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Beautiful block of land and enjoying the channel 🎉

The snow is going to get deep, fast. You should probably inquire if that home you rented out last winter is still available... it's not worth it to stay in an unfinished cabin overwinter. My 2¢.

Maybe propane fridge? You’ll get there;-)

It would have been a lot better without the music it's annoying

Enjoying your channel thats a well built deck

Solar is the way forward

It’s so great to see windows and doors on the cabin 🎉 Looking great!

I don't know if 6 cords is enough. We live in northeast Missouri and would easily go thru two cords a winter with our fireplace insert. We also used natural gas.

Watch Mitchell’s in Alaska and how they set up their generator house.

Very happy for you two! Great accomplishment. 🏠

Honda makes a version of their inverter generators for extreme cold weather that has features like a heated carb, but these are rather hard to find. Everyone who uses them throughout the winter has to build some type of insulation around them such that they can still breathe when it drops below around 0 F. Otherwise you will be dealing with constant freeze ups and shutdowns.

I'd get TEGmart 45w woodstove generator. Not an absolute solution and not on a cheap side, but still a decent complementary source of power during a winter time.

Why not get a wind turbine like the nomadic movement did To charge your batteries ?💙

Hi Guys from Melbourne Australia. May I suggest that you check out Mitchells in Alaska as they actually built generator sheds. They may give you some ideas. Also as others have suggested Simple Living Alaska. Love how it is all coming together. Great job in getting inside. Looking forward to seeing what you do next. 😊🦘🦘😊

I like the idea of wiring in exposed conduit. Looking forward to seeing how that turns out. Forecasting snow this Friday in Homer. Winter is coming ❄️ and we’re not even close to being ready 🤦🏻‍♀️

Playing catch up on videos. The ceiling and hearth tile looks great. Love the vertical positioning.

I just got notified our Aferiy arrived at the transport company in Tacoma today. This gives me a nice idea what to expect with it. Lots of good information. Thanks. On a side note, Anything heat related uses a ridiculous amount of wattage. I miss my Air Fryer.

Figure out how many watt hours you think 🤔 you need, and double it. You'll be pretty close to actual use needs. The solar panels don't make their wattage rating, etc. I had to add 400 watts of panels from the effects of chem trail clouds drifting through Oklahoma. Being that far North, you probably need at least 2000 watts if panels. I had 932 watts coming from the solar panels yesterday at 10 a.m. It was windy too, and about 300 watts in a gust from the wind generator. The days are getting shorter but my batteries were charged before noon, and I used the air fryer for a little pizza 🍕 while they were charging. If you are going to run the whole house, you need at least a 24 volts system. Don't go with 12 volts. 48 would be great, but the components are pretty pricey, so mine is 24 v. Basically, you need enough batteries to run everything without running down, and enough solar panels to charge them plus a few more panels for cloudy days. I used 40 amp Epic Solar charge controller, at 932 watts yesterday, it was putting out 34.5 amps. After I started putting my system together, I haven't had the money for a solar generator like that. On a house system, the portability is not much of a perk to have. I'm only running one room. If you use a bigger inverter, the idling wattage will be higher, and more batteries will be needed. People tend to not have enough batteries. They're expensive. The four lithium batteries I bought cost me $2116. I wish you good luck. Hope this helps you figure out what you need to have. I didn't have to buy or do anything to my system this year, except check the water 💦 8n the wind generator batteries.

I don't have a power station like that. I built my own system. I'm using four 25.8v lithium batteries and four 31 series deep cycle batteries on my solar, twelve deep cycle batteries on my wind generator. That's 15,000 watt hours on the solar, 12,000, 6000 usable ( lead acid) on the wind. There was a long rainy spell in May, no sun ☀️ for a week. My solar batteries 🔋🔋🔋🔋 got down to 24.2 volts. I could have let them get down to 24.0 volts and used the charger function of my Aims Power inverter and charger. But the sun 🌞 came out the next day. It took two days to get them back up to 26.6 v, full charged. I have 1600 watts of solar panels and a 600 watts wind generator. They each have their own 2000 watts inverter. I've been off grid for four years. At first, I had twenty lead acid batteries but last December I bought four 24 v 100 a lithium batteries. The twelve best ones are on the wind generator. I'm fixing to make a cake in my oven. I used the air fryer earlier for potatoes, sliced them thin, took 7 minutes. I bought the Emeril Lagasse 360 french door oven. I have spent $6000 on my stuff, but it's good now for years. I have enough power to run everything for days. I have two chest freezers and a mini fridge running off it. The wind generator makes enough power in the winter to run an electric blanket and a little electric heater. I made my wood 🪵🪓 stove out of an old sandblasting tank. I bought a Winco Lil Dog gas generator for worst case scenario, I've used it once to charge the batteries, in November of 2021. I use it to run my welder occasionally. Two weeks ago, I was running a little window air conditioner. I've got two 20 pound jugs of propane, but I don't use it much. One jug usually lasts a year. LOL about the ice cream 🍦. I have three six quart tubs in one of my freezers.

Great job guy's ! Use what you have for now it slowly comes :) I pretty much run my whole cabin on power stations, Full size 18cubic fridge & a 7cubic foot freezer lights internet water pump all runs on my Bluetti AC200L for a day & a half & I'll be adding a battery to it very soon in a video 😊, Check out the video if you haven't seen it :) If it get's down to -10F that generator probably start outside, I'm lucky I built a little shop for my truck because it's diesel & I have a couple yard cats that have their bed in the shop so I keep a little fire in the woodstove to keep it above freezing even at -40 :) I can wheel the gen out when I need it & in the shop when I don't 👍, A shop is a must when your off grid :) Great video Take care

You say you need between 6 or 7 cords of wood. You have 1 cord right now. How far is winter away from you. I thought you would need a few months on the short side for your wood to dry before burning it. Could you not have done this earlier in the year so your burning dry wood.??

Thanks for the video ! Not much question whether it will work, only how often you'll need to start the generator to recharge. There is little reason to expect to generate much from solar in Alaska over the winter. I was wondering if you might be able to reduce the electrical demand of the fridge by freezing containers of water outdoors and putting the ice in the fridge to help maintain low temperatures. This would be using your fridge more as an icebox with a refrigeration assist. I don't know if it would work, just a random spark of inspiration . . . that might be a stupid idea. 😜 Best wishes & good luck !!!

You are going to need at min 50 high end solar panels and battery and I would see if get a older military generator that runs on any fuel because when dark winter hits you have no power and solar will do you no good so take what I tell you to heart because I want you to have a safe warm winter

Nice update! In the winter when we have low power, we cook exclusively on the wood stove. Coffee, rice, stews, etc. It's nice to save your power for charging your phones.

From everything I’ve researched, bringing the generator inside is the right thing to do when it gets below 0. That way the oil and block will be warm. Its a pain, but it seems to be normal. On a different note, I’m flying up to AK to scout for land Wed-Tues this week. So, if you’re available Sun-Monday, I’d happily buy you both a coffee in real life just to be able to pick your brains from what you’ve learned so far. We’re moving in just a few months so, I need all the intel I can get.

Great to see everything coming together, old man winter is on the way. How long before your wood burning stove is hooked up ? You two have done an outstanding job on your homestead. We own a bluetti, haven't had to use it yet so I can't give a review. Really looking forward to your next video, as a RUclips channel I think you'll do great. Take care, see ya !!!

😄💕"...we have one of the windows cracked because it is a hot balmy 35° right now..." <--Love times infinity!!

Looks like you have a nice view of a lake. Very nice!

I just found your channel and love watching Alaskan families and homesteaders 🤗❤️🙏🏻❤️🤗

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I felt like I had just watched a 30-minute commercial.

Thanks for sharing

I lived off grid for 6 and 1/2 years for room and board, we did firewood to pay the bills and we averaged 6 cordes a month so it is absolutely possible to do a lot of chords in a short amount of time. the shortest we ever did it was one day but I had somebody else was cutting the and I was spitting it.PS you do have the largest refrigerator in the world outside during the winter. I'm doing is just trying to help that's all.

I see some walls in the background....nice!

Maybe a spare generator for emergency because if the main one breaks down you always need a backup

Heck 200 a month isn't bad i pay around 300 a month for power

My propane heater advice, . . .propane alarms: Two is one, one is none. I had a leak and my one alarm didn't sound, its threshold being too high to detect a small leak, but large enough to make me very sick. I now have 2 alarms and so far, so good. Propane sickness was the worst, and can kill.

I just love y'all's vibe, so happy y'all found each other! Sending love and light and positive vibes 😘

To make your fridge more efficient if your freezer is empty, freeze containers of water to take up the empty space. The unit should not have to run as long because the frozen water helps maintain the temperature.

I don't own a Honda but do have a Predator that I run in a shed. The greatest worry is carbon monoxide. I solved that by running a steel pipe from directly in front of the exhaust through a hole in the wall to the outside. It's worked well for the last few years. Of course, you need to design the hole with heat in mind as that pipe does heat up quite a bit.

Check out Simple Living Alaska about Honda generator. They are the experts now 🤔

Watch off grid with Jay and Jen. They go into detail about what they use to run their place. I ended up getting a champion duel fuel generator, which we run off propane. We can change laptops, phones and stuff like that on it. Never had any problem with it. Don't get a Westinghouse. Nothing but problems and zero customer support.

the Simple Living Alaska you tube channel has the exact same honda generator and generators like the other one they go through allot of problems with the cold . they have one video where they cover all the common problems with freezing. the best thing they did was to make a insulated box they put over the generator when running outside and would store it inside when not in use. might want to watch the video because he shows common parts problems with the honda generator

I saw another couple build a small insulated box to put their generators outside to store and run them. Need to build exhaust port obviously but seemed to work well. As for the cooking situation anything with a heating coil like that air fryer eats electricity like a Filipino eats ice cream LOL. My wife is Filipino as well and seeing Eleinne light up at the mention of ice cream was adorable :) So I highly doubt there will be much air fryer cooking without the generator running this winter. Good luck we are rootin for ya

13:55 Eleinne "These are my toys" I can relate😆 Your videos get better and better. So glad you're in your cabin🌻🐝

Thanks for the power update. Think you should still use your microphone. Things will start to come together for you guys. Always watch for your post. 😊

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you wife is freesing, 🥶😬 soon no more

The ceiling looks great. So does the stove deck and wall. Great job. I’m sure you will enjoy being in the warm cabin.

I am picking up some good construction knowledge from you! Thanks brother