This is a video from Day 61 of going off-grid. I went 'off grid' five hundred and ninety days ago and it has been quite the journey since I got dropped off at this old fallow farm and built (continue to build) all my own infrastructure. I have been video documenting the entire process and have just recently begun publicly sharing some of the videos. I have been sharing the videos privately since I started the entire process which I call Jacob Goes Off Grid In The Woods. 'Day 1' is the morning after I arrived at this little place in the mountains in the 'dead of winter' on January thirteenth of two thousand and seventeen with my dogs, my wits, minimal gear and very little hard currency to work with. Slowly I have done my best to breathe life into a very old farm and give it all my best, 'learning as I go', and documenting the process as best I can. It has been quite the journey so far. @jacobpeacock
I have compressed this video to help make it easier to upload over my intermittent and throttled cellphone connection.
In this video I am in the mini-shelter and it is twenty-five degrees farenheit outside. I have pretty much stayed inside the mini-shelter since the previous evening because it is so cold outside.
I talk some about the different factors of the mini-shelter's construction from the BTU output of body mass, to the size of the room, to the R-Value of the insulation, and the air input and output.
I talk about the mini-shelter and how useful it is for getting out of the weather, for sleeping and using it as storage for things that are sensitive to the elements.
I talk about how great it is to stay warm in the mini-shelter and not having to use anything other than body heat to keep it warm inside.
As always this is just a summary of the video's content and not meant to explain everything that I cover in the video.
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hot water bottles can be a life saver too, i live in a crappy british flat that gets to hot in the summer and to cold in the winter, the government over here arn't very helpful either and the city i'm from is basically poverty stricken (mildly) i mean, it's not 3rd world country stuff... but it's also not good either, it's a real crappy ghetto like place i mean, i'm no pro but at off the grid stuff but i found if you take a bunch of hot water bottles, stuff them all in a pillow case and just leave them all piled up in there under the covers with you, those things can stay warm for up to eight hours, it's a life saver for when you need heat that dosen't require electricity
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Indeed they are! I don't do it in these videos because I have the dogs to help keep me warm but the heated water bottles are awesome! A lot of times (as you probably know) any source of heat is better than no source of heat.
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if you have any of those things they can be your best friend in a difficult and unhealthy situation :)
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