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"Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. It contains the most thorough statement of one of Emerson's recurrent themes, the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow their own instincts and ideas. It is the source of one of Emerson's most famous quotations: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." This essay is an analysis into the nature of the “aboriginal self on which a universal reliance may be grounded.”
The first hint of the philosophy that would become "Self-Reliance" was presented by Ralph Waldo Emerson as part of a sermon in September 1830 a month after his first marriage. His wife Ellen was sick with tuberculosis and, as Emerson's biographer Robert D. Richardson wrote, "Immortality had never been stronger or more desperately needed!"
From 1836 into 1837, Emerson presented a series of lectures on the philosophy of history at Boston's Masonic Temple. These lectures were never published separately, but many of his thoughts in these were later used in "Self-Reliance" and several other essays. Later lectures by Emerson led to public censure of his radical views, the staunch defense of individualism in "Self-Reliance" being a possible reaction to that censure.
A log cabin is a dwelling constructed of logs, especially a less finished or architecturally sophisticated structure. Log cabins have an ancient history in Europe, and in America are often associated with first generation home building by settlers.
Construction with logs was described by Roman architect Vitruvius Pollio in his architectural treatise De Architectura. He noted that in Pontus (modern-day northeastern Turkey), dwellings were constructed by laying logs horizontally overtop of each other and filling in the gaps with "chips and mud".
Historically log cabin construction has its roots in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Although their origin is uncertain, the first log structures were probably being built in Northern Europe by the Bronze Age (about 3500 BC). C. A. Weslager describes Europeans as having:
By stacking tree trunks one on top of another and overlapping the logs at the corners, people made the "log cabin". They developed interlocking corners by notching the logs at the ends, resulting in strong structures that were easier to make weather-tight by inserting moss or other soft material into the joints. As the original coniferous forest extended over the coldest parts of the world, there was a prime need to keep these houses warm. The insulating properties of the solid wood were a great advantage over a timber frame construction covered with animal skins, felt, boards or shingles. Over the decades, increasingly complex joints were developed to ensure more weather tight joints between the logs, but the profiles were still largely based on the round log.
Shawn James (born September 10, 1983) is a Guyanese born American professional basketball player who last played for Olympiacos Piraeus of the Greek Basket League and the Euroleague. Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), he plays at the power forward and center positions.
The son of Gordon and Marva James, he has seven siblings. Three of his brothers played basketball professionally or at college level. The youngest brother Delroy James plays for Serie A club Enel Brindisi, older brother Gordon has played professionally in Japan and Latin America, whilst younger brother Lex played for St. Francis without going pro. He has another brother Devaun and three sisters, Teceeta, Enola, and Minette Graves.
Shawn moved with his parents and most of his siblings to Brooklyn, New York in 1990 from his native Guyana, there he discovered basketball, having mostly dallied with cricket before, he only started seriously playing the game at 17 after a growth spurt. He is married to former Northeastern player Melissa Kowalski who he met at the university, they have two children, twin sons Brooklyn and Brayden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. Following this ground-breaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence".
Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first, then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, published respectively in 1841 and 1844—represent the core of his thinking, and include such well-known essays as Self-Reliance, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet and Experience. Together with Nature, these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period.
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My wife and Cali, our golden retriever dog, join me at the wilderness homestead log cabin for a couple of days - great meals, trekking through the snow for wood building materials for the rustic kitchen, off-grid cooking, cold nights, a warm cabin - life at the cabin is awesome, a real cozy (hygge) experience with my wife and dog curled up by the fire. Apparently, scrubbing the log walls and mortar is an ASMR experience - Cali slowly closes her eyes and falls asleep on the bench as I wash the walls with a sponge and water. She's really settling into the wilderness lifestyle, often sitting on the porch listening to the birds, animals and wind in the trees, barking and chasing anything that's out of place. A golden retriever is not a typical guard dog, but she's surprisingly tough Links to ...
Joe Robinet spends the night at my off grid log cabin and the following morning we head out on the lake in sub zero temperatures to fish for northern pike and panfish. We spend the second night in a heated canvas tent at the side of a frozen lake, which groans and creaks all night as the temperature stays below -18C, 0F. My good friend Terry guides us to a private lake that holds a good population of walleye and northern pike. We catch pike, perch and largemouth bass through the ice and we cook the pike on the small woodstove in the hot tent (winter camping tent). The tiny house is perfect for two or three people so we have room to spread out our fishing and camping gear. I sleep up in the loft and Joe sleeps on my dog Cali's bed on the main floor (which is actually a bed/bench alongside ...
My beautiful wife and my cute dog, a golden retriever named Cali, join me on an ice fishing trip from the off-grid log cabin in central Ontario Canada. We start off the day with coffee – actually lattes made on the wood stove - before setting out with the sled and ice fishing gear to catch and cook rainbow trout for dinner. Our DJI Mavic Pro drone captures video and photos of the surrounding wilderness, and I film the trip with my Canon 80D and Canon 6D. Cabelas Canada was kind enough to provide us with a 6-man ice fishing hut, Jet Sled and ice chisel to make our fishing trip more comfortable. We set out across the frozen lake with the dog running ahead of us, she climbs the granite cliffs to investigate the wildlife in the forest of the Canadian Shield. Once we find a nice spot to set up...
Cali, my Golden Retriever, spends a few days and nights with me in my off grid authentic log cabin in the forest - my dog doesn't always spend the night in the cabin with me so this was a treat for both of us. The weather was incredible, warm and sunny one day with deer coming out to dine on the acorns exposed by the melting snow, but the next day, rain ice pellets fell all night long before changing to snow the following day. It was not the worst ice storm I've witnessed, not like the ice storm of several years ago that shut the northeast down for a few days, but it did some damage. If you are new to the channel, my three top videos are the ones worth watching and a good starting point. Check out the Playlist. Log Cabin: The Bear Den https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPmy7...
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Join me as I drive north into the real Canadian Winter, to visit my buddy, Shawn James from the recently popular youtube channel, My Self Reliance, in his off grid log cabin he built in the forest with hand tools. We explore his land for animal tracks, and future cabin and homestead building sites, we cook bear ribs, and steak on an open fire outside the log cabin, cut firewood for the woodstove, and enjoy the cabin life. The next day we set off on an icefishing camping trip, with a supermoon! .....but that is on next weeks full length video :) Hope you enjoy. Instagram https://instagram.com/joerobinetbushcraft/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Robinet_Joe
Audible - Get 2 FREE audiobooks of your choice | http://amzn.to/2b9GBJr ___ Subscribe 💪 http://bit.ly/illacertus Buy "Self-Reliance & Other Essays" in the USA - http://amzn.to/1WNWuGE Buy "Self-Reliance & Other Essays" in CA - http://amzn.to/1NlMDGw Buy "Self-Reliance & Other Essays" in the UK - http://amzn.to/1SS1VmB I animated my summary of Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. On top of my personal story of growing up pretty much on my own I share how to achieve Self-Reliance and how I set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & time-bound (SMART) goals for myself. How to be Self-Reliant 1. You assume responsibility. 2. You inform yourself. 3. You know where you're going. - You set S.M.A.R.T. goals & pursue them. 4. You make your own decisions. How to set SMART goals - Specif...
Mixing clay, sand, wood ashes from the fireplace, moss and grass to make a mortar to fill in the gaps between the logs, I spend three days weatherproofing the cabin against the strong cold winds of winter in Canada. This is very primitive technology and could be used to build an entire cabin with support from wattle, a lattice pattern of small sticks. I will be incorporating more primitive technology into the other buildings on the property where I will build with stone, clay and wood to make a root cellar, cheese cave, bath house (sauna and shower), wood shed, workshop, maple syrup shack and more. I have found a source of free pallet wood and scrap wood within about 40 kilometres of the land that the cabin is on, so I may start gathering that when I'm in town so that I can build a small p...
Finally, one video showing the entire build process from the cutting of the first tree to the laying of the last floor board - no food, no talking, no visitors, just carpentry, bushcraft, timber framing, blood, sweat and tears. My end goal is to have an off grid, primitive wilderness homestead, where I can practice primitive technology, bushcraft and traditional skills in an effort to become as completely self reliant as possible in this day and age. In late April, I cut the first balsam fir tree down on the property near Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Next, from June until August, I collected all of the building materials and fabricated the cabin using saddle notches in the corners. I cleared the land in August, laid down gravel for a pad and began erecting the off grid log cabin. By S...
I chink the log cabin with clay and moss, build a front porch and talk about self reliance and survival for kids and young adults as Generation Z takes the torch from us. With 4 days of warm weather before winter, snow and cold weather returns, I must make the log cabin weather tight, and I put a wood deck on the front of the cabin before the ground freezes so that I can build a full covered porch over the winter. With temperatures above zero, I was able to chink the outside of the cabin to keep mice and other rodents out. Cleaning up around the cabin was also high priority before snow covers the ground. In my self reflections, I talk about hard work, perseverance and why I'm inspired by the next generation. I thank kids and young adults for following along and I name several of them spec...
My wife makes an appearance at the cabin, experiencing true Canadian winter with a warm fire inside and deep snow and frigid temperatures outside. Left on my own for the following few days, I change the door for a better one and I finish the wood plank flooring, the perfect compliment to the stone floor and all very appropriate for a log cabin in the forest. The challenges of living off grid in a tiny house are becoming apparent, as temperatures as low as -32C (-26F) with windchill freeze the waterways and dump a couple of feet of snow in the bush. The video starts with my wife and Cali helping me remove snow and install a new custom branded fire pit and branded iron sign gifted to me by Kyle at Iron Arts in Barrie Ontario http://www.ironartsonline.com/ In the following days, I discover h...
Testing the heat loss in my off grid log cabin, I use my infrared thermal imaging camera to take night time photos of the cabin while the wood stove is on, and then again the following morning when the fire is no longer burning. My woodburning stove is not the most efficient for primary heating, so I show exactly how it functions and what I can do to make it more efficient, saving wood and money in the process. It's interesting to see my dog, Cali the Golden Retriever, show up on the thermal image and how cool she is compared to the surrounding walls, table and bed that she's lying on. The tiny house should be very easy to heat once the pointing (mortar) is done inside and out and I can use what I've learned on this log cabin to help me design and build the other structures on my wildernes...
It gets warm in the cabin from my first 24+ hour fire in the woodstove while I chink the walls of the log cabin, cook a few meals, sharpen my knife by the fire, track animals through the forest and practice my archery skills on a target behind the cabin. I flush ruffed grouse while walking through the forest in the snow. Drone footage of the cabin in the snow adds perspective and shows the remoteness of the cabin and how vast the Canadian wilderness beyond the cabin is, especially since the forest and the ground is more visible with no leaves on the trees and a fresh dusting of snow. I finish the stone floor at the entranceway and under the fireplace as well and I need the long burning fire to keep it from freezing while it cures. To answer many questions last week about the wood splitter ...
Self-Reliance from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ne te quaesiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune Cast the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat; Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. ESSAY II Self-Reliance I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more v...
In this episode, I finally install a front door on the cabin and explain whether it's the final product or not. I almost complete the outhouse, I add some more moss to the walls (chinking) and I cut and split a face-cord of red oak firewood. I cook three meals - venison stew, spanish frittata (https://youtu.be/e6YUgJC_PF8) and sourdough grilled cheese. In My Self Reflections, I talk about insecurity, shyness and the overcoming of it to lead a happy and successful life. The off grid log cabin is starting to feel a little more like a home with operating doors and windows, a functional outhouse, a pile of firewood to heat the tiny home and the beginnings of a stone and wood plank floor to keep the cabin warm and dry under foot. Winter is basically here - the weather fluctuates around the fre...
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My wife and Cali, our golden retriever dog, join me at the wilderness homestead log cabin for a couple of days - great meals, trekking through the snow for wood building materials for the rustic kitchen, off-grid cooking, cold nights, a warm cabin - life at the cabin is awesome, a real cozy (hygge) experience with my wife and dog curled up by the fire. Apparently, scrubbing the log walls and mortar is an ASMR experience - Cali slowly closes her eyes and falls asleep on the bench as I wash the walls with a sponge and water. She's really settling into the wilderness lifestyle, often sitting on the porch listening to the birds, animals and wind in the trees, barking and chasing anything that's out of place. A golden retriever is not a typical guard dog, but she's surprisingly tough Links to ...
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Testing the heat loss in my off grid log cabin, I use my infrared thermal imaging camera to take night time photos of the cabin while the wood stove is on, and then again the following morning when the fire is no longer burning. My woodburning stove is not the most efficient for primary heating, so I show exactly how it functions and what I can do to make it more efficient, saving wood and money in the process. It's interesting to see my dog, Cali the Golden Retriever, show up on the thermal image and how cool she is compared to the surrounding walls, table and bed that she's lying on. The tiny house should be very easy to heat once the pointing (mortar) is done inside and out and I can use what I've learned on this log cabin to help me design and build the other structures on my wildernes...
Joe Robinet spends the night at my off grid log cabin and the following morning we head out on the lake in sub zero temperatures to fish for northern pike and panfish. We spend the second night in a heated canvas tent at the side of a frozen lake, which groans and creaks all night as the temperature stays below -18C, 0F. My good friend Terry guides us to a private lake that holds a good population of walleye and northern pike. We catch pike, perch and largemouth bass through the ice and we cook the pike on the small woodstove in the hot tent (winter camping tent). The tiny house is perfect for two or three people so we have room to spread out our fishing and camping gear. I sleep up in the loft and Joe sleeps on my dog Cali's bed on the main floor (which is actually a bed/bench alongside ...
Live Life DIY is about being self-reliant, self sufficient, and independent. You creating a fun, happy, lifestyle of freedom. Live Life DIY is the life you have always wanted to live, your dream lifestyle. Four tips, four ways you can begin Self-sufficient living. What are they? #selfsufficient #selfreliant Do you dream of living self-sufficient and self-reliant? You want to live a healthier lifestyle. You might be thinking of homesteading because you want to produce more than you consume. The independence and freedom a self-sufficient homestead life will provide. Are you a little afraid because you don’t think you know enough? Self-sufficient basics, where do you start? Can you really live self-sufficient? Do you need to be an expert before you can live self-sufficient and self-relia...
Join me as I drive north into the real Canadian Winter, to visit my buddy, Shawn James from the recently popular youtube channel, My Self Reliance, in his off grid log cabin he built in the forest with hand tools. We explore his land for animal tracks, and future cabin and homestead building sites, we cook bear ribs, and steak on an open fire outside the log cabin, cut firewood for the woodstove, and enjoy the cabin life. The next day we set off on an icefishing camping trip, with a supermoon! .....but that is on next weeks full length video :) Hope you enjoy. Instagram https://instagram.com/joerobinetbushcraft/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Robinet_Joe
My beautiful wife and my cute dog, a golden retriever named Cali, join me on an ice fishing trip from the off-grid log cabin in central Ontario Canada. We start off the day with coffee – actually lattes made on the wood stove - before setting out with the sled and ice fishing gear to catch and cook rainbow trout for dinner. Our DJI Mavic Pro drone captures video and photos of the surrounding wilderness, and I film the trip with my Canon 80D and Canon 6D. Cabelas Canada was kind enough to provide us with a 6-man ice fishing hut, Jet Sled and ice chisel to make our fishing trip more comfortable. We set out across the frozen lake with the dog running ahead of us, she climbs the granite cliffs to investigate the wildlife in the forest of the Canadian Shield. Once we find a nice spot to set up...
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Cali, my Golden Retriever, spends a few days and nights with me in my off grid authentic log cabin in the forest - my dog doesn't always spend the night in the cabin with me so this was a treat for both of us. The weather was incredible, warm and sunny one day with deer coming out to dine on the acorns exposed by the melting snow, but the next day, rain ice pellets fell all night long before changing to snow the following day. It was not the worst ice storm I've witnessed, not like the ice storm of several years ago that shut the northeast down for a few days, but it did some damage. If you are new to the channel, my three top videos are the ones worth watching and a good starting point. Check out the Playlist. Log Cabin: The Bear Den https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPmy7...
Mixing clay, sand, wood ashes from the fireplace, moss and grass to make a mortar to fill in the gaps between the logs, I spend three days weatherproofing the cabin against the strong cold winds of winter in Canada. This is very primitive technology and could be used to build an entire cabin with support from wattle, a lattice pattern of small sticks. I will be incorporating more primitive technology into the other buildings on the property where I will build with stone, clay and wood to make a root cellar, cheese cave, bath house (sauna and shower), wood shed, workshop, maple syrup shack and more. I have found a source of free pallet wood and scrap wood within about 40 kilometres of the land that the cabin is on, so I may start gathering that when I'm in town so that I can build a small p...
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Timelapse video of a complete log cabin build by one man alone in the wilderness of Canada, from 1st tree I cut to last floor board I laid. If you want to build a rustic log cabin or tiny off grid home alone in the wilderness and you haven't seen the rest of my videos, this is a good primer. It's super fast motion though, so if you are interested in building a primitive log cabin like this, take a look at the "Log Cabin The Bear Den" playlist on the channel. At the beginning of the video, I show a winter drone photo of the cabin in the snow in December. Then I flashback to the first balsam fir tree I cut down with a saw and axe near the cabin. I drag the trees into place and clear the cabin site. All summer, I cut the notches in the logs as I built the cabin up, offsite. Once I was finishe...
Finally, one video showing the entire build process from the cutting of the first tree to the laying of the last floor board - no food, no talking, no visitors, just carpentry, bushcraft, timber framing, blood, sweat and tears. My end goal is to have an off grid, primitive wilderness homestead, where I can practice primitive technology, bushcraft and traditional skills in an effort to become as completely self reliant as possible in this day and age. In late April, I cut the first balsam fir tree down on the property near Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Next, from June until August, I collected all of the building materials and fabricated the cabin using saddle notches in the corners. I cleared the land in August, laid down gravel for a pad and began erecting the off grid log cabin. By S...
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My wife makes an appearance at the cabin, experiencing true Canadian winter with a warm fire inside and deep snow and frigid temperatures outside. Left on my own for the following few days, I change the door for a better one and I finish the wood plank flooring, the perfect compliment to the stone floor and all very appropriate for a log cabin in the forest. The challenges of living off grid in a tiny house are becoming apparent, as temperatures as low as -32C (-26F) with windchill freeze the waterways and dump a couple of feet of snow in the bush. The video starts with my wife and Cali helping me remove snow and install a new custom branded fire pit and branded iron sign gifted to me by Kyle at Iron Arts in Barrie Ontario http://www.ironartsonline.com/ In the following days, I discover h...
I chink the log cabin with clay and moss, build a front porch and talk about self reliance and survival for kids and young adults as Generation Z takes the torch from us. With 4 days of warm weather before winter, snow and cold weather returns, I must make the log cabin weather tight, and I put a wood deck on the front of the cabin before the ground freezes so that I can build a full covered porch over the winter. With temperatures above zero, I was able to chink the outside of the cabin to keep mice and other rodents out. Cleaning up around the cabin was also high priority before snow covers the ground. In my self reflections, I talk about hard work, perseverance and why I'm inspired by the next generation. I thank kids and young adults for following along and I name several of them spec...
My wife and Cali, our golden retriever dog, join me at the wilderness homestead log cabin for a couple of days - great meals, trekking through the snow for wood building materials for the rustic kitchen, off-grid cooking, cold nights, a warm cabin - life at the cabin is awesome, a real cozy (hygge) experience with my wife and dog curled up by the fire. Apparently, scrubbing the log walls and mortar is an ASMR experience - Cali slowly closes her eyes and falls asleep on the bench as I wash the walls with a sponge and water. She's really settling into the wilderness lifestyle, often sitting on the porch listening to the birds, animals and wind in the trees, barking and chasing anything that's out of place. A golden retriever is not a typical guard dog, but she's surprisingly tough Links to ...
Joe Robinet spends the night at my off grid log cabin and the following morning we head out on the lake in sub zero temperatures to fish for northern pike and panfish. We spend the second night in a heated canvas tent at the side of a frozen lake, which groans and creaks all night as the temperature stays below -18C, 0F. My good friend Terry guides us to a private lake that holds a good population of walleye and northern pike. We catch pike, perch and largemouth bass through the ice and we cook the pike on the small woodstove in the hot tent (winter camping tent). The tiny house is perfect for two or three people so we have room to spread out our fishing and camping gear. I sleep up in the loft and Joe sleeps on my dog Cali's bed on the main floor (which is actually a bed/bench alongside ...
My beautiful wife and my cute dog, a golden retriever named Cali, join me on an ice fishing trip from the off-grid log cabin in central Ontario Canada. We start off the day with coffee – actually lattes made on the wood stove - before setting out with the sled and ice fishing gear to catch and cook rainbow trout for dinner. Our DJI Mavic Pro drone captures video and photos of the surrounding wilderness, and I film the trip with my Canon 80D and Canon 6D. Cabelas Canada was kind enough to provide us with a 6-man ice fishing hut, Jet Sled and ice chisel to make our fishing trip more comfortable. We set out across the frozen lake with the dog running ahead of us, she climbs the granite cliffs to investigate the wildlife in the forest of the Canadian Shield. Once we find a nice spot to set up...
Cali, my Golden Retriever, spends a few days and nights with me in my off grid authentic log cabin in the forest - my dog doesn't always spend the night in the cabin with me so this was a treat for both of us. The weather was incredible, warm and sunny one day with deer coming out to dine on the acorns exposed by the melting snow, but the next day, rain ice pellets fell all night long before changing to snow the following day. It was not the worst ice storm I've witnessed, not like the ice storm of several years ago that shut the northeast down for a few days, but it did some damage. If you are new to the channel, my three top videos are the ones worth watching and a good starting point. Check out the Playlist. Log Cabin: The Bear Den https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPmy7...
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Join me as I drive north into the real Canadian Winter, to visit my buddy, Shawn James from the recently popular youtube channel, My Self Reliance, in his off grid log cabin he built in the forest with hand tools. We explore his land for animal tracks, and future cabin and homestead building sites, we cook bear ribs, and steak on an open fire outside the log cabin, cut firewood for the woodstove, and enjoy the cabin life. The next day we set off on an icefishing camping trip, with a supermoon! .....but that is on next weeks full length video :) Hope you enjoy. Instagram https://instagram.com/joerobinetbushcraft/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Robinet_Joe
Mixing clay, sand, wood ashes from the fireplace, moss and grass to make a mortar to fill in the gaps between the logs, I spend three days weatherproofing the cabin against the strong cold winds of winter in Canada. This is very primitive technology and could be used to build an entire cabin with support from wattle, a lattice pattern of small sticks. I will be incorporating more primitive technology into the other buildings on the property where I will build with stone, clay and wood to make a root cellar, cheese cave, bath house (sauna and shower), wood shed, workshop, maple syrup shack and more. I have found a source of free pallet wood and scrap wood within about 40 kilometres of the land that the cabin is on, so I may start gathering that when I'm in town so that I can build a small p...
Finally, one video showing the entire build process from the cutting of the first tree to the laying of the last floor board - no food, no talking, no visitors, just carpentry, bushcraft, timber framing, blood, sweat and tears. My end goal is to have an off grid, primitive wilderness homestead, where I can practice primitive technology, bushcraft and traditional skills in an effort to become as completely self reliant as possible in this day and age. In late April, I cut the first balsam fir tree down on the property near Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada. Next, from June until August, I collected all of the building materials and fabricated the cabin using saddle notches in the corners. I cleared the land in August, laid down gravel for a pad and began erecting the off grid log cabin. By S...
I chink the log cabin with clay and moss, build a front porch and talk about self reliance and survival for kids and young adults as Generation Z takes the torch from us. With 4 days of warm weather before winter, snow and cold weather returns, I must make the log cabin weather tight, and I put a wood deck on the front of the cabin before the ground freezes so that I can build a full covered porch over the winter. With temperatures above zero, I was able to chink the outside of the cabin to keep mice and other rodents out. Cleaning up around the cabin was also high priority before snow covers the ground. In my self reflections, I talk about hard work, perseverance and why I'm inspired by the next generation. I thank kids and young adults for following along and I name several of them spec...
My wife makes an appearance at the cabin, experiencing true Canadian winter with a warm fire inside and deep snow and frigid temperatures outside. Left on my own for the following few days, I change the door for a better one and I finish the wood plank flooring, the perfect compliment to the stone floor and all very appropriate for a log cabin in the forest. The challenges of living off grid in a tiny house are becoming apparent, as temperatures as low as -32C (-26F) with windchill freeze the waterways and dump a couple of feet of snow in the bush. The video starts with my wife and Cali helping me remove snow and install a new custom branded fire pit and branded iron sign gifted to me by Kyle at Iron Arts in Barrie Ontario http://www.ironartsonline.com/ In the following days, I discover h...
It gets warm in the cabin from my first 24+ hour fire in the woodstove while I chink the walls of the log cabin, cook a few meals, sharpen my knife by the fire, track animals through the forest and practice my archery skills on a target behind the cabin. I flush ruffed grouse while walking through the forest in the snow. Drone footage of the cabin in the snow adds perspective and shows the remoteness of the cabin and how vast the Canadian wilderness beyond the cabin is, especially since the forest and the ground is more visible with no leaves on the trees and a fresh dusting of snow. I finish the stone floor at the entranceway and under the fireplace as well and I need the long burning fire to keep it from freezing while it cures. To answer many questions last week about the wood splitter ...
Self-Reliance from Essays: First Series (1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ne te quaesiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." Epilogue to Beaumont and Fletcher's Honest Man's Fortune Cast the bantling on the rocks, Suckle him with the she-wolf's teat; Wintered with the hawk and fox, Power and speed be hands and feet. ESSAY II Self-Reliance I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more v...
In this episode, I finally install a front door on the cabin and explain whether it's the final product or not. I almost complete the outhouse, I add some more moss to the walls (chinking) and I cut and split a face-cord of red oak firewood. I cook three meals - venison stew, spanish frittata (https://youtu.be/e6YUgJC_PF8) and sourdough grilled cheese. In My Self Reflections, I talk about insecurity, shyness and the overcoming of it to lead a happy and successful life. The off grid log cabin is starting to feel a little more like a home with operating doors and windows, a functional outhouse, a pile of firewood to heat the tiny home and the beginnings of a stone and wood plank floor to keep the cabin warm and dry under foot. Winter is basically here - the weather fluctuates around the fre...
Busy week at the log cabin in the forest as I rush to cut enough firewood to heat the cabin for the winter, add more moss between the logs in the walls, build a new door, build the framing for the floors and install a 2”x6” pine wood plank floor. For the floor boards, I used the same technique as the roof – shou sugi ban, a Japanese wood preservation technique. In the floor, I construct a wood box set into the ground with concrete base, and will insulate it and the entire floor with sawdust next week. With most of the chinking done, the cabin gets up above 20 degrees Celsius with the fire burning. This week, a deer gets into my hay bale archery target, spending three nights eating it. With all of snow, the deer are starting to move to their winter deer yards, so I’ll know soon if any are g...
To build a log cabin in the woods - is it an escape from society and toxic people? This week, I finish the roof structure on the off-grid home, install the east window, trim the log ends and cook two hearty meals on the open campfire in front of the tiny house. After witnessing a spectacular sunrise on Georgian Bay, I talk about toxic people and toxic debt, how they impact my life and how I deal with it. The surrounding forest is alive with birds and animals preparing for winter in this Canadian wilderness, including the black bear, a regular visit to the log cabin. A light dusting of snow reminds me how close winter is now and that I need to finish the roof and install the wood-stove, a challenge when I'm working alone. Next video includes installing the waterproofing on the roof of the ...
Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne have been farming their yard in Los Angeles for over a decade. In addition to a mini orchard and extensive veggie garden, they have all the instruments of an urban homestead: chickens, bees, rainwater capture, DIY greywater, solar fruit preserver, humanure toilet, rocket stove, adobe oven. But they don't like to talk about sustainability of self-sufficiency, instead they prefer the term self-reliance. "I don't like the goal of self-sufficiency, I think it's a fool's errand to chase that goal," explains Knutzen. "I think we live in communities, human beings are meant to live, and trade and work together. I think self-reliance is okay, in other words, knowing how to do things." Knutzen and Coyne share their tinkering, DIY and small scale urban agriculture exper...
At 80 years old, Lloyd Kahn is an icon of alternative housing. In the seventies he was a poster child of the geodesic dome (he published Domebook One and Two and he and his dome home were featured in Life magazine). He got his start in publishing when Stewart Brand made him the shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog. The book that put him on the map as a publisher was “Shelter”, an international survey of alternative housing that he continues to sell over 4 decades later. Kahn’s enthusiasm for shelter extends to “building every place I’ve ever lived”, including his current home which started as a dome and is now a more traditional shelter capped by a 30-foot-tall hexagonal tower (the only remnant of the dome). His home is only a small part of his half-acre homestead where he and h...
I was fortunate to have the chance to meet up with YouTuber Shawn James from My Self Reliance. We met up in pursuit of duck, geese, grouse and rabbit. While we were not terribly successful, we did forge a new friendship with many future possibilities. Visit Shawn James at My Self Reliance: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIMXKin1fXXCeq2UJePJEog/videos
In this episode, Cali, our Golden Retriever, spends time with me at the cabin as I finish the roof, chink the log cabin, install a woodstove and start a flagstone floor under the fireplace and at the entranceway. Music by David Mitchell of My Outdoor Adventures (https://www.myoutdooradventures.ca/) The weather is crazy - from balmy sunny days to rain and snow.The creek starts to freeze, the leaves are almost all off the trees and the bears are very active, getting closer to the cabin in their search for food before denning for the winter. Moose and deer are regular visitors, passing in the night as close as 10 feet from the log cabin. Please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Personal Facebook Pa...