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If you have some cement blocks or bricks stack them close the sides and back of your stove. They will suck up heat and then radiate the heat after your fire dies out and help keep the area warm.
Congratulations on your wood stove installation and fire up. IfI may suggest I would also add a cast iron damper on the first black pipe inside, this will give you extra damper capability and remember when cleaning your stainless steel chimney do not use a steel round brush use one of poly type so not to etch the walls of your stainless steel chimney. Happy and safe burning, there is nothing better than wood heat. Wishing everyone all the very best. Michael A Stickland
Great to see you have a heat source that can be continuous and not break the bank. If you mix some of that dead wood with the birch it will go a long way. So far winter has not been to cruel so we are lucky. Muskoka has gotten 7 feet of snow so far lol. You folks are doing a great job surviving and it only gets easier as you find answers for each obstacle you have to cross. Enjoy and may God be with you.
It's definitely been a learning experience. We've already started harvesting all the deadwood and it's actually dryer than the birch we bought. We will be sharing more on a future video. And we can't even complain... I don't think we got hit yet with any large snow storms ... We do have a cold front coming in that will be going into this weekend... we'll see how that goes! Thanks for watching and all the support. Blessings!
I put clear shower curtain taped on the window frame. The ones I didn't look out we put that silver bubble on them. Worked great last year and this yeàr
Welcome to Canada ! When it's nice it's nice & when it's cold we enjoy Alberta but mostly my cabin & the woodstove :) Love my off grid life :) That looks like a pretty good unit ! Allpowers has some good stuff :) I'm happy for you,
Yes. We really gotta take advantage of the warm weather, because it goes by so fast. We would love to visit Alberta some day. Thanks for watching. All the best!
That is a very nice, and very large woodstove. Gotto be around 50 to 60,000 btu capacity. Going full tilt you should be able to melt all the plastics in the service trailer ;-) Nice install Thi. You are very talented and courageous. God Bless!
Hey thanks! Yeah I can leave it on low at night and it seems to last the whole night and keep the trailer warm. Such a blessing. Thanks for the encouragement. All the best!
Those tends are no joke. I'm off grid in my van on my 123 acres in Virginia and I'm worrying about temps in the teens. I have plastic on my windows and skirting. I'm still harvesting water in between freezes. I enjoyed the stove install. Stay warm y'all!
might want to check out a waste oil burning fire box with a wood burning box as a back up for your house. it doesn't smell as nice, but you can collect old engine oil all year from a mechanic and have free heat most of the winter.
The standing dead trees should be fine for burning,nothing like a wood stove heat love it! Glad to see you folks are doing well,stay safe and Happy New Year.
hi there gina and thi. i just found something you maybe wanted to look into, there is a thing called " rebar tie gun " in short, it is a machine that use steel wire to tie rebar togheter automatic. it ties/ cut and all that fun stuff, the only thing you need to do is to give it power and wire and then you can go nuts whit the rebar. i was thinking it could be a good one to have if you are going to tie rebar togheter or if you are going to do fence inclosure. have a great day!
Ever thought it putting a 12v fan with ducting to blow some warn air under the RV, with the heat the log burner puts out might as well put it to some good work on the pipes under the RV
If I heard you correctly, you said you got a cord of wood. So, if you don't count your toolbox in the bed of the truck and at the height of the wood to the top of the bed, including the wood in the back seat, you did not get a full cord. Looks like you may have gotten a little over half a cord. A full cord of wood would definitely not fit in the bed of a pickup without at least 4 foot side rails. A cord of wood when stacked measures 4'x4'x8'. My husband and I used to sell firewood by the cord. We had an 8 foot long trailer with 4 foot sides to hold one cord.
Save the birch bark for starting fires , it’s like gasoline , good replacement of using paper , and don’t need to use much bark at all to get a fire going ,
There is nothing wrong with birch as long as its properly seasoned Also birch is most cerfainly a hard wood. All deciduous trees are hard wood regardless of there density. coniferous trees are soft wood again no matter ther density. Deciduous trees have leaves which fall of in the fall. Coniferous trres have needls which retain there coulor all year round the one exceprtion is tamerak which turns golden coulour in the fall. my opinion the best hard wood is hard malel also known as sugar maple. When looking for standing dry wood look for trees that most of the bark has fallen off. This will certainly improve your chances of finding good solid wood. By the way nice job installing your stove stay safe see you next time God Bless
You need sides on your truck & no tool box to haul a full cord of wood, That wood stove will save you a lot you just need a couple of good fans 👍, I just did a review on woodstove fans lol :) Stay warm my friend "
Hopefully u got more then what fit in that truck cuz a chord should be 4x4x8 ft if not ur got ripped but if u got a full chord u got a good deal good luck
I saw some others say they took pictures of their property on sunny days so they could build in the most efficient place. I’d do that with your solar panels.
The first year I was here, no sun for 100 days, took till past Nov to find out where the shade is, now I have to move an array or 2, maybe the same happened to Thi.
Just a thought, charging that power bank, outside in -40 is a bad idea. Keep it indoors while charging or above -10 for best outcomes and health. Also, I believe Dogs body temperature is like normal at 102°
@J1WE yeah I don't have much space to film in our small space. Just for the purpose of the video I filmed outside... but all my power banks charge inside. Thanks for watching!
Another great video! One suggestion, you should look up when to use your wood stove blower motor. It is a small space you are heating and you can improve the efficiency of the burn itself with your flue, just something to consider if you are trying to reduce electricity use. Personally, I don't think using the blower is necessary for that small a space, you should get yourself a few ecofans, they do a great job with heat distribution.
Last year it was -33c here, this winter is alarmingly warm, a low of -9 last month and a high of 4c on wed. Vertical solar panels had to be cleared 1 time 6" at the bottom from snow drift, average 7.6 kw on dark days (11.6kw array), and $300 total for LPG gen. We both need to further insulate the trailers, my 170w basement heater melted 2 ft of snow around the trailer, springtime putting foam board inside the skirt and going to make a foamboard ceiling inside covered in white resisto to match. I should be able to heat the trailer with 290w next winter. Home hardware has 48x125ft resisto for $144, 3 rolls per trailer per layer. You could put hot coals in the ash pot and put that under the gen for an hour, I use handwarmers overnight on the gen at -25c. This spring paint the sun touched reflectix in rv roof paint or it will disintegrate by August. If you insulate like I did the water trailer would be minimum 10c with the heater on low. I wish I was close enough to help build. Happy New Year.
It makes me cold watching you walking your dogs. I lived in cold country for years and it got cold but not like you are having. Wood fires are good. Will your last all night?
If you've been following us you would know ... that that's the plan to build a home... we just bought the land recently... we should start building this spring
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Coldest so far ... is -45 for us with wind chiil... it's funny because you can be one hour away and it can change drastically... my mother in law is more North then us and she got -48.
@@OffGridWithGinaThi Now is that wind chill cold or actual temps?? Give me a general idea where you are I no temps are different in only a short distance but that seems extreme to me. Where I live our temps are usualy colder the Kap but even Kap has not been that cold. Mind you again wind chill is a big factor but actual temps are what we go by.
Why are you just now installing a woodstove? That should have been done months ago! Burn your stove outside for first time to burn off resins and oils used for assembly! OMG!
It would have been nice to have it done months ago, but unfortunately, I didn't plan very well for the winter, we live and we learn... and as for the first burn, the area where the stove is, it's not connected to our main living space yet.
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If you have some cement blocks or bricks stack them close the sides and back of your stove. They will suck up heat and then radiate the heat after your fire dies out and help keep the area warm.
Great idea, thanks for sharing! And thank you for watching!
Congratulations on your wood stove installation and fire up. IfI may suggest I would also add a cast iron damper on the first black pipe inside, this will give you extra damper capability and remember when cleaning your stainless steel chimney do not use a steel round brush use one of poly type so not to etch the walls of your stainless steel chimney. Happy and safe burning, there is nothing better than wood heat. Wishing everyone all the very best. Michael A Stickland
Thank you for the tips. I'll look into it. All the best!
Nice to see you folks navigating the challenges of our Northern Ontario winter. Wood heat is so soothing on a cold day!!
It is! Thanks Jeff!
You can also build a wooden box with cover to pur your generator in.
Great to see you have a heat source that can be continuous and not break the bank. If you mix some of that dead wood with the birch it will go a long way. So far winter has not been to cruel so we are lucky. Muskoka has gotten 7 feet of snow so far lol. You folks are doing a great job surviving and it only gets easier as you find answers for each obstacle you have to cross. Enjoy and may God be with you.
It's definitely been a learning experience. We've already started harvesting all the deadwood and it's actually dryer than the birch we bought. We will be sharing more on a future video. And we can't even complain... I don't think we got hit yet with any large snow storms ... We do have a cold front coming in that will be going into this weekend... we'll see how that goes! Thanks for watching and all the support. Blessings!
Nice job on the install. You'll be SO HAPPY and WARM. Awesome. Love the silent generator too.
Thank you! All the best!
I put clear shower curtain taped on the window frame. The ones I didn't look out we put that silver bubble on them. Worked great last year and this yeàr
Welcome to Canada ! When it's nice it's nice & when it's cold we enjoy Alberta but mostly my cabin & the woodstove :) Love my off grid life :) That looks like a pretty good unit ! Allpowers has some good stuff :) I'm happy for you,
Yes. We really gotta take advantage of the warm weather, because it goes by so fast. We would love to visit Alberta some day. Thanks for watching. All the best!
That is a very nice, and very large woodstove. Gotto be around 50 to 60,000 btu capacity. Going full tilt you should be able to melt all the plastics in the service trailer ;-)
Nice install Thi. You are very talented and courageous.
God Bless!
Hey thanks! Yeah I can leave it on low at night and it seems to last the whole night and keep the trailer warm. Such a blessing. Thanks for the encouragement. All the best!
Those tends are no joke. I'm off grid in my van on my 123 acres in Virginia and I'm worrying about temps in the teens. I have plastic on my windows and skirting. I'm still harvesting water in between freezes. I enjoyed the stove install. Stay warm y'all!
We're glad you enjoyed the video. Stay warm as well! All the best!
For your solar panels, you can clear sheet over the panels to protect them.
might want to check out a waste oil burning fire box with a wood burning box as a back up for your house. it doesn't smell as nice, but you can collect old engine oil all year from a mechanic and have free heat most of the winter.
thank you... we will look into it!
Great video!! Loved seeing the wood stove installation & the behind the scenes of the dogs & Gina! 👏🏻
We're glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Good to see you back and running. Love to watch your journey.
Thank you for watching! Glad you're enjoying the journey with us.
Nice to see the woodstove hooked up, they are much needed here in Northern Ontario.
The standing dead trees should be fine for burning,nothing like a wood stove heat love it! Glad to see you folks are doing well,stay safe and Happy New Year.
Yes. I just checked with the moisture meter, and it came up at 19% which is great! Thank you. And thank you for watching!
great video as always, great job at editing... i just want to keep watching!
We are so glad you're enjoying it! Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for watching! All the best!
You need tubing for all pipes or wrap with flannel and cloth.
Love the dogs color pattern they are beautiful
Bless you amazing fellow Canadians. Not so cold down south here in Simcoe County. Wood heat, ahh your bodies will thank you, best heat ever
😂 defenetly..... thank you for watching. Take care.
Naughty dogs! Stay warm 😊
Thats awesome! Oh the wood stove is going to make a huge difference.
For sure! Thanks for watching! All the best to you and the family. God bless you!
15:26 How often do you need to change your filters?
Depends on the usage but usually every 6 months. Take care!
Get tubing for the metal chimney stack outside.
Max and Blue crack me up... great video as always 👍
Lmao 🤣 talking to the dogs 🐕 was to much 🤣 😂
Good job on the install!👍👍
Thanks appreciate it 👊
Great job I enjoy your videos 👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽
Do you have a vent on the wood stove ? You need to get a black fan to circulate the heat.
i have a blower motor
Looking great keep up the good work
Thanks! All the best!
hi there gina and thi.
i just found something you maybe wanted to look into, there is a thing called " rebar tie gun "
in short, it is a machine that use steel wire to tie rebar togheter automatic.
it ties/ cut and all that fun stuff, the only thing you need to do is to give it power and wire and then you can go nuts whit the rebar.
i was thinking it could be a good one to have if you are going to tie rebar togheter or if you are going to do fence inclosure.
have a great day!
Ever thought it putting a 12v fan with ducting to blow some warn air under the RV, with the heat the log burner puts out might as well put it to some good work on the pipes under the RV
Yes. I've been thinking about that. I'll try to make that happen. Thank you for watching!
If I heard you correctly, you said you got a cord of wood. So, if you don't count your toolbox in the bed of the truck and at the height of the wood to the top of the bed, including the wood in the back seat, you did not get a full cord. Looks like you may have gotten a little over half a cord. A full cord of wood would definitely not fit in the bed of a pickup without at least 4 foot side rails. A cord of wood when stacked measures 4'x4'x8'. My husband and I used to sell firewood by the cord. We had an 8 foot long trailer with 4 foot sides to hold one cord.
Sorry, I miss spoke, what I mean to say was "face cord"... it was only 16" × 4' × 8'. Thank you for watching. All the best!
Save the birch bark for starting fires , it’s like gasoline , good replacement of using paper , and don’t need to use much bark at all to get a fire going ,
Thank you for the tip. All the best!
There is nothing wrong with birch as long as its properly seasoned Also birch is most cerfainly a hard wood. All deciduous trees are hard wood regardless of there density. coniferous trees are soft wood again no matter ther density. Deciduous trees have leaves which fall of in the fall. Coniferous trres have needls which retain there coulor all year round the one exceprtion is tamerak which turns golden coulour in the fall. my opinion the best hard wood is hard malel also known as sugar maple. When looking for standing dry wood look for trees that most of the bark has fallen off. This will certainly improve your chances of finding good solid wood. By the way nice job installing your stove stay safe see you next time God Bless
Thank you for sharing, I look forward to learning more about trees and wood. Thanks for watching and for the tip. All the best!
You need sides on your truck & no tool box to haul a full cord of wood, That wood stove will save you a lot you just need a couple of good fans 👍, I just did a review on woodstove fans lol :) Stay warm my friend "
Thank you for the tips. once my 2 trailers are joined, i will look into getting something to circulate the air. Thank you and stay warm as well.
You did great
Hopefully u got more then what fit in that truck cuz a chord should be 4x4x8 ft if not ur got ripped but if u got a full chord u got a good deal good luck
Sorry i misspoke on the video. I actually got a face chord
I saw some others say they took pictures of their property on sunny days so they could build in the most efficient place. I’d do that with your solar panels.
Great idea! Thank you for sharing.
The first year I was here, no sun for 100 days, took till past Nov to find out where the shade is, now I have to move an array or 2, maybe the same happened to Thi.
Fiberglass insulation is leaky if you havent airgap sealed everything...rockwool works better. Good luck from Maine
Just a thought, charging that power bank, outside in -40 is a bad idea. Keep it indoors while charging or above -10 for best outcomes and health.
Also, I believe Dogs body temperature is like normal at 102°
@J1WE yeah I don't have much space to film in our small space. Just for the purpose of the video I filmed outside... but all my power banks charge inside. Thanks for watching!
Another great video! One suggestion, you should look up when to use your wood stove blower motor. It is a small space you are heating and you can improve the efficiency of the burn itself with your flue, just something to consider if you are trying to reduce electricity use. Personally, I don't think using the blower is necessary for that small a space, you should get yourself a few ecofans, they do a great job with heat distribution.
Thank you, and thanks for the tip. We'll look into it. Thank you for watching. All the best!
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🇦🇺 🇨🇦 thanks for watching!!
That food looked yummy 😋.
Thanks! It was really good!
Last year it was -33c here, this winter is alarmingly warm, a low of -9 last month and a high of 4c on wed. Vertical solar panels had to be cleared 1 time 6" at the bottom from snow drift, average 7.6 kw on dark days (11.6kw array), and $300 total for LPG gen. We both need to further insulate the trailers, my 170w basement heater melted 2 ft of snow around the trailer, springtime putting foam board inside the skirt and going to make a foamboard ceiling inside covered in white resisto to match. I should be able to heat the trailer with 290w next winter. Home hardware has 48x125ft resisto for $144, 3 rolls per trailer per layer. You could put hot coals in the ash pot and put that under the gen for an hour, I use handwarmers overnight on the gen at -25c. This spring paint the sun touched reflectix in rv roof paint or it will disintegrate by August. If you insulate like I did the water trailer would be minimum 10c with the heater on low. I wish I was close enough to help build. Happy New Year.
Thank you for sharing. Yes, this winter is definitely a good learning experience. We have a lot to improve on.... take care, all the best!
Enjoyed watching as always... stay warm!
Thanks!! all the best!
Hey, I thought you said you would leave a link for your moister meter. I cannot see it here.
You are absolutely right! I completely forgot. I will get that link up in the description.... but here it is for you: amzn.to/3DSPnvI
Can I ask if stove is supposed to be farther from the wall ?
It calls for 8" from the back wall, and I added metal just as a precaution.
-40 degrees is that Celsius or Fahrenheit ? can't never tell because degrees is been used on both sides
It's a special case where -40C = -40F
That's correct! Thanks for watching!
It makes me cold watching you walking your dogs. I lived in cold country for years and it got cold but not like you are having. Wood fires are good. Will your last all night?
Hey u should have had a fire outside with that to burn off all the toxic chemicals! Good job though love the videos!!
I know.... 😅. I was in such a hurry to get the stove inside, that I ended up forgetting. Thank you for watching!
Get you some pineroot and your fire in stove will get nice and hot fast.😊
Thanks for the tip! 👍
👍🏻❤🙏🏻 GOD bless, Sara from South Africa🇿🇦
Thanks Sara! Blessings!
@OffGridWithGinaThi 😘
A Cord is 8 feet long x 4 feet tall x 4 feet wide 128 Cubic feet stacked tight
You have 40 acres and you could've build a shipping container home, modular home that can handle extreme cold weather conditions .
If you've been following us you would know ... that that's the plan to build a home... we just bought the land recently... we should start building this spring
Oi, de que lugar do brasil vcs sao? Escute vcs falando portugues.
Awesome video!!!
Oi! Tudo bem? Minas Gerais... Eu nasci em Uberlândia... e minha esposa nasceu no Canadá, mas minha sogra também é do Brasil. Você vai nos encontrar falando português bastante nos nossos vídeos kkkk Thanks for watching 🇧🇷 🇨🇦
Abraços!
I did notice that the intro to your video was missing before
Thanks for watching!
You must be talking wind chill cold I live in northern ontario and the coldest we have been is minus 32
Coldest so far ... is -45 for us with wind chiil... it's funny because you can be one hour away and it can change drastically... my mother in law is more North then us and she got -48.
@@OffGridWithGinaThi Now is that wind chill cold or actual temps?? Give me a general idea where you are I no temps are different in only a short distance but that seems extreme to me. Where I live our temps are usualy colder the Kap but even Kap has not been that cold. Mind you again wind chill is a big factor but actual temps are what we go by.
Are they brothers ? Their face looks alike , too cutes ❤
Yes. They are from the same litter. We were supposed to just get one, but they were just too adorable.....
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Dogs can eat vegetables like carrots, broccoli.
Please put coats & boots on your dogs
lol these types of breeds thrive in cold temperatures... I don't think that would be a good idea 😅
🤣😆😀😃 they aren't humans the dogs love the cold and built for it!
I think mushers put boots on the dogs below -50c, those dogs would rather sleep in an icy river than sleep inside.
Wow when you got to use that help to keep thinks warm and from freezing I would not be there. Screw off grid and 3 dogs no. Good luck
Why are you just now installing a woodstove? That should have been done months ago! Burn your stove outside for first time to burn off resins and oils used for assembly! OMG!
It would have been nice to have it done months ago, but unfortunately, I didn't plan very well for the winter, we live and we learn... and as for the first burn, the area where the stove is, it's not connected to our main living space yet.