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Building an Off Grid Cabin using Free Pallet Wood: A Wilderness Project

Building an Off Grid Cabin using Free Pallet Wood: A Wilderness Project

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We built this small off grid log cabin using recycled pallet wood that we collected for free. The aim of the diy project was to try and save money by building a cabin in the forest on the cheap. Living off grid is something we have always admired, being able to forage and gather food from the land, much like the primitive hunter-gatherer did. This off the grid cabin, although small, is an ideal one-man bug out camp in a survival situation. Slowly, we are turning this off grid cabin in the forest into a wilderness homestead. So far, this tiny hobbit home has no electricity or solar power, but it does have a window, roof, front porch, folding table, raised bed, chair, bench, shelves, bookcase and a woodstove to keep the cabin warm during the cold winter months. To build the pallet wood cabin we have used a mixture of hand tools and power tools. We filmed and documented the building of this log cabin in a playlist on our channel called The Off Grid Pallet Wood Cabin which you can watch here: We started the cabin build by breaking the pallets down into useable pieces of timber. We then cleared a site in the forest to build the foundations of the cabin using larger pallets. The second stage of the build was the side walls, and then the roof, which we used a piece of recycled tin from an old barn. We then fitted a small window from a garden shed, and started to work on building the front porch. Once the main structure of the cabin was complete, we focused on making rustic pallet wood furniture for the inside of the small house. We bolted together a raised bed, and made a small chair and foldaway table to save space inside. We then needed to heat the cabin, for this we opted for the G Stove Heat View which has a stove pipe oven attachment so that we can bake food in it, plus a water container to boil water for fresh coffee and tea. In many of the episodes we cooked food in cast iron frying pans on the woodstove. In the warmer months we cooked on an open camp fire using a cast iron grill on a Bushcraft style tripod which we lashed together. We have cooked fresh fish, pie, bacon, eggs, soup and much more on the woodstove. Hopefully, we can use this former Bushcraft Camp as an area to practice developing our wilderness survival skills, learning primitive technology and how to forage for wild edibles and catch and cook our food. At the end of the day, this project was more about a father and son spending time in the outdoors working on free diy projects and learning how to become self reliant and save money for a happier lifestyle. We hope you enjoy the adventure The Woodstove we use is the Gstove Heat View. They are offering my subscribers 15% off their stoves and accessories on their website: The code is taoutdoors It's an affiliate code so it helps out our Channel: )
Date: 2019-09-10

Comments and reviews: 10


Wow, you guys are terrific. I am so impressed with what you've built and your abilities. Quite an amazing father son team. At least that's what I think you are but even if you're not a father and son team you are simply a great team what are your plans for the cabin? What type of heater is that? We are going to be moving to the Ozarks and I'm wondering what we need to build quickly while we are building our house? Maybe this is something we should do. You certainly have given me many ideas that I will pass on to Tom. Thanks ever so much for the great video. I cannot imagine anybody giving this a thumbs down they must be missing a brain. You are welcome to contact me if you like. roxi, 949. 878. 7100, best times to call are between noon and 5 p. m. Pacific time. Please text also if you do not reach me because often I am traveling and there's no cell service.
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best ever father and son time i have ever seen. my daughter built a shed with me when she was 5, lol got the structure done and was putting wood on roof when i turned around and she had climbed up the 12 foot ladder. i said baby wanna help. pulled here on the roof. we sat for bit watching for a little bit. i got a yes. so we walked to store and i got here a belt and ten ounce hammer. we did it together. lol she mostly carried hard wear for me but she was there.
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a perfect project to start developing a nontoxic father son relationship. Building a cabin like that is a perfect way to teach a young man what is possible and what he is capable of doing. Father sons relationships are so important these kinds of projects are a perfect way of jump starting the sons imagination and the confidence that develops in a young man when he has accomplished more than a soap box derby racer.
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Father & son build well you cant get any closer than that. Its a great pity we have all lost our way with great tec such as computers radio tv etc the art of helping ourselves and pulling together has nearly gone WHAT A GREAT SHAME. Thank you for restoring our faith in human nature. Who knows we may one day have this returning and live like nature intended. lol no im not a hippy just someone who misses my dad.
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I love this recycle, reuse of material, your bench, the manual tools not the battery drill to make the story short this reminds me of my self 1st home but with out money. collecting wood wear ever I saw it & working on week ends oh I was the helper & my father in law was the carpenter and the house was done. I just had to add the best for last father and son together getting it done Congradulations
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Hello, i am really looking forward to making a cabin using this video as a reference as i love how it turn out but it would be very helpful for me to have the measurements and an approximate number of pallets used as a reference. I don't know if there is a video where they explain those things, as i can't seem to find it. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advanced
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You never ever sit timber straight into the earth - even pressure treated. If you'd dug post holes and set posts in to the ground in concrete and bitumened them and set your frame 6 - 9 above the ground. You would have needed a more substantial base frame but you could have built for 30+ years. Instead of the 3 years that base will last (if your lucky)
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Beautiful project I loved every minute watching it, admire your passion for detail hi hiThe only thing which I would suggest is instead of the long drop, add a version of the SIMPLE HUMUS TOILET It is much better than the stinky hole filled up with excrement in the heart of mother earth Have a look at my youtube site arohanuiThomas
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Loved your video mate: ) Have done simuler all my life out in the back blocks of NZ with even less. I'm specialising with plastic empty bread and milk trays now seems a lot more around no one knows what to do with. So many things can be built with these that the choices are endless. Thanks for shearing, RIP with your DAD
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Thanks for making, loading and sharing. Great vid, I love all the recycling and I especially noticed the pallet nails getting a second life, wonderful. I suppose the secret to a good working relationship is not to speak to each other, ha ha. Guinness owe you a few crates of stout for the placement, regards from Ireland.
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