Land Clearing for Our Cabin in the Alaskan Wilderness
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- Опубликовано: 14 сен 2023
- After weeks of work, several torrential downpours, and two skid loader breakdowns, we finally cleared a small piece of our property to build our cabin. We felled several trees and saved the good logs for later projects while splitting the other trees for firewood. We also had to remove rotten logs, stumps, bushes, and the root mat with the skid loader.
Once all of the debris was piled up, we sorted the logs, stumps, and brush and took that to a local farm and kept the topsoil, root mat, and anything else that would break down quickly to have as a base to begin some compost for next year's garden. In total, we hauled 20 loads of large debris to the farm!
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Katie & Chris
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Your SkidSteer is the best tool ever for land clearing. Great job.
It really does a lot of back breaking work! We would not be nearly this far along without hard working tools 🙂
God Bless you two on your hard work removing trees to build your cabin. Smart move on the recycling of the trees and roots, once ground up makes good compost for gardens .
I agree you young people have a resource for increasing your vegetable harvest by using all that rotting material to make hugelkultar mounds to grow vegetables!
True!
I’m no gardener but you appear to have the perfect materials for hugelkultur gardening!
This is true, we will be expanding the garden in the future with all of this compost we are gathering 😀
Your property is coming along. Looking forward to see the cabin build
Love the way you two work together and plan things out
Thank you! We make a good team 🙂 and can not imagine trying to do this adventure alone... thanks for watching !
So nice you have the equipment to haul off the debris instead of leaving it piled all over your property. Love your progress.
Yes , the piles of stumps and debris from clearing the cabin site, garden area, and driveway were a terrible eyesore. We unfortunately have no way to break down that large of stumps, so hauling them to the local farm with the tub grinder was a win for us and them. 🙂
Fairly new to your channel (maybe 4 weeks now) and I have to say You Two have done it right! I watched your road being built and that was super impressive and haven't stopped watching since! Road, chicken coop, garden, having your RV was an asset til the cabin build. CONGRATULATIONS on well-thought out projects‼👌💯
We see your comments all the time! I'm glad you are enjoying the content 😊 and we are happy to have you along for the adventure! We do plan and research many aspects before making decisions to minimize failure. Thank you for watching 🙂
Very good channel! You have a knack for it, talking just enough and then getting to work and letting you're actions speak. Keep an eye out for Chaga on those old birch. Very good, you brew it almost like coffee, kinda taste like a mixture between coffee and hot chocolate plus its very medicinal and healthy for you.
Thank you! We have been keeping an eye out for it! We are excited to try some chaga tea! 🤞 hopefully we can find some soon!
Good idea hauling all that brush roots and stumps away. Always a eye sore otherwise. Things looking good!
Yes, those slash piles get old fast! Also, there is less fuel for forest fires and less food to attract destructive wood beetles! Thanks for watching 🙂
Great job running the skid steer
Thank you! 😁
Stay safe out there . Happy Tarils
Thank you! 😀
I'm sure y'all are getting excited about now. Yes, some hard work ahead, but in the end, how happy and proud you will be. Love your channel and always looking forward to the next 😊 oops sorry about that setback 😬
We are excited to be working towards our goals, and I'm glad that you are enjoying the channel ! Thank you for joining us 🙂
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I am absolutely thrilled that you know enough to NOT throw away all of the rotten wood, roots and dead tree matter. It is well on its way to becoming valuable dirt. Reusing it in a compost pile returns the needed nutrients back to the soil. So many throw it away and then go buy amendments for their soil. It always makes me scratch my head. Good job being smart about this issue. Wood ash is also great fertilizer. I save mine each winter and use it the next year.
Yes, we probably have around 30 tons of compost piles right now. The compost pile we showed in the video tripled in size after filming, and we also have another pile started on our property that is even larger. We wish we owned a tub grinder that could break down the large stumps, but that is unrealistic to own for a homestead. By removing the large rotten wood and stumps, we hope to lower the amount of fuel on the property in the event of a forest fire. As well as not having a food source for destructive wood beetles. Thanks for watching 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 wild fires are a real issue. We’ve dealt with two here in northeast Texas right by our farm due to severe drought. We’re normally a very wet climate, but not his year. Too much is too much, so you have to get rid of what can prove a fire hazard. My thought was towards those who get rid of it all and then go pay for what they just threw away. I do enjoy your channel.
First time watching. Very good program.
Hey, welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
Great video 🇬🇧😊
Thank you. We are glad you enjoyed the content 😀
Impressive to manage thoose big stumps with that little case!
The trees here grow close to the surface. Otherwise, I don't think the skid steer would be able to pop stumps out of the ground as easily. The machine has oversized tires and extra counter weight installed, so it has extra weight to get the job done. Thanks for watching !
love your lab got one just like him
Thank you! He certainly loves to try and help in any way he can. Is yours a yellow lab as well? 🐕
Just started watching your videos. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for showing all the problems you are encountering.
We hope you are enjoying them! We try to capture the reality of living out here to share. It's tough and risky, but the reward is worth it. We love it here! 🙂
Wise choice in removing that old tree. I hate to see them go but its silly to allow emotion to over rule common sense and spiritual discernment. The rotting centre justified its demise and your correct decision. You've done so much in preparation to your build, its very exciting. Your channel popped up amongst my many Alaskan home building channels, so I've been binge watching to get the full picture of who you are and what your intentions are. Very impressed thus far. I've subbed and look forward to your future vids, as I voyeuristically live your dream with you as 70 ish Nan disabled pensioner from Ipswich Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 🤗🙏💞🤗👍👊👏✝️🇺🇲
Hello! This is very true about the trees. We have a few other giant old trees that are in poor health and will need to be harvested soon aswell but they are a great natural resource to have. We are happy you found us and can share our journey with you 😀
New to the channel, excited to see your journey.
Thank you for watching! More content coming soon😀
Stump Fulkerson is what we call those insect here in California
Vary good job
Thank you!
Bravi, un saluto dall'ITALIA 🎉
Thank you! And hello! 😀
you guys are really inspirational. Great stuff & Thanks for making us part is your journey ❤
Thank you for the kind words 🙂 we are happy you enjoy the content!
Good job
Thank you!
This was a Great Video...Thanks...
Thank you 😀
Team work guys, makes the dream work. Looking good.
This is true! Thanks for watching 🙂
Piling the downed evergreen boughs out in woods away from the home-site will provide food for the critters this winter(easy access for them). Mostly Deer and Moose and Elk.
We get rabbits in our brush piles. Also I don’t think they have deer and elk where they live. Only costal Alaska has a deer population from Kodiak eastward and mainly on the islands to SE Alaska. Also the only Elk are in SE Alaska and they are Roosevelt Elk that we’re introduced from Oregon.
Another good reason not to destroy what can be a habitat for rabbit and fowl@@Chris_at_Home
While there is plenty for the moose to eat in our Forest, we do try to keep dry brush and wood to a minimum here, it attracts beetles that destroy the trees and can fuel a forest fire coming through our area. We are working to make fire breaks because the forest fires are a serious threat here.
@@northtoalaska2022 a few years back when there were fires just south of Talkeetna along the highway the news showed a house where all the spruce trees were cut down and the owner planted birch trees all around his house. It was like an unburned island with all the homes in spruce forest burned and that house untouched. Where we live burned in the 1996 Big Lake fire and now most of our trees are quaking Aspen and birch. Our home over looks an area called moose alley by the locals.
Great content. Love seeing ya’ll starting out from scratch and making a home. Seeing this from the ground up is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you! It is not an easy path to take, but it will be worth the great amount of effort in the end. Glad you are enjoying the content 🙂
Sorry, but all I can think of right now is how your skidder must be named Nom-Nom. Old fart here names everything coz it's just easier to remember that way🤔
When I was youngER I wanted to drive heavy machinery. Well, now I get to watch and it's more fun I guess🤩
You two are doing fantastic!
Good Ole nom nom 😄 It can be fun to operate the machines, but they do wear you out too after a long day's work. It's kind of like riding a horse all day 😅
Genial 👌👍😃
Great progress-- can’t wait to see what kind of house you 2 build!!
We suspect we will be working away on the cabin for most of the winter, a lot of content on that to come! Thanks for watching 🙂
Great job guys. You have all the waste covered for recycling and that's great. Katie, on the safety side of things if I may? Please, please, please tie up your lovely long hair when you use the chainsaw? If you bend too far forward and the hair falls into the chain................. not a pretty picture to have in your mind, is it? Good to see you have your own size and weight for your chainsaw though, well done. Richard Down Unda.
Thank you, Richard! We will keep this in mind. We always strive to be safe, but we are not perfect. We hope you are enjoying the content 😀
Yes I do enjoy watching what you both do and love the way you work together. Keep up the good work.😃🙃
Love my chain saw's, beats a sharp Ax. Only problem is I cut too many tree's down and don't know when to stop !!!?
Привет из России мне ваше видео попалось в рекомендациях. Так что будем посмотреть.
Enjoy! 😀
Great progress!
Thank you 🙂
Leuk om jullie zo enthousiast te zien werken aan een mooi einddoel. Zal jullie met veel belangstelling blijven volgen. Tip geef je man een schaar met z’n verjaardag om zijn baard te trimmen.
Thank you! LEVITICUS 19 27 “Don’t cut the hair on the sides of your head or trim your beard."
Great video, thanks for sharing your future plans.
Thank you! We are glad you are enjoying the content. There are many more to come 🙂
Birchwood is some of the most beautiful wood at the lumber store, Love the content. Makes Riley good fire wood.
Ahh yes, unfortunately, a lot of the birch here is rotten in the center. If we cut down a nice young tree it would be great to slab it out to make cabinets out of.
I was super glad to see you starting to use hearing and eye protection! I Love to see All your progress.
We are not perfect, but we do try to be as safe as possible 🙂 thanks for watching!
Way to get the skid steer fixed and keep going forward; nice job!
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Hi from Connecticut I can wait for the next episode,good luck on your build.✌🏻&❤️
Hey! 👋 we are glad you are enjoying the videos. Thank you for the wishes of luck ! 😀
You guys should invest in a mulcher so that you could mulch all that wood up yourself. And that way you have extra for the garden. And for when it snows or when it gets muddy and stuff. You can add that mulch in there.
We did consider buying a small mulcher for small debris. Unfortunately, a tub grinder that can eat the size slash and stumps we had to get rid of would cost 75k plus and is not practical for a homestead. We actually have around 30 tons of compost piles left after this cleanup. Not all of it was shown in this video. Anything that would break down in the next few years we saved. It was beneficial for us to haul away the large rotting stumps and slash because they would become a large source of fuel in the event of a forest fire here. There is also an issue with destructive wood beetles here, and those piles make perfect breeding grounds for them. We really do not want our forrest to die from beetle infestation. Thanks for watching 🙂
I used to live in Alaska. I had a Motorhome and would go to my favorite places: Seward, Homer and camping on the beach in Ninilchik. I love the fact that you are on the peninsula..
We live fairly close to Homer. The peninsula has some beautiful views! It is great that you could experience this place in person! I don't think pictures or videos do it justice. 🙂
Glad that I found your built att the beginning. I love to see the dreams come true.
We are glad you found us! Enjoy the videos 🙂
Now that is a nice Radiator wow better than you see in most vehicles that must have cost you a mortgage
I tried to cheap out on Amazon or eBay, but it turns out they won't ship an item that large to alaska. So I bought a superior all aluminum radiator from a company in Delaware USA. No mortgage here. We are running a debt free homestead. This radiator was only a third of price that the local case dealer quoted me 🙂
Wow Lucky Lucky and that'll last you the lifetime of it now good job@@northtoalaska2022
That little machine is a beast!!❤
We have certainly put a lot of hours on it since moving here! It really is a little beast 😁 It would have been near impossible to do everything by hand that this machine has done up to this point.
Thank you for watching! 😀
Bonjour à tous les trois ( ne pas oublier le fidèle chien , travailleur de l 'ombre 🐈) . Je suis fan de toutes vos vidéos ; l'on y découvre le travail immense que vous faîtes et toujours avec le sourire , la bonne humeur , malgré les aléas du chantier et ceux de la vie . C'est super génial ce que vous accomplissez , merci de nous montrer la beauté des paysages . Je voulais vous dire aussi que ce sont les meilleures vidéos de ce style , car peut de " blabla " , et beaucoup d'action . Amitiés de PARIS🌹🌹🌹
Hello, our friend from Paris! So good to hear you are enjoying our videos and the beauty of Alaska 🙂 Thank you so much for your kind words! ❤️
Great video
We are glad you enjoyed it 😀
Just found your channel today. Looking forward to watching the progress as you build your cabin
Thank you, and welcome! We are glad you are enjoying the channel. We have more content coming soon 😀
Get a side table for the splitter, it will make your life a lot easier. Also maybe a pickaroon. It will save you back.
Good point, we should weld up a table for it! We have a nice fiskar pickaroon and did not break it out that day for some reason. They are a great tool 👍
Hello, I started watching your videos and I'm enjoying them. I want to see the second part of the cabin. See you later here in Brazil.
Hello 👋 glad to hear you are enjoying the videos! We have more coming soon 🙂
dam, I am still shocked you can even see another house lol... I mean dam where do I have to go to get away!
Do you mean the old log cabin that is on our property? If you mean the scene where we are dumping our slash that is on a farm about 45 minutes away from our home. I think it is a pump house they are building on the farm if I'm not mistaken.
I would want to build a shop before a house... but no wife to tell me house first hahahah
We did consider that as an option. If we did not have the old cabin to use as a shed, we would have needed a storage solution prior to a home.
I love the spot for your cabin. Beautiful views.
Yes! We are excited to have the beautiful scenery right outside the door 🙂
The old Case is getting it done. Pretty crazy how all the trees grow on top of the ground, makes the work a little easier. Bummer about the radiator, at least you were able to get another one. Still’s are the best. How many acres do you have? Unless you’re going fully hydraulic , definitely consider a Frontier sawmill, for the price you can’t beat them. Thanks for taking us along on your journey
Yes! Machines keep on going with some maintenance! The trees have really shallow roots here. I am surprised more do not fall over from the nonstop rain and occasionall heavy wind. At least it makes stumps easy to remove without an excavator. I can agree that sthil are a great choice. My father gave me a handmedown sthil many years back that I wore completely out, but it did a lot of work before needing replaced. We only have ten acres here. We originally intended to purchase more, but we had no luck finding large properties that were high and dry without major muskeg. We made a very low offer on this property, and to our surprise, the owner sold it to us. This place meets a lot of criteria we were searching for, so it really worked out well for us. We purchased an hm126 sawmill and brought it with us from Pennsylvania because shipping it here was almost the same as the price of the mill. We should have it set up before winter. We want to start drying some lumber for spring projects! I would have considered the frontier mill, but I did not know of them prior to watching your video. Have you seen "sawing with sandy" on youtube? He does some interesting work with his sawmills. Good channel 👍
@@northtoalaska2022 That’s awesome. I looked at the Woodland Mills but at the time they were a year out. They are good sawmills. I do watch Sawing with Sandy, those red pines he mills cracks me up. They’re like toothpicks 😂. Your Case will be a huge work saver with the mill. I mill mostly Oaks, Cherry and Maple
Haha yes sandy has to cut a lot of trees to get lumber! I do miss the oak trees back east. They were awesome firewood as well. Most of our white spruce here are very large diameters compared to other parts of the state. The black spruce trees are skinny and tall. But it should make a decent lumber yet.
@@northtoalaska2022 I’ve never sawed a pine on my mill. I have a pretty good pile of Oak from the clearing I did for our solar system.
great content kids i no it hard work to film and edit but keep at it your channel will grow for more income 😄😄😄😄
Thank you! It is a lot of extra work/ time to capture the moments! If we somehow make a profit one day, that would be a nice bonus 🙂
You are on the way, right up there with the best in my view.
Found your channel a few days ago and have watch most of your videos (will finish the last 2 tonight). You two are a very impressive team and i can't wait to see future videos. Watching from New Hampshire and dreaming of Alaska.
We are glad that you found us and are happy to hear you enjoy our videos! Alaska is an incredible place. It is great that we can share the beautiful scenery on youtube with everyone so far away 🙂
Keep it up I’m loving your energy
Thank you! 🙂
nothing like a good woman that can run a chain saw.
Ovipositor. You guys are industrious!
That is the correct word for the stinger. Thank you! 🙂
You need some of those metal tracks that slip over those tires for that skid steer it makes a world of difference in operating
We would love to find a used set of rubber track conversions with gear reduction for this machine. Unfortunately, they are too expensive new. We thought about adding steel grouser tracks years back, but this model does not make a good candidate for the added extra weight. The chains in the undercarriage can not handle the extra stress for long and cause expensive maintenance on chains and gears. Thanks for watching 🙂
Before you start building consider taking down any tree that can fall on your future cabin. Also those trees will keep growing so they may be a problem in the future and it is easier to take them down now without a structure to worry about being crushed by a falling tree.
I love seeing the wildlife, so very cool. Have you seen any brown bears?
What do you both do for work in Alaska?
Are you living in the log cabin on your land while you prepare to build?
The log cabin is in poor condition, its foundation is only wooden logs in the ground and some of them have rotted completely off causing the cabin to settle into the dirt. We did patch the cabin up for now, it needed a roof and flooring repair when we moved out here last winter. It is working out well as a shed, and the small half we converted into a chicken coop for now. In time we will tear it down and salvage what we can. We are living in our old motorhome while developing the property. There are black bears and brown bears here. We mostly see moose, they are here most days walking the creek or the driveway. A bear did kill a baby moose in our woods this spring but it has since moved on. We enjoy the wildlife very much. Before Alaska, I worked a career as a heavy equipment mechanic, and Katie worked in corrections. Since we have been able to become mortgage-free our goal is eventually to go down to a single-parent income. We do not want to do child daycare and are interested in homeschooling so one of us will need to work from home or not work a 9 to 5 in general. Alaska does pay well for skilled trades, and they are always hiring. There is a shortage of tradesmen in general. We are also working on other local business opportunities at the moment as well.
@@northtoalaska2022 I enjoy watch the videos you guys make. I would love to move to Southern Alaska and have a very secluded property to build on, but I work in healthcare and it would likely be more challenging to find a job in an Emergency Department at a hospital outside of the major cities in AK.
Glad to hear that you enjoy our videos! If you ever begin to look seriously at properties you could live in a secluded area on the south end of the peninsula and commute to Homer for work they do have a hospital in that town and other medical facilities. May be worth checking into. If you are referencing very far south near Juneau I'm unfamiliar with that area.
@@northtoalaska2022 Thanks for the info. I was referring to the the Kenai Peninsula as Southern AK. I want to be on the road system to be able to drive to Anchorage and Fairbanks if I ever need anything that is not available on the peninsula. I have looked at land North of Homer and there are some nice parcels 40ac, 80ac, but many are land locked and would require a ROW or an easement to access for a driveway which can be challenging depending on neighboring land owner cooperation.
Good Job!!!
My nephew is in Chugiak.
Thank you 🙂
That brush grapple looks huge for that little skid steer. Seems to do the job though. Don't go on a diet any time soon. Keep her greased up as a big implement puts more strain on everything.
The solesbe grapple is very heavy. No worries about bending it up like cheap models. Most of our attachments we purchased used so they may not be the perfect size for our machine, but they were the right price. The wet stumps combined with the weight of the grapple must be near 3000 lbs to lift the back tires. A fun fact about the antique 1845c , they were the biggest skidsteer in production at the time of manufacturing in 1995. Crazy how much the industry has changed with the 16000 lb tv620b they produce now. But I grease it and maintain it regularly it's not realy in the budget to replace it anytime soon. Hope you enjoyed the video!
Glasses chaps alaska medical is usually not close good content subscribed
Good point. Also long hair and any loose clothing should be dealt with. I have an off-road place and dinged my left index finger pretty bad on a table saw. I had to wrap the hand so I could use the brake on the snowmachine to get to the parking lot and then drive an hour. It was about -20 F.
Accidents can happen fast!
@Neveragain572 I do worry about accidents like that. We try to be as safe as we can. I put together a med kit for just in case of incidents like your table saw. Even have sutures to stitch a wound on hand. Hopfully, we never need them. I'm glad your accident turned out OK in the end.
I have a feeling that you know who do sharpen your chainsaws! Great work!
Yes! Dull chains are no fun 😅
You have a good use of resources. I look at the rain this time of year with a certain amount of gladness. We have had a record amount of rain and the high rivers are proof. but if it is raining it is not snowing and it is not freezing. I am excited for you to keep building your dreams.
Hey, robin! The rain would normally not bother us, but with this being our first year here, we have so much to do and so little time to get established because of weather and short season. We are doing the best we can and pushing forward! Thanks for the words of encouragement 🙂
Getting that foundation in before freeze up is important. You got time I hope the rain goes but with that comes the cold. Be glad you are young my bones can't do it anymore. We had our time. Good team work.@@northtoalaska2022
You should be wearing eye and ear pro! You only have one set of eyes and ears. The noise will sneak up on you over time and damage your hearing.
Great
Lots of work done. I had a 16 inch chainsaw and cut all my own firewood. Perfect size for me. My woods had been logged years ago, so all the reachable wood was less than a foot across.
I learned soon on, to position the wheelbarrow aimed the way I was headed. Too easy to tip it over turning it.
Smaller trees make the best firewood! Less splitting and easy on your body when moving it around. We can both relate to the wheelbarrow! Have had many spills over the years from uneven terrain... thank you for watching 🙂
I think we knew intuitively you guys had been putting in the sweat equity, but it would have been special to see what you had been up to. What an incredible job clearing your homesite and a plan to utilize and/or dispose of the residuals. Very impressive to watch the teo of you working as a team (Katie -_ tell Chris to get you and he some chainsaw safety chaps). What a skillful job clearing the land. Skid Steer + Chris = Beast Mode!
Sorry for the delay! Thank you for the kind words 🙂 Chris does have chainsaw safety pants from the many years of cutting firewood back east. They are packed away, and we are unsure what box they are in... 🙃 will look into chaps for the future! Thanks for watching!
And some safety glasses, please
Just found your channel. Great camera work and editing for noobs. 😂 Keep doing what you're doing. Look forward to more from Alaska.
We are new noobs 😅 Thanks ! We improve each video and learn fast. Glad you are enjoying the content!
Hi Guys, love watching your channel all the way from North qld Australia. there's no snow here😊. Just wondering if you have done any other episodes on the cabin build. I saw the foundation set up and you guys are smashing it.
Hello 👋 glad to hear you love our videos! We did put out another video about working on our cabin a few days ago! The weather has been slowing our progress, but we will continue to work on it whenever possible 🙂
Om du är rädd om din hustru så köp sågbyxa till henne visir är också bra ( slippa skräp i ögonen )
I was not worried about the grapple!!
Us either 😀
Cai de paraquedas aqui agora! 😊 Estou assistindo aqui do Brasil! Trabalho duro com equipamentos fica mais fácil! É o que não conseguimos aqui equipamentos, tudo muito caro para nossa realidade! Abração!
Hello! Heavy equipment here is not cheap either, although it may be a lot more common in the United States and more affordable in comparison to brazil. I am not too familiar with the Brazilian economy. Even here in the USA, we had to work and save money for quite some time to purchase old used equipment. It's a tough thing to spend money on, but in the end, it saves the human body from almost certain pain or injury when doing this type of work. Thanks for watching 😃👍
Did you have access to a tree n brush mulcher. Its an attachment that fits onto your skidsteer.? most equipment outlets have them to rent. love your videos
We have not looked into a forestry mulcher. Our machine may not have enough hydraulic flow to power that type of attachment. One would be very useful for cleaning up around the forrest! We are happy to hear you are enjoying our videos!
Great video, but need to buy some tow hooks for the old dodge, my 2500 dodge did not come with tow hooks,
Can be easily added, bust add on I have made,
That skid steer looks like fun to drive,
This is true! We fully intended to install a better bumper with a front recovery point prior to moving up north because getting stuck out here is inevitable. We unfortunately ran out of time before our moving deadline. Will reconsider it again in the future when we have extra time. Luckily, there is an unused bracket welded to the passenger side frame rail that is safe for pulling on but is not convenient. Thanks for watching 🙂
Making nice progress! Having the skid steer is huge. Glad you got a radiator fast…dont what to know how much that cost!
Yes, one day at a time! We tried to cheap out and get a radiator on eBay or Amazon, but they won't ship one here. I'm sure you have run into similar issues since you moved to this area. We have run into many big items that we attempted to ship in to save money, but it pops up as not shipping to our location 😆 this one ran 350$ on sale, and shipping was expensive but no other choices. Still saved 800$ over dealer price in Anchorage, so it all worked out!
@@northtoalaska2022 yeah shipping is hit or miss here. I just ordered Blizzak tires for my truck on Amazon. Zero shipping cost with 5 day shipping. Makes no sense.
Hi, I found your site a few days ago when I was watching Simple Living Alaska and you popped up in the index, so I binged watched your videos. I really like you and what you are doing. You had a long ride from Pa. What part of Pa did you come from. My kids, grand kids and great grandkids are up near Clearfield Duboise area. I will continue to watch as you build your homestead. Looking forward to your next video.
Haha! We are glad you are enjoying our content 😀 we originally lived near York County, Pennsylvania. Thank you for watching!
Nice job. Where would you be without the skid-steer and the grapple attachment? You're all set for long-term success!
We would be very broke from paying someone else a fortune to do the work , or our progress would be moving at a snails pace... I can not stress how important it is for someone to have machines to help out on these types of endeavors. Human spines are not meant to do this type of work long term. Thanks for watching 🙂
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safety first timber works🚑🚑🚑🚑🚑🚑🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Ska ni ha skön ved så ta och torka stubbarna den veden är underbar är det sedan Fura ( Tall ) så är det ännu bättre ( Mer terpentin)
No tiren nada todo eso abono o composta para el suelo donde plantarán un huerto de verduras 😅😂🎉
We have a few massive compost piles going 👍
Are you going to cut the 100 foot fire break around all your structures?
Just found your channel today. I’ve been trying to catch up. Great show, great content and you two are working like dogs! Do you plan on getting the cabin done before the snow flies? Did you have a channel prior to moving up North?
Hello 👋 glad you were able to find us, and you like our videos 😀 we do try to work hard! The usable time to accomplish tasks is pretty short thanks to the weather here. I think we will be expecting snow in the next few weeks, but we will continue working until the weather is too bad to continue 😅 this is our first and only channel.
Easier to remove stumps from wet ground than frozen!
That is true! We actually pulled up stumps in July that still had a foot of ice under them in shaded areas 😅
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what volcanoes are you talking about and what I would do is get 6 to 8-inch tubes and drill them down to a rock bed and fill them with concert and you start everything from there
Hello! We live on the coast of the kenai peninsula. Evryone that lives out here is able to enjoy a beautiful view of 3 giant volcanos across the cook inlet. Mt Redoubt, Mt Iliamna, and st Augustine. We will have a video soon about our foundation, we are using sonotubes to construct concrete peirs built on the stone base layer. Thanks for watching 🙂
There are shops that cook out radiators and refurbish them , Not sure if they havee a shop like that in your area.
This is a great question. I have gone this route in the past with success when we lived in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, due to our location in alaska, we would need to make the round trip to Anchorage twice to have this done that would equal to 16 hours of driving. This was the best option to get back to work fast. The season is so short here that we will be back into winter very soon! Thanks for watching 🙂
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Good Progress, Maybe Katie should tie her hair back when using the chainsaw maybe.
We will keep this in mind! Thank you for watching 🙂
Request. Please put the music volume down. It is overpowering your talking as well as extremely loud with intro as well as when you are not talking. Guys you are doing great, All the best from Johannesburg South Africa
Hey! Thanks for letting us know. We may have an issue with our editing software as it sounds ok prior to production. We will start lowering the volume more. 🙂
Gettin' it done! ^^ Well thought out. Curious though, are you planning to stay in your RV all winter or do you think you can get your cabin up before winter? How many weeks out are these videos or are they real-time?
Hey tyler, thanks for watching 🙂 This video was footage from about 3 weeks of work. Over 12 hours of recording did not make the cut on this video. We had a week of downtime on the skidsteer that stretched the video out, another slash pile from our driveway clearing that we did not include in this, then hauling slash to the local farm, which took about 7 days for 20 loads, 2 hours per trip.... the rest was a ton of land clearing time. We try to keep our content entertaining for everyone, so we only edit in highlights and important times... Our first videos were delayed by over a month because they were not originally intended for youtube. We started out doing video updates for our family back east and posting them private on Facebook. Later, after some persuasion, we decided to try sharing with everyone on youtube, so those family updates became our first RUclips videos. Many videos are put out the same week as they are recorded, like the gathering videos and the driveway gate. As far as the rv, we are comfortably living in it until we complete our cabin. We fully intend to work on the cabin all winter 😅 Hopfully finished this spring. So far, we are already hitting major slowdowns because of building material shortages in our area and non-stop rain. We did a lot of work to the rv prior to moving it here to make it livable in winter conditions. We fully renovated the interior and exterior including roofing, to make it a cheap temporary living solution straight out of 1993 😄 it currently has an 800 ah lithium battery bank that allows us to have electricity full time, recharged by solar or generator backup if there is no sun for long periods. The heating is done by a toyo vented oil furnace. These are really cheap to run in only 300 square feet . We also have running water inside from the large outdoor cistern shown in an older video so we can shower, clean dishes, and wash laundry from the motorhome similar to a normal home. We switch to indoor cistern below freezing. Without the antique motorhome, this adventure would have been a lot more difficult and miserable. The 30+ year old cabin on our property is not livable, only suitable for use as a shed. It is beyond renovation, and we will dismantle it in the coming years. kind of long-winded, but hopefully, this answers your questions!
Wow, thanks for the explanation!
I've watched your stuff from the beginning, and think its great! So I know there is the older cabin and know you've mentioned building a new one.
Yeah, I'm a sometime video content creator (on an app here in China where I live (Colorado Native living in SIchuan)). So I definitely know how the editing goes. Just wasn't sure, as some channels release stuff months or weeks later.
Yeah, I think you could manage in that big RV just fine. You guys definitely seem a lot more prepared, with a better plan, than a couple of other similar channels I follow.
I've thought of doing the same thing y'all are doing, and am learning a ton about how to do it the RIGHT way from you guy (buy a skid steer loader 🤣). Keep up the good work! @@northtoalaska2022
@TylerBeal1620 No problem! Wow, china, what a culture shock that would be for me! Haha, I'm glad we can share what we have found is working for us here. Are you looking to move to alaska in the future or just offgrid in general? As far as the skid steer goes, if you buy land that really needs a lot of forestry, dirt, or gravel work, some type of hydraulics will be a great help weather it is a skid steer , tractor loader or backhoe. The cost of an older used machine is normally a lot less than contracting someone else to do the work here, and your back will thank you later instead of doing it by hand.
Off Grid more generally, but Alaska and Mongolia are on my radar. I've browsed properties near Juneau from time to time. Also have a half-baked plan to start some sort of outdoor tourism business in NW Mongolia (Murun/Khovskol Nurr area, if that means anything to you). Ive been there a couple of times, and don't know the language well enough though. I'd have to move there first and learn the language/culture/laws better to see if that's feasible. @@northtoalaska2022
@TylerBeal1620 Wow, that is really interesting! We have heard that Mongolia is actually a great place for living off grid but have not looked into it. That's great that you have a plan and dream to strive for! We hope that it works out for you and wish the best of luck in your endeavors!
how big is the land you are working with ?
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Must sleep good
Haha, we do!