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  • Опубликовано: 9 ноя 2023
  • I can't believe that less then 2% of the US population heats their home with wood. Are you a part of that 2%?

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  • @coldspring624
    @coldspring624 8 месяцев назад +11

    Looks like Ash .....good burn. Shame the Ash borer is killing them across the east. Being in Kentucky you have a great selection of wood to use. Cherry , Oak , Hickory , Osage the list is long in that area. I have been burning for decades . One thing many do not realize is the warmth provided by wood or coal heat. Compare it to new furnaces that have heat coming off the heat exchanger at 110 to 120 degrees it can feel cool when you add the movement of the fan. Most houses were in no way designed or built for electric heat. Wood heat is a winner and the closest comfort heat is boiler due to the lack of a fan moving the heat.

  • @Ticky66MN
    @Ticky66MN 8 месяцев назад +10

    Great video, you are so right on all of your points. So good to see someone as young as you appreciate the hard work on your journey. I appreciate your editing style as well. Thank you.

  • @stephenbergman6226
    @stephenbergman6226 8 месяцев назад +5

    Please use hearing protection

  • @andrewsmith9639
    @andrewsmith9639 7 месяцев назад +2

    Definitely part of the 2 percent, find,cut split,and stack 16-18 cord a year. To heat our farmhouse, garage and barn.
    You sir are wise beyond your years. Keep up the good work.
    Creating a legacy for your children. ;)

  • @myurbangarden7695
    @myurbangarden7695 8 месяцев назад +2

    We only spark up the fireplace a few times a YEAR. The rolling blackouts of the TEXAS SNOWPOCOLYPSE ❄️made us get it revamped and repaired.

  • @mariposavioleta9007
    @mariposavioleta9007 8 месяцев назад +4

    THANK YOU!!! As someone with disabilities & chronic conditions I was born with but also others that came due to injuries at no point whatsoever do I think that you were saying anything bad about those of us with disabilities. I 100% agree so many have let tech make them lazy when they can do more and take better care of their bodies. Even with my disabilities I worked until I couldn't work any longer and still now that I'm no longer able to I refuse to use all the tech unless I absolutely have to. I use gadgets to aid in cooking or tech to type notes because of tremors I can't write any longer. I see so many who will take a taxi or bus when it's close by and they can walk. I use a walker and it takes me 3-4 times longer to walk the same distance. I hope that more people realize that it's a precious gift to be able to do things and they should do it while they can or it could be taken from them.

  • @ciaraclarke1488
    @ciaraclarke1488 8 месяцев назад +4

    You can never have enough fire wood One never knows how hard a winter can be so always be prepared

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Last winter was -20 degree with windchill and a lot of the winter was in the teens.

  • @donaldjones4120
    @donaldjones4120 8 месяцев назад +2

    Looks good. I recommend wearing ear muffs when operating loud equipment

  • @paulhare662
    @paulhare662 8 месяцев назад +2

    Been heating my suburban Maryland home with wood since 1984. Still have the 1984 Stihl 024 and Kodiak stove. My logs come from tree companies working in my area, dump truck loads dropped in my driveway for free.
    A suggestion, those leaners, cut a quarter way thru from the bottom at each round length before you drop it on the ground. Once on the ground, saw the 3/4 left from the top. Saves on cutting dirt and field filing. Also, I'm sure you know this but check your bar groove after a pinch. Sometimes the saw will still cut OK but friction hot spots could result. Best wishes.

  • @caka8662
    @caka8662 8 месяцев назад +1

    Love the more regular posts! and agree 100% with your opinion on wood!

  • @Maxid1
    @Maxid1 8 месяцев назад +2

    I RV full time now since I retired and sold my house, but there was a time that I heated my San Francisco home with wood alone. I watched a video about Dick Proenneke homesteading in Alaska (real homesteading, getting land free from the government and getting to keep it if he improved it by building on it. not the "homesteading" you see on youtube of people buying property and having a family farm calling it a homestead. That's just my problem I guess...) But during the part where Dick, in his 50s built a fireplace that "kept the cabin a snug 40 degrees" made me, in my 50's feel like a wimp. Because 60 degrees was "freezing". So I stopped using my gas heater (it was causing mold anyway because gas heat is damp) and started heating the house with wood. That's good because wood heat is dry heat and great for the dampness of a coastal home. I also started a 6 mile hike to, down and back from the beach year round in a t shirt. I stopped getting sick all the time and I significantly toughened up. There were challenges because if you do anything in San Francisco, it's eventually illegal. About 8 years in, there was a wood fire ban and I installed forced air. Sucks too because I could heat my house all winter on less than a half a cord of wood. During that time I eliminated my garbage. I stopped buying things that I had to throw away AND that had to be recycled. I burned all my paper waste as manufactured logs and composted everything else into my yard. Do you know what you can't do in California (maybe anywhere) if you own a home? Not pay for garbage pick up. Even if you don't produce any garbage, you have to pay monthly for garbage pickup. So I ordered the smallest containers and within the year, all the small containers magically increased in price to what the larger one was previously costing. Yes, they are thieves. That's why I renovated that house (got rid of all the black mold) sold it and started RVing full time.
    I am looking for land now so I can live off grid. I'm not happy with grid rules, real estate rules, rules in general that masquerade as protecting the public when they're really just to rip off the public.

  • @dbruce66
    @dbruce66 8 месяцев назад +2

    When you live in Washington State- Maple Valley on 20 acres you and all Family and friends learn like you how to harvest firewood. Love your videos,been watching sense you moved EAST. Keep up the great videos 👍👍🇺🇸

  • @HasteDraftHorsesandMules
    @HasteDraftHorsesandMules 8 месяцев назад +1

    This is definitely Ash killed by the emerald ash bore. I live in south central KY and all ours are gone.

  • @suez5858
    @suez5858 8 месяцев назад +1

    Super video Zach!! Thanks!!!

  • @barbaralewis3832
    @barbaralewis3832 8 месяцев назад +4

    Well young man, your not walking around the farm as much as you used to! Better be carefull about preaching to us couch potatos, Lol! Truly no offence taken just could'nt resist a little payback.😂

  • @stanleygallman7800
    @stanleygallman7800 8 месяцев назад +3

    Wow it's a wonderful thing to hear a younger person speak about the health benefits of good old physical activities during a time of continuing to advances in technology and those systems created so that makes intense physical labor a bit easier! But the unfortunate part about the great advances that we have made in today's world is that far to many able body people are forgetting how to strike a balance of being physically active and taking it easy. Zach thanks for sharing your thoughts and hopefully no one takes offense. It's good to know about and have good healthy habits and consistency in our lives which for the most part creates a healthy, wealthy and wise people. Until the next video.

  • @lindajc123
    @lindajc123 8 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoy being young and strong. It's a blessing.

  • @tinatippin5705
    @tinatippin5705 8 месяцев назад +1

    I miss wood heat in the winter. Warms you right to your bones. A layer of resilience.

  • @karensandberg6226
    @karensandberg6226 8 месяцев назад +1

    I use the sun to Power my home, and love it. I used to chop fire wood for our basement wood stove every winter when I was younger now at 62 and only being 4’11” female I’m done with all that. But believe me I still do plenty of hard work. Got to keep moving. 😊

  • @simplelove513
    @simplelove513 8 месяцев назад +2

    Please take huge caution when running a chainsaw. My father hit his forearm with a saw years ago. They said it was like trying to get sand out of hamburger. After a couple days in the hospital , blood transfusions etc. we finally got to bring him home after a few days. Those darn things kick back hard. Anyway sorry for being a Mother Hen 🤣🤣

  • @paulsims6888
    @paulsims6888 6 месяцев назад

    Thanks for explaining your feelings about work. There is nothing wrong with putting physical effort in to get the goal at the end. It makes it real. I like real. Keep us posted on hard work, honesty and kindness. These three things all work together.

  • @christopherhammer6255
    @christopherhammer6255 8 месяцев назад +2

    If I burn wood to heat my home, my insurance company will put an end to that.

  • @lesleywatkins1172
    @lesleywatkins1172 8 месяцев назад +2

    We have a wood burner in our house in France! We have two of the fire fans on the top of it and they really spread the heat out!

  • @HeatherSt.Therese
    @HeatherSt.Therese 2 месяца назад

    Love your videos!!

  • @brendahaire8824
    @brendahaire8824 8 месяцев назад +2

    We love our wood heat. We do also have a boiler which circulates water through the pipes to heat for backup😊

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад +1

      We may get an outdoor wood boiler and pipe water to cast iron radiators down the road!

  • @Maxid1
    @Maxid1 8 месяцев назад +2

    Yep. Wood warms you when you cut it down, when you cut it up, when you split it, when you stack it, when you carry it in and when you burn it.

  • @jamessparks2691
    @jamessparks2691 7 месяцев назад +1

    Great. My way of seeing life. I'm 74, still heat my home primarily with wood. I find most of my wood after summer, or any season wind storms. I don't split by hand anymore but I still split, haul and stack my own wood. As for my stove, it's an old upright Warm Morning stove, with brick lining to the top. As for the price I bought for $30.oo 30_35 years ago. Honestly, warmest house around.
    Enjoy your videos. Great to see young people living the way I enjoy living.

  • @elizabethmason1927
    @elizabethmason1927 8 месяцев назад +4

    Really enjoy your channel, the two of you have worked super hard and made such HUGE improvements and progress on your farm !!! Just throwing this one out there …Never hurts to throw a pair of protective chaps or pants on especially working alone 😉- retired Firefighter here, seen some pretty nasty injuries that probably could have been avoided. Stay safe looking forward to more videos thanks for bringing us along

  • @nicholewhiteside9147
    @nicholewhiteside9147 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great to watch you so love all that you do. Ear muffs whilst using chainsaws etc, may help protect your hearing in the long run. Just some food for thought 😊😊

  • @tobigforyou
    @tobigforyou 4 месяца назад

    Ever thought about getting a woodfired boiler? It's basically a wood stove with a water blanket around it. The heated water is used to heat your home, greenhouse, floors, whatever you want. Cost is fairly comparable to a regular woodstove. I've seen it used by Justin Rhodes and Our Alaskan Homestead. I'm going to put one on my own farm. It's made by a company called Central Boiler.

  • @jennywagner2448
    @jennywagner2448 8 месяцев назад +3

    I'm in Canada and heat with wood although I purchase it - the average cost here for a cord is 400 - 450 but I get a deal from the wood fella I've purchased from for years. It's still way more cost effective than electric heat or propane (which is what I have for backup) ... and there is nothing like the coziness of wood heat! I would say you should probably be wearing face and leg protection... better safe than sorry! ❤

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад +2

      Wow, 400-450 a cord! From what others have commented on these videos, Canada is insanely expensive!

  • @Chris-yo4ks
    @Chris-yo4ks 8 месяцев назад +1

    My 500 gal propane tank was filled about.......7 years ago......Propane company wanted to take it away, but I told them that it is my source for cooking and backup heat source. I heat 3 houses with wood. My bother and parents live next door to me, and we ran insulated Pex tubing to all 3 houses from the outdoor wood boiler. smoke and mess stays outside, and no fire hazard.

  • @nancykaufman1645
    @nancykaufman1645 8 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful property!

  • @MountainTopHomestead316
    @MountainTopHomestead316 8 месяцев назад +1

    I knew I liked you guys! We run a firewood business here in TN. Keep it up and get you a hookaroon, you will thank me.

  • @oliverjackson3461
    @oliverjackson3461 8 месяцев назад +1

    Very good video and that's lots of good fire wood. I grew up on a wood stove in living room and kitchen.

  • @jackgraham3393
    @jackgraham3393 8 месяцев назад +2

    This afternoon I spent picking up some firewood. Have a 5 x 10 dump trailer , Paid $100 for what amounts to two full loads. It is pretty much cut to length,, some too long will have to be recut. About half will need to be rùn thru the wood splitter. Anyway pretty easy for this 82 year old. Live in south central Washington state.
    One question, where do you purchase the bib overalls that zip all the way up the front? Have not been able to find them for years.
    Enjoyed your video.

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      These overalls are made by Berne. Absolutely love them for cold weather!

  • @reubenmiller30
    @reubenmiller30 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have a wood stove in storage that was my grandpas. I’ll be hooking it up when I move to the new house! Lifetime of free wood out back!

  • @annie.a.
    @annie.a. 8 месяцев назад +1

    that was a lot of hard work
    great job

  • @marilynwitherell186
    @marilynwitherell186 8 месяцев назад +1

    Ash wood splits easy all the time, maple, oak or cherry is very hard to split. Your amazing young man.

  • @55dennie
    @55dennie 8 месяцев назад +1

    I would love to have a wood stove! Unfortunately the insurance company will not cover my home unless I get it professionally installed. Plus the only certified installer I can find is over 100 miles away which makes it very expensive! I have no doubts about my ability to install one myself but I need my home insurance. Thanks for the great video!

  • @marywest1275
    @marywest1275 6 месяцев назад

    KY is not prone to tornadoes, but many times a "downburst" happens and blows over many trees in a group or in a straight line. Enjoy your chanell.

  • @LorraineDennison1960
    @LorraineDennison1960 8 месяцев назад +1

    I use a wood heater. I buy it as I don't have a property I can get it for free from. Wood here in Tasmania is around $180 per tonne if I buy it during the Summer. Price jumps closer to Winter. I use 5 Tonne to get me through the Winter. If you stack the edges of your woodpile in a cross hatch pattern the wood doesn't fall down and you can save your t-posts.

  • @roncarlson8061
    @roncarlson8061 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great video Zach, You got a Polaris for the homestead.

  • @danabe3220
    @danabe3220 8 месяцев назад +1

    I heat my home with wood. We have a ducted wood burning furnace in the basement and wood cook stove in the kitchen that we use to heat and cook on in the winter. I get free fire wood from my property, mostly Douglas Fir and like you said Craigslist is a good source for free wood especially after a wind storm here in Oregon. You're saving a fortune cutting your own. Heating a home with electricity, oil or gas is crazy expensive.

  • @missbehavin8673
    @missbehavin8673 7 месяцев назад

    Glad to see you got a larger wood stove. The other one looked a bit small.

  • @Maxid1
    @Maxid1 8 месяцев назад +2

    Be careful with that Fiskars axe. I hear you can void your warranty if they find that you were hitting anything with it...

  • @joenicoud5967
    @joenicoud5967 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great idea

  • @fstoll3
    @fstoll3 6 месяцев назад

    I think we as a nation need to increase the use of renewable energy sources, like solar and wind, and also geothermal is another source to not only heat/cool your home, but also to heat your domestic hot water.

  • @deeb2066
    @deeb2066 8 месяцев назад +1

    We loved our wood stove for years getting wood off our property until we needed to convert to a pellet stove. Nothing like sitting in front of the fire on a very cold winter night. My husband would always tell the boys, this wood heats you up twice... cutting it and then burning it.

  • @user-dw2bf4os5b
    @user-dw2bf4os5b 6 месяцев назад +1

    Hi Zach, looks like real hard work splitting all those logs. Would it be easier to use a chainsaw?

  • @kristianbonis483
    @kristianbonis483 3 месяца назад

    I cut trees for a living here on Kauai. hoping to buy land somewhere someday where it’s more affordable so that I can homestead.

  • @susanvaughn741
    @susanvaughn741 8 месяцев назад +1

    You can cool you home with drain pipe barried in the ground.

  • @doug1883
    @doug1883 8 месяцев назад +1

    Efficiency has killed a lot of necessity!

    • @doug1883
      @doug1883 8 месяцев назад

      Also would you be surprised that here in Utah you are no longer allowed to install a wood burning stove?

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Wow, that's unbelievable. I would absolutely break that law if I lived in Utah. If you own the home, you should have every right to do what you want with it.

  • @TJP-on7hm
    @TJP-on7hm 8 месяцев назад +1

    Zach, you have common sense! It's nice to have downed trees for firewood, the Polaris is a game changer! Splitting wood we don't need any blue pills! I actually love to burn coal to heat with, it has a deep bone penetrating heat like no other, but environmentally! Anymore young people think it's the best to move into the big cities, have at it. Technology I think AI is good in some respect, yet be extremely dangerous in a whole lotta ways in the wrong hands that's scary!! Farm land is disappearing at a crazy rate, also when an acre of land is going for $50-60,000 per acre that's insanity! Take Care Be Safe

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад +1

      Couldn’t agree more! Our retirement plan is to buy a much land as we possibly can!

  • @carenmcfarland7034
    @carenmcfarland7034 8 месяцев назад +1

    Are you not worried about termites putting them up against the wall?

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад +1

      Haven’t thought much about it honestly. I think we will be okay. We use the wood up pretty quick!

  • @user-nj4mk5if1b
    @user-nj4mk5if1b 8 месяцев назад +1

    I split wood with a maul till I was 35 or 40 when my back got to bad bought wood splitter

  • @rustyweaver7323
    @rustyweaver7323 5 месяцев назад

    Been told my whole life when you cut your own wood you get heated by it twice. One when cutting and loading and one burning.

  • @kmccurley1948
    @kmccurley1948 8 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed video!! Do u use wood upstairs???

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      No, just for our wood stove downstairs. That heats our whole house 👍

  • @billcampbell2943
    @billcampbell2943 8 месяцев назад +1

    Be interesting to see the muscle development u are getting from all ur manual work

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Haha I’ve been trying to gain weight my whole life. Hard to put on more muscle when I can’t gain any weight.

    • @billcampbell2943
      @billcampbell2943 8 месяцев назад

      @@ThePasturedHomestead gaining weight would require u to eat more and more often

  • @eddiejohnson3458
    @eddiejohnson3458 6 месяцев назад

    barbwire will definitely kill the trees but a lot looks like high winds blowing them over

  • @barbaralewis3832
    @barbaralewis3832 8 месяцев назад +1

    We just got our firewood, we like to burn eucalyptus because it burns so clean. We've only heated our home with wood since 1999. Now do you hang your laundry out to dry? About the only good thing about California is the weather, I can use my clothesline all year long. We go through about two cords for our 'cold' season.

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      We dont usually hang our clothes out to dry, but in the summer we will hang out blankets sometimes!

  • @jeremyfortune7274
    @jeremyfortune7274 8 месяцев назад +1

    I changed to wood this year back n summer with a wood stove in this house we are in now. This is our first season with wood n this particular house so I have no idea how much it’s gonna take a season but I only have 1 cord of fry ready to burn wood. I have a ton just cut n split but that’s a year away.

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Ive heard 2-3 Cords per 1000 sq ft. But that'll depend on where you live.

    • @jeremyfortune7274
      @jeremyfortune7274 8 месяцев назад

      @@ThePasturedHomestead yeah I’m n Ms and it was 80 last week, this week n 50’s.. that’s about the norm till late December early Jan, then it will be 20-30’s for highs but only for a month then 80 one day and 35 the next. I was taking a pole on most and least to try and balance it out but this 1 seasoned cord I have I’m going sparingly..

  • @dagenhudson752
    @dagenhudson752 8 месяцев назад +1

    Except I don't have a 4 wheeler😢.

  • @dagenhudson752
    @dagenhudson752 8 месяцев назад +1

    I am definitely 2 percent er.

  • @beverlymacdonald
    @beverlymacdonald 8 месяцев назад +1

    We have a wood pellet stove... but we buy the pellets😢

  • @AmandaDoll-hi4dr
    @AmandaDoll-hi4dr 8 месяцев назад +2

    Good morning

  • @isaiahrios2489
    @isaiahrios2489 2 месяца назад

    Mix you’re own fuel you’d save a phuck ton lol

  • @billcampbell2943
    @billcampbell2943 8 месяцев назад +1

    Those are called staples

  • @Maxid1
    @Maxid1 8 месяцев назад

    Are you talking $180 for a face cord or an actual full cord of wood? (4'x4'x8')

  • @JohnFrytag
    @JohnFrytag 6 месяцев назад

    Looks like Ash. Probably been dead a while so probably brittle. Be super careful when felling. Just a wiggle can drop a branch on ya. John

  • @reubenmiller30
    @reubenmiller30 8 месяцев назад +1

    They look like ash trees. The ash bore killed all them off here in the east. Hard to find a healthy ash tree anymore.

  • @swisschalet1658
    @swisschalet1658 8 месяцев назад +1

    If you would like to move your barn closer to your house, the Amish can do it for you. They do that all the time.

  • @briangrammer898
    @briangrammer898 6 месяцев назад

    videos❤ make a list of things you want to do (accomplish)

  • @carenmcfarland7034
    @carenmcfarland7034 8 месяцев назад

    Well yeah that’s great for you since you have so much dead wood. Living in a small town it’s not really there. Have gotten some off Facebook marketplace but no where near what we need

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Craigslist is a great place to look as well. In our area and back home in WA I could get free wood constantly

  • @wadesfarmstead
    @wadesfarmstead 4 месяца назад

    Free way to heat your home and a free work out.

  • @CplMikeHawk
    @CplMikeHawk 6 месяцев назад

    If you cut your own firewood it'll warm you twice

  • @Kiin9Perez
    @Kiin9Perez 8 месяцев назад +1

    No Im not let’s collaborate

  • @jusinburton5286
    @jusinburton5286 7 месяцев назад

    Add a cold air intake on that new stove. you'll thank me later.

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  7 месяцев назад

      Yes, I ran one when I installed it! Make a big difference!

  • @brandonnorris927
    @brandonnorris927 8 месяцев назад +1

    Has such beautiful eyes and smile just saying lol.. Great videos btw . Watching from Kentucky also..

  • @mikemalone9896
    @mikemalone9896 8 месяцев назад +1

    You are spot on. I feel the same way working in my yard and garden. I use a mower to cut grass and a weedeater to trim, but do all my tilling, etc. by hand. However, think what our air quality would be in the more populated areas i f even 50% used wood to heat their homes, much less the wood shortage and trees cut down. It’s nice you can do this, but I don’t think it would be sustainable for the majority of our population.

    • @livmaritengene4973
      @livmaritengene4973 8 месяцев назад

      Use environment friendly wood stove. Fire wood is sustainable, for sure.

  • @user-xq9xf6hz6b
    @user-xq9xf6hz6b 8 месяцев назад +1

    BRAVO MY ROME ITALY

  • @jamesschaffhausen4466
    @jamesschaffhausen4466 5 месяцев назад

    How come ? No safety gear on you while fell trees. Your brother taught this too. Be careful. Many accidents with chainsaws 🌳🌲🪓🔗🪚🤔😵‍💫🥺💢💥

  • @antinkone8970
    @antinkone8970 8 месяцев назад

    Fiskars axes from Sweden? Whaat? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiskars

    • @ThePasturedHomestead
      @ThePasturedHomestead  8 месяцев назад

      Looks like its Finland! I obviously couldn't remember off the top of my head