50 Must know heating with firewood tips and tricks for 2019
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- These are my favorite top 50 heating with firewood tips and tricks for 2019. Covering topics such as cutting, splitting, stacking, and burning firewood. Hope this can help. Please share with anyone you think can find this information helpful. Thanks for watching!
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First impression, "what is somebody this young going to teach me".
Well, I'm glad I started watching. By about the first minute I was impressed and at the end I was very much so.
Best 11:00 minutes of tips I've ever seen.
Thank you.
Agreed !! Good job 👍
This guy was very helpful.
Great video! I’m an old timer and have been burning wood to heat my home for a very long time. That said, when I saw your vid I thought I’d check it out and see if I’ve missed some new tricks to make things easier. As you went through your presentation, I started checking off your suggestions, yep I do that and yep I know that trick and so on. The BIG difference is that my learning curve was much longer than yours and as a young man I substituted brute strength for wisdom and paid for that in later years. I still fall trees and cut all my fire wood and with my old Geezer buddies we even cut for others in our community that can’t anymore. I hope all the young viewers will take heed to all of your tips as it will make firewood processing much more fun and sustainable over the long run. That’s my two cents for what it’s worth and once again, Great 👍 video!
Siskiyou Woodsmann you wouldn’t happen to.be in Maine would you? My ‘old geezer”.uncle and his buddies also cut wood together.
Siskiyou Woodsman - I was cutting and splitting with a group last year for the first time and it definitely made it way more fun. Especially when we stopped to have a break and lunch. You also know you not the only one sore the following day. LOL
Love your 2 cents!!!
I would guess from your name you're either in Northern California or Southern Oregon
John Flynn , ✔️
If you only take one saw to the bush, have an extra bar and chain with you that will fit the saw that you are using. That way if you get the saw bar pinched and can't get it out just undo the pinched bar and put on your extra spare bar and chain to cut out the pinched bar.
Truer words have never been spoken
Great advice. I’ve suggested that to many people over many years.
I use to that then I got 2 saws then 3 saws then 10 saws now I probably have around 50 and a pile of parts . It gets so difficult to try to pick out a couple to use. Then I end with less firewood space. Lol
Such a simple thing that can save you. I feel stupid for never thinking of that
@@jerrodmasters6199 NICE seeing someone with the Fever... I'm now at 12 saws and I can't help studying, window shopping, pricing and drooling of course... Did you stick with one brand or are you a MultiFever Man?
man you put out a lot of info in a short time there dude. It took me 70+ yrs. to learn all that.
I had to learn in a few years or I freeze. My mom is 72 and she has arthritis. I had to learn real quick
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Ultimate compliment.
Great video. I have heated with wood for a good part of my 66 years and could not find fault with anything you said.
Great info! I’m a city girl living in the woods. Your tips for things like the welders gloves, carbon monoxide alarms, and moisture meter are great! I “wooda “ never thought of them. Thanks for keeping it concise. I’ve got the attention span of a flea.
City girl living in the woods sounds like every single Hallmark movie ever made. Hope you didn't leave your high paying stressful big city career to be a housewife that sells cupcakes at the farmers market 😳
Of all the firewood videos I've ever watched, this was the most useful one I've ever seen. Subscribed,
ditto
Ditto x2
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It's obvious you know your stuff. It's refreshing to see someone on youtube who puts out good useful information.
Really great video! Been cutting 40 years and I think you covered everything. If you make another, I thought of one thing. It helps besides flipping your bar, sanding it with metal sand paper with a palm sander, or wood sandpaper works too but, not for long. You want to take that little rough edge that forms on the very outer edge of your bar track. That can make your saw seem not as sharp because it's not smooth slipping through the cut. And I have to say. The video is really good too, how you did it. The speed is great and your timing and you didn't throw in unnecessary verbage. Excellent!!! ;)
Eric - The information density in this video is incredible (and I bet the editing effort was too!). I learned a TON from it: door gasket dollar bill test, stovepipe thermometers, climbing vines when felling, and rolling newspaper to name just a few. Thanks!
This is the best tip list I've seen! I do a LOT of firewood every year and have for a long time. I think you covered pretty much everything! Excellent!
Thanks again Eric for sharing your knowledge of heating with firewood.
One thing i learned now that i am the old guy. Get young people to lift logs on to the splitter. I just work the handle.
Me too!!!!
For fire starter: use old candles, drip some wax in the ash and light the ash, it works very well. Often need nothing else to start a fire, even with largish size pieces.
Very informative! I've been heating with wood for 15 years and I learned quite a few things from this video! Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video, straight to the point, and chock full of great tips. This is what all how-to UA-cam videos should be like.
Wonderful video as usual. Well worth the time spent to watch it.
Amazing, 3 minutes in and already didn't know half of them. Already one of my favorite informative videos. Quick yet thorough. Thank you good sir
the simple advice makes me feel just silly marking the trailer is priceless and has already added to my production rate many thanks from a new sub,
Thank you for your time and effort. Very short-and-to-the-point. You are wise beyond your years.
2019/20 will be my 9th year heating with wood. I learned a few things. Not just from the video but comments too. Thanks!
Thank you so much for making this video! I learned a lot, since I bought my first stove this September in upper Michigan. All the best!
You have the best videos on firewood, stoves and all that applies. Just started burning wood three winters ago. You made the learning curve a lot shorter. THANKS for the help!!
Excellent tips!
Your advice to your viewers is spot on and excellently arranged. We have been heating with wood since 1986 and have found all of these pointers valuable over the years. Well done!
I've been heating with wood for a few years now. I learned a number of these things on my own. I would have loved to have had this video before I started. I'm going to use some of these tips as I start cutting for next year. Thank you for sharing the knowledge!
Great video. 21 seconds from the start to when the facts begin, no filler whatsoever, amazing!
Thanks for the summary, i learned a lot and will make changes this year. Bought a Log Ox, Chaps, and changed my processes.
Been burning wood on firestove for 20 years and still learned something new. Thankyou
Very good video. I’ve heated exclusively with wood for 40 years and was surprised by how through you were here. Very good information. Thank you.
These were great tips Eric! I really appreciated how you just kept right on moving through them so I was able to watch the whole thing in one sitting. We are pretty new to burning with wood, and this is also our first winter on our new homestead. So we are learning a lot and I've been giving a lot of thought to systematizing how we handle the wood so and this is also our first winter on our new homestead. So we are learning a lot and I've been giving a lot of thought to systematizing how we handle the wood so we aren't wasting time and energy moving it more times than needed.
I've been wood burning since the blizzard of '78. Excellent video! I've been coppicing hedge apple since '92 and round stacking since last year.
Thank you for sharing this helpful, meaningful info - just getting started with wood heat and appreciate your generosity and sensibleness of your gift.
Wow!! Your knowledge of fireplaces and the equipment it takes to run one is amazing! Great job!!
Have been cutting wood for my stove for years . these are great tips tx
This is an excellent video. I have burned wood my whole life, and sell firewood. I was skeptical before I clicked on it, but was pleasantly surprised.
always learning Mike
i wish i knew about marking the splitter before i started out....best tip of the 50!
I don't even have a wood stove but now I want to get one after watching this video. This was one of the most informative videos I have ever watched. Impressive information related in an easy going format and obviously drawn on lots of experience. You are a born teacher! Again... Great Job! Also, I just downloaded this video to store on an external hard-drive for later viewing!
Love this video man! So many valuable tips that EVERYONE needs to consider!! Oh you mentioned Chip Drop to get wood, another method and my favorite is emailing or calling local arborist/tree service companies and in many cases they will deliver to you. You get the wood and chips, they save time, fuel, money and man-hours! Win-win. Thank you for sharing.
all the local arborists where I live sell firewood.
Thank you!!! This is nothing short of genius. We just bought a mountain cabin and everything you covered has changed everything for us!!
That was a great run down and reminder on some safety items
Excellent advice and I started cutting my own wood fifty years ago.
These were some great tips. There were several things I never thought about, such as the positioning of the logs in the stove. All good material, no fluff. Thumbs up!
Great comments on use of the moisture meter. Your remark about having one when buying wood was spot on. Seasoned wood means different things to those who sell wood. Thanks again. Great vid.
Great tip on flipping the bar I never even considered that.
Thank you for making this video, i have implemented a number of these techniques when sawing and chopping today (and got myself a moisture meter)
Here's to a warm and toasty winter 2020
Eric, you are the Firewood Master.. I learned a lot just watching today, and I have burned for lots of years...Thank you
No Wranglerstar is LoL
Just got my first woodstove. Thank you for all your knowledge, interest and sharing it here.
Wow excellent info and video. Quick pace and zero filler. Will be moving back to the country soon and wood heat as i semi retire. Been without a wood stove for 20 years and miss it. Thanks for all the tips! Your a blessing.
ive been burning wood for 15+ years and learned several things. Thanks for the info!!
Very well done! I really enjoyed that.
Eric, I never get tired of watching your videos. It’s so funny of how many times you come to my mind. I have used many of your tips/lessons. You are so right about checking with your home owners insurance company first before going with a wood burning stove. My wife works for an insurance company here in Indiana and she has shared some things on insurance policies. I also bought some wood from a guy this year that told me his insurance company told him as long as it’s professionally installed by a company that does it there is no problem whatsoever, his rates never even increased for having a wood burning stove because he had it installed by a company. That might be useful to some of your followers who wants a wood burning stove.
Glad to see you bring up the LogOx Sling again, LOL I had just signed up for it again this morning. I was thinking of that sling about an hour ago while I was killing my back bringing in more firewood LOL. Can’t wait to get one of those.
Anyway, peace to you and your family, nice to see another video and thanks again, God Bless!
I signed up the first time, too. Does this mean that the first time is a charitable contribution? Your comment that you signed up again makes me wonder. Thanks in advance if you can answer this!
Remember...an insurance agent has two jobs...1) sell you more insurance, and 2) explain to you why you're not covered when you attempt to file a claim😉
Thanks so much. That is a lot of helpful information. I have recently purchased an off grid property and heat mainly with wood.
First time watcher. Appreciate your effort and professionalism.
With my old drafty 1820s farmhouse, the Magic Heat heat reclaimer has been a huge help. Would love to see more people using these as they pay for themselves within the first few months of use. Using a heat gun I tested 450 F below heat reclaimer and 240 F above it. When people coming in from the cold, the only thing better than standing in front of a woodstove, is standing in front of a woodstove with a heat reclaimer blowing cold air right at your upperbody. Also, I think mentioning a damper above the stove pipe is a good idea. A lot of folks don't know about them and burn through their woodpile too quickly as a result.
I have heated with wood my entire adult life but was still able to learn something new from this video.
I like the video and agree with you on the majority of it. Thanks for putting the time in for others to watch and know what to be aware of. Another big thing that I keep an eye on being in a small city is bug control to prevent any unwanted pests. Thanks again!
This is the kind of video I can't wait to comment on! Most useful and practical tips on firewood-I feel excited about starting a wood fire now!
Thank you. Best wood stove video I’ve watched so far. Love the dampness meter tip. New to wood heating and needed this.
That Was A Lot Of Work Making That Video, Thank You !!!
One other tip I got from another YT channel said to try to dry your wood for 3-4 years (if possible) because you end of needing 1/3 less wood per season when it's that dry. So go crazy next season , collecting more trees than you need and hopefully you can coast for the following years to come! I'm glad to see you were also planting trees as well.
Awesome video. I bought an acreage last year where I heat the house with wood mostly.. this confirmed alot i already knew and added a bunch more. Thank you so much
This is a great video! I have been cutting firewood for the past 3 years and I learn something each time I watch one of your videos. I am also a new owner of a wood burning stove insert. You gave me valuable information that I didn't think of, thank you very much! Please keep up the great videos! As always, thank you for sharing.
:) Thanks for taking the time to watch!
Fantastic tips. Thanks so much. Got our first wood stoves three years ago, and have learned a lot from this.
Thanks for the log carrier idea I ordered one! I’ve struggled for years trying to bring in too much with one arm!
Excellent video, been burning for over 40 years still learned a few things.
Your tips are great. Have been using your three log system for a while now. Works every time.
Bro, seriously, this was one of THE BEST VIDEOS I've ever watched on UA-cam. THANK YOU!
I’m really glad you didn’t expound so much here. You crammed a lot of information into a short video in credibly insightful. Especially the part about how you position the wood so air can flow down the wood.. thank you!
Great video mate, thanks for the content. I live on an 85 acre woodlot in Eastern Canada and have cut all my own firewood for years (mostly yellow birch, maple and tamarack up this way). One tip I'd add for your stockpile: a good snatch block. I use an old UTB tractor for tree work, and sometimes you've got a nice stand of wood just off the woods road, far enough to make it a lot of work, but not quite far enough to make it worth cutting a new track big enough for the tractor. Enter the snatch block- used strategically, you only need to make a swath big enough to winch the felled trees out to the road. Priceless tool in the tool kit.
Thanks for the super helpful tips. On west coast BC (Latitude 50 degrees north) we have frequent rain, high RH, short summers. Doug fir and a little maple our only woods. Hence ,for drying: Single row across best drying wind, bark side up to shed rain, stack loosely for better air flow and have full coverage plastic sheeting ready to use during rain downpours. Wood moisture is 6-12% before stacking into basement
This was incredibly helpful information. First time woodstove user in MIchigan. Made a list and checking it twice, just in time for 2020 winter!
Thanks for your help and information on many parts of wood burning and would I am fairly new at this install the wood burner in my home that's in town setting up my yard to stack my wood on skit pallets you and located areas where these it handled get to into the house so I can get around better love what you do keep up the good work and thank you
Darn good information and educated one, great job sir!
Awesome recap Eric. I have just got a moisture reader use it a lot now have found some of my wood I thought was dry turned out to be above the 20 percent. Thanks for sharing stay warm and safe.
I wasn’t counting, was that 50? Seriously though that was an impressive amount of helpful info!
Great Information. Superb description of the A- Z techniques, tactics and procedures to get get the most out of firewood.
Subbed... Great vid, with not a ton of 'fluff'. Much appreciated. Also, I like how you waited til the end of the vid before you said, "If you liked the video, please 'consider' subscribing". Very classy. (Other YTers come right out of the shoot 1/5 of the way into the vid and say "Like, Comment, and Subscribe... immediately, before you've even finished the video!" Very obnoxious)
This is by far the best video on UA-cam. I really love how you gave tips without spending 20 minutes to explaining everyo e of them.. keep producing videos!
Outstanding video. Easy to understand, live the demonstrations, amazing knowhow, and more. One of the best videos I've seen. Great job!
Thank you. You are a great resource.
Excellent video, thank you for making it. I've been heating with wood for years & learned a few new things. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks!
Great tips....I had to keep backing up video to get more complete notes. So much info...thanks!
Great tips! I always look forward to your Wood Heat Wednesdays!
VERY well done, sir. You are well-spoken, clear and concise. I especially like your point about process improvement; I do the same. It's a lot of work, so every little efficiency adds up! Many thanks for taking the time to make and post the vid. Very useful.
Incredible information! Thank you!
Very useful tips. I will go soon on a vacation where we have only a wood stove.
I can't wait to see how it goes.
Thank you
Excellent suggestions. We don't use chainsaws, never learned and too old now, but we pay to have our trees cut, and do the lifting and stacking which you taught me from a previous video. There are just so many things to know I never thought about before. Thank you, this is a very helpful video.
Iv heated with wood my hole life and i still saw sum good ideas great video.Im happy to see someone who knows what there doing makeing a video
I've been heating with wood for the last 20 years or so... and I already knew most of this stuff. BUT NOT ALL, for sure!! Great video! Thank you! (Subscribed)
Best allround video on managing your warmth with wood. Excellent video clip.
This is the most informative, easy and reliable information I have ever seen on UA-cam. You should do a podcast or something to get more information out to the public. Awesome awesome video... Keep em coming.. I tell friends and family of your channel..
So many good tips, and quick too. I run three stoves here In backwoods Mendocino. I cut up duraflames with circular saw, instead of making kindling.
Because of your video last night I called my insurance company and I found out that I can install a wood furnace in my home without the policy being canceled. The customer service representative was very pleased that I also called to research the information prior to following through with the installation of the wood furnace. So thank you Eric for your information which motivated me to make sure I was within the guidelines and the limits of my insurance policy! 👍🏻🔥
Excellent video! I've mentioned to people that I collect firewood. It's amazing how the word gets around sometimes.
Thank you for the video and commentary.
My neighbor runs a sawmill, so every year or two, I buy a load of logs from him. Saves a lot of time and hassle. Our catalytic woodburner is located in the lowest level of the house. We installed a Hetzer coal stove in our pantry/HAM Radio/reloading building. Between the two, I’ll take a coal stove anytime. More heat, less work.
Absolutely enough material for a book my friend!! Thanks so much!!!
Love the fast pace info! So much great advice is one short video with all the links! Thanks so much!!! You have a new subscriber!
Terrific tips, Eric! The LogOX and moisture meter have made my woodburning life so much easier, and I can't wait to get the Wood Sling soon! Hope you and your family survived the Polar Vortex without too much difficulty!
That's great to hear!
great seeing these again I try not to forget things but a refresher is good thanks