I don t like where this is going so I am making changes at My Self Reliance in 2024 that are probably going to hurt my channel. Happy New Year and best wishes to you and your family in 2024!...

My wife, Emily and Erin join Cali and I to have an early Christmas dinner prepared on the wood cookstove in my off grid log cabin. Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/40OgrDO Spotify: https://open.spot...

I m finishing the root cellar one section at at time - this week I install a floor in the breezeway section, move the freezer back into place and set up a metal rack to store mason jars full...

Cold November rain, snow and mild sunny weather from one day to the next, but all suitable temperatures to butcher and wrap moose, bear and deer steaks and mincemeat and to render tallow and...

An approaching snow storm hastens my efforts to weatherproof my log cabin and prepare my homestead for winter projects. I mill some lumber and timbers at my sister s house and then move my sawmill to a convenient spot beside the cabin and drag logs next to it so I can saw them over the coming weeks. To complete the weatherproofing of the cabin, I trim the front door and the windows, allowing for settling by installing a sliding top trim piece, something I ll replace with something more substantial and attractive at a later date. https://www.patreon.com/myselfreliance CLOTHING: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance AMAZON LINKS: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance GREENHOUSE: https://arcticacres.ca/Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry KNIFE MAKER: https://virtusknives.com/ KNIFE MAKER: https://www.wcknives.com/ VIDEOS: 2022 OFF GRID CABIN LIFE: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPnTFccPGm33LnMVlB9J1D0m OFF GRID LIVING: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPkGrISWOKvY_0uMOjJI-Chv COOKING: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPlwY0hqcJOT6bw5z-MpmfKy BUILDING LOG CABIN WITH HAND TOOLS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPle3wPxLkxLXt1mWZPv1-aH BUILDING OFF GRID SAUNA: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm0Hfb7sidZBHx3GVLL7JQB BUSHCRAFT & SURVIVAL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPk2dpiJb-wfPrpJkodkS7g7 Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ Mailing Address for items sent by regular mail: My Self Reliance/Shawn James 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5 Address for items sent by courier: 200 Manitoba St., Unit 3, Suite 415 Bracebridge, ON P1L 2E2

This video is about cleaning and cooking a ruffed grouse on a campfire with my wife.

This November, I was intrigued by the thought that hardly anyone is out enjoying the great outdoors, specifically camping and canoeing, this late in the fall. It is the shoulder season, and...

Thanks for watching! New videos every FRIDAY. Please subscribe. My Other Channel: Shawn James https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://bit.ly/2IjvJsQ Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://bit.ly/2MeEoOs Building an Outdoor Forest Kitchen: https://bit.ly/2AFQJ99 Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week, please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance Cabelas: https://bit.ly/2AEp48v

#shelter #bushcraft #survival June 2017, I canoe across the boreal forest of Woodland Caribou Provincial Park in Northwestern Ontario, Canada with Joe Robinet. We paddle through severe weather...

#forging #blacksmith #viking I visit the blacksmith shop of Paul Krzyszoski (Toronto Blacksmith) to watch him forge me a hewing axe (Viking broad axe style) for some upcoming timber frame...

At our off grid log cabin in the Canadian wilderness, my wife makes salve with bear fat and beeswax to protect our skin maintain our tools and waterproof clothing while I restore vintage cast iron cookware in our homemade earthen pizza oven. Thanks for watching! New videos every FRIDAY. Please subscribe. My Other Channel: Shawn James https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://bit.ly/2IjvJsQ Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://bit.ly/2MeEoOs Building an Outdoor Forest Kitchen: https://bit.ly/2AFQJ99 Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week, please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance Cabelas: https://bit.ly/2AEp48v

I have decided to make a few changes to my life at the off grid log cabin homestead. Thanks for watching! New videos every FRIDAY. Please subscribe. My Other Channel: Shawn James https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://bit.ly/2IjvJsQ Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://bit.ly/2MeEoOs Building an Outdoor Forest Kitchen: https://bit.ly/2AFQJ99 Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week, please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance Cabelas: https://bit.ly/2AEp48v

This week at the cabin, I build stairs into the breezeway and log cabin from the new outdoor kitchen and then glue pine boards together to make 12 feet of countertops. I install the first countertop and a double sink beside the wood cookstove and next to the water tote that will provide rainwater to the kitchen. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/myselfreliance Shawn James YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/shawnjames1 CLOTHING: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance AMAZON LINKS: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry 2022 OFF GRID CABIN LIFE: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPnTFccPGm33LnMVlB9J1D0m OFF GRID LIVING: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPkGrISWOKvY_0uMOjJI-Chv COOKING: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPlwY0hqcJOT6bw5z-MpmfKy BUILDING LOG CABIN WITH HAND TOOLS: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPnAe9mk5qKu-RQvRTk6dhpG BUILDING OFF GRID SAUNA: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm0Hfb7sidZBHx3GVLL7JQB BUSHCRAFT & SURVIVAL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPk2dpiJb-wfPrpJkodkS7g7 Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ Mailing Address for items sent by regular mail: My Self Reliance/Shawn James 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5 Address for items sent by courier: 200 Manitoba St., Unit 3, Suite 415 Bracebridge, ON P1L 2E2

In this episode, I continue building the log cabin, cooking geese 2 ways on the campfire. I talk about my knives, my tarp and grill, and why I believe geese are an essential apocalypse, survival food component of a wilderness, living off the land lifestyle. To see exactly how I process fowl for the table, check out these three videos. The third one is specifically about processing birds; the other two are hunting/tripping/cooking videos. https://youtu.be/UuEtOTs1Dek https://youtu.be/Q2L1CX0jpJk https://youtu.be/JxcOJ82Bsvo

With plunging temperatures, I prioritize insulating the floor and installing a wood stove in my off-grid log cabin workshop. I remove the temporary pine flooring and install smoked oak boards that I milled last summer from trees I cut down on my property to make room for a vegetable garden. At the end of the video, Cali, my wife and I go for a walk along a large river, filming waterfalls and wildlife. My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2G7ncW9 Shawn James Channel: https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Where I get my music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/ca1blx/ Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry 2020 Cabin Life: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm_VSBEwC9KOuwVy9NE2QWl Log Cabin and Off Grid Living: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPkGrISWOKvY_0uMOjJI-Chv Cooking at the Cabin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPlwY0hqcJOT6bw5z-MpmfKy Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPle3wPxLkxLXt1mWZPv1-aH Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm0Hfb7sidZBHx3GVLL7JQB Bushcraft and Survival: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPk2dpiJb-wfPrpJkodkS7g7 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5

My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2G7ncW9 Shawn James Channel: https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Where I get my music: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/ca1blx/ Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry 2020 Cabin Life: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm_VSBEwC9KOuwVy9NE2QWl Log Cabin and Off Grid Living: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPkGrISWOKvY_0uMOjJI-Chv Cooking at the Cabin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPlwY0hqcJOT6bw5z-MpmfKy Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPle3wPxLkxLXt1mWZPv1-aH Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm0Hfb7sidZBHx3GVLL7JQB Bushcraft and Survival: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPk2dpiJb-wfPrpJkodkS7g7 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5

Building a log cabin completely alone has been my dream since selling my last cabin 15 years ago.I start this video by cutting down cedar trees in winter and end with a standing log cabin in the Canadian Wilderness, up to the top of the walls. In this video, I go into more detail to show exactly how I am doing it. Learn how I cut the notches, lift the logs into place by myself and start preparing my house to live a life like Dick Proenneke did in Alaska. Get prepared for the apocalypse by building your own primitive off grid log cabin, tiny house in the woods of wilderness Canada. Learn how to work alone and build your own home using nothing but hand tools - no power tools. Be a modern day lumberjack and outdoorsman capable of self reliant living. Create your own homestead, starting with a tiny home.

I install the upper course of logs on the walls of the log cabin and 6"x6" hemlock timbers to hold the upper floor. The log cabin is taking shape as I complete one log gable end and start the second one. Autumn is setting in, the trees are turning and the animals are on the move with animal tracks all over the trail and deer, sandhill cranes and geese in the fields. In the second half, I talk about my physical and mental limitations and why you too can build a log cabin or do others things beyond your self imposed limitations. I prepare prime rib and potatoes for dinner on the campfire, sleep on the floor of the log cabin and get up early to go after geese for the freezer. #logcabin #build #shelter

Real winter is here. Thank you to my daughter for the new t shirt designs (see below) and thank you to my wife for the drone work and filming the ice skating scenes at the end. My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2G7ncW9 Shawn James Channel: https://bit.ly/2xzZHpB T-SHIRTS: https://teespring.com/stores/my-self-reliance Watch the playlists by clicking on these links: Best of My Self Reliance: https://bit.ly/2OfW7ry 2020 Cabin Life: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm_VSBEwC9KOuwVy9NE2QWl Log Cabin and Off Grid Living: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPkGrISWOKvY_0uMOjJI-Chv Cooking at the Cabin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPlwY0hqcJOT6bw5z-MpmfKy Building a Log Cabin with Hand Tools: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPle3wPxLkxLXt1mWZPv1-aH Building an Off Grid Sauna: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPm0Hfb7sidZBHx3GVLL7JQB Bushcraft and Survival: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UbUksm4nPk2dpiJb-wfPrpJkodkS7g7 My Tools, Clothing & Other Gear: https://www.amazon.com/shop/myselfreliance To see what I’m up to during the rest of the week; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/ My Mailing Address: 51 King William Street P.O. Box 30017 Huntsville, ON P1H 0B5

Arriving at the log cabin one morning, I was surprised by a bear hanging around the cabin. I followed him for a bit before returning to the cabin to build the upper floor and the roof ridge pole. After some fantastic suggestions from viewers, I have named my rants, "My Self Reflections". I continue telling the story about the massive debt I racked up and how I dealt with the stress of it. I have been told that what I m doing, including building a log cabin, is essentially real life Minecraft, or another game called the Forest. I hope building the cabin inspires other people to try the real Minecraft or Forest, not just play it. Please follow me on my other online channels; Website: http://myselfreliance.com/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MySelfReliance/ Personal Facebook Page (Shawn James) – https://www.facebook.com/shawn.james.msr Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/myselfreliance/