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Oct 29 2010
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Building, Cabins, Camping, Off-Grid Tech

Vermont Cabin Video – From RelaxShack Finally!

I’ve been waiting for this video about Derek’s (RelaxShacks) cabin for a year and it’s finally here! I can totally relate to him saying it took 10 years to make!

From Derek-
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the Vermont Cabin episode, its a cabin thats been almost TEN years in the SLOOOOOOW making (from age 22, when I bought the land, until now), and we’ve had a blast through the whole process. I do hope all you tiny housing/small home/cabin fanatics will dig this one….it was a ton of fun to shoot (despite only getting 2-3 hours of sleep before I had to host it!).

-Deek

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Oct 19 2010
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Our Cabin Posts, Video

October Cabin Video Update

Hi Ya’ll, Thanks Deek of RelaxShacks.com for the email blast. I’m eagerly awaiting your new book, I have your current one. My co-worker saw you in Make Magazine so congrats!

The video cabin tour this summer was popular so here’s another one that I did this week on a cold but sunny October day. Watch part 1 and 2. To update everyone this is still a work in progress but it’s a 200 square foot off grid cabin built on a post and pier foundation similar to a shed but also has house like features. For those of you boaters out there that’s a 1968 Johnson 3hp fordable outboard motor on the back of that canoe. It was my grandpa’s and it still screams!

This weekend we put in “Bird Blocks” aka the boards that go between the rafters where they meet the top of the walls. Also I put in 1 of 3 window that will go in the loft. Now there is light up there, before it was ver dark.

We didn’t plan on staying the night so we had 1 sleeping bag for 2 people and a dog to keep warm, 35 degrees outside that night. That is when that huge heater wasn’t running. I turned it off before we went to bed so we didn’t die of carbon monoxide poisoning… I don’t think that’s meant to run in enclosed spaces but the cabin is pretty loose right now. :|

Oct 11 2010
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Off-Grid Tech

Homemade saw mill for $200

So I’m a big fan of this guy Jamie that lives in the woods of Vermont. I stumbled upon his Youtube channel somehow and saw him doing all kinds of awesome stuff all with little to no resources. He’s a mad scientist of sorts as his 276 video will attest. He makes saw mills, giant robots, geodesic domes to live in, banana buildings and many other things on his 25 off the grid acres. He even cuts in a road 3/4 of a mile by hand!

His Sawmill 2.0 – A homemade swing blade type sawmill

Sawmill 1.0 a homemade bandsaw type sawmill

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Oct 05 2010
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Off-Grid Tech, Random Coolness, Shelter, Video

History of Libertarian Countries at Sea & Ephemerisle

This is a somewhat random post but it is sort of related to small shelters and my interest in boating and all things on the water. This film maker, Jason Sussberg makes some beautiful short videos shot on 16mm and digital mediums, including these and one on Lloyd Kahn who writes the Shelter Book series that I posted last month.

Did you know there is a country called Sealand? I didn’t either but it’s part of the true story of pirate radio of the coast of England. A abandon WWII radar platform has been taken over my pirates and is now it’s own country.

An animated History of libertarian new country projects on the high seas. Patri Friedman of The Seasteading Institute narrates previous attempts of creating autonomous freeholds in international waters. by Jason Sussberg


Ephemerisle – I think this is like Burning man on the water. Stick with the video for a minute, it’s gets a lot better after the guy stops talking at the podium.

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Oct 03 2010
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Our Cabin Posts

Some Siding Done

Just got back from a short trip to the cabin. Managed to get the t1-11 siding up all the way around. The 3 gables will have a belly band trim strip then have cedar shingles above that.  I’ve been finding them free on craigslist in various condition. Not really sure how the used shingles will look but the price is right. I do know the shingles will look way better than doing t1-11 all the way up.

Brent had a Milwaukee cordless circular saw and it actually works! We used it to do all our work and charged the batteries with our inverter/solar panel so we never had to start up the generator. I have a Ryobi 18v circular saw and it doesn’t cut worth a damn. It would drain the battery before it cut a 2×4.

Thanks to Brent for helping me out and saving my back! We were only there for 24 hours but we managed to get all the siding done and went on a dirt bike ride past this washed out road on DNR land that I’ve never been past. Know I know the quad can make it around the washout we’ll be able to connect to many many more miles of road and trails that haven’t bee accessed for years, at least from this side.

The “J” is for Joseph. Lots of funny cuts like this since we have so many windows.

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