Camping in/on ALL of My Chainsaw Creations. Finally! #54

I've been building ridiculous structures for well over a year and most I've never even used! Finally, birthday party week rolled around and the girl and I decided to spend one night "camping" at/on each of my creations.We tried out: the deer castle, the hanging bed, the gazebo, the tent. Weather kept us from sleeping 15 feet up in the trees on the sky deck though it did eventually get used.
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[@harvdog5669]

Bear skin blankets and a nice bear skin over coat a plus. Warm and comfy

[@michaelshew8395]

Thinking it would be cool if you made an “artist’s rendering” poster/map of the Ringworm layout. Would give us a perspective of the layout. Maybe posters - I might buy one!

[@jerryroyal3941]

Build a log teepee or a log A frame

[@theRickLC]

Drone, aerial view would be really cool too. But, understandably difficult with all the trees.

[@Roadkill750]

I'm picturing a pirate treasure style map....with dashed twisting lines and frayed edges

[@johnhighstreet5199]

Good idea!

[@billr4677]

@@Roadkill750 perhaps the map should be drawn on some of the sawn wood that has no building use. A perfect ringworm canvas

[@radagast6682]

A good time sleeping around, and swinging. ;-)

[@kitchencarvings4621]

I could easily live in that. Get a little woodstove. I can imagine being in there late at night with a fire crackling and a good book while it stormed outside. My friend in college had an old cabin way out in the forest in Colorado with an old wood-burning stove for cooking and no electricity. Staying there was magical and so much over and above everyday life.

[@robert_suburban_gardener]

Single person hammock in the gazebo seems like it would add value on those hot summer nights.

[@nitcat1]

With some trapeze netting around it, the sky deck would generate more dream revenue 🙂. For me, the hanging bed for sure!

[@Marley-ii6ls]

You could hang up a quilt from the ceiling as a divider wall to conserve heat in the deer castle.

[@crazgirl80]

I would get some canvas drop cloths and make curtains for gazebo in cool or colder weather and throw some on the floor. With a washable ruggable rub on floor

[@joharmon2148]

I love the gazebo!

[@ajforeman83]

You could add a heavy cloth or wool curtain to shrink the room size to keep warms where you want it.

[@briandepoppe7209]

My wife and I like the swinging bed the best,then the screened in bow legged gazebo. Brian and Debi From the northwest corner of Washington State. We have been sleeping in a tree house now for two years. No peanut butter 😢

[@pattin5411]

Omg, the puppy´s little bum wiggle walk is just too perfect. Haha. ❤️ I love the swing bed!!

[@keithandlindabaldrey7413]

To cut down the size of the deer hut, rig a canvas tarp from the centre of the ceiling that you can roll down in the winter and up in the summer.

[@kennethpietro8921]

Had the same exact thought!

[@joshhickman416]

Left me hanging with the change. I curious to see what it is. What ever I'm sure it'll be fun.

[@josephgeorgeejr7039]

The sky deck seems like be really good place smoke a joint

[@condeerogers5858]

A small deck with a wall door and a hand rail would be a great project when you have nothing to do. LOL

[@doreendoreen3857]

For me the gazeebo ,in summer, the deer castle in winter

[@joelkooienga87]

2 great movies!! I have both on VHS.. lol

[@darryleevans5930]

Thank you for bringing us into bed, I had a great time how was it for you, haha. love your show.

[@kennethpietro8921]

As a self-identified "Completist", I had to watch every video starting with #1 before commenting. I love what you're doing. As someone who also saves things until the right project comes along, I had deep feels when you installed that turnbuckle hardware on the Gazebo screen door....I related so hard to that moment. This also needs to be said: You are quite the impressive, well-rounded dude. If I wanted a best friend, I would pick someone like you...no h0m0. This channel speaks to my own frugalness and desire to create... it's mucho relatable & my new favorite. I give your content 5 stars and will dream of Ringworm henceforth and forevermore. P.S. - As a Finn living under The Bridge, I would love to see you take some of that beautiful Cedar to build a nice SAUNA for you & your lady. My 86yo Dad has a pickle-barrel-style Sauna on our Ishpeming property. It's a must in God's Country! Kiitos!

[@alexkasacous]

You never asked Ruby's ratings on each place. I've found doggos always know what's best.

[@DeterminedDIYer]

5:40

[@btwarner2124]

The swing bed would make me sick fr the motion and booze❤️. I give this video a 9.6. Thanks for sharing.

[@lindapetersen1800]

HANGING BED IS A *5+ then oh oh may I just stay one more night here PLEASE !!! the bowed 4 legged screened area is a *5 also TREE HOUSE MAN OH OH MAN I LOVE THAT **5 in the fall time !!! RYAN HOW I WOULD LOVE TO STAY THERE!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN MAY THE WORM LIVE FOREVER!!!

[@firedog4689]

So I have been binge watching you stuff and loving it. I do have some questions for you. I am a retired firefighter/paramedic and I have been a rope rescue guy for 20+ years. Are you trained in technical climbing and rigging or just recreational? Several times I have seen you pondering for solutions that some quick rope work would have worked, especially with that fantastic webbing you got! When I saw that, I started to see treetop walkways, sketchy zip lines. You know you can make haul systems from harbor freight pulleys! Anyway, fantastic attitude and keep having fun for the rest of us!

[@donofamerica5562]

Hey I finally started my own. @Live Free Live Wild 👍

[@kimberlyswartz2536]

Yay! Happy Birthday!!🎉🎊🎂

[@richardwhite4277]

man u really love that health food

[@clintonroushff7068]

It's good to see you relax. I know you have plenty of ideas and enough to keep you busy. Happy Birthday

[@jonnylee33]

Thanks for sharing a little bit of your birthday week. I would really like to see more of the social interactions, though. I liked the swinging bed the best.

[@Downeastwaves]

Happy birthday party week! Enjoy!

[@Skottink]

We need some Sasquatch stories!

[@richardwhite4277]

that's why people had curtains and three fold screens

[@B-leafer]

Sleeping on the skydeck would definitely freak me out..DANGER DANGER DANGER...! 2 STARS. SWING BED = 5 STARS

[@Donna_Bug]

You shoulda kept the bunk beds in the deer 🦌 cabin ☺️

[@richardwhite4277]

boys camping out too fine

[@VinceLoschiavo]

I call dibs on the sky deck!

[@Shardankyfarmz210]

Hey you know a 15 watt solar panel & charge controller would be enough for each building on its own. You just need a 12v battery for each building and you can run ur fan all night. I get them from harbor freight. Love ur show just trying to give you ideas. I think you should actually start renting them for 3 day camping trips or a package week to sleep in each one. Anyways I love ur passion for woodworking I live in Michigan and just recently stared looking for land. I hope to find about ten acres in the UP.

[@kameljoe21]

nah do not waste your time with cheap low wattage solar panels. I am pretty sure the cheapest 100 watt new panel is 70 dollars. Most local places have solar panels for around 25 cents a watts used. You can buy around 6kw of solar panels for like 1700 dollars shipped. Due to the shading and low light areas one would do better with more solar. For most of his buildings they all can support about 1kw pretty easy. You only need 1kw of battery for some of the most simple things. All the extra power can just go to charging stuff, running fans during the day and anything else one might need.

[@Bcc0rg]

love the swinging bed but I would have to put a few bungy cords on it at night as I would be sea sick in minutes!! oh and happy birthday!!

[@shawnknight421]

Crazy idea put the swinging bed in the gazebo

[@johnnixon7350]

Liked everything

[@jogden6632]

I'd be careful sleeping naked in the UP there are sashquashes!

[@richardwhite4277]

when adding the big stairs add a small kitchen and bathroom on the side / but preferably closer to the ground to save labor and material

[@richardwhite4277]

large set of stairs and door into side / man that will take some stair carpentry and a lot of lumber ( chain sawed I guess )

[@MrBarrymills]

I am currently binging your whole journey and lovin it. You often say you appreciate suggestions for crazy builds. Well, here is one which I think you might grok. Build a very tall and narrow tower. Very difficult normally, but here's the thing... You start by building a spiral staircase into an existing tree, each step gets you to the next. Right up your chainsaw alley me'thinks. Mortice the steps/planks right through to pick up the eventual outside framing.Then use those very steps to allow access to the framing of the tower as it goes up. Ass about I know, but that might appeal to you. I would try to go high enuf for a view myself. And, I would probly try a small one as proof of concept. You would probly not, it could be a bit more dangerous than the the deer hide roof tho. But you have climbing experience, I would suggest being hooked on always.

[@patmatt975]

I call dibs on the swinging bed.

[@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead]

I would just hang a hammock in different places. Sky deck for me but no drinking that night 😂

[@erichawes304]

I call dibs on the Gazebo... Can I work off some of the rent? Happy Birthday💯

[@expressivepets1]

Puppy!!!!! I love seeing you guys together. What's the puppy's name? (Ruby) Sleepovers are always fun. So creative. 5⭐ for ALL of your sleepover spots!!!!!! You created every single one of these options! That's the best in my book. You and your chainsaws could so easily be confused for a serial killer; if you and your friends weren't so adorable. Beg your girlfriend to move in with you. Give her, her own tree house.

[@richardwhite4277]

think about raised bed on pulleys for deer stand / bed frees up floor space / also watch for McDonald's going out of business or playground and get the spiral slide to exit deer stand cabin / definitely saves space when needing to pee in the middle of the night

[@lanetteprice7508]

Happy Birthday

[@ericallan1373]

I think I want to use the swing bed 🤙

[@richardwhite4277]

funnel urinal with hose way away from deer cabin / don't think the dog will use it though

[@secretlake5528]

Build the tent on a 20 foot high platform safe from the zombies

[@glenschumannGlensWorkshop]

Well, that was different. Thanks.

[@richardwhite4277]

deer stand camping / you might just give up the floor entrance to gain floor space / you have to climb a ladder to enter either way

[@jerryroyal3941]

Turn the gazebo into a cabin

[@billr4677]

Curious. Y’d U lock the door to the gazebo? The tent, treehouse and definitely the floating bed don’t have locks. U have all the booze in there?

[@kennethpietro8921]

Michigan mosquitoes will barge right in if you don't lock the doors! Did you know they're the State Bird of Michigan?🦟 😆

[@billr4677]

@@kennethpietro8921 lol and here I thought it was our provincial bird (which is actually the black caped chickadee). Their as big and nasty as a moose fly. 🤔 that reminds me. Wonder if Mr Ringworm ever sleeps up on the platform to escape those nasty fellas? Or maybe that’s not high enough to escape them.

[@cliffmorgan31]

Bring a night pee bucket up into the castle….

[@cliffmorgan31]

In the winter use a floor to ceiling, wall to wall heavy (thick) curtain to shrink the heated area of the castle.

[@saltyshellback]

⭐️ 🌟⭐️ 🌟 ⭐️🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟

[@rpeterson223]

I worry what Sara-Sarah’s parents think about you when they know she’s out in the forest playing Air-B&B with you?

[@bobbydelcavallo7181]

🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗💖💖💖💖💖👍👍👍👍👍

[@kittencollective]

you should get a luggable loo - getting up to pee is no problem if you have it right there.

[@mikegagliano5343]

Need a cabin? Feel like you're practicing/building up to that with all the projects...now bring it all together with a cabin

[@harlanmclain1719]

Tool shed

[@bubblehed738]

Another awesome video. Got a question for you. We are thinking about investing in a chain saw mill set up. What is the rail system you use? I like that one. The ones I'm seeing on Amazon don't have the detachable rails. TIA.

[@heathboeddeker5401]

His system is just something he built himself and 2x2 square

[@phillipg7315]

Curious if Tito is back to live on the lot with you or if you’re building a log cabin…or who knows anything is possible at Ringworm like an Ewok Village.

[@Donna_Bug]

I've been wanting him to do an Ewok village too

[@aframecorry1]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@rubysmith3143]

make sky beck in to tree house xxx

[@harrinc1]

I’m not sure how much you’re wanting to modernize it but I would put some solar lights in your gazebo. I sure do like that one. I don’t think there that expensive on eBay or Amazon.

[@trevordinwoodie3231]

Hoping he gets a dog

[@richardwhite4277]

deer stand cabin way tall / need to use that space better / bed higher in deerstand cabin would be warmer / if you had to live there a year you would fix all problems

[@canajian]

🎶🎂🎶👋😎

[@racingdesire]

yes!! more tiny dog 🐕 less chainsaw, that's what the people want

[@heathboeddeker5401]

Speak for yourself

[@jerryroyal3941]

Why don't you build a log teepee and a log a frame out there

[@richardwhite4277]

composting toilet