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Pic related is the journal of a timber cruiser homesteading in northern Ontario. He was up there for several years, and the journal documents one year, January through December. He was active out in the 1950's, which I think are the years where we see the last of the hard, truly independent woodsmen working with relatively modern equipment. He had no problem getting all of his timber cutting done, but you more or less had to do it in the summer alongside hunting, foraging, and preserving. He went on a few hunting trips during the winter, but for the most part he just did nothing and fucked around with his buddies.
He grew his own garden during the summer, and also canoed/portaged ~50ish miles to the nearest settlement to pick up supplies on occasion.
You make a cabin sustainable through the winter by doing a shitload of work in the summer.
