Alone Time at The Cabin - Trying To Finish the Toolshed Project | Norway

[@Trumpets4me]

I've got to say that with the job that you do, and the countless lives you must have saved along the way, you deserve everything good that life can throw at you. To escape to your cabin, is something that you must really cherish, and those views ( Green with envy springs to mind. 😂😂 ) boy how I'd love to wake up to that every morning. Brilliant video, as is the norm from you. I hope you, and your family have a wonderful Christmas, and all the very best to you ( and others who read this ) for a safe and Happy 2025 🤞🤞

[@tshansen]

Thank you sir, truly appreciate that. This is without a doubt the one place I always want to run to and never leave. Waking up here to the sound of the ocean, birds and the river... nothing beats that (for me) Glad you enjoy this video, and merry Christmas to you as well. Wish you all the best, and hope there is something extra nice under the Tree this year 😂🙌🏻

[@Trumpets4me]

@@tshansen The keys to your cabin. 😂😂😂😂

[@tshansen]

@@Trumpets4me hahahaha 😂👏🏻👏🏻

[@thenishchalghimire8052]

The type of life that I’ve always wanted to live: no noise, close to nature, peaceful. Thank you for making these kinds of videos - they always bring a smile to my face when I see your new upload and my notification bell rings. I’m very excited to watch your new project. Best of luck! Keep uploading. Cheers! 🥂"

[@ownyourworld]

What a beautiful place to live 👍🏻

[@tshansen]

It really is! Thank you 🙌🏻

[@kemalkumandas4716]

Hansen, just as you built that house with a measure, someone must have built the world that way. You can think about this while looking at that beautiful fjord from your balcony. :)) Thanks for the nice video. (Note: I wrote another comment five months ago. Time flies so quickly.)

[@tshansen]

Yeah, stuff like that hit me all the time. Imagine how much manpower and will to make something great is put out there every single day. Impressive. But it shows how much we can learn and make if we are willing and have the time. Glad you enjoyed this video Kamal 🙌🏻 Always appreciate comments like this. All the best.

[@kemalkumandas4716]

@tshansen Tusen takk Hansen for hyggelig kommentar. :))

[@nicholebaker5315]

what a breathtaking view! makes me miss your beautiful country

[@tshansen]

Thank you Nichole 🤩 You have been to Norway before? Then you understand why this place is so special for me. Cheers ☕️

[@nicholebaker5315]

@ yes, a couple times. It is special, indeed.

[@christianblanche1569]

Such a beautiful watch you are wearing , what is that?

[@tshansen]

It is actually made by one of my followers. I got it as a gift from him some time ago, it is called Nadir Watches nadirwatches.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqWGN6zCl4UPEXzX3bgPVtT9Hv7iOwRU-KWfEKzScYo5P38tvBK

[@ediorzel22]

Thank You Christian for your kind words and for noticing :) That's a great compliment. This is my microbrand, hobby project, inspired by outdoors and "adventure". If You are interested let me know - I'm all about personal and direct contact.

[@silewis65]

Another cracking. Video Thomas 👌🏼😎

[@tshansen]

Thank you Simon 🤩 Really enjoy this small projects. Good for both mind and body! 🙌🏻

[@cindyblair1283]

Always enjoy your videos and just love your place it’s beautiful 🇺🇸

[@tshansen]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻

[@VitorPires73]

Hi Thomas! Amazing video, as always. Thank you for sharing. Cheers!

[@tshansen]

Glad you enjoyed it Vitor 🙌🏻 Always nice to see you back in the comment section 🙏🏻 Truly appreciate the support

[@Braapncamp]

Really love the cabin videos Tjommi, it's life happening. Always fascinating to see construction progress. There is nothing as great for your mind, as working with your hands. Skål Tjommi, see You at Sunday!

[@tshansen]

Thank you Tjommi... I really enjoy making them as well. It is more like slow tv and I can really be creative with the camera and enjoy the slow process. Absolutely a new aspect of video making I enjoy doing. Woodcarving is your fault I have been so hooked on for the last couple of years. So thank you for that. 🙌🏻 See you Sunday! 🥃

[@The.WanderNest]

Your editing skills are getting out of hand man. Love the intro on this one! 🙌🏼

[@tshansen]

I appreciate that 🙌🏻 Always nice to get these kind of comments from people who know what they are doing 🎥🤩 I love to play around with this stuff and just find something that works and are not overdone by others.

[@jimfoster5439]

Really enjoy your cabin videos Thomas. Very jealous of the cabin and its beautiful location - thanks for sharing and keep up the great work! 👍

[@tshansen]

Thank you Jim... really appreciate that. I'm having such a great time here, and find great joy and satisfaction in building small stuff like this. Always good to have a project to work on. More to come 🙌🏻

[@iancharlton5530]

What a fantastic calming vid many thanks 🇬🇧

[@tshansen]

Glad you enjoyed it Ian. Appreciate the comment 🙌🏻 Cheers

[@dangoodwin2948]

As usual, great video. Thanks 👍

[@tshansen]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙌🏻 Appreciate the comment 🙏🏻

[@obliquepanic2]

I am so impressed with your video work. I love the silence and the atmosphere - and your editing of course. Your work is going way beyond something mainly of interest to motorcyclists.

[@tshansen]

Thank you sir. My video work is just a long road with failing and deep passion for the craft. I really enjoy experimenting with visual storytelling and trying out new stuff. I hope that this can go further than just Motorcycle. Motorcycle is without a doubt my best tool or hobby to get out there and enjoy adventures. Almost like the old times when they used horses to travel and explore the world. But my main passion is creating stories and share my view trough the lens of a camera. And everything fits so well together.

[@tanjawilli1781]

great and beautiful episode…thank you and enjoy a nice ‚me time‘😊

[@tshansen]

Thank you so much Tanja. Really enjoy spending time here in between my travels and other adventures. and it is nice to have small projects and something to do. Cheers ☕️

[@lovinYah838]

Good idea making the wood stacks closer ❤

[@tshansen]

I think so too! but I'm a little bit scared it will feel more cramped or like a narrow down the path behind the cabin (if that makes sense) I need to see if I can find pictures or videos about something similar.

[@gbmartinz]

Vakkert, vakkert, og som vanlig; flott produksjon med mye arbeid som ligger bak! 💪😊

[@tshansen]

Takker og bukker Geir. Hyggelig å høre du likte den. Det går alltid litt tid med slikt, men det er litt av grunnen til at jeg liker det så godt tror jeg. Det er utrolig tilfredstillende å lage et ferdig produkt som andre setter pris på. 🙏🏻

[@hosung82]

watching from korea.

[@tshansen]

That is amazing... thank you so much 🙌🏻

[@ardc1152]

Hi Thomas great to see what all the work you do up in your cabin ,i watch all your videos motorcycling and all there great mate cheers from australia

[@tshansen]

Thanks 👍 Really appreciate that 🙌🏻 My motorcycle adventures is just a small part of my life and interest. And to show more of who I am, this gives a better understanding in why I love to do the things I do. And that people enjoy these kind of videos as well gives me much more freedom to explore different aspects of video making. Thank you for the feedback and hope you have a great summer down under.

[@jockrocker666]

Love the cabin vids mate,such a claiming place.

[@tshansen]

It really is! Thank you Dom 🙌🏻 I find a lot of rest and peace here.

[@samhill3496]

Hi TS. man that is one hell of a nice place. Absolutely beautiful. Good vid. Saw the flat grind. Mine is supposed to be in tomorrow, Friday the 13th, we'll see how the good fortune turns out. Good looking job on the spoons. Carving is much like whittling, time to think and keep the mind busy. The belt sharpener, even and fast, in the future. I've used a leather strop to put the fine edge on all my life. I have my Grandfathers he used to sharpen his Boker and German Eye straight razors to shave with. The concrete. Mixed and poured most all my life, huge and small jobs. You can add antifreeze to the mix to keep it from freezing and crumbling. Add some heat to the building. Preheat the floor area best you can. A oil, electric or kerosene burner overnight with the building sealed would do well. Something you could use after the pour for a couple days as well til it sets up. You could cover it in plastic and make like an internal tent or tarp over the concrete and not have to heat the whole building you just want the concrete not to freeze. Now the wood storage area. The way that soil bank is sloped and the lack of drainage control on it, I don't think I would dig or disturb that very much other than setting posts in it to attach a building floor to. Reason being the way it looks if you dig out the toe for a level area down to the walkway you will be cutting out the support from the slope and it will; slide from the snow and freezing thawing of the winter and spring seasons. You may want to build up the bottom floor of the wood shed to a height that will give you the depth you need and can easily reach the back of will standing on the walkway. This will be there til you are an old man like me. Something like 30 to 40 cm high and a meter to meter and 30cm deep. Then make it a little over head high say 2 meters. If you could slope it to the sidewalk from the back it would keep the snow melt off from behind it but it would pile up the sliding snow on your walkway. So a balance of two evils. Shovel or slide. 10cm square posts would be enough support for the corners of the structure. Have a pair front and back about every two to three meters or as needed. Do some measuring and get some slope level measurements to figure from. Draw it up. Best you can with the design make you wood dimensions work out so to limit waste. It costs a fortune to build the simplest thing. Also what kind of roof will you put on it may determine the pitch and width of it. Make everything work out. Some forethought and planning is necessary so it's not a cluster. I've built three of these in the last year. One a meter wide others two meters wide both 3 meters long. Just small lean to sheds. Simple. Treated wood against rot. Screw about everything together. Makes working alone easier. I have no help either. Good fortune on the projects. Happy Holidays to you and family.

[@tshansen]

God morning sir, taking a sip of my coffee, smiling and take a moment to appreciate the incredible comment once again! You keep making my day! Truly appreciate this, and the skill and knowledge out there. Damn I appreciate the help and advice. This is gold, pure gold for one who is not quite sure what he is doing. 🙌🏻 I have had a lot of sharpening system in my time, and most take so much effort and fine skills to master. The Ken Onion is just so quick and simple and gives perfect results every time. And it makes me do 5 or 10 knifes in the same time one would have taken med earlier with other systems. Concrete is an area I have little to now experience with, other than mixing it and making it even. This is really valuable information that is easy for me to do inside that house. I have a small oven I can put up there and like you say, cover it with plastic. The slope is something of my concern as well... One idea I had was to wait for the frost to come, dig out a vertical wall and make a natural stone wall with sement to support it before I build. but that seams to be a lot more work, and not guaranteed. I need to draw this out, plan it better and don't start anything before I got a good plan. Rasing it will make sense when it comes to age and my back problems. But you loose 30-40 cm of wood height for 7 or 8 meters? hmmm... maybe make it 3 rows instead of two with less height. I was thinking of using metal roof, like my brother, but the sound from that roof is insane. So I think I want to put on shingel, like there is on the cabin, then the noise from snow and rain will be much less noticeable. Again, thank you so much for this, and wish you a merry Christmas and happy Hollidays. Talk soon. 🙏🏻

[@samhill3496]

@tshansen I looked at some fast setting cement mix. They have some that will set in six hours. Used for slabs walkways etc. Requirement is be over two inches thick. 50mm. About same price fo 20kg bag $6usd. Sakcrete but there are others. Good fortune

[@marcgrootveld1977]

So jealous;) The peace and quitet. Great to see some other kind of movies besides the motorcyling. Which I'm jealous of too haha. Norway is so beautifull. Keep up the good work!!!

[@tshansen]

I was really skeptical and not sure if I should include this on my channel, because of my so long focus on Motorcycle. But I understand more and more that this here, is just as much me as me traveling and exploring on my motorcycle. And I think stuff like this puts more context into who I am and why I enjoy the things that I do. Appreciate you giving me feedback on this. Motivates me to be even bolder in my video making decisions going forward. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@marcgrootveld1977]

@@tshansen If I speak for myself, I´m a motortraveler more than a motorcyclist. Love being on the road by myself exploring not racing. But I enjoy the moments before and after a trip just as much. Being in nature, having a cup of coffee;) enjoy doing simple stuff. It clears my mind just as much as riding. So 'Cabinlife' speaks to me also because of the connection with nature, clearing your mind etc.

[@tshansen]

@ we are the same, without a doubt! Perfect words and I can relate so much!

[@tonyottesenwildlife6859]

Nice video mate ;-)

[@tshansen]

Thanks! 😀 Tony, glad you enjoyed this, a little sidekick from my motorcycle videos 🙌🏻

[@tonyottesenwildlife6859]

@@tshansen Your welcome, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos.

[@Crittermoto]

To be able to have me sit and spend 26 minutes watching you do something that I do on the regular for the past almost 40 years really says something about you're filmography and story telling skills.....WELL DONE MATE! PS: y'all spell "sement" wrong, it's "cement" 🤣🤣 (joking, of course) Cheers!

[@tshansen]

That is probably the best compliment I have ever got mate 🙏🏻 I have a hard time with insulation and isolation as well 😂 The Norwegian word is almost the same, so it becomes natural to say it wrong in English 😂 Cheers buddy! Hope you are all good! ☕️

[@feanythmayosh5525]

Very lovely video! Love the woodcarving. As for your new wood stack. My advice as a soil investigator, don't dig into that incline. With heavy rainfall the rest will come down. Just find a few points to put poles/stamps as a basis for the back and elevate the rest. In return, stacking will be slightly more back friendly that way as well since you don't need to bend over as much. 😊

[@tshansen]

Good idea! That is actually a good tip, and because of the long length of the cabin that might be the best idea. I need to draw out some plans, do some measures and see if this is a good option. I'm a little bit scared it will be to high, but I will work on this. Thank you for the good tip Diana. 🙌🏻

[@feanythmayosh5525]

@tshansen you might have the ability to build in a double level? Front a bit lower and then another row of stacked wood in the back that starts a bit higher?

[@four38AM]

Hi Thomas, nice film as always👌 thinking about the wood storage… do you want all the fire wood at that location or just enough for a couple of weeks? Otherwise you just could make some kind of an extension of the deck to stack on. Maybe with the concrete as well. Many ideas😇 anyways, good to see you maintaining that beautiful place🔥👍

[@ibhandlebar]

Crazy question, but why is the color of your house so popular in you country?

[@tshansen]

Well, way back in the 18th century red paint was popular to use by farmers and fisherman's. Red paint had Iron oxide mixed into it, making it much more weather resistant, and it was quite expensive to get by. what once started as a prevention of rotting wood on the houses became more of a status symbol showing of that you had money. White and Red was really expensive paints back in the days and it became a way of showing that you cared about you property and and had some sort of wealth. Now in the modern times it is more a cultural thing. And it looks really nice towards the green backdrops etc.

[@klemenm6967]

Nice firepit. Could you share whitch brand is it. Maybe even a review?

[@tshansen]

It is a Solo Firepit... you can see sort of a review I made of it here. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sF7TZqmCfLWJq5osi=GQdVhpqpfGu3l1aq&t=1257

[@HikingHansen]

Great work with this cabin video, Thomas. The first thing I noticed was the beautiful top-down drone shot with the smooth motion in the beginning. It took me a while to understand that the guy in the camo pants wasn't you. I was wondering why you had changed in between the shots 😁 Fantastic quality as always, and a lot of different activities included.

[@tshansen]

It took me a couple of tries to get that motion just in the correct speed 🤣 All in the details you know. Yeah, I was gonna include more of my brother in this, because he helped me with some of the work we did, but he was always in such a rush, so every time I took out the camera there was a bad vibe 😂 This is how a normal weekend at the cabin can look like, some relaxing, some projects and a lot of bad weather 😆🙌🏻

[@kihestad]

Isn't it typical. It's plenty of time to get things done during the spring and summer, no need to rush it. And then one day it starts to snow and you ask yourself: what - is winter already here? 😬😅 I can pay you a visit next spring and give you a hand to get that floor done. That is absolutely not a one man job 😊

[@tshansen]

Hahaha... I start to understand this more and more Hestad. I was looking back on pictures when we did the roof of the Shed... it is over 2 years old, so times work in a different way at the cabin, for sure. 😂 Would appreciate that. It looks like my brother and father is ready after Christmas, but if they are not, I will send you an invite. But don't forget to bring the camera 🤩

[@JanSpijkerman]

Jeg elsker Norge, for et vakkert område og bedre liv.

[@tshansen]

Takk 🙏🏻 Hyggelig å høre 🙌🏻

[@EaglewoodADV]

Don’t care much about flooring, but damn that mustache! 👨‍🦰

[@tshansen]

I did not know you was into that, I will make a reel of mye doing duckfaces with this mustache and send you 😂

[@EaglewoodADV]

@ one seeks that one lacks I guess. Don’t send the duckfaces though. My wife will not understand 🙅‍♂️

[@peterskrinjar5184]

Es grenzt an ein Wunder daß das Haus und der Schuppen jemals fertig wurden...

[@tshansen]

Wir werden hier nie fertig, es gibt immer etwas Neues zu tun und etwas zu erneuern … Die Hütte ist jetzt 25 Jahre alt und immer noch nicht fertig, haha.

[@bigswederides]

Congratulations on the Fu Manchu! Great video; it was so chill I feel like it's time to go to bed. I wonder why you guys insulate the floor before concrete - we only do that if it's a heated space. Cheers!

[@tshansen]

Thank you mate. We do that to prevent moisture for getting in and ruin our tools, equipment etc. And it is also such a little ekstra cost to do if you want to make it heated later. If you don't do this, the extra work if you want to do it down the line is just not worth it. I have plans of doing parts of the tool shed heated now in the beginning, and I might do the larger room heated as well later on.

[@bigswederides]

@@tshansen Cheers friend. I'm still looking for a rental bike for a Scandinavia trip. I considered buying one but it looks like a lot of red tape. I think I'll have more time in my future, my wife prefers me more when I'm not working - and retirement from corporate world is looking good. I'll have to brush up on my KZbin skills 😆

[@tshansen]

@@bigswederides I'm not sure if I can point you in any good direction... I suspect it is quite expensive over here. But if you send me an email, I can share with you some rentals here in Norway that can be worth checking out.

[@paulwelch4373]

Hope you don’t mind me correcting you. It’s “insulation”, not “isolation”. Love your channel.!

[@tshansen]

Yes! Thank you! Haha, as soon as I read this I understand the mistake. Isolation is not the same as insulation 😂 Thank you for this!

[@paulwelch4373]

⁠ du är välkommen

[@THolc38]

Also, this could be a 'talk to text' mistake. But thanks for pointing it out, Paulwelch.