HOMESTEAD in the MOUNTAINS | Young couple creating an OFF-GRID paradise | Building a fence

oh oh we're Amelia and Robbie we left our lives in the city and spent every penny we had on an abandoned Shepherd's house on the top of a mountain in Spain join us on our journey as we build our Dream Homestead recently we planted our first Food Forest a masterful step forwards for our Homestead a thing of Dreams soon to be a luscious Forest Laden with fruit berries and everything our family would need to survive however just like everything we try on this mountain it all started to go spectacularly wrong when the mountain Beast decided to descend upon it and create destruction the hab dug up all the small trees about three of 25 survived breaking down Terraces and using our apricots as scratching posts week in week out we've been trying new methods to keep them out then this week the straw that broke the camels back the muflon broke in and nibbled the branches of pretty much every tree in the forest we've had our run of making utterly useless fences first our electric strand fence that saw 400 sheep break in and eat all our olives the very morning after we'd installed it then after the hawk ate 10 of our chickens the hab bit straight through our 7,000 volt chicken electric fencing and ate the rest after this we experimented with fences made from tree prunings and even tried hand weaving our own but we've had enough the mountain beasts were about to get a serious shock we're going to build a proper fence we're talking galvanized steel post tension steel fancy expensive Fasteners concrete something that could stop an elephant we would love to get this fence sorted before the spring rains to ensure our Food Forest gets good growth and we can start to feed ourselves from it sooner rather than later as a side note we've had an intense month as many of you know a wildfire destroyed a large part of our Valley and we broke our one and only hard drive during the evacuation which we've been getting fixed in Madrid for the past few weeks thank you all for being so patient with us we're so grateful to all of you for watching our videos and supporting us I've done this sketch from all the discussion we've been having Robin it's so cute it should go on the fridge what is this a heron yeah and s's tree house that's so nice yeah Tree House house here in in the big Olive over here me and S oh he's got watering oh what do we actually have ducks like real Ducks you got a house for them that is so cute have you seen what Papa's on us look this is what Papa Drew the interest levels are low Pond pond so the design right now we've already got a bit of fence around the current vegetable patch but we just want to extend it from the Bala from the pond here and go all the way around see our pruning fence which is unsuccessful [Applause] oh my puy I think I've hit a water pipe or [Music] something oh yeah it's a whirpool and I think you should probably quick what is there a valve up there or something is that any better no well it's not squirting but it's whirling what the so what this is like your first your first post the first post you going and dig oh it wasn't my first one it was my second one no it's a disaster so Sage do want me to tell you what happens when disaster has happened we say papa a disaster has happened we go inside for a cup of tea and we let papa fix the disaster B no uh-uh the first job was to flatten an area where we will have the entrance to the Food Forest this had to be wide enough for the tractor to be able to pass and we needed to dig some fence post holes as well so for some reason we like dug the corner post there I don't know why we thought the gate would be good there you know I feel like almost we just got that post wrong maybe it was supposed to be there I wouldn't want the gate to not be like in L house thank you want it to feel inviting you know babies do you know what kind of animal you have on your jumper no next we used a string line to help align all the post so that when we tension the fencing it would all look nice and straight it's a huge notot not knots yeah exactly that's exactly what we've got here you keep that on there stage make another KN I have spent this entire time getting this knut out that he that he made like I was like marking out a row so I got the string I put it in the wheelbarrow and I started going in the wheelbarrow and then the wheelbarrow was like no worries kept on going I mean like I went down one Garden the string was complet Tangled in all the wheel took me at least 20 minutes no to undo it real farmer problems are isn't it Mama Mama's not doing any di she's done so much this morning hasn't she with the [Music] chickens I'm just trying to eat our fish so I'm going like this and then around push the pole out bit so it's is that okay there we go we're squished this smell like lavender it's the cam I'd like to see you try and do a socket whilst holding him but is that what we're doing that way um no that's it it's not making a noise though is that right what do you mean is that right how many times have you used a socket set not many doesn't seem to be doing anything that's because you've got like 100 turns to go right you just hold it and I'll twist twist it sounded very Manu just now m is it m what did I say murrian go on say it again like a mancunian I'm not a mancunian Let's Hear It mancunian mancunian Go on and say it manun no but say the thing you said in a manun I don't know what I said got hold of the BL all right you do it by yourself guys this progress is you got to be strong how do you feel about screwing in your first ever fence post come on that's your first ever fence post you're going to you're securing your trees from the wild beasts like it's pretty exciting no is that what you get excited about when you were when you being a model in London did you ever think that like four years later you'd be screwing a a fence together no it's true I did not long like make any sense what do you mean what do you mean what do you mean it's an Acro it either goes long or it goes short what are you waiting for I'm waiting for you to come and GA a tape it on if you got to take one two three four five six by yourself well yes but it was really hard oh you can do it you could baby please that's my thumb get off m can't bear well you should have seen the first post I was doing I had four acros one 2 3 four like a whole roll of gaffet tape this is what you're looking at here is the like refined skill level one Acro perfectly placed gaffa tape big rock at the base a few small rocks here Mama's not doing any digging if you want to do some digging you can do you know what it's a mo oh we have to redig all the holes what are you doing not thinking col down for Crows for what crows really branching out on the um like conversation topics I am aren I normally we don't say a word to each other yeah usually it's just silence yeah no I appreciate the conversation start um would you want me to actually respond or a Scuttle a murder a murder if we're trying to find conversation starters at the age of like 30 what the hell happens when you're like what's a dolphin [Music] it's the time of the afternoon where I should be having a nap oh I lost one I'm down [Music] all right let's put these them let's get started then it was time to pour concrete at the basee of each vertical and diagonal post and also a little extra around the base of the gate to stop the wild B going under [Music] it going to say that [Music] yeah you pouring all the post today not at this rate too s why does he get concrete on the foot for me I didn't I got water on it it's fun [Music] don't want to over it [Music] [Music] baby giv me Wind and Rain of baby you up my so what are we going to do now uhoh uhoh yay you just got dripped on right on your head what are you do doing in here you want to go see the Scarecrow have you seen the Scarecrow scarecrow down just take me I left the whole d h it's like you spend so long water in the rain and then it comes and you can't you just can't do anything can you no you just can't do anything and it's always on the time when you actually like really want to do something Uno do [Music] say yeah we be in I think that's moved or like it stayed where it is yeah it's definitely moved would like to keep that intact we just bought a new one haven't we yeah it's a new one after to say BR it's moving yeah it's sliding across the Bonnet all right mama's going to grab it then mama needs to go to the toy is the compost toilet ready it's a good advert for the compost toilet go on run up the stairs I you know like in hindsight yeah in hindsight yeah do you think the compost toilet build was a very stupid build yeah yeah definitely definitely I do just feel like these projects like snow ball like the IBC read bed thing it was just like oh we'll just like dig two ibcs in the ground I just hope in the end that it's going to be really cool yeah me too and then it's like wow that's actually kind of a unique thing you know I think we're Forward Thinking in that respect we're C we're C it's nice it's like everything is a thing you know we put every all of our all into everything I'm going to go to right now [Music] what's up just get worse and worse to me to get you some then it was time to build a gate we had some old bits of metal that that we found in the shed when we moved here we just needed to get the generator from the solar shed in order to run the welder because we didn't have a big enough cable to reach the fence from the house you com in [Music] [Applause] put the back down supposed to go slowly nailed it 8.5 79.5 1.5 [Music] cool8 176.50 - 8 - 8 huh [Music] [Music] you you [Music] [Applause] [Music] how's it going I found the most complicated possible way of attaching this fencing to the gate do you think it's going to look okay it's going to look real nice we don't really want it to Sag though do we no but I think it's like inevitable oh all right [Music] hey that was really really nice no yeah yeah you got the tension good wow I mean do you want to do some zoom in on your welds you saw two baby ML on when we were driving off yeah they were just they were on your patio nearly just above it eat no just eating everything what yeah what they been so cute did you get a video yeah yeah I like zoom in on this welding are you like proud of your welding or that's terrible why are you such a bad welder I don't know it's really hard tasty BS do you think it's going to [Music] fit all right hold this it's not like pretty skate but everything L it is Simplicity right yeah so go on then tell me what you're going to do with that do you need another bit or is that it oh is that it so you don't even have to have the other little bit to poke it and you can't and I'm just going to go do I need more safety equipment or like f um I need to TI my hair up don't weld your hair to a door but how do you feel about bits of molten metal like spraying out all over your face and body teach me how to well which I'm not going to have it on and then I'm just going to have put it on now and then I'm going to go no no [Music] my sh welding now looks good does it yeah like right in the corner [Music] right look at that yeah that's a you know what I mean that's a Wells yeah you've done your first Wells that's cool well can I just have that thing and I'll just do it I think I didn't do too bad for my first world yeah you you stayed incredibly calm like didn't freak you out at all did it I really couldn't see very well electricity to melt metal that's like Mortal men and I the genius I'm just a god with my metal melting toad do you see the toad that is work it you that's great that's perfect now go stand back there oh God leaking down it's not very good is that b should I put too much on scrape it off with some straw got him okay that's that's fantastic they're going to come up here now I can see them it feels like you could just Reach Out And Touch it uh so today what are we doing we're moving trailers today we're moving trailers why are we moving trailers cuz I don't want them in the orchard anymore so we're going to move them down there uh we were going to take them down this awful slope and then across but then Robbie realized we've got these huge pipes that we found and we can put them in this ditch basically we haven't been able to get the tractor down this path do you want to like that one's like the easiest access path um but you dug this huge channel to stop the rain well not to stop the rain to get the rain away and um now it's just like we've been using wooden planks but yeah now you find these amazing huge tubes so we're going to like put those in the ground put some soil over the top and then you know two birds one stone right get rid of the tubes in this Orchard area move the trailers nice the past few years we've had some huge storms and when this happens our whole land turns into a giant waterfall when it floods this area behind the shed fills up with water and we need a good way of getting it out we've been using some precarious old wooden planks to get across the ditch for nearly 3 years and so we're excited for an upgrade [Music] there so many times last year this was flowing wasn't it like crazily so what do you think it's perfectly level but does not need to run down a little I don't know yeah that's going down that one's going down mhm I guess when the tractor drives over it you don't want like spiky rocks on it right here this is where the little Midwife toads really like to live you wait there [Music] toad what do you think Sage Papa filled it all in with soil wow that's so cool how many times have you fallen down this hole no more awful rickety wooden board I can go straight across this on my wheelbarrow sa isn't it good bums big bums huh a lot of beds in there we're not going to do [Applause] [Music] [Music] that I just drive straight across this bit to SC [Music] say the Sheep are here to have some water you see never behind you could you have got by with a small sock right do you remember like when we first started going to Brick Mart and like buying everything and you insist on getting the the biggest of everything like was that worth like genuinely just a genuine question like could You' got the smaller one just be honest with me well say loses like one piece a week so yeah I do think the bigger one has been helpful okay so loud was could come off my bolt all right that's not long enough all right s you want to press me the bolt please thank you are you seen my genius solution right here I wouldn't appreciate it expain it to me death I just die hold him that's probably smaller than am I doing it the wrong way no no it's going it's good are these four something or can I throw [Music] them what does it look like that they might be useful for something evenly sized bits of of Steel with holes drilled in them we Rusty and what you think just throw throw those ones away oh they could have been from anything couldn't they think that they're maybe for the trailer maybe that's why I ashed the design of this trailer is pretty crazy not pulls the brakes on and then it tips I mean what is this this is insane you know do you know what it does I don't is it 4 P.M already today we're putting the whole fence up Robin and you're on the floor talking about brakes on you it's fascinating this thing wow you know you pull the brake on reverse it and the whole trailer tips cool it's pretty cool but also like maybe completely lethal that's good now you've got three you've got two trailers and a des rodora and you're like beside yourself with joy my look lined up Mom look at my mom yes my love it looks amazing it's time for us to install our first bit of fence we've never installed a fence like this before so we were learning as we went we copied the design from our neighbor who has similar animal problems as we do so we're hopeful the design would work get those bolts out yeah put the bolt in there s think he's too big for uh and the bolts are going to go like oh my God please don't tell me you've not other ones no way no Rob that is just so stupid um right call a day then cup of tea round two start how many of these have we got to do oh 50 I've bought 50 of these so look we l go to have problems with what are you talking about they've completely destroyed this we got on film that's true but right okay that shut you up didn't it very observant of you literally don't even have problem no but it's not like like some people the H are just all over their land like creating Boulders everywhere not Boulders what's the opposite of a boulder what they're making boulders Boulders the opposite of a boulder just holes everywhere the opposite of a boulder is I what I'm trying to say is our problem I feel are the Sheep if we're going to go number one enemy it's the Sheep it's sage and then it's the Sheep he's so cute he's just going to fill up this water bottle in the FR I adore him it's just so hot right what do you think then how many more do you have to do 49 this is going to take a long time [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] all we have to do is unwind it to that post tie it on and that will be the first bit of fencing you've ever put up for me this is like I am like so hyped right now although I like am so dehydrated and hungry haven't eaten in like 17 hours but what we've got to do is unwind this over there and tie it on we would have achieved something incredible phenomenon is it like a bar that all these different species have got something in the Egyptians and they all have similar shapes and things you put it through the hole Yeah that's it not quite touching the back and then you just well pull that up through no no you turn this all right yeah all right any men can do this so go on that's it it's so funny that is just not what I imagined that thing would do in my mind I had no idea how it was going to work but that was not it really hard this is like impossible this is really hard what the hell who invented [Music] this that's nice Le but this is not going to work what we that big oh [Music] de yeah I guess you're supposed to leave them a bit longer aren't you anyway I think we've like done something cool here yeah that's really cool that's like our first ever bit of proper fencing can't believe how long this is about to take us are you not like a bit C off by how long this is going to take us cuz we've got like I'm trying to be appreciative of this current moment I mean I guess the next tensioner is on the diagonal is it so we've only got two more of these to do yeah oh that's good oh and that one and then those ones down there around come let's go eat something oh I mean really cool [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] look at all that sun lotion oh my goodness can Papa take some of yours it's for me oh get it off him have you done all of those no you haven't I have let me hold in while you do those things I have done all those things what have a SLE a sandwich and then we put the tractor in the shed shot up in the shed downstairs Robbie was then task with digging a trench to bury our water pipes so we could easily get the tractor in and out of the food forest with compost and to run the cultivator oh my gosh don't pick that up Robin that could be poisonous robinin Robin wow they really attack you what I don't like spiders do you not agree with my passion for spiders no it's not a passion like you're provoking the animal you're making it attack you if you liked animals you just leave them in peace wouldn't you fair enough I was going for a peaceful little sit by the Bala and now there's a poisonous vicious angry spider on the S [Music] so nice how open it is H you need a haircut or a hair wash or something let's focus on my progress it looks amazing wow it's like really really nice isn't it are they oh look oh the the swallows swallows are here the Swifts Swifts that must be like the first day they've got here right yeah I haven't seen them cool nice we can't do any more of the fence yeah whilst we're waiting to get the rest of the fence materials I guess we could do this we should just take this fence out yeah the future is not me picking like Rock Solid Ground for like the rest of my life like that is going to it is because otherwise you're going to get fat and lazy it's so cool to see the Swifts isn't it yeah there's loads of literally just arrived like I love that you like look at one you're like oh there's one Swift and then suddenly you look in the sky and they're actually just all over cuz the mosquitoes have come up do you think what is the haze then is that like think that's like sand from the Sahara Spain getting like crazy weather and I was really hopeful that it was going to be a rain and then it was like Sahar and dust all right well it's definitely some soft this [Music] tree baby I don't like it it's my hand is this going to work oh there's a bat it's getting pretty close to like evacuation I've got a bit of food I've got some I mean look at that smoke coming over there that's it's going to come over isn't it it doesn't look great you're going to leave right now unbelievable you hear the Nightingale Sage [Music] [Music] oh God super nice now wow

Channel: Lady & The Owl Man

Views: 63,327

Keywords: offthegrid, abandoned, offgrid, offgridliving, homestead, homesteading, renovation, restoration, stonehouse, tinyhouse, wilderness, diy, alone, Spain, permaculture, organic, organicfarming, farming, foodforest

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Length: 46min 51sec (2811 seconds)

Published: Sun May 26 2024