Al, you shouldn’t drop those heavy boulders in the tractor bucket, you’re putting extreme instantaneous shock loads on the entire loader and hydraulic systems.
Al, if I could make a suggestion. When loading large rocks in the bucket ,leave it on the ground. I am afraid you are going to blow a cylinder when dropping them in.
@@genesnyder2985 358K is far from half million (they have only gained 15K subs in the past13 months), and if he doesn't want to listen to valid suggestions regarding keeping the bucket on the ground to not stress the hydraulics and the cylinders, then it will be his fault when it fails. It's a wonder that the TYM distributor hasn't reminded him of this.
I am so sorry...y'all just can't get a break from this rain. I do hope you will be able to get it done before the snow flies. Gina, those are great looking potatoes. Nothing better than fresh potatoes, especially from your own garden patch. Love how the cows are supervising, they are like the picture in your kitchen. Thanks for sharing, having a Blessed day.
Fantastic recommendation 👍🏻 we built ours this way (in northern Minnesota) and I have never had snow accumulation in the woodshed opening. It makes all the difference .😊
Good morning I also have outside wood boiler and one thing I do is when I cut wood I stack it on pallets and then use my tractor to bring the wood to the wood shed that way I only handle it when I cut it and when I burn it😅.
Not good for the TYM to drop heavy rocks or heavy loads in the bucket while it is in the air. I believe a hydraulic hose can burst from the sudden back pressure. Easy enough to leave the bucket on the ground when filling it!
Balm of Gilead salve is great for stings and insect bites. Makes pain/itching and swelling go away almost immediately. I make it and we keep it in the house, the barn, the camper, the car and our truck.
You aren't leaving enough room for heating pipes from the heat master furnace going to your proposed new house. You can't get the excavator behind the unit and the stone wall.
Good morning from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Great idea about the woodshed. Make sure you leave yourself enough space behind the wood boiler. So you can work on it if you need to. 🇺🇸
Hello Al. Jason and Ben sent me here. LOL. I really had a problem with subscribing to your channel at first because I lived in Upstate New York for 25 years, and pretty much hated 6 months out of the year - every year. Yep - Winter. I didn't want to deal with watching someone that was dealing with that. BUT - I found your channel intriguing and watched a few vids and then subscribed.
Meatloaf; 1 pound ground chuck, 1/2 pound ground pork, 1/4 pound ground lamb, 1 cup dry oatmeal, Italian seasoning to taste, garlic cloves smashed and chopped to taste. Form into loaf into a loaf pan with small red potatoes around the edge of pan pressed in the meat. Tomato sauce on top. Put in 350*F oven untill the meat center temperature reaches 160*F. Remove pan from oven on to a cooling rack for 30 minute rest.❤
Good Tuesday mornin Moose🐓Crossing .... can't you pump out that standing water .... asking for a friend🤣Have a nice day AL, Gina & Olivia .... take care🚜🪵🪵🪵✌🏻
I'm glad to see you go with your free resource of native rocks for your retaining wall. And, as one RUclipsr says: "It's a game plan, not a set plan." Sorry for the setback in your plan, but we all know, you'll "git'er done!"
Down here in west central Georgia, we are having the opposite problem. Although we are generally rainy, we are having a horrid drought this year. I do hope and pray your rain events settle down. Oh, and we do miss your blessings before the family meal. Hope to see those again!❤
Good morning Lumnah family from a cloudy Pacific Northwest. Good morning viewers. So you're building a wood shed near where the wood boiler is. Cool! Nice potatoes Gina. I think it's funny the cows like to watch you dig up potatoes. It was fun to watch you move the rocks out of the way with the mini-ex. I like the idea of a retaining wall behind the new wood shed. That was a good start on the corner of the retaining wall! Here is the rain! Yum, meatballs! It's nice to have a Gina cooking show again. My husband likes to brown his meatballs before he cooks them in the sauce. They are very filling. I'm glad you got the debris cleared from all the rain so that your spring box is filling again. Too bad the rain stopped the progress on the building of the woodshed. I'm glad you got a good start. Thanks for this video Lumnah family!
About time Al. I suggested several years ago you build a wood storage & enclose the boiler. But I also suggested including room for a wood splitter. SERIOUSLY, 1 month supply ? You going to dry your firewood out under the snow again ? You're going to double (or more) the space you need to heat with your boiler. You're going to need double (or more) your firewood. Are you going through Jamaica again for your firewood shed ?
Gina- you need to plant some Calendula. You can rub the flower and I think the leaves (you should research) on the sting and it helps a lot! Takes the sting away. At least it did for me and for my grandson when he got some sort of bite! Check on it!
Al why buy material for a retaining wall you have all that at your disposal.....ROCKS 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨 All 100 Million Rocks on your property. I was telling the Martin guy in Comments New Hampshire is one of the rockiest states i ever drove Tractor Trailer in . Seems everyone in Upstate New Hampshire has rock 🪨 walls on their properties. Use your heavy 🪨 rocks and fill in cracks with dirt and when grass starts growing in the dirt nothing is moving that wall short of a major earthquake. Rock walls placed correctly look nice 👍🏼
@@CC-Rider4564 absolutely agree, use the rock resource on your own property. However al needs to purchase a medium size excavator with a thumb attachment. The bobcat is way too small.
Good morning everyone, Gina nice to see you in the garden and the kitchen giving tips. I also use the cookie scoop for all my cookies and cupcakes:) Im coming to the New England Homesteaders Conference praying g for sunshine and no rain:) Can't wait to ne back in New Hampshire.
Gina, I put a little bit of water in the empty sauce jar, shake a bit, to get all the sauce out. also, I keep some latex type gloves, to wear while working the raw meat. That way it doesn’t get under your nails, quicker clean up, too.
That's what makes the user comments so helpful for the family and the viewers - I never thought of using a little water in the empty sauce jar to get 99% of the sauce out of the container. I try to get out the last bits with a small rubber spatula on a wooden handle. I will definitely try this next time... thank you!
Just can't catch a break in the weather, it's the same over here in Scotland. Have you ever looked at getting something like an 8 or 10 foot tipping trailer for behind the TYM? Save tracking the Mini back and forth and cut down on amount of trips too and fro using the fore-end loader
The rock wall should be in line with the house wall. That would give you room for a splitter & room to store your mower etc. Also if you built your shed over the wood burner you would be free of the snow when loading it.
Your operation of the back hoe is pretty impressive. You have done this a time or two! LOL. I was thinking about one but not sure I would have the use for one. Not that you asked, but some food for thought for you...I would suggest taking that hill back to the same place as the hill behind the building beside the boiler. It will give you more room for unloading, storage, make your job of building the rock retaining wall easier and keep water further away from the shed. I like the idea of using the natural rock. As for your shed, I would suggest bigger for more wood storage as that way you have it dry and sitting there. You could also put sides on the thing to keep snow out. I didn't realize you had a spring well - cool. Will have to look for that video. Good video!
Al using your available boulder materials is definitely a hugh cost saving way of utilizing all natural products and they won’t deteriorate due to the elements. When building the cover realize the best direction to face the wood for added drying advantages. 👍👍🙏😎
Good morning y'all....Al, I definitely feel your pain. I remember when I was working on Roads doing asphalt. We had three hurricanes in one year. We couldn't get any work done.
Hello from Rick and Laurie. We have been getting all that rain too. Today is another rainy day. Gina I do not think you need another pond especially so close to the house .😅. Enjoy those dry and sunny ☀️ days. I love seeing the cows in their new field. Stay well my friends.😊
Good Morning from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 AL good new project. Much needed Would resting your bucket on the ground be better on your tractor bucket arms when dumping those big rocks into it? Just saying. Thanks for the video
Al and Gina,like always it’s a great 👍 pleasure watching your guys videos and may the heavens rest with the rain 🌧️ so you can finish your wood stove project along the way before winter starts 😮😊❤
I just love seeing Gina harvesting her potatoes while her audience looks on. I know all that rain has been a challenge, but all in all you guys have come a LOOOONG way. So proud of you! 😊❤ Your picture in the kitchen seems like the whole gang has followed you back to the house! 😅😅😅
Build your wood shed to accommodate a farm wagon. Stack your wood on the wagon at your wood lot then drive it into the wood shed.have a second wagon at the wood lot to load then swap wagons when needed. Only load wood once onto the wagon. Wood shed open on one side similar to the wood shed at the old homestead, just drive thru.
MY FAVORITE NH OFF GRID RUclips FAMILY! Good morning Lumnahs Al Gina Olivia and subscriber friends and family! I pray everyone has a blessed Tuesday and week ahead! God Bless. 😁👍🏼
I see from the Manuel, that you will need a 24” clearance in front of the heater. And it also says to not store combustible fuel in the same space as the furnace, if indoors…be safe in how you proceed…
I would move the HeatMaster behind your current building and extend off your current roof to create your covered structure to keep all your outdoor necessities together, easy to get to and protected. Then, put Gina a covered parking area in the current area. Just suggests... Keep up the awesome job.
Build a homestead they said, it will be fun they said. 🤨My grandparent's farm had a spring box...it's fun to watch you adapt and blend old and new technology.
You have so many large rocks/boulders that are part of your natural landscape. I wouldn't be surprised if you make your retaining wall as natural & with what you have available already! You folks are amazing at what you build & how quickly it comes together. God bless! May have to stick an extra hose in your puddle & syphon off the extra water so it dries off quicker.
You have all those beautiful rocks on your land. I would use those for the retainer wall,just like the old timers did. Well I should have watched the whole video before I commented on it. I’m glad you are using the rocks but did you leave yourself enough room to work on your furnace ?
Totally get what you guys went through with all that rain!! My town and surrounding towns here in south western CT is destroyed with all that rain we got on Sunday! Over 14+ + inches!! A damn broke in the middle of the night on Sunday and completely washed away my friends barns of 100+ flock of chickens! Just gone....after hours of searching she found 1 hen's body. Her business gone, her inground pool gone, pool house gone, her solar panels all gone, farm equipment gone, trees uprooted and washed away, her 4 + acre of property now looks like a bulldozer completely leveled her property. Please pray for Cathy's House of Chickens and my other friends at Guardian Farms in Southbury, CT THANK YOU!!!
just south of you (Redding Ct) we only got 10 inches (in 8 hours?) but we are downstream and got the river flooding in places that haven't seen it since the great flood of 1955. Bridges and roads washed out and propane tanks floating down the street with the water. My basement will be drying out for a month!
Will do! I lived inBeacon Falls from 1960 to 1972(but spent 14 years total in the area) and know the terrain well. I called my best friend who lives in Cheshire, and she filled me in. Will be praying. Thats a hard loss to take!
@@rupe53 - My Dad told us of the 1955 flood - I was a newborn and he went to his parents house on the Silvermine River in Fairfield County - the house didn't flood, but the basement did. The fire department was coming around, pumping out people's basements - when they came to my grandparent's place, they didn't have to pump it out as the little existing pedestal sump pump (not waterproof) pumped the entire basement dry!
@@samvalentine3206 40 years ago our FD still did basement pumping but sadly too many abused the service (repeat customers) and manpower got thin for other priorities. BTW, you'd be amazed at how much water a small sump pump can move over the course of a day or so. The key is to stop it from coming in!
Might be too late but when this happens use the teeth of the excavator to dig a shallow drainage ditch from the work out to the down hill side. It will dry out a lot faster if you just have six inch wide channel for a drain and it will help your site later when you gravel it.
to be clear: even with gravel, you do not want the dirt under it being a pond. A squishy base under gravel is no good. Get the dirt to drain first then cover with gravel.
Move the shed closer to the house so you can build a garage for Gina's car. If you move it within three feet of the house. Then Gina can park her car out of the rain and when she comes out of the house she's covered for the most part and just a short run to the garage
Great idea on building a wood shed and a place for your great smoker. Gina your meatballs and sauce look good. I can see why its Al's favorite meal. Tell Miss Olivia hi for me.❤😊
Good morning 😁 love watching you both, amazing work! Your place is a work of love. I noticed when you opened up the smoker door the smoke came out and went up. I hope when there is a roof over it that it doesn’t come out straight into your face, just. Thought. Also get rid of that water by jigging a small trench to divert it! Thanks for sharing you journey, love lol your animals too.
Use a dab of Bentonite clay for the sting, can get it dry in a jar, add a few drops of water and spread onto the area of insect sting or bite. It will draw out the venom. Repeat as often as needed until there is relief. Bentonite clay can be purchased already to use.
So glad everything was clear! Bonnie, you are so cute coming out of anaesthesia ….remembering back to the time you had oral surgery I believe. God bless you….you laugh and cry almost at the same time. And Olivia! Phenomenal that a young lady at her age takes care of chores for the siblings and cooks…..and home made bread! You and Joel are doing a tremendous job raising your kids! You should be so proud of yourselves!
Al since you have so many rocks, why not build the retaining wall from Rocks? It would look really good and blend in with the land. I think it would look awesome!
I'd keep two months near the house, in case of a really bad blizzard. All that rain you got could be snow! Not really, I guess, because it would take a snow hurricane in the tropics to gather that much rain to freeze. But blizzards can be bad enough.
We live on a hillside and we just cut in a space for a greenhouse... we dont get much rock so we built a wall out of cinder block.. man it was a lot of work... you have natural rock to use... thats what i would use.. it will look nicer then something man made.
Al, I can’t help but think you should leave more space behind the wood boiler so you have space to work on it if you need to and the retaining wall is in your way. Better to have more work room, then trying to squeeze into a small area. You never know what might come up in the future.
Hi Al, I was curious, since you are now working around the wood boiler, are you eventually going to extend the heated water line to the workshop? As I recall, the floor was made with heat tubing for radiant heat in the winter.
Goood morning Al, Gina, and friends everywhere, from David in Omaha, NE. The rain needs to go away to where it is needed! Love the idea of the Firewood shed. It will be very nice. Gina's meatballs looked like they will be very tasty! I will have to make some now! 🤣 Have a great and blessed Tuesday, everyone!
Good morning David! I think so too, reminds me of the wood shed on the old homeplace! I was thinking maybe a french drain behind the shed, but Al could also fill in with gravel behind the rock wall. Have a great day too!
Always something Al i might look into some drainage pipe and stone to collect that water and run it off just to keep things dry have you looked into a hydric dump trailer or a small off road dump with the work you have would be a handy thing to have something that will move a few yards of stuff at a time like your videos always look forward to see what you are up to next
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Al, you shouldn’t drop those heavy boulders in the tractor bucket, you’re putting extreme instantaneous shock loads on the entire loader and hydraulic systems.
Was thinking the same thing.
Al, if I could make a suggestion. When loading large rocks in the bucket ,leave it on the ground. I am afraid you are going to blow a cylinder when dropping them in.
He's been reminded of this before, so I don't know why he still does it.
@@Tom-ei8ly.
His choice ha ha
Great haul on those potatoes Gina.
@@Tom-ei8lyif he listened to all the experts he would never get anything done nor would he have a channel with almost half million subs
@@genesnyder2985 358K is far from half million (they have only gained 15K subs in the past13 months), and if he doesn't want to listen to valid suggestions regarding keeping the bucket on the ground to not stress the hydraulics and the cylinders, then it will be his fault when it fails. It's a wonder that the TYM distributor hasn't reminded him of this.
I am so sorry...y'all just can't get a break from this rain. I do hope you will be able to get it done before the snow flies. Gina, those are great looking potatoes. Nothing better than fresh potatoes, especially from your own garden patch. Love how the cows are supervising, they are like the picture in your kitchen. Thanks for sharing, having a Blessed day.
Wood shed:
Build with the opening facing South. Less snow and rain , and maximize sun drying the wood.
Fantastic recommendation 👍🏻 we built ours this way (in northern Minnesota) and I have never had snow accumulation in the woodshed opening. It makes all the difference .😊
Have you decided NOT to build a big main house now?
@@patriciahazeltine9986they might’ve just changed how they plan to heat the next house
Does your prevaiing wind come from the north then ?
A little more planning is necessary with an estimated cost before you start building. That way, you save money and avoid costly mistakes.
Good morning I also have outside wood boiler and one thing I do is when I cut wood I stack it on pallets and then use my tractor to bring the wood to the wood shed that way I only handle it when I cut it and when I burn it😅.
Not good for the TYM to drop heavy rocks or heavy loads in the bucket while it is in the air. I believe a hydraulic hose can burst from the sudden back pressure. Easy enough to leave the bucket on the ground when filling it!
Balm of Gilead salve is great for stings and insect bites. Makes pain/itching and swelling go away almost immediately. I make it and we keep it in the house, the barn, the camper, the car and our truck.
Some of the shots with Gina in the garden with the cows, reminded me of your picture by the sink. ❤moo
You aren't leaving enough room for heating pipes from the heat master furnace going to your proposed new house. You can't get the excavator behind the unit and the stone wall.
Extend it more then 3 feet out front as when raining and you are loading it you don’t get wet !
Good morning from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Great idea about the woodshed. Make sure you leave yourself enough space behind the wood boiler. So you can work on it if you need to. 🇺🇸
Hello Al. Jason and Ben sent me here. LOL. I really had a problem with subscribing to your channel at first because I lived in Upstate New York for 25 years, and pretty much hated 6 months out of the year - every year. Yep - Winter. I didn't want to deal with watching someone that was dealing with that. BUT - I found your channel intriguing and watched a few vids and then subscribed.
Meatloaf; 1 pound ground chuck, 1/2 pound ground pork, 1/4 pound ground lamb, 1 cup dry oatmeal, Italian seasoning to taste, garlic cloves smashed and chopped to taste.
Form into loaf into a loaf pan with small red potatoes around the edge of pan pressed in the meat. Tomato sauce on top.
Put in 350*F oven untill the meat center temperature reaches 160*F.
Remove pan from oven on to a cooling rack for 30 minute rest.❤
You are getting very good with utilizing your boulders….and why not! A very valuable resource they are
With the excessive amount of Rocks , You should build the Retaining Wall with Rocks and Quickrete Thin Set Outdoor Masonary Morter
Good Tuesday mornin Moose🐓Crossing .... can't you pump out that standing water .... asking for a friend🤣Have a nice day AL, Gina & Olivia .... take care🚜🪵🪵🪵✌🏻
Us the grapple to scoop out the larger rocks. The dirt will fall thru. Faster way to clear them out
I'm glad to see you go with your free resource of native rocks for your retaining wall.
And, as one RUclipsr says: "It's a game plan, not a set plan." Sorry for the setback in your plan, but we all know, you'll "git'er done!"
Down here in west central Georgia, we are having the opposite problem. Although we are generally rainy, we are having a horrid drought this year. I do hope and pray your rain events settle down.
Oh, and we do miss your blessings before the family meal. Hope to see those again!❤
Good morning Lumnah family from a cloudy Pacific Northwest. Good morning viewers. So you're building a wood shed near where the wood boiler is. Cool! Nice potatoes Gina. I think it's funny the cows like to watch you dig up potatoes. It was fun to watch you move the rocks out of the way with the mini-ex. I like the idea of a retaining wall behind the new wood shed. That was a good start on the corner of the retaining wall! Here is the rain! Yum, meatballs! It's nice to have a Gina cooking show again. My husband likes to brown his meatballs before he cooks them in the sauce. They are very filling. I'm glad you got the debris cleared from all the rain so that your spring box is filling again. Too bad the rain stopped the progress on the building of the woodshed. I'm glad you got a good start. Thanks for this video Lumnah family!
About time Al. I suggested several years ago you build a wood storage & enclose the boiler. But I also suggested including room for a wood splitter. SERIOUSLY, 1 month supply ? You going to dry your firewood out under the snow again ? You're going to double (or more) the space you need to heat with your boiler. You're going to need double (or more) your firewood. Are you going through Jamaica again for your firewood shed ?
Gina! You have cows watching you in the garden and in the kitchen lol. Love your cow picture in the kitchen.
Those Highlands are adorable. they've got the same hairdoo that all the teenagers have had the last 15-20 years. LOL like an alpaca. LOL
Gina- you need to plant some Calendula. You can rub the flower and I think the leaves (you should research) on the sting and it helps a lot! Takes the sting away. At least it did for me and for my grandson when he got some sort of bite! Check on it!
I've got to watch your older stuff so I can see your whole place. Love the cows. They are so pretty. Nice looking potatoes.
Al thinking ahead might be wise to bury some conduit there to make getting hot water to cabin in future a lot easier
Al why buy material for a retaining wall you have all that at your disposal.....ROCKS 🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨🪨 All 100 Million Rocks on your property. I was telling the Martin guy in Comments New Hampshire is one of the rockiest states i ever drove Tractor Trailer in . Seems everyone in Upstate New Hampshire has rock 🪨 walls on their properties. Use your heavy 🪨 rocks and fill in cracks with dirt and when grass starts growing in the dirt nothing is moving that wall short of a major earthquake. Rock walls placed correctly look nice 👍🏼
@@CC-Rider4564 absolutely agree, use the rock resource on your own property. However al needs to purchase a medium size excavator with a thumb attachment. The bobcat is way too small.
Good morning everyone, Gina nice to see you in the garden and the kitchen giving tips. I also use the cookie scoop for all my cookies and cupcakes:) Im coming to the New England Homesteaders Conference praying g for sunshine and no rain:) Can't wait to ne back in New Hampshire.
Gina, I put a little bit of water in the empty sauce jar, shake a bit, to get all the sauce out.
also, I keep some latex type gloves, to wear while working the raw meat. That way it doesn’t get under your nails, quicker clean up, too.
That's what makes the user comments so helpful for the family and the viewers - I never thought of using a little water in the empty sauce jar to get 99% of the sauce out of the container. I try to get out the last bits with a small rubber spatula on a wooden handle. I will definitely try this next time... thank you!
Good morning Al, Gina, Olivia and all the Lumnah friends and extended family. Wishing everyone a great week
Good morning, Robert!
Just can't catch a break in the weather, it's the same over here in Scotland. Have you ever looked at getting something like an 8 or 10 foot tipping trailer for behind the TYM? Save tracking the Mini back and forth and cut down on amount of trips too and fro using the fore-end loader
Miss Gina, love the meatballs with stuffing for breadcrumbs and in the crockpot!!! Bet they’re delicious!!
The rock wall should be in line with the house wall. That would give you room for a splitter & room to store your mower etc. Also if you built your shed over the wood burner you would be free of the snow when loading it.
Don’t forget to leave room to open the wood boiler doors for maintenance. Don’t place the rock retaining wall too close to the boiler.
Your operation of the back hoe is pretty impressive. You have done this a time or two! LOL. I was thinking about one but not sure I would have the use for one. Not that you asked, but some food for thought for you...I would suggest taking that hill back to the same place as the hill behind the building beside the boiler. It will give you more room for unloading, storage, make your job of building the rock retaining wall easier and keep water further away from the shed. I like the idea of using the natural rock. As for your shed, I would suggest bigger for more wood storage as that way you have it dry and sitting there. You could also put sides on the thing to keep snow out. I didn't realize you had a spring well - cool. Will have to look for that video. Good video!
Al using your available boulder materials is definitely a hugh cost saving way of utilizing all natural products and they won’t deteriorate due to the elements. When building the cover realize the best direction to face the wood for added drying advantages.
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Good morning y'all....Al, I definitely feel your pain. I remember when I was working on Roads doing asphalt. We had three hurricanes in one year. We couldn't get any work done.
Hello from Rick and Laurie. We have been getting all that rain too. Today is another rainy day. Gina I do not think you need another pond especially so close to the house .😅. Enjoy those dry and sunny ☀️ days. I love seeing the cows in their new field. Stay well my friends.😊
Good Morning from Alberta Canada 🇨🇦
AL good new project. Much needed
Would resting your bucket on the ground be better on your tractor bucket arms when dumping those big rocks into it?
Just saying.
Thanks for the video
I love seeing all the rich black soil when you dig it up for projects
Awesome idea for wood shed to be put there. It's helps to keep up the fire wood dry too. Keep up the great work.
Al and Gina,like always it’s a great 👍 pleasure watching your guys videos and may the heavens rest with the rain 🌧️ so you can finish your wood stove project along the way before winter starts 😮😊❤
Good morning, Lumnah Family and friends! Here's to a great day and week ahead!
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Good morning, Sam!
Good morning Sam
Goooooood Morning Sam.
Good morning Sam, hope all is well with you my friend 👍🏼😁👍🏼
@@caryrhea3974 - Howdy there, Cary!
Gina, don’t forget a bay in the garage for Olivia she’ll be driving soon enough!
I just love seeing Gina harvesting her potatoes while her audience looks on. I know all that rain has been a challenge, but all in all you guys have come a LOOOONG way.
So proud of you! 😊❤
Your picture in the kitchen seems like the whole gang has followed you back to the house! 😅😅😅
GREAT VIDEO 🙏❤😇👍
Thank you for sharing! Have a blessed day!
Build your wood shed to accommodate a farm wagon. Stack your wood on the wagon at your wood lot then drive it into the wood shed.have a second wagon at the wood lot to load then swap wagons when needed. Only load wood once onto the wagon. Wood shed open on one side similar to the wood shed at the old homestead, just drive thru.
MY FAVORITE NH OFF GRID RUclips FAMILY! Good morning Lumnahs Al Gina Olivia and subscriber friends and family! I pray everyone has a blessed Tuesday and week ahead! God Bless. 😁👍🏼
Good morning, my friend CC Rider - Thank you and I wish you the same sentiment!
Good morning CC! 👍🏾🤩🐶
@@samvalentine3206Good Morning & Thank You Sam my friend
Good morning, CC. GOD BLESS YOU. GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU.❤❤❤
@@TheKamakuraGardenerGood Evening Robert my friend in Japan 😁👍🏼
Fyi. The bucket should be laying on the ground as you put those big rocks on😊
Good morning Modern Steaders! Texas sure could use some of that rain. Oh, fun a new building project!
How about putting a sleeve in the ground so you don't have to move firewood and excavate when you expand the service of the boiler to The Big House?
Hello Al and Gina, tks for video. The rain is just not gonna give you a break Al. Gina meatballs look good. Much love to ya'll.....
I see from the Manuel, that you will need a 24” clearance in front of the heater. And it also says to not store combustible fuel in the same space as the furnace, if indoors…be safe in
how you proceed…
I would move the HeatMaster behind your current building and extend off your current roof to create your covered structure to keep all your outdoor necessities together, easy to get to and protected. Then, put Gina a covered parking area in the current area. Just suggests... Keep up the awesome job.
Considering how rocky your land is, your soil looks pretty good. That grapple sure makes moving big rocks around a bit easier than doing it by hand!
Looked like a young mountain Lion walking behind your wood boiler at 4.22 in the video.
Build a homestead they said, it will be fun they said. 🤨My grandparent's farm had a spring box...it's fun to watch you adapt and blend old and new technology.
How is the grass coming that you hydroseeded?
@@4Classie what are you rambling on about?
Re: Retaining Wall ... obvious choice is rock. Fits in with landscape and is most cost-effective.
Wow that’s a pretty efficient gasifier.A chord usually measures 4x4x8.Does the boiler require cleaning?
Gooood morning off to another adventure,how sweet that is,have a bless day and evening😊🌻🌺🌼🇺🇲
You have so many large rocks/boulders that are part of your natural landscape. I wouldn't be surprised if you make your retaining wall as natural & with what you have available already!
You folks are amazing at what you build & how quickly it comes together. God bless!
May have to stick an extra hose in your puddle & syphon off the extra water so it dries off quicker.
Do ya think he's got enough rocks for a retaining wall 😂😂
@@ruthcasteel370 If I remember rightly, he had quite a long retaining wall of that type in his previous property.
Don’t build over or too close I’ve seen a couple of those go up in flames 🔥
After all this time, I'd say yay!! I knew from past talks about the WoodMizer, it was efficient, but 3-4 cords a year is outstanding! Love ya'll ❤️
Nice job guys !!!!! 😊🙏👍❤️
You have all those beautiful rocks on your land. I would use those for the retainer wall,just like the old timers did. Well I should have watched the whole video before I commented on it. I’m glad you are using the rocks but did you leave yourself enough room to work on your furnace ?
Totally get what you guys went through with all that rain!! My town and surrounding towns here in south western CT is destroyed with all that rain we got on Sunday! Over 14+ + inches!! A damn broke in the middle of the night on Sunday and completely washed away my friends barns of 100+ flock of chickens! Just gone....after hours of searching she found 1 hen's body. Her business gone, her inground pool gone, pool house gone, her solar panels all gone, farm equipment gone, trees uprooted and washed away, her 4 + acre of property now looks like a bulldozer completely leveled her property. Please pray for Cathy's House of Chickens and my other friends at Guardian Farms in Southbury, CT THANK YOU!!!
Sending prayers to your friends - that rain was something else. I have family in the area and they were OK, nothing like what happened to Cathy. 🙏
just south of you (Redding Ct) we only got 10 inches (in 8 hours?) but we are downstream and got the river flooding in places that haven't seen it since the great flood of 1955. Bridges and roads washed out and propane tanks floating down the street with the water. My basement will be drying out for a month!
Will do! I lived inBeacon Falls from 1960 to 1972(but spent 14 years total in the area) and know the terrain well. I called my best friend who lives in Cheshire, and she filled me in. Will be praying. Thats a hard loss to take!
@@rupe53 - My Dad told us of the 1955 flood - I was a newborn and he went to his parents house on the Silvermine River in Fairfield County - the house didn't flood, but the basement did. The fire department was coming around, pumping out people's basements - when they came to my grandparent's place, they didn't have to pump it out as the little existing pedestal sump pump (not waterproof) pumped the entire basement dry!
@@samvalentine3206 40 years ago our FD still did basement pumping but sadly too many abused the service (repeat customers) and manpower got thin for other priorities. BTW, you'd be amazed at how much water a small sump pump can move over the course of a day or so. The key is to stop it from coming in!
Good morning from Gatwick wishing everyone a great day 🎉❤
Good morning, Jim!
Good morning from Wexford Ireland
Goood morning Annette. Hope all is well in Ireland. Everything going good here.! 👍
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Good morning David, all good here thanks. How are things there
Good morning Annette! 👍🏾🤩🐶
Good morning, Annette!
Good Morning Annette.
Good morning from Stockton Georgia good job on your project Gina needs to have her cooking own more often
Maybe she'll get back into it - she used to have a "cooking corner" almost every episode for a while there...
I love ALL Lumnah Acres videos!
Picking those rocks out with that excavator reminds me of little kids picking out the vegetables from their plates at meal time!!
Might be too late but when this happens use the teeth of the excavator to dig a shallow drainage ditch from the work out to the down hill side. It will dry out a lot faster if you just have six inch wide channel for a drain and it will help your site later when you gravel it.
to be clear: even with gravel, you do not want the dirt under it being a pond. A squishy base under gravel is no good. Get the dirt to drain first then cover with gravel.
It is my understanding that gasification boilers require dry wood (under 20%) or it plugs up with creosote. Has that been your experience?
Move the shed closer to the house so you can build a garage for Gina's car. If you move it within three feet of the house. Then Gina can park her car out of the rain and when she comes out of the house she's covered for the most part and just a short run to the garage
Great idea on building a wood shed and a place for your great smoker. Gina your meatballs and sauce look good. I can see why its Al's favorite meal. Tell Miss Olivia hi for me.❤😊
Hey Al and Gina. I think that is an excellent idea what you are doing. If you could have the rain hold up awhile. 😅. Good video. 👍❤️
Good afternoon from Fly Ohio. Pleasant 70 degree day here. Great weed eating weather! We used to heat entirely with wood!
Good morning 😁 love watching you both, amazing work! Your place is a work of love. I noticed when you opened up the smoker door the smoke came out and went up. I hope when there is a roof over it that it doesn’t come out straight into your face, just. Thought. Also get rid of that water by jigging a small trench to divert it! Thanks for sharing you journey, love lol your animals too.
It’s a great day and Gina making meatballs makes it even better
Use a dab of Bentonite clay for the sting, can get it dry in a jar, add a few drops of water and spread onto the area of insect sting or bite. It will draw out the venom. Repeat as often as needed until there is relief. Bentonite clay can be purchased already to use.
Great video
It's a good idea to clean that area way back away from your home and heater
Build the retaining wall with Rocks and outdoor Morter OR Concrete Cinder Blocks
Hi.... Thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
Dig a temporary trench to drain the worksite, and then fill it in after you establish the final grade.
So glad everything was clear! Bonnie, you are so cute coming out of anaesthesia ….remembering back to the time you had oral surgery I believe. God bless you….you laugh and cry almost at the same time. And Olivia! Phenomenal that a young lady at her age takes care of chores for the siblings and cooks…..and home made bread! You and Joel are doing a tremendous job raising your kids! You should be so proud of yourselves!
Sorry….this was meant for a previous vlog….
Yippee, another building project!
Good morning family enjoy your day.💙❤🦋🎉👏☺👍
Al since you have so many rocks, why not build the retaining wall from Rocks? It would look really good and blend in with the land. I think it would look awesome!
I'd keep two months near the house, in case of a really bad blizzard. All that rain you got could be snow! Not really, I guess, because it would take a snow hurricane in the tropics to gather that much rain to freeze. But blizzards can be bad enough.
Good morning Al Gina and Olivia hope y'all have a blessed day together. Just wanted to let y'all know your a blessing to us in south Alabama
We live on a hillside and we just cut in a space for a greenhouse... we dont get much rock so we built a wall out of cinder block.. man it was a lot of work... you have natural rock to use... thats what i would use.. it will look nicer then something man made.
great potatoe harvest Gina hugssss
Al, I can’t help but think you should leave more space behind the wood boiler so you have space to work on it if you need to and the retaining wall is in your way. Better to have more work room, then trying to squeeze into a small area. You never know what might come up in the future.
Hi Al,
I was curious, since you are now working around the wood boiler, are you eventually going to extend the heated water line to the workshop? As I recall, the floor was made with heat tubing for radiant heat in the winter.
Goood morning Al, Gina, and friends everywhere, from David in Omaha, NE. The rain needs to go away to where it is needed! Love the idea of the Firewood shed. It will be very nice. Gina's meatballs looked like they will be very tasty! I will have to make some now! 🤣 Have a great and blessed Tuesday, everyone!
Have a great day David! 👍🏾🤩🐶
@@TheKamakuraGardener Good Morning David.
Good morning, David - Thank you and wishing you the same!
Good morning David! I think so too, reminds me of the wood shed on the old homeplace! I was thinking maybe a french drain behind the shed, but Al could also fill in with gravel behind the rock wall. Have a great day too!
Goooooood Morning David. Yes plenty of areas need the rain.
I remember the shed you had at your other property, like a lien two. Make sure to to have good airflow. Like normal., you dig a hole it rains. 😂
Always something Al i might look into some drainage pipe and stone to collect that water and run it off just to keep things dry have you looked into a hydric dump trailer or a small off road dump with the work you have would be a handy thing to have something that will move a few yards of stuff at a time like your videos always look forward to see what you are up to next