A Doylestown pa surgeons son was killed by a BB gun ! His so called friend shot him in the back of the ear and killed him ! Sad day for the Doctor to see his son in the hospital for something so stupid! BB gun isn't a toy people!
@@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans I did check it out when she has her videos before Christmas. I did miss a few because we had company here for Christmas from out of town.
At 14 years old, I,m 92 now , my dad took me deer hunting, my boots were 5 buckle arctics and a felt inner boot. Walking into our stand our feet sweated quite a bit. When you got to the stand ,it took about 5 minutes for your feet to get cold. I wore a heavy Woolrich jacket that my mom sewed a red handkerchief on the back,safety orange started a long time after, but those were magic days and my Dad is long gone but always in my heart,I moved to Florida at age 65 but Pa. and the days of my youth will always hold the highlights of my life.
I’m from Pa. Loved your story. Brings back many memories of hunting deer with what ever fit with the help of mom. Mom passed away on this past December 28 at 90, I turned 69 on the 27 the day before. Thanks for the memories.
I'm only 55 but when I was a kid my dad (82) thought that 5 bukle arctic boots where the way to go. Didn't believe in things like laces and thinsilate. Spent most of my time feeding pigs and cutting firewood with cold feet. I doubt my kid even knows what they are.
Yeah man I still hang with my best buddy Charlie man we hunted all over South Jersey! Best times of my life! His father taught us how to Hunt ,fish,Trap,Clam,Skin a deer! And snapping turtle hunting! Yahoo Rip Butcher!
I bet none of you ever fell in the water duck hunting? Man talk about cold! The problem is your boots socks and feet turn to ice! Try and take those off fast! LoL only thing to do? Jump in the hot shower! Yahoo
Good morning from New Hampshire. Mike, you are all about efficiency and time. It is definitely a marathon and a love for the wood heat. You are handling your wood too much. We switched over to bins and saved so much time. The wood is split and stacked right in the bins. We use forks to handle the wood after it is stacked and the bin is placed next to the stove in the basement with a pallet jack. We can move a cord of wood in 10-15 minutes and are set for 3-4 weeks. Currently your process for handling each piece is log splitter -> ground -> shed-> tractor bucket -> outside rack -> inside rack -> stove. If you make a small bump out addition with a door on either side of the stove where the windows are your process would be cut in half if not more. From the log splitter -> stacked in IBC tote -> stove. You could store the IBC tote in the shed for drying and bring it up with the forks and placed in the small room near the stove. You could call it the wood closet. You could even put a door on the inside so you wouldn't see the IBC tote from the inside. It would definitely cut down on all the time you are spending handling the wood so you can use that time for other things.
I agree with you, Mike could build an attractive enclosure placed where the wood rack is at HQ, Doors front and rear and sized to fit a full wood tote/basket inside. Would save a lot of extra wood handling and time.
The only problem that I see is that he parks his trailers beside the building. An addition like you mentioned would cut down the available parking space down considerably.
@@chuckpreston4981 My thought was to locate the enclosure partially under the roof where the wood rack is now unless there is a window right there but there still would be room just behind the cistern without blocking the drive I believe.
The sled/boots/bread bags all bring back great memories. We had Cemetary Hill (it was an area of future addition to cemetary) that about 1/4 way down had a slight bump/ramp that you would catch air on with your sled then at bottom another 200' it ramped up to the road. We would be airborne half the width of road and 2-3 feet high...man we had fun! Oh, and the BB gun story, yes childhood was different back then, we played Army...alot. And jumped everything with our bikes, yes usually other kids laying on ground. Kind of shock we survived our stupidity
I remember the green boots and bread bags myself Mike. Used 2-3 pair of socks also. The hard crusty snow and down hill over a pasture with rocks sticking through the snow, I slid off the sled and contacted a stone with my shin, which required about 10 stitches. Good ole days.
I agree, there's nothing like a wood fire for warmth. And yes, it's messy and a lot of work. I'll be 75 this year and don't know how much longer I want to process firewood. I don't mind storing and hauling it. I have a carport converted to a woodshed. I keep my Polaris Ranger in it with the box filled with wood. When the wood cart in the house runs low I back the ranger to the front door and fill the wood cart. My neighbor selsl firewood, He's got a DYNA Firewood processor. Since he retired from the railroad he's picked up his firewood game. He was selling 200 cords/year. It's a whole lot more than that now. A cord of Ponderosa Pine delivered was $220 the last time I bought one a few years ago. I can only imagine it's more now.
Hey Mike, I took a piece of 2"black iron pipe and slotted and slipped it up over the plow cutting edge and then secured it by welding a couple straps to a cutting edge bolt. Prevents gouging sod and helps ride over your stone and seems to plow just as well. Just thought I would share. Dad wouldn't let us kids get the green boots. We had to get the 5 buckle "artics" that went over your regular shoes. They were warmer and I would guess cheaper but I envied the guys with the green slip on boots.
Skittles looked like a sweetheart of a dog. The problem is that lots of people do not want a large dog. Especially for an indoor dog. Hope he gets adopted soon.
Living and working in the WNY , Buffalo area I have seen some amazing snowstorms !!! The wind comes up Lake Erie , picks up a lot of moisture and the fist land it hits is the southern tier and Buffalo !!! My office was in south Buffalo and you could see the Lake Effect storm clouds coming off the lake . The snow comes in Snow Bands maybe only 10 or so miles wide , but in that band you get SNOW , big time !!! One storm a few years back the Buffalo area got 7 FEET of snow in one storm !!! They had D8 cats opening up some of the roads , amazing stuff . I live north of Buffalo by about 15 miles , just south of Lake Ontario and we generally get very few storms and a LOT less snow . You prepare for the winter expecting a bad winter and hoping for a mild winter.
I remember that storm from stories family in Buffalo told me. When I visited last Fall my uncle showed me where on the windows the snow level reached. Crazy.
Yep! I remove snow for a living this time of the year…it has been a very busy year so far. We are up in Crawford county, so a bit over an hour north of you. But we have been out the past 7 days straight. We have used up more salt already this season than the entire season last year. I am not complaining, though…I enjoy winter most of all.
My aunt Vera has a set of double doors next to her wood stove .On the outside is like a small shed that you fill your firewood wit then from inside the doors give you acess to your fire wood . It has cradle thats on a trolley that rolls part way in when the inside doors are open ...One of the coolest designs I 've ever seen.
LOL. Packing a PB&J in the am, and drinking water from the creek. Survival of the fittest BB gun battles. Sledding like a maniac on sketchy hills. Climbing to the treetops and swinging like a monkey screeching with laughter. Parents not seeing their kids till the steam whistle at the dairy plant blew at 5:00 PM. Those were the golden days!
Love the boot stories and shedding story. Stirs up great memories. We used to use old socks,cut finger holes in them then put them on your hands to use as wrist warmers.
Thanks for sharing the video - fun to hear some of your childhood anecdotes. I like a good winter (as long as the driveway doesn't get too deep - we don't have a tractor.... yet).
Good morning Morgans! Ah, the BB wars of youth. Pretty sure both my brother and I have pock scars from said endeavors. Grew up in the Deep South though, so only saw snow twice in my life before graduating high school and heading off to all of the wonderful places Uncle Sam saw fit to allow me to visit and live, so sledding was not a childhood event. Get plenty of it now, including a quite enjoyable episode yesterday with the young 'un that rapidly went from mild fun to Holy Cow to exhilarating to exhausted.
Roger on everything you said, used to listen to radio for school closings, had to be a foot of snow to close school, sharp sliver of wood in my boot while using chainsaw, next day it was in my big toe (ouch), where have all the Nor Easters gone I live in NY about 90 miles north of NYC we have not had a Nor Easter in 4 years, I have 9 full cords of mixed hardwood (oak, maple, red oak cherry and a lot of ash), due to the emerald ash boring beetle, they hollow the tree right out down the center. I have a Vermont Casting Defiant catalytic, stove works great. I got frost bite the other day on the tip of my nose while cleaning out the coops, 8 degrees and 35 mph. wind, stay warm and stay busy.
Good morning from Havana Fl just north of Tallahassee 28 on my front porch this morning. I really don’t know how you guys up north do it but you guys can have all this cold weather yall are tougher than me. Stay warm and safe
Mike, you need a hole in the wall of HQ to slip one of your IBC totes through, burn through the tote, pull the tote out when empty and replace with a full one. We keep a tote of firewood right outside a window that is beside the stove and pass the wood through the window.
Just a thought. Instead of putting the wood into your tractor bucket. And moving it to the patio and re stacking it. I know you have those firewood shelters. Instead of stacking in those you could always stack the firewood into ibc totes and still store them in the shelters and when it’s time to bring more wood up to HQ just bring the whole tote and leave that on the patio. That way all you have to to is go outside and grab from the totes and when the totes is empty exchange it for another one. I know you will store a little less but when it’s time to move the wood in the cold you are less cold because you’re not outside for as long and let the equipment do the work. Either way keep up the great work. I move all my wood with totes on my channel. And we sell a ton of wood. Matt from Wisconsin. Take care.
Thanks Mike. My childhood days were spent in a rural area east of Rochester NY and about 10 miles from Lake Onterio. Definitely snow country. I loved winter. Skiing, ice skating on farm ponds and of course clearing snow with tractors or good old shovel. I have many of the same memories about snow days like you had. I Enjoyed Eva's Vlogmas series. Still praying for Skittles adoption. Thanks for sharing your day
Growing up in the middle of NC, snow days were a rare and beautiful thing (until you had to pay them back at the end of the year). 😂 we had no snow clothes so we wore the plastic newspaper protector on our feet. My Daddy built a giant sled which he dragged behind the tractor and all the kids came out and jumped on! Once we had so many kids, the chain broke and off my Daddy drove, whistling away and completely oblivious to the pile of kids he was leaving behind. 😂😂😂 my Mama made snow cream that tasted like heaven ❤ great snow memories ❤
Hello Mike and Melissa! Very late today, as I had a few dr. Appointments this morning. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week! FYI. I believe yesterday was the anniversary of the blizzard of ‘96. I remember the snow being piled halfway up my parents’ front windows of their house. About 4 feet or so I believe here in SE PA
Omg. Generation X memories. The Daisy 880 was my go to air rifle of choice back in the day !! The dumbest thing I’ve ever done was to take a shot at a shag poke crane , one of those long legged wading birds that used to be around our neck of the woods. I lined up the sights and let one fly , the bird flew off like nothing happened. Later that day I found it laying on the ground some distance away. I’ve regretted it to this day.
Living along Hwy 50 in the western portion of WV. We got about 9-10" over the last few days. I grew up in the mountains of CO in the 50s- 70s. It was cold in those days with lots of snow. That was during the period that "we're headed for the next Ice Age" -40 degrees was normal during the dead of winter. It hasn't been that cold or as much snow since! There weren't any school closures due to weather in those days...
The last year that we had significant snowfalls was 91 when I lived in Minnesota. We had 30" on Halloween and a month later on the Friday after Thanksgiving we had another 30". I worked in Downtown Minneapolis at the time. The roads after the first snowfall were horrendous and didn't improve until Spring. It was heavy icy ruts.
Mike, I know exactly what that toothpick felt like and it brought up old memories! Back when I was a kid I had the same thing happen although it was a sewing needle. Hobbled around the house for a few days before my folks took me to the ER. Come to find out it had worked its way towards my ankle bone. Had to do surgery to remove it. Folks have always had a bit of regret as they thought I was just overreacting because they could never see it.
You're right about the Firewood Hobby. I've been a Subscriber to your channel since your videos were in the single digits. Heating with wood is a chore in itself. I got in a discussion just recently about this. I have a Central Boiler. 2004 model. Good to me. I bought it right at the deregulation of Natural Gas. So over the past 20 years my annual gas bill would be $2000. X 20 $40,000 in receipts if not the Central Boiler. I do have Dump trailers, chainsaws, log splitters and Tractor. Pole Barn to put it all in. Anyone looking to heat paying the Man or invest in yourself.
We love our wood stove! We have a Buck Stove model 91 catalytic that we’ve used for the last 15 years and would not part with it. It is a ton of work, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. You are right, wood heat is the best! Fortunately, we have a large woods with an endless supply of trees and a tractor to haul the IBC totes around.
I use totes as well and I made some carts with wheels and I bring a tote or 2 up to the house and roll them into the corner of the garage works nice another step in not handling fire wood.
Good morning Mike. I have memories of my Flex Rider from the '50's when growing up in Emporium, PA. I was fly down the hill at Tommy's house, with my green rubber boots that we always wore & feet got cold, and hit a rock under the snow that pushed me into a tree that I hit head on, slide forward & wrapped myself around that tree! Had to crawl home & Dad took me to the Dr. Not a hospital but the Dr's office at night. You know, that's when they did house calls too. Wearing those boots, we stop & make a fire from pine branches that we broke off the trees, to get our feet warm! Thanks for those memory reminders. Now you know how old this Old Jarhead in WNC is.
Red oak is excellent firewood. I have just burned wood from my woods and pretty much the only wood I mess with is red and white oak and beech. My favorite is white oak. It burns alot hotter than red oak. Beech isn't as hot as the oak but burns with a really pretty flame and leaves very few ashes.
Use movable racks like the totes for the wood rack up by the building otherwise you have to take it from the big shed, stack it in the bucket, unload and stack in the rack. Stacking into a portable tote at the big shed takes out 1 step.
Hi Mike, I lived in San Antonio for a while when I was a kid. One result of that experience is that you never put a boot on without checking to make sure that no critters, i.e. scorpions, climbed in during the night. You may wish to adopt that habit. Also, a cheap USB microscope helps to see those hard to reach areas when the wife is not around. 😉. Shalom/gw
It is funny you mention the flexi flyer. I grew up in Florida, but one year for Christmas, my Grandfather gave my 2 cousins,my brother and me a wheeled version. My grandparent's driveway was steep and had some turns. We did a lot of stupid things on that flexi - in the days before helmets and kneepads. My grandmother's answer was mercurichrome - boy that stung...
Oh yeah! Back in '59 we had a summer of bb gun wars...(stupid kids). Our arsenal consisted of a Daisy pump, a couple of Daisy lever actions, a gas-operated Plainsman pistol for rapid fire, and the big gun was a Crossman .22 pump up. The four of us blasted away at each other and no one had their eye put out...(stupid kids). We all sported a few blueberry blisters here and there, but we were lucky. Our parents worked and had no idea that this was going on. Stupid, looking back, but a blast at the time.
Oh yea, we used to shoot bottle rockets (whistling moon travelers with report) at each other back in the day😂😂😂😂. The current generation is doomed to boredom 😅
I remember driving around Pittsburgh in the late 60s and early 70s , always an adventure! Those hills are a real thing in the snow! But I will say , the road crews were great! And all the individual snow plow operators, kept things manageable! At night , looking at the City in the snow ,with the twinkling lights below was a beautiful sight! And back then , the steel mills were in full operation! I always remembered the slag , pouring down the hills by the Monongahela River , like lava ...I love Pittsburgh ♥️
Morning Morgan's. It's funny how us older people use to entertain ourselves when we were kids, I'm surprised that we lived threw it. I also had a similar incident with with my boot but it was a thorn Apple thorn that stuck me. Nice to see Hunter and Eva. Have a great day everyone.
The green rubber boots we called" pacs". Needed a boot jack to get them off if they were wet on the inside. Getting a new pair for Christmas was a big deal!
Good morning Mike, sorry to hear about your tooth pick issue. Good thing that Dr Melissa Morgan was available to come to the rescue. Nice to see Eva with you at the end of this video. You all take care during the cold front that your part of the country is experiencing. Here in Fresno we have mild weather in the 50°s during the day, however we are expecting some very windy conditions to come soon accordingly to the weather person here. Have a good day!
Boy did you bring back some memories when you mentioned the green boots and bread bags.i almost want to say the boots they used to sell at the grocery store but could be mistaken.real winters back then
Great memories, Mike! At the bottom of our sledding hill, there was a creek. If you didn't "hit the brakes" soon enough, you would get wet. That usually ended the sledding!😂
Mike, if you have ceiling fans make sure you have on and set to blow up or in reverse. I am sure you know this but it really helps moving warm air and eliminating cold spots. We use them always when running our woodstove.
Great memories! Bread bags green Kmart boots, hand me down coats, BB gun fights with welding masks on. Our childhoods were great. Not a lot of money but tons of great memories. Digging tunnels and making buildings for our hot wheels. Thanks for the memories my friend.
In our A frame - in mountains in California, We burned for 17 years with the same company stove as you have back of you. I found red burns hot due to the large cells of oxygen is there when burning. I found White Oak burns a bit cooler - smaller cells and more wood per stick of wood. We expect 1" tonight or tomorrow 200 miles from Houston. We had some for fun palm trees. The trees normally live. Talk to the oil man. Has trucks and you can buy bulk oil. See if you can get a used knee-high oil can with handles. Make great trash cans in the shops and fantastic ash cans on the porch it won't burn, and you are not walking out in the rain or snow until after the worst. Enjoy the snow while you got it.
I grew up in the 90s. We make our kids watch the scroll on the bottom of the local news station just like we had to. Same thing though, you miss it and you're waiting another 10 minutes. Kids need to learn patients anyway and the anticipation is so fun for them.
Couple more weeks of packing in the small evening snowfalls. The driveways will be easy to plow. Neighborhood kids would gather under a corner street light. Waiting to catch car bumpers. Kids are missing out on so much fun. Hen a car would slow or stop at corner We would squat down and grab bumper and slid on your feet for 2 or 3 blocks. And let go. Wait there to catch a slide back up. No bumpers to hold onto with these new cars.
I had those boots, an olive drab parka, and a flexible flyer. My friends would go down the creek with a trash can and fill it up and spill it on the sidewalk making a ice track. I hit a telephone pole and got 26 stitches over my eye. That was in the mid 70's.
As you were pushing that shovel I was thinking wait till you hit something, and you did and the music stopped! That was perfect 😂 The story about the bb gun was great 😂 Yes this is definitely a good old fashioned winter 🥶 I remember wearing bread bags when I was a kid out playing in the snow. I really enjoy seeing the behind the scenes stuff with the fire starter. We heat with wood, nothing better to warm up to. Thanks, take care
I started with Lotus 123 myself. Then Microsoft expanded. Take care. I noticed a lot of changes between 7 and 10. Wow Eva. We normally averaged 100" of rain. Not high enough for snow but now and then we would. The massive Redwoods loved the fog and the snow. Drips to roots is the trick.
Sorry for the late suggestion to name your room but here it is, “The Den”Back at the Den" means returning to a familiar, comfortable, and usually secluded space, like a room in your home that is used for relaxing, watching TV, or socializing with close friends; essentially, "going back to your home base.
Worst snow storm I was in was coming out of Buffalo heading west to Ohio. Whiteout conditions and the first time I ever witnessed lightning in a snow storm, really amazing!
Great memories for me as well. I started out with “goulashes” or rubber over shoes with buckles and bread wrappers. Then I had some tall green boots we called Northerners. Eagle777 stated same thing. Not much insulation but waterproof. Snow days meant you shoveled neighbors “walks” and “drives” for a couple bucks. We did the elderly neighbors for free. Then we could sled. No BB gun battles just snow forts and snowball fights. I’m in my 60’s but I still do my elderly neighbors drive and walk for free. Credit to my parents for teaching me to be a good neighbor. I use a machine to move snow now tho.
You have really become a red oak fan, in all ways! Stay warm and be safe. I agree, snow days were wonderful...just couldn't wait to get outside and get in it!!!
Ahhhhhh EVA !!!!! Great surprise 🌞... That's quite the small production line for your Fire Starter 🔥🪵... I hate to say it but we were do an old fashion snowy winter...down here in the SE part light light snow you can sweep closer to the Jersey shore lots of snow but that could be gone in 2 days...still cold 🥶 though ....
Hello Mike and family, enjoyed the story time and the toothpick must have been a crazy feeling. Nice to see Eva and hopefully skittles gets adopted by someone soon.
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Mike in construction we had to work in it! It was crazy! You come up with ways to stay warm ! 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
A Doylestown pa surgeons son was killed by a BB gun ! His so called friend shot him in the back of the ear and killed him ! Sad day for the Doctor to see his son in the hospital for something so stupid! BB gun isn't a toy people!
@@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans I did check it out when she has her videos before Christmas. I did miss a few because we had company here for Christmas from out of town.
At 14 years old, I,m 92 now , my dad took me deer hunting, my boots were 5 buckle arctics and a felt inner boot. Walking into our stand our feet sweated quite a bit. When you got to the stand ,it took about 5 minutes for your feet to get cold. I wore a heavy Woolrich jacket that my mom sewed a red handkerchief on the back,safety orange started a long time after, but those were magic days and my Dad is long gone but always in my heart,I moved to Florida at age 65 but Pa. and the days of my youth will always hold the highlights of my life.
I’m from Pa. Loved your story. Brings back many memories of hunting deer with what ever fit with the help of mom. Mom passed away on this past December 28 at 90, I turned 69 on the 27 the day before. Thanks for the memories.
I'm only 55 but when I was a kid my dad (82) thought that 5 bukle arctic boots where the way to go. Didn't believe in things like laces and thinsilate. Spent most of my time feeding pigs and cutting firewood with cold feet. I doubt my kid even knows what they are.
Yeah man I still hang with my best buddy Charlie man we hunted all over South Jersey! Best times of my life! His father taught us how to Hunt ,fish,Trap,Clam,Skin a deer! And snapping turtle hunting! Yahoo Rip Butcher!
I bet none of you ever fell in the water duck hunting? Man talk about cold! The problem is your boots socks and feet turn to ice! Try and take those off fast! LoL only thing to do? Jump in the hot shower! Yahoo
5 buckle arctics 😆 oh the memories!
I love how the music stops when the shovel stopped.😆😆😆😆
Same here! I HATE when that happens!! The music stops and the cussing commences!!! 😵
I chuckled as well!!!!
Editing perfection
It is great when Mike does that at the stop sign near his mother's house!! "Full Stop!"
Good morning from New Hampshire. Mike, you are all about efficiency and time. It is definitely a marathon and a love for the wood heat. You are handling your wood too much. We switched over to bins and saved so much time. The wood is split and stacked right in the bins. We use forks to handle the wood after it is stacked and the bin is placed next to the stove in the basement with a pallet jack. We can move a cord of wood in 10-15 minutes and are set for 3-4 weeks. Currently your process for handling each piece is log splitter -> ground -> shed-> tractor bucket -> outside rack -> inside rack -> stove. If you make a small bump out addition with a door on either side of the stove where the windows are your process would be cut in half if not more. From the log splitter -> stacked in IBC tote -> stove. You could store the IBC tote in the shed for drying and bring it up with the forks and placed in the small room near the stove. You could call it the wood closet. You could even put a door on the inside so you wouldn't see the IBC tote from the inside. It would definitely cut down on all the time you are spending handling the wood so you can use that time for other things.
I agree with you, Mike could build an attractive enclosure placed where the wood rack is at HQ, Doors front and rear and sized to fit a full wood tote/basket inside. Would save a lot of extra wood handling and time.
The only problem that I see is that he parks his trailers beside the building. An addition like you mentioned would cut down the available parking space down considerably.
@@chuckpreston4981 My thought was to locate the enclosure partially under the roof where the wood rack is now unless there is a window right there but there still would be room just behind the cistern without blocking the drive I believe.
Always super great to see Miss Eva! Lots of Kindness and Sweetness in this young lady……much like her Mom.
The sled/boots/bread bags all bring back great memories. We had Cemetary Hill (it was an area of future addition to cemetary) that about 1/4 way down had a slight bump/ramp that you would catch air on with your sled then at bottom another 200' it ramped up to the road. We would be airborne half the width of road and 2-3 feet high...man we had fun! Oh, and the BB gun story, yes childhood was different back then, we played Army...alot. And jumped everything with our bikes, yes usually other kids laying on ground. Kind of shock we survived our stupidity
I remember the green boots and bread bags myself Mike. Used 2-3 pair of socks also. The hard crusty snow and down hill over a pasture with rocks sticking through the snow, I slid off the sled and contacted a stone with my shin, which required about 10 stitches. Good ole days.
I remember being glued to the radio listening for school closings!
Mike, I LOVE those old times stories! I laughed so much listening to this story with the radio and with the sled! I want to hear more of them!
Good morning Mike, I would sure like to see how your blower on the tractor would do with the snow.
I agree, there's nothing like a wood fire for warmth. And yes, it's messy and a lot of work. I'll be 75 this year and don't know how much longer I want to process firewood. I don't mind storing and hauling it. I have a carport converted to a woodshed. I keep my Polaris Ranger in it with the box filled with wood. When the wood cart in the house runs low I back the ranger to the front door and fill the wood cart. My neighbor selsl firewood, He's got a DYNA Firewood processor. Since he retired from the railroad he's picked up his firewood game. He was selling 200 cords/year. It's a whole lot more than that now. A cord of Ponderosa Pine delivered was $220 the last time I bought one a few years ago. I can only imagine it's more now.
Hey Mike, I took a piece of 2"black iron pipe and slotted and slipped it up over the plow cutting edge and then secured it by welding a couple straps to a cutting edge bolt. Prevents gouging sod and helps ride over your stone and seems to plow just as well. Just thought I would share. Dad wouldn't let us kids get the green boots. We had to get the 5 buckle "artics" that went over your regular shoes. They were warmer and I would guess cheaper but I envied the guys with the green slip on boots.
The music cut off with the shovel stopping at the start was a nice touch.
Skittles looked like a sweetheart of a dog. The problem is that lots of people do not want a large dog. Especially for an indoor dog.
Hope he gets adopted soon.
Good morning from Kentucky . It's 17 degrees here right now . Hope you all have a safe and wonderful day .
Good morning everyone from Gilbert Arizona. Happy to report there is no snow forecasted for my area.
Living and working in the WNY , Buffalo area I have seen some amazing snowstorms !!! The wind comes up Lake Erie , picks up a lot of moisture and the fist land it hits is the southern tier and Buffalo !!! My office was in south Buffalo and you could see the Lake Effect storm clouds coming off the lake . The snow comes in Snow Bands maybe only 10 or so miles wide , but in that band you get SNOW , big time !!! One storm a few years back the Buffalo area got 7 FEET of snow in one storm !!! They had D8 cats opening up some of the roads , amazing stuff . I live north of Buffalo by about 15 miles , just south of Lake Ontario and we generally get very few storms and a LOT less snow . You prepare for the winter expecting a bad winter and hoping for a mild winter.
I remember that storm from stories family in Buffalo told me. When I visited last Fall my uncle showed me where on the windows the snow level reached. Crazy.
Yep! I remove snow for a living this time of the year…it has been a very busy year so far. We are up in Crawford county, so a bit over an hour north of you. But we have been out the past 7 days straight. We have used up more salt already this season than the entire season last year. I am not complaining, though…I enjoy winter most of all.
My aunt Vera has a set of double doors next to her wood stove .On the outside is like a small shed that you fill your firewood wit then from inside the doors give you acess to your fire wood . It has cradle thats on a trolley that rolls part way in when the inside doors are open ...One of the coolest designs I 've ever seen.
LOL. Packing a PB&J in the am, and drinking water from the creek. Survival of the fittest BB gun battles. Sledding like a maniac on sketchy hills. Climbing to the treetops and swinging like a monkey screeching with laughter. Parents not seeing their kids till the steam whistle at the dairy plant blew at 5:00 PM. Those were the golden days!
Love the boot stories and shedding story. Stirs up great memories. We used to use old socks,cut finger holes in them then put them on your hands to use as wrist warmers.
Thanks for sharing the video - fun to hear some of your childhood anecdotes. I like a good winter (as long as the driveway doesn't get too deep - we don't have a tractor.... yet).
Good morning Morgans! Ah, the BB wars of youth. Pretty sure both my brother and I have pock scars from said endeavors. Grew up in the Deep South though, so only saw snow twice in my life before graduating high school and heading off to all of the wonderful places Uncle Sam saw fit to allow me to visit and live, so sledding was not a childhood event. Get plenty of it now, including a quite enjoyable episode yesterday with the young 'un that rapidly went from mild fun to Holy Cow to exhilarating to exhausted.
Roger on everything you said, used to listen to radio for school closings, had to be a foot of snow to close school, sharp sliver of wood in my boot while using chainsaw, next day it was in my big toe (ouch), where have all the Nor Easters gone I live in NY about 90 miles north of NYC we have not had a Nor Easter in 4 years, I have 9 full cords of mixed hardwood (oak, maple, red oak cherry and a lot of ash), due to the emerald ash boring beetle, they hollow the tree right out down the center. I have a Vermont Casting Defiant catalytic, stove works great. I got frost bite the other day on the tip of my nose while cleaning out the coops, 8 degrees and 35 mph. wind, stay warm and stay busy.
Good morning from Havana Fl just north of Tallahassee 28 on my front porch this morning. I really don’t know how you guys up north do it but you guys can have all this cold weather yall are tougher than me. Stay warm and safe
Mike, you need a hole in the wall of HQ to slip one of your IBC totes through, burn through the tote, pull the tote out when empty and replace with a full one.
We keep a tote of firewood right outside a window that is beside the stove and pass the wood through the window.
Have a good day Mike Melissa and hunter Stay warm Enjoy your day be safe
BB gun antics. Sounds familiar. Us nearly 60 y/os had all kinds of fun.
Great intro by the way. Really funny the shovel.
Just a thought. Instead of putting the wood into your tractor bucket. And moving it to the patio and re stacking it. I know you have those firewood shelters. Instead of stacking in those you could always stack the firewood into ibc totes and still store them in the shelters and when it’s time to bring more wood up to HQ just bring the whole tote and leave that on the patio. That way all you have to to is go outside and grab from the totes and when the totes is empty exchange it for another one. I know you will store a little less but when it’s time to move the wood in the cold you are less cold because you’re not outside for as long and let the equipment do the work. Either way keep up the great work. I move all my wood with totes on my channel. And we sell a ton of wood. Matt from Wisconsin. Take care.
Thanks Mike. My childhood days were spent in a rural area east of Rochester NY and about 10 miles from Lake Onterio. Definitely snow country. I loved winter. Skiing, ice skating on farm ponds and of course clearing snow with tractors or good old shovel. I have many of the same memories about snow days like you had. I Enjoyed Eva's Vlogmas series. Still praying for Skittles adoption. Thanks for sharing your day
Growing up in the middle of NC, snow days were a rare and beautiful thing (until you had to pay them back at the end of the year). 😂 we had no snow clothes so we wore the plastic newspaper protector on our feet. My Daddy built a giant sled which he dragged behind the tractor and all the kids came out and jumped on! Once we had so many kids, the chain broke and off my Daddy drove, whistling away and completely oblivious to the pile of kids he was leaving behind. 😂😂😂 my Mama made snow cream that tasted like heaven ❤ great snow memories ❤
Hello Mike and Melissa! Very late today, as I had a few dr. Appointments this morning. I hope you have a fantastic rest of your week! FYI. I believe yesterday was the anniversary of the blizzard of ‘96. I remember the snow being piled halfway up my parents’ front windows of their house. About 4 feet or so I believe here in SE PA
Couldn't help but chuckle at your reminiscing. Sounded so much like my early teens. Great days
Omg. Generation X memories. The Daisy 880 was my go to air rifle of choice back in the day !! The dumbest thing I’ve ever done was to take a shot at a shag poke crane , one of those long legged wading birds that used to be around our neck of the woods. I lined up the sights and let one fly , the bird flew off like nothing happened. Later that day I found it laying on the ground some distance away. I’ve regretted it to this day.
Mike, how many pumps did you shoot that kid with? Those daisy 880 are crazy powerful for a bb gun
Good morning from Camden New York over the last three days 65 inches of lake effect snow
Wow!
The Town of Lee, NY here.....hello neighbor .....
Living along Hwy 50 in the western portion of WV. We got about 9-10" over the last few days.
I grew up in the mountains of CO in the 50s- 70s. It was cold in those days with lots of snow. That was during the period that "we're headed for the next Ice Age" -40 degrees was normal during the dead of winter.
It hasn't been that cold or as much snow since!
There weren't any school closures due to weather in those days...
The last year that we had significant snowfalls was 91 when I lived in Minnesota. We had 30" on Halloween and a month later on the Friday after Thanksgiving we had another 30". I worked in Downtown Minneapolis at the time. The roads after the first snowfall were horrendous and didn't improve until Spring. It was heavy icy ruts.
Mike, I know exactly what that toothpick felt like and it brought up old memories!
Back when I was a kid I had the same thing happen although it was a sewing needle.
Hobbled around the house for a few days before my folks took me to the ER.
Come to find out it had worked its way towards my ankle bone. Had to do surgery to remove it.
Folks have always had a bit of regret as they thought I was just overreacting because they could never see it.
The joy of Eva's spirit shines though that beautiful smile!!¡
My OCD appreciates your putting the labels on the fire starter straight. I also have Excel spreadsheets for everything.
You're right about the Firewood Hobby. I've been a Subscriber to your channel since your videos were in the single digits.
Heating with wood is a chore in itself. I got in a discussion just recently about this. I have a Central Boiler. 2004 model. Good to me.
I bought it right at the deregulation of Natural Gas.
So over the past 20 years my annual gas bill would be $2000. X 20 $40,000 in receipts if not the Central Boiler. I do have Dump trailers, chainsaws, log splitters and Tractor. Pole Barn to put it all in. Anyone looking to heat paying the Man or invest in yourself.
We love our wood stove! We have a Buck Stove model 91 catalytic that we’ve used for the last 15 years and would not part with it. It is a ton of work, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. You are right, wood heat is the best! Fortunately, we have a large woods with an endless supply of trees and a tractor to haul the IBC totes around.
Excel is a must for anything, UA-cam videos are great tools.
Good video guys ya damn cold and snowy up here we Just missed the 6 feet of snow we get about 12’s
I use totes as well and I made some carts with wheels and I bring a tote or 2 up to the house and roll them into the corner of the garage works nice another step in not handling fire wood.
Good morning Mike. I have memories of my Flex Rider from the '50's when growing up in Emporium, PA. I was fly down the hill at Tommy's house, with my green rubber boots that we always wore & feet got cold, and hit a rock under the snow that pushed me into a tree that I hit head on, slide forward & wrapped myself around that tree! Had to crawl home & Dad took me to the Dr. Not a hospital but the Dr's office at night. You know, that's when they did house calls too.
Wearing those boots, we stop & make a fire from pine branches that we broke off the trees, to get our feet warm! Thanks for those memory reminders. Now you know how old this Old Jarhead in WNC is.
Red oak is excellent firewood. I have just burned wood from my woods and pretty much the only wood I mess with is red and white oak and beech. My favorite is white oak. It burns alot hotter than red oak. Beech isn't as hot as the oak but burns with a really pretty flame and leaves very few ashes.
I'm sure glad you have a UA-cam channel, Mike ...you remind me of why I love Western PA so much!
Now that you have the nice driveway.... the clearing would be a most excellent spot for a mega barn
Add a number in reverse on the wall of your firewood shed so at a glance you know how many rows/ stacks are left in the bay. 5,4,3,2,1
Use movable racks like the totes for the wood rack up by the building otherwise you have to take it from the big shed, stack it in the bucket, unload and stack in the rack. Stacking into a portable tote at the big shed takes out 1 step.
i shure bless my luck as a city guy
alwase take care of property... Mr Morgan is sure a diligent man !
Salute!...
Awesome edit with the music and stuck shovel!😂😂😂😂
That cracked me up as well. 😂
Mike I love it ! 2 fans running on the old wood stove! Yahoo
Hi Mike, I lived in San Antonio for a while when I was a kid. One result of that experience is that you never put a boot on without checking to make sure that no critters, i.e. scorpions, climbed in during the night. You may wish to adopt that habit. Also, a cheap USB microscope helps to see those hard to reach areas when the wife is not around. 😉. Shalom/gw
It is funny you mention the flexi flyer. I grew up in Florida, but one year for Christmas, my Grandfather gave my 2 cousins,my brother and me a wheeled version. My grandparent's driveway was steep and had some turns. We did a lot of stupid things on that flexi - in the days before helmets and kneepads. My grandmother's answer was mercurichrome - boy that stung...
Oh yeah! Back in '59 we had a summer of bb gun wars...(stupid kids). Our arsenal consisted of a Daisy pump, a couple of Daisy lever actions, a gas-operated Plainsman pistol for rapid fire, and the big gun was a Crossman .22 pump up. The four of us blasted away at each other and no one had their eye put out...(stupid kids). We all sported a few blueberry blisters here and there, but we were lucky. Our parents worked and had no idea that this was going on. Stupid, looking back, but a blast at the time.
Oh yea, we used to shoot bottle rockets (whistling moon travelers with report) at each other back in the day😂😂😂😂. The current generation is doomed to boredom 😅
In Wv back in the 50’s we played army with BB guns
@@dougtravins9624 I had a plainsman bb pistol, shot right through a new garage can lid my dad had just bought, not a good situation 😅
Nice veiw of morgans meadow with all the snow
I remember driving around Pittsburgh in the late 60s and early 70s , always an adventure! Those hills are a real thing in the snow! But I will say , the road crews were great! And all the individual snow plow operators, kept things manageable!
At night , looking at the City in the snow ,with the twinkling lights below was a beautiful sight! And back then , the steel mills were in full operation! I always remembered the slag , pouring down the hills by the Monongahela River , like lava ...I love Pittsburgh ♥️
Thank you for the video Mike. Good luck on Skittles Eva. Good to see you on the channel as well
Morning Morgan's. It's funny how us older people use to entertain ourselves when we were kids, I'm surprised that we lived threw it. I also had a similar incident with with my boot but it was a thorn Apple thorn that stuck me. Nice to see Hunter and Eva. Have a great day everyone.
It’s the”man spin” that’s so satisfying, Mike.
Good Morning Mike and Friends... another cold, windy day in Ontario
Pete 🇨🇦
Hi Pete, Cold here all day today but clear skies.
Good morning Pete, have a great day!
Good morning Pete
Cold and clear in NCNC too. About 25F/-4C. Yesterday’s cold wet dried up overnight, leaving only a few patches of black ice to avoid.
@@davidmorse8432Morning David.... kinda blue sky here, it's just that 25mph wind...😮
The green rubber boots we called" pacs". Needed a boot jack to get them off if they were wet on the inside. Getting a new pair for Christmas was a big deal!
Morning Morgan's from BUCKS COUNTY pa. Oh its a frigid day. Everyone have a day and enjoy.
Good morning from Texas!
Enjoyed seeing Eva & Hunter! Mike thanks for mentioning Ryan Hall on your videos; I really like his videos! Take care!
Ryan Hall - me too
Morning from Flat Top. Cold, 22 and a little snow on the ground. Stomach bug going like crazy down here.
Good morning Mike, sorry to hear about your tooth pick issue. Good thing that Dr Melissa Morgan was available to come to the rescue. Nice to see Eva with you at the end of this video. You all take care during the cold front that your part of the country is experiencing. Here in Fresno we have mild weather in the 50°s during the day, however we are expecting some very windy conditions to come soon accordingly to the weather person here. Have a good day!
Boy did you bring back some memories when you mentioned the green boots and bread bags.i almost want to say the boots they used to sell at the grocery store but could be mistaken.real winters back then
All those years of splitting firewood, now the wood is getting revenge! 🤣
Great memories, Mike! At the bottom of our sledding hill, there was a creek. If you didn't "hit the brakes" soon enough, you would get wet. That usually ended the sledding!😂
@@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849 🤣🤣
Your mention of “Tossel Cap” immediately brings me back to the mid-1960’s in the Burg. Thanks for the memories.
Mike, if you have ceiling fans make sure you have on and set to blow up or in reverse. I am sure you know this but it really helps moving warm air and eliminating cold spots. We use them always when running our woodstove.
Yup, I use my wood stove and once or twice a week, but when I do life takes on a whole new sense of peacefulness and comfort.
Great memories! Bread bags green Kmart boots, hand me down coats, BB gun fights with welding masks on. Our childhoods were great. Not a lot of money but tons of great memories. Digging tunnels and making buildings for our hot wheels. Thanks for the memories my friend.
In our A frame - in mountains in California, We burned for 17 years with the same company stove as you have back of you. I found red burns hot due to the large cells of oxygen is there when burning. I found White Oak burns a bit cooler - smaller cells and more wood per stick of wood. We expect 1" tonight or tomorrow 200 miles from Houston. We had some for fun palm trees. The trees normally live. Talk to the oil man. Has trucks and you can buy bulk oil. See if you can get a used knee-high oil can with handles. Make great trash cans in the shops and fantastic ash cans on the porch it won't burn, and you are not walking out in the rain or snow until after the worst. Enjoy the snow while you got it.
Mike here in Missouri oak is firewood the rest is just kindling we don’t have much cherry and we don’t cut maple to soft
I grew up in the 90s. We make our kids watch the scroll on the bottom of the local news station just like we had to. Same thing though, you miss it and you're waiting another 10 minutes. Kids need to learn patients anyway and the anticipation is so fun for them.
Still shoveling out from the 12 - 8 inches of snow with a layer of ice on the bottom we got on Sunday into Monday.
Couple more weeks of packing in the small evening snowfalls. The driveways will be easy to plow. Neighborhood kids would gather under a corner street light. Waiting to catch car bumpers. Kids are missing out on so much fun. Hen a car would slow or stop at corner We would squat down and grab bumper and slid on your feet for 2 or 3 blocks. And let go. Wait there to catch a slide back up. No bumpers to hold onto with these new cars.
I had those boots, an olive drab parka, and a flexible flyer. My friends would go down the creek with a trash can and fill it up and spill it on the sidewalk making a ice track. I hit a telephone pole and got 26 stitches over my eye. That was in the mid 70's.
We put a 96 inch ceiling fan in our great room to distribute the warm from our fireplace
So nice to see Eva at the beginning of your video.
As you were pushing that shovel I was thinking wait till you hit something, and you did and the music stopped! That was perfect 😂
The story about the bb gun was great 😂
Yes this is definitely a good old fashioned winter 🥶
I remember wearing bread bags when I was a kid out playing in the snow.
I really enjoy seeing the behind the scenes stuff with the fire starter.
We heat with wood, nothing better to warm up to.
Thanks, take care
I started with Lotus 123 myself. Then Microsoft expanded. Take care. I noticed a lot of changes between 7 and 10. Wow Eva. We normally averaged 100" of rain. Not high enough for snow but now and then we would. The massive Redwoods loved the fog and the snow. Drips to roots is the trick.
Sorry for the late suggestion to name your room but here it is, “The Den”Back at the Den" means returning to a familiar, comfortable, and usually secluded space, like a room in your home that is used for relaxing, watching TV, or socializing with close friends; essentially, "going back to your home base.
Great video Mike. Good to see Melissa, Eva, and Hunter. Enjoyed the stories and glad everyone is safe and sound. 👍❤️🙏
Good morning, Morgan family
Worst snow storm I was in was coming out of Buffalo heading west to Ohio. Whiteout conditions and the first time I ever witnessed lightning in a snow storm, really amazing!
Same hear, this temp is eating fire would by leap and bounds.
Love's you're stories!!
We had the black three buckle and four buckle boots as kids.
Back in the 60s wr lived on flexible flyers. The good old days
Great memories for me as well. I started out with “goulashes” or rubber over shoes with buckles and bread wrappers. Then I had some tall green boots we called Northerners. Eagle777 stated same thing. Not much insulation but waterproof. Snow days meant you shoveled neighbors “walks” and “drives” for a couple bucks. We did the elderly neighbors for free. Then we could sled. No BB gun battles just snow forts and snowball fights. I’m in my 60’s but I still do my elderly neighbors drive and walk for free. Credit to my parents for teaching me to be a good neighbor. I use a machine to move snow now tho.
Same
Goulash is an Hungarian national dish, you mean Galoshes a rubber over shoe. 👍
You have really become a red oak fan, in all ways! Stay warm and be safe. I agree, snow days were wonderful...just couldn't wait to get outside and get in it!!!
Ahhhhhh EVA !!!!! Great surprise 🌞...
That's quite the small production line for your Fire Starter 🔥🪵...
I hate to say it but we were do an old fashion snowy winter...down here in the SE part light light snow you can sweep closer to the Jersey shore lots of snow but that could be gone in 2 days...still cold 🥶 though ....
May as well stop at the great American outdoor show in Harrisburg while you are in the area Mike!
Hello Mike and family, enjoyed the story time and the toothpick must have been a crazy feeling. Nice to see Eva and hopefully skittles gets adopted by someone soon.