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  1. We don't have any type of livestock or chickens. My wife grew up showing heifers in Texas, so she would really like to get some livestock. It's just not feasible with no type of meaningful electricity to have them. We would probably have to double our firewood output to keep them warm during the winter. And chickens only lay in the winter if they have some artificial light to mimic daylight. We've thought about raising meat chickens during the summer, but chicken is my least favorite form of protein. I'd rather just go shoot some grouse for our poultry. Lot's of folks who have electricity keep chickens year round.
  2. I have 4 total drums. Three of them are frozen to the ground right now because you know, winter. The fourth is loaded into the truck and filled at a gas station. There used to be a bulk plant in Fairbanks where you could get gas for generator use without the road tax, but a major snowstorm collapsed the roof and they've yet to rebuild. Anyway I use a hand cranked transfer pump to pump the fuel out of the drum in the truck to the empty one on the ground. The same transfer pump in used to fill up 5 gallon cans for use in the generator or to fill up the wheeler or snow machine or our personal rig directly. I replaced the hose that came with it, about 8 feet I think, with a 25 foot arctic grade hose. I rotate which drum I'm pulling from so the gas doesn't go bad, but when one is empty I immediately fill it.
  3. I've never bought papers from Amazon. I'll have to check that out. I'm a joint guy. It's my preferred method. I'll hit a pipe too. I've given up on everything except flower. I don't do the concentrates or edibles. Fucks me up too much. My wife loves her bong. I'm getting old, bong rips put me to sleep.
  4. I use a .270 Win for moose. I'm not taking a shot over 300 yards and the .270 kills them if you can place your shot. As mentioned above, we have a Winchester Defender 12 gauge for bear. I have a Ruger Blackhawk .44 mag when carrying the shotgun isn't feasible. I carry that in a chest holster. My wife carries a S&W .357 mag in the woods. A Ruger 10/22 for squirrel control. And a Wyndham Weaponry AR 5.56 for anything else.
  5. I am not a muzzle loader guy, so I have no idea to what you are referring. I do know his muzzle loader looks like something Daniel Boone would have used. It's a modern version of that I suppose. Don't know if that helps you or not? My hunting buddy likes the big booms. His normal moose hunting rifle is a .338/.378 Weatherby Magnum. It costs him $9 every time he pulls the trigger. Fucking Howitzer.
  6. It gets delivered to my office. C&D is a delivery service out of Fairbanks that ferries things down to my area every weekday. The company I work for has a contract with them, so they stop at our place every day. The company is extremely generous and lets employees use the service for free since they are stopping by anyway.
  7. We skin, gut, and quarter it up out in the field. Depending on temps, we try to leave the meat hanging in our storage shed for a week to 10 days to age and mellow out a little bit. Then we cut it up, grind, wrap, and make sausage at the cabin. We do that outside, so the shotgun is always within easy reach if something weird happens. A 12 gauge shotgun loaded with Black Magic 3 inch magnum slugs is the best close range bear gun.
  8. It's on your mind, but we don't watch for them at all times. If a grizzly wants the kill bad enough to risk interaction with humans, then something is wrong with it. It's sick, or injured, old and starving. They really want nothing to do with us. And if it wants it that badly, it can have it. One of my main goals is to never shoot a bear. I will if I have to, but I'm always going to try to run it off first. They're just being bears. We're in their territory. I'll help just about anyone when it comes to hunting food, but I won't go on predator hunts. Leave the wolves and the bears and the lynx and the coyotes alone. If you're not going to eat it, why shoot it? Go do something else to make your penis feel bigger.
  9. Yes sir
  10. It's more about knowing how to layer than it is who you buy your gear from. I'm a Carhartt guy out of necessity. I'm 6'5" 260 pounds. Carhartt makes shit that fits me and is available in Fairbanks. The most common brands I see people wearing up here are Patagonia, Columbia, and North Face. The one brand I will endorse is Baffin boots. They make the best cold weather boots I've worn. Sorel boots are a pretty solid choice too. I'm also more of a natural fiber fan, cotton and wool for my outer layers...Filson and Woolrich for wool. The most important layer is your base layer. You need something that wicks moisture, like Underarmor. The one thing you don't want to do is start sweating. Once you cool down, the moisture on your skin will make you cold in a hurry.
  11. Yesterday started off so nice. The Lights were out on my way to work.
  12. Only mode of transportation right now
  13. Here's the road
  14. That wind was fucking cold. This is about the most bundled up I get.
  15. I'll get back to the questions later. Here's a typical example of this winter. It's been a tough one. Wife called me at work yesterday about noon to let me know we had a wind storm out of the Northeast. We rarely have wind in our area. Northeast is a bad direction for us because it drifts the road over. Wind was sustained at 40 mph. Gusts up to 70 and 80. Wind chills in the 90 to 100 below range. I went home and tried to keep the road open with the plow truck until about 10 pm. Couldn't keep up with all the snow, so we are now drifted in until Monday when I can get a piece of equipment out there to dig us out. Third time this has happened in the last calendar year. Number one summer project is to build a drift fence along the trouble spots. Only way in and out is by snow machine.
  16. $3.89 for gasoline $4.09 for diesel
  17. Brisket could totally live this way
  18. The roots of the trees here are all within 10 inches of the surface because of the permafrost. No such thing as tap roots here. The ground gave way and they tipped over. Aspen trees are notorious for tipping over because they are so top heavy. The white spruce don't really tip over because their weight is more evenly distributed. Those trees will become firewood this spring.
  19. The cabin, garage, and sauna are constructed out of 3 sided logs. They mill 3 edges of the log flat, leaving only one side rounded. Makes for easier, quicker construction.
  20. The Lights have always fascinated me. My Grandfather used to take me elk hunting. He wanted to live up here so badly. We would sit around the campfire and he would talk about Alaska and the Northern Lights. It always stuck with me. And being high af helps everything in my opinion. The "Happy Lamps" as they are called up here aren't really an option for us, but lots of people use them to combat cabin fever.
  21. When we want to spice things up we head to Fairbanks and spend the night in a hotel with electricity and running water. My wife usually takes at least 2 showers and soaks in the tub once. Hot running water is the shit when you aren't used to it.
  22. We were living in Leander when we decided to go for it and move up here. I couldn't stand the scouts...I lasted less than a month. We lived "normal" for two years, then got the off the grid bug. My friends back home in Texas say we went feral. The work truck is a perk. I use it as part of my job collecting water samples out in the field and the like, but I have an office and a lab. No kids. Never wanted them. It's the main reason I married my wife, she didn't want them either. It's pure serendipity she took to this lifestyle the way she did. She digs it more than I do. Don't sell yourself short, you could. It's all about adjusting your attitude and finding the system that works for you.
  23. It's expensive to live here. It's why so many people hunt. Getting a moose is a real big deal. One moose feeds a lot of people. $7 a gallon for milk is village or island price. I think the last time I bought some milk it was in the $4 a gallon range. Basically food costs about twice what you would pay in the lower 48. We only go to Fairbanks about once every 6 weeks or so. When we do we make poor eating decisions. A McDonald's #1 combo runs $12.
  24. As my skinner
  25. Here's another pic of the Mrs. As a zipline guide
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