The Cost Of Operating An Illegal Wood Stove
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2020
- Wood stoves are more often becoming illegal in America. If you are blessed to live in an area where the local politicians and bureaucrats haven't regulated you into the nanny state, maybe you can still heat your home with this AMAZING ancient technology called fire.
What does a "GOOD" stove cost? Expect to pay at least $1000 for an efficient wood stove from a good manufacturer.
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We're the only animal species that protects our stupid.
@@Anamericanhomestead there's your next t-shirt idea.
That’s true but the only problem is stupid people have neighbors who can suffer the consequences of their stupidity.
@@Anamericanhomestead Yea, they would be culled that.
Yup and most of them are liberals
@@oldstudbuck3583 if you look up the definition in the dictionary uninformed you'll find a picture of a liberal.
Simply, stop asking for permission. Free men dont need permission.
Hello Army, That's the country of freedom for you, make America free again !
Yes the freedom steal is real.
and if i took the stove, the state declared unfit for use, tho it was almost new, then I would be the thief
That's a great idea. Don't tell anyone that you have a wood stove, just put it in and burn wood! Then when your house burns down, the insurance company can deny your claim because you never informed them that you had a wood stove. Genius!!!
@Mickie Judd It sounds like you did the right thing. I would like to make one suggestion, look into a pellet stove. It burns wood pellets. A bag cost about $4 to $5 dollars depending where you live and a bag lasts about 24 hours. Best of all, it's not a problem for insurance companies. With a regular wood burning stove the wood isn't free, it takes a lot of work and time to get enough wood for a whole winter. Good luck.
I've heated with a woodstove for 50 years. I'll be heating with one for another 50 regardless of laws
Hope your place doesn't catch fire dufus.
@@lindalai9092 if it does I'll build another one. Keep the chimney clean and there's really no risk of it anyway 🙄
Linda Lai wow that is pretty hateful for someone who has been there doing it!!!
@@lindalai9092 If he's been doing it for 50 years then he probably has a clue about how to do it safely. You - on the other hand - shouldn't be playing with matches.
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This fire pit is one of a few covered pits that is on the list ruclips.net/user/postUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM of approved products for Disney Fort Wilderness. The product served its purpose well and provided excellent fires throughout the evening. We were able to open the door and do s'mores, but I had to be careful because the handle was a bit hot on occasions. Additionally, I wish they had replaced some of the standard nuts with lock nuts in some places. We lost the door handle after just a couple of days of usage. Not a deal breaker, just a recommendation. I still give it 5 stars.
My parents bought and redid our house when i was a child around 50 years ago. The electric company actually tried to sue my parents saying they where stealing electricity because the bill was so low in the winter we " had" to be stealing it somehow. My parents had them come in the house so they could feel the power of the wood stove throughout our home. When we buy our next home i am making sure we also have a wood burning stove.
Counter sue for defamation and fraud
The cheek of it the corporations are the biggest thieves !!!
Your parents were smart and so are you !!!!! I have both a wood fireplace and a vogelzang wood burning stove and i always have fire wood cords lots of it, i also have solar and bought it outright for 31,000 and some change but now here in California they are discussing a bill that would make everyone that has roof top solar panels pay a tax of around 48 dollars a month because the utility companies are losing revenue, its shit like this that makes me want to burn more wood to heat my home!!!!! il keep my wood burners !!!!!!!
Just make sure your new home isn't in California because they dont want any more wood burning , they are trying to outlaw natural gas too !!!!
I know of people around here removing their wood burners and going total gas or electricity. They're nuts.
I can't get over the price. $20 a ton and around $100 to deliver? That is amazing!
I pay 35 a bundle an 75 for delivery
@@penrodautorepair3170 what state!?
80MileKyle Michigan.
I pay 35.00 per cord an have 10 brought in an 75.00 for delivery
It never crossed my mind to just have it delivered like this. Granted it doesn't get too cold in east Tennessee but there are some wonderfully crisp nights
@@penrodautorepair3170 damn I'm in MI too. That's a really good price almost unbelievable, you live north of mt. Pleasant?
My parents have a wood stove. When we were kids there was a really bad ice storm that knocked out power for a full week. It was so bad they closed the schools because so many had no power. While everyone around us ran and bought up all the generators, my dad lit the wood stove in our basement. We hung out down there and stayed nice and warm. No worries about freezing pipes, etc
Your parent were smart and didn't need some bureaucrat to tell them what they could or couldn't do to survive!!!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL☝👍
@@johnalarcon5006 Exactly
We had a bad ice storm too. Good ole maine winters. My dad installed a stove after that winter in the summer and now as an adult my home has almost the same stove he bought. Funny how things work out
Was it in 1998
I have to say it again your parents were smart and didn't reply on anymore to stay warm and keep their children safe when big or small disasters occur, i live in the city and always have no less the 2 - 3 cords of burning wood to stay warm and to use as a fuel cooking source, i also have a propane stove and have enough propane bottles to literally cook for one year if i had to cook on my portable stove, survival is a mind set of those who prepare for the worst-case situations!!!!! Just like your dad did,! mad respect ❤
I got this off of the EPA website. You can still use any woodstove but the manufactures are being forced to only make cleaner burning stoves.
Has the EPA banned or made wood burning stoves obsolete or outdated? No, the regulations that have been enacted by the EPA have only made wood stove manufactures produce a cleaner burning version that is sold in the US.
Thank you. Saved me wasting 12 minutes on alarmism.
Lol, he called people stupid but couldn't do a few minutes of research to figure out that wood stoves aren't banned.
A friend told me that if you lay some short logs with the end towards the glass window it will burn the black gunk off the glass. I tried it and it worked. So much easier than scrubbing that gunk off by hand. Also... about once a month when you have a rip roaring fire going with a real good bed of coals, toss a handful of rock salt in on the fire. It keeps the chimney clean.
Wet a piece of newspaper and dip it into some ashes from the fireplace. Now scrub the firebox window with it. Creosote should come right off.
Mid to high-end wood stoves no longer require cleaning of the window, either. The fire's natural draught up the chimney draws make-up air into the firebox; some of the inlet vents are placed directly above the wood stove door. This has the effect of causing constant flow of clean air across the glass, which in turn prevents soot from accumulating.
A couple of aluminum cans will also do the trick...
Potato peels and egg shells work as well
AND - that salt will eat up the stovepipe in a New York heart beat.
@@joesinakandid528 not really noticable as it is never in it's liquid form... It seems like more because unburned creosote is a protective coating.
A man that can feed himself and take care of his own cannot be controlled....period
They know that.
May I ask if you have worn a mask 😷? You'd be surprised what "free people" will do because the government tells them to.
@@chadsykes2067 never. I will not comply.
Well said.
Masks mess with the facial recognition software. If you have to go into the cities a mask isn’t such a bad thing.
"Illegal wood stove" that right there should tell you everything you need to know about the US government!!
Yes, it tells me that the US government is illegal. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
@Jim but never forget: they are the land of the free 🤣
The US government is being deliberately subverted from every direction. That is because as bad as the USA is, it is still the least bad of many choices. We all believe in the pursuit of happiness.
Ken Bellchambers the term “pursuit of happiness” actually referred to the “ownership of land”, ...
@@johne.osmaniii7217 Whatever the original meaning, it is a great objective.
I grew up with a wood stove. My parents still heat their house with wood. Growing up, during the summer I had to go to the mountains and cut firewood. My parents have always had at least 2 years worth of wood on hand.
Thanks for the reminder! I just figured out my parents stove with a catalytic burner. They are gone so last year while heating their house I found that I was burning A LOT of wood. Would have needed 20 cords or so for the winter. Then I researched the catalytic thing and bam! Uses about a tenth and it’s basically steam that comes out of the chimney…
20 cords? i live in new hamsphire and we burn 5 cords a year. that is to heat a drafty 101 year old house. were you trying to heat 10,000 square feet in the north pole?
@@makeitpay8241nope...he's just an idiot.
I just got my first wood stove. I love it! Heat my whole house, and even cook on it from time to time!
Me too. Down under Australia. Different. But things are so expensive in Australia.
@@gretavains8707 I've heard lots of stories about our oppressed cousins in Australia. I personally wish you ALL the best, and then some...🇺🇸 😎👍☕
@@gretavains8707 Cant be any more expensive that UK.....anthracite for the stove is now £600 a ton and house coal over £700 a ton!! But in England, house coal sales are banned.
@@lilblackduc7312 thank you. We need it.
I never had wood heat until I moved out of Chicago to Indiana. Now I have one on our homestead and love it.
Welcome 👋
Welcome to Indiana. Don't turn our state into Chicago please...
I was thinking the same thing…
I completely understand people wanting to leave Chicago, and relocating 30 miles to Indiana.
I can not understand why they bother to make the move and then try to bring “Chicago” with them, but it happens all the time.
...Maybe it’s a plan‽
Yay, Indiana!
Drive in the right lane , the left lane is for passing. Get it ?
I think it's time for me to move 🤦🏼♂️
One thing if you can afford it is to buy a pedestal-type wood stove because it can be set up to draw outside air for burning, stopping cold air from being drawn into the house. Some of the four-legged stoves do have an optional attachment to pipe air into them.
During the Carter years many folks here installed wood stoves to heat the house. Some of them installed ducts to draw cumbustion air from outside. This created a positive air pressure instead of the normal negative air pressure, that cause cold air to be drawn into the house. I used a different system. I opened a window in a back bedroom about 2". The stove drew air from the bedroom on the floor and convection flow caused hot air to be drawn back to bedrooms.
My previous home in NH was built in the 80's and had a sizeable Vermont Casting wood stove that handled the brunt of the heating in the winter time. Rarely did the wood stove go cold there were always some coals left to get it going after getting home from work after it was stoked to the brim the night before. We burned 4-6 cords of seasoned, split hardwood and we also got slabs from a family friend that owned a rough sawn pine sawmill. Wood is a wonderful way to heat a home. If people did not take the bundles of slabs to use as firewood the mill would burn them when they ran out of room usually once per year, might as well get the benefit of heating homes
That stove was not efficient. Have you ever thought what it would be like if everyone had a wood stove? When Jimmy Carter was president, many folks got wood stoves. We could hardly breathe the air outside the house, because of all the wood smoke.
@@MichaelTheophilus906 It was a hell of a lot less expensive than using #2 fuel oil to heat the house with the furnace and hydronic baseboard heaters. Using locally sourced hardwood and slabs from the sawyer only 2 miles away also meant we were not using as much foreign oil that in itself used massive amounts of petroleum to transport it on a tanker from the middle east to NJ, then get refined, then get put on a truck in NJ for the trip to New England, then get put on a delivery truck. We also had a sizeable property so if we cut our own firewood and were more self sufficient. Using a heat source that is out of government control and stock market price fluctuations is a great asset to a home owner. Using slabs that are a waste product to heat homes with instead of burning them in an outdoor bonfire is an efficient use of resources. Maybe where you were it was smokey, but not where I was in NH.
@@chrisdaniel1339 I agree, but there are 10,000 houses where I live.
@@MichaelTheophilus906then it's time to deport 20 million of the illegal everyones
I don't mean to argue with you, but I think the real reason is the powers that be don't want you to be independent in any way.
👍🏽 yep... but it takes low I.Q., local politicians to fall for these “feel good” policies. Don’t be afraid to speak out to your elected officials. Most live in a bubble and have no clue .
She means from utility companies
Bingo.
Yup
The fire department came by and told me we were in a burning ban and could not use my wood stove. I showed him it was my only source of heat. He said I was exempt from the ban and told me to have a nice day. That was thirty years ago. Today they might just arrest me.
It is more like they would fine you and give a warning that you would be financially responsible for any fire damage from a fire your stove started.
@@williammeek4078 if a wood burning stove is in your house and compliant with the house insurance standard and there's an accident you can still be covered
@@bobbyallen7977 finding insurance that allows it is the big if.
@@williammeek4078 yes that's true but I live in a very rural county and I could have that insurance but they want me to do stuff to my home that I'm not gonna do to satisfy their policies just to pay for something their gonna want to fight or undercut me for if something happens.I don't do well with these issues so I don't bother
As long as it’s the only source of heat for your home you’re still good. I own a chimney and masonry business.
Heated with wood for years. Was a chimney sweep in the 1980s. Outstanding advice here. Well done. Subbed!
Just found your channel today! Watched two videos so far. Concise, to the point, reasonable length, and yet very entertaining and full of knowledge. I am looking forward to catching up on everything that I have missed so far!!! Added bonus is that we're both from the Ozark and surrounds. ❤️❤️❤️
My grandma always heated her house with a woodstove. She lived on a 2 acre plot with a ton of trees. We always helped cut tree fall and she used the wood to heat her home in the winter. Free fuel, can't beat it.
There is no "free" fuel.
The only reason the government doesn't like it is because they can't tax it ! It has nothing to do with pollution or safety issues, case and point I bought solar about 10 years ago for over 31 thousand dollars, now here in California they want to tax everyone that has roof top solar , this is the reason why people don't trust this government, they are thieves!!!!!!
@@whatnow5313 Free from government taxation then!, this is why they are pushing to outlaw wood burning stoves and fireplaces it has absolutely nothing to do with pollution or safety issues
@@johnalarcon5006 Absolutely 100% wrong
May be free, but it is a lot of hard work to cut, delimb, cut into pieces and split, then pile where you need it.
Politicians regulating stuff they know nothing about.
I wish politicians could only regulate things they know. For example, they would not be allowed to weigh in on wood stove regulation unless they actually used a wood stove for a few years. As is, city dwellers regulate rural life, without good reference.
@@PeterLawton That's why scientific data is used. You don't have to "know about stuff" to interpret data.
I'd say that covers about Everything, except lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption, something most of them are very good at.
RUclipsrs commenting on things they know nothing about
@@NoctilucentArts I think ya do. Lawmakers imposed rules for new gas cans to reduce spilling and their "scientific data" led to more spilling. Maybe their data was wrong, or maybe they don't know how to use data.
An efficient stove has some form of secondary combustion. Smoke is just wasted fuel...regardless of if there are still coals in the morning.
I've heated with 100% wood for many decades in Northern Maine.
I understand the libertarian point you are trying to make, and I agree that government sometimes is a bit of a nanny state.
But technically you are wrong. Wood stoves are legal just about everywhere in the United States. It's been in front of the Supreme Court due to the religious implications. Some religions do not permit cooking with modern devices either on certain days of the week, or at all. As a result, wood stoves are legal anywhere the US Constitution is law. You can even make your own wood stove, and it too will always be legal.
The same is not true of wood boilers or wood furnaces. Those are heavily regulated and may be illegal in some jurisdictions. The Supreme Court only protected wood stoves with cooking surfaces, whether manufactured or home made.
This.
Also, they keep holding up wood heating as the ultimate in renewable heating.. kind of blindly. Certainly it's better environmentally than burning oil, but the particulate emissions are also none too good for anyone living nearby.
Wood stoves are cregulated in Washington state and some counties have banned them. I think California also has some bans in place due to to air quality concerns.
@@carlahabeck4051 which Washington counties have banned wood stoves?
@@BrockOhhhh sorry, I mispoke. Spokane county has burn bans, but regulates stve use.
Grew up cutting and splitting wood all summer with my dad to heat our house growing up. I’ll gladly do that again after paying for gas the last few years. Saving to build out on our own land in time
Its actually 100% legal to still heat with wood in your house. As for the cost, I paid $600 for load of logs 5 years ago and I'm not even half way through them yet do less then $100 a year probably around $50 a year and I also use the same wood for camp fires in the summer
We had this exact stove installed in Dec 2021. LOVE IT!
So cool! I’m a laggard in this field; first time I’ve seen one of this being cleaned. So beautiful once polished too. Thanks for sharing it!
I have seen many "rocket mass stoves." Mostly cement that use almost all the heat produced. I like those designs.
They use ceramic mass stoves in Scandinavian countries, that you burn a very hot, fast fire in.
The mass retains the heat and releases it slowly.
I'm sure that they would be very expensive to build here, and some idiot government drone wouldn't pass inspection on it.
Rocket mass stove. In Alaska we built them out of 55g drums smaller 35g inside and lots of mud. That slow heat release is great. We use 1/3 of wood then when we first moved here.
Back in Colorado too. They are safe.
Beware of the homemade mass stove designs. Some of those people have no idea what they are doing and could get you killed.
Not scared. Anybody can make them pick a reliable plan and go with it. Never ever been worried about trying new things. Ventilation is main concern. We used these for many years. We even make mud ovens for living.
Like my great grandparents had in Russia.. there was a big ledge you can sleep on too.. bricks and cement- yup.
Wire brushes should not be used on metal chimney, it scratches up the inner liner and leads to premature wear. Poly (plastic) brushes are designed for metal chimney, wire for clay.
I live in northern Maine, and a basic cord of word, cut at 12" length, and 16" circumference, cost about $200 bucks a cord, and you just can't beat wood heat, I started using slab cuts, and I went from $850 a year to heat ( I heat 7 months ) all the way down to $240 with slab cuts...
Only issue is that I gotta clean my chimney 5x a season cause of the bark and carbon soot
Dude this is great to know! Last winter was my first time figuring how to get a wood stove to work. I'll do some maintenance before this coming winter.
Had wood stoves for years, transitioned into a outside wood fired boiler w/base boards and some rooms w/heated floor. A GREAT improvement.
I live in Kitsap County (Washington State) and today I learned something about Pierce County and Tacoma. It explains a lot
That's an amazing job!
If I didn't know better I would have thought you installed a new stove!
I think in most jurisdictions one can circumvent wood burning bans, at least for the time being, by setting the stove up to cook food, even if you don't actually use it that way every day.
Where I live there are so few wood burners, the government doesn't care if you use it when there is a power outage.
When life becomes illegal become an outlaw
11:11
A simple idea.
A species together fighting the forces of Evil.
A species taking control of its destiny.
And making OUR world good.
Please, share this today, everywhere.
We human hearted WILL WIN this war.
But it will take all of us.
Nothing else will do.
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Tyranny is upon us and the regime under false pretenses of protecting us are blatantly killing us - a death of a thousand cuts.
Hello Michael, That's the country of freedom for you, make America free again !
That would depend on the length of the blade John most pocket knives only have a 4”blade which are legal
@JOHN Q PUBLIC what state is that?
Where I live in upstate NY, if you have your wood stove installation inspected, you're all good! Wood heats the best and I live across the street from a logger :)
Dude, you know your stuff, great video, I'm so glad I found you
I remember when I moved back home to Georgia from Hawaii in 1992 winter, I stayed with my uncle for the winter. He had a nice potbelly in his mobile home, and that damn thing would heat the whole house. I loved it. You could look outside and see snow and pine trees everywhere and be toasty warm. Too bad I moved to California a few months later. I hope to go home again permanently when I retire. I want some acreage in the Blueridge mountains.
Living in the North Ga Mountains is Amazing raised in Cherry Log and now live in Jasper.. My daughters live in Ellijay and Blueridge !! Hope you make it your home again soon there is nothing like it
I lived in Northeastern California through my "Formative" years, but that was before it became the People's Democratic Republic of Mexifornistan.
I refuse to even visit that cess pool now!
@@marktwain2053 I still live in the rural part of what you call a cesspool. It's a beautiful state that is being destroyed from within. Never had a prob with woodstove, lived with them since 70s. Only source of heat.
Come back home!!! I grew up in East Tenn and lived in Texas on the Gulf Coast for almost thirty years before moving to NW Georgia about 8 years ago. It's great to be back in the mountains and living in a small town that's like Mayberry. Consider Lafayette/Walker County, GA. It's beautiful and off the beaten path!! AND, the cost of living is lower than you would think!!
Mark Twain Mexicans took back what we took from them not one shot fired are bad 😞 home grown Cali life long blame the leibral s blue sucks long live red open your 👀 look at Texas new CA with 💩 whether 🥵🥶💨🤠
Bought a house last year..will move into it next month. I have a huge wood stove I can't wait to try it.
Ah memories, I loved it when we moved to the country and started using wood heat only. Nothing like it, you will never look back.
@@tallcedars2310 you are correct I love it
wow what a difference. looks beautiful id love to get one one day. thank you for sharing
This is exactly the quality content i appreciate. Liked & subscribed 👍
"Stupid should hurt" That was my motto as a Platoon Sergeant.
Amazing. I knew that there were new rules and regulations concerning outdoor wood burning heaters, but never paid much attention to it. I'm no brain surgeon, nor am I a licensed contractor, but I have never had a repairman, a contractor, or anyone else at my home, because if I can't build it, or fix it, one of my friends, or family members can. Fifty years ago I decided to install a wood burning "Ben Franklin" stove to heat the downstairs of my (then) 125 year old farmhouse. I gave the house to my daughter many years ago, and they still use the wood stove, although more for ambiance at Christmas season than as a source of heat. I can see the day when no one will be able to legally do ANYTHING to their own home or property without a "licensed professional" to do the work, which the Government will inspect afterwards.
That day is here buddy. Where I live the building department does just that!!!
They have a green plan coming out soon where a dry homeowner will need to revamp many thing mandatory ..lije no gas stoves only elevyri and other thing that will range in the $50,000 mark...They are insane,but only if we all consent. They are hoping many people will not be able to afford these mandatory changes and forfit the home and they will scoop it up at a low price. They want to own the majority of real assets.
Thus the phrase
"You wlll own nothing and you will be happy"
@@kenike007 everyone forgot we are the government. Others work for the government. Just think why our families came here.
It's going to be the same deal.
So fight back like now..
My Sister, in Northeastern California, wanted to build a new house on their ranch, five miles from town.
The building permits were going to cost more than the actual cost of the house itself.
They ended up just revamping the old farmhouse (built around 1900), which was still ridiculously expensive because of "Government Regulations" that do nothing much more than give them extra money to take care of people who shouldn't even be in the country!
@@kenike007
Change that to "You will own nothing, but you'd better ACT like you're happy if you know what's good for you"!
We grew up with wood heat and cut tons of firewood , there's afew things that are very important to be safe with a wood stove. One thing is to sweep your stove pipe, I sweep ours with a wire brush on fiberglass extensions to clean any creosote, I clean our woodstove out also very thoroughly, I do this 2-3 times before and during the burn season, another important factor is the type of wood your burning, we burn, alder, fir, maple, and madrona, we stay away from pitchy wood and especially stay away from burning pine. Another important thing is to get your stove between 3-400 degrees because if it's not hot enough the smoke will condensate creating creosote which is highly flammable. We have a pipe thermometer that has a magnet on it and you place it 6-8 inches up on the pipe almost near the flue damper, it has a creosote level, which means your fire's not hot enough, an optimum level , which means it's hot enough to not let smoke formulate into creosote, then there's danger level which means obviously your fire is roaring and way to hot. We've had this happen during the winter but I close down the damper to cut off air flow and it simmers down quickly. There's definitely a formula for wood stoves but if people are educated and practice safety there probably will never be an issue.
Bought a new 1985 Ashley steel stove. Works extremely well and still looks newish! Got to 15 below 4 nites in a row and it was still cozy throughout my house. Wood heat is the best!
I think your stove isn’t an open flame heating source: the flame is inside the fire box, behind a closed door. So no worries. Maybe you should consider double walled chimney pipes, so that your stove uses air from outside (preheated by the exhaust gasses) instead of air from the room. This makes it even more eficient and reduces the risk of CO building up/ O2 dropping inside your house. That’s the safety rules in Europe.
He doesn't know what he is talking about. Its pretty funny he's talking about stupid people in his video and he himself seems to be that himself.
@@kymselvage6535 It's possible that whoever recited the policy to him is the stupid one.
I built a woodstove that's airtight, has gasification features (so it burns clean) and it's as illegal as can be.
Screw 'em.
I kept my house warm for ten years with that for about $300 a year and only stopped because fuel oil got so cheap that it became tough to justify the amount of work required.
Thanks to Brandon, we have a new jobs program. My new (second) job will be cutting, splitting and stacking firewood. That Brandon is a genius.
Hail to the Cheat baby!
Double wall pipes that draw outside air in for the fire, are part of STUPID. You are actually cooling the exhaust gases, causing more chance of creosote build up in the chimney.
I burned wood for decades, using a double wall insulated pipe and had very little trouble with creosote.
I also live in a 100 year old farm house that has no problem supplying combustion air for the fire. If you burn wood in a modern well insulated home, just and an air intake for the firebox, that doesn't cool your flue gasses while they are trying to escape up the chimney.
Its a direct burn appliance. Gasification boiler is much more efficient.
But would a fireplace be illegal? That's insane!
All my guns were lost in a boating accident.
Are you sure you didn't lose your woodstoves in a boating accident?
I can certainly understand the confusion.
I used to make my canoe trips in winter much more cozy with my woodstove, until it capsized!
Damn that's funny .. it happened to me to
They can have mine one bullet at a time.
11:11
A simple idea.
A species together fighting the forces of Evil.
A species taking control of its destiny.
And making OUR world good.
Please, share this today, everywhere.
We human hearted WILL WIN this war.
But it will take all of us.
Nothing else will do.
olivefarmercrete.blogspot.com/
Thank God for wal mart
Came for solid advice & info, but stayed for that awesome shirt! 👌
Great video. I grew up in a log house that my dad built, with a wood-burning stove, and my mom cooked on wood cookstove. 🤗
Just had a stove installed in my 1100 sq/ft modular in North Idaho and after it was all said and done the cost was right at $5K. That is basically $4200 for the Kuma Aspen stove, chimney, hearth pad, and another $800 for the install and permit.
There is probably cheaper routes but I wanted as good as my money could buy plus I get a lifetime warranty.
Sister has one of those expensive wood stoves. Lives outside of Willow Ak. Nobody there is telling you you can't use a wood stove!
MAN, it puts out some heat. All sealed up - emits no smoke!
WOW! Talk about learning something new. Thanks!
I'm new to off grid life. I got a pot belly with a cook top. I really like your set up.
we heat with wood and love it. You are right there us always somebody trying to protect us from are self's.
We live in very rural France, nearest city, 90 miles away, nearest town 25 miles, we have a wood burner in the living room, & a wood fired cooker range with a back boiler that very effectively heats up 9 radiators around the house, fitted it all myself, wood is the cheapest form of heating in this area, surrounded by thousands of acres of forests 😁
How amazing
Well done !!!
I've never known anyone for real who lived somewhere they couldn't burn.
Installed a wood stove in my current home just last November. Luckily where I am in Texas there were no restrictions on installing one. Previous owner had water pipe damage last year when the ice storm hit because they had no alternative to heat their home than the electric setup.
This week we had another ice storm and I had no problems.
Building a shop on the property and intend to add one to it as well for the winter days when I am working in the shop.
Where in Texas? Moving to Hill Country up from the RGV.
@@salsa090968 Just south of Blanco.
We look forward to the day we get to put a wood stove in our house! Great deal on the slab wood too -- wow!
Thank you for the information shared. As a single gal saving up & making plans for my homestead now, this is very helpful info to have. I'm still learning & greatly appreciate it. God bless!
You can do it! Start an area, garage, extra room and pick up something you'll need offgrid and stick it in there every week or once a month. It will grow fast and so will your dream. Sale what you wont use and buy something you will. It's amazing how your priorities will change. It only took me a year & I HAD to go couldn't wait any longer, wasn't ready but God taught me so much through the struggles. You can do it!
Thx folks! I like my TN-20. Saw yours. God bless.
Not in Vermont. Old homes in this State have huge fireplaces and most have wood stove inserts too. And, we know that we must clean yearly. I was getting my wood from companies that took down old hardwood trees. But now, I learned something new from you, I should reach out to lumber yards. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, heating up my home with woodstove for over 5 years, it is more expensive in Europe yet by far much more cheaper than any other option for home heating.
Zach..thanks for this video. We have our First ever Wood Stove and appreciate your sharing this maintenance info video! We had no clue. Now we can have the knowledge and peace that comes from knowing how to maintain our wood stove. Blessings and Shalom!!
inside your stove/wood heater there should be a damper/metal plate to stop the flames going straight up the flu, remove that before ever trying to clean your flu. If to much soot/creosote falls onto it it can block the flu and or make it extremely hard to remove. never burn green ( non dried) wood
Love the look of that stove. I wish I had one for my house even though I live in a warm climate.
I had a cabin in the San Bernardino mountains when I was young. It had a wood burning stove and I loved using it in the winter. I have heard some places require modern wood stoves that recirculate the smoke to reduce emissions. I am ok with that. But to make all stoves illegal is just wrong, it takes away our freedomto live as we like. BTW, my current home has 3 fireplaces.
I live in the UK and have one I installed myself!
There are rules and regulations but they are not too hard to understand and are based on good practice. My house was built in 1911 and originally had a coal fire (replaced with a gas fire long ago) so re-installing the original hearth and ripping the fireplace out to bare brick to give the correct clearances was not too hard! In the 1960's we were in a "Smoke free area" so although my stove is dual fuel (Wood or Coal) I have to use Coke instead of Coal .... but I usually burn wood anyway 0)
My woodburner "Had" to be a class A device .... but they are the most efficient anyway. It cost a bit though £1600 3 years ago but is well worth it even with gas central heating!
Even with gas fires you need to have them maintained .... a woodburner is no different and my chimney-sweep makes short work of it. He showed me the sweepings and I was amazed at how little there was .... literally half a the palm of one hand. But then again I burn dry wood and it is a class A fire :0)
It is the best thing I have ever bought!
I do what I want when I want to on my property and F--- what county officials have to say...
You're good at what you do! Love
The you for sharing-I so learned alot!
Looks great, I usually get so busy that my spring cleaning of the furnace is in September. I have a Newmac wood and coal burner. 21 years and running strong. A couple of years ago I bought a brand new identical one, so whenever the first one fails I simply lift the plenum, slide the old over, the new one in place.
When it comes to stupid laws, as a nation, we need to stop asking permission.
@Curtis Clark You need to find the specific puke that's so bent out of shape over your coop and see what he's up to. Bet things aren't just right around his house.
@Curtis Clark sue if you have to. Bureaucrats, mayors and governors are egotistical power-hungry fools
I Don't ask. If they fine me (not usually) play stupid. They are, so turnabout is fair play.
Had a inspector get mad and raise hell. Then showed him was heating water no fire in home. Still mad but couldn't do anything about it.
They changed law the next year.
A$$holes.
@@homertalk Put a camera on his house. Record everything 24/7/365 he is DIRTY. BUST HIS A$$.
SHOW IT ON LOCAL T.V. AND PRINT.
45 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION.
LOOK UP BUILDING PERMITS IF HE IS BUILDING BEFORE YOU TELL ANYONE WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
HE WILL LOSE ELECTION.
AND NEW POLITICIAN WILL NOT MESS WITH YOU. SHOW THEM YOU KNOW HOW TO PLAY THAT GAME.
The politicians work for the people. They are not royalty
You probably already know this. You can actually season the top of your stove like a cast iron skillet. That would prevent any water from rusting the top of your wood burning stove.
How?
@@violetopal6264 I used a wire wheel on top of my stove and cleaned all the paint off. Rubbed vegetable oil and salt. To the top of the wood burning stove. If you want to learn more about seasoning cast iron. Just RUclips how to season cast iron pan. It's the same exact method. If you season the top of your stove. Look up how to clean and maintain cast iron cookware. As long as you do it correctly you could actually cook your food on the top of your stove like a griddle.
@@Dr.Meola1980 Thanks 🙂
I’m simply amazed by the wood stacks he has wow. That’s amazing to me
Thanks for the stove polish and wood ash cleaning tips - i'll definitely try them out.
I've had my wood stove now for 22 years. Its more than payed for it self. I save about 2.500 a year on my electric bill and I like the wood heat.
Damnnnn straight!!! Love it!!
Hey old timers trick for cleaning soot from chimney, potato peels and banana peels the potassium breaks down the creosote and pretty much just falls down back into stove to get cleaned out or burned up completely easy peasy, and it can smell nice too lol, I've done this myself a couple of times and it does work very well, the potassium bonds with creosote and allows it to be broken down or burnt up while operating stove...
Where I live, if the power to heat your home goes away even overnight it can literaly cost your life. Not to mention the total destruction of anything with water in it. -40c or colder is no joke.
Another good use for those log slabs is siding. They make a wall look like a log building and shed water as well. Also as a decorative wall covering on interior walls to mimic log building.
Nice
That's what my 1929 cabins exterior is vertical slabs
Years ago we had an entire basement interior finished with old cedar barnboard (not slab). Had a nice rustic look to it. If I tracked mud in the house my mother would ask, "Were you born in a barn?" I'd reply, "Have you seen the basement?" Back in the 70s old cedar barnboard was a relatively cheap way to finish walls - now it's worth a fortune.
@@SilentKnight43 Great story, thanks for sharing.
Where I live, here in the Arkansas Ozarks, it is everywhere and free to gather. There are old barns falling down all over the area. I took down an old chicken building that was on my property when I bought the place and made a ton of wood projects out of it.
A friend of mine is about to push over a barn and I told him I would come to clean up the debris for him just for the wood. He was glad to let me have it.
@@JohnnyUmphress If you're in the right place at the right time sure...scavenging is great. Likewise, we have a lot of old (century) barns in our local area...falling down. I used to re-purpose old scavenged wood all the time for backgrounds and props in our photostudio. Awhile back my neighbour tore his back deck down and I hauled all the wood into our garage, replaned it and used it for all sorts of projects.
We have log burners here in the UK or though very few people have them. We are supposed to be smokeless though and i doubt many burn the so called smokeless stuff. My sister has one and burns *normal* wood.
They can't make money out of you if you have one.
Thanks for sharing! Subscribed!
Wow I just bought a cord. Great info, thank you!
stupid does hurt, it hurts the intelligent and responsible ones.
Where I live, wood has been banned for years.....
When stupid hurts stupid people they scream and yell, and make everyone else pass laws to protect them from their own stupidity.
Have you or anyone you know ever said "there should be a law against that" then you too might be part of the problem. Never ever say that phrase. If you think there should be a law against something, then make the law for yourself, but dont push it on everyone else.
Spoken like a Libertarian!
Excellent point. The left loves to push this aspect of our lives. Constantly telling us how to live.
I have been saying that for years. Glad others are too.
Also, don't ask "How stupid can people get?". They think it is a competitive event.
@Raymond greenridge Believe it or not there are places where any burning of wood is banned. You and I are lucky. I can burn wood at my home and the mountain house if I want to. Anyone up the mountains tried to ban wood burning would lose their political career.
Or the locals up there are so independent and want to keep it that way that the politicians would have to fear for their own safety.
@@kenycharles8600 LoL 😄
Beautiful! I look forward to a day when I can have a wood stove that I can cook on. For now, we have one inserted into our fireplace.
We live on acreage in north Idaho with abundant red fir and tamarack. Two armloads of split wood heats the house all evening and into the next morning. No HOA to stick their noses into our business and the county knows better than to mess with people's heating arrangements. We have a pedestal zero clearance wood stove that does a fantastic job. Kittehs really love it.
Addendum: we got a WoodPro 2000 on radical sale for $600. It has been a solid performer.
Love these tips, thank you!
When I was 19 I received my first income tax return. I bought a wood stove with the check. I will never get rid of it either.
They're legal everywhere I've lived. Sometimes there's burn bans for air quality or fire warnings, but that's not usually in the winter.
one township i planed to live in had a no fire place stove or burner ban. needless to say dident move there lol.
I've read in homesteading magizines where hanging your clothes on the line was ilegal unless you had a privacy fence it was also ilegal to catch rain water but if they called it a rain gauge they could get away with it
@@ghettomamma1627 homesteading stuff is full of persecution porn. Most of it is entirely false, some has a grain of truth. Water rights are totally weird, and there can be restrictions on water collection, but there's always an exemption for non commercial operations. In fact, there's tax incentives for water collection in some places.
The clothes line thing sounds like one of those 100-year-old laws nobody has enforced in our lifetime.
@@ernststravoblofeld I think those types of laws are le in the cities
@@ghettomamma1627 some, but some are statewide. Check your actual laws. It would more likely be county than city. That's the problem with a country like ours, you have four levels of government to check for applicable law, plus water districts and the like.
I trust homesteading sources about how to keep chickens, and when to plant. Not so much for law and water rights. It's just too local.
I have a genetic muscle disorder and the heat from the wood stove makes me feel so much better. Many people are sick because they can't dry properly their bone /muscles especially in cold and humid climates
Grew up in a house that used them( still do) ive been using one since 2003 and will conte to use.
Hey, thanks for the tip on stove polish. I had never heard of that before. I like your channel.
Thanks for the non toxic stove top cleaner option..I'd been wondering what I should do. Bit harder to find here over the pond though.
Illegal!? That is wildly tragic.... Nothing is like the heat from a wood stove. It just feels warmer. I can feel the heat from the fire from my stove right now.
Just found your channel.love your stuff! Matt from Pennsylvania.
In the 70's I took an old coal fired parlor stove and rebuilt it to burn wood. Changed the airflow, added a smoke shelf, made it "nearly air tight." As in when I closed the vent it went to simmer.
I had to put a whole house circulating fan between the bathroom floor and the kitchen ceiling (where the stove was) to even out the house.
We could crank it up and heat all three bedrooms, or bank it down and do about half. At night it would make it over night so long as we didn't stay in bed till noon.
The big advantage, the main reason I took the time to rebuild/mod and use that stove was because it had an off standing enamel coated cast iron front plate, same on the door. and a steel wrap-around the sides and back. Plus a top grate that could open for a tea pot. The front plate and steel wrap never got hot enough to burn the skin during a quick touch.
Our kids were young. We felt safe with them around that stove because of the shield. It was a good looking antique too. Still lots of that design around in need up rebuild/mod.
I saw one almost identical to ours a month ago. $300 I think. I almost bought it but like you said, wood burning is nearly illegal cause the idiots in gubment think we're stupid.
Good to see people still know how to take care of their woodstove. Thank you for your videos, showing just how people have survived, for thousands of years.
Millions of years
The wood stove was only invented 500 years ago, and it didn't become widely adopted until the late 1700s during the industrial revolution.
@@peetsnort ....huh?
@@sixforks6543 broke is the American slang
@@peetsnort You didn't take your meds today, did you?
Ive heated totally with wood in northern colo gor 45 years. House is well built and insulated and ee burn 5 to 6 cords a year. We get most of our wood from people in the area who are removing trees for various reasons. Lots of work but keep your properly installed chimney clean and enjoy the warm heat
You should tie a hot water tank into the stove so you could have hot water when the stove is running. Not only would it radiate additional heat to tue room but would provide a constant hot water source.
I tied in a 1000 gallon water tank in the heavily insulated basement and circulate the water through it with a very low flow water pump. An amazing heat battery.
Can also use the steam to run a small turbine.