DIY Alaskan Driveway | Building Our Road 

Perfected family work. Good like from Ukraine.❤

No more muddy driveway. That will make life much better. We have been there

Hi, my name is Dave and my wife BJ and I live in North Pole, a few hundred miles north of the Kenai. We are seniors and both of our daughters are on the other sides of the world serving as missionaries, one as a nurse practioner and the other s vetrinaran to semi nomadic herders.I have just celebrated my 50th year in Alaska. I am amused watching the flood of 20 and 30something couples moving up here in the last five years. All of your stories are pretty similar. I hope to hear back from you and will tell you that spending money on all that gravel now for your driveway and pads will be money and peace of mind in the bank for the future. God bless you both.

I really enjoy this couples take on stuff. Simple chat, great videos already seen the drift? netting salmon video so out of sync but still fun.

DANG!!! You did ALL the work and YOU had to pay that guy $60. to take that car off your property?!?! Bummer!! You kids are doing such a good job!! I wish you the best of luck!! Loving your videos, Hello from Wichita Falls Texas!!!

Looking Good. I put in a driveway using 'stone crete'. It hardens up like concrete. You probably can't get it there. I have only found it in one place in Michigan. Everything takes a lot of time (and money).

I have about run out of superlatives to describe the work you are doing and most importantly, the results. The driveway looks amazing. It was a significant investment but one you will appreciate when break up comes. Super job!!

Awesome job

Enjoying the channel and hope your views could help get you a drone😊

Your a pro on the Bobcat !!

I’m remote off the sterling about 5 miles on a non- maintained borough road. I did the exact same but had to go back and redo it due to heavy equipment I have coming in and out. Went with 4”-6” rock bottom layer, 2”-3” rock next, then pit run, and finished it off with 1” minis and topped it with pea gravel compacting/watering every layer. Expensive but will never have to redo it. Cheers

Nice work with the rake; you have mastered it!

Living the dream................ great video

Great machinery….good job on the road!

You should have done a cold start video on the subie. Bet it would have got 1 million views. 😂

Hey guys ! Just found you channel and subscribed! Nice work on that driveway! Looking forward to following your journey. Take care!

I just started watching your RU-vid channel ,,like what you’re doing!! I have to see where you live in Alaska. By the way - great job so far!!

You will need to think & control drainage & water flow as well 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

Wow......someone who is doing it right the first time!

Looking good

Great Job just joined channel and this video was Great!

If this is anything like my place up in North Idaho - it Looks like you’ll need some angled v-groove drainage ditches after a wet Winter/Spring. Good luck!

Nice job on the road. Looking forward to your future projects. I have a total of five channels from Alaska. So glad I found your channel. Take care

Y'all are not afraid of hard work. Of course it helps when you have all the right tools. Good job 👏

Love that we found you guys as we work on our own driveway endeavors for our homestead in northern Wisconsin! Unfortunately we have a few trees to deal with 😂 but we're making progress. Great channel!! Best wishes to you guys and your endeavors.

SO JEALOUS you guys are living my dream. My wife and I just bought a school bus to convert and plan on moving back to Alaska if not this spring coming up definitely the following. Great job we will be watching keep up the great work.

You sure made a nice road. Oughta give you a good firm base and keep you outta the mud. Them Jeeps love it .

How many loads did you need for the whole thing? Im up here in Fairbanks, and about to build a 400 ft driveway to my future house location at the center of 20 acres. Kinda unsure of what it’s going to ACTUALLY cost. Hit me back!

Hi nice watching your videos.....but..... your music is to loud and how many people do you think like hard rock. If you want to build you subscribers I would consider changing this. Wish you all the good things in this world

Nice work guys, great to see the amazing progress you both are making and what a beautiful property too! Best wishes from Ireland!

Hi guys! Mike here from Charlotte. Just found your channel and subscribed. All caught up and looking forward to your journey. Garden and drive look great

Man! I wish I could live up in Alaska on a mountain🏔️ top that has snow❄️all year round! I'm so sick of burning🔥 hot🥵 heat humidity 💦 and mosquitoes🦟365 days a year down here in the deep south! The last 20 days have been 110° F everyday with no rain in a month!

I’m Liking this channel not a lot of Talk just a little explanation and all work that’s really great to see a channel like this! Not all but a lot of channels want to bore us to death with talk instead of getting to work ! I like to see the progress in action even if it’s on time lapse at least we get to see the actual things that took place. Thanks for a refreshing working channel ! CC RIDER

The driveway looks awesome!! Can't wait to see what your plans are next!

Hey guys how you doing today hope you're having a wonderful day at least you got the tractor out I didn't think it was going to get it out that day but all right have a great day and I hope you get the driveway

Där det är som mest sankt så går det att dränera bort det några rör och en eller flera bredare stående plast rör ,Då kan ni få extra bevattnings vatten till exempel växter .

the driveway is looking good now. I bet it is a big relief to you. I know I just did my driveway and it is so much nicer knowing I'm not going to get stuck. Thanks for sharing your journey.

Nice job guys. Must be different in Alaska on old cars , most places will give you $35 to $100 for an old car/truck they do have scrap value

Suggestion: water drain dirt made driveway ditches running along the road would be ideal to keep any and all rain or snow meltin water accumulation running onto the road... Compacting the road with heavy equipment before snow falls.. makes the road more hardened plus you get to find out where the road needs more gravel to be level so you're not ending up in a ditch in winter... place some reflective poles marker (Relective tape tapered on a wooden stick will work) atleast 6 feet long.. so you'd know where the road is when driving in winter. (these are all suggestions) Regards from Singapore, GOD bless

...not sure your eyes will ever see this. But, just watching your channel, I was not impressed by what I was seeing as I figured just another one of "those" Alaska" videos. I kept watching. That man standing there with that pistol strapped to his belly, watching from side to side. Said, I love her, I CARE. Was enough for me. I am from Texas, I wear mine low on my hip, western style, R.I.A. 45 cal. Consider me subscribed. Scottishxpride, Tx.

I am new to your channel and look forward to your projects building your homestead🦋

Why does he have a gun on his chest. Why was he looking around as if expecting something bad to happen

Never heard of a scrap yard where you have to pay them , scraped car worth over 300.00 dollars in scrap metal by the pound to junk yards, only in Alaska !!!!

looks great,... let us know how all that work and money holds up after heavy rain and traffic👍👍👍

I'm amazed at how much equipment you have up with you already, skid steer, attachments, boat, closed trailer, open trailer, canam, two trucks and the RV. How Many road trips did you make to get it all up there. Nice road by the way !!

nice work! just a curious question, why do u mister carry a gun? is it for animals?

I bet that felt good when it was done! Looks really nice!❤❤✌️

There is a small subset of ryobi tools that make it worth having the platform in your collection. That inflator is one of them. I’m curious why you didn’t have the drivers chain the gate and spread the gravel when they delivered it?

I have property in northern Idaho I'm looking to do the same thing with building a road out. I'll have a driveway of about 1/2 mile, care to offer a guestimate as to what that will cost me doing pretty much the same thing you did? I really have no idea what it will set me back.

I used to run a forklift at an auto wreckers and all I did was run the forks right through the windows and pick it up by the roof the ones that were going to the garbage pile That guy is gonna charge you $60 for that wrecked Subaru that you have to deliver and he's probably gonna make two or three $100 on just that windshield because it looks like it doesn't even have a crack in it

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That skid steer was a great guy...

Good decision on using road fabric. In my opinion the most under-rated method to reduce the amount of gravel and lower cost there is.

Whats with the very light loads, hope your not paying by the loads jeez what a rip off !

I’m so glad I found your channel last week. You two are doing great work on this property. You should be very proud of yourselves for all this hard work. I like that rake attachment for the skid steer. That does a great job leveling up the driveway. Keep up the videos I’m really enjoying them.

Did you buy your skid steer in Alaska or did you haul it with you from _______? where?

Great Job. Looks good. Could've saved huge amounts of time if the dump drivers had just used spreader chains and did a dump n roll...Maybe next time....

Hey guys another great video, enjoyed watching, Just subscribed and looking forward to the next video, thanks for posting be safe.

Awesome driveway man. New to your channel. Looking forward to your next video.

Well done guys that was a ton of work.

Did you have to consider drainage much when doing this project? I'm no environmental engineer, but used to work in landscaping. Mud issues can often be solved by good drainage.

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i have wanted to live in alaska sense high school so im saving up to do so what area of AK is that if you dont mind me asking

Now lets see that sidebyside throwing gravel!!! One day ill have to boondock my way up there for some good trail running. You guys should set up a "camp site" for boondockers passing by and get yourself registered as a boondockers welcome site! Id visit for sure!

I'd say the old Case was well worth the money you paid for it.

If I may offer one little thing about the garden ,which looks really good. You might want to think about doing a few cross braces in each corner ,and up right to up right, you know just in case you get some body that is looking to see what they could munch on,,,, just a thought

Looks good will make plowing this winter easier

Just a question. Why did the truck drivers not spread the loads for you. :)

Hi guys, I’m a new subscriber to your channel, your driveway looks great

That road upgrade was badly needed. It brought your property value way up.

The best ever machine operator. Super done work. 👍👍👍❤❤❤

Love watching you. Great work. That is a huge RV. Can you do a video of the inside

Very enjoyable watching your progress! I built my road to my OGP, a little over 800 yards. Didn’t have the mud tho! New sub, Still catching up, only 4 months behind now 😂

Hi you guys. I've been kind of keeping up with your progress on stuff along with the number of other couples like you. You guys pretty much seem to be doing it right. I would love to be young enough to do something like what you're doing. My mouth Waters when I'm watching your videos. My wife and I have been to Alaska three times but only on vacation trips with a combination of ships land tours I guess I should say train tours as far up as Fairbanks. I have always been involved in construction since I was a kid my father built three different homes for us from the time I was six until the time I graduated from high school. I learned a lot and I miss it. Although about 15 years ago we remodeled our house and that worked out good. In addition to your great knowledge of building you are very good at photography and video which I also am very interested in and have been since high school up to now. I have a few more stories about Alaska as an uncle lived up there for 30 years and raised his family. And a niece spent Summers up there for 10 years working in Skagway making money. Then, and touring the world for the rest of the year. ❤ Keep up the good work and I'll continue to watch God bless you both. Dan and Marilyn Cook.

How do you like the Milwaukee pole saw? I was thinking of getting the quik-lok pole saw/trimmer combo.

I suppose news takes time to travel north. Just chain the tailgate of the gravel truck open 4"-6", raise the bed and back the truck up to neatly and evenly spread the rock. Next time!!!

Are you guys making quite a bit a Projects I’m enjoying watching you I am here in the state of Maine in the states so keep up the good work I will keep watching both C3 very good workers God bless

I am glad I have found your channel you guys are amazing. Good work

We just dig a hole and push the trash into it, cars and all...bu-bye.

dam he didnt spread it? lol at least get it close

Your video I see in so beautiful ❤️

Greetings from Pakistan,now driveway looks beautiful after putting garbles.Your new homestead getting shape every passing day.Filming of your all videos are par of excellence.it’s my dream to live in a the wilderness of Alaska. Keep working and smiling 😊

No need for any culverts?

Good job team. New subscriber.

I just found your channel and I m very interesting in your channel , Subscribed

Looking a lot better.😀

How much did it cost to get rid of the old car? Skidsteer and grapple, as fun as it gets

Hi from Trinidad that's in the Caribbean

The driveway looks fantastic.

Looks much easier on your vehicles.

Nice rubicon plough you have there

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To bad you didn't have a smooth vibration roller to pack it in there. Would help it stay better.

Looks great!

Looks absolutely beautiful

Looks nice

Great job, gotta love that skid loader!!!

I normally put chain (limiter) truck bed hatch and reverse it. Goes 100 times faster and takes off lot of man hours.

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Nice job guys!