Start to Finish | Helping Friends Build A Remote Cabin Miles From Any Road

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Building a cabin in the remote Wilderness of Alaska and starting a new life and homestead many miles from any road. We take snowmobiles to haul in heavy loads of lumber to my friends remote build site where they are constructing a 12x12 cabin. Join us for the adventures!
Check out my website to get music, merch, photos and more: alaskacabinadventures.com
Check out Steve and Tess's channel @HomeSweetHomeAlaska
#alaska #cabin #build #cabinbuild #offgrid #asmr #woodheat #backcountry #selfreliance #simpleliving #tinyhouse

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  • @barbfalkenhagen9405
    @barbfalkenhagen94057 күн бұрын

    Blessings to you and your family on the birth of your daughter. I'll continue to watch your progress.

  • @laspirit4adventure
    @laspirit4adventureАй бұрын

    Congrats on hitting 100k! 🎉

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    Hey, thank you!!

  • @Dropdood
    @DropdoodАй бұрын

    i just bought some land up in fairbanks to do this same thing, you have been an inspiration man keep it up

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    That's what I like to hear, good luck up there!!

  • @etchediniron4249

    @etchediniron4249

    Ай бұрын

    Congrats!🎉 Good luck! 👍🏼

  • @dper1112
    @dper1112Ай бұрын

    Most people insulating the floor aren't in Alaska, so they don't mind putting in narrow boards on the inside/bottom of the floor joists, and setting plywood strips on those. It takes longer, but it keeps you off your back... But up there, you gotta insulate as best you can, so crawling underneath the thing is necessary at some point. It's cool that you did it now, when you can still lift the floor up. That way there are no gaps or cuts in the plywood. It's also worth remarking that some people prefer to use RockWool (or equivalent) in floors, especially in off-grid locations, first because sometimes water spills on the floor and soaks down into it, and second because the mice don't like it. But it costs a little more. Something to consider, depending on your goals.

  • @janamunden1970
    @janamunden1970Ай бұрын

    Great video Matt and so nice of you returning the favor and helping them Love to see Norman he's so cute Thanks for sharing and love the music as well. Good luck on the new build and I would have to agree that's definitely off grid lol Love from Ohio

  • @wendellsuiter7869
    @wendellsuiter7869Ай бұрын

    Norman just wants to run to the job site...🐾🐾

  • @carltruva8872

    @carltruva8872

    Ай бұрын

    Love your dog's name Norman it's my dad's first and my middle name..... Love the channel you and Timmy are two of my favorites.. Thank you so much for sharing

  • @chandrasutton4669
    @chandrasutton466912 күн бұрын

    Excellent!!!😊🎉❤

  • @johninalaska9563
    @johninalaska9563Ай бұрын

    Hi Matt, so glad that you were able to give Steve and Tess a hand with their cabin. I really like those two. The question about whether they are offgrid or not. I was born in Alaska 76 years ago and back before this offgrid term was developed by modern day homesteaders, it was you either lived remote or you lived on the road system. That was that. If they don't put a driveway in they will remain remote. Myself, Steve and Tess have something in Common, I worked as a Winter caretaker for remote fishing lodges for 30 some years and I am anxious to hear their stories and watch their videos. By the way, Dick Proenneke was a friend of mine when I lived and worked out on Lake Clark.

  • @IkeCoblentz

    @IkeCoblentz

    27 күн бұрын

    Grid means electric grid. Off-grid means you are not connected to the electric grid. There is nothing more too it.

  • @johninalaska9563

    @johninalaska9563

    9 күн бұрын

    @@IkeCoblentz And if you have a driveway and a road to it, you don't live remote

  • @debrademedici864
    @debrademedici86429 күн бұрын

    I’m 70 year old princess and love watching your videos !!!! Never been to Alaska and maybe I’ll get the chance !! You 3 worked together great !!! I’m a dog lover and love Norm but why didn’t he get a burger ?

  • @johnpeddicord4932
    @johnpeddicord4932Ай бұрын

    Moving on up 100k,CONGRATULATIONS

  • @melissajules8694
    @melissajules8694Ай бұрын

    Love Norman

  • @Maintenance101.
    @Maintenance101.Ай бұрын

    That’s what shows your a real friend. Keep living the dream

  • @stevedenoyer5956
    @stevedenoyer5956Ай бұрын

    Something that small, I probably would have flipped the sub floor. But what you guys did worked fine, just a little awkward attaching underneath.

  • @jamesw6484
    @jamesw648427 күн бұрын

    This is a true American enginuety !

  • @LaVaqueraMarin
    @LaVaqueraMarinАй бұрын

    LOVE IT!!! KEEP IT COMING!!!!!

  • @TruckHouseLife
    @TruckHouseLifeАй бұрын

    Nice work ya'll!

  • @xxswamplordxx2079
    @xxswamplordxx207916 күн бұрын

    Only in Alaska would you call someone a neighbor when they're half an hours drive away from you. Great videos!

  • @MattAK
    @MattAKАй бұрын

    Congrats on 100k! Speaking of off grid definitions, I saw someone comment somewhere recently that if you have internet access you're not really off grid. For some reason that made me irrationally irritated.

  • @angelab2906
    @angelab2906Ай бұрын

    I wish that my neighbors lived that far away!!! Great music!

  • @claytonleal7947
    @claytonleal7947Ай бұрын

    porcupines will chew through that plywood if they want to. should get some metal mesh for the underside of the cabin to keep them from coming up through the floor

  • @zachary12675

    @zachary12675

    Ай бұрын

    Good idea

  • @willamettehops

    @willamettehops

    Ай бұрын

    Interesting point.

  • @infringenoo294
    @infringenoo2948 күн бұрын

    1/4" grid hardware cloth against the bottom of the subfloor stops mice and voles1" or 1/2" bellow that to deter the skunks and Porqupines.

  • @salliewhite-bishton5394
    @salliewhite-bishton5394Ай бұрын

    Your Flurry 🐶 Friend is certainly a great companion. The pic sitting up in the truck is great 👍

  • @claudioaranguizp8976
    @claudioaranguizp8976Ай бұрын

    Good job & God bless from Santiago of Chile 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @apollosmoon8658
    @apollosmoon8658Ай бұрын

    Off the grid to me is just away from the grind, cities and excessive amounts of people. I have 40 acres in Wyoming I just bought and I'm about to build my forever off the grid cabin, 16x24 with a loft. Love all these videos and the peaceful calm music in the background

  • @zachary12675

    @zachary12675

    Ай бұрын

    What's land going for in WY?

  • @apollosmoon8658

    @apollosmoon8658

    Ай бұрын

    For completely undeveloped land its pretty cheap. Creston wyoming area 40 acres for 27k

  • @zachary12675

    @zachary12675

    Ай бұрын

    @@apollosmoon8658 that's unreal. Can you buy smaller parcels? Good move.

  • @willamettehops
    @willamettehopsАй бұрын

    Looks like it's gonna be a nice homestead! Why did Steve decide on 2x4's for the walls? Around here we use 2x6 for more insulation.

  • @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    Ай бұрын

    Because we're POOR haha.

  • @artbeaumont8225
    @artbeaumont822527 күн бұрын

    Hello! I absolutely loved this video ... just stumbled across your channel ... had to subscribe ... thanks!

  • @12papara
    @12paparaАй бұрын

    Norm is the hardest working boy

  • @kristingrounds4163
    @kristingrounds4163Ай бұрын

    Great video! Love how you are helping your neighbors....I will definitely check out their site because I want to see the finished cabin LOL!

  • @elizabethlex7151
    @elizabethlex7151Ай бұрын

    Congrats on reaching 100,000 subscribers! 🎉

  • @christopherboyd7177
    @christopherboyd7177Ай бұрын

    that makita saw is smooth

  • @joannabowers1358
    @joannabowers1358Ай бұрын

    Hey, what a coincidence! I’m a subscriber to your channel and also started watching theirs a few weeks ago. This is cool because he didn’t really show this part of the build in his vlogs. They’re a neat couple.

  • @Adventures-with-Brad
    @Adventures-with-BradАй бұрын

    Great content! You are giving me major inspiration to get “off grid” ;)

  • @patriciamontague6035
    @patriciamontague6035Ай бұрын

    I love that channel.😀 They are so funny 😊 hi from Colorado Springs 😀

  • @judebug329
    @judebug329Ай бұрын

    Congratulations on 100k! 🎉

  • @alphaghostrabbithole5340
    @alphaghostrabbithole534022 күн бұрын

  • @zachary12675
    @zachary12675Ай бұрын

    great video

  • @MyAlaska12
    @MyAlaska12Ай бұрын

    Congrats on hitting 100K subs!

  • @Orphanboyefforts-Chuong
    @Orphanboyefforts-ChuongАй бұрын

    Amazing video❤❤😊❤

  • @jamesw6484
    @jamesw648427 күн бұрын

    I like Norman ❤.!!

  • @lidijabirsa7768
    @lidijabirsa7768Ай бұрын

    Hi there💙, great CONGRATS on 100K 🎉.... from sub no. 36 on your ch! 😂 Best wishes to the whole family from Europe! 🙏

  • @samhill3496
    @samhill3496Ай бұрын

    Good vid and music Matt. Teamwork sure helps one heck of a lot. Like you I would really appreciate a few more hands at times. Tough being a one man shoe. The cabin looks great. True plumb and square. The walls bowing out won't hurt. Diagonal center braces would help that. The bottom floor joist cover for the insulation. Not a bad job on it. Fast and it's sealed up as good as any other method. Seen it done a lot of ways some much more labor and costly. This build will be good experience for them later on. One thing they will have an efficient home come winter. I'll check out their channel. We met them before. Next time

  • @lovettlovett9462
    @lovettlovett9462Ай бұрын

    Friends helping Friends good old Alaska I like it. Ginger L USA Alabama😊 keep you friends Close, doing a amazing job I love seeing friends helping🎉 Food sounds great Norman is Hungry love watching friends Helping Friends Ginger L USA Alabama❤

  • @adriannicholson8819
    @adriannicholson8819Ай бұрын

    good that you put boots on norm 🥾

  • @Doc1855
    @Doc1855Ай бұрын

    My wife and I live in a very mountainous area of north central Washington state, 5 miles from a small town and 30 miles from a small city. We’ll be going to north west MT the end of May to look at property to buy and build a log house so that after my wife retires our house will be finished. We’ll sell our mountain home here in WA for our retirement home. I figure between eating fish, elk, deer and other wildlife we’ll be ok for our meat. We will have to grow our vegetables because the area we’re interested in, the closest Costco is 100 miles away. We will have to drill a well and install a septic system, but we have 12 years to do it all.

  • @billbarbour3351
    @billbarbour335118 күн бұрын

    Could have stood the subfloor up on edge, attached the plywood and laid it back down...

  • @michaelmartineau1373
    @michaelmartineau137329 күн бұрын

    Nieghbours helping Nieghbours this is the Alakan way

  • @ToothMolar
    @ToothMolarАй бұрын

    Porcupines love the glue in Plywood.

  • @hoangthidinh96
    @hoangthidinh96Ай бұрын

    Xin Chào Chúc bạn một buổi sáng tốt lành

  • @debraward3796
    @debraward3796Ай бұрын

    Do you have a full video of you building your cabin you live in?

  • @soapstones69907
    @soapstones6990725 күн бұрын

    Whats up from wasilla

  • @Jasonrcsd
    @JasonrcsdАй бұрын

    Is this a new cabin he built or is this the same one different video because I thought he showed a start to finish on a secondary cabin?

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    new cabin

  • @pqtpat7734
    @pqtpat7734Ай бұрын

    Are they guides at a fishing lodge?

  • @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    Ай бұрын

    Steve is a Guide! Tess is the Camp Cook :)

  • @kamil6988
    @kamil6988Ай бұрын

    somewhere between 2:54 and 3:04 Norman lost a shoe :(

  • @patandandrea
    @patandandreaАй бұрын

    I love your music for video. I’m gonna buy it but I wonder if I could be allowed to use it for my channel? Let me know. Thanks Pat

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    Thank you!! Unfortunately you can’t use it for videos, it will be flagged for copyright, but you can contact me about having us make your own custom channel music 🤘

  • @83glacius
    @83glaciusАй бұрын

    a floor is as warm as your room is if there s no heat...its going to be a cold floor..

  • @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    @HomeSweetHomeAlaska

    Ай бұрын

    We will have a wood stove installed before the winter. Then the floor will be nice and warm!

  • @83glacius

    @83glacius

    Ай бұрын

    @@HomeSweetHomeAlaska yep..helps!:)

  • @garryherd3042
    @garryherd3042Ай бұрын

    Hold the hammer from the bottom, when using, so much better

  • @daveg4353
    @daveg4353Ай бұрын

    Hey Matt, I am trying to figure out what size door gasket is used on the Drolet El Dorado woodstove which I believe is the same one you have, do you have any idea which size it is? I think it might be 5/8 inch but I can’t find proof anywhere.

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    hmmm unfortunately I can't say for sure as I've never replaced mine. Although I should, so let me know if you figure it out!

  • @daveg4353

    @daveg4353

    Ай бұрын

    @@alaskacabinadventures I talked to Drolet customer service today and they told me the actual size for that stove is 1/4" x 1/2" part # ac06100 so you probably can't use an aftermarket one that is just round

  • @noirgoon1662
    @noirgoon166225 күн бұрын

    Jack ryan?!

  • @mikejones-we9eo
    @mikejones-we9eoАй бұрын

    Those T-bone steaks looked more like strip steaks 🤔

  • @beachtimehawaiibth7222
    @beachtimehawaiibth7222Ай бұрын

    Out of curiosity do they not have “legal” access to drive to the property, or it is too rough, too much snow, or just no official driveway? Always tough moving everything there by hand

  • @IkeCoblentz

    @IkeCoblentz

    27 күн бұрын

    Its probably 5-40 miles over land they don't own. Even building a road that far would be insane

  • @Steve_G_Maine
    @Steve_G_MaineАй бұрын

    That's not a cabin. That's a shed. 😉 Congrats on a hundred thousand subscribers! 🎉

  • @alaskacabinadventures

    @alaskacabinadventures

    Ай бұрын

    Sheds are for tools, cabins are for people. And thank you!! 🤘🤘

  • @stillrandy
    @stillrandyАй бұрын

    I like the idea of having plywood on the underside of the floor and have seen it done a few different ways. The way you've done this looks great! I opted for a more unique way. It helped to have lots of friends around. kzread.info/dron/zoJFNfNAl4nrohkaw7nCMg.html

  • @dane9175
    @dane917513 күн бұрын

    How come all the dogs in Alaska have the same look? like their owners/ caretakers are f..king crazy

  • @Revelation22-13
    @Revelation22-13Ай бұрын

    Matthew 28:18 King James Version 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.Gods blessings over you .

  • @johnnyboymc6607
    @johnnyboymc660729 күн бұрын

    Christ.. this is hard af to watch

  • @RexMoore58
    @RexMoore58Ай бұрын

    I would love to move to AK. One problem. I will not drive through the union of socialist republic of Canada.

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