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You definitely did not do anything wrong. Those jars will be perfectly fine. If you quarter your tomatos and crush them cold before heating them through, this can release an enzyme that breaks down the natural pectin that holds the juice together as one homogeneous mixture once fully processed. This causes separation. I was never told that before, but I guess that's why our cookbook suggests quartering tomatoes into a heated pan and letting them heat through before crushing. Then, we simply add more quartered tomatoes to the pot, crush them into the hot mixture, and continue until the pot is full. Blending the tomatoes really helps to get as many of the solids as possible, and if you simmer your juice down like we did for another 12 minutes or so before transferring to your jars, this helps further reduce the water content for a nice hearty juice.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 ok and thank you very much it is a pretty thick juice which is fine with me!! What I did was I had gallon bags of tomatoes in the freezer and I used the food mill on those first then I cleaned cut and cooked the fresh ones down with the first frozen but thawed ones and I learned that the cooked ones went through the mill so much better and I’ll be doing it that way from now on. Thank you for easing my mind!!! It’s gonna be wonderful to use my own juice this year for my chili and veggie soup ❤️ I’m canning salsa today and hopefully will be canning chow chow soon!!

We have been using our 1974, Better Homes & Gardens cookbook method for as long as I have been around, and longer, and that is the water bath time stated in the book for both pints and quarts. 10 minutes of boiling is also deemed sufficient for killing any botulinum toxins, if present, even for low acid foods, which tomatoes are not. Our juice is boiled on the stove anywhere from 10 to 12 minutes before even going into the water bath for another 10 to 12 minutes for canning. What I've said about 10 minutes of boiling can also be backed up by this link to the CDC website. www.cdc.gov/botulism/prevention/home-canned-foods.html#:~:text=Boil%20home%2Dcanned%20foods%20before,a%20saucepan%20before%20eating%20them.&text=At%20altitudes%20below%201%2C000%20feet,additional%201%2C000%20feet%20of%20elevation. This is most likely where our cookbook guide was derived from. I made a video about this and will probably make another one or redo the original.

Thank you! I love your channel. I can definitely tell you have been doing this for a while. Not just by the number of videos, but the amazing consistency in thumbnail design and overall look of your channel. You have a good amount of subscribers as well. You'll make it big one day for sure. Best wishes in your journey and success.

@kickitinthesticks1446 thank you and the same to you and your channel. Keep creating amazing content 👌 ✨️ 👏

You are 100% correct about polycrylic. However, we do not store our boards outside in the elements, and we don't play in the rain, which would be bad for anyone who uses true corn filled bags that are not weather resistant. We have made boards in the past using polyurethane, and while it provides both water and UV protection, it yellows terribly due to the natural oxidation process which is only made worse when it comes in contact with sunlight on bright sunny days. Those are the types of days most people play. The yellowing completely diminishes the overall appearance of anything that was painted white or had white accents and makes the colors in decals look equally as bad. To each their own. If anyone enjoys playing cornhole in the pouring rain or leaves their boards outside all season long, then you're right, I would not use a polycrylic coating. For those who only play when the weather is nice, take their boards inside when they are done playing, and want to maintain the integrity of paint or decal colors, I will ALWAYS recommend polycrylic. Even a light sprinkle of rain has never damaged any of our polycrylic coated boards. I'm only speaking from the experience of several sets of boards we have made and sold in the past. Never had a single complaint. Our older polycrylic ones still look better than those where we used polyurethane. For practical play and properly stored boards, using polycrylic is not an issue.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 thanks for explaining these & your video! Question: did you use water-based or oil-based polyurethane? I'm wondering which would cause more yellowing & if they both do...thanks.

We used a water-based polycrylic. I have read that even a water-based polyurethane could potentially cause some unwanted yellowing. An oil based polyurethane will most definitely cause yellowing to occur. If you want to try the water-based polyurethane, that's up to you, but I can tell you that even the water-based polyurethane has more volatile organic compounds (VOCs) than polycrylic, so make sure you're in a well ventilated area just for safety. Polycrylic coatings are nearly odorless at the time of application. I hope this helps. 😊

@@kickitinthesticks1446 I ended up using Varathane Spar urethane. It worked out nicely. It's uv protective & water resistant.

@@imapcfreak oil base will yellow for sure. Water base Varathane spar urethane is your best bet for uv & water resistant.

I miss you all too. Maybe one day that will happen, but I have a lot of other things I need to be focusing on right now.

Thank you for commenting and sharing your experience. I'm glad you found some value from the video, even if it didn't help fully with your situation. Maybe one day I'll have more DIY material available. However, I'm also looking to grow a community of subscribers who can share thoughts, experiences, and positive energies that are helpful to all. Oftentimes, a short or video of this kind of content does not help accomplish that goal. More times than not, this content finds viewers who leave the minute they find the answer they were looking for, and that is perfectly fine.🙂 However, I'm on slightly different path for the time being. Thank you, and best wishes to you.

Things are definitely slower to fill with the small outlets we have now. We'll definitely keep that in mind. We can always add a bigger outlet if we have problems in the future. Right now, the way things are, there is perfect flow and pressure when watering with a wand attachment, but that pressure will also drop as the water level falls. We were thinking of adding a solar powered, inline pump if we have too many pressure problems in the future. So far, all is good.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 I'm using wicking tubs plus 2 IBC set up for wicking. They take a lot of water and the time-saving of my 1" hose is massive. Otherwise probably not necessary.

How do you like the wicking tub? We have a spare IBC without the caged tote that we were thinking of splitting in half and turning into a wicking bed, but I'm not 100% sure if that's the plan anymore.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 That's what i did like 5 years ago. 4" perf doubled up in a coil, both still working great. I bury several branches semi-vertically to help ensure wicking for years. I have 4 IBCs in a cattle-panel GH i'm building ~going to cut these taller so only get one wicking tub from each. I want to be able to lean against it when stooping over them. My back thinks that's a good idea at least.

Thank you. We are excited to have the new water harvesting system. It's going to be a game changer for watering our garden during those dreaded dry spells. We've been very pleased with the results so far. Everything is working as we had hoped, and it's much more convenient having close access to water.

You are most welcome. Sounds like a good plan. I'm glad you found value in the video.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I think you're spot on! My mom and I have been thinking the same thing as we compare the growth progress. I am currently looking for other recipes that will make something more comparable to what was used in the Solo cups. The tricky part about that is, I need to make sure that whatever I choose has enough structure to hold it's shape and not fall apart. I was shocked to see such a huge difference in growth. Since I'm completely new to soil blocks, I want to keep experimenting to produce a block that performs just as well or hopefully better than the Solo cups. The space saving and reduced plastic usage really intrigues me. I still have a little time before transplanting, so I'm going to try to come up with something this weekend and give it another shot.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 I am also not too impressed with my soil block results. I suspect its because of the compacted soil that makes it difficult for the roots to develop. looking forward for your future videos :)

@Nils31199 Exactly! 😊 I was happy the blocks held their shape, but I think the soil was just too compacted, as you mentioned. I found some other recipes, but not all of the ingredients are readily available at my local stores. Thanks for watching and sharing your results.

Thanks for commenting. I completely agree with you. The one thing I did find very impressive was the number of blocks that could fit into such a small area. In the case of starting hundreds or thousands of plants, you are absolutely correct. In general, I still think the soil block method is unique, and I want to master the technique. Right now, I'm not super impressed with the growth. However, I'm most certain that has more to do with my lack of knowledge and possibly soil mixture than the method itself. I learned from observation some clear mistakes I made, and I'm excited to share that in another video.

Thank you, I stand corrected, I know they are called trichomes, which I did include in the subtitle, but I was just repeating what my parents have always told me. Well, I guess I'll have to have a word with them. 😆

Could you please provide a bit more context for your question? Are you referring to just the raised bed themselves, or are you talking about winterizing them once in use and filled with a growing medium? I just want to make sure I'm providing you with the best answer possible and the one you're looking for. Thanks for watching! 😊

Thank you so much. I appreciate your comment. I'm glad you enjoy the content.

It was a fun family project.

Thank you for watching and commenting. 😊 This is going to be an exciting year since we can start making videos about planting, growing, harvesting, and preserving. It will also be a new year for Rikki and I to keep learning RUclips and improving the quality of our content.

Heck, no, apparently, Americans will burn anything. Just go research the autonomous electric car that was attacked and purposely set on fire in California a couple of weeks ago. One of the most "environmentally friendly" states in the US. A state that is the posterchild of "perfection."

Because it was pooped and peed on by cats, dogs, and chickens. The wood was dozy and smelled like a rotting carcass. As did anything else that was left behind. If you watch the follow-up video, you'll see some of what we were able to salvage. Basically, if the animals could get to it, they ruined it.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 OH ok! I understand now. I've got one just like it!! They are gorgeous!

That's laughable...did you see the autonomous electric car that was deliberately burned in California by a bunch of imbeciles? Far worse pollution. And slaughtering cows in the name of global warming is a disgrace. Brilliant idea, let's just kill off a food source. And who really is a disgrace? Why wouldn't they control breeding instead of needlessly killing? Move along, and take your drama elsewhere.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 breed less???, you miss understand, this isn't some animal welfare issue , this is the " killing off, the extinction" of the world famous Irish dairy industry, so far the figures stands at one quarter of a million, yes 250,000 dairy cows felled so far, I am not a anti or a tree hugger, I should have worded it better, you are not a disgrace for doing it, the disgrace is you are Allowed to do it , now I'll run along ..

I mean no disrespect. Honestly, I'm am just very frustrated with politics in general. Not just here in the US, but globally. We are going through a cycle that will not be stopped regardless of what we reduce. Science claims Earth has experienced at least 5 major ice ages in its history. Before every ice age, there was a hothouse period, which is what we are gradually heading toward. Will we ever see the full effects in our lifetime? Most certainly not. Will future generations? Of course they will, someone has to. Or, maybe we'll all be wiped out before humans can witness the next ice age. When I was in middle school, science classes taught me that we are overdue for our next ice age, so why should it be so hard to believe we are gradually warming to a hothouse period? Wait, I know, because recently science has been super charged by political influence. We were urged to "trust the science" during Covid. Well, what happened to trusting the science that was taught to me 30 years ago? Now it's no longer valid? The Earth's cycles are no longer a thing? Science proved past ice ages, hothouse periods, and magnetic pole reversals long before humans existed. Yet, somehow, we are now all to blame. Soon, politicians will try to make science convince us we are to blame for the Sun's 11-year cycle even though, on average, it's 93 million miles away from us. Once the government takes away our free will and ability to provide for ourselves, they will have us right where they want us. Those dairy cows should not be slaughtered. It is not solving anything. It only kills tradition, livelihoods, and a source of food. Look at who is behind the action...government The government does not care about the people. Left, right, up, down...I don't care what side or direction. They are not looking out for us, only themselves. The sooner people wake up to that, the better off society would be. And that electric car burning in California just happened a couple of weeks ago. The most liberal state in our country. Not one ill word said about the pollution by the ones worried about "global warming." The mob of people who attacked the autonomous car and bystanders all applauded the actions. The articles and commentary of the articles all supported the actions. People need to wake up and see the bigger picture.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 well my friend, that is about as in a nutshell , as it gets, I totally agree, good luck in all you do.

It's amazing how even state laws differ so much. One way or another, this house needed to come down, and we didn't have an extra $200 - 300k laying around to try salvaging what was there and bring it up to current national and state codes. Either the thing was going to end up in a landfill somewhere if taken down by large equipment or burn it. I guess I'd rather burn it than consume even more space in a landfill for all the materials. Land is already becoming harder to find and more expensive. I hate to see growing landfills swallow up properties in the name of garbage. Our local landfill has grown so much, it has taken away a bunch of farmland, and the owners of those properties really didn't have a say in it.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 I don't like it when the landfill over populate them houses and condos it genetares 300 to 400k per condo it's like spending millions land you can't even build on

We didn't save that one. We saved a different cabinet, though. We asked some people who took some floor boards if they wanted it, but due to the rancid smell in the wood, nobody wanted to take the cabinet. The couple even ripped the tongue and groove floor boards back out of their house because they were starting to make their house stink. We offered everything pretty much for free because we knew it would be difficult to sell anything. Turned out we couldn't give it away either.

It's very sad that you would be that restricted. I'm not saying we're not maybe changing the climate in some small, almost miniscule way, but I don't believe the "global warming" agenda to the extent that our governments push it on us. Someone is making a lot of money on this hype, and it's not us. Have you ever seen a poor politician? All the people who run our countries are some of the richest people out there, and where do they get a lot of that money? Kickbacks from lobbyists and others. And, although it's not legal, anyone who doesn't believe it happens is completely ignorant and naive. Otherwise, the two wouldn't be so tight to each other if there was nothing to be gained. Even science has been politically charged. I remember all during Covid scientists and organizations preaching "Trust The Science" on the vaccines and mandates. Why? Because big drug companies made huge profits from that statement, as did the politicians invested in pharmaceuticals. And now much of the information spewed by the WHO, CDC, and other scientists, like Faucci himself, is being backpedaled little by little to date. Somehow, as the climate gradually shows a warming trend, we conveniently no longer "Trust The Science." Science that taught me 30 years ago in middle school that the Earth has gone through multiple cycles of ice ages and global warmings. 30 years ago, science classes also taught me that we are overdue for our next ice age based on past trends. Science also tells us that a hothouse period precedes an ice age period. It also tells us that carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere were twice what it is now back during the Jurassic Era. Well, we didn't exist yet then, and I don't think the dinosaur was driving around in automobiles and developing industries. So, why would carbon dioxide levels be lower at the time of our existence if we are causing so much harm? It's because the earth is in the middle of a cycle, beyond our control, that is going to continue getting hotter as more land thaws and more trapped gasses are released into the atmosphere. We just happen to be here to experience this particular cycle. It will continue with or without us because it is a cycle. Just like the sun has 11 year cycles. But suddenly, we've all forgotten all of this. We trust everything our governments tell us, beyond what we should believe, so they can control our actions and tell us how we must live our lives. Nobody cries about the forest fires we have every year that consume millions of acres of woodlands and pump out all kinds of greenhouse gasses. Our politicians aren't giving up their private jets any time soon. Nobody cares about the pollution released by the autonomous electric car that was intentionally set on fire in California a couple of days ago. The mob of people caught on camera applauded and cheered the fire. Nobody cares about that. I read the public comments on the articles, and not one person commented about the environmental harm and pollution caused by this fire. Commentary supported the fire as well, defending the people of California saying they are probably tired of being an autonomous test bed for big tech. Tired of jobs being taken away. No one mentioned a thing about the environmental implications of those actions. No one is even going to jail for arson. Nobody cares that we are destroying tribal lands, wildlife habitats, and our most precious resources for the sake of mining cobalt and lithium in the name of electric cars. We are all parasites to Earth, taking something away from it for our own gain. We happen to be alive to witness a cycle that has occurred multiple times throughout the history of the planet, and one day, the Earth will wipe the slate clean for all life to start anew.

Thank you! We tried our best. I really can not believe my uncle survived as long as he did in those conditions. It was filthy and downright disgusting🫣. We are just happy we could keep the land in the family, and we are excited for the new gardens and adventures to come. Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the encouraging words. 🙂

Mostly Eurasian countries and North Africa. There are so many species of poppies. The particular kind we planted were ornimental red poppies, not to be confused with the larger Papaver Somniferum, which is the variety used for baking and opium production.

Thank you for commenting, Keith! I love it. I'm glad you found the story interesting and got some enjoyment out of the cruise around the farm. I want to thank you for taking the time to watch and comment. And I especially want to thank you for the message to the Karen's. 👍🏼👍🏼 Two thumbs up for sure to that one. It's nice to have another person who understands and is on our side. Thanks for that!

That's too funny, not the evacuation part, but just that it's a dry county. And now I don't feel so bad about saying the name wrong. Thanks for watching.

No doubt. I figured everything was going to be good to go as well. However, when the west side of the house finally collapsed, one massive burst of heat was released. I'm just happy the damage was confined to the siding. That was an easy enough fix.

Thank you for commenting, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yes, there was just so much stuff going on from the biohazards to the structural damage, making the house unsafe for anyone to live in. The inspector made that very clear to us. Thank you for watching. 😊

Thanks for commenting. Yes, they did a very fine job. They were appreciative of the practice, and we were appreciative of their services and job well done.

The cabinet stunk as much as all the other wood in the house. If the animals could get to it, they ruined it in some way. But, I want to thank you for taking the time to comment, and thanks for watching.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 ah, I see 😂 yep poop smell is gard to get rid of !

Maybe you should watch the second video that is the continuation before wasting your time to compare apples to oranges. Clearly, you didn't. Nothing in this house was good as new as the occupant who lived there decided it was a great idea to let cats, dogs, and chickens live with him in the house for the past 20 years. And poo and pee wherever they wanted in the house. Go check out the piles of dog crap on the floor that we discovered upon hoping the house would be a simple renovation. It's all in the second video. Then tell me how smart you are. 😂🤣

We were honestly hoping for a fairly easy renovation project. Maybe even turn the house into an apartment. However, after we saw the damage, the degree to which the house was completely neglected for over 25 years, and the stench that still remained even after having the house stripped down to the studs only, we realized we had a much bigger problem on our hands. One that was well beyond 100s of thousands to repair and no guarantee we would get the smell to go away. The whole situation was a disappointment for the family.

Tell that to the guy who neglected it for nearly 25 years who never once cleaned it and never did any maintenance. And let all his animals live, poop, and urinate in nearly every room of the house. We didn't have the money that house needed in order for it to be salvaged. By the way, I really like your band. I love your guitars. The Telecaster is nice, I've always wanted to get one. You play very well, and your lead singer has amazing vocals.

Right on! Thanks so much for commenting and for telling it like it is. I love it! I hear you. None of the surrounding departments wanted to get involved, not even our local department, unless we went through all the necessary hoops to get approval from the DNR. Even then, you could tell they were still on edge a little. One of the members told us they got in trouble for a burn they had done earlier in the year, but it was because of a family feud, plus they had not cleaned the house out like we did, and did not have proper approval for the burn. The family members who owned the property wanted the house down, but a family member who had no stake in the land didn't want the house burned, so they called the cops and reported arson, and it was just a mess. For that reason, the local departments were on the cautious side.

Why wouldn't we be sure the loan was paid off? My parents spent nearly 6 months working with lawyers to try getting the loan amount knocked down. However, the mortgage company didn't care that the reassessed value was less than the amount of the loan, they weren't budging. So, a check for the full amount was sent to them. The land is more valuable than anything, and we didn't want to lose that. If you enjoy the smell of years worth of animal urine, feces, and chicken poo, you should have told us. We'd have invited you out and you could have taken whatever you wanted. Only one couple took anything from the house. Some old floor boards from upstairs that matched boards they had in their own farmhouse. They tore the boards back out and burned them because they were making their house take on a rancid smell. Just because there was lath and plaster over the studs didn't protect them from the smell. The floor boards that the couple burned were in a part of the house where the animals couldn't get to, and they still stunk.

Hi, thanks so much for commenting, and thank you for taking the time to go through both videos. I'm glad this video gave the clarity that was needed and that you enjoyed the content.

I did it strictly for my privacy. There were enough people driving by that day gawking, who then later thought it would be a good idea to trespass on PRIVATE land to get a better look of the aftermath. It wasn't a lot, but anything more than 0 is unacceptable. I don't go walking on to other people's land. The reason I live in the country is for my privacy and homesteading reasons. I live in a pretty small area where it wouldn't take long to find the property if people wanted to snoop. So, I blocked out the name of my municipality for my privacy. It's not like I live in New York or Los Angeles with millions of residents where it would be much harder to find people. There have been numerous times my community has been featured in the news because of the bad ice shoves we oftentimes have in winter. Some of the ice shoves destroyed homes in an area where we have another property. Well, because it was publicly aired, we had a bunch of lame-brains take that as an open invitation to check it out for themselves. Spectators were jamming up access to properties and trespassing on private properties to get a closer look to see the damage because it's not something you see every day. Thankfully, we were high enough not to be affected by the ice, but the properties owners that were, got angry and called the cops to have inconsiderate people removed. And I get it. It's not public land, so it's nobody else's business. Some people are just too dumb to figure that out.

Thanks for commenting, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I believe we had the controlled burn during Labor Day weekend, and we finished with the cleanup in the first week of November. So, just a little over 2 months with the equipment we have. In October and November, when the days were significantly shorter, we were limited to the weekends for getting work done.

The equipment we have is too small for a job that big. Our excavator is only a mini. For the safety of our lives, we didn't want something collapsing on us. We would have been well within the collapse zone with our limited reach. Also, we did not want to have to haul anything off-site, and we didn't want to have to bury more than was necessary. This was the cheapest option with minimal cleanup that was still manageable with our equipment.

Firefighters also gain valuable training from controlled burns like this when it comes to communication, new volunteers running equipment, strategically setting up water lines and trucks based on wind conditions, understanding and observing the way fire spreads in house structures, fire behavior, the speed at which it spreads, and how it interacts with the environment around it. All of this helps when firefighters are faced with structure fires where it's their main objective to save lives and the structure to the highest degree possible. As I mentioned before, briefly, demolition costs typically run $4,000 to $10,000. This was a donation to the fire department, and my parents still had to pay for inspections of hazardous materials and permits, which was about $1,000 dollars.

45 minutes is all it took for the time it was lit to the time it was down. Our local firefighter wasn't kidding.

How cold has it been by you? We've been averaging lower to mid 30's in Wisconsin, where I'm located.

The actual sewing machine was missing, and the cast iron drive mechanism was broken, as was the wooden table portion. I think my uncle pawned the sewing machine. Trust me, if it would have been fully intact, I would have set it up somewhere in my house as a display piece just for the nostalgia. Unfortunately, we found out from a guy I worked with that my uncle was notorious for pawning the antiques in that house. This was, of course, after his death. My dad, at one time, went to the house to get my grandmother's vintage, carnival glass serving set, to which my uncle claimed someone stole it from the house. So, yeah, anything of actual value was already pawned because my uncle didn't care, and anything remaining was severely damaged by the hooligans he let stay with him. It was a messy situation. My dad and I salvaged an old safe that belonged to my great grandfather. The only reason it was still around was because it was too heavy to move. We took it out with our hydraulic equipment. However, that too was destroyed because the low-life delinquents he, and by he, I mean my uncle, used to let room with him tried breaking into the safe by trying to cut the hinges off. The tumbler doesn't work right because they tried breaking in with a hammer. I'll take a picture and show y'all. At this point I don't even care if I spill everything about how much of an a-hole my uncle was. He screwed us all over royally with the family heirlooms he pawned off, the kids that weren't even family that he let live with him and broke or intentionally wrecked other family heirlooms, and the way he left that house. Now you get to know the full story.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 I can tell you AFAIK, my grandmother Anne's like sewing machine was moved to a garage barn long before g'pa's death, and the actual sewing machine rusted up into display only. I think Aunt Judith got the case, and my mom got the frame and roached out wood. The sewing machine mount's cast frame has been made into a mail/end table with wood from the barn. Right pretty -- not a sewing machine still though.

Mom had more than few dresses made from sackcloth on that machine, back in the 40's

@taliaperkins1389 That is very neat. I remember once when I was a kid, I got to see one in action. Someone who had a floor loom, and an old sewing machine like that, brought it to our school when I was about 7 years old to show our class how past generations used to sew and make their own materials. It was the coolest thing. When we were cleaning out the house and my dad said, "There's the old sewing machine," I asked, "You mean like one of the pedal driven type?" I was so excited and pumped until he told me, yeah but the sewing machine is gone, and then he told me about the broken parts. I was heartbroken. I thought it would have been the coolest thing to have a piece of history like that. What a joke. I'm still very bitter about everything of that whole situation. Especially when my co-worker, who was only at my place of employment for a short while, told me....oh, I know about who your uncle was. Then he told me about how he'd be at this person's place pawning antiques for finishing equipment. My co-worker knew the people my uncle pawned stuff with, and they used to tell my co-worker about how this guy, my uncle, was trading priceless, vintage stuff for fishing gear. It's a small world. My co-worker had no idea that was my uncle at the time until I was telling him about the mess we were going through.

There is a potential that my mom and dad would like to have a house moved into that spot. If they do, and have a modern depth basement dug in, we did not want to be running into the old material from the house. So we moved the material to a part of the property that will never be built on, and we buried everything as deep as we could to expand the farm field into those spots and not hit anything with the big diggers that till the land.

@@kickitinthesticks1446 "and have a modern depth basement dug in" <-- Gotcha!

Thanks so much for commenting and for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I never observed the flames in the way you did, but I definitely agree with you now that you pointed that out. 👍🏼

Oh gosh, I can't even imagine experiencing that. Another smell on a whole different level. Thanks for sharing your insights on this, though. I'm just happy to know I'm not alone in this regard. I found it so odd that I could smell that rancid smell a few days after the burn, even though I felt like the ash and charred chunks of wood remaining should have been all that I could smell. When I smelled it again even after everything was buried, then I really got bummed. I just started figuring that this is something that's going to stick with me. When my uncle was still alive, I could never figure out why I couldn't stand to be within 5 feet of him. Anywhere he went, whether he stopped in our shed to talk to us, or the one time he came into my house, the rancid smell lingered for a few hours after he left for the day even though he only visited a few minutes. For as bad as his house was, now I understand why the smell was so pungent on him and how it could smell up a small area so quickly.

Thank you for this amazing detailed answer! You sound like you know building materials and construction methods well. I'm glad to have confirmation from someone who knows this stuff. I was going mostly on what my dad was telling me, from what he could remember being told. But firebreak definitely started to make more sense as I was doing research on balloon framed houses some months back. I very well believe it could have been the same plaster material used on the walls. It was very crumbly and almost sandy, once broken down. Not as powdery as plaster and definitely not as hard once set, but if they used any other kind of filler to make material go farther at the time of mixing, I could see it having a different texture once broken down. Thank you for commenting. I really appreciate this information and you taking the time to post this.

The stuff you are calling grout is actually lath(the wooden slats) and plaster. The plaster back when this was built was actually more substantial & harder than today's soft crumbly plaster. It's how interior walls were formed back then, then horse hair mixed with plaster was applied over the lath & plaster part of the wall to become the finished wall

@peggymillion1797 Hi, Peggy. The title was actually referring to the fill material that was placed in between the studs. All the stuff we pulled out and loaded into the tractor bucket. It was very soft (we could scratch it away with our fingernails), delicate, and had a very sandy texture. We actaully laid it all out in the driveway and drove over it. It basically turned into a fine sandy material. Later, I discovered the material was poured in as firestop to prevent a major catastrophe if the house ever started on fire while occupied. Balloon framed houses were poor designs in regard to stopping fires from spreading rapidly in the air space between studs running the full-length of multiple stories. The lath and plaster I'm very familiar with. I got to help knock a bunch of that out in my parent's house when I was much younger during remodeling projects. Their house did not have any firestop material. The stud spaces were completely empty behind the lath and plaster.

@peggymillion1797 I also find it very neat to see how innovative people were back then. Just to see how construction was done back then, and with the low-tech materials they had compared to what we have today. Granted, those ideas were not low-tech back then. Those were cutting-edge ideas to improve the safety of the occupants. It's just neat to see how we evolved to overcome obstacles. Thank you for all your comments. It is much appreciated. 😊

I love how you are all so worried about the pollution from this fire. We had to have it inspected by governmental agencies to ensure it was safe to burn. Do you realize how many natural forest fires we have every year that burn up homes that were still lived in and caused far more pollution? What about electric cars that start on fire while charging? Do you realize that a burning electric car produces a far more toxic output than this controlled burn? Do you support electric vehicles? If you do, you should research how much pollution is created from lithium and cobalt mining for batteries. Forests are being cut down to clear areas for strip mining, animals are losing their habitats, and indigenous tribes are being forced off their land so you can drive a "clean" energy vehicle. Do you care about the sodium hydroxide and sulfuric acid used for lithium extraction that poisons ecosystems and the fresh water supplies for inhabitants in these areas? Don't have an electric car? How about that cell phone you have with lithium batteries? If you think you are free of guilt and so environmentally friendly, you'd be wrong. In some way, you are contributing to world pollution whether you want to admit it or not.