🌨️ My First Winter Off-Grid Experience and Lessons Learned ❄️

[@BS.-.-]

My experience with a wood stove is totally different. I live in NY so not as cold as you get but our primary heat is wood. Our wood stove is large with a thermostatic damper/air intake. With 4*f exterior temp our 1500sqft house can maintain 70*f with one stove full of wood, once the place is heated up of corse. About November I start the stove and it dosnt see a handful of kindling until may. Alot of peoples wood stove problems are a poor quality stove or to small of a stove. Also heat tape is really cheap and if/when your pipes freeze you will be happy to start a generator for 30min.

[@TheOldJarhead]

I hear ya. A good stove makes a huge difference, and heat tape is a smart call. My stove is small so runs out of fuel in 5 to 7 hrs

[@shanec.7105]

I am planning on setting up a home in Alaska. Thanks for all the insight into the cold living.

[@TheOldJarhead]

That's an awesome goal, good luck!

[@LoveOffGrid]

My jarhead husband and I just found your channel and we're laughing so hard! Like you, we're about 3 miles from the Canadian border but at 3500ft, off grid with a Jeep and Mahindra tractor... and the similarities don't end there! Frozen pipes, headlamps, finding out the hard way how much snow insulates (or doesn't!) a propane tank when it's -25F, sliding backward downhill on the tractor... good times. 🙂 Fortunately, we went with the cab on the tractor and also a snow-blower attachment. Not cheap but what a difference! And, for three years we used chains on the Jeep to get to the house. Last winter we swapped them for studs and we'll never go back. Enjoying your stories so much! Check us out when you can.

[@TheOldJarhead]

Nice! Love ut! Semper Fi to the hubby. On chains, even studs don't work for me sometimes

[@NC-BikeHikeKayak]

Looks like you getting full experience! Semper Fi

[@TheOldJarhead]

Semper Fi! It's definitely an adventure 😉

[@Montana_Outdoor_Adventures]

Very well done video, thanks for posting. Semper Fi.

[@TheOldJarhead]

Semper Fi! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@timothyalanogrady]

Good morning Eric enjoy the tale of your first winner at the cabin. And I remember being a kid and my father keeping 55 gallon drum inside the house in the living room so this way we would be able to pump water to the buckets because of the fact that our pipes are always freeze in the winter . We had lived at that time up by the Delaware water Gap by Pennsylvania New York State in New Jersey. Diesel generator and a generator shed but I remember you know up there we were back then we get to 3 4 ft of snow what's up by they call it Stokes State Forest we were about an hour north of that. So I do remember the winners being tough.. and then I think me and my brother we are about 5 or 6 when my mother talked to my father in the moving down to the house in pine barrens and Central Jersey where the winners were in his bad but they were still cold. Well you be safe God bless and have a great weekend

[@TheOldJarhead]

Nice! Reminds me of my childhood in Northern BC

[@Jona_Villa]

Fantastic the first snow! In my region (Emilia-Romagna) we don't have snow in the plane but extreme rain events in this moment.

[@TheOldJarhead]

Our 1st snow is literally any day now!

[@anandrew6641]

Moral of story, buy land on south facing side of mountains in northern climate?

[@TheOldJarhead]

You got it! More sun = less energy needed to stay warm.

[@daveslater]

Good story. Lived so much of this....except....the commute was Raleigh up to South Side. So familiar just 35 degrees warmer. P traps.....bath tubs....water lines.... Enjoyed the tale.

[@TheOldJarhead]

Thanks! I'd take the warmer weather now that I'm getting old lol

[@1GREATDANE]

Food and Fuel are a major concern if You can't Hunt and Forage

[@TheOldJarhead]

Yes!

[@ndranger4004]

What state are you in?

[@TheOldJarhead]

WA