10 years ago, who would have believed that making UA-cam videos could afford you such a life! You are your own boss, make your own schedule, have dream adventures that you share with us! Wow!! All because you decided to share your story on UA-cam...what a blessing for you guys to have the life you have, and a blessing for us that you let us peek in. ♥️🙏🏻🇺🇲
It’s funny as a kid I always hated wood splitting time. Now as an adult nearing 50 I like Eric kind of enjoy the mindless grind of a few good days of wood cutting and splitting. There’s something special seeing it all stacked up and knowing your good for yet another year! Been my favorite “show on tv” for 5+ years and it just keeps getting better!
Had a Blaze King for 25 years and it was still perfect when we sold our place. Heated with it 1500 square feet. Used it only for heat no furnace. Love your channel I lived self sufficient for most of my adult life. I am almost 80 and relate to most all you do. 💓🌈
@@FroggyTWrite I lived in a little town on the Olympic Peninsula for 32 years. Got divorced and bought a 186 acre ranch in Montana near a little town called Roundup. Sold it after 4 years, long story, bought 320 acres near Pueblo Colorado, hated it there. Sold it and moved to a little town in Washington on the Willapa River called Southbend. It’s about 1 hour to Astoria Oregon to the south. I had huge gardens, chickens and ate venison and elk, salmon etc. I also worked for the Dept of fisheries in salmon culture. Still canning and gleaning what I can. I always look forward to your videos I enjoy you both so much!
I use high gloss kitchen floor wax and i coat all my snow shovels and use a garden sprayer to do metal roof and the underside of fenders of the 4 wheeler and the snow chute of the snowblower.... all helps snow slip away....good luck!
The way Arielle picked up that heavy piece of wood.....wow! That log splitter is fun to watch. You two are such hard workers and the videos are great :).
@@beckyumphrey2626 That wasn't birch. Some type of conifer, probably the pine they were talking about in the video. Dry or not, that was a hefty piece.
You two make a killer good team! I am clueless as to why, but I do enjoy watching you work together to accomplish tasks around your place. Two people and a "can do" attitude are unstoppable! Thanks for sharing with us down here in the lower 48!
Not just the can do tude.... they appreciate and respect one another. It's so much better than the drama on TV that increases cortisol and screws with everything!
I think this is the fourth wood stove install you’ve shared. Old house, off grid cabin, workshop, and new house. So interesting each time! Loved the view off the roof of the garden, coop, and wood shed. Y’all are amazing and your videos brighten my day!
Ahh, being up that high, even if I'm sitting on the sofa, gives me a quiver in my liver. I don't like heights. I heated with wood for over 50 years and loved every minute. There is no heat like wood heat! My Mama taught me to cook on a combination wood/electric range. I made my first loaf of bread when I was 7, and baked it in a wood oven. Love the legs on your new stove. We always brought our wood into the shed in August. I can remember the smells, the sounds, the feel of the wood. The feel of an axe in my hand. Sitting on a Jack pine sharpening my uncle's chain saw with a rat tail file. Thank you so very very much for the happy memories. I'll probably re-watch this video a hundred times. I'll cry a little, and smile a lot. ❤❤To all Lori from Oregon.
I'm amazed at the amount of improvements you guys have made in the short amount of time you've been at the new house. I gotta admit, I'm a little sad when each of your videos end. I could watch for hours.
Depends really: fixating (present participle) 1. (be fixated on/upon) cause (someone) to acquire an obsessive attachment to someone or something. (transitive verb) 1: to make fixed, stationary, or unchanging. 2: to focus one's gaze on. It's good though to point out the subtle differences; nothing wrong with improving our enunciation.
You'll are the hardest working people I know. You don't let anything stop you and I'm amazed at your ability to do anything when so many people are likely to call a repairman to fix it for them. I can't wait to see all the preserving you do from the garden, those are my favorite videos.
My favorite couple! I love how Eric makes sure Ariel is safe and also knows how to use all the equipment- you never know if she would have to do it herself! Very smart! You will be heating the Quonset hut too - you are going to use a lot more wood! 💕🇺🇸💕
Negative 5 while I lived in Germany is the coldest I have ever experienced. My ex-wife was from Finland. I have been there in the winter a couple of times but it was like 20 degrees but I think it gets cold like Alaska. I remember they had to plug their cars in to keep the engines warm.
Greetings from the mountains of Idaho. Love your show, doesn't matter what your doing. We have the same stove, a 2022 model. Coming up on our 3rd winter, awesome stove, you'll love yours. I've had as high as 20hr bank time on ours. Wood is our only source of heat for the last 25 years. We have a 1600 sq.ft. house. One of our greatest investments. My wife and i enjoy working together, even after 51 years of marriage. You both are number one in my book.
When the teacher asked me my name, I replied, " Get Wood! " Lol! Burned wood for over six decades, great radiant heat, myself I always used a Husky saw, had saw will travel was my way of obtaining wood, till I owned my own fifty acres, 1/2 mature hardwood forest, 1/2 hay fields, did all my splitting by hand, used about seven full cords a winter in an old farm house built in 1860, ran the wood stove 24/7 except in the summer kept the temperature at 80*F and a screened window open completely all winter except when the snow came towards that side of the house.. Ariel handled that block like it was nothing, great exercise till ya get in your seventies...You two are a great team, Upstate NY was awesome living, if I had to do it over Alaska would be my choice... keep it happening love the content for many years now...✌️💪🌶️🌻♥️🏔️🤠
Coming up on my Birthday now & I remember how a truck load of wood came to my Son's Cabin to be stacked !!! I was happy to stack the wood on My Birthday !!! I sure was !!! It was fun for me !!! I had the supper in a crock pot for supper & we ate good that night !!! I was in 7 HEAVEN for myself !!! I was younger then now older so am down to the point of Watching you doing it !!!
FYI: great choice of background music, the volume was perfect. I remember the best part of cutting/splitting/stacking was celebrating afterwards, in fresh clothes after a shower and while having a feast. It was such a great feeling of accomplishment. I appreciate how you reminded me of that. Thanks.
This is definitely one of the best channels on you tube. Most would consider you one of the hardest working couples on TV. But think about how you make money and the equipment advantages you have today then think of the people in Alaska 1 to 2 hundred years ago. Don't get me wrong, you 2 are killing it but imagine how people use to have to work and travel. We are all blessed today. Keep up the good work and we will continue to enjoy. Peace
Ah the ice dam...Lost a car to one of those. Flattened it like a pancake. I was thankful we were not in the car when it happened. Everyone is saying that winter is going to be long this year. Shoot, I would get the plastic on the greenhouse so you could store more wood in there, at least for the time being. Might as well earn it's keep. 😆Thanks for the clip of the boys. It was nice to see our buddy Bo again. 😌
The owners of the cabin I was at put in the King 40 stove this summer and that thing is amazing. They originally were going to put in the Princess but when the installers got there and saw how big the cabin was (~1300sqft) with a lot of open air, they went back to the shop and grabbed the King 40 instead. So far they're loving it and it's going to allow them to stay at the cabin a lot later in the year this year than they have in the past.
We have had our Blaze King Princess for 2 years now. We LOVE IT!! I'm telling you it is a work horse. Our longest fire was 28 hours on one load of maple, and yet it wasn't completely full. The converter is a learning curve but once you got it, it's fantastic. We live on Puget Sound in Wa. State. We don't have winters like you but plenty of damp cold. We cannot run our stove more than half or it runs us out of the house... that's in a 2300 sf home. You should do great at 40 below. Enjoy a warm winter. Looking forward to your next post.
I think your story and adventures would make a great book series for pre-teens. I'm old enough to remember reading Little House On The Prairie and Nancy Drew and can imagine you in a modern day epic series. 😺
I'm sure you know that you could weld a horizontal piece of steel on your log splitter to have 4 pieces split,but now you have a bigger burn box you probably won't need that. Enjoy your talent. You have to either make it or don't make it in Alaska. I lived there for 1 year with the Air Force. I loved Alaska. Keep up the inspiring videos
Just the fact that you have to get up in the middle of the night and fire it up Is a problem. Eventually that is going to ruin your nights sleep. So this is a great idea.
At are home I am the one that runs the spiltter . To me spiltting wood and gardening are like therapy. As always I in joy watching to two of you team work every,
One trick we use: get some good hay hooks for moving log chunks around. You can move two log pieces (one with each hook) easily. Loved seeing a brief clip of Bo sure miss that boy.
Well, that was an exciting video! Happy for you to get the new wood stove in, the new log splitter, and all that necessary work and winter prep done. Keeping warm will be a bit easier now and you will be safer with the roof and stove pipe improvements done. Enjoyed another satisfying video. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless and keep you in all you do.
We have the same stove. It’s great but the catalytic converter clogs if you rush the re-stoking a fire. Check the manual and read between the lines. Have an extra gasket if you need to pull the catalytic grid to clean behind it. The chimney will now serve you well. Enjoy a toasty cabin.
I love a wood fire, it's so much warmer to me then electricity and much more economical if you cut your own. I keep a kettle of water on the stove to help with the dryness but it's so relaxing to watch. Good job guys!
Youre going to love the princess, we inherited ours when we bought our acreage 3 yrs ago - we're not solely wood heat but we live in northern alberta and burn aspen from our property and the stove cuts down on our costly gas bills & makes -40 much easier to tolerate. We fill the stove up, get the fire hot, flip the cat on, dial the temp down, and let it cruise 😊
Wood,wood and more wood ready for another very cold winter in Alaska. I am watching this again on 11-1-24 and real cool last night in Central Oklahoma but not ready to start up my good size wood stove yet....just not cold enough. We have some really have a lot of wood that they let me get when I run low. I m an old gal and it's getting hard to do some chores. But I keep trying. I absolutely love all of your videos about so many things. Thanks so much.
Eric and Arielle, you should turn your porch into a enclosed area. We did it years ago and during the summer we put screen and in the winter we added plexiglass and insulated it what a different with the space for everyone.
Oh no, my nightmares are returning.....filling up a wood shed is hard work, I have done it with hubby for soooo many years, so worth it though, nothing better than a wood burning stove, with the glass clean! Another great video, good to see the chickens loving their dirt baths and playing in the sawdust. Thanks gjuys, I'm greedy, I'm wanting a couple of videos a week. Love from Australia xxx
Love your show and the way you work together to solve all shorts of issues. Sorry to tell you, chimney is a two syllable word. Chim a ney is not a word, hope your new chimney keeps you warm. 😊
"Ariel we need to fix the chimney" "Ok, babe but the hole is rather large up there"... "No worries babe I will just remove the roof and replace it! Never mind the rain I am rain proof!" 😂😂😂😂 My favorite super heroes!
My grandpa had a particular way of starting a fire. He built a pyramid by placing the biggest logs on the bottom and lighting the kindling on the top. Fire like that usually lasted around 8+ hours. Thanks again for the video fam☺
The old granular roofing is called 'roll roofing', a 3' wide product, and is generally hot-mopped to a membrane nailed to the roof with nails along the overlap. It has been replaced by a commercial product that comes in 4' rolls and has a granular coating on a rubber-like tar sheet, called 'torch down'. The back side of the roll is heated up with a 4" torch and unrolled as it's heated, adhering to the 43# underlayment (w/ simplex nails 12" o/c). The torch-down rolls have a 4" overlap that is tar-to-tar, and granules are available to coat the exposed tar that will leak out of the joint. One good thing about torch-down is that it is self-sealing around any screw/nail penetrations from installing metal roofing or roof tiles on top of it. When installed by a licensed roofer, torch-down has a 10-year no-leak warranty.
My favorite couple, always an adventure or hard work. I used to love helping my Dad cut wood for the winter, he had a big wood stove in the basement that kept his house warm and cozy. My husband and I have a heat pump, I freeze all winter. Nothing like that wood heat. Nice new stove.
I'm in there with the beautiful memories as I watch you two splitting wood and smile with a warm heart 😊❤❤ Thank you for keeping a part of the old life continuing on.❤❤❤
You guys will appreciate the new Blaze King! I have the same one and absolutely love it. I have a tip for you for your wood splitter, add a couple inches to the top of the wedge. I did that to mine and it makes it so much more efficient. You'll really notice it on the logs that you want to split in quarters. It will split both halves at the same time instead of missing the one on top.
That fire wood cutting,splitting and stacking at high speed fun to watch. Arielle the log you lifted and brought close to the camera in the lower 48 would have weigh 200 + lbs so we all thought mercy! Don’t mess with Arielle 💪🏽
You two are such hard workers! You continuously amaze me. Ariel, could you hear me telling me to watch your hands while you were using the wood splitter? lol It's the Mama in me. 😁 Thank you for sharing your amazing life with us. ❤
Thank best show from Alaska on UTUBE! Y’all work so hard that I’m exhausted when the video ends. lol. I’m 82 and it is so much fun watching you all hunt and play hard! God bless you both and of course blessing for all you animals. I wish we could get some of your cool weather here in Texas. ❤️🙏🏼
I have been using that exact stove for 16 years. With good wood it will burn on low fire for 20 hrs.. normally I load it twice a day with red fir. 1800 Sq ft home . Great choice.
Wow, that's a lot of firewood and a lot of work! Congrats on getting done early. And that is an awesome stove. Huge firebox. That will make life easier. Thanks for inviting us in! Cheers.
I've been away a while, and watching you two again makes me feel like I've come back to stable ground! You are so consistent, industrious and always make such a great team!
I've got a Robin that follows me everywhere, look out the window in the morn, he sitting on the wire, go in kitchen to make coffee, he's right outside the door, go to bathroom its sitting on the fence, when in doing yard work he's just feet away -- even when I'm in the garage, stands at the door watching me work. Its kinda creepy really.
Great Job you 2! You are a Team made in Heaven! I love seeing you 2 work together on your projects! Keep them coming. Not to brag but it was 79 degrees here today (08/21/24)!! I super enjoy your content. Keep it coming!
Lots of saw dust for the coop or even the garden beds. When you see the cranes fly it’s when there is alarm. Rule of thumb is when the cranes fly you have 10 days to winter. 😉 Love the splitter y’all! So glad you’ve got that tool now.
I'm from New England and we say; "Wood warms you twice - once when you cut it and once when you burn it. You two make me (73) wish I was young again.
We say something similar in eastern Canada. "wood warms you three times, when you cut it, when you stack it, when you burn it" Cheers !
We say the same thing in New Zealand
YOU GUYS ROCK!❤❤
in china we say 我想要一块糖醋鸡
i saw someone say that about peat cutting
10 years ago, who would have believed that making UA-cam videos could afford you such a life! You are your own boss, make your own schedule, have dream adventures that you share with us! Wow!! All because you decided to share your story on UA-cam...what a blessing for you guys to have the life you have, and a blessing for us that you let us peek in. ♥️🙏🏻🇺🇲
The ones who quit jobs are the ones who will suffer first.. GO TO WORK
Couldn’t agree more. It’s a win for them and a win for the viewers. 😊
Do not get it twisted , we know making videos is a lot of work like a full time job , keep up the great work..?
I love how Eric says "chimney" like "chiminey" 😊
Like Burt from Mary Poppins 😊
Love it, each time I think of Mary Poppins❤ I absolutely love watching you live your lives.
Same, Mary Poppins came straight to mind.
Chiminey Cricket 🙂
Chim, chiminey, chim, chiminey...🎶
NGL. I admire the way you guys work together. 32 seconds after starting a project with my spouse, I'm ready to bury the body... lol
Yes, they are well matched. They even talk alike.
I love that your little bird friends visit your feeder, even when you are both right there.
Same!
I worked hard today, came home, now I'm watching people work hard.
Isn't it oddly relaxing!?
I like the commentary style when the mic battery died. A nice change and peaceful.
It’s funny as a kid I always hated wood splitting time. Now as an adult nearing 50 I like Eric kind of enjoy the mindless grind of a few good days of wood cutting and splitting. There’s something special seeing it all stacked up and knowing your good for yet another year! Been my favorite “show on tv” for 5+ years and it just keeps getting better!
Aloha. I get it. As a bartender at a remote fishing lodge in Alaska, it wasn’t my job to cut firewood for the lodge. But I did and I enjoyed it.
Had a Blaze King for 25 years and it was still perfect when we sold our place. Heated with it 1500 square feet. Used it only for heat no furnace. Love your channel I lived self sufficient for most of my adult life. I am almost 80 and relate to most all you do. 💓🌈
sounds like you had good times! what part of the country / world did you live in?
@@FroggyTWrite I lived in a little town on the Olympic Peninsula for 32 years. Got divorced and bought a 186 acre ranch in Montana near a little town called Roundup. Sold it after 4 years, long story, bought 320 acres near Pueblo Colorado, hated it there. Sold it and moved to a little town in Washington on the Willapa River called Southbend. It’s about 1 hour to Astoria Oregon to the south. I had huge gardens, chickens and ate venison and elk, salmon etc. I also worked for the Dept of fisheries in salmon culture. Still canning and gleaning what I can. I always look forward to your videos I enjoy you both so much!
I also had one for 25 years and it worked really well.
Every time Eric says "chimeny" I imagine Eric as a little boy watching the movie where the song comes from "Chim, chimeny"....so cute!
I’m sure you know it , but you have the coolest wife! To have such a partner in everything you do has to be the greatest feeling
I use high gloss kitchen floor wax and i coat all my snow shovels and use a garden sprayer to do metal roof and the underside of fenders of the 4 wheeler and the snow chute of the snowblower.... all helps snow slip away....good luck!
Will try that. Thanks
Yes, Another video from Alaska's best couple. Love the looks of the new wood stove.
The way Arielle picked up that heavy piece of wood.....wow! That log splitter is fun to watch. You two are such hard workers and the videos are great :).
Dried birch.
@@beckyumphrey2626 That wasn't birch. Some type of conifer, probably the pine they were talking about in the video. Dry or not, that was a hefty piece.
When I saw that I thought this girl is a beast! That was so awesome seeing her do that.
I instantly grab my back watching her… 😂 Gotta say this couple doesn’t appear to be afraid of hard work.
You two make a killer good team! I am clueless as to why, but I do enjoy watching you work together to accomplish tasks around your place. Two people and a "can do" attitude are unstoppable! Thanks for sharing with us down here in the lower 48!
Not just the can do tude.... they appreciate and respect one another. It's so much better than the drama on TV that increases cortisol and screws with everything!
@@GrowLegacy Amen to that ❤💯
I think this is the fourth wood stove install you’ve shared. Old house, off grid cabin, workshop, and new house. So interesting each time! Loved the view off the roof of the garden, coop, and wood shed. Y’all are amazing and your videos brighten my day!
Ahh, being up that high, even if I'm sitting on the sofa, gives me a quiver in my liver. I don't like heights. I heated with wood for over 50 years and loved every minute. There is no heat like wood heat! My Mama taught me to cook on a combination wood/electric range. I made my first loaf of bread when I was 7, and baked it in a wood oven. Love the legs on your new stove. We always brought our wood into the shed in August. I can remember the smells, the sounds, the feel of the wood. The feel of an axe in my hand. Sitting on a Jack pine sharpening my uncle's chain saw with a rat tail file. Thank you so very very much for the happy memories. I'll probably re-watch this video a hundred times. I'll cry a little, and smile a lot. ❤❤To all Lori from Oregon.
Its always a great feeling when you have your wood shed full of seasoned fire wood!! Just like money in the bank!!!
Chimaney chimaney chimaney
Love how Eric says chimney 😅
😂 chiminey
Chimney = chim·ney
Chiminy Chiminy chim chim chourey 😊 🎶 You've got an awesome stove there. Hooray Hooray. 🔥
Perhaps he was a fan of the "Mary Poppins" movie and Dick Van Dyke's, chimney sweep song.
All I can think of is Dick Van Dyke singing in Mary Poppins.
I don’t know why but I’m addicted to watching log splitting and cutting.
Me to, I would like to try that, looks fun…
Me too. I know I can’t do it.😊
I always do
Glad to see your upgrade in Wood Stoves, smart move no longer will the old stove continue to make an "ash" of itself!!! lol
This has become my #1 channel. 5 ☆ content.
Nice work on the “chim-a-ney” Eric!👍🏻😆 and the new wood stove looks nice!
Love how he says that. We've started calling it a chim-a-ney in my household as well 😂
I got a kick out of that also.
And “we’re gonna be properly ‘fixating’ this pipe in the roof.”
Thanks for the chicken moments….love their antics!…well your work is so harmoniously done together….cant help but have time fly!
Wow, asphalt shingles instead of flashing. You were lucky. Now it's going to be good for decades. Well done.
I'm amazed at the amount of improvements you guys have made in the short amount of time you've been at the new house. I gotta admit, I'm a little sad when each of your videos end. I could watch for hours.
Every project you accomplish is so satisfying to watch. Your incredible property is really coming along!
Every project you do looks complicated but you do it with skills and make them look easy though it’s not easy
I really like your channel...no politics..it is such an escape for all...thankyou Eric and Ariel!!!
@ 7:20 nice that you tied Arielle off we wouldn't want to lose her !
Love your show! You do know that ‘fixating’ means to obsess on something/someone! I does not mean ‘to attach or fix’ something. 👍😀❤️
Depends really: fixating (present participle) 1. (be fixated on/upon) cause (someone) to acquire an obsessive attachment to someone or something.
(transitive verb) 1: to make fixed, stationary, or unchanging. 2: to focus one's gaze on.
It's good though to point out the subtle differences; nothing wrong with improving our enunciation.
Love that photo of Ariel with the icicles on her eye lashes!
The labor is shared by both, I like that.
incredible how much they can get done together
When your butain runs out use " Uncle Kens Flat Candle " . Loved your video , informative .
You'll are the hardest working people I know. You don't let anything stop you and I'm amazed at your ability to do anything when so many people are likely to call a repairman to fix it for them. I can't wait to see all the preserving you do from the garden, those are my favorite videos.
It is a lot of work to live off grid. Thank you so much for sharing this video with us. Stay safe! Amen
My favorite couple! I love how Eric makes sure Ariel is safe and also knows how to use all the equipment- you never know if she would have to do it herself! Very smart! You will be heating the Quonset hut too - you are going to use a lot more wood! 💕🇺🇸💕
That'z what I was thinkin. Need a pile closer to da HUT!
Negative 5 while I lived in Germany is the coldest I have ever experienced. My ex-wife was from Finland. I have been there in the winter a couple of times but it was like 20 degrees but I think it gets cold like Alaska. I remember they had to plug their cars in to keep the engines warm.
Greetings from the mountains of Idaho. Love your show, doesn't matter what your doing. We have the same stove, a 2022 model. Coming up on our 3rd winter, awesome stove, you'll love yours. I've had as high as 20hr bank time on ours. Wood is our only source of heat for the last 25 years. We have a 1600 sq.ft. house. One of our greatest investments. My wife and i enjoy working together, even after 51 years of marriage. You both are number one in my book.
When the teacher asked me my name, I replied, " Get Wood! " Lol! Burned wood for over six decades, great radiant heat, myself I always used a Husky saw, had saw will travel was my way of obtaining wood, till I owned my own fifty acres, 1/2 mature hardwood forest, 1/2 hay fields, did all my splitting by hand, used about seven full cords a winter in an old farm house built in 1860, ran the wood stove 24/7 except in the summer kept the temperature at 80*F and a screened window open completely all winter except when the snow came towards that side of the house.. Ariel handled that block like it was nothing, great exercise till ya get in your seventies...You two are a great team, Upstate NY was awesome living, if I had to do it over Alaska would be my choice... keep it happening love the content for many years now...✌️💪🌶️🌻♥️🏔️🤠
Y’all are a wonder to watch. Two very smart young people. I love watching all your jobs. Stay sage.
Coming up on my Birthday now & I remember how a truck load of wood came to my Son's Cabin to be stacked !!! I was happy to stack the wood on My Birthday !!! I sure was !!! It was fun for me !!! I had the supper in a crock pot for supper & we ate good that night !!! I was in 7 HEAVEN for myself !!! I was younger then now older so am down to the point of Watching you doing it !!!
FYI: great choice of background music, the volume was perfect.
I remember the best part of cutting/splitting/stacking was celebrating afterwards, in fresh clothes after a shower and while having a feast. It was such a great feeling of accomplishment.
I appreciate how you reminded me of that. Thanks.
This is definitely one of the best channels on you tube. Most would consider you one of the hardest working couples on TV. But think about how you make money and the equipment advantages you have today then think of the people in Alaska 1 to 2 hundred years ago. Don't get me wrong, you 2 are killing it but imagine how people use to have to work and travel. We are all blessed today. Keep up the good work and we will continue to enjoy. Peace
Ah the ice dam...Lost a car to one of those. Flattened it like a pancake. I was thankful we were not in the car when it happened. Everyone is saying that winter is going to be long this year. Shoot, I would get the plastic on the greenhouse so you could store more wood in there, at least for the time being. Might as well earn it's keep. 😆Thanks for the clip of the boys. It was nice to see our buddy Bo again. 😌
Nothing like doing chores vicariously thru you two. Boy I'm beat I'd should probably sit down for a bit.
“We’re going to be doing something exciting today…” WHEN DON’T YOU TWO DO SOMETHING EXCITING?? 😊
Hahaha! So true!
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Lol, it's 109 with a heat index around 115 in Central Texas and yall are building a fire. Drooling!
The owners of the cabin I was at put in the King 40 stove this summer and that thing is amazing. They originally were going to put in the Princess but when the installers got there and saw how big the cabin was (~1300sqft) with a lot of open air, they went back to the shop and grabbed the King 40 instead. So far they're loving it and it's going to allow them to stay at the cabin a lot later in the year this year than they have in the past.
Great woodstove,wow! Love to see you getting ready for autumn. Crazy how fast its coming. Thanks for sharing, you are definitely my favourite channel.
the older you get the faster it comes and im 73 so i know all too well ( i also burn wood )
We have had our Blaze King Princess for 2 years now. We LOVE IT!! I'm telling you it is a work horse. Our longest fire was 28 hours on one load of maple, and yet it wasn't completely full. The converter is a learning curve but once you got it, it's fantastic. We live on Puget Sound in Wa. State. We don't have winters like you but plenty of damp cold. We cannot run our stove more than half or it runs us out of the house... that's in a 2300 sf home. You should do great at 40 below. Enjoy a warm winter. Looking forward to your next post.
I think your story and adventures would make a great book series for pre-teens. I'm old enough to remember reading Little House On The Prairie and Nancy Drew and can imagine you in a modern day epic series. 😺
I love your videos. Old school hard work and innovation, new school beautiful camera work. Very unique.
Always love seeing the new videos. Take care
I'm sure you know that you could weld a horizontal piece of steel on your log splitter to have 4 pieces split,but now you have a bigger burn box you probably won't need that.
Enjoy your talent.
You have to either make it or don't make it in Alaska.
I lived there for 1 year with the Air Force.
I loved Alaska.
Keep up the inspiring videos
Just the fact that you have to get up in the middle of the night and fire it up Is a problem. Eventually that is going to ruin your nights sleep. So this is a great idea.
I love these two! How Arielle apologizes for the roof being wet! ❤❤
At are home I am the one that runs the spiltter . To me spiltting wood and gardening are like therapy. As always I in joy watching to two of you team work every,
One trick we use: get some good hay hooks for moving log chunks around. You can move two log pieces (one with each hook) easily. Loved seeing a brief clip of Bo sure miss that boy.
Well, that was an exciting video! Happy for you to get the new wood stove in, the new log splitter, and all that necessary work and winter prep done. Keeping warm will be a bit easier now and you will be safer with the roof and stove pipe improvements done. Enjoyed another satisfying video. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless and keep you in all you do.
We have the same stove. It’s great but the catalytic converter clogs if you rush the re-stoking a fire. Check the manual and read between the lines. Have an extra gasket if you need to pull the catalytic grid to clean behind it.
The chimney will now serve you well. Enjoy a toasty cabin.
I love a wood fire, it's so much warmer to me then electricity and much more economical if you cut your own. I keep a kettle of water on the stove to help with the dryness but it's so relaxing to watch. Good job guys!
23:11 It's True!! The early bird really does get the worm!
Youre going to love the princess, we inherited ours when we bought our acreage 3 yrs ago - we're not solely wood heat but we live in northern alberta and burn aspen from our property and the stove cuts down on our costly gas bills & makes -40 much easier to tolerate. We fill the stove up, get the fire hot, flip the cat on, dial the temp down, and let it cruise 😊
Wood,wood and more wood ready for another very cold winter in Alaska. I am watching this again on 11-1-24 and real cool last night in Central Oklahoma but not ready to start up my good size wood stove yet....just not cold enough. We have some really have a lot of wood that they let me get when I run low. I m an old gal and it's getting hard to do some chores. But I keep trying. I absolutely love all of your videos about so many things. Thanks so much.
I like the bird just hanging out with you guys doing the intro lol
Eric and Arielle, you should turn your porch into a enclosed area. We did it years ago and during the summer we put screen and in the winter we added plexiglass and insulated it what a different with the space for everyone.
Oh no, my nightmares are returning.....filling up a wood shed is hard work, I have done it with hubby for soooo many years, so worth it though, nothing better than a wood burning stove, with the glass clean! Another great video, good to see the chickens loving their dirt baths and playing in the sawdust. Thanks gjuys, I'm greedy, I'm wanting a couple of videos a week. Love from Australia xxx
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures in life
Love your show and the way you work together to solve all shorts of issues. Sorry to tell you, chimney is a two syllable word. Chim a ney is not a word, hope your new chimney keeps you warm. 😊
"Ariel we need to fix the chimney"
"Ok, babe but the hole is rather large up there"...
"No worries babe I will just remove the roof and replace it! Never mind the rain I am rain proof!" 😂😂😂😂 My favorite super heroes!
My grandpa had a particular way of starting a fire. He built a pyramid by placing the biggest logs on the bottom and lighting the kindling on the top. Fire like that usually lasted around 8+ hours. Thanks again for the video fam☺
The old granular roofing is called 'roll roofing', a 3' wide product, and is generally hot-mopped to a membrane nailed to the roof with nails along the overlap. It has been replaced by a commercial product that comes in 4' rolls and has a granular coating on a rubber-like tar sheet, called 'torch down'. The back side of the roll is heated up with a 4" torch and unrolled as it's heated, adhering to the 43# underlayment (w/ simplex nails 12" o/c). The torch-down rolls have a 4" overlap that is tar-to-tar, and granules are available to coat the exposed tar that will leak out of the joint. One good thing about torch-down is that it is self-sealing around any screw/nail penetrations from installing metal roofing or roof tiles on top of it. When installed by a licensed roofer, torch-down has a 10-year no-leak warranty.
I usually call it a chimney, but I like the sound of chiminey 😂
Thank you for making my day with another video🎉
My favorite couple, always an adventure or hard work. I used to love helping my Dad cut wood for the winter, he had a big wood stove in the basement that kept his house warm and cozy. My husband and I have a heat pump, I freeze all winter. Nothing like that wood heat. Nice new stove.
I'm in there with the beautiful memories as I watch you two splitting wood and smile with a warm heart 😊❤❤ Thank you for keeping a part of the old life continuing on.❤❤❤
My compliments, you filled the woodshed up fast. You guys are the A Team.
Plus, the woodburning stove is so pretty they have so many pretty ones
They’re not cheap. It’s expensive.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ooooh! A Blaze King Princess! That will be great when you leave for the day with the catalyst. That's the model we want to get asap.
Nothing as special as the first fire in a new wood heater installation. That warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction.
You make hard work look so easy 🤣. Would yall do a life update … your cabin you moved out of- your off grid in the woods cabin… future plans etc? ❤
Yes please!! Thank you!
Morning after gardening, taking a hot cup of Chai with biscuits looked for a spot to watching your new video....👌❤👍enjoying it ❤
You guys will appreciate the new Blaze King! I have the same one and absolutely love it. I have a tip for you for your wood splitter, add a couple inches to the top of the wedge. I did that to mine and it makes it so much more efficient. You'll really notice it on the logs that you want to split in quarters. It will split both halves at the same time instead of missing the one on top.
Looks like the Husq was the clear winner there.
That’s what I thought too!
Love the way the chickens "waller"in their dust baths!! They're so relaxed, enjoying!!
Love how you make it all look so easy. Third stove replacement. Love the cat snoozing.
That fire wood cutting,splitting and stacking at high speed fun to watch. Arielle the log you lifted and brought close to the camera in the lower 48 would have weigh 200 + lbs so we all thought mercy! Don’t mess with Arielle 💪🏽
I'm glad u got that log splitter Eric,bc it will save on ur back tremendously.
I love your channel. You 2 are such a cute couple. I love watching you both work together on everything.
You two are such hard workers! You continuously amaze me. Ariel, could you hear me telling me to watch your hands while you were using the wood splitter? lol It's the Mama in me. 😁 Thank you for sharing your amazing life with us. ❤
Thank best show from Alaska on UTUBE! Y’all work so hard that I’m exhausted when the video ends. lol. I’m 82 and it is so much fun watching you all hunt and play hard! God bless you both and of course blessing for all you animals. I wish we could get some of your cool weather here in Texas. ❤️🙏🏼
I have been using that exact stove for 16 years. With good wood it will burn on low fire for 20 hrs.. normally I load it twice a day with red fir. 1800 Sq ft home . Great choice.
Wow, that's a lot of firewood and a lot of work! Congrats on getting done early. And that is an awesome stove. Huge firebox. That will make life easier.
Thanks for inviting us in! Cheers.
JACK AND JILL OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF ALL!!!..YOU GUYS SHOULD BE WARM THIS WINTER..🎉🎉❤❤😂😮😊
I've been away a while, and watching you two again makes me feel like I've come back to stable ground! You are so consistent, industrious and always make such a great team!
Chimmeney 😂
The new woodstove looks nice! 🔥 Hope you guys can sleep through the night now, without having to put wood in 😴
Oh, I just love the little bird 🐦 enjoying food and with no worries. Probably listening as both of you explain the 2 stoves.
I've got a Robin that follows me everywhere, look out the window in the morn, he sitting on the wire, go in kitchen to make coffee, he's right outside the door, go to bathroom its sitting on the fence, when in doing yard work he's just feet away -- even when I'm in the garage, stands at the door watching me work. Its kinda creepy really.
Professional at fitting stoves the amount of times over the years following you both love the channel
Great Job you 2! You are a Team made in Heaven! I love seeing you 2 work together on your projects! Keep them coming. Not to brag but it was 79 degrees here today (08/21/24)!! I super enjoy your content. Keep it coming!
Lots of saw dust for the coop or even the garden beds.
When you see the cranes fly it’s when there is alarm. Rule of thumb is when the cranes fly you have 10 days to winter. 😉
Love the splitter y’all! So glad you’ve got that tool now.