vandwelleruk les stroud off the grid

[idiocratful]

Impressive and informative, but possibly more so, if you were able to achieve this within existing tract housing.

[MelsEpicWheelTime]

He's not saying it would be better if everyone did it, he's living the way he wants to, totally independant.

[blacksunapocalypse]

Les is such an old fashioned, genuine guy. Why can't more reality TV types be more like him?

[JesusNonEnviromental]

By the way, any home built in the suburbs can go off grid with a walk to the Garage and open that gray box on the wall and flip that Main Breaker with a 150 to 250 on it, Presto you're off the grid in 5 minutes Enjoy, get your candles, cold showers, BBQ propane; Clothes line No need to go into the woods

[JesusNonEnviromental]

This is about "Not wanting to work" Enviromental extremists who think God is not the provider of all things, Im enjoying all of Gods comforts and I dont mind working a job to afford them Thank You Lord for keeping me out of the woods

[FractalBolt]

@JesusNonEnviromental lol! I love this guy's user name!

[THESLICKNESSEDM]

hey your saying choose it what if we have no choice soon? people gotta see the light here soon its falling apart all around us just take alook around. poor kids will have it tough change is hard for kids.

[THESLICKNESSEDM]

hey your saying choose it what if we have no choice soon? people gotta see the light here soon its falling apart all around us. just take alook around

[jackblacksutube]

this guy was a hippie. i wish i had the skills to survive bymyself in the woods

[XXNeMo818XX]

Whats wrong with pot?

[jackblacksutube]

@XXNeMo818XX jack shit.

[Southernbella511]

I'm a white supremacists !!?? LMAO ...and you call me a retard? You don't even know who I am. You can't just go around labeling people you don't know fit the label...you Eskimo Supremacist.

[dinnerandashow]

I would love to see a survival show by a non white, perhaps a Native American or Eskimo.

[Southernbella511]

@dinnerandashow What does it matter what color they are? Racist much?

[dinnerandashow]

@Southernbella511

LOL

A white supremacists against diversity calling others a racist.

Retarded much?

[coronamonroe]

is this a joke? I can't stop laughing....

[PatrickSchabus]

she is really totally cool

[N37BU6]

Pretty funny how living off the grid is still dependent on industrialized society manufacturing all your solar panels, wind turbines, and circuitry.

[JordiSmulders]

@N37BU6

No, thats just because you are so involved with this so called 'reality' that it would be impossible to think of other solutions for energy like water, wind, or how about chopping wood and burning it? How about junkyards to get your stuff? Change means change. You cannot uphold this luxory life and be indepentdent/sustainable. You have to give up certain things. Like the guy said: its about comprimising.

[N37BU6]

@JordiSmulders

"thats just because you are so involved with this so called 'reality'"

Says a person using a computer to relay information to a server so I can read it on my computer.

"it would be impossible to think of other solutions for energy like water, wind, or how about chopping wood and burning it?"

I'm referring to going "off the grid", not living without electricity altogether.

You're not enlightening me, here.

[JordiSmulders]

@N37BU6

I am not saying I'm living off the grid..

There are lots of reasons to go off the grid but most likely most will do it not to stop industry but change industry and just general way of thought of how to live together. If society doesn't give you the option you want, you have to create it yourself. But still this means comprimising, giving up certain things but gaining also.

[N37BU6]

His wife looks pretty young.

[harybosco]

what year did he do this? I read that he is no longer married to Sue...is this true?

[estebansierraful]

Les Straud, Alain Robert, Bruce Lee, Mohamed Ali, Pele, Michael Jordan, who else? help me guy !!

[DarkFoot25]

"off the grid" now seems the way to go. The only way to know the weak from the strong.

[mythic89]

What the Hell do people have against Electricity. This is not realistic because most people do not have the money and resources Les Stroud has at his disposal to afford this type of life it still takes money and Discovery channel is probally flipping the bill for all this.

[dragomancer123]

is it just me or does les stroud look like Quigon jinn

[younghippo]

revoke custody of the children for criminal negligence. you are depriving them o f the very resources that allowed you to grow up and come to the conclusion that you should leave society. that decision should be theirs, not yours

[AmericaEnslaved187]

@younghippo IF CPS TAKES Their kids. they usually get shipped off to rape or torture/murder camps. The Eugenicist elite that run that planet, all wish to achieve a sort of purity that they believe comes from ritualistic sex and torture magic with children. Just google "Georgia CPS child trafficking"

[MrJotunheim]

@AmericaEnslaved187 that reminds me of when Prophet Moses was betrayed when he was abscent on his duty ,when he came back and found zionists worshiping the golden cow ,

[ramsantosjr]

OK LOUIS AND CLARK

[beetlekill123]

whats up with the thing on your elbow.....that shit dont work....lame....

[MrJotunheim]

still you have to find a woman that is likely to live in the wilderness with you without bitching about all kind of shopping and buting silly things you don't need .the next WW l l l is coming soon and we have to make our best to learn to survive in a real life and i real situation .this life we are living right now is shity.

[NRPBrute]

@MrJotunheim I am lucky. I have found that kind of woman. Already planning to get the heck out of the city in the next coupla years.

[mostliberal]

@NRPBrute Hope you never need any kind of surgery or meds. As much as industrialization and technology have brought pollution, and less personal freedom; without it, millions, or maybe billions would die. Life isn't sustainable for that many people living by hunting and gathering; that's why world population always increased massively with technological leaps (like agriculture, industrialization, electricity, and antibiotics).

[projectdurden]

anyone know how to find strouds place on google earth?

[Landrew0]

I was fairly disappointed by this show. Living off the grid is not about spending a lot of money for a wind and solar system and putting it in your house. To make it work, you need to understand at least the basics.

Les devoted maybe 30 seconds to the technical aspects, claiming near-total ignorance. Any off-grid proponent should take the time to learn is at least the basics of how this works, and the basics of energy flow.

To simply hire everything done is not a sustainable practice.

[solarcabin]

Going off grid does not have to mean living in the remote wilderness.

I have lived for 15 years off grid in a solar cabin I built myself. I garden, raise animals, hunt and fish for most of my food supplies.

I drilled my own well, solar composting toilet, and solar water heater and I have no house payments and no utility bills.

BUT I also have internet, antennae tv, cell phone and live 15 minutes from a good sized town.

You can see my off grid cabin by clicking solarcabin.

[jobaccamasakado]

there is obviously a balance that needs to be found. look at katrina and how people were lost without others to help them. and then look at how many neighborhoods that started with good intentions and ideas, that have become slums/

then look up dick proeneke and see how he went after the life he wanted. and the flip side would be chris mccandless and his ill-prepared/ ill-fated adventure.

good luck to you. we need to do something, and it seems to only takes initiaitve. we should take notes.

[lavelliINC]

seems like a nice idea if you have your partner already, but selfish to seclude their kids like that.

[changebeginshere]

you dont have to go feral to go off the grid

[festyxfi]

Someone needs to say this: For every 100 males that secretly and not so secretly want to live some variation of the simplier life, 1 female (at best) genuinely wants to live this way. It might be proof that God really doesn't love us. Very few males (including myself) want to go out there alone, so we keep hoping to get lucky, meet that one in a hundred, like Scott Nearing or this guy did. I'm not being sexist, just honest. I've recently split from a woman that I hoped would "wake up".

[DannysCam]

the women who want to live in the woods.. look like men

[iggypoprhcp]

@DannysCam And have no personality. It's horrible for guys like us.

[RiemDouce]

You guys are nuts. Living in city is environmentally much more viable. Just imagine one million people doing what you've done, it would ruin HUGE areas of land, everyone having his own wells and such. Living there produces green house gases, wastes energy and social/mental retardation beyond anything acceptable.

[myroncope]

oh hell yeah. the only thing that will really reduce CO2 emissions is urban living that's not reliant on fossil fuel energy. There's not enough land area on the planet to fit 100 people per acre in a rural setting let alone a family of four..

[iluvameriduh]

Imagine if you tried to understand what you just said? I'll let you think about that, i'll check later. Wow, and who says america is doomed...hey, that would be me!

[RiemDouce]

You guys are nuts. Living in city is environmentally much more viable. Just imagine one million people doing what you've done, it would ruin HUGE areas of land, everyone having his own wells and such. Helicopters flying around timber and, it's despicable crap. Living there produces green house gases, wastes energy and social/mental retardation beyond anything acceptable.

[ROFLpwnedvideos]

Yet if a million people went and did this, and cities became smaller...wilderness would reclaim them.

[Danny00201]

I want to do this so bad my family would love it

[SuperWarriorMullet]

I bet Les is a good dad. I don't want to sound mean but Sue kind of looks like a bitch. I'm probably wrong though.

[mattm4544]

haha he said 'rip this stuff oot"

[hanadorii]

I want to do this so bad! I am 18 yrs old and live in Ontario, and hopefully one day I can leave the grid too. Maybe outside of Ontario like far far in BC or somewhere..

[KeTwoShoes]

Thanks for posing this.

[snakejosh1]

Canada looks so cool, hope I will go there someday :P.

LES STROUD RULES

[SmallAxe]

Did she just say "cos we will have hydro?" wait..theyre living on a weed farm!? haha I fucking love this guy.

[vaudevilleUK]

lmao, afraid not. Hydro is what Canadian's call household elctricity cos it's largely hydroelectric from dams

[SmallAxe]

Dammit. He looks like a weedsmoker too.

[rongenman]

I have backpacked, camped, and canoed all my adult life and I love it.....however, after a few days I am ready for a shower, and society......my 2 boys love the outdoors, and could survive in the forest because of what I have taught them...I wish Les and his family much happiness, and I would love to visit them!!! lighten up folks let people do what they like......

Ron

[E2F83]

Dude I don't think I could live without porn :D

[topdog53k]

Get a couple Girl Friends.. XD

[E2F83]

Hahaha his daughter looks just like him.

[E2F83]

Dude I don't think I could do it with my wife if she's all stinky and hairy :D I mean you can't go down on the chick if she's all sweaty and nasty XD

[Iondal1]

i used to live off the grid in romania and i miss it now

[packleader87]

Hey, I'll tell ya the truth: I do want to live like this. SERIOUSLY I mean, isn't there anyone annoyed about having clothes on sometimes? TRULY all things in this system held by the small group of men, the elite, have produced things that make us lose our sanity. TRULY! LOOK AT US

("Hes lost...in bitterness. Hes lost....in the wilderness." - James Brown; A man's world) We have been taken out of our natural state of being. We are TRULY Infinite Consciousness. Thats who we are :)

[astrofrog]

Les Should Hang W/ more hillbillies(cool ones, not crackers and O.T.H. war vets)

[korn2600]

when was this made?

[Enysvar]

is that survivorman ?

[theducktapeking]

Yeah

[1NoneofYourBusiness1]

OREO! BABY!

[1NoneofYourBusiness1]

i dont have to worry about people bieng racist to me cause' im Biracial XD

[livinnbaballer]

whos the girl

[popojose09]

Wow amazing Idea living in the wilderness . NO BILLS

But keep an eye around you , ReMEmber Those forests hide many creepy things that you dont wanna know . Big foot isn`t to be happy to share his territory . what about the grizzly, wolve.

[ffnovice7]

They will be if Les restarts the pot plantations.

[Colombianobachatero]

Les, please keep doing season 3, 4, 5,6 1000. We need program like yours, real survival stories.

[IssyRox]

At 1:59 , Les had the coolest hair and beard ever

[AWTENCHEE]

GROW POT

[JonnyTommyGuns]

sorry for your loss. not to be a dick but i would kill every black person in LA if that happened to me. just goes to show that weapons could save lives. so everybody grab yourself a gun or even a knife and protect yourself... pepper spray is good too.

[jimmydoolittle22]

Why the hell would you kill every black? Those killers all had 2 legs, why don't you kill everyone with 2 legs you moron?

[JonnyTommyGuns]

cause most black people are the ones that fuckin go around killin people for NO reason. if you think its acceptable then you should die too!

[jimmydoolittle22]

good grief you're stupid

[ScottKeith7025]

what's wrong with you guys? You're all complete morons arguing about black people killing for no reason? Ignorant.

[jimmydoolittle22]

There's nothing wrong with me. Can you explain how I'm a moron or ignorant?

[stillrob420]

the WHITE man has teh bloodiest hands of all pal! do your research

[RADanny]

That's because he had to kill the savages.

[RaptorRageHunt]

what channel is this on?

[TwinLT1Power]

A few months ago I looked into solar power for my house. After running some general numbers I found that it would cost around $40-50,000 (US) to outfit my 2400sq ft home. That's about 35% of my property value! That's rediculous. Until solar cell and installation costs come down the average homeowner can never take advantage of getting off any grid. Hopefully with Les Stroud (I'm a huge fan), and others like him, more awareness and funding will be generated towards cleaner,cost efficient energy.

[JonnyTommyGuns]

i could make that technology happen and i plan too. you will see more and more solar technology soon. it should also stimulate the economy because then people would not need to pay electricity or gas if they have an electric heater. its time to increase efficiency in this country!

[lightshadow22]

The new chuck norris.

[crashtestcanadian]

At night, the boogieman checks his closet for Les Stroud.

[porn1978]

With this recession,we're all gonna end up living off the grid!

[person1343246]

if you look up "bad ass" in the dictionary, you'll see a picture of les stroud.

[TheEricvw1]

I don't know if I'd say it was impulsive move. This movie was made over a year approximately.

[thecowabungadude]

This is silly. I like the idea of being off the grid, but it seems he is using more energy for just his family. This project feels too impulsive to be meaningful.

[mtb416]

I like Les Stroud, but what is this "next big disaster" he keeps talking about? Could it be that this man is some Armageddon thinking type dude? Off the grid is cool but it isn't necessary to clean things up.

[Zovex11]

He's talking about an economic collapse. Witch means no money power or water. If you live in a suburb or city it would be devastating. But living with your own generated power means that if the power and water plants shut down you still have resources. And if you live away from any cities then you have less looters and vandals to deal. But that's IF an economic collapse happens, and unfortunately our economy is in the toilet. That's the "Big Disaster" he was talking about.

[badderthanyou]

Is it true he is getting a divorce?

[ArkGrave]

Les Stroud you will always be a hero to me!!! I am sad that there won't be anymore new survivorman, but you've risked your life showing all of us how to survive alone more than enough. Hope he lives a good life with his family

[Khobraz]

hes working on season 3 mate

[ArkGrave]

season 3 is over...the final episode was when he was at the jungle called "Papua New Guine"

It's sad to say but there won't be anymore new survivorman

[Danny00201]

Why's he canceling his show after the 3rd season?

[UtterlyMoot]

quitting while he's alive. As much as I'll miss the show, I support his choice. It sucks for us, but he did an amazing job, his show never faltered, never degraded, every episode is great. and thats how its gunna be forever.

Survivorman: permanent epicenes. I support that lol

[Yodalogix]

i totally agree hes good at wut he does but i couldnt even do 3 days in a situation he gets himself into thats gotta suck... and ya it will suck it's my fav show

[Danny00201]

I respect him for that that just shows that he's doing it more for the love of the survival in the wilderness than the cash.I just hope they keep airing the show ya know in reruns or whatever.Thaanks for the reply utterlymoot.

[047000807]

Hes canceling his show after the 3rd season

[c0linaf]

i actually want to look forward for doing something like that in my future when im an adult

[lorerax1]

yeah I'd start planing now. High school felt like yesterday, now I'm 22 and almost out of college. Feels like I did a ton of stuff, but I could have done more.... but Life is just a dream and can be changed at any moment.

[c0linaf]

thank you

[lorerax1]

lol welcome.

[Zovex11]

Les Stroud is the definition of badass!!

[nintendork1]

idk im just doing stuff right now. infact why dont i just talk to you?

[tapangy]

any of you guys know wat to do for the project?

[nintendork1]

nick i r seriosly. ur ghey so......U

[tapangy]

its the new MSN!

[tapangy]

richard eh...

[nintendork1]

richard leaves you ont eh last day of a project ^_^

[tapangy]

whos this?random2399

[random2399]

evan sux

[random2399]

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[tapangy]

evan, u cant even spell noob!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nintendork1]

STFU U UBAR NUB LOLOLOLOLO

[nintendork1]

nick suckz >:(

[tapangy]

hello people in Mr. Jamiesons classroom!

[nintendork1]

lololololololllololo

[solimiansky]

les is so cool!

[juttabentill]

ooooo sooo cooooool. les is from Canada and Canada is Americas hat.......:)

[nintendork1]

no u

[CandelarioGaIvan]

Living in a barn up in the mountains, fishing, animals woods???

My kids would love this place.

[defaultytuser]

you rock les! hope you come to argentina to film survivorman someday

[flyfishnepa]

aregentina's on my list of places to go fishing before i die, huge trout!!!

[mizztinkertrain]

Thank You sooo much for posting this video! I have been wanting to see this forever! Woo Hoo! You Rule!

[dnHooligan]

jezus. with all the money you've spent

(just within this video) you are more problem than solution.

i wish i could watch the whole thing, but it reeks of hypocrisy and BS.

[bluehighlighterfreak]

not really..your a moron.

[dnHooligan]

well you are ignorant to the facts.

watch the (all new) zeitgeist part 2

(sums it up, quite nicely)

you might even understand it.

[ITILII]

Working with, rather than against, nature, is good for both people...and nature (after all humans ARE part of nature)

[SteelyDMan]

Thanks for posting these videos to YouTube.

I think Les and his family are doing something that many people should try to do regardless of where they live. I like the idea of being independent of the centralized systems. Rather than centralized power distribution, we have decentralized power with each home generating it's own sustainable electricity. To be able to carry on regardless of whether there is oil/gas/a power company or not is freedom in it's most basic form. Thanks again.

[stygiansyntax]

This is wonderful! I love Les and his show Survivorman. From the ultimate desire to preserve the natural world around me as well as to keep other living beings safe, and from the inspiration and knowledge I can get out of shows like this - I too will live this way someday. It's my goal in life. I'm just one person out of billions, but if even a few of us make an effort to sacrifice a more easy existence for a more natural one, it WILL have an impact on the Earth!

[Mojopokey]

To do this, and feed a family of 4, you already need one hell of a big nest egg! Then after it's built, do you plan on feeding the whole family without any paycheck? Maybe you should resurect that pot garden....

[SWATKAT22]

for les and sue it might be fine to live out there, but i'd hate to be a young kid in that situation.

[grahamid403]

Once you grow up you'll want to go back. Around 16.

[JudeoFascism]

yeah, you know a lot douchebag

[NightStalker111]

Grew up in the burbs didn't you?

[SWATKAT22]

I've lived in suburbs, city, and country. I like all of them I'm just saying for a young kid the switch from Urban/suburban to country style is tough. Though like grahamid said you'd probably start to like it after while.

[shredftw]

is that a little girl or boy

[turdburper]

Thats his daugher with the long hair. His son has short hair.

[YBMAN1215]

WOW you can afford healthcare these days!

Trust me if given the opportunity to survive away from civilization your instincts would kick in and you would be fine. I mean come on people lived like this for nearly a million years you would make it.

[86kinky86]

sounds fine but I wouldn't be able to sacrifice healthcare and education. Especialy when it comes to having children.

[enigmaseek]

We can't survive without big Pharm corporations.

By the way the cure for Aids, and Cancer grows naturally in the wild.

Schools are used to rewrite history. You like sheeple?

Anyone want to prove me wrong?

[willowlee]

les is an amazing person being able to do his survivorman show. i go camping every year for about 2-3 days only and i already cannot stand living without electricity. i like his show because it's interesting and very educational. i learned alot of survivor skills from just watching it. keep up the good work les.

[Primeobsession42]

so very sadly true

[snocamo154]

Les is getting ready for $500 a barrel oil way in advance of other folk who think they are surviving just because they have solar power and crank radios.

[Kurby1400]

Holy God Les had long hair

[toddianuzzi]

He has the best show on television.

[budgood07]

look for part 2-7

[gage48653]

ilove les stroud!!!! i love the show sorviver man!!!

[SoutheastAlaska]

Thanks for posting this!! We, too, have been wanting to see it.

[dineenfan]

Thanks for posting this. I've been wanting to see it. Les is cool and this is pretty interesting, however, I worry about his kids. They can't possibly like living like that. They'll have no friends. They'll be isolated from everyone. :/

[kryss119]

You should watch the entire part before you post a negative comment.

[dineenfan]

Hi. I did watch the entire thing before posting a comment. And it wasn't a negative comment. It was simply a statment of concern. If you watched the whole thing, you'd see that Logan (Les' son) actually expressed the same concern. He didn't want to be so far away from his friends. Believe me, I'm a big fan of Les. I wasn't trying to make a rude or negative un-informed comment.

[n3rdrage]

If you can post the rest of this or tell me where to find it I would really appreciate it.