Building a Cozy TINY DOME LOG HOUSE in the Woods (So Simple, Anyone Can Do This!!!)
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I build a hut out of dead standing trees found on my 40 acre property. I thin out the forest to increase the health of all the trees, and make use of the material to build a really cool small hut out of a refurbished satellite dish. I use a bit of re-used tarp to cover the top of the small shelter.
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This forest was planted nearly 40 years ago, and no trees were removed, so it's far too overgrown to be healthy. The best thing to do is remove half the trees and allow sunlight to help the forest recover and allow new trees to seed themselves.
The forest was originally designed to be planted quickly, but then harvested, just nothing happened.
I cut a bunch of trees to build the log cabin by stacking them vertically and make a rounded miniature, tiny house. I will include many features in this inside of this primitive structure like a wood burning stove, sleep space, and a wood floor.
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With filling in the gaps you could do it traditional old-fashioned way with mud and Long Grass / pine needles. But with that you'd have to maintain it a lot more frequently. Unless you skin the inside of it and the outside of it then you wouldn't have to worry about maintaining the mud. But you always come up with the best ideas 👍🏼
Made that comment before you brought out the cool plastic. You didn't say WHERE that factory was? I would like to have some of that tarping..
We all..all of us, should be building structures like this on our public lands for all the homeless that we have now, due to the fact our govt has been covertly STEALING our lands, homes, and businesses w this manufactured crisis they created. (All in their planned Rockefeller/Rothschild founded U.N. takeover.) But we should be trying to love our neighbors and HELP THEM have a place to live instead of on the streets. Research cobb building..it's free..fireproof, bulletproof, and takes less utilities..to heat and cool..
Hey Kelvin 👈wow you built a dome shed whatever are you using it for? Don was right, use it as a planetarium put a telescope 🔭, hmmm...sounds so astrological...are you going to watch the 🌟 stars. How innovative to use cracker 🍘 with bacon 🥓 yum yum yum 😋😋😋 show us more about this new version of you work. Good job, sweetie,👈💋❤️
I would put the cladding on the OUTSIDE of the hut. That would make it waterproof, and protect the wood from rotting nearly as quickly. Then you can put wooden splines over the gaps INSIDE, after stuffing them with pine needles or something for insulation. That's what I would do if it were MY hut.
I counted 63 logs in total
THANK YOU for explaining forest management! Most people don’t understand the “why’s”, and you did a great job.
Well..sort of. OK. Not a bad attempt. Forest are here 'only' 300 miljoen years. We are 'managing' them for 300 years. What do we know? This 'forest' is acriculture with trees. It's crop. Bringing it back to a forest with cutting down dead wood is harvesting. Just do so. That's where it's planted for in the first place. The open space is a shock of light for the leftover living trees. It will take years to adept to that with lost of energie. Hardwood wil fill up the space with horizontal growth. Pine can not. They don't react with growing new twigs on lower level like hardwood. I think the reaction in the open spaces will be, the surrounding trees will fall down in a good snwstorm by lack on support where they grew up with. This whole place will die in time. Bugs and deseases will invade. It was never ment to grow thick and they reached there maximum hight. It's harvest time. Go for it. No talk about renewing this forest. It's simply not a forest. It will never be. With or without management. I want to see a man building a shelter or cabin. Every man has to build a shelter. It's the only senseble thing you can do (with all this lumber) ;-)
Thank you so much for NOT making silent movies.
Be Blessed.
These folks unknowingly helped me through last winter and will see me through this one as well. Good people everywhere
I'm happy to help!
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Can I just say after I watched the spider hole video I went back and watched every single video you had from the past two years! I’m obsessed!! The glass cabin really got me hooked. Thank you Kevin for such amazing content!!!!!
The author does like to from scratch, ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
No doubt about it. Our Canadian brothers are the world leaders in winter bushcraft.
Use smaller logs in-between the logs to fill the gap. It might strengthen it a bit, and would look nice too.
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They could use tie wire to hold the twigs in and it'd be like a brush fence like the posh suburbs favour (in Australia at least!)
I was going to suggest the same thing.
Line the floor with that roofing material. Cut planks out of logs and line the inside walls, stuff between the poles with insulation and then plank the outside.
Yes logs a little slimmer than the ones standing, between each gap, and secured together with 2 long come along wide straps...one strap at the top close to the roof and one at the bottom about 1 foot off the ground should make it very secure.
For the record anyone who watches your channel knows what's going on with your property... I think it's great how you use everything you got and can find... or has over grown.... love this channel!!!!
100% agree.. those darn abandoned timber orchards are wastelands. KUDOS to you for being a good steward!
My neighhbor and I have finshed a similar project. Much bigger trees... 2'-3' diameter trunks of non-native Monterey Pines... took 15 years for 185 trees... so far the native Oaks, Redwoods, Bay Laurels and Madrones are coming back... as are the birds and critters.
Those are crazy big trees. I'm happy for your forest!
Saturday morning with the world Famous Kevin and Don show !!!
Building exactly what I wanted to see.
You guys are awesome.
Be Blessed.
lmao... "the Kevin, and Don, show!" World famous, not to 'mention. 🤣.. haha... "I love it man, & thanks!"
I needed that... I've been watching these guys for a few weeks now, and think there great, but have not commented until moments from now... And I don't know if you coined' the phrase, but I've got too use it! Hope that's okay, and wanna wish you a good day! 👍
Sometimes it's best that the owner manages his or her own tree farm because you tend to take care of your best interests so I whole heartedly agree with you young man, you know what's best.
They grow pine trees like crops in my area. They plant them in a row as well, but they also thin them after they see which ones survived.
They rotate which section they log each year. Then they replant it. From what I understand, it takes about 10 years between planting and harvest.
The system works if you actually follow through, but they are just a bunch of 50 foot matchsticks if you don't.
A friend purchased land and planted a valuable species of tree. He let the woodlot mature to provide supplemental income during his retirement years. This was not uncommon at that time.
Kevin your brain must run 100 MPH thinking of things to build. I enjoy your humor when talking. Never a dull moment with you. Thanks for sharing Iowa cares 25 degrees at 2:32 PM Sat.
I love how you come up with awesome ideas of how to reuse things that would normally end up in a landfill. What a fun little fort! I can't wait to see what you come up with to finish the inside. 👍❣️
Good morning everyone. I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas 🎅🎄
And to you! 🎅
Merry Christmas!
People can be overly vocal and ignorant at the same time, especially when they don't even live around a forest themselves... Lets see them live in a half dead forest, especially if someone lit a match. Too many trees grown in a small area cannot grow past a certain point, they block out the sun for natural ground covers and the 2nd layer of bushes. Most forests have 3 layers and anyone who understands Forest management... taking out some of the trees, actually helps the forest. Tree trunks become thicker and the smaller forest species can grow quicker and healthier. I think you are doing the right thing by the trees.
Agreed I grew up in the forest/park Stephen's State Forest you are correct 👍😀
a true tree hugger would know that you need to thin and remove trees in order to have a true happy forest. if you don’t nature will. the people complaining are most likely living in burbs with possibly one tree per half an acre. disregard the people who know just enough to be right and not enough to when they are wrong.
Wow, thanks for telling us exactly what he said in the video.... I guess if you repeat it, it makes it more true....
PREACH!!!!! .... can't stand them type of folks.....
No truer wilderness then between a tree huggers ears. There always oblivious to anything that doesn’t suit there agenda. A group once tried to show me a photo of a clear felled mountain unfortunately for them a close friend of mine took the actual photo the were using which was the third picture in a series showing where a devastating fire had swept through then logging the timber then clearing the mountain side and then replanting and ultimately showing the exceptional regrow about 5 years later.
Forest management is extremely important to the overall health of a woodlot. People can learn all about forests, management, and diversity through Ontario Woodlot Association. Great resource.
People forget that what we originally thought of as nature was actually land actively managed by natives. Cool you guys are slowly healing this forest and making fun useful things along the way.
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Lol, what? 🤦♂️
I admire that you cut the dead trees out so the live ones can live! And it cuts down on fires!
make up some boards about a half inch thick.
Nail those vertical, covering the empty spaces.
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Merry Christmas!
Forest management is so important … much effort is made in many areas of the world to plant plant plant … but where’s the foresight that future management is as important … so great idea to get back to the proper way of quality not quantity (quality of trees and importantly the forest bed too)
Wow even I (who loves to mix up different foods) wouldn’t have thought of chocolate biscuits and bacon … I love really fresh bread, raspberry jam, bacon and soft cheese yum yum !
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Morning Kev, Morning Don!
Wishing you both and your families a safe & Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 🎅🍾
Edit: best holiday wishes to everyone in the comments also 🎅
Thank you
Merry Christmas to you, too!
@@jjudy5869 thank you ☃️
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all! I would love to see a round window! 🎄🦊⭐🎅☃️🎁🎄
I'm amazed by how many sponsors you get. You must be a real hustler!
I think he's just extremely good at his crafts he's a master builder. Kevin is a really down to earth bloke. It was his brother who encouraged Kevin to make videos of his builds.
Poor Don I don't think he is appreciated enough, I wish you and Don a merry christmas !
Merry Christmas!
You could use the rotten ones to build a hugelkulture garden. It doesn't need any watering, and has really nice microbiomes of bacteria and fungi that do a really great job of providing a healthy soil.
Try putting up another layer of smaller logs in between the other logs and screwing them together. That should make filling in the cracks easier, with whatever you want.
Spray foam the gaps , after trimming , dab outdoor paint on the foam and throw sawdust at it for the natural look .
I was thinking the same thing. The saw dust is a good idea.
I have a suggestion. Put more logs on the inside over the cracks, or boards . Keep the rustic log cabin feel.
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oh, or cut long wedges our of more logs and squeeze them around the gaps on the outside.
…and more logs on the outside too! Just keep adding rows of logs until no more light and wind can pass through. I’m thinking 3 rows ought to do it. Then wrap them up with a couple of steel cables- tighten up with turnbuckles
Anything Don says can be in a 5 star review of anything.
I think I would split logs down the middle on the sawmill and put the flat (sawn) side covering each gap around the outside of the cabin, that way it maintains the standing log look on the outside.
And on the inside I would fill the gaps with rockwool and then "mud" the inside with a fiber infused cement mixture, to completely seal the inside and keep rodents out.
I think I would do a fairly smooth coat then shoot a splatter coat and knock it down like Spanish Lace.
Then paint and enjoy a very beautiful cabin interior.
Of course I'd pour colored concrete inside and just hand finish it.
Be Blessed.
Thank you for doing what you do, I have advanced Parkinson's and am still building things vicariously through you guys.
Two channels from 6 am to midnight and we were allowed to watch one hour per day (if our homework was done).
I still think your best innovation was the oil bunker sap evaporator. Would love to see you build 5 more and see what the demand is.
I've got two tanks just waiting..
My first thought was 58 logs....but I went with 60 (in my comment) 😆 🎄
Yay! Swearing in the woods with Din and Kevin-the best part of the week! Organic pine needles and mud/clay for chinking
It’s your trees do what you want to with them. Love watching you create.
With all those trees that need to be removed I'm thinking you could build an epic frontier stockade fort.
It’s your property you can do as you please. Dead trees can cause damage to property and yourself. There’s so many reasons for removing them. Your very smart to removing them. Pine have roots really close to ground. Then dead and wind is not a good thing . Be careful. Great practice for animal habitat.
Long term project, but looking forward to this forest getting healthier as you go along. And hey, plenty of material for Don to set alight
Grown men building forts...good for you!
That is great, I wanted an old satellite dish like that for a roof for a chicken house, but now that I see yours that would be the perfect roof for a hobbit house that I want to build for my grandkids. Have you thought about weaving vines in the posts to fill them and add to the nature aspect of it. You get the best scrounges. Thanks for sharing.
They have fiberglass dishes.. one stop shop for chicken coop.
My dream home has for a long time been a dome home This will be a great process to watch
Merry Christmas Don n Kevin. Hope you both have a happy new year!
Merry Christmas!
Forest management is necessary to avoid a wild fire happening 👍👍👍
A standing dead forest is a vertical campfire just waiting to be lit.
It's so good that you explain forrest management. People don't know that management is important...and if you look at California as an example their lack of management is a big part of the reason it burns down every year.
We have the same issues in Australia. The indigenous peoples used fire stick farming to control the environment.
"The old white pine" north of Thessalon came down about 10 years ago due to wind. It was 350 years old, 160 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter at chest height. 110 feet to the first branch
I love this dome cabin It does have a planetarium feel to it
I suggest a mud clay mortar for the natural nature effect.. Only issue there is hard to get the clay to harden right in winter time
What you should do is wrap it all the way around hook it to the top and round the doorway and then cover the top of it with it and it'll be like a pimp closed rubber building
Thanks for the video, always love your videos. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This is going to be sweet, a round cabin in the woods.
Great new project! I know this would be a TON more work, but my suggestion is using halved logs as your cladding to fill in the cracks. Kind of like board and batten style? Probably not feasible, but it would look cool 😉
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Pine needles, pine tar, pine shingles, make everything from pine! treat it like a ship!
Merry Christmas Kevin, Don, Chris and your family's. Stay safe
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you, your family and friends a happy festive season and may the new year continue to fill you with love, light, health, happiness, positivity and peace xo
Ive been travelling and have some vlogs to catch up on … that’s my festive season sorted !
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Happy New Year!
Looks like the perfect structure for a shower block/ outdoor ensuite to service all the other cabins... something about that shape says 'facilities' to me 😉👍
I was thinking the same thing! Well put.
Bacon and coffee is a recipe for a trip to the outhouse
Small amounts.
Since you have so many of those dead trees, I think I'd do a second round, on the outside. (not dig, just set) same as the first round, but this time right on the gaps. Screw them to the inner round, voila. With a skirt to extend the roof edge, and voila. Log view kept, and gaps closed.
How about cutting the second round trees in quarters to fit into the gaps to seal up the wall?
It's really refreshing to see someone in S. Ontario who actually knows something about forest management! I live in the North Bay area, and there are a number of properties up here who are owned by people who live in S. Ontario, and their thought is "leave the trees alone, because they are homes for creatures - animals and birds" ... While that might be accurate to an extent, dead standing trees, recently fallen trees, and extensive dry branches become a serious fire hazard ... Not to mention the canopy that is created by a lack of forest management, which kills the vegetation on the forest floor, which limits how many creatures will actually use that area of the forest (a lot need growing vegetation on or close to the forest floor).
I love your channel, having come from your area of S. Ontario 3 years ago, up to where my parents have lived for 25+ years, I have learned so much about forest management. I appreciate you teaching others. I am the tree hugger in the family, along with my sister in law, so being someone who is very conscious about cutting down only what is necessary to promote growth for other plants - to be used for creatures and humans alike, I truly appreciate you taking time to explain what you are doing when you do forest management videos.
I guess 60 posts ... Use pine needles and mosses to fill the cracks, and then use your sawmill to cut boards with some of the other dead pines and put that on the inside ... It looks amazing! Well done guys!
you are right with the guess.
Split some pine into wedges and hammer them into the gaps....I will make a real solid . hard arz wall....i think it was called jamming , hammering wedges in forces the timbers against each other, clinking can be used outside to finish it, but it might not need it.
Great build. I really like the round little house. I heard on the internet mix clay dirt, water and straw. It makes good stuff to put between the logs.
I think there are 88 logs.
thats called ''Cob''
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@@ruthkaiser6168 The oldest cob house currently standing is 10,00 years old. If this doesn't speak to how strong and durable cob houses are, then nothing will. Cob houses are built to stand forever as long as their roofs are maintained
this is like me and my brother buildings forts in the forest. except now with adult money and owning the forest. super nice.
cover the walls with the free materials. it’s free and easy.
I have suggesting for packing the holes in the walls of the round log cabin. Pack the holes with mud and turn it into a cob log cabin house. The other suggestion is to use nature's ground moss mix with leaves.
I see a really comfortable outhouse or said better bathroom, also to change clothes for example. Or a little shelter to rest and eat, leaving stuff and so on, while working there.
Your explanation about and your work in your forest was the best I saw in all your videos.
Love to watch you build things. You make my sat morning. Of course your fun personalty goesnt hurt any thing either. Keep the foot on the gas........
@ 35:03 Don ponders the situation... Yes, Yes I do feel like a Bee. lol Love that guy! Don is a legend! And a great hard working friend.
Talking about moving the antenna brought back memories of a place we lived growing up the aerial pole was about 20 foot tall and slipped into a slightly larger pipe. We had marks on it for different channels so you tended to pick the channel before it got dark and then just stick with that channel
Thank you for sharing the boots!!💓💓💓
I think about 65 trees were used; cut trees in half lengthwise and put from tree to treeline from outside or inside of structure and insulate as you go; this useful if you want to cut the dead trees down this way you can use more of them
I think it would be nice taking some more dead trees splitting them & putting in between the gaps. I love you guys content 💯
Mix the deep pine needles with mud... that works really good... thats what my tribe uses to make our native round houses...
You are correct, this is a monoculture, not a forest. Jeremy St.Onge and I have both read "The Trees In My Forest" by Bernd Heinrich. He explains the difference between a monoculture and a forest.
I enjoy everything you have built, and watch every video.
A rustic looking phone booth, great.
For the chinking,( I don't know if I spelled that right) take the pine needles and mix it with clay. It'll harden up and make it stronger.
Don speaks for us all when he says, "Mmmm... bacon."
It is fun to see the contrast between you and your brother, Kevin. But also the fact that you get along so well despite those differences. 🙂
Doing what you can with what you have where you are.....If you have tin, use it at the bottom then put something more organic on top. Put smaller logs in between but a bit overlapped to close in the inside or outside. You can figure it out using what you have in your immense store pile. Who is more creative???? We love everything you do...go for it.
'The trees don’t talk to me', too funny! 84 trees in the muffin fort.
nice thing with that large satellite dish is that the middle where everything meets is already set up to be used for a chimney you just need to drill into it a little
A Kevin without Don is just a Kevin. Go team!
Corrugated plastic roofing could be used for the inside walls. It would be easier than stuffing the cracks with pine needles.
Ok my suggestion for the new build OR a future build is an ENTERTAINMENT area TV surround sound system all ran by your battery pack! LOVE the videos!
Yes, that what I present to Ottawa…not only diversified evergreens but it was found that cottonwood, poplar wild fruits provide over-story for slower slow vulnerable evergreen
Nice explanation on forest management and why old dead stuff needs to be cleaned out for health and fire reasons. Then your brother and Don light a large fire at the end. Love it, probably something my brother and I would do.
what would be cool for the inside would be like a bunch of 1 foot by 2 foot milled wood boards in a subway tile layout, could be cool for the outside as well.
In 1978 I spent a incredible summer as a Junior Ranger for the Ministry of Natural Resources. One week our cabin job was to plant trees. Each week one cabin would have a specific job. Example was one week we were out in the wilderness clearing and making portages, another week we might have camp maintenance etc…anyhow we were the last cabin that summer to plant trees and had 5 days to plant 10 thousand trees, which was nothing. We were done in 3 days. So next our job was to clear small trees about 1 feet tall, which was planted a couple of years back from other tree planters. We cleared all trees that were not straight, you only left the one that was straight. So let’s get back to why we were planting trees. Big logging companies would come in and clear the land like Abitibi and they did not replace the trees. The Ministry did that job. After the logging companies cleared the land, the Ministry would go in and burn the area. A few fires got out of controlled and some major forest firers destroyed huge areas. The ministry would leave the land for about 3 or so years and go in an plant. Then we went into plant. Interesting area, as it was covered with blueberries, so we had to watch out for bears. Since we were the last group to plant and with nothing to do, we picked a huge amount of blueberries, so much so that our cook made enough blueberry jam for every Junior Ranger to take home.
So thank you for sharing about your back area of planted trees and I also thank you for your great videos.
Good to hear Chris speak again. Miss his voice.
To fill in the gaps, gather 1/4 as many logs as you have. Split them length wise, then quarter. Do you have a table saw? Nail these quarters in the gaps length wise.
Wow...Another interesting build..... I suggest that you put another layer of wood poles all around the structure to block the gaps. You will have the look your going for but the log poles will add further strength to the structure.
You should start hosting camps for grownup kids who like to play in the forest and build stuff.
Please make a tour of all the buildings and stuff u have made. would love to see the small town you have created
Nice to see Chris show up.
I'm home from work, sick, and watching this video. Now I want bacon!
9:28 Like Raiden's hat from Mortal Combat.
I always wanted to manage an orchard or small prairie - make a space for quail and blackberries and elder berries. Milkweed and pollinator rest stops. I’m still going to do it but have to find my land first.
That would make a great outdoor shower!!!
What a great idea! 70 logs!
You could line a your back yard hockey rink with that material. Wrap it with your food wrap!