Hi from Japan. Currently reading "Coming into the Country," by John McPhee... A good companion to your videos. (Then there's the "Northern Exposure" series!)
We are new to Alaska and learn a lot from watching your videos about things we would like to do. I would love to see you do a video about things to know getting started picking a boat to use in the rivers of Alaska to do the types of things you do. A companion snow machine video would also be great. Just a request for a helpful possible video idea. Thank you.
I’ll see what I can do. But for snowmachine I’d buy a 20” wide track ski doo expedition 900 ace if you are just trail riding. If you plan on trail and in the mtns I’d buy the same sled but with the 900 ace turbo r. If you’re looking for a cheaper snowmachine 500 or 550 fan cooled 2 strokes are great motors. For a boat if your only looking to run rivers and want to go shallow buy a cheap flat bottom with at least a 60hp motor with jet. If you want a good all round boat for oceans, lakes, rivers I’d look for an inboard jet boat no shorter the 21’.
Ya it was nice having it there. We have been going to that state tourny for quite a few yrs now. We have 4 boys and they all wrestled since they were little guys we are down to just one kid wrestling now
Man it’s sure awesome to watch you guys with ur boys. Mine got killed a couple years ago. It’s painful and joyous to watch others with their boys. Cleaning guns , cleaning mine went off….can’t get past it. But I live though videos like this man. So thanks great videos I’m a new subscriber. Keep up the good work means a lot to guy like me.
I’m remote river access only. I could bring my skidsteer up in the winter if it gets that bad I might bring it up but for now I’m just hoping the tundra lays down on what’s eroded and that should hold the soil behind it
We have a slough were we catch pike, in the main river we can catch burbot I’ve just never really tried for them. In some of our cabin videos we do take the boys pike fishing
I know very little about Alaska, yet I realize that it is far more inhospitable than the wilds of B.C. where I live. Too many Grizzlies for my liking. Depending who you listen to, there's also a whole bunch of people who go missing every year up there. I have listened to dozens of videos by some of the Tribal Members up there. "Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch", with Fred Roehl, Curyung Tribal Council Member from Dillingham Alaska is the fellow with these Podcasts. Fascinating stuff and if it is truthful (which I see no reason why it isn't ) there seems to be a serious problem with unexplained incidences, sightings and encounters. Just wondering if you have ever experienced anything that mystified you?
I’m thinking about cabling 10ish logs together in the winter and dragging them over the bank which will be cabled to a couple big concrete pads sittin on the ice. When the ice goes out the concrete will sink the logs leaving a vertical log wall next to the bank
That’s my plan cable logs together and pull out on the river in the winter with concrete pads to sink the logs making a wall against the bank when the ice goes out
@@diyalaskanlifestyle Sure hope the oil industry holds together through all of this anti-oil stupidity or our a. sses are headed back to the dark ages. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
@@diyalaskanlifestyle love your video are you going to stay up there for the whole summer is that your plan? If it is I hope you keep the videos coming I enjoy seeing all that I live down here near Gainesville Florida and I would always love to come up there and take a look around but I never made it but I always wanted to
@@erickriebel4366 no we won’t be at the cabin all summer. We do have a few projects planned for the cabin so we will be up there a few times this summer. Summer is short and Alaska is big so lots of other trips planned as well
@@diyalaskanlifestyle understood well if the videos are out there whatever you're doing and I get a chance to see him I appreciate it I like what you're doing I look at stuff like this all over the world and I've been traveling the world on my phone if you know what I'm saying and I really enjoy it it's not as good as being there but you get to see things that you would never see
Awesome boat
This…you live a beautiful life! Thank you for sharing some of it with us!
First time seeing your channel....that is one bad ass boat, sir.
Hi from Japan. Currently reading "Coming into the Country," by John McPhee... A good companion to your videos. (Then there's the "Northern Exposure" series!)
Awesome video!
Excellent video thank you very much well done I really enjoyed watching this one thank you
Great video man , I love your content its so real , keep up the great work my favourite channel !
We are new to Alaska and learn a lot from watching your videos about things we would like to do. I would love to see you do a video about things to know getting started picking a boat to use in the rivers of Alaska to do the types of things you do. A companion snow machine video would also be great. Just a request for a helpful possible video idea. Thank you.
I’ll see what I can do. But for snowmachine I’d buy a 20” wide track ski doo expedition 900 ace if you are just trail riding. If you plan on trail and in the mtns I’d buy the same sled but with the 900 ace turbo r. If you’re looking for a cheaper snowmachine 500 or 550 fan cooled 2 strokes are great motors.
For a boat if your only looking to run rivers and want to go shallow buy a cheap flat bottom with at least a 60hp motor with jet. If you want a good all round boat for oceans, lakes, rivers I’d look for an inboard jet boat no shorter the 21’.
@@diyalaskanlifestyle Thank you, that is very helpful.
That’s a lot of bank loss. Looked like a good time. Stay well!
Congratulations to you Aaron wish you nothing but the best
Congratulations Aaron🎉 Thanks for the vlog❤
Congratulations graduate. New subscriber here. It looks like you’re set up for lots of fun adventures.
I love the idea of Alaska, but then i remember seeing our first Robin on February 2nd in Tennessee.
That's what I call a boat!
Love your boat
regards from Malaysia
I saw your RV parked at the Menard Center in Wasilla at the wrestling tourney! Congratulations to your son on his graduation!
Ya it was nice having it there. We have been going to that state tourny for quite a few yrs now. We have 4 boys and they all wrestled since they were little guys we are down to just one kid wrestling now
Congratulations Aaron🎉
Love your channel, your country cabin I would slice a couple trees in half and make a full length big stairway to the cabin. Saw mill needs a project.
That is our first project when we get back up there. Those stairs were “temporary” like 3 yrs ago
I wonder if long piece's of rebar would help slow down the bank erosion?
Man it’s sure awesome to watch you guys with ur boys. Mine got killed a couple years ago. It’s painful and joyous to watch others with their boys. Cleaning guns , cleaning mine went off….can’t get past it. But I live though videos like this man. So thanks great videos I’m a new subscriber. Keep up the good work means a lot to guy like me.
Sorry for your loss, I’m glad these videos help with the healing
Can't you have some steel piles driven along the river edge , and then filled in with rocks\dirt ?
I’m remote river access only. I could bring my skidsteer up in the winter if it gets that bad I might bring it up but for now I’m just hoping the tundra lays down on what’s eroded and that should hold the soil behind it
What kinds of fishing
Is that biodegradable stuff your throwing in the river using for target practice ?
Really? Yes it’s wood from the property I cut on the sawmill.
Living the dream bro…!
I have yet to see you guys fishing on the river?
We have a slough were we catch pike, in the main river we can catch burbot I’ve just never really tried for them. In some of our cabin videos we do take the boys pike fishing
I prefer the cool weather, as soon as Temps rise skeeter are out, bank erosion is a never ending fight.
Yea it's summer in Alaska! Now quick, we got about55 days to get busy! Ha!
What eng is in you boat ???
351 w
Wow that is some erosion, congrats to Aaron 👍
Nice video
Which river is this? the last video with the boat was on the Yukon river I think
This is the Teklanika
Those old weldcrafts still look good. How long is it? guessing atleast 26'
Close 28’
I know very little about Alaska, yet I realize that it is far more inhospitable than the wilds of B.C. where I live. Too many Grizzlies for my liking. Depending who you listen to, there's also a whole bunch of people who go missing every year up there. I have listened to dozens of videos by some of the Tribal Members up there. "Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch", with Fred Roehl, Curyung Tribal Council Member from Dillingham Alaska is the fellow with these Podcasts. Fascinating stuff and if it is truthful (which I see no reason why it isn't ) there seems to be a serious problem with unexplained incidences, sightings and encounters. Just wondering if you have ever experienced anything that mystified you?
What river?
Teklanika
Shoot it’s so nasty down here in wasilla still. Our weather will not break. I’m still able to ride my sled 20 minutes past my cabin.
Congrats to Aaron on his graduation.......
Nice, first trip out this year, the cabin looked great. Pretty tough breakup this year! What's your thoughts on the bank erosion solution?
I’m thinking about cabling 10ish logs together in the winter and dragging them over the bank which will be cabled to a couple big concrete pads sittin on the ice. When the ice goes out the concrete will sink the logs leaving a vertical log wall next to the bank
I also lost 15’ of bank this year. I did some spruce tree revetment for now but I like your idea.
Are those not evergreens?
The trees that have green needles are spruce trees the ones budding are birch, aspen, poplar, cottonwood. The spruce stay green all year
Good lord, fancy being in that peaceful bit of heaven and the first thing you do is fire guns 😮
Hey brother glad to see you it's been a while.....
Ya we’ve been wrapping up the wrestling season and graduations.
First trip up yet so much fresh sawdust?
Any sawdust would have been from our last trip this spring/winter
😎👍👍
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Losing real estate... A stacked log retainer wall, plenty timbers nearby. Nice place...
That’s my plan cable logs together and pull out on the river in the winter with concrete pads to sink the logs making a wall against the bank when the ice goes out
My biggest concern with doing what you're doing out there would be the wildlife coming to get me like bears and stuff like that big wild beast?
Ya it’s not likely you will encounter a bear they usually stay away. But it does happen that’s why we always try to have a gun close
How about you finish the house.
Now that's how kids should grow up and not with their asses glued to a chair playing video games!
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Start the night shift? What night shift do you do to afford all of that awesomeness?
I work in the oil industry
@@diyalaskanlifestyle Sure hope the oil industry holds together through all of this anti-oil stupidity or our a. sses are headed back to the dark ages. Thanks for sharing your adventures.
I had a friend that moved up to Talkeetna Alaska and she said to come up I said okay and then she said now's not a good time haha joke was on me!
It’s been pretty cold the last couple weeks. I don’t think it’s really been that nice down at talkeetna yet this summer
@@diyalaskanlifestyle love your video are you going to stay up there for the whole summer is that your plan? If it is I hope you keep the videos coming I enjoy seeing all that I live down here near Gainesville Florida and I would always love to come up there and take a look around but I never made it but I always wanted to
@@erickriebel4366 no we won’t be at the cabin all summer. We do have a few projects planned for the cabin so we will be up there a few times this summer. Summer is short and Alaska is big so lots of other trips planned as well
@@diyalaskanlifestyle understood well if the videos are out there whatever you're doing and I get a chance to see him I appreciate it I like what you're doing I look at stuff like this all over the world and I've been traveling the world on my phone if you know what I'm saying and I really enjoy it it's not as good as being there but you get to see things that you would never see
You need riprap on that bank
Ya that would be nice but the only access is by boat or snowmachine that would be a lot of loads
@@diyalaskanlifestyle true! What you need is a helicopter!
@@juledoren now we’re talking, yes I do
Good luck with all the mosquitoes, the worst on the continent.