Solo Overnight at the MICRO GLASS HOUSE! (First Time)

this video is sponsored by athletic greens that will be more on that later but before we get into that we've got to do a couple extra little housekeeping things well by things i mean we were waiting on the the chimney pipe for the mini cubic stove so it's here now we just got to install it up there somewhere and it's it's got sort of a really unique bracket system i want to show you guys uh and that's kind of important because our first overnight we need some heat it's kind of fall weather right now it rained like cats and dogs last night everything is soaking wet and i'd like to have a nice warm place to sleep so that's primary objective today in order to finish off the inside of that circle i ended up using this guy which is the the bottom panel in the garage door so i use it for the ridge cap it worked out really well i just cut it to size an exacto knife and then slide it in and then you bend it and nail it in and she looks pretty slick i think anyways finishes it off nicely 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so as you guys may or may not have known if you guys have been following on the series this thing is made out of old garage doors and the garage doors came from an old fire hall that was upgrading their doors and they had these guys left over i said hey i want them i want to make something really cool with them that's what this whole thing is primarily made of that and uh some kind of homemade uh everything else some cherry hardwood floors that was reclaimed from a job so that was uh salvaged it could have been going to the landfill but it's not we've got uh this whole cabin is being powered by the ecoflow delta we've got dual packs so they're parallel together so it gives us twice the amount of power uh and that's what's powering the lights and the plugs and everything else in here it uh it can power it powers our little coffee station and uh if you want to have a little cooktop electric cooktop induction range or anything like that you can power these guys at the ecoflow delta there can either be charged by line voltage by bringing them to your house and charging them they can either be charged by solar or you can charge them with your car there's many options let's charge these guys so that's the eco flow delta that's what's charging these things this little table here this is a good story for this actually i was out on uh on halloween october 31st and uh anyways it was on the side of the road said free on it so i took it i think it's a piece of uh you know patio furniture i think i think it's teak actually maybe one day i will actually strip it and so because i don't like the brown but uh you know what it works really well as a table i got some chairs again that's another road find and uh got a little poof some decorations and this is what's heating this place is the mini cubic wood stove this is the grizzly version of this thing it is really cool because it takes really really little wood so this is a little branch wood i've got it all cut and split it's dry and this thing this thing's a little powerhouse it's uh it's designed for tiny homes it can uh you know you can you can heat your your tiny home your rv your boat your schooly they got little you know those little tiny homes on wheels that's cool because you can actually use the top to cook stuff on or to warm your coffee or whatnot it's got like uh it's got all the features of of a full-size wood stove but it's just tiny it's got the little tiny dampers at the front and it's got little tiny dampers at the back so what that does is once you've load your wood you can actually introduce fresh air into the front of the fire or you can introduce fresh air into the back of the fire so it gives you more of an even burn or you can dampen them both down and get a really long burn it's also cool about these things is they've got little uh little tools because you've got a little fireplace a little too little scoop a little uh little rake little pinchy thing to grab your logs move them around and uh brings us up to we got some reclaimed windows these are crank outs they were from a job that no longer needed them they upgraded their windows towel hooks coat hooks whatever have you we have the lamp this is the famous lamp from the tarp shelter there's a video on that thing and i thought we're going to repurpose the tarp cabin so i figured i'd take the light to its final the lamp with the lampshade to its final kind of destination we've got uh an end table or a bedside table made out of a chunk of ash and uh what i think is a frame for a drum i don't exactly know what it is but it was cool it was round i took it and that's what it is so yeah anyways light goes on and off it's got a little switch right here so if you're getting into bed and you want to you know turn your lights off right at the last moment you can and uh yeah so we got our futon it doubles as a couch we can crank this thing up and be nice and relax on our couch if we're not ready for sleeping and then you can just you know crank it down crack it down you got the bed the old school looks like tungsten bulb those uh story on those those are actual led bulbs they've got two watts of power per bulb so it's about 40 watts up there so it uses very little power and uh the idea behind putting them up there is because it's not always clear so when you can't stare at the stars when you have your when you have your lights off so we turn the lights off turn the lights off we can just have the lanterns on so you can kind of see the nice ambiance the camera doesn't really show it all that well but it's got that it's got that really nice warm glow which i really like so you turn that and then if you want business you get the business lights so maybe like these guys are the wall sconces those are also led very low wattage so you can have them on for a long time or you can have you know no lights on you just there we go no lights on let's turn them right off maybe you just want to be quiet see it still gives you a whole lot of light in here it is uh it is close to sunset so it is getting a little dark in here but you can still see lots of light especially on sunny days this will be a nice bright relaxing place to hang out do your thing maybe have some friends over we've got uh safety consideration we've got our carbon monoxide smoke detector combo alarm we got some more hooks and um a lot of people mentioned we should put some stained glass in here uh i happen to have a piece of stained glass that i haven't quite decided where it was going to go yet i think maybe in one of these back windows but i'm not uh i'm not 100 sure of where that is going to go but i do have some again i didn't i it's stuff i've kind of saved over the years and i thought well this is really cool stuff i can't let it go to the landfill so i want to save it so yeah i'm going to use it oh and then one last thing my round window i really like the way that turned out with the aluminum kind of jam that was the old panel from the garage door that i had bent up gives this kind of build out and on the uh wall cladding was uh some ash tree that we milled out into half inch thick and we did a board and batten style so you got the boards and the battens and i really like the way that turned out i really like the way the whole thing turned out it's it's it's really nice in here i don't know if i can adequately show it with the camera but it's really cool fireplace has been mounted we've got a chimney pipe up to about there which we've gotta give a little protrusion through the roof in order to have our exhaust exit so we've done the pre-burn on this guy we've burnt it we've seasoned the stove so it's all ready to go uh we just got that chimney pipe shouldn't be that difficult first i think i want some power i'm gonna do the old eco flow delta two pack i've got the first pack it's going to be the second pack and this allows you to parallel them up together and have double the amount of power so what you do is you take your connection this is the charge cord for the line voltage power and what you do is you plug it in so if i can i always forget which one you gotta feed so this is the pack that's kind of it's not 100 full so the idea is you want both packs to be near 100 charged and what it's going to do is they're going to feed off each other so i'm going to plug pull in power from this one it's going to feed this one and then i plug my stuff into this one so what this is doing right now is kind of sort of balancing the pack so this is our feed pack so this is this is what everything's plugged into and this is feeding that pack so what it's doing right now is this pack's actually charging this pack so we got 700 watts going out of that pack into this pack so once this pack gets to a hundred percent this one will turn off and then slowly kind of feed its juice back into that one until this one's completely depleted and then uses this one so that's how you hook them up in parallel and not have to switch packs kind of midway through so this is kind of ideal situation if you want you know doing a long weekend sort of thing and you need double the amount of power or yeah you just you know want to make sure you have enough okay now that we got our heat shield up we're gonna put our little uh actually cut our hole in our little hat and this is the this is going to be the roof flashing that's gonna sit on our peak i had dennis make this up my i have a faithful welder dude he used the piece of the paneling the bottom section and he bent up the aluminum this stuff's proving to be very very versatile stuff you can pretty much make anything with it uh if you've got the the talent to do it so that's uh that's the roof hat i just gotta drill a pilot hole in the top and uh nothing like a nice sharp bit from princess otto and uh yeah so just pile a hole and then should be able to tint it oh so that's where my roof pipes kind of go through and what's kind of cool about it is it's variable uh distance so what you can do is you can actually the next hole you drill you cut in the in the in the ridge peak you can not be as precise because you can slide it back and forth until you got it lined up perfectly before you secure this to the uh to the peak now that i got my hole cut on my roof it should be as easy as sliding the pipe in from the inside have it all kind of connected and just pop it right through and then i'll put my cap back on silicon it all up and it should be good [Music] got my roof boot on just in time it started to rain a little bit i don't think it's gonna hold up but uh i can't silicone when everything's soaking wet so i'm gonna try to i'm just gonna light a fire and see if uh the warmth will dry up this this aluminum in order to allow me to actually silicone this today because i've got the the main leak points at the top but i wanna do the sides here but a little wet let's fire up the stove and see if that'll dry out maybe the rain will stop and everything will work out it's always the case right you want to do some roof stuff and decides to rain on weather in november right it's the november rain all right let's light this thing up let's get some get some heat in here of all the wood stoves i've ever installed the cubic mini has the slickest chimney install has the brackets that actually hold the pipe in right on the roof kind of like i was talking about when i was doing the log cabin install there should be a bracket and they they have a bracket so straight right up there anyways so this is the mini cubic wood stove this is its official introduction i got a tape measure right here i'm going to give you the dimensions of the firebox cause a lot of people are like well it's not gonna heat up anything well you know what in reality with with the small space you don't need a giant stove um so this guy here the actual dimensions in it you can probably you can fit seven inch wood front to back and then the door opening itself is seven just under seven inches so and then tall you got five five by seven on the front seven inches deep now what i like to do with these particular stoves is i like to take my branch wood and cut it up into small chunks so that's what i got here i had there it just flew out of my hand so that's what i do there's like hardwood branches a lot of them a lot of the trees tend to just drop them so as opposed to like you know turning them into you know brush fire or whatever you can actually cut them up to make really convenient tiny firewood for your mini cubic so that's what i do and in theory you could probably go to a park after a big wind storm and you could find all sorts of firewood i don't know if you could take it from a park i'm not talking like you know a national park i'm talking like a city park you know what the playgrounds the people the lawnmower and guys would appreciate you picking up their you know branch wood so they don't hit with their lawn mowers but yeah that's the uh that's just actually this is kind of small you can't uh you don't have to go front to back if you keep it further away from the glass your glass tends to stay cleaner uh the glass on here is particularly black because we were burning it outside wasn't getting great combustion so anyways let's uh let's see if we can hold this thing up the good thing about it is you don't really like everything is kindling when you load this thing i probably could cut some smaller stuff she's a burning turns out the branchwood wasn't exactly dry that i had cut up so i actually have some other dry stuff that i split up and that seems to be working good i've got chock full of wood should start getting a little bit warmer in here hopefully jimmy is jimmying smoke is exiting the top of the building now i just got to get the uh my campfire ready for my dinner that's uh next on the agenda it rained a heck of a lot last night so everything is super soaked and i've got uh i got a solution for that which is split in wood and leaving on the top side a lot of i get a lot of comments on why don't you keep wood you know sort of the branch wood and stuff like that and use it and i'm like well the problem is is anything you kind of store in the forest doesn't really dry there's not enough wind or sun or anything like that but that seasons your wood and the only way to make actually wood useful is if it's seasoned it's got to be dry so this is what i do is i collect my firewood and i put them in my wooden crates that i build out of kind of skiffs off of the sawmill so i make them into little boxes and then i put my firewood my split stacked firewood and then i store it on the top side i cover it with plastic this vapor barrier and then it gets uh it gets a whole season to dry so then when it's what's left is really dry really dry wood so and that's kind of the stuff you want for you know heating inside your home or inside the cabins or even making a campfire to cook food on because it gives it nice coals you don't you're not boiling off all the water that's inside a good rule of thumb is to always season your wood at least a year so 12 months but sometimes you can get away with if you split it in the spring very early spring by the end of the summer it's usually pretty decent to be dry you probably want to you want to aim for a 20 moisture if you're if you're heating indoors and there's you know some people like well you can't burn pine indoors any wood that's dry seasoned you can burn indoors it's the wet wood you got to worry about because of what happens is the creosote builds up on your chimney and then chimney fires and blah blah blah bad news that's my firewood tidbit that's what i'm going to use got my firewood stockpile so what i do is i bring it down in the winter time because it's primarily when i'm when i'm you know cooking stuff and campfires and whatnot cooking some pork chops pork chops are on the menu for this evening boys girls let's look at the cubic mini it's pretty it's pretty slick i don't think you guys can see it but you can see through the window it's she's on she's burning look at the chimney chimney jimmy's going you see that smoking that smoke of the thing the other the other problem i guess with uh having a cabin so far kind of in the trees is that the air tends to want to come over the trees and then drop down so you don't get like an exceptional draft like you would you would need your chimney to go beyond the trees and that's just that's just not gonna happen so it's doing its job it's working [Applause] so so well i've got all homegrown stuff on this grill i've got um i've got potatoes that i planted myself in the spring i've got pork that i raised myself and my vegetable is carrots which i also raised myself in my garden so this entire meal was raised on this property which is kind of cool um my pork chops kind of frozen so we're gonna try to cook it low and slow i'm not that experienced cooking on an open fire but uh my mmm grill is uh it's giving me a little bit of a hand like i i'm really not good at cooking on an open fire but anyways i'm going to give it my the old college try you guys can uh there's a link in the description for this grill it's actually quite it's a quite really unique device because you can lower it and raise it um however depending on how much heat you want you put your mistakes in the ground and away you go it's always on the wrong side of the smoke but yeah there's a link in the description below for the grill if you guys want to check those guys out they've uh it's a great grill for a backyard camping or uh you know off-grid or whatever the heck you want to do with it it's it's kind of cool for uh they also have the griddle too which is kind of neat because it's like a flat cooktop so anyways we've got our pork chop just sizzling away there and uh i'm a big potato it's getting dark we gotta get this in before it gets too dark gotta have my dinner coconut fire is an art i'm not sure i'm artistic but we're gonna definitely give it a give her make sure she's not she's not raw hot potato [Applause] all right let's see if this guy's cooked so i got my here's my carrots they're kind of kind of fat and short i don't know i think i got to put more loam in there give it a little little or softer softer ground growing maybe they'll get longer but i don't mind them i don't mind them short and stumpy kept the ends on just to prove just to prove that they came right out of the garden i had to rinse them off nothing better than carrot right out of the garden let's just do lava like i said i don't go very often my wife cooks most of the meals i would say 98 of the meals so when i'm left to my own devices i uh i tend to go eat at a restaurant looks cooked right that's that's what i asked my wife is it cooked is it cooked see this is this is the smoked cured pork chop oh that's good if you had to do that start to finish that's that's that's a whole lot of effort for pork chop good thing there's plenty more where this come from so everything needs to be here everything i'm eating right now as i raise myself on this property start to finish potatoes carrots pork put out a side egg sandwich maybe tomorrow morning i guess i could make bread i'm going to be like a trifecta and i have to make cheese it's a whole slippery slope some things you've got to buy got outsourced you can really taste the smoky flavor and it's not just because it was cooked on an open flame it's that it was smoked it was hung cured and smoked in the in his smoker get everything ready i got uh i got paw prints i gotta wipe off the bed spread frankie came in here with her muddy feet and put them all over the bed dark dark at five isn't it fun dark five i was just finishing up dinner and uh the skies kind of opened up and with a deluge of rain again it was i had to run around grab all my stuff make sure it was all inside yeah i can't predict the weather i looked at the radar and it shows that the rain has just moved out i didn't know if we could have a little campfire out here not my fire survived i just add some more logs on top to kind of keep the coals going and hunker down inside but yeah everything's soaked everything's just kind of drenched it's muddy i need some more wood chips yeah so i get asked a lot in the comments on you know why i build these buildings and what are they for am i going to open up a bed and breakfast or airbnb or something like that and the answer to that question is no i have no no intention whatsoever of opening a uh airbnb or sort of thing these are these are for my family so rachel wanted a place to do her her art and by art like her painting and whatnot so she wanted something with lots of light uh so that's when the a-frame cabin was kind of like the idea was born you know something with lots of light open airy kind of spacious so that's uh ultimately that's what the a-frame is going to be turned into is a kind of a retreat for rachel so when she wants to come to the property and she wants a place to kind of you know unwind maybe do some yoga or something like that this is this is ultimately at the end of the day it's it's rachel's cabin so yeah she uh she kind of helps me at the end of most of the projects to stage stuff and and you know buy knickknacks and outfit with things and she uh she did so on this project here which was you know the bed frame but comforter and pillowcases and stuff like that most of the stuff we had she just kind of gets the little stuff so she's going to over time she's going to make it her own she's going to you know bring her own stuff down art stuff and whatnot so i've got a couple of plans in the uh you know going forward i've got some uh some ideas kind of rattling around on the back of the head and uh one of those is a mobile sort of mobile camper kind of human-powered not uh not truck powered or anything like that so something to either tow around on a bike uh be lightweight anybody can build so that's kind of one of the ideas i have another idea is treehouse you know helena needs a place right so i was thinking maybe building a tree house or something something of that nature maybe kind of like a treetop trek or a zip line or something like that i keep looking over there you guys can't see it but actually you can actually see the cubic mini stove in the in the a-frame you guys can't quite see it there but it's cooking away it's actually surprisingly how how good inside there is like how comfortable it is in there and uh a lot of a lot of folks were mentioning that uh there was gonna be a lot of condensation on the windows um it doesn't seem to be the case it seems to uh it seems to be doing just fine so what's happening right now is with the heat being on because this is the first time the heat actually has been on in there is uh everything's drying out so the wood's drying out uh the main structure of the cabin is drying out because everything that everything that i build is actually green it's not it's not necessarily green but it's got it's not perfectly dry so it once it's in place and it's got a source of heat what happens is the stuff dries out so the humidity is being released from the wood and that's what's forming on the on the windows right now i don't think it's actually uh i don't think it's actually you know condensation forming on the glass and again it's it's all about dew point ambient temperature and stuff like that so you gotta you gotta be smart about it if it's minus 40 oh you're not going to heat that thing uh because it is a is a class building right so you gotta work within the limitations it's got every building knows its relative humidity and what what it can handle so that thing's no different so just gotta know your limits and play within them oh yeah i just remembered the other project i was thinking of was the the pallet wood cabin so the um the tarp shelter as you guys know on the back back back 40. it uh it served its kind of purpose well and my plan for that is to actually take it off its its platform and then use it uh either for like an herb garden of sorts to grow some stuff kind of like a like a greenhouse and then use the platform that's there to build somewhat of a pallet wood cabin maybe leave in the comments maybe you guys got an idea what you want me to build i i'm open to suggestions i always like ideas like fresh ideas are good i like building i don't know if you guys i don't know if you guys could tell yeah that i like building i like building unique things interesting things and if they're not unique i'll just put my own little spin on them so oh look at that it's raining again well i think on that note i'm gonna head inside it's starting to rain maybe i'll get myself situated in there get my bed set up [Music] it's bright in here my lanterns up there which are kind of cool i should turn this light off oh they're not cool there we go turn that light off kind of more ambiance can you tell the wife bought the uh decorations she was like look it's got a red truck on it and it's got trees yeah you know what i said i said it's white and it's in the bush it's gonna get dirty so anyway so there there you can see it it's as pretty as it's gonna be the red truck with the trees on it what i like to do is i could go charcoal so what you do is you put some wood in there and then you let it flame up and then once all of the wood is charred you turn it down you dampen it down and that makes your heat last the longest otherwise if you dampen it down right away you have creosote build up i'm all set for the evening and i have the glow of the fire on the outside and if you guys are worried about that it's uh it's it's wet nothing nothing can possibly catch fire out there i got my smoke detector my carbon monoxide detector over there so i'm safe that way i wonder what the temperature is going to be in the morning i'm not sleeping in my underwear tonight you see that that's this that's as slow as my camera will go you can just barely make out that it's it's light out i can't show you this guy as well as well as i can see it and if it was clear day you'd see stars it's pretty spectacular actually it's too bad it's too bad i can't show it to you well if you stay under the cover and you put your hood up on your sweater it's not terrible oh yeah she doesn't she doesn't stay warm tell you that much she's a little chilly that uh i got up in the middle of the night to load a little bit more wood and uh kind of halfway through i said ah just just let her die let her go out and uh here we are she's uh she's fresh i can't see my breath it's not that cold i don't think it got down to mine it's one overnight um not bad it's very quiet and uh what was cool is that the uh the actual uh cloud cover left and you could kind of see stars like ever so briefly um i tried to film they just didn't work because it was dark but like i gotta get a fire going get the fire going get some uh first order business is coffee i can make a coffee well maybe the fire and then the coffee heat and then more heat it's fresh it's fresh in here as long as you just keep everything covered you're good oh that's nice it's a little bitter but still nice good mediocre coffee still pretty good coffee you ever have a cup of coffee in order to have a cup of coffee well that's this morning this is the cup of coffee before the cup of coffee this is before the make another breakfast the coffee just get warmed up ready to go got an epic epic egg sandwich to make i've got uh got some bacon fresh fresh bacon got my egg got my egg that's everything was grown on the property except the english muffins maybe i should start baking make some muffins or something but i gotta get a coffee and made before before i can do that anyways what's kind of neat is you can actually put them on the you can keep it warm on the stove it just sits like right right there and then it'll keep your coffee or your tea or something like that warm that's the that's the idea behind this guy it's got a little railing so it doesn't fall off so maybe maybe i'll get ready to make my breakfast you can live there for now i'll be back for you so ah look at that oh that's it two egg bacon cheese english muffin egg sandwich can you see the steam coming off that oh egg sandwich it's taken me about a year and a half to perfect the egg sandwich and i believe that this one this one is perfection and then you have a side of bacon because why not right give it a minute burn my face and i won't be able to taste it then what's the point right i might i had my coffee on the stove and it was uh it was uh it was nearly boiling so it works it works well it's too hot everything's hot everything's just hot that's still good home raised bacon it's crispy like it doesn't when you first put it in the pan you're looking at it going well that's a lot of fat but look at when it cooks up there's uh there's very little fat on it's actually mostly meat besides oh that's perfect just a right amount of crispiness you don't want floppy bacon carl really knows how to smoke bacon washcloth certainly not a winter cabin um because it's made of glass and it's really hard to keep warm uh yeah the lack of the lack of insulate it's not that there's lack of insulation it's just because it's made of glass there's too much surface area there's too much no r value at all so i think shoulder season once you get it warm she stays warm she just loses heat quickly you kind of always have to be tending the fire sort of thing and that's the way the greenhouses are like if it was sunny it would be warm in here and if it's not sunny it's not warm so yeah shoulder season cabin you know dead of summer and uh to address the people that you know like in the summer it's gonna be crazy hot well it doesn't really get it's kind of in the shade so it doesn't get a lot of sun down here maybe in the future when i actually clear out some of the trees and i can actually get some sunshine in here it'll be like extra warm but uh it's a long-term project like a five-year plan i'm gonna enjoy my breakfast you guys uh i hope you guys enjoyed this one and uh join me on the next one

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Length: 37min 35sec (2255 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 20 2021