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!
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 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!
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 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. 😺
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'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !!!
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! 💕🇺🇸💕
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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 😊
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. 😌
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
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!
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.
im a Stihl chainsaw guy all day. Also I would love to see another review on the wood stove in the spring. since you're burning Pine and Greener Pine at that and it's a catalytic stove if the creosote gum up the stove maybe you will have to build a hot fire with Birch once in awhile
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...✌️💪🌶️🌻♥️🏔️🤠
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.
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☺
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.❤❤❤
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.
Thank you for a Great video! As far as ice dams a co-worker built his house with a cold roof which separates your roof into two layers so that there is always airflow between them. Thus the upper layer is as close to outside air temperature as possible. A thought if you ever have to do an major roof work. Rather than WD-40 consider silicon spray as it is actually slick. While working as a radio station engineer we used automotive wax on the satellite dishes to keep the snow from sticking. At home we have used furniture polish on the snow blower and shovels to keep the slush from sticking but we aren't nearly as cold as you are. Cutting the slabs/flitches is easier if you drive a couple sets of two steel posts in the ground. The pairs would be far enough apart to fit the widest slabs you have and should be far enough between the pairs to support the slabs and not be in the way of cutting. For cutting 24" pieces it is easy to have the pairs 24" apart and cut centered in between the pairs. This works for slabs and for the stickers we used between pipe (oilfield) when it is stacked. They're hardwood 3x4's and when they start to bow they are tossed, so they are an easy source of firewood if you work/live around a pipe yard.
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. 😊
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.
I miss a wood stove. I don't miss the mess. I like the wood cutter that's very nice You did well Eric picking it. You two are a well oiled team .My hubby and I lived 98% of our married life on a farm self sufficient. we also raised Alpaca's for there fiber. I miss those days. It makes me happy to see young people still living this way. we've been married 43 yrs. we had to give up the farm when hubby got sick. I couldn't do it all myself as you two know it's team work we're in our late 70's.
I remember all the cutting, splitting and stacking of firewood for a year. Seemed like you no more got it done for one year and then you had to start for another. gave me a lot of satisfaction knowing that we had accomplished it though. We didn't have a splitter so my husband split it. I tried but spent more time laughing because I couldn't hit the same place twice in a row. Great job
You will absolutely love that stove. We have had our Blaze King Princess for 3 years and heat our 2000 sq ft home with it in Michigan. Works great and is our primary source of heating our home.4.5-5.5 cords a year based on the weather. Love watching you two every episode...
I lived near a sawmill and a veneer place years ago. It was great. Between the neighbors and us we bought an old grain truck and used it to haul sawdust for bedding in the stalls for the horses. And slabs to cut up for firewood. At the veneer place we bought bundles of what they called quarter rounds and used them for building. It was all heat treated and that stuff was hard as could be and lasted forever!!
And I'm tired from going to the stores 3-10 minutes down the road. Refilled my hurricane water jugs, restocking bought canned goods,candles,batteries and charcoal. The traffic wasn't bad today and not shopping on the weekend possibly saved me from dealing with cranky ppl. I love watching u guys and ur photography talent. Thank you for helping me appreciate my easier life....I still enjoy watching u guys ruffing it though!!!!💓💕❤️from Southeast Florida.
Yes, was just thinking the same with the chainsaw comparison at the end of the episode. How amazing is it that we live in a world with so much convenience? ❤ 🥰
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.
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.
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.
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. ❤
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. 😊
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 worked hard today, came home, now I'm watching people work hard.
Isn't it oddly relaxing!?
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.
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 love that your little bird friends visit your feeder, even when you are both right there.
Same!
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.
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...🎶
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
I like the commentary style when the mic battery died. A nice change and peaceful.
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
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 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!
Yes, Another video from Alaska's best couple. Love the looks of the new wood stove.
Every time Eric says "chimeny" I imagine Eric as a little boy watching the movie where the song comes from "Chim, chimeny"....so cute!
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 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. 😺
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.
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.”
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.
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
The labor is shared by both, I like that.
incredible how much they can get done together
Glad to see your upgrade in Wood Stoves, smart move no longer will the old stove continue to make an "ash" of itself!!! lol
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!
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.
Its always a great feeling when you have your wood shed full of seasoned fire wood!! Just like money in the bank!!!
Love that photo of Ariel with the icicles on her eye lashes!
I really like your channel...no politics..it is such an escape for all...thankyou Eric and Ariel!!!
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.
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.
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.
“We’re going to be doing something exciting today…” WHEN DON’T YOU TWO DO SOMETHING EXCITING?? 😊
Hahaha! So true!
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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.
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.
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 !!!
Thanks for the chicken moments….love their antics!…well your work is so harmoniously done together….cant help but have time fly!
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!
Nothing like doing chores vicariously thru you two. Boy I'm beat I'd should probably sit down for a bit.
Y’all are a wonder to watch. Two very smart young people. I love watching all your jobs. Stay sage.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
Looks like the Husq was the clear winner there.
That’s what I thought too!
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.
Chimmeney 😂
The new woodstove looks nice! 🔥 Hope you guys can sleep through the night now, without having to put wood in 😴
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 😊
Lol, it's 109 with a heat index around 115 in Central Texas and yall are building a fire. Drooling!
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. 😌
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
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!
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.
@ 7:20 nice that you tied Arielle off we wouldn't want to lose her !
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.
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures in life
I miss alllll the gardening, and preserving content!!!
im a Stihl chainsaw guy all day. Also I would love to see another review on the wood stove in the spring. since you're burning Pine and Greener Pine at that and it's a catalytic stove if the creosote gum up the stove maybe you will have to build a hot fire with Birch once in awhile
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...✌️💪🌶️🌻♥️🏔️🤠
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 )
23:11 It's True!! The early bird really does get the worm!
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.
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☺
I like the bird just hanging out with you guys doing the intro lol
I love these two! How Arielle apologizes for the roof being wet! ❤❤
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.❤❤❤
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.
Thank you for a Great video! As far as ice dams a co-worker built his house with a cold roof which separates your roof into two layers so that there is always airflow between them. Thus the upper layer is as close to outside air temperature as possible. A thought if you ever have to do an major roof work.
Rather than WD-40 consider silicon spray as it is actually slick. While working as a radio station engineer we used automotive wax on the satellite dishes to keep the snow from sticking. At home we have used furniture polish on the snow blower and shovels to keep the slush from sticking but we aren't nearly as cold as you are.
Cutting the slabs/flitches is easier if you drive a couple sets of two steel posts in the ground. The pairs would be far enough apart to fit the widest slabs you have and should be far enough between the pairs to support the slabs and not be in the way of cutting. For cutting 24" pieces it is easy to have the pairs 24" apart and cut centered in between the pairs. This works for slabs and for the stickers we used between pipe (oilfield) when it is stacked. They're hardwood 3x4's and when they start to bow they are tossed, so they are an easy source of firewood if you work/live around a pipe yard.
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. 😊
There is a chill here in Pennsylvania...closing windows, extra blankets...
🌬️49 here in Wisco last night, I hear you..and hitting 90☀️for maybe the last time this coming week.
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.
I love your videos. Old school hard work and innovation, new school beautiful camera work. Very unique.
the chicken realizing it's a grub and running off , epic.
I miss a wood stove. I don't miss the mess. I like the wood cutter that's very nice You did well Eric picking it. You two are a well oiled team .My hubby and I lived 98% of our married life on a farm self sufficient. we also raised Alpaca's for there fiber. I miss those days. It makes me happy to see young people still living this way. we've been married 43 yrs. we had to give up the farm when hubby got sick. I couldn't do it all myself as you two know it's team work we're in our late 70's.
Nothing as special as the first fire in a new wood heater installation. That warm fuzzy feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction.
I remember all the cutting, splitting and stacking of firewood for a year. Seemed like you no more got it done for one year and then you had to start for another. gave me a lot of satisfaction knowing that we had accomplished it though. We didn't have a splitter so my husband split it. I tried but spent more time laughing because I couldn't hit the same place twice in a row. Great job
Plus, the woodburning stove is so pretty they have so many pretty ones
They’re not cheap. It’s expensive.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You will absolutely love that stove. We have had our Blaze King Princess for 3 years and heat our 2000 sq ft home with it in Michigan. Works great and is our primary source of heating our home.4.5-5.5 cords a year based on the weather. Love watching you two every episode...
Always love seeing the new videos. Take care
I lived near a sawmill and a veneer place years ago. It was great. Between the neighbors and us we bought an old grain truck and used it to haul sawdust for bedding in the stalls for the horses. And slabs to cut up for firewood. At the veneer place we bought bundles of what they called quarter rounds and used them for building. It was all heat treated and that stuff was hard as could be and lasted forever!!
I'm glad u got that log splitter Eric,bc it will save on ur back tremendously.
And I'm tired from going to the stores 3-10 minutes down the road. Refilled my hurricane water jugs, restocking bought canned goods,candles,batteries and charcoal. The traffic wasn't bad today and not shopping on the weekend possibly saved me from dealing with cranky ppl. I love watching u guys and ur photography talent. Thank you for helping me appreciate my easier life....I still enjoy watching u guys ruffing it though!!!!💓💕❤️from Southeast Florida.
Can you imagine how difficult life would be without all the modern equipment
Yes, was just thinking the same with the chainsaw comparison at the end of the episode. How amazing is it that we live in a world with so much convenience? ❤ 🥰
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.
JACK AND JILL OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF ALL!!!..YOU GUYS SHOULD BE WARM THIS WINTER..🎉🎉❤❤😂😮😊
Good for you two with the bigger stove, More heat to cook with. Get good night sleep. Love you two.
Morning after gardening, taking a hot cup of Chai with biscuits looked for a spot to watching your new video....👌❤👍enjoying it ❤
Perfect video to usher in Fall! Fix the roof; install the stove; get the wood chopped. It looks like you guys are ready for cozy, cold days ahead!
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.
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.
The roof of the cabin is a great place to view the chicken coop and garden!
My compliments, you filled the woodshed up fast. You guys are the A Team.
Yes, great 37 minutes, guys!
When your butain runs out use " Uncle Kens Flat Candle " . Loved your video , informative .
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. ❤