The Woodpecker - Cottage in the beginning of February

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At the begining of February, Renée and I spent ten days at the cottage. We had no major incident, but still, this is what we've done during our stay.
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Alain Vaillancourt 2024
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Whiskey on the Mississippi - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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15 фев 2024

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@anthonyaustin9948 5 месяцев назад

I like how the dogs are secured in warm package for the ride to and from the cottage. We bring our dogs to the cottage too and they have it better than us! I like your videos about the cottage.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. Yes it's pretty simple for them. We have to keep them worm, the old blind one, barely have any fur left, but even the young chihuahua can't stay out long in very cold weather, it's why I'm eager to bring him on walks when it will be hotter outside.

@timberdish 5 месяцев назад

Always a pleasure to see another cottage vid from you both, Alain. Lovely to hear you've had a nice, relaxing stay once more. Love seeing the snowmobile adventures.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, it's why I'm making those videos, because of nice comments like yours 😁

@maxreynolds679 5 месяцев назад

The cottage videos are very interesting, please keep making them.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, A lot of people likes them, so I'm making one almost every time we go there. But, like this one, not all videos have something made out of wood that can be interesting, but I try to show nice landscapes and wildlife. I love going there and I share it.

@michaelthoma 5 месяцев назад

At 8:42; I don't want to be one of "them", but consider putting a shield or something over the propane pressure line regulator. I see the regulator has ice on it. It's critical that the small air vent hole underneath does not ice over. If it does get closed, the regulator's diaphragm can't do its job. You could have runaway pressure at the burner (think blow torch). Working as a forensic engineer many years ago, I had personally seen a farmer's pigs barn burn down (hundreds of pigs lost), because the regulator was under the direct path of melting water and refreezing from the roof. The regulator was unable to step down the tank's pressure to 11" of water. To protect it, it could be as simple as a bucket with two notches to fit over the lines. It probably won't pivot because of hose tee; but check. As usual great video.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, I had no clue. One of the great thing of making these videos, is that sometime I stumble on someone who gives me sound advice, just like you. I will put something on top of the tank on my next trip in a couple of weeks. Thank you so much again

@davidhaywood8029 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting indeed -- always such a pleasure to watch the happenings at your cottage, Alain. My Canadian cousins used to tell us about wearing snowshoes & all their snowmobile adventures, so it's great to be able to put some moving images to the verbal descriptions/photographs. I've never done either myself, alas (though I've shovelled plenty of snow)...

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. I've just started loving snowmobiling 20 years ago, after purchassing a 35 year old snowmobile at the time... I loved it so much that one day I ran out of gas and decided that instead of filling the tank I would treat myself and buy a brand new snowmobile. This was my first "real" snowmobile that I was able to make long and secure ride, this one is my second. Maybe someday you will come here and try a snowmobile. I design a snowmobile trip for my "out of the country" friends that starts in my backyard and from there we will go to my cottage and back, this is a 4 days ride, but it was not cold enough this year to cross the river and they're not a lot of snow around Montreal...

@davidhaywood8029 5 месяцев назад

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker That all sounds great fun -- especially the trip from your backyard to your cottage! I've tried to get to Antarctica as part of my work, which would have hopefully involved some snowmobiling, etc. as well. But haven't had much luck so far (although some of my colleagues have gone), and I'm starting to get close to the upper age limit. It might be that the (Canadian) Arctic is a more realistic option these days...

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

I think so, at least here if something happen, they're a lot of people on the snowmobile trail. It's why I'm also glad that the trail is only 3Km from my cottage, it's possible to walk up to it if something happen. But the draw back is that even if it's 3Km away we can still hear the snowmobile who runs with a 2 cycles engin. And also you can view something else than infinite planes of snow

@Wordsnwood 5 месяцев назад

Do you have a heater for the cottage battery in the winter? And yes, I do enjoy the chalet videos. It's lovely and rustic

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Since my batteries are not Lithium-Ion I don't need keep them worm. I have four lead/acid 6v battery which gives me 500Ah at 12 volts. But if the sun is not there when we're there, this will only gives us electricity for about 30 hours. When we're there, I have quite a few electronic gadgets that I've build that is working 24/7 and we always bring our laptops, this is what eats up most of our power. But during our stay we had to start the generator only one day, but I bought a new battery charger and I was able to charge the batteries at 30 Amperes while the generator was running. A lot of people are liking my cottage videos, it's why I keep making them. Thank you

@Saavik256 5 месяцев назад

Maybe someone asked before ... did you buy the land where you have the cottage or what is the story with that ? I don't know how laws work in Canada about cottages. :) But I do enjoy every cottage video, looks so cozy and peaceful.

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

The lot was rented to the government, now they passed all the leases to a neighbouring town, OK it's 150Km away, but it's the norm from where my cottage is. So we pay rent and property taxes. This comme really cheap in the end, and since they barely release any new lot across the province, those leases become very coveted. But other people who have cottages in villages, own the property, but only the rich people can afford a lakeside cottage.

@Saavik256 5 месяцев назад

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker That is very neat! :) It really looks like super cosy place and I have watched your videos over the years how you have improved more and more :) I hope now that you and the Wife are retired you can spend a lot of time there :)

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Yes it has changed since 1994 when we cut the first tree to build the cottage. And we're not done yet, we bough 25 boxes of hard wood flooring that we will install this spring to replace the commercial tiles on our floor. We try to spent as much time that we can, about three monts in several occasions.

@Saavik256 5 месяцев назад

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker I look forward to more wonderful videos from the cottage! :) Stay amazing and much love from Slovenia!

@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker 5 месяцев назад

Thank you, It's becoming more and more difficult to find creative idea in winter, but I know that ,like you, a lot of my subscribers love my cottage video. So I'm going to make more don't worried.