RIDGE BEAM SET! The Cabin Shell Is Finally Complete | Off-Grid Cabin Build Ep. 17

Added: 2026-06-01

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[00:00:28]Welcome back to episode 17, I think it is.

[00:00:34]Today, we're going to put the ridge pole up, but I want to show you something.

[00:00:38]I just got this in the mail.

[00:00:42]Let's get some power on here, and look at this, guys. This is the power unit.

[00:00:46]This is the the battery I'm going to be putting in.

[00:00:50]Timco, does that say right? I don't know. But, um nice, huh? And then, another product sponsor, I got These are always hard to say. CalSun?

[00:01:04]Yep, CalSun.

[00:01:06]Bifacial solar panels. They sent me three 180 W bifacial solar panels. So, they collect sun on both sides.

[00:01:17]So, but that's coming up in future episodes. So, um anyways, let's get into this one now.

[00:01:24]First things first, um So, we had the Montana Fur Harvesters Rendezvous um this past weekend, and Christina and Andy Christina works for the Fur Takers of America.

[00:01:35]I'm like, "Man, why don't you guys stay for a couple days, and um you know, do a little turkey hunt?" Cuz she loves turkey hunting.

[00:01:42]Mr. Andy. We're doing. Yes. So, Andy is uh he got a really nice Jake today.

[00:01:49]So, Andy, I'm like, "Hey, buddy, you know, guess what? I'm going to go ahead and get the gable up, and what do you think?" So, he's like, "Yeah."

[00:01:56]We'll get her up. Yep, we're going to go ahead and and get the the ridge pole up.

[00:02:00]So, let's get to it. Um what we're going to do is you guys seen this thing before. The ridge pole is sitting down there.

[00:02:07]And we're going to go ahead and separate the separate this thing out and get it up there.

[00:02:12]Got a rope along. I think I'm going to have to rope along it up. Um we just kind of got to figure it out.

[00:02:18]This whole episode's going to be setting the ridge pole, whether it takes a 10-minute episode or a 30-minute episode, whether rescue has to come out, helicopters, >> [laughter] >> or whatever. So, let's just get into it.

[00:02:36]No, Jimmer.

[00:02:39]All right, guys. There is the ridge pole.

[00:02:42]We're going to probably cut it to size when we get up there.

[00:02:46]It's not that big around.

[00:02:55]So, have you seen this thing yet?

[00:03:00]My cart how it works?

[00:03:03]Okay, cool. This works really really slick.

[00:03:06]So, anyways, we'll go ahead and separate this out right here and swing that down there.

[00:03:16]Pull it straight out. There we go. Bring it all the way down to the end down here.

[00:03:21]Notice how I got him doing the work.

[00:03:23]Hey, somebody's got to do it. That's right.

[00:03:27]All right. How about you hold the camera and I'll I'll lift it on there? Sure.

[00:03:31]All right.

[00:03:33]I want to see how heavy it is.

[00:03:36]Oh, it really isn't that bad. And it's not that bad.

[00:03:42]No, it don't look like it would be. No.

[00:03:44]Probably dried out pretty good.

[00:03:46]>> Yeah. Oop, there goes the glasses.

[00:03:50]Let's set it right on the hitch, like that.

[00:03:53]I'll step on the glasses.

[00:03:57]And of course, what I did is I put all my crap in here on top of the straps I need.

[00:04:04]There we go.

[00:04:08]And then we strap it to it.

[00:04:32]I built this thing in Tennessee before I moved up here for just this purpose.

[00:04:39]That's pretty clever. Yeah, man. I had it turned into a thing where I could haul a canoe with my four-wheeler, too.

[00:04:47]But I kind of took that all apart.

[00:04:51]Oh, come on.

[00:05:01]There we go.

[00:05:11]We will be cutting it down. This is way too long, so we will be cutting it down. Better to start off long than be too short.

[00:05:21]>> yeah.

[00:05:22]I I ended up having to re-measure it. So, I was a little bit nervous about it.

[00:05:30]Exactly right.

[00:05:31]Exactly right. That's I kind of measure measure once, cut three times, get a new piece.

[00:05:38]>> [laughter] >> There we go.

[00:05:49]Okay.

[00:05:53]Awesome.

[00:05:55]All right, let's head up there.

[00:06:09]So, it's 18 4.

[00:06:12]So, we need 20 ft.

[00:06:15]Or we'll go 21 ft.

[00:06:18]All right, hook hand in down there, of course.

[00:06:23]21 ft. So, we get to take a little bit off this butt. And of course, it's going to land right here, right where this is.

[00:06:34]All right, let me get the saw.

[00:06:44]We'll pull back a little bit.

[00:06:47]So, I ain't cutting through my thing.

[00:06:51]Slide it down.

[00:06:52]Yeah.

[00:07:01]Oh, there we go.

[00:07:03]And perfect.

[00:07:15]There, it took It took It was pretty slick there.

[00:07:19]It took a little bit off. Yeah, not much.

[00:07:21]>> So, Andy, it's got to sit on top of that right there. Yep. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to nail some 2 by 4s up and so it can't roll off the the end. I used that.

[00:07:34]>> to want to use that to make cradle?

[00:07:35]Yeah, make a cradle up there. Thanks for warning it for me.

[00:07:39]I messed up my words, so Dang. you know, I was calling that thing down there in between the logs a spline when it's a spline.

[00:07:46]You know, so.

[00:07:47]And then I got to cut that 2 by 4 off up there. And then we'll do the same thing.

[00:07:52]Well, we don't have to do it on that side. Uh cuz I think what we're going to do is we're going to come up this way right here.

[00:07:58]Push it through on top.

[00:08:01]And then lift this side up.

[00:08:03]And then come over over here then lift this side up there and then screw it down. Sounds like a game plan.

[00:08:09]>> Getting plan. I hope.

[00:08:16]This side away.

[00:08:21]Need something so it don't fall out, you know.

[00:08:31]This looks like rain, boss.

[00:08:34]It depends upon the cloud. Yeah.

[00:08:52]Okay.

[00:08:54]Let's wait.

[00:08:58]I think it's going to go easy.

[00:09:01]I think so.

[00:09:03]Yeah, this might just be a short video.

[00:09:11]The ridge pole is a very important part of it, you know.

[00:09:17]We need got to dry. We're about to get rained on.

[00:09:20]I'll grab the heavy end.

[00:09:21]I ain't try.

[00:09:23]I'm going to grab that end. I'll need to make sure the rough stuff fall on them.

[00:09:29]All right.

[00:09:32]Oh, that ain't bad.

[00:09:37]Then spin.

[00:09:42]Want me to stick it right up before we're talking? Not yet. We got to film it.

[00:09:46]Oh, I didn't know you were. Yeah.

[00:09:48]You readjust, yeah. Yeah, I got to readjust here.

[00:10:10]Oh, yeah.

[00:10:12]Nice.

[00:10:13]Okay, let's see if we can go a little further.

[00:10:26]All right, here here's how I think it's going to go, Andy. Um I'll get on the walk board right here.

[00:10:33]You lift it up and I'll pull it. I'm sitting on the scaffolding right now and um we'll lay it right on the scaffolding right where my leg is.

[00:10:40]Sounds good. And then that way I can get up here on top of here and then lift it up in between that right there and then readjust some more boards over there. I might have to get a ladder, I don't know, and then we can set it up on top of that over there.

[00:10:59]I think it's going to go easy and then we can just go block it in and then we'll be done. This might be a quick video.

[00:11:04]I think so, too. I think so. All right.

[00:11:23]All right.

[00:11:34]I like >> Okay.

[00:11:50]Yeah, that's good.

[00:11:55]Leave me up there.

[00:11:57]I need to grab that ladder.

[00:12:01]And on the inside here and help me just pull I can't I know put it up against the wall over there. Oh, I got you.

[00:12:06]Yeah.

[00:12:08]And then maybe you can give me a little push or something.

[00:12:12]See if it's on a knot.

[00:12:17]I don't have enough ass.

[00:12:20]Okay.

[00:12:25]There we go. Yeah.

[00:12:29]Okay, roll that all the way to the corner over there.

[00:12:41]Watch your other end. Yeah.

[00:12:43]Sweet.

[00:12:48]Okay.

[00:12:50]I think this is going to be easy.

[00:13:11]Might have to put something Keep it from rolling.

[00:13:21]Oh, it's a good thing I didn't cut that Any shorter? Any shorter because it would have it would have rolled right off.

[00:13:29]Okay, now I need to go ahead and >> [snorts] >> get some more boards over there.

[00:13:35]I might need that ladder.

[00:13:37]Um I need to deck off this side over here so I can walk on it.

[00:13:46]I know >> [snorts] >> I'm not going to be able to pick this up. I think what I'm going to do is about every foot or two nail a 2 by 4 in that that way I can step it up, you know what I'm saying?

[00:13:58]Oh, yeah. Even to the face.

[00:14:00]You know what I mean?

[00:14:02]Or sticking out a little bit more where it's going to hold that.

[00:14:05]Um It's light, but it ain't that light and I ain't that strong. So let's go ahead and cut some blocks and then um you could hand me the saw and then that 2 by 4 there and then the nail gun.

[00:14:26]This will give me just some resting points, you know? Oh, yeah.

[00:14:50]Cuz I ain't that strong.

[00:15:17]Hey, are you ready?

[00:15:21]We We? You're the Nails have it in my pocket. You're you're the one that's got it. Right?

[00:16:07]Yeah, that would not have been fun without those rest spots. No, no, I couldn't have done it.

[00:16:12]My shoulders are really angry right at me.

[00:16:15]>> [laughter] >> Ready?

[00:16:22]There it is.

[00:16:25]yeah, Andy.

[00:16:31]>> [snorts] >> We might have to go that way a little bit. I'll measure it, but Heck yeah.

[00:16:39]All right, fire up the generator and we'll put some screws in it and then we'll go ahead and finish this stuff up around it and get a peak on. Sounds good.

[00:16:51]Woah.

[00:16:59]What did I say it was 21 ft?

[00:17:01]Yep.

[00:17:07]I'm going to try to bump it that way just a little bit.

[00:17:25]>> Yeah.

[00:17:28]That was a good little bit right there.

[00:17:30]Yeah, you got to move.

[00:17:37]Find center.

[00:17:41]Half of 28 is 14, and guess what? That sucker is dead dead center or right across the top perfectly.

[00:17:50]I better screw it down, eh?

[00:17:52]Hurry, quick.

[00:17:53]>> Before Before it decides to do something. Yeah.

[00:18:00]I don't have that many wins, you know? I better take it.

[00:18:36]All right. Now I got to move everything over to the other side and and screw it down.

[00:18:56]Oh, I left my hammer down there.

[00:19:11]I like it.

[00:19:14]I like it. I like it. I like it a lot.

[00:19:26]Oh, we're tall.

[00:19:44]We got a ridge pole, buddy.

[00:19:46]Yes, sir.

[00:19:47]>> We got a ridge pole.

[00:19:49]Now we can go ahead and finish these off right here and go up around it, you know what I'm saying?

[00:19:55]And finish it off. I got I I was standing over there and this this right here I got trim this down.

[00:20:01]It's all really shitty angle.

[00:20:04]But, um we got a ridge pole. Well, maybe those three will work. What we're doing is filling in around it.

[00:20:20]And then, what I might do before I nail it is uh mark it.

[00:20:25]And then cut them down there, maybe. I don't know. I mean, I'm pretty comfortable cutting them up here.

[00:20:30]So.

[00:20:35]There we go.

[00:20:38]We had one that fit perfectly one of my cutoffs.

[00:20:45]That one will go there.

[00:20:49]I should get another walk board up here to be safe, huh? Somebody's going to be calling OSHA, I mean.

[00:20:56]Yeah.

[00:20:57]I like to live a little bit on the edge a little bit. Makes for good content.

[00:21:01]It's not a government job, you're good.

[00:21:05]Hopefully this one's long enough, [snorts] but it ain't going to be long enough.

[00:21:11]Is the hair shaft going to be the one You said you got to put one on top of that one? What's that?

[00:21:15]>> You got to put another one on top of that one or not?

[00:21:17]>> Yeah, there'd be another one on top.

[00:21:18]>> So that would probably then be long enough?

[00:21:19]>> Yeah, it'd be long for the top top.

[00:21:22]All right, get a little bit longer.

[00:21:24]Okay, so what I'm going to do is Well, that's what higher Well, no, it's by time it comes up I I got to be up above in here.

[00:21:36]Let me pull these off here.

[00:21:48]Oh. Pull them all up in there.

[00:21:52]Hand me that level if you could.

[00:22:02]And let's transfer.

[00:22:05]Cool, I think it's going to Yeah, that'll be it right there. We don't need this top one here. That works out. Yeah, that worked out real good.

[00:22:21]I don't know if you're going to clean that up a little. Yeah. Oh, I see. Yeah.

[00:22:25]Yeah, you see it?

[00:22:25]>> You fix You fixing you fix.

[00:22:29]There we go.

[00:22:30]I'm going to leave I don't know, should I?

[00:22:37]Cuz it goes up in here.

[00:22:40]I guess I could.

[00:22:42]I'll bring it I'll I'll mark it just in case I want it. Then you cut it.

[00:22:48]This whole deal right here has got to be trimmed up.

[00:22:54]All right, there.

[00:22:55]It's sitting a little bit lower than I want it to, Andy.

[00:22:59]But uh One more little too high? Well, the Raptors are going to sit on of it, you know what I mean? The rafters will sit on top of it like this.

[00:23:06]That'll give you some height. Yeah, it'll give you height. Yeah, it's going to give me the height. So, it'll it I want everything underneath the And you know that the roof is going to sit on top of here then, you know, so Okay, I think we're good. Now, we pull it down and just we'll bring it down there and we'll cut it.

[00:23:23]And then they should just stack right in there. I'll probably just hand drive it, you know, with hand drive nails after I cut it, you know. Yeah. Perfect.

[00:23:52]All right.

[00:23:54]There's a little mouse.

[00:23:58]This one here is going to be a pain in the butt. It's got I You look at it at like an angle, you know? Yeah.

[00:24:04]>> to trim that. Ah, skill saw.

[00:24:06]We'll use a skill saw on that one.

[00:24:09]>> [snorts] >> Oh, look at that. It doesn't matter.

[00:24:26]Yeah.

[00:24:29]And this one here.

[00:25:14]>> Oh, is the battery dead?

[00:25:17]Yeah, that's lithium. No?

[00:25:19]No? No. What happened? Oh.

[00:25:22]Safety.

[00:25:39]>> Ooh, yeah, I knew I hit I hit one of them.

[00:25:43]Dang it. 10 in and 5 chance of hitting a nail, and you you found it. And I found the nail.

[00:25:49]All right.

[00:25:50]See if there's any life left in that saw.

[00:25:55]All right.

[00:26:17]Now comes the tough cut. Yeah.

[00:26:57]>> All right.

[00:26:59]Pretty happy with it. Yeah, it looks pretty good. I think it looks good.

[00:27:08]Well, I'm not done. I'm going to go ahead and foam it.

[00:27:14]Bam!

[00:27:21]I'll all the way around that out there, too, [clears throat] you know.

[00:27:25]Um over the top of that foam there eventually.

[00:27:31]Not going to it till probably beginning of August when everything is completely dry. Yep.

[00:27:40]And then before that, I'm going to sand everything with an orbal or orbital.

[00:27:46]Just 80 grit and just round these edges off and these uh these lips.

[00:27:51]Lips.

[00:27:57]Oh, that one's the top. Okay.

[00:27:59]I was getting confused.

[00:28:02]Which is easy to do.

[00:28:06]Oh, look at that.

[00:28:09]It looks good from down here, at least.

[00:28:11]>> Yeah, well, you should see it up here.

[00:28:12]It's even better. [laughter] >> [clears throat] >> Now it's starting to look like something, Andy.

[00:28:50]>> Yeah.

[00:29:16]Look at that.

[00:29:18]Very nice.

[00:29:41]I could leave these cracks open for bats.

[00:29:44]So, bats have a place to live, too. Mhm.

[00:29:47]You know? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:10]Now, the fun one. Am I going to be able to reach it?

[00:30:13]I'll start it down here.

[00:30:20]Hope it don't split.

[00:30:39]We got it.

[00:30:41]We got it.

[00:30:43]Get a little foam in there.

[00:31:03]Good. Let's go do the other side.

[00:31:06]Wrap this video up.

[00:31:12]Back. There we go.

[00:31:14]Oh, she on?

[00:31:20]Okay.

[00:31:24]I think it's going to hit fine.

[00:31:27]Okay.

[00:31:33]We'll get this one up here and then get a mark.

[00:31:37]A marky mark.

[00:31:52]Okay.

[00:32:00]It's almost identical to the other side, so that makes me happy.

[00:32:06]You know? That's always a good thing when it comes out even. Yeah.

[00:32:29]There it is.

[00:32:31]Now we got to do is cut it.

[00:32:38]Be a head right there. I picked up a really cool deer head this weekend at the the auction. It's got velvet on it.

[00:32:45]I didn't want to put my own stuff up there, you know.

[00:32:49]A tur- first turkey fan.

[00:32:51]Yep.

[00:32:52]>> And door handle. Yep. And door handle.

[00:32:54]That's right. That's right.

[00:32:56]Got a um he found a shed. So, let's look at it from the outside.

[00:33:01]Timbers had about enough for today.

[00:33:05]Oh, look at that, guys.

[00:33:12]Come over here.

[00:33:23]Isn't that awesome, Andy?

[00:33:24]Sure is. Sure looks good. A little determination and a sawmill and and some scared trees.

[00:33:31]>> [laughter] >> When I got my sawmill, my trees are like, "Oh, Don't make eye contact."

[00:33:36]>> [laughter] >> That's a good one. Yeah.

[00:33:39]But uh well, I could go ahead and figure out my roofing material now.

[00:33:45]I got a bunch of one bys I got to start planning because that's going to be seen from the inside.

[00:33:50]Um hopefully I got it right. I got a um a timber framer guy that has offered help for notching the the rafters and all that.

[00:33:59]So, um well, can you I bet you can't wait get back to New Jersey, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:34:08]>> [laughter] >> Big big big uh missing that. Yeah. You know what I mean?

[00:34:13]All right now, guys. I don't know how many minutes this is going to take. I think it's a short video, but um as always, I hope you enjoyed the video as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you.

[00:34:23]And um now it looks like a cabin minus the roof.

[00:34:28]But uh it's sure getting fun. Now I want to shore it up. It's it's a little wobbly, you know. I do have it braced up. That end over there is a little wobbly, but uh I might throw some bracing on it or something like that, so.

[00:34:41]All right, you guys. Whatever day it is today, have a great day. And Andy, I appreciate it. No problem, Paul. Yep.

[00:34:47]Laters.

[00:34:50]>> [music] >> I was mountain goats and the martins and minks.

[00:34:55]Mountain [music] men living is the life for me. I'm a trap line man. Yes, >> [music] >> indeed. I'm a trap line man.

[00:35:06]There ain't no changing me.

[00:35:12]I'm [music] a trap line man.

[00:35:18]I'm a trap line man.

[00:35:21]Yes, indeed.

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