You can do it!!!!! Good luck to you sir!

I am in similar situation but I already have the land, I plan to build a small 16x24ft home and just put 1 or 2 additions on in future when I have the cash

@@garrettblasterhopefully your journey has gone well! Having the land is a HUGE part of it.

How did you make out, are you living on your own land?

Well, he is a veteran. But if you do your research you'll find, and the owner will admit, that these Wilderness (the brand) tents are made in Pakistan. He'll also tell you that all canvas used to make all wall tents of any brand is imported these days. His words, not mine. Not saying these are bad tents. After looking long and hard it's likely I'll buy one.

Yep. It's nice to say American company and veteran owned, but they're sewn by cheap labor overseas. There's a reason they're the cheapest wall tents on the market. Buy a Davis Tent, they have excellent customer service, made in Colorado, and have been making tents for decades.

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@Patrick O'Brien order some high quality Uygher forced labor Chinese stuff then. Maybe its combination Falun Gong and Uygher made?

I'm just going to make my own...

After binge watching so many of Dave's vids, I had to ask, how did you get on with your project? I hope it all went well! I love the idea of doing such a thing, but where I am in the UK it's very hard, land availability is nill, pricing crazy, rules & regs abound, and alas my other half woud rather live in the city. Still, his vids have encouraged me to plan some serious downsizing. Best wishes!!

@@mapesdhs597 We ended up just building a small cabin, off grid. We have been going strong for 2.5 yrs now almost 3. Headed into our 3rd winter! We’ve added goats and chickens as well. Ups and down, good times, difficult times, you know how it goes! 😂🤣 thanks for asking!

@@wehvgirlpwr Wow, super quick response! 8) Very glad to hear things have been going well. I know what you mean about the variation of times as it were, the usual highs and lows. Until recently I was on an island for quite a long while, dealing with my late parents' estate, a house surrounded on three sides by a river and on all sides by trees, barely a few minutes walk from the sea. Spending so long doing outdoor work, dry stone walls, felling trees, building riverbank fences, drainage, replacing the shed door, all sorts, plus all the indoor stuff, well I caught the island life bug big time. :D Quite the contrast to the tech stuff I normally do. I sure miss the place. Back in the city I have at least gotten stuck into doing some block wall building (to hold back an earth bank) and finishing at last a bike lockup which I'd intended to construct five years ago. Also repaired and renovated the garden shed, built shelves in the attic & garage, a cabinet unit in the kitchen, new custom desk in the lounge, etc. Dave's videos certainly helped with the motivation for all that. I need the outdoors now it seems. Were there any unexpected gotchas or discoveries you'd say in being off grid? And the kind of effort required to sustain it? For me, on the island, I was very surprised to learn that I didn't mind at all doing digging/drainage work ouside and getting very wet from rain in the process (a lot of rain on the west coast of Scotland). As long as it wasn't cold, it was fine. The midgies & bugs though, well that's another matter entirely, they can make being outdoors intolerable unless one has a good midge headnet or somesuch (mowing the large lawns could be a bit of an ordeal sometimes). Hence why I liked doing mountain walks in mid March, no bugs, the bracken & ferns all died back for a clear view, cold enough so one doesn't get too warm on a climb, but sunny enough on the right day for a great venture, with snow still on the high ground. For that I shall definitely return, either via camping or B&B; there are peaks I've yet to ascend. I've not been to Oregon, but I did fly over it once long ago, a flight from Seattle to Chicago back in Oct/1995, I remember the mountains looked amazing. Best wishes for the coming winter! And congrats on indeed being Bushingly Radical. 8)

@@mapesdhs597 Sounds like you have been busy! Feels rewarding to get stuff done and then look back and think, I did that! About 3 wks ago, my female goat gave birth. I had never, ever assisted with an animal,birth other than an occasional puppy or kitten, and then I didn’t do much except was the miracle unfold. This time was different. I had to help! The first baby came easily, I just helped ease its head out and clean it off before giving it to mamma(husband filmed). An hour and 45 minutes went by and no second baby which we knew she had at least one more and I excepted the fact that I was going to have to go in and get it😢. I reached in and felt the baby but I couldn’t tell what I was feeling. I just had the grab on to something and pull with her contractions. Baby came out dead, it’s head was turned backwards and I let it go too long. Really mad at myself about that. I put dead baby into a bag so momma didn’t see it and then put my hand back in and felt #3, triplets!!!! #3 was born with a little help, happy and healthy. Momma goats do mourn for their babies so I’m glad she had no idea she had lost one because, #2 and #3 were born close together. Ther were lots f adjustments that needed to be made in lifestyle to do this off grid. Getting a solar array set up was a nightmare. Figuring out what you can do on solar is quite a process with a lot of trial and error. Like what appliances suck down the battery power and which ones don’t. Usually you don’t figure it out until you have no juice left in the battery and you think, “won’t do that again”!😂🤣 Also, we don’t have a well. This part of Oregon is high desert and very dry. Very tough to dig for water and a lot of people don’t have them. We have water in a cistern that’s on a platform and then it’s pumped into the cabin. Another huge headache to get set up and running. The first winter we were here, all our pipes froze(we average over 3 ft of snow in the winter) and we had to live off snowmelt. We heated water on a wood stove for dishes and bathing and used a small handheld battery operated shower pump going into a bucket. Not perfect but it did the trick. We enjoy this thing we’re doing, a dream come true.

Did you move yet down there?

Are you still in the tent? For how many months and any pros and cons? 💕

Thanks Charles

@@Bushradical you bet!

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Thanks John.

Thanks John.

Thanks. Stay safe down there in Kansas.

Thanks Billie. I wish I was younger every day....I'm older than I look.

Right on. Same company we buy from

I hope we can do something soon

Glad it was helpful!

agreed

Thanks Randy!!

Thanks Woody.

Its a great way to camp. I dont feel like there is anything missing when camping in a big tent like this....its a lot like a small cabin

That is awesome! Thanks

Glad I could help!

Thanks SPFB!

Thanks

Thanks Marie

Awesome! Thats great to hear!

thanks

Ever since I watched Brooke put up hers...I'm fixated on a wall tent.

Thanks Tim

Well said!

Thanks MM!

Glad I could help!

Thanks Jim!

Right on

Possibly. I'm not familiar with them

That's what I was thinking

Thanks Dave

Glad you enjoyed it

Its a great way to opperate for sure.

Thank you so much!

Thanks

Thanks

Awesome. Glad to be of service

Thanks

Everything is good here. How about you Mike?

@@Bushradical Not too bad Dave. Still working. But I have a meeting today at 11am, got a feeling it's gonna be curtains for my job for a while. But it will be ok. I am prepared. Glad you guys are doing well.

Glad you like them!

Thanks

Thanks Ron

Thanks LM!

Awesome. Thanks Jeff

That sounds like a good set up for sure.

Thanks Linda. Prayers for you and your family too.

right on!

You have to have the stove for sure. !!

LOL, yup thats me. I'm glad you like that video, its one of the more popular on this channel. The log raft video

Thanks

Thanks Cheryl