My husband and I have visited and love Ely for many years. It a pleasure beyond words watching your videos. You have created a wilderness paradise. Kudos to you and all your blood, sweat and tears!
One of my favourite channels on YT. Great video as always. I really like how you keep things simple. No 4wheeler or fancy gimmicks (not that there is anything wrong with that) I like simple and old school. Thanks for taking the time to make a video. Regards Mark
Your videos take me back 50 years to time spent with my grandfather in a cabin similar to yours. Like you, he used to find ingenious uses for things he found such as the metal you put around your cupboards, and your kitchen shelf. I have enjoyed all your videos. It feels like spending time there in Martin's Cabin in the North Woods. Thanks for putting these out. You have no idea how they brighten up the day!
Just found this great site. So glad I did. As I was watching and seeing what a knowledgable man he is makes u wonder when this generation is gone what will the current generation do? Most of them cant handle much beyond themselves. What a treasure this man is.
Just found your channel... I wish my dad was still alive. Watching you would be right up his alley. What you do, repurposing free found things and fixing & creating things inexpensively reminds me so much of him. Thanks for bringing him back to me. Great job on all you do!
Great to see you back after ages. "Welcome!" Your videos are an inspiration, someday I plan on doing the same thing. But thanks for taking us to your cabin, thanks for taking the effort and the time to make these videos. It's always a joy to watch your videos on the cabin life. Wish there was more!....... Thanks all the way from India!
Thanks Alan, really special when these notes come from the other side of the world. I have been to northern India a few times and may be passing through this year on my way to Nepal. I must say, truly amazing people on that side of the world.
Glad to see you again, almost feels like home after watching all you videos. ......over and over. I have a pasture 30 miles from my home and have been spraying musk thistles. This morning it was over cast, 80 degrees and no wind. Felt so good taking a relaxing ride in my RZR and seeing nothing but grass and hills for miles and miles. Great it is to be alone away from all the rat race. Just injoying nature........often makes me wonder what Heaven will be like. Then I watch you videos and remember. .....the Northwoods....that's heaven!!!! ☺.
Glad to see you posting videos at the cabin for another season. Love your cabin and love the practical set up to bring a little comfort to the back 40.
Glad you are back, I really enjoy your videos. I can't wait until the day I do the same thing. Raising a family now but long for the simple life. Thank you.
Thanks John, I hope your later years provide you with a restful place like mine. Those kids will be gone too soon so relish the time you have them close by.
It is so good to hear from you, Martin!!! We have been checking to see if you posted anything since your winter post. This is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing and God bless.
I love your videos, and look forward to more of them. I am the same way, why spend money, (in my case I have none, lol), when you can make or fix something with all the stuff that you already have or collect along the way, invent a solution to everything! Love seeing others do the same, it's slowly becoming a lost art, but now with technology, I think we can bring it back, young folk are now becoming more resourceful, because hard times are coming, and more and more are becoming aware and learning, thanks to folks like you recording your efforts. Thank you for sharing this ~ Stay Free People!
We see things the same way, that is for sure. When I made that cart from two cast off bikes I was so happy when no visit to the hardware store was needed. Every piece had a different use before I adapted it. More to come as I install a window cut from a combo window someone was throwing out.
I really enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing this special part of your life with all of us. The simple joys of doing something good that you love comes through loud and clear. Keep up the good work, kind sir.
Thank you for sharing with us and inspiring us wannabe Northlanders. Your work ethic, love of nature, and self can-do spirit give us hope. Best regards. J.
good to see you again . was beginning to wonder if we lost one of the better channels on u tube . love your videos . you remind me of my dad , he would have loved your cabin . hope to have one of my own soon .
Thanks TIm, my long absences are because the cabin is so far away from home. I am trying to spread this trip out over a longer time period to ease the gaps.
Excellent seeing you again! I finally got started on my own "piece of heaven" cabin. Should be dried in at the end of the month, and get to start enjoying it!
St. Bernard Acres bought and restored cabin in Oregon 2 years ago. Had accident on ladder and haven't been able to get there this summer. Maybe we could have a foram of cabin owners to exchange ideas.
I hate to see another man suffer from a ladder accident. I broke a vertebra and have permanent nerve damage in left leg. But, I'm still going to do this lifestyle asap!
Thanks, you will see several more from this trip in the coming weeks. Comments I get from the videos give me ideas for the next trips filming goals. It is not hard to come up with with such a great backdrop.
precisely my plan for retirement. we will keep pur home, its paid for. the cabin was existing on a homestead place we purchased some years ago. i will continue fixing the cabin. my wife will enjoy the home in the city. i will enjoy the cabin. hopefully this joy of a place will add years to my life that working has taken from both of us. love your place. wish we had more flat land.. ours is 13 acres all heavily wooded. and atop a large draw.
TheNorthwoodsman1 would just love to see some bears wandering through...when i watch your videos im half expecting to see them ...ilooks like heaven there and the cabin is awesome ..greetings martin
Sometimes when I talk in these videos there are things that are not fully explained. The cart really was made for when I could not get past a wet part of the trail that made it a two mile trek to the cabin. When I can drive in within a mile a wheelbarrow can make a few trips and get the job done.
ramona14220 If what you are saying is only partly true, then may I say that as a Dutchman that's really shocking to me. Come on USA, you can do better than that.
There are a lot of fit Americans, but in the cities and suburbs, a lot of unfit Americans also. I have been to Europe and have seen plenty of unfit Germans and English. I guess they eat a lot of sausage and drink a lot of good beer. Probably the fittest people I have seen personally walking the streets of their cities are Canadians and Italians though maybe the unfit ones are at work or inside. But Northwoodsman1 looks to be 70+ and in America trundling all that stuff like a pack mule a mile or more through the woods is very rare, even with his cart. Please remember also that there are 300 million Americans so if only half of us are fit that is still more than most of Western Europe combined.
ramona14220 Dutchmen come from The Netherlands and there are plenty obese folks around here too. Our diet is very different from Germans or the Brits although by far not as rich in quality as that of the Italians. I have travelled the world extensively for the past 30 odd years and as a friend of the US it has saddened me to see its population get more and more obese. It is something the US have gotten known for. I could never quite grasp why a salad costs the triple amount of a burger and why portions have to be so humongous, not to talk of free refills. Also kids meals at schools are of horrible quality. I wonder where all of this went wrong and why. Furthermore absolute numbers should not be confused with relative numbers. It's not about who has the largest number of fittest, but who has the highest percentage of fittest that defines the healthiest nation. I hope you had the time today to go out for a walk or a ride your bicycle and have taken a step towards a healthier lifestyle.
Having a cabin like yours has been a life long dream of mine. I know I'll never have it but I can still dream of it until my dream stops. I'm too old now . I've missed out on this but I guess it just took me a long time to figure out who I truly am. An outdoor lady! Enjoy enjoy and I envy you sir!
Honey your not alone alway wanted a log cabin on a lake in the mountains all my life. Just a grannies dream that never took place. Alway had to do gramps way.
As a native Michigander living in Indiana, this makes me a little homesick! Your videos are really one of a kind. Thanks so much for sharing your life, that's no small effort on your part. It looks like a pleasure for you to share. the nature is the draw but it's really your perspective and attitude that strike me. It's just uncommon mild mannered good spirited wisdom in action. I watched all your videos after seeing 30 below and now I'm taking some evenings to sit with my son of 7... here's a man he can learn from. How not to be bored with trees. Contentment. Kindness towards animals. How to do hard work well. Everywhere neat solutions. For me, this experience is a small antidote to what life in civilization can sometimes be reduced down to. It's like being a child again, to take time to care for things softly, without an agenda. I salute you sir... & may God grant you many years! (Ps, for the statistics I'm a millennial, I know I saw a comment about that - and as far as hard work I frame houses with the Amish. It's an unique experience for sure)
Well sir, a few hours ago I started with #1 and now I'm here (#21). There's still lots of in-between posts for me to watch 😊. I just wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying your videos! I've often wondered (yes, often!) how mankind worked so hard to "tame" the land and spent generations creating creature comforts and easier ways of doing what must be done...and now that it's pretty much been tamed and all of our creative comforts are available at our fingertips...rather than being satisfied at our ingenuity...we deeply crave being back where we originally started? It just ironic that what we had IS really all we truly needed. Also..just to share..I was a single mother of two boys for 7 years. Wasn't the plan, but that's life. I worked some hard physical jobs (basically men jobs for better pay..welfare used to be avoided if at all possible. And I did avoid it) But the point of my story is...I bragged about being able to eat all I wanted because I literally worked it off! No gym needed. And I was proud of that! I joked about it all the time. I was PAID to work out! No gym or trainer needed. It's not rocket science!! I believe Americans would benefit on multiple levels if physical labor was brought back to the norm, for both genders (there is ONLY 2!) . Anyway...I'm babbling Thanks for the wonderful videos! .
This may sound greedy, but I want more of your channel, lol. Longer videos, more per day, lol, I know that would be hard with all that hard work that you have to get done there. I want to see every part of your day, you are so good at everything you do, even producing and narrating videos! I will watch, anything you put out on here, you should have way more subs! Stay Free People!
Your videos are an absolute pleasure to watch, so glad to see you again. Now I need to go back and rewatch your videos to refresh my memory. I'm sure others will do the same, kind of a tricky way to get your views up : - ) don't mind being tricked like that. Looking forward to the other new ones. ATB Thank you
