I've just emailed them but something to consider for your next campaign. Can you get them to put the Size Guide of the Chest/Bust & Length so we know in inches whether we need a Lge or a 2XL? Thank You.
I love how the ram was just starring you down at the beginning of the video!! It looks great. I want to get rid of at least one of our toilets in the house and put a compost one in. I have yet to convince my hubbie. I think it's great and it would save us so much water since we have to haul our own.
Found this site accidentally and got hooked. We don't homestead but wish we could. At age 68 and both physically limited starting to homestead now is unrealistic. I have learned a lot here and have started gardening again after more than 25 years. Planted red and white potatoes in two different fire rings that I put in my front yard and built 2 pallet raised boxes for some herbs and strawberries in front of the walkway to my front door. We rent half a duplex and are lucky enough to have a fairly large side yard at a dead end so I just came in from tilling a fairly good size plot for my Lebanese squash, green beans, watermelon, cucumber and still need to till space next to garage wall for pole snap beans. Learned about planting tomatoes in planter with only 1 plant each so I have 3 barrels for tomatoes and one for broccoli and bell peppers. I am really late in getting this done due to all the rain we have had here. Even saw the flood walls put up and since I've only lived in Kentucky for 4 years this was exciting for us. Got any suggestions on what ways I can improve what I've started? Thank you for all your encouraging videos! Brenda Walters, Georgia born and raised Kentuckian!
Good job Doug! We've used the removable board walls in a few applications in my past, in a grain bin, between 2 stalls so you could enlarge the stall to 2x size, the other for our basement coal room. Very handy. We had "braces" as you called them on the outside where we could put the boards when they weren't needed, so they would not get lost or damaged and were still right at hand.
I just discovered you guys and am really impressed with the skill, ingenuity and tenacity you both have. I would love to see a video on how you manage your food compost as well. We just bought 7 acres and are in the process of developing our garden/compost plans. Thanks again for your awesome channel!
Great build Doug! I love the ingenuity. Not only did you seek to eliminate the issues of your previous system you decided to make it multifunctional. That is exactly what we all need to strive for. Brilliant.
Thank you so much Doug for showing everyone the right process to make it efficient and easier., YOUR THE BEST!!! GOD BLESS YOU AND STACY ABUNDANTLY AND PROTECT YOU ALWAYS AND HAVE HIS MIGHTY ANGELS SURROUNDING YOUR PROPERTY 🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸
I just received my Doug and Stacy T-Shirt in the mail jus the other day and I LOVE IT!! It's absolutely adorable. The quality is "Phenomenal"!! I've already been asked questions about it when I wore it out so it's a huge advertisement tool. Thanks for everything guys.
I love watching you guys, you inspire me to try things myself. It's just me and my 3 young boys and by watching your channel we got to it and built a chicken pen and get 4 eggs a day yum. preparing veggie garden ready for planting when our summer is over. My only problem is getting to bed instead of watching all your amazing videos. Thanks for sharing just love you two.
That is a gorgeous composting center!!! And you are a genius making the back boards removable!!! When it's our turn to make one (why am I so excited to reach the stage in life where we have a composting toilet??!! LOL!! I seriously can't wait!!), I'm gonna remember this design!!! Thanks for sharing!! Oh I just ordered another shirt --- I shouldn't have, but I sincerely want to support what you're doing for all of us Homestead Homies!!!
Love it. Very functional. I just started using a composting toilet system a couple months, but have yet to empty any buckets. Now I've got more good ideas to set up my composting area when I do. Love the brown shirt too.
I was telling my husband about the compost toilet. Problem is we live in a "first class township" and have nosy neighbors who watch and take pictures. We have a half acre I have many plans for. Thanks for the videos. 😊
I am sorry. I was just telling my brother how our government is controlling us through fear. By telling our neighbors they need to worry what we are doing to protect themselves. My philosophy is they need to worry about thier own and not thier neighbor and vice versa. Wishing the best to you and yours!
Put the compost toilet in your existing bathroom, right next to your regular toilet, for your own family’s use only. Leave the guest bathroom as is for visitors. And those nosy neighbors shouldn’t be able to know anything about what you are doing. And by the way, distance yourself from them because you don’t want someone like that in your life anyway - if the shtf you certainly don’t want them mooching off your preps!
I've been trying to come up with a good toilet system for when we set up our homestead later this year, hopefully, and this is the best information I've seen on it so far!
Just finished building our "Recycling Center" yesterday. :) I would recommend building it 5'x5' square and 7- 2x6s high. I built ours 4'x4' and it's a little small but there is only two of us and where we use it is at our vacation home in the heart of West Virginia. We will probably only empty our "containers" in the spring and fall. This will be our "Homestead" in a few years. I encourage everyone to first read "The Humanure Handbook" 4th Edition by Joseph Jenkins before doing this system. He literally wrote the book on Humanure. Love the channel Doug and Stacy :)
i used a compost toilet for several years and was amazed at how easy it is to do and handle and then the amount of water you save from flushing is insane. im in process of getting home built and plan to have compost system at new home
I wondered if you were going to put rain gutters and water butts to collect your water but it's a beautiful composting centre Doug. And, you can always extend it by adding on another block once the learning centre gets going. Geee-Knee-Yus. 😂😂
Thank you to you both for sharing all you know. Ive been learning from you both for years now and i appreciate both of you. Im hoping to someday meet you both.💐☺
Great build doug. I'm building an allotment plot to grow food at the moment in scotland, nearly finished. I've built raised beds, a shed, a passive solar greenhouse, rainwater catchment and compost bays. I'm trying to use your ethos to the whole project and close the loop of all my waste and put it back into my plot. While not needing to buy anything. I'm lucky to live just a mile away from the beach and we can collect some seaweed which is an amazing natural plant food. I've learned lots from channels like yours, Curtis stone and Richard perkins. We ae planning our next house move which incorporate every system we can off grid in an urban environment. keep up the good videos!
Great set up Doug. Suggestion: Add a drawer handle (or two) to each of your back boards to make it easier to add/remove them when filling/ cleaning out the bins.
great design! and no wasted flushing drinking water =) .im a chippy,built a tiny house with lotsa ply, and my concern is your safety how you're using a circular saw. Never stand behind the blade, you want to always be off to the side of it. When it grabs/fails while you're cutting, the saw goes backwards! and watching you cut at waste height and standing behind it is a real danger for your arms/body/legs, even if you have alot of experience its just a good habit to stand to the side of blade, especially if you're new to using a circular saw, also the cut plywood side drops down(more so thinner plywood sheets) as you cut along, which increases the chance of the blade grabbing,,hope it helps your safety ,and happy poopn =)
I don't know if we will ever use this method (I haven't been able to convince hubby yet), but thanks for the teaching video. Good as a future resource.
not sure why but I'm having to keep clicking on the bell and I have been subscribed to you guys for a long time now and have had the bell clicked, strange. Love yall videos, keep doing what you guys do...
Hi, Doug and Stacy, Yes that is a super nice strum stick. I was in a Christmas program last Sunday and I played the strum stick and my daughter played the violin. I love it and I'm going to make a leather strap for it.
Have a question/suggestion: Is there a way to make tables with a wire rack so you can put the cleaned buckets upside down and drain and part of the table would have post like the dish drainer for glasses to keep them from blowing all around?
Loved it so much I think I shared it twice! LOL Actually I got distracted by grandkids and fixing dinner and couldn’t remember. LOL Oh well! Can’t have too much Doug and Stacy I say! Excellent video and that’s the prettiest poo storage bin I ever seen!!! Great job Doug. The overhead shots are beautiful. You really made the garden area HUUUGE and GORGEOUS!! Thanks for sharing. These are brilliant ideas too. You are a genius!!! Hahahaha Take care. Love, hugs and blessings ~Lisa
thanks or all the tips ...I used a bucket method years ago when I was off grid and I learned the hard way NOT to carry the bucket out in winter on icy walkways...after slipping falling and having the bucket splash all over me I went indoors and asked my kids to heat me some water so I could bath..they were so grossed out and all I could do was laugh (or I would have cried)...after that I used a sled to haul the bucket out...looking back I should have had more sawdust in the bucket and I possibly could have avoided the "accident"...lol
You should put a gutter at the back of that roof that collects the rain water into a 55 gallon water barrel that you can put under a down spout so rain would fill it. Also put the barrel on a stand of some kind, maybe cinder blocks so it's high enough that if you used a rubber hose, you can have gravity fed water source for your piles.
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I've just emailed them but something to consider for your next campaign. Can you get them to put the Size Guide of the Chest/Bust & Length so we know in inches whether we need a Lge or a 2XL? Thank You.
I ordered my shirt today.
OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY Can't wait to get mine! It's been shipped! Yea! Love the shirt Doug! And, as always another great video! Thank you!
OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY Just received my tshirt! I LOVE it! The blue is so pretty! Thank you!
Ours arrived today!
I love how the ram was just starring you down at the beginning of the video!!
It looks great. I want to get rid of at least one of our toilets in the house and put
a compost one in. I have yet to convince my hubbie. I think it's great and it would
save us so much water since we have to haul our own.
Love this channel. Doug you and Stacy are so wonderful to share all areas in homesteading, and I for one am so grateful. Thank you.
Thanks for that and for watching
When we build our house in the spring we are going to do a compost pile at our farm. We also are going to do a compost toilet. Thanks to the video.
Found this site accidentally and got hooked. We don't homestead but wish we could. At age 68 and both physically limited starting to homestead now is unrealistic. I have learned a lot here and have started gardening again after more than 25 years. Planted red and white potatoes in two different fire rings that I put in my front yard and built 2 pallet raised boxes for some herbs and strawberries in front of the walkway to my front door. We rent half a duplex and are lucky enough to have a fairly large side yard at a dead end so I just came in from tilling a fairly good size plot for my Lebanese squash, green beans, watermelon, cucumber and still need to till space next to garage wall for pole snap beans. Learned about planting tomatoes in planter with only 1 plant each so I have 3 barrels for tomatoes and one for broccoli and bell peppers. I am really late in getting this done due to all the rain we have had here. Even saw the flood walls put up and since I've only lived in Kentucky for 4 years this was exciting for us. Got any suggestions on what ways I can improve what I've started? Thank you for all your encouraging videos! Brenda Walters, Georgia born and raised Kentuckian!
Well Doug, I'm glad to see you wear your safety glasses. Got to keep those eyes safe for Stacy.
Good job Doug! We've used the removable board walls in a few applications in my past, in a grain bin, between 2 stalls so you could enlarge the stall to 2x size, the other for our basement coal room. Very handy. We had "braces" as you called them on the outside where we could put the boards when they weren't needed, so they would not get lost or damaged and were still right at hand.
Thank ya'll Doug & Stacy for sharing ya'll's journey with us & all the ups & downs🥰🥰
Watched this with my 19 year old daughter. Thanks for the info!
Forgot to tell you I was so hooked on your videos I now have my husband hooked and he has never been a gardener! Thank you!
I just discovered you guys and am really impressed with the skill, ingenuity and tenacity you both have. I would love to see a video on how you manage your food compost as well. We just bought 7 acres and are in the process of developing our garden/compost plans. Thanks again for your awesome channel!
Great build Doug! I love the ingenuity. Not only did you seek to eliminate the issues of your previous system you decided to make it multifunctional. That is exactly what we all need to strive for. Brilliant.
Thank you so much Doug for showing everyone the right process to make it efficient and easier., YOUR THE BEST!!!
GOD BLESS YOU AND STACY ABUNDANTLY AND PROTECT YOU ALWAYS AND HAVE HIS MIGHTY ANGELS SURROUNDING YOUR PROPERTY 🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸
I really like this video the fact that you showed us how to do everything and how easy and better it is now.
Looking good, it always feels good when you can build something that saves you time and money.
I couldn't have found this video at a better time!
thanks Doug!
I'm going to start on that ASAP
Glad to see you are using this system. Love the new composting bins, looking forward to the compost pile build.
I REALLY LOVE THIS BUILD. I KNEW LIFTING THOSE 5 GALLON CONTAINERS WOULD BE CHALLENGING ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER.
I just received my Doug and Stacy T-Shirt in the mail jus the other day and I LOVE IT!! It's absolutely adorable. The quality is "Phenomenal"!! I've already been asked questions about it when I wore it out so it's a huge advertisement tool. Thanks for everything guys.
I love watching you guys, you inspire me to try things myself. It's just me and my 3 young boys and by watching your channel we got to it and built a chicken pen and get 4 eggs a day yum. preparing veggie garden ready for planting when our summer is over. My only problem is getting to bed instead of watching all your amazing videos. Thanks for sharing just love you two.
Thank you. May the good Lord prosper your family with long life and strength to match. Excellent new compost site and a really cute T shirt.
That is a gorgeous composting center!!!
And you are a genius making the back boards removable!!!
When it's our turn to make one (why am I so excited to reach the stage in life where we have a composting toilet??!! LOL!! I seriously can't wait!!), I'm gonna remember this design!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Oh I just ordered another shirt --- I shouldn't have, but I sincerely want to support what you're doing for all of us Homestead Homies!!!
THANK YOU!!
Y'all are my heroes.
Love it. Very functional. I just started using a composting toilet system a couple months, but have yet to empty any buckets. Now I've got more good ideas to set up my composting area when I do. Love the brown shirt too.
I was telling my husband about the compost toilet. Problem is we live in a "first class township" and have nosy neighbors who watch and take pictures. We have a half acre I have many plans for. Thanks for the videos. 😊
Time for some strategically placed fruit trees and berry bush hedges?
I am sorry. I was just telling my brother how our government is controlling us through fear. By telling our neighbors they need to worry what we are doing to protect themselves. My philosophy is they need to worry about thier own and not thier neighbor and vice versa.
Wishing the best to you and yours!
Put the compost toilet in your existing bathroom, right next to your regular toilet, for your own family’s use only.
Leave the guest bathroom as is for visitors.
And those nosy neighbors shouldn’t be able to know anything about what you are doing.
And by the way, distance yourself from them because you don’t want someone like that in your life anyway - if the shtf you certainly don’t want them mooching off your preps!
Doug, you are a guy that I would hang out with. Great vid!!!
I've been trying to come up with a good toilet system for when we set up our homestead later this year, hopefully, and this is the best information I've seen on it so far!
Amazing system, amazing build, amazing video. :) thank you for putting this content out there for all!!!
God bless you all.
You're RIGHT! You're a genius! Loved it!
Just finished building our "Recycling Center" yesterday. :) I would recommend building it 5'x5' square and 7- 2x6s high. I built ours 4'x4' and it's a little small but there is only two of us and where we use it is at our vacation home in the heart of West Virginia. We will probably only empty our "containers" in the spring and fall.
This will be our "Homestead" in a few years.
I encourage everyone to first read "The Humanure Handbook" 4th Edition by Joseph Jenkins before doing this system.
He literally wrote the book on Humanure.
Love the channel Doug and Stacy :)
i used a compost toilet for several years and was amazed at how easy it is to do and handle and then the amount of water you save from flushing is insane.
im in process of getting home built and plan to have compost system at new home
I love the new compost station! Very smart and easy to use, will be trying one in my neck of the woods if I can comvince the hubby to let me.
Great video, Doug! "I'm a genius." - love it.
I love your composting station, Doug. You are amazing. Cheers to you and Stacy.
Thanks Pat!
Thanks you guys, I appreciate you getting back to me with the link to the video, I really appreciate it,take care you guys,
Wow, what a great design! Love the roof for the water collection and the bins are open for composting. Love it!
Great job Doug! I am looking @ this for a different life style.
Nice music! I love the drone shots. This looks so much better! I imagine some climbing roses around it someday.
You have given me so many ideas. We live off grid and we can do this too.
7:45 I agree with the sentiment of completing the loop of waste recycling in a natural way.
Oh my goodness! I'm not sure I can handle much more of this hippy version of Doug wearing all these colors.
I wondered if you were going to put rain gutters and water butts to collect your water but it's a beautiful composting centre Doug. And, you can always extend it by adding on another block once the learning centre gets going. Geee-Knee-Yus. 😂😂
Thank you to you both for sharing all you know. Ive been learning from you both for years now and i appreciate both of you. Im hoping to someday meet you both.💐☺
That is such a pretty poop station. Doug, you always do very good work
Thanks
I never thought much about some of the challenges you face. We have a similar compost bin design and really like it.
Doug, that really looks nice. Great system. I really admire you two. Love from E Ky.
You make it look easy. Thanks for the tips. After watching your videos I am convinced that this is the way to go.)
This is a great design. I think I need to do one like this. .the rain catchment is genius.
So smart! Just in time as we are getting snow Friday Doug.
Great build doug. I'm building an allotment plot to grow food at the moment in scotland, nearly finished. I've built raised beds, a shed, a passive solar greenhouse, rainwater catchment and compost bays. I'm trying to use your ethos to the whole project and close the loop of all my waste and put it back into my plot. While not needing to buy anything. I'm lucky to live just a mile away from the beach and we can collect some seaweed which is an amazing natural plant food. I've learned lots from channels like yours, Curtis stone and Richard perkins. We ae planning our next house move which incorporate every system we can off grid in an urban environment. keep up the good videos!
As always, GREAT INFORMATION for us beginners.
Great set up Doug. Suggestion:
Add a drawer handle (or two) to each of your back boards to make it easier to add/remove them when filling/ cleaning out the bins.
Very nice composting center!! Thanks for sharing.
Wow. Thank you. I need to do this too.
That's a great idea, Doug you are brilliant
Thanks so much for all the great videos you all make and share with all of us.
great design! and no wasted flushing drinking water =) .im a chippy,built a tiny house with lotsa ply, and my concern is your safety how you're using a circular saw. Never stand behind the blade, you want to always be off to the side of it. When it grabs/fails while you're cutting, the saw goes backwards! and watching you cut at waste height and standing behind it is a real danger for your arms/body/legs, even if you have alot of experience its just a good habit to stand to the side of blade, especially if you're new to using a circular saw, also the cut plywood side drops down(more so thinner plywood sheets) as you cut along, which increases the chance of the blade grabbing,,hope it helps your safety ,and happy poopn =)
I don't know if we will ever use this method (I haven't been able to convince hubby yet), but thanks for the teaching video. Good as a future resource.
You guys always amaze me! Wow! I would never think of all that. Great job Doug!
Watching Doug work makes me feel like I can build anything. Hahaha... I need practice, my chicken coop came out crooked.
Awesome design. I have been thinking about doing this in the near future. Thanks
awesome set up.......like the Cadillac poop station...tkx for sharing
Yes Doug you are very wise.
Wow,great build and what a well rounded idea.
Love the drone footage and music!!
flannel is the best ! I love Flannel sheets on my bed . LOL
not sure why but I'm having to keep clicking on the bell and I have been subscribed to you guys for a long time now and have had the bell clicked, strange. Love yall videos, keep doing what you guys do...
starting one at our new cabin you have real good ideas ty
Shalom Doug and Stacy, that's great idea thank Doug!
Came out great and we like the removable back idea. Very nice.
yep, part 2 was better lol ; )
Great video. That composting center is going to be awesome. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
That is really nice composting unit you've build Doug. I learn so much from your videos!
+Rohn's Leather are you strumming that strumstick yet?
Hi, Doug and Stacy, Yes that is a super nice strum stick. I was in a Christmas program last Sunday and I played the strum stick and my daughter played the violin. I love it and I'm going to make a leather strap for it.
Very nice set up. Got me thinking now
Merry Christmas!
Hey Doug…this the video I was looking for…Thanx!
Definitely following the composting toilet system. I really like the new system!
Have a question/suggestion: Is there a way to make tables with a wire rack so you can put the cleaned buckets upside down and drain and part of the table would have post like the dish drainer for glasses to keep them from blowing all around?
That can be a awesume idea!!!
This is a great idea for a compost center!
Loved it so much I think I shared it twice! LOL Actually I got distracted by grandkids and fixing dinner and couldn’t remember. LOL Oh well! Can’t have too much Doug and Stacy I say! Excellent video and that’s the prettiest poo storage bin I ever seen!!! Great job Doug. The overhead shots are beautiful. You really made the garden area HUUUGE and GORGEOUS!! Thanks for sharing. These are brilliant ideas too. You are a genius!!! Hahahaha Take care. Love, hugs and blessings ~Lisa
Another well-thought-out build. Looks Great!
I built mine just like yours, amazing how to minds think alike Lol keep them coming!!!!! 🤙
I love that ya'll always say don't believe ya'll do your homework 🥰😁🥰😁🥰
Great video, you make building look easy👍🏽
genius , pure genius
Great job and design! I am adding this to our project list!!!
Awesome build!!! We love the very informative videos. Keep it up.
Doug I never heard a conversation about pooping to be so interesting lol thanks for the poop class and knowledge of Composing..
You might want to specify sawmill sawdust when you mention cover. The kiln-dried sawdust from resawers will not compost as well.
That sure is fancy Doug.
functional is the key =)
great job doug !! looks good and love the design of it too !!
Excellent work, thank you
thanks or all the tips ...I used a bucket method years ago when I was off grid and I learned the hard way NOT to carry the bucket out in winter on icy walkways...after slipping falling and having the bucket splash all over me I went indoors and asked my kids to heat me some water so I could bath..they were so grossed out and all I could do was laugh (or I would have cried)...after that I used a sled to haul the bucket out...looking back I should have had more sawdust in the bucket and I possibly could have avoided the "accident"...lol
You should put a gutter at the back of that roof that collects the rain water into a 55 gallon water barrel that you can put under a down spout so rain would fill it. Also put the barrel on a stand of some kind, maybe cinder blocks so it's high enough that if you used a rubber hose, you can have gravity fed water source for your piles.
Great job Doug thanks for sharing 😀
You are awesome Doug!
Nice work Doug , good air shots
this was ery informative Doug thanks
Beautiful
Very nice. Love it. 💖
That looks great I love this idea. Gonna share the the boy so we can do a build similar.