Living Without Running Water in Fairbanks, Alaska

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Big Spruce Rabbitry

Big Spruce Rabbitry

4 роки тому

Welcome to Big Spruce Rabbitry, our little homestead in Alaska!
Where do you get water for your dry cabin Fairbanks, Alaska? We will take you on a water run to water wagon then show you how to set up a water jug in a dry cabin.
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 47
@billsam7076
@billsam7076 10 місяців тому
I just started working for a Fairbanks company remotely today and heard about dry cabins for the first time. Thank for providing such an informative video. The rabbits are adorable.
@lyricalaska
@lyricalaska 2 роки тому
We are currently living in a "dry" house due to our pipes being frozen and unreachable. I have to complain! Not enough water to wash my hair and flushing toilets? Well, we get snow from outside, melt it and pour it into the toilets. This is not fun!! I don't know how everyone does it. I feel yucky and my hair -- more than awful. Thanks for listening. Blessings to everyone!!
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
I am sorry to hear that. If you are in Fairbanks, there are showers at the University and many gyms around town. Good luck, spring is a few monthes off so hopefully things will start to look up for you.
@zetahenderson6172
@zetahenderson6172 2 роки тому
praise the lord we have running water here in Geelong Victoria Australia, never saw snow until I was 27 as for ice that's something the barman puts in your drink love your vid and your happy personality.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
Thanks. Up here frozen pipes and the constant hassle they create make dry cabin living just plain easier. It was snowing the day I was born :-D
@icu3869
@icu3869 6 місяців тому
What a charming, fun teacher- very engaging, interesting and informative- yes, the “lower 48 “ could learn quite a blot from exploring this lifestyle. Thanks for being so good to your animals and sharing your fascinating way of life. a great video- very well done.👍 As a lifelong Texan, you’ve got my respect. ( it’s almost Halloween, but warm -in the 80s here - seeing snow is a big event that might happen once every other year-lol.)🤠
@Outdoorswithmike
@Outdoorswithmike 2 місяці тому
Cool Water station and we used to melt water when we were at the cabin. Also cool video.
@melchoraslez1689
@melchoraslez1689 10 місяців тому
Thanks for sharing, very interesting
@cassiestuurman175
@cassiestuurman175 3 роки тому
Love your energy. Thanks for sharing how to manage water in a dry cabin. I'm housesitting for my friend in Fairbanks and your video was very helpful!
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
Thanks! Glad I could help and hope you are enjoying yourself while in Fairbanks :D
@judya.shroads8245
@judya.shroads8245 3 роки тому
I hope you can buy more 5 gal jugs soon. The price sure is right. I don't have water, bc of broken pipes. No money to fix right now. I live in the eastern USA.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
Good luck to you - broken pipes are terrible! We have plenty of jugs, but defiantly like the 5 gallon ones more than the 7 :D
@judya.shroads8245
@judya.shroads8245 3 роки тому
@@bigsprucerabbitry6238 What I think is so cool is that you have water trucks to get water from very cheap. There's nothing like that here. I do get my water from my kind neighbor that I've known most of my life. Great video. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
@@judya.shroads8245 Merry Christmas to you too! Water trucks are awesome if you have a big tank 900 gal or more tank. We don't so never use the service - I find a 5-10 gallons of water is all we normally go through in a week so getting a big tank would just be a waste.
@noyopacific
@noyopacific 3 роки тому
Thanks for the video. We have a dry cabin in Minnesota, mainly because it would cost too much to install a septic disposal system. We get water for washing from the lake in front of the cabin. In the winter we have to auger through as much as 3 feet of ice to get down to water. We get drinking water from a spring a few miles away. We use gallon jugs to carry our spring water because bringing it back involves loading it into and out of the boat. 1 gallon jugs are just easier to lift out of the boat and our water trips don't involve a long walk except in the winter when we drag a sled. We got rid of the outhouse a few years ago and were able to use an electric incinerating toilet after the cabin got connected to the electric grid.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
Thanks for sharing. That is awesome! I actually prefer outhouse and composting systems to the incinerations toilet system. Too much electric and who doesn't love have a frozen posterior in the middle of winter ;-D.
@johnplouffe3673
@johnplouffe3673 2 роки тому
Good video my home is basically a dry home I used to use a company bring water to my home. I was paying $540 a year just for service charges and only drawing $11 a year in water. So I went to bulk water and I use only two litres a day .Now I spend about 50 bucks a year. And I've learned do use water more wisely thanks again for the video.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
Thanks for dropping by! You learn how to conserve water when you need to carry it for sure!
@mheermance
@mheermance 3 роки тому
It sounds like bathing would be the toughest adjustment to make.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
Laundry is actually the hardest part.
@ambertaylor5146
@ambertaylor5146 3 роки тому
Im in the lower 48 and live in a dry cabin :) only difference between what youre doing and me is i have a private well. Waternis pumped up to a cistern, then hauled in by hand every day. We are a family of 6 and go through about 15 gallons a day
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
That is awesome :D! I believe you on that water use. We have a catchment system in the summer when the garden are in and we can use our laundry machine and sun shower (really should make a video about those one of these days) and the water use goes up to a few hundred gallons per month of roof water, but this time of year my husband, I and all the bunnies and chickens go through about 10-15 gallons a month. Thanks for stopping by!
@Soba-Ta
@Soba-Ta 2 роки тому
I just moved to alaska and trying to get situated and boy has your videos helped me see what life might be like and how to handle some thing lol...
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
Glad I could help. If you have other questions, feel free to ask. Alaska has the best and the worst people in the world and can a hard place to move if you don't have family or other connections to shield you from the jerks that find their way to the end of the road. Good luck with your move :D
@Soba-Ta
@Soba-Ta 2 роки тому
@@bigsprucerabbitry6238 Thank you, been looking for a place, I have never lived in a dry cabin but here it seems like a real possibility lol
@robandnell4305
@robandnell4305 3 роки тому
I was raised in Eastern Oregon without running water or electricity because we were poor. My husband and I bought bare land in north central Idaho fall 2019 and hauled all of our water that first year. Fortunately, we had friends that let us shower and do laundry. We haven't got our house built yet, but we do have water into the 5th wheel (that's Heaven), but no septic yet, so trips to the outhouse are still necessary. We also have a cabin in Eastern Oregon that has a water setup much like the one in your cabin. Lived at Galena, AK for a year in the 70's and we had to haul our drinking water there.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
Thanks for sharing. If it works it works. I didn't live in a dry cabin until college, but grew up somewhere warmer with a rather iffy septic system so the transition wasn't too bad.
@robandnell4305
@robandnell4305 3 роки тому
@@bigsprucerabbitry6238 It cracks me up that when I was growing up emptying the "slop" jar was done after we had used it during the night rather than venture to the outhouse in the dark...
@susansmith493
@susansmith493 Рік тому
The purchased water for drinking and cooking only. Everything else (including animal water) is melted snow, a "brick" of ice from the lake, or lake water.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 Рік тому
That is a good way of doing it. Thanks for sharing.
@ronaldmayle1823
@ronaldmayle1823 2 роки тому
Boil the water in the slop bucket and reuse it to wash yourself or your laundry.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
That is a great idea. We get lots of rain so roof water is also a great alternterative for laundry. As it turns out my work place has a laundromat so most of the time just use that.
@pcguysoffgridcabin
@pcguysoffgridcabin 2 роки тому
You have to deal with a lot different situations than we do but maybe I can adapt a few of your ideas to my situation.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
Great to hear :-D. Good luck!
@reymartinez8830
@reymartinez8830 6 місяців тому
Where you been
@ladyhawk1083
@ladyhawk1083 2 місяці тому
Does anybody have any idea why a rabbit's neck head is tilted and crooked and behind one of the ears looks like it has got like a little slice but I believe that maybe one of my neighbors did something because they got mad of me complaining to the police about their cats killing my chickens
@bonnieburton9985
@bonnieburton9985 3 роки тому
I thought this I thougthird world countries only goes to show the everyplace could use in chair day I'm thankful for when I've got. I'm had hard times as well prayer😇
@bonnieburton9985
@bonnieburton9985 3 роки тому
You would think 2020 everything would be advance
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 3 роки тому
@@bonnieburton9985 Dry cabins on permafrost actually make a lot of sense. It might not look unadvanced, but the alterative is a constant battle with frozen pipes and a cost of living 4-5 times as high.
@emmib1388
@emmib1388 3 роки тому
@@bonnieburton9985 I think you may be surprised how many even in the lower 48 that live this way !
@ryanssnuffandstuff
@ryanssnuffandstuff 2 роки тому
Yeeee
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 2 роки тому
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeE?
@ryanssnuffandstuff
@ryanssnuffandstuff 2 роки тому
@@bigsprucerabbitry6238 hawwwwww
@johninalaska9563
@johninalaska9563 Рік тому
I don't know why you would use water you pay for to give your animals, with all the snow you can use snow for washing dishes, showering, cleaning and etc.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 Рік тому
We don't have a water tank at the house so no water deliveries. Carrying a 5 gallon jug in the car is easy and costs 10 cents to fill. Water wagon is next to where we work so it is easier than melting snow so it is purely laziness. You bring up a good point and we do melt snow if we forgot the jug.
@akinaho.redrock56
@akinaho.redrock56 4 роки тому
I raise English Spots.
@bigsprucerabbitry6238
@bigsprucerabbitry6238 4 роки тому
They are good bunnies, although ours are mostly mutts.
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