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Awesome video work.
No spoilers, but the ending really got me in the feels. Life is short!
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But now I’m ruining it for everyone!
Yes you did, and thank you!
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The horror short sounds awesome. Perfect use of the cabin-building genre.
My dad spent 2 or 3 years with another guy in a remote part of Alaska in a cabin. Sounds like it was kinda fun, but also kind a pain in the ass. Especially when one of the guys he was paired up with he couldn’t stand.
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Be sure to check the markings first, even if you’re just making a coffee table.
This can’t be said too often.
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This is like Primitive Technology for Northies. Extra points for the log stove (not the shiny metal one, which was also pretty cool).
Free pallet wood is a lot of work, so it’s not necessarily a bargain when you figure in the labor-- you have to take it apart, remove nails, and often the pallets are already kind of destroyed (the best ones get reused for more shipping.)
That said, these guys did a nice job, but if you’re going to do that much work you should still put it on some kind of foundation, even just a bunch of rocks or cinder blocks.
I have seen a quite a few makeshift homeless shanties made from pallets, usually they just lean them against each other and a throw a tarp or scavenged carpet over the top.
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My dad made a couple work benches from pallet wood, but I think he cut off some of the ends with nails to make it faster.
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I dig that little stove business.
Also, I was mildly entertained by the assorted fasteners in jars.
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