Cut Split Stack | Restocking the Woodshed & Installing a New Wood Stove
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Preparing for winter in summer is a necessary part of living in cold climate. This year we chose to upgrade our current wood stove to increase efficiency and burn time, while installing the new wood stove we addressed multiple chimney issues. After the first burn in the Blaze King Princess, we get to work cutting splitting and stacking firewood for the woodshed. The new log splitter worked like a charm and we made short work of the yearly task!
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I'm from New England and we say; "Wood warms you twice - once when you cut it and once when you burn it. You two make me (73) wish I was young again.
We say something similar in eastern Canada. "wood warms you three times, when you cut it, when you stack it, when you burn it" Cheers !
We say the same thing in New Zealand
YOU GUYS ROCK!❤❤
in china we say 我想要一块糖醋鸡
i saw someone say that about peat cutting
NGL. I admire the way you guys work together. 32 seconds after starting a project with my spouse, I'm ready to bury the body... lol
Yes, they are well matched. They even talk alike.
I love that your little bird friends visit your feeder, even when you are both right there.
Same!
I worked hard today, came home, now I'm watching people work hard.
Isn't it oddly relaxing!?
10 years ago, who would have believed that making RUclips videos could afford you such a life! You are your own boss, make your own schedule, have dream adventures that you share with us! Wow!! All because you decided to share your story on RUclips...what a blessing for you guys to have the life you have, and a blessing for us that you let us peek in. ♥️🙏🏻🇺🇲
I love how Eric says "chimney" like "chiminey" 😊
Like Burt from Mary Poppins 😊
Love it, each time I think of Mary Poppins❤ I absolutely love watching you live your lives.
Same, Mary Poppins came straight to mind.
Chiminey Cricket 🙂
Chim, chiminey, chim, chiminey...🎶
It’s funny as a kid I always hated wood splitting time. Now as an adult nearing 50 I like Eric kind of enjoy the mindless grind of a few good days of wood cutting and splitting. There’s something special seeing it all stacked up and knowing your good for yet another year! Been my favorite “show on tv” for 5+ years and it just keeps getting better!
Aloha. I get it. As a bartender at a remote fishing lodge in Alaska, it wasn’t my job to cut firewood for the lodge. But I did and I enjoyed it.
I use high gloss kitchen floor wax and i coat all my snow shovels and use a garden sprayer to do metal roof and the underside of fenders of the 4 wheeler and the snow chute of the snowblower.... all helps snow slip away....good luck!
Will try that. Thanks
I like the commentary style when the mic battery died. A nice change and peaceful.
Had a Blaze King for 25 years and it was still perfect when we sold our place. Heated with it 1500 square feet. Used it only for heat no furnace. Love your channel I lived self sufficient for most of my adult life. I am almost 80 and relate to most all you do. 💓🌈
sounds like you had good times! what part of the country / world did you live in?
@@FroggyTWrite I lived in a little town on the Olympic Peninsula for 32 years. Got divorced and bought a 186 acre ranch in Montana near a little town called Roundup. Sold it after 4 years, long story, bought 320 acres near Pueblo Colorado, hated it there. Sold it and moved to a little town in Washington on the Willapa River called Southbend. It’s about 1 hour to Astoria Oregon to the south. I had huge gardens, chickens and ate venison and elk, salmon etc. I also worked for the Dept of fisheries in salmon culture. Still canning and gleaning what I can. I always look forward to your videos I enjoy you both so much!
I also had one for 25 years and it worked really well.
Yes, Another video from Alaska's best couple. Love the looks of the new wood stove.
I think this is the fourth wood stove install you’ve shared. Old house, off grid cabin, workshop, and new house. So interesting each time! Loved the view off the roof of the garden, coop, and wood shed. Y’all are amazing and your videos brighten my day!
Ahh, being up that high, even if I'm sitting on the sofa, gives me a quiver in my liver. I don't like heights. I heated with wood for over 50 years and loved every minute. There is no heat like wood heat! My Mama taught me to cook on a combination wood/electric range. I made my first loaf of bread when I was 7, and baked it in a wood oven. Love the legs on your new stove. We always brought our wood into the shed in August. I can remember the smells, the sounds, the feel of the wood. The feel of an axe in my hand. Sitting on a Jack pine sharpening my uncle's chain saw with a rat tail file. Thank you so very very much for the happy memories. I'll probably re-watch this video a hundred times. I'll cry a little, and smile a lot. ❤❤To all Lori from Oregon.
You'll are the hardest working people I know. You don't let anything stop you and I'm amazed at your ability to do anything when so many people are likely to call a repairman to fix it for them. I can't wait to see all the preserving you do from the garden, those are my favorite videos.
You two make a killer good team! I am clueless as to why, but I do enjoy watching you work together to accomplish tasks around your place. Two people and a "can do" attitude are unstoppable! Thanks for sharing with us down here in the lower 48!
Not just the can do tude.... they appreciate and respect one another. It's so much better than the drama on TV that increases cortisol and screws with everything!
@@GrowLegacy Amen to that ❤💯
“We’re going to be doing something exciting today…” WHEN DON’T YOU TWO DO SOMETHING EXCITING?? 😊
Hahaha! So true!
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I really like your channel...no politics..it is such an escape for all...thankyou Eric and Ariel!!!
FYI: great choice of background music, the volume was perfect.
I remember the best part of cutting/splitting/stacking was celebrating afterwards, in fresh clothes after a shower and while having a feast. It was such a great feeling of accomplishment.
I appreciate how you reminded me of that. Thanks.
Wow, asphalt shingles instead of flashing. You were lucky. Now it's going to be good for decades. Well done.
I am 65 years old, just learning from you both about any chimney and roof to repair. Now I know what to receive the problem is that solved. Thank you for any hospitality, I appreciated your work problem. 😊
Every project you accomplish is so satisfying to watch. Your incredible property is really coming along!
Every project you do looks complicated but you do it with skills and make them look easy though it’s not easy
"Ariel we need to fix the chimney"
"Ok, babe but the hole is rather large up there"...
"No worries babe I will just remove the roof and replace it! Never mind the rain I am rain proof!" 😂😂😂😂 My favorite super heroes!
Glad to see your upgrade in Wood Stoves, smart move no longer will the old stove continue to make an "ash" of itself!!! lol
Nice work on the “chim-a-ney” Eric!👍🏻😆 and the new wood stove looks nice!
Love how he says that. We've started calling it a chim-a-ney in my household as well 😂
I got a kick out of that also.
And “we’re gonna be properly ‘fixating’ this pipe in the roof.”
It is a lot of work to live off grid. Thank you so much for sharing this video with us. Stay safe! Amen
Y’all are a wonder to watch. Two very smart young people. I love watching all your jobs. Stay sage.
Its always a great feeling when you have your wood shed full of seasoned fire wood!! Just like money in the bank!!!
Husqavarna, hands down. Went thru it like butter
The way Arielle picked up that heavy piece of wood.....wow! That log splitter is fun to watch. You two are such hard workers and the videos are great :).
Dried birch.
@@beckyumphrey2626 That wasn't birch. Some type of conifer, probably the pine they were talking about in the video. Dry or not, that was a hefty piece.
When I saw that I thought this girl is a beast! That was so awesome seeing her do that.
The old granular roofing is called 'roll roofing', a 3' wide product, and is generally hot-mopped to a membrane nailed to the roof with nails along the overlap. It has been replaced by a commercial product that comes in 4' rolls and has a granular coating on a rubber-like tar sheet, called 'torch down'. The back side of the roll is heated up with a 4" torch and unrolled as it's heated, adhering to the 43# underlayment (w/ simplex nails 12" o/c). The torch-down rolls have a 4" overlap that is tar-to-tar, and granules are available to coat the exposed tar that will leak out of the joint. One good thing about torch-down is that it is self-sealing around any screw/nail penetrations from installing metal roofing or roof tiles on top of it. When installed by a licensed roofer, torch-down has a 10-year no-leak warranty.
This is definitely one of the best channels on you tube. Most would consider you one of the hardest working couples on TV. But think about how you make money and the equipment advantages you have today then think of the people in Alaska 1 to 2 hundred years ago. Don't get me wrong, you 2 are killing it but imagine how people use to have to work and travel. We are all blessed today. Keep up the good work and we will continue to enjoy. Peace
The labor is shared by both, I like that.
incredible how much they can get done together
The owners of the cabin I was at put in the King 40 stove this summer and that thing is amazing. They originally were going to put in the Princess but when the installers got there and saw how big the cabin was (~1300sqft) with a lot of open air, they went back to the shop and grabbed the King 40 instead. So far they're loving it and it's going to allow them to stay at the cabin a lot later in the year this year than they have in the past.
This has become my #1 channel. 5 ☆ content.
Coming up on my Birthday now & I remember how a truck load of wood came to my Son's Cabin to be stacked !!! I was happy to stack the wood on My Birthday !!! I sure was !!! It was fun for me !!! I had the supper in a crock pot for supper & we ate good that night !!! I was in 7 HEAVEN for myself !!! I was younger then now older so am down to the point of Watching you doing it !!!
Love that photo of Ariel with the icicles on her eye lashes!
I'm amazed at the amount of improvements you guys have made in the short amount of time you've been at the new house. I gotta admit, I'm a little sad when each of your videos end. I could watch for hours.
At are home I am the one that runs the spiltter . To me spiltting wood and gardening are like therapy. As always I in joy watching to two of you team work every,
Well, that was an exciting video! Happy for you to get the new wood stove in, the new log splitter, and all that necessary work and winter prep done. Keeping warm will be a bit easier now and you will be safer with the roof and stove pipe improvements done. Enjoyed another satisfying video. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless and keep you in all you do.
Just the fact that you have to get up in the middle of the night and fire it up Is a problem. Eventually that is going to ruin your nights sleep. So this is a great idea.
I think your story and adventures would make a great book series for pre-teens. I'm old enough to remember reading Little House On The Prairie and Nancy Drew and can imagine you in a modern day epic series. 😺
I love a wood fire, it's so much warmer to me then electricity and much more economical if you cut your own. I keep a kettle of water on the stove to help with the dryness but it's so relaxing to watch. Good job guys!
Thank you so much for all the great weatherizing tips. I’m at high altitude and never heard of ice dams. Love your channel ❤
Greetings from the mountains of Idaho. Love your show, doesn't matter what your doing. We have the same stove, a 2022 model. Coming up on our 3rd winter, awesome stove, you'll love yours. I've had as high as 20hr bank time on ours. Wood is our only source of heat for the last 25 years. We have a 1600 sq.ft. house. One of our greatest investments. My wife and i enjoy working together, even after 51 years of marriage. You both are number one in my book.
We have had our Blaze King Princess for 2 years now. We LOVE IT!! I'm telling you it is a work horse. Our longest fire was 28 hours on one load of maple, and yet it wasn't completely full. The converter is a learning curve but once you got it, it's fantastic. We live on Puget Sound in Wa. State. We don't have winters like you but plenty of damp cold. We cannot run our stove more than half or it runs us out of the house... that's in a 2300 sf home. You should do great at 40 below. Enjoy a warm winter. Looking forward to your next post.
I don’t know why but I’m addicted to watching log splitting and cutting.
Me to, I would like to try that, looks fun…
Me too. I know I can’t do it.😊
I always do
Thanks for the chicken moments….love their antics!…well your work is so harmoniously done together….cant help but have time fly!
Can you imagine how difficult life would be without all the modern equipment
Yes, was just thinking the same with the chainsaw comparison at the end of the episode. How amazing is it that we live in a world with so much convenience? ❤ 🥰
One trick we use: get some good hay hooks for moving log chunks around. You can move two log pieces (one with each hook) easily. Loved seeing a brief clip of Bo sure miss that boy.
Eric and Arielle, you should turn your porch into a enclosed area. We did it years ago and during the summer we put screen and in the winter we added plexiglass and insulated it what a different with the space for everyone.
My favorite couple! I love how Eric makes sure Ariel is safe and also knows how to use all the equipment- you never know if she would have to do it herself! Very smart! You will be heating the Quonset hut too - you are going to use a lot more wood! 💕🇺🇸💕
That'z what I was thinkin. Need a pile closer to da HUT!
Great woodstove,wow! Love to see you getting ready for autumn. Crazy how fast its coming. Thanks for sharing, you are definitely my favourite channel.
the older you get the faster it comes and im 73 so i know all too well ( i also burn wood )
You make hard work look so easy 🤣. Would yall do a life update … your cabin you moved out of- your off grid in the woods cabin… future plans etc? ❤
Yes please!! Thank you!
Love your show and the way you work together to solve all shorts of issues. Sorry to tell you, chimney is a two syllable word. Chim a ney is not a word, hope your new chimney keeps you warm. 😊
Love your show! You do know that ‘fixating’ means to obsess on something/someone! I does not mean ‘to attach or fix’ something. 👍😀❤️
Depends really: fixating (present participle) 1. (be fixated on/upon) cause (someone) to acquire an obsessive attachment to someone or something.
(transitive verb) 1: to make fixed, stationary, or unchanging. 2: to focus one's gaze on.
It's good though to point out the subtle differences; nothing wrong with improving our enunciation.
I'm in there with the beautiful memories as I watch you two splitting wood and smile with a warm heart 😊❤❤ Thank you for keeping a part of the old life continuing on.❤❤❤
I'm sure you know that you could weld a horizontal piece of steel on your log splitter to have 4 pieces split,but now you have a bigger burn box you probably won't need that.
Enjoy your talent.
You have to either make it or don't make it in Alaska.
I lived there for 1 year with the Air Force.
I loved Alaska.
Keep up the inspiring videos
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures in life
My favorite couple, always an adventure or hard work. I used to love helping my Dad cut wood for the winter, he had a big wood stove in the basement that kept his house warm and cozy. My husband and I have a heat pump, I freeze all winter. Nothing like that wood heat. Nice new stove.
Morning after gardening, taking a hot cup of Chai with biscuits looked for a spot to watching your new video....👌❤👍enjoying it ❤
Ah the ice dam...Lost a car to one of those. Flattened it like a pancake. I was thankful we were not in the car when it happened. Everyone is saying that winter is going to be long this year. Shoot, I would get the plastic on the greenhouse so you could store more wood in there, at least for the time being. Might as well earn it's keep. 😆Thanks for the clip of the boys. It was nice to see our buddy Bo again. 😌
Lol, it's 109 with a heat index around 115 in Central Texas and yall are building a fire. Drooling!
Youre going to love the princess, we inherited ours when we bought our acreage 3 yrs ago - we're not solely wood heat but we live in northern alberta and burn aspen from our property and the stove cuts down on our costly gas bills & makes -40 much easier to tolerate. We fill the stove up, get the fire hot, flip the cat on, dial the temp down, and let it cruise 😊
Chimaney chimaney chimaney
Love how Eric says chimney 😅
😂 chiminey
Chimney = chim·ney
Chiminy Chiminy chim chim chourey 😊 🎶 You've got an awesome stove there. Hooray Hooray. 🔥
Perhaps he was a fan of the "Mary Poppins" movie and Dick Van Dyke's, chimney sweep song.
All I can think of is Dick Van Dyke singing in Mary Poppins.
Love the look of the new woodstove.
@ 7:20 nice that you tied Arielle off we wouldn't want to lose her !
My compliments, you filled the woodshed up fast. You guys are the A Team.
I love your videos. Old school hard work and innovation, new school beautiful camera work. Very unique.
I'm glad u got that log splitter Eric,bc it will save on ur back tremendously.
Always love seeing the new videos. Take care
You guys will appreciate the new Blaze King! I have the same one and absolutely love it. I have a tip for you for your wood splitter, add a couple inches to the top of the wedge. I did that to mine and it makes it so much more efficient. You'll really notice it on the logs that you want to split in quarters. It will split both halves at the same time instead of missing the one on top.
I have been using that exact stove for 16 years. With good wood it will burn on low fire for 20 hrs.. normally I load it twice a day with red fir. 1800 Sq ft home . Great choice.
I live in rural LincolnshireUK and we have Canada geese that come here to breed during summer, they have been doing practice flights every evening over my house for weeks, they set off 2 days ago to migrate, then you mentioned it too in Alaska!
Nothing as special as the first fire in a new wood heater installation. That warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction.
No replacement for displacement, the 50 CC saw won that contest. I fell in Love with My Hydraulic Wood Splitter and Stihl Chain saw and I was always reminded at how Hard Life was before Technology became a way of Life. Thanx for sharing, great Video. Salute. 😃
Plus, the woodburning stove is so pretty they have so many pretty ones
They’re not cheap. It’s expensive.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love a wood stove! It’s been a beautiful day in NC! Should get below 55 degrees tonight! Y’all are so productive! Love you sweet people! God bless y’all! 😀❤️🙏🏻
Ashe County here. We love watching these guys.
You two are such hard workers! You continuously amaze me. Ariel, could you hear me telling me to watch your hands while you were using the wood splitter? lol It's the Mama in me. 😁 Thank you for sharing your amazing life with us. ❤
I miss a wood stove. I don't miss the mess. I like the wood cutter that's very nice You did well Eric picking it. You two are a well oiled team .My hubby and I lived 98% of our married life on a farm self sufficient. we also raised Alpaca's for there fiber. I miss those days. It makes me happy to see young people still living this way. we've been married 43 yrs. we had to give up the farm when hubby got sick. I couldn't do it all myself as you two know it's team work we're in our late 70's.
Love how you make it all look so easy. Third stove replacement. Love the cat snoozing.
Oh no, my nightmares are returning.....filling up a wood shed is hard work, I have done it with hubby for soooo many years, so worth it though, nothing better than a wood burning stove, with the glass clean! Another great video, good to see the chickens loving their dirt baths and playing in the sawdust. Thanks gjuys, I'm greedy, I'm wanting a couple of videos a week. Love from Australia xxx
Professional at fitting stoves the amount of times over the years following you both love the channel
I love these two! How Arielle apologizes for the roof being wet! ❤❤
JACK AND JILL OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF ALL!!!..YOU GUYS SHOULD BE WARM THIS WINTER..🎉🎉❤❤😂😮😊
My grandpa had a particular way of starting a fire. He built a pyramid by placing the biggest logs on the bottom and lighting the kindling on the top. Fire like that usually lasted around 8+ hours. Thanks again for the video fam☺
Thank you for making my day with another video🎉
Nothing like doing chores vicariously thru you two. Boy I'm beat I'd should probably sit down for a bit.
im a Stihl chainsaw guy all day. Also I would love to see another review on the wood stove in the spring. since you're burning Pine and Greener Pine at that and it's a catalytic stove if the creosote gum up the stove maybe you will have to build a hot fire with Birch once in awhile
I've been away a while, and watching you two again makes me feel like I've come back to stable ground! You are so consistent, industrious and always make such a great team!
I enjoy watching your wood processing teamwork. My retirement part time job is running a friend's firewood processor. The machine can do a cord in 25 minutes with little manual labor. I remember from a young age the family effort to get the wood in for winter. When I was a teenager I did the winter wood by myself. When I went away in The Marine Corps my father bought an oil burning furnace. I currently have a Wood master 4400 outside wood boiler fill it once a day for heat and hot water.
We used to have a BlazeKing Wood stove and I would out a pot of chili on top of stove early in morning. When I got home from work at 4pm, it was ready. It was the most delicious chili I have ever eaten. I also used the stove for raising bread and baking bread. Love the looks of your stove and the wood supply looks great. We were quite fortunate, as we had a local lumber company that delivered us block wood by the semi loads, very reasonable, and no bark. This was the ends of what they cut off
. We never had wood on our property to cut, so this was great for us. We still split it, as big chunks of hardwood.
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I can see why you cherish the summers there in Alaska. We are still getting 100+ degree temperatures here in Central Valley California. I can’t believe you are already racing to finish projects and harvests! Winter is coming! 🙂
And I'm tired from going to the stores 3-10 minutes down the road. Refilled my hurricane water jugs, restocking bought canned goods,candles,batteries and charcoal. The traffic wasn't bad today and not shopping on the weekend possibly saved me from dealing with cranky ppl. I love watching u guys and ur photography talent. Thank you for helping me appreciate my easier life....I still enjoy watching u guys ruffing it though!!!!💓💕❤️from Southeast Florida.
Sure enjoy watching you two.
God bless you both.
I remember all the cutting, splitting and stacking of firewood for a year. Seemed like you no more got it done for one year and then you had to start for another. gave me a lot of satisfaction knowing that we had accomplished it though. We didn't have a splitter so my husband split it. I tried but spent more time laughing because I couldn't hit the same place twice in a row. Great job
Chimmeney 😂
The new woodstove looks nice! 🔥 Hope you guys can sleep through the night now, without having to put wood in 😴
I love your channel. You 2 are such a cute couple. I love watching you both work together on everything.
Love the sound of that fire awesome cheers
Love the way the chickens "waller"in their dust baths!! They're so relaxed, enjoying!!
Always love watching you both get the wood supplies built up. Beautiful new stove and so happy you guys were tied up safely on the roof!