Fighting Mosquitos | Building Our Alaskan Outhouse
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- As we were finally getting to enjoy summer weather, the mosquitos decided it was time to come out. Our outhouse is 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide by 4 feet long. It should serve as a good temporary bathroom until our cabin is built and has plumbing.
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Don't forget your pee-screen against the vertical sheet under the front of your seat. Any hard sheet of plastic will work, That strand board will swell up and crumble over the years if allowed to get damp. And of course the 2" foam pad seats for winter, much warmer ;)
Yes! We ended up using an extra piece of metal that we had from the roof for the screen, and we've got our foam here and ready to go 😀
A dryer lint sheet rubbed on your skin will help disguise your scent. There is nothing more satisfying than a nice large bug zapper zapping away at the local bug population. I don't know if you have bats in your area but if so setting several boxes will bring them in. they tend to decimate the mosquito population.
Yes! You are absolutely right about a big bug zapper. We do have bats and we just saw one the other day! We would really love to build a bat house or two. Thank you for the advice!
Building a bunch of bat houses outa scrap lumber would be awesome!
So looking forward to you guys journey wonderful content, just keep your journey pure and me and many more will be here for a long time
Thank you so much for your kind words! We are glad to have you 😊
An incredibly sturdy crapper, So sturdy no bear shall enter. That said, I do recommend you add to peep holes to the door. One at normal height and another at seated height so you can peer out to ensure a bear is not waiting for you to exit. I am not sure of your future plans for the toilet, but you might consider a vent to enable fume dissipation. Really good work and design. Your videos are very polished, and the camera work is superb, Kudos to the "cameraperson"!
Thank you! We wanted to be sure it could withstand all of the earthquakes and tsunamis in our area 😅 we do want to go back and add the classic half moon peep hole in the door when we paint it and trim it out. As far as the camera work, we both put in an effort to capture the important parts. We have never done this type of recording in the past, but we are working on improving whenever possible 😉
Hello , Don't know if you ever heard of ( Simple Living Alaska ) at all they are a Couple that live In Alaska & live off the land there. They know a lot of what is good & safe to eat from there in the wild. You could look them up & they have videos they post about how they live off the land there. I love there videos about Alaska. Hope that will help you out.
Hello again! We have seen some of their videos, they are great content creators! We have found very small amounts of time to watch any TH-cam since we have moved off-grid. It is a full-time job out here living like we are. This may come as a surprise but when living this lifestyle we get so much experience in person every day that watching someone else live similarly as we do every day is not an enjoyable way to wind down. We often spend our free time writing back to viewers, cooking, planning our next day, or just relaxing.
Just wait till a bat decides thats a nice hidding spot.... nothing like bat wings punnishing you for your sins during a 3am emergency poop.
Are you speaking from experience on this matter?
That was a helicopter with a water bucket under it. More than likely it was putting out a Wildland fire somewhere nearby.
Be sure to use a bucket of lime! We had outhouses at our lake property and if you sprinkle in a scoop of lime after you're done, the outhouse always smells just fine and it's a LOT nicer when you do the spring cleanout. Lime breaks things down and keeps it smelling fresh.
Great tip! Thank you 🙂
Are you putting a "moon" in the door?
When we go back to paint it and add trim to the corners, we should cut in the moon! All true outhouses need the moon on the door!
Wow you're actually gonna go all the way outside to pee in an outhouse really I live in the city limits wish around my side in the back of my property but I pee outside I don't come all the way in the house to pee in a toilet😁😁
To be honest, I have only used the urinal 1 time, haha. I prefer using new places in the wilderness, I guess. I think I more or less put it there for shy guests 😅
@@northtoalaska2022 Yeah I forgot about having guests maybe a bear or a moose would like to use it🤣🤣🤣
Love the sandhill cranes. I didn't realize they went that far north. We see them every year here in TN by the 1000's. Keep up the good work :)
Thank you! We didn't know they would migrate up here either, but they are everywhere! They are such interesting birds.
Is this an out house or a bunker like wow. I think you have more nails then wood.
We need it to withstand earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions, so it's built to last! 😅
Your butt won't freeze if you take the seat into house and bring out only when using
Make sure to line the waste hole (covering the wooden portion) with heavy plastic, like a bucket, to keep-[ the urine from soaki8ng into the wood, thus causing it to smell.
They are not mosquito. They are small birds !!!!!!!!!woooooow how they are very healthy
Haha! They are like small birds lol 😆 Luckily we have the small mosquitos here and not the large ones.
I just found your channel-now to start binge watching! Y'all are doing a great job! Excited to see how your garden does! Best of luck-stay safe! 💙🙏🦟😊
Thank you so much! We are glad to have you. We have a lot more content coming 😀
@northtoalaska2022 you're very welcome! I love any thing Alaskan! Excited for your journey! 🥰
Beautiful dog
Thank you! His name is Benelli 🙂🐕
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If you build a smoky campfire near your work area, the smoke will keep the Skeeters away.
Thank you for the advice! We will keep that in mind 😀
Yes, my uncle ran a cattle racing Minnesota! He built smudge fires for the cattle to get relief from the mosquitoes and deer flies!! It works!!
Ranch, not racing!
What a great idea for the cattle!
Beautiful pictures on the intros x
Thank you! 😀
Benelli digging the holes with you all was so precious!!
Thank you ☺️ He loves trying to help! 🐕
i just subscribed today and i have watched about 6 videos so far. good stuff for sure. loving your adventure.
Thank you so much! We are glad to have you 😀
I just found your channel. It’s nice to see people with the determination, tools and knowledge to succeed. It’ll be good to watch y’all build your dream.
Thank you so much for the kind words.😊 We are glad to have you along for the journey!
little bottle baby oil and put 5 drops of Dettol shake the bottle and rub it on they dont like Dettol good luck 🙃
Great tip! Thank you 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 your very welcome
how did it go did it work for you
We have not seen any mosquitos here since August! When they come back out at the end of next June we will give the Dettol a test run! 🙂
Got to be nicest poop house in Alaska
I spent many years on the peninsula and love it, I’m in willow now and you picked a great place to homestead, much milder winters and Great soil, I’m actually going to end up back down there, I take care of my mother now but am going off grid when I can, I basically am but still have electricity, being a caregiver it’s needed, great content, i will follow your journey here, I’ve been Alaskan for over Fifty years and if you need any input feel free to reach out, I’d be glad to help, maybe see you on the peninsula one day, God Bless 🙏
Thank you for your kind words! We love the peninsula and so glad that we chose here to live. You are absolutely correct! The soil here is fantastic. So soft, fluffy, and fertile for plants. Any input or advice that you have is greatly appreciated! Hope to see you around on the peninsula someday! Take care 😀
what a wonderful gesture~! Building community☮
That’s a great toilet Chris,
I'm surprised the dirt was fairly manageable going that deep - I guess the permafrost stuff is farther north...
We live in the deep south of Alaska! 🤣🤣 Our frost line is about 4 to 5 feet deep, but no permafrost, luckily. Thankfully, we didn't run into any ice when running the auger this time like we did when drilling for the garden posts.
That beautiful soil you should’ve put in your garden
Some of the roots on those two trees were exposed because of how they grew out of old cut-off stumps. We were spreading the excess soil on them to keep frost off the root. We grade many yards of top soil from our land and sew it into the garden in another video. Check out building our moose proof garden video. Thanks for watching 🙂
Good ole Alaska state birds skeeters 😂
😆 absolutely! They are some vicious little creatures...
They most certainly are, get some bird houses up with 1-1/2 entry holes the swallows will occupy them and really help keep them down, but don’t put a finish on them, the swallows won’t use them for a couple years
@jamesseltenreich652 Oh, what a fantastic idea! Thank you so much! We will definitely be doing this.
@@northtoalaska2022 they are migratory but they will stay around while there’s skeeters to feast on, I have 20 or more I build myself, they are awesome to watch soaring around catching, I have greatly reduced my population of skeeters, thermacell works great to, and I swear by them for when your working around the place, great investment for 29-30 bucks
We've been using thermacells, but we are definitely going to use some of the scrap wood we have and get some bird houses built very soon for the swallows!
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Are Sandhill cranes in season? Heard there great.
I am unsure if they have a season here, we will need to look into that. They love to land on our creek, and they build nests all over this general area to hatch young. I bet they make a great feast.
Ribeye in the sky.
Hi there, your video just poped on myphone, looks interesting. Excited ti follow your journey.😊
Hello! We are glad to have you! Thank you for following along with our journey.😀
Great job building the outhouse guys
Thanks! It has been working out great for us 👍 😁
You may need to add a vent pipe to allow the warm air from the pit to the atmosphere. I think it was on the "Mitchells in Alaska" the air condensed inside the outhouse and froze. You're zipping through your infrastructure projects. Are you going to start on a house or cabin or wait until next year?
Hello! We had installed a rectangular vent on the back made out of leftover treated plywood to vent the outhouse hole that was not captured on film. We are trying to get as much as we can done before winter hits, and some jobs become impossible. We are in the beginning stages of building a cabin now and will probably work on it most of the winter. Content on that will be coming soon! Thanks for watching 🙂
A plastic pee shield was recommended for an outhouse.....as a "must have". It would be placed towards your knees when seated....but maybe one of both front and back would be a good idea. Apparently, the wood absorbs a tremendous amount of urine smell. Not first hand experience...but second hand experience can be just as useful. (Just a plastic covering to protect the wood form being wetted...I'm sure any plastic would do.) Cheers. Also....burn toilette paper rather than drop it in the outhouse.
Most people.in alaska use styrofoam ins. For there seat
We have foam for the winter.
I saw you already put a solid roof on, otherwise I would have suggested you use a transparent corrugated roof for light
We really wanted a strong permanent roofing so we went with steel. We did add a rechargeable light on the interior for when it is dark 🙂
Well done, I like your tools Milwaukee is hard to beat. The thought process on using the auger was spot on.
North To Alaska. Can you provide links to your mosquito head nets and paddle?
Be kinda of cool to have a half door on the John for summer time ventilation, Lol, nice video thanks for posting.
That is a cool idea, like a horse stall! We might have to give that a try next summer. Would have to keep it shut part of the summer so the mosquitos do not bite us up while doing business. Thanks for watching!
🤔Между землёй и туалетом должен быть зазор 20-30см, чтоб его постоянно продувало и не было запаха. Потолок делать из прозрачного поликарбонат и светильники на солнечных батареях
Nice poop shack. lol :) Ours is similar. We painted it Barn red and the trim/corners dark chocolate.
Thanks! We have some slate gray paint for it, we just haven't gotten around to painting it yet.
Looks great
You Call It BIG BAD JON !!!!
Great name!
Just saw your video on my feed. Great project to get finished.. Thanks for sharing
Thank you! 😀
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Did you remembered to put a splash shield in side your outhouse to protect the wood?
Check out time stamp 18:17 on the video, I installed a pee shield made of leftover metal roofing. Thank you for watching 🙂
Loving the New channel I found. Best of Luck I will be following.
Thank you! 😀
Excellent so far. Thank you for taking us along!
Thank you so much! We have a lot more content coming 😀
"Hashtag tiny house..." Laughed my ass off at that one. Comedic gold.
We were not sure if anyone had caught the joke! 😅
Hello from Kenai! Yep, the mosquitos are pretty bad. I am going to try something new this year. Mosquitos don't travel very far so I am going to buy a ton of Mosquito Dunks and see if my neighbors are onboard and I to build perfect mosquito breeding pools in tires and birdbath's etc. Then put the Mosquito Dunks in there. They don't hurt dragonfly nymphs but keep the mosquitos from maturing. All natural, no poisons or toxins, not damaging to wildlife. I may also buy some mosquito traps that hook up to propane. We're also clearing more of our property so we can attract more dragonflies with strung lines. Even if it doesn't kill the mosquitos off it will make me feel better getting back some of my pound of flesh.
That's a fantastic idea and we would love to know how that works for you!
We did notice the cleared areas aren't as bad and we built a bat box and bird houses for the tree swallows. We are hoping they take up residence and eat away at the mosquitos 🤞
Just found you guys and am quickly catching up. I love the urinal addition, nice touch!😊
Glad you found us 🙂
Could you talk about how you met your education, jobs, animals, and children?
Hello! We plan to do a video in the future to explain who we are and why we moved 😀
Great job!
Thank you! We are happy with how it turned out! 😊
Tell me again, what is dog name? Is it Banelly ?
So have you discovered blue board yet?
great job on the outhouse, enjoy your videos!
Thank you! We are glad you are enjoying the content. 😀
Is Benelli eaten by mosquitos?
You will want a piece of 2 or 3 inch Styrofoam for a seat in winter. Much nicer than the cold toilet ring. Just a little tip, store toilet paper in a gal can with a lid or a hard small cooler with lid. Mice will have a field day if you don't. Nice job on tiny house😂 also motion lights are great for outside when it's dark time.
We did both of these winter upgrades in our "Snow Big Deal" video 🙂 thanks for sharing!
@@northtoalaska2022 how did I miss that one!!! I will hunt it down lol.
Great job!!
Thank you!
hi, cut a hole in back low and put a plastic pipe in it for the smell to come out.
Hello! We have an added vent in the back near the ground made of leftover plywood. It was not captured on film. Thanks for watching!
Your dog needs a friend
hi, cut hole in back and put a plastic pipe ,for the toilet smell.
Thanks for the advice! We will take that into consideration 😀
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is there anything you can do to keep the mosquitos off of the dog I feal bad for him
We use safe essential oils on the dogs to repel them.
Thank you for sharing your process! This is helpful!
You are welcome 🙂
Like always a great build In ENGLAND they are known as outside toilets
Thank you! Interesting, Where we are originally from in Pennsylvania a lot of people just call them the 💩 house 😅
We call them dunnies in Oz.
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Nice job guys!
Thank you!
Great job 🇬🇧😊
Thank you! 😁
Nice pooper
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There are no mosquitos in Alaska.
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That’s a lot of mosquitoes.
It really was so many mosquitos!
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Thanks for sharing
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Beautiful landscape and wildlife!
Nice outdoor dunny 👍
It does the job 😅 thank you!
Greetings from Germany
Good job
Thank you 🙂
hope thats not near your spring or you just contaminated the water supply 😬
Hey, it could be just like city water then! Recycled sewer water 😅 we put the outhouse in a good place, keeping the spring in mind. Luckily, we were already aware of the spring at that time.
@@northtoalaska2022 ohh tasty, city water is delicious! 🤣gotta love the taste of excreted taco bell in the morning! All seriousness though like you said int he spring water video it could go back hundreds of yards, and either direction, i myself would get it tested after a few months of using the outhouse.
Luckily for us, the spring source goes in the opposite direction of the outhouse. When you look at regulations on septic setback distance from water wells, it's actually not that far compared to the gap we have. The spring is an estimated 700 feet away from the outhouse, and there is a ravine separating the two. With all that being said well and spring water can change so fast, it is best practice to purify your water every time before drinking because it's really not practical to constantly test the water. We will purify all drinking water and test at least once a year to see what changes.
@@northtoalaska2022we just use a Berkey and don't worry about it.
Ahh, we use a Berkey as well! Great product.
It’s amazing that people doing these videos going off grid or building a Homestead start out with all this type of money you see the diesel truck in the background the gooseneck trailer the bumper pull trailer all this equipment the normal person can’t do any of this, especially with the Milwaukee tools, the saw alone is a $400 saw and then you have a nail gun which is Milwaukee which is another few hundred dollars it’s sad to see that people with money do this but the average person can’t afford to do what you do
I hate to have to delve into this but you are ignorant to many facts. We are skilled blue collar workers that put in the work and time over many years to be able to afford what we have. You talk about the diesel truck in the video it is a 26 year old 500,000 mile truck we bought over 10 years ago for 7,000 dollars. Most people spend more than that for a daily comuter car to get to a 9 to five. We work in the trades to make our living so yea we have invested in the proper tools to do the job correctly. Everyone's dream looks different. If you prefer to pound 1000s of nails by hand you are welcome to do so but please save your disrespect for somone else.
What is a normal person? Someone who spends 40k on a new car? I guess an abnormal person buys an old truck, old equipment and some power tools.😂😂😂
Or they could be reasonably intelligent people who realize what they need to get established in Alaska and spent the time and money to prepare before they came. That's what I would have done.
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Thanks for watching 😉
Looks like you got your first hater XD
OK let’s add to my comment. I see a enclosed trailer and more Milwaukee tools as of a jigsaw along with probably numerous other tools and heavy equipment that are not shown on the vieo yet so yeah, the average person can’t do this.
Just for an FYI, when moving to alaska from 5000 miles away it is cheaper and easier to buy your own enclosed trailer to transport your belongings than it is to rent a u haul truck for the drive.
They look like average people to me
Your ignorance is showing. Again. They have mentioned multiple times that they work in the trades. For a living! Everything you see here was more than likely used to make said living. Obviously not many people can go out and buy every piece of equipment you see here overnight. You buy it as you need it over time. I'm not sure what you do for a living or where or how you live but I would bet an entire paycheck of mine you didn't buy Everything you needed to work and live in a day or three. Proper planning and budgeting to achieve ones dreams is a thing millions of people do every day. Even this "average" person you keep feeling the need to mention.
Obliviously you haven’t seen the skid steer and side by side yet! This is normal if you have planned for years ahead of time and are prepared for what you will face! Don’t forget, for all that tools and equipment, they still don’t have a house!! They are starting from scratch, literally, so shut your cake hole or watch something else we don’t need negative ….people like yourself raining on their parade! Be proud for them! They have done and are still doing what most only dream about, it took years already just to get to this point