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  1. When we moved here we brought my wife's 2 cats and our chocolate lab with us. They have moved to the great beyond. We have a lab mutt named Magnum with us now. Like George Carlin said, "Life is a series of dogs." I couldn't imagine living without a dog, especially out here. They are my alarm system and my protection. Magnum is a rescue dog from Texas that my wife brought back with her after I put Jolie down (still the hardest trigger I've ever pulled). He chased a black bear off the first week he was here. This place is a dog's paradise. He's fucking awesome. When we go for hikes he is on point, always within sight. If he does lose sight of us he backtracks until he sees us again. He takes his job very seriously.
  2. Number 1 Diesel is also called heating oil or kerosene. It's what most people heat their homes with here. It doesn't gel. The newer low sulfur diesel engines won't run on it. They sell low sulfur diesel with anti gel additives at the pump. If you have an older diesel you can run number 1 or the low sulfur stuff. They sell Number 2 diesel in the summertime, but you have to be careful to have all of that out of your tank or add additives (like Diesel 911) to your tank before it gets too cold and it gels up on you.
  3. The generators and snow machine don't really use that much gas. It's more about how much snow plowing I have to do with the plow rig. It's a 1985 F250 with a 460 engine. It drinks the gas, but it will push or pull damn near anything. I don't think I've ever used more than 1 drum of gas in a month. Usually around half a drum, or 25 to 30 gallons.
  4. Our closest year round neighbor is about 800 yards through the woods, or about a mile by road. He's an absolute prick, so we avoid him. We have summer neighbors that skip the winter. They usually show up in late April early May. We are the only ones using the road that is prone to drifting. It's about 3.5 miles long. Only a quarter mile of it drifts over, but that's enough to shut us down. We've thought about battery systems, but we've decided to just keep on doing what has been working for us for 12 years. We have our system down. It works for us.
  5. What surprises most people is that critters are few and far between here relatively speaking. All the WADs (that's what locals call the tourists) complain about not seeing many animals on the bus tours into Denali Park. I guess they think the place is going to be crawling with animals everywhere. Everything has a season. You don't want to get caught doing anything illegal when it comes to hunting or trapping because the penalties are so severe. If you are caught, not only do you lose your hunting/trapping license for 5 years they fine the shit out of you. They also confiscate everything you used to kill that illegal animal. I mean everything. Your wheeler or snow machine, the trailer and vehicle you used to get your off road equipment to the drop off spot, all your firearms with you, all your gear, everything. And depending on how badly you fucked up, they go for jail time in egregious situations. The only thing I kill with impunity are squirrels around the cabin. I don't go in the woods looking for them, but If they are in the AO they have to die. They rip the insulation out of anything they can find. We call them the Varmint Cong. My dog usually trees them and lets me know. Then I go out and pop it with a .22 and he has a new tasty chew toy for a while.
  6. I'm hoping I never come close to finding that out.
  7. The cabin stays in the 60 to 70 degree range no matter the temp outside as long as we keep the wood stove going. One of the things that used to trip me out when we first started living this way is that we have a fire going in the stove from September to the end of April. We let it burn down almost to nothing to remove ash once a week or so, but there are always enough coals to get the next load of wood fired up.
  8. I've been keeping up with this particular group of assholes since the Horn Fans days. The Austin 3:16 board was my jam. Durkee and his shit detector used to work for a friend of mine. They would frequent a bar where I worked. Then came Shaggy, and now Surly. I've mainly been a lurker. Hardly posted at all. This is by far the most I've ever posted.
  9. The problem we have is getting rid of the water from inside the cabin. We have the most primitive set up. We've just decided to live with it and not spend money on upgrades. Our kitchen sink drains into two 5 gallon buckets that I take outside and dump at our gray water dump site.
  10. Where I work has shower and laundry facilities available to me, so I shower and do our laundry at work. There are lots of businesses who have those types of perks for their employees because while most people have indoor plumbing, everyone has their water/septic systems freeze up from time to time. It's just how it is with as cold as it gets. My wife usually bathes at the cabin out of a wash basin. She's got her system down. She can wash her hair and bathe in less than 3 gallons of water. She probably only gets a shower once a month or so. None from the inside, that's my private space. But I'll take some more of the outside and post them when I do.
  11. If you are referring to aggy, the receptionist where I work has a son that went to eaTme for some reason. I try not to delve into the mindset of anyone who chooses to attend that shithole. She has embraced all things aggy. Not long ago I was wearing a Texas hoodie at work and she actually hissed at me as I walked by her desk. I stopped and told her to google 76-37-5. She was not amused. I told her they would always be little brother and she should just accept it and to stop it with their weird traditions around me. I've been talking shit to aggy my entire life and she would have nothing new to offer.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Yesterday started off so nice. The Lights were out on my way to work.
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