Comments by "" (@donaldhofman5257) on "KYLES CABIN" channel.

  1. You're a terrific role model for young men to learn from!
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  2. Sierra, you have that mother glow !! Beautiful!!!
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  3. I'd make a door on the outside cubby for firewood! That way you won't have to bring in the cold wood through the house and cool it down so much when it's 30 below zero!!
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  4. You can sell your house in town with enough money left over to purchase some land out in the woods!! Don't worry about what friends and family think!! Do what you want!!
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  5. Kyle, we can see your passion for your new addition to your family! Both baby and home! Congratulations!!!❤❤❤
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  6. I'm glad to hear Ceira is doing much better!
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  7. As a retired professional installer, its great! You won't have any problems with it!
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  8. Yes, 50 years ago, we had an early spring with a major snow storm in April! My wife and I got married 2 days later! It was quite a time! I'd been plowing the fields for 2 weeks before that!
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  9. You're like me! No nails in windows! I almost fired a guy for pulling out his hammer and nails for installing windows I stopped him before he did!
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  10. I added my chicken manure with straw to it thinly, and tilled it in and added garden mix soil on top of it! The plants grew like crazy!!
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  11. My brother and sister in laws were up in the BWCA and stalked by a black bear! They were able to outdistance it, paddling their canoe! They lost it by paddling around a island! After they got back to the parking spot, they were met by troopers, game and fish department workers! They found out a couple people were killed and eaten by a bear on the island that they went around! NEVER trust a bear! More people are killed by black bears than any other breed of bears!
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  12. He talked about maybe a b and b rental for income! In a previous video!
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  13. A putty knife works really good for pushing in the moss!
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  14. Oh, to be young again!!! I wish I had that energy yet!
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  15. Thanks for sharing your beautiful family with us!!❤
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  16. Take a few 2x4s and screw them upright to the outside of the logs already up! That will keep the logs from rolling off the outside! Have another one on the inside on one end to keep it from getting you on the inside! Great job!!
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  17. You should make another bed away from the others for lambsquarter! It tastes better than spinach or lettuce and is more nutritious than most other green vegetables! It can be eaten raw or cooked and once it started it reseed itself every year! You just have to till it up to loosen the soil!
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  18. Great progress!! Love your build!!
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  19. I drilled 1 inch holes in the stumping my yard, filled them with diesel gas mix, and burned my stumps out! I let them rot a few years, and they burned out about 6 inches below grade! 1 big one burned for about a week, it was 38 inches across!
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  20. Yep!!! You're wise! I worked a sawmill before i bought one and thats all we used was slabwood for heat! Super quick to get wood put up!
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  21. Even with the flashing you put on the house, you'll need to put caulking under the flashing to prevent water from coming in and rotting the ledger board and t 111! I've done rot repairs in houses for 40 years! I'm now retired!
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  22. It's so beautiful!!
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  23. I used metal and after my nephew cut his foot on it I rolled the edges under so no sharp edges were underneath!
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  24. I've done that move many times, jumping on the trees!!
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  25. Yes, I was born and raised in Minnesota and your absolutely right!
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  26. Kyle, I put good dirt in the old chicken feed bags and plant potatoes in them! As they grow I add more litter to the bag to keep the potatoes below cover! You can start them earlier in the spring this way too!!
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  27. I have a feeling winter is coming earlier and harder this year!! I just got back from a trip to Minnesota! The leaves were turning color already and the acorns are falling like crazy and there were over double what there normally is! That's one of the signs of a rough winter!
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  28. Lol, I know what you mean!!😂
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  29. That's a sweet cabin!! Great job!!
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  30. Yes great stuff!!
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  31. Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year to you both!!!!
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  32. I look forward to both of your videos!!❤ As always, it's a great video!
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  33. I made that same wood stove!! It works great!!
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  34. If you check out Bushradical, he does a great job explaining their system forbuying land and building cabins both in Alaska and the lower 48!
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  35. I used to live north of Bemidji in the 80s! Beautiful country!!
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  36. Kyle, I mix wild bird seed in with my layer feed and scratch! And production jumped! Our old hens we had 2 years ago, we'd get 13 to 14 eggs a day from 12 Red Rangers! Now we have 6 RIR and get from 6 to 8 a day!😊 Ours are free ranged during the fall after the garden is harvested to spring! We don't get a ton of snow like you do! We moved from Bemidji to Washington state! You're bringing back some great memories!!!
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  37. Awesome video!!! Love your family and values!!😊
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  38. You're going to love that washer and spinner! My mom had one years ago!! They work great!!!
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  39. Spaniel
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  40. Wow, it's just as dry there as it is here! Take care, my young friend!! We just got back from a trip to Minnesota and visited my sister in laws in Ackley and Grand Rapids areas! They had a little bit of rain while we were there!!
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  41. Northern Minnesota! Near Lake of the Woods! We used to live 40 miles south of his place!!
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  42. I made a woodburner stove after watching Lonnie and Connie's videos!
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  43. He had a video of it a couple times ago! You should watch them! He explained it in them!
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  44. Don't get gravel. Get 5/8s minus it packs in much better! I've built lots of roads!
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  45. In helps the logs dry instead of staying wet and starting to rot!
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  46. I've had to persuade those critters with rocksalt from a 410 shell a couple of times 🎉! They didn't come back!!
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  47. Keep us posted on events!!! ❤❤ We're praying everything goes smoothly with the delivery!!!
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  48. You split wood like I did when I was young! It's very efficient!! I could outsplit a guy with a splitter, even elm that was a bugger to split!
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  49. I was able to scrounge up some old steel roofing for my sheds from some neighbors that tore down a shed while back! The extra I used for beds in my greenhouse!
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  50. He tried driving a sand point and hit big rocks!! It will take a big drill rig to drill through to the water table!
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  51. Goat tastes a lot like venison! I've butchered a few for ourselves and family!
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  52. We have a heat invection powered fan on the stove!!
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  53. Watching from Washington state! We had a brunch of snow in the last few days and it's heading your way!! 49 years ago we had a blizzard with 2 feet of snow in Minnesota, 2 day before our wedding! It was pretty wild!!
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  54. Sometimes they are given away free out here in Washington!
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  55. Thanks for sharing your lives! I hope others take the initiative to become self sufficient and take control of their lives!!
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  56. Awesome job! Im looking forward to watching you giter done!!😊 We love your work and growing family!!❤ !!! You're bringing back lots of memories from when we lived in Northern Minnesota next to the Red Lake Reservation! Its such a beautiful place!!!❤
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  57. Speaking of late snow! 50 years ago, on the 12th of April, we had a blizzard drop 2 feet of snow 2 days before our wedding! It was a crazy year!!
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  58. Mine too! I'm rebuilding the engine right now! I'll have it running before long!
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  59. Ciera,, your going to be up and around before you know it! My daughter had her Achilles tendon snapped off completely! She had surgery and repaired and pt and 4 months later she was as good as new!! Keep up the faith!!
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  60. We even put snow in a tub in the winter and they ate it for liquid and they thrived in winter! We used to live by the Red Lake Reservation!
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  61. What size saw is it? I have a couple of old stihl saws laying around that are parts saws! 028 and 029! It's the older ones!
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  62. Awesome series!! You have a great attitude for life and family!!!
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  63. Just a tip on chickens, they love to eat snow, even more than drink warm water! They thrive on it! We used to live north of Bemidji and had a couple dozen chickens!
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  64. I got a cheap solar rope lights from Harbor Freight that lasted nearly 2 years in my chicken coop- greenhouse! It wasn't to bright but it was enough to see pretty good! I built a covered deck front porch on my house and installed a solar powered motion detection flood light on it that lights up the whole front yard! It only cost us 40 bucks! It's never ran out of power yet and it's 2 years old now!!
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  65. Great job!!!
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  66. You're doing a awesome job building the addition!!
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  67. It looks awesome!! I passed my family's saws down to my nephew! My son and daughters family's didn't want them, and my nephew did, so they're in the family!
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  68. You both are an incredible couple! Keep on doing what you love!!
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  69. Looking back at your first videos! You are doing great! You have more maturity than most middle-aged people!
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  70. Happy New Year!!!!
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  71. He's thinking about renting some out like a b+b!
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  72. Awesome video!!! Beautiful area! In all the years i lived in Minnesota i never made it up there! I don't get back there much anymore 😢! I have lots of family there!
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  73. I hope you're putting ventilation in there! I put my chickens in my greenhouse, and we lost some because it gets too hot in there! When it got to 85, it was 120 in there! Then it went to 100 outside, and it was deadly in there!! I opened all the windows and had fans going too!
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  74. Congratulations!!!❤❤❤
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  75. I miss fishing for northerns! They taste as good as walleye to me!!!
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  76. Awesome!!! We can't wait!!!
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  77. Yes they're huge!!
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  78. Awesome! You can sell the axles for good money! They make great, heavy-duty trailers! I've built several over the years! You should get 250 each for them!
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  79. The water doesn't always break before delivery! All 4 of our babies didn't break until delivery!
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  80. Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy New Year to you both!!!
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  81. I wish i lived closer! I'd love to give you a hand!
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  82. Take care!!
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  83. Yes, you live in the land of 10k lakes and 20k taxes! We had 40 acres when we lived north of Bemidji! A 7 year old house for 45k! And then the jobs disappeared! We came out west to find work and never looked back!
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  84. I know of many people that have built log homes with poplar! Including Bush Radical! Check out his channel!
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  85. Same here!!
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  86. If you have a import store near you I'd pick up a cheap solar powered led light strip for the chickens! I did and most of our chickens laid all winter long! I used to live north of Bemidji by Nebish! I miss the neighbors and helping each other out!
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  87. Brrrrrr!!! I don't miss -30 below zero at all!! You'll just have to snuggle tighter together!!!
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  88. I Don't miss that cold!! I'd get walking pneumonia every winter! We couldn't work at the mill when it got down to -20 below, everything would break!! Metal is very brittle at those temperatures!
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  89. There wasn't any before either! It fine the way it is!
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  90. My daughter had her Acklees (sp) tendon snapped completely off! Surgery went well! It's very painful and takes a long time to heal! Have her take all the PT she can! I tore off my right front bicep tendon and they weren't able to salvage it! That was almost 2 years ago and it still hurts, but you have to keep moving it and using it!! Carefully!!!!!
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  91. I know a lot of people that make log arches for hauling logs! They are game changers for all kinds of things! You already have the winch!
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  92. I caught a mink in our chicken coop a bunch of years ago and rapped it over the head with a metal feeder! Unfortunately, it was summer, so the pelt wasn't worth anything! But it least it couldn't kill anymore chickens!
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  93.  @noyopacific  this was back in the 80s!!!
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  94. Watch Bushradical! They drove a Sandpoint in for a well on their off grid cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan! Lots of pointers on it!!
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  95. Awesome job and video! An old neighbor that lived near us in Bemidji got a job building a log hunting lodge in Alaska! He had to figure out everything that he'd need to finish it before he went up there and order it to be delivered by plane! He worked on that list for weeks!! I wanted to go with him but he already had a crew!
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  96. Congratulations to you both!!! You'll be great parents!!! I'll bet your dad will be there to help you all he can!
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  97. I'd find a pickaroon to handle those hot logs!
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  98. Yep! You beat me to it! Free water for the garden!!!
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  99. A dozen years ago I bought a couple ladder jacks! They sit on the ladder rungs and lay planks across them! They work great! I used them for siding houses!! They aren't very expensive, at a pawn shop anyhow!!
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  100. We used to live near Black Duck Minnesota and we sowed our cabbage seeds directly in the garden soil! We found a patch of wild asparagus near our house!! Man it was good!! And blackberries and blueberries mmmmm!!
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  101. Kyle, I had the same problem tilling up my garden!! Chickens loved all the worms that were exposed!!
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  102. We used to live south of the Red Lake Reservation! We used to go north of the Reservation to Fourtown and then head north to a old airport and pick Blueberries there! It was solid Blueberries as far as you could see!!
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  103. My cousin in Bemidji had 18 inches and it's snowing again!!
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  104. Awesome, another cabin going up!!
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  105. I had the same problem but took care of it permanently! The raccoon that is!!
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  106. Skeeter doesn't look to happy with the kitten trying to play with him while he's napping!
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  107. Be careful with those pungy straps! A couple people I know lost their eye when one broke on each one of them!
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  108. I'm a retired diesel mechanic! I need to caution people! Diesel fumes are dangerous as well as battery charging fumes are explosive and can be deadly!! I've seen batteries explode on running vehicles and covered with the acid and burned by it!!! My clothes burned right off my body! Not by fire but burned by the acid! I'm lucky none got in my eyes!
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  109. Absolutely not! In a blizzard, you can become snow locked in your cabin! It's happened many times, that's why they passed a law requiring doors to open in!
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  110. Not at all! A hot fire every day keeps a chimney fire from happening! It's the build-up of creosote that will lead to the bad fire that can burn your house down!
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  111. Looking forward to the build!
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  112. Keep up the great work!! Its looking awesome!!!
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  113. Awesome build!!!❤ I used to be a builder before I had to retire and that's a solid building!!
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