150k subscribers.! Who would have thought something as simple as sharing your lifes' successes and failures would be so popular. Keep up the great work. We love love guys. God Bless
We clean off the glass with paper dipped in white wine vinegar and ashes. It works a treat. Each spring we clean it all out ... brush, Hoover etc. it looks lovely in the summer all sparkly clean. Love a good wood burner. Here in France you have to have the chimney cleaned professionally every couple of years and directly before you sell your house.
That is a good way to heat your home. I grew up with a fireplace and a cast iron stove in the kitchen and it was for cooking and heating. I loved the food momma cooked on that stove and her biscuits were awesome.
Congrats on the 150k subs. And thanks again for a great job of explaining the process of sweeping a chimney and cleaning the stove. One of my best friends was a sweep and he would climb up on roves I would never think, too. He cleaned a lot of the old homes around town that had the steep angled roves on them. He would sweep, retuck point and reseal the brick molding. I would watch him climb those chimneys and do all that without a worry. Used to top trees for people and help get the tops out of some of the trees that many of the tree trimming and removal people couldn't reach with a cherry picker. Glad to see you were on a reasonable roof for your work today Kevin. Hopefully you didn't get any bad weather last night when the front come through. We had about an inch of rain with a little hail and 60 mph winds. Temp went from 86° down to 47° overnight. They said the front stretched from S.W. Oklahoma to the Great Lakes.
Yes , we'd like to see a video on the gaskets! Have you ever heard of burning dried potatoe peelings in the stove to keep down a little of the creosote? We were told this by an older gentleman. It seems to help! We save and dry the peels all summer. A handful every so often, once or twice a week works for us. Maybe you have older people to ask about this. GOD bless!
Kevin - off-subject: You have done some videos to break down costs of production for chickens, rabbits, pigs. l'm wondering about how you break-down the hours-per-animal when you're balancing all the different critters PLUS the awesome nursery for farmers market end of your business. Anyway, thanks for all the useful videos. Love from Ark.
Ooops - forgot to say ''hours per day per animal'' Pigs, quail, chickens, goats, rabbits, plus garden, plus video production....calls for some serious time allocation skills. ''Nerd time management'' video?
Happy for you, but we'll be stoking the fire box again on Saturday in Michigan. All the green grass in the background looks great after the winter! Going to share this with my niece. Thank you for all your homestead wisdom.
we are new to wood stove heating and I am so impressed with your video, clear cut instructions and candor about your personal experience - thank you so much!!!
Great video Kevin, I loved the chimney we had growing up! This is such great information to know! Thank you for your time and for sharing these great tips with everyone!!
Still snowing here in Montana moor this weekend too. We use 15 cords arv in a wood stove but are making a custom system that is based on a BBQ smoker with vent tubes that travel the floor of the house and then up thru the roof, it burns 2 to 3 cords over 8 months when we are at or below freezing. September 15 June 15 is our regular snow/frost dates. Depending on where you live at in Montana. We are about 7000 feet elv. Watching all your videos make me want to move to MO. lol. Have a Great day.
Nice tutorial. I know I will need to refer back to this at some point. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us. Keep up the good work 👍 God bless you 🤗
Here in New Mexico we went through about 4 cords. But it’s an adobe fireplace that’s terrible on efficiency. Hopefully, before next winter, I can either replace it or find/build an insert. When we bought the place last July, we had much to learn about running this particular fireplace.
Morning from MN.... Great video guys, we run ours very hot so ours doesn't get to bad and use ashes mix to clean glass with. God bless from Millers Meadows.
I too am glad the winter is over. Have some vegetable plants already growing in the raised beds. I might even start cutting some romain lettuce for a salad tomorrow. As far as burning coal, I would stick with wood too. The wood ashes can be used in garden, compost, or possibly making soap. Wouldn't try that with coal.
We don't have a wood stove but I enjoyed watching you clean one.. one day I plan on getting one of we build a house on our land, but for now it's just a double wide trailer with electrical/propane heat and AC. In Minnesota I've had the windows open the last few days last night was 82 in the house with windows open soon was complaining his room was hot so turned on the AC to 74 for the house just to confirm it off a bit for the kids to sleep but left my bedroom and bathroom windows open with our door shut, when we woke up the house was 54 and kids didn't like that. So for us I think it's the season for AC at supper time and heat at night.. I don't like it... God bless ❤️🙏🤗
idea, show people how to burn wood cleanly, that also helps against the build-up of creosote. Also keeps neighborhood air decent to breathe for everyone. ty
Great reminder that our stove needs cleaned too! I'm not getting up on the roof, tho. The husband can do that part! LOL! Great instructions and would love to see the gasket replacement video! Blessings from NE Missouri!
My parents home, they would have problems with woodpeckers pecking on their metal chimney (boy is that loud!). They found that attaching artificial owls to their roof helped discourage the woodpeckers from coming too close to the house. I wonder if that might help your bluebird problem too? Looks like Lowes has them for about $10 right now and Wal*Mart has them for about $14 right now. Amazon has one with a rotating head for about $22, but I'm pretty sure my parents just got the cheaper ones from Lowes or Wal*Mart.
Very informative, I was surprised that only so little debris came out of the chimney but I suspect the stove burns way more efficiently than an old open fireplace. Here in the Netherlands people are getting little woodburning stoves for the atmosphere in the livingroom but then don't do a good job researching and quite a few people have ended up in trouble with carbonmonoxide from not properly stored hot ashes and other things. They are no longer used to any fire safety aside from "if it glows, watch out hot thing" so they need way beter education like this.
@@davelawson2564 Well that much is obvious, haha but things like how to make sure you get rid of any hot ashes outside or douse them. The general upkeep, those things are lacking.
We have a pellet stove and I just put in on again this morning. we are still having damp mornings and it helps to get the house a bit dryer. I would prefer a normal wood stove however this one was here when we bought the house and works fine. If we ever had to replace it I would definitely get the wood stove and change up the chimney for it.
Jamie Hendrickson Dry. Just grab a piece of cloth you can throw away or even a piece of newspaper for the job. It really cleans... At the very end, if you feel you want to clean with water and vinegar, go ahead but really, no need.
Jamie Hendrickson my wife uses vinegar that has been soaking citrus peels in it. Smells nice when you clean the glass with it. Ours is a pellet stove. Our fireplace doesn’t have a door.
Before I installed wire mesh on my chimney cap, I would get birds and an occasional BAT in the stove. Let me tell you, the wire mesh became alot higher priority on my "honey-do-list" when the wife encountered the bat in the stove! LoL! :-)
I moved from Michigan to St Louis Missouri 2 years ago, we had some crazy snowy days. Michigan had crazy snowy weeks! I don't think I could ever live there again!! 🕊
You can buy everything you need at Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot. It is made of fiberglass. If you have to change it now go to Google search & ask it "how do I replace the gasket on my wood burning stove", etc. Hope this helps????
Thank you for sharing this video. I really thought that there was much more to getting this done. People will save allot of money doing this themselves.
I just had a great idea for both of you to teach. I know i would like to see it. How to cook on your wood stove? I know now the wood stove is clean it might be hard to do but it’s and idea for the future..
I'm in GA, and watch the weather every day, constantly checking the long term forecast (as I'm sure every homesteader and farmer does nowadays), and our nights in the 40's are over! Whoop whoop! I'd love to heat with wood, but I don't see it being feasible in our house anytime soon. Poo.
It's great that you can burn coal as well as wood. I wrap moist towels around the exhaust ports of my shop vac to catch the fine soot particles. It's a dirty job, but I always look forward to the first fire in winter.
One of the best tips - DO NOT use green wood. I think a video describing types of wood, reasons for drying wood and how to stack it would be useful. Great information! When you were inside and beginning to use the shop vac, I was waiting for a voice in the background to ask if you had a filter on. LOL
We heat exclusively with wood where we live in western Kentucky. We usually have one or two nights even into the month of May where we need the woodstove. I'm watching this the day of your posting and we had a small fire in our woodstove last night. Lol Our stove is a cast iron Logwood brand, so it's not as efficient as yours, nor as complicated to clean. Do you have a straight pipe from stove to roof? Most stoves I've ever seen had at least one 90 degree bend in the pipe.
Kevin I like the looks of that stove I'd like to know how much that stove cost. Do you have much of a problem of smoke coming in the house or the house having a strong wood smell. I have just purchased a small 5-acre farm I'm going to build a house on it and I am not for sure if I want a northern heater or a heater inside my house. Please give me your thoughts. My name is Doug Bell.
Good job on cleaning stove, I might add on roof chimney cap, Is there anyway to bird proof that cap so you do not have to get back up there and remove interior screen in case of a unexpected cold snap, extra work and you might not be home, who knows and the girls need a fire (Now) Been there, lived that, Friend had a squirrel get down chimney into stove, wife open the stove door, husband used his fishing net, they caught the wild squirrel as he came racing out of the stove, That day he called a chimney man to fix chimney cap so no more squirrel visitors could come in, Note to file: they were not sure it was a squirrel at first, could have been a snake!,,, Have a good day,
We need to replace our seal, so that will be of use to us. we have to have our's inspected once a year and get a certificate for safety, which i am happy with as long as i can keep my wood burning stove :-) there is talk of them banning them here. well sorry i am keeping mine what ever as it save's us lot's of money and the toast taste's Great lol. Take care :-)
Thank you, for the video. We are considering getting a wood burning stove for heating, but my husband has asthma. Does your wood heater cause Kevin's asthma to flare up? Thanks again for the info.
Please Don't Slack Off On Wood Stack'n...Start Felling/ Cutting Your Cords All Through The Year...Hard Wood Takes 2 Years To Properly Season So It Doesn't Burn So Quick...Done Got My "Pipes" & Wood Burning Stove Took Care Of...Will Start Cutting Up The Felled Logs Next Week, Cuz My Garden Takes Presidence This Week...Thanks For The Video Guys...LOL!!!
Great video! I heat with wood too. I'm looking for a new stove so could you please give me the name and address to witch you bought yours. Thanks! Chuck
150k subscribers.! Who would have thought something as simple as sharing your lifes' successes and failures would be so popular. Keep up the great work. We love love guys. God Bless
You make it look so easy Kevin!
They both make EVERYTHING look easy!!!
We clean off the glass with paper dipped in white wine vinegar and ashes. It works a treat. Each spring we clean it all out ... brush, Hoover etc. it looks lovely in the summer all sparkly clean. Love a good wood burner. Here in France you have to have the chimney cleaned professionally every couple of years and directly before you sell your house.
This is why I love my chimney sweep.
That is a good way to heat your home. I grew up with a fireplace and a cast iron stove in the kitchen and it was for cooking and heating. I loved the food momma cooked on that stove and her biscuits were awesome.
Congrats on the 150k subs. And thanks again for a great job of explaining the process of sweeping a chimney and cleaning the stove. One of my best friends was a sweep and he would climb up on roves I would never think, too. He cleaned a lot of the old homes around town that had the steep angled roves on them. He would sweep, retuck point and reseal the brick molding. I would watch him climb those chimneys and do all that without a worry. Used to top trees for people and help get the tops out of some of the trees that many of the tree trimming and removal people couldn't reach with a cherry picker. Glad to see you were on a reasonable roof for your work today Kevin. Hopefully you didn't get any bad weather last night when the front come through. We had about an inch of rain with a little hail and 60 mph winds. Temp went from 86° down to 47° overnight. They said the front stretched from S.W. Oklahoma to the Great Lakes.
I was waiting for a song and dance on the roof, Kevin! Maybe next year. 😆🤣🤪 🎶 chim chiminey chim chiminey chim chim cher-eee 🎶 😜
Good morning Sarah and Kevin!
Yes , we'd like to see a video on the gaskets!
Have you ever heard of burning dried potatoe peelings in the stove to keep down a little of the creosote? We were told this by an older gentleman. It seems to help! We save and dry the peels all summer. A handful every so often, once or twice a week works for us. Maybe you have older people to ask about this. GOD bless!
Kevin - off-subject: You have done some videos to break down costs of production for chickens, rabbits, pigs. l'm wondering about how you break-down the hours-per-animal when you're balancing all the different critters PLUS the awesome nursery for farmers market end of your business. Anyway, thanks for all the useful videos. Love from Ark.
Ooops - forgot to say ''hours per day per animal'' Pigs, quail, chickens, goats, rabbits, plus garden, plus video production....calls for some serious time allocation skills. ''Nerd time management'' video?
As a retired firefighter Ithink you did a great job.
My Great Grandpa was a chimney sweep. He would sing and kids would follow along watching him. Thanks for some good memories. Love the video.
Happy for you, but we'll be stoking the fire box again on Saturday in Michigan. All the green grass in the background looks great after the winter! Going to share this with my niece. Thank you for all your homestead wisdom.
Thanks Kevin ,,, You and Sarah keep on growing quickly !
We had a wood stove in washington state and yep got to clean it. Great video.
we are new to wood stove heating and I am so impressed with your video, clear cut instructions and candor about your personal experience - thank you so much!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Very good information! Thanks for sharing.
Great video
Great video Kevin, I loved the chimney we had growing up! This is such great information to know! Thank you for your time and for sharing these great tips with everyone!!
Still snowing here in Montana moor this weekend too. We use 15 cords arv in a wood stove but are making a custom system that is based on a BBQ smoker with vent tubes that travel the floor of the house and then up thru the roof, it burns 2 to 3 cords over 8 months when we are at or below freezing. September 15 June 15 is our regular snow/frost dates. Depending on where you live at in Montana. We are about 7000 feet elv. Watching all your videos make me want to move to MO. lol. Have a Great day.
Good job
Great video! Very necessary!
Congrats on 150k subs. You guys are doing great!!!
Nice tutorial. I know I will need to refer back to this at some point. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us.
Keep up the good work 👍
God bless you 🤗
as a former chimney sweep of 12 years - you should use a poly brush on the metal chimney.
Bob, would you care to elaborate on your advice? We, too, use the metal brush because that's what the stove installer said we needed. Thanks.
Here in New Mexico we went through about 4 cords. But it’s an adobe fireplace that’s terrible on efficiency. Hopefully, before next winter, I can either replace it or find/build an insert. When we bought the place last July, we had much to learn about running this particular fireplace.
Enjoyed.
Morning from MN.... Great video guys, we run ours very hot so ours doesn't get to bad and use ashes mix to clean glass with. God bless from Millers Meadows.
Another informative video. Well done. You are a good teacher, and thorough.
That was interesting. Thanks!
I too am glad the winter is over. Have some vegetable plants already growing in the raised beds. I might even start cutting some romain lettuce for a salad tomorrow. As far as burning coal, I would stick with wood too. The wood ashes can be used in garden, compost, or possibly making soap. Wouldn't try that with coal.
Very helpful!
We don't have a wood stove but I enjoyed watching you clean one.. one day I plan on getting one of we build a house on our land, but for now it's just a double wide trailer with electrical/propane heat and AC. In Minnesota I've had the windows open the last few days last night was 82 in the house with windows open soon was complaining his room was hot so turned on the AC to 74 for the house just to confirm it off a bit for the kids to sleep but left my bedroom and bathroom windows open with our door shut, when we woke up the house was 54 and kids didn't like that. So for us I think it's the season for AC at supper time and heat at night.. I don't like it... God bless ❤️🙏🤗
Kevin, thanks for another great how to video. Congratulations on the milestone
good info, thanks. Yes would like to see the gaskets being changed.
idea, show people how to burn wood cleanly, that also helps against the build-up of creosote. Also keeps neighborhood air decent to breathe for everyone. ty
Great reminder that our stove needs cleaned too! I'm not getting up on the roof, tho. The husband can do that part! LOL! Great instructions and would love to see the gasket replacement video! Blessings from NE Missouri!
Great job. I think that would be a neat video showing the replacement of the door seals.
Would love to see a video of repair to door lever. Great video. 👍
Congratulations on hitting 150K!!!!!!!!!!!!
My parents home, they would have problems with woodpeckers pecking on their metal chimney (boy is that loud!). They found that attaching artificial owls to their roof helped discourage the woodpeckers from coming too close to the house. I wonder if that might help your bluebird problem too? Looks like Lowes has them for about $10 right now and Wal*Mart has them for about $14 right now. Amazon has one with a rotating head for about $22, but I'm pretty sure my parents just got the cheaper ones from Lowes or Wal*Mart.
thank you for showing this it will help me, God bless you.
Thank you, this vid. Reminded me to clean my stove. It's been years since it's been done.
You hit 150,000 subscribers! Wohoo! Congratulations.
Very informative, I was surprised that only so little debris came out of the chimney but I suspect the stove burns way more efficiently than an old open fireplace. Here in the Netherlands people are getting little woodburning stoves for the atmosphere in the livingroom but then don't do a good job researching and quite a few people have ended up in trouble with carbonmonoxide from not properly stored hot ashes and other things. They are no longer used to any fire safety aside from "if it glows, watch out hot thing" so they need way beter education like this.
@@davelawson2564 Well that much is obvious, haha but things like how to make sure you get rid of any hot ashes outside or douse them. The general upkeep, those things are lacking.
As always great information!
glad it is spring
Nice to see the wall art
Thanks for showing step by step! Very helpful
Good morning! Thank you for the great information. It's getting warm here in PA. Have a great day. God bless.
We use to burn wood. We were told to burn 1alumunium can it will keep the pipe super clean. We burnt the can 1 every week
I am so thankful I always learn something have a blessed day
Good morning, y'all!
Your channel is a learning experience and I apppreciate that Thank you!
We have a pellet stove and I just put in on again this morning. we are still having damp mornings and it helps to get the house a bit dryer. I would prefer a normal wood stove however this one was here when we bought the house and works fine. If we ever had to replace it I would definitely get the wood stove and change up the chimney for it.
Our neighbors have a wood stove they also use to heat their 900 ft house...I am amazed how little their electric bills are in the winter...
Nice video! And I don't even have a woodstove! Makes want to get one.
Happy days....a new meaning of "spring cleaning"...😉🌞😎
An easy way to clean the glass is to do it with the ashes. You will be surprised how clean it will be.
Yep! I just learned about this early this year, after 30yrs of burning wood! A damp piece of newspaper with ash, and sparkling clean!
Do you use the ashes dry or use something else in addition to it? Another commenter suggested vinegar + ashes. Thanx
Jamie Hendrickson
Dry. Just grab a piece of cloth you can throw away or even a piece of newspaper for the job. It really cleans... At the very end, if you feel you want to clean with water and vinegar, go ahead but really, no need.
Jamie Hendrickson my wife uses vinegar that has been soaking citrus peels in it. Smells nice when you clean the glass with it. Ours is a pellet stove. Our fireplace doesn’t have a door.
Awesome Video !! Im planning on purchasing a wood stove within the next year. This is helpful in so many ways. !! Thank you.
Before I installed wire mesh on my chimney cap, I would get birds and an occasional BAT in the stove. Let me tell you, the wire mesh became alot higher priority on my "honey-do-list" when the wife encountered the bat in the stove! LoL! :-)
Over 6 cord here in West Michigan, 3300 sq. ft., 120 year-old farm house. It was a cold winter here.
Wow Burr my he 2100 sqt all hardwood floors everywhere some throw rugs here and there cold I hear you
I moved from Michigan to St Louis Missouri 2 years ago, we had some crazy snowy days. Michigan had crazy snowy weeks!
I don't think I could ever live there again!! 🕊
You can buy everything you need at Walmart, Lowe's, Home Depot. It is made of fiberglass. If you have to change it now go to Google search & ask it "how do I replace the gasket on my wood burning stove", etc. Hope this helps????
I've always wanted a wood stove but thought the maintenance would be a lot harder than this. Thanks for showing me 🖒
Thank you for sharing this video. I really thought that there was much more to getting this done. People will save allot of money doing this themselves.
I just had a great idea for both of you to teach. I know i would like to see it. How to cook on your wood stove? I know now the wood stove is clean it might be hard to do but it’s and idea for the future..
You can order coal on Amazon that's where I get it when I can't find it locally for blacksmithing at least
Excellent video thank you for sharing
I'm in GA, and watch the weather every day, constantly checking the long term forecast (as I'm sure every homesteader and farmer does nowadays), and our nights in the 40's are over! Whoop whoop!
I'd love to heat with wood, but I don't see it being feasible in our house anytime soon. Poo.
I even think that winter may be over here in Michigan!
Congrats on 150 subs.
So glad you posted this. Wonderful info and it really is a great time to do it. 😊
It's great that you can burn coal as well as wood. I wrap moist towels around the exhaust ports of
my shop vac to catch the fine soot particles. It's a dirty job, but I always look forward to the first fire
in winter.
Wow I wish 3 cords! Ontario Canada here... Over 20 cords here.
I love the smell & thermal heat off those wood burners
Love the rustic tin on the back wall. Thanks, I did this for the first time last year and I could make a video on how NOT to clean your stove...lol
One thing you should have mentioned: Do NOT use a shop vac or any other non ash vacuum cleaner if there is any chance at all that there are embers
We are still burning here in Idaho :)
One of the best tips - DO NOT use green wood. I think a video describing types of wood, reasons for drying wood and how to stack it would be useful. Great information! When you were inside and beginning to use the shop vac, I was waiting for a voice in the background to ask if you had a filter on. LOL
What do you do with the ash? Garden?
I remember last year y'all had a blue bird that y'all had to get out😊
We heat exclusively with wood where we live in western Kentucky. We usually have one or two nights even into the month of May where we need the woodstove. I'm watching this the day of your posting and we had a small fire in our woodstove last night. Lol Our stove is a cast iron Logwood brand, so it's not as efficient as yours, nor as complicated to clean.
Do you have a straight pipe from stove to roof? Most stoves I've ever seen had at least one 90 degree bend in the pipe.
FACE MASK IS VERY IMPORTANT!!! My mom just got diagnosed with asthma because she failed to wear a face mask whenever she worked with her stove.
O M G how long were you in the dog house for that? Great job Kevin, yes actually like to see that rope changed Thanks
Yes, please show us how to replace the gasket. Surely it's not hard, but you always boast our confidence :)
Hope you had a Happy Easter! Lol @ happy wife happy life part. That was funny! Bet she wanted to kill you that day. Lol.
No bird this year!,,,lol
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Every year we had starlings, nasty little guys. Sadly a few got baked unknowingly.
Kevin I like the looks of that stove I'd like to know how much that stove cost. Do you have much of a problem of smoke coming in the house or the house having a strong wood smell. I have just purchased a small 5-acre farm I'm going to build a house on it and I am not for sure if I want a northern heater or a heater inside my house. Please give me your thoughts. My name is Doug Bell.
Doug Bell from San Diego, by any chance?
Good job on cleaning stove, I might add on roof chimney cap,
Is there anyway to bird proof that cap so you do not have to get back up there and remove interior screen in case of a unexpected cold snap,
extra work and you might not be home, who knows and the girls need a fire (Now)
Been there, lived that,
Friend had a squirrel get down chimney into stove, wife open the stove door, husband used his fishing net, they caught the wild squirrel as he came racing out of the stove,
That day he called a chimney man to fix chimney cap so no more squirrel visitors could come in,
Note to file: they were not sure it was a squirrel at first, could have been a snake!,,,
Have a good day,
I would go through 10 cords of wood per winter at $165.00 bucks per cord. Crazy
How do you clean the glass on your stove ?
We need to replace our seal, so that will be of use to us. we have to have our's inspected once a year and get a certificate for safety, which i am happy with as long as i can keep my wood burning stove :-) there is talk of them banning them here. well sorry i am keeping mine what ever as it save's us lot's of money and the toast taste's Great lol. Take care :-)
Thank you, for the video. We are considering getting a wood burning stove for heating, but my husband has asthma. Does your wood heater cause Kevin's asthma to flare up? Thanks again for the info.
Didn't you guys get some Honey bee boxes did I miss the video??
Please Don't Slack Off On Wood Stack'n...Start Felling/ Cutting Your Cords All Through The Year...Hard Wood Takes 2 Years To Properly Season So It Doesn't Burn So Quick...Done Got My "Pipes" & Wood Burning Stove Took Care Of...Will Start Cutting Up The Felled Logs Next Week, Cuz My Garden Takes Presidence This Week...Thanks For The Video Guys...LOL!!!
Great video! I heat with wood too. I'm looking for a new stove so could you please give me the name and address to witch you bought yours. Thanks! Chuck
...and wear a black shirt! 😜
I do 3 tonnes per winter. Dunnp what a cord is????
A chord is the only legally defined unit of firewood. It is closely stacked wood pile 4 feet tall, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long.