Log cabin tour on our off grid homestead near Willow Alaska
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2021
- Tour of Perry and Carolyn’s log cabin. It is still a work in progress but it is dry and warm.
We cut the trees, hauled the logs, milled the D logs, milled the boards on the partition walls and built this ourselves.
During the same summer we also built Tyler’s house, two outhouses, and a woodshed, as well as cleared the land to build all this on.
After all that we still managed to cut a winter supply of wood for all three cabins.
Who are the "Mitchells In Alaska?"
Retired brothers, Tony & Perry. as well as Perry's wife Carolyn and their son Tyler and his wife Ginny + 4 dogs and 2 cats.
What are we doing?
We are building an off-grid homestead in the Alaskan wilderness that consists of three cabins. We will clear land, saw our own lumber from trees we cut, and build cabins and outbuildings. We have already built a couple of our outhouses and an outdoor shower, etc.
Future Plans:
We plan to add chickens, gardening, canning, fishing, etc as time goes by but this first summer is being completely consumed with clearing the build sites and building the cabins and roads.
Currently:
We're all sharing one tiny cabin while clearing land and milling logs to build 2 more cabins, gardens etc. It's an adventure most would not even attempt & most think we are crazy for doing. An experience of a lifetime & the biggest adventure we've been on. We're learning many new things along the way as well as applying the skills we already have.
Come along on this adventure with us & laugh at our goofs because we certainly have a lot to learn.
Email us at offgridmia@gmail.com
Write to us at:
Mitchells In Alaska
P.O. Box 262
Willow, Alaska 99688
Instant Message with us on Facebook at / mitchellsinalaska 
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I remember when yous skys built that cabin them was good times. yous skys are going to be working on the projects until you are done, good tour
Thank you
6 months from now is when you will wish you had dark curtains. When you try to go to bed at midnight and the sun in shining in your bedroom window. Good video!
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Very nice! I'd still get the firewood off the ground, and cover it during winter months so it doesn't get to wet to burn. Very nice cabin.
The wood is actually on pallets and the 4’ overhang on the front does surprisingly well at keeping the snow off of it.
We don’t get rain through the winter and rarely get wind where we live so it stays pretty dry and it is only stacked there during the winter months. Hopefully this spring we will have a wood shed built to store it in and the cabin will have a porch across the front of it.
Great looking cabin, thanks for the tour and thanks for the shout out! We appreciate your viewership.
Trying to figure out how to fit a 65’ TV in here now 🤪
I bet you can find a place
wow What a beautiful cabin..You are excellent Builders.
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Thank you and thank you for watching
Thank you for inviting us in. You have such a gorgeous cabin! I could move right in. So cozy & really coming along nicely. You'd have a hard time getting me out of that shower! 😊
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Thank you for showing us Perry and Carolyns cabin. Very cozy...everything you need. Plus the indoor shower!
Love your videos
Thanks again
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A beautiful house and a great place to live.
Thank you. Like the way you stay flexible with all systems. It’s going to be great when it’s done. Thanks again.
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Ooh I like Perry & Carolyn's cabin. Very nice. Once the finishings done it'll be very comfortable.
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Awesome cabin.
Would love to move to somewhere as this .. England hasn't these opportunities like you guys have there.
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We feel fortunate to be able to do the things we do
WOW it REALLY LOOKS great outside CAN'T WAIT until YOU GUYS finish FIXING the inside
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Love love love your cabin Perry and Carolyn!!! Thanks for letting us see it! Your indoor shower looks awesome!!! And your water system and everything! I know it takes time to get everything finished but it’s lovely at this stage!!! God bless all of your families!!!
Looks good! Nice having an indoor shower. Thanks for showing us the cabin.
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amazing job lads
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Perry and Carolyn's cabin looks great . What you folks have achieved this past year is amazing.
Thank you very much
just found you and immediately subscribed!
Awesome thank you
Looks fine
Thanks for taking us on a tour. Gave me a few ideas for my Alaska cabin we will be finishing out this summer.
Awesome thank you for watching
Klamath falls Oregon is watching
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Great job! So much to learn from folks like you. You have a lot to be proud of for sure!
Thank you sir
Thanks, Perry and Caroline, for letting us view the thoroughly-modern cabin interior! YAY on the shower! Go Molly!🐾👍😎🇨🇦🌲🔥
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Great job gentlemen and ladies! Until you live in a cabin off grid you can’t really appreciate how much work it actually is and just how rewarding the smallest improvements are hot running water is a true luxury. Lovin your videos.
Thank you and you are very correct
It’s great to see all of you enjoying the fruits of your labors, since you moved to Alaska.
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Wow nice video i like it
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Looks real good guys 👌
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This place is nice! I love the idea of laying in bed and having low windows
That is very nice
Perry and Carolyn's cabin looks great!! And I agree, that indoor shower is a must. I can't imagine trying to shower outside in negative temperatures. You all have made great progress!
Thank you very much
Really looking 👀 fantastic guys 👍
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Love your channel.
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It is coming along great. You have all been very busy. It seems like it never ends. We have been building for years on a small duplex. Getting a bunch of drywall next week. Not my favorite job.
Doing drywall isn’t fun
@@MitchellsInAlaska Hopefully this will be the last drywall job I ever do. The main thing is to get the ceiling done as I am tired of watching the ceiling vapor barrier breath in the wind while I heat that space. . Our living area is done, this is just on the other half. The walls are over 6” of closed cell foam and almost R 60 batts in the ceiling.
@@Chris_at_Home that’s awesome
Thanks for the tour
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Cabin looks nice and comfy! Thanks for sharing!
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Y'all deserve a long winter's rest after the unbelievable amount of work you accomplished this year. Everything looks great!
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Cabin looks awesome Perry! Definitely a lot more done sense Wendy and I seen it last. Im gonna steal all your ideas from all 3 places when I start on my cabin. Tony your getting real good with the camera! You guys are awesome! Hopefully I get to see you all before Christmas. Im headed up to the cabin with Eli this weekend. Tony I'll txt you after I enter this comment.
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loving that cabin and the indoor shower. awesome work this past year. stay warm.
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That’s a nice cabin. Next year it will be awesome.
Thanks for sharing, beautiful cabin
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We spend atleast a week or so camping at the local campground. Your area is beautiful. Lots of fishing and hunting to be had . Your new home is fantastic. I am so envious. I wish you lots of luck and love. And we wish you all A very Merry Christmas and happy new year 🎉.
Thank you, merry Christmas and happy new year to you as well. Thank you for watching
Looks. Great. And. Warm. Water. In doors. Another of. Life's luxurious. Amenities. Arap around porch. And screened in. Deck
Thank you. Still more to do for sure
It has turned out just beautiful. You guys did a fantastic job. At least your are nice and toasty in the cabin and love the design for sure...especially the shower LOL Thank you for sharing this cabin build. God Bless you all.
Thank you
My dream.... you are truly blessed. It is so beautiful and certainly all anyone needs! My late husband and I had this dream only it would have been in Tennessee.
Thank you
Merry Christmas 🎄🎅
Merry Christmas to you too
Thank you for the tour! I had been wondering what it looked like, how things were laid out. It looks pretty darn cozy! Thank you again, nice job!
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It's going to be beautiful! Wonderful to see everything. Awesome adventure. Thank you for sharing.
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Perry and Carolyn's cabin sure is turning out nice, you all did a great job on it and looking forward to seeing more of the finishing touches. So cool that you guys cut and milled all those logs.
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Looking good!
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Very nice cabin
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Looking good guys!
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You guys have done a lot of great work.
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I watch a few off grid living in Alaska channels and the hard work and sheer tenacity that everyone shows in building their dream is just phenomenal. Your cabin looks great and I look forward to seeing the finished results
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Looking great!
Hello newbie here came over from Cody n Lori channel Nice to meet you all
You and your family has a beautiful home l hear you on the indoor shower thats living high to have one of them, lol
Hello, thank you for subscribing.
I really like Cody and Lori. They are nice people and hard working
Bloody good job on Perry's cabin.
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BEAUTIFUL CABIN GUYS, WELL THOUGHT OUT AND BUILT‼️GREAT JOB‼️ Vinny 🇺🇸
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Outhouse with tools APROVED
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Beautiful cabin. Thanks for sharing.
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Just came across this channel. Love the cabin build that's going on. I'll be checking out the other channels you mentioned as well. Love Alaska and y'all have got youselves a new subscriber. Take care and Merry Christmas! Form down here in South Carolina.
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I just love your home thank you for video.
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Good setup 👌 👍 👏.
Damn good job
Wow beautiful job
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Wishing aVery Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to the Mitchells in Alaska. May your adventurous journey continue in 2022
Merry Christmas and happy new year to you as well.
Thank you for following our journey
Was there a reason you didn't do a ridgepole to get more roof pitch ? You guys did a awesome job looks awesome...
Lifting one was the problem so we used 2x12’s
Nice!
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Hi from Greece very nice home ❤️❤️
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Nice roofline !
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Hi everyone, I have watched this video for the second time. I really like the way you set up your cabin, I even like your out house, lol.
I’m a bit worried about you guys, I hope everything it’s ok.
Thank you for taking us along through your journey in Alaska!
Waiting impatiently for the next video!
We are doing ok. I had to go to the lower 48 for a family emergency but all is ok
I’m sorry about your family emergency but very happy to hear from you.
Stay warm!
It’s even cold in Texas
Wow that's very nice I live in Ontario, but I used live in the state, I thinking off moving back , it's to expensive here. Plus I am indigenous from both places. I love your videos.
Thank you very much
Very awesome house 🏠 MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 🎅 🎄 KEEP WARM AND SAFE GOD BLESS .
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you for watching our videos
I’d be happy to live in it. Much love and safety and have a great life! Dec. 2021
Thank you so much
He has a nice home.
Thank you
*Thank You for sharing the 'cabin in progress' footage. I was having trouble imagining how your load bearing divider wall would bear the weight of your roof system. I like how you did it. The gravity drain system on the water fill fitting seems a well thought out design. A 'rough number' to estimate weight of Water in tanks : Water usually weighs about ten pounds per gallon... IF you include the weight of typical containers or tanks. I know, the typical weight of UNCONTAINED water is about 8.33 pounds per gallon. The container does weigh something. Hence... Roughly ten pounds per gallon... Fifteen pounds per gallon {or more} might be a better number... if you have an extra sturdy or insulated container. Thank you for sharing... I am glad you got the roof on and made it survivable {and somewhat comfortable} for the first winter.*
Are you talking about the wall between the porch area and the living room?
If you are that wall has pillars on 5’ centers and the same triple 2x6’s as the perimeter sill
Se les ve genial saludos desde la sierra de Madrid ..feliz navidad
I’m sorry I can’t read this.
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Very nice. Great progress. Curious when y’all drove up did you have to ship your boom sticks ? I’ve read Canada don’t make it easy to get more than a single long gun through.
We brought all of our long guns.
20+ between all of us. We shipped the handguns
@@MitchellsInAlaska thanks ! That helps us a lot. Not sure where we will eventually land but hope to get out of Mo no later than 2023. Still shopping for a property.
Buongiorno super!!!!!!!!!!
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Nice
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Very cool cabin and filming style. I gotta learn to explain what goin on in my videos. Some new Alaska channels add drama like those discovery channel shows do which turns me off immediately. Awesome sauce
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Need to really knock out the details of that house its pretty RUSTIC!!
They build such beautiful cabins such detailed work absolutely stunning!! Why not put a bathroom inside the cabin as opposed to an outhouse??????😮
The cost to do it mainly and not having the well connected to the cabin.
Tanks and lines need to be 12 feet deep here
Hi there... happy New Year to you all. Have not seen any updates in 3 weeks.... are you guys ok and coping with all the snow and cold in Alaska? Hope u are all doing great. Hugs. Annette
Happy new year to you.
The year got off to a rough start. I’m in the lower 48 due to a death in the family
@@MitchellsInAlaska so sorry to hear. My sincerest condolences.
Excellent to see the progress, have you ordered the black stove yet?
No not yet
@@MitchellsInAlaska I'm not really stalking you from afar, I just happened to notice your question to the folks at Life In Alaska.
@@alpinealpine2793 lol I figured you seen that in the comments.
Reading all the comments from everyone is what’s fun
Will yall dig a well at some point?
Hopefully this summer. We didn’t get enough land cleared last summer
*With each passing year {or decade) most humans become more aware of the effects of gravity. OCCASIONALLY, some ingenious folks figure out, notice or become aware of ... ways to let gravity behave as it will and work for us...rather than against us.*
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Excellent. Curious to what type of wood stove you are using? Looks very rugged.
Kind regards
New Brunswick Canada 🇨🇦
That one was a beast but we have since replaced it with a smaller one with a glass door.
The new one is more efficient too.
how often do you have to fill the water tanks?
Every couple weeks. You learn to be conservative
Any issues with condensation on the water tank inside after filling it with cold water? Like a cold drink cup in summer how it sweats. Thank you
We have not had that in any of our cabins
Just found your channel. Where are you all from in lower 48? East Texas, here.
Southwest Missouri
I also missed what is the outside measurement of this cabin
28x30
Thank you for the video. How do they get the water into the water tank? Just wondering?
We all have similar water systems in our cabins. We have a 250 gallon tank in my pickup and hookups on the outside of the cabins and we pump it in until it comes out the overflow.
We have a couple videos showing the other water systems too.
@@MitchellsInAlaska Ok, that explains it, thank you for the answer!
That beautiful cabin has no indoor bathroom??
It does not. Solar power only as well
Frankly, grandparents should receive their housing from the government ready to live in comfort and security. where you've seen them leave to build their houses! Shame on government!🇧🇷🇺🇸
I live down in Florida. I've been thinking about moving to that area on the other side of the susitna river. Been seeing some land go for pretty cheap out there. Of course, it's not accessible by road. My idea is for my wife and I to build a shed to live in while we build our main cabin, hopefully we can find land with a lot of spruce on it but we'll likely be purchasing site-unseen so we'll have to use whatever is available. We'll probably stay there 8 months out of the year and fly home to see family and work seasonal jobs in the winter until our lifestyle there becomes sustainable. Does this sound like a reasonable idea to you, also do you think a man and woman in their 20's can build a cabin alone? I've never visited Alaska. We just like the idea of freedom from the rat race and some taxes/regulations.
No doubt you can do it. We are in our 60’s
@@MitchellsInAlaska Thank you for your input. It's definitely been an inspiration to see what you guys have done.
@@UberEatsKJsGas it is a lot of work but it is fun work.
This is a good area as far as weather goes
@@MitchellsInAlaska That's part of why I was interested in that area, plus the proximity to Anchorage will hopefully lower the air taxi bills. I may even find something near a trail to drive back and forth. That would be ideal.
If mankind is cursed to work, I'd rather be working for myself. Using your imagination to build what you want has to be more fun than a regular job.
The biggest question mark I have on my list of moving there is how much stuff do I want to bring. It seems like I want to bring everything I can think of, up there. To make life a little easier. I don't know where to draw the line at. Obviously I'll need my tools, guns, food, and some creature comforts but is there anything that you have that you wouldn't want to live without there, besides the basics?
@@UberEatsKJsGas the basics will get you by but a few luxury items are nice too but the problem is storing stuff until you have a place to use it or put it. I brought stuff I didn’t see again for over a year.
Willow also has a small plane airport as well. I think you can hire a plane there too
What are the dimensions of this cabin please?
28x30
Do you only have the woodstove for heat?
That’s it in all three cabins.
We would like to add a toyo sometime for backup heat
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing
@@ericschwepker2906 anytime at all. Thank you for watching
Which one of you plays guitar and which one plays bass?
Lol neither one
You probably get this all the time.lol
@@IVIITCH0 lol yeah we do