You nailed it! I am surprised how many responses I have got to this of people knowing. In my travels most people I have met thought I was doing too much work by doing that and looked at me weird for it. Their driveways were always full of snow too.
Thank you very much, it is pretty stunning. It does make a big difference think of it this way you see the snow a plow is pushing, alot of that is not the snow immediately where he is, alot of it is carried from behind him because only so much can exit the side when it is pushing into a bank on the side. so you give him a dropping point and he empties that snow. Then all that ends up in you driveway is what was imedialty in front of it, you end up with 1/4 or 1/2 of the size of plow bank at the end, if you get alot of snow that makes a difference. Most people can't drive through a 3ft tall plow bank and now have to walk up their driveway to get the snow blower. But you cut that down to 1ft now most people can get through that and to their house. I hope this explains it, very much worth the effort in a big snow fall area.
First time watcher, dont cut wood into biskets, leave them about. 6ft long logs and stack them on sled get them home then cut them up, youll be able to haul more and wont lose any
It is funny you say that, normally I was pulling in 20ft lengths with the tractor, atv. But since we got snow I wanted to try the sled out for a shake down run so I needed something to pull behind it. After that experience I ditched that idea. We actualy did what you said yesterday with about 3 or 4 ft lengths as it was more manageable in dense bush. It deffinalty worked alot better and twice the wood in a load.
To not have a plan and be organized is asking for disaster. And then you would be the first one complaining about the cold. I heated my house with wood for over 30 years, with three children and being a single mom . Always stayed one year ahead to make sure it was dry and in case of an injury so I wouldn’t be caught un prepared. Unorganized and lazy is not a good combination to have when living off grid.
Normally we do cut wood ahead but we just moved here this summer so we didn't have the year advance, we heated the same space last winter from time to time doing the same thing when we were spending time here. We have a plan, we know thers bone dry wood ready to burn everywhere, our place is warm. We don't have hard wood which holds moisture. Our soft wood is so dry it does not get wet.
@@offgridandunorganizedso you're not really off grid... you did have all summer for wood prep if it were a priority other than that a storm and no wood appears as click bait!! Considering you have an alternative source you're not truly being caught off guard...
Unfortunatly everything you said is incorrect, we spent all summer collecting logs for our log cabin build in the spring. We are fully off grid, the closest hydro line is a few miles away, we have no backups. The propane furnace was ripped out 3 years ago and the wood stove is mounted where the furnace was, we have a micro solar setup so we can not run any extra than just lights. We don't have any other source of heat then the wood stove and our body heat.
Thank you very much, we are very much warm. What we cut burns so hot it's crazy and drys instaly the second you bring it in it is so dry standing in the forest. Life is great and we are doing exactualy what we want to be and where we want to be, as things get built it will get more organized and easier.
So you live in a cold climate so why are you wait so long to cut firewood I should be one of your first priorities. Make sure you have a good stock of firewood. Doesn’t sound like you got a very good plan.
It's a cool place yes, we decided this fall to skip cutting as we have acres of dead standing bone dry fir and some poplar so the perfect thing to cut and burn right away. We were doing the same last winter, most years we cut wood in summer but this year we had so much going on we needed done before snow so we decided to just cut wood as we need it since it's ready to burn immediately as it's so dry. It is a pain to do it every few days but we really had to get other things done in the fall.
@ well personally I’ve grown up in cold weather too, always cut the firewood in the spring time in the summer and maybe a little bit in the fall but you need to stock up for winter. I don’t care how much you have going on that takes precedence over anything you don’t want to be cold and you don’t wanna be out in the cold cutting firewoodI’ve learned that lesson the hard way I don’t like the cold and I want to be warm. I understand things come up, but that’s your first priority. Stay warm in the winter not to be cold.
@@reeceboyer1248some people like to work in the winter. If the trees are dead, it’s fine. Won’t take but a few days of cutting to get through a hard winter. Same where I live. Drying the wood out is why most people cut in the spring. His wood is already dry.
Anyone with half a brain would have their firewood ready by spring. Yes there are other things to attend to but being warm should be a priority. Unsubscribing 🙄
When I saw your clothes on the clothesline, it brought back memories. When I was a kid, we used the barbed wire fence before getting a clothesline. In the winter, our clothes would freeze.
That's funny, we had a clothes line growing up, I think our parents hung clothes out in winter but we are not sure, we have been doing it for the past 3 years at our old cabin. About 3 days for us and they freeze dry and we bring them in a few at a time to warm up or melt any snow before putting away. We have no space in doors to dry a whole basket of wet laundry let alone all the humidity issues that causes.
Good for you for living your dream and sharing work with your family and teaching your kids to be out there doing it with you!! I wish you success and happiness in your new venture! Life is too short to not try. You are living it. Not the people behind the keyboards so I applaud your responding to people with kindness on comments.
Read a lot of comments. 64 and a 1/2yrs years old ,been living off grid full time 8yrs. Been doing the mountain survival thing since 10yrs old. I did a lot a the mistakes and doing shit the harder way. he's gonna learn like I done. Older guys like me with the neg comments, shame on you . Nothing better to do than make neg commenting. You all kinda miss me off!
@ArthurBuchBiblowski thank you very much. When I was a kid I used to do winter camp outs with boy scouts and stuff, hike to some where sort of remote and eather bring a tent or make a shelter from natural materials. Those were some amazing lessons including fire lighting in poor conditions and all around survival skills. The boys are learning the Same skills over time and are very much happy to be where we are, they love living remote. Sure we would all like a proper cabin and that is coming but we are all warm and quite content doing what we are. There is alot the key boards don't see behind the camera. Thank you
To heck with the nay layers. Creating great memories with your kids and enjoying life. Can't have it all but enjoy and be blessed for what we have. Family is number one .
Thank you very much! We feel very blessed, we are where we want to be and have done what we planned to this fall. Everything is going to plan our plan that is. We have alot more experience then one video shows but they assume we are new. Thank you
All 3 boxes are checked off, we have all of them and life is awsome! We have been living off grid for 4 years now but just moved here mid summer so things are a little hectic the first year but all priorities are taken care of.
Lived in a remote area in northern maine from 1976 thru 1982 wood heat , gas lights , fridge , i cut wood and stacked year round, always 6 8 cord laying around, but it was colder and more snow then. I like to be prepared .
We do to! But we moved mid summer, and been really buisy, our whole channel is filled with this short summers activities. We spent some time last winter up here in the trailer and did the exact same thing so we knew it would work again. Not perfect but allowed us to get a jump start on building next spring. It's very warm in here though standing dead fir burns realy hot and drys within and hour or 2 of bringing it in. It's so next to kilm dryed standing in the forest, the cold DRY winters actualy dry the wood on the stump, just need to melt off the little snow and warm up.
That does not sound very nice of a responce. Freeze drying clothes I actualy a traditional method that most fokes parents did as well as grand parents, the amish still do it as well. Your clothes come in smelling alot fresher and cleaner then a dryer ever does. The cold kils any smells and bacteria as well as evaporates all the water, most have heard of freeze dryed food and swear by it for back packing. Well freeze drying clothes is the exact same principal. Also what part of the snow blower do you not think I know how to use? I have not used it in 3 years as our old place was atv access so no use for it so this was the first time I ran it since 2021. If you are talking about the engine on high idle there was text on the screen saying the throttle is froze on that setting, normally I would Leave it on full throttle for that reason when shutting off but I did not in the summer I guess when we moved here. So please explain.
Thank you very much, it was intended to be fun. The kids were laughing alot but always out of frame so I was not able to use the footage. Everyone had a blast making that video.
Thank you very much! Also some one who understand ducks and their habits, their liking to "muck" as well call it. Some one commented on the ladies playing in the water hole that drained off the trailer door as the animals are thirsty and want water, no knowing what a duck is even I assume as they have lots of water in the dish but rather walk past CLEAN water to find a mud puddle or even the seat of a chair that has water to play in. We realy enjoy the ladies they bring alot of joy to watch the crazy shenanigans that they do.
You are like a three dimensional Norman Rockwell. Very creative stuff without even thinking about it just seems to appear maybe a special hidden talent in your genetics passed along. Feels like there is some invisible force at work here. Invisible yet visible. The vastness of the space we live in is sometimes overlooked.
That was a trail it failed! We now do about 4 ft and strap them down, before snow I was pulling full ĺenth with atv or tractor, we wanted to try the sled out and that whole situation failed, new trail new lenth now and alot more wood in a trip.
You are like a three dimensional Norman Rockwell. Very creative stuff without even thinking about it just seems to appear maybe a special hidden talent in your genetics passed along. Feels like there is some invisible force at work here. Invisible yet visible.
Thank you, deffinalty not filming or computer stuff in my family. Basicaly a farming family or mechanical. I just try to film and present how I would veiw a video, I try and make what I would watch my self.
Thank you, normally we do too but its been so busy we just have not had time and we knew we could cut and burn this bone dry fir during the winter. Since then we stoped cutting to lenth and cut 4ft or so and strap that down, sure works better and getting more wood on a load. It was an experiment as we got snow so trying out the sled. Before we were pulling the trees up full lenth with the atv or tractor and blocking them up here.
That's actualy what we did before the video, it was more of an excuse to try the sled out. Since then it's 4ft we cut to and strap that down. Deffinatly alot more in a haul.
I know we do but we have enough experience we were prepared to make the decision we did. Everything worked out flawless and to plan, it may not look like to some but to us it worked perfect.
Oh we are great actualy. It's hard to show in videos, I lived this life as a kid winter survival and stuff with boy scouts. I lived in a trailer for 8 years as a teenager and converted it to a "tiny house" way before that was cool. Both of us have heated with wood more or less our whole lives so we got alot of experience going for us and know how to live just fine. We are honestly loving things, some things are harder then they should but that's apart of moving and starting fresh but we have been off grid for 4 years now so the enicial struggle is long behind us and it's just going with the flow now, we have everything we need in place to live. We love life and are exactulay where we want to be doing what we want and everything is going according to our plan.
Well that's one of the kinder ways I have heard that lol. It was an experiment that failed no longer are we doing eather now it's 4ft lengths strapped down pulled with the tractor.
Boys that old car hood brings back memories. My dad had a hood off a 50s Buick we used to love going for ride's in it. Driveway yes I do the same keeps the wing from the plow keep from piling big banks of snow in the driveway
Thank you, my dad taught me that as a kid, I have always done it since as it helps alot. So many people I have met looked at me like an idiot for doing it but could not figure out why their driveways were full of snow! This hood if a 80s chevy pickup, it's the old one off my truck. The inner core is rough so I replaced it while fixing the truck, I kept this one incase I needed any flat tin for something. That day it came in handy for a sled, they are fun to ride on we did that as kids and me and my fiance have pulled the kids around on one too.
Nice job getting the wood in before the storm rolls in 👍I understand that the wood is dry but it appears many do not in the comments. Not a huge amount of time to do all the things having just moved there this summer. I'm sure next year will look different 🙂
Thank you very much, I have noticed the "hater" section says it is not so it must not be lol. Not them burning it so it does not hurt them. We already have most of next year's wood In 8ft lengths from clearing this summer, ready to cut up next summer. It was all green this year by next it will be seasoned out. We used to make wood a priority as we were burning hard wood which gets Wet and holds moisture, this soft wood we did the same thing last winter when we were up here, we cut as we burnt and as soon as it gets cold it freeze drys and can be burnt right away. We have so much it's not funny. We were going to cut wood in the fall but wanted our forever cabin site cleared so we can start work when the snow is gone vs wasting time next year doing that and putting us behind. We are farther ahead and feel comfortable with our decisions. Thank you!
@@offgridandunorganized I know because I watched that video of you guys clearing your spot 🙂and know that you have a stockpile already, lol 😁Btw, my mother always hung her clothes out in the winter to freeze dry them, just like you or your wife is doing. I always snowblow extra at the end of the driveway for mailman and snowplow.
I forgot to mention that the haters and thumbs down crowd drive the algorithm to, lol........I just did a couple of video about this topic under my weekly vlog ask krista.
Thank you, I forget who all comments on what videos either the latest influx of extra comments. I do the laundry I always have, she does not like My home made washer it's "finicky" but hanging them out makes them smell alot fresher plus we don't have the space inside along with all that humidity causes problems . There has been alot of comments alot of people actualy blow back their laneway. Our old place the neibours thought I was a mental case, but their driveways were always full of snow and were not putting 2 and 2 together. It makes a huge difference.
Thank you, yeah I have done a ridiculous amount of research and learned how the hater section ruens videos. I have been experimenting with not notifying subscribers and have had alot more success doing that as I see in analytics that not alot of subscribers are viewing my videos, presumably as they differ topics enough. My thoughts is keeping the ones not interested off is helping the videos look better and get more promotion. But the subscribers that are interested see the video in their feed and click through.
We do " go for it " alot. We just brought you along for the ride once and tested some failed things. We cut wood every couple days or anytime we go back past anything we Bring it for a ride home with us
Thank you very much, we have enough experience this is how we planed it and everything is working beautiful. We got what we needed done in the fall for next year, our focus is our future and getting a real home asap and out of the trailer, the trailer to us is a warm home for now but not a long term solution. It has been a rough week with the comment section and alot of focus on one thing that was shown and less of the bigger picture. Thank you
You stashing your chainsaw under the trailer reminded me of my brother leaving his chainsaw outside at 30 below and needing it. He put it on the stove to thaw out and forgot about it. He was alerted to a problem when he herd whistling of gas vapor out of the vent, he ran over to grab it and run it outside, as he grabbed it it burst into flames, he tripped over his dog, set him on fire, burned his hands before he threw it into a snow bank.
Holy! Now that's not cool, I do put it in the storage trailer if I don't need it right away for a day or 2. I do keep it inside when I need it later that day to thaw out, I have found out one can hold it up to a 4 wheeler exhaust and Rev it up if their bar freezes from moisture and cold, lol not sure who would have found that out. But that's definalty would have been an unfortunate end to a good saw.
The weather can catch up faster than we think im in Ireland just subscribed, i work all year round to stock up as much as I can so I'll have spare the next years always get ahead on it bud , best of luck for your family
Thank you, normally we do have wood ahead. This year we moved half way across the country mid summer so was not really possible. We have owned this place for some years and did the exact same thing here last winter so we knew it would work again, we knew we could trade off cutting wood until a bit later.
Thank you very much, they have what they need but the independent animals are "dificult". If they had it their way they would live outside but we have wild animals that would like a snack, so they have to be locked up at nights.
Haha I have heard of them, we had a better solution, that was a trial run that failed horribly. Now we cut to 4ft lengths and strap them down and pull the whole lot with the tractor, alot more faster. We were pulling in lengths with the atv or tractor and just wanted to try the sled out that day but it all failed. Problem solved since then.
@@offgridandunorganized Now you're thinkin'! I've been heating my house with wood since 1995, and couldn't couldn't have done it without my trusty old Stihl 024 and Bruin 350 ATV. I'm 71 now, and this year I had to buy split firewood for the first time. ~sigh~ Time stands still for no one.
That must be depressing. We have both heated with wood our whole lives minus about 4 years we had a house that had a gas furnace (ewww). My dad sold wood as a kid so us boys got the job of helping, the farm kid thing we had to help with everything if we wanted fed basicaly. We are used to hardwood species so this soft wood as that's all that grows here is alot different. We burning the spruce and any white poplar we can find, it really is marvelous wood. Most hate on poplar as they have hardwood but up here it and fir/spruce are the only beside white birch but that's less common. The poplar once dry throws a ridiculous amount of heat for a long period of time and even makes some coals. Fir is a reduculius amount of heat but for a short period and no coals so we have been switching back and forth. We spent about half last winter enjoying this place in the rv doing the exaxt same thing so we knew it was feasible as last winter was the test and we had some where to fall back on if it failed, but it worked so well we knew it would again until we get a real cabin built. My saw of choice has always been my stihl 034, beautiful saw. I ran it all summer clearing and Felling logs for next summer, I recently picked up the stihl 009 arborist saw for actualy cutting notches in logs as the 034 is too heavy on a ladder. I fell in love with the 009 so much I use it for EVERYTHING it has 90% the power of the 034 but half the weight, it sure is an amazing old girl. Only thing stihl forgot to put mufflers on it, the thing is ridiculously loud otherwise it is an amazing beast and demolishes it's way through a tree.
Thank you very much, life is awesome! We love it here! And I bet the old girl has moved alot, I have had it for probably 8 years or so and it was old when I got it. I like old everything, including vehicles. They are built to last and use real metal not paper thin melted down rust like the new junk. This thing is bigger then it looks it moves ALOT of snow in a hurry, its bigger then most walk behind blowers.
We are very motivated, we had a ridiculously buisy summer utilizing all daylight hours. If you would like go into the channel and check out the videos from this summer. We have been crazy buisy.
I read some of these moronic comments about you not having a yrs worth of firwood stacked already. Look I do the same as you at times. I am surrounded by fallen trees that are ready to burn as needed. I go out cut 2-3 days' worth and call it good. It does not matter it preference. There is no rule as long as it gets done and you stay warm!
Thank you very much! While it's not ideal of a senereo we both know what works. Most I think do not realize what a dead standing spruce/fir is like. They don't realize how dry they are and almost pervious to moisture. We are very warm, hopefully next year we won't be doing this but this year we are because we know it works and gave us the chance to finish some last minute items before snow. Thank you so much the few positive comments make our day and well outweigh the negatives.
@@offgridandunorganized As long as we know where that wood is. You got yourself covered. I got wood I cut into 8-10 ft lengths the size of a man's leg that are in a pile under 3 ft of snow right now. Those logs are 2 yrs old.If I was in a fix, I easily could cut me one and it would be dry enough to burn today.
@@offgridandunorganized As long as you can easily locate the wood, you're all good. It's there when you need it. It's like some people cover their wood some do not. I do not. It i not necessary. But, ya cannot convince some folks that.
Exactualy. What we are burning probably died 10 years ago, the pine beetle has been having fun with the firs plus some youngue poplars blew up and shaded the firs out. The top ft is usually junk and the bottem few ft is junk but whats in between is almost kilm dryed, it is so hard is basicaly does not get wet and if it does a few hours inside to melt the snow off and it's bone dry. We have lots of it. In reality as we are building a half mile away from our "camp site" I don't want to build anything Here and most don't realize putting wood under a tarp is a horrible idea as tarps swet and your wood gets wet, the wood would be no dryer if we cut it in the summer and put it under a tarp. No easier eather as a tarp with 3ft of snow on it is alot of work to dig out.
I wood think 😂 in the winter you have easier access and probably consume less resources in the winter utilizing the snow .....if you weren't dropping so much fire wood lol
I live in county and we always plow extra at the end of driveway so we don't get plowed in. And as far as cutting wood we always do it in winter also.😊
Thank you, it seams like a country foke thing to plow the lane way back. It's not ideal to cut in winter but when you move mid summer and are focused on getting things ready to build so your not living in a rv forever something take priority over others, this is just one of those years. If one is cutting live trees winter is ideal as the sap is down and they dry ALOT faster, most don't realize that.
We know that, we were prepared by the decision we made. Everything is working out as planned and going great. Not ideal but it's apart of building and moving forward in life.
You should spend the whole summer cutting firewood for the winter. You never know there will be a bad snow storm where you won’t be able to get out to cut wood. It better be safe then sorry.
That is ideal yes, but we moved mid summer and I am not sure if you have seen any of our other videos, we spent all summer collecting logs and clearing so we can build next spring and have a real home not the trailer. The trailer is a warm dry living space and that is it, all effort goes into our future. The dead standing fir we collect is so dry it is amost kilm dryed and does not absorb moisture so it is ready to burn immediately. We know very much what we are doing and are capable of doing so that we are safe and can focus on having a real home quicker rather then living in a Rv. We also have alot of stuff to burn closer by but we go past that on purpose to leave that for an emergency that you could easily snow shoe to.
You are incorrect we are prepared for what we chose to. We have been doing this long enough we knew our limits and what we could safely do. We are focused on our future not the place we are staying while we build. The more progress on our future the better. We are very much warm, the fir we are cutting died 10 years ago so it's basicaly kilm dryed and does not absorb moisture, knock snow off, warm it up and burn, it's actualy too hot in here really. That stuff burns so hot and does not get wet.
Seems like I was always working and I to mostly waited to the last minute every year to harvest standing dead from my property .Maneley because I worked a seasonal job . Every Year the same thing Wife wasn't that happy about it .I'm retired and in my 70s now and at a new homestead in a warmer place .Still doing the same thing for heating my shop LOL !.
Thank you, the heat kills me in the summer so running a saw is deadly to me, usualy I do it in the fall but we moved mid summer and wanted to get as much done on our future home as we could before snow hit. We have been burning wood our whole life and spend half of last winter here doing the same so we knew it's safe and possible so we opted to work on things that needed bare ground and cut wood once the snow hit as that fir is so dry and hard it does not get wet, it has been dead for probably 10 years and is next to kilm dryed. It works amazing to say the least it is so dry, bring it in,bang the snow off let it warm up and it's burnable. No creosote eather I tap the chimney once I a while and hats loose just falls down into the stove, it does not make stocky creosote just some dry soot basicaly.
Do you have animals or know much about? Ducks do not care for water in a bowl, they will walk right past it to go look for muddy water to play in. They have water in their bowl in coop, I keep it changed in winter with warm water. They don't care they would rather be under the trailer, the ducks are also playing in the hole with water at the bottem ducks do that! They would rather eat snow then go to a water dish, also in reality chickens and ducks are messy drinkers and get water all over them selves leading to ice forming on then and making them colder. Eating snow is actualy better for them in the winter anyway as it keeps them dry and warmer, most people have no clue if they have never had animals. Ducks play and you can see the ladies are playing in that water not to drink it just playing with the ice chunks!
Thank you, I have noticed alot of people in the comments say they do it. My experience is most places I have lived people looked at me weird for doing it, thought I was an idiot. It makes a huge difference. My dad taught me that as a kid it helps so much. My driveway was the only one not full of snow.
I wonder if there is a way to take the heat from the exhaust and channel it towards the carb, to warm it up faster? Thanks for the upload , your living my dream.
Thank you, and yes there is, those engines have a "winter" shield that goes over the exhaust and surrounds the carb to keep it from icing up and helps with cold weather operation. What actualy happens was the metal throttle cable running along the frame froze up.
Thank you very much! They are learning alot of survival skills living this life. One needs to know how to survive in a life changing event, they are learning those skills to survive if they ever had to.
I'm glad you had the presence of mind to warn your viewers NOT to follow in your footsteps... I truly hope your lack of organization doesn't bring peril to your family...
Our chanel says that what we do if for entertainment only do not follow anything we do. It is not a lack of organization, it was part of our plan all along. We are very warm and content doing exactualy as we are.
I am not sure if you have animals, but heating a barn is a really bad idea. It's bad for their health. Animals need fresh air not heat, heat retains stale air that also contains ammonia as poltry waste is very high in ammonia. They have a clean coop with lots of fresh shavings and water and food, they prefer to be outside. We let them out in the morning and they run to under the trailer, it's their favorite spot to be so why argue with them? They have everything needed, but closing a barn up and heating it is one of the stupidest things anyone can do. That leads to disease and sickness, wild animals do fine in the forest alone. Ducks and chickens do great without heat as long as you keep the breeze away, wind can be bad for wind chill so we will close the door if its really windy, but otherwise they do as THEY want. Your idea kills animals.
Cutting wood during the winter is a good way of not being bored during a long winter, but if you get 4ft of snow in 2days like i got..... it will be hard to get your firewood. I struggle to walk 10ft into my backyard..... good luck folks
Thank you, and it sure does help to make a daily routine. We have stuff alot closer too I just leave that for "emergency" and venture farther back when the gettings good. I think of it as a sort of fail safe.
I am sorry you feel that way, we each have our own opinions. Personally we did the same thing last winter on this place, so we knew we could do it again. If we had hard wood this would not work as hard wood gets wet and takes forever to dry.
Wow how different it looks with the snow, it looks like you got the burn piles done just in time. The wood is going to be key to staying warm and cosy. I have no clue about life in those conditions, being in Cape Town we don't have such low temperatures.
Yes we got everything done just in time, winter is a month late so we got very very lucky this year or we would not have got it all done. We had the same setup last year when we came up to our property and it worked awesome, I lived in a trailer for 8 years with a wood stove and my fiance did a bit as a kid too so we are used to it. It is really not that bad anyway, we have lots of blankets as we are used to it cooling off over night as we have heated with wood for years, lots of blankets is key. We also are usualy up late so heat is on and then back up again early so there's a short window the stove dies down. It is really not too bad.
Thank you very much, they do have their coop with clean dry shavings but do you think one could talk a duck into sleeping in that, nope! The ducks prefer to hang out under the trailer and even sleep there untill we force them to go to bed at night, the chickens come out somewhat but if it's really nasty they will spend the day on the roosts, ducks on the other hand are very strong minded they do what they want to. Strange animals.
Always know where the standing dead trees are. They can be burned the same day although they will be better if split and dried. Never go without heat in the Winter.
I know this property almost like the back of my hand we have wandered left right up and down across and under over the last few years before moving here let alone this summer alot of scouting marking logs. We have a bunch of beetle kill fir in pockets and that's what we are cutting, it has been dead for years and is next to kilm dryed it is so hard and dry In the dead if winter, we bring a day or 2 inside at a time to warm up and dry farther, it works amazing and no creosote at all. It is marvously hot in here, I am pretty sure last night it was 110 by the thermometer it was off the scale.
Thank you very much! I try to actualy I like to hit he 30+ mark if possible as that's what we would watch. Lately it has been hard to get them stretched out without also being just full of filler and becoming boring.
Thank you very much, this video deffinatly popped off, alot of haters though who only see what the camera shows and can't fanthom what I'd behind the scenes.
Honestly I prefer the blower, I hate plows personally they make piles that get In the way and then eventualy you have to get a big loader or a big blower in to push them back. Plows have their use but on most people's lane ways I think blowers are far superior, slower but always get rid of the snow now just pile it up where it eventualy gets in the way. Thats just my opinion from growing up in the country and watching other fokes try to plow their lane ways when we had a big tractor and blower ( I know not the same as a walk behind) thank you for the suggestion, what works for us does not always work for others.
I’m a 1st time viewer tonight. I read that you said you spent all summer building your cabin but that’s just a trailer with a wood stove in it. Did I miss the cabin somewhere?
Yes so we moved mid summer and spent all summer collecting logs, peeling so they can start drying, clearing a site and building a rough trail in so we can get logs back there. All preparation for working next summer with dryer logs.
You nailed it! Thank you. It seams more fokes know this then I thought, everyone I met otherwise thought I was mental for doing that. My dad taught me as a kid as it works very well.
Yes I know I have to I have been putting it off, Me being thrifty did not want to buy a whole bunch of insulation for only 1 year. I was hoping we would get the snow we did last year and I was going to bank the snow around so it was free. This year has been a late winter less snow and more cold so I guess I am going to have to do something else.
Thank you very much merry Christmas. We get the boys into everything, from fire lighting to fire wood every aspect they learn. We believe survival skills are essential and everyone should learn them as a youngue age.
Watched this on my tv when it first came out, just getting back to commenting, agree about the plowing, for me it helps with drainage in Spring to the ditch, just way melt runs, and line of sight when you exit, if we have dozers or logging going on our roadways. Surprised at misconceptions on firewood haul. I know in 🍁 many people gather dry firewood through winter, if not on the ground & easier to get to more spots by sled to select cut, especially if you don't have the hardwoods that people season. When you own your lot its like your firewood store to shop in whenever and if you had put got firewood video would not have done as well. 😊Years ago they used car hoods to slide down hills with, never saw it just family stories, lol First time I saw a blower that brand, does the job, was the only thing I wondered why no tarp on it. Farm animals are super resilient, they adapt to winter temps better than humans sometimes. Take care, and best wishes to you & your loved ones, the boys will not soon forget these adventures in the woods, its family time that sticks with you as good memories.
That basicaly sums it up, the blowing back helps with sight but also to allow the grader some where to empty his build up and we get about half as much in the lane way. Our road gets plowed when it gets bad for 4x4 truck basicaly so alot of snow at one time going in the ditch. We have no hardwood only soft and the spruce beetle killed a bunch 10 years ago so its super dry. Also getting rid of its good for fire safety in summer. We used to use truck hoods for tobogans and I hauled material into a remote cabin we built 15 years ago with 2 truck hoods strapped together. It was through a swamp so nothing could get in untill we put a road throu years later. I have done my fair share of back woods wandering but because it's on youtube I must be new to it, or so everyone assumes. The truck hood was basically an excuse to test out the sled, since then I use the tractor again and cut to 4ft lenths and strap that to the truck hood. We were experimenting and it failed basicaly. Lots of fokes have no clue about ducks, they are weird animals and will pass a clean water dish to go drink from a muddy puddle or pick up mud with their beaks and put in their water dish. The ladies were actualy playing in the water hole that dropped off the roof. Most fokes don't realize too chickens are better eating snow in winter as they are messy drinkers and get water all down their front and that makes them colder, they have a water dish with water but prefer to stay under the trailer and eat snow vs being in their coop that has clean shavings. Alot of commenters have not a clue but add their 2 cents because they learned it from some one else's youtue video lol. Thankyou for the support!
@@offgridandunorganized Totally get everything you said, we raised ducks and geese also, and yes chickens and snow water, all good, I love reading your replies and totally on board with you, as can so relate having lived it, awesome, keep on keeping on, good stuff. PS and you being so much younger than I, are way ahead of the game👏
Thank you very much! So far this year we have not had to rescue a duck from a snow bank yet only the road.... at our old cabin there was an acre cleared as a "yard" the ladies used to fly around it and land after a while as they are fat enough they can only fly for a period of time. Then once landing they were not able to jump to take off again so we had to go rescue a few, trying to pickup a moscovey is let's say interesting as they despise that. I'm sure if I got that on film some one would have said that's abusive since the duck chose to fly away. Some of these comments make us laugh as they make absolutely no real world sence and their answers are usualy at the top of the coment section if they chose to glance before saying some colorful things. We both basicaly grew up in this type of life style so it's who we are, we would not trade it for nothing. The life skills we learn as kids are more important then anything we ever learned in school, we are teaching the boys the same survival skills.
Thank you, I feel everyone deserves a responce, positive or negative unless it's abusive then it gets reported. Sometimes a responce changes a person's mood as not everything is as it seams on camera. Alot happens behind the scenes.
Thank you very much! Yes they do no matter what, they only see what they are shown and think that's everything. Thers more behind the camera. Thank you
It's the comments for me continuously telling this man what he should've, could've or they would've done after he explained why he didn't! 🤣🙃🥴 Like come on folks he knows how to survive yet the very ones gripping not prepared for disasters if it hit their area💯🌀🎯🌪️‼️
Thank you very much! I feel the same, in reality I feel bad for most of these key board warriors. We just had a major snow storm it hit the southern part of Ontario the worst, all these fokes that think they got it made with their central heating well 3 or 4 ft of snow hit in 2 days knocking power out, now these same fokes were eather freezing to almost death or had to be rescued from their own homes. We use gas to cut wood but worst comes to worst one could break smaller trees into pieces or chop with an axe, it may be more labour but we would still be warm if the gas station didn't open. We have heated the same space the same way in the same climate last year we knew we could do it. We know our limits and knew what we could safely do, our focus is our future, we don't fix the old $300 trailer it's how we bought it except the tip out was rotten I fixed that (sort of anyway) but we dont care for fancy we care for function our effort is our future and we have a roof over our head a bed heat and food we are very much content and happy. Thank you for you positive comment! It means alot!
I sure should yes, actually winter is a month late this year. We planned to do it this way though as we have so much standing dead bone dry fir and some poplar that is ready to burn immediately, we had a buisy fall and decided to just skip fire wood this year and instead cut as needed. We prioritized what we wanted to get done before the snow came. Every other year we have always had fire wood for the winter ahead.
Pretty much the story, we all want to be prepared but have to decide what to do before snow flys, if one knows they have dry wood ready to burn standing they might skip wood in the fall and do another last minute project.
That was an experiment as the snow came so we wanted to try the skidoo out, it all failed and we went back to our previous method of pulling eather full lenth or cutting to 4ft long and strapping that down, you see the updated method in more recent videos.
Not really, this is our "camp" spot aka an old loging landing we were able to get the trailer into and off the road. We are building on the otherwise of our property and will have a 1/2 mile long lane way a we are going most of the way back overlooking an abandoned beaver meadow.
That was plan trial, it failed. What we were doing all along was drawing lengths with atv or tractor and wanted to try the sled. Now we cut 4ft lengths and strap them down and pull the lot with the tractor. Less work more wood.
If some one wants to see it I sure can! Alot of it melts and runs off turning to ice going down the sides but I do periodicly shovel the snow and ice off, so I sure can make a video! Great idea.
Pretty much unless it gets too deep then I clear it as it's not uncommon to get 3 or 4ft of snow and that would destroy the roof. Usialy thers a good ice layer under though so its not all scraped down. That is what I normally do is follow the weather, it actualy warmed up yesterday so really quickly I shoveled it all off as it was getting heavy fast.
Ya got to learn how to become obsessed with wood! Lol! Become one with the log! I mean, its true. You start first of no snow spring. Then collect and collect up until winter. Basically. Cant have enough. Stock pile in the woods there. Then at the house have your main. Collect full trees that fell and put them together in a spot for future use. Get a better sled for wood:) i am in Wyoming. And i lived off grid 6 months. Still have no water line. No septic. Got electric before this winter set in. Got propane for heat in my r.v. Bought a mobil home but it needs some love. So just gsve that up and been in my r.v. which so far keeps me really warm. Was tested here one winter at a r.v. resort when i first got to this state. Im a older woman single with no help and so even if i got a wood stove i would need it set up. Put hole in for pipe and all. Middle of no where no one wants to even come out. Your more blessed then i am. We all start somewhere. Dont let the haters get to you. Some dont even have a clue about off grid life
Thank you, we have heated with wood our whole lives, we lived off grid the last 4 years the past 3 were atv access, nothing no running water not even cell reception. We moved mid summer to our own place instead of rented. We spent all summer collecting logs and Felling trees and clearing to build next spring so we can have a real home. We live in the old rv for a shelter basicaly we are outside all the time. We opted to work all fall preparing for next spring to get a jump start. We have so much dead standing beetle kill that it is so dry it does not even absorb moisture anymore, almost kilm dryed. It's not a perfect senerio but we knew it would work for this winter and we would be all done what we needed to do so we can drop the shovel in once the snow goes away. Good news is we have next year's wood already from the trees we dropped clearing the laneway and the site. We for the last 4 years have had no running water or any grid power at all. We haul water from a near by source and collect rain water/melt snow. It's not perfect but we are warm and this fir we are burning is basicsly dry year round and ready to burn no matter what. Also I no longer cut to lenth since that day, it was an experiment that failed. We are cutting 4ft long lengths now and strapping them on to get alot more then pulling it with the tractor again, like we did before. I just wanted to try the sled out and it did not work well for pulling.
@offgridandunorganized awesome though. Giving the boys a Real life. Giving real skills. They may not know how lucky they are. I raised a girl to age 20 before I moved away. She wanted to stay warm in Florida. But she was so computer and phone online insane that she had one giant attitude. She couldn't fathom moving out here with me and starting from scratch. I just got 5 acres. But everything is all mine. Anyways...hats off to you all. And Merry Christmas 🤶
Merry Christmas, the size is not important it is owning what you got and not having debt over it. The boys know how lucky they are it is funny to see their reactions to some of these comments. They love living here and we've been doing it long enough they adjusted and we have a system basicsly. It defiantly was weird at first to sell everything we had and move to a place that didn't even have cell reception but we made it and realized how much more rewarding this life really is. It's funny I think the boys know how to do more conputer stuff then me, I am computer illiterate I had to learn how to turn the thing on, editing was a massive learning curve. My Fiancé is better with computers but is not much into filming and editing so she taught me the basses and I have learned from there over nearly 2 years.
@offgridandunorganized Hahaah! Yes the kids are more skilled at computers. I don't own one. Took classes on how to work on them. Failed. Then broke two in the class. No one could figure out how to get them to work again after I was on em. Just got my phone! Kids are the future. Some better have the brains and skills cause it's looking crazy by the day
We know that we had a buisy summer, our channel page is filled with our summer work. We have been doing this long enough, we'll before youtube we know how to keep warm and what to burn. Everything up here is soft wood and once it's dead and dry it does not get wet again unlike hardwood.
I am sorry for pissing you off, the coments section is full of answers to that statement alot have said the same. It was an experiment for that day and as you can see it did not work worth nothing. We started pulling it with the tractor and cutting into 4ft lengths and strapping them down.
Actualy it's really good and runs strong, I tryed to put a text on the screen saying the throttle was stuck on high idle. That may have not been the most visible, when I moved in the summer I never payed attention to where I left the throttle and once it got cold it iced up so it would not be able to Rev up so I was stuck using it at a high idle untill it made enough heat to unthaw the cable and then I was able to Rev it up. Those old ones are built way better then anything in the past 20 years the stuff now is garbage and not worth a dime. The old ones are built to last and built to be repaired. I did notice a noice in the front on camera (can't hear it while using it) I'm thinking maybe a bearing is going bad.
Thank you very much, it is, but it is not really. We poke away at it every few days, if I film it that's when it becomes alot of work. We spent part of last winter doing the same thing when we came up here every chance we got. It's all about your mental process weather you find it work or find it enjoying. For us collecting wood is just part of daily activities, along with melting snow for water in the big stove outside. We are enjoying life more then ever.
You pretty much nailed it, it can last for a couple days usualy. Depends how much we are inside and if we rember to put wood in. Usualy if it's going really well I will mix some wetter stuff in or it gets to hot and that makes it last longer too.
Well thank you, this has been our dream for some years now and we finally got moved here and are building what we want. Everything is temporary as we are " camped" where we were able to get off the road with the RV trailer. We are building permanently a half mile or so away so no sence putting anything into this spot that will be abandoned as soon as we get a driveway all the way in.
Omg leave them alone,they know now for the future and i. Sure next winter they'll have a fine stock of wood,life lessons need to be learnt not lectured
@annknee-f3f thank you, we do know not to normally do this but at the same time we knew we coulddonit successfully too. It was just part of our decisions of why to all get accomplished before the snow flys. We knew we had a stash of dead standing dry wood ready to burn once it snowed. We have been doing this for years so we are not new, but I do thank you for your support some others have been getting a little over the top we are actialy doing awesome and nice and warm.
We are not dying, we are quite comfortable. We only filmed one time of what we do every day and yall went crazy over it, there's more then what the camera sees. Me and my fiance lives in trailers our fair share over the years, my self 8 years so it ain't my first rodeo.
You are right, we have heated with wood our whole life ( that's why we did what we did and made the decisions we did as we knew our limits) we were burning about 12 cord of hard wood ash,cherry, hard maple last 3 years. With now not having hard wood at all only soft primarily fir and poplar. I have no clue how much we would burn and we are not keeping track, we will start next winter keeping track but for now we are warm and cutting wood.
When the snow don't stop the chores don't stop ! Some nice dry standing should burn nice 👍, That load of wood warm you two or three times :) I have a pattern building an awesome wood sleigh & a log mover as well :) it might help you with your wood haul, Yes I use to clean mine back so the plow don't fill your driveway :) Stay warm"
Thank you very much! I have not met alot of people that clear theirs way back, my dad taught me that as a kid and I have done it ever since, makes a big difference. I was just admiring your wood hauler the other day, I just grabbed an old truck hood I had laying around, I have used them for moving boards and stuff into remote places but never hauling fire wood. Now we needs sides! I also have to decide weather to continue the truck hood-snowmobile duo as both our sleds are trail sleds so they are geared too high, I can't go slow without smoking the belt off, not like the old skidoos and snowcruisers. I'm thinking of just using the tractor until snows too deep, it's alot easier to handle.
If you have seen any other videos that would about explain your whole coment as a whole or read any other comments. The truck hood was a trial it failed, we wanted to test the sled out it does not pull well as gearing is too tall. We went back to the tractor and cutting longer lengths and strapping to the truck hood. Years up until now I always had a trailer so I filled the trailer and pulled that out but that had to be left behind at out old place so I no longer have use of that trailer and are now starting from scratch and have not got a trailer built yet. Also we spent all summer and fall working towards getting our future home ready for the spring to start building and we know what we have available for wood that's bone dry the middle of winter and know how it burns and heats and know we were safe making the decision to post phone cutting wood until winter as we were working toward our future all summer and fall on things that need done before the snow hits. Being in the bush with a saw in winter is very relaxing and a great excuse to get outside and get out in nature, our experience planned what we are doing.
About the biggest fail you can have is no cut and dry firewood ths time of year. First off, you should be felling trees, limbing them, and dragging the entire log to your home...After you get a pile of 20 or so, start cutting to your short lengths and stacking. Disgraceful and deadly that you dont have at least 3 months worth done before the snow flew anyway. Good luck, you need it.
Thank you for the concern but what we are cut died 10 years ago and is basicaly kilm dryed its so dry it does not regain moisture, a day inside and its cranked up like crazy. Not everything is perfect In life.
@offgridandunorganized didnt mean to insult, just concerned, especially with kids involved. That said, you really need to just be towing full, debranched logs right up to the trailer for cutting to size. Wjen you get a snow dump of 12"+ and ypu need wood, you will be damn glad you did so. You may find you cannot get anymore on a need basis. Also, cover the logs, its much easier to cut to size and split without 1/2" of ice or several of snow on it. Good luck, keep posting.
Thank you for the clarification, normally what u said is what we have been doing, we got some snow and I wanted to try the sled out since it has been sitting all summer, an excuse to put some milage on, then I needed a sled to pull behind aka the truck hood. Neather one did a good job so it's back to pulling lengths like we were. We got alot brought up today with the tractor pulling.
Well then thank you very much! And thank you for the kind words, life is good we got heat food and shelter. We have been doing this for 3 years now even our old cabin was not the warmest so we are kind of used to it but it's right toasty in here, soft wood burns HOT but fast. Life is good and we are exactualy where we want to be!
You nailed it, my experience is the neibours used to think I was a mental case for doing such. They could not figure out why their driveway was full of snow always, my dad taught me that as a kid and it has always stuck with me.
Why wait till you have no firewood?? Then you use chainsaw cut wood, load the wood behind a snowmobile and tow the wood only to have the wood fall off the back of the snowmobile. Great plan
It's funny you say that, that's exactusly what we did after that video. We cut them to 4ft and strapped them down, that was an experiment and it failed. Before we were pulling out in full lenth.
You nailed it! I am surprised how many of you all are responding with the correct answer, our old place the neubours that we were mentally unstable for doing such a thing but at the same time we're not connecting their driveway being full of snow always.
I am not sure where you get that idea, neather are true. Those tress are not healthy they are dead, do you see the missing needles? And missing bark? Conifers do not loose needles unless they are DEAD. Also we live there full time so I have no idea why you think we don't.
What it does help is stops your clothes getting covered in snow that could melt as you warm up from moving as working. Wet clothes makes you wet and wet makes you cold, so it does help actualy by keeping us dry.
I was thinking the same, until now we have Been using the atv or dragging the whole trees up with the tractor, but the atv is down and I did not feel like getting the tractor going as it's diesel and cold out. So since we had some snow I figured I would try out the sled so I went looking for something to pull wood on and found an old truck hood I had laying around. I thought about racks or something about half way through.
Yes that was what I was thinking, that was the first time for hauling wood on the truck hood so it was an experiment, usualy I pull them in full lengths up and cut up here. I wanted to see how the sled worked so I needed something to pull behind it and the hood was all I had, I have moved lumber and stuff over the years on truck hoods to remote places but never used for moving fire wood. Lessons learned. I
Do you know why you should be blowing back the leading edge of a driveway?
So the driveway doesn't get recovered with snow when a plow goes by.
You nailed it! I am surprised how many responses I have got to this of people knowing. In my travels most people I have met thought I was doing too much work by doing that and looked at me weird for it. Their driveways were always full of snow too.
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Does it really, I’ve never heard that but makes sense. You are so lucky living there. It looks absolutely stunning 🤩
Thank you very much, it is pretty stunning. It does make a big difference think of it this way you see the snow a plow is pushing, alot of that is not the snow immediately where he is, alot of it is carried from behind him because only so much can exit the side when it is pushing into a bank on the side. so you give him a dropping point and he empties that snow. Then all that ends up in you driveway is what was imedialty in front of it, you end up with 1/4 or 1/2 of the size of plow bank at the end, if you get alot of snow that makes a difference. Most people can't drive through a 3ft tall plow bank and now have to walk up their driveway to get the snow blower. But you cut that down to 1ft now most people can get through that and to their house. I hope this explains it, very much worth the effort in a big snow fall area.
First time watcher, dont cut wood into biskets, leave them about. 6ft long logs and stack them on sled get them home then cut them up, youll be able to haul more and wont lose any
It is funny you say that, normally I was pulling in 20ft lengths with the tractor, atv. But since we got snow I wanted to try the sled out for a shake down run so I needed something to pull behind it. After that experience I ditched that idea. We actualy did what you said yesterday with about 3 or 4 ft lengths as it was more manageable in dense bush. It deffinalty worked alot better and twice the wood in a load.
@@offgridandunorganized glad I could help
Thank you again.
To not have a plan and be organized is asking for disaster. And then you would be the first one complaining about the cold. I heated my house with wood for over 30 years, with three children and being a single mom . Always stayed one year ahead to make sure it was dry and in case of an injury so I wouldn’t be caught un prepared. Unorganized and lazy is not a good combination to have when living off grid.
Normally we do cut wood ahead but we just moved here this summer so we didn't have the year advance, we heated the same space last winter from time to time doing the same thing when we were spending time here. We have a plan, we know thers bone dry wood ready to burn everywhere, our place is warm. We don't have hard wood which holds moisture. Our soft wood is so dry it does not get wet.
I understand but there otherways to provide heat as well besides just cutting wood
@@offgridandunorganizedso you're not really off grid... you did have all summer for wood prep if it were a priority other than that a storm and no wood appears as click bait!! Considering you have an alternative source you're not truly being caught off guard...
Unfortunatly everything you said is incorrect, we spent all summer collecting logs for our log cabin build in the spring. We are fully off grid, the closest hydro line is a few miles away, we have no backups. The propane furnace was ripped out 3 years ago and the wood stove is mounted where the furnace was, we have a micro solar setup so we can not run any extra than just lights. We don't have any other source of heat then the wood stove and our body heat.
So glad you have the means to get wood. Stay warm. God be with you.
Thank you very much, we are very much warm. What we cut burns so hot it's crazy and drys instaly the second you bring it in it is so dry standing in the forest. Life is great and we are doing exactualy what we want to be and where we want to be, as things get built it will get more organized and easier.
So you live in a cold climate so why are you wait so long to cut firewood I should be one of your first priorities. Make sure you have a good stock of firewood. Doesn’t sound like you got a very good plan.
It's a cool place yes, we decided this fall to skip cutting as we have acres of dead standing bone dry fir and some poplar so the perfect thing to cut and burn right away. We were doing the same last winter, most years we cut wood in summer but this year we had so much going on we needed done before snow so we decided to just cut wood as we need it since it's ready to burn immediately as it's so dry. It is a pain to do it every few days but we really had to get other things done in the fall.
@ well personally I’ve grown up in cold weather too, always cut the firewood in the spring time in the summer and maybe a little bit in the fall but you need to stock up for winter. I don’t care how much you have going on that takes precedence over anything you don’t want to be cold and you don’t wanna be out in the cold cutting firewoodI’ve learned that lesson the hard way I don’t like the cold and I want to be warm. I understand things come up, but that’s your first priority. Stay warm in the winter not to be cold.
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@@reeceboyer1248some people like to work in the winter. If the trees are dead, it’s fine. Won’t take but a few days of cutting to get through a hard winter. Same where I live. Drying the wood out is why most people cut in the spring. His wood is already dry.
Anyone with half a brain would have their firewood ready by spring. Yes there are other things to attend to but being warm should be a priority. Unsubscribing 🙄
When I saw your clothes on the clothesline, it brought back memories. When I was a kid, we used the barbed wire fence before getting a clothesline. In the winter, our clothes would freeze.
That's funny, we had a clothes line growing up, I think our parents hung clothes out in winter but we are not sure, we have been doing it for the past 3 years at our old cabin. About 3 days for us and they freeze dry and we bring them in a few at a time to warm up or melt any snow before putting away. We have no space in doors to dry a whole basket of wet laundry let alone all the humidity issues that causes.
Good for you for living your dream and sharing work with your family and teaching your kids to be out there doing it with you!! I wish you success and happiness in your new venture! Life is too short to not try. You are living it. Not the people behind the keyboards so I applaud your responding to people with kindness on comments.
Read a lot of comments. 64 and a 1/2yrs years old ,been living off grid full time 8yrs. Been doing the mountain survival thing since 10yrs old. I did a lot a the mistakes and doing shit the harder way. he's gonna learn like I done. Older guys like me with the neg comments, shame on you . Nothing better to do than make neg commenting. You all kinda miss me off!
@sencelessfun thank you very much that is our exact thought too, we are so glad to be where we are.
@ArthurBuchBiblowski thank you very much. When I was a kid I used to do winter camp outs with boy scouts and stuff, hike to some where sort of remote and eather bring a tent or make a shelter from natural materials. Those were some amazing lessons including fire lighting in poor conditions and all around survival skills. The boys are learning the Same skills over time and are very much happy to be where we are, they love living remote. Sure we would all like a proper cabin and that is coming but we are all warm and quite content doing what we are. There is alot the key boards don't see behind the camera. Thank you
To heck with the nay layers. Creating great memories with your kids and enjoying life. Can't have it all but enjoy and be blessed for what we have. Family is number one .
Oops. Nay sayers. Even auto correct fails!
Thank you very much! We feel very blessed, we are where we want to be and have done what we planned to this fall. Everything is going to plan our plan that is. We have alot more experience then one video shows but they assume we are new. Thank you
No worries mine does that all the time, usualy spell the word wrong or invents new words!
As a new Englander that looks so relaxing
Thank you, it is very relaxing and alot of fun. I do not know what England looks like unfortunatly.
Water, Food and warmth. Your three top priorities.
All 3 boxes are checked off, we have all of them and life is awsome! We have been living off grid for 4 years now but just moved here mid summer so things are a little hectic the first year but all priorities are taken care of.
Lived in a remote area in northern maine from 1976 thru 1982 wood heat , gas lights , fridge , i cut wood and stacked year round, always 6 8 cord laying around, but it was colder and more snow then. I like to be prepared .
We do to! But we moved mid summer, and been really buisy, our whole channel is filled with this short summers activities. We spent some time last winter up here in the trailer and did the exact same thing so we knew it would work again. Not perfect but allowed us to get a jump start on building next spring. It's very warm in here though standing dead fir burns realy hot and drys within and hour or 2 of bringing it in. It's so next to kilm dryed standing in the forest, the cold DRY winters actualy dry the wood on the stump, just need to melt off the little snow and warm up.
This was my 1st time viewing your journey.
Good luck.
Greetings from Kentucky
Thank you, things are going great actualy we have been living off grid for 4 years now and just moved this summer to this place. Life is great.
The Beverly hillbillys go north the frozen clothes on the line 😂 and you should learn how to use the snow blower as well!
That does not sound very nice of a responce. Freeze drying clothes I actualy a traditional method that most fokes parents did as well as grand parents, the amish still do it as well. Your clothes come in smelling alot fresher and cleaner then a dryer ever does. The cold kils any smells and bacteria as well as evaporates all the water, most have heard of freeze dryed food and swear by it for back packing. Well freeze drying clothes is the exact same principal. Also what part of the snow blower do you not think I know how to use? I have not used it in 3 years as our old place was atv access so no use for it so this was the first time I ran it since 2021. If you are talking about the engine on high idle there was text on the screen saying the throttle is froze on that setting, normally I would Leave it on full throttle for that reason when shutting off but I did not in the summer I guess when we moved here. So please explain.
Comedy genius! Every little detail actually made me smile and have a better day. I applaud and thank you
Thank you very much, it was intended to be fun. The kids were laughing alot but always out of frame so I was not able to use the footage. Everyone had a blast making that video.
And be careful with the kids ! Peace ✌️
We very much are, they love doing this and it's not as rough as people think. We are very warm. Thank you
Really enjoyed your video. First time coming across your channel. We have a hobby farm and have muscovy ducks and chickens and so on. New subscriber!
Thank you very much! Also some one who understand ducks and their habits, their liking to "muck" as well call it. Some one commented on the ladies playing in the water hole that drained off the trailer door as the animals are thirsty and want water, no knowing what a duck is even I assume as they have lots of water in the dish but rather walk past CLEAN water to find a mud puddle or even the seat of a chair that has water to play in. We realy enjoy the ladies they bring alot of joy to watch the crazy shenanigans that they do.
You are like a three dimensional Norman Rockwell. Very creative stuff without even thinking about it just seems to appear maybe a special hidden talent in your genetics passed along. Feels like there is some invisible force at work here. Invisible yet visible. The vastness of the space we live in is sometimes overlooked.
Thank you very much!
Always leave logs 8 - 10 ft Long get as many to your house as possible you can cut a bit more each day eventually building up a supply of split wood
That was a trail it failed! We now do about 4 ft and strap them down, before snow I was pulling full ĺenth with atv or tractor, we wanted to try the sled out and that whole situation failed, new trail new lenth now and alot more wood in a trip.
You are like a three dimensional Norman Rockwell. Very creative stuff without even thinking about it just seems to appear maybe a special hidden talent in your genetics passed along. Feels like there is some invisible force at work here. Invisible yet visible.
Thank you, deffinalty not filming or computer stuff in my family. Basicaly a farming family or mechanical. I just try to film and present how I would veiw a video, I try and make what I would watch my self.
Wouldnt hurt to put sides on sled for hauling would. We always started away head off winter to stack and dry in covered wood shed.
Thank you, normally we do too but its been so busy we just have not had time and we knew we could cut and burn this bone dry fir during the winter. Since then we stoped cutting to lenth and cut 4ft or so and strap that down, sure works better and getting more wood on a load. It was an experiment as we got snow so trying out the sled. Before we were pulling the trees up full lenth with the atv or tractor and blocking them up here.
Save time by cutting poles and dragging to storage shed area. You can block to length as you need. If you get more snow it will be harder.
That's actualy what we did before the video, it was more of an excuse to try the sled out. Since then it's 4ft we cut to and strap that down. Deffinatly alot more in a haul.
That is awesome living right there love the stuff but yes, you need to prepare yourself❤❤❤
I know we do but we have enough experience we were prepared to make the decision we did. Everything worked out flawless and to plan, it may not look like to some but to us it worked perfect.
Winter and you’re off grid,I pray you’ll have what you need.
Oh we are great actualy. It's hard to show in videos, I lived this life as a kid winter survival and stuff with boy scouts. I lived in a trailer for 8 years as a teenager and converted it to a "tiny house" way before that was cool. Both of us have heated with wood more or less our whole lives so we got alot of experience going for us and know how to live just fine. We are honestly loving things, some things are harder then they should but that's apart of moving and starting fresh but we have been off grid for 4 years now so the enicial struggle is long behind us and it's just going with the flow now, we have everything we need in place to live. We love life and are exactulay where we want to be doing what we want and everything is going according to our plan.
Suggestions..put a bloody edge on that thing your towing lol
Well that's one of the kinder ways I have heard that lol. It was an experiment that failed no longer are we doing eather now it's 4ft lengths strapped down pulled with the tractor.
Boys that old car hood brings back memories. My dad had a hood off a 50s Buick we used to love going for ride's in it. Driveway yes I do the same keeps the wing from the plow keep from piling big banks of snow in the driveway
Thank you, my dad taught me that as a kid, I have always done it since as it helps alot. So many people I have met looked at me like an idiot for doing it but could not figure out why their driveways were full of snow! This hood if a 80s chevy pickup, it's the old one off my truck. The inner core is rough so I replaced it while fixing the truck, I kept this one incase I needed any flat tin for something. That day it came in handy for a sled, they are fun to ride on we did that as kids and me and my fiance have pulled the kids around on one too.
Nice job getting the wood in before the storm rolls in 👍I understand that the wood is dry but it appears many do not in the comments. Not a huge amount of time to do all the things having just moved there this summer. I'm sure next year will look different 🙂
Thank you very much, I have noticed the "hater" section says it is not so it must not be lol. Not them burning it so it does not hurt them. We already have most of next year's wood In 8ft lengths from clearing this summer, ready to cut up next summer. It was all green this year by next it will be seasoned out. We used to make wood a priority as we were burning hard wood which gets Wet and holds moisture, this soft wood we did the same thing last winter when we were up here, we cut as we burnt and as soon as it gets cold it freeze drys and can be burnt right away. We have so much it's not funny. We were going to cut wood in the fall but wanted our forever cabin site cleared so we can start work when the snow is gone vs wasting time next year doing that and putting us behind. We are farther ahead and feel comfortable with our decisions. Thank you!
@@offgridandunorganized I know because I watched that video of you guys clearing your spot 🙂and know that you have a stockpile already, lol 😁Btw, my mother always hung her clothes out in the winter to freeze dry them, just like you or your wife is doing. I always snowblow extra at the end of the driveway for mailman and snowplow.
I forgot to mention that the haters and thumbs down crowd drive the algorithm to, lol........I just did a couple of video about this topic under my weekly vlog ask krista.
Thank you, I forget who all comments on what videos either the latest influx of extra comments. I do the laundry I always have, she does not like My home made washer it's "finicky" but hanging them out makes them smell alot fresher plus we don't have the space inside along with all that humidity causes problems . There has been alot of comments alot of people actualy blow back their laneway. Our old place the neibours thought I was a mental case, but their driveways were always full of snow and were not putting 2 and 2 together. It makes a huge difference.
Thank you, yeah I have done a ridiculous amount of research and learned how the hater section ruens videos. I have been experimenting with not notifying subscribers and have had alot more success doing that as I see in analytics that not alot of subscribers are viewing my videos, presumably as they differ topics enough. My thoughts is keeping the ones not interested off is helping the videos look better and get more promotion. But the subscribers that are interested see the video in their feed and click through.
when you live in the woods, there's not such saying as not having firewood. Just grease your elbows and go for it..
We do " go for it " alot. We just brought you along for the ride once and tested some failed things. We cut wood every couple days or anytime we go back past anything we Bring it for a ride home with us
So many wise words of advice eh . Im sure you'll get things in order.....life is about making errors as well as learning. Stay safe and warm
Thank you very much, we have enough experience this is how we planed it and everything is working beautiful. We got what we needed done in the fall for next year, our focus is our future and getting a real home asap and out of the trailer, the trailer to us is a warm home for now but not a long term solution. It has been a rough week with the comment section and alot of focus on one thing that was shown and less of the bigger picture. Thank you
You stashing your chainsaw under the trailer reminded me of my brother leaving his chainsaw outside at 30 below and needing it. He put it on the stove to thaw out and forgot about it. He was alerted to a problem when he herd whistling of gas vapor out of the vent, he ran over to grab it and run it outside, as he grabbed it it burst into flames, he tripped over his dog, set him on fire, burned his hands before he threw it into a snow bank.
Holy! Now that's not cool, I do put it in the storage trailer if I don't need it right away for a day or 2. I do keep it inside when I need it later that day to thaw out, I have found out one can hold it up to a 4 wheeler exhaust and Rev it up if their bar freezes from moisture and cold, lol not sure who would have found that out. But that's definalty would have been an unfortunate end to a good saw.
U cut firewood all the time when you don't have anything to do cut firewood !!!!! U get the point right amen be blessed ❤❤😊😊
I get that point yes, this summer has never had a nothing to do moment. It's been ridiculously buisy.
The weather can catch up faster than we think im in Ireland just subscribed, i work all year round to stock up as much as I can so I'll have spare the next years always get ahead on it bud , best of luck for your family
Thank you, normally we do have wood ahead. This year we moved half way across the country mid summer so was not really possible. We have owned this place for some years and did the exact same thing here last winter so we knew it would work again, we knew we could trade off cutting wood until a bit later.
Really enjoyed this video thanks for sharing. Keep warm and well 🙏🏻 from Australia 🦘
Thank you very much! We are very toasty warm!
Yes ! I saw that later that they had a shelter…I’m a new subscriber.. I enjoy watching off grid and your everyday life ..
Thank you very much, they have what they need but the independent animals are "dificult". If they had it their way they would live outside but we have wild animals that would like a snack, so they have to be locked up at nights.
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Thank you
They make these things called cargo nets. You may want to think about buying one.
Haha I have heard of them, we had a better solution, that was a trial run that failed horribly. Now we cut to 4ft lengths and strap them down and pull the whole lot with the tractor, alot more faster. We were pulling in lengths with the atv or tractor and just wanted to try the sled out that day but it all failed. Problem solved since then.
@@offgridandunorganized Now you're thinkin'! I've been heating my house with wood since 1995, and couldn't couldn't have done it without my trusty old Stihl 024 and Bruin 350 ATV. I'm 71 now, and this year I had to buy split firewood for the first time. ~sigh~ Time stands still for no one.
That must be depressing. We have both heated with wood our whole lives minus about 4 years we had a house that had a gas furnace (ewww). My dad sold wood as a kid so us boys got the job of helping, the farm kid thing we had to help with everything if we wanted fed basicaly. We are used to hardwood species so this soft wood as that's all that grows here is alot different. We burning the spruce and any white poplar we can find, it really is marvelous wood. Most hate on poplar as they have hardwood but up here it and fir/spruce are the only beside white birch but that's less common. The poplar once dry throws a ridiculous amount of heat for a long period of time and even makes some coals. Fir is a reduculius amount of heat but for a short period and no coals so we have been switching back and forth. We spent about half last winter enjoying this place in the rv doing the exaxt same thing so we knew it was feasible as last winter was the test and we had some where to fall back on if it failed, but it worked so well we knew it would again until we get a real cabin built. My saw of choice has always been my
stihl 034, beautiful saw. I ran it all summer clearing and Felling logs for next summer, I recently picked up the stihl 009 arborist saw for actualy cutting notches in logs as the 034 is too heavy on a ladder. I fell in love with the 009 so much I use it for EVERYTHING it has 90% the power of the 034 but half the weight, it sure is an amazing old girl. Only thing stihl forgot to put mufflers on it, the thing is ridiculously loud otherwise it is an amazing beast and demolishes it's way through a tree.
That ancient snowblower has probably moved a lot snow in it's time . I move my banks back also. Best wishes in your endeavors
Thank you very much, life is awesome! We love it here! And I bet the old girl has moved alot, I have had it for probably 8 years or so and it was old when I got it. I like old everything, including vehicles. They are built to last and use real metal not paper thin melted down rust like the new junk. This thing is bigger then it looks it moves ALOT of snow in a hurry, its bigger then most walk behind blowers.
Necessity will definitely get you motivated
We are very motivated, we had a ridiculously buisy summer utilizing all daylight hours. If you would like go into the channel and check out the videos from this summer. We have been crazy buisy.
I read some of these moronic comments about you not having a yrs worth of firwood stacked already. Look I do the same as you at times. I am surrounded by fallen trees that are ready to burn as needed. I go out cut 2-3 days' worth and call it good. It does not matter it preference. There is no rule as long as it gets done and you stay warm!
Thank you very much! While it's not ideal of a senereo we both know what works. Most I think do not realize what a dead standing spruce/fir is like. They don't realize how dry they are and almost pervious to moisture. We are very warm, hopefully next year we won't be doing this but this year we are because we know it works and gave us the chance to finish some last minute items before snow. Thank you so much the few positive comments make our day and well outweigh the negatives.
@@offgridandunorganized As long as we know where that wood is. You got yourself covered. I got wood I cut into 8-10 ft lengths the size of a man's leg that are in a pile under 3 ft of snow right now. Those logs are 2 yrs old.If I was in a fix, I easily could cut me one and it would be dry enough to burn today.
@@offgridandunorganized As long as you can easily locate the wood, you're all good. It's there when you need it. It's like some people cover their wood some do not. I do not. It i not necessary. But, ya cannot convince some folks that.
Exactualy. What we are burning probably died 10 years ago, the pine beetle has been having fun with the firs plus some youngue poplars blew up and shaded the firs out. The top ft is usually junk and the bottem few ft is junk but whats in between is almost kilm dryed, it is so hard is basicaly does not get wet and if it does a few hours inside to melt the snow off and it's bone dry. We have lots of it. In reality as we are building a half mile away from our "camp site" I don't want to build anything Here and most don't realize putting wood under a tarp is a horrible idea as tarps swet and your wood gets wet, the wood would be no dryer if we cut it in the summer and put it under a tarp. No easier eather as a tarp with 3ft of snow on it is alot of work to dig out.
I wood think 😂 in the winter you have easier access and probably consume less resources in the winter utilizing the snow .....if you weren't dropping so much fire wood lol
I live in county and we always plow extra at the end of driveway so we don't get plowed in. And as far as cutting wood we always do it in winter also.😊
Thank you, it seams like a country foke thing to plow the lane way back. It's not ideal to cut in winter but when you move mid summer and are focused on getting things ready to build so your not living in a rv forever something take priority over others, this is just one of those years. If one is cutting live trees winter is ideal as the sap is down and they dry ALOT faster, most don't realize that.
Always prepare for winter before winter comes.
We know that, we were prepared by the decision we made. Everything is working out as planned and going great. Not ideal but it's apart of building and moving forward in life.
You should spend the whole summer cutting firewood for the winter. You never know there will be a bad snow storm where you won’t be able to get out to cut wood. It better be safe then sorry.
That is ideal yes, but we moved mid summer and I am not sure if you have seen any of our other videos, we spent all summer collecting logs and clearing so we can build next spring and have a real home not the trailer. The trailer is a warm dry living space and that is it, all effort goes into our future. The dead standing fir we collect is so dry it is amost kilm dryed and does not absorb moisture so it is ready to burn immediately. We know very much what we are doing and are capable of doing so that we are safe and can focus on having a real home quicker rather then living in a Rv. We also have alot of stuff to burn closer by but we go past that on purpose to leave that for an emergency that you could easily snow shoe to.
Craziness, not prepared.
You are incorrect we are prepared for what we chose to. We have been doing this long enough we knew our limits and what we could safely do. We are focused on our future not the place we are staying while we build. The more progress on our future the better. We are very much warm, the fir we are cutting died 10 years ago so it's basicaly kilm dryed and does not absorb moisture, knock snow off, warm it up and burn, it's actualy too hot in here really. That stuff burns so hot and does not get wet.
Could you not load up snd leave for shelter elsewhere?
Not with all our animals. An no where else to go.
Seems like I was always working and I to mostly waited to the last minute every year to harvest standing dead from my property .Maneley because I worked a seasonal job . Every Year the same thing Wife wasn't that happy about it .I'm retired and in my 70s now and at a new homestead in a warmer place .Still doing the same thing for heating my shop LOL !.
Thank you, the heat kills me in the summer so running a saw is deadly to me, usualy I do it in the fall but we moved mid summer and wanted to get as much done on our future home as we could before snow hit. We have been burning wood our whole life and spend half of last winter here doing the same so we knew it's safe and possible so we opted to work on things that needed bare ground and cut wood once the snow hit as that fir is so dry and hard it does not get wet, it has been dead for probably 10 years and is next to kilm dryed. It works amazing to say the least it is so dry, bring it in,bang the snow off let it warm up and it's burnable. No creosote eather I tap the chimney once I a while and hats loose just falls down into the stove, it does not make stocky creosote just some dry soot basicaly.
Animals needing water having to eat snow. Poor chickens and ducks. 😢
Do you have animals or know much about? Ducks do not care for water in a bowl, they will walk right past it to go look for muddy water to play in. They have water in their bowl in coop, I keep it changed in winter with warm water. They don't care they would rather be under the trailer, the ducks are also playing in the hole with water at the bottem ducks do that! They would rather eat snow then go to a water dish, also in reality chickens and ducks are messy drinkers and get water all over them selves leading to ice forming on then and making them colder. Eating snow is actualy better for them in the winter anyway as it keeps them dry and warmer, most people have no clue if they have never had animals. Ducks play and you can see the ladies are playing in that water not to drink it just playing with the ice chunks!
Nice touch frozen laundry on the line outside
Hah it was not an intent it's how we do laundry, it freeze drys in 3 or 4 days and that stuff was not ready to be brought in yet.
I remove the snow like you so I don’t get plowed in when they clear the road. If it doesn’t stop it it sure cuts it down. And I. 68 years old!
Thank you, I have noticed alot of people in the comments say they do it. My experience is most places I have lived people looked at me weird for doing it, thought I was an idiot. It makes a huge difference. My dad taught me that as a kid it helps so much. My driveway was the only one not full of snow.
I wonder if there is a way to take the heat from the exhaust and channel it towards the carb, to warm it up faster? Thanks for the upload , your living my dream.
Thank you, and yes there is, those engines have a "winter" shield that goes over the exhaust and surrounds the carb to keep it from icing up and helps with cold weather operation. What actualy happens was the metal throttle cable running along the frame froze up.
A good lesson you have taught your sons!👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you very much! They are learning alot of survival skills living this life. One needs to know how to survive in a life changing event, they are learning those skills to survive if they ever had to.
I'm glad you had the presence of mind to warn your viewers NOT to follow in your footsteps...
I truly hope your lack of organization doesn't bring peril to your family...
Our chanel says that what we do if for entertainment only do not follow anything we do. It is not a lack of organization, it was part of our plan all along. We are very warm and content doing exactualy as we are.
@@offgridandunorganized NOT impressed with that statement one damned bit... you just admitted your nothing but a fraud!!!
Poor chickens and ducks..
Heated barn
I am not sure if you have animals, but heating a barn is a really bad idea. It's bad for their health. Animals need fresh air not heat, heat retains stale air that also contains ammonia as poltry waste is very high in ammonia. They have a clean coop with lots of fresh shavings and water and food, they prefer to be outside. We let them out in the morning and they run to under the trailer, it's their favorite spot to be so why argue with them? They have everything needed, but closing a barn up and heating it is one of the stupidest things anyone can do. That leads to disease and sickness, wild animals do fine in the forest alone. Ducks and chickens do great without heat as long as you keep the breeze away, wind can be bad for wind chill so we will close the door if its really windy, but otherwise they do as THEY want. Your idea kills animals.
Cutting wood during the winter is a good way of not being bored during a long winter, but if you get 4ft of snow in 2days like i got..... it will be hard to get your firewood. I struggle to walk 10ft into my backyard..... good luck folks
Thank you, and it sure does help to make a daily routine. We have stuff alot closer too I just leave that for "emergency" and venture farther back when the gettings good. I think of it as a sort of fail safe.
I think somebody's not playing with a full deck
I am sorry you feel that way, we each have our own opinions. Personally we did the same thing last winter on this place, so we knew we could do it again. If we had hard wood this would not work as hard wood gets wet and takes forever to dry.
Maybe find a better trailer to haul with talk about wasting a lot of time
It was an experiment, as we all see it failed. No longer doing it that way and now cutting to 4ft and strapping down, alot more in a load.
@ work smarter not harder
That's what we did after the trail failed.
You did good.............
Thank you very much, we know what we are doing but alot figure that's not the case, so thank you very much for the support!
What sides on your sleigh to avoid losing all your wood
It was an experiment and we are no longer doing that, we are cutting into 4ft lengths so they can be strapped down and don't fall off.
Wow how different it looks with the snow, it looks like you got the burn piles done just in time. The wood is going to be key to staying warm and cosy. I have no clue about life in those conditions, being in Cape Town we don't have such low temperatures.
Yes we got everything done just in time, winter is a month late so we got very very lucky this year or we would not have got it all done. We had the same setup last year when we came up to our property and it worked awesome, I lived in a trailer for 8 years with a wood stove and my fiance did a bit as a kid too so we are used to it. It is really not that bad anyway, we have lots of blankets as we are used to it cooling off over night as we have heated with wood for years, lots of blankets is key. We also are usualy up late so heat is on and then back up again early so there's a short window the stove dies down. It is really not too bad.
isnt unthawed the the same as frozen? and thawed is free from frozen just saying
Different fokes use different words that all mean the same thing.
Sorry I didn’t see there shelter … your videos are very good …I enjoy watching people who live off grid …
Thank you very much, they do have their coop with clean dry shavings but do you think one could talk a duck into sleeping in that, nope! The ducks prefer to hang out under the trailer and even sleep there untill we force them to go to bed at night, the chickens come out somewhat but if it's really nasty they will spend the day on the roosts, ducks on the other hand are very strong minded they do what they want to. Strange animals.
At least this method keeps the kids busy
It sure does they were having a blast they had fun. It was an experiment we are no longer doing that was a pain.
Always know where the standing dead trees are. They can be burned the same day although they will be better if split and dried. Never go without heat in the Winter.
I know this property almost like the back of my hand we have wandered left right up and down across and under over the last few years before moving here let alone this summer alot of scouting marking logs. We have a bunch of beetle kill fir in pockets and that's what we are cutting, it has been dead for years and is next to kilm dryed it is so hard and dry In the dead if winter, we bring a day or 2 inside at a time to warm up and dry farther, it works amazing and no creosote at all. It is marvously hot in here, I am pretty sure last night it was 110 by the thermometer it was off the scale.
Always enjoy your videos, feel free to make them longer!!! Thanks
147 comments love or hate,, that is success
Thank you very much! I try to actualy I like to hit he 30+ mark if possible as that's what we would watch. Lately it has been hard to get them stretched out without also being just full of filler and becoming boring.
Thank you very much, this video deffinatly popped off, alot of haters though who only see what the camera shows and can't fanthom what I'd behind the scenes.
Maybe you should sell your monster size snow blower and buy a plow for the front of your snowmobile/ quad/ whatever you have.
Honestly I prefer the blower, I hate plows personally they make piles that get In the way and then eventualy you have to get a big loader or a big blower in to push them back. Plows have their use but on most people's lane ways I think blowers are far superior, slower but always get rid of the snow now just pile it up where it eventualy gets in the way. Thats just my opinion from growing up in the country and watching other fokes try to plow their lane ways when we had a big tractor and blower ( I know not the same as a walk behind) thank you for the suggestion, what works for us does not always work for others.
I’m a 1st time viewer tonight. I read that you said you spent all summer building your cabin but that’s just a trailer with a wood stove in it. Did I miss the cabin somewhere?
I’m sorry I read that wrong, you’re Going to build a cabin this spring. Sorry I missed that.
Yes so we moved mid summer and spent all summer collecting logs, peeling so they can start drying, clearing a site and building a rough trail in so we can get logs back there. All preparation for working next summer with dryer logs.
When the road grader comes by, there's less snow pushed in your driveway
You nailed it! Thank you. It seams more fokes know this then I thought, everyone I met otherwise thought I was mental for doing that. My dad taught me as a kid as it works very well.
You need to skirt your trailer and that will keep it warmer
Yes I know I have to I have been putting it off, Me being thrifty did not want to buy a whole bunch of insulation for only 1 year. I was hoping we would get the snow we did last year and I was going to bank the snow around so it was free. This year has been a late winter less snow and more cold so I guess I am going to have to do something else.
For the snow on the rd to go someplace before it all ends up at the end of you driveway. That's why I do it anyway.
You nailed it! I am surprised how many actualy do this. Thank you
@@offgridandunorganized Best of luck. Nice to see the kids helping with essential chores. Be well & Merry Christmas!!
Thank you very much merry Christmas. We get the boys into everything, from fire lighting to fire wood every aspect they learn. We believe survival skills are essential and everyone should learn them as a youngue age.
My rule of offgrid life video thumb is ... no dogs broads or kids .... ✌️ out
The kids are apart of everything we do and so is the dog, she is sometimes also apart of what we do.
Watched this on my tv when it first came out, just getting back to commenting, agree about the plowing, for me it helps with drainage in Spring to the ditch, just way melt runs, and line of sight when you exit, if we have dozers or logging going on our roadways. Surprised at misconceptions on firewood haul. I know in 🍁 many people gather dry firewood through winter, if not on the ground & easier to get to more spots by sled to select cut, especially if you don't have the hardwoods that people season. When you own your lot its like your firewood store to shop in whenever and if you had put got firewood video would not have done as well. 😊Years ago they used car hoods to slide down hills with, never saw it just family stories, lol First time I saw a blower that brand, does the job, was the only thing I wondered why no tarp on it. Farm animals are super resilient, they adapt to winter temps better than humans sometimes. Take care, and best wishes to you & your loved ones, the boys will not soon forget these adventures in the woods, its family time that sticks with you as good memories.
That basicaly sums it up, the blowing back helps with sight but also to allow the grader some where to empty his build up and we get about half as much in the lane way. Our road gets plowed when it gets bad for 4x4 truck basicaly so alot of snow at one time going in the ditch. We have no hardwood only soft and the spruce beetle killed a bunch 10 years ago so its super dry. Also getting rid of its good for fire safety in summer. We used to use truck hoods for tobogans and I hauled material into a remote cabin we built 15 years ago with 2 truck hoods strapped together. It was through a swamp so nothing could get in untill we put a road throu years later. I have done my fair share of back woods wandering but because it's on youtube I must be new to it, or so everyone assumes. The truck hood was basically an excuse to test out the sled, since then I use the tractor again and cut to 4ft lenths and strap that to the truck hood. We were experimenting and it failed basicaly. Lots of fokes have no clue about ducks, they are weird animals and will pass a clean water dish to go drink from a muddy puddle or pick up mud with their beaks and put in their water dish. The ladies were actualy playing in the water hole that dropped off the roof. Most fokes don't realize too chickens are better eating snow in winter as they are messy drinkers and get water all down their front and that makes them colder, they have a water dish with water but prefer to stay under the trailer and eat snow vs being in their coop that has clean shavings. Alot of commenters have not a clue but add their 2 cents because they learned it from some one else's youtue video lol. Thankyou for the support!
@@offgridandunorganized Totally get everything you said, we raised ducks and geese also, and yes chickens and snow water, all good, I love reading your replies and totally on board with you, as can so relate having lived it, awesome, keep on keeping on, good stuff. PS and you being so much younger than I, are way ahead of the game👏
Thank you very much! So far this year we have not had to rescue a duck from a snow bank yet only the road.... at our old cabin there was an acre cleared as a "yard" the ladies used to fly around it and land after a while as they are fat enough they can only fly for a period of time. Then once landing they were not able to jump to take off again so we had to go rescue a few, trying to pickup a moscovey is let's say interesting as they despise that. I'm sure if I got that on film some one would have said that's abusive since the duck chose to fly away. Some of these comments make us laugh as they make absolutely no real world sence and their answers are usualy at the top of the coment section if they chose to glance before saying some colorful things. We both basicaly grew up in this type of life style so it's who we are, we would not trade it for nothing. The life skills we learn as kids are more important then anything we ever learned in school, we are teaching the boys the same survival skills.
Wow! There are some nasty comments here
There sure is! It is hard to know the whole truth when so much is cut out in videos, some just jump to conclusions and get vulgar.
@@offgridandunorganizedthey don’t deserve any explanation
Thank you, I feel everyone deserves a responce, positive or negative unless it's abusive then it gets reported. Sometimes a responce changes a person's mood as not everything is as it seams on camera. Alot happens behind the scenes.
@@offgridandunorganizedyou just keep on keeping on friend you’ll be fine, haters gunna hate,
Thank you very much! Yes they do no matter what, they only see what they are shown and think that's everything. Thers more behind the camera. Thank you
It's the comments for me continuously telling this man what he should've, could've or they would've done after he explained why he didn't! 🤣🙃🥴 Like come on folks he knows how to survive yet the very ones gripping not prepared for disasters if it hit their area💯🌀🎯🌪️‼️
Thank you very much! I feel the same, in reality I feel bad for most of these key board warriors. We just had a major snow storm it hit the southern part of Ontario the worst, all these fokes that think they got it made with their central heating well 3 or 4 ft of snow hit in 2 days knocking power out, now these same fokes were eather freezing to almost death or had to be rescued from their own homes. We use gas to cut wood but worst comes to worst one could break smaller trees into pieces or chop with an axe, it may be more labour but we would still be warm if the gas station didn't open. We have heated the same space the same way in the same climate last year we knew we could do it. We know our limits and knew what we could safely do, our focus is our future, we don't fix the old $300 trailer it's how we bought it except the tip out was rotten I fixed that (sort of anyway) but we dont care for fancy we care for function our effort is our future and we have a roof over our head a bed heat and food we are very much content and happy. Thank you for you positive comment! It means alot!
Should have a years worth of firewood? Cold and winter come the same time every year, Last about the same time!
I sure should yes, actually winter is a month late this year. We planned to do it this way though as we have so much standing dead bone dry fir and some poplar that is ready to burn immediately, we had a buisy fall and decided to just skip fire wood this year and instead cut as needed. We prioritized what we wanted to get done before the snow came. Every other year we have always had fire wood for the winter ahead.
Whenever it gets cold here all of a sudden you hear chainsaws. Sometimes you can even hear people chopping wood at midnight. People same everywhere.
Pretty much the story, we all want to be prepared but have to decide what to do before snow flys, if one knows they have dry wood ready to burn standing they might skip wood in the fall and do another last minute project.
its bad form to lose your load .
That was an experiment as the snow came so we wanted to try the skidoo out, it all failed and we went back to our previous method of pulling eather full lenth or cutting to 4ft long and strapping that down, you see the updated method in more recent videos.
That's a long drive way that you clean
Not really, this is our "camp" spot aka an old loging landing we were able to get the trailer into and off the road. We are building on the otherwise of our property and will have a 1/2 mile long lane way a we are going most of the way back overlooking an abandoned beaver meadow.
i hope that you are going to come up with a plan B for hauling firewood.
That was plan trial, it failed. What we were doing all along was drawing lengths with atv or tractor and wanted to try the sled. Now we cut 4ft lengths and strap them down and pull the lot with the tractor. Less work more wood.
You blow the snow far away to make room for the next snow storms
Correct and to let the plow unload before your driveway.
Please make a RV roof cleaning video as well. Taking off all the snow ❄️. Thanks
If some one wants to see it I sure can! Alot of it melts and runs off turning to ice going down the sides but I do periodicly shovel the snow and ice off, so I sure can make a video! Great idea.
@offgridandunorganized people would love it
Ok thank you I will keep it in mind! New video ideas help alot
Roof snow is about all the insulation you have in RV. Leave it alone until spring melt, then get it off before it gets heavy
Pretty much unless it gets too deep then I clear it as it's not uncommon to get 3 or 4ft of snow and that would destroy the roof. Usialy thers a good ice layer under though so its not all scraped down. That is what I normally do is follow the weather, it actualy warmed up yesterday so really quickly I shoveled it all off as it was getting heavy fast.
Ya got to learn how to become obsessed with wood! Lol! Become one with the log! I mean, its true. You start first of no snow spring. Then collect and collect up until winter. Basically. Cant have enough. Stock pile in the woods there. Then at the house have your main. Collect full trees that fell and put them together in a spot for future use. Get a better sled for wood:) i am in Wyoming. And i lived off grid 6 months. Still have no water line. No septic. Got electric before this winter set in. Got propane for heat in my r.v. Bought a mobil home but it needs some love. So just gsve that up and been in my r.v. which so far keeps me really warm. Was tested here one winter at a r.v. resort when i first got to this state. Im a older woman single with no help and so even if i got a wood stove i would need it set up. Put hole in for pipe and all. Middle of no where no one wants to even come out. Your more blessed then i am. We all start somewhere. Dont let the haters get to you. Some dont even have a clue about off grid life
Thank you, we have heated with wood our whole lives, we lived off grid the last 4 years the past 3 were atv access, nothing no running water not even cell reception. We moved mid summer to our own place instead of rented. We spent all summer collecting logs and Felling trees and clearing to build next spring so we can have a real home. We live in the old rv for a shelter basicaly we are outside all the time. We opted to work all fall preparing for next spring to get a jump start. We have so much dead standing beetle kill that it is so dry it does not even absorb moisture anymore, almost kilm dryed. It's not a perfect senerio but we knew it would work for this winter and we would be all done what we needed to do so we can drop the shovel in once the snow goes away. Good news is we have next year's wood already from the trees we dropped clearing the laneway and the site. We for the last 4 years have had no running water or any grid power at all. We haul water from a near by source and collect rain water/melt snow. It's not perfect but we are warm and this fir we are burning is basicsly dry year round and ready to burn no matter what. Also I no longer cut to lenth since that day, it was an experiment that failed. We are cutting 4ft long lengths now and strapping them on to get alot more then pulling it with the tractor again, like we did before. I just wanted to try the sled out and it did not work well for pulling.
@offgridandunorganized awesome though. Giving the boys a Real life. Giving real skills. They may not know how lucky they are. I raised a girl to age 20 before I moved away. She wanted to stay warm in Florida. But she was so computer and phone online insane that she had one giant attitude. She couldn't fathom moving out here with me and starting from scratch. I just got 5 acres. But everything is all mine. Anyways...hats off to you all. And Merry Christmas 🤶
Merry Christmas, the size is not important it is owning what you got and not having debt over it. The boys know how lucky they are it is funny to see their reactions to some of these comments. They love living here and we've been doing it long enough they adjusted and we have a system basicsly. It defiantly was weird at first to sell everything we had and move to a place that didn't even have cell reception but we made it and realized how much more rewarding this life really is. It's funny I think the boys know how to do more conputer stuff then me, I am computer illiterate I had to learn how to turn the thing on, editing was a massive learning curve. My Fiancé is better with computers but is not much into filming and editing so she taught me the basses and I have learned from there over nearly 2 years.
@offgridandunorganized Hahaah! Yes the kids are more skilled at computers. I don't own one. Took classes on how to work on them. Failed. Then broke two in the class. No one could figure out how to get them to work again after I was on em. Just got my phone! Kids are the future. Some better have the brains and skills cause it's looking crazy by the day
We have been saying that for 5 years things are looking bleed with the technology.
It’s true you need to cut firewood all year it’s what opinion
We know that we had a buisy summer, our channel page is filled with our summer work. We have been doing this long enough, we'll before youtube we know how to keep warm and what to burn. Everything up here is soft wood and once it's dead and dry it does not get wet again unlike hardwood.
Are you serious with that log trailer, getting those logs back pissed me off you need a better trailer
I am sorry for pissing you off, the coments section is full of answers to that statement alot have said the same. It was an experiment for that day and as you can see it did not work worth nothing. We started pulling it with the tractor and cutting into 4ft lengths and strapping them down.
That snow blower sounds like it's on its last leg
Actualy it's really good and runs strong, I tryed to put a text on the screen saying the throttle was stuck on high idle. That may have not been the most visible, when I moved in the summer I never payed attention to where I left the throttle and once it got cold it iced up so it would not be able to Rev up so I was stuck using it at a high idle untill it made enough heat to unthaw the cable and then I was able to Rev it up. Those old ones are built way better then anything in the past 20 years the stuff now is garbage and not worth a dime. The old ones are built to last and built to be repaired. I did notice a noice in the front on camera (can't hear it while using it) I'm thinking maybe a bearing is going bad.
Seems like a lot of pressure to be under this time of year. Good video!
Thank you very much, it is, but it is not really. We poke away at it every few days, if I film it that's when it becomes alot of work. We spent part of last winter doing the same thing when we came up here every chance we got. It's all about your mental process weather you find it work or find it enjoying. For us collecting wood is just part of daily activities, along with melting snow for water in the big stove outside. We are enjoying life more then ever.
As we say in Scotland, the man's no right in the heid!!
I am sorry you feel that way, there's alot more that goes on behind the scenes then is visible to the camera. Not everything is as it looks eather.
Is that washing on the line?
Yes we hang our clothes to freeze dry ad have no room inside as well as makes the clothes smell really nice and fresh.
How long will that fire wood last you guys? Im assuming it depends on the temp outside for heating and stuff?
You pretty much nailed it, it can last for a couple days usualy. Depends how much we are inside and if we rember to put wood in. Usualy if it's going really well I will mix some wetter stuff in or it gets to hot and that makes it last longer too.
@offgridandunorganized makes sense! We camp so I know the dry wood tends to burn fast too. You all are living mine and my husbands dream. 💕
Well thank you, this has been our dream for some years now and we finally got moved here and are building what we want. Everything is temporary as we are " camped" where we were able to get off the road with the RV trailer. We are building permanently a half mile or so away so no sence putting anything into this spot that will be abandoned as soon as we get a driveway all the way in.
Omg leave them alone,they know now for the future and i. Sure next winter they'll have a fine stock of wood,life lessons need to be learnt not lectured
@annknee-f3f thank you, we do know not to normally do this but at the same time we knew we coulddonit successfully too. It was just part of our decisions of why to all get accomplished before the snow flys. We knew we had a stash of dead standing dry wood ready to burn once it snowed. We have been doing this for years so we are not new, but I do thank you for your support some others have been getting a little over the top we are actialy doing awesome and nice and warm.
Dying during the learning process doesn't sound like a good plan to me!! Get up off your arse and protect your family!!
We are not dying, we are quite comfortable. We only filmed one time of what we do every day and yall went crazy over it, there's more then what the camera sees. Me and my fiance lives in trailers our fair share over the years, my self 8 years so it ain't my first rodeo.
Buongiorno tanto lavoro con la neve forza e coraggio 💪👍🎇🎇 buone feste per Natale e per il 2025 AUGURI 🎊🎊🥮🥂 SALUTI DA SILVIO ITALIA...
Thank you very much, happy holidays and merry Christmas.
You will need at least 6 cords of fire I live in lower BC and 6 cords was always the starting point‼️
You are right, we have heated with wood our whole life ( that's why we did what we did and made the decisions we did as we knew our limits) we were burning about 12 cord of hard wood ash,cherry, hard maple last 3 years. With now not having hard wood at all only soft primarily fir and poplar. I have no clue how much we would burn and we are not keeping track, we will start next winter keeping track but for now we are warm and cutting wood.
When the snow don't stop the chores don't stop ! Some nice dry standing should burn nice 👍, That load of wood warm you two or three times :) I have a pattern building an awesome wood sleigh & a log mover as well :) it might help you with your wood haul, Yes I use to clean mine back so the plow don't fill your driveway :) Stay warm"
Thank you very much! I have not met alot of people that clear theirs way back, my dad taught me that as a kid and I have done it ever since, makes a big difference. I was just admiring your wood hauler the other day, I just grabbed an old truck hood I had laying around, I have used them for moving boards and stuff into remote places but never hauling fire wood. Now we needs sides! I also have to decide weather to continue the truck hood-snowmobile duo as both our sleds are trail sleds so they are geared too high, I can't go slow without smoking the belt off, not like the old skidoos and snowcruisers. I'm thinking of just using the tractor until snows too deep, it's alot easier to handle.
Wow so you don't do much outdoors do you?
Logs on the improvised platform held in place by ratchet straps.....far less work, far more wood!
If you have seen any other videos that would about explain your whole coment as a whole or read any other comments. The truck hood was a trial it failed, we wanted to test the sled out it does not pull well as gearing is too tall. We went back to the tractor and cutting longer lengths and strapping to the truck hood. Years up until now I always had a trailer so I filled the trailer and pulled that out but that had to be left behind at out old place so I no longer have use of that trailer and are now starting from scratch and have not got a trailer built yet. Also we spent all summer and fall working towards getting our future home ready for the spring to start building and we know what we have available for wood that's bone dry the middle of winter and know how it burns and heats and know we were safe making the decision to post phone cutting wood until winter as we were working toward our future all summer and fall on things that need done before the snow hits. Being in the bush with a saw in winter is very relaxing and a great excuse to get outside and get out in nature, our experience planned what we are doing.
This can not be a serious video. Absolutely no-one is that inept in a winter senerio.
It is serious sort of, it's true but not a drama, we are NOT struggling at all. We did the same thing last year with great results.
About the biggest fail you can have is no cut and dry firewood ths time of year. First off, you should be felling trees, limbing them, and dragging the entire log to your home...After you get a pile of 20 or so, start cutting to your short lengths and stacking. Disgraceful and deadly that you dont have at least 3 months worth done before the snow flew anyway. Good luck, you need it.
Thank you for the concern but what we are cut died 10 years ago and is basicaly kilm dryed its so dry it does not regain moisture, a day inside and its cranked up like crazy. Not everything is perfect In life.
@offgridandunorganized didnt mean to insult, just concerned, especially with kids involved. That said, you really need to just be towing full, debranched logs right up to the trailer for cutting to size. Wjen you get a snow dump of 12"+ and ypu need wood, you will be damn glad you did so. You may find you cannot get anymore on a need basis. Also, cover the logs, its much easier to cut to size and split without 1/2" of ice or several of snow on it. Good luck, keep posting.
Thank you for the clarification, normally what u said is what we have been doing, we got some snow and I wanted to try the sled out since it has been sitting all summer, an excuse to put some milage on, then I needed a sled to pull behind aka the truck hood. Neather one did a good job so it's back to pulling lengths like we were. We got alot brought up today with the tractor pulling.
@offgridandunorganized God bless you guys and good luck then. Btw, you made me a new subscriber also.😊
Well then thank you very much! And thank you for the kind words, life is good we got heat food and shelter. We have been doing this for 3 years now even our old cabin was not the warmest so we are kind of used to it but it's right toasty in here, soft wood burns HOT but fast. Life is good and we are exactualy where we want to be!
I DO AN I HAVE PEOPLE ASKING ME/ BUT IT KEEPS SNOW PLOW FROM DUMPING ITS SNOW IN MY DRIVWAY.👍👍👍
You nailed it, my experience is the neibours used to think I was a mental case for doing such. They could not figure out why their driveway was full of snow always, my dad taught me that as a kid and it has always stuck with me.
Why wait till you have no firewood?? Then you use chainsaw cut wood, load the wood behind a snowmobile and tow the wood only to have the wood fall off the back of the snowmobile. Great plan
The answer to your question is repeated about 350 times in the coment section please take a quik glance over and that will answer everything.
Full on demo of doing things the most difficult way possible 😅
Not the most, the most would be snow shoes and pulling a toboggan behind.
Why don’t you leave the logs long and cut them at home. I think you would loose less of them.
It's funny you say that, that's exactusly what we did after that video. We cut them to 4ft and strapped them down, that was an experiment and it failed. Before we were pulling out in full lenth.
Snow plow through back
You nailed it! I am surprised how many of you all are responding with the correct answer, our old place the neubours that we were mentally unstable for doing such a thing but at the same time we're not connecting their driveway being full of snow always.
Stop cutting down healthy trees if they're not on your property 😤
I am not sure where you get that idea, neather are true. Those tress are not healthy they are dead, do you see the missing needles? And missing bark? Conifers do not loose needles unless they are DEAD. Also we live there full time so I have no idea why you think we don't.
And it doesn’t help to take the snow of the pieces, when you are throwing them in a sledge full off snow!😢
What it does help is stops your clothes getting covered in snow that could melt as you warm up from moving as working. Wet clothes makes you wet and wet makes you cold, so it does help actualy by keeping us dry.
Maybe build a better wood carrying thing so it doesn’t fall
I was thinking the same, until now we have Been using the atv or dragging the whole trees up with the tractor, but the atv is down and I did not feel like getting the tractor going as it's diesel and cold out. So since we had some snow I figured I would try out the sled so I went looking for something to pull wood on and found an old truck hood I had laying around. I thought about racks or something about half way through.
@ just put some. Kind of wood around the trailer thing u use know so logs don’t fall maybe a 2by 2
Yes that was what I was thinking, that was the first time for hauling wood on the truck hood so it was an experiment, usualy I pull them in full lengths up and cut up here. I wanted to see how the sled worked so I needed something to pull behind it and the hood was all I had, I have moved lumber and stuff over the years on truck hoods to remote places but never used for moving fire wood. Lessons learned. I