I mean yeah but that’s the problem with any diy, you need the tools first. I also don’t think they believed that anyone would to try and follow this as an actual guide to build a house.
probably closer to $1,000,000 of equipment, and idc if they weren't expecting people to try to do it, "$34 tiny house" is just straight up incorrect. Like I think this is one of their most insultingly clickbaity videos yet lol
@@whoisbryce How's it a stolen comment didn't see anyone else make Minecraft references Edit : I just went through every comment with no mention of Minecraft.. So how's he stealing
Don't forget the value of the land large enough to have a wooded area like that. This project is easily over $100,000 and took years to set up for with only a tiny portion of the expenses and time going toward the tiny house.
Also when you are drying the wood you have to seal the end grain to prevent uneven drying. Usually it takes wood much longer than 6 months to reach average relative humidity. Wood never gets dry unless you use them for fire and turn them to charcoal. Wood retains various amounts of moisture depending on the areas humidity which takes up to several years
More accurate title: I helped my friends build a wooden tent with wood gathered from the land they own and expensive tools they own on the land they own, it didn't cost me anything!
@@UKsystems rented costs money, or you have to know someone who will let you borrow those tools. Those two things aren't accessible to everyone and it's misleading to be like "this cost me $37" when you got a lot of stuff for free that most people don't have access to. Like I said, a more accurate title would include all the help he got, not implying to have done it all himself with $37.
@@amandasunshine2 but if you buy a house you don’t in life the builders tools most people who own land like this will have everything and there are many places who lend tools for a deposit
@@UKsystems yes, you do. It's literally built into the cost of the house 🙄 if you hire a construction company, tool purchasing and maintenance costs are factored into their operating costs
@@UKsystems not to mention, who owns land like this? No one I know. How many people do you know that own land with enough space and lumber- worthy trees, let alone land at all?
A man already started building FREE tiny houses for the homeless in Los Angeles, but then when he was giving them out, the city BANNED tiny houses from their city/making them ILLEGAL and started giving the guy massive hell for trying to help people. Look it up, the Government is so cruel to people in need and people trying to help. :'(
Man you've inspired me. After many years of depression and lack of confidence I've found a reason to live for, making myself happy building my own tiny house is so Majestic.
@@FilmFlam-8008 Agreed, $34 dollars isn't the real cost however building a sustainable dueling for pennies on a dollar is very realistic. You need to be creative and give up most of the crap that is holding you down. My realistic cost is $10 to $15 thousand dollars without the land
That's fantastic! I just went straight to amazon and purchased my own tiny house for just 34 $! It will be delivered next week and I will put it into my garden!
I’m surprised the foundation is just simply wood resting on ground, rather than actually being “in” the ground. I questioned the stability of this house’s foundation once rain hits and the ground softens up.
he could likely do it within a week or a few weeks if he made some wooden mallets and such. the rental for the above is also pretty cheap and the deal with him is that he basicly leases a portion of other folks properties in exchange for the use of their tools and such. my family has about the same amount of stuff helping such a modest and helpful neighbor move in would honestly be a pleasure.
@@markrodgers5221 He is basically an employee, in my state when one lives/works on a farm one is required to have the equivalent to a cabin for such an employee to live in.
most of it is going to be going into the soil and it looks like there is loads of it growing there, if he goes for a hike he would likely find enough for a year
This was both fascinating and inspiring. Having the know-how and machinery is obviously invaluable, but it is nice to think about just how basic things CAN be. It would be interesting to come back in a few years and look at how it weathered.
well they already had it laying around, might have been a good idea to include the cost of the fuel and wood XD though admittedly they will likely be dropping a lot more trees soon enough
A place like this would be have a rotating storage of logs available, they just needed to cut down a few to replace the ones they took from their inventory
i wonder how long it would take to dry if he just stuck two ceder posts in the ground threw some dry sticks and a few carpets on the floo add a undried frame then lash it all together with a few pegs. a leather or canvas tarp with a rocket mass heater and it might only take a few months before its completely dried out
Lmfao this clown was like now “we do this” and the camera pans over he’s doing nothing but watching them work he had one job to make his table and it was still fugly 🤣
1:27 I know he wants to be one with nature but taking a tree to the face is a little bit too much one with nature. This is why lumberjacks have 'retreat paths' not sit right next to the tree and do nothing. Also the foundation and roof and everything else will rot. The roof will become leaky.
tbh the dude is a forester he might have been distracted by thinking about the project and being recorded. rob will likely oil it a load of times over the coming months and they will take over doing so for long enough that i wouldn't be surprised if it lasted 6 years with the foundation getting repaired once or twice
@@ZeloNA. There have been groups trying to build tiny houses for the homeless. The problem is the opposition. In fact, simply housing homeless people saves money because they are healthier and don't use emergency rooms as often. That's why Utah, a Republican state, is housing homeless in unused hotels.
For a little more confort, there are solar panel showers that are made for camping but are pretty nice (and you don't have to shower with cold water ^^)
Thank you for the laugh, I needed it terribly. When he got to the shower, it was over for me from there, I was in tears. I however should have known something was up when he started eating the tree. Love it...
“A house is a single-unit residential building, which may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex, structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems.” -Wikipedia.....and life.
Those tools were used for different things in the past they were not just all bought for this. Maybe you should not be watching these videos if all you do is criticize and not enjoy or learn from them!
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give it a few months, the climate there is really nice so he is taking his time. its not really free as he will be working there for the next few months, same with the tools. rob has done this a number of times.
"Efficient" if you already own hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars worth of sustainable wooded land, tens of thousands of dollars of equipment, etc. This in no way cost $34 to make, and less than 0.01% of people watching could do the same thing.
@@de4830 A man already started building FREE tiny houses for the homeless in Los Angeles, but then when he was giving them out, the city BANNED tiny houses from their city/making them ILLEGAL and started giving the guy massive hell for trying to help people. Look it up, the Government is so cruel to people in need and people trying to help. :'(
As I was watching this I thought, “I wonder if this tiny house is going to be used to house volunteers doing the WWOOF program.” I must be psychic 😂. Super cool!
"how simple it can be to build a tiny house" ignoring the millions of $ worth of land, equipment, manpower, and expertise to do it then sure, $34 is cheap XD
@@motiemo nobody is going to do this in the real world..makes a nice video but this is not a real world solution to the housing crisis. Enjoy eating twigs and wiping your butt with pine cones and good luck with the shopping!! And how's your commute to work? Lotsa good paying jobs in the middle of nowhere I bet.
Looks great, but it would be awesome if you guys incorporated the shower / sink / toilet into the house somehow. I don't want to be on the shitter knowing a bear might attack me mid-poop
@@westyrp4317 i know your no King of any English dictionary, that's for certain. But entertaining the idea of creating Pseudowords I'm sure is very fun for you
I mean the guy owns the land so I’m pretty sure he knows what’s on it I mean I guess you never know but also he seems like he’d know what to do in most situations
silvopasture and agroforestry improve the health, growth rate, quality and such of the trees. ive talked to him about it if folks look into rob then they will learn about permaculture and by extension good forest management
All I can see after a quick scroll is hate comments (imagine having the time or energy for that) so I’d like to say I loved this video 😍 so pleasing to watch for some reason. An awesome idea
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So, it's a concept. It would be extremely difficult to live this way in winter. There's no way to warm yourself or cook food, no canning or food preservation...this feels more like click bait than a real tiny house.
Loved this! Brought me back some childhood memories with my grandparents in the woods, the biodegradable TP was a struggle for me when i visited them haha I was always jealous of people that did have the regular paper one 😂 here you have me now wanting to go zero waste and realizing I’ve done it before 😂
it was free labour, free materials (they already had or found everything but the screws) free equipment (they already had and come on if someone was baking a cake you wouldn’t factor the price of the oven into the cost ) so yeah $34
The cost was the depreciation on the equipment used, the opportunity cost of billing out your labor, the price he could have sold the boards for, etc. This was not a $35 house. It was much more than that.
I think u guys r missing the main point. Which is that seasonal, reasonably comfortable camping accommodations can b created for much less money than most people think. Not to mention the immense satisfaction from creating something useful, rather than sitting in front of a tv or other screen for hours on end snacking on junk food and making fun of or criticizing those who choose to spend their lives doing otherwise.
I think its like making an upside table. Something about having it stuck into the ground. You fill in the walls. And then make a top. You use certain material for the top to weather proof it. You put wiring & installation in between the outer part of the wall. Then you cover it up w/ more wood. I have no clue how wiring & water works. Lots of cutting, measuring, nails, glue, other things to keep moisture out, & such. Paint. Design for looks. And figure out the placement of the rooms. And idk. Im just making up sh. I think i could manage making an off grid wooden tent. Couldnt tell you sh about how to hook up solar power tho.
Guys, attention, this is not in anyway a tutorial. They where just having fun and working together. They have the proper equipment that can be thousands of dollars (pounds, etc.) It costed them $34 because that money was spent prior.
The main issue for homelessness is those suffering from mental illness, drug addiction, or both? Money would be better spent on dealing with the core issues that causes the problem.
I understand the thought but it's not that simple. Mental illness and drug addiction are the main issues. I spent months in Brazil for and outreach problem. We basically built tiny homes for a group of 100 homeless folks. After one week we found out that the entire project was a failure. They came in, stripped all of the cords, pipes, and furniture, sold it and moved on.
when i was in hs, my teacher and a select number of students started on a tiny home. it’s still in construction but it’s still cool to see it being build
or just promise to work for someone who does for a few weeks to pay for the house, your food, and then continue working to stay there while you find the next person willing to host you
Excellent video. Great idea. I’m going to mostly ignore the obvious bait in the title. Obviously ignores costs for equipment. Others have mentioned the sawmill. Even if you do 1000 of these, you eventually have to add partial cost for tools and equipment. You can’t really say, “I have all of the tools, so there is no cost”. In theory, almost all of this could be done with hand tools, but certainly not in 3 days. Basically a wooden tent. It would be interesting to see how long it really lasts. The ground contact wood is probably the first to go. Obviously, this is limited by temperature, and in an area with few legal restrictions.
I like the sink. Is their no covering when your showering. Idea for homeless people under $50 that's amazing. If only I knew someone who had tree shrubs. Thanks to this video im going to create a different tiny home..
What part of burning fossil fuels at an exorbitant rate for your domestic needs and wants is in any way shape or form of grid? You're probably, in reality, consuming three to four times the amount of fossil fuels and resources with all your equipment and tools than somebody in a metropolitan setting would which means that your carbon footprint is three to four times larger than somebody living in small town america with a family of five in a 3,000 ft² home. Just because you move out to the middle of nowhere and cut a couple trees down, with fossil fueled equipment I might add, and build yourself a house doesn't mean that you're off grid... And you friend certainly are not! You're actually perpetuating the misinformation campaign and myths that big oil and gas wants you to be spreading... Think about it, why would anybody ever go off the grid? When you boil it all away the only real reason that anybody would conclude as the only reason to go off grid would be to reduce and eliminate the use and necessity of fossil fuels because that's what powers the grid. That's the entire reasoning behind the concept of off-grid is to reduce your carbon footprint and quit contributing to the burning of fossil fuels which ultimately results in our catastrophic existential crisis that we're all facing currently. So when you claim to be off grid yet you're literally burning three or four times the amount of fossil fuels and consuming just as many more resources you're actually taking 12 steps backwards for everyone forward and are doing more damage than you will ever be able to make up for! Also...The most entertaining part of this whole video is when you started talking smack about the previous owners not building in a sustainable way when you're literally standing in front of a giant fossil fueled piece of equipment! How unbelievably contradictive and completely asinine!