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jeej we can now get a Tractor. Or digger! 🎉 We're doubting what makes more sense for us, let us know what you think on this link: community.projectkamp.com/research/should-we-get-a-tractor-to-work-on-the-land

Hello Team project kamp ! I know you are really strict on the sponsored vidéos you want to make but honestly I would be happy with more sponsored vidéos if it means better equipments for you ! I know you will be transparent and cautious so if you can, please do more of them for project kamp's healthy growth !

Regarding your Asian Hornet nest... You had it destroyed fairly late in the season so there is a strong chance that some new Foundress Queens were hatched and left the nest to hibernate for the winter. If so, they will be in the undergrowth nearby. Next year they will emerge to found new nests and your problems will get worse. You should try trapping and killing the new Queens in Feb/March. I believe they will emerge after roughly 3 consecutive days that reach more than 14C. Find advice online about Queen trapping and how to make traps.

Great job! The pig trailer house is really beautiful... I have a suggestion: for the next season, could it be possible to add a little clock during timelapse, to have an idea of the real time elapsing? This way, we would have a better idea of the huge work it can be to clear bushes, renovate something, etc...

Truly hope youre going to read this. But you have to leave a gap between the wooden walls and marble. The marble will get hot and transfer the heat to the wooden walls without insulation!!

Gotta say... I was super skeptical about the pig trailer, but it has turned out WAY nicer than I imagined! great work, you guys!

Love the longer videos with different project updates.

I‘m happy for every advertisement I see on this channel cause I can’t wait to see the progress once there is a big tractor in camp. Kind of sad it’s the last ad but happy to see what’s coming now

A bit of sketchy chainsaw work on those big trees. I don’t want to judge without being there, but it looks like you guys could do with a basic faller’s course. That barber chair at 4:44 is super dangerous. A few very basic tree falling lessons could save someone from being badly hurt. Love from a tree faller in British Columbia

would love to see you guys growing your own food and testing ecological farming on your own lands :)

Well done on trailer. it might be a good idea to add little roof above the front door. So when it rains the door would not rot

I've never saw anyone so happy finding old tires on his property..:D

One tiny thing I personally would put up a CO warning device into the pig trailer home. You never know how airtight a stove is and CO kills silently. Should also be a cheap and easy upgrade. Nice build anyway, I love how it turned out

You know what you needed to control the plants around the community center? Some GOATS!

Suggestion: The total work will be reduced if you clear brambles and mimosa more regularly! Cut everything when it's still small enough to do with a brush cutter, that way you don't have the hassle with chainsaws and moving logs etc. Divide the property into areas to be maintained and make a schedule so that every area is cut once every two months. Then schedule a couple of hours every week for this maintenance. Over a few years you'll be able to work out what's the most efficient schedule. Less garden maintenance means more time for other projects!

I've been following you from day one. I really think you should bring some sheep and goats to the project. They will eat all that grass and keep it from spreading. It will serve as a protection from fires and has many benefits. Donkeys are great with small trees as well and can really help with your mimosas problem.

That “general work” crew is amazing…..they are tireless and dedicated to the necessary work of beating back nature……I live in the woods and have a little experience with this….it takes a lot of ecological destruction to stop the earth from replenishing itself 😏

It’s sad that it’s nearly the end of another season, I don’t know what I’ll watch for the next few months! But I’m looking forward to next season 😊

If you need to better protect the walls behind the stove, get sheet metal and attach it to the wall with long screws through about 5 cm pipe stand-offs. The sheet metal lower edge is 5 cm or so off the floor. Air can circulate between the metal and the granite. I've had this arrangement for years behind my wood stove without problems. New House looks fantastic!

With the wood stove, would it have been more energy efficient to keep more of the chimney inside the building and exit at the top of the wall or through the roof? That way much of the hot smoke and gases in the chimney would heat the inside of the building rather than the air outside.

When sealing something with sealant caulk the best way is to put an excessive amount on the surface you are going to seal. When connecting both surfaces you'll push out all excessive caulk (and therefore knowing the whole connection is sealed), the leftover caulk you can remove with an putty knife and some soap water or with an petroleum based solvent. This is also the way we install roof windows, hatches and such in campervans. We never got a customer back with a leakage.

As others have commented, you REALLY need to redo the marble/granite/metal so that it has an air gap or insulation between it and the wood. The screws also aren't a good idea because they'll conduct the heat directly into the wood. At the moment this is a serious safety hazard.

When cutting trees you need to cut out a notch/wedge on the side you want it to fall, and in the direction of where you want the tree to fall. Cut 1/4 - 1/3rd of the tree diameter. After you take out the wedge, Then you cut from the back horizontal; at the same height as the corner of the notch. I noticed a couple "widow makers" when the tree was falling.

With all of the dead wood and other biomass you guys are able to harvest, along with your existing human manure composting, I am surprised that you haven't tried to replicate Terra Preta. If I understand it right, you start by digging a trench, the starting a decent-sized wood fire at the bottom to build up a large amount partially pyrolyzed and partially unburnt material, along with a healthy supply of woodash. Then, above it you add layers of biomass, compost, clay (if the local soil is deficient), soil, and apparently broken pottery. This last one isn't super-surprising as pottery can not only wick up moisture from deluges and release it over time, it can also act to break up tightly packed soil. So, I would gather up al the broken roofing tiles from the ruins, borrow an earth-mover, and plot out a space to act as an experimental vegetable garden. In that space, dig some trenches that more-or-less follow the contour of the land a meter or so deep, piling up the removed soil on the lower side of each ditch. Fill the ditches with mimosa wood and brush too small to ever use for anything else, compacting it down a bit to get he density up, then light it all up. Once the resulting fires have burnt down to coals, cover them with a layer of soil and start building up some future soil! There are videos that show other people's attempts to replicate these surprisingly fertile trench trash-fires, and the decent results they get even in the first year. You guys will have the advantage of having some composted human manure on-hand if noone wants to go pick up animal manure from your neighbors. The tiles can be further smashed up to replicate the potsherds found in real Terra Preta. You basically have all of the necessary parts and tools either already on your land or very close at-hand, it would be a shame if you didn't take advantage of this situation to attempt a little soil-building

I keep thinking that pig house needs a screened front porch, which would be a great place to store food that needs to be kept cool during the winter and supplies that need just a bit of shelter at other times. It would be a great place for sleeping and gathering when it is hot outside. A porch would also allow for overflow sleeping areas when there are so many people in the camp, and be a general respite from flies, bugs and vermin.

You guys should get a chipper!

Love seeing people living a life of true creativity. Using reclaimed materials, tools and a variety of skills to create something that can model a path forward towards sustainable living. A massive undertaking like this will take many years, and even then it will be an on-going creation of constant innovation, testing and improvements. Project Kamp is one of our favorite 21st century community development projects to watch every week. (We really miss them over the Winter months, but we know they will reappear again in the Spring.) You folks are doing great, and every creation will get tested in real world use and with your ever-evolving skillsets you'll be able to make any adjustments that need to be done in the future. Blessing to you all from America...

Maybe a industrial wood chipper would help in the long run for a lot of the projects -Gardening -Composting -Toilet -Mulching (Could be used on the walking paths as well). I love the work you all are doing.

Love your videos and have watched everything one. Next season you need to get a forester out there to do a basic chainsaw use course on trees. The big mimosa trees were cut down dangerously, and that could lead to a huge injury.

Hoorah!! The pig trailer home is complete! I look forward to how the light switches work over time, so good to see plastic re-used.

The pig trailer turned out super beautiful. The recycled objects give it real character. You only need Pippi Longstocking to move in.

I love the variety of content this channel offers all while staying in a general overarching theme. We get to see renovations, building, yard work, cooking, environmental, innovation, social activities, interesting people, and more.. but it never feels out of place.

I love watching you creative, hard-working people do your thing.

Stopped watching for a few months. Glad to see that you're still going strong ☺☺

Ensure tires are pumped, utilities easily disconnected, firewood in basket compartments, tow or pull hitches installed. Trailer home prepared to move in an emergency (fire, blowing embers, lightening strike). Add fire blanket, fire extinguisher to put out any heating or stove fires. Install carbon monoxide/dioxide air monitor & fire monitor. Include 1or 2 wood stove heat thermal fans. A dehumidifier to minimize condensation. Lots of unique features: mixed marble back splash, repurposed metal plate, repurposed wood bulkhead, door handles, switches and plugs, floor and siding, insulation. Clearing land near to the future community center. Also cleaning up the inside of the community center. With all this rain and cooler weather, bush and small trees burning. Noticed a nearby stream in one of the clips. Any opportunities for a well, pond, future water storage dam? 2023 season winding down. Future pond teaser.

4 ads = a tractor is a really shocking equation for my rural persona.

You really need to keep up with keeping things clean, rather than only once a year. Best bet is to add to the list of needs is a tractor and a "brush-hog", this way you can keep up with the property multiple times a season. The tractor looks to be more versitile. Get one that you can add a digger attachment to the back. This is what we used on the farms in New York USA.

I thought your Patreon sponsors gave you an insurmountable challenge with the choice of the pig trailer and then also with the cladding. Clearly the team were up for the task and super creative. Congratulations to all, what a great job. Best wishes for your winter break. Stay safe everyone. ❤

A tree pulling come a long might be useful for you to remove the stumps. Here on our farm we use a hydraulic one but there are several less fancy models that might work well for you.

I would love to see the beginning of planting native trees next season. The land is starting to look pretty barren with all the mimosas out

When installing a stainless steel chimney,what was the thinking by going through the vertical wall instead of capturing the heat and going through the roof .

You guys amaze me time and again. Wonderful craftmanship, full of colorful ideas and every little piece gets reused. What an awesome season! I am kind of happy to not be a partreon - so I can enjoy another week of waiting for the last update. Sure will support you somehow when times are better, though. ;) Cheers you wonderful people you. 💚🌻

Thanks for another update guys! Nice to see things coming together. I do find one thing frustrating - why do you keep doing the same thing? removing brambles etc. from the same places? why not pick out the roots at the end of a session - or have a daily/weekly walk around the site and remove what comes back? it seems a waste of time and energy. I know you are learning, and that is part of it - actually the part I enjoy the most. Hopefully we see even more possibilities in the next season.

I would suggest two major things you acquire in the near future. one being a way to mill lumber from tree to board via a portable mill. all this mimosa you have thats large enough could be harvested for boards for things not needing a lot of structural strength as i do not know the density of this hardwood. but trim board, siding slats ect. could be milled and used instead of bought. second is a skid steer with a forestry mulching head. this would allow you to harvest large trees then go in at rate of about an acre a day and clear the trees, brambles, stumps and brush growth down to mulch. even if you only rented these two pieces of equipment it would speed your work progress tremendously

If you have any difficulty with your stove stone lining, I would recommend you space it out from the wall and also leave a air gap underneath for cooling I say this because you can get the stone so hot it burns and you could get a fire inside.

Best ever, loved the long format for an almost season ending, and seeing all projects coming together.

Buy a tractor, as it will allow you to get attachments to do many things, a mower or brush hog to keep down the brambles and weeds and grass, a front loader, a post hole digger, a cultivator and plow for the garden, a wood chipper and many others. While a digger is great, the tractor would be more useful everyday.

How quickly nature takes over when left alone to itself! Great job clearing away from the Community Center all the brambles, memosa trees and other downed piles of wood! I ❤ the strips of granite on the inside wall to protect it from the heat of the stove and chimney pipe. It looks great too.😊 Nice innovative ideas to use repurposed materials in the project! Over-all excellent work, Well done!👏👍❤

Those mimosa trunks and smaller branches could make such great Beaver Dam Analogues (or even One Log Dams) at various points in the property to help resist fire and erosion even more. Definitely consider starting to set stuff like that up, particularly higher up on the waterways.

Hi team Great work I love it when you clear the land It’s a pity you can only burn the brush at certain times 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ I suppose your friends and neighbours are really appreciative of the endless supplies of firewood Thank goodness for that The new shed is fabulous it will be lovely in cold weather Well done all round 👍👍👍👍👍👍

If you guys could show a before and after drone shot of all them mimosas you cut down this season, that would be so cool!!!

fun trick for drilling into ceramics or hard stone is to drill through a sponge that is saturated water make a bowl with clay or hot glue or place the whole piece in water. you can also glue two tubes in a water bottle and blow into one of them to control the amount of water coming out of the other tube.

You have so much Mimosa wood around you should consider using it in decoration. Like separation walls within the center. Not sure about the strength of the wood but the big trunks look beefy.

My heart aches when I see you having to recut all that vegetation. However, nearly there with a necessary machine! I particularly enjoyed all your recycling efforts this video. Congrats to the winner of the light switch competition. As usual, you all do meticulous work whatever you are working on. PS: love that old stove!

I'm sat here watching you talk about big piles of brambles, and wondering how the heck you've still got an intact tshirt without a ton of holes in. Then I remember you guys have the proper tools while I'd be literally in the thick of it with hand shears and secateurs getting torn to shreds 😂

Injection model using 3D printer injection molds is pretty cool! Also, I think this is the most refined built from you guys so far, really good job!

So much better when you work as a group! The community aspect is what I watch for, one person doing a solo job isn’t quite it for me. But do love the project! Amazing peeps!

It makes me so proud that a german won the light switch campaign... seems like our country still can do something right :) also I am super impressed by the amount of stuff that you guys recycle in just one trailer. The patchwork wooden wall look so nice (though tidious to clean), and I am jealous of the granit corner. Good job!

Thank you for making my Mondays better every week

there are always all those new and also familiar faces in your videos. it would be pretty cool to have like a "team" or "people" section on your website, where one could read up a bit about their background and recall their names and so on. its gettin pretty hard, especially with the name part ^^

I think you should repurpose the pig trailer by taking thw cabin off it and setting it on sauna tubes . Then build a deck on the trailer . Plus on the shipping container shop add another section by adding poles ir tubing frame and another roof.

The never ending Mimosas,perhaps some goats might be a good solution to the ongoing struggle with Mimosas and brambles,good for the land easy on the environment.😊

Big Mimosa( at T.C.5.23) remove all barcks on the trunck and in over part of the Camp to destroy definitively the tree The Super trailer home: May i suggest that you liftup withe a good jack in order place the frame trailer on good height trunck for preventing the tire of the charge of the trailer and keep the trailer at the level.. Bon courage and stay safe.

Great job everyone 👏👏👏👏 The new house looks awesome 👍 and with all the mimosas you have been cutting down I think you will have plenty of wood to keep you warm during the winter! Much appreciation from Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Who gets to sleep in the lovely new pig trailer? P.s the guy who did the stove and made it look brand new did an amazing job

I am not sure if it's because we all got a little bit of OCD in us, but it's so gratifying to see see the results when something is cleaned up. Well done guys, mission accomplished for this task.

I think it would be nice if we can see whats goin on the kamp during winter with some timelapse, that would be some of effort but I think it'd be great

Creativity at the highest level 💯👏👍✅❤ smooth work and good team work... Well done guys sky is the limit..... Keep it up

The pigs gonna be delighted! 😉

Hi PK'ers! Hard work (again) at community centre! ...maybe some gosts on loan next year? Pig trailer needs a new name! Looks fantastic and needs its own start to finish video! YT will love it! So glad you'll have some more warmth and comfort this winter. Vids getting super pro level excellence! Nice to see Dave back on the workbench...brings back season 1 memories 😊

this is amazing! who knew a pig trailer could look amazing like that! also loving the longer content thank youuuu!!!

Nice job on the pigtrailer but i can never get used to all of those colours. I wish you would have chose a more natural look. Oh well.. im very curious about the next project!! See you next time 😎

The scrap-wood walls are really nice! Good work.

Idk why everyone's freaking out over the fireplace... Stone doesn't conduct heat very well & there's plenty of space for convection to take what heat the stone face does see before it gets to saturate through the thickness. Plus, you're not supposed to leave a wood stove unattended anyway, and that wood would have to smoke for hours under that marble before it could get enough air to lite anyway. Just get a small fire extinguisher for the room it's in (something that's recommended even for professional installs) & call it good I do bet those thin slats with crack over time as they try to expand into those screws (that's why the shop recommends the glue; it allows the stone to move with changes in temperature), but that's just an aesthetic issue, so w/e

The Pig trailer is beautiful, a credit to the team. The use of recycled materials is inspirational. Would love to know, in real time, how long did the mosaic wall take?

27:22 expert advice not to drill a hole....can't wait to see how the holes turn out

Use a couple boards to knock the brambles down so they're easier to manage. I then use a lawnmower I got free that I use just for cutting brush.

What a relief to see the community center cleaned up once again and the general area.

I’d terrace that space behind the community center.

Clean cut the granite stones, then put a small shelf of stone as it’s cap!😊

Concrete board underlayment and maybe a mosaic in mastic would have been better for the base, grout would fill in the spaces between and covered the irregular stone bits, also been a better heat insulator and heat sink to hold and radiate back the heat.

35:56 that has come up look8ng so good 🔥

The Pig House is incredible! Great job!

you could make a mixture of vinegar, dish soap and salt and pour it around all the plants. It apparently changes the PH of the soil and permanently kills them. Would be nice for you guys in the ruins so you dont have to keep cutting all the brambles every year.

Think your Community Center started life as a barn and milking shed! Was watching another vlog and there is a barn on that property. That strange trough is for milking cows! The cows would line up on each side of it and hang their udders over which would be then be hooked up to milking machines!

The cabin formerly known as 'pig trailer' (little pigs cabin?) The roof looks high enough to allow a loft bed or secondary storage up high. Maybe a desk under loft bed setup?

I would love to see the geological survey of the area. Maybe you have harvestable materials on the land, like clay?

I thoroughly enjoyed the music choices for this video, thanks editing team!

Wow you guys have been busy. You got loads done, and the trailer is looking absolutely stunning. I think anyone would be satisfied staying in there, and with a tractor it could be placed anywhere.👍

I’d love to live in that cozy tiny home

There is a saying when you move things from one place to another which doesn’t really help. The saying is ‘moving the deck chairs on the Titanic’ Solution is: When cutting the brambles for saplings, have a mulching machine ready and mulch it straight away (no double handling) cheers

The trailer looks fantastic, I really like the art wall and stove fire place, be careful what plastic you use for your electric switch's and sockets it should fire resistant i think industries use some sort of chemicals☠️ that harden the plastic

Top quality finish on the pig trailer well done everyone 😊

Hi project kamp, to stop those awefull trees, when ever we needed tobget rid of trees it was either drill big whole 3inch wide and 6inch deep in the bigger mommas trees or as big as possible into the root area and fill with rock salt and a touch of water. Or hit 3-6, 11/2-2inch copper nails in per tree, this kill hardwoid trees in the uk 🤞 it would work on invasive trees.

wow, the pig trailer looks really great, well done

you have had problems with the heat inside the buildings. the old way here in nordic is to grow trees to shade the building. in our country it is usually birch. it makes leaves for the summer to shade the building and for the winter it drops the leaves, so the sunlight can shine inside. Here summers can be very warm and winter we dont have much of sunlight. this was the old way before air conditioners. Maybe it can work at your place too, environmentally friendly too. ;)

I'd get a tractor over a digger. Most tractors are able to accept a backhoe attachment that'd give you ~80% the capabilities of a full excavator. An excavator won't be able to help much with projects outside of earthmoving, and I bet you all would like some equipment that can help with all your brush clearing & I'm sure eventual field-grown food endeavors; not to mention all the potential that comes with a standard agricultural PTO That said, if a super sweet deal on a good, used excavator pops up, I bet you could also just buy a skid steer & rototiller as you'd need in the next few years, and end up with a fleet potentially more capable than the single tractor would be. All depends on what's available in your area & I'd be excited to see what you all can pull off with some heavy equipment, whatever it ends up being!

Excellent finish carpentry! You all worked so hard! Who gets to live there? Many good comments already from only six hours exposure.

Now that its finished the pig trailor looks fantastic… I personally like the colors.

That cabin look is hilarious but job well done!