Cubic Mini | Skoolie Wood Burning Stove | Tippy Trips

[@djvorac]

Tip for ya. On the off chance that the wood pops and a little spark jumps out and lands underneath on your kindling or on the wood and ignites. Get a door for your wood storage or a wool/fire resistant fabric cover for the opening. Will be a cheap way to keep you safe! Stay warm :)

[@TippyTrips]

djvorac That is a great idea! We hadn’t even thought about that. Thank you so much!

[@jamesberg6340]

Awesome guys meet you today.Really nice peeps .These guys are just as they seem .Really smart and sweet.Many blessings on your journey.We look forward to following y'all. Ray-a-nay and Jay

[@DavidrKun]

9:38 Because, Wood can be found anywhere andPropane and gas, you have to spend money. This is the Perfect way to be off Grid.

[@marymarmande8446]

💕 thank you for sharing!! Y'all explained everything we wanted to know about this one it's going to be perfect for us ❤️ ☮️

[@montanasoneeyejack5195]

Awesome and God Bless you guys...I ordered a cubic mini in all black...gotta wait 4 more weeks...oh well I've been enjoying everyone,s on youtube..lol

[@billbass2771]

You two are very smart by choosing wood heat it is safe and it want breakdown on you I was raised with wood and coal heat

[@latitudeash]

Put doors on the wood store under the stove. You don’t want a amber sealed ring in their. The doors would stop any amber floating into that area

[@chrislockwood1724]

2 marshmallows on one smore? Youall's cray-cray!

[@kezdodik1]

I want to put a wood stove in, I'm looking at these little ones, nice, but I'm thinking I want to sleep all night without feeding it.

[@joleezanes5938]

I'm looking into the Mini Cub as well. Some reviewers suggest mixing some coal in with the wood to burn longer and to shut all the stove vents.

[@kezdodik1]

Jolee Zanes hi! I found a better mini stove for cheaper! I bought it and it’s beautiful. I will make a video about it! www.etsy.com/shop/NorthWoodsMan

[@marcdemmon208]

Have yuo trued it in the winter

[@sS-vu3mz]

How far away from the window must the stove pipe be?

[@dougsomers7808]

Should have used butyl not silicone, you put butyl tape on the bottom of the boot before you screw ot down and " water cutoff mastic" around it after, never silicone

[@TippyBits]

I'm 11 months late to the comment but that is really good to know. I tried to find some guides online on what people are doing for this but had a really hard time finding it.

[@marcdemmon208]

Some by laws in America city are Gains tv life style

[@kendavis3176]

I hope this doesn't come off rude. But how do two kids bearly in there 20's not only afford to get married but go to college and buy a bus, and to build a custom schoolie along with traveling the US full time after graduating to "prove life isnt all about work" u guys aren't even using discount products to save money. That cubic mini stove is EXPENSIVE. And they are not even that efficient. And not to sound even more like a Karen but you guys dont know the first thing about remodeling and construction work. It really shows in the small details. Like how the roof was chopped up to feed the exhaust pipe or using exposed concrete board that will crumble and fall apart after a year. ( i made the same mistake) A few questions i had were: How long have you been living the schoolie lifestyle... Is this a extended vacation for u two or is this a lifestyle .... Did u have to take out a loan.... Did u max out ur Credit cards... Or are u blessed to not have to worry about financial issues

[@zerozeroone4030]

Maybe it's our age, but I thought exactly the same thing. I wish them well all the same.

[@TippyBits]

Hey Ken! Thanks for the comment and honestly, I should do a whole video about this. I know a lot of people have asked us the same question. I’m going to do my best to give you a proper answer because you are the first person to not flat out accuse us of just coming from money. I’ll try and cover each piece in its own section: Wedding: Being transparent we were actually pretty blessed to not have to fund our whole wedding. We were pretty frugal with our wedding as well. The total cost was probably around 13k. We funded about $2500 out of our pocket, my parents probably put in around $2000 and Dani’s parents paid the remaining $8500. Average cost for a wedding in VA is about $33k for perspective. Right after our wedding we had about $12k between the two of us. We had been saving up for several years before we were married. Education: For me I went to community college for 3 years or so. I did do FAFSA and got some money for that but most of it I was paying for a semester at a time out of the money I was making at Starbucks. I had around 10k in loans from that when we got married. I knew once we were married and we were still in school it was going to get really expensive. That was when I found out that if you work as a full-time employee at our local university you could get your tuition (and your spouse’s) covered. I applied to probably 10 positions without hearing back from anyone. Finally, I found they had an in-person career event and by the grace of God managed to get a job as a real time analyst. This was really hard as I was working 7:30-5 pm every day and doing school full time. My wife and I did this for the first year we were married, and it was really tough on our relationship. Skoolie: My wife and I like to stay pretty frugal. We don’t take vacations really and we were living in one of the cheapest apartments we could find. We had been married and living together for around a year and a half by the time we decided to do the skoolie. We had only grown our savings to around 15k by the time we started the bus because we did still have a lot of school expenses like books. From there we put every spare penny that we had towards building the bus. Also, while it may seem like we didn’t get much used for the bus we were looking for deals nearly every night we weren’t working on the bus. The total for the bus when it was finished was around 22k. about $12k of that came from savings and roughly $10k we saved over the course of the year we were working on it. Here is a bit of the breakdown of the major stuff (also it’s been a few years so this is not a complete itemized breakdown). Bus: $3200 TIRES FOR BUS: $2500 (I was really shocked by this one) Fridge: $200 used Cubic Mini $450 new Other things for wood stove: $400 new Natures Head Composting: $950 new Stove: $75 used Washer/Dryer Combo: Free from friend Alternator for bus: $300 new New bus batteries: $350 new Bed: Free used Tank and pump setup: $500 new Sink and faucet: $50 used Ikea Cabinets: $275 used Solar panels: $1000 surplus/used Charge controller: $600 refurbished Inverter: $700 new Breaker box and breakers: free from friend Shower kit: $110 new Misc Plumbing: $600 new Misc Electrical: $700 new Renting space to work on the bus inside for 3 months: $1500 Flooring: $200 surplus Tesla Battery Module $1200 That is a little over $15k of the total but shows where we spent most our money. Also, you are certainly correct that I am not a professional at any of this and there is a lot I would do different if I did it again (starting with not using a bus). I really didn’t care though. It wasn’t about doing it perfect. It worked for what we wanted at the time. And for your last question we didn’t make it long on the bus. We found out shortly after we finished the bus that my wife was pregnant. While we were comfortable with that lifestyle for ourselves we put aside our dream to make sure that our daughter would have a safe and comfortable life. Turns out this was a good call because my wife ended up having some nasty complications with her pregnancy and we were happy to have our family to help during that time. We didn’t end up taking out loans or maxing cards for the bus. We were very careful and lived wayyy under our means. I don’t think we went out to eat almost at all during our time building the bus. Hope that was helpful and thanks for the great question!

[@kendavis3176]

Thanks for not taking my question the wrong way. I have a horrible time explaining my self and my questions and 99.999% of the time ppl take my questions the wrong way and think im rude or offensive. And i thank you for taking the time for the detailed answer Congratulations on the baby Sry the bus didnt work out for u. Im a 33yr old single guy with no kids living in my stationary bus full time trying to build it out as i go. Im coming on the back end of 2yrs. And its been a ruff ride. I complete understand why you would walk away from ur bus I have horrible credit so i dont have any CC, i also went to college for culinary arts with over 10yrs experience and just this year switched professions back to construction because of the corona virus. Its taken almost 2 years to gather all the materials ( water tanks, stove, refrigerator,.....*most from scrap rvs) and next spring ill transition from a futon and folding table to an actual bed and real countertops and finish the build portion of my schoolie. You mentioned that if you could do it again that u would not use a bus as a platform.... Why is that? Any particular reason why? If i could go back i wish i would have gotten a smaller bus instead of a 40' Did you end up keeping ur schoolie or did u sell it?

[@pamcolechadwell1302]

Who's going to keep the fire fed every hour on the hour throughout the night in the winter? I believed I would have just spent that money on extra Solar and bought a fake fireplace heater and chased the warmer states in the winter months! Or bought the larger woodstove!

[@ryanmazurski2736]

Hey pam,I mean Negative Nancy...Lotsa sun in the winter months to charge your batteries enough to run that fake fireplace that keeps you warm all night every day?? I think that mini is a nice addition to what they also have.