Off grid cabin build for $3k to lock up in 8 days (Australia)
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2023
- EDIT** Sorry about the music, I'm aware it's super annoying but it was my first vid and now I can't change it.
Simple off grid cabin build on a budget using logs, milled timber from the property, surplus & second hand materials to create an affordable cabin quickly.
You gotta love the old EH wagon.
You should do a tour video
Heaps of people would love it.
I owned and ek and a eh frigging scary cars by today's standards.
no seatbelts, steel dash n solid steering column for the win lol, the dash does have the super safe little dash pad trim mould lol
@@big_gypsea_life and the special windscreen exit mode for free.
Worth a bit of coin these days, even like that.
@@big_gypsea_life my mate hit a roo in one back in the day.. barely damaged the EH
I am always in awe of tradies with their amazing skills to be able to whip something up like this so easily. I loved the old EH Holden car as well, having had one when I first left school.
mate you must be a legend if you had an eh lol
Now that's how life should be, off grid, in the bush, maybe somewhere near the beach, completely self sufficient with fruit and vege groves, chooks ,gaurd dog, cow, solar panels, water tanks, yea who needs crowds and traffic anyway. Thinking maybe north of Noosa would suit, thanks boys great ideas.
I'm glad you liked it, I definitely am not a fan of crowds or traffic either lol, been there done that and it's not for me.
…and using Pythagoras…
@@OperationTruth You have to make your mind free. If your have enough money to be considering anything like this, then just find somewhere livable to and opt out of all that bullshit.
Cape Tribulation for me mate.
Very cool. Is your door Bigfoot proof, tho ? I'm serious. There are creatures out there that are rarely seen that live in the tall timbers off grid in remote locations. A 458 Winchester will do the job. And a powerful spotlight to initially stun/blind them. They are predominantly creatures of the night 🌙 ✨️
I love that your build was focused on reclaimed materials, she's so unique. Bit rough around the edges but hey, we Aussies are hahaha. Cute cabin, great to see some Aussie DIY content!
lol yep definitely very rough around the edges
Hello from Canada ! Great little build just using what you had :) All goes a little faster with two " cool little getaway out with Mother Nature :) I'm a one man show lol, building off grid & love it , Picked up a nice little mill to help me get what i need to help finish some projects :) Cheers !
Hi, I just looked at some of your videos, looks like pretty hard going in the cold but I bet it's rewarding getting something completed in the hard conditions. Thanks for watching my video
Loved it!!!! Perfect Aussie spot, and what a vehicle to add that real Aussie feel to your off grid cabin. I have been stuck in the city dreaming of country living. I'm semi retied building an off gid tiny home on wheels and would love to come and see your place one day when my VAN is built. I'll keep following your progress..... may be one day.....
hi, I hope your off grid tiny home is coming along good, you've just got to take the plunge and do it if it's what you really want.
Great job and great wagon too. Love your work.
thanks mate, I'm guessing you might have a Torana?
I've got a 200W solar blanket and portable battery bank with AC and DC outputs on it. It's enough to charge multiple batteries a day when you're in the bush. Would highly recommend.
thankyou for the tip, I've ended up putting some solar panels on the roof.
Great work lads - Team work making the dream work ! Love it !!
yyeeewwwww
No ant caps, all green timber. Hope your not expecting it to last too long
I don't think they were planning to pass it down as the family home to the grandkids, I'm sure its fine.
It could still get a spray every 6 months
Won't be hard too see any activity there anyway
lol definitely won't be passing this one down to the kids
Bit of termidor in some holes and around the soil it'll be fine bro
@@user-wq4bf1nm7c Termidor won't help.
I love off grid Sharks. Hey your wagon is epic!!
thanks mate
Being a carpenter and builder….. love it bro
I wonder how many Handymen have give this a go and screwed it up royally…….
This isn’t DIY
Hahaha….. you said Laser…….no rules but you still know what works and what does’t.
Great lads👍🏼🇦🇺
A carpenter and builder huh and this is impressive, then you dump on the handymen?
Go up Northern US states and see what "handymen" can build in remote thickly forested areas such as the great lakes which get 2-3m snow and -10 to -20 degree temps in winter.
Massively pitched roofs, double wall frames and 1ft of insulation, window sills/reveals you can sleep on, plumbing done in a way to reduce freezing and cracking.
All from felled and sawn on site timber, lots of hand tools, no lifts/cranes and very little else done for you before getting to the job.
Go on and tell us how much superior your Aussie tradie is slapping up plantation pine and blue board - i'd bet most would struggle at this job without having to call in a subbie, duck off to the nearest place to buy that special tool, or just have a solid whinge and a sook.
thanks mate, it was pretty rough but does the job it needs to. lol I could imagine there's some wild shacks are out there for sure
@@astrawally8448I have worked in construction in Australia for over 20 years. Builders and carpenters in this country think they are the gods of all trades.....generally they cut corners, use inferior materials and struggle to follow basic worksite maintenance and safety.
If you ask and Australian carpenter or builder, they are gods and kings! No trade comes close to being as important, and Australia would cease to exist without them.
I do all my employees a favour and reject all builders and carpenters or ask for our services. As a company we strictly only work for the private sector, no middleman driving up the costs.
If you work for a builder make sure you get kissed....before you get phuq'd. 😂😂
Mate, c'mon. After 20 years experience in construction I can safely say that's not even close to true. The standards being perpetrated by 'builders and carpenters' is a joke. The "measure twice, cut once" crew are by far the most self righteous lot on site by a loooong shot. I see carpenters and builders doing sub standard work all day long, with barely a care given. "Painters will fix it" or "can't see it from down there", right boys? 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Take your capes off boys, builders and carpenters aren't the heros you all claim to be. Min effort max dollar......back to work boys, 🤦🤦
Have some humility and treat other trades with respect, you guys are far from the ducks nuts and getting further away with every build and every bragging post on socials.
@@kjc4203you sound a bit salty are you a plumber ?
Remote rural NSW off grid here great upload indeed. Reading the comments section also provided a few laughs. New sub here
Out of curiosity, what is remote?, (im from tablelands/new England, originally)..
Great work . No mention of termite prevention though . Those stumps look like feast for them ..
I think it's redgum, so it'll hold up againest termites for quite awhile
Bloodwood
A worry in the tropics...some ants, will keep termites (a cockroach species), under control apparently,..(have had black ants supplanted by little brown ones, but it is the black ones, that eat termites, I think?).
@@Seekah_ not necessarily and unlikely. But even if termite resistant they will ascend for the skirting and door jams inside. Swimming in a sea of sharks. Should use steel piers on concrete pad in that environment. But it will be alright he has good ground clearance, can always get underneath there and add a support should need be. Building close to ground is what messes up the old houses , not the timber.
@@clickbaitcharlie2329 dream on. Ants will displace termites true, but they will also and most often not. They’re happy to live on one side of the paper to each other. Ants often occupy previously vacated termite workings, giving people the idea the ants fought them off, but not so. I’m a termite controller, and I’ve actually used ants to fight termites out, and it worked, but that’s luck more than management, can’t be relied on, at all.
Amazing build!
Thank you
Fantastic guys, great to watch. Such a clever & creative trade!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love the old wagon ! not to many still alive :)
Yeh she's still ticking over getting the job done
Impressive work boys well done !!!
Thanks a lot!
Looks great, good job guys.
Thanks so much!
Loved it ,couple of dinkums knocking up ⬆️ knocking up a bush hut with their Aussie trade skills 🎉
Hahaha thanks mate
Absolute legends! Good work 🎉
Thank you 🙌
Beautiful cabin in the bush mate, well done dude. I definatelly would have put more windows in (and made the kitchen window a slider) to allow for our hot weather and get the breeze flowing. You can always do it later when you get more funds. Livin the dream!
thanks mate, yeh definitely a few things I would of liked to do different but I did what the budget could afford.
Bloody good effort mate. Congrats.
Thanks 👍
Great idea about reusing windows and doors for a bush bogan boudoir.
yeh it's not ideal but it definitely saves money if it doesn't need to be to pretty
nicely done looking at doing this in the vic high country as a hunting cabin
Hi, a little cabin like this would be perfect for a getaway hunting cabin!!!
Good job guy’s, it come up great.
thankyou
I love the build.
thankyou
This is how we travelled back in the 60s.
Dad was a carpenter and carried the timber and tin roofing on the packrack of his HD Holden wagon.
Us 5 kids carried all around, the youngest always sitting on mums lap in the front. No seatbelts back then.
wow what a life, imagine driving with kids sitting in the front now days we would be jailed. unfortunately the kids can't drive in my wagon coz it's got no seatbelts.
Don’t you mean ISOFIX, oh no sorry good for the rest of the world, not here in Australia though cause we’re special.
Nope I mean no seatbelts, n definitely no isofix lol, but it's got plenty of fumes lol
Thumbnail of the EH Wagon got my interest. I had the model after that, but would have happily owned any Holden from the sixties. That camera angle from 1:25 sure made the floor look unlevel, and some of the trees behind it sure helped sell the idea.
oh yeh cars from the 50's and 60's have the best style!!! lol I know, I didn't realise the fish eye lense was going to distort the footage so much, I can assure you the timber wasn't that bowed.
Nice job bro. that looks killer
thankyou
Nice cabin build!! Can't wait to see the end result!! But what the hell did you do to the Ghostbusters car?? Criminal!! LOL!!
who you gunna call, ghostbusters!!!
great work , great job , love the eh , i was always an ek man ,its a shame theyre all just about gone now, i'm planning on a mud bricker , good on ya bra
thanks, my dad's got an fe ute and a breadvan, cars of that era are such a cool shape.
top job boys, love your work
Much appreciated!
@@big_gypsea_life your living my dream and I am so happy that someone is doing it, you seem like very ethical good guys, I hope you enjoy it and get the most out of it, its perfect for what I aim to build one day when I get some land and some time, the race is on, get it done before retirement and to old to enjoy it, its so good you are doing this so young so you will have a lot of time to enjoy it, love your work mate
Thanks, I hope it works out for you and you find the land you want!!!
That's sick fellers love it
Thanks mate
Envy you lads, enjoyed watching you build, im more of a pen pusher these days handyman skills only go as far as putting up a picture frame or changing a tyre loll
you know sometimes changing a tyre can be a nightmare
Awesome.
Well done
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice work mate.
Thanks 👍
Mad, nice work🤙
thanks mate yeewww
So sick bro!!
Appreciate it!
Nice video, awesome little cabin, and that vintage wagon! 🤩
That guitar lick was super anoying, though.😂
omg I know the music is so annoying but it was my first video and I don't know how to change it now it's uploaded, believe me I would if I could I'm still learning lol
Thanks to making this video.
It's my pleasure I'm glad you liked it
Love it Greg , hope you're all good !
thankyou, I'm so sorry I've been racking my brain to remember you but I'm blank, give me a hint
Dusty mate, just worked it out.
How you been?
@@big_gypsea_life living off grid in a little cabin up near Childers and loving it !
Oh wow you left the gold coast behind!!! Are you still plastering? What's your son doing?
@big_gypsea_life Matt is still with precision doing set out and I'm 30min from our place at Childers doing traffic control on union jobs.
Really cool, thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Nice work Greg, brings back memories of my Bello days . You only do it once eh :) Cheers Mick And Vicki
hahaha thanks Mick!!!! yep definitely only do it once, though this quick bang up didn't drag the life out of me lol
Top job cob!
thankyou
Nice to see some Aussie content on UA-cam.
More to come!
Yeowwww looks good matey
thankyou
Great work, hopefully that tree beside you isn’t a problem
there's so many trees around, fingers crossed none fall over.
I like the shack.
You should have been more careful chosing the site though. Sounds like you've got an annoying neighbour with an electric guitar who won't shutup.
You should of heard how bad the repeating was when he learnt smoke on the water lol
good job, from the states.
Thankyou so much
Nice work 🤙
Thanks ✌
Cool cabin, good work, but that ol EH wagon is the bomb..!!!
Almost shed a tear, to hear that sqeaking, and see that grey dash again...
I'm guessing you must of owned a nice of eh at one point
@@big_gypsea_life Indeed...!!!
Unreal mate, makes me want to learn carpentry. Cheers
I hope you can get out there and do a bit yourself!!
Learnt heaps watching this Greg! Teale and I can’t wait to get down and check it out 🙃
Thanks Anna
Awesome. At the beginning, the camera level made bearers look horribly on the piss!! I knew they weren’t but it really messed with my OCD!🤣🤣
Grouse cabin mate. 👍🍻🎯🇦🇺
hahaha I thought the same thing when I was looking at the footage but I can gaurantee the bearers we're pretty good I checked them all with the laser and hit them with the planer where they were high.
I think it was the angle of the camera or the perspective or something but yes my mild OCD had my right eye twitching a little with that one too 🤣
Love that you used timber from the property mate.... nothing better than using what you have. How did you go getting plans past council using your owned timber?
Love the hut in the scrub, what a ball bagger. Had an EH wagon as a young fella, there wasn't a 308 that could come near me. Love another one but just a regular runner.
did you have a 308 or red 6 in yours?
@@big_gypsea_life I had a H.P. 179 with all the trimmings. Specially put together Strombergs [Dual ] fully opened up head with all restrictions to flow removed, roller rockers over a BIG mechanical cam. Can't remember the spec's but wouldn't idle under 1100 revs, balanced and crank knife edged, big volume oil pump to keep everything slippery, a setup dual point distributor and other good stuff. I was dragging an XW GT Falcon on Chesterville road in Melb one saturday morning and it spread its internals for 150 yards. I could always get a reliable 7200 rpm but obviously it didn't like 8700 was what the tacho needle stopped at. I fuckin' cried. LOL. But I won a slab of VB for best explosion.
@@chriscorrigan7420 i was an ek man , we used to drop red motors in with lh torana brake boosters for the drums to avoid the whole hr front end change over drama's , my best was an ek with HP 179 from a donor hdx2 premier with twins , used to scream off in a shower of shit ,couldn't keep diffs up to it though , we rarely fcvked with triples though some of the guys had xu1's , funny how nobody even knows what the fcvk we're even talkin about now , cheers big ears
@@billbearback2591 Triples always gave problems especially those fuckin' SU's. but they worked. Once you eventually got them right you just left them alone. The Strombergs off the XU-1's once again anything other than LJ 202 spec's they were a nightmare. I had twin old schooler's. They were made up off donor carby's. I can't remember the venturi size's now but they had the large venturi on the base the middle was next size down and the top was the smaller one and then they had the throats machined and bench flowed. The old barstard went like shit out of a shanhai. I'd love another one now but just looking nice and as a weekend driver. Watch that stump, don't kick it.
Chris, sounds like your car would of hammered!!!! My h.p block has done about 20,000kms of burnouts I reckon and over 200,000kms and still going strong, just put another diff in it.
Great work. Just hope the next bushfire doesn't take it all out.
I hope so too
Termites will take it out before then.
Me to!!!
Still built better then 80% of houses and units going up in inner city Australia at the moment, also where the f did you get white walls for the EH.
hi, the whitewalls are actually only flappers I bought off eBay because wide white 13's are way to expensive for me.
For anyone setting up string lines and using them to have exact measurements... make sure your strings are level. If they just follow the ground, you may end up with a building which isn't square, even if your string lines were square but not level.
110% right there mate
I love it! Great work fellas.
I’d build something like this on our 50 acres of bush but we’re only allowed to build a 3 by 3 and the council fly’s drones around every few years to make sure everyone complies 🫤
oh yeh there's always helicopters flying over here aswell
Love the shower on deck idea. Any a/c or heating?
And do you need to do anything to stop termites attacking the stumps/bearers/joists?
no a/c, but I have since installed a whirlie bird for summer and a small fire place for winter
Nice EH !!! Cheers.👍
yyeewwwww
Haha great vid mate. You guys sounds like Noosans.
thanks mate, I'm not sure what a noosan is though?
love it
thankyou!!!
Well done. Aussies! 🎉🎉🎉
thankyou
the exact same riff for the entirety of a 13 minute video nearly made me turn it off.
loved the vid, and the tune is a banger, but having the same thing on repeat the entire time is crazy
I know, I tried to change it but couldn't after it was uploaded
Good stuff
Glad you enjoyed
oh my god guys just look at the noncompliance everywhere maybe I should call site inspections 🤣seriously though great job better than most places here on the GC what a rad shack
haha thanks
Sick little video yewwww yeewww
yyeewww thanks
termites are going to l love those stumps should of used treated pine like you used inside the hut
I used Bloodwood which old farmers swear by, I guess I'll find out soon enough
pro af
haha thanks I think
Nice build and so fast. That would take me a year. I do worry about white ants though?
Hi,
Yes termites are always a concern especially with timber direct in the ground, I may swap out the stumps for steel in the future.
That's the Ticket 😊💜
yyeewww
Top Job mate!
You going to have septic system?
Not sure yet
A rainwater tank(long drop as well?)wouldn't go astray.
Love your attitude mate.
yeh we've since put in a water tank
@@big_gypsea_life 😁👍🏻
thats fakin sick as haha how long did it take to knock it up?
good work boys 😎🤙
thankyou, it took 8 days to get it to the point in the video and about another 2 days for the kitchenette and power.
Nice work! Col west oz 👍🏼
thanks mate
Nice retro sled.
yeh she still starts everytime and gets the job done (just)
You ve done well matey
congrats cept l m here to ogle the EH
haha getting alot of comments on the eh, sounds like I should just do videos on my cars lol
Absolutely BRILLIANT lads...is she an EH or an EJ?
eh
Mate, perfect 👌 what more does 1 or a cpl need, right?
100% goals ❤
Dam straight, maybe just a really big shed aswell lol
@@big_gypsea_life hah yep and that and a few toys inside
Yeeeew fuckin oath lad, good onya for getting out there and giving it a go. Nice work
thanks
good job boys, but how did you treat the posts in ground?
I only coated them in bitumen for now, I'll probably prop it soon and put stirrups on each posts to give a good visual termite barrier
Nice little shack.
thankyou
Where abouts you live mate? Looks fantastic.
thankyou
Good on ya..
Thanks mate
New subby here👍.wicked wagon. What part of Oz is this beautiful piece of land? I'm Nth NSW.
awesome thankyou for subscribing!!!
When you milled up yr felled trees what saws did you use? I’d love to see a milling video if you have any footage.
I used a Lucas mill, I didn't film any of the milling though because I thought it was boring and there's already heaps of Lucas mill videos on you tube
@@big_gypsea_life cheers you’ve given me a starting point .👍
Milling timber is hard work n time consuming, honestly if I had my time again I'd probably save the money on the mill and just buy the timber, unless you had a machine to move the logs (which I don't). I've probably only cut even on the mill and I milled bucket loads of my own timber for my house. If your going to buy a mill maybe try to find some one with one first and go mill for a couple days to see if it's what you want.
rad!
thanks
Love the music. Never stop rocking
oh geez, a couple minutes of that music is ok but after about the 5minute period I can't even listen anymore lol
Looks great very jealous. Looks like you didn’t char burn the posts/stumps to protect them.
oh that's a great idea, I wish I had of known that trick
@@big_gypsea_life its called shou sugi ban a Japanese technique been around for 1000s of years..
I have been pulling up fence posts that have been char burned and the wood is so solid.. other posts are not even lasting 25 years.. THe char burn logs are way over 60 years old.
I’ll have to give that a go sometime, I generally dip them in a drum of old sump oil with maybe a little deisel to help suck it into the posts. A light sprinkle of ant sand around the posts and area (from Bunnings) & can be done periodically if needed & helps keep them out of ur cabin too.
Does something like this need planning approval or does it count as a small shed? I've been thinking to build something like this as main home as its all i can afford.
you need to look into your states environmental planning policy to find out specific rules for your size land
Great job but can I interject. Good to mention all the profiles need to be in the same plane.
Yep I do remember all the profiles need to be in the same plane, i do remember being caught out with that before when I was alot younger.
Living in the bush sucks big time. Seems idyllic but it’s not. Maintenance is huge. The bush will try and destroy that structure and it never gives up.
thanks for the tip
Trying to live modern in the bush is hard let's rephrase that ..because we are supposed to live more natural..
@@FindPlace sounds good bro but that’s not reality. I mean, it’s possible, but you need good drainage and method of avoiding the leaf fall and mould. Plants just keep coming at you and you realise nature is a competition. Termites are a big problem too. The lack of air and insects, leaches. Fires. Falling branches, falling trees. The endless rain. I actually live in the bush and I’m almost ready to move to a house with paving everywhere like the Greeks, no plants, or just grass and a house.
@@big_gypsea_life you have to do it man. I did.
@@Mambojambo157yeah move to the city cause less people in the bush the better you’ll get over the city may like it for a day or two then the city problem come which are much worse than bush lol
Great set up! How long did it take you?
hi, it took 8 days to get it to lockup including milling the floor framing and sheeting the internal walls and ceiling, and another 1.5 days for the kitchen and solar setup.
@@big_gypsea_life 😳 that’s quick!
Yeh but it's only small and rough
Warm in winter, sweat box in summer! yooo ! 😂😂
yeewww, I put a whirlie bird in later on.
Music is horrendous. Best cheap cabin build on yt though- just serious doubts it'll last even 2 years with termites eating those posts in months.
hahaha I know the music is so bad but it was my first video and UA-cam won't allow me to change it now
Looks good would of added top plate on the walls . You have inspired me to build granny flat for the oldman was going to go the easy and get Atco modular lol
yeh I know it's missing the ribbon plate but it was just a quick bang up
You'll save so much doing it yourself, glad I could give you some motivation!!
Great build guys. Just wondering if on private property ? Be a shame if someone was to find it and destroy the hut. Good job.
yeh on private property mate