How to BE PREPARED for WINTER SNOW Living in a REMOTE Cabin Off Grid 🌨️❄️
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This week we get some snow out in the desert! I share what we do to stay prepared for unpredictable winter storms. I also reflect on some of the challenges we're facing at the moment and how they relate to the snowy conditions.
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You've done well, it'll get easier then you'll both look back on you present time fondly.
To be frank, I haven't noticed the tag untill you paid attention to it. Yes, I am stiĺl following you closely. Awesome vlog. I love the cold more than the warm times. Anyway, that is personal and just a crappy site note!
With love from the Netherlands
It's a good idea to keep your firewood outside until you want to burn it. When the wood is cold bugs are asleep. When the wood warms up they wake up and start exploring your house.
I can verify that. We ended up with dozens of some kind of small beetle looking critters crawling out of some of our firewood once.
@@troyyarbrough sounds like the same thing l have. Kind of cool looking bugs.
Yes, but put a tarp over it. I lived 100% off-grid for 4 months in Florida. I separated all wood into 3 piles based on size. It rained all the time but I was able to start a cooking fire whenever I wanted because it stayed dry!
@@shac9131 yes defiantly. I don't live off grid,but l heat with wood.
@@RippSnortin
It's a great option to spare some cash. I used my old small charcoal grill and started a fire to make cowboy coffee and cook food. Sometimes I used charcoal.
I cheated though to light the wood by using charcoal fluid. ;)
Driving in the snow and the dark is super dangerous. I won't drive at night it's it's snowing bad now too hard to see and not worth it.
RobertJLessard. Yes, agreed. It is safer not to drive in the dark and snow.
Gas generator is a must for backup.
In a week or two, the wild flowers should be amazing 😊
I'll probably rent your home for 7 nights....
How far are you from Taos?
Joan
I definitely don't want to be driving in the mountains in the winter--even in my 4-wheel-drive Suburban. I'm glad you have a generator. I wouldn't mind having property in higher elevations but I don't want to be there in winter. Lol.
You can still 🛁shower. Use a camp shower with heated water while standing in your shower.
I appreciate the cut shot of the tires, because as you were talking about the road conditions I was thinking: 4 wheel drive? I wonder what tires he had?
Living off grid will really teach one the many advantages of a simple BASEMENT! A full concrete foundation with footings well below the frost line gives a non freezing enviroment for water pipes etc., at least in the basement. Almost a must for an off grid cabin, oddly enough. When I was installing off grid power system for others, a basement for the batteries was a given, lacking a basement, digging a hole in the ground to below the frost line and lining it with foam insulation at least assured the batteries a good home, same with any water storage tanks.
Out here you have to worry about radon in the mountain areas. So basement aren’t really used often in New Mexico. We do get super creative with pipe insulation
Love the jacket... Hadn't noticed the tag til you mentioned it. 😂
Snowy mountains look great
Great video, very good information. A small wind generator could help supplement your power sources.
The storm definitely caught me by surprise, too. Can't deny that it was beautiful out there, though!
Regarding the wood, I built a 3 cord woodshed early in COVID and it is a great way to season wood and always have a dry supply ready to go. Also, with all the wind there, would a small wind generator make sense?
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That tag situation 😂😂😂😂
And add to that, keep an emergency supply of food and water so if you need to hole up for a week or more you can get through (live a few hundred miles north of you in CO)
Love your journey. I've been fulltiming (170" Sprinter, '90 Westy, 144" Sprinter) for 14 years and am ready to take your turn. Even been looking for land in So Central CO, No Central NM. Thanks for sticking with it for years. I'll gather knowledge from your effort. My worst snow driving was from Bal'more to Springfield. It was like you filmed but flakes were large and none of the drivers with me lasted more than an hour with the sleep lulling flakes flowing at/over the windscreen.
Didn't notice the tag until you mentioned it. Thought it was an intentional part 🤔 of the video 📹.
#1 Question Nate?????Where is the Element?
We stored it at a friend's place while we were gone. We have it now though :)
@@ElementLife OMG I got nervous that you got rid of it!
Kool: All the things we take for granted that during a natural disaster/weather event, we have to adjust to in a major way. This helps kick into the reality and the necessity of considering basics. Also, helps in reducing that "taking for granted" attitude to one of appreciation for the convenience we experience.
To funny,I live in snow country,I burn wood eight months a year,been doing it for the last 45 years.Snow???That's what we call a dusting.Prepared??Your not prepared believe me.
I added a Renogy Wanderer 30 amp no LCD solar controller to my lead acid system, and it's been excellent. No radio noise. The 100 watt system is always revealed by blinking colored LED lights. Use gel setting as its gentler than flooded, for my flooded battery. Everything is indoor and clean. The battery acid is diluted to 1/2 making a deep cycle 12.01 volt storage. This is perfect for a chest freezer on ECO, or lights, but a second 100 watt panel would help you with a fridge.
The ALP 1000 watt propane generator will give you 40+ hours of power on a standard 20 lb bottle . It will run a full size refrigerator.
Nate needs a bumper sticker that says " I'd Rather Be Surfing " and just think of a warm glassy swell .
I follow a couple of boating channels and quite a few of the boats on them have about 1/2 your number of panels , and at least 4 to 6 batteries. This size of set up along with wind turbines, (on some) sustain 2 to 4 people on the open sea for weeks, with navigation, communication, and kitchens running. I just subscribed, so I haven't had much chance to research previous videos, so IDK if you have more batteries on the way or not. I've only watched 2 videos so far, but like what I see here. Thanks for the videos, you do a fine job !
if you get sick of the muddy driveway, it shouldnt be hard to get some gravel delivered.
@Buckwheat Thanks for adding that all up. It costs money to live on an acreage away from services, and more of the costs are shouldered by the acreage owner. Thanks for the realistic information.
You put a tarp over the wood. Constantly raining in Florida majority of the time I had zero issues starting a fire since it was covered!
And there's bugs in the wood. Do not put it inside, instead keep what you need for the day/night on the porch covered .
Living in the Buffalo New York area we know a thing or two about snow and how to deal with it. I could easily handle a foot or two. What do they consider the winter months there? We usually get snow from November to April here. Sometimes even in May. It’s such a loooooong winter. We went to the Grand Canyon a couple of years ago and definitely felt the change in elevations. Have you gotten used to that?
I wonder if you can build a rocket mass heater - they seem really efficient. I haven't built one nor seen one in person, but maybe one day...
Baby wipes and dry shampoo. Or melt snow for water to clean up.
GO BROWNS!!!!!!
Maybe you could diversify a bit more with some wind power, it seems like you may have a bit of wind there
You just have to prepare for each season, wrap your pipes above ground , pool noodles and duct tape or anything else, stay home in a storm, and any local critters etc...
no generator depending on solar? wow what a fail...and denial is not a river in egypt a small honda can run weeks on 5 gallons of fuel..way more reliable then any solar is...i have power off at my house for weeks at a time..I know
It is pretty from where I sit. It sounds like you have buyers remorse.
Not that much more then an inch :D in places it gethers up together so it just feels more cause of an in between places with some piled up snow
Curious what happened with the growatt inverter/charger and 200 ah lithium battery you had?
And now you know why Arizona is more populated than New Mexico.
To resolve your field mouse problems , Research YT for five gallon bucket traps. Bury buckets in areas then put fencing around bucket so you don't step in bucket. Spray Clear coat around bottom of metal shed mice and bugs cannot climb up because clear coat works like plexiglass. Also you can add liquid to bucket traps.
Hi from San Antonio Texas 🤠👋
Send me some snow, please 😊
Go Browns!
Thank you Nate. Firstly, if one was to even see a price ticket on your lovely jacket, let alone make some effort to say anything about it, would again, astound me. But, sadly those viewers are ever present. Everywhere. The tiniest thing, it always comes out, with some. Like, in the grand scheme of things, why is it so important, I wonder, each and every time.
Tough going out there for you both, for sure. You simply can't plan each and every detail for the what if's in life, no matter how you try. As you are only too aware Nate. Mother Nature is not something to be trifled with and she's showing herself in many ways worldwide right now. We have had a lot of rain here, flooding, loss of life, as you have in the US. After all of your years in the Element, you have got very inventive at different times and have always come through. Some way, some how. As frustrating and tough as it has been at times. I hope that this too shall pass. Quickly! 😊. Much love from my Sprinter nomad life, in a very wet, getting chilly, New Zealand 🙃 🙂 👋🧭 🚐 🌧
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@@markgordon8146 You always cut out your tickets? Well maybe you don't live such a busy life as Nate? Sometimes leaving a tiny bit of the ticket can be a real pain though I find.
To 'restart your battery just touch another battery to the terminals. This can get the internal BMS back into life and allow the battery to charge. YT channel HOBOTECH did a vid on it.
I didn’t realize for quite some time that here in New Mexico that the snow doesn’t exactly melt because the temperature can stay cold. It evaporates! Roads can melt the snow because they get warm in the sun.
Wow that changed quick !! What an amazing place.
Makes me thankful to live in central Florida !!!
Yall can have all that cold weather LOL
You guys get really bad lightning storms and tornadoes .
@@shac9131 Mostly lightning. Yall get the bad tornadoes !
@@GatorLife57
We don't. You don't know where I live now do you!
@@GatorLife57
I'm ALWAYS watching weather news and radars. Inland of Florida gets the most tornadoes by far. And very thick lightning bolts
What i just don’t understand is if you know you’re moving to an off road/ off grid place why people don’t own a 4x4 truck or vehicle? That old heavy Chevy you got needs to be replaced with a 4x4!
Wow are you guys ok? That’s an inch of snow , holy crap !
Winter in almost April? Wow that global warming sure is bad.
No snow 🥶 here at the Slabs bruh.
Survive winter....hmmm...get the heck outta there like you all did...lol
I think we still failed to avoid it lol. It's been a cold few weeks, starting to warm up now though!