gap while you're working inside, without it blowing about in the breeze?
The snowy winter landscape looks lovely, and the brook not freezing all the way should be helpful with getting water in winter. Maybe a small plank bridge would be usuful by the time your wife joins you living there next winter, so she can reach the unfrozen middle without risking the too-thin or rotting ice on the edges in autumn and spring? I trust your boots and (fishing) trousers would protect you if you stepped through the ice.
I liked seeing Cali being so mature, keeping in your langlauf-tracks (cross-country skiing) where the snow had been pressed down, conserving her energy; it's fun to see her play and help, and also to see her mature and see how sensible she has become. She knows to stay well out of the way when you're using the chainsaw or when a tree is being cut down, and a little less distant but not too close when you're using an axe; this knowing to conserve her energy when you're out for a long cold trek looks to me like another part of that growing up.
Can you set the drone's camera to follow you on that walk, or is there someone with you, directing it? Your hands are obviously occupied with the skiing poles, not with a drone controller, except for the bit where you pause at that big rock.
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That is a beautiful door, and a very sensible idea to make it a Dutch door so you can let in some air without needing to open the whole door and lose all the warmth.
I loved seeing the whole process in one go, from the standing dead tree, then cutting it down and clearing it of all the branches (I like that you explained that part, which looked risky to me) and dragging it home, through squaring the log and cutting the planks, to the door hung and protecting the workshop!
Maybe you'll add a small hook (or a few of different lengths, to give you more options, when you make the latches, so you can set the top ajar at a small gap while you're working inside, without it blowing about in the breeze?
The snowy winter landscape looks lovely, and the brook not freezing all the way should be helpful with getting water in winter. Maybe a small plank bridge would be usuful by the time your wife joins you living there next winter, so she can reach the unfrozen middle without risking the too-thin or rotting ice on the edges in autumn and spring? I trust your boots and (fishing) trousers would protect you if you stepped through the ice.
I liked seeing Cali being so mature, keeping in your langlauf-tracks (cross-country skiing) where the snow had been pressed down, conserving her energy; it's fun to see her play and help, and also to see her mature and see how sensible she has become. She knows to stay well out of the way when you're using the chainsaw or when a tree is being cut down, and a little less distant but not too close when you're using an axe; this knowing to conserve her energy when you're out for a long cold trek looks to me like another part of that growing up.
Can you set the drone's camera to follow you on that walk, or is there someone with you, directing it? Your hands are obviously occupied with the skiing poles, not with a drone controller, except for the bit where you pause at that big rock.
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Robert
Shawn, I won't claim to have watched every single one of your My Self Reliance videos, but it is certainly north of 85% of them. It might even be higher than that.
That episode was, hands down, the best single episode you have done to date. It had everything. A brief explanation from you at the beginning about what you were going to do. You cut down the tree and got it out of the woods. Some safety tips, then off the log was being dragged. You cut it up into lumber with just the right amount of time spent on it. The bit with the termites/insects was perhaps the only part which could have used a little discussion with the audience again, but never mind. It looked a little more ominous and even added a little tension with you bringing the boards in and then looking at them more closely. You glued the boards together and got the door finished and installed!
Then some great footage of the wilderness, blowing snow (the white out was great) and a montage featuring both a worm's eye view and drone's eye views of white tailed deer, the creek, water, Maximum CANADA. Music was great and editing was very well done.
This episode had it all. I have to strain to pick holes or suggest my expectations weren't met at any point. It was long but didn't feel long. It was the PERFECT length.
You nailed this one and stuck the landing. Gold Star from the teacher; take a bow.
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Shawn, I won't claim to have watched every single one of your My Self Reliance videos, but it is certainly north of 85% of them. It might even be higher than that.
That episode was, hands down, the best single episode you have done to date. It had everything. A brief explanation from you at the beginning about what you were going to do. You cut down the tree and got it out of the woods. Some safety tips, then off the log was being dragged. You cut it up into lumber with just the right amount of time spent on it. The bit with the termites/insects was perhaps the only part which could have used a little discussion with the audience again, but never mind. It looked a little more ominous and even added a little tension with you bringing the boards in and then looking at them more closely. You glued the boards together and got the door finished and installed!
Then some great footage of the wilderness, blowing snow (the white out was great) and a montage featuring both a worm's eye view and drone's eye views of white tailed deer, the creek, water, Maximum CANADA. Music was great and editing was very well done.
This episode had it all. I have to strain to pick holes or suggest my expectations weren't met at any point. It was long but didn't feel long. It was the PERFECT length.
You nailed this one and stuck the landing. Gold Star from the teacher; take a bow.
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Jochen
Shawn please look in your video elapse time 36m: 36s, I could see light on the right of the corner in the wooden wall between beam 6 and beam 7 from below up to the level of the window to the right of the corner, where you kneeled down, your house is not yet complete dense: I could see the light snow outside through a crevice, I'm sorry that I saw something so horrible, I think the wood can still work and the log house will definitely still sink and the crevice will definitely close. Through the beautiful and stable front door made of thick wooden boards, I get a secure feeling that no more brown bears will come in, I'm sure.
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Shawn please look in your video elapse time 36m: 36s, I could see light on the right of the corner in the wooden wall between beam 6 and beam 7 from below up to the level of the window to the right of the corner, where you kneeled down, your house is not yet complete dense: I could see the light snow outside through a crevice, I'm sorry that I saw something so horrible, I think the wood can still work and the log house will definitely still sink and the crevice will definitely close. Through the beautiful and stable front door made of thick wooden boards, I get a secure feeling that no more brown bears will come in, I'm sure.
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Katharina
My Respekt how you make all this, is sad the tree must be Cut and Calli is the best Dog wont to help!
When you will be finish whit all this Work?
So you just can enjoy your live fishing hunting take care of your Land and trees? Also will Like to see the cabin how it Looks now? Out and inside? And give peopele some more information about all you have make build at this place?
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My Respekt how you make all this, is sad the tree must be Cut and Calli is the best Dog wont to help!
When you will be finish whit all this Work?
So you just can enjoy your live fishing hunting take care of your Land and trees? Also will Like to see the cabin how it Looks now? Out and inside? And give peopele some more information about all you have make build at this place?
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Jeanne
. with the Chainsaw? and soo precise! thank you-from Germany-BEST REGARDS. this is homemade! most important skills in this Time-N est -ce. pas. MUST VISIT THIS BEAUTIFUL LAND. 1. 8 Million Abos. you can see the nostalgia from the People? You don t Wax the wood (humidity Protection?
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. with the Chainsaw? and soo precise! thank you-from Germany-BEST REGARDS. this is homemade! most important skills in this Time-N est -ce. pas. MUST VISIT THIS BEAUTIFUL LAND. 1. 8 Million Abos. you can see the nostalgia from the People? You don t Wax the wood (humidity Protection?
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FJ
I remember visiting my future husband's family in the Chequamegon National Forest in upper Wisconsin years ago, and I kept hearing cars coming up the road, but they never went by. It was just the wind in the trees. I heard that too in your video! Such memories 38 years ago!
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I remember visiting my future husband's family in the Chequamegon National Forest in upper Wisconsin years ago, and I kept hearing cars coming up the road, but they never went by. It was just the wind in the trees. I heard that too in your video! Such memories 38 years ago!
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DEREK
Wonderful video Shawn. They just get better. The drone work and photography are excellent as always. Also the patience of Cali is outstanding. I just love her to bits. Best wishes to you and all the family Shawn. Take care and stay safe all of you.
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Wonderful video Shawn. They just get better. The drone work and photography are excellent as always. Also the patience of Cali is outstanding. I just love her to bits. Best wishes to you and all the family Shawn. Take care and stay safe all of you.
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Hvitserk
A nice video and not least very well filmed. Considering what happened to the first door in the old cabin, it is very likely that this door will eventually also shrink and crack. On the other hand, it may not matter much since it is a workshop.
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A nice video and not least very well filmed. Considering what happened to the first door in the old cabin, it is very likely that this door will eventually also shrink and crack. On the other hand, it may not matter much since it is a workshop.
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Leonard
Why don t you have that old stove in the workshop sandblasted, I think it would be worth the effort and it will look a lot better. It would also smell better as you won t be burning off the old rust every time you light a fire inside it!
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Why don t you have that old stove in the workshop sandblasted, I think it would be worth the effort and it will look a lot better. It would also smell better as you won t be burning off the old rust every time you light a fire inside it!
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