Pouring concrete over root cellar and greenhouse- Montana Homestead Part 12

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The crew forms and pours cement over the top of the root cellar and wood house roof.
After the concrete is cured, dirt will cover the root cellar roof but a greenhouse with be built on top of the wood house’s cement floor. The wood stove in the wood house, below the greenhouse, will heat the house and also heat the greenhouse by natural convection.

[@TimothyArcher]

Wow. What a house. What a setting. What VIEWS! You and your family are Heavenly blessed.

[@tonyhodge9451]

Wow what a home. Can't wait to see it finished. Great job

[@jerrieyum]

That sure is beautiful sir. God bless your family and congratulations on your beautiful home. 👍🏾✊🏾😊

[@billporemba8368]

Great job! Great ideas for the root cellar using a container! You absolutely do a great work!

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

Thanks 🙏

[@karlzack7122]

I love the mountain view from your daughter's room. Greetings from Germany, viele Grüße aus Deutschland.

[@IceLynne]

Absolutely beautiful! So much progress :-) I bet your wife is excited about moving in and getting some plants in that green house.

[@Christophermedynski]

I can only dream about of having such a beautiful home .... I've never owned my own home and hopefully one day soon I will be be able to I'm thinking about buying a piece of land out in Montana or Colorado. I'm a 53yo veteran 🇺🇸 and I pray that I will be able to do this before I die .

[@goingagainstthegrain]

God Bless You & Thank You For Your Service! 🇺🇸 You're In Our Prayers!

[@marysmith5509]

I love the beautiful wood ,,so pretty the Amish do such pretty work ,love the look of the wood , beautiful !

[@JuanGarcia-pd1dm]

Hi !!! Beautiful home and nice work, exellent job, nice work...thank you so much...God Bless you and all your family too...

[@LICKMEKNUTS]

Awesome thus far! Can’t wait til the “fixtures” in the kitchen and bathrooms when are in. Also love the coloring of the “knots” on the logs in the family rooms, adds character.

[@bethdixon3896]

What a stunning work of art 💯💯💯

[@patriotpoetry6328]

Whomever did the roof, did a FANTASTIC JOB! I am an ex- contractor, I have had my fill of bad roofs... whoever did the roof, please keep them on the "short" list. Otherwise, great job on the log cabin (🏠), and YES, this is what dreams are made of. Thank You for being outstanding. 👍

[@fredericrike5974]

Elvie, it's plum gorgeous! I expected nothing less, and I still seem more than I imagined. Best wishes to you and whole family! And you get to live in this one!

[@leowalst7862]

Wow what a beautiful house you build again ,specially the wooden joints in the roof top it's like art

[@user-re7eu9hq6r]

Fantastic house! Great idea, to heat the greenhouse! Love it!

[@karolybobis]

I love all your Uploaded Videos !!! Very relaxed !!!

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

Glad you like them!

[@larryboyle590]

Very nice. Would like another tour when it’s finished.

[@mgsharnhorst]

Nice property. You are very fortunate. Count your blessings.

[@jeremydoty9971]

What a beautiful place

[@maryjonorum107]

Gorgeous home! What a beautiful family. It’s about time. 🙂❤️

[@generalmayhem9336]

Awsome! Greetings from Sweden :)

[@jengable4888]

Nice work ! Looking forward to more videos ! I will check out your website !

[@buffalo4127]

Way to go Alvie! I bet you will really enjoy your new home (-;

[@peterhaynes3661]

I love your house

[@roberthorniacek4559]

nice, very nice.

[@SkyboundAdventures]

Wonderful work!

[@krtistinwitt]

Why did you choose shingles over a metal roof? It’s absolutely beautiful!

[@uziel-nunes-xavier]

Great job, I liked it a lot 👏🏽 Just left it like 👍🏾

[@Shady.Lady.]

This house is what dreams are made of 🙏🏻🇦🇺 Couldn’t imagine much could bother me, living a self sustainable life in a home like this .

[@marthachilds6167]

Beautiful! Why do you prefer shingles over a metal roof?

[@valerialamberti9037]

Love the house! But just one bathrom upstears and one downstairs? Or am I wrong?

[@doc47448]

Did you weld extra steel to the sides of the shipping container to reinforce the sides?

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

Thanks for the question, now I will need to get a video of the inside of the root cellar.I didn’t use steel, I used 3 inch thick planking on the sides vertical members and under the roof ceiling and screwed it altogether so it’s very very strong with the timbers. Also I can hang shelving and hang hooks off the ceiling to hang garden produce and things from them because now it’s wood instead of the metal sides of the container.

[@doc47448]

@@AmishMeadowsOfficial Thanks for your reply. Always enjoy your videos.

[@SheriffofYouTube]

not a bad build for a one handed Amish gentleman

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

haha thank you very much

[@paulevans2153]

Is there any updates on this build?should be finished by now

[@sheffiksoehoed7484]

Cabin yg luar biasa bagus dgn arsitek yg samgat unik 👍

[@iamhis5580]

Is there a video of the finished house?

[@rickhamilton9593]

Great video. Suggestion. Try slowing down camera movement. Can be quite dizzy in parts.

[@ohske]

👍👍👍👌

[@wooden5c]

New to the channel - are you reinforcing the sides of the root cellar?? Looks like raw container side?

[@wooden5c]

If there is no reinforcement to the sides, they will collapse inward

[@davidgriffith618]

Why is the so narrow ?

[@helenpomerleau6455]

Is this house going to be off grid?

[@mrrs8118]

😍😍😍

[@bladenrexroth2555]

Without welding bracing to the container. It's going to be a problem.

[@bladenrexroth2555]

The water run off from the mountain will saturate the ground engh to collapse the sides of the container. Need to weld 6 inch c channel to at least each 1/3 of the container sides.

[@bashirjan3040]

ما

[@ronhart8857]

Beautiful home, excellent work, wonderful place to raise a family! Love your channel, and the home’s you build for customer’s!

[@firefox2716]

Amish are going to make it - God is with you - Blessings - Awesome Place

[@sueanderson9688]

So beautiful, integrating with nature perfectly, I am so happy for your family. Cannot wait to see more videos. Love to all of you, be safe xox

[@trees915]

How is this "Integrating with nature perfectly"?

[@whitegirl1442]

@@trees915 Because it's made of logs and built in a nature setting. What's is your problem?

[@trees915]

@@whitegirl1442 Your answer is a "perfect" affirmation of your shallow, clichéd statement. 😂

[@MikeyB_1972]

Any plans for solar power??

[@bosse641]

What a wonderful home.

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

thanks John! We appreciate how long you've supported our channel :)

[@Doc1855]

Elvie, that is a great idea for your heating. My dad owned a “Gentleman’s” farm growing up. It had forced heat and air. The main duct was in the ceiling of the daylight basement. He bought a large wood stove with a heatalater on it. When the temperature of the basement hit 80 degrees F, a fan would turn on. Dad cut a hole into the main forced air duct and the fan would go on. It would suck the heat out of the basement and blow it throughout the house through the ducts, like you’re doing. It was very efficient. He also had a fireplace on the main level of the house. The main level was the living room, kitchen and dining room. The upstairs had 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The basement had the den, a bathroom and the utility room. My job was to get up early, put more wood in the fireplace and the wood stove in the basement. I’d then run outside to bust the ice in the watering troughs for the animals. I’d run and jump in bed to get warm, then get up and get ready for school. It was a long bus ride into town for school. When I turned 13, I’d drive our tractor to school so that on my lunch break, I’d go home and break the ice again in the watering troughs, put more wood in the fireplace and wood stove and back to school I’d go. After school, I’d break the ice again and add wood. On Saturday mornings it was my job to clean out the ashes from the fireplace and stove. If it needed to be done more often during the week it was my responsibility to. When spring would come I had a bit of a break with keeping the house warm. The wood stove was our main source at that point, but then it was time to work the fields. The farm had 3 main areas. Every year we’d only use 2 pastures and let the other one “rest”, allowing the Alph Alpha to re-seed itself and of course we’d fertilize the pasture, then in the fall we’d get the brush hog and mow it, let it rest for 2 weeks and till it under. When you live on a farm, you always have something to do. I’m too old now to do all that work, so now I do the gardening and tend to our small orchard. We grow almost all of our fruits and veggies and whatever we don’t eat, we freeze dry.

[@Doc1855]

Absolutely Gorgeous. We LOVE the mountains and the pine trees. Whenever I see the beauty of the forest, I know that our Lord created it just for me, or at least I was on His mind.

[@dudeduderinoduderino9689]

I am jealous of this type of home that your family are going to live in but if I COULD AFFORD the one I would like to live in, I would make mine from blue stone and log combined. Love your video's and what you make for your customers.

[@kevinarmentrout4117]

Beautiful house & view. Thank You for sharing. Looking forward to seeing it completed.

[@tinataylor2464]

I love the greenhouse idea. I am interested to know how it works.

[@dakotawinds9291]

Beautiful home, but I must say that tower is a big no for me lol. I am scared of heights and the video had me so queasy I was almost looking for something to puke in, beautiful views as long as I don't look down LOL. Can not wait to see it finished.

[@whitegirl1442]

I'm with you on that Dakota Winds! But a lovely home and beautiful views.

[@stevetotty]

The views from the great room where the fireplace will be are going to be something else. Is the main window opening going to be one pain of glass? Stay safe out there, looking forward to the next update.

[@popmccoy3454]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@atozrecovery518]

Cant wait for final review

[@carljorgensen2813]

Going to be a beautiful house great views

[@kevinadams2766]

very nice work

[@wornoutwrench8128]

I will be interested to see if your heating idea works. I tried something similar about 30 years ago with so so results. Lived in a house with a subterranean basement, with 2 floors on top. The wood stove was in the basement, huge stove. It was located right beside the old oil furnace. We opened the door to the blower fan and blocked the cold air return off on the furnace Turned the furnace fan to summer mode so it was always on Left the door to the basement open for cold air return. It worked but had to have the stove burning hot, the temperature would be 90-95 degrees in the basement to keep the main floor a nice temperature. The bedrooms were upstairs and they were cooler. We had an electric baseboard heater in the babies room to keep it warmer. When it got cold you had to feed that stove many times. I would set an alarm clock to 2am so that I could refill the stove otherwise I could never get it back up to a comfortable temperature. It was not a very big house either. I can't remember if you showed how the cold air return was going to work. You will need a monster of a stove, that greenhouse will be plenty warm. Did you ever entertain the thought of wood fired hydronic heating. That would be a sweet system in that house. Beautiful house by the way. That view, ohhhhhhhhh !

[@gwenmoody8323]

I am so happy for you and your family. You and your crew have build beautiful homes for other family's. It is your family turn. I have been watching for a long time. God Bless you and your...Love and Hugs from Sapulpa, Oklahoma

[@davidcarrow5419]

The house is taking shape can't wait to see next video

[@retireddriver16]

Just look 👀 out for Bigfoot

[@g.mendoza8138]

Nice 👍😀👍

[@dopeheathen]

That house is amazing.

[@clydecox2108]

Pretty sweet

[@annieokie3789]

Love watching all of your videos. 👍😁

[@triciasklodowske5653]

I don't see a mess. I see a dream coming true. Love the look. Best is the greenhouse and root cellar ! Great idea for them. Thank's for the video. Stay safe and healthy. God bless

[@pattiperry8893]

The tower view is beautiful

[@pinkywilliams8063]

Just gorgeous and scenery is awesome... Thanks for sharing.... Stay safe

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@donphillips7766]

Awesome job

[@deborahsimmons2414]

AMAZING HOME AND HOMESTEAD!!!

[@detectivedee3717]

Absolutely breathtaking and fantastic you guys are expert builders.

[@roaringlion1]

That's a Zombie Apocalypse fort.

[@markd1300]

Beautiful. Looks amazing. I like how you could look out at the snow capped mountains. Looks like a bit of mountain heaven. God Bless

[@charlesburkhart800]

Wow!

[@twilightingX]

This is the perfect prepers house. Love it.

[@goingagainstthegrain]

What a view from every point of the house! Astonishing and idyllic homestead! 💗

[@blythemajors9193]

STUNNING

[@davecurda2350]

Wow looks great.

[@janjanssen6794]

My BIGGEST DREAM of my whole life? A log home at leat 5 miles away from next neighbour and next to a river and a lake. Doesn't need to be very big or axtravagant but usefull. I DREAM about this at least once a week. And you making this dream come true for many people. Keep on doing the good AWESOME work.! Greetings from the south of the Netherlands near Eindhoven city.

[@bentonheath6843]

Hi, interesting using a shipping container and burying it. Hard to tell from your video what paint work was done on the exterior. Should look at using Sherwin Williams epoxy paint next time. I worked for a company that built these style of containers to bury radioactive waste. After painting with epoxy paint, it's almost impossible to sandblast off. The idea using epoxy paint is the container, once buried, would prevent rusting for hundreds of years. Enough time for the contents radioactivity to be harmless, or so they say. I can say the epoxy paint is bullet proof. Thanks, Benton

[@Crosswalker2000]

We'll be moving in soon, I get the fortress area...

[@1985Jesg]

Yes! A new video! Thank you 🙏

[@IamFormaggio]

Put a forced air heat exchanger between wood room and house. It will draw hot air that will warm house air without mixing and exhaust the "dirty air" outside. If not you're sucking anything that comes in on the wood and blowing into your living space. At a minimum pollen and mold. Just my 2 cents.

[@mikesparks3398]

Beautiful home.

[@CharlesPiccolaPhotography]

Beautiful Home...

[@annieb.6578]

I can’t believe how huge that is. I’m wondering how your wife is supposed to do all the cooking cleaning sewing and taking care of the kids and all of her other responsibilities.

[@mikestronach4762]

Beautiful home. That peel and stick membrane is not sticking. Most times you need a primer. July and august no we also always apply vertically for neatness and air pockets. We also tape all seams.

[@billierenshaw3302]

This is amazing..and beautiful....what a wonderful place to live 🥰🥰🙏

[@tinacostner3069]

Amazing!!

[@julatsa]

This is beautiful

[@terrybrown9206]

It is big and great construction with beams on main level, and basement is nice with the wood stove.

[@HeatGeek1]

Very nice. Too heavy on the Montana prepper glam for me but it is nice.

[@rickwatson1000]

Fort Knox with a view.....Beautiful

[@shevellscott6756]

I love the house it's super huge though? Would love to own a much smaller version.

[@AmishMeadowsOfficial]

give us a call at 800.850.8554

[@jerrysparks1308]

Very nice home as all of your homes are, wish I had one

[@tariktasing7866]

Wow....im speechless....awesome ..

[@victorgalagan1151]

Beautiful Bunker,shelter.