Remembering why we are doing all of this | Back on the Homestead

[@SarahStuff-p5u]

Thank you both for sharing your adventure.

[@rjung_ch]

Hi guys, after 4 weeks it looked like a jungle. Nice plans you have, it'll be great. Cheers 👍💪✌

[@chrisstreeter71]

spent a week in that part of France , South West, what a beautiful area🥰.

[@PegAMurphy]

it's great to see y'all back from the tour it sounds like there's going to be some exciting stuff going on with the property in the next few weeks & even more when y'all come 8from the other one 💙 can't wait to watch all the transformations that will be happening in the next few months🎉

[@troyboy4345]

Hooray, back to grafting ! ... looking forward to it.

[@LekaBeogradOslo1970]

Beautifull, nice video and boy what a structure 👏, project managers are jelous now 😅. Cheers!!!

[@alan-sk7ky]

Dennis the Menace to the fescue!🙂

[@David-ju5ci]

Have been missing your videos great to see you back healthy and well.👍

[@Adrian-j3q3n]

Lovely to see you back again. Looking forward to see the upcoming episodes. Hopefully it will kick me into doing something. It's just been too hot outside. Regards from the vineyards.

[@lorrainebayford177]

Great to see you back. Really missed our Sunday videos from you both. 😊

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

More to come!

[@CarmanBomasuit]

Welcome back.

[@rogerday6184]

GOOD to see ya! Gonna be following closely

[@richardbodor3318]

So great to see you again♥ And Julie appears fully recovered from all her injuries and surgeries! It is going to be a great season and I am looking forward to each episode. I am always happy to see China Blue moving . Don't forget to let us see how big the hens 🐔 have gotten! Cheers from the USA!

[@remog38]

Great update thanks

[@phillipneale6422]

Welcome back, you two, we have missed you. Looking forward to seeing all these projects on you to-do list in the near future. Stay safe and take it at your own pace. 😊

[@edwindegroot3235]

Great to see another video again. You both must be exhausted already 😅 after an intense month. Welcome back dream team 🫶🏻

[@lutzn4092]

I missed you so much. I can't wait to see your next videos. And it's nice to see that Julie is doing better again.

[@liammcgothigan2094]

Hi Ian an Julie welcome back to the home build ✅👋

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you

[@davemissenden5812]

Great to see you back 🎉

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you! 😃

[@AuburnElvis]

Great organization/ summary video. Cheeky thumbs up!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Cheers 👍🏻

[@t.w.3]

Nice to see you back at the homestead. 6000km is impressive! Looking forward to more videos from the nice project you have going.

[@TreeChangeFarmer]

Always nice to be home. Heading off soon for 7 weeks in the UK and Europe and cant imagine how long the grass and weeds will be when we get back (especially as it will be our start of summer). Cheers Dave.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

If only I had family near by that could have popped around and kept things tidy....hahahaha - enjoy your UK trip (don't forget your tin hat and body armour 🤣)

[@johnmiley458]

Great to see you back. Looks like you have wild carrot just like we do.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Or something

[@harryiv6107]

So great to see you guys back!!! Keep up the great work. Looking forward to all the upcoming projects.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thanks so much!

[@MOAJackson-u9f]

Absolutely awesome your summer has been so wonderful! Great to see you back on the homestead! That was quite the hayfield! 😅. Julie, please don’t push too hard, Ian will need you for certain! 😁. Thank you both for being so amazing and sharing this with us! Greetings from Central Alberta, Canada! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you ☺️

[@rolandleusden]

Same here in Hungary, I was away for 2 weeks, takes me 2 days to clean up. It's scorching here, I can work outside from 6 ~ 10 am and 6 ~ 9 pm when it gets dark, during the day it's just too hot to be outside.

[@Czeslik25]

I miss you❤!!!!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

♥️

[@georgewest2096]

Welcome back. Now, stay healthy.

[@dougtravins9624]

Welcome back! It's a very ambitious schedule but will provide a lot of good content to watch. We built an oak-frame post and beam home in 1990. After the frame was erected, we enclosed it completely with stress-skin-panels, what you called SIPs, side walls and roof. Our house is basically an 'ice chest' with windows and doors, but so easy to heat in upstate New York You should be very happy with them.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

That is what we are aiming for - a coolbox house with good ventilation

[@SarahStuff-p5u]

One thing that will pay dividends, get an asparagus patch and strawberry patch off to the side somewhere, almost zero maint once you get it rooted and really great food.

[@SarahStuff-p5u]

Those puppies will love the eggs and asparagus.

[@PetterPJ3W]

Haha. You fitted a wind meter on a breeze block!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

hahaha, when I listened back I realised too 🤣

[@FranssensM]

Good to see you both again, back at home. Heal up and get on with preparing for the winter.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

winter is a while away here - seems the summer extends into November now a days

[@arnoldgreenwood2969]

Thank you both for keeping me entertained in my retirement. You did mention that you have discarded the idea of containers and were lookin g for idea/suggestion of Companies who specialise houses you are looking for. I remember three or four years ago watching on You Tube, somebody reviewing a company in Germany, Called "HUF HAUS". The house he reviewed was magnificent. It is planned with the owners, made in the factory, loaded on to low loaders in pieces, arrives on site, with a crew who erects it 3 or four days. I would imagine its madly expensive??? Just an Idea!!!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you - we are looking at SIPs panels now for the house which is basically designed and built in the factory and then shipped to site - it is the frame only but fully insulated and the structure is up in a week. Similar to Hauf house but not to that finished spec.

[@marcusd2380]

I just see a comment below in the air conditioner. Plenty of of low power ones about for camper vans. But I see on KZbin videos on how to improve air circulation and creating draft etc to cool buildings down. And as u are insulating well and hopeful external sitters on the windows the house will be easy to keep cool. That is crazy growth for a few weeks. One thing I would advise is doing ur digging in the summer months and doing foundation as well if u can. With what meter all the soil just turns into muck. And when the larger machine is there dig the drains u talked about with it. So much faster and u can do the levels to ensure good run of with a laser level during the digging. Makes the job easier.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I think I have found the perfect one 😀

[@dcov3967]

Great to see you back, need to get busy haha

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thank you - back to work for sure 👍🏻

[@rodduncan1183]

Dear Jules I don't know if you have had similar problems in your plastic house if you have time. Fantail Valley Homestead their last 2 episodes . Kiwi Rod

[@EmerickKing-j4o]

Good to see you guys . Again, I was of line and had some problems. I started my own channel on KZbin. Take care ❤ . Have a nice day.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I will check it out - what is the link

[@EmerickKing-j4o]

@HomesteadingUncontained I send it to you guys. iam just settings my up in two days . Tell Ian that I live your videos. I am just going to make shorts videos. I don't think , can make the long video. Once I am set up. I you guy s link. Thanks guys you are the best 👌 👍.

[@rodduncan1183]

Ian that hill /high ground faces south if you keep your eye out & try & find a old freezer room of a truck. You don't need the freezer unit. We have found down here in New Zealand that to improve & extend our growing period we will have to bury Polly panel 2 meters into the ground to stop heat leach into the surrounding soil. The freezer room would be cheep efficient & using digital lighting you could run it all winter. House plans There has been a few lives lost down here when polystyrene & it's derivatives catch's fire , soya based seems to be the buzzz word BUT DO THE FIRE TEST how quick does it burn, how bad is the smoke etc Being a X hello sailor I'm sure this problem came up years ago so Yes I'm telling you how to suck eggs Kiwi Rod

[@northernoz]

Back before Wll the engineers all had ties and jackets. But I’m the same get a dab on just thinking about the job ahead and hands dirty just getting the tools out to do the job at hand.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Even when I was in the Navy I would be out in all weathers just in my shirt, while others would be in full on waterproofs. 🤣

[@louistorcello3525]

Welcome back it is great to have my Monday morning coffee break back watching you both. It is good to see Julie back to health. Do the dogs travel with you and how do they cope? I suggest you both watch a short video on a channel called Easy Business on you Tube. The video came out about 10 days ago and is titled landscape business machines. See if you recognise the bloke at 6.50. Following and liking from Australia.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

The dogs stay at home and we have two of neighbours comes round a few times a day to look after them and feed the chickens and the horse. - hmmm, yes I recognise that guy for a split second 🤣

[@rowlandcrew]

That is a good start on your white board. You left one needed item off your list. You will need to get a much larger white board installed. A second thought is you might want to buy the shipping containers now so you have a place to start storing house parts. later you can move them to the permanent locations. In my builds I am annoyed that I come across bargain materials or unpredictable lead times but am not ready to install so I dont buy.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

haha, we are ticking them off now.

[@garrygrant2827]

Hi . The problem with the bank that you said would be more difficult with a strimmer . What you need is get a couple of pigs they will get rid of the vines and any small saplings and totally clean out the are . The other animals you could get are goats and sheep as they graze the grass right down and one big shipping container could be split 50/50 for shelter for goats sheep but any areas that real clearinb out get a ouple of pigs all you need is put round an electric fence for stock just put in cohpleof solar panels to battery storage mount a sun tracker on a scaffolding pole . Once your bank is clear then put garden geo down cover with thick bark no need to cut and wee pigs can be nice bacon and chops loints ect. With you away for 5 weeks you see some sun an heat plus rain and mother nature does the rest .

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

That is the plan - but until we get on site more permanently we can't have livestock - well we could but it would not be fair on them. No goats I am afraid but pigs and sheep are on the plan.

[@Mr19chuck49]

😊😊

[@theinfernalcraftsman]

Looks like you had a fun but exhausting trip. Very pretty place to be in though. I'm still not able to get anything done here as summer is still in full force in Texas. Maybe after tomorrows 108* we will start tapering off the temps but we won't even see 100* highs for over a week. And lows that barely hit 80* as the sun is coming up. I really envy anyone that lives in a nicer climate than ours. Not enough air conditioning in the shop. I want to be comfortable and enjoy working on stuff. I'm not suffering in the heat anymore unless I'm getting paid for it. Hopefully by the time we get back from vacation in early october it will start cooling down and I can get some progress done but it gets to the point where you get so beat down by the weather you can't find the motivation to start up again. I'll give you a tip on the hand cleaning.... I grab the better halfs partially empty makeup remover wipes. If they can take that make up off with whatever stuff is in that it'll take grease and oil off your hands and face. Jealous of the white board... I wish my hand writing was half that good.. As for the minisplit... Send me an email at my YT channel name. I have been working on a long video on what to choose and why etc. Lots of things to consider that most don't think of. Good choice on having the sips done. Here in the US they are git or miss and many of them don't go together well and require lots of rework to make them fit.

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

I think I have found the perfect mini split with a pre charged DIY pipe set - hoping to get it in soon.

[@theinfernalcraftsman]

@@HomesteadingUncontained Good choice. I was going to do some looking to see what was available in France but didn't get around to it. There are versions that have direct solar panel input to the unit and can run partially or fully off solar with nothing but panels no other boxes needed. I have the HVAC tools so for me the quick connects are handy but not worth the extra cost. We are headed back to Greece the end of next month and hopefully I can get out to the tool stores and supply stores as I like to see what's available in other countries.

[@GarrieRussell]

Hey guys, where are you going to "steal" the bench for the annex from 😂

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

🤣

[@Pinzpilot101]

I,ve got a little tracked Yanmar.(tractor)...and I hadn't started it for 4 months.....It turned twice and then fired.???

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

It is a nice feeing - same for the mini digger and skid steer and even the tracked remote mower - very happy.

[@alk5749]

Ian, what is a strimmer? Are you referring to a Trimmer? Weed eater?😂 just poking at you mate!

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

hahaha, they call them Whipper Snippers in Australia - that has to be the best one.

[@solarfunction1847]

Outdoors 110v 220v AC DC 4900BTU Mini Portable 12v 24v 48v Air Conditioner for Caravan,Truck,Camper Accessories I'll send you an email as this is a 400w portable unit.

[@TAMBROWN]

Great to have you back guys 👍

[@charlessanderson2635]

Great to see you back 😊

[@HomesteadingUncontained]

Thanks! 😊

[@George-sp9vu]

Great to have you back 😊