Absolutely awesome! I love watching how you use what's available and maybe not of use to someone else to make something so very useful! You have given me some very good ideas over the years and I continue to marvel at your ingenuity! Thank you so much for sharing. Have a wonderful day!
Yup, definitely the channel I've gained the most from over the years. Been watching since I first got into gardening and permaculture 10+ years ago. Guided a lot of my dirt time experiments. Now they serve as reminder for my lifestyle goals. I don't want to live exactly like them of course, I have all sorts of different ideas I feel passionately interested in trying out when I get land, but Sean sure helped me explore that process, great teacher. Now I'm a mature gardener with years of experience, ready to take things to the next level like they have for years :)
Thanks for the share! I'm planning on a similar endeavor in the next year or two and have inadvertently been gathering the materials through other projects. Really cool to see how functional an idea so simple can be. Wishing you a happy and warm holiday season
Ya dude, we need as many ongoing natural gardening projects in the world as possible. Each one is like a seed of resiliency. I'm dedicatedly saving to buy some raw land and make a natural orchard garden and share a lot of the future food and teach volunteers how to garden. My life changed when I tasted a perfectly ripe heirloom tomato on a caprese because I hated tomatoes from the store. The flavor difference blew my mind, catalyzed getting into permaculture and natural gardening\farming. I like the minimal approaches, like Masanobu Fukuoka and Ruth Stout. This channel is great, taught me a lot over many years.
That shed on the side of your house is sweet. It's like a house to me. I'm renting a similar but smaller space behind a friend's house this winter. I could rent a room inside instead but I like the daily adventure of sleeping in the cold. These structures show how cheap and easy it is to build versatile shelter. I'm drawn to bent sapling domes and high tunnels. I wonder about making them from willow and hanging tarps from within, that's my dream shelter right now but don't know if it would work well. Gotta try it :)
'Benders' those are called... I was drawn to that concept for a while as well. We'd all do well to start learning all the ways to make simple, small, efficient structures out of local materials for the sake of community resilience and land partnership. A $30,000 home for each person on a land project is prohibitive but a nice common home for the coldest moments for the collective and micro housing doing double duty of storage in winter and cover in summer is so reasonable. We need more examples!
Same to you and thank you so kindly for the lovely gift! We just got it and will be finding a nice place to hang it in our home. Very thoughtful and thank you for being part of our extended community here we appreciate you!
Top notch. That one pole used for the shelf is throwing off the natural “boing” of the roof. Counterintuitive to think but the extra upright could weaken the structure over time. It’s beautiful but it wants to enjoy some flex. I would simply detach let freestand. I’m not an engineer so I could be wrong
I wonder how true that is but I will keep it in mind. I'm not sure I'd want much 'boing' with the roof! I'd like a little give but intuitively having something upright provide a 'stop' for downward pressure if there was some astronomically large/wet snow load on the roof seems prudent to me...
built a very similar leanto style shed this fall myself. someone was throwing away a garage door that was 16x10 that's my roof it's built pretty similarly other than that, and I did cover it with a heavy duty PVC tarp to help with water shedding and snow loads
It would last longer if you had peeled all of the logs! A big mistake people make is leaving that bark on timbers. Even if you keep them dry, it will invite bugs and decay, which are attracted to the layer just under the bark by humidity.
I get the concern and it definitely seems to be best practice *and* I have a few structures that are 15+ years old with unpeeled ash logs that still look OK, but why not do the best thing for it?
Absolutely awesome! I love watching how you use what's available and maybe not of use to someone else to make something so very useful! You have given me some very good ideas over the years and I continue to marvel at your ingenuity! Thank you so much for sharing. Have a wonderful day!
Thanks so much!
GRKs are worth the money, absolutely love em
Your my favorite you tuber ......I always look forward to watching your videos !!
Yup, definitely the channel I've gained the most from over the years. Been watching since I first got into gardening and permaculture 10+ years ago. Guided a lot of my dirt time experiments. Now they serve as reminder for my lifestyle goals. I don't want to live exactly like them of course, I have all sorts of different ideas I feel passionately interested in trying out when I get land, but Sean sure helped me explore that process, great teacher. Now I'm a mature gardener with years of experience, ready to take things to the next level like they have for years :)
Thanks, that's very kind of you!
It is such a delight to see how you recycle & repurpose.
So glad!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the share! I'm planning on a similar endeavor in the next year or two and have inadvertently been gathering the materials through other projects. Really cool to see how functional an idea so simple can be. Wishing you a happy and warm holiday season
Ya dude, we need as many ongoing natural gardening projects in the world as possible. Each one is like a seed of resiliency. I'm dedicatedly saving to buy some raw land and make a natural orchard garden and share a lot of the future food and teach volunteers how to garden. My life changed when I tasted a perfectly ripe heirloom tomato on a caprese because I hated tomatoes from the store. The flavor difference blew my mind, catalyzed getting into permaculture and natural gardening\farming. I like the minimal approaches, like Masanobu Fukuoka and Ruth Stout. This channel is great, taught me a lot over many years.
Happy building to you when things align!
That shed on the side of your house is sweet. It's like a house to me. I'm renting a similar but smaller space behind a friend's house this winter. I could rent a room inside instead but I like the daily adventure of sleeping in the cold. These structures show how cheap and easy it is to build versatile shelter. I'm drawn to bent sapling domes and high tunnels. I wonder about making them from willow and hanging tarps from within, that's my dream shelter right now but don't know if it would work well. Gotta try it :)
'Benders' those are called... I was drawn to that concept for a while as well. We'd all do well to start learning all the ways to make simple, small, efficient structures out of local materials for the sake of community resilience and land partnership. A $30,000 home for each person on a land project is prohibitive but a nice common home for the coldest moments for the collective and micro housing doing double duty of storage in winter and cover in summer is so reasonable. We need more examples!
Thanks for sharing
My pleasure
Always enjoy your videos ;) Got my winter bundle plants heeled in today, in the snow, in 20 something degrees ;)
Yesss! We love the challenge of planting in colder moments, makes it feel like you can plant most of the year round!!!
OMGOSH, I ❤❤ the build ‼️. We are very repurpose/reuse minded.
Merry Christmas 🎄 🎉
Like minds
💕more loveliness
Happy Solstice
Same to you and thank you so kindly for the lovely gift! We just got it and will be finding a nice place to hang it in our home. Very thoughtful and thank you for being part of our extended community here we appreciate you!
You and I would get along fine because I'm a we might use that guy also 😊
I bet we would!
Top notch. That one pole used for the shelf is throwing off the natural “boing” of the roof. Counterintuitive to think but the extra upright could weaken the structure over time. It’s beautiful but it wants to enjoy some flex. I would simply detach let freestand. I’m not an engineer so I could be wrong
I wonder how true that is but I will keep it in mind. I'm not sure I'd want much 'boing' with the roof! I'd like a little give but intuitively having something upright provide a 'stop' for downward pressure if there was some astronomically large/wet snow load on the roof seems prudent to me...
I love GRK fasteners been buying them for a few years now but yeah they are definitely expensive
built a very similar leanto style shed this fall myself. someone was throwing away a garage door that was 16x10 that's my roof it's built pretty similarly other than that, and I did cover it with a heavy duty PVC tarp to help with water shedding and snow loads
GRK has become our favorite for strength and simplicity.
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I had a toy horse like that in the early 70s. They'd never make something like that today. Springs will pinch you if you're not careful.
Yeah, she'll get some pinches with it but probably will have more fun than pinch and so the ratios seem good :)
It would last longer if you had peeled all of the logs! A big mistake people make is leaving that bark on timbers. Even if you keep them dry, it will invite bugs and decay, which are attracted to the layer just under the bark by humidity.
I get the concern and it definitely seems to be best practice *and* I have a few structures that are 15+ years old with unpeeled ash logs that still look OK, but why not do the best thing for it?