Homestead Security Gate | Our Alaskan Garden Update
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- Our driveway is done, which means easy access in and out for us. We install a gate to keep the property more secure. After we install our gate, we take a brief tour of the greenhouse and garden. We get to have a nice, refreshing dinner with our harvested lettuce and fireweed and enjoy the beautiful sun, which has been non-existent most of the summer.
Thank you for following along with our adventure and supporting our channel!
- Katie & Chris
Dijon Vinaigrette Dressing:
4-5 Cloves of Garlic - Minced
1/2 C. of Olive Oil
1/4 C. Dijon or Spicy Brown Mustard
1/3 C. Apple Cider Vinegar
3 TBSP - 1/4 C. - Mayonnaise
Salt & Pepper to taste
Mix and Enjoy!
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Free Mind - Wildflowers
Back in the old days when we were young, and I was working for Ma Bell out of Anchorage, early 70s we built a small place , was enough to 2 kids to live and love and dream. My wife ,anytime she was inthe brush carried a S&W in .357, just in case, never used it but she could shoot it! Like they say life happens, and we had to leave, I miss it and her everyday. Stay safe and enjoy the dream
I wonder if the place you built is still there? It would be interesting to see how much things have changed since then. We've seen photos from the 40s of homesteads, and now where they stood is all city. We are so glad you got to experience Alaska with your family. ❤️
Thank you for watching :)
I'm glad you have the opportunity to start a new life. Word of advice from a 61 year old who grew every year. Till up to couple years ago my health took turn. Tomato plants are very durable. Cut bottom leafs off. Never let them touch the ground. They will grow beautiful. And lots .
The top gate pin is supposed to point down so you can’t remove the gate without a wrench to loosen the top bracket. That’s why it’s moveable
In our case, it worked out better this way for us, so the gate had additional support at the top, and so we could weld it so someone with a wrench couldn't just take it apart. We didn't want it easily removable.
@@northtoalaska2022 I was going to comment that the bolts welded in to block the gate from being lifted off is a nice touch that I haven't seen before. One thing I never liked about the top pin being pointed down is that all the weight of the gate is on the bottom pin. The original intent of this system I believe is to have them both pointed up and the gate is just able to be lifted off. So having both pointed up, with bolts welded to lock the gate on is both secure and distributes the weight of the gate. Is it hard to take the gate off? Yes, but why do you need to take the gate off unless you need to replace it? In which case you cut it off and weld on a new one maybe once every 30 years.
@@northtoalaska2022 Absolutely understand that. My property in PA is gated with cameras. Just found your channel, will continue to watch.
@@andydouglass1374 you need to take into consideration that these are agricultural gates. Trust me when I say a cow, pig etc will flip that gate right off if it didn’t have the top pin pointed down. The top pin has a lateral pull on it while the bottom pin holds the vertical weight. In the end it doesn’t matter, as long as the gate does what they want it to that’s all that matters.
We actually brought this gate and our garden gate up here from Pennsylvania on the second load we hauled up. I think they are 75 to 120$ from the Amish, in palmer alaska they wanted around 1000$ I believe it was 😵
Organized, capable and accomplished! What a pleasure you are to watch.
Thank you! We appreciate your kind comments! 😃
Retired so its nice to sit and watch videos that are worth watching, great teamwork, be safe.
Hello 👋 it is great to hear you are enjoying our videos! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing Katie & Chris. The nature shots at the beginning were awesome. Katie, you made me hungry with that gorgeous fresh salad and that dressing looked yummy. Take care
Thank you 😁 we love seeing the mountains and everything nature that Alaska has to offer. Nothing beats a fresh salad with tangy dressing 😋.
Great job pouring cement and putting your gate up
Thank you!
Hi! I'm from Quebec, Canada. Congrats on your good work! You are people of many skills, really! You are always in sink and never seem to disagree. It is a pleasure to watch you every day and learn many things. I like that you care for your animals. How far are you from the ocean? The best for you both. I admire you. Take care
Great job on the gate, a wheel on the low end will keep it up off the ground. Thanks for the video.
Thank you! We agree, we added a wheel to it shortly after this was filmed. It works great!
FIrst year gardens usually arent that great. It gets better. We're on the third year for our new place and what a difference. We keep adding chicken, cow manure and lots of leaves in our poor sandy soil. We saved seeds from produce we bought at the farmers market since they are climatized for the area.
Dressing looks delicious :)
We can't wait for year 2 and 3 to see what a difference it will make! We would love to have access to cow manure, but we would have to look into places around here that might have some. Chicken manure will definitely be added 😀
Saving the seeds from farmers' market produce is a wonderful idea! Thank you for the tip! 😄
Enjoying your channel. You can't control the weather so nothing to be ashamed of with your garden. It's doing fine considering what the conditions have been. What's important is that you're building a strong foundation for long term success. You've both got a lot of talent. Keep the vids coming 👍🏻
Thank you! We appreciate the kind words! The garden will always be a work in progress, but now we know what to do differently for next year. 😀
Absolutely love this channel
i luv alaska and luv to watch videos like urs and one day I will visit Alaska .. I'm from India
Salads looked good! Glad you are taking this year as a learning experience
Hi guys, great job on the gate and gardens too. For a 1st Yr garden it's looking good and will develop beautifully for you as the seasons progress. One thing that may help with your peppers is if you can save seed from whatever grows this year. Those plants will be a bit better climatized to your location and should do better for you next year. Great to see the progress you guys are making, you are an inspiration to us all. 😊
Thank you for the kind words and advice! Saving seeds from these vegetables is a fantastic idea. We will have to do that. Glad we could be an inspiration 😁
Gotta plan way ahead if you want to use that harbor freight auger since they don’t have any stores up here!
It would almost be tempting to run that mud mixer into a tub then dump it in the hole for those small posts. It would still be a heck of a lot easier than mixing by hand or with a drum mixer.
Haha, they should bring a harbor freight and tractor supply to this state it would do really well and benefit everyone living this type of lifestyle. We planned ahead prior to moving up here what equipment we would need that was difficult to acquire or absurdly expensive here and brought everything we could to be successful. Thanks for watching 🙂
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Just watched the security gate video, very impressive mixer when you only have premixed bags, you are on a very big leaning curve and you are handling it very well, good luck with all you are doing.
Cheers from NZL
The mixer worked well to pour our cabin foundation!
Beautiful dog Katie and Chris
Thank you! 😀
Future gate mod maybe to add a galvanized eye nut to your top gate pin. This will allow you to add a turnbuckle with some cable and an anchor to relieve any future gate sag. Just a thought. Enjoy the every episode.
I like the scenic entro to your videos, showing the surrounding areas that us in the lower 48 do not get to enjoy. As a zone 5 gardener in NH myself, amendments are needed for good plant growth, and 1st year plantings can be tough, everything has a learning curve -- you'll do great..Thanks for providing great content and allowing us all a peak into your new life.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Yes, zone 5 is definitely something very new to us! We are learning so much this year with our garden as well as talking with some locals about what works well here. We are having our soil tested and will be composting, so we have some nutrient dense soil next year. 😀 Thank you for watching!
Great videos! Love watching you two.. thank you for sharing
Thank you 😁
What a great video. The gate installation looks great, the garden is a trial and error and just needs time, the cooking lesson made me hungry big time. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words! We figured this year's garden would be trial and error and see what does well and what doesn't. For next year, we will make soil amendments and have plants that do better for our zone. 😀
Hi they look very dry and competing with WEEDS haha come on girl get your finger out I'm enjoying your videos thank you yours konrad
I enjoy your channel.Keep up the good work.I was stationed in King Salmon AK, 3:27 1975-1976.Great place to work and live.Best memories.
Thank you! 🙂
Also want to extend my appreciation for your journey....I'm curious do you have a " why we decided to homestead in Alaska" video ...
I'd be interested to hear y'all's backstory.
Keep the faith!
We do not have a video explaining this. We never anticipated our channel would start to become popular. Our first few videos we made were to update family and friends back east on what we were up to in alaska! Now that it is becoming more popular, we really need to make an intro video of this sort. It has been requested several times. I am glad you are following along for our adventure! 🙂
South Carolina watching 👀 We love ❤ your sweet fur babies great videos thanks
Thank you! 😀 🐕
Love that soil down there, you can’t sink an auger like that in willow lol, , hope your weekend was amazing
Thank you! It has been a great weekend. We hope your weekend has been fantastic!
The soil down here is really awesome, but it does make for a muddy mess in the spring! Super easy to dig. Our gravel layer is probably 5 feet deep.
@@northtoalaska2022 yeah I lived down there for years actually cleared 90 foot easements on the roads down there and am familiar, I just took the bobcat and dug what I could out and filled it in with gravel, I mentioned before I’m caring for my mother and as soon as this faze of my life is over I’ll be back down there off grid, thinking about caribou hills area, can’t wait, the winters here in Willow are ridiculous on everything lol, Bless You guys your doing great and I can’t wait to have my life back, been to long sense I’ve even had a day off ❤️🙏🏻
🙏 for you and your mother. The Caribou Hills area is really nice. And just high enough to not worry with tsunamis... There is a lot of well draining land in that area. We unfortunately missed out on a nice lot off of oil well rd back in 2021. It sold b4 we could fly to see it in person...
@@northtoalaska2022 I actually killed a couple moose down oilwell road, back in 2003/4 I also operated a saw mill down there, I have a brand new woodland mills HM 130 still in the crates, I’m probably not even going to set it up till I get my land to start my off grid life, Thank you for the prayers and I pray we can meet one day, you’re living my dream, I had a hunting camp in caribou hills and I’m hoping to score in that area
The moose are so bountiful here! Do you do moose hunting up your way? We can not acquire a resident hunting license until the end of october. We are just missing out on moose season this year, unfortunately. I'm really looking forward to the wild big game alaska has to offer next year! We were avid white tail deer hunters back east and miss eating wild game since we have moved here. The hm 130 will save you a ton of money in lumber when you get started! We brought a smaller hm 126 up with us from Pennsylvania to at least build what we can with the goal of not DeForesting our entire property. We have been planning selective trees to cut. Hoping to make some videos over the winter of that process. I'm looking forward to it.
Mini high- tunnels are a very good idea. Chelsea of Little Mountain Ranch in British Columbia uses those👌. She has a great channel!
We will have to check out her channel! 😁
Ya'll are getting so much done in the first year. Your dogs are super cute!
Thank you! The season to get outside projects done is so short here, so we had a great urgency. Once winter breaks again we will be hustling through projects once again!
Have you seen Country Cajun Living dry pour method for concrete. Especially for posts. Just dump the concrete in and add water to the top and tamp if you want, but there is a way for slabs/pads that they show which can make life much easier when you are trying to race against it setting up (while mixing multiple batches) during a wet pour. There is no time crunch with a dry pour. Check them out.
We have seen that method, but wanted a preliminary trial for the mud mixer because we are going to be starting 5 ft deep sonotube footers for our cabin and wanted an idea of how it was going to work. It wasn't ideal for a small job, but will certainly be useful for a large job.
We haven't seen Country Cajun Living. We will have to check them out!
Great Job guys!😇BLESS you both!!!!😇
Thank you! 😀
Great video Katie and Chris
Thank you!
Great Job on your property. Mixer is very cool ❤
Thank you!
Hey guys! New subscriber here. Just took a few hours to get up to date with your videos. I’m amazed bet the ton and hard work you guys have put into getting your homestead started. Excellent job and incredible handling of all the machinery. Great job guys. Love and be safe!😘🤗🌼🇻🇪
Thank you so much for your kind words! We have a lot more content coming. Thank you for joining us on our adventure!
I really love the cement mixer , it’s so nice ❤ your salad dressing recipe
It seems to work great! We primarily purchased it to use for the foundation of our cabin. We think it will work out great for those bigger jobs.
The salad dressing is delicious! One of our favorites ❤️
Thank you for watching 😀
Giday from Ottawa Canada. Love your channel. Just started watching the gate and sono tubes foundation. Such a handy mixer works well. Look forward to more vids.👍☕️🍻🇨🇦
Hello and welcome! We are glad you are enjoying the videos! The mixer was great for this job.
Thank you for watching! 😀
You 2 work so well together! Nice to see! I saw some kelp in the beautiful beginning of this film. I hear that it's the best mulch! Keep up the great work!
Yes to the kelp! We went back in the fall to gather the bull kelp for our gardens in another video 🙂
That salad looks good
Thank you!
Valdez, AK here…just found your channel and my wife and I enjoy it a lot. We’ve been here 21 yrs and can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Hello! This state has its challenges but we love it here too. Glad you both are enjoying our videos 🙂
Awesome work. From Nairobi Kenya
Thank you! 😁
Wish I could send you some of this Texas heat and sun. Thanks for sharing 😊
😀 For our plants, we would definitely take the sun and heat!! For us, we have been enjoying the 50 degrees 😅 Thank you for watching!
Nice video having installed too many farm gates in snow country Ive found caster wheels a PITA in snow we started filling our steel posts with concrete a thin mix that took the flex out of them and we could ditch the caster wheel...
You are gonna have a really nice garden
We are hoping so. We just need some extra sunlight to help out! The rain is relentless this summer. Thanks for watching 🙂
Those greens look good!
They were great!
Your lab is so chill! 😊
Haha ! He is a good boy 😃
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Next if you add more compost to your garden will help with everything. This fall you should plant some garlic 🧄 and put a nice layer of mulch on top for the winter. If you have fish carcasses, you can feed them to the chickens.
We've already started a large composting project. We will show it in another video 😀
Grind up your egg shells and spread around. A grow light for inside the moho may help till you can plant outside. Enjoying your channel.. a great bedding for the goats is constructed grade Sand. No need to change, drains off the wet and easy clean up
Thank you for the tips!
👍👍👍❤❤❤your chihuahua is cute. Mine is 12 .His name is Brutus. Greetings from Poland.
Awww, thank you 😄 love that name, Brutus! Ours is Diablo, and he is coming up on 10 years old.
Chris you have a lot of skills. Where did you learn your knowledge.
Katie your garden is fine it will be great next year. Love watching you develop your homestead.
Thank you! We are looking forward to making improvements to the garden next season. This year was not a total loss. We were still able to enjoy fresh vegetables, but not to the extent we hoped for. Chris was fortunate to grow up with a father and grandfather who helped him develop many skills, as well as learning skills throughout his working career. We will have to make a video to help introduce who we are and our background over the winter. 😀
You’re doing an incredible job considering how much you’ve accomplished in just a few months.
Thank you!
I think my back would still be in rough shape having to pull the drill bit up out of the ground but it's surely better than digging it by hand. Age, at 68, may also be a factor. Guess I'd call the grandkids! 😄
Love the concrete mixer. Had never seen one before.
One thing we found is it's best to take small bites with the auger! I made the mistake of going too far without cleaning out the bit and it would become wedged in the soil. Definitely saves some work to clean it out more often! The mixer is great once dialed in, we mainly had it to build the foundation for our new cabin, and it worked out well and saved a lot of work vs a Barrel mixer.
Nice work
Thanks for sharing. I don’t pretend to know all but I was thinking your posts a bit week, I would have gone with a bigger post maybe a 3” in diameter post and then fill the post with concrete to firm it up. I love your concrete mixer.
You are welcome. 🙂 At the time of installation, we could not locate any longer or stronger steel posts. We are searching for a used heavy steel pipe to make an upgrade in the future. We chose not to use wood posts because everyone has a chainsaw, and they can be easily defeated. Thanks for watching!
Be careful with the fish in compost. You have to bury it deep it does attract bears. My neighbor use to use fish and we had bear issues. since they stopped we have not had an issue and we have livestock.
We have thought of that possibility. We may omit the fish and just do seaweed, chicken manure, and some other additives and see how well that does. 😀
@@northtoalaska2022 I am going to addthe seaweed this year I think the minerals and ocean yumminess will be great.
@robincarrico2007 Us to! We'd love to know how it works for your garden. We've heard great things about using it.
Two things, 1: You may want a High Tunnel (you can start you plants in there) and 2: you may want to concider talking with some fellow You Tubers there in Alaska (Simple Living Alaska). I have no idea where you 2 are from each other, But it never hurts to get some advise from fellow Alaskans! Great Video!
We do have a high tunnel, but it's a bit too cold to completely start many plants in there as it was still in the 20s to 30s some days in May, as well as the ground still being frozen before that point to get dirt in the raised bed. We were anticipating getting the plants in the ground at the beginning of June, so we started them in the RV. We have checked out Simple Living's content too see which varieties they have had success with, but we are also talking to locals in our area as we are nearly 6 hours and 2 planting zones different than where they were living before, so the climate is actually much different. 😀
That salad looked good. I gotta try that dressing recipe.
It was so fresh 🙂 can't wait for the next growing season!
The Mud Mixer is a little tricky at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's awesome. It does like to "eat" 50lbs bags of quikcrete. We have some projects that will use 8" Sonotubes, so lots of weight lifting in my future😂.
Yes, it is! Once the water valve is dialed, it should be really consistent. I think the machine is leaps and bounds less work than a barrel mixer. We are mainly going to use it for sonotube pouring as well. I think that is where it will really shine. We hope your sonotube pour goes well. Thank you for watching 🙂
Good job
Thank you 🙂
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I am very interested in watching you build you have no house it looks like a beautiful country up there I live here in the state of Maine and I like it here pretty well but I would like to visit Alaska sometime so good luck keep up the good work and I will keep watching god bless
We are so excited about the cabin as well! I am unsure how long it will take to complete with winter setting in, but we are working to get it done every chance we can. We originally lived on the East Coast and visited Maine in the past. The rocky coastline in your state is beautiful. If you ever get a chance to vacation in alaska, give it a visit. Pictures and videos do not do a lot of justice. You would enjoy the change of scenery. Thank you for watching. I'm glad you are enjoying the videos!
ya everyone was late because it was cool out all that but now it is so cool again in fall and we had snow above 5,000 feet already so i think oct we will snow here also
Yes.. the sun only shined for a few days in our area all summer it was mostly cloudy with rain showers. We have been living in alaska since mid-October 2022. Last year, it snowed a few inches in October. Then, the first big snow of a few feet was December.
Add adjusting cable to hinge side to raise latching side and additional support
try grow lights hooked up to hand crank compassiter (spelling not my cup of tea) on slow trickle to grow lights for the dark days.
Thank you for the tip! We will look into this device, We are not familiar with them. 🙂
I know you may not see this comment as it is older video but if you do this is in regards to the pepper plants. Try growing your pepper plants in 5 gal buckets and paint the buckets black to absorb heat. This will help them a lot. Then leave them in the buckets (container growing) and put them in the same place in the beds which will give them a proper spacing and you will see a big improvement. I have both raised beds and containers and over the years I have found that I get great results growing peppers in containers. Just a thought. Also drill holes in the bottom of the buckets to allow drainage.
Great idea! We will give this a try next season. Thank you!
I also have a gate at my cabin. I have a suggestion for you. have some kind of reflective tape on the gate so no one can ram through it at night.
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The gate looks great 👍🏼 the only thing I’d be concerned about would be ground clearance in snow ❄️. Now that you’ve welded it there’s no adjustment that can be made. Maybe the gravel driveway will settle before winter and give you more clearance for snow, hopefully.
That garden looks great for an Alaskan Short season Garden & That moose proof fence was definitely the ticket 👍🏼.
Maybe consider installing frost cloth over the top of the fence in the early cooler months to protect your plants 🌱 or bedsheets spread over your plants at night & remove them in the morning when the sun ☀️ comes up.
Just a thought 💭
Hey cc, in hindsight, it would have been ideal to raise the gate higher. After putting the posts in the ground below the frost line, there was not much room to move the gate higher. Since we are newer to this area, we still do not know the best location to find supplies yet, and we had a hard time sourcing taller steel poles. We are keeping an eye out for taller steel beams on the used market here. We visited a nearby nursery that grows vegetables , they used small 2 foot hoops with plastic over top of all the vegetables until August. I think we may need to replicate this to have successful gardens here because this region in kenai doesn't get very warm even on a non rainy summer it will not get above 70° we are living and learning! 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 here’s a cheaper much easier way go buy you a role of pex water pipe or a role of bendable cheaper small diameter of pvc or Long enough sticks of pvc anything plastic that will be flexible and you can bend them into the hoop size. Then you can drive some wooden stakes in the ground, a piece of rebar a fixed horizontally 2x4 board along the ground and then attach your hoops all the way down the length of your vegetable bed. Then use more sticks, possibly the smallest pex pipe for a ridge beam across the top to keep the hoops from moving and then spread your plastic over the hoops and wala you have a homemade hoop house over your plants. Check your local scrap yards for longer poles ask employees there to be looking for you two longer poles or two the same size your gate is on. Have them call you if they find something slip them some lunch money. Then you an weld on to what you got to raise your gate height. If push comes to shove find you 2 i beams from scrap yard and bury them where the gate poles are and leave the flat end area of the i beam facing inward and you can weld hinges on for the gate. On the other weld your chains ⛓ to lock 🔒 your gate . Then someone can’t ram the gate and get in if they tried. Just some ideas 💡.
Great video! Alaska really is beautiful…
New sub here… I could tell from your accents that you guys are from PA. Sounds like eastern PA… We’re from SE PA not too far from Philly.
Small world, we both lived in south eastern PA most of our lives. Evryone seems to pick up on the accent when we travel 😄 thank you for watching!
@@northtoalaska2022 I knew it was SE! 😁 I grew up in the Conshy, Plymouth Meeting, Blue Bell area..
Ahh, nice, we were just south near lancaster!
Homer is my favorite!!
Such a beautiful place ❤️
Sonne farms has been using a hand mixer that is so easy and quick. May suit your guys projects. He did entire fencing/gate projects on the farm with it and loved it, and his brother has borrowed it a bunch. May be worth watching his latest gate/fencing videos and seeing if its suitable for you guys. :) no power needed for that one at least too. :)
Hello! This sounds interesting, but i am unfamiliar with the hand mixers. we have mixed by hand in the past with shovel and wheel barrel, but I am sure this is not the same. We purchased the mud mixer to pour around 10,000 lbs of concrete sonotube foundations for a cabin. This was a test run. We are physically not capable of mixing 10,000 lbs of concrete by hand in any way for our foundation. Thank you for watching!
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His video "high voltage +water,what could go wrong?" At 7.25 into it shows what i mean (i went and looked so you had exact footage than searching yourself taking up valuable time) was thinking more for smaller jobs yes that big job maybe would be a bit much for this system 🤣 but may help out in future ones that only require a small amount 😀 good luck. X
I like using left over fish and hunting in my soil. It's a 2 for 1 way. Plus you said you have a saw mill and saw dust is awesome. I have turned clay soil into great growing soil by doing these things. On your gate, the side that it's connected to. Make a triangle from that pole, pour in concrete on those 2 other points and place som anchor eye bolts. Then you can use some cable, clamps and turn buckle. This will tension the topand stabilize the main pole. No need for wheel or lifting gate to swing it. Hop this cheap suggestion helps you.
Thank you for the tips!
Hey Mr ski, we have seen your recent comment in our email, but we can not find it on the newer video to reply. It seems as if someone has reported your comment or CZcams is censoring it. Very unfortunate. Thank you for your support 🙏
your dog is a lot like the one we had, a Corky and very old at 19 years 4 mounts, had him from 5 weeks old, made Miss Linda Cry as its only been 9 months that he died, Later go to Alaska Simple Living as they live farther North of you but have great garden the five years they have live there,
Awww, we are so sorry to hear about your dog. It's never easy losing a pet 😢.
We do enjoy their content and have been noting what varieties of vegetables work for them. Unfortunately, we are nearly 6 hours south and 2 planting zones different than where they were prior. We have talked to some locals here to see what works best in this climate.
Thank you for watching! 😀
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We just found your channel and really enjoy it. Haven’t found out your names yet or where you’re from and what brought you to Alaska. We think y’all are doing a great job and we’re trying to catch up on all your videos. We’re from Arcadia Florida. Gail and Mike
Hello 👋 glad you found us and are enjoying our videos! We are Katie and Chris. We grew up and lived in Pennsylvania most of our lives. We are working to create a video where we explain why we moved, why we are off-grid, and who we are. It has been requested many times!
When you have a nice drive way like that you should try to drive on a different part each time to save wearing two wheel tracks and spoiling the surface. Saves heaps of maintenance.
After living on a gravel road for many years, it has become normal maintenance to re-grade the driveway now and again with our machinery.
Put a ton of mulch on top of everything before the grass takes over
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Nice can-am never seen one like that
Thank you , it is an x3 model. We had originally used it back east for trail rideing. Looks like it is going to be a moose hunting buggy and beach cruiser now in alaska.
Put a small amount of powdered lime in the holes before you plant tomatoes and peppers, helps a great deal.
Thank you for the tip! We did grab some lime to amend our soil with. We will have to do this with our tomatoes and peppers next year. 😀
Take it from experience, you might want to get some reflector tape and put it on the gate...I've never ran into my gate coming home at 3am...nope not me...I'd never do that...
I like the way you welded the gate parts. No one can unbolt it and get in. It looks like one could drive around the ends of the gate
After the gate was completed, we came back to this area to remove the slash pile on the right-hand side. When we separated the root mat and dirt from the slash, we ended up with a second pile to compost down that is about 10 feet high and blocks and path in on the right side. On the left side, we transplanted small and medium-sized spruce trees and placed large boulders in the forrest to make it difficult to traverse. As of right now, we are searching for heavy-duty used steel that we can construct a nice-looking custom gate to replace the cattle gate and posts. This will be a project for later on when we are better established here. Thanks for watching!
I am not sure what type of steel you are looking for but I have seen used drill casings cleaned and cut and used for gates or fencing. It is very inexpensive. I also noticed that you saw the gate sagging without a wheel. I noticed that the post the gate is hung on flexed quite abit and with the weather changes the pipe may loosen up. I suggest that you brace that pipe with a diagonal cable, wire or as piece of steel anchored in the ground.@@northtoalaska2022
Ahh yes well casing would work well. When I get time I need to stop in to a scrap yard and see what I can find. Thank you for the suggestions.
You may find them in a scrap yard but my friend gets his from the well drillers, water or oil@@northtoalaska2022
Looks like there is enough space on sides of gate for a vehicle to get buy. Maybe drag big logs or big rocks to block access. Looks good!
We recently hauled away the pile of brush and stumps that was in the video, and we planted several rows of trees as well as created a very tall compost mound on the open side. It would be very difficult for a regular vehicle to drive in now.
Thank you for watching! 😀
A truck with a strong bull bar can drive this gate down no problem.
The posts are way too flimsy.
It's a decent gate, but I wouldn't call it a security gate.
A security gate provides more security imho
I personally haven't seen any driveway gate that I could not defeat with my truck or a power tool in a few moments. Should we have used 6x6 beams or logs? Evryone here carries a chainsaw and would have it cut off in 30 seconds. The steel pipe is the same pipe used for the chain link security fence and is stronger than the actual gate. It will do its job in keeping out the average tweeker that has no skills and can not afford a truck. This is just a homestead in the middle of nowhere. We are trying to deter unwanted traffic, not secure Fort knox.
If you have a load of stinging nettles collect it and put a lot in a dustbin and cover it with water when the water turned brown use it as a liquid feed but only use a little bit at a time by putting a cup to a watering can or you will kill things as the nettles are full of nitrogen and that's what they like
If you put a small greenhouse inside a bigger one you will find a huge difference as the inside one won't be affected by the weather
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ii am an avid tomato grower and roma tomatoes especially san maronos are tricky even with the best weather conditions.
marinos lol
That's good to know! We definitely aren't going to try those next year in this climate.
Thats a nice mixer! Way easier and quicker than a traditional drum mixer. I wonder how well the gate is going to operate once the snow falls....
Good question, we did add a wheel to keep it level. Unfortunately, we wanted the gate higher, but by the time we placed the post below the frost line, it was not tall enough to raise the gate much farther. If we have an issue, we will revisit the design and improve it. Thanks for watching 🙂
Just watched you putting in posts. You are going to get collar corrosion in a couple of years from the reaction between the concrete and the zinc. You need to put a plastic film around the top 4 to 6 inches where the post meets the concrete.
Thanks for the tip about the plastic, I have seen this corrosion on posts in the past. At this time, we plan to build a complete custom gate from heavy steel when we have more time in the future.
Hey guys prune all your branches from below on tomatoes and peppers only leave top branches and they will get all nutrients and florish
Thank you for the advice! We will try that out.
you could full the two support poles with concrete to be more stable, less wobbly, and wont be as easy to plow over
I have a big cement mixer but I find it easier and less clean up just to mix it in a wheelbarrow with a shovel especially for posts holes all the You Tube places I've seen dump the dry mix in the hole add water to the hole and mix it up with like a pole like you were doing they don't use mixers
This is true, and I have used that method on posts in past projects that work out great mixing in the hole no mixer required. As we stated in the video, this was just a preliminary test on the mud mixer because we are using it to pour our cabin foundation and wanted a test run to make sure we did not botch a more important project
@@northtoalaska2022 Yeah I kinda figured it was a test and that's a good little mixer that you got there though
Grow beatroot if anyone has horses near you try and get some of the manuer as they usually want to get rid of it unless they use it
Top pin should be down but what u did works just fine , the gate post side should put another post with cross bars to make stronger to hold weight of gate , God Bless
Thanks for your suggestions. If an issue arises, we will look into some type of brace.
It would be nice to have a wheel on the swing end , so the gate dont drag , especially in the snow. A larger distance around wheel actully works the best
We mentioned in the video that we were going to add a castor wheel. I think a rubber dolly tire would work great for helping it glide across terrain. Thank you for watching 🙂
Maritime Gardners grows a lot of stuff in the cold, Nova Scotia if I recall correct.
Interesting! We will look into this. Thanks for sharing 👍
I have no idea what your primer is but on galvanized items a good wipe down with vinegar . happy trails
I will keep the vinegar in mind! In the past, I have only used alchohol and thinner.
Maybe some reflective tape on the gate, too.
We are pretty far out here, and no one can mistake our property for a public road. If someone makes it past the no trespassing signs and runs into the gate, shame on them 🙂
Nitrogen--use an organic tomato fertilizer according to the directions, but give them some blood meal on top of the dirt, watering it in.
If you haven't (I'm new to your channel, and trying to catch up) put some reflective tape on the gate, so it can be seen, and not crashed through in the dark.
Contact Eric and Arial at Simple living Alaska, they have been gardening up in Alaska in a couple different grow zones. They are very knowledgeable on what thrives and what don't