Off Grid Tiny Cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Wild Blueberries.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ส.ค. 2023
- Come along as we show you our tiny off grid getaway we call the "Outpost" in Michigan's U.P. From clear cut land to a thriving new forest with wild edibles and abundant wildlife around every corner. This week we found wild blueberries and a different kind of quiet.
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I’m a transplanted yooper living in Wisconsin. I was born and raised in the UP. If I were you I would think about some kind of support inside for the snow load during winter, especially if you’re close to Lake Superior. I’ve seen more than a few small cabins flatten from the snow load. Nice cabin!!!
I thought the same thing. That roof doesn't have nearly enough pitch for the winter snow load.
Not close to Superior, that’s why I went with posts 5ft OC and full 2x8 rafters on the 10ft span
Nice little cabin with a simple design that will be easy to maintain. You both will be able to enjoy that cabin for many years to come. Todd from da U.P.
We agree!
Very nice cabin. Absolutely perfect for spending days in paradise. It’s hard to beat the serenity of the UP.
Thank you! BTW are you going to the spring Bushcraft Festival? We were there two years ago, last year didn’t work out but we hopefully plan to make it this year.
@@ADifferentKindofQuiet , I’m planning on being there in 2024. I went there on a whim last year. I was in Detroit that weekend getting a house ready to sell. Decided to go last minute to meet Dave and Brooke Whipple. I had a great time. Maybe I’ll see you there.
I absolutely love what you two have created, video included. ❤🇨🇦
Thank you and thanks for watching. 😊
That is my dream. My mantra is “1 acre of Texas and a tiny house.” Working toward that goal. Thanks for showing your outpost, so peaceful 🙏
Keeping working for that goal! Thanks for watching.
Now a days Texas is being taken over by Commiefornia transplant, now a days it should be "1 acre of New Mexico/Arizona and a tiny house".
NICE SET UP! ..ENJOY😊
Thank you!
Awesome little cabin ! You can stay warm & dry when you want to get out for a weekend :) They are small but i love my wild blueberries, Good start guys :)
Thank you!
They call them Huckleberries in the UP. Great in pancakes and pies. We camped there every summer as a kid and loved those daily blueberry pancakes. Nice property.
Great job. Don’t listen to the critics that won’t ever build anything.
Thank you for your kind words and thanks for watching!!
Those small UP blueberries have so much flavor. Grew up in the UP and loved going out to get blueberries.
They sure do!
Nice cabin... I have a few acres in Ky and have a cabin. I do have the luxury of electricity. It’s nice to go do some Front Porch Sittin’ and relax a little. I’m there mostly late fall and early winter for hunting but do go for overniters every once in a while to check on things and weed eat around the cabin and my shooting shacks... I am lucky enough to have someone who cuts the fields for hay and brush hog everything else. They also take care of the road for me...
We love a good front porch! Enjoy your cabin.
Nice place! I love the wild flowers, I always pick wild flowers at our cabin and put them in a mason jar in the middle of our table. It’s the little things 😊
Spring wildflowers are amazing
Total serenity !! Beautiful 🤩
Thank you.
True on the LP stored inside. A real no no. Get it outside. And please get some heat shields or non-combustibles around the wood stove and stove pipe. Check on the minimum clearances recommended regarding wood stove to combustibles. It seems pretty close to me. And do you have a sheet metal stove pipe jack where it goes through the wall or ceiling. There is also something called the 10/2 rule. It says that any chimney that that exits a building within 10' of the peak should be a min. of 2' above the peak, for safety and draw purposes. It would be a shame to see all the work go up in smoke.
We had just moved that wood stove from our other place, the plan is to cover that whole back corner with cement board and put up rocks from the property. Thanks for your input
If watched video would’ve heard her say that the stove isn’t even installed and if looking closely you can tell that the pipe doesn’t go thru wall
I like it, you got yourselves a sweet getaway to decompress & enjoy. Btw it looks ready for a small solar system for some 12v lights & fans. Cheers 😊
Super cool little cabin!! Just bought a bit of land west of your place!! Cheers!! J & C
The U.P. Is the best! Your channel looks fun, we’ll be checking it out. Thanks so much for watching! 😊
Makes great blueberry jam
I’ll have to try that! Thanks for watching.
Adorable, love the rustic look. Enjoy ….lucky you😊
Thank you! 🤗
I just bought 8 acres in Pinal Valley Arizona (in between Phoenix and Tucson) and I'm building a 16x26 (416 Sq Feet) cabin that started out as a car and a half garage from my house in Missouri that I took apart at the 4 corners and loaded the walls and the metal roof in the moving truck when I moved. So I have to just build the base and add 2 feet to sides and put it back together, rewire it, insulate it and put the interior walls in, My kitchen is going to be where the garage door was, I'm just going to bump that part out 3 feet put in a small window and that's where my kitchen counter and cabinets will go, I don't need a HUGE kitchen because it's just my Girlfriend and I but I want the room because were going to live there full time. Were also saving room by not having a traditional oven/range, we decided on that because we all but stopped using our stove 5 years ago when we got our 9 function Air Fryer because although not huge between the Air Fryer, Microwave, Crock Pot and Pressure Cooker there's nothing we can't cook and an oven/range just takes up valuable space in a tiny cabin, yeah we can't cook a Thanksgiving Turkey or 25 lbs ham but we don't do that now anyway, even when my Gf's daughter lived with us we always bought a smaller ham or a boneless turkey breast for the holidays meals because it was just the 3 of us and there was no sense in cooking all that food.
That’s the beauty of doing it yourself. You can do whatever works for you. Happy building! And thanks for watching. 😊
Now I'm craving berries :)
They were delicious!
My buddy has a cabin with an OSB floor like yours and he covered it in random sheets of Christmas wrapping paper, then varnished over the top of that... sounds crazy but it looks cool and seems to pretty hard wearing.
Sounds fun!
Good vid. Nice place simple utility. A wall ,ounted water dispenser and a sink with a catch bucket to do dishes would be ok. Later a couple portable solar panels and a power station. All set them
This is really nice. Well thought out and efficient. Enjoy!
Thank you!
Wow, what a cool cabin. I love the use of cedar. That must smell amazing in there. I grew up in the town of Cedar, MI so I am a little partial. 😆 I was curious about the snow load too but seeing other comments it sounds like you aren’t in a lake effect belt. It’s wild how much snow amounts vary from area to area up here.
Definitely, we’re in the SE UP
Nice little cabin… I just subscribed. Can’t wait to follow your progress. Thanks for posting.
Awesome! Thank you!
I know it’s never as easy as the video makes it look. Nice work you guys! Love the “half way there” note too 😂
Thanks!
That is a really nice little cabin.
Thank you!
This is so cute! Basic and it reminds me of a little house on the prairie style bcuz it's so basic and quaint❤
I love that show! Thanks for watching.
Nice job ❤
Thank you.
i Like It!!!
Very cool! We purchased some land in tn and lived 3 years off grid in a 400 sq ft unfinished cabin with a wood burning stove. The inside and outside of your cabin was much like ours, enjoy!
We are also off grid in the Eastern Yoop…. So wonderfully peaceful. There are no blueberries around me. But…..I know where to find em.😜 cute little cabin… great place to unplug…
Thank you. We love it up there
Very nice place. Turned out nice. You will love. Area reminds me of where my place is up there. Thanks for sharing it with us
Thank you!
nice work good styling...
Thank you so much
Very nice
Thanks
Im so happy for you. I want to move up by u in a few years to retire
200sf, woodstove, no insulation; you'll still be cracking the windows and doors open!😂 Love the wood interior, great place!
Thank you!
Basically a hard sided wall tent that you don’t have to take down in the winter. Love it
Nice looking place.
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New follower and i will definitely be supporting your channel!
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I have noticed the trees up there look sick. Not like I used to remember it.
Perfect
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This 18.6 m2 cabin is as basic as it gets, but in my humble opinion adding 10cm of styrofoam insulation to the ceiling, floor and walls wouldn't definitely hurt .. it won't cost a fortune, but would greatly improve your quality of life especially in cold weather .. basically make the cabin enjoyable all year round 😉
I definitely agree and we have plans to finish the ceiling, but we currently have no way to access it in the winter. Thank you for the comment and for watching
The propane bottle in the house can kill you. You should put it outside and run the line through the wall You can’t smell the fumes but they will cause you pass out and never wake up. Beautiful location for the mini house 🏡👍🇺🇸
We are going to do that, right now we only turn it on when we use the stove
@@ADifferentKindofQuiet Yes, please make sure the propane bottle is outside before you use that woodstove. You have a very nice and cozy cabin.
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Very nice 😊
Very nice simple set up! Why do you have a second cabin on the same lot?
There is only one cabin on this property. We have another off grid cabin on a different property that we live at full time.
Well it's too bad I hadn't come across your channel sooner. As a long resident of the Rockies and a mountain man. I would have suggested a larger tipi. If I ever get to where I can obtain a plot 40 acres-a section of land I have a dream of a four tipi structure that connects as one , but from afar looks like a small village. A 26' main room two sides of 20', and a 16' off the back/ west side
Mountain man
Great little cabin. What is the music on the soundtrack?
My dream life
Nice cabin. Small. Simple. Efficient
Thank you
I actually had a deal on 80 aces up there fall through at the last moment, we could have been neighbors.
Love the UP!
Nice outpost! I just started a channel too. I subscribed to yours! It will be super toasty when the wood stove is hooked up. I believe I would insult it in the future!
We’ve talked about insulting it and how we will finish the walls if we do while maintaining the great cedar smell. 😀 Thanks for subscribing! What is your channel?
Hi Dan & Barb...new subscriber here! Is the
It’s true for our township, more than likely the same for most. It goes by townships
I'm thinking this is a sign🤔 lol...I've rented a home for 10 yrs, they are now selling and I need to move out very soon. However, I refuse to get rid of my cat and dog, my cat is 13 and my dog is 5. I'm from the UP and this came up on TH-cam while searching for an idea. 200 Sq ft without a permit you say🤔🤣 thanks for posting! Looks very cozy. Wish me luck🤞
My family and I moved off grid in the lower peninsula in a beautiful wooded area.. the area that we move to the County and Township is very much off grid a lot of people.. right now I am in an RV but I love your simple build I could do it myself even at 60 but believe it or not I'm stumped about one thing and I have an old stove that I traded for an old dryer and I'm not sure how to hook it up safely and I see that you have one is there any chance you could help me figure this out.. I want to put it in my outdoor kitchen for my canning kitchen..please your advice would help me so much..
Without looking at it that would be hard to tell. First thing to make sure is that the stove is set up for LP gas, then you should be able to buy the hose and regulator from your local hardware store
@@ADifferentKindofQuiet yes it's definitely propane his whole house was propane.. he took the connection out of the back of the stove it's an older magic chef no electric to it I did find out that it was a half inch so I bought a 1/2 inch OD fittings 1/2" FIP with a 1/2" MIP and tapped 3/8 " Fip the 1/2 inch fits ..it's from there I'm not sure what to buy.. I know the yellow gas tube hosing the metal ones won't fit on a propane tank and I wasn't sure if the rubber ones would from like a Mr Buddy extension hose would?
How many acres y'all have. You need to get a drone so we can see everything
Very good video I really enjoyed this one but I got to ask a question is there any more of that beautiful land up there for sale if so please get ahold of me I would really be interested in buying something cheap up there thank you very much thanks for the very very good beautiful video
You have to be fast when looking for land in the U.P. and be ready to make your offer. It’s also not as cheap as it used to be. Things go quickly. If I see anything though I’ll send it your way! Thanks for watching! 😊
@@ADifferentKindofQuiet hell yeah sweet thank sir
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Do you have to drill a well?
This is a remote dry cabin with too many rocks to do a sand point well so we will depend on rainwater and bringing water with us.
Are we there yet ?
Almost
How do you keep mice out?
We didn’t last winter. They ate a whole rug. 😳Trying more mouse proofing this year with a big bucket trap.
How about thimbleberries?
Finding more and more every year.
I love to eat thimbleberries
Have you found any? Lake Linden Chassell Houghton area
If you can see say, where are you located? I Love the U.P..
There's no place like this.
GOD'S COUNTRY 💖✨✨🌟🀄🛐🛐🛐🙏 I know you are very BLESSED being here.
We’re in the Eastern UP. I picked a bunch of thimbleberries last week. I love ‘em!
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needs wild animals, moose, bears, deers... skunks and raccoons...
We’ve seen all of those plus wolves. The moose are a little hard to find but they’re there. 😀
Nothing is good
Rogers city Michigan here and a very nice cabin you guys have there 👍👍👍🇺🇸
Thank you!
I could live there full time away from every body and everything would be happy to live and die there HEAVEN
We’re working towards that!
Great little cabin. What is the music on the soundtrack?
Cooper’s Island by Martin Klem