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  • Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
  • Building a cabin in the remote Wilderness of Alaska and starting a new life and homestead many miles from any road. We take snowmobiles to haul in heavy loads of lumber to my friends remote build site where they are constructing a 12x12 cabin. Join us for the adventures!
    Check out my website to get music, merch, photos and more: alaskacabinadventures.com
    Check out Steve and Tess's channel @HomeSweetHomeAlaska
    #alaska #cabin #build #cabinbuild #offgrid #asmr #woodheat #backcountry #selfreliance #simpleliving #tinyhouse
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  • @Dropdood
    @Dropdood 23 дня назад +11

    i just bought some land up in fairbanks to do this same thing, you have been an inspiration man keep it up

  • @dper1112
    @dper1112 23 дня назад +3

    Most people insulating the floor aren't in Alaska, so they don't mind putting in narrow boards on the inside/bottom of the floor joists, and setting plywood strips on those. It takes longer, but it keeps you off your back... But up there, you gotta insulate as best you can, so crawling underneath the thing is necessary at some point. It's cool that you did it now, when you can still lift the floor up. That way there are no gaps or cuts in the plywood.
    It's also worth remarking that some people prefer to use RockWool (or equivalent) in floors, especially in off-grid locations, first because sometimes water spills on the floor and soaks down into it, and second because the mice don't like it. But it costs a little more. Something to consider, depending on your goals.

  • @xxswamplordxx2079
    @xxswamplordxx2079 6 дней назад

    Only in Alaska would you call someone a neighbor when they're half an hours drive away from you. Great videos!

  • @laspirit4adventure
    @laspirit4adventure 23 дня назад +11

    Congrats on hitting 100k! 🎉

  • @johninalaska9563
    @johninalaska9563 21 день назад +6

    Hi Matt, so glad that you were able to give Steve and Tess a hand with their cabin. I really like those two. The question about whether they are offgrid or not. I was born in Alaska 76 years ago and back before this offgrid term was developed by modern day homesteaders, it was you either lived remote or you lived on the road system. That was that. If they don't put a driveway in they will remain remote. Myself, Steve and Tess have something in Common, I worked as a Winter caretaker for remote fishing lodges for 30 some years and I am anxious to hear their stories and watch their videos. By the way, Dick Proenneke was a friend of mine when I lived and worked out on Lake Clark.

    • @IkeCoblentz
      @IkeCoblentz 17 дней назад

      Grid means electric grid. Off-grid means you are not connected to the electric grid. There is nothing more too it.

  • @wendellsuiter7869
    @wendellsuiter7869 23 дня назад +10

    Norman just wants to run to the job site...🐾🐾

    • @carltruva8872
      @carltruva8872 23 дня назад

      Love your dog's name Norman it's my dad's first and my middle name..... Love the channel you and Timmy are two of my favorites.. Thank you so much for sharing

  • @chandrasutton4669
    @chandrasutton4669 2 дня назад

    Excellent!!!😊🎉❤

  • @debrademedici864
    @debrademedici864 19 дней назад +2

    I’m 70 year old princess and love watching your videos !!!! Never been to Alaska and maybe I’ll get the chance !! You 3 worked together great !!! I’m a dog lover and love Norm but why didn’t he get a burger ?

  • @stevedenoyer5956
    @stevedenoyer5956 23 дня назад +4

    Something that small, I probably would have flipped the sub floor. But what you guys did worked fine, just a little awkward attaching underneath.

  • @claytonleal7947
    @claytonleal7947 23 дня назад +4

    porcupines will chew through that plywood if they want to. should get some metal mesh for the underside of the cabin to keep them from coming up through the floor

  • @MattAK
    @MattAK 23 дня назад +2

    Congrats on 100k! Speaking of off grid definitions, I saw someone comment somewhere recently that if you have internet access you're not really off grid. For some reason that made me irrationally irritated.

  • @janamunden1970
    @janamunden1970 23 дня назад +3

    Great video Matt and so nice of you returning the favor and helping them
    Love to see Norman he's so cute
    Thanks for sharing and love the music as well. Good luck on the new build
    and I would have to agree that's definitely off grid lol
    Love from Ohio

  • @johnpeddicord4932
    @johnpeddicord4932 23 дня назад +4

    Moving on up 100k,CONGRATULATIONS

  • @claudioaranguizp8976
    @claudioaranguizp8976 23 дня назад

    Good job & God bless from Santiago of Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @jamesw6484
    @jamesw6484 17 дней назад +1

    This is a true American enginuety !

  • @apollosmoon8658
    @apollosmoon8658 23 дня назад +1

    Off the grid to me is just away from the grind, cities and excessive amounts of people. I have 40 acres in Wyoming I just bought and I'm about to build my forever off the grid cabin, 16x24 with a loft. Love all these videos and the peaceful calm music in the background

    • @zachary12675
      @zachary12675 23 дня назад

      What's land going for in WY?

    • @apollosmoon8658
      @apollosmoon8658 22 дня назад +1

      For completely undeveloped land its pretty cheap. Creston wyoming area 40 acres for 27k

    • @zachary12675
      @zachary12675 22 дня назад

      @@apollosmoon8658 that's unreal. Can you buy smaller parcels? Good move.

  • @Maintenance101.
    @Maintenance101. 22 дня назад

    That’s what shows your a real friend. Keep living the dream

  • @melissajules8694
    @melissajules8694 23 дня назад +4

    Love Norman

  • @angelab2906
    @angelab2906 23 дня назад

    I wish that my neighbors lived that far away!!! Great music!

  • @ToothMolar
    @ToothMolar 19 дней назад

    Porcupines love the glue in Plywood.

  • @Orphanboyefforts-Chuong
    @Orphanboyefforts-Chuong 20 дней назад

    Amazing video❤❤😊❤

  • @willamettehops
    @willamettehops 23 дня назад +2

    Looks like it's gonna be a nice homestead! Why did Steve decide on 2x4's for the walls? Around here we use 2x6 for more insulation.

  • @LaVaqueraMarin
    @LaVaqueraMarin 23 дня назад +1

    LOVE IT!!! KEEP IT COMING!!!!!

  • @salliewhite-bishton5394
    @salliewhite-bishton5394 23 дня назад

    Your Flurry 🐶 Friend is certainly a great companion. The pic sitting up in the truck is great 👍

  • @artbeaumont8225
    @artbeaumont8225 17 дней назад

    Hello! I absolutely loved this video ... just stumbled across your channel ... had to subscribe ... thanks!

  • @12papara
    @12papara 23 дня назад +1

    Norm is the hardest working boy

  • @kristingrounds4163
    @kristingrounds4163 23 дня назад

    Great video! Love how you are helping your neighbors....I will definitely check out their site because I want to see the finished cabin LOL!

  • @patriciamontague6035
    @patriciamontague6035 22 дня назад

    I love that channel.😀 They are so funny 😊 hi from Colorado Springs 😀

  • @joannabowers1358
    @joannabowers1358 23 дня назад

    Hey, what a coincidence! I’m a subscriber to your channel and also started watching theirs a few weeks ago. This is cool because he didn’t really show this part of the build in his vlogs. They’re a neat couple.

  • @elizabethlex7151
    @elizabethlex7151 23 дня назад

    Congrats on reaching 100,000 subscribers! 🎉

  • @Adventures-with-Brad
    @Adventures-with-Brad 23 дня назад

    Great content! You are giving me major inspiration to get “off grid” ;)

  • @christopherboyd7177
    @christopherboyd7177 23 дня назад

    that makita saw is smooth

  • @TruckHouseLife
    @TruckHouseLife 23 дня назад

    Nice work ya'll!

  • @MyAlaska12
    @MyAlaska12 23 дня назад

    Congrats on hitting 100K subs!

  • @judebug329
    @judebug329 23 дня назад

    Congratulations on 100k! 🎉

  • @lidijabirsa7768
    @lidijabirsa7768 22 дня назад

    Hi there💙, great CONGRATS on 100K 🎉.... from sub no. 36 on your ch! 😂
    Best wishes to the whole family from Europe! 🙏

  • @samhill3496
    @samhill3496 22 дня назад

    Good vid and music Matt. Teamwork sure helps one heck of a lot. Like you I would really appreciate a few more hands at times. Tough being a one man shoe. The cabin looks great. True plumb and square. The walls bowing out won't hurt. Diagonal center braces would help that. The bottom floor joist cover for the insulation. Not a bad job on it. Fast and it's sealed up as good as any other method. Seen it done a lot of ways some much more labor and costly. This build will be good experience for them later on. One thing they will have an efficient home come winter. I'll check out their channel. We met them before. Next time

  • @lovettlovett9462
    @lovettlovett9462 23 дня назад

    Friends helping Friends good old Alaska I like it. Ginger L USA
    Alabama😊 keep you friends
    Close, doing a amazing job
    I love seeing friends helping🎉
    Food sounds great Norman is
    Hungry love watching friends
    Helping Friends Ginger L USA
    Alabama❤

  • @jamesw6484
    @jamesw6484 17 дней назад

    I like Norman ❤.!!

  • @adriannicholson8819
    @adriannicholson8819 23 дня назад

    good that you put boots on norm 🥾

  • @zachary12675
    @zachary12675 23 дня назад

    great video

  • @Doc1855
    @Doc1855 23 дня назад

    My wife and I live in a very mountainous area of north central Washington state, 5 miles from a small town and 30 miles from a small city.
    We’ll be going to north west MT the end of May to look at property to buy and build a log house so that after my wife retires our house will be finished. We’ll sell our mountain home here in WA for our retirement home.
    I figure between eating fish, elk, deer and other wildlife we’ll be ok for our meat. We will have to grow our vegetables because the area we’re interested in, the closest Costco is 100 miles away.
    We will have to drill a well and install a septic system, but we have 12 years to do it all.

  • @michaelmartineau1373
    @michaelmartineau1373 18 дней назад

    Nieghbours helping Nieghbours this is the Alakan way

  • @billbarbour3351
    @billbarbour3351 8 дней назад

    Could have stood the subfloor up on edge, attached the plywood and laid it back down...

  • @alphaghostrabbithole5340
    @alphaghostrabbithole5340 12 дней назад

  • @hoangthidinh96
    @hoangthidinh96 23 дня назад

    Xin Chào Chúc bạn một buổi sáng tốt lành

  • @pqtpat7734
    @pqtpat7734 22 дня назад +1

    Are they guides at a fishing lodge?

  • @debraward3796
    @debraward3796 23 дня назад

    Do you have a full video of you building your cabin you live in?

  • @Jasonrcsd
    @Jasonrcsd 23 дня назад +1

    Is this a new cabin he built or is this the same one different video because I thought he showed a start to finish on a secondary cabin?

  • @mikejones-we9eo
    @mikejones-we9eo 19 дней назад

    Those T-bone steaks looked more like strip steaks 🤔

  • @patandandrea
    @patandandrea 21 день назад

    I love your music for video.
    I’m gonna buy it but I wonder if I could be allowed to use it for my channel?
    Let me know.
    Thanks
    Pat

    • @alaskacabinadventures
      @alaskacabinadventures  20 дней назад +1

      Thank you!! Unfortunately you can’t use it for videos, it will be flagged for copyright, but you can contact me about having us make your own custom channel music 🤘

  • @soapstones69907
    @soapstones69907 14 дней назад

    Whats up from wasilla

  • @83glacius
    @83glacius 22 дня назад

    a floor is as warm as your room is if there s no heat...its going to be a cold floor..

    • @HomeSweetHomeAlaska
      @HomeSweetHomeAlaska 21 день назад

      We will have a wood stove installed before the winter. Then the floor will be nice and warm!

    • @83glacius
      @83glacius 21 день назад

      @@HomeSweetHomeAlaska yep..helps!:)

  • @kamil6988
    @kamil6988 21 день назад

    somewhere between 2:54 and 3:04 Norman lost a shoe :(

  • @garryherd3042
    @garryherd3042 19 дней назад

    Hold the hammer from the bottom, when using, so much better

  • @beachtimehawaiibth7222
    @beachtimehawaiibth7222 21 день назад

    Out of curiosity do they not have “legal” access to drive to the property, or it is too rough, too much snow, or just no official driveway? Always tough moving everything there by hand

    • @IkeCoblentz
      @IkeCoblentz 17 дней назад

      Its probably 5-40 miles over land they don't own. Even building a road that far would be insane

  • @daveg4353
    @daveg4353 23 дня назад

    Hey Matt, I am trying to figure out what size door gasket is used on the Drolet El Dorado woodstove which I believe is the same one you have, do you have any idea which size it is? I think it might be 5/8 inch but I can’t find proof anywhere.

    • @alaskacabinadventures
      @alaskacabinadventures  23 дня назад

      hmmm unfortunately I can't say for sure as I've never replaced mine. Although I should, so let me know if you figure it out!

    • @daveg4353
      @daveg4353 22 дня назад

      @@alaskacabinadventures I talked to Drolet customer service today and they told me the actual size for that stove is 1/4" x 1/2" part # ac06100 so you probably can't use an aftermarket one that is just round

  • @noirgoon1662
    @noirgoon1662 14 дней назад

    Jack ryan?!

  • @Steve_G_Maine
    @Steve_G_Maine 23 дня назад

    That's not a cabin. That's a shed. 😉 Congrats on a hundred thousand subscribers! 🎉

    • @alaskacabinadventures
      @alaskacabinadventures  23 дня назад +1

      Sheds are for tools, cabins are for people. And thank you!! 🤘🤘

  • @stillrandy
    @stillrandy 23 дня назад

    I like the idea of having plywood on the underside of the floor and have seen it done a few different ways. The way you've done this looks great! I opted for a more unique way. It helped to have lots of friends around. ruclips.net/channel/UCzoJFNfNAl4nrohkaw7nCMg

  • @dane9175
    @dane9175 3 дня назад

    How come all the dogs in Alaska have the same look? like their owners/ caretakers are f..king crazy

  • @Revelation22-13
    @Revelation22-13 23 дня назад

    Matthew 28:18
    King James Version
    18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Gods blessings over you .

  • @johnnyboymc6607
    @johnnyboymc6607 19 дней назад

    Christ.. this is hard af to watch

  • @RexMoore58
    @RexMoore58 23 дня назад

    I would love to move to AK. One problem. I will not drive through the union of socialist republic of Canada.