Snow Big Deal | Prepping for an Alaskan Winter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ย. 2023
- Snow in the forecast? S"no"w problem! With the winter weather imminent, we had a few last-minute prep projects to work on before everything is covered with a blanket of snow. Being prepared is the best thing that we can be for the Alaskan winter, and we are ready! When the snow flies, the scenery is absolutely gorgeous! There’s a reason why winter is our favorite season.
Thank you for watching and supporting our channel!
Katie & Chris
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Hey guys have been patiently waiting for your next vog. I know you must be busy with winter coming and many things to take care of. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your content. God Bless and stay warm.
Hello 👋 we are staying busy for sure! It is great to hear you are enjoying our videos! 🙂 God bless 🙏 and thank you
I liked the idea of pulling the "sled" behind the new and improved snow blower. Sometimes, no matter how old we get, we have to let the kid inside come out to play for awhile. It's good for the soul.
That is true! Life has to be fun too 😁
You guys are quickly becoming One of my favorite Alaskan TH-cam couples. At this time I only have two Alaskan TH-cam couples channels that I watch on a regular & I love you both!!! Keep up the hard work and dedication to build your dream home 🏡 & life you desire.
Good luck 🍀 & God Bless you All.
CC Rider
Hi, let me guess: Remote life Alaska?
Thank you CcRider ❤️ we are happy to share our adventure in Alaska with you 🙂 God bless 🙏
You two are amazing. Your channel is right there with Simple Living Alaska and I look forward to seeing your journey while your channel grows.
Yes, they are. Just need to focus and become more consistent in their uploads and they’ll make living out of it while pursuing the Alaskan dream.
Thank you! Glad we can share the adventure with you 🙂
@kosta16auto That would be interesting to make a living on TH-cam, although it seems as likely as winning the lottery 😅 We could make a weekly update-type vlog. But we prefer to combine multiple weeks of work into one good video and make entertaining content about a completed project, milestone, or adventure, that we would enjoy watching ourselves. Living the way we are currently is a lot of repetitive work and tasks that take up most of our time. A lot of these tasks are not interesting enough to record and publish. I can see how channels with high dedicated subscription numbers would benefit income-wise from a weekly vlog but in our case, we do not feel it is a good direction to go. We work to put out new content every ten days. Hopefully, this gives some insight 🙂 thank you for your support!
Actually it seems to be more realistic than you think. At 100,000 subs you would be doing ok
@@northtoalaska2022 10 days works it's the consistency that counts. You guys are going to be just fine. I love your mindset, too many unfinished jobs is not fun to watch I enjoy seeing the complete project. Thank you for sharing your lives
I love your videos they are just so far apart. It’s easy to forget.
Glad you enjoy our videos! We work to put out a new one about 10 days apart 😀
Hi guys i loved your new inovation on the back of your snow blower.
😀 thank you!
This is coming from a position of friendship. Have a generator like that and the battery cable came loose. Low oil sensor can cause the generator not to fire, along with your starter issues, just letting you know what you are in for. I don’t know what it is about watching another work that draws us in.
Yes unfortunately they have some problems. Ours is still fairly new and has had 3 issues so far... not a good start
Looks like winter is here to stay
Yes, it does! It is an ice rink in our area right now.
@@northtoalaska2022 it is here too
Well, winter is upon you! Beautiful scenery! Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
I watch several alaska off grid / homesteading and your channel is one of my favs... started at beginning and slowly getting caught up...great job and can't wait for next vid in your adventure
Thank you! Glad to hear you are enjoying our videos and they are some of your favorites! Our very first videos were not great, but we are learning how to make them better for everyone to enjoy. Whenever we have something interesting to share we will 🙂
It looks beautiful and lots of fun where you guys are. Cold, but very beautiful. You're living the good life. The doggos look pretty happy too 😊
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I don't know if you know it or not but when case came out with the 1835 and 1845 they were king of the skid steers here in Pa. I watch alot of the Alaskan shows and your the first I've seen with a case. Did you bring it with Nice job and to retro fit the plow, that's my way of thinking Keep up the great job
Yes! It's amazing to think in the 90s the 1845c was the largest skid steer being produced. Things have changed a lot with newer machines but the simple reliable design will continue to live on and stay popular for many decades. We purchased the 1845c in Maryland about 9 years ago. We hauled it up to Alaska with us because used heavy equipment prices seem to be about double here compared to the East Coast. It has continued to be a necessary tool for us, we would be in a rough situation without it!
That was hilarious with the snow blower. We'll have to try that with ours. I got bunch of shear pins off of Amazon for ours the end of last season. Needed one yesterday🙄. Those studs are a great idea.
We ordered a few more spares too! The studs are pretty cheap on Amazon, it took about 100 per track. Seems to be helpful so far.
Got two of the snow machine/blowers and it's a race. 🏁 Thanks for the video.
True! 😃 glad you enjoyed it, thank you too!
Even though we were only there for 3 weeks in July, I still for some reason watch your weather. When I saw the snow storm, I was not surprised. It seems you have had plenty of precipitation over the past year. No wonder the peninsula is so lush and green.
We have had our fair share of rain! It has warmed up again here and we are receiving mixed snow and rain now. It was a welcome extra week of fall weather!
Looks like you guys having fun in the snow.😁😁 Next time you get a chance get extra sheer bolts for snow blower. Other channels i watch they break all the time so extra would be a blessing. You guy are prepping good. can't wait to see whats next on your adventures. By the way if you haven't seen or heard last sat. OSU smoked Michigan state 38-3 So far 10-W and 0-L
We do enjoy the fresh snow! We will stock up on sheer bolts just in case! Thanks 😃
The snowblower and sled 🛷 was hilarious 😂
I can see people now taking their tracked snowblowers and pulling themselves in a plastic sled 🛷after seeing your idea on your video.😂🤣
It gave us a good laugh 😃 we were surprised it was able to pull it, but it worked better than expected!
Love your videos, thanks for sharing
Thank you! We are glad you are enjoying the videos! 😀
After living a couple of years in Vermont… I can tell you snow is for the young! I am fat and old now and moved to the south…lol
I lived in New Hampshire until I was 40 and moved south to go back to college for a second career, I truly miss NE and especially NH, it is like my heart has never left and wants to go back.
@@chrisdaniel1339 I really dig NH too! Where i did all my shopping and dining out. Great people and a really beautiful state!
I love your videos. I watch several other channels, and I'm amazed at how unprepared a couple of them were on their move to Alaska. Likewise, I am continually amazed at how PREPARED you guys are with a place to live, the equipment you need, and the methodical way you are going about setting up your homestead. You've obviously spent a lot of time pre-planning this move. Even getting the skid steer buried in mud while getting your water supply squared away didn't overwhelm you....and you got it out 😉 My late husband and I had jobs at Kodiak Baptist Mission on Kodiak Island for a bit back in 1993, but we never even thought about homesteading. So, kudos to you for doing it now, while you're young. Keep the videos coming as often as possible. I REALLY enjoy them. Blessings as you continue this journey and thanks for sharing it with us 🥰
It is great to hear you love our videos! ❤️ we did a lot of planning before making our move to Alaska it was quite the process to make it all come together. We had been living a semi-self-sufficient lifestyle in Pennsylvania, so we had already developed many skills and acquired most of the equipment and tools needed to thrive in Alaska. It has still been challenging, but we are enjoying the process and glad we can share our experiences here with everyone. That must have been interesting to live in Kodiak! We have not visited Kodiak, but it is on our bucket list. We will continue to share whenever we can 🙂 🙏 thank you!
Good to see you both today. I really enjoy your channel. Keep the videos coming👍. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Stay warm🇺🇸❤️
Thank you! Love to hear how much you enjoyed our video 😁❤️
We are going to have to make a "Chris Snowmachine" with a sled to carry wood from the woodshed!
That would be interesting!
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Greetings from Pakistan,wow beautiful filming of snow capped trees,mountains with stunning scenery and landscapes.Great job done by insulating RV.Keep working and smiling 😊
Hello and thank you 😊 glad you could enjoy the beautiful scenery and landscape with us!
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Great job guys love you and the other channel s up there you two are great keep going 👍
Thank you 🙂
I love the opening to the video, no talking just the beautiful mountains, nature, and animals of Alaska. What was the name of the big mountain you could see over the trees from your property? It looks huge.
You should keep your eyes pealed for a 7 or 8 foot wide hydraulic snow blower for the skid steer or adapt on meant for a 3 point hitch on a tractor by adding a hydraulic motor. While not quit as fast as a plow the snow blower allows you to throw the snow far into the woods keeping you from having huge snowbanks right on the driveway edge and preventing a muddy driveway come springtime. Your drive way will not get narrower as the winter progresses, with a plow once the snowbanks turn to ice they are not moving and every storm the driveway gets a little more narrow, not with a snowblower you get nice vertical edges and the snow it 40-50 feet into the woods. You have infinite choice of where you want to put snow, make one giant pile near the RV and you will have cold storage into early summer. Working around cars, sheds, the outhouse, etc is so much easier with a blower.
Glad you enjoyed it, most of the scenery is from Homer, they have a grand view. The volcano we have a view of is Mt Iliamna. We would love to pick up a skid steer snow blower one day, prices are a bit ridiculous here for them but if we make a trip back to the East Coast for a family visit that is an item we will Try to find on the used market to bring back home. Thanks for your support 🙂
Ahhh winter. Time to try and remember where you put the sheer pins for the snowblower! I go through a few every year with a gravel driveway as well. Great job on the genny! Don’t you love working on things with small bolts in the snow?😆
Those small bolts disappear fast if they are dropped 😅 thank you!
Beautiful land I’ll be so glad when I move up to Alaska 👍🙏
It is beautiful up here! Wishing you good luck in your endeavors 🙂
Hello. You might want to build a box to put your generator in to help. I have seen other homesteaders do that. it helps they said.
Morning guys, I love the way that you show the surrounding area in the beginning of your videos, the scenery around your property is beautiful
Good morning 😁 glad we can share the scenery with you, it is a beautiful area out here! Thank you for your support
Hi loved the start of your video snow is here to stay keep warm hope you have got enough food to keep you going till the end of winter 😊
Glad you liked the video! We are all stocked up and prepared for winter 🙂
Are you both living in the RV for the winter?
Both hard workers, work very well together also. The homestead is so neat and tindy and you both clean up after yourselves. Not a junk yard for sure. That shows much respect to the land and animals. They do get hurt and tangled into mans junk.
Many places a person drives by and places are nothing but junk yards with crap piled everwhere.
Glad you guys are not these kind of stewards of the land and animals.
I run generators in the cold. Need oil all the time or they wont run. So check each time. Also I put some seafoam in mine durring the cold ❤-Diana.
Yes, we are in the RV for the winter. It is cozy inside, for the most part. We can feel the cold start to creep in when it gets below zero but the toyo stove does a great job of keeping it dry and warm. We take pride in our property and try to keep it clean and organized, we do not enjoy seeing junkyards either. It is unfortunate to see junk and trash piled in some areas of Alaska too. Thank you for the tip on the generator Diana ❤️
Beautiful the snow and scenery, as I sit here in 21% and last of spring weather and summer almost here in Australia ,Melbourne, Victoria. .😊
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I thought that was Santa coming along on his sledge. 😊
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I like keeping a new carburetor for my genny on the shelf myself, in your case I would add a starter. It is so frustrating to have to troubleshoot no start when your fingers are freezing! I know from personnel experience.
Spare parts are always great! out here a spare generator is best 😅 hopefully one day we will have a warm shed to work in 🙂
Your videos popped up today and they are great! You 2 are such hard workers! Do I hear a Philly accent? Philly girl from long ago living in western Washington now. Welcome to the West! Looking forward to your future videos. Thanks for sharing.
We both grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania 😁 glad you enjoyed our videos! Thank you 🙂
Happy New Year from Cape Cod🎉🎉🎉🎉🇺🇸
Happy New Year!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲
Doing just fine…
#2 bolt works as well as a shear pin and much cheaper
I live pretty close to where you’re at. I deal with the same type of snow Get the Milwaukee leaf blower it would work really good to get that dry snow off your solar panels. You put some good videos together I have watched most of them.
It's good to hear you enjoyed our videos! We will give our leaf blowers a try, thank you!
Наступила зима. Классный генератор! Хороший комплект зимней резины! Классное видео получилось! Мне понравилось! Круто Круто!!!
Yes, winter is here! 😃
Can you folks how you guys doing today I hope everything is good today all right have a great day and God bless you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊
We are doing good 😊 hope you are well too ❤️❤️🙏
A great definition of a snow machine play safe and stay warm 👍👋🇨🇦
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Not sure where in Alaska you live, but if you are regularly getting temperature BELOW 0F, don't be afraid to use 0W-20 full synthetic oil. When the temps get back above freezing, switch to 10W-30.
Hello we are on the Kenai peninsula. Thank you for the tip!
Try and get an eraser type of commutator cleaner, just rub comm to remove carbon track...do once a year should be fine
Hi, I see ice on the inside foam on your generator. You could be getting condensation and ice in your starter when it cools down. I run our Honda in a box in the winter to prevent this and to keep the breather from plugging up in real cold temperatures. We also tilt our solar panels a little past vertical so we don’t get snow or frost on them. When the sun is this low you will actually get some reflection off the snow. It’s all about those photons.
Thank you for the advice! When we create a permanent mount for our solar panels we will add a hinge to tilt them in the winter months. It is very difficult now with so many temporary structures and living methods but we will improve as time goes on 🙂
Nice job trouble shooting and repairing the starter!
Thanks!
That winter looks tough and not easy. Good job!
Thank you!
Now you can put a chair in that sled and you can drive around snow blowing without walking around🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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That Milwaukee impact is a beast! I borrowed my neighbor's and it broke a bolt loose where my pneumatic impacts failed.
They are great tools! Most of the mechanics switched from air to electric tools about 6 years ago in the shop I used to work at. The Milwaukee impact was what made me make the switch, amazing torque.
Have you considered building an oil burning heater for your outhouse, you could use the old oil from all your oil changes.
That would be interesting! We try to spend very little time in the outhouse but the heat would not hurt on cold windy days!
I hope you have enough food and heat there to survive the winter
We are prepared 🙂
Awesome views you have !!!!!
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I think it was Amazon where I purchased a snow rake. It collapses to about six feet long, and extends to about 16 feet. It was reasonably priced and has lasted the last two or three winter seasons here in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Good for our two solar arrays. PN
Thank you for the tip Phil 🙂
Hahaha looks like you two will have fun all winter with that thing. Any plans on taking up mushing?
We have joked about a sled dog team! Hard to say what the future may hold 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 your current dogs are cute, but not sure they're up to the task. Ive seen wheeled rigs and mushers on cross country skis with as few as 2 dogs, so... Probably not a huge barrier to entry 😁
Seems to me like the starters not getting proper ground Usually when it comes to electrical is always ground
You need to find out about permission to use Johnny Horton song , a beautiful song in my days.called North to Alaska...
Hi guys still no eggs from my chickens but they are happy, I have got about 2 feet of snow here, Ahhh Alaska Winters lol, God Bless you two, your Willow Friend 🙏🏻❤️🇺🇸
Are they getting enough light? I worked on a big chicken farm for 3 years in high school and the chicken coups had timers on the lights to give them 12 hours a day. Maybe the chickens are different now as this was over 50 years ago.
@@Chris_at_Home I actually have them in a Green house they were hatched in May and the guy that hatched them said it would be Dec, he’s done it for a while as well, I’ve had chickens for about 10/12 years and they have always taken about six months I’ve just never had one lay in 4 months 😂 thanks for your input, I haven’t had to put lights in but as the days get shorter I have a couple I may just hook up
Hey James 👋 praying your chickens start laying soon! Ours slowed down for a few days when we had the cold snap about 2 weeks ago. The weather is windy and warm down here now mostly rain with some snowflakes. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving. God bless 🙏❤️
Just read your comments with Chris at home, we are not using any light source on our chickens yet either. I honestly think it is the breed, they are the Nova gen breed from the mill in Anchorage supposedly they are rated to lay 1.5 eggs per day. We are only receiving 9 to 10 per day from 13 hens but maybe they can do better when they mature. When we were in Pennsylvania we raised around five flocks of mixed-breed hens and most new hens took 8 months or more to lay eggs consistently. Wintertime egg laying was always very slow even with a light on in the coupe. These nova gens have been a welcome surprise for us receiving so many eggs early on.
@@northtoalaska2022 mine finally started producing woo hoo I’ve got 4 eggs in two days I think it only one but there all the same age so it will pick up 🙏🏻❤️
Keep the foam seat for the outhouse inside when your not using it ...that way it's warm when you do need it...keep it inside !
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"If women don't find you handsome, be sure they find you handy." Red Green
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Enjoy your videos, just how far are you from the grocery and Lowe’s,hammer joint?
Not hammer joint, but I meant hamburger joint
Thank you! The nearest Lowe's is in Anchorage over 4 hours away but we have a Home Depot that is about 2 hours out. We do have access to a few small Ace Hardware stores within an hour but we usually do not buy from there because of the much higher prices. We save a lot of money if we make the drive to Home Depot and stock up on a lot of items at one time that we need for projects. There are a lot of small food options around this general area because it is a tourist destination in the summer. It is common to see small sheds that sell coffee and muffins or tacos and burgers on the Sterling Highway ( the "highway" is a normal 2-way road similar to a back road in lower 48, not much of a highway)
Make yourself a cart with a tractor seat so can sit while you plow.,..
How is the spring doing!?
So far so good, check out our latest video for an update on the spring development 😀
Where did you purchase those track studs for the snow blower? Thank you!
We found them on Amazon, 200 pack did both tracks, they seem to help for sure!
Thank you! @@northtoalaska2022
What is the two story building with the windows? An old abandoned house?
Yes, there is an old log cabin here on our property that we have a chicken coop inside of, and use part of it for a storage shed. It is one story with a loft, the cabin is in rough shape from the foundation failing and we will need to tear it down in the future. The original homesteaders out here lived in it Many years ago and it has been abandoned for over 20 years.
Do you need a special license for your snowblower/sledge combo?😊
Snow pilot license 🙂🎅
Why cant you call it a snowmobile?
In the U.P of Michigan we all call them snowmobile over here lol
We always called them snowmobiles in Pennsylvania as well! We were told by a family member that it is offensive in Alaska to not call them snow machines.
wheels and tires not rims
Seen on another channel they put blue tape on each fire to tell which fire it came from.tire?
Interesting, sounds like they wanted to remount them in the same position.
Your husband is so funny to me I love both of y'all but next time you get your little skinny booty on there with him lol
😃 we will both be sure to take it for a spin together next time! ❤️
Seems like waaaay too much work to be living out in the wilderness and the isolation.
It is not for everyone 🙂
the wheels you put on are no good the one you take of better
Sorry you feel that way.
Your wife needs to stay away from spicy foods and citrus that's what they put me on I have a higher h to
Can you elaborate? We do not eat many spicy foods but I am uncertain what you are trying to tell us.
You threw me off with the facial hair. Thought I had a different channel.
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