We Tried and Couldn't Lift The Alaska Building! TOO Heavy!

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Welcome to Modern Homestead Alaska. I'm Jessica. I'm here today with Aaron and Wyatt. And we are working on the homestead. We have a huge mess going on here. Everything from a sinking chicken coupe, if I can even speak, to moving a woodshed, the constant mud, it's going to rain again today. And with all of that, by the end of this, I'm speaking positively. I promise you, we will have accomplished something. And we're going to do it with a good attitude. Join us.

[00:00:28]Heat. Heat.

[00:01:15]So, they started going before I could start filming. We're going to see if we can even pick this uh woodshed up and then see about the plan.

[00:01:24]If you can see from here, we sight built these. So, the post on the ground are different heights. However, the building itself is level and Aaron's pretty smart about the way that he did that. It's the same for all the buildings. However, with all that said, um it's going to go like this. And so the uphill side is going to be the downhill side opposite over there. So I'm going to watch these two figure out what they're doing. Let me take you in here. So here's what you need to move a woodshed. A really big machine.

[00:02:06]uh extension forks, some 4x4, some straps, and a man with a brain, and a kid with an ability to move.

[00:02:24]You trying to avoid hitting the post again? Again, >> back in.

[00:02:34]This one's still getting caught on something.

[00:02:40]>> Could it just be the wood underneath?

[00:02:42]>> Yeah, >> it could just be the wood underneath.

[00:02:44]Push through or no?

[00:02:46]>> No.

[00:02:47]>> Back up.

[00:02:49]Do you want me in there? Your arm doesn't fit.

[00:02:53]>> Back up.

[00:02:55]>> Back up.

[00:03:03]down.

[00:03:05]All right.

[00:03:21]The size of our woodshed is 12T by 20 foot. If you're interested in what size building we're picking up, No. Change of plans.

[00:03:58]What's the change >> over here on this end?

[00:04:02]>> Hang on.

[00:04:02]>> I think we can get it picked up cuz we're picking up this way.

[00:04:11]You know, sometimes when your wife has these great ideas, >> so many of them full of them.

[00:04:18]>> Hey, next weekend, folks. We're moving the blue house.

[00:04:26]>> Hey, listen. Listen. We needed this building. It We built it in the coupe.

[00:04:32]The coupe is over just some rocks. Um, it's past the Lake Leechfield and so we knew it would never have to move. The woodchuck, we didn't intend for it to move. However, then I built this beautiful garden. Now, I want a greenhouse on the front of it and to move all the slope that we need to in order to have proper drainage. We need the space that's underneath the woodshed to be moved with. So, uh, or worked with, if you will. Anyho, so now it's moving to a much better location where it's hopefully going to stay forever and ever. Amen. Right.

[00:05:11]>> The first time.

[00:05:11]>> That's what we said the first time he said.

[00:05:15]>> All right. Well, >> however, when we're done, we're going to have a much more beautiful setup. But good news, we're not moving the barn or the coupe. We just have to lift up the coupe and figure out what the heck we're doing.

[00:05:36]I want to go from there.

[00:05:42]Well, that's safe. So, here I mean, >> oh, you're just running boards under it and then picking the boards up with the forks. What?

[00:05:56]>> Yeah.

[00:05:59]I wondered how they were going to keep it from tipping like this and now these make sense. They're running the boards underneath this way to keep it from rotating and pick it up that they make way too much sense.

[00:06:16]If you're interested in the Q&A, we've decided to do it this month about gardening. We are in a zone three. But if you are interested in my gardening journey and how we got to where we're at, what we're doing, any Alaska questions, if you have already submitted a garden question on the post or in any of the videos, those will all be taken into consideration. And if you're interested in asking a garden question, regardless of where you're at about what I know or what I've learned or how the journey has been, please leave that in the comment section of this video. And I will also put a post out and you can leave it on that post as well. I want to answer all of the questions, but we just kind of looked for what are you guys asking the most questions about? And right now it is gardening. And I think in the next couple of months, I'll try and do a few more Q&As's about things like moving to Alaska or my personal life, the homestead, the animals, or any of the other things that you guys are interested in. So, thank you for participating if you're choosing to do so, and I look forward to sharing with you whatever it is that I actually know.

[00:07:54]That is heat.

[00:08:29]new plan is we're picking it up with two skiders from both ends of the building, which means everything that we moved here has to be moved again. Aaron says the sh word. We move sh to move sh to move sh to move sh. And that is what is happening today. So I now am going to grab the tractor and get all these windows and all this different stuff on top of it and get everything moved out of the way.

[00:09:19]Zoey still up and off.

[00:09:54]Heat.

[00:09:56]Heat.

[00:10:20]Hey, hey.

[00:10:44]right here.

[00:10:50]Our neighbors are here.

[00:10:53]All kinds of machines over there.

[00:11:01]So, what I got here, man, come here.

[00:11:04]>> So, here's how this is going to go. I'm going to do as much help as I have been the entire time, which is zero. And I'm just You and I are just going to watch and uh see what happens.

[00:11:22]Heat.

[00:11:35]Heat.

[00:12:04]Fore foreman. This is what every one of these guys does for a living. Well, three of them are excavators and then Aaron. But they move buildings and stuff like this all the time off of people's land >> and whatever. So, they are concocting plan number four.

[00:12:23]I I I'm still real real hopeful, guys. I just I really believe >> Good thing the intro was not recorded at the end because I honestly don't know how this video is going to end up going.

[00:12:37]very by the time I can move Aaron's truck down the road, we now have another skid loader here and um a tree gun. So, makes the most sense. Apparently, we're now going to come in with two skid loaders from either end and try to make them work in unison to move it over there.

[00:12:59]We got to move a pile of rocks first.

[00:13:22]Heat. Heat.

[00:13:46]Hey, hey, All right. Work.

[00:14:47]I'm totally freaking out. I'm totally freaking out.

[00:14:51]All right.

[00:14:55]Sweet.

[00:15:30]Christmas.

[00:16:05]Heat. Heat.

[00:16:25]Heat. Heat.

[00:16:43]What are you doing?

[00:17:13]Were you doubting us? I was doubting us for a minute. I was still hopeful the whole time.

[00:17:20]Now they're going to figure out how to set it here and get out with the two machines.

[00:17:34]You're going to use all three machines at once?

[00:17:38]>> No.

[00:17:39]>> Trying to see if you can't go with just this thing now and then get it picked up and then be able to do like this.

[00:17:44]>> Yeah.

[00:17:49]I honestly want to like get all up in their business in the middle of it and show you guys. But um just got to hang back and stay all the way. We don't want anything going wrong. It has actually worked out safe and sound. Everything's been moved. Nothing's been broke. And I just I don't need to be in the way tripping over stuff and uh all of that fun jazz. But uh I'll see if you're going to let me take a peek for you.

[00:18:19]Oh, those are trash. Just break them.

[00:18:23]>> Oh no.

[00:18:25]>> Oh no.

[00:18:26]>> It's cuz my my feet are smaller than the gaps here put and I about broke an ankle one time.

[00:18:36]>> You're good.

[00:18:40]>> So they're hooking a boom to it and they want to jiggle juggle it into place from inside. And so they're ratchet strapping everything to this arm here. This arm will go in and out so we can kind of set it. And if it's swinging, we can move it a little and set it down. We'll cut the legs and we'll worry about the base a little bit later cuz we can jack it up and set it and move everything perfectly. We just sort of have to get it where it's going and then worry about it. There's hardly any weight inside of it, but the building itself has weight to it. And this is why when we ran out of wood, even though we have these massive piles of logs here that need to get split and drying this summer, we have left this and instead of um normally I have a friend Caleb that brings me firewood and we just went without the fire. So, um that this could be as empty as possible for the move.

[00:19:55]>> Now, we're just going to see what it does.

[00:20:11]Go get that.

[00:20:12]>> Yeah.

[00:20:30]What Pull down on your side. Pull down.

[00:21:13]Heat. Heat.

[00:21:30]Heat. Heat.

[00:22:00]No, no, no. You got to go this way. You got to go this way. You're going to come off the path here.

[00:22:28]You got the chainsaw or what?

[00:22:46]Heat.

[00:22:58]Heat.

[00:23:32]There's legs underneath it. It's just too dangerous to get under the thing.

[00:23:36]So, we're have to use jacks and stuff later to level it all out. Um, I think we're setting down now.

[00:24:25]All right. Well, you're in the pocket.

[00:24:46]It is loose. It's sitting. It's floating.

[00:24:49]>> There's a bunch of legs underneath it that it's sitting on right now. Um, >> that's level, though.

[00:24:58]Good.

[00:25:00]>> We did it. See, it's set down. It's completely done. We're about to move the machines and stuff away from it.

[00:25:07]>> Did you doubt us? I doubted us. The fifth plan was the best, I think. How many plans did we end up?

[00:25:28]Now they're going to smoke cigars. Come on. As if that was As if that was enough excitement for the day. It is now raining. We're going to get all this wood that I need to dry out that I've been drying out moved into the garage so I can start painting it for the coupe.

[00:25:43]And it's a frost heave. I don't think it I'm going to show it in this video.

[00:25:49]There's a frost heave problem. We have been filming the uh chicken coupe as we've gone along and I'll bring that to you in another video as we get all of that updated and done. However, we're going to catch some vision here.

[00:26:05]You got to have an imagination and a dream and see things in your head a little bit. However, looking now, that is my garden. my garden ends up incredibly beautiful and big and just one of my favorite things on earth. And so now what the dream is is a glass uh greenhouse out in front of it. That will not be happening this year. All of the dirt work is going to get done. However, this year this greenhouse um when all the dirt work is done, we will be able to see straight through to the garden.

[00:26:41]So that really opened up visually to this space of the yard and it feels strange um to be quite honest with you.

[00:26:52]The area the woodshed's at has always been forest and so that doesn't feel any more blocked in or all that much different than it did before. So that is a good good thing. Um so yeah, I think Wyatt grab those windows out first.

[00:27:09]Grab the windows out of the garage first.

[00:27:13]Grab the windows.

[00:27:15]Okay. Sorry about that, but I think it's going to be so beautiful. Um, so wonderful. I can see straight through to the cow now. Now that there's stuff all in the way of her. And then this is the one thing that was driving Aaron crazy. He's like, "We need to get out here today and clean all of this up. And now I just feel like we made a bigger mess.

[00:27:44]Nothing's cleaned up. It's just messier.

[00:27:49]Wherever you're going to move them to move them to move them.

[00:27:54]Don't go that way or go that way.

[00:28:02]Aaron's bringing all the vehicles back down. They were sitting in the road. All right.

[00:28:08]We're remove this and then we're going to go inside. Aaron's got a beautiful meal that he is going to be cooking.

[00:28:30]Heat. Heat.

[00:29:02]Put all this other one on it.

[00:29:16]You watch the whole thing.

[00:29:24]What are you doing?

[00:29:47]You need those broke.

[00:29:51]>> Yeah.

[00:29:54]You like some straps?

[00:30:16]Jessica had me working all day. So, what we're going to try to do is try to make up a little uh recipe I saw I thought looked good. So, we're going to give it a shot.

[00:30:27]Tell us more. Say what it is. You're making in the crock pot. What are you doing?

[00:30:31]>> Making this in the crock pot. So, >> cooking it up in the crock pot.

[00:30:37]>> I got >> Oh, let me get in there.

[00:30:39]>> Got one jalapeno diced.

[00:30:43]One small to medium onion.

[00:30:47]>> What is it?

[00:30:48]>> Huh?

[00:30:49]>> Sliced. Diced.

[00:30:50]>> Diced.

[00:30:51]>> Diced.

[00:30:52]>> Diced.

[00:30:53]>> Nice. I got two lbs of hamburger.

[00:30:58]>> What' you do to that hamburger?

[00:31:00]>> Brown it.

[00:31:01]>> Brown it up.

[00:31:08]>> We got 8 oz of pepper jack cheese cubed up.

[00:31:16]>> Uh, where'd you get this recipe? Got to give credit where credit's due.

[00:31:20]>> I got to look up the gentleman's name.

[00:31:23]We're going to go 8 oz of green chilies.

[00:31:27]Hopefully this crock pot's big enough.

[00:31:30]>> I told you it wasn't going to be.

[00:31:32]>> One can of Rotel.

[00:31:38]>> You know what this reminds me of?

[00:31:40]>> One whole jar of your favorite salsa.

[00:31:42]Ours is the paste. Delicious.

[00:31:45]Had it forever.

[00:31:49]We're going to go with all of that, you think?

[00:31:53]>> Yeah.

[00:31:53]>> All right. So, this is the taco seasoning.

[00:31:57]>> Two packets.

[00:31:58]>> Two packets for >> one pound is about 1/4 cup of that pre the Costco size.

[00:32:05]>> Stir that up just a hair. Oh, where is my We got to get this.

[00:32:11]>> What is that?

[00:32:12]>> One block of cream cheese.

[00:32:19]The Philly.

[00:32:20]>> Huh?

[00:32:21]>> The Philly.

[00:32:22]>> This a Philly.

[00:32:28]>> That's not how that works.

[00:32:29]>> How's this open?

[00:32:30]>> Peel it apart in the back. Just open that up right there. Pull those apart.

[00:32:35]>> Pull it apart. These two.

[00:32:36]>> Yep. There's two pieces.

[00:32:38]>> Okay.

[00:32:40]>> You can do this >> some days.

[00:32:43]>> There you have it.

[00:32:46]smashed up cream cheese.

[00:32:47]>> One whole one whole block of that.

[00:32:52]>> Okay.

[00:32:54]>> Get all that in there. Kind of break this up a little bit.

[00:33:03]She's going to be tight, >> huh?

[00:33:10]>> Turn it on.

[00:33:11]>> All right. She start heating.

[00:33:13]>> Yeah. So now we're gonna cook all this for about 30 minutes on low, lid on. Okay, that's what he says.

[00:33:26]On low, lid on for 30 minutes and then and then we'll come back.

[00:33:39]Oh.

[00:33:43]So, all right. Now, next they say we're going to jump this up to high. We're going to use two more cups of chicken broth or beef broth, whatever you have.

[00:33:55]Jessica had some chicken broth, so we're going to go with that.

[00:34:02]Pour that in there.

[00:34:04]And we're going to put the pasta right inside that. We're going to cover it all up.

[00:34:23]We already stirred it just a hair before I got on the film, but I want to kind of just get this all down in the liquid.

[00:34:30]Get it covered up.

[00:34:37]We're going to have a full pot tonight.

[00:34:39]Mhm.

[00:34:42]Right, Jessica?

[00:34:44]>> It's something.

[00:34:45]>> Huh?

[00:34:46]>> We're going to have something.

[00:34:52]Get her down in the sauce. Get her down in the sauce.

[00:34:57]>> I'd cover that over with broth.

[00:35:00]>> Huh?

[00:35:00]>> You're going to need to cover that over with broth. That's enough.

[00:35:05]Well, I guess the magic cook says I need a little more. So, we'll try it out.

[00:35:27]All right, lid on. We're on high. We give it another half an hour.

[00:35:38]Well, we had to switch pots cuz Jesse's other pot wasn't big enough. So, we're just >> How did it end up?

[00:35:45]>> Looks pretty good. We'll see. Hopefully, those organic noodles are any good.

[00:35:51]>> Why would they not be organic?

[00:35:57]>> Yeah.

[00:36:04]Very cheesy. You can taste the earth tones and organic noodles.

[00:36:11]>> That's good.

[00:36:13]>> Let's eat.

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