Saving My Forest from FOREST FIRES! | Varnishing Log Cabin Floor, Duck's Are Laying!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2021
- I bought a new rake implement for my tractor that will help me remove the pine needles building up on the forest floor threatening to cause a forest fire. I also apply varnish to the installed hardwood floor of the off grid log cabin and show off the duck eggs!
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Sipping my morning coffee and the notification for an upload from Modern Self Reliance dings. Oh boy, let us see what Kevin has been up to this week. It's like when I was a kid back in the 70's/80's and the Saturday morning cartoons were on television.
I can't agree with you more!
cartoons cannot hold a candle to Kevin
I think about the time I started hearing "The power of Greystroke" being mentioned on telly, I'd wondered why Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner weren't good enough anymore and gave cartoons up. Moving somewhere with only one blurry tv channel helped a lot too. Daily fishing managing to get me out of bed much earlier than the weekend cartoons ever had... plus I had work to get back to start later.
Can you believe they made an excuse that they were too violent for TV. Now looks at what's on TV
Good work guys. I recall painting my house 20 years ago with a roller and a long stick. I used a telescope stick reaching up to eight meters. My neighbors came out several times to see what I was doing since that method is not really common here. They must have had a good laugh but I did not care. I managed to paint all the walls twice with that reaching the highest boards too and no scaffolding was needed at all. That was a success.
Paint polls are indeed the unsung heros in painting!
Kevin you are really amazing. The fact that you take the time to go over the comments is really appreciated! It's always fun to get a reply. Even though you don't know us, we follow you and enjoy those nice snippets of your life. Thank you so much!
I'm happy you enjoying the ride so far!
@@ModernSelfReliance Of course! Keep 'em coming!
He won't see this one though.
@@MattLaClear You are not very good at reading are you?
@@MattLaClear I see everything!
A tip that may prevent losing your shackle (clevis?) in the future. If the pin has a hole in it on the handle part run a piece of bailing wire through and loop it around the body of the shackle. this should prevent it from turning and if it doesn't it should at least keep them together when it falls off.
Good advice on what products to own (buying what your friends can maintain)!
Good advice on maintenance, buy what friends have so they can give you advice! probably the smartest thing I've heard today!
woooooow that floor looks way too nice now
I use a disc to turn the forest litter under and then a harrow or drag to smooth it out. I enjoy your humor and projects. I'm almost eighty now and have lived in the woods most of my life. You are every age, you have ever been. You are all of those birthdays. Feed the child in you. "It's good to be the king". (Mel Brooks)
Just finishing watching Shawn James, and straight to Kevin.... It's a good Saturday morning
Same!!
@@saner6888 Me too!
Check out “The Outsider” great show to watch if you enjoy watching Shawn and Kevin.👍
@@scottewen2522 Most definitely! I watch all three. However, Kevin is the most Entertaining and "off the cuff" creating of the bunch 🤣😂😄😆😅👌. All the best!
Yep, gotta be crazy not to love Shawn and Kevin's videos.
Will you be varnishing the door as well? It is a gorgeous project. Actually, all your projects are amazing and inspiring (stone oven, square cabin, sauna, root cellar, etc..!
Yes, that will be a project for another day.
You make us feel important by reading and answering the comments
It's the least I can do!
good forest management really helps reduce forest fires. cleaning up fallen and standing dead wood makes a huge difference. good job.
I think you’ll be able to rake better when the pine needles and debris dry up. Beautiful floor, and cabin, and door. Every thing is beautiful!
Kevin the floor on the cabin is just absolutely beautiful you did an amazing job on it!
Dwayne is an awesome instructor and you are blessed with awesome friends!
14:43 Priceless sock style! Two in one! That is one Great looking floor!
Pine needles make great compost since they don't make great anything else. A compost fertilized forest is a happy forest. Plus maybe all your stuff won't burn down like the smoker. Love the floor. Two coats would be better for the bears when they come nosing around looking for a place to hang out. Can't wait to see the next adventure,
Good to know!
I agree. But, their acidity keeps most things from growing. Rhododendrons and hydrangea love them. Ide their needs cut ground cover under plants.
Push bar made from a log they clean up bush tracks with them in NZ 🇳🇿. Put a sturdy log or plank of thick wood on the front of tractor ( tractor forks ) like a snow plow and you push debris to the side get rid of it as you wish. 👍😎✌️🇳🇿
That floor looks insane. It's gonna be awesome when finished in there.
Compost the pine needles and plant some blueberries!
Pineneedles take a long time to break down. If you were to bail them up you could make pine straw buildings.
So refreshing to see folks tightening wheel nuts using the proper sequence. Good on ya.
Whenever my wife needs a new phone or laptop or something, I get her the same model that I have so I know I can fix it. It's a solid approach. Fleet maintenance! I think I am going to start making her pay in maple syrup!
Solid plan. it's also useful when either one of the break down completely you have one for spare parts.
@@aFishNamedPete Then in this world of everyone being equal, she can fix it herself.
I would be super grateful for any mam repairing things for me. IMO, brainwashing has confused most men. They are designed to be romantic, strong warriors that take care of their families.
Matching socks not important I feel same way !
It's ok. He has another pair just like it at home. 🙃
I just noticed that.
Great job on the maintenance of the tractor. That floor looked great before but wow 😯 now. Great job.
The cabin floors are absolutely gorgeous!! Nice job!! Thank you for another Saturday morning video I can fully enjoy with my morning coffee. I almost didn’t watch it this morning and save for later because my baby son graduated college from Rolla (electrical engineering) and I still have some last minute odds and ends to finish before family comes for the party. Of course, I couldn’t wait. I can’t start off my Saturday morning without. Ya know Kevin, I think it’s going to take a long time to clear out all those needles. I don’t envy you on that. You will have to let us know. Too bad COVID happened because I would have loved to take a detour up to Canada on my way out to Saratoga Lake, NY for my summer camp this year, and my passport is expired. Remember the good ol days where a liscence sufficed. Anyway, always great to see your videos. You were meant for this. God bless!
As for preventing forestfires, removing the dead lower lims of the trees prevents fires from getting of the ground and into the tree tops.
*lost a cotterpin*.... #CursingInTheWoodsWithKevin 🤬🤦🏼♂️🤣😵
Good Morning brother, I liked maintenance, working on my tools, it's not work, I found it relaxing, enjoying your channel as usual, stay safe, peace my friend.
All I can say about the cabin floor after the varnish is... Wow! When you lost the cotter pin, I was sure it was going to be the next episode of 'Swearing in the Woods with Kevin', but Mother Nature smiled on you for taking good care of the forest. :)
Interested to see you add material between the logs. Floor looks great.
There's a trick for fuzzy rollers where you wrap the roller with tape and then pull it off and the fuzziness if gone and you have a good clean fresh roller.
Hola! Kevin, I really enjoy watching your videos, I truly do, so thanks for that! It's nice to see someone who lives on the other side of the continent (I'm from Argentina) and see how he/they connect with the forest and everything that surrounds it. I can't wait to see what you're going to build next!
Glad you like them!
For the pine needles only other thing that might
Work is to plough the ground. But it would probably take a few passes to plough the ground up enough.
What a great change from dirt floor of very nice wood ! 😊👍💕💕💕
Those floor planks are just wow!
The cabin floor looks great! Here ln Virginia they love pine straw mulch.
I've was watching that on a reno-show and thinking... I've got that.. We use wood chips generally.
You might need to rent a small skid steer to get in between the trees with the tongs on the bucket. You could rake and pile. And, maybe dig a big hole and bury them. x x x
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If you make a temporary deck with an overhang, you can technically get away with calling it an inside project while also being outside! Also, going straight from outside mud/dirt to a nice clean, newly varnished floor can give you a hard time long term 👍 hope this helps
Oh the floor is so nice! Yay alls well that ends well !!
on our farm, any time we used a drag implement, like a blade or your rake, we would put a few big cinder blocks on it to help it really sink down into the material. that rake has several big holes along the width, you could easily make a simple tray to plop some blocks on it. that way it wouldnt want to roll over the pine floor as much, it would dig a little more methinks.
That floor looks Great ! I will have to remember that on.
Love the floor and the ducks
That floor looked so much nicer!
Sometimes it's easier to work a land rake backwards, turn the blade 180° and push in reverse kinda like a bulldozer. Doesn't work for every situation but I reckon it leaves a cleaner finish. Floor of the cabin looks gr8 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🍳💪
Learning curve for sure, I'll spin it around and give it a go.
Get yourself and incubator you can fill your freezer with ducks. We lived in an old house in the UK. The gaps where the old floors boards were stuffed with hemp rope after the had shrunk. Worked well and looked cool. The floor looks nice with the varnish. Ha I want a tractor but I only have a garden lol. Lucky you found the part that come off.
That floor in the cabin was beautiful ........great job 👍👍
I love how if one project can't be done you can switch and adapt to do something else instead of just quitting like most people would of done. I'm kinda the same way. Especially if I'm sick. I can't stand laying in bed feeling awful. I'm more productive minded (I might not get as much done physically but I'd rather be moving than not), even if I'm not physically able to work hard. But I'm rarely ever sick so yeah I get things done but I try to pick the easy fun stuff first and keep putting off the icky hard stuff, hoping for help to come by and save me lol! Much love from So.Cal.💟
Great video, thanks again!
I think once you have the path cleared of trees it will be better. Practice makes perfect so keep at it and find your groove with it. You have the right idea to get the trees out of the way too.
Cheers!🍻
That floor is beautiful! I love natural wood grain.🤩 Your socks reminded me of my boyfriend and my daughter neither one of them wear matching socks but the kicker is that they both like wild and funky socks. I'll let you imagine what that looks like 😂 Pine needles make soil acidic so use all of that goodness in your gardens that have acid loving plants. I'll be using my own for some new blueberry bushes. I liked this video and how you adapted to the weather; I'm still wondering if you're going to put in a vapor barrier 🤔😊 Have a great week Kevin and hug those beautiful girls of yours! ✌💜🐖💨
Taking advantage of the good weather for the time being. Perhaps another rain day I'll scoot under the cabin and install the vapour barrier.
Mark what a beautiful floor, more beautiful then mine,LOL! You did a great job!
Great video my friend. Glad you posted keep them coming.
He told us to comb the forest so we're combing it!
Find anything?
We found the Cotter pin sir!
heh spaceballs
Think were being to literal?
The floor in you log cabin is gorgeous I’d have it in my home 😍
That floor turned out really nice.
Kevin , Thanks for getting back to me about the wood, wish I lived closer get some maple syrup made by you hahaha!!! Love that door window it is a SCREAM long time ago that was the going word for people in the TEENAGE YRS hahaha . Like the floor Kevin GREAT JOB!!!
Wonderful!
Puerto Rico USA
Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Norway
Great idea to use the mats on the tractor fixing.
the floors look amazing.
Good morning Kevin and Dwayne from Melville Saskatchewan have a blessed day
from the Netherlands thanks for the video
a grapple or clamp on forks might be really handy, that would let you handle the bigger stuff without having to get off the tractor.
Keep up the good work Kevin, I’ve enjoyed watching your content from the very beginning when you first started YouTubing.
Thinning out your pines will create new floor growth. The sun need to hit the ground! Raking the needles might help speed up that process but your initial efforts must be to get the sun down there. Also, decomposing organic matter on the ground floor (downed trees, pine needles ect.) increases the soils biodiversity to encourage new growth. The fine line on when to help nature in preventing a forest fire is in the hands of the land owner and that my friend is you! Love the channel
I agree with thinning.
Man that floor looks good! Great work!
Ever think of building an ice house? With the pond you can cut and draw ice in the winter to supply it.
You are a good man sir. You know the number 1 man code. Feed your help good and they will be your help for life. These new-age people don't understand the code of manhood.
That floor turned out great.
Good idea buying the same as your mechanics. Not only do they know what will go wrong with the machines, they know the ones that need the least amount of maintenance.
IDK why but saturday mornings are always a rough one for me and this is the only way to turn it around
You could put it in the pine needles in a container and force air through them and like them on fire and burn them up
glad you decided to keep the ducks instead of eating them lmao
Let them hatch a family...and you will soon have more ducks (if you can protect them.)
👍Just glad you decided to keep the ducks, Not LMAO.
You missed the varnish on the right side with the brush (left side from the door view). Then left it dry two or 3 inches or a billion millimeters or so, (whatever they are) with the roller. I know you'll go back and get it later, but just in case you didn't notice, lol. Excellent teaching, by the way.
Sweep the pine needle duff into spaces with 10 feet between them, then periodically burn the needle-piles one at a time
That way you're simulating the natural fire patterns without lighting the whole forest on fire
Maintenance is key for almost everything mechanical, and drinking a few beers doing maintenance helps greatly, a different beers helps too.
we had some delicious fountain pop.. ;-)
@@ModernSelfReliance Soda isn't Molson Golden.
if you don't have any bailing wire to snare the shackle you can use a zip tie as a temp snare slip through the eye of the shackle bolt and threw the main body of the shackle tying them both together you wont have to worry about losing them.
That's beautiful!!!🤗
Kevin, the channel is Awesome. Keep the videos coming. Than you
productive episode. glad you got the tractor sorted out and the cabin is looking great. funny story the family across the road from me here in a quebec town close to ottawa randomly saw your evaporator video and was trying to copy it. i couldn't help but notice the design around the half way point of them cutting through the oil tank they picked up. they asked me for help since i can weld and put it together for them i mentioned your channel to confirm and told them i was a regular viewer got a couple mason jars of syrup out of it. have to love our small world and a delicious synchronicity's.
Indeed a small world!
5:55 I lasered a new frame for the radiator screen.
A few years of use, the old one started to rip. The screen seems to be too thin to weld back to the filter frame. I tried.
Maybe you should torch it clean & solder or epoxy. Add some 12ga wire on the sides from top to bottom.
Basically, this filter screen is too weak to be moved repeatedly.
16:57 Ah that's a beautiful floor.
19:05 "Like finding a needle in a hay stack" Easiest way is to burn the haystack. Glad you found it so quick.
Gorgeous floor!!
That tractor rake is what I need I have so much forest litter on my place. Trying to burn as much as I can but you can only do so much in a small controlled burn.
Excellent work.
Pine needles help to mulch and retain moisture and make trees healthy. I’d just open a few square feet and plant what you want. Limbing the trees up will help reduce forest fires. My opinion.
Floor looks great Kevin 👍. Full Stop!
Yes,been waiting on your new vids.Thank you.
Pine needle are good to compost. Make a big pile and turn it every few months. Free loam in a few years.
Yay I was literally sitting here refreshing your page
Floor looks great
I knew that boiler design would catch on. Love to see it grow!
Beautiful color on the floor!
That floor is not a piano, it's better!! 💪👍😎🍻
Awesome floor👌 thanks for another great lesson👍😇🗽🇺🇸
Nice work on the floor. Clever, buying what you know can be fixed (helped with) by others. Never forget to grease all the grease points.
Oh, I remember what I was going to tell you. I watch a lot of machinists. They can usually make parts for at least half the price or the big name manufacturers. I see these massive big pieces of steel turned down to parts for CATs and all sorts of massive machines. I wondered a long time why they didn't buy a new one until the machinist dropped that nugget of truth, plus the extended time and OEM part takes to arrive. Seems the manufacturers have to have them made too, most of the time.
Wow, that floor looks nice! I noticed a few gaps forming in floor, will you fill those in? What will you be using to chink with? Great to have helpful friends 😊. I love the cabin door window, you are so creative. I chuckled when I could see the maple syrup distiller in the background, it looks like a huge baby cradle! That syrup looks amazing. Glad to see the ducks doing well. Love your channel ❤. Peace and good fortune and good health to you and your family and friends. 👍
Love ur content amazing as always
You should tarp the needles for composting. You could make some side coin selling organic forest mulch or put it in your own garden. Just spitballin it here.
damn good show today kevin. keep um coming. thanks
My favorites time of the week
I can’t wait to see how you fill in gaps between the logs