Building a Solar Powered Garden Shed with my Daughter

[@davidlandells4443]

Videos of you working with your daughter, very special indeed.

[@RTexasUSA]

I love the videos of you working solo, but the ones of you and your daughter are a welcome variation. It's awesome to see a dad passing these skills on to the next generation.

[@georgiaannbicknell6129]

Things go so much faster when you have someone to hold the other end of the timber....

[@sydekontrol2330]

I dont know how old that young lady is ... but she is gonna be leaps and bounds ahead of her peers in maturity doing this kind of work... So good to see...

[@elizabethjohnson475]

And she's a professional working dental assistant, also!!!

[@Blazen747]

She also has her own KZbinr channel

[@Rags2Itches]

My father was a Master Plumber. He also was a good carpenter as was my grandfather. I did not get to really learn like your daughter is. Most of that from Dad was if you use the tools out in the shop, make sure you put them back where I put them. I was never stopped from building things on my own, I learned from watching. When I went to High School in the start of the 1970's , girls were not allowed to be in the HS Trade School. So my Mom taught me to sew and embroider. Good skills too, that I still use to create costumes and clothing. Later I took a carpentry course and bought carpentry books. I took a machine shop course too at age 36. I learned to install bathroom toilets and sinks, replace faucet washers, do ceramic tilling and grouting. I learned to tear down and remodel an old house on the inside. Build horse stalls and paddock gates of my own design. I can change a vehicle tire and do an oil change. I was the only female partner in a deck and wood workng business. I can paint and wall paper and lay floor tiles. I have my own tool wooden tool box i made myself with my own tools. I learned gardening from a young age and later leaned to can the produce. LOL I was the one that convinced my parents to have a big garden. They loved it. No I'm not single, long walks on a beach are now out of the question :) Age does creep up on you. I wish I did have my father's teachings, as I wanted to learn. I just gifted myself with that knowledge.

[@skepticalhound5574]

Well done indeed.

[@diamondback2085]

For any guys out there with daughters. I own a window and powerwash cleaning company. I work with my daughter. Some of the best times I've had with here have been on the job. Teach your daughters to not be reluctant to do this stuff. Their husbands will Thankyou for a confident task mate. And you get more time with your little girl. Win win win.

[@murphysmuskets]

Last thing I need as a husband is a wife who wants to compete with me on how things get done (because she believes she knows/was taught better). I wish fathers would stop masculinizing their daughters and allow them to be women. Lastly saying this is not meant to downplay the quality time you’ve had with your daughter, just making a point about a common theme.

[@haydenwilliams1114]

@@murphysmuskets Your mistake is calling manual work "masculine." I've hired both men and women for my business and the women almost ALWAYS outperform the men.

[@murphysmuskets]

@@haydenwilliams1114 Think about what you just said, and then wonder why that is…

[@damogranheart5521]

I'm glad that you have a good helper who isn't afraid to get dirty. I was raised to think things through and get the job done. My dad worked in the city with a long commute. If things needed fixing my mom would tell me to get it done. And I would. I married a guy who built his own stereo system. That was the only thing he could build unfortunately. If I wasn't sure how to do something I would ask a neighbor or my dad to show me what I needed to do and I would finish the job. This helped me out later in life.

[@haydenwilliams1114]

@@murphysmuskets I said it to try to help you.

[@RickGrimes007]

4 hands ALWAYS better than 2 great craftsmanship yall rock🤘🏻..Nothing like working with my Father. He's in Heaven now but those memories and skills he taught me will never leave me and I still use to this day. I don't have to depend on anyone I can do it! Great video and your an amazing Father Daughter duo! We need MORE examples like you in our world 🌎

[@martykennedy3962]

You’re a lucky man to have one of your children helping out when you need it. She also seems to know and understand how to use tools……now that’s a Plus.

[@dandaniels4558]

And he goes and helps her at her little cabin too. Great team that can accomplish anything that needs done.

[@lindapetersen1800]

SHAWN & OUR CALI HOWDY EMILY !!! I betcha OUR CALI FOUND someone to play with as you all build the shed !!! SHAWN THANK YOU from the Bottom of mine Heart for serving the USA !!! I thank You YOU ARE A MAN with a HEART that is as WIDE as the WORLD!!!

[@willierants5880]

Emily is so boss... No doubt Mom and Dad are super proud, of both their daughters.

[@gaelcarlton9182]

Wonderful to teach your daughter self-reliance... A woman who can do the things needing to be done builds self confidence and is a teacher for her family (children) should she choose to have a family. I think its wonderful how much you and Emily have this incredible bond.

[@michaelbranham5854]

Couldn't be a more valuable knowledge passed down than building things, hunting, and growing things. With those 3 things one can live. And cant forget edible amd medicinal plants

[@oyenations162]

You and your daughter make it look easy and a great team. Both of you are very fit from all this good and productive work also. Can I come on as a muffin baker or animal care, whatever? I'm pretty fit too for my old age and no, I ain't kidding. Who wouldn't want to live there with that beauty and peace? I know this won't get answered but just the same this is how I feel. Have a blessed day!! I'm buying a camper soon.

[@alwynrose6078]

It awesome to see father and daughter working together on a project and completing it it was great to see her handling the tools confidently

[@80ZX]

Working with your Daughter. Another set of Memories for you for life Mate.

[@midwestmutineer7675]

This reminds me of all the time I spent on the farm with my dad. I learned so much and I've been able to tackle any project around my own home! Dads - show your daughters as much as your sons! It matters!

[@db.mc2]

Hi Shawn, Emily 👋 Thank you, always great to hear from you my friends, hope you're doing well, stay safe and take care 🙏🙂Awesome work as always 👊 👍

[@moyaking8961]

It's great when your children take an interest in the things we as adults do. I taught my daughter to crochet now she's a designer 😊

[@earlsnapp5209]

It's nice to see Shawn and his daughter Emily working together. Shawn, I'm sure you and your wife are proud of your kids... Great example of a family honestly working together. Watching From Portland, Oregon... Having a cup of morning coffee

[@duncansbuddy]

Love following this family. No better medicine than this at the end of a stressful week in today's world.

[@BharathCalgary]

One small help from your own gives father an enormous amount of strength and confidence .... especially daughters.

[@robertmccullough4822]

Glad to see the "Root Cellar/Workshop" completed with a nice "Self Reliance" purpose. Emily is a great helper and teaching her is a great way to pass along your accumulated skills. I learned my "trade" from my Father. Great way to create memories also... Peace!

[@TaigaTurf]

Quality time well spent when doing construction projects like this.

[@joyaku3078]

what a dad y r 👏👏👏👏👏👏 every man can be a father but to be a dad is extra ordinary I applaud you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jomcgrath9280]

What a lot of skills your daughter now has. She is blessed to have you passing these onto her

[@Blazen747]

Emily has her own channel KZbin too 😊

[@firemanforever3000]

Your daughter just doing what comes naturally is awesome. I have no doubt that you have one family that will thrive in any situation.

[@michaelgatford6194]

You and Emily work so well together, a strong father daughter bond.

[@Esther-1914]

Emily, It's nice seeing you, the next generation, caring about self-reliance and self-sufficiency. 😀👍

[@debshapiro6431]

That was so fun to watch, you building the shed together! And then it gets even better. Simply amazing. I love where you're going with these times. Good job mates! 💞

[@lucascady4992]

Cutting caps out of 3 tab shingles! That's how I was taught by my late and great Grandpa and Father! 😊 Warms my heart ❤️

[@carolobannon7336]

What a great thing to teach your daughters to be able to do all this for themselves! Great job

[@jamesstader6650]

Shawn, your daughter Emily is easy on the eyes from any angle. She's not afraid to pickup a hammer 🔨 and bang a nail or two either. Now I've got two channels I can watch, both equally enjoyable. Thanks guys.

[@BjornBear21]

You did an amazing job raising your kids. You must be so proud and have a ball spending time with your daughter. God Bless 😊

[@CATherine001]

It’s a wonderful feeling to have family get on board with your passion and dreams making them a reality. Shawn you are blessed and it’s a great treat to have father and daughter help each other out with projects around both homesteads. WTG Emily!!

[@heidipustelniak652]

Always great to see you and your dad working together! The homestead is getting really nice!

[@orlanduhden5842]

I'm impressed with Emily, it warms my heart to see father and daughter working together on various projects.

[@rebeccamercer4160]

So proud to see family working together !

[@wagnerguter3265]

Who is here for the first time to see what they are doing??? Because the first time I couldn't see anything but this beautiful woman!!! 😍

[@guppy2129]

Fantastic family teamwork!

[@jacobkomnath7961]

Always nice to see family joining in. Those builds are often the most meaningful

[@brendagervais5566]

Great video! Love how you work together with your daughter-she will forever be grateful. I used to do plumbing with my dad back in the day and such great memories. Thank you for the share

[@gurubhat2403]

A doting father always works hard, harder and hardest to give credit to his dearest daughter. Wonderful to see you both work for this little cabin.

[@area51ray]

So cool to see you two working together, Emily seems to be a real go getter Shawn. I’m sure you’re supper proud that she is taking care of her own self reliance! Great job

[@skepticalhound5574]

A lovely video. I was happy to hear you can run a freeze dryer (FD) on this system. We have a medium sized one in an unheated (on-grid) but insulated building, with 2 separate rooms. One room holds freezers and freeze-dryer, the other is a summer kitchen (water turned off in winter). The FD, when on, keeps that room at about 20 C in winter, so far. Granted, it’s our first year with it and it’s been a very warm winter in Maritime Canada. This heat spills into the other room and keeps it at about 13 C., depending on how much we open the other room’s door. Before the FD, the 3-4 freezers kept that room above freezing all winter, with the very occasional need to run a small heater on a thermostat set just above freezing for storage of cold room-type crops and dahlia tubers. Coldest temp here in winter is about -25 C for only a few days but the wind is aplenty.

[@alward9901]

Excellent use of solar power . I can’t imagine what the the future holds for us all . With all the new products and inventions coming fast & thick .

[@HaroldReece]

New logo. Looks nice. Good to see you working with your daughter, you two are making memories that will get passed on to the grandkids. Thanks for sharing.

[@douggibson9084]

Great video Shawn. I love the Reliance transfer switch panel. I have the 30 amp for my house. It's manual but very easy. Enjoy your weekend.

[@dorothyallen3614]

Y’all did a great job family. Good to see y’all getting prepared for winter and some off grid living. Be well my friends.

[@peacefulpleb]

Great see daughter and dad getting stuck into some practical work, bet she learned a lot.

[@reggierico]

Shawn, Congratulations on getting to the 2+ million subscriber mark! Well done!

[@neelavsamrat]

There is no greater love when a father-daughter duo do such kind of work together. Sadly unlike Shawn I do not possess any such skills to pass on to my daughter but let me take solace in watching you and your daughter working together! 👍👍🔥🔥

[@larrymaxwell5535]

Thanks for sharing the video and also sharing your knowledge regarding solar energy and power! It's very helpful!

[@JasonMcCann841]

Amazing idea for my little detached garage on my property vs getting it wired. Just need a little power now and again. Couple of lights, power source for tools and maybe a small freezer. You have me thinking now. 😉

[@pammohler3253]

Emily is precious

[@robertsimard735]

Good morning Shawn. Very informative, thanks for sharing.

[@jennyk544]

Absolutely, totally, wonderfully awesome! Well done Shawn and Emily!

[@bobobrien8968]

Another awesome video. Father- daughter working together for a better life.

[@brianmros4844]

Hi Shawn, I've never seen a roof framed liked that, it's a great idea. Keep up the great work. Thank you

[@ardenritzel4052]

Your daughter is stunning!

[@dennisbeaver5958]

Always great seeing you and Emily working together on a project! She is her Fathers Daughter, no doubt!

[@puzzleddot3882]

Shawn , Emily going take up after . She is very handy, good job dad for teaching your daughter. Way to go General Emily. , make your family proud

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Shawn . 🐺

[@adelineparinduri]

I always feel grateful that my Dad passed on various labour skills to me (at least simple ones). And now I'm passing it on to my son. I'm finding it difficult to enjoy your short video, Shawn haha so getting used to long ones. Blessings.

[@ИринаКислая-э4ф]

Добрый вечер! Многому учусь у Вас, уважаемые дочь и отец, красивые и сильные люди, трудолюбивые и заботящиеся о природе. Улыбаюсь, когда вижу Вашу замечательную собаку. Спасибо, что делитесь опытом жизни в соседстве с природой.

[@lynsmith2698]

Great video Shawn. My hubby and I plan on putting up a small cabin within five years for our old age. And there is no power there so planning on solar with generator back up. Thank you for sharing this, all this new technology, so much new stuff to learn about. Thank you

[@ksingleton101]

Although Shawn doesn't have a son, he has some amazing daughters! Awesome Job both Shawn and his wife did raising such hard working daughters.

[@brianfisher3991]

Great job on the shed . 👍

[@Oxatolla]

Huge information! Thanks Shawn!

[@2point..0]

He's a Great Dad!!!

[@Oxatolla]

Emily is lucky to have you as a Dad, Shawn. Well done both of you! Parry Hoot.

[@jeanettec6212]

Thats really nice to have. Your getting that land complete, and Im all excited for anything else you are building.

[@paulomarkes9015]

Nice Daughter,👍

[@allenenabnit7078]

You can speed up your freeze dryer buy putting your filled trays in your freezer first then put in your dryer that way you can have trays ready to change out faster and use less energy. Hopefully that helps

[@johnshoureas1629]

Beautiful !

[@johannesccarstens8995]

Evening.. show us more of your garden en your daughters garden and what you plant and do there.. thanks.. be safe.. 👍

[@haroldfoust]

Hey glad to see you back😀NC

[@EdgarHouston-mq2yg]

shawn ihave really enjoyed your videos over the past years.

[@radiogramgramophonetoons5802]

Well done dad n daughter 👏

[@elliotwalton6159]

Blessed with some extra nice weather to build thanks to the gulf stream.

[@janetwithers7427]

Your solar shed is awesome. 🍂🦃🌾💕🍁

[@Vadym-Umanskyi]

Good luck my friend 🙋🏻‍♂️👍👍👍

[@MichaelDeming]

Very satifying to see a build start to finish. Or close to finish.

[@robertpirtle3638]

Your a really good dad . One day there will be that someone. I sure hope that person will be able to keep up . Keep up the good work family man .

[@brentprosser7293]

Well, thank goodness she got her looks from her momma. LOL. Great to see a father and daughter working together towards a better life.

[@marianfrances4959]

Huh?

[@brentprosser7293]

@@marianfrances4959 Its a southern idiom. Maybe not something you understand? Its a way to compliment the beauty of a young woman and her mother while poking a little joke at the father. Sort of similar to the idiom of telling a man, "you outkicked your coverage" when talking about his wife. These are common sayings in the American south.

[@EsotericCat]

You guys are such an inspiration

[@IonicH3art]

Really impressive stuff, this is father daughter goals! I've watched all of Emily's videos too and it's impressive!

[@rodneywroten2994]

awesome solar shead

[@sshaw4429]

I wish my dad was alive to help. God I miss him.

[@ponderingitall]

I've watched him from the beginning. His is the result of working alone for so long, with few resources. It's ingenious.

[@RJ-er3gv]

Your solar panels will be more efficient in the summer with a larger ventilation space behind them. Thats why most systems are mounted on racks.

[@CarlJones14]

I think it is worth adding additional insulation to your freezers, and even an insulated top that drops on the lid. Even if you can heat the space.

[@SWAMPHUNTER644]

I could be wrong because it has been over 45 years since I sold freezers, but I seem to remember it took almost as much power to run a small freezer as it does a large one. You could have other reasons for needing a small freezer such as transporting it to the cabin and limited space where you use it.

[@sway696]

Chip off the old block Emily is.👍🙂 Is there anything better than family time? I think not. Great video, great job.

[@BraxxJuventa]

Smart choice Shawn. 👍😁

[@lawnboy9224]

Looks like Emily would be a great teammate.

[@paulbuckler9778]

James is a Jack of all trades.

[@ponderingitall]

Dude has gotten smart over the years. I love it...a thinking man.

[@timkeagy4094]

You gave me an idea about my own 120 sq ft shed in my back yard. We have used this for storage when the kids were young. Now that they are in their 20’s, I’ve been wanting to transform it to a workshop. My workshop now is part of the garage. I have no electric hooked up to it and solar would be the way to go.

[@greywolfwalking6359]

Good vid..you 2 are a great team! Thanks for sharing 👍! 👍🐺🧙‍♂️!!!

[@mariecreighton5222]

Absolutely gorgeous congratulations proud power of blessings Daughter and Dad 😊🫶🏼