Building Root Cellar (Hobbit House) | Primitive Food Preservation at the Off Grid Cabin!

it's like a hamster wheel keep going keep pushing push push [Music] that was ridiculous hey dog you want to give that a try no no thank you i'm good [Music] hey guys it's kevin here we're at the old the uh the old cabin the old cabin in the woods again uh we're we're here today because we've got another problem to solve so the other day we uh well the other day a couple weeks ago we actually built an outhouse uh because we needed to go to the washroom so there it is over there you can see it in the distance i got dawn here with me today he's uh he's helping out the problem at hand is that we need a place to store food so this area behind me has a quite a bit of an incline and my plan is to take a six foot by six foot culvert and sink it in to the hill kind of make it like a hobbit hole or like a hobbit house it'll be like a hobbit house root cellar so this is the culvert we were talking about cribbing for a post that they put telephone poles in you might have seen them on the side of the road so this is going to be repurposed for our little hobbit house slash root cellar so the idea now is to take this cylinder half rounds they're they're three or six feet in diameter and then to take it and actually put it together we got to bolt this thing together so we got many many bolts and many many many bolts let's uh let's get to this hey donnie have you ever put a uh a culvert together no i can't say i have something similar with a grain bin but no no culver so you put a grain bin together before yes i'm gonna talk about a tool i like tools so this tool here is uh is one of the most useful tools when putting together anything that has two holes that need to line up together what's this thing called don whole alignment punch is that technical term i'm sure there's another name for it whole alignment punch that's what i would call it all right let's do that whole alignment punch so one of the most expensive things about building anything is the fastener now what don is doing is he's actually looking through them and find the threads that are all bummed up and he's going to use a die die to re-thread the bolt so they're useful again because i think these ones are seconds or they didn't quite line up right this is our first attempt at the first ring we're going to put the ring on that little area there we're going to use that little punch and hopefully it lines up the world's largest fire pit built so far this is two rings high and you can see how big it is so now we gotta put the the third ring on it um so like you go down here and like doesn't it sound cool like i said it's the world's largest fire pit or hobbit house this is gonna be really cool i'm pretty excited [Music] [Applause] so all right the third and final ring we're just gonna bolt up the rest we've only done the bolts loose as of now so we don't get the whole structure together with the bolts loose and then we tighten them all up and that makes it uh nice and solid so uh yeah we got a couple more bolts to put in and we've got our our hobbit house root cellar structure directly below that same way around [Music] okay guys we've uh assembled the world's largest fire pit it is six feet tall six feet diameter it's big put it all together loose and then we went around and tightened every bolt again once it was uh once it was together and you do that because it's easier to fit everything so we've tightened it again we've got it to the torque spec values [Applause] here's our root cellar you can see how beautiful this thing is oh look at that whoa it's like a hamster wheel i gotta go up the hill keep going keep pushing push down push that was ridiculous hey dog you want to give that a try no no thank you i'm good all right so we we've got it all assembled we've gotta we got it in the bush it's like a cave is it like a cave yeah it's gonna be a root cellar buddy oh that yeah like music eh oh i think this is a great location when you make an omelette you always gotta break some eggs there's a couple of trees in the way there's this guy over here and there's one over there which isn't a big deal i don't like to take down any live trees so fortunately the one the one tree is is is dead the top's missing probably because of wind storm so we're gonna take that out and then uh we can get started digging every time [Applause] all right so the only thing standing in our way of our hobbit house is a number of stumps uh we got just one out there they're stubborn they've been here for a long time so once we work through the stumps and then we get the giant hole and then we get our we get our hobbit house all right let's get digging look at that that's like a sickle hey bean what do you think bean hey what do you think what do you think of the hole hey is it good okay let's dig more all right guys we're making some pretty good progress on this hole we've got it down pretty far you can't really tell on camera you can kind of you can kind of get the gist of it you can see if i back up here you can sort of see that the ground level the ground level's above my head right here i only have to go down another foot or so before i'm at the bottom of the actual culvert level and that'll get us to ground level like i don't want to be below ground level because water will come in there's i have a plan for that um in order to in order to fix that so all we got to do is dig we gotta just dig more and you know what's great about having a machine to dig is that it's not that hard to do it's kind of like a mechanical bucking bronco but it's not that bad you know just gotta just gotta keep plugging away at it i got uh i got dawn a couple hand tools so he's gonna chip away at the uh the bones there's a little bit of a couple of bones in the road so i got him some hand tools i got he's got a he's got a little fiskars axe and a little loppers and you can just cut off the little branches you know i like to keep busy right i feel i should formally introduce dawn dawn's my friend he's been around for he's been around for the cabin build he was uh he makes a couple of of cameos in their cameos he's actually working on the cabin build he was here throughout the most of the the cabin build say say hi don hello how are you anyway that's that's as much that's as much introduction as don needs don is a great help on a lot of projects around the cabin and otherwise i've been working with him for many years so uh so yeah that's dawn [Music] now that is the biggest hole i've dug so far so the the uh the cylinder is six feet wide we're currently exactly at six feet wide and i'm about six feet tall so we're getting there we gotta come straight back now should hand dig this nah we shouldn't hand dig this beanie did you find a comfortable spot to sit i find it interesting that the wooded beardsman was out here the other day and he had the deals with some some chickens and he said he got them all i still got a chicken laying around he's at the bush let's see if i can find him reasons why you should have a food storage area is because it's cold in the ground so like preserving preserving food um like if the grid was to go out if you needed a place store a cold place to store food that's where it's at so yesterday when we were digging we were primarily using the hoe bucket on the backhoe uh that was working pretty good we're getting through a lot of roots so today i'm gonna try the loader bucket on the front of it it's a little more awkward to use you kind of have to be more a little bit more rammy so let's see how that works out [Music] hey guys so i got the whole dog uh let's have a look well that's the uh possibly the biggest hole i've ever dug personally i'm pretty proud of my hole that guy's got to be six feet deep six feet wide why else would you take a six foot hole now i've measured it i've measured it again i've measured it three times now let's see if it actually fits [Music] [Applause] as i got closer and closer with it i was realizing that the smaller the hole kept getting smaller and smaller so i did another measurement i i got some i got some roots in the way so i'm gonna give these guys a little haircut big dick doesn't fit doesn't fit doesn't fit doesn't fit doesn't fit big big big big big tractors laughing at me tractors laughing at me tractors laughing laughing tractor should be a round bottom anyway so you know what this is this was all part of the plan to make this thing fit dig [Music] well that's pretty cool i'm pretty excited about that it fit perfectly i'm not certain of uh drainage in here i know it's corrugated i go it's a drainage pipe and in theory it should just kind of it should just kind of work and it's a root seller after all like i i imagine the old school root sellers they had condensation they had cold and water it's also it's kind of you're storing your root vegetables it's kind of like their home anyway so i imagine if there's a little bit of that not a big deal i am going to put some drainage pipe around the tube in order to filter any water that comes in from the back of the tube and it just works its way to the front um so as you can see i've got a trench and it's going to lead all the way out there so what i'm going to do is i'm going to hand dig out a little bit of area behind behind the uh the bin and what we're going to do is we're going to set down wood we're going to mill up some cedar logs and it's going to go up and down in order to uh to hold the dirt back and it gives us something to secure our shelves to later on anytime you can avoid getting water in your pipe it's probably a good idea so i have some old big o with filter cloth on it and if you don't know that it's like it's like a black pipe it's got a little corrugation on it and there's tiny little holes and it allows it to to drain they use it in weeping tile they use it to like around foundations and it basically provides the water a path to drain so i have some left over i might as well use it we're going to lay it underneath the culvert and that gives the water a path of least resistance in order to actually drain out the front well i'm not sure i need this much pipe but i didn't bring a knife up with me so let's bring it down measure it out cut it up make sure our water doesn't flutter hole hey don i got your pipe great don does the hard work he's got the uh the shovel the manuel shovel what we're gonna do is we move the culvert we remove the culvert and now we're going to actually put the pipe directly down the center in order to uh in order to have drainage underneath the pipe so this is big o and it's quite possibly the biggest big o that i have so what you want to do is you want to this is filter cloth this allows the the fine particulates not to go in the pipe so what we do is we tie the end of it uh and then what we do is cut it a little bit long in order for it to filter the actual little fine particulates not to go into the pipe so this thing we're going to cut the length we're going to stick under the pipe and hopefully it keeps water out of our culvert our hobbit house what is it called there's another word for it root cellar i'm gonna cut oh [Music] so look who showed up i think he's going to do some work what do you what do you think no i'm not doing any work i already did my work for the date oh yeah what was that what did you do i'm eating my nuts now hey yeah the chicken that got away eating the nuts instead of why don't you catch it did you catch those planters yep at the store yep high calorie nuts from the nut trees see what would be useful if this thing was fully stocked already right so like you could you could have your preserves you could come over here and you'd be like honestly i was hoping it would be deeper so you guys have to subscribe and share the video so that we can lengthen the tube well i was hoping it would be deep like it's it's pretty cool but i want it to be like 12 feet so you're six i want to be 12. i want bigger so chris wants to bankroll this project so we're going to get an extension on here get extensions well just keep yeah just keep going deeper there you go well start with what you got yeah and expand that's kind of like how a channel and youtube works you start small you expand so did you talk about how you're going to make this go all the way up to the cabin i i didn't yeah that's a that's a secret so the it's a secret it's the only thing that i know so uh well chris here we'll get you on this side so the the plan there's not the plan it's it's a pipe dream did you even did you introduce me i did people might not know who i am this is they know who this guy is you've got a million subs a million stuff he just hit a million subs the other day which is a pretty big milestone so this is uh chris from the wood of beardsman's channel he's uh he helped build the cabin he filmed the cabin and now now i'm on my own so but he showed up and yeah so he's here checking on the progress yeah check it out she's going so the pipe dream the pipe dream with our giant pipe is to actually make a tunnel all the way up to the uh to the cabin there's gonna be a little extra room on there so maybe a tap trap door in the floor and then the tunnel just keeps going stay tuned for that that'd be pretty cool i haven't checked out the outhouse yet are you brewing one no i'm a morning guy so it'll work out perfectly when i sleep over at the cabin today not so much today i'm ready to go yeah we're working on a different adventure today but it's a world's colliding right now it is weird it's going to get weirder and weirder as this channel progresses it's going to be an interesting kind of thing that happens we get all the players scott's actually hanging out here too he's uh he's going to start his own channel maybe apparently maybe maybe all the channels yeah so it might have a whole network of things going on here so this is all you got done so far two days work two day two days work and i've uh moved uh you know a metric ton of dirt and assembled a culvert now i gotta go mill some wood so and well you're gonna help no no i don't think so all right stuff to do i'm gonna go mill some wood you guys can come watch i'm gonna go grab my bow and shoot the chicken why the chicken's fine i'm gonna smoke it up i'm hungry though you're gonna cook sometimes i only have a little if you cook my chicken it's been hanging out i'm gonna check it yeah you're gonna peck me yeah everybody's gonna peck you is he oh yeah really i'm not gonna do that watch just do it it won't hurt what are we doing checking the breast just gonna see where it got hit i think it's somewhere around there so that's that chicken that's been running around it's the one that got away so uh chris is here scott no they're they're gonna give it a once over to make sure it's it's okay i don't see where it's hit it would be hard to find i mean it's healthy that's all that matters i think you okay with that you want to let me go i mean it's fine it's okay no you'll go for right now yeah make them a meal later maybe supposed to knock i don't know i hope nobody's in there dude did you did you poop in there yet no lena pooped in there well she didn't think she took a pee okay you know this is the perfect for the women come out to the cabin and they they always want to know where they're gonna pee is it closed by itself yeah i made it slanted on purpose so so look at so you close this wait hold on hold on i wanna i wanna i wanna explore it this is the best feature because i edited the video so i kind of know what it is but this is the best feature to me if i'm sitting in here and a squirrel comes out or a deer even better from that wood pile that we got on a rabbit a deer is going to come out of that whip up no i don't know how i'm i'm open to all food items any any animal a little bit like a wild chicken see i would be more inclined to pick an apple from this apple tree and i'll have my apple while i see look he's he's back in there i'm like dude all day long it got sawdust in me right well it's still it's still um getting dusted off okay guys we're back at the pile now in the other video i explained i have a pile of wood it's specifically sat out there for projects like this now i use my mill with the logs i have in order to build what i want so these are some cedar logs and they're going to use to line the back wall i need them to six feet long so it's relatively short it's almost like a post so yeah i'm gonna mill them about two inches thick let's get started battery [Music] so [Music] so that concludes the milling portion of this build um as you can see we did mill quite a bit of two inch by whatever width because it doesn't matter it's going to be buried in the ground it is cedar it is white cedar it should be water resistant bug resistant it'll be like you know like an oak barrel or even like a like a cedar a cedar barrel is there cedar barrels i don't know those those large water towers you see in new york city on top of buildings those things are made of cedar i think dawn's up top he's handed me boards so the plan is to take these boards sandwich them up on the back wall and screw them together temporarily the dirt is going to hold them up at the middle so don what do you think you moving in it's beautiful i could you can't you can't get it through the camera but the smell the smell the cedar smell it's it's awesome in here combined combined with today's sweat [Music] wow wouldn't this be a great plank to smoke a fish on maybe a nice little brookie or salmon anyways this is nice cedar like it's beautiful stuff many of you guys would probably think oh that's not very thick this is the thickness of that back wall this is about two and a half inches thick it's solid cedar white cedar milled from trees it should hold back anything that this hill is going to throw at it we didn't excavate further than we had to there's about four inches of gap behind this wood and then we're gonna put some uh some basically some really fine sand it's filter sand so water will go right through and we put the um the big o underneath there with a filter cloth on it that'll actually take the water down the back wall underneath the bin if anything were to accumulate the back wall really frustrating starting the day and then reaching for your pencil and not having it there i i wish there was like a way to attach a pencil permanently to my hat i never forget my hat but i always seem to forget my pencil this is the cabin look at that it looks like it's got some experience so the plan now is to drape the delta over top of the front of the thing i'm going to mark it out with a pencil i'm going to cut it out and then what i'm going to do is i'm going to fit into the back wall so that should offer some level of protection from the water getting into the back wall now i'm going to back fill it with some filter sand and uh if you notice before we actually with that culvert that we put underneath the culvert it's not a culvert what's it called it's called big o the big old with filter cloth that's what it's called we put it underneath the culvert so this is going to direct the water down that big o with the filter cloth is going to direct it out okay so there's one more thing i've got to address is the little holes i guess if you were to add more sections of culvert you'd be able to fill the holes in but um i'm not adding any more sections so what i'm gonna do is i've got some duct tape and and some tuck tape so what i'm gonna do is actually duct tape the holes and then tuck tape over top of them there's mesh inside the duct tape and this stuff is really sticky yeah this is going to keep the dirt out is this gonna keep the water out so i thought to myself what am i gonna do i have anything that's that's thicker than tarp um that will take the way take the brunt force of of everything that's gonna be thrown at this thing so i came up with a solution so i have i have this stuff i saved from a bubble building you ever seen the bubble buildings that are inflated um they have tennis courts in them i think most of the tennis court soccer pitches they're like usually white and they're pressurized buildings so they were tearing one down and i drove by and they had this free tarp it's like crazy tarp so what i did was actually i saved a bunch of that for i don't know why i saved it but it's gonna be useful in this situation so i'm going to do is i can drape it over the top and then it'll seal the wall from the actual culvert and then because of the corrugation in the actual culvert i think the water just kind of hits it and goes down the edges so if i can prevent it from going down between the wood and the culvert it should be okay and you know what er it's not going to matter anyway this is those bubble building material you can't you can't rip it um i've had this piece for i don't know like eight years or something like that it's been sitting around and i've been tarping stuff with it and now it's gonna go to this final home in the ground uh again it doesn't it doesn't rip it's i think this does bulletproof i i doubt it but you never know let's uh throw on top [Applause] so so um [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the tractor's pretty much maxed out i got the bucket at the top of the culvert culvert six feet tall so i guess that's the maximum height it'll go so i'm just gonna i'm gonna shovel it off it probably saves a little bit of work but driving all the way around this is the back so the back we can almost not see the culvert at all you can see i've i've kind of moved a lot of dirt up in behind it's kind of awkward because of the angle i'm not sure the tractor's supposed to be operating at this angle i'm wearing a seat belt that's when you know it's getting sketchy when you're wearing a seat belt so let's have a look around let's take a look let's take a walk doing okay hey hey buddy yeah dirt careful careful i can already feel i can already feel the cold air coming out of the root cellar i think this is going to be so cool i just got to move a whole lot more dirt well maybe i'll set you guys up over there and you guys can watch i don't know you guys interested in dirt moving i don't know if you can see that that's got to be old and then then i found this thing i don't know what the heck this thing is is it wolverine's claw look at this thing so i have to dig out the sides a little bit and kind of slope it back what i'm going to do is i'm going to put rock along the edge here in order to retain the some of the soil up top this is our very crazy new dog like he's seven months old hey frankie spooky i'm a kitty cat you're you got claws like a kitty cat yeah yeah i do yeah are you digging so last night there was a there was a significant amount of rain probably at least an inch uh i was you know expected to come back here and thinking frank there's gonna be uh there's gonna be like a pond or a puddle or something and i'm looking around and i don't see anything it's actually it's actually perfect it looks like i graded it pretty good and if i look at the back wall there's no there's no weeping there's no water there's nothing this is this is bone dry uh even if you look at the bottom there's nothing there's nothing down there so i guess i did it okay another thing i found interesting with the actual root cellar the other day so when i'm when i was in here it's very humid and hot outside and i found on the edge of the wall of the actual culvert there was cottage station for me now i i'd equate that to like leaving your fridge open too long and you got condensation forming on your walls i imagine once the front is on this and it's properly insulated the front uh i'll probably keep the moisture content down relatively low rock moving a rock moon rock moving a rock moving a rock moving a rock moving a rock moving a rock moving a rock moving a rock rocks i like moving rocks oh geez this was in the back uh back forty it's just a i don't know i don't i can't remember what i use this for uh but it's a cutout from another project and i thought you know what it's a circle it's going to be a perfect hobbit door now so the problem is trying to get it mounted in this space that's in the middle of the air so this is an inch inch one inch one inch styrofoam so what i'm going to do is i'm going to cover the front of the front of the culvert with one inch styrofoam this gives us an r5 i'm not sure what the r value of dirt is i'm sure somebody's going to tell me anyways i'm going to fit it to the front of the bin so what i'm going to do is actually press it press it in it's going to leave an impression on the back side and i could cut it out the easiest way to make a circle using nothing but a tape measure a screw and a pencil so what you want to do is you find the center point [Music] it works a lot better if it's not styrofoam anyway so you hook your tape measure on the screw you find how big you want your circle and away you go in this case the circle's about 45 inches across so i hook it on i find my mark [Music] this is going to get tacked to the back of the plywood form and then it's going to use uh use this insulation so it's going to make our door and r5 with continuous sealed this is inside the cover so you can see where i put the blocks and then the styrofoam is pressed up against it so what i'm going to do is i'm actually going to use the cutout of the door frame as the template of where my structure goes so once you have a circle cut out you kind of know where you want to put your structure to hold your door otherwise it's very difficult to kind of frame an opening in mid-air in a tube so i'm kind of kind of it's going to kind of be a spider web framing so it's going to be up and down and across and then little pieces all the way around in order to hold our our finished [Applause] frontage [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Laughter] so i didn't have any cement board screws ever long enough so i used just framing screws i put a lot of them in so it should hold um my next plan is to actually do the uh the jam around the door and what i'm going to use for that is uh i think it's half inch plywood but i'm going to double it up so it'll be a one inch okay so the doorway opening is done anytime i do a circle or round or try to make something you know make it smooth and round ideally you want to do more than one layer of sheet material like if you're doing curved openings like this you would do you do two layers of plywood if you're doing curved drywall you do two layers a quarter inch anytime you can add more layers it tends to just add a little bit of smoothness to the whole curve like if it's really really tight curve generally speaking the more layers that you put on the smoother it'll become and beautiful you can't you can't build something that usually like you know it's just it's completely functional you might as well make it pretty so the idea is i'm going to try to model this after a little hobbit house so i'm going to do a little a-frame some side columns here and uh yeah we do a lot of cedar it's nice to work with there's a lot of it it's my favorite post so these will be the side columns they're i'm going to peel them make them look pretty so this is the the side column that's going to hold up the roof structure as you can see this is cedar the bark peels off quite nice and you're left with a nice golden log so now we got the post set uh we need the top i guess the peak i don't know what that's called the ridge it's not the ridge fascia board it's a big fascia board so remember that tree that caused problems at the start it was kind of in the way and i had the top broken off um so anyways i put it aside and i i cut her down the middle so i saved the best part for you guys so i cut it cut the chainsaw right down the middle let's open it up look at that so that board there is gonna go from the peak of the roof all the way down sit on the posts and there's gonna be a little overhang so uh water doesn't directly hit the door um i'm not sure how i'm gonna do that yet but um i'm gonna give it a try i've never i've never done anything like this how hard can it be right so those are gonna be the soffit boards and they're going to prevent the dirt from kind of cascading over the front and down the front and it's going to give us a little overhang above the door so now i've got to figure out what this angle is or do i maybe i just butt them together and waterproof and hope for the best [Music] that looks pretty good it's all it's got to do is look good it's cosmetic it doesn't do anything besides make it look good all right guys so we're making some progress here we got the fascia board on which i'm pretty excited about that's starting to look like something as opposed to just a hole in the ground anyway so i got the fascia board in i got the uh the cut looks pretty good got the side columns in now i gotta do some landscaping around gotta add some rock and then then i got a special plan for the fronts okay next on the docket is the door for the root seller now i think this is going to be a three-part series on how to build a door for a root seller nah i'm just kidding we're gonna do it right now um i'm gonna skip out a lot of the details it it takes a long time to build it i'm going to start with a template or circle i've marked it out around inside and then i'm going to shape it so it actually fits the opening of the door and then i'm going to skin it with that stuff that we milled this morning on the mill and hopefully it fits [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh i could cut this whole thing out with a chainsaw but what i did was actually use the chainsaw and i basically chewed out most of the material and i'm going to use the jigsaw the rest of the way scratch that i'm gonna use my skill saw [Music] every once in a while i do something and i think jeez what would people think don't know bob velas probably well he's still alive and kicking but he's probably going what's that guy doing [Music] so what i'm going to use is a strap hinge to uh hold the door um this this is this hinge is so old it's got slotted screws i don't know if you can see that it's been in 2.55 cents for two strap hinges that's the cheapest i've ever seen a set of hinges so anyways but that's probably why because it's got slotted screws that'll be fun [Applause] black that works pretty good so now that we have the door set dawn magically appeared he's going to help me put the rock along the sides and anytime you can get a friend to help you move rocks that's a good friend jesus perfect are you going around the post no i'm just gonna feather this down good morning guys another day at the root cellar today we're going to button up a little bit of loose ends uh yesterday i spent a lot of time re-grading the top of this top of the root cell you can see i moved a lot of dirt so you can kind of you can kind of see the top of it and the idea is to kind of have it blend in with the land i did i did some dry stacking of some stone so that's the front of it i get beanie what do you think buddy hey bean you like it bean doesn't know what to think she's like oh there's like a little hill in the in the forest so today i'm gonna parge the front of it uh decide what i'm gonna do with trim around the door and uh yeah button this guy up as you guys know there is a little bit of water on this uh this property we dug a test hole i gotta get some water [Music] i find the easiest way to mix parging for that matter is the old base of a wheelbarrow so you kind of add it in mix it up and away you go because this is cement board and not just a block foundation there is joints between the panel so what i'm going to use is some mesh tape this is just traditional drywall taping mesh tape and it's going to help consolidate the panels together i'm hoping anyways so yeah so you just apply the mesh tape basically anywhere there's a joint between panels this is a california flat trowel no it's not a trout it's a rounded trowel it's got the rounded sides i've used this for california ceilings with drywall um today i'm going to use it for purging and just a regular trowel so i can hold it on the hawk and then i can actually use it and actually hold the trowel up against the wall and i can just butter it on and through the magic of time lapse you get to see it all get done so we've waited about an hour probably an hour anyways so this is what i did is i made a little block of uh styrofoam and i got a little handle on it and what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna buff i'm gonna buff out the concrete or the parging mix i'm gonna buff out the parging mix to make a nice smooth surface and it gets rid of all the ridges it makes a nice smooth surface so i i don't know if it's dry enough yet usually you can wait until you can kind of like it doesn't really fall apart when you touch it it's still a little wet the parging generally is the coating that goes on your foundation wall after the foundation's in place it usually separates the wood from the dirt uh and a lot of times you get holes in them so if you ever have to patch purging what you got to do is do what i did in this video but this the secret is the piece of styrofoam it's the block and patience you gotta have a lot of patience when you're doing parging a lot of the times people will tool it out too quickly uh and then they can't feather the edges now by feathering the edges if you have a hole you can throw parging in it and you can just you basically swirl your little block around until you've got the same pattern and it smooths it out you don't have to be good it's kind of like icing a cake or a cupcake mmm cupcake anyways so this is this is the process so you let it dry so when you can actually tool it with your piece of styrofoam so it's not coming off so it's probably been two hours since i've put this on depending on your location uh and and how warm it is the relative humidity all that jazz so anyways yeah project 101 i started this a little earlier and and i anticipated it being a little easier than it is and then i got frustrated and i didn't film much of it so anyways doing round trim is not fun um it's usually a bunch of little pieces if you have the material it's okay if you don't you're kind of like uh you feel the right tools for the job i was using the jig side the wrong blade it was for a counter top i was tearing the stuff all the bits anyways i took a break i had a coffee and now i'm marginally relaxed i'm back doing this trim so what i'm doing is i'm cutting little pieces of trim little pieces of block and i'm actually adding them on and then i go a little bit then i'll add it again and what i'm going to do is i'm going to sand it in place to actually make it look half decent now it looks okay probably from you guys where you are um where i am it doesn't look that great at all but again i'm going to do my best and hope for do my best and the rest you can't it as wood but i'm going to sand i'm going to sand it if it's not good well halfway through that exercise i was thinking to rename in this channel to uh swearing in the forest with kevin again i have limited tools out here so with what i had i made made do with what i had no i'm just gonna tickle the edges with the skill set got my makita belt sander [Applause] if you haven't seen the outhouse build you should go check it out but the outhouse handle was a was an apple tree there's a gnarly old apple tree over there so i'm going gonna go with my trusty skill saw and cut myself a cut myself a handle i'm gonna put a coat of polyurethane on it um this will allow the wood to stay it's you know pretty color not fade over time it actually brings out the uh brings out the color in the wood i'm trying i'm not gonna stain this is just a clear coat clear coat with the crappiest brush i own so so today what i'm going to do is i'm finishing the inside of the root cellar so that's going to involve building some shelves stocking some preserves probably put some carrots some potatoes cold stuff's cold stored some jam we got some maple syrup and i'm going to make a door gasket basically where the door stops around the circle in order for it to seal so what i'm going to use is actually a black piece of pipe for the for the seal around the edge and then a piece of styrofoam what i can use is the door as a template and just cut the foam around the edge so this is what i'm using for door gasket it's just a common was a three-quarter inch pipe so i'm gonna ring it around and that gives the door something to stop [Applause] i don't know if you can read that it says 32 32.4 degrees outside right now so 32.4 degrees that's uh ambient temperature in the shade um so now what i'm going to do is i'm not going to put it in the in the root cellar and we're going to leave it for a couple of hours close the door door's been open all morning so i'm gonna close the door and then uh we're gonna check it a little later on uh and see how cold it actually gets in there it's been a couple of hours um let's go check and see what the temperature inside is i'm i'm as curious as you guys are so anyways open the door everybody see that it's 17.4 degrees in here i'd say that's a success there is going to be um i'm going to put milk crates over here so for future storage so you can just kind of grab potatoes or grab carrots or something bulk storage along the bottom i gotta start it's not really harvest season it's kind of in the middle of the summer so uh in the fall comes and i've got a place to store so it's always good to be prepared uh before you have the stuff like they just imagine during harvesting or am i going to put all this stuff and so now there's a spot for it it's it's being prepared and having a place to put stuff before you need a place to put 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Channel: Modern Self Reliance

Views: 2,057,033

Keywords: root cellar, off grid, off grid living, food preservation, building, hand tools, saws, chainsaw, excavator, build, cut, wood, milling, power tools, carpentry, jig saw, circular saw, cabin, small cabin, cabin life, self reliance, build project, chalk line, lumber, saw mill, milling wood, cutting boards, hammer, drill, shovel, dig, digging, tractor, homesteading, food storing, sawmill, prepping

Id: M1-AlF8mYvE

Length: 60min 24sec (3624 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 24 2020