Yes! The chicken saddles are the only thing that worked for us. Super easy to make your own too. It looks like the raven is there to stay! Love hearing that call for some peanuts😂
Great explanation on the dry cabins! As for the chicken-saddles: we never used them. But we turn the chicks into meat-chicks when they get too much danaged. You'll get used to it, but I'm not sure if Diana ever will....
What a beautiful spot you have to live! I had to grin at your ideas of the firewood in a box and lift onto the deck;-) We have wooden bins made especially for that, (my hubby has a stairbuilding company and we load up on the triangle scrap pieces). We fill the bins and can drive right up to our patio door (no patio) with the forklift to empty into the house. Last year we even brought in wood on a pallet and put the pallet right in through the patio door!
Great camera work on the video. No foot prints or quad tracks in the shot going to the boat. 😁 You talked about moving the firewood with the tractor, have you seen people stack there firewood in the metal frame of the icb water totes. If you had enough of those, stack in to dry and then grab to put on deck when it is time to fill the cart. Have a super week.
Ha I was being sneaky with the camera😂 that’s a great idea with the totes. I’ll check in town and see if the recycling place has some. Hope you have a great week too.
A lot of times the seaweed we get off of the beach has a lot of bugs in it. So we give it to the chickens who love to eat bugs....Then the seaweed goes into the raised beds along with the ancillary "chicken products" which make for good fertilizer.
Awesome video, I use the 285 gal plastic tote with metal cage around it, cut top off and a opening on one side stack you wood in it and place with tractor! Thanks for sharing, God bless
Still raining here and 40 degrees even at night. I’m kind of liking not having to deal with the snow, but it does seem weird that it’s so warm. Fun trip going for a ride to check on boat, and tromping out to clear trail. Tyler & I call a trail “deer approved” if we find their prints.
Crazy winter. That snow lasted a couple of days and then the rain washed it away. Ha dear approved, I like it. That’s all Gunner and my trial is just a well groomed deer trail😂
Not sure if someone else mentioned this but, for the pallet wood storage idea: Build a frame with 2x4's and wrap some chicken wire around the inside on 3 sides. Air can still move around and it will keep the wood in place. Just a thought.
We have over a dozen ravens come to our house every morning for food.We feed them scraps and when it’s really cold they get scraps from the butcher shop.
Think i would kinda do like your cart you made only on a pallet. If i figured right 4ft tall 4 ft wide and 4 ft deep is about a 1/4 cord of wood on each pallet. Not sure your porch will hold it but a thought!
You looked like a true lumberjack toting that chainsaw down the path. LOL. Gunter knows the way so come on pa I will lead the way! Good idea to staying up to date and legal on the boat. Poor Rocky! Can't say I ever seen our chicks do that back when we use to have them so no help buddy. Why not run a tube out into the ground from out the cabin and put a big funnel on it to pee in during the hard winter. Gallon of water sitting beside it for a flush. Looks like ya gonna need that load of firewood with more snow coming. Stay safe and warm as ya can my friends. Hope ya have a great week!
Ha oh I’ve though about that before but then I have a hole in the side of a wall and the pipe would start to smell like pee😂 Eventually we want to get a compost toilet. It has a separate tank that catches pee and then you can plumb that out in to a gray water system. That’s our goal at least. Hope you two have a great week.
What is happening with the hen is the roosters spurs. Since she is his favorite she gets all the attention. You can hold the rooster with his head under your arm, take a pair of pliers, gently twist the spur back and forth and the outer shell will come off. This will remove the spur leaving new growth that is much smaller. Apply the blue coat to the area as it will bleed a little. This should give your hens some relief on their backs and not tear up her feathers. Hope this is helpful . From Mississippi !!
Bringing in wood then will go out and split more after my canning is finished We might get a dusting tonight. My crows were hollering till I remembered I forgot to feed them. They are great watch dogs. It looks so beautiful there. Not sure if I'd be happy without the four seasons. Guess that hunting and fishing would make up for it. I enjoyed watching. I use a bedside commode they have a toss bucket too but used bucket for years, just a little more comfortable, comes with age lol. Chicken Yoga stretches lol how funny. Looks so beautiful and peaceful. May you two enjoy. I now run a 12volt RV water pump into house. Hey what about finding old IBC tank frames for your firewood box/forklift thingy? Not sure it'd work. Maybe a junk yard or Craig's list?
Ha they make a little seat that snaps on the bucket, I should have shown that. More of a comfort for the ladies. Yeah a lot of people have recommended the totes. I’ll check in town next time to see if the recycling place has any. Hope you have a great week.
We have a wood shed with 4-5 cord, the shed is about 50’ away.. We have a little wood box near the wood stove, which we can fill up with what I can carry. So 3 trips a day.. I like the trip to the wood shed, I think palitizing would be more work. We count how many times we pick up the same piece of wood, from the time we cut the tree down.
looks great out there stay warm and as for the chicken blankets, saddle it goes by a lot of different names those that use them love them there several videos on you tube on it to look at. thanks for sharing and have a great week as well
New subscriber here. I just found you because Eric and Ariel at Simple Living Alaska mentioned you as one of their favorite youtube channels to watch, even before they moved to Alaska. I am enjoying learning about your home on the island.
Glad to have you. They are a wonderful couple. Smart and grounded. Hopefully you’ll enjoy some of our stuff. We try to highlight living in southeast Alaska.
know a guy that built small room on side of the house loades it with wood has a door inside just reaches in to get wood doesnt have to go outside till bin is empty
Gotta love them chores my friend and I really like the drone footage in the beginning of the video Brian!!! Good explanation on living in a dry cabin during the winter, I was thinking it got really really cold over there but you cleared that up for me lol!! Y'all stay safe and warm up there sir!!! Dan
2x4 frame and chicken wire to hold the wood in when you move the pallet. With the chainsaw mill it might be easier to just make 4x4 posts for the corners of the frame until you can build/buy a sawmill to run on tracks so the lumber costs are just blades and fuel.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead You can even make side panels of it you can add/remove with screws so any side can be accessed once you have a standard size to make. A wood frame you then staple a section of wire to so no messing with sharp edges every time you need to get into the pallet.
I’m thinking that if you do a build on a pallet just like the firewood cart, minus the wheels, problem solved. Looking beautiful there, thank you for sharing. God bless and happy new year.
Boy it’s beautiful there... Little yoga for the chickens... 😂Do you lead the class. Not sure about the back for the hens never even seen one. Heck ya some forks for the tractor two nice boxes and your ready. Have a great night you two..!!
Ha I do lead the yoga class😂 We got a saddle on order, so we will find out soon how well it works. Yeah if I can get my hands on some ibc tote frames I’d be set up. Hope all is well Ron.
I wonder if you could get your hands on some of those racks that they put 250 gallon liquid totes in for your firewood made of aluminum typically and have fork pockets built in. Just an idea
Hey Sue, good question. Before we moved here full time we did have moisture and high humidity problems. Since we live here year round the heat from the wood stove keeps the humidity down 20-40%. That’s really good considering outside stays in the 90% range in our area. Also insulting the bottom of the cabin it has really helped out.
You have just found the one item that is regulated. You can build what you want, how you want but if you want a septic tank you have have your discharge line buried past the -4 foot tide. Which means you’d need to rent a big excavator to get the job done.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Yup that's what I used, it cost me $10,000. We have similar regs with our land and water bodies here in Newfoundland, CANDA too. And it was worth every penny of it. Cheers!
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Its a fair chunk of change I know. But you can't even sell here if you don't have septic. The banks will not give a loan and I can't purchase the land from crown. What do is get a few cabin owners together for projects so as not so much to get the excavator floated in.
I see someone already suggested the water tote thing if you have access to something like that. I think they would be easier to tarp up as well. Chickens still laying eggs?
I saw on one of your videos that you all were looking at getting a "chicken saddle". Never heard of one but we kept chickens years ago. We had a couple of aggressive roosters that may have been saved from the cook pot by one! They would make me so mad at the treatment of some of the hens that they just had to go! 😏
I hope you both are having a good time up there. Out of 20 years on the water with other people and by myself never got stopped by the coast guard. They got people just in front and off the side and behind but never got stopped for a safety check fish and game state troopers yes. There used to be a short forest services cop up there who thought that he could make things up and he thought that he was powerful because they gave him a gun that idiot you had to watch out for and some of the city's police. Well don't get to cold and have a good week
@@AnAlaskaHomestead commercial fished 1984 to 2002 when doctors finally got me to quit. Like I said the coast guard got people in front and off the side and behind a bunch of times. Back in 2003 that short fat forest services cop give me a ticket for shooting a stump in Herbert river trying to say that I was shooting across eagle river trail 3/4 of a mile away on city and burough property over a 1/2 mile away from the main road. You should have seen the way that forest services cop and the state trooper that following him was going and how they stopped and just about smashing into each other and jumped out with their hands on their guns like the okay coral. See them both coming and leave the 9mm sitting on the hood and get about 10 feet away from it and that idiot forestry and the young state trooper jumps out hands on their guns. It's funny now but it shows what a little power can do to some people that doesn't need it. That same forest services cop I heard pulled his gun on some snow mobile people on the Treadwell trail that was marked by signs that they could run snow mobile's on it and wasn't on forest services property on city and burough land that didn't have a gun. The way they jumped out like they were ready to open fire
Noticed you had your cannon strapped on you. Bears hibernating aren’t they? Then you said deer prints and I thought probably not deer hunting out of season? Do you have other critters roaming?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Gunner is a good dog. Honestly to me you can’t be without them. The plains Indians kept dogs because they alerted even them when trouble was near. Indians naturally aware of their surroundings but had them for security.
Hope you can, there are a few firewood guys who use them. Simple to modify, undo a couple of bolts and remove the plastic container and cut down two sides to leave a one box and then decide how low you want to bend to load it, or just check it. Does luck
We go through roughly 20 gals of gas and 40 lbs of propane a month. Here is a video on how we get stuff out to the island. ua-cam.com/video/nfqNZ_yXZP8/v-deo.html
Thanks for the reminder of checking the flares in the boat! Over here it is however not mandatory to have them onboard, unless it is your business to ship people or stuff, but since I'm so much at sea I still have them. I bet mine expired at least ten years ago! Edit: I'm sorry that I'm unable to answer your question about how to protect "Whitewings". Edit #2: Good to see that your raven buddy keeps an eye on you! Edit #3: "Bubba"? Really? How about Odin, for a name?
Odin that’s good. I’ve been calling him Echo but that may change now. 😂 Yeah I set a yearly reminder in my phone so it pops up at the first of the year to go through all the stuff. Have a great week Mike.
I don’t see why we couldn’t do this for 20 years or so. By then we should have a pretty good set up. Just relax and enjoy the scenery. Grandma Jo is doing great. We should have a follow up video in two weeks. She’ll have her results by then to see if everything worked. Hope you have a great week.
Sure looks pretty with all that snow. One of our hens had the bare back from our rooster in our first year. We brought her in the house in a cage while she heeled and while we ordered a saddle. We used the saddle on her and that worked great as far as protecting her goes. I had her on my lap and gave her treats when we put the saddle on just to get her used to it. We got rid of our rooster and we took the saddle off after a few months but her feathers were still pretty sparse and the other hens started pecking on her back. We kept that saddle on her for around 6 months (taking it off occasionally so she could dust bathe). Her feathers never fully grew back until she molted the second year. So... saddles work great, you just have to watch that the feathers grow back enough to where the other chickens don't go back into zombie apocalypse mode on her back. That was our experience anyway. The end. Haha!
Thanks for the feed back Jay. I’m hoping this works out for us. I don’t know it would take that long. The good news is I think she’s starting to molt now so if we get this next week we might be in good shape. We don’t want anymore zombie mishaps😂 Take care guys.
We use an outside shower in the summer and in the winter we do a bird bath. My wife’s folks live in town so when we go in for supplies we do laundry there. In the next two years we plane to have a shower, compost toilet and washer here at our place.
The only advice I could possibly give about chickens is they need access to small rocks for their craws to properly process their food. It a bird’s way to chew. If a chicken has spent their life in a cage, then they can’t get a chance to pick them up. I know where you live, they can’t have much time outside unprotected.
Great video Brian! Thanks!! It's actually snowing just north of San Antonio, TX this morning (1-10-2021)!! I think we've got about an inch right now. What is the brand of your chest holster? What caliber are you carrying?? I carry a 454 Casull in a chest holster when I'm up at the property in Alaska.
Ha my daughter in law just sent me a video this morning of it snowing in Fort Worth. They said they got about 3 inches. That will shut down Texas 😂 Yeah it’s a 454 in a Dimond D holster. Pricey but at my age I like to buy things once and be done with it.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Cool! Here is a video I did on my 454's before I went up last summer: ua-cam.com/video/zypsqGgsBp0/v-deo.html and this one is my review of the Paradise Leather chest holster I use for my 454 up in Alaska: ua-cam.com/video/bDCx4xCWimI/v-deo.html C'mon now Brian, you're younger than me!! LOL!! by a long shot! but I know exactly what you're talking about. I booked my reservations for May 1-16 for the first trip to my property in Kasilof. I'll be going back up again later in the summer for a much longer stay. If you ever visit your daughter in Ft. Worth, let me know and if I haven't moved to Alaska yet I'll come up - I'd like to meet y'all! I'm just north of San Antonio and my daughter and her family live in Dallas so it's no big deal for me to drive or ride the motorcycle up (if the weather is good). Stay safe my friends!!
Note: If you visit youtube "Living web Farms" there you can see how to easily make charcoal from your tree branches. Use the charcoal on the chicken coop Ammonia smell as well as you're out house.
Happy New Years!!! I lived where it's 20 to 4o below,, had running water into my pitcher pump kitchen sink all winter... Line ran 20 feet from the well ""above grown"" 6//8 inches of sawdust & planer shavings under the line,, foot over the line, 2//3 feet wide,, Double up GOOD tarp,, not one of those useless blue POS,!!!. Under the camp,,, made a box 2 foot square ground to floor.... built mostly outside put in place.... As i filled it with sawdust & shavings ,, packed it in I close up the 4th side 1 board at a time,, tar paper outside... my well cover was level to the grown,,, also covered with shavings & tarp.. weighted every inch of the tarps to keep driving rain from blowing the tarp & getting shavings wet!!!! use dry dry dry shavings,, hay, leaves, sawdust,, moss,, grass clippings they all work!!! Keep bring raven closer he'll eat from your hand with some work,, ride on your shoulder,, love um!! aloha
Ain’t nothing wrong with finding the easiest way to do something. Makes you more efficient. You could go and get all bushcrafty and do everything like the pioneers did but I guarantee you that if they had access to modern technology they would have used it too.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead first time I wanted to build a log house all I could find was how to do it with nothing but an axe, draw knife and brace drill. It would take forever, rather use chainsaws, Milwaukee hole hawg, and other efficient means of doing it
I'm thinking about just making a separate rooster house. We're finding dead hens in the coop area every so many weeks. Before having roosters we didn't have any chickens die for 3 years. They (2) are so rough with the hens. I want roosters but not all the time with the hens. We had a hen get attacked by a hawk or something and it was like something plucked a lot of her feathers. We kept her in the cellar until she started to grow her feathers again. She didn't want to go outside. She'd later hide in the coop all the time. I haven't used the saddles but have watched channels that did. I'm wondering how hard it is to keep the saddles on. We never had chickens with bare backs until we got roosters. So I plan to separate the roosters until we want chicks. Which may be a smaller coop inside the same fenced area. I cut 4 smaller ash trees down the other day and had one come back towards me. That was a first for me. I think I gave it less thought because it was smaller and it was getting dark. It all worked out in the end.
That would work but I want him with them. My trail cam has picked up a couple of mink walking by but they never went inside their run. Also he goes crazy when a predator is near by. Loud enough for us to hear but normally Gunner hears him and starts freaking out. Then we know something going on down there.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I probably mentioned before that we had a mink kill a bunch of our chickens years ago. We had a run attached to a bigger coop. The white chickens all came up dead at once. So I put a game camera out and then a trap. The mink came around noon one day while we were gone. I left the dead chickens as bait. It would enter from under the coop and dig under the fence. So I would add blocks to the ground. It would use the blocks for cover to dig in further. I ended up covering the entire floor of the run with blocks. We made our current coop into a tractor that we move. I got the mink after it killed all the white chickens. It dragged them all under the edge of the fence and just ate the heads. The walnuts, acorns, chestnuts and pears did not produce last year. So the squirrels are raiding the coop for food. The roosters just move outside the coop and let them do it. So my chicken tractor is going to need to be buttoned up more. I didn't even think about taking my wedges to cut the trees. I thought it would be quick and easy. I waited for the tree to move and then stepped around it when it went the wrong way. It got hung up so I had to pull it down with my atv. My wife bought me a new Stihl carving saw with a dime tip for Christmas. I use to chainsaw carve some in the past. Trying to have more tools to create better details in the carvings now. In the past I'd just use a MS170 with a regular chain to do a lot of the carving. Take care...
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I'm learning as I go and try to improve a little with each one. I've carved things like mushrooms, bears, Spirit Tree guys, etc... I often use a wood carving disc that attaches to a grinder and has a chainsaw chain on it. I was originally trying to maintain a chainsaw cut look to them. You could create some carvings and sell them to the tourists in Juneau. It would be better than anything they have in the tourist shops. I also carve walking sticks some. I've been stealing the sticks from a local beaver.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead So you just refill a 5-gal container the next time you head to town when there are empties? I was wondering about trash too but you showed that this time... you avoid consumables like paper towels or burn those too? Sorry for detail questions, I wonder about the little things ;)
@@ddashefsky yeah we fill the boat and the 5 gal jugs when we go to town. Yes we burn all paper products here. We use those yellow and black little totes you can get from Home Depot to store our trash. The harbor has a recycling bin so soda cans can go in there and the rest goes into a dumpster.
I love the cold the snow the rain the storms hurracanes etc etc 66 years im been like this all my life and i enjoyed
Just found your channel. Can't stop watching. you guy's are so down to earth. Keep the video's coming. Thank you for your service
Thanks John
Yes! The chicken saddles are the only thing that worked for us. Super easy to make your own too. It looks like the raven is there to stay! Love hearing that call for some peanuts😂
Thanks Stephanie.
Had to laugh at your concern when camera fell. “You ok? Good!👍” love your sense of humor! Love watching your videos!!
Thanks, I like to joke with myself😂
GREAT VID, FOR YOUR LOGS, MAKE A BOX OUT OF WHOLE PALLETS BOLTED TOGETHER TO PUT YOUR LOGS ON THE PORCH, KEEP SAFE/WELL, FROM UK.
Thanks
Great explanation on the dry cabins! As for the chicken-saddles: we never used them. But we turn the chicks into meat-chicks when they get too much danaged. You'll get used to it, but I'm not sure if Diana ever will....
Yeah I’m good with chickens. Not sure I could do rabbits though. Too cute
Daily chores, I'm glad that you showed us what you have to do, thanks Brian, and say Hi to your wife too!
Will do. Thanks for watching Frederick.
What a beautiful spot you have to live! I had to grin at your ideas of the firewood in a box and lift onto the deck;-) We have wooden bins made especially for that, (my hubby has a stairbuilding company and we load up on the triangle scrap pieces). We fill the bins and can drive right up to our patio door (no patio) with the forklift to empty into the house. Last year we even brought in wood on a pallet and put the pallet right in through the patio door!
Ha know I need to add a patio door😂
Great camera work on the video. No foot prints or quad tracks in the shot going to the boat. 😁 You talked about moving the firewood with the tractor, have you seen people stack there firewood in the metal frame of the icb water totes. If you had enough of those, stack in to dry and then grab to put on deck when it is time to fill the cart. Have a super week.
Ha I was being sneaky with the camera😂 that’s a great idea with the totes. I’ll check in town and see if the recycling place has some.
Hope you have a great week too.
Glad to see Gunner is looking like he’s doing better every video. Hello to all your family.
He is doing a lot better, thank you.
A lot of times the seaweed we get off of the beach has a lot of bugs in it. So we give it to the chickens who love to eat bugs....Then the seaweed goes into the raised beds along with the ancillary "chicken products" which make for good fertilizer.
Ha that’s what we do. The chickens love it.
Honey bucket that’s a good onei have not ever heard . I have a 93 year old enamel “Bed pan” that is a true life saver in Frigid -30 Canadian weather
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Awesome video, I use the 285 gal plastic tote with metal cage around it, cut top off and a opening on one side stack you wood in it and place with tractor! Thanks for sharing, God bless
When I go to town that’s what I’m going to look for.
Still raining here and 40 degrees even at night. I’m kind of liking not having to deal with the snow, but it does seem weird that it’s so warm. Fun trip going for a ride to check on boat, and tromping out to clear trail. Tyler & I call a trail “deer approved” if we find their prints.
Crazy winter. That snow lasted a couple of days and then the rain washed it away. Ha dear approved, I like it. That’s all Gunner and my trial is just a well groomed deer trail😂
Beautiful country there!!! Love snow. Great video.
Thank you Linda.
And all this time I thought a dry house ment the roof don't leak...Good video Brian !!
Ha that’s true too.
Not sure if someone else mentioned this but, for the pallet wood storage idea: Build a frame with 2x4's and wrap some chicken wire around the inside on 3 sides. Air can still move around and it will keep the wood in place. Just a thought.
Thanks 👍
Hey kids ! Hope all is well . not sure how expensive IBC totes are over there but they work great for firewood, outdoors with the Morgans use them.
I’ll check and see if the recycling place has some in town.👍 Thanks.
Dry Cabins are so much simpler and better. We need to build an outhouse this summer.
They sure are.
We have over a dozen ravens come to our house every morning for food.We feed them scraps and when it’s really cold they get scraps from the butcher shop.
Thanks for sharing Brian
Thank you.
Just subscribed, looking forward to watching some more videos.
Thanks for checking out the video.
People think I'm nuts to look forward to dry cabin living!!!! Thanks for your videos, keeps my dream going 🌻💖
I hear you. We dread going to town.
good video....getting very good with your B roll
Thanks Steve.
Think i would kinda do like your cart you made only on a pallet. If i figured right 4ft tall 4 ft wide and 4 ft deep is about a 1/4 cord of wood on each pallet. Not sure your porch will hold it but a thought!
That would work, for sure.
What about a wood box where you fill it from outside your home and from inside your home you reach into the box to get wood for your stove
Cool idea
It’s a really old fashioned idea If I get to Alaska to build my dream I plan on having such a wood box
Been a month or two since I checked in on my Ole buddy in Alaska...God its beautiful out there! Good to see you again.
Good to hear from you. Hope all is well with the family.
You looked like a true lumberjack toting that chainsaw down the path. LOL. Gunter knows the way so come on pa I will lead the way! Good idea to staying up to date and legal on the boat. Poor Rocky! Can't say I ever seen our chicks do that back when we use to have them so no help buddy. Why not run a tube out into the ground from out the cabin and put a big funnel on it to pee in during the hard winter. Gallon of water sitting beside it for a flush. Looks like ya gonna need that load of firewood with more snow coming. Stay safe and warm as ya can my friends. Hope ya have a great week!
Ha oh I’ve though about that before but then I have a hole in the side of a wall and the pipe would start to smell like pee😂 Eventually we want to get a compost toilet. It has a separate tank that catches pee and then you can plumb that out in to a gray water system. That’s our goal at least.
Hope you two have a great week.
What is happening with the hen is the roosters spurs. Since she is his favorite she gets all the attention. You can hold the rooster with his head under your arm, take a pair of pliers, gently twist the spur back and forth and the outer shell will come off. This will remove the spur leaving new growth that is much smaller. Apply the blue coat to the area as it will bleed a little. This should give your hens some relief on their backs and not tear up her feathers. Hope this is helpful . From Mississippi
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Bringing in wood then will go out and split more after my canning is finished
We might get a dusting tonight. My crows were hollering till I remembered I forgot to feed them. They are great watch dogs. It looks so beautiful there. Not sure if I'd be happy without the four seasons. Guess that hunting and fishing would make up for it. I enjoyed watching. I use a bedside commode they have a toss bucket too but used bucket for years, just a little more comfortable, comes with age lol. Chicken Yoga stretches lol how funny. Looks so beautiful and peaceful. May you two enjoy. I now run a 12volt RV water pump into house. Hey what about finding old IBC tank frames for your firewood box/forklift thingy? Not sure it'd work. Maybe a junk yard or Craig's list?
Ha they make a little seat that snaps on the bucket, I should have shown that. More of a comfort for the ladies.
Yeah a lot of people have recommended the totes. I’ll check in town next time to see if the recycling place has any.
Hope you have a great week.
As long as me & your Diana dont line em with squirrel hide lol no one told me about snap ons.
Good to see you all again. I hope you had a wonderful Holiday!
You too Chris
get yourself an IBC tote. if you get a chance watch out doors with the morgans. he uses these for firewood. you can cut into it and move with tractor.
I’ll check it out. Thanks
We have a wood shed with 4-5 cord, the shed is about 50’ away.. We have a little wood box near the wood stove, which we can fill up with what I can carry. So 3 trips a day.. I like the trip to the wood shed, I think palitizing would be more work. We count how many times we pick up the same piece of wood, from the time we cut the tree down.
Good to see ya. Great Saw work, Tish would be proud... Loved the Video
Hey Bob, I miss Tischer. He was probably the oldest on the crew but was worked circles around most. Hope all is well with you and the family.
Chicken saddle works great, made 3 last year and was surprised how nice it worked.
Great to hear!
looks great out there stay warm and as for the chicken blankets, saddle it goes by a lot of different names those that use them love them there several videos on you tube on it to look at. thanks for sharing and have a great week as well
I think we are going to give it a shot. The longer we wait the more feathers are missing from her back. Thanks for watching.
I love your care of your chickens!
First year having chickens. They are hilarious.
New subscriber here. I just found you because Eric and Ariel at Simple Living Alaska mentioned you as one of their favorite youtube channels to watch, even before they moved to Alaska. I am enjoying learning about your home on the island.
Glad to have you. They are a wonderful couple. Smart and grounded.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy some of our stuff. We try to highlight living in southeast Alaska.
Enjoyed your video, were up here 50 miles north of Fairbanks!
Cool👍
know a guy that built small room on side of the house loades it with wood has a door inside just reaches in to get wood doesnt have to go outside till bin is empty
That’s pretty snazzy👍
Have that very same thing at my cabin holds a little over a face cord
Gotta love them chores my friend and I really like the drone footage in the beginning of the video Brian!!! Good explanation on living in a dry cabin during the winter, I was thinking it got really really cold over there but you cleared that up for me lol!! Y'all stay safe and warm up there sir!!! Dan
😂 well we live in the warmest part of Alaska so I feel lucky having these mild temperatures😂
Thanks for the laugh Dan, stay safe buddy.
See if you can pick up an ICB tote for your firewood dilema. They hold half a face cord of split wood and will fit nice with your tractor.
Beautiful with the snow on the trees!!
We think so too
Another great video. Looks beautiful. You are a working machine.
2x4 frame and chicken wire to hold the wood in when you move the pallet. With the chainsaw mill it might be easier to just make 4x4 posts for the corners of the frame until you can build/buy a sawmill to run on tracks so the lumber costs are just blades and fuel.
That’s a great idea using chicken wire. 👍
@@AnAlaskaHomestead You can even make side panels of it you can add/remove with screws so any side can be accessed once you have a standard size to make. A wood frame you then staple a section of wire to so no messing with sharp edges every time you need to get into the pallet.
I’m thinking that if you do a build on a pallet just like the firewood cart, minus the wheels, problem solved. Looking beautiful there, thank you for sharing. God bless and happy new year.
Thanks. Happy New Year to you as well.
Use heat tape and then wrap it so snow can not get to it
A day in the life... them chores ain't gonna do themselves! Thanks for sharing B.
Ha they never do
thank you for letting us see what life is like over with you
Thanks for watching.
A trick : watch movies at flixzone. Been using it for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Armando Crew yup, I have been watching on Flixzone} for months myself :D
I admire your safety standards., and your doggie!
Thanks Barbara
Boy it’s beautiful there... Little yoga for the chickens... 😂Do you lead the class. Not sure about the back for the hens never even seen one. Heck ya some forks for the tractor two nice boxes and your ready. Have a great night you two..!!
Ha I do lead the yoga class😂
We got a saddle on order, so we will find out soon how well it works.
Yeah if I can get my hands on some ibc tote frames I’d be set up.
Hope all is well Ron.
I wonder if you could get your hands on some of those racks that they put 250 gallon liquid totes in for your firewood made of aluminum typically and have fork pockets built in. Just an idea
That’s what I’m going to look for next time I’m in town.
Hi Brian I’m from Australia and love your videos. I have one question. How do you prevent mould growing inside your damp cabin?
Hey Sue, good question. Before we moved here full time we did have moisture and high humidity problems. Since we live here year round the heat from the wood stove keeps the humidity down 20-40%. That’s really good considering outside stays in the 90% range in our area. Also insulting the bottom of the cabin it has really helped out.
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Why don’t you have a “skirt” around the bottom of your house.?🤷🏼♀️
Drop in a septic system, you can use that all winter long.
You have just found the one item that is regulated. You can build what you want, how you want but if you want a septic tank you have have your discharge line buried past the -4 foot tide. Which means you’d need to rent a big excavator to get the job done.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Yup that's what I used, it cost me $10,000. We have similar regs with our land and water bodies here in Newfoundland, CANDA too. And it was worth every penny of it. Cheers!
@@TheTed169 that’s awesome. I’ll have to save up a little more for that. One day perhaps.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Its a fair chunk of change I know. But you can't even sell here if you don't have septic. The banks will not give a loan and I can't purchase the land from crown. What do is get a few cabin owners together for projects so as not so much to get the excavator floated in.
@@TheTed169 yeah we’d have to go that route. I bet it’s nice to hear the whoosh sound😂
I see someone already suggested the water tote thing if you have access to something like that. I think they would be easier to tarp up as well. Chickens still laying eggs?
Yeah that’s a great idea. I think I’d only be able to take on per trip in the bot but we could get it done. Yes sir, got six eggs yesterday.
I saw on one of your videos that you all were looking at getting a "chicken saddle". Never heard of one but we kept chickens years ago. We had a couple of aggressive roosters that may have been saved from the cook pot by one! They would make me so mad at the treatment of some of the hens that they just had to go! 😏
Roosters are frustrating to say the least. We ordered a saddle so we will see how it works.
Happy Sunday to you. Whatever happened to Wood stove Wednesday?
We’ve got on we are going to do but the Lulu is in town for the next week with her folks. Soon though👍
Hope you have a great week.
Living on the ocean like you all do. Have you ever thought about a wind mill generator to get electric or a water current generator.
We think about it all the time. When we run power for the solar we are also running an extra cable for a future wind turbine.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I look forward to that task ahead. You all have a get channel.
I hope you both are having a good time up there. Out of 20 years on the water with other people and by myself never got stopped by the coast guard. They got people just in front and off the side and behind but never got stopped for a safety check fish and game state troopers yes. There used to be a short forest services cop up there who thought that he could make things up and he thought that he was powerful because they gave him a gun that idiot you had to watch out for and some of the city's police. Well don't get to cold and have a good week
Ah, the power trip😂
I guess since we are on the water a lot are chances are higher. We’ve been stopped 3 times in 7 years.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead commercial fished 1984 to 2002 when doctors finally got me to quit. Like I said the coast guard got people in front and off the side and behind a bunch of times. Back in 2003 that short fat forest services cop give me a ticket for shooting a stump in Herbert river trying to say that I was shooting across eagle river trail 3/4 of a mile away on city and burough property over a 1/2 mile away from the main road. You should have seen the way that forest services cop and the state trooper that following him was going and how they stopped and just about smashing into each other and jumped out with their hands on their guns like the okay coral. See them both coming and leave the 9mm sitting on the hood and get about 10 feet away from it and that idiot forestry and the young state trooper jumps out hands on their guns. It's funny now but it shows what a little power can do to some people that doesn't need it. That same forest services cop I heard pulled his gun on some snow mobile people on the Treadwell trail that was marked by signs that they could run snow mobile's on it and wasn't on forest services property on city and burough land that didn't have a gun. The way they jumped out like they were ready to open fire
Love your life style
Thanks
Lots of snow
Hey guy,digging ya videos. Keep it up.
It's called a slop jar. It's an enamel bucket with a lid. I used it at my Aunt's house 60 yrs ago.
Why don't you put Gunner on the atv with you.
Gunner likes to stretch his legs.
Noticed you had your cannon strapped on you. Bears hibernating aren’t they? Then you said deer prints and I thought probably not deer hunting out of season? Do you have other critters roaming?
I think it for river otters. They’ve been messing with my dog.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I figured it was another critter. River otters are pretty big and can be mean cusses.
@@davidmueller980 they are here for sure. Gunners been bitten a couple of times from them.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Gunner is a good dog. Honestly to me you can’t be without them. The plains Indians kept dogs because they alerted even them when trouble was near. Indians naturally aware of their surroundings but had them for security.
Why not see if you can get a liquid tote and remove the plastic container for use with water and the frame to stack wood
I’ll be looking for some in town.
Hope you can, there are a few firewood guys who use them. Simple to modify, undo a couple of bolts and remove the plastic container and cut down two sides to leave a one box and then decide how low you want to bend to load it, or just check it. Does luck
ibc totes? wont fit threw yut door, wood cart is Nice nice video!! ^5
Thanks Brian
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Chickens....doing yoga lol! Great video, as usual, I live dry as well, I think so many folks take water for granted hahaaha....I know I did!
Ha yes it’s hard to image, for most Americans, not having water on demand at the turn of a knob.
So I have to ask, why didn’t you wheel your cart out first and just stack straight into your cart?
Oh, because we sack a week or more of wood up on the deck. I guess we could fill the cart first and then finish stacking on the deck.
look for ibc toutes for firewood
How much is gasoline and propane and how do you get it? Thanks. Awesome life.
We go through roughly 20 gals of gas and 40 lbs of propane a month.
Here is a video on how we get stuff out to the island.
ua-cam.com/video/nfqNZ_yXZP8/v-deo.html
So warm there!!! 💖💖💖 Spoiled!! lol 👍😉
So how hard is it to get waterfront property in SE Alaska? Is it substantially cheaper to get island property?
It is a lot cheaper and the further away from a town you get the cheaper it gets.
I see you carry a printing tool with you ? Do you have dangerous animals on your island ?
The bears are asleep now. I carry in the winter because my dog gets into it with the river otters.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead cool thanks ! I figured you wanted to keep Gunner safe !
Maybe apple picking bins would work for your firewood or something like them
Thanks for the reminder of checking the flares in the boat!
Over here it is however not mandatory to have them onboard, unless it is your business to ship people or stuff, but since I'm so much at sea I still have them.
I bet mine expired at least ten years ago!
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I'm sorry that I'm unable to answer your question about how to protect "Whitewings".
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Good to see that your raven buddy keeps an eye on you!
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"Bubba"?
Really? How about Odin, for a name?
Odin that’s good. I’ve been calling him Echo but that may change now. 😂
Yeah I set a yearly reminder in my phone so it pops up at the first of the year to go through all the stuff.
Have a great week Mike.
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Thanks buddy, you too and Lulu also, of course!
While I'm at it, may I suggest Freya for Mrs. Odin?
@@mickemike2148 done👍
What generator are you running and what size?
We normally run a Yamaha 2000 but we have a larger Yamaha 6300.
Just curious, how long do you see yourselves living on the island? Hope Grandma Jo is doing well. Blessings to you and your family. 😊🇺🇸
I don’t see why we couldn’t do this for 20 years or so. By then we should have a pretty good set up. Just relax and enjoy the scenery.
Grandma Jo is doing great. We should have a follow up video in two weeks. She’ll have her results by then to see if everything worked.
Hope you have a great week.
Sure looks pretty with all that snow. One of our hens had the bare back from our rooster in our first year. We brought her in the house in a cage while she heeled and while we ordered a saddle. We used the saddle on her and that worked great as far as protecting her goes. I had her on my lap and gave her treats when we put the saddle on just to get her used to it. We got rid of our rooster and we took the saddle off after a few months but her feathers were still pretty sparse and the other hens started pecking on her back. We kept that saddle on her for around 6 months (taking it off occasionally so she could dust bathe). Her feathers never fully grew back until she molted the second year. So... saddles work great, you just have to watch that the feathers grow back enough to where the other chickens don't go back into zombie apocalypse mode on her back. That was our experience anyway. The end. Haha!
Thanks for the feed back Jay. I’m hoping this works out for us. I don’t know it would take that long. The good news is I think she’s starting to molt now so if we get this next week we might be in good shape. We don’t want anymore zombie mishaps😂
Take care guys.
Your vlogs are really interesting. Probably a silly question, but how do you shower or bath, and do washing?
We use an outside shower in the summer and in the winter we do a bird bath. My wife’s folks live in town so when we go in for supplies we do laundry there. In the next two years we plane to have a shower, compost toilet and washer here at our place.
The only advice I could possibly give about chickens is they need access to small rocks for their craws to properly process their food. It a bird’s way to chew. If a chicken has spent their life in a cage, then they can’t get a chance to pick them up. I know where you live, they can’t have much time outside unprotected.
They sell grit, they also like to eat small shell the size of a grain of sand.
Is there more snow this year or am I just forgetting what it was like last year at your place. Sure is pretty.
No we have had such a warm winter this year. Hardly any snow. ☹️ I like the snow.
Great video Brian! Thanks!! It's actually snowing just north of San Antonio, TX this morning (1-10-2021)!! I think we've got about an inch right now. What is the brand of your chest holster? What caliber are you carrying?? I carry a 454 Casull in a chest holster when I'm up at the property in Alaska.
Ha my daughter in law just sent me a video this morning of it snowing in Fort Worth. They said they got about 3 inches. That will shut down Texas 😂
Yeah it’s a 454 in a Dimond D holster. Pricey but at my age I like to buy things once and be done with it.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Cool! Here is a video I did on my 454's before I went up last summer: ua-cam.com/video/zypsqGgsBp0/v-deo.html and this one is my review of the Paradise Leather chest holster I use for my 454 up in Alaska: ua-cam.com/video/bDCx4xCWimI/v-deo.html C'mon now Brian, you're younger than me!! LOL!! by a long shot! but I know exactly what you're talking about. I booked my reservations for May 1-16 for the first trip to my property in Kasilof. I'll be going back up again later in the summer for a much longer stay. If you ever visit your daughter in Ft. Worth, let me know and if I haven't moved to Alaska yet I'll come up - I'd like to meet y'all! I'm just north of San Antonio and my daughter and her family live in Dallas so it's no big deal for me to drive or ride the motorcycle up (if the weather is good). Stay safe my friends!!
Nice logs there for a home👍
lol I thought only villagers in our smallest villages knew the term "honeybucket" 💖💖💖🤣🤣🤣
Lol the term is spreading.
O my!! I have been using the term honey bucket for years here. Lol I live in Tennessee.
Sounds like your chain is to tight. Are you making firewood out of it?
No, just leaving it there. I’ve cleared a a section at my place and have tons of firewood.
Note: If you visit youtube "Living web Farms" there you can see how to easily make charcoal from your tree branches. Use the charcoal on the chicken coop Ammonia smell as well as you're out house.
Toot toot!! That made me laugh 🙂
😂made my wife laugh to.
Hahahaha
Is that an issue beanie? I have my USMC one to this day, use it all the time.
You betcha. I liked the fit of the older black bennies. These are thicker though.
Happy New Years!!! I lived where it's 20 to 4o below,, had running water into my pitcher pump kitchen sink all winter... Line ran 20 feet from the well ""above grown"" 6//8 inches of sawdust & planer shavings under the line,, foot over the line, 2//3 feet wide,, Double up GOOD tarp,, not one of those useless blue POS,!!!. Under the camp,,, made a box 2 foot square ground to floor.... built mostly outside put in place.... As i filled it with sawdust & shavings ,, packed it in I close up the 4th side 1 board at a time,, tar paper outside... my well cover was level to the grown,,, also covered with shavings & tarp.. weighted every inch of the tarps to keep driving rain from blowing the tarp & getting shavings wet!!!! use dry dry dry shavings,, hay, leaves, sawdust,, moss,, grass clippings they all work!!! Keep bring raven closer he'll eat from your hand with some work,, ride on your shoulder,, love um!! aloha
That’s a good system Richard.
Ha one day maybe get the male to eat from my hand. The female is to skittish.
I’m hoping all is going well your way and the reason we didn’t get a video today is because the water was to bad to get into town.
You are 100% correct. It’s been a windy winter. Thanks for checking in.
Damn, I get jealous watching your videos.
Lol thanks buddy.
Ain’t nothing wrong with finding the easiest way to do something. Makes you more efficient. You could go and get all bushcrafty and do everything like the pioneers did but I guarantee you that if they had access to modern technology they would have used it too.
Ha you bet they would. I don’t think they had purest that said no axes, I’m going to use this chipped rock tied to a stick😂
@@AnAlaskaHomestead first time I wanted to build a log house all I could find was how to do it with nothing but an axe, draw knife and brace drill. It would take forever, rather use chainsaws, Milwaukee hole hawg, and other efficient means of doing it
@@cm5838 ha I’m with you 100%
@@AnAlaskaHomestead besides the less energy you have to expend on tasks the more energy you have for more tasks
I'm thinking about just making a separate rooster house. We're finding dead hens in the coop area every so many weeks. Before having roosters we didn't have any chickens die for 3 years. They (2) are so rough with the hens. I want roosters but not all the time with the hens. We had a hen get attacked by a hawk or something and it was like something plucked a lot of her feathers. We kept her in the cellar until she started to grow her feathers again. She didn't want to go outside. She'd later hide in the coop all the time. I haven't used the saddles but have watched channels that did. I'm wondering how hard it is to keep the saddles on. We never had chickens with bare backs until we got roosters. So I plan to separate the roosters until we want chicks. Which may be a smaller coop inside the same fenced area. I cut 4 smaller ash trees down the other day and had one come back towards me. That was a first for me. I think I gave it less thought because it was smaller and it was getting dark. It all worked out in the end.
That would work but I want him with them. My trail cam has picked up a couple of mink walking by but they never went inside their run. Also he goes crazy when a predator is near by. Loud enough for us to hear but normally Gunner hears him and starts freaking out. Then we know something going on down there.
Oh I was going to also say I’ve had a tree catch a gust of wind and sit back on my bar once. I about crapped my pants. 😂
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I probably mentioned before that we had a mink kill a bunch of our chickens years ago. We had a run attached to a bigger coop. The white chickens all came up dead at once. So I put a game camera out and then a trap. The mink came around noon one day while we were gone. I left the dead chickens as bait. It would enter from under the coop and dig under the fence. So I would add blocks to the ground. It would use the blocks for cover to dig in further. I ended up covering the entire floor of the run with blocks. We made our current coop into a tractor that we move. I got the mink after it killed all the white chickens. It dragged them all under the edge of the fence and just ate the heads. The walnuts, acorns, chestnuts and pears did not produce last year. So the squirrels are raiding the coop for food. The roosters just move outside the coop and let them do it. So my chicken tractor is going to need to be buttoned up more. I didn't even think about taking my wedges to cut the trees. I thought it would be quick and easy. I waited for the tree to move and then stepped around it when it went the wrong way. It got hung up so I had to pull it down with my atv. My wife bought me a new Stihl carving saw with a dime tip for Christmas. I use to chainsaw carve some in the past. Trying to have more tools to create better details in the carvings now. In the past I'd just use a MS170 with a regular chain to do a lot of the carving. Take care...
That’s cool. Wish I could see some of your carvings.
Good luck with the chicken tractor.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I'm learning as I go and try to improve a little with each one. I've carved things like mushrooms, bears, Spirit Tree guys, etc... I often use a wood carving disc that attaches to a grinder and has a chainsaw chain on it. I was originally trying to maintain a chainsaw cut look to them. You could create some carvings and sell them to the tourists in Juneau. It would be better than anything they have in the tourist shops. I also carve walking sticks some. I've been stealing the sticks from a local beaver.
How often do you need to get fuel to keep supplied for the generator?
That generator runs 7-10 hours on one gallon of gas. We keep enough fuel cans to last a couple months.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead So you just refill a 5-gal container the next time you head to town when there are empties? I was wondering about trash too but you showed that this time... you avoid consumables like paper towels or burn those too? Sorry for detail questions, I wonder about the little things ;)
@@ddashefsky yeah we fill the boat and the 5 gal jugs when we go to town. Yes we burn all paper products here. We use those yellow and black little totes you can get from Home Depot to store our trash. The harbor has a recycling bin so soda cans can go in there and the rest goes into a dumpster.
Why not build a house or structure over the water well, I would think that would make it a little easier, just saying, thanks for sharing.
We have two 550 gal tanks we will be burying in the future.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead got it.
I can handle only in the twentys, thirtys, & teens. Warmer than Montana in winter on the average
Ha yeah warmer than most of Alaska too.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead summers don't get as hot though do they?
@@belovedwarrior483 no, a hot day would be 70. Every now and then we will hit 80, that’s a scorcher.
I'd say I like finding the easy way to do things as well, but i guess then I wouldn't be building a house out of dirt.😆
I’ve been trying to watch your video today but as usual it’s windy and my internet has other plans for me🥴
I never noticed all the moss on the side of the trees before. It really stands out in a blanket of snow.
Yeah it can be a little misleading since it grows on the the north, east and west side of the tree😂.
I want to go to live in alaska i been dreaming about i know im not crazy