Good Book Guide : Buildings and their Building

In this episode I discuss two of the books I found most useful for the building of my home and workshop.
Low-Cost Pole Building Construction by Ralph Wolfe
Homework by Lloyd Kahn
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[Drdoombrain]

I enjoy your videos, they are easy to watch. Please keep up the content !

[harpoonlobotomy]

Loving this series, thanks again for sharing.

[alexdobie]

Fantastic video. I've just got a static caravan to start almost of grid living in a small field surrounded by woods on my dads farm. BT always give us their old poles when they replace the ones in are fields so a more in-depth video about pole building would be fantastic, thanks.

[MurfittTim]

I don't know if you know this but you got a mention in the Property section of Saturday's (25th August) Daily Telegraph. They had a feature on off grid living which i am not going to recommend to your viewers as it was featuring properties for sale from £220K to £1.8million! Anyway you were mentioned along with your YouTube videos.

[TheCitroenman]

who's the loony that give a thumbs down this channel is good

[manfredschmalbach]

Thanks for this recommendation series - good books never go out of style, be it "inspirational" or "instructional" ones, even today, with the Youtube-academy and all. 🍻

[scopex]

Seriously Max I wish you had a programme on the Discovery channel! They have shown some very good pioneering shows over the years and your knowledge would be invaluable to many people!
There is a program about ‘Wilderness people’ in Alaska OMG what THEY have to survive through in winter like -25o 😳But fundamentally the same as your concepts. Just been online to buy these books👍🏻
I had a hippy Sherpa i built out of a panel van and a load of parts from scrapped caravans on ebay! Luxury. 😉

[glenquinn]

Because of you, I'm going to build an off grid Passiv House!
I hope you continue making off grid videos, you should look at upgrading your house to a Passiv House and remove your central heating system

[clangerbasher]

I have a copy of Shelter. It is a big book. You could plonk it on your head to make, well, a shelter.

Centre for Alternative Technology used to stock some fantastic books. Perhaps they still do! :)

[tonybostrom]

Have enjoyed the book reviews - most informative. I don't know if you're going to do one on furniture, but even if you don't I urge you to get hold of a copy of this book. I have owned a very early edition for decades, and find it endlessly interesting. The thing is, just because the stuff is nomadic, doesn't mean you have to take it apart - ever. I reckon you'd enjoy this book : Nomadic Furniture 1: How to Build and Where to Buy Lightweight Furniture That Folds, Collapses, Stacks, Knocks Down, Inflates or Can Be Thrown Away

[bigunone]

A book that deals with building houses from poles is "The Owner Built Home: by Ken Kerns it is an old book from the 70s available from Amazon and occasionally Thrift books.com has a copy also

[allenhuling]

Great series, Max, enjoying the journey!

[scopex]

My first book arrived - Pole Building looks amazing :))) need some woodland now) Guys at work very supportive so Im going to buy an old van and start stockpiling timber, broken machinery I can mend, and raiding recycling yards! Where I work deliveries arrive stacked on brand new timber dunnage, they throw it in a skip, what a waste were so lucky to get FIVE acres for your price - today ONE acre is £18, 000 :(( Im going to do this SOMEHOW! Thanks to you and your channel - a more methodical, detailed and helpful person I have yet to come across!

[andrewchurchley]

Putting books first must assure better builds; very useful

[gregguk]

It is worth researching Walter Segals method... Featured in the first series of grand designs... Stock sized timber... Similar to the pole system.. modular.. Keep it simple...

[jimallen]

Hi Marcus, been watching your stuff for a while now, and at the mo I have got plenty time to watch again, so while watching this I wondered have you ever considered a Q and A, just a hi, what do you wanna know, think right now you wouldn't be able to answer them all.

[lazylad]

Good building books are essential for a self build. Good video max. Keep them coming. What's your next project.

[andrewheywood]

"building a low impact roundhouse" by Tony Wrench is a great little book

[becomerichdotcom]

hey mate you should sign up to amazon affiliate and then post the link to the books and any other items here then u will get a small kick back and from anything else they buy within 3 months

[stephengent]

So basically a frame building then. A very ancient method of building. The Chinese just balanced their buildings without piles sunk into the ground, to help prevent destruction from earthquake. Also had flexible joinery. It works