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Andys had more than 26+ years to accumulate equipment and as a retired Barge Captain, I bet he got some rock bottom shipping on what he has, when he was working......... Cant blame a man for useing his tools :D They may have cut it , but Andy there too reloaded his brass and caught a Moose with one shot..... All he needs is some Gold to dig up :D

My wife saves up her brass as well, PPU is reloadable. They just dont spend time on alotta things as its only 12 minutes. Belive me, it takes cold days to travel places and they make it into warm seconds.....~~LOL!!~~


I build alotta stuff too, but its mostly hunting/camping equipment, not buildings and such.
 
Zeke/PA said:
I really enjoy the show but I have some doubts!
Why does a guy need a Bulldozer, Backhoe, Crane to survive an Alaskan winter?
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Are you serious?
Why do most of us NEED many of the guns we have?
Most of us don't really need 99% of the stuff we have....

It isn't about just surviving, or they'd live like Glen.
 
Zeke.... My brother lives in Alaska (but way south, down near Palmer/Wausilla...). If he's any example then many, many Alaskans have quite a bit of heavy equipment if they're actually living there year 'round and want to get much done. My brother has not only a 'dozer, but also his own sawmill, one truck with a permanently mounted snowplow (with at least 400 feet of "driveway" he wouldn't be going anywhere without his 'plow in winter...). Is he "equipment poor"? Oh yeah, but that state is a DIY types dream come true -but you'd better be willing to work long, long hours (and your equipment alone will be a challenge just to keep running...).

Wish I had a picture of his tundra buggy (imagine a Florida swamp buggy with monster tires, a boom and hoist in front and two spare axles strapped at the rear, along with an axe and a shovel....). To move it anywhere (usually 60 or more miles up the Glenn Highway from his house he's got a low-boy trailer and tractor rig. That tundra buggy is used to go overland at least another sixty miles back into the tundra and set up their hunting camp.

Makes me tired just talking about the way he and his friends live. That might be the reason that most that I met up there are in far, far better physical condition than me...
 
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Zeke.... My brother lives in Alaska (but way south, down near Palmer/Wausilla...). If he's any example then many, many Alaskans have quite a bit of heavy equipment if they're actually living there year 'round and want to get much done. My brother has not only a 'dozer, but also his own sawmill, one truck with a permanently mounted snowplow (with at least 400 feet of "driveway" he wouldn't be going anywhere without his 'plow in winter...). Is he "equipment poor"? Oh yeah, but that state is a DIY types dream come true -but you'd better be willing to work long, long hours (and your equipment alone will be a challenge just to keep running...).

Wish I had a picture of his tundra buggy (imagine a Florida swamp buggy with monster tires, a boom and hoist in front and two spare axles strapped at the rear, along with an axe and a shovel....). To move it anywhere (usually 60 or more miles up the Glenn Highway from his house he's got a low-boy trailer and tractor rig. That tundra buggy is used to go overland at least another sixty miles back into the tundra and set up their hunting camp.

Makes me tired just talking about the way he and his friends live. That might be the reason that most that I met up there are in far, far better physical condition than me...
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I guess my vision of Alaska is way off base.
Seems like those on the show are always fighting their way to an impossible deadline.
I don't think that I could live that way.
I kinda like the idea of after a day of trapping, to be in a cozy cabin reloading ammo!
Glenn IS one tough bird!
 
Ahhhhhhh, well, that "urgency" is purely the Editors. The Music gets us the most :scrutiny: They ask a million questions and use the answers to narrate, but that dang'd music........it reminds us that it IS , indeed, TV.......

We laugh hard and often while watching the show and its music or deadlines, blood dripping on the lens, shots of flys, or last chances at so n so......we actually are laid back and work at a slow pace so as not to get injured or work up a sweat in Winters deep cold outside. Keeps the drama away too :D With kids along, yelling and flipping out dosent teach well , either.

Working for ourselfs, we have our own time tables and very flexible deadlines as we make stuff to sell or use well before we sell it or use it...:rolleyes:

The trapping idea isnt that hard to realize, but it is hard work.

When the wife and I first started out , every thing fit in the sled. When a body stays in one place , they tend to accumulate things. When it comes to camping around, possessions are really a burden, literally. When we got the house built, we had a place to base our selfs from, and it accumulated from there.....
 
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The lives are real. The show is entertainment. We must remember not to mix the two up.

Of the numerous Alaska shows now on tv, LBZ is the only one that is of interest and doesn't make cringe. I do watch the one about house buying from time to time.
 
Had to respond re Buying Alaska. It seems that the house buyers only look for houses/cabins when there is little to no snow fall. How convenient!

And, just like the Buying Hawaii show, it's just a huge infomercial.

The home buyers have already chosen and many times have purchased their house before filming began. Producers seek them out and then show their chosen property plus two more. Great for the Alaska/Hawaii real estate companies and agents!
 
Ive heard or Rebuying Alaska, just never seen it.

"The lives are real. The show is entertainment. We must remember not to mix the two up."

Thats the smack that drives the spike, and hit it on the head you did, I guess were lucky our lives are interesting enough to make TV from ~~LOL!!~~
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Caribou - love your family's part of the show the best. That's primarily why I watch it. Also, I'm always fascinated by culture and language. What languages are spoken in your community and how fluent are you and your family with them? (My family is bilingual.) I'm curious if there are times or tasks where the family favors one over the other one.
 
Of the numerous Alaska shows now on tv, LBZ is the only one that is of interest and doesn't make cringe.
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It's the only one pitched as life in Alaska that I enjoy watching from time to time. The state's tax breaks for TV shows encourage a lot of dubious ventures up here (Bush People, anyone? :barf:)
 
Bush People has to be the worst Alaska show on TV, talk about stupid! I don't know how that family has made it as long as they have, if it wasn't for dumb luck, they would all be dead.

The only other Alaskan show I watch is ATLF, been watching it from the start and think its good. I like Otto and his son, those two are are smart and know how to get things done. Atz is good to but his son Atz-Lee has some moments that I wonder about.
 
I mainly watch it for what you and your family do caribou plus a guy I grew up with lives in Eagle,he moved there in 78/79,
Watching it now it's a rerun from last week.
 
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I think they just started showing a new bunch of shows of these idiots. I watched maybe 15 minutes of one of there earlier shows before switching to the cartoon network.

LBZ, ATLF and Yukon men are the only Alaskan reality shows I watch.
 
Met quite a few folks like the last folks cited years ago... mostly it was in one bad place or other and I was handling whatever problems they were causing. Some folks probably should be quite a ways from civilized folk. Wish it weren't so but most of us are the kind of folks we'll be the rest of our lives by the time we're 14 or so.... Hope they fare well -but don't expect it - that's just the old cop in me I'm afraid.
 
Phdui76 Agnes is bilingual, I am not. We speak English in the home, but Inupiaq ia a Hunting language, and often , during hunting or traveling, Inupiaq words/names/terms all come into play, as most terrain and waterways here are named in Inupiaq. Luckily, they dont just name a place any ol' way, they are specific, like "Lake that Whitefish run out of in Spring" or "Rocky topped Mountain" , etc.

As to the "Alaska Bush people: I watched about 1/2 show, and couldnt take anymore.:barf:

Unlike Nat Geo, Discovery delves in fiction and they can make up what ever they like.
Personally, if my oldest son were a 33 year old virgin living in my house, it would be extroidenary. Haveing all 7 of my kids living here as adults will be over my dead body. We raise them to work, and make their own $$, provide for themselfs and others, and explore a wide world. Once married with kids (my two oldest are) they are so goooooooooooooooooooooooone......
 

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Might be off the air if 6 of the 9 family members end up in jail! A grand jury has charged them with 60 counts of falsification and theft charges....
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That's my favorite part of the whole Bush People show -- Discovery claims the premise for the show is "Deep in the Alaskan wilderness lives a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild" . . . but the idjits involved have now been indicted for PFD fraud for not meeting residency requirements in Alaska for a few years running. When all the facts come out, I'm suspecting renaming any future seasons "Tacoma Street People" or something similar would probably be much more accurate.
 
Was so surprised that this season of LBZ ended... it went so quickly! Looking forward to seeing Chip/Agnes, Andy/Kate, KavikSue and Eric and his new wife on next season. Eric seems to have a perfect wife, whose family just happens to owns hunting lodge! But, she does seem a perfect match for Eric!

As for the worst Alaska show ever to hit TV, AlaskanBushPeople, they live at Icy Strait Lodge. They get to their camp by boat, which is a 20-minute ride. If you saw the episode where a bear invaded their camp, it was filmed at night and the Browns were snugly sleeping at the Lodge when the bear came around! Their new-found bush land is leased from a local by Discovery. They will stay overnight at their bush camp, but it's only for "authentication" purposes for filming. Oh, one other thing... they are not building anything. Discovery pays locals to do the building. There's also a paid guard who stays at their camp while they're at Icy Strait Lodge; he makes sure all their equipment and fuel is prepared.

Oh, one more thing. Ami has a cookbook she's written, which is ready for publication. Imagine that!! Also, re their court date: there was a request for media to film made on Jan 6. You can be sure Discovery will be filming it all!!!
 
On the plus side for Alaskan Bush People. Where else could you see an episode where a grown man punches out a fish. Or one where it is imperative to get an outdoor shower built before winter sets in. Or, after the chain saw temporarily breaks, one of them cutting trees swinging a hatchet in each hand.
Should be billed as a sitcom rather than reality.
 
Chip! Buy your wife a scope! She is making us all look bad! Watching her take down moving caribou from several hundred yards while kneeling with that mosin makes me feel like mailing her my man card!

You and your family, chandalar, and sue keep me eagerly awaiting and constantly checking the DVR for any episode of lbz. What I wouldn't have given to go on a hunting trip with my dad, just once, like you and Agnes do with your kids every summer. How many people can say they can call geese without calls? Whack ducks with sticks? Simply amazing.

Every time I blew on my $40 duck call and promptly missed a duck with my custom camo'd, custom choked, custom sighted 12 gauge while wearing $300 worth of waders and camo I think to myself "the Hailstones are doing this in blue jeans with big sticks"
 
yeah that chainsaw "incident" was pretty intense, if they're true Bush People kid should have dropped the hatchets and gnawed it like a beaver. ;)
 
That kid was trying to chop down a tree with a small hatchet in each hand!:banghead: Go get a real Axe and do the job right! There's no way these band of ding dongs are real Alaskans!

I think the show should be billed as a comedy, I mean look at all the comical things they do. Discovery has got to be getting tons of hate mail about the show.
 
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