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Happy new year!

Thanks for the questions. Yes I can make it to the maintained road about 2.5 miles away, but it gets plowed down to nothing. I have a video out from last winter when I was plowing the road here so I could drive out, but chose to not plow this year and just use the snowmobile. Happy New Year!

Thank you and Happy New Year to you as well!

Thank You Robert, Happy New Year

Oh it's 2 feet deep at the snowmobile, I must not have shown me standing at the front of the snowmobile, I actually filmed my leg where I stepped and it was past my knee and probably not even down to the dirt. The place I leaned down to talk at if you will look again to the left the snow is higher beyond the track area I was in, at least 20". Happy New Year and take care.

Thank you sir, Happy New Year to you.

Thank you Shelly, Happy New Year and don't party too late this evening. 😉

Thank PK, Hopefully summer will be longer so I can get more done in 2025 then has happened this year. Happy New Year.

@@offgridal TY, It's all about the process, progress is just the bi-product. There will be plenty of years ahead to put your feet up in that dovetail cabin! Stay safe.

Happy New Year Jim, Thank you

Yes heavy to the left, but It fell backwards because the plunge cut was too close to the wedge cut on one side which cased it to fall backwards and to the right a little. Still a controlled cut as I knew which way it was going to fall once I noticed the bad cut and then I adjusted my positioning while cutting the tag at the back to make sure I had an escape route in mind if things went bad.

Thank you for subscribing, Happy Holidays

Thank you for the comments. Yes it's the flattest area, but still slightly sloped, but even the steeper areas have been navigable with my tractor. Enjoy your off grid property you moved to, looking forward to seeing your projects. Happy Holidays my friend.

Hey there Bearded Carpenter, Thank you. BTW I fount the segment in one of your video's when you was showing some beam work and yes the saw horses on that video inspired me to build mine that way. It was a memory that apparently stuck with me. Merry Christmas Sir 👍

@ Merry Christmas to you and yours. Blessings

Thank you Shelly, you're correct I love the miserable winter weather. 🤣 Have a Merry Christmas

Yep it's bitter cold here and it's just getting started. I wish Sage would climb up the ladder, but I pack here up it and she's not lite.

Thanks, I'm sure that's your channel I have seen them done before on. If I recall when you were building your cabin to lift the beams up you made a neat hoist system. I will need to do that for the Appellation cabin build after this one. I'm building a cabin on each 20 acre parcel so my kids will each get one. Happy Hollidays

Oh Shelly you made me laugh when you wrote send out a search party 🤣you are correct the sawhorses certainly will last and last and last. Thanks again.

Thank you Russell, I'm well, you stay well also.

Thanks

I do have snow shoes as well and planned to do a Holliday special some time this December. Snow shoeing and snowmobiling around here. Thanks for the suggestion it good to know we think alike. 🙂

Hello Will, It's been years hasn't it? The off grid life is wonderful, one of the best decisions I ever made. Be well and thank you.

Thanks Sergey I'm glad you liked it.

Thank you so much for subscribing. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

@ Yw 😊✌🏼

Yep Sage loves the weather. I have plenty of food although I may run out of propane to run the generator at some point. I got a little melt off overnight, but that seems to be the cycle happening this year. Melt,snow,melt and more snow. Enjoy your off grid property and take care my friend.

Thanks Lavern. Stay warm my friend.

Thanks my friend, Yes Sage loves the weather and space here. I am cooking up some stew on the wood stove and keeping warm. The long winter last year was tough to get through, I am someone that likes to be busy during the day and not sitting around watching TV. Take care

Will do, Thanks

Have a great weekend as well and thank you very much.

Thank you

Thanks

I have cell service up here in most places so I keep the phone on me at all times. A tourniquet is certainly a great idea. My biggest concern while cutting down a tree is if I get caught under it, probably no recovery from that. Not many people up here either and good luck getting helpI needed it. Thanks for your input I appreciate it.Good advice!

@offgridal I carry a rat tourniquet in my cargo pocket daily inside of a small snack sized zip lock bag, small and discrete. I also have a felling I wear when felling trees, I keep my hatchet, a small bag with some wedges in it, and a Cat tourniquet on the belt. Not to sound like a know it all, but the artery in your thigh if you catch that good throwing a chain, your bled out in under 3 min...help is always greater then that away. Like I said, not trying to sound like a jerk, I'm just paranoid...lol

@@Mountaintoptractor Great information I truly appreciate it.

We do have Canada lynx, Cougar, Mt. Lions,Wolves, Black Bear, also Colville which is near my area is a recovery project bringing back Grizzly bears to northeast Washington. That's to touch on some of the wildlife here,

@offgridal thanks for the answer.

I bought 3 extra tracks, they allow me to mill up to 29 ft. I have a few beams milled that long and it's max. When I build my Appellation Cabin I will need to scarf joint them and that will be a new learning curve for me. I don't have the skill you have.

@ I have no doubt that you can do whatever you need to and it will be beautiful! Blessings

Thanks Laurie, It's 28F this morning and another snow storm is on the way in. Take care and happy Hollidays to you and yours 😀

@offgridal COLD.....You'll have that woodstove roaring tonight 😊

@@laurie6986 Yes I do...

Thanks Shelly, That tree will produce many shakes/shingles and I will cut down one more for the project in case it's not enough. I hope to get what I can done before the snow gets too deep. No milling until the thaw, but then I will be working dawn to dusk to get as much done as possible. Take care

Thanks PK, Yes the Douglas Fir is what I am using for the 2x6 and 2x8's. It's a good looking grain as well. In the summer we do get pine Beatles here often. I have been cutting down Beatle kill trees when ever I find them. I think this week I will cut down a coupe more of them and hopefully they will be good enough for some lumber still. I love the smell of Pine in the morning.😀

Thank you so much, I have also been a follower of yours for some time now and love your skills. Take care....

@ Omigosh! I sure appreciate you watching our videos. Now I can return the favor. I’m not too good at reminding channel names so I just try to hunt them up. Gonna go back and watch your videos. Have a great weekend. Blessings

Yes that was my first year of firewood collecting, so I needed to fine as much seasoned wood as possible in the short term. Thanks for watching it.

That's awesome Mr. Hayward, Thanks for joining along. Bigger things will be in the future for my channel. Have a great week.

I have chaps, just got lazy. A good point. Thanks for waking up to my lazy practices.

​@@MarioBrbovic-z9t Did I say last week? NOT! - I just checked my video and I posted FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER in Caps. Nice try though

Great question, I still do many things. I usually draw up my build plans (I.E. Walls and roof design for the current build) and cut trees down for the build. I like to go out and track animals in the winter and see what I can get on film. No hunting or ice fishing yet as I don't have a place to store meat currently. I usually consolidate video's, but this year I won't be doing that. Hoping for a shorter winter this year so I can accomplish more and I am going to try and get creative with more filming this winter and in the future I will work in the shop once built during winters here building furniture and cabinets for my builds. Sorry that was a long explanation to the question you had.🤔

@offgridal I appreciate the "long" explanation. It gives context 🙂👍🏻

The Pine trees are the toughest to drop in any other direction than the side with the most limbs.

Thanks I will check it out. Although my system works pretty well.

Welcome glad to have you along for m,y journey.

Yes I also have a 28" and 30" Bars, just need new chains for them. Sage deffinetly has a one track mind.

@offgridal My neighbor used to be a logger. He has about a 45" bar hanging up on a wall of his garage. It's a monster. There is no engine attached, but it must have been huge, too. I have one of the old Homelite XL750s from the 70's. It runs great. Well.. have a nice evening

@@OFFGRID_Trucker That is a big bar to wheel. Take care.

@@OFFGRID_Trucker My father drove a log hauling truck in the late 40's early 50's. I remember him saying back then it took 10 trucks to bring out one felled tree and then in the 80's it took 1 truck to bring out 10 trees. I have looked at old pictures of how they cut down the trees and am really grateful I live in the age of chainsaws :D

@shellywinters2162 nice. I'm a trucker. 1.3+ million miles and not done yet. I drove a log truck once. It wasn't my cup of tee. Went back to dump trucks and heavy equipment. Yeah.. alot has changed.. interesting how they set up the cables to pull them logs in.