Outhouse Build, Solar Panel Set Up and Small Chainsaw Debut!
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- Getting more tasks accomplished on our off grid Alaskan homestead while we wait for concrete delivery for the pole barn posts. We construct the outhouse we had hoped we'd build last summer and set up new solar panels to help power our equipment. With a little trepidation, Carlan picked up a small chainsaw and got to work thinning re-prod around camp. Beautiful days building the life we are closer and closer to living! Enjoying the wind, the birds, the sun and the rain in this wilderness we can't wait to call home.
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Great projects! clearing tangled brush/trees, solar power! cute outhouse 👌Nice progress on your goals~!💚
Thank you! Little by little, things are coming together. 😁 Thanks for the encouragement!
The land looks so much brighter now that you've cleared it some. This job will take a long time but it will be so worth it. Cute outhouse. Great job to both. Love and be safe!😘🌻VE
Yay! We think so too! Thanks for the encouragement! 🤗
Yeah Go Chainsaw Girl !! Say Timber !!
Nice paint job! I'd look into a larger solar system. Outback brand is good.. get a Flex max 80, a 48 volt inverter and some Chinese 48volt batteries. You can add up to 3600 watts of panels and charge your batteries off your generator. That way you'll have much more capability.
Thank you! Yes! We definitely want something more substantial going forward. Good advice, appreciate it!
Long cold dark walk in the winter. I remember it well. I was 12 years old before we had indoor plumbing. I can imagine that it would be worse in Alaska. You might invest in a chamber pot for the just in case moments like -30 below. That can freeze off body parts.
Thank goodness for headlamps and little buddy heaters! 😅 My grandparents worked a fire lookout with a long, long precipitous walk to the outhouse. Especially sketchy in thunderstorms! They used milk cartons at night, lol! 😂
Love your out house😊❤❤
,and the color.
Thank you! 🤗
Fantastic work, Love the colours
Thank you! Cheers!
One brick at a time.. ~tyfs~
When I was a kid we did not have indoor plumbing. Grandpa dug a new hole and moved the outhouse every spring. Filling up the old hole with the dirt from the new hole. You placed the outhouse pretty close to your tent. But luckily it is on skids and can be moved to a location further awy in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Yes! The outhouse is in a temporary spot. Both the pole barn and our future log cabin will be away from this spot, thankfully. 😁
I would make some vine charcoal out of the Willow for art
Ooh! I'll have to check that out! Definitely no shortage of it. 😅
brush is where the danger lies. the saw can kick back very easy .
Yes, that's what I was told, and why I was worried, but thankfully all went well! 😁
Get a padded t seat or make one from blue foam, You will than me in the winter!
Yes! In the plans.....😁 Thank you!
dont forget to cover the moon in bug covering !
Yes!!
I am a little scary using a chainsaw but I am getting the hang of it
Definitely!! It takes some deep breaths. 😅
The smaller saws are very dangerous, cutting shrubbery makes that even more so. Plant your feet before every cut! Be careful, don't hurry and rest when you get tired! Be safe!
I'd been told that, so I was extra worried! 😅 Good tips!! It was surprisingly exhausting.
Here we call them dunnies..or long drops 😂. A good solution for odour control is a cup of lime spread after solids. Sawdust is also useful but you may need a little more. Lime will help better with fly control if that an issue there.
Great tips! We have been using fire ash. Flies aren't too bad here, thankfully. 😁
Don't forget a vent (PVC Pipe or so) from the waste cavity up above the roof - otherwise the smell inside will be overwhelming
Definitely a must! I think in our video cutting we neglected to show that part. We did get a pipe in thank goodness. 😅
Young lady you are choking the hammer, use all the length of the handle. but you're having a red hot go. Keep up the good work.
Lol, that's what my husband tells me too! My problem is, when I'm further out on the handle, I miss the nail! 😂😂
I hope you put plastic on the on the walls of the seat box to keep urine and other stuff from soaking into the plywood.
Also you will want to put a piece of screen over your Cresent cut out
Great tip, and no, we didn't at first, but realized we should have. 😅 So we added it after.
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BTW all girls from Oregon Know how to run a chainsaw !!
Oh please no they don't. I'm an Oregonian and you're mistaken lol.
Lol, it seems like we all might, but yeah, I'd never run one! 😅
Stay small work hard
What is the reference to "reprod"? Google gave me an off-topic definition🤔😵💫
Sorry! 😅 It stands for reproduction, meaning little saplings/young trees that have grown up in thickets after a fire, or logging. It could be trees that were planted, or those that gave come up naturally.
A newbie and no chainsaw PPE? C'mon...always wear ear protection, chaps or protective pants designed for chainsaw users and gloves. Please use proper gear when using potentially dangerous equipment. Especially for someone with zero experience. Just a heads up on your outhouse...you want it as far away from your living area as possible. The smell and insects that are drawn to it will be overwhelmingly offensive. Ask me how I know lol.
Good tips! 😅 Yeah, outhouses can be a little too close! We left it on the sled so we can move it when we know more where permanent structures will be. Chaps are in the future for both of us! 😅
She was wearing ear plugs when she had the yellow shirt on.
True! They are hard to see. 😁
@@shirleyharvey7376 I must have not squinted hard enough lol.
Why dont People from the states, and Canada not use this protektion when they use chainsaw😢😢😢😢