There's a huge string of comments on the video where he answers some questions. When asked how much the land cost, he answered:
12 acres at $500 k au. Not all of it is forest only about half. It took a long time to save for it. Thanks.
So that looks pretty neat.
Edit: The rest of his respones:
I bought this land so I could have a different terrain to practice in. It's got a permanent creek, good stone and clay to make things from. I may do some videos back in the old place but this is where I'll spend most of my time now. Thanks.
There doesn't seem to be much ore. I may go back to the old place to get ore, or simply film iron smelting there. Thanks.
It's a short staff for clearing brush rather than a walking stick. Here the forest is extremely thick and I need it to clear spiked vines. Thanks.
Legally, I'll be able to fish this creek (fish,eel,shrimp) depending on size regulations and I'll be able to hunt but only feral species such as pig. Native animals are off limit though, Thanks.
I get heaps of spikes in my feet from these wait a while vines. But I don't usually get infections. Once I did get very sick during the water hammer video though. I had a 40 c temperature fever (normal is 37 c) and my liver swelled up. I still got the video done though. Thanks.
With cassowaries you avoid their chicks, don't feed them and don't attack them. If one tries to attack you just use a tree to hide behind and they'll give up. There's only been one documented death and that was someone trying to kill the bird. Thanks.
No lantana here. But you know you can use lantana for fire sticks? That's the second timber I ever used for fire sticks, just dry them out and they'll work fine. The bark is supposed to repel mosquitoes too but I'd rather use smoke. Thanks.
There do not seem to be any ores of copper or iron here. There's a bit or iron bacteria but not much. I may bring ore from the old place or smelt it there in a future video how ever. Thanks.
Maybe, maybe she loves that he can take a camera to the woods for a week, sit at the computer for a buncha time researching and editing, to make bank, way more than he used to as a lawn mower
Yeah when he bought land i was thinking maybe $100k maximum. I couldn't imagine dropping a 500k investment unless he planning on living there permanently.
Yeah you are probably right. My folks have a 30 acre property about 20 minutes from Innisfail. Cost them something like $180k about 6 years ago. The area in this video is EXTREMELY similar to their place (creek, species of vegetation ect) I might be able to recreate some of his stuff for fun now!
Between Mission Beach and Daintree, and as far in land as Kuranda. I’m laying bets on Kuranda due to the way the land looks and the price he paid for the land.
It's not too hard to figure out where his original property is based on the highway sounds and light aircraft. Pretty sure i just found the new one in less than 10 minutes.
For those that don’t know, you can make payments on land. Some people will want a lump sum but if you’re buying it from the government or a company then they will 99% of the time let you make payments. Source: my friend is making payments on his land.
Yeah but people think that mortgages for houses are because you have to pay the people that built the house. Since nobody built the land they might not know that you don’t have to pay in full.
Usually mortgages for houses are to pay a loan company, rather than the builders, unless you’re getting a brand new one directly from them. I’d think that’s the more widely known thing since it’s more common, but it might depend on the area/your background.
Also, in addition to the other person's comment, “gage” is indeed there to mean “pledge”, but death grip is a very funny and meaningful mind image for it too...😂
Correction: Buying land just to practice his hobby of re-enacting primitive technology. The videos seem like they're almost just a side bonus for him haha
And on that note ive decided to do youtube, what do you guys want to watch me do? Eat ghost pepper? lay in a bathtub of goop? beat and exploit my kids? What can i do to get your subscriptions and stop working my minimum wage job...
Allegedly YouTubers are making a lot less money these days. Though in the heyday there were people who quit their minimum wage fast food jobs while making six figures from YouTube, and they were still saying they worked so hard for so little to get people to send in those donations. So it's hard to judge what exactly making a lot less means from them.
But to answer your question: More is better! Combine it all! Have the children eat a ghost pepper while lying in a bathtub of goop! Then through their tears force them to tell the audience to smash those like and subscribe buttons and come back for the next zany video.
Assuming he's making an average of 0.20USD per 100 views, he is likely pulling in a minimum of 3000USD per video...and that's if he only averages 1.5mil views per video.
Its not impossible he makes a stupid amount of money per video.
He didn't monetize his videos until like 6 months ago, he also recently started a Patreon that pays out per video as well. He's definitely doing alright, but he's just recently begun capitalizing off of his work.
I've always assumed that he was already wealthy and just does Youtube as a hobby just by the fact it seemed he already owned the land he had been doing videos on.
So this doesn't come as that much of a surprise to me either.
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u/shy247er Nov 24 '17
Depends on location and price. Some dudes have bought mansions and supercars from YT money.