Splitting Firewood and Preparing to Start Heating our Home with Wood.
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- It is the start of Firewood Season on the homestead. I am going to split some firewood, that I cut up last winter. Then I want to get everything ready to start heating our log home with wood heat. I get the firewood rack filled up and kindling split so we are ready for cold weather.
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In my dads obit we listed his hobbies as hunting, fishing and cutting wood. He loved to take out his chainsaw, a jug of water, lawn chair and Field and Stream magazine. He would cut for a few hours then sit a bit, drink some water and read. My childhood home had two stoves, one was a Sierra insert and the other he made himself. Waking up to the smell of a fire and nothing gets you warm quicker than backing up to a hot fire then walking with straight legs because you got your jeans to hot... LOL. Gosh I miss him.
It's not cheating, it's called working smarter not harder. Great video and a beautiful sunset.
Time to relax after a great day at the farm, lovely sunset
My kids give me a hard time about fire wood ..
I have wood for the next 4-5 years but they don't understand it's like stress lease or something I just enjoy running my wood splitter ..
Thanks for sharing , Awesome sun set
Stay safe & God bless
I really miss the IL sunsets since retiring to FL. Thx for the reminder.
Beautiful sunset.
Growing up my father bought at least 4 cord of wood, and I can remember when he bought more, not split. It had to age and before the snow fell we had to move as much as we could inside or closer to the house.
Splitting was fun once I was strong enough, and then we got a splitter.
Still had to split the kindling by hand, or wanted to.
Real good memories
I remember doing that, too. We cut ours, though, I can't imagine Dad ever spending money to buy wood when he could cut it himself, lol. When snow season approached, We'd load up our homemade wagon, pull it around back, and unload it into the basement. Load after load, up and down the steps. Sure was nice NOT to have to trudge through snow and sleet to the woodpile to get wood, though!
Eventually, we began stacking it in the garage, instead. YAY! No stairs!
Learned all my best profanity from Dad trying to get our 2 persnickety McCulloch chainsaws started for the first time every year, lol.
Good memories. I still go right back then whenever I smell fresh cut Ash wood.
Needs a bigger shelf on each side
The first two houses I lived in were heated with firewood. The first one had a large stove in the basement that would burn just about anything, but later we moved and had one of the inserts like you described, but before any specific EPA regulations were involved. This insert would still burn just about anything and had an exhaust recirculating system that would reburn some of what would otherwise have gone up in the smoke. You could almost boil water on the top of the insert and we used that fact for a jury rigged humidifier by leaving a large pot of water on it whenever the fire was going. Mom and Dad (mostly Mom...) kept that small house way warmer than my oversized body and teenager metabolism could tolerate, so I spent a lot of time outside splitting the firewood they burned. We didn't have a powered splitter, we had me, my brothers, and a series of splitting mauls ranging from 9 to over 12 lbs. I got to where I could make the oak fly with a 9lb maul one handed by the time I was old enough to drive. I *almost* miss those days, but am about to move to a house that has quite a lot of woods as part of it. The house I'm buying no longer has a fireplace insert, so I'm not going to be burning wood this winter, but if I end up building a smaller version of your pole barn, I'll probably do the same thing and put in a wood stove. There will be plenty of deadfall if nothing else.
This is the day that the Lord has made...let us rejoice and be glad in it!
Why don't you use the front loader to bring it up to the house, just peg them in
One skill that you have not shown so far is stitching fabric ... try!
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It's called working smarter not harder! Not that you're a cheater!
Not sure who the "we" is always helping you! But I haven't done
A thing! But click on the 👍🏼! Now that's cheating 🦃
For the people concerned about the 🔥 wood being stacked
by the house! It's up off the ground and there is space between
The house and the stacks, if it stayed there all year, that
Might be an issue, they will be going through it pretty
Quickly once ole man winter ❄️ settles his Azzets! In
Brandon will makes sure of that!
“Love” Mr.Turkey.
He struts around as if he is the Town Mayor.!
Quite a handsome fellow...
Definitely made nice looking kindling! Beautiful sunset!🚜🪵👍🏼🇺🇸
Beautiful sunset pictures!
I shall be most interested to see how you heat that workshop on wood with a building that has that amount of volume of air.
Many years ago when growing up my Dad heated our home with a wood furnace in the basement. It felt wonderful standing over the register on a cold winter morning. We used a buzz-saw with belt drive from our old tractor and hammer and wedges to split the wood. That was quite a workout!
It's not cheating, it's called "work smarter, not harder" 😉
I wouldn't call it cheating, it's more of working smarter not harder. Nice sunset.
Thanks Evan for sharing with us. That was awesome how you were able to show that sunset. What an ending to a great day. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
You know it’s gonna be a good one when Evan’s “get er done song” comes on at :40. Love it!
Evan, not criticism, but if you got some stripped out IBC totes, you could stack your wood in them, then you could have them ready to take to the porch and not have to handle it as much.
I second this. Or build a few firewood boxes using good pallets for ease of moving things around. Tag the wood and let it dry as long as you want. No guessing for the family if something happens and you aren't there to stock the wood.
Hi, Evan! It’s relaxing watching you cut firewood. I could watch all day. Beautiful sunset.
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An "Inconvenient truth" is that burning a fire in a fireplace is the equivalent to having a tractor trailer rig idling in your driveway. Just asyen.
Red at night sailor's delight , red in the morning sailor's take warning. Looks like sunny sky tomorrow but colder weather. Bundle up and fire up the wood stove.
Dead Branches that you have in the woods would make perfect kindling and make a lot of it. I found a very old hope chest at a yard sale and converted it to a kindling chest ....then closed the hood and it just fits in anywhere you put it. Food for thought.
Evan, I would not call that cheating but being smart with your time.⏰
That is beautiful sunset thanks for sharing nice video have a great evening.😊💙💙
Dont feel like it is strange cutting firewood. I love to cut firewood with an ax. Its a great workout. Its almost zen like.
Great update - love using the splitter! Work smarter - not harder! You have a beautiful setup from the strutting Turkey to the awesome pond and now your house and barn.
I love the chopping of wood looks so satisfying
Outstanding video...thanks for sharing.
Love the beautiful sunset, one of my favorite things.
David gaskins hey Evan and Rebecca I love you videos
Enjoying your videos. I guess I got it from my dad, to never throw away something that could be used later. My wife doesn’t always agree, but being married 26 years she had got used to it. So over the Christmas shutdown at work, I will be working on cleaning out our garage. This way I can make room for more stuff, lol. Blessings on you guys, and look forward to your next video🙂
Done all the firewood thing Now I have propane!!
i have a moisture meter, its red and doesnt beep, but looks similar to yours
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Very nice sunset indeed. Thanks Evan.
Gorgeous sunset. ♥️ loved the video.
Thats not cheating thats being smart Evan jajajajaja.
I enjoyed the video. Thanks Even.
Oh man that’s a beautiful sunset
I enjoy watching firewood being split. I've noticed that has doubled in price if you have to buy it. Everyone is jumping on raise the price band wagon! Evan I hope you never get to busy to enjoy what your doing.
Work smarter not harder!!!
Always good watching the wood splitting, especially on a weekend that Hawaii is under a blizzard! And Mr. Tom is quite a looker! Last year, Miss Rebekah was your helper ... Your camera mounted to the log splitter made a real neat shot! Mr. Evan, anything that saves your back, is not cheating. Pretty smart if you ask me! Great sky shot! God's gift to you to end your day, and you captured it well.
The sunset is beautiful
The sun see is beautiful.
I'm gonna call it a day too.
Beautiful sunset!
Great video Evan
Good job. Well done.
Pretty sun set
Evan, why don't you just save the smaller branches of a tree for kindling rather than chopping up your dried wood? May as well us the smaller branches and twigs as kindling rather than chipping them.
Lol lots of work. Splitting bigger logs are easier for me. I cut my own wood ands heat with it. Do it for one season and get back to me
@@conservativeprodigy2604 This is my 40th season of heating the house with wood !
Beautiful!!!
I live in urban Seattle and have heated my home only with wood since I installed my wood stove in 1987.
There are a number of commercial outfits near to me which leave bins of scrap wood out for those who wish to use it. That's mostly dimensional lumber scraps ---1x, 2x and 4x. A nearby lumber yard often has scraps cuts from larger lumber they prepare for customers.
Mostly I haul scrap wood to my home in my van, but sometimes I will use my nine cubic foot wheelbarrow for that.
Usually all I need to do is to cut dimensional lumber to suitable length on my table saw.
I have some wood storage under cover of my house, but much of it is stacked in the back yard protected from rain by plastic tarps.
I'm a firebug and I never tire of stoking the wood stove and be rewarded by heat for my home.
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Yukon acres needs a saw mill... Just remember you can ask Mike.🤣😂OWTM he is a workaholic motivated by the love of the outdoors as we all should be.😇GOD bless be safe
Good afternoon all! One of the gratifying aspects of today’s work was that a jumbled pile in front of what you needed to use was split and piled out of the way, leaving a really nice clean area to work through. It’s like us cleaning fencerow - goes from a chaotic mess and becomes a clean fence. Really feels good. Nice sunset too!
Loved seeing you wood splitting. Thanks for sharing. God bless you and your family.
Great video I love working firewood myself.
That Sunset well truly the Lord blessed you with that.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from West Virginia.
Burned wood as a kid.
Old wood tick and I were stacking. He said heavy wood is green..
Cold wood will smother a hot fire...
That turkey is beautiful!
Wow. No Chaps?
just started watching your vid's (about a week ago)found your channel 12/'22 n now I'm wanting a small farm🙂
I feel like I'm stuck in firewood season over here! LOL
God's handiwork...beautiful sunset!
Are you going to have a video of the stove going in the barn
Yes, but it might be a few weeks.
Evan I use pallets to organize my wood stacks. Not sure if it helps you but makes a WORLD of difference to me. Then I move them around with my forks on the tractor. love the channel sir!
You can try your hand at making "charcuterie" using different wood that you cut in your property. Some rustic-looking good ones sell for $30-$50 apiece and you can add it to your signed logo merchandise. Whadya think?
Evan, I love your videos you are such a hard worker. Bless you and your family.
I also enjoy splitting and stacking wood at the property. Weird huh? haha... I also prefer to push mow my lawn at home, even though it's a corner lot and the largest in my neighborhood. Just a good repetitive way to zone out and free my mind. I find it funny how I push mow mine, yet almost everyone else in the neighborhood has a rider. lol . ... To save time stacking, then stacking into the truck, then stacking again, perhaps you should stack on some wood pallets and then just grab a bundle with your loader with forks and move it. Another RUclips channel (Hometown Acres) has a great process of managing firewood using those metal bins you often find holding large plastic tubs of liquid. I also like their curb-side firewood sales idea. Don't know if you want to sell any wood, but nice idea if so.
Hi , suggestion , please lose the background public domain muzak. So many other channels use the same music ,its like Chinese water drip torture. Especially in a section where machinery is also competing for ear time . Its unnecessary ,and extra work on your end as well
Love your channel , enjoy every vid. Thanks.
Please be careful with the hickory. In our experience, it explodes when it burns and sends sparks flying.
I’ve got a splitter just like yours . Black Diamond !
Had electric heat only last year and November's electric bill was $212,switched to wood and have more people living in the house and a $114 dollar bill for same time period this year.
I’m always stopping to pick up buckets on the side of the road. Can never have too many.
The wood looked a bit on the big size, cut it in half again with your drying time and you will see about a 10 percent moisture content...Just stack it in the wood burner and you will see the difference. Just a thought. Tom
I don't call it cheating I call it good common sense. God bless be safe.
Anthony in Alabama
Evan, have you ever considered making some pallets with sides to stack your firewood on. As it's split load a pallet on the forklift and eliminate lots of double handling. Just a thought. I see you loading the bucket and then loading the rack on the porch. Much less work with the tractor forks.
im wanting to see your firewood pile stacked FULL☺ to the roof
Just had idea, build concrete block shed to store firewood in a climate-controlled atmosphere, but make outside look like rustic old wood barn
In Canada we split in Jan. The wood splits cleaner with frost. You might try a splitting maul with levers in the head. It ends the need to lift the wood onto the splitter. I know it sounds crazy but I no longer use a hydraulic splitter (well, I use it for elm.)
Awesome sunset!
Thanks a lot for the video!😊👍🏻
Volcanos make for beautiful sunsets ! I'm so glad that life is treating you well .
That not cheating that what we call work smarter not harder so your good 👍👍👍👍👍
Beautiful sunset Evan, using the log splitter to make kindling besides your split wood is so smart. Why work harder then you need to? You have a beautiful home, farm. Love that Mr Turkey came to say hello. lol
I see your log splitter has like a shelf on the side. Does it help? Mine doesn't have that shelf but it looks interesting, I hate keep bending over to get the logs that can be split again. Maybe a little bigger would make it nicer.
Using the log splitter is not cheating. It is working smarter, not harder. As you age you will need to find a way to work more easily. do they still make wood heaters that are a large box that puts off a large amount of heat on very little wood? When we lived in Oklahoma thirty two years ago they were very poplar there. That sounds like a good one for the shop.
Even why don’t you weld a cross piece on the pushing part of the log splitter,then it will only take one push to cut log into 4 parts ,👍
A great sunset,. GRD, get err done. Another good video. Have a great rest of your weekend. Thank you.
Word of advice. At the 1:35 mark I was doing the same thing with my hand and now I have 9.5 fingers. Mashed the end off. Got it between the end of the wood and end plate.
i wonder if local arborist would deliver trees to you for firewood, vs them taking to landfill, or whatever they do🤔
Don’t show splitting in really fast speed we get dizzy wow.
You do like splitting logs. You are going to run out of trees by 2025 ha ha
Great video Evan I agree its relaxing. The last two years I cheated was able to purchase inexpensive 2x3x3 debarked square logs from a paper mill and all I have to do is cut them in half and I'm ready to go. I watched a guy last year on RUclips that build reverse fires in his stove. He put the logs on the bottom, then the kindling in the middle and then a little paper on top for a starter. It is so much easier to light and burns great.
Cutting and splitting fire wood is very rewarding to me also. We had that golden tangerine sunrise this morning.....beautiful ...but lake Superior is blanketed with dark heavy cloud cover....heavy snow on the way. Been burning 24/7 for about 30 days with a long way to go.
I’ve seen on other channels where they load their firewood in to IBC tote and move them with their tractor. That way they handle the wood less. Something to consider
weld horizontal axe heads, to splitter, to cut 1 log into 4 pieces at 1 time
...lookin' good, nice work ,keep safe and warm..