Ahh, it feels good to be back! That little squirrel sure did a number on the interior of the cabin, but thankfully that was the only issue. It took about 2 days to totally thaw out everything in the cabin and get everything inside up to a consistent temperature. The battery compartment did it's job and kept the batteries from freezing, but I made sure to warm up the battery box before I ran the battery charger.
Just as I got the cabin warmed up, the temp outside dropped to 40 below and has been that way for a couple days! I am having no problem keeping the cabin 65 to 75 degrees thanks to all that birch and poplar I cut this fall. I can also stock the stove up and take off for 4 to 6 hours, come back and it's still 70 degrees inside.
I've spent the last few days getting into a rhythm and working myself into a daily routine. Right now we only have a few hours of daylight to work with so you have to make the most of it. I am still doing a lot of work when it's dark but most of the work away from the cabin I wait for some daylight. The sun is so low in the sky we don't get any direct rays just twilight.
I have taken the extra time I have during this darkness to put together some longer videos. I am compressing the videos with some updated software which allows me to make an 8.5 minute video the same size as my older 4 minute vids!
I'll let the video do the talking but I do want to clarify a few things first. In the beginning of the video you'll notice it's very bright in the cabin. This is because even when we have some daylight, it's not enough to illuminate the inside of the cabin and I have to have a light on almost all of the time. To keep from running the batteries down to far, at night I still use a kerosene lamp and candles. Second, the frost under eve of the front door is not all from air leaking from the inside of the cabin. Every time I open the door I get a huge steam cloud and a a lot of that moisture gets caught under the roof. And finally I wanted to point out that I do keep my generator and the chainsaw in the cabin but as soon as either of those machines hits that cold air things don't work almost immediately. And the box I mention for the generator I use to put over the machine while it's running to keep it warm, with only a couple smalls holes for the exhaust power cord outlet.
The pics are self explanatory, one of the thermometer outside the cabin window and the other of myself after a couple hours working outside when it's 40 below.
Hope you enjoy. I have a video about hauling my firewood to the cabin with a sled up next.
Sorry but I am having problems uploading the video, again, so I will try to put the vid up on a different post.
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