This video was published in the autumn of 2015. Since then we have bettered our lives with healthier habits and better decisions. We are striving to live a more fulfilling and healthy lifestyle. We have completely dropped cigarettes out of our lives and I apologize for allowing this in some of our older videos. Thank you all for your support and views! and for anyone out there who has even just an ounce of hope that you may be able to quit smoking, I wish you the best, you can do this and you will feel so much better for it. The journey is long and hard, but can be one of your greatest decisions. Good luck and lots of love! ~Stephanie&Chirs
wow so cool!! What I like most though is how you both love this so much and work on it together!! I look forward to seeing this in action this winter. Thanks for showing your setup
+Lee Ralph (Pathway to Self Reliance) Thanks it was a great time we kinda zoned in and made it the whole nights project lol. I personally love stone work and I really wanna go all out when I get a permanent piece of land. And winter is coming lol its been down to low 40s the past few nights, we've been in the backyard since Saturday lol. Thanks so much for watching and commenting, we're so glad you enjoyed.
+Kentucky Woodsman Thanks so much! As long as you have the stone available, it didn't take much time at all. We're going to try to build a bigger and nicer one at the property we're moving to soon.
+Survivalist2008 Thank you, its doin a great job, I'd like to have some kind of diffuser made so when it rains the fire will be totally protected. Thanks for watching nice to hear from ya.
Thank you so much! We're not in that house anymore and definitely loved using it as long as we were there, it held up wonderfully and made for lots of good times. Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed, have a great day and God bless! ~Stephanie
+willy bailey Thank you glad you like it, thanks for watching. You're the first one to comment on the time lapsing, we meant to ask how people like it. We've been trying out at times we wanna show but we know it can get boring watching a tedious project lol. This one really worked out good though I like the succession the build. Thanks again, have a good one.
+Drone Girl glad you like it, we love stone work, nothing compared to the castles and stone work you get to see all the time lol :) thanks for watching! Chris and Steph
+Rudy Ormanovich that would be a nice touch, we put a grill top over the opening which worked pretty well. A lot of heat comes out the chimney, we have some vids of it in use in our backyard bushcraft playlist. Thanks so much for watching and the comment, glad you liked it. Have a great day.
Thank you, I tried for many years, but when I found out I was pregnant with my son I quit cold turkey - I couldn't have asked for a better motivation. My husband slowly reduced throughout my pregnancy until he was able to quit. We wish you the best of luck as well. Enjoy your night! ~Stephanie
I respect and care about all aspects of the earth we were gifted .NEVER FEEL ASHAMED!!!I seen the earth worm caught under his boot,probably cut it in half.Just because we cannot hear them talk,does not mean they dont think or experience pain.I move stones late in season,I to move them,or spiders.They thought they had a spot out of the weather before frost..Your great people who commented here,My kind of humans,Quality...You deserve this planet.
Perfect! Now you can put a grill across the top for cooking, or have a grill and hood for smoking your food, or just put in a hand crank rotisserie for small game you might trap or gather with your pellet gun. Also you could put a washed flat rock across the top and use it to fry meat or eggs on. Great Fire Feature that can be used in a variety of ways besides just heat.
Stone houses used small stones to fill the gaps for leveling and then they chinked the wall w/ wet clay mix w/ grass, some even used horse hair, but that wouldn't smell too good..
A beautiful build! If you don't mind my saying, I'd mod it by chinking the stones with adobe (dirt, sand, clay, water mix) - to really seal parts up, maybe make the dampers with a couple of tin cans and good fitting rocks to adjust air flow. Ummm, yea, going to see more recent videos ... great video btw.
It's this something meant to be temporary or semi permanent? When you are adding the dirt to the back to seal the air leaks I think you could get better results making cob from the soil. Depending on the clay content in your soil you may be able to just add water, make some mud pies, and press them into place. Cob also has great heat retention and like molding clay can be shaped. Someone else also mentioned a grill grate across the top, and you're cooking with pots and pans or steaks on the grill. Looks good but a few mods will make it more versatile.
As you were building this... I was thinking it would be great to begin the building of my Stone home With the fireplace...and build the house up around it. I have been using a small fireplace of Stone In my camp... To see how the Dolomite holds up to small fires... I was told by locals it exploded...and won't work for fireplaces. One of the smaller Whitish pieces did a split in half explosion. I also found out I want the back of the fireplace situated NE, rather than SW... OR SMOKE, Will be blowing in my face all the Time. Thanks❤️😎
Good to get to learn these tips as you move along. Sounds like you're having a great time and some awesome plans ahead of you! Good luck with it all and God bless
Like the comments about future additions you may make for improvements. It is all about trial and error which improves the knowledge about efficiency. Thanks for the video like your ideas.
Thanks Cman it won't let me reply directly, but already I'm noticing I want to make level the top chimney to build a diffuser for rain cover and sparks. And I notice now a lip around the front enhance would have helped a lot with keeping the smoke inside. Would love to incorporate a place to cook as well. thanks for watching glad you enjoyed.
Instead of using soil in between the rocks, you should use a clay rich cob mixture, otherwise u will need to rebuild every year.... a spark arrester would be needed too
Hey Stephanie and Chris. I very much enjoyed your video. Quick question. When the large flat rock was placed on top in the front, did u lose a lot of heat due to it sticking out so far? Or did it help push the heat out? Thanks for sharing guys!!!
Hi Jamie. Thank you so much! I don't think we lost heat, if anything it seemed to keep it down and closer to you when your sitting around it. Thanks so much for watching and have a great day! ~Stephanie
Went through a few comments in hopes of not double, tripling if not, quadrupling the questions. First and foremost, Good job you two. building something like this from scratch is totally awesome. Now, I am curious as to two different things. Why didn't you make a crude cement using the ash that was scraped? and lastly, are you two planning to build a shelter onto it? Thank you again for such an amazing video.
thanks so much for watching, we never mind responding to questions and our glad to have the comments. the mud ash cement would have been a good idea that I havnt really heard much of. I knew we had clay where we dug a pond out so that was our first plan. we camped by this fireplace for 2 or 3 weeks which was a great time, tenting with a tarp roof over to the fireplace. we did a lot of cooking on it as well. ua-cam.com/video/vj--k_BIK18/v-deo.html - if you want to see it in full use. theres a couple vids in our backyard bushcraft playlist. working on a new one now so we might try your ash cement idea, have to do some research on it. thanks so much for the comment have a great day.
One time after learning about Ash Cement I used it to plug the holes in the old Ashley firebox of my wood stove and it dried to cement and worked perfectly! I was amazed.
WindyCedarFarm congratulations!!!! I was going to ask if you have quit or still smoke. How did you do it? Cheers great fireplace! Do you still use it or did you rebuild
I quit cold turkey in order to have our beautiful baby boy (the newest addition to the channel :) ) My husband followed soon after by slowly reducing until he felt ready to cold turkey. I had tried several times by reducing before and it never worked, cold turkey and using lots of things like dumb-dumb lollipops, tooth picks, etc. and thank you btw! We used it until the day we moved, held up through winter and all. Now we are in a new home and I would love to build another one like it and maybe bigger. Thanks so much for watching and your kind support! Enjoy your night! ~Stephanie
WindyCedarFarm good for you on quitting! It's so tough to do. I've been vaping to quit smoking. No cigs for 3 months and I even forget about the vape sometimes now too! Anyways, great vid and good luck!
russ h i consider myself a luckey man. it was a fun build and we had some good times i front of it. thanks for watching, theres plenty more were this came from.
LOL,, I felt my nuts hit the floor when you tried to pick the rock up yeah I was young and dumb once to, and Im paying for thing like that you will too
LOL! yes we definitely need to be careful on our bodies. I (Stephanie) have been being much more careful especially being a mom now, my husband on the other hand... he takes a lot of convincing to realize he's not invincible lol. Thanks so much for watching, have a great day, and God bless! ~Stephanie
120 tons of rock by hand for a series of retaining walls to level my yard on my first house when I was just starting out. It was free rock...what can I say. I checked in with the WSP, Highway dept etc. and found out it was OK with them if I removed rock from a rock slide next to the freeway. Every night after work I'd get around a ton of rock by just pulling off the highway loading up rocks from this rock fall next to the freeway. Loaded almost one ton of stone everynight for around six months and on some weekends loaded three tons. Oddly enough none of my friends voluteered to help except one. He did it once but never again. Saved some cash but my back paid the bill.
+ Dennis MacKay, I am in the sticks in Arkansas and I love these noises you speak of. It's a symphony. Apparently a lot of folks on the planet are also jealous of the rocks that are so readily available here. I thought everybody had them. I used to be upset that there was so much rock here (I suspect they even reproduce lol) but after seeing those comments I am now quite grateful for our rocks.
You should never apologize for smoking in a video. That just makes you seem politically correct to the point of being obnoxious oh, screw anybody that doesn't like it.
This video was published in the autumn of 2015. Since then we have bettered our lives with healthier habits and better decisions. We are striving to live a more fulfilling and healthy lifestyle. We have completely dropped cigarettes out of our lives and I apologize for allowing this in some of our older videos. Thank you all for your support and views! and for anyone out there who has even just an ounce of hope that you may be able to quit smoking, I wish you the best, you can do this and you will feel so much better for it. The journey is long and hard, but can be one of your greatest decisions. Good luck and lots of love! ~Stephanie&Chirs
WindyCedarFarm smoking while reading this.... so, was this fireplace the beginning of a cob house that got built around it?
Verry gentle comment.Many hallo from Makedonia, the beauty nothern part of Greece.
got a light?
dave LMFAO
You guys sound Canadian!
nice job
😎 cool fireplace
Real raw and awesome living. May just have to work one into tiny house plans for mud room/ porch! Thank you!!
Sweet nice stove/ fire place!
wow so cool!! What I like most though is how you both love this so much and work on it together!! I look forward to seeing this in action this winter.
Thanks for showing your setup
+Lee Ralph (Pathway to Self Reliance) Thanks it was a great time we kinda zoned in and made it the whole nights project lol. I personally love stone work and I really wanna go all out when I get a permanent piece of land. And winter is coming lol its been down to low 40s the past few nights, we've been in the backyard since Saturday lol. Thanks so much for watching and commenting, we're so glad you enjoyed.
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Very cool! I know what my next yard project is going to be now! Thanks for sharing!
+Kentucky Woodsman Thanks so much! As long as you have the stone available, it didn't take much time at all. We're going to try to build a bigger and nicer one at the property we're moving to soon.
Very cool. Or I should say hot. Great job.
Looks good, great job guys!
+Survivalist2008 Thank you, its doin a great job, I'd like to have some kind of diffuser made so when it rains the fire will be totally protected. Thanks for watching nice to hear from ya.
That was really cool guys. Lots of hard work but worth it in the end. Enjoyed watching 👍👍
Thank you so much! We're not in that house anymore and definitely loved using it as long as we were there, it held up wonderfully and made for lots of good times. Thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoyed, have a great day and God bless! ~Stephanie
That was great I loved it! Wayne Brisbane Queensland Australia
Thank you so much! Great to have you here with us! ~Stephanie
That's a great fireplace guys gunna do a great job for ya both awesome job :)
+Natural wonders Bushcraft Thanks! We sure do hope so lol Thanks for watching
very cool guys love the time lapse!!
+willy bailey Thank you glad you like it, thanks for watching. You're the first one to comment on the time lapsing, we meant to ask how people like it. We've been trying out at times we wanna show but we know it can get boring watching a tedious project lol. This one really worked out good though I like the succession the build. Thanks again, have a good one.
Awesome job.....
I really love this kind of stuff, well done :) amazing work guys :) Thumbs up ! :)
+Drone Girl glad you like it, we love stone work, nothing compared to the castles and stone work you get to see all the time lol :) thanks for watching! Chris and Steph
acoupleofpreppers Yeap love it and back in a day in Ireland there were lots of walls built from just a stone to separate land between owners :)
super economical. i like it.
Good Video,Good Job.
that was awesome mans ability to build some thing from nothing
+paul saddler thanks so much it would go nice in a little log cabin lol, have a good one thanks for watching.
Just need a mug of coffee and some marshmallows and admire your work. 👍
Sure sounds good to me! Thanks so much!
Great vid" I might have left the top plate with enough space to utilize as a cook surface .
You 2 are cool"
Thanx
+Rudy Ormanovich that would be a nice touch, we put a grill top over the opening which worked pretty well. A lot of heat comes out the chimney, we have some vids of it in use in our backyard bushcraft playlist. Thanks so much for watching and the comment, glad you liked it. Have a great day.
spiffy !
I like this. good work guys.
Thanks a bunch! It was a fun project
Glad you guys quit the butts, I've struggled with them for yrs. Good luck on all your endeavors
Thank you, I tried for many years, but when I found out I was pregnant with my son I quit cold turkey - I couldn't have asked for a better motivation. My husband slowly reduced throughout my pregnancy until he was able to quit. We wish you the best of luck as well. Enjoy your night! ~Stephanie
Outstanding!!
thanks so much, it was a great addition to our backyard camp. thanks for watching.
Great fire place folks.
Thank you very much!
nice job, further development could build a nice little 6x8 small timber shelter...Ill try this design this spring...
That poor worm in the beginning though.... lol
i feel bad for it..... dont juge me
I respect and care about all aspects of the earth we were gifted .NEVER FEEL ASHAMED!!!I seen the earth worm caught under his boot,probably cut it in half.Just because we cannot hear them talk,does not mean they dont think or experience pain.I move stones late in season,I to move them,or spiders.They thought they had a spot out of the weather before frost..Your great people who commented here,My kind of humans,Quality...You deserve this planet.
@@aldenunion Thank you for this. It’s good to read posts from like-minded people.
Perfect! Now you can put a grill across the top for cooking, or have a grill and hood for smoking your food, or just put in a hand crank rotisserie for small game you might trap or gather with your pellet gun. Also you could put a washed flat rock across the top and use it to fry meat or eggs on. Great Fire Feature that can be used in a variety of ways besides just heat.
thanks so much we have used it for a few of the things you suggested and it worked great. thanks for watching and commenting
Very cool. Little bit of work and walla!
'Voila'.
Nice- any follow up videos on this, near 10 years on?
Stone houses used small stones to fill the gaps for leveling and then they chinked the wall w/ wet clay mix w/ grass, some even used horse hair, but that wouldn't smell too good..
Awesome
Work
Thank you so much! ~Stephanie&Chris
A beautiful build! If you don't mind my saying, I'd mod it by chinking the stones with adobe (dirt, sand, clay, water mix) - to really seal parts up, maybe make the dampers with a couple of tin cans and good fitting rocks to adjust air flow.
Ummm, yea, going to see more recent videos ... great video btw.
Thanks a bunch! Good ideas!
Any chance this video was filmed near Yakima wa. What a great heat sink. Genius
Tnx. Realy helpful
Awesome
It's this something meant to be temporary or semi permanent? When you are adding the dirt to the back to seal the air leaks I think you could get better results making cob from the soil. Depending on the clay content in your soil you may be able to just add water, make some mud pies, and press them into place. Cob also has great heat retention and like molding clay can be shaped. Someone else also mentioned a grill grate across the top, and you're cooking with pots and pans or steaks on the grill. Looks good but a few mods will make it more versatile.
As you were building this... I was thinking it would be great to begin the building of my Stone home With the fireplace...and build the house up around it. I have been using a small fireplace of Stone In my camp... To see how the Dolomite holds up to small fires... I was told by locals it exploded...and won't work for fireplaces. One of the smaller Whitish pieces did a split in half explosion. I also found out I want the back of the fireplace situated NE, rather than SW... OR SMOKE, Will be blowing in my face all the Time. Thanks❤️😎
Good to get to learn these tips as you move along. Sounds like you're having a great time and some awesome plans ahead of you! Good luck with it all and God bless
Just getting started on my place. Thank you for sharing this. It tweeked that part of my brain that needed some insight!
I hope we gave you some ideas, this fireplace never failed us. Good luck and have fun! ~Stephanie
great video
+Blake Holstock thanks so much, it was a fun time.
well done nice job u2
+JOHNNY EXPLORES Thank you very much! We enjoyed building it and of course the finished project.
Like the comments about future additions you may make for improvements. It is all about trial and error which improves the knowledge about efficiency. Thanks for the video like your ideas.
Thanks Cman it won't let me reply directly, but already I'm noticing I want to make level the top chimney to build a diffuser for rain cover and sparks. And I notice now a lip around the front enhance would have helped a lot with keeping the smoke inside. Would love to incorporate a place to cook as well. thanks for watching glad you enjoyed.
Instead of using soil in between the rocks, you should use a clay rich cob mixture, otherwise u will need to rebuild every year.... a spark arrester would be needed too
I wanna do this so bad in my yard, i dont have these kinds of stones in the upper peninsula in michigan
Did you build a house around it?
nice
How would you go about building something like this for indoors?
Hey Stephanie and Chris. I very much enjoyed your video. Quick question. When the large flat rock was placed on top in the front, did u lose a lot of heat due to it sticking out so far? Or did it help push the heat out? Thanks for sharing guys!!!
Hi Jamie. Thank you so much! I don't think we lost heat, if anything it seemed to keep it down and closer to you when your sitting around it. Thanks so much for watching and have a great day! ~Stephanie
Don’t the rocks all crack when heated and cooled after a bunch of fires
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Went through a few comments in hopes of not double, tripling if not, quadrupling the questions. First and foremost, Good job you two. building something like this from scratch is totally awesome. Now, I am curious as to two different things. Why didn't you make a crude cement using the ash that was scraped? and lastly, are you two planning to build a shelter onto it? Thank you again for such an amazing video.
thanks so much for watching, we never mind responding to questions and our glad to have the comments. the mud ash cement would have been a good idea that I havnt really heard much of. I knew we had clay where we dug a pond out so that was our first plan. we camped by this fireplace for 2 or 3 weeks which was a great time, tenting with a tarp roof over to the fireplace. we did a lot of cooking on it as well. ua-cam.com/video/vj--k_BIK18/v-deo.html - if you want to see it in full use. theres a couple vids in our backyard bushcraft playlist. working on a new one now so we might try your ash cement idea, have to do some research on it. thanks so much for the comment have a great day.
One time after learning about Ash Cement I used it to plug the holes in the old Ashley firebox of my wood stove and it dried to cement and worked perfectly! I was amazed.
That's pretty sweet. Have you had any stones explode?
citrus1973 nope had one that got lost some flakes the big bottom right one. no water around so i think theyre pretty safe. thanks for watching
acoupleofpreppers cool! I am inspired. Going to put up a fireplace outside the house as soon as it warms up.
When the ground freezes will it not move the rocks because you did not go down below the frostline ?.Or does it not get cold where you are?
it gets cold, down to negatives, but it's been up through winter and its been fine. the ground there was heavily packed though. thanks for watching.
so basically a stone rocket stove
Very nice.
Thank you! Enjoy your day! ~Stephanie
Poor lil worm just getting trampled, hey i could have used that for fishing bate
How would this help you cook in it?
The chimney was the perfect size to fit a grill wrack over the top of it and cook without the heat becoming to hot or too cold.
So when do you start the hut build around it?
Drop the cigs and you can build a nice house...and live long enough to enjoy it.
Good advice. We actually did and life is a whole lot better
WindyCedarFarm congratulations!!!! I was going to ask if you have quit or still smoke. How did you do it? Cheers great fireplace! Do you still use it or did you rebuild
I quit cold turkey in order to have our beautiful baby boy (the newest addition to the channel :) ) My husband followed soon after by slowly reducing until he felt ready to cold turkey. I had tried several times by reducing before and it never worked, cold turkey and using lots of things like dumb-dumb lollipops, tooth picks, etc. and thank you btw! We used it until the day we moved, held up through winter and all. Now we are in a new home and I would love to build another one like it and maybe bigger. Thanks so much for watching and your kind support! Enjoy your night! ~Stephanie
WindyCedarFarm good for you on quitting! It's so tough to do. I've been vaping to quit smoking. No cigs for 3 months and I even forget about the vape sometimes now too! Anyways, great vid and good luck!
beautiful build with a beautiful lady as a partner, doesn't get any better than that.
russ h i consider myself a luckey man. it was a fun build and we had some good times i front of it. thanks for watching, theres plenty more were this came from.
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LOL,, I felt my nuts hit the floor when you tried to pick the rock up yeah I was young and dumb once to, and Im paying for thing like that you will too
LOL! yes we definitely need to be careful on our bodies. I (Stephanie) have been being much more careful especially being a mom now, my husband on the other hand... he takes a lot of convincing to realize he's not invincible lol. Thanks so much for watching, have a great day, and God bless! ~Stephanie
120 tons of rock by hand for a series of retaining walls to level my yard on my first house when I was just starting out. It was free rock...what can I say. I checked in with the WSP, Highway dept etc. and found out it was OK with them if I removed rock from a rock slide next to the freeway. Every night after work I'd get around a ton of rock by just pulling off the highway loading up rocks from this rock fall next to the freeway. Loaded almost one ton of stone everynight for around six months and on some weekends loaded three tons. Oddly enough none of my friends voluteered to help except one. He did it once but never again. Saved some cash but my back paid the bill.
Man...where you two at? Makin me home sick hearing the ambient noises in the background...I grew up in rural Arkansas in the 70's and 80's
+ Dennis MacKay,
I am in the sticks in Arkansas and I love these noises you speak of. It's a symphony. Apparently a lot of folks on the planet are also jealous of the rocks that are so readily available here. I thought everybody had them. I used to be upset that there was so much rock here (I suspect they even reproduce lol) but after seeing those comments I am now quite grateful for our rocks.
Hey man you totally killed that worm. I am going to complain to UA-cam and call PETA
imberasing
Yea embarrassing you cant spell!🤣
You should never apologize for smoking in a video. That just makes you seem politically correct to the point of being obnoxious oh, screw anybody that doesn't like it.
You stook on a worm. Watch out for karma lads.
I noticed that recently when someone else had also commented on it! The poor worm :( Have a great night! ~Stephanie