My grandparents were off grid. Outhouse. Coal stove, coal oil lights. In the late 60s an indoor bathroom and water at the sink were added after my grandfather passed. They were born in the 1880s.
You guys should do a gravity fed water system. If you have a high enough point for your tank it’s really easy and makes life a lot more bearable. Unless you like a dry cabin in which case I’ll shut my big mouth and enjoy the show. 😂😂😂😂😂
First time viewer and that was my thought also! Pipes freezing would be a problem. Don’t know where the water table is but a hand pump inside the house would be so convenient especially during the canning or hunting season. Nice that it can feed and sleep so many people.
I watch a ton of RUclips channels...not once have I ever seen anyone thank their subscribers for their concern! Such a refreshing "old school" type of attitude to see! Quyana (Alaskan Yupik "eskimo" for thank you!) Glad to see people out there STILL have that old school respect! Nowadays, all I hear is "for all the haters out there...blah blah blah" 🥴 keep up the great work you do! Would be fun to see more planting, caring for and harvesting of your garden, along with canning what you grow!
Молодцы, благодарите друг друга за общения, мы адекватные и понимаем общение на разных языках, но у всех у нас человеческие чувства 💘любовь, сострадания, чаяния всего хорошего и благородного -спасибо 🙏💕хозяйке дома в показе её чаяний, переживания и улучшения её трудной, не совсем простой но жизни человеческой! Быть добру, здоровью, миру.
Using the porch around 3 sides of your house is extremely smart. Almost all other off-girders have a woodshed that are various distances from their cabin, IMO, this is not very smart. But you "nailed" it with the location of your wood. Needless-to-say, you derive many benefits from the location
I was told people keep wood away from home because sometimes wood can be infested with termites or carpenter ants and can make way to the house and cause damage
Mice are the biggest risk emerging from woodstacks. If they identify the cabin walls as potential shelter or food source they will gnaw all surfaces until they find or create a gap. They love nesting under floors within insulation. As their droppings accumulate rats will be attracted and if there is a fresh water within c. 100 yards they'll establish nests and work in rotation to gnaw their way in. Stack wood away from the cabin in a covered wood-stand and keep porch and decking swept to DELAY the inevitable. To woodland rodents you're essentially creating their Nirvana🐭
Just remember you do and say what you want when doing your video. Some people find the littlest things to complain about. They need to be thankful for health and happiness. Not so judgemental. Were all a work in progress. Just be happy people. Love your cabin.
I had a 20x24 cabin at 9800ft on Pikes Peak in Colorado for 13 years. I started with a wood stove but quickly figured out getting up at 3am to add wood was going to be a pain. I replaced it with a propane stove that had a thermostat, a 100lb propane tank would last 11 days in the dead of winter that propane tank also heated a normal 40gal hot water heater, propane dryer and cooktop. I had 2500 gals of cistern water and used a simple sump pump to pump water to the shower, sink and toilet. I had a 4500watt inverter and small battery bank like you with a backup generator if the batteries ran out too fast. Love your place, enjoy the simple life while you can.
It'd be Interesting to know where in Ontario Your cabin is?? My sister use to live up near Ottawa(Russell). Ths from Kitchener, Ont. @@living.different
True. But there's never seems to be enough. I'm always cutting wood and I always viewed a portion of the porch stash as untouchable in case I'm flat on my ass unable to cut from sickness or injury or general lame ass syndrome. I call it the "strategic reserve" and as such the porch stash is precious.
We cut woods in winter for many reasons. First, the sap is gone, so it'll dry much faster. Second, it's much easier to drag timber on snow than on dry ground in summer. Third, there's no mosquitoes. We then cut the wood and let it air-dry for one to three years before using it.
Amazing set up!! It always makes me laugh reading what the internet "experts" say. I bet 90% of them cant handle a weekend camping trip. Keep doing what your doing!!
I could just imagine all the precious memories you’re gonna have make sure you record it so you could remember everything you did, and do it for your children so your children could have precious memories in the future too
This was an excellent tour! Thank you very much! Might I suggest one of those -- I don't know what you call it -- but you could screw a handheld shower nozzle onto the spigot in the shower to control the water by hand. This would be more water efficient for a military-type shower. I'm sure you all have considered that. I'm just throwing it out there. Lastly, I bet you all have a marvelous time and are making lifetime memories when you go to the cabin!
I'm doing the opposite tomorrow..leaving 4 Portsmouth NH to see Anthony Gomes at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club on Saturday .I'm normally in the woods in my tiny house near Algonquin park .We sure have a pretty bunch of snow right now!
You may be able to find those holiday popcorn tins on clearance right now, eat the popcorn, keep the tins to store food without worrying about the mice! The smaller cookie tins work too but the popcorn ones give you more room!
Wow what a beautiful cabin/property you guys have. I live off-grid in the mtns of Colorado. Snow is the biggest issue when using solar panels. May I please make a suggestion for mounting your solar panels. Move the panels slightly beyond the edge of the roof, maybe a foot higher than the roof, so the snow from the panels will fall to the ground rather than pilling up on the roof. With them a foot or so higher the snow from the roof can pass below them. I put a piece of PVC pipe on the handle of a shop broom extending it 15', this gives me the ability to clear the panels from the ground. At 79 years old I don't like ladders LOL ! Best of luck to you guys and take care of each other......🙂
On of my best childhood memories is stacking the wood around my grandparents wrap around porch. At a young age i was the expert on creating the strong end and corner columns of stacked wood.
With your gas mantle lights you can use hairspray once lamp is cool. This makes the mantles way less fragile. When relit the hairspray burns off immediately and appears to leave no residue, Lindsay, New Zealand
Anybody in that cabin during winter would COMPLETELY understand why the wood is on the porch. I have my "woodpile" and I also stack "immediate use" wood right outside my slider (closest door to the stove), to last several days in case of bad weather.
Please make sure you stay safe there. I’m confident that you take the proper precautions by watching this video. As a fire fighter and fire inspector, that cabin scares the absolute crap out of me. Smoke and CO detectors, especially now with the propane stove.
We burned firewood for our primary heat for 45 years. We only used our furnace as a back-up heat source when we were gone or when it was very very cold in the dead of winter. We have 40 acres of wooded property where we cut our firewood. Our wood stove is in the basement & it heats the whole house-the floors are nice & warm all winter.
Awesome property guys. Just found your channel and will be watching from now on. I laughed at all the disclaimers you had to give for RUclips comments.... views, wood stove code...haha. Don't stress as the place looks great. Cheers from Alberta!!
You have inspired me to build my own log shack on my property out back just for a deer blind. Mind you it will be able to sustain two people for the whole day. So heat, power etc!
FYI, for the camp toilet, put Vaseline on the rubber ring to prevent it from sticking You can also (if it doesn’t smell) take an empty soda bottle and insert into the toilet while holding down the pedal, then let it close onto the bottom leaving it open. Both will prevent it from freezing shut
I am so glad that you have put the wood on the porch, so you don't have to walk out into the elements to retrieve. I never understood why people put woodsheds at a distance from the house.
Thanks for the tour. Very similar to my off grid Outpost in Idaho. You are ahead of me on the solar. I also have a propane frig. It's very reliable. The downside is that it exhausts moisture that I need to vent to the outside as the moisture rusts my cast iron cookware.
For the warmer months is hunting season I have put eaves troughs on my cabin and collect water in 45 gallon plastic drums. More than enough for washing and cleaning etc. might be something to look into. We are a little north of you I think in the north bay district. Thanks for the tour you have a great cabin and property.
We put buckets or pots out in the rain to collect water when we’re up here but for the most part just bring in water from home 🙂 not too far away in north bay, I used to live up there!
Its lovely, basic but then for hunting season, holidays etc its ideal. Like the fact you are happy with it and dont want too complicated a system. I bet the kids love it now that solar can charge up everything they use. Cutting firewood is a good physical thing to keep you fit and healthy and with 25 acres of wood you shouldn't go short. Been watching S James for a few yrs now, your lifestyle and place is great, enjoy. GP Suffolk England.
We do love it just the way it is! The solar has been very helpful and you’re right, the kids do like that haha. Glad you’re enjoying the videos and thanks for continuing to watch!
I have a wood stove idea for you can buy the a couple fans that don't use power they run off the heat after your stove warms up will help circulation of heat
Love the cabin! The smaller size & low ceilings make for cozy & warm. Funny thing I realized...in the old days, there was no "code" & not everybody burned the house down. Common sense & good precautions go a long way to living happily in your cabin. Your woodstove looks fine to me. And I'm sure if you find a problem, you'll deal with it.
Créate a rain collection on one side of the cabin and get a 375Gallon water tote usually used for pressure cleaning business hook up an RV water pump and you can get some plumbing in the house
Have you thought about putting a plow attachment on your truck to help with your driveway? Thank you for sharing your beautiful cabin with us. Much ❤ from Nashville TN 😊
Ever consider putting some kind of attachment on the spigot in the shower? It looks like the water just pours out? A shower head type thing might restrict the water flow a bit which would make for a longer shower...
I saw a RUclips series about a family in Alaska and in their out house they cut a piece of foil lined insulation to put on top of the toilet seat in the winter. Sounds good to me.
@@living.different a terry cloth toilet seat cover from Amazon or Harriet Carter is a much better toilet seat cover. You think you’ve got a heated toilet seat. We use outhouse at our cabin and that toilet seat cover is amazing Also put a little antifreeze in your inside toilet when u leave and it won’t freeze and keeps seals lubricated. Wouldn’t take much. Car antifreeze or camper antifreeze
You may like to consider installing a good composting toilet-indoors for those inopportune times (bad weather etc). One bale of peat moss lasts me over 1 year as compost media.
Very cool setup yall!! Love the off grid stuff. We just dried our cabin in, I’ll def add some of your ideas to ours! Sux you have to keep addressing the ‘code’ stuff from your viewers.
Hi--thanks for the tour of your great place !! Sorry you have to devote so much time to answering comments from those who think they know more than you do about your business. You did a great job of handling them. Looking forward to seeing you again...............M
Thank you for giving us this tour your program is wonderful and informative. I keep my wood very close to so I can get to. It makes no sense to have it far away. They always say it’s kind of a fire hazard or mice and rats will come, but that’s just part of the territory with the mice and rats. You can keep them away with other things.
I highly recommend the Jackery solar power generator system as a back up. For one thing it's portable. For your indoor composting toilet get a grow mat and set it on that the jackery would be perfect for that and keep it from freezing. We have the 1000 model but for you I would suggest the 2000 pro. Also you should look into the Sun Mar composting toilet. Doesn't require water or electricity and can handle a family of 4 plus quite nicely and bring your toilet needs in doors year around.
Looks great, solar vacuum water heater would be my next purchase. Could you store rain water for flushing and washing - snow in a tank for cooking? Here in uk they used Ice house pits for refrigeration and snow tanks for fresh water.
I suppose no use over facilitating if you are using occasionally. If your batteries went from 60% to 90% in an hour you might be able to also use a lithium Power bank, ecoflow, bluetti etc to store excess power in the cabin for entertainment or fans. I run my solar to 12 130 deep cycle 12v lead acid batteries then charge the lithium battery packs off these. Use for crock-pot slow cooker, fans, lights and charging laptops and phones. Lovely cabin and well edited.
Regarding your wood burning stove, it looks from the video that it is OK given that the flue is at least double wall where it goes through the ceiling and the roof. It is excellent practice to clean the flue of creosotes every year. (chimney sweep)
I'm watching for the first time. A dry cabin is something I find hard to deal with. Bringing in water from the outside doesn't work for me. I would have to have some kind of a pump well for water and a septic system to get rid of water / waste water. Everything else I like a lot. What a great way to live without interference from the outside. Fun
Very nice. I'm suprised you didn't have a nice wood stove/oven to cook on. I wood bring up muffin mix and a muffin pan and be making blueberry muffins every morning. :) So many thing to bake!!!!
I watch a RUclips channel that is videoed in the mountains of Italy so of course, it probably gets a lot colder there than where you are, but he always puts insulation around his batteries! I’m not technical, so I didn’t pay much attention. I just know he spent an awful lot of time, making sure that they were insulated to keep them from getting too cold, he did say something about it affected their life and it affected their performance just passing it on this is the first time I’ve watched your channel. It’s pretty interesting and so I subscribed have a great day and a great new year.
In terms of the water-why don’t you connect a water tank which can hold 1,000’s litres depending on size, it’s hooked up to guttering. Great cabin. Australia 🇦🇺
I m surprised you don't have water tanks to harvest rain water. Here in Australia on our bushblock we only have tank water 4 x 5000 gallon tanks we use these for the house and garden. We have showers, flushing toilet. All the water goes into a big underground tank which has worms in it. We feed t hgem with house and garden waste, the water seeps through the compost and is pumped out into trenches where it dissipates into t the soil and the trees take it up.
Kudos to having plently of firewood !! RUclips full of off-grid noobs to Alaska going into their first winter w/o much firewood or just started cutting firewood in Nov. Why walk off your porch to get firewood, lol, some commentors are crazy.
Awesome tour ! Very nice set up for family get togethers, Nice stock pile of dry fire wood, & yes that solar sure makes life a lot easier :) Happy holidays !
Awesome, just q suggestion about your wood stove . Consider checking out a newer stove . Just from a labor standpoint. The amount of wood you would go through with a newer stove would be cut down buy close to 2/3rds. I’m not talking a brand new stove but one that has secondary combustion. They aren’t hard to find , at least around northern Minnesota. It’s obviously not a must and it looks like yours does the job but the burn times are much greater and you use a ton less wood .
My grandparents were off grid. Outhouse. Coal stove, coal oil lights. In the late 60s an indoor bathroom and water at the sink were added after my grandfather passed. They were born in the 1880s.
You guys should do a gravity fed water system. If you have a high enough point for your tank it’s really easy and makes life a lot more bearable. Unless you like a dry cabin in which case I’ll shut my big mouth and enjoy the show.
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Haha, we aren’t there full time so the dry part isn’t an issue for us right now. In the future it might change
First time viewer and that was my thought also! Pipes freezing would be a problem. Don’t know where the water table is but a hand pump inside the house would be so convenient especially during the canning or hunting season. Nice that it can feed and sleep so many people.
@@living.different no disrespect I’m just a retired plumber and always looking for a way for water.
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I watch a ton of RUclips channels...not once have I ever seen anyone thank their subscribers for their concern! Such a refreshing "old school" type of attitude to see! Quyana (Alaskan Yupik "eskimo" for thank you!) Glad to see people out there STILL have that old school respect! Nowadays, all I hear is "for all the haters out there...blah blah blah" 🥴 keep up the great work you do! Would be fun to see more planting, caring for and harvesting of your garden, along with canning what you grow!
Thanks! 😀 there will be many more gardening videos once the weather is warmer 🌱
All the homesteaders I watch thank their subscribers.
Молодцы, благодарите друг друга за общения, мы адекватные и понимаем общение на разных языках, но у всех у нас человеческие чувства 💘любовь, сострадания, чаяния всего хорошего и благородного -спасибо 🙏💕хозяйке дома в показе её чаяний, переживания и улучшения её трудной, не совсем простой но жизни человеческой! Быть добру, здоровью, миру.
There are others. Shawn James " My Self Reliance " channel is one very good channel, & he's very kind to his viewers.
don't get out much do ya
Using the porch around 3 sides of your house is extremely smart. Almost all other off-girders have a woodshed that are various distances from their cabin, IMO, this is not very smart. But you "nailed" it with the location of your wood. Needless-to-say, you derive many benefits from the location
Wood on the porch works great for us, it’s easy to access 😀
I agree
I was told people keep wood away from home because sometimes wood can be infested with termites or carpenter ants and can make way to the house and cause damage
Mice are the biggest risk emerging from woodstacks. If they identify the cabin walls as potential shelter or food source they will gnaw all surfaces until they find or create a gap. They love nesting under floors within insulation. As their droppings accumulate rats will be attracted and if there is a fresh water within c. 100 yards they'll establish nests and work in rotation to gnaw their way in. Stack wood away from the cabin in a covered wood-stand and keep porch and decking swept to DELAY the inevitable. To woodland rodents you're essentially creating their Nirvana🐭
@@eljefe1813 we’ve never had an issue 🙂
Just remember you do and say what you want when doing your video. Some people find the littlest things to complain about. They need to be thankful for health and happiness. Not so judgemental. Were all a work in progress. Just be happy people. Love your cabin.
Thank you! 😀
I had a 20x24 cabin at 9800ft on Pikes Peak in Colorado for 13 years. I started with a wood stove but quickly figured out getting up at 3am to add wood was going to be a pain. I replaced it with a propane stove that had a thermostat, a 100lb propane tank would last 11 days in the dead of winter that propane tank also heated a normal 40gal hot water heater, propane dryer and cooktop. I had 2500 gals of cistern water and used a simple sump pump to pump water to the shower, sink and toilet. I had a 4500watt inverter and small battery bank like you with a backup generator if the batteries ran out too fast. Love your place, enjoy the simple life while you can.
sounds like you had a nice place!
Cozy cabin off the grid! What a wonderful way to create family memories!
We love it!
It'd be Interesting to know where in Ontario Your cabin is?? My sister use to live up near Ottawa(Russell). Ths from Kitchener, Ont. @@living.different
I love how you already have your wood cut before the bad weather hits unlike most others thats out chopping wood in 4 feet of snow.
Being prepared for winter is important 🙂 🪵
True. But there's never seems to be enough. I'm always cutting wood and I always viewed a portion of the porch stash as untouchable in case I'm flat on my ass unable to cut from sickness or injury or general lame ass syndrome. I call it the "strategic reserve" and as such the porch stash is precious.
😮😅😂
We cut woods in winter for many reasons. First, the sap is gone, so it'll dry much faster. Second, it's much easier to drag timber on snow than on dry ground in summer. Third, there's no mosquitoes. We then cut the wood and let it air-dry for one to three years before using it.
Omgosh...this gal is so nice about the continued negative commentary.❤ I enjoyed this immensely. Your set up is awesome and obviously it's evolving.
Amazing set up!! It always makes me laugh reading what the internet "experts" say. I bet 90% of them cant handle a weekend camping trip. Keep doing what your doing!!
Glad you enjoyed the video! 😀
I could just imagine all the precious memories you’re gonna have make sure you record it so you could remember everything you did, and do it for your children so your children could have precious memories in the future too
This was an excellent tour! Thank you very much! Might I suggest one of those -- I don't know what you call it -- but you could screw a handheld shower nozzle onto the spigot in the shower to control the water by hand. This would be more water efficient for a military-type shower. I'm sure you all have considered that. I'm just throwing it out there. Lastly, I bet you all have a marvelous time and are making lifetime memories when you go to the cabin!
That type of shower head would be a good idea! 🚿
I'm doing the opposite tomorrow..leaving 4 Portsmouth NH to see Anthony Gomes at Jimmy's Jazz and Blues Club on Saturday .I'm normally in the woods in my tiny house near Algonquin park .We sure have a pretty bunch of snow right now!
Looks so cozy! I'm happy to hear solar panels charge that quickly, and you make your own maple syrup!
It is cozy 😀 maple syrup season is one of our favourite times of year 🍁
You may be able to find those holiday popcorn tins on clearance right now, eat the popcorn, keep the tins to store food without worrying about the mice! The smaller cookie tins work too but the popcorn ones give you more room!
Cookie tins are a good idea!
Living Different, doesn't mean living wrong. We live very similar, here in the mountains of SW Colorado. Thanks for the tour and enjoy the winter!
Exactly! And that’s neat, good for you guys 😀
Wow what a beautiful cabin/property you guys have. I live off-grid in the mtns of Colorado. Snow is the biggest issue when using solar panels. May I please make a suggestion for mounting your solar panels. Move the panels slightly beyond the edge of the roof, maybe a foot higher than the roof, so the snow from the panels will fall to the ground rather than pilling up on the roof. With them a foot or so higher the snow from the roof can pass below them. I put a piece of PVC pipe on the handle of a shop broom extending it 15', this gives me the ability to clear the panels from the ground. At 79 years old I don't like ladders LOL ! Best of luck to you guys and take care of each other......🙂
People need to mind their own business. You are able, thinking adults who know what caution is. Excellent place you have.
On of my best childhood memories is stacking the wood around my grandparents wrap around porch. At a young age i was the expert on creating the strong end and corner columns of stacked wood.
Thanks for sharing your time and life,it's very encouraging. KEEP the FAITH.
Thanks for that!
With your gas mantle lights you can use hairspray once lamp is cool. This makes the mantles way less fragile. When relit the hairspray burns off immediately and appears to leave no residue, Lindsay, New Zealand
Interesting! Thanks for the information 😃
Anybody in that cabin during winter would COMPLETELY understand why the wood is on the porch. I have my "woodpile" and I also stack "immediate use" wood right outside my slider (closest door to the stove), to last several days in case of bad weather.
@@lorianderson2008 absolutely! 😀
Please make sure you stay safe there. I’m confident that you take the proper precautions by watching this video. As a fire fighter and fire inspector, that cabin scares the absolute crap out of me. Smoke and CO detectors, especially now with the propane stove.
Iove the "I realize that we're not up to code as to the woodstove "
You're off grid & just need to be prudent & safe
We are safe with it and have had no issues!
We burned firewood for our primary heat for 45 years. We only used our furnace as a back-up heat source when we were gone or when it was very very cold in the dead of winter. We have 40 acres of wooded property where we cut our firewood. Our wood stove is in the basement & it heats the whole house-the floors are nice & warm all winter.
Awesome property guys. Just found your channel and will be watching from now on.
I laughed at all the disclaimers you had to give for RUclips comments.... views, wood stove code...haha. Don't stress as the place looks great.
Cheers from Alberta!!
We’re glad you found us! 😀
What a great place to go. Love it. Building so many memories
We love it there !
I can absolutely see why
I betcha there's been some poker hands played at that table ;-)
Nice tour of a cool cabin, thank you!
Love the wood pile now that looks like a winter store
It’s handy to have wood right at the front door! 🪵
Now make precious memories and enjoy your beautiful home
You have inspired me to build my own log shack on my property out back just for a deer blind. Mind you it will be able to sustain two people for the whole day. So heat, power etc!
@@hooligangeneral300 awesome! 😀 good luck with your build
Now this is what total freedom looks like.
I'm so glad that I left the city and didn't bring it with me...
as a uk granny i love to see the rustic cosy inside thankyou
Convenience and the fact it blocks the wind during storms or at least the cold-stacked wood on the porch.
FYI, for the camp toilet, put Vaseline on the rubber ring to prevent it from sticking You can also (if it doesn’t smell) take an empty soda bottle and insert into the toilet while holding down the pedal, then let it close onto the bottom leaving it open. Both will prevent it from freezing shut
Thanks for the suggestion 😀
u shiit ur own pants goof
suggestion: You could attach the broom for the solar to lengths of electrical conduit - extended reach with very little weight
I'm a new subscriber and I enjoyed your tour. You are easy to listen to so that really helps too. I'm from Central Oklahoma.
Welcome! 👋 Glad you enjoyed the tour 😀
Hi from Clinton!
I am so glad that you have put the wood on the porch, so you don't have to walk out into the elements to retrieve. I never understood why people put woodsheds at a distance from the house.
I LOVE YOUR CABIN ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for the tour. Very similar to my off grid Outpost in Idaho. You are ahead of me on the solar. I also have a propane frig. It's very reliable. The downside is that it exhausts moisture that I need to vent to the outside as the moisture rusts my cast iron cookware.
For the warmer months is hunting season I have put eaves troughs on my cabin and collect water in 45 gallon plastic drums. More than enough for washing and cleaning etc. might be something to look into. We are a little north of you I think in the north bay district. Thanks for the tour you have a great cabin and property.
We put buckets or pots out in the rain to collect water when we’re up here but for the most part just bring in water from home 🙂 not too far away in north bay, I used to live up there!
Thanks, I really did enjoy the tour, and you are an excellent public speaker with a sweet voice.
Thanks! ☺️
Its lovely, basic but then for hunting season, holidays etc its ideal. Like the fact you are happy with it and dont want too complicated a system. I bet the kids love it now that solar can charge up everything they use. Cutting firewood is a good physical thing to keep you fit and healthy and with 25 acres of wood you shouldn't go short. Been watching S James for a few yrs now, your lifestyle and place is great, enjoy. GP Suffolk England.
We do love it just the way it is! The solar has been very helpful and you’re right, the kids do like that haha. Glad you’re enjoying the videos and thanks for continuing to watch!
Wow 😊. Got room for another older man. My kids and grandkids don't hunt. I could need something like this. 😊
I have a wood stove idea for you can buy the a couple fans that don't use power they run off the heat after your stove warms up will help circulation of heat
It gets very hot in the cabin already 🙂
Love the cabin! The smaller size & low ceilings make for cozy & warm. Funny thing I realized...in the old days, there was no "code" & not everybody burned the house down. Common sense & good precautions go a long way to living happily in your cabin. Your woodstove looks fine to me. And I'm sure if you find a problem, you'll deal with it.
Créate a rain collection on one side of the cabin and get a 375Gallon water tote usually used for pressure cleaning business hook up an RV water pump and you can get some plumbing in the house
We aren’t here full time so brining water when we come is ok for now but something like you’re suggesting is a good idea for the future!
Love your cabin! The more rustic, the more fun!
We love it too! 😀
Stacking wood on the porch around the house, is a great insulation bearer
Awesome place you have here. Thanks for sharing.
Such a great cabin and looks like a lot of fun for the whole family. Thanks for sharing.
It is a lot of fun! 😀
Have you thought about putting a plow attachment on your truck to help with your driveway? Thank you for sharing your beautiful cabin with us. Much ❤ from Nashville TN 😊
Yes, that’s how we clear the driveway 🙂
Cabin...thats what I grew up in during the early 50's. We had a wood cookstove and the Coleman lanterns but no fridge or running water inside.
Ever consider putting some kind of attachment on the spigot in the shower? It looks like the water just pours out? A shower head type thing might restrict the water flow a bit which would make for a longer shower...
What an amazing place to spend the holidays!
We love it there !
I like your sensible approach, your ergonomic style. Sweet, really cool.
Thank you! 😀
Great tour. Lot’s of hard work I’m sure! Love the covered porches.
A cheap jug of -40° car washer fluid would prevent your indoor toilet flap from freezing and isn't toxic or damaging.
I think the man receiving the tools was very happy . Enjoyed this video.
Awesome video, bummer people comment on codes & stuff. Glad you keep posting, thank you, we’re learning so much
I enjoyed the tour, thank you!
You have a really cool place there…I would be there full time! Lol
We would love to be there full time! But it’s too far from the kids school ☹️
Totally feel ya on the lantern and those lil mesh sacs....😂
I keep my firewood on the porch too to keeps it dry and by spring I’ll burn through it and then as new wood is cut I put it in the curing shed lol
Awesome!
I saw a RUclips series about a family in Alaska and in their out house they cut a piece of foil lined insulation to put on top of the toilet seat in the winter. Sounds good to me.
@@cherylkruisheer3365 that’s a good idea!
@@living.different a terry cloth toilet seat cover from Amazon or Harriet Carter is a much better toilet seat cover. You think you’ve got a heated toilet seat. We use outhouse at our cabin and that toilet seat cover is amazing Also put a little antifreeze in your inside toilet when u leave and it won’t freeze and keeps seals lubricated. Wouldn’t take much. Car antifreeze or camper antifreeze
You may like to consider installing a good composting toilet-indoors for those inopportune times (bad weather etc). One bale of peat moss lasts me over 1 year as compost media.
Wow, that's great! If we lived her full-time, that's something we would consider.
Very cool setup yall!!
Love the off grid stuff.
We just dried our cabin in, I’ll def add some of your ideas to ours!
Sux you have to keep addressing the ‘code’ stuff from your viewers.
Hi--thanks for the tour of your great place !! Sorry you have to devote so much time to answering comments from those who think they know more than you do about your business. You did a great job of handling them. Looking forward to seeing you again...............M
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video 😀
I bet you bought all those copper lines before they thought it’s Gold 😅. Loved the video very nice place..,❤
we’ve had the copper lines for years! Glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Wow is this property ever cool! Looks like such a cozy place to spend the winter
It’s definitely a cozy place to be in the winter ❄️
Only thing missing.....SAUNA! :-) good stuff!
Wouldn't that be nice!
Wonderful video. Beautiful cabin. Wish our family had a cabin!
One day you might! 😀
I think I see a crack with your door, need to adjust that, that cold air can't be fun!! Great job!!
Thank you for giving us this tour your program is wonderful and informative. I keep my wood very close to so I can get to. It makes no sense to have it far away. They always say it’s kind of a fire hazard or mice and rats will come, but that’s just part of the territory with the mice and rats. You can keep them away with other things.
@@livingintheforest3963 I agree! We’ve never had an issue storing wood on the porch!
I highly recommend the Jackery solar power generator system as a back up. For one thing it's portable. For your indoor composting toilet get a grow mat and set it on that the jackery would be perfect for that and keep it from freezing. We have the 1000 model but for you I would suggest the 2000 pro. Also you should look into the Sun Mar composting toilet. Doesn't require water or electricity and can handle a family of 4 plus quite nicely and bring your toilet needs in doors year around.
Man that wood stove is going to eat well that winter. That was a ton of work to cut,split and stack that amount of fire wood
Try to seal the door as I saw light through it. Let's
Cold air in.. Also use storm shutters that seal
Well to keep it Warmer inside.
We have no issue with the heat inside, In fsct , it’s usually too hot haha
I could luve there easily !😊 29 yrs. Here offgrid and i just started over at a new location, wish i was that close to confort !❤
@@ziggypeace9933 amazing, good for you!
Looks great, solar vacuum water heater would be my next purchase. Could you store rain water for flushing and washing - snow in a tank for cooking? Here in uk they used Ice house pits for refrigeration and snow tanks for fresh water.
We aren’t here full time so bringing water when we come up , isn’t a big deal right now 💦
I suppose no use over facilitating if you are using occasionally. If your batteries went from 60% to 90% in an hour you might be able to also use a lithium Power bank, ecoflow, bluetti etc to store excess power in the cabin for entertainment or fans. I run my solar to 12 130 deep cycle 12v lead acid batteries then charge the lithium battery packs off these. Use for crock-pot slow cooker, fans, lights and charging laptops and phones. Lovely cabin and well edited.
Nice :) Hey, you may want to get those batteries somewhere inside or better insulated from the cold. Batteries don't last long in cold temperatures.
Thanks for the tip!
Just right! Cozy! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Regarding your wood burning stove, it looks from the video that it is OK given that the flue is at least double wall where it goes through the ceiling and the roof. It is excellent practice to clean the flue of creosotes every year. (chimney sweep)
This is so awesome, thank you so much for sharing! I can totally relate to some of the things you said.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm watching for the first time. A dry cabin is something I find hard to deal with. Bringing in water from the outside doesn't work for me. I would have to have some kind of a pump well for water and a septic system to get rid of water / waste water.
Everything else I like a lot. What a great way to live without interference from the outside. Fun
If we lived here full-time, water inside would be a must.
Very nice. I'm suprised you didn't have a nice wood stove/oven to cook on. I wood bring up muffin mix and a muffin pan and be making blueberry muffins every morning. :) So many thing to bake!!!!
Very nice ! Thank you for posting. Good watching on a cold winter day !
Happy to hear you enjoyed the video! 😀
I love the cabin and it's a great retreat or bug out place if Necessary
We love it too! Many uses 🙂
I watch a RUclips channel that is videoed in the mountains of Italy so of course, it probably gets a lot colder there than where you are, but he always puts insulation around his batteries! I’m not technical, so I didn’t pay much attention. I just know he spent an awful lot of time, making sure that they were insulated to keep them from getting too cold, he did say something about it affected their life and it affected their performance just passing it on this is the first time I’ve watched your channel. It’s pretty interesting and so I subscribed have a great day and a great new year.
I stack my wood on the verandah too…a no brainer, but I’m lucky as I have large verandahs so plenty of room
That’s great 🪵 🙂
In terms of the water-why don’t you connect a water tank which can hold 1,000’s litres depending on size, it’s hooked up to guttering. Great cabin. Australia 🇦🇺
Hey kitty, Aussie here too….yes the good ol’ rain water tank! Never be without one ☺️
We have discussed this in the past but since we aren’t here full time , we haven’t done this 🙂
It would be cool to see how those propane lights work, how much light it puts out inside at night
You have a nice cabin setup👍
We can show that in the next video when we’re up there 💡
Like Hannibal from the A Team use to say "you've got to love it, when a plan comes together ".
I m surprised you don't have water tanks to harvest rain water. Here in Australia on our bushblock we only have tank water 4 x 5000 gallon tanks we use these for the house and garden. We have showers, flushing toilet. All the water goes into a big underground tank which has worms in it. We feed t hgem with house and garden waste, the water seeps through the compost and is pumped out into trenches where it dissipates into t the soil and the trees take it up.
we aren’t here full time , so bringing water in when we’re here is ok for now . Eventually we would like to have some water storage 🙂
Kudos to having plently of firewood !! RUclips full of off-grid noobs to Alaska going into their first winter w/o much firewood or just started cutting firewood in Nov. Why walk off your porch to get firewood, lol, some commentors are crazy.
Yes, we've been doing it this way for years! Thanks for watching!
Very nice. Im envious of you. Been looking for land to build a cabin for a long time..
Hopefully you find the right spot soon! 🙂
Geeze, do you think you have enough wood!? 😂😂😂😂❤ omg! The forest might run out of trees! 🤣🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤❤
It’s only about a bush cord, which isn’t a lot 🙂
I enjoyed the tour of your slice of heaven."
Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Awesome tour ! Very nice set up for family get togethers, Nice stock pile of dry fire wood, & yes that solar sure makes life a lot easier :) Happy holidays !
Glad you enjoyed it! The dry wood outside the door is helpful 😀 happy holidays to you too! 🎄
It’s a beautiful cabin and location, a dream life. I’ll be subbing.
All I can say you are ready! Cabin is lovely!❤
Awesome music! Who's playing? Love your woodpile. Looks like it might last awhile...
It’s just enough wood for one season!
Awesome, just q suggestion about your wood stove . Consider checking out a newer stove . Just from a labor standpoint. The amount of wood you would go through with a newer stove would be cut down buy close to 2/3rds. I’m not talking a brand new stove but one that has secondary combustion. They aren’t hard to find , at least around northern Minnesota.
It’s obviously not a must and it looks like yours does the job but the burn times are much greater and you use a ton less wood .
Thanks for the tip! And your right about the less wood we would use. Thanks for watching!
@@living.different my pleasure !!
Awesome cozy place youv got there!!❤