Getting into the Off Grid Rhythm at our Alaskan Property

The shelving unit sure helped. Also, your tree trimming looks great. I think another benefit will be smaller fire danger. Bring on the breeze. :face-red-heart-shape: I just stumbled onto your site and really enjoyed the content. TY!

Just found your site and like what we see. Have subscribed so we can enjoy following you on your journey and off grid life in Alaska.

great to see the " willing to learn " spirit you have ! Consider a cordless Cobalt chainsaw for all that smaller diameter branch trimming. The charge lasts long, weigh little, chain stays sharp " forever " !

New subscriber today! Very excited for You Two. The tent looks nice, Congratulations! and look forward to many more adventures!💚

I love it I get to watch you from the beginning. Good luck kids .

New subscriber and fellow Oregonian. Keep up the good work.

Glad i found your adventure videos. Just want to add to other comments that even a REAL QUALITY hand Tree Saw would be a great help to cut a little larger branches and small trees if you don't want to fool around with a tool that will use more of your power. Just a thought. Excellent videos so far.😊

Just found your channel and excited to follow you on your journey. Something I’ve found for cleaning up the underbrush on trees like that is a sawzall. Makes it so much faster than using the pruners.

How exciting clearing your land! First time on your channel…you should get a small electric chainsaw for those lower small branches. I saw someone on another channel that love it. Look forward to more videos

Great job guys!!

Perhaps a light weight manual or battery powered pole saw would be easier than the pruning shears your using to trim the lower branches! You have a very impressive temporary camp set up. Its a lot easier to stay motivated and productive when your comfortable. Looking forward to following your adventure!

Hi, me again. Its so nice to follow some from the start. One more thing if you gona invest in a wooden stove for heating. I not see any Americans using this kind of stoves but here you can buy stoves that have a connection where you can install a inlet pipe for air to the stove. Then you can take air from the outside, no ide to burn warm air from inside the house and put it out from the chimney. Also one good thing is that you do not get so much cold air coming in from the ventilation. The air how goes out from the chimney must come in to the room som where, so better to take that air direct from the outside then you do not get a windy room. This is also a reason to not make the floor direct, and its more easy do make the drain system and do the electric wiring in the 2x2 horizontal on the outside, so no need to drill holes in every wall frame when wiring. There are some nice fans that we use in the bathroom to get moisture out when we shower. If you want nice air circulation in all rooms you can have a pipe with a fan in the area abowe the stove and have the pipe inside the walls and let the outlet be in another room near the floor , warm air rise so you get circulation and have the vent outlet high to the air go back to the living room again. Best is to let the air go back again to the same room. Then you got a nice warm air flow in the rooms that you connect. The fan i use can connect with a App in your phone if you want to control it manuell other vise is auto on moisture in the room and it got 3 speeds.

Hi, this going to be nice to follow you. Im not going to say how things going to be done building a house, but maybe some are good to think about. Most Amerikans have more problem than they need to have, so here are some tips. When doing a frame for the floor mostly use 2 inch frames, check up what C/C is and you will use it everywhere floor walls and roof, if you already know that you also know that all materials are sized after that. We use 600 Cm but you maybe use 2 feet or something. When you have cut your floor joists, put a 1x4 direct to the joist and you frame it with the 1x4 down, this model is so you can quicker waterproof house and not damage the materials. When you frame the floor its time for rise the walls with noggins. I dont use plywood on the outside reason is that you dont need that and if you gona have plywood on the inside its double costs for plywood. When the wall frame is up you now notice that its much easy to adjust the walls without the plywood and its not heavy to rice the frame and if its wet weather its no problem bec you dont have a plywood floor. Also you got a wall that is direct to the floor framing without a plywood between wall and floor, if you have any leak from outside or inside its easyer to fix the floor if its not under the wall. When the walls are adjusted. lock the wall frame with 2x2 with C/C size (for insulation) and on the outside you put Tyvek, the reason only using tyvek is that Plywood is glued with many layers and not breath as good as Tyvek. Now you have a wall that can easy be insulated from the inside when you get a water proof house. First the horizontal 2 inch insulation between the 2x2 and then the normal insulation vertical, now you have a wall that not have any cold bridges and easy to make a VENTILATED wall with vertical lock panels. When it comes to the roof check so you have a ventilated roof as well and do the metal parts before install the metal roof. Now you got a water proof house much quicker and can start with the inside job and store some materials inside instead of being wet outside. Remember that you install the 1x4 on the floor joist before you frame the joist, now you can easy drop down a bottom sheet (there are many kind of materials for this and i use a fiber cement when i build houses in the wood bec no mouses eat concrete). So where was we, yes drop the sheets down, you can glue them to the 1x4 if you like or nail them if you use softer sheets. Then install insulation and they also in C/C dimension and then end with a moisture membran ex plastic. Same with floor, walls and roof, all must have moisture membran from the INSIDE bec your moisture comes from the inside and you do not want moisture in your walls, special if you using plywood how stops walls to breath. If some one have questions, feel free to ask. So again use C/C and you also install plywood on the inside without cutting them. Good luck to you all. One more thing if you use wooden windows and doors you need a gap when make the walls for the frames. I use soft insulation bec there are some screws made for doors and windows so you can adjust the frame, your house is make of wood and it can moves over time and it could be nice to adjust them special the ones how gona be open. If you using spray foam it can push the frames and it get hard. Also more easy to install the drain pipes from inside the water proof house without a floor, If you want to use vertical lock panels on the outside the first panel you put up with a gap to each other, there is where the ventilation gona go. Then put a lock panel over the gap. The bottom panels shall be a little wider then the lock panels so the panels looks that there are the same widht when you finish. When panels are up you cut them with a circular saw 15 degrees angel so they got a dripping edge, threat the end with some oil and then paint them. It good to paint all wood before you put them up so you dont get them looking funny when they dry up and get smaller.

Thankyou 😊

Alaska is beautiful but I'm not sure I could stand so many mosquitos and gnats that I need a mesh net over my head. 👍for the video

Maybe there's a spring. That would be helpful.

You should be wearing safety glasses while trimming branches. I speak from experience after coming close to losing an eye doing the same thing. I had a small branch fall on me and one small twine off the branch pocked me less than a half inch from my eye and left me bleeding. I get it I didn't think twice about doing stuff like that, but it only takes one time.

The machine seems to work really great, but wondering, why you would leave it right next to you, and not off to the side a little, so that the machine actually attracts to a short distance from you personally would be really the goal I would think.

Curious about how you financed this awesome venture.

Are you planning on drilling a well.