This dude has inspired me to put a bit of scratch aside little by little, buy a little plot of land and build a cabin on it. I've thought about buying a telescope, but who needs that if the entire sky is stars?
Same here man, I think for my first house I'm gonna find a plot of land, and do almost exactly what he did. I could totally live in something like this for a few years
Same. I am 33 years old and all I want in this world is a small plot of land in the mountains to build a cabin/homestead on. Modern society is not for me. I want to go back to this way of life.
Probably the best Ryan's Shed Plans on building a shed is hardly found ever . ru-vid.comUgkxcLVQopTIucrxiVRQA0khLGQEnDVKCSMG And Ryan's takes the mystery out of different types of foundation options, etc. He even shows how to build shed with different designs. Very comprehensive, covering different roofing materials, siding, etc.
You’re not fat, you’re burly. This build was fun. My friend asked, has he done this before?” I said, “ yep, a few times.” You’re like watching a mighty conductor leading a symphony and nuanced and fluid with every step in the process.. You are simply amazing, Dave. Thanks for taking us along.
Its a lot of work, and double the cost for subflooring not to mention time, I'd tyvek or reflectix under the joists, (something breathable would be nice) and then just put in the insulation from the top if you even needed the extra R value.
I just want you to know that videos by you. This one in particular. Convinced me to decide to build a cabin of my own very similar to this instead of an expensive foundation home. It made me realize more minimalist homes like this deserve a resurgence. Because, especially in remote areas. They are truly the best way to live. Sincerely, the now 24 year old, debt free, self sufficient man you helped create. Thank you.
Is your attitude in the direction of man's advancement as thinking is our nature? Or is you attitude based on bring mankind back to a primitive existence? "Sincerely, the now 24 year old, debt free, self sufficient man." So was the caveman.
@EarthSurferUSA My attitude is that you shouldn't confuse advancement with materialistic possession. And that if we deprogram the idea of a 5 bedroom 4 bathroom $900,000 dollar house being necessary to "advance" and begin to live modestly. We will shift our focus on the things that truly matter in this world. Whatever that may be in our own minds. Consumerism and being better than the person next to us has invaded the subconscious of a large portion of America as of late. Especially as technology advances. I think your misunderstanding of my point doesn't come from a position of misunderstanding itself. But possibly more from a confusion between the words "primative" and "minimalist" because my cabin is larger (35×30 with 9 foot ceilings and a loft and a 16×30 foot porch to be more precise. But I built it all on family land. I did it piecemeal, bit by bit, and I did it without taking out strenuous mortgages that will put me and my soon to be fiancé in debt for the next 30 years. I built bigger because we want children. I built with HVAC. Because I live in Texas and summers can be in excess of 100° for weeks on end. But my house is simple when compared to most homes. That doesn't make me a Neanderthal. It makes me and my wife to be people that understand that sometimes some cattle and a modest home with people that love you are more important than the price tag on the things around you. THAT is the direction my attitude is in.
@EarthSurferUSA I'd venture to ask, as someone who clicked on, and hopefully watched this video in its entirety. What is your view on it? Do you think simple homes advance us and let us focus on more important things. Or do you think modernity helps us stave off "primative" habits?
Dave, what a great attitude and demeanor you have man. I don't normally watch 50-minute videos on off-grid cabin builds but I have to say your sense of being one with nature, your calmness, and your skill had me hooked. Good job!
Here's what I love about your videos - your storytelling, I just love your enjoyable, engaging style, the builds themselves, yes you make them seem attainable, not easy, not impossible, and more work with your hands than emptying your pockets; your guitar playing in the background is great, seamless, easy to take for granted but is a perfect way to sew the whole video together. Like any good maker, it all seems to just happen, but so much goes into it, the doing, filming, editing and I always come away feeling similar to reading a good book, entertained as well as educated and those are two of my favorite things. Thank you so much, Dave Whipple, you rock!
Hej I agree with you love this RU-vid channel and it is very relaxing to watch his videos. And it's almost like you're camping yourself when you watch his videos take care and have a nice week.
I don't know which is more impressive, that you built a cabin by yourself or that you didn't have a thousand sheets of paper with measurements and directions flying all over the place. You are an inspiration.
@@haydencourtney7419 Circular saw,---built by man's nature. by our nature, we are smarter than Beavers. If we were as free as Beavers, we would have built a lot more by our nature. Man is part of nature too, or we would not be here.
As a child I lived in some really bad houses. When I learned how to frame up a lumber, I was amazed at what I could do, and thought how some people don’t believe in their selves to even try. DIY channels helped, and so does y’all’s take and step by step, prepare and go for it. Inspiration to live the best life you can in the woods where nobody wants to put forth the effort. Get connected folks to life .
I love watching you build Dave. Learn a lot of techniques. At 61 years old I build my first 12 X 16 cabin in the woods. Love that space. You are so strong lifting those walls!!! What a great cabin you’ve built. ❤🎉
Been collecting up materials and going to be starting my cabin this spring.. Thanks for the inspiration bush probably wouldn't have ever tried if I hadn't watched your videos.. excited to see your new cabin.. 👍
That cabin is beautiful enough to motivate anyone to build it. Probably a little bit pricier than your "cabin anyone can build", but definitely worth it.
I had a 911 moment in 2019. I put a cabin on my property in the country. I'm glad I did as friends and relatives needed a break from the city during the riots and the madness. Best guest house investment.
This is one of the coolest guys in America. Super chill, great attitude, self-sufficient, confident, and isn't afraid to show that he is praying to God. Beautiful cabin, looks like an ideal spot.
lol. Why would be afraid? Ridiculous fictional oppression. Christians are still very much a large majority in the world. Try being a black atheist lesbian.
Agreed. It is so inspiring to watch Dave and Brooke build. My dad was this type of person who could build anything, and I have always truly admired that. And as you say, I love to watch Dave in this video simply bow his head and acknowledge his gratitude. Simplicity and serenity at its very best. :)
Dave - you have such a beautiful way of working. It comes so effortlessly to you! I envy that. Thanks for the inspirational video. Many tips and tricks learned here! 💛
What an absolute therapy is this. Side effects of chemo are getting really heavy to take on to, but then it is videos as this which makes me be positive about future. Hard to believe something this simple can be this amazingly up-lifting. Thanks a lot for sharing this video with us.
It is so satisfying to watch. My grandfather and my father were both master carpenters. To this day, I still love the smell of lumber, and I can just imagine what this smells like. Just beautiful. ❤
Dave, love your cabin builds especially your peaceful demeanor while doing so. I'm nearly 70 yo now and have built many structures in Colorado and New Mexico so I can relate to the pleasant atmosphere of building in the woods. Thanks for these builds of yours for my trip down memory lane. Keep up the fine work, sir, and say hi to Brooke for me.
Yeah I was just thinking about how I was at twenty years old, I was high energy just trying to fly through projects with an attitude. I'm 42 now and alot calmer so I have to laugh at how I used to operate
Dave,I've been here the whole time. I watched you build your whole cabin from start to finish. Their might be some people that are jealous because you build so many cabins in the woods but I say if you own alot of land go for it. Its your property ,do as you wish. I watched Brooke build her cabin and I love hers just as I'll love you cabin. A fire is nice on a cold snowy day. I watch your channel whenever your on and I watch Brookes channel also. Thank you for sharing this video. Love it. P.S. Don't forget ,get out and get happy.
I'm 66 and am about to get my second hip replacement. When I get it done in February, I should be recovered by Spring, and it will be JUST in time for me to make one of these getaway cabins, on property we own, deep in the Maine woods. I will be a hero to my wife, and I will have Dave Whipple to thank. Thanks so much for all your videos, Dave. I know you don't put many out now, so I REALLY look forward to each one. THIS one was great, and was a true inspiration!! I'm about to watch it again!
Such a knowledgeable and talented guy! I stumbled on some of your building and couldn't pull away...it was therapeutic! I'm a older guy so some of it is beyond my ability, but could envision the whole process as you went along. I think you have a very important tool some of us may not have..."PATIENCE". It is a pleasurer to view your work, thanks for sharing...🙂
These cabin building compilation videos with your insightful voice-over are always a pleasure to come back to on occasion. They're very soothing and calming to watch and listen to, especially for when I have downtime in this stressful period of my life from roughly the beginning of 2019 until now. While I personally would never attempt or do something of this nature let alone achieve something of this magnitude and great on my own, I still enjoy learning about and observing people's various lifestyles and what they value and cherish in life, and your authenticity and rustic living has rubbed off on me in a positive way; appreciating the simple things in life and finding worth and use out of seemingly worthless objects and abandoned items. Also, I can relate to your disdain and reluctance towards the procedure of insulation; I dislike doing stuff that is mundane and tedious in life that is similar to what insulation is like for people in the construction and craftsmanship industries.
My wife and I just finished watching you and Brooke on Alone for the first time. We were rooting for you the whole time. You guys did awesome! I love the cabins that you build. It's given me some ideas for the little cabin we hope to build some day. When the time is right. Thank you. 👍
Your timing is impeccable. I discovered you last year when I was home sick for a week. Well, nearly one year later, I'm out for another week and you build another cabin. Perfect. Thank you.
Thanks so much for detailing this entire process. Based on yours and Brooke's videos, I built a 8 x 6 shed with some of the techniques you both used...in the middle of DC...with a small Mazda 3 to transport all of the lumber. Your can-do attitudes are very inspiring so thank you both.
Just wanted to let you know me, my three kids all 5 years of age and younger are watching this with breakfast this morning. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and providing good family entertainment that’s educational. My 5 year old son wants to build a cabin with me now.
I love how you put those cabin posts in, packing the dirt down around them. My dad taught me to do that, and it's really served me well. I've never seen anyone else do that. I've got posts in the ground that I put in that way 50 years ago, and they're still standing strong. Thanks for this video and best of luck to you.
You are such and inspiration. Three years ago I started volunteering with Habitat for Humanity building houses so that I could start to develop skills to do something like this build. Thank you for all you do and everyone out there should consider volunteering with a local Habitat. It has been the most rewarding thing I have done in my life. I do time lapse videos of our build days and now if I would only post them on my channel, maybe more folks will get an idea of what it entails and come join in on the fun. Cheers
I absolutely love your videos they're so relaxing to watch and you've got a voice that I could listen to all day long! Also very knowledgeable and he shows the easiest ways of building all the things he builds thank you Dave and keep them coming
I do so love watching your Cabin Build videos. You do such an amazing job building them. They're so homey and cozy. Who wouldn't want to stay in one.👍👍💖💗🎄🎄
Love your videos!!! Been watching for a few years. Now I am watching from my own cabin i built last summer, with the jotul F602 hot in the corner!! Thanks for being such an inspiration!
Fascinating videos especially for one of the least handiest guys going. I just never learned the carpentry and building skills you have. There’s something so relaxing in watching your progress on building this cabin. It’s truly a pleasure to see you enjoy the north woods in a way so many people wish they could these days. What a tremendous place to visit and stay far away from nosey neighbors, HOA’s telling you how to live and just listening to the sounds of those woods. I only hope you have access to a nice stream or spring fed lake with a bounty of freshwater game fish to harvest. God bless you and yours, sir.
Dave, You are blessed with so much talent and common sense! You and Brooke have been my inspiration in so many things I have started doing from the beginning of the first video of Girl in the woods then your channels! You both have kept my dream alive and turning it in to a reality, slowly for a old feisty 60 year old woman! LoL 😂 Thank you to you both for more things than you will ever know. I love you both as if I have known you for a lifetime.
I love these videos. I can't even hammer a nail straight but it's so relaxing. You and Brooke are 2 of my favorite RU-vidrs!! Thanks so much for sharing this process, it never gets old
What a beautiful cabin in the woods. It always amazes me how you and Brooke are able to do so many skilled and labor intensive things, making it look easy.
You are so fortunate to have your skills, patience, and fortitude. I always wanted to build a cabin since I was about 10 yrs. old and tried to tie some branches together in the woods that weren't mine. I'm a 74 year old woman now so unless I win the lotto I don't think it's going to happen. It's fun to watch you guys but it's always more fun to watch a woman do it because she has a lot more challenges.
@@RVBadlands2015 I just assumed that she meant the physicality. Women are just not as strong. The mind may be very willing but the body perhaps not so much.
I think the one thing that impressed me most about this video was that you could build this cabin all by yourself! Most videos show at least two people building a cabin and some people have only themselves to figure out how to do building a cabin alone. I am definitely gonna have to subscribe to your channel and go and view some of your other videos--what a joy to watch!
Hell I have a 35 acre farm in Kentucky for less then a 3 bedroom apt would cost. I'm still 15 mins to anything important. People look at life wrong and think we all need to live on top of each other. Idk what I'd do if I had neighbors watching me piss off my back porch 😅
Can’t tell you how much I loved watching you do this. I used to help my dad with all our building projects and it brought back fond memories. Wish I could download all the information he has in his brain. I live in town now, much to my chagrin, but watching your videos and your wife’s, is the next best thing to being there. Thanks for making and sharing them. ❤️
You inspire a lot of people. I watch your videos all the time even though I have seen them. I like watching them. It takes me away in my mind to a place like what you have there. When I get well I am going to try to build a cabin like this one. Please don't ever stop building and teaching us.
I love the videos you & Brooke put out! Very informative, but also showing you can create/produce projects in a way the rest of us could replicate if we so wished! What I love most is the beautiful scenery of woods & water! I may not get to watch them the very first day, especially in this busy holiday season, but watch them I do. Thank you both & stay safe & blessed!
Living in Alaska, I’m a self-employed residential remodeler and fully understand the gratification one receives from a successful building project completion. Watching this was pure fun! So good.
I love watching you build. It makes me want to build a cabin in the woods on on some land my family has in Colorado. It’s be in a more deserted area but there is a city not too far away. It’s what I’ve wanted to do my whole life. I know it sounds crazy but I keep imagining the peace and quite I’d find it cause my desire to grow.
I’m a 67-year-old woman. This time last year I built a shed pretty much on my own because of what I learned from you. The only help I needed was to raise the walls and my grandkids wanted to help me with the simple projects. They were pretty proud of their grandma. It felt so rewarding to know I finished the shed, it’s still standing (LOL), has no leaks and it looks good. I’m already thinking about another structure to build. Your wife Brooke inspires me. You teach me. I thank both of you so much!
You go girl! I’m a beginner ish diy girl and at 56 I’m amazed at what I’ve accomplished! Now I want to build a cabin! Luv these videos and how exciting about your shed!! Great and inspiring!!
You are an inspiration to this almost 59-year old! (day after Christmas.) I too love the satisfaction of doing my own building as well, and hope to be keepin' on keepin' on when I'm your age and beyond, as is also my wish for you! Keep it up!
Wow!! You're amazing! I'm the girl half of this team and our experience has been so awesome I can hardly believe it! Who would have thought... Good going! Now I've got to follow you to check out your story! 🙌
Dave, this was such an entertaining and instructional video. I don’t really have a lot of construction knowledge and this helped me to understand why things are put together the way they are. What an amazing thing you’ve made. Thank you for posting this.
Just watch this to relax and I'll learn something along the way. I built a wooden cabin in the Black Forest last year and there is always something to do. You present it in a relaxed, pragmatic and almost poetic way. You can feel the fire and the smell of the fir wood. Best regards from Germany.
As a Michigan resident probably not too far from you, I can honestly say that you picked the perfect year to build this cabin. The late summer and fall weather up here has been outstanding for any outdoor project. Now you can dig that root crop garden and get your full UP on.
@@fidentia10 I'm not in real estate. The eastern UP is swampy and old glacial wash terrain while the western half is hilly and remote. Price of land goes down when you cross the Bridge. Draw a 40-mile circle around Munising and start there.
This was amazing! I'm 45 and have never been afraid of some hard work but my early life was mostly in landscaping and I'm still learning construction while working on rental properties. Just built a 20' wheelchair ramp this week and am pumped to keep learning more and bigger skills. Love your work, thanks!
UPDATE: built some stairs to a deck after watching you do it here. For reasons that would take too long to explain, being able to do that myself was not only empowering but extremely convenient and profitable. DIY FTW!!!
David, thanks for sharing this video. I grew up in Northern Minnesota and grew up building all kinds of farm buildings, sheds etc. I enjoyed watching the start to finish build on this project. Nice and rustic and well suited for your remote area. I'm 77 years old and have lived in the West for the last 50+ years and appreciate watching your videos. I would like to share one pointer that I noticed right at the end when you were installing the wood stove. I learned this growing up around wood burning heaters. When you put the verticle sections of the stove pipe on the inside of the cabin, make sure the inside pipe flange is facing downward on the inside of the pipe below so that any creasote that might condense would run back into the fire and burn up. This keeps the pipe looking clean above the stove keeps the fumes to a minimum inside the cabin. Thanks again. Bernie
Something we can't (easily) do here in the Netherlands (EU), but I've enjoyed this building process. It's inspiring. Thank you for your effort, not only building the cabin, but also making and uploading the video.
@@mountainguyed67 You'd most probably need a permit to build a shed in the woods. Especially, when it's build of wood and you put a fireplace in it. Private property or not, doesn't matter much, if the forest in which that private property is situated, isn't yours entirely. Reason: the fire hazard.
Thanks Dave! I appreciate your videos and how realistic your approach is to off grid building. You and your documentaries inspire and encourage me to do the same. Best to you and Brooke. 👍
Simply fantastic. Thank you for sharing your great work. Thank you for filming it so masterfully. Thank you for not filling your video with silly movie clips. Thank you for not repeating yourself. Thank you for not trying to be a standup comedian. Yes, You Tube gives so many pet peeves!
I just bought a piece of land and now this is what I want to build on it. You remind me so much of my dad, who can build anything. I learned so much from him, but now I learned even more from you. A true inspiration.
Such a pleasure to watch your builds, you’re so talented. You take good care Dave, God bless you and Brooke in all of your adventures. You make this old lady very happy and at peace with every vid, love you guys!❤❤🙏🏼🙏🏼
Your skill set is incredible, it’s super relaxing watching you build these cabins, I love your channel, and hope you and the wife have an amazing Christmas!
Marc's wife Val: One of the best parts of this video to me was hearing why he was building this cabin then watching him Thank the Good Lord for his nourishment and blessings. this guy is already a GAZILLIONAIR from his selfless actions. Keep up the GREAT work!!!
Thank you for sharing yet another amazing project with us all. Your skills are outstanding both in building as well as filming and editing. Your talents continue on with your ability to be able to explain what you were doing all along the way to your viewers… It’s wonderful to see all of the people out here learning from you and taking the chance on their own projects! Keep it up Dave! Thank you!
Thanks for the effort you put into the building, editing, and commentary of this video. I am 61 and have built since I was 17. Just finished a 12x16 shed this summer. So glad I had a compressor! After hand driving nails all my life my right shoulder is shot. Awesome to see you do everything by hand, and think through the process. Loved your “speed square”.
It's seriously impressive how you're doing everything, including filming, all yourself. Your video give me the inspiration and motivation to start my own off grid projects on our off grid property. Great details and excellent visuals. Keep up the Great work 👍
Hi Dave, I felt compelled to write and thank you for taking me and all the other viewers on this beautiful journey of building the cabin and What a journey. Your attention to detail is brilliant. and the narrative describes the processes so clearly. Take some eggs and bread to the cabin and enjoy them on the Deck, Finally, have you ever considered writing a book? Thanks once again, Gordon, Halifax, UK
