Hey Jay i work in construction! There is a very easy way to make your tent very rigid and sturdy! Add pieces of 2x4 halfway down horizontally on your rafters, about 6" above your head! You will be amazed at the difference it's going to make!

Always put up a tent with the zipper closed. 30 years in the Canadian military with multiple arctic deployments. If you forget this rule, a thick flannel/wool blanket over the door will suffice at keeping the wind out/heat in. Good job though, really enjoying the progress.

I would also hang a fire blanket on the wall behind the stove for protection and reflection of heat, that is what i do with mine...

Awesome video Jay!!! Really needed to watch something that just took my mind off of everything going on in the world. Thank you.

You need to get a fan on the stove to move the heat around to tent. This way it circulates to cold air towards the stove and moves the warm air out from the stove,

I love how this is turning out! This will be more like a mini cabin when you have finished. Good on ya!

Measure twice, cut once.... Dont worry, adjusting smaller is better than the other option. Good job!

Don't feel bad. I've cut the same board 5 or 6 times and it was still too short.

Love how it's coming along keep up the good work

I did the same thing once. Put everything up very loosely after measuring the inner seams of the the tent, and adjusted the frame from inside with the zipper closed. I will be making a tent cabin soon again...

No experience? I wouldn't say that. Learning by doing is a great school. You are adding a lot of knowledge to o what Mike Rowe calls KZfaq University. Thank you

I love seeing people cooking and winter camping because i can't do that right now but one day i hope so and your videos make me won't to do it and looks like alot of fun

We use a 14x16 wall tent for our hunting camp in the Adirondack mountains, same tent for 50+ years . What we did was built 2’ high walls of 2x2 ‘s and metal roofing . Took 2 flat concrete blocks one at east end got steel pipe and made ridge pole with screw together parts and feet. Then we put tent up and built like horse railing on both sides to tie sides to , once we had tent where we wanted it then we built 2x4 frame and peek fasten tent to walls on outside with hooks and tent grommets horse rails cemented in and eves tied to that . Took steel ridge pole out and shorten it up for fly to make cover porch . Stove is a barrel stove laid down so can put long wood in and up to 10” in diameter,we can load it up and lasts all night if needed but there is always someone up and checks it . Bunk beds can sleep 8 people, cook stove is top part of apartment stove , table, milk crates for chairs , nice saw dust ( planer shaving’s ) for floor

Use some logs to build a bunk bed to put yourself up were the heat is. Build it stout the logs will absorb heat and then give back to the air as the air temperature falls. It's called thermal mass. Anything you add table or chair can be made with logs even a stack of bricks or blocks between the stove and the tent wall will heat up when the stove is hot and then give back the heat as the air temperature falls. Ultimately insulation in the walls and ceiling would roast you out of there. But adding framing such as log timbers to the frame will definitely add strength and thermal mass. I sure wish I could pitch my eureka Summit tent nearby and give you some schooling on timber framing. Have a wonderful day and thanks again Jay.

Love the oven. Still think you need cables to tie the walls together. The cables will prevent the walls from going out under snow load and you can use the cables like clothes line.

Great video Jay. Close up the front of the tent and have the door open inward. Then you can zip and clip the tent before you shut your wooden door. I hope this helps. Jay stay safe and healthy. Preach physical distancing. Thanks

Two pork loin-topped with stuffing and cream O' mushroom soup - bake for about 20 minutes at around 350 F - my wife calls it Plebeian Pork and absolutely loves it - something simple for you to make and it tastes delicious

Nice work! I like the cozy cooking as well, and the steaming hot coffee with French press ☕️

I like ur tent. It finally close. Good job

Great job. It looks really nice. I love the snow and camping. Thanks!!

You should have more rafters or next winter your roof will cave in.

I love your tenacity Jay! You're a hard worker and problem solver! Really like what you did there! I'm impressed! God bless you Jay! Wishing you and your family a peaceful and safe weekend.

You need to leave that "temporary" 2x4 in the middle of the tent, two of them. To hold the ridge pole in position, especially under snow load. Trust me I've pitched canvas tents a thousand times over decades. In 40 mph winds, driving sleet; lost tents in tornadoes. And put some wind lines over it, or you will be sorry. To keep warm in those Temps you need a double wall tent, add a second layer of canvas inside those 2x4's.

Coming along nicely! It sure is nice to have good friends and especially friends that are there when you really need them. I would hang on to these two as they are not easy to come by. The oven seems to work great. Great video, as usual! Looking forward to the next one.

A nice camp you've created, good job! I like how much light the white tent gives, a definite plus.

Another great video my friend! Keep em coming as I can only play so many games! I love the plywood on the sides...super move as I did the same type of thing. On the front door, I used plywood on both sides and left a 40” opening in the middle. I then took another piece of plywood 50” long and put on a handle on the middle part and created a slider. I kept in place by putting 2/4 on floor for a trac and then just added hooks at the top on both sides. The overlap was 5” each side! Stay Safe! Stay Healthy!

Hi Jay hope this find you well and staying safe as I am thank you for the video my brother I appreciate it

Home sweet tent! Thanks for the videos :)

For the front of tent cut some plywood at 24" get some hinges and make braces to slide over ends. Brace is 2x4 ( 2 pieces) with plywood strip in middle. Stand the board up slip it on. Or no hinges and more braces. Ounce built stores in corner. 24" so you can use only need one sheet.

Hello and Good Day Jay ☺☕ nice work on your tent ... I've been showing your show to some of my friends and we all are in agreement with what your doing ..... and we think you should continue building it till it's a Cabin .... add more 2x4 s on all walls till you have 16 in centers so you can install insulation as well as finishing the walls and roof with with plywood and adding more rafters ..... soon your tent will become a true cabin .... with this type of framing you will be able to put cabinets in as well ..... have fun Brother and keep up the good work .... for you to have done this in such extreme weather speaks Volumes of the man you are .☺☕🏆

Awesome job Jay! Enjoy it now

Well done u!!! Hope you have many adventures in this wee paradise you have made . Good luck making more videos for us! Take care x

You did it! I'm so excited, I knew you would! Ever since I saw the video of your first night with the stove and you smoked yourself out... and you came back 😊. I have no doubts about you. Can't wait to see what you come up with next!

A few simple things could improve things quite a bit. 1) Add a thermal fan to your oven. It will circulate the heat inside the tent and it uses no power. 2) Add a reflector behind your oven. You could even see some improvement with a simple space blanket! 3) Add some thermal mass to your oven. Get a few bits of flat steel and some brackets, and you can make a rack that can hold some bricks along the sides of the oven. 4) Fasten the bottom of the tent to the frame/platting. 5) Get some cheap insulation (anything is better than nothing). Put it on the roof and walls and put some cheap canvas on the inside. 6) You don't really need the full width opening in the front. Make some more framing on both sides of the opening, leaving a door in the middle. You can of course also make a simple door on the inside of the tent. This will both make your frame more solid and avoid the heat leaking out! 7) Bring a lot of wood and cut it up next time you are going to the tent. In the future you should have a large stack ready to go for any visits, as it can be deadly if you have to gather firewood in an emergency.

I think it came out great! Many of us are sitting here home wishing we were there. Don’t listen to the haters. You enjoy and keep on experimenting! - -Rob from the states.

Wow.....that has really come together nicely !!! Phenomenal job. And the satisfaction of doing it yourself is priceless. Way to go Jay !! 👍🏻👍🏻

Nice job Jay. Well done!

Hi There, So tips on the Coleman Oven. 1) buy a terracotta plant pot dish to place in the bottom. It help distribute the heat better. 2) Wrap the top and sides with Aluminum foil. helps to retain the heat and moderate the temperature better. Both I do with mine.

Great setup 💖 Great little stove with everything you cook looking delicious 💯

Really coming together. It will be as comfortable as all hell. I have never been a fan of stove jack through roof vs through side wall as I like the option of a tent fly in summer plus reduce embers landing on top of tent.

I bought a 10x12 canvas tent with 6’ side walls and 9’ ridge. After watching videos I decided to use a ridge beam to support tent with 2x4 walls. Tent was larger at bottom which was weird but tent fits. It’ll hold snow load no problem, at least a couple ft.

Your DIY adventure is a good learning tutorial for yourself as well as others. Not being afraid to take that first step and then being willing to share it with rest of us is great. It is starting to come together @nd I’m happy for you.

Loving the progress so far. It’s really coming along. Here’s a thought for your doorway, use the folding door method that you can lock into place on a night and fold it away to the sides during the day. Basically like a room divider. It would keep the cold out from the bottom of the doorway. Also attaching it to the frame would be good. Keep up the good work

If I had a set up like that ,I would straight up live out in the woods forever. Away from the noise of people and vehicles.

also in addition consider building a vestibule or porch as you enter the tent any heat escaping is caught and any wind trying t get in is prevented so you have a place to change and store wood etc. Like a small mud porch if you will

Amazing Jay way to adapt and overcome. You figured out the problem with the door and now it’s getting it set up the way you want, makes me want to go build one of my own in the woods. Inspiring to say the least can’t wait to see the finished product.

Takes a real genius to set up a tent for sure..

First off the tent looks GREAT! Secondly, I've been baking in the Coleman oven for probably 25 years. I love it. I've looked to see if there is anything better out on the market and have never found anything better. I put two fire bricks on the bottom to hold heat in. One mod I made to mine 2 years ago was I bought a fairly cheap welding blanket and drape it over three sides of the oven to get more even heating. I'd highly recommend the fire brick or a small pizza stone, the blanket was because I've used my oven so much it just wasn't tight anymore. Please post anything else you bake. I've enjoyed going on this journey with you while sitting in front my wood burning stove!😊

4x8 sheets of foil backed foam on the ceiling would go a long way to keeping heat in and wood consumption down. I know in an earlier video you said you weren't allowed a hard roof. If that's a concern with foil backed foam, then the foil bubble sheets may be a better option.

You did it!! Good job!!

Jay ... Love your guts and gumption with this build!!! Love where you are going with your cabin tent!!! Thoroughly enjoyed the video!!! Keep em coming!!! Take care, be safe and God bless you and yours from me and mine!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas, USA. 🤠

With how cold it’s getting, I suggest filling the walls with foam insulation board. You can get the denser stuff at about $30 USD for 1”x4’x8’. “ is for inches and ‘ is for feet, in case anyone was wondering.

So excited for you. It is great to see you have it ready for use. Now we get to see you using it, instead of just building it. I hope you and your family are safe and healthy.

Get some of the plywood sheets and line the interior room inside. It will help strengthen the framing and retain the heat inside. Trail and error are good teachers at times.

Really looking good Jay, you are doing very well. Food looked excellent also. Very much looking forward to the next improvements. Take care....

You need one of those little metal fans that works off the heat of the stove. We have one on our wood stove and it moves much more warm air than you would think. They sell them on Amazon or you could probably find one at Canadian Tire.

Hi Jay!!! The tent turned out awesome ⛺ my man, well done mate 👍👍👍🔥🍲☕🍗🍲

Yeah! You Did It! Looks AWESOME! Glad you were able to accomplish what you wanted and set out to do!

nice closing shot, beautiful clean organized camp. So this is what you have been seeing in your head. Very nice. Those camp ovens are great....

You can get insulation wrap. I believe it's made of wool. You use it for yurts to keep them warm. I'd get some of that and some wood lattice (it's cheap) and then put the wool between the lattice on either side of your framing. That'll keep you much warmer.

Your going to need a spark arrester on top so you don’t burn the top of your tent

Going to be so nice a cabin❤️solid warm

Awesome progress on the tent build love the stove I could live in a tent with a stove for the rest of my life lol enjoy your vids atb

that's wonderful Jay to have friends drop by and help with the tent I'm glad you got it zipped up,, nice oven ill see if I can get one of those around here, stay safe

Man you deserve to finally have everything work for you you have busted your butt. I've laughed a few times at your Annex but you finally persevered good for you.

That's pretty strong coffee you're making - gave me chills ... your tent frame is crooked - one side bigger than the other so off sided. If you put it too high, you'll have opening around the tent at the bottom & will let cold air in at night ... don't make it quite as high & you'll have a little to turn under at the bottom to keep cold air out ... if there still is snow, put it on top of the excess to hold it down & keep the cold air out.

Really glad to see you in Jay. You have had to work for that. Now to enhance and enjoy.

Awesome!!! Looks great!

The work is never ending. Thank goodness or what would you do. Although it looks lumber-jacky, don't store an ax stuck in your chopping block. It is fine while you are there and using it frequently, but not for long term storage. Moisture in the stump, even frozen, can rust the ax. Consider getting a leather sheath.

Hey jay!!!!!great videos bud...great cook ups!!!!your video and sound are terrific!!!!Take care....can’t wait for the next episode....

I have one of those ovens and it’s pretty handy but I did find the thermometer that came with it wasn’t very accurate so I bought another and put a pizza stone in it to help stabilize the temperature.

Love your cabin looking great

You might try some dehydrated or freeze dried eggs.. I am a Thrive Life consultant and we eat the eggs and I use them for baking. When cooked into scrambled eggs you cannot tell they were not fresh eggs. Would save you from having to cook frozen eggs and easier to transport too.

I must of missed something here . First you were bringing in skids to make a small tent in a tent . Now I see you built a platform and made a wooden frame for your tent . What happened to the tent in a tent idea ? Like I said I must have missed something here . What ever you're doing it looks good . The plywood will certainly sturdy up that frame . Get a bigger propane tank . Those small bottles are very expensive . Good for a backup if the bigger tank is empty .

Just subscribed! What a peaceful feeling being away from city.

Should put some crossmembers in between the trusses to help support the tent when it snows heavy and rains to prevent it from to much sag

Congratulations you’ve accomplished what you wanted over the past few months and have definitely advanced over the past few years

That oven is awesome

Great video Jay. Suggest you go to a liquid fuel stove, will never get too cold to work. The liquid fuel lasts much longer and provides better heat than propane. Same for your lanterns, the liquid fuel lanterns have the benefit of providing heat. Just set up a battery CO sensor in the tent and no worries.

It’s like your building a village !!!

Jay loving your videos! Your work, your meals etc etc etc! Really cool how you are putting yourself out there mistakes and all. Have you named the camp? Didn’t see it anywhere... keep it up waiting on next video now lol!

Great video Jay, still mighty chilly. Stay safe man!

Good job sir

If you can get away with it try using rigid foam board insulation on the ceiling and walls it really helps keep the heat in

That's friggin awesome man can't wait to see more videos.

Great video as always! I am not a camper, but I do live out in the sticks. I would have rolled up my sleeping bag and hung it from the rafters. I've seen the little critters make a home out of unattended fabric before.

Really love to see you built the tent ⛺with wall, its definitely safer and more solid atleast which others tent owners didn't have it done 👌.

Another fab video. Place really coming on.

Great job bud..

Hard work and persistence finally paid off. You got to sleep on the new tent.

Glad u were able to sleep in your tent!! Lots of adjusting to make zipper work.. almost too much work for one day.. Cold temps working against you too... Your first entree in the mini stove sure sounded tasty👍👍 leaving all your stuff behind I would protect front part of tent do small animals can’t get in... Sure do a number on your sleeping bag or roll up and put in bag and hang up?? You’ve done great job!! Next time maybe leave lots of firewood cut and ready to put in stove! Thanks for letting me follow you along👍👍Barry

Those temps are extreme, you need to partition off half the inside of the tent for nite time sleeping purposes. It will stay warm while you sleep that way and in the day you can roll it up out of the way. That's a lot of square feet to heat up in a large tent in those temps. Get you sum extra canvas or a tarp to divide the tent in half inside.

I know it’s frustrating when you can’t figure out why the tent wasn’t coming together. Glad you and friends got it working. First night in the new tent.....woohoo That breakfast needed bacon. 😉 Enjoy your videos

Wow! It works with out bracing !

So beautiful!! Love outdoor cooking outdoor like from way back then without any electricity.. but as long as I have my phone so I can check my Facebook I’m cool with that! LOL ❤️

Love the tent! We have the same one 12x14, staying in it while we build in Northern Vermont. Gotta keep the fire hot or it gets cold real quick!

Lovely setup

Jay, good video. You now have a nice tent where you can escape and relax as you see fit. Best wishes and hope to see more videos. Hasta luego.

It's a plan to survive in the cold that is working well now..Nice big stove unit. I always like to go BIG. I watched this over watching Picard on Amazoid

I just stumbled onto your videos after watching others like them and I have to say that yours are my favourite!! For a man with no experience you are killing it! You’ve got yourself a subscriber my good man!! 😊🇨🇦 Edit: I can’t wait to see what’s next!!