If any one out there thinks wood heating is easy, I am here to tell you it is not, it's hard work and it doesn't get any easier the older you get! Hubby is 77 and still bringing in the firewood, thankful that our son and grandson is doing a lot of the work in hauling it in these days! What a beautiful home you have!
Here's a little trick I learned. Always try to split the log from the top down. In other words, let the wedge split the log at the end that was pointing up when the tree was growing/standing. It will split easier, faster and cleaner! Try it sometime.
Evan I have a Moravian Fireplace Insert Made of 1/4 to 3/8 Steel bu Quaker Stove Co in Pa No Longer Made. I heated my whole home with it for about 15 years until I got too Old to carry Wood anymore. I found that if I burned a very Hot Fire in it once a day it kept any Creosote from building up in the chimney I only cleaned it once in all those years.
OMG... Did that bring back memories! Didn't have oil heat until 1958 and I was the one that had to clean out the stoves everyday. Use the ashes to help build up the topsoil, guess who had to teal that in the spring. You are a back I'll make a great team, just remember to take your boots off. Thanks for sharing and bringing up youthful memories.
What a dream place to live!!! This video reminded me of the days that my grandma and my husband and myself would go get firewood. such happy memories. I can't tell you how enjoyable it is to watch that log splitter work. ONE AWESOME INVENTION. How much easier to do jobs around the home when you have the right equipment and tools. Enjoy and thanks for the video
The most efficient heat-producing woodburners are the freestanding ones that will give off radiant heat on all sides. They're not as attractive as your fireplace but they do the job, and some have glass doors. I love fireplaces; nothing nicer than watching the flames and listening to the burning logs crackle.
My buddy has a beautiful burgundy in color, porcelain, free standing wood stove with glass doors, looks like a work of art. Shines like a Lamborghini paint job ! And you're right, the free standing ones throw some serious heat.
Hey Evan and Rebekah, you two did a great job get the wood and fireplace ready. We remember those days from years ago in Colorado. It was work but when all pitched in it was easier and fun too. Loved the fireplace insert we had but your unit is awesome. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos.
I really enjoyed watching this we been burning wood for the last 4 weeks or more getting ready to install another wood stove in the next few days hopefully two running at one time
We have an energy efficient wood stove in the center of the house and have silent circulation fans for each room in the plans -- but haven't really needed them so-far so that project keeps getting put off. With the new addition I am working on, I will need to get that done. We have heated with wood for almost nine years now and love it! Luckily for us, we can sweep from the bottom up! We use a drill operated sweeper. Works great.
Love a wood fire in the house when we lived in Indiana-Michigan! Now living in Florida a little bit to worm now!! Loved splitting the wood and stacking it, but didn't love the snow anymore! Thanks for sharing!!
we burn wood here in central NY been burning bout a month now today its 21 out and 5 inches of snow, my husband takes all the bark of the wood we dont have much soot ,have a nice day
Having a House Warming Party was originally that, a Party to Warm the new house and Guests were expected to each bring a Log for burning on the Fire(s) inside of the house. Even though I don't have a Wood Burning Fire in My Cottage, I asked My Guests to each bring a Log to My Cottage Warming Party. Most did and eventually those Logs were burnt on an Outdoor Fire the next Winter.
I see you have a dynamite box for small stuff - I use a 1910 Whisky box. Cool wood stove insert. Had a full wood stove to heat a house. Propane cost like premium gas. So I went wood.
Good job Evan. Cleaning the chimney is not an easy job, especially one as high as yours. Used to burn a lot of wood, the only way we had to heat our two story house. I enjoyed the heat but not all the work that it entailed
Very efficient method of using the fireplace to back up the heat pump. I imagine setting the heat pump to maintain 64F would allow the heat pump to operate to a lower outside temperature than it would if you tried to maintain 70F inside via heat pump alone. Also, I agree with others who think you need to rethink the ladder thing and take some additional safety measures. Very iffy situation. One accident will negate all the cost savings from burning wood and maybe cripple you for life.
Good Plan make it so You should put sides up around your wood so it will not be rained or snowed on a stay wet. Should also look into going Solar for the electricity needed
Watching you split wood was like one of those "oddly satisfying" videos. :D My husband splits wood with the splitter all the time; I've just never gone out and watched. And watching Rebecca take off with that load of wood, I was like, "Whoa, there, Mrs. Andretti!" hahaha
I have a woodstove and use it the heat my house. I never get all the ashes out of the stove as they act as an insulator and make it easier to start a fire.
I'm not afraid of heights... but I don't think I would climb up that ladder that high, especially without some kind of safety harness. You are still young, but at my age (and because I can be clumsy at times) losing balance is too easy. Very nice looking fireplace by the way. It gives me some more ideas for our future home.
I was thinking the same thing. I probably wouldn't mind doing it now @ 48 years if age but in my 60's........nah, TOO BIG A RISK. you'd be a fool to attempt something like that in your elderly years. You would have to pay someone and that would cut into any saving you may have done. Looks to me like the back to back 90 thing was a huge mistake. You need to be able to clean chimney from inside or it's just not worth it.
The back to back 90s center the flue pipe in the chimney, it is supposed to be that way. According to the manual. But yez, it makes it difficult to clean.
I live in an old Irish cottage with 2 fireplaces. I use peat and wood. I tend to only heat one room but there is so much thermal mass in the 3 foot walls that I'm quite cosy. If I'm cold I put on another layer. The EU is planning to ban coal, peat and wood over the next couple of years and a next on the list is oil. We are going to have to have an air pump or gas , how I'm going to cope I don't know, nothing like a fire to feel cosy.
Whoa, I'm not gonna lie, watching you on that extremely tall ladder was kinda scary. I'm going to assume you had a lanyard and you were being really careful. And 68°F?! I'd be shivering...lol. My personal thermostat is broken, so I'm cold most of the time. When I finally snuggle next to my husband we both sigh; he actually likes my icy feet and hands- lol...I ask him why he's so warm and he replies, "It's my pre-hypertension, Honey."😏 (Yes, Rebecca, he takes his medicine.😉)You two enjoy that cozy and safe fire!
I'm surprised you don't have a metal log rack on the porch. I hope you're using the wood fast enough so it doesn't make crappy marks on the wood porch floor.
Evan, why does your chimney flue have 2-90 degree elbows in it ? I've seen them with 2-45's but never 2-90's Anyway, great video and always a thumbs up !
Could you tell me if that's a metal chimney brush? I'm planning on cleaning my 6" double wall stainless chimney myself next year. I thought that I read that stainless (metal) pipes should be cleaned with poly bristle brushes. Anybody chime in on that? Also, really wondering how those rotary poly brushes powered by a drill work. Looks finicky, but maybe...
It is a poly brush, and I believe that what you are supposed to use on a metal chimney pipe. On the drill powered brush, I haven't seen them. I will probably research it that something I want to try.
Is that insert a Quadra Fire? Seems a lot like mine Quadra Fire 2500. We have a 2200 sf ranch house and we can usually heat 1800 sf of it when the outside temps are in the upper teens.
Here is a foolish question: you removed and replaced those pipes and what looked like some kind of filter up the flue: how does the smoke get up the chimney with that stuff plugging it up: it also seems that the filter thing would burn up.
That is K-wool it is a fireproof insulation. That is just a baffle it makes the hot air flows toward the door then over the baffle, then to the back of the fireplace, then up the chimney. Makes the hot air travel farther to reach the chinmey. Probably helps with heat transfer.
We get dust when we clean out the ashes and some bark when we bring in wood. But this fireplace has an outside air intake, so it burns outside air, not inside air. So as long as the door is shut the burn chamber is completely seal off from the inside if the home. So far we are happy with it, but I understand being tired of bringing in all the dirt and dust.
Why park the empty Trailer so far from the Wood Pile, both when Loading and when Unloading? Everybody seems to do this and it makes absolutely No Sense to Me. Surely by reducing your Carry Distance you're reducing your Workload?
Please buy that nice helper girl some work gloves, at least you let her drive the four wheeler, did not make her walk, My wife helps me get up Wood, it’s a team effort
Saw this on Wranglerstars channel. He tested it out for a quicker way to cut kindling. Not sure if this is the exact one but watch his video to see if you like it. I thought it was neat. Pannow Splitting Wood Cone Drill Bit - Wood Splitter Screw Cones Log Wood Splitter Wood Breaker Tool for Household Use Size 42mm/1.65inch (Hex Shank) www.amazon.com/dp/B07PZBYD1K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_UvJZDbC5X903P
We had a fireplace for one winter....it gave my husband the worst asthma.....a few years later when we had a house fire, I took it out and I am sitting right now where the fireplace was......
If any one out there thinks wood heating is easy, I am here to tell you it is not, it's hard work and it doesn't get any easier the older you get! Hubby is 77 and still bringing in the firewood, thankful that our son and grandson is doing a lot of the work in hauling it in these days! What a beautiful home you have!
Darlene What they say about wood heating twice is so true! It is very hard work, but very satisfying 😊❤️❤️❤️
I'm glad you got that gizmo that lets you go up the chimney from the hearth, rather than down from the roof.
Thanks for taking me along.🍁
Here's a little trick I learned. Always try to split the log from the top down. In other words, let the wedge split the log at the end that was pointing up when the tree was growing/standing. It will split easier, faster and cleaner! Try it sometime.
Evan
I have a Moravian Fireplace Insert Made of 1/4 to 3/8 Steel bu Quaker Stove Co in Pa No Longer Made. I heated my whole home with it for about 15 years until I got too Old to carry Wood anymore. I found that if I burned a very Hot Fire in it once a day it kept any Creosote from building up in the chimney I only cleaned it once in all those years.
OMG... Did that bring back memories! Didn't have oil heat until 1958 and I was the one that had to clean out the stoves everyday. Use the ashes to help build up the topsoil, guess who had to teal that in the spring. You are a back I'll make a great team, just remember to take your boots off. Thanks for sharing and bringing up youthful memories.
What a dream place to live!!! This video reminded me of the days that my grandma and my husband and myself would go get firewood. such happy memories. I can't tell you how enjoyable it is to watch that log splitter work. ONE AWESOME INVENTION. How much easier to do jobs around the home when you have the right equipment and tools. Enjoy and thanks for the video
Hi..... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
After watching about a dozen of your video's I came to the conclusion that I had no idea one could be so envious of someone else's life :-)
Wow!!! The log splitting was so interesting to watch. 👍🤓
The most efficient heat-producing woodburners are the freestanding ones that will give off radiant heat on all sides. They're not as attractive as your fireplace but they do the job, and some have glass doors. I love fireplaces; nothing nicer than watching the flames and listening to the burning logs crackle.
My buddy has a beautiful burgundy in color, porcelain, free standing wood stove with glass doors, looks like a work of art. Shines like a Lamborghini paint job ! And you're right, the free standing ones throw some serious heat.
Really nice!
You guys have a really nice home. God Bless.
I love your stone fireplace and hearth.
Cozy
Again, this is late, but I just love you for taking off your shoes for Rebekah.
Hey Evan and Rebekah, you two did a great job get the wood and fireplace ready. We remember those days from years ago in Colorado. It was work but when all pitched in it was easier and fun too. Loved the fireplace insert we had but your unit is awesome. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos.
I really enjoyed watching this we been burning wood for the last 4 weeks or more getting ready to install another wood stove in the next few days hopefully two running at one time
That’s a heck of a splitter that can plow through those big dense logs!
Fantastic house,, absolutely love the wood out front,, the porch is amazing,,, love the stone fireplace,,,
We have an energy efficient wood stove in the center of the house and have silent circulation fans for each room in the plans -- but haven't really needed them so-far so that project keeps getting put off. With the new addition I am working on, I will need to get that done. We have heated with wood for almost nine years now and love it! Luckily for us, we can sweep from the bottom up! We use a drill operated sweeper. Works great.
Love a wood fire in the house when we lived in Indiana-Michigan! Now living in Florida a little bit to worm now!! Loved splitting the wood and stacking it, but didn't love the snow anymore! Thanks for sharing!!
Scares me just to watch. Brings back memories of thirty years ago doing the same thing.
Wow, love that log splitter.
Beautiful, just in time for the holidays. That log splitter is a genuine beast. It made easy work out of the thickest of trees.
Rebekah is one strong nurse homesteader....
That’s one beautiful place y’all have there!
There's never a small boy around when you need one!
we burn wood here in central NY been burning bout a month now today its 21 out and 5 inches of snow, my husband takes all the bark of the wood we dont have much soot ,have a nice day
Having a House Warming Party was originally that, a Party to Warm the new house and Guests were expected to each bring a Log for burning on the Fire(s) inside of the house.
Even though I don't have a Wood Burning Fire in My Cottage, I asked My Guests to each bring a Log to My Cottage Warming Party.
Most did and eventually those Logs were burnt on an Outdoor Fire the next Winter.
I see you have a dynamite box for small stuff - I use a 1910 Whisky box. Cool wood stove insert. Had a full wood stove to heat a house. Propane cost like premium gas. So I went wood.
That splitter sure made light work of that knotty wood.
Look who was wearing gloves and who wasn’t! Getting cold here tonight. Stay warm everyone!🔥
Good job Evan. Cleaning the chimney is not an easy job, especially one as high as yours. Used to burn a lot of wood, the only way we had to heat our two story house. I enjoyed the heat but not all the work that it entailed
Very efficient method of using the fireplace to back up the heat pump. I imagine setting the heat pump to maintain 64F would allow the heat pump to operate to a lower outside temperature than it would if you tried to maintain 70F inside via heat pump alone. Also, I agree with others who think you need to rethink the ladder thing and take some additional safety measures. Very iffy situation. One accident will negate all the cost savings from burning wood and maybe cripple you for life.
Keep your fan on all the time on your furnace and it will circulate the heat in the house!
Great video did that for years
Good Plan make it so You should put sides up around your wood so it will not be rained or snowed on a stay wet. Should also look into going Solar for the electricity needed
Watching you split wood was like one of those "oddly satisfying" videos. :D My husband splits wood with the splitter all the time; I've just never gone out and watched.
And watching Rebecca take off with that load of wood, I was like, "Whoa, there, Mrs. Andretti!" hahaha
I have a woodstove and use it the heat my house. I never get all the ashes out of the stove as they act as an insulator and make it easier to start a fire.
It's scary watching you that far up on that ladder! Would you consider a harness and a tie in on the chimney? Enjoy your channel very much.
Wow what it is a job. I am afraid to climb up there ha lol
i have already been burning for 2 months now lol
Around here we clean the chimney to get the stink bugs out because they stink when they get hot.
I'm not afraid of heights... but I don't think I would climb up that ladder that high, especially without some kind of safety harness. You are still young, but at my age (and because I can be clumsy at times) losing balance is too easy.
Very nice looking fireplace by the way. It gives me some more ideas for our future home.
I was thinking the same thing. I probably wouldn't mind doing it now @ 48 years if age but in my 60's........nah, TOO BIG A RISK. you'd be a fool to attempt something like that in your elderly years. You would have to pay someone and that would cut into any saving you may have done. Looks to me like the back to back 90 thing was a huge mistake. You need to be able to clean chimney from inside or it's just not worth it.
The back to back 90s center the flue pipe in the chimney, it is supposed to be that way. According to the manual. But yez, it makes it difficult to clean.
I live in an old Irish cottage with 2 fireplaces. I use peat and wood. I tend to only heat one room but there is so much thermal mass in the 3 foot walls that I'm quite cosy. If I'm cold I put on another layer. The EU is planning to ban coal, peat and wood over the next couple of years and a next on the list is oil. We are going to have to have an air pump or gas , how I'm going to cope I don't know, nothing like a fire to feel cosy.
Don't ya just love the Government taking away every right ya have ?
thx
Whoa, I'm not gonna lie, watching you on that extremely tall ladder was kinda scary. I'm going to assume you had a lanyard and you were being really careful. And 68°F?! I'd be shivering...lol. My personal thermostat is broken, so I'm cold most of the time. When I finally snuggle next to my husband we both sigh; he actually likes my icy feet and hands- lol...I ask him why he's so warm and he replies, "It's my pre-hypertension, Honey."😏 (Yes, Rebecca, he takes his medicine.😉)You two enjoy that cozy and safe fire!
Wow...what a great tool that wood splitter is! Since your woodpile is a little distance from your house, do you have any concerns about theft?
No, not out here. People would be more likely steal tools or four wheelers.
Wow! No way I could go up there. Scary.
Stacking wood outside near the house are going to create a nice warm home for the mice. Is your cat a big hunter? You may have to get more.
The stack of wood won't last but 2 to 3 weeks. We have never found mice nests before in the wood on the porch.
I'm surprised you don't have a metal log rack on the porch. I hope you're using the wood fast enough so it doesn't make crappy marks on the wood porch floor.
Ya know, it is a house and made to be used ?
Rebekah wants a log rack, so that may be a future project.
Evan, why does your chimney flue have 2-90 degree elbows in it ? I've seen them with 2-45's but never 2-90's Anyway, great video and always a thumbs up !
Yeah it might be 2-45 elbows. It is just center it in the chimney and get it farther from the wall. It is how the manual shows to install it.
Could you tell me if that's a metal chimney brush? I'm planning on cleaning my 6" double wall stainless chimney myself next year. I thought that I read that stainless (metal) pipes should be cleaned with poly bristle brushes. Anybody chime in on that?
Also, really wondering how those rotary poly brushes powered by a drill work. Looks finicky, but maybe...
It is a poly brush, and I believe that what you are supposed to use on a metal chimney pipe.
On the drill powered brush, I haven't seen them. I will probably research it that something I want to try.
Hey Evan, love your channel. What kinda work do you and your wife do when you are not working on the homestead?
Rebekah is a nurse and I work industrial maintenance - electronics and controls.
Awesome!! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to share your videos. I am living vicariously through you guys.
you put that chimney chase on the deck? face brick over wood?
Is that insert a Quadra Fire? Seems a lot like mine Quadra Fire 2500. We have a 2200 sf ranch house and we can usually heat 1800 sf of it when the outside temps are in the upper teens.
Yes, it is a quadra fire pioneer 2.
A wood splitter is worth its weight in gold when it is needed.Huh?
Absolutely
Here is a foolish question: you removed and replaced those pipes and what looked like some kind of filter up the flue: how does the smoke get up the chimney with that stuff plugging it up: it also seems that the filter thing would burn up.
That is K-wool it is a fireproof insulation. That is just a baffle it makes the hot air flows toward the door then over the baffle, then to the back of the fireplace, then up the chimney. Makes the hot air travel farther to reach the chinmey. Probably helps with heat transfer.
can not beat wood heat buttttttttttttttt the dust is something else, did that for 30 years then installed a boiler.
We get dust when we clean out the ashes and some bark when we bring in wood. But this fireplace has an outside air intake, so it burns outside air, not inside air. So as long as the door is shut the burn chamber is completely seal off from the inside if the home. So far we are happy with it, but I understand being tired of bringing in all the dirt and dust.
OMG ... no protection on the hearth before you started dismantling the inside of the flue.
Why park the empty Trailer so far from the Wood Pile, both when Loading and when Unloading?
Everybody seems to do this and it makes absolutely No Sense to Me.
Surely by reducing your Carry Distance you're reducing your Workload?
Do you never use a grate in the fireplace?
No, the fireplace manual say not to use one.
Please buy that nice helper girl some work gloves, at least you let her drive the four wheeler, did not make her walk,
My wife helps me get up Wood, it’s a team effort
Lol !
I did not enjoy watching you split those logs in fast motion , I swear I saw you cut your hand off at least twice.... LOL
Saw this on Wranglerstars channel. He tested it out for a quicker way to cut kindling. Not sure if this is the exact one but watch his video to see if you like it. I thought it was neat.
Pannow Splitting Wood Cone Drill Bit - Wood Splitter Screw Cones Log Wood Splitter Wood Breaker Tool for Household Use Size 42mm/1.65inch (Hex Shank) www.amazon.com/dp/B07PZBYD1K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_UvJZDbC5X903P
Nope chimney is way to high for me to be up there with no safety harness
We had a fireplace for one winter....it gave my husband the worst asthma.....a few years later when we had a house fire, I took it out and I am sitting right now where the fireplace was......
That brush you use to sweep is a joke
Where eye protections and a mask, so the
Soot don’t kill u I’m sure that your job practice risk assesment
you should be wearing gloves my son!!