The Off-Grid Build-Along Video Vault
A curated library from selfsourced.net
This is not a playlist. It is a library: real skill videos, cleaned up, subtitled and organized onto ten numbered shelves so you can find what you need fast.
When the internet goes down, YouTube goes with it, and the knowledge you did not save is knowledge you do not have. Watch everything right on these pages, or download it to your own drive, yours to keep.
49 videos · over 9 hours · 10 shelves
Gardening
Five builds that grow food where you are: a worm bin that eats every kitchen scrap, hoop houses that beat the frost, and fish raised in a garage.
Food Preservation
Fifteen videos on keeping what you grow or catch: canning, pickling, fermenting, drying, jerky and 25 year meal kits, taught step by step.
Poultry and Bees
Open a hive with confidence: a full inspection in 4K, a working farmer's spring honey setup, and the dance bees use to report what they found.
Water and Emergency Storage
The one thing you cannot go three days without. Hand-dug wells, rain barrels, a filter build under $100, and official emergency guidance.
First Aid
Bleeding control and CPR, taught by the agencies that train first responders. Short, plain, worth watching twice.
Workshop and Tools
Skills from people who never had a hardware store: bamboo work, homemade cordage, and the woven fence that catches dinner.
Shelter and Structures
A restored 1960 build-along: one man block-lays a family shelter room from official plans, with the original government booklet beside it as a PDF.
Cooking and Heat
Cook and stay warm when gas and power are gone: a hand built mud stove, a solar oven, an underground feast oven and a rocket stove welded from scrap.
Energy and Big Builds
Hot water from your wood stove and cooling that beats a Texas July, built by people who needed both to work.
General Preparedness
Kits, plans and the ordinary chores that get hard fast: washing clothes without power, planning on a budget, what belongs in a kit.
Every video in the vault
26Composting: The Four Ingredients and the One-to-One Rule3 min30A Family Vegetable Garden, Season by Season (1940, Restored)10 min31Worm Composting in a Stock Tank8 min125Build a PVC Hoop House for Winter Greens28 min126Build a Movable Hoop House for Winter Greens28 min128Build an Aquaponics Starter Unit From a Half Barrel26 min 32Making Sauerkraut: Crock and Jar Methods38 min33Pressure Canning Fish in Jars14 min34Pressure Canning Game Meat in Jars13 min35Pressure Canning Game Meat in Metal Cans21 min36Pressure Canning Fish in Metal Cans19 min38Pickling Vegetables: Fresh Pack and Crock Fermentation18 min39Infusing Vinegars from Garden Herbs and Wild Berries18 min42Five Warning Signs of Severe Food Poisoningunder a minute112Making Jerky From Game Meat or Beef19 min113Drying Food at Home: Sun, Oven, and Dehydrator Basics14 min114Drying Fruits for Long-Term Storage14 min115Drying Vegetables for Long-Term Storage13 min116How to Dry Herbs: Air, Oven, and Dehydrator Methods7 min129How to Make Kefir at Home16 min130Build a 25-Year Chili Storage Kit18 min 7Inside a Beehive: A Full Inspection, Step by Step6 min44Beekeeping 101: Comb Honey From Your Own Hives29 min46The Waggle Dance, Caught on Cameraunder a minute04. Water and Emergency Storage
10Hand-Pump Well Installation, Start to Finish26 min11Helpful Resources: Official FEMA PSAs from ready.gov12 min48Set Up a Rain Barrel to Harvest Roof Runoff3 min118Build a Gravity Water Filter for Under $10013 min 110How to Stop Bleeding Until Help Arrives2 min111CPR and Defibrillator Basics for a Home Cardiac Arrest7 min 105The Bamboo Fence That Catches Dinner6 min 109Walt Builds a Family Fallout Shelter (1960, Restored)25 min 16Build a Fuel-Saving Mud Cookstove13 min92The Underground Oven: Cook a Feast for Twenty With No Power5 min101Cold Start Yogurt from Raw Milk14 min119Build a Solar Oven from Cardboard Boxes28 min120Rocket Stove From a Wood Stove: Burn Half the Firewood8 min 121Hot Water From Your Wood Stove6 min122Off-Grid Cooling: Misters That Drop 102F to 85F6 min 81Emergency Kit Essentials: CDC Recipe for Preparedness2 min82Pack a Winter Emergency Car Kit2 min127Washing Clothes Without Electricity8 min131Building a Survival Food Stockpile on a Budget6 minTake the whole vault offline
Every video in the vault, in its numbered folders, exactly the way it is organized here. Put it on a laptop, an external drive, a USB stick in a drawer. A bookmark is not a backup.
Download everything (49 videos, 4.6 GB .zip)Prefer smaller pieces? Each shelf has its own download on its page, so you can take the vault one category at a time.
We filled these shelves to start you off, and the vault is built to grow. Found a good video on raising chickens? Save it into your own 03-poultry-bees folder and number it from 500 up so your additions never clash with ours. Topics worth hunting for next: chicken coop builds, micro-hydro power, DIY shower rigs, herbal first aid, ham radio basics.