DIY Off Grid Cabin Build Episode 15

all right i got a lot of this tongue and groove siding that i want to use on the cabin and uh it's got a lot of flaws in it it's got a lot of pieces that are busted out some pieces that are warped cracked split it's a little twisted so i got it at a pretty good discount i think they were listed at like nine dollars a board and i got them for five dollars a board because of all the the damage but i've worked with this stuff before in just this kind of shape before and it comes out fine that's uh exactly the shape it was in when i worked on my shed but i want to burn this wood just to give it more of an aged look so i picked up this propane torch from harbor freight and it is the green wood propane torch and it's supposed to hook up to a 20 gallon tank so that's what i want to do is i want to get that hooked up see if i can't burn these planks and maybe put some stain on them and see how it's going to look so that's this video so let's get to it all right first thing you want to notice is that this connects by screwing inside and these newer 20 gallon tanks have both the external screw or the internal screw so and another thing that you want to notice is that this doesn't go in righty tighty lefty loosey it's just the opposite so you got to remember that you don't want to cross thread this when you're installing it and the kit comes with a wrench which you're going to need in order to get this tight so let me get this attached okay so i can go about halfway before uh it gets too tight for me to go any further by by hand all right i hope this has some gas in it i'm gonna go ahead and open this up see if i can get it lighted got this turned all the way off so let me open this up that's open wide open not getting a whole lot of flame out of this thing i'm wondering if this tank is low on uh propane yeah i'm not sure that's going to work let's see what it does anyway that's not doing anything i think that tank's empty let me go swap the tank and we'll see if we can't get that working better to turn it off you just turn this to minus that closes it off turns it off there all right i swapped out tanks so uh let me turn this one on we'll give this one a shot all right again to turn this on you just switch this towards the plus that's more like it oh yeah this is going to make short work of this [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] alright so i want to take one of these and spread some of this timber oil on just to see how it's going to look shake so all right i remember from using it before that when you applied it it looked really bright orange but then it dries a richer redwood color so you can see this is the side without the stain and here it is with the stain i think that's going to look fantastic so that's how i want to stain the siding for the cabin so i'm going to go ahead and keep burning these and this is similar to what you would do with shishugi bond i'm not burning it that much that it would equal you know what you would do with sashugiban i'm just trying to kind of enhance the looks of the siding so i'm just kind of just charring up the the surface all right i was able to get all of the boards burned and i had enough of the timber oil to get most of them done i still have i think five left over here i've got four left so i came really close to being able to get all of them done but i couldn't so but i do have enough to do the entire front wall of the cabin because i i purchased a couple of extras so i have enough to do the cabin plus i think three extras just in case uh there's probably a couple of these that i'm not going to be able to use there's a lot of them that are twisted and busted up so hopefully i'll be able to use them all but just in case so i know that this looks really orange right now but it's the same stain that i used on my fence in the back there so i know that it's going to dry a much richer color [Music] but this is uh going to be deciding for the cabin um probably you can't tell here but i think it's going to look great at least uh at least i hope so so i just wanted to do just a quick video i'm not at the property this weekend not going to be there next weekend either but i just wanted to show you a little bit of progress behind the scenes i'll be taking this down there and we'll get it we'll get it installed hopefully on the next trip that i go down there still have to side install a couple of windows and uh hopefully i'll be able to get uh at least the front wall sided so that's gonna do it for this video so i'll talk to you guys later