Building a Solar Firewood Kiln | Drying our timber FAST!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- This week I build our solar kiln for drying our firewood fast and keep off the driving winter rain. Using up cycled old windows and a bit of new lumber I was well chuffed with how it turned out!
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We are- a family of four,
Mum- Annie,
Dad-Bruce
Two children Elsie and Betsy
We decided to trade our busy life as home and business owners to chase the dream we’ve harboured for 10years.
How did we get here
After years of saying one day, we finally realised that these opportunities don’t just land in your lap and if we seriously wanted to make a difference to the Earth then we were going to have to stop talking about it and do it!
We sold all our stuff, got rid of the mortgage, sold our camper conversion business and landed in a dream come true. After traveling in our van we settled here in the west of Ireland. A place that has always been special to us. Annie is half Irish and since we met 13 years ago and she took me to meet her family i fell in love with Ireland too.
Now we’ve made this dream a reality there is no stopping us! our plan is to work hard, meet new people and learn new skills that will guide us on our journey of permaculture and creating a way of life that sings to us. One where we aren’t bound to the banks, working every hour and outsourcing all of our needs. A simple way of life, with connection to ourselves, each other, the earth and our community.
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Am I the only woman who line drys cloths thinking that would make a great winter cloths drying area 🤣 I would leave the tin roof just paint it black
Haha we dry ours in the polytunnel good idea regards the black roof
Yes nothing wrong with that roof Bruce, the plastic gets very dirty and then another job to do,to clean it..
I feel you and Annie have enough to be doing 👍
The girl's are growing up so beautiful. I hope they are enjoying their new bedrooms
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I hate clothes driers, the strange soft and „used“ feel of the clothes. For me wind dried clothes are a must.
Such a creative use of all those windows. Excellent job. Bob is a great helper 😄
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Great job Bruce!
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Well done Bruse it looks great,your talent always amaze me great job,excellent video
kind regards Sean
Thanks Sean
Nice job. A little solar powered fan would help speed the drying process up too
I I’ve left the eaves and soffits open so hoping that’s enough
This is the way we should all live.
:) it’s not a bad life
Looks great Bruce, well done 👏👏👏I love when something get a second life brilliant.
Happy 90th birthday Granddad🥳🎊🥳🎂, I loved his message to everyone too.
I really believe there is nothing like the love of one's family around them.
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100% was great to catch up with everyone
Great work Bruce 👍👍
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Another amazing project completed - and May I say you have some very lovely ladies to help you. Thanks for sharing your lives with us!
I’m very blessed
Great job Bruce and top idea. Remember to leave enough ventilation once the doors are on if drying wood in there. Could get a few house plants in there too I reckon 😏
Leaving the gable tops open and soffits open for ventilation:)
Brilliant Bruce it will be really useful if no doors for winter I guess a canvas sheet that could be easily rolled up is a short term way forward. You are super resourceful well done.
I did think I could make a set of sliding doors and cover with old poly tunnel plastic
That's such a great idea Bruce well done 👏
Thanks 👍 :)
You sure are a jack of all trades and a master of them too lol. Top job Bruce. By the way we are getting some of that sunshine up here in Sligo.
Not a bad day here at the moment
It looks great! I'm a very symmetrical person though so I would have tried to make the fronts match on both sides. I would have had a tall window in each section, a square one with the lines in each section with one of the mid sized ones you have on the side and I like the 3 slotted windows you did so I would do those in from both sides and fill from there. I think I would have needed more wood pieces between the windows though to fill in. But it works and it was cheap so even better :)
I am not a symmetry lover 😂 love a bit of chaos
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Thanks very much
looks fabulous! great work.
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Another great project!
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Great job and enjoyable footage. Hopefully see you all soon.
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So Cool!!! Great job.
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Great job again Bruce, just a thought you could use black electric insulating tape to use on the white window bars to make it more uniform, sorry OCD kicking in. Lol 😂
lol I was not liking them either but they are between the panes
Haha was thinking same, cover them over with some duct tape
Thanks for showing Cork. I want to go and live there 😅
Cork is lovely
Great job
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Nice one Bruce 👍
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Well done Bruce, the windows look great 👏👏👏👏
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Great job!!
Thank you! 🤩
Amazing what can be done ✅ the result shows that you are clever :) all the best
Thank you very much!
Clever idea Bruce, nice job! 😊
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Nice job encasing the shed to keeping everything dry in there , love the baby ducks ! So cute 😊
Thanks April:)
Acabo de encontrar su canal y es fabuloso me encanta todo gracias por compartir tantas cosas 👍💓👏👏👏
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Fantastic job, we have gotten some second windows and have another project lined for a little sun room, wont be till next spring tho. And you picked a great spot, Clare lived nearby and used to work in that restaurant. Fantastic beach right there also ;) Miss your frequent videos You were the OG in this space and I think we need you back for balance ;)
I do intend on making more regular vids I’m just finding it hard to get my vid making mojo back. I have some beautiful hardwood windows for our lean to green house for the south side of the house. That’s probably next year though I reckon
Bruce you do a great job each time you share a video, wish i had some of your skills. Grandad was right it is better to be lucky
He’s a very wise man
Might want to look at scrap yard or marketplace for oil drilling pipe for your pasture fence posts!
Last a lot longer! You can use fencing materials or whatever for rails!
Yes! Everything is expensive! There gouging the heck out of all of us!
Was going to maybe buy some top slab bails for the rails
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That will work! I’m sure you will make a nice fence! Your in a very damp environment so if you going to bury them too charcoal the bottom!
In the long term the drill pipes will last most of your life!
There very long 35 feet so you can get more cheeper!
Nothing is cheep!
Near future it will get better!
Yay 🎉
:)
Your fence tensioner is also a ninja level duck wrangler...😁
She’s the mum :) they seem to have bonded with her so they follow her everywhere
Dude you make it look so easy. Well done.
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At this rate I'll have to start a YT channel entitled "ideas I've nicked from Bruce" 😂
Haha! Do it
Love the duck pen too ❤❤❤❤
Thanks they love being more free
Looks so good. I hope the firewood does not shatter the windows. You might need to stack it so that no accidents happen.
I’m going to put rails in to stop potential wood slides
Looks great! One more job done! 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks carol
Lovely old job off grid.must have been a pane getting all that glass to fit.🤗
😂 it was
Hi Bruce, nice job on the windows. It might be an idea to put some bright stickers on the full length glass to show it's there, or a couple of battens across them.
Is that to stop birds flying into it?
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Amazing work as always Bruce . Ducklings are lovely and smelly yes but great pets ❤
They a lovely but too messy for the house 😂
:)