This fire pit is one of a few covered pits that is on the list ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM of approved products for Disney Fort Wilderness. The product served its purpose well and provided excellent fires throughout the evening. We were able to open the door and do s'mores, but I had to be careful because the handle was a bit hot on occasions. Additionally, I wish they had replaced some of the standard nuts with lock nuts in some places. We lost the door handle after just a couple of days of usage. Not a deal breaker, just a recommendation. I still give it 5 stars.
what you say is true. but when the temps are going to to tank, it would be wise to have your wood in a wood box. I know we had that & you could add it to the box from outside, so all we did was open the small door in the kitchen to grab more wood. I miss that place
@ I watched a few episodes of that and thought that these guys should be dropped off on the Alaska tundra when the mosquitoes are out. They are so bad you will,breath them in though your nose or mouth. A headnet isn’t an option but a necessity.
@ I worked close to 25 years in Northern Alaska. MY 2nd year up here after work drove south a few miles on the highway and went fishing. The winds was blowing and the fishing was great until the wind stopped. I had to run a ways back to the truck. The mosquitoes drive the caribou crazy up there.
I would recommend an ecofan or two fastened just above the stove pipe elbow with a hose clamp. Also, any kind of air circulation like a large desk fan will do absolute wonders for heating up a big space faster.
I had the exact same wood stove for over 25 yrs, Hearthstone, the best wood stove on the market. Retains heat and you do not have to stack it up, just 3 logs will burn all night, stays warm even after the embers burn out. Loved it, and love yours. Probably the best $$ spent.
I am making a wood stove. Got any tips for what I need to do to make it even better? What principles do the best stoves follow? Thermal mass seems to be one thing that you like about the stove. the small amount of wood needed through the night, is that because of the small air supply and small size?
If you sheath your stove pipe with a larger pipe, then run a 1/2 inch copper tube through the wall of your cabin and into the sheathing, after packing the bottom of your sheathing, the stove will draw cold air from outside pressurizing your cabin slightly. You will be warmer in a cabin than you ever thought possible. To control the heat, add a valve to the 1/2 inch pipe to regulate the flow of air. If you do it right all of the drafts will be gone. As a bonus, you will breathe 100 percent fresh air while you sleep and wake up fresh enough to barely need coffee.
Basically you are feeding the fire with air from outside. Instead of your heated air from inside the cabin. Also preheating the air before it's burned will make the fire burn hotter. The valve he mentioned is to control how fast the air is flowing. Basically a draft control or valve.
You should have a stored covered firewood pile of at least 7 cords of wood. With a prepared pile of dry wood in the Cabin, every time. It's so you don't have to rush about cutting wood as soon as you get there. It's dry, and ready to go. If you cut, it should be stacked, protected in advance, never the same day of, getting there. As soon as you arrive, bingo, ready to go loading up firebox.
Interesting you say that, but I have a remote cabin here in Alaska and I always leave two days supply in the cabin for my next trip in in the winter. The first thing I do when I get there is get the fire going. I wear bunny boots and I have good snowmachine gear to keep me warm.
I lived in a remote area of Northern ON and no one locked their cabins and always had a supply of fire wood ready in case anyone was in need of an emergency shelter. With the advent of ATVS though we had to start locking everything up.
@@JimmyMeatwhistle Yes understandable...we had metal fencing over our windows and metal fencing attached to a metal frame the hung over the door on two hooks and latched at the bottom....but we only had black bears and they really never bothered to try and get in that I know of. Thanks for the vid.
My one observation is when chopping your wood for winter chop it to the size you need so you don’t have to chop wood again in -40 or -20 degree weather just go grab it and fire it in the fire place. If you leave the cabin and come back to it whenever make sure it’s stocked inside with a whack load of wood not just 10 pieces. So you can start a fire while doing other stuff. Prepare ahead.
I don’t know why he didn’t light that thing immediately he kept getting wood get it fired up then go play in the cold and splitting wood just to split it again was a silly move in my eyes
Watching this in New Zealand while huddled in front of our open fire on one of our coldest winter days (6C). While there is snow on nearby Mt Taranaki it rarely snows down here at sea level. I simply can't comprehend -40C! And neither do I ever want to experience it! Though I'd love to explore Canada - such a beautiful country.
You don't experience -40c very different from -20c. The difference between 0 and -20c is much more noticable than -20c to -40c. Though you can feel the difference breathing through your nose (it almost hurts in -40c (-40c in Dalarna in Sweden 1987 was the coldest I've experienced).
I'm Canadian. I live in the province of Saskatchewan. It was -50 with the windchill this week. -30 and -40 is the norm for our winters. The crazy thing about Saskatchewan is that we get up to 35 or even hotter in summer. I know there's been times where it's been 40 degrees. So, from plus 40 to -40! There are places in Canada that are much much more moderate; they have much cooler summers than us, and much warmer winters. I guess this is just a place of extremes. The cold, I don't mind at all. But I do hate the heat...I can never wait for summer the end, I can't stand it when it's 35 degrees out and I'm sticky and hot and boiling. I travelled to Vietnam, once. I met this couple from New Zealand there, up in the north, in the hills, where it can actually get a bit chilly....can't rememebr the temp, but it was cold enough to see your breath. We were on a hike. I was in a t-shirt and yoga pants and runners, and the couple was all bundled up in warm coats and boots and even tonques (although I think they called them beenies? but we call the toques). It's all what you're used to. It was a bit chilly to me, but the hiking kept me plenty warm. Whereas, the temps must have surely been colder than they were used to, so they needed to stay bundled up.
I got two minutes in and had to bail out. After freezing my bells off every winter for 45 years in construction I am finally retired and I moved south. Just watching you toss out all the layers was painful. God bless!
I used to live in Fairbanks Alaska and I can remember being broke down and a truck at 47 below . I had my friend and her three-year-old baby with me . We walked quite a ways in the cold . the cabin we went into was nowhere near as nice as the one you're in . it didn't take me long to heat it up and get it warm enough that the baby didn't freeze and get hypothermia or frostbite.
I'm hooked, Australia here thank you so much for showing Celsius Temperature. Beautiful little deer, Beautiful Snow, Amazing cabin. Kindest thoughts to you and your family from Australia xx
@@JimmyMeatwhistle lol vise versa Jimmy, when it hits 40c here I wish I was there, but then I'm a winter girl. I have never seen snow. That's why I adore your video's. We do get snow in the mountains here in Australia Victoria, N.S.W as you would know Jim. Kindest thoughts to you and your family. Will be watching your video's during this 2nd or 3rd lockdown here in Victoria Australia. 🇭🇲🇺🇸🐨🦘🕊
Forget watching him chop wood or sit by the fire, I wanna see how he gets all those clothes on! I’d expect him to wind up looking like Randy from “A Christmas Story.”
When I worked up in the High Arctic I wore a thin pair of socks ,some guys wore panty hose¸ then I would put on a pair of thermal socks then Mukluks and I had no problem with my feet staying warm. On my hands up to my elbow mitts and gloves inside and and two layers followed by an arctic parka,snow glasses and toque. The only I worried about was the bears because Nanook never sleeps.
Cold air intake for stove, have a batch of wood inside. It seems like a 30% gain in heat vs outside wood. You can gage temp by sound of crunch on the snow.
Greetings from Alaska. I discovered trapper hats about 10 years ago. I had always worn knit hats up until then. Once you try a trapper hat you will never go back.
I helped install a wood stove at a friends place and we put it around 36 inches away from the wall, this meant that he could store wood for burning on wide shelves behind the stove, this was stacked from floor to ceiling, the lower level had a removable sheet of steel to protect it against the excessive amount of heat, he was able to dry his wood weeks in advance of when it was needed and when conditions allowed he would re-stock the shelves as required.
@@JimmyMeatwhistle He had 5 shelves in total, and they were around 60 inches wide, he believed that meant that at anytime he had at least 500kg of wood drying in the house. and of course when it's in the house it will always be dry!
In the winter I burn a fourth of a cord a week minimum. So several weeks worth of wood is 3/4 of a cord. It sure wouldn't fit in what you r describing. I stack it along a wall on the other side of the room 8 feet long 5 feet tall .
If you're getting that low, it's worth thinking about what you can put up on the walls for insulation. Even just curtains and rugs will help considerably. Someone else mentioned a reflector - that's a good idea, but also add some thermal mass, like a stone hearth. That'll help retain heat and blast it out into the space.
Yeah, he really needs a different stove for those kinds of temps, something more like an actual fireplace with rock/concrete/brick placed directly against the stove. Mass to absorb and retain heat is everything, because air doesn't have the density to transfer heat as much, so most of the heat is being lost through the chimney. I would say that even some bricks stacked along the backside of the stove he has, would make a big difference. Even just putting a few dozen metal disks around the ducting from top to bottom, would dramatically improve the heating, acting like a heatsink to increase surface area and dump heat in the room, and it can be done without looking bad aesthetically.
I've had a weekend cabin in the mountains for years and heat it with wood. Quick tip: you need to ditch that box and get a bigger rack for your wood inside that can hold much more wood in roughly the same space. I have a big box of kindling that I fill in the warmer months so it is always ready to go, and my firewood rack holds enough to not only get the fire going but feed it all night and into the next day. That way if I get up there and the conditions are bad, I don't have to deal with it the night I get there. When it is dumping down the rain, snowing, super cold or whatever that nice pile of dry wood inside the house makes life so much easier. Figure out how much wood you go through in 36 hours on a cold night, and size your rack to roughly that size. I keep a winter sleeping bag up there and fire up the stove and crawl inside until things warm up, takes a long time because everything in the house is the same frigid temp as the air when you get there.
I was thinking the same thing. As a kid, wood burning was our primary heat in the winter months. And we lived in a much warmer area. Rarely got -10 degrees below freezing. But we always kept more wood than what I was seeing in this video by the wood burning stove. Every week we would stack enough wood on the porch to last a week and indoors there was always enough to last for a day or more. Back in my military days we did a training operation at Fort Bragg, NC. It was in the middle of winter and it dropped down to about ten below. We were sleeping in two man pup tents. Standard issue at the time. Sleeping bags were standard issue as well and weren't rated for anything below freezing. We had field jackets and military issue wool gloves but nobody had jacket liners issued and it was up to you to have brought thermal undergarments on the op. Most people didn't. Myself included. The spot we were bivouac at had a burn barrel. Was almost completed rusted out. But one of the guys started a fire. Didn't even ask permission. Just started one. But everybody was freezing so nobody complained or argued. I had security watch around midnight. And when I got relieved I was going back to a cold sleeping bag on the ground in negative degree temperatures. There was no sleeping in that situation. So I did what anybody practical would do. I kept the fire going all night. I have no idea how much wood we burnt up. But when we left, the barrel was completely full of ash.
I saw temperatures like that when I was growing up in southwestern Wyoming in the 60s and 70s. We'd have temps drop to -40F to -50F with highs of -20 for a month at a time. Then, we had the wind chill to make it even colder. We saw the first snow during the first week of school and the last snow during the last week of school in the spring. Sometimes the snow drifts near the snow fences wouldn't completely melt until the first week of July. My dad was a pastor at the Baptist church in Big Piney for 10 years but we lived 20 miles south, in LaBarge. I remember sitting in front of the church with the car running, with the heater on full blast, but it would never really warm up the inside of the car. So, we had two layers of blankets covering the laps fo four kids in the back seat, and body warmth between us. Those were times you never forget!
I always have a 1 gallon can of diesel fuel that I use to start my wood burner. You can put in larger pieces, no need for kindling wood. Just throw a small amount of fuel on logs and throw a match on it...and it's instant warmth. Diesel doesn't have the explosive nature of regular gas so there's no explosion. It's a convenient way to start a woodstove and you'll be warm in minutes.
What a nice cabin.....I would like to put that in my backyard and use it for my man-cave....ha.....I'M too old to start living off grid, so I could make believe that I'M in the wilds of Canada and be only a couple hundred feet from my regular house....DREAM ON OLD MAN...HA...
Remember , flame consumes air , if your stove is not fed air from outside it will cause air to enter thru windows and doors and unsealed joints in construction . Find a way to feed outside air to the flame or you will suffer cold corners and rooms .
That appears to be a hearthstone stove. I have one very similar. 4300$ new. Bought mine for 35$ on auction with insulated pipe and roof and ceiling flashing. It took four of us to get it in a low trailer and it wasn't by lifting it!
If I had to live in that temperature, you would find my dead body , still in bed in the spring. I cannot imagine that kind of temps. In winter here, I throw on a sweater over my usual summer clothes and that may off come midmorning when it is warmer.
Wellco N-B1 boots are not water proof, they are for extreme cold weather, where the is only snow and ice. Pretty inexpensive, so keep a pair for those few days you really need them, for most people that is. Liners are usually sold separately.
@Jason your vehicle is a joke. Much better vehicles out there. ^Retarded comment right? Plenty of vehicles get the job done. Yet there are better ones out there. So why don't you have one of the better ones? Probably a similar reason why dude chose this piece of equipment. Cost, availability, performance (etc.).
@@micsierra806 This is the dumbest shit I have read in awhile. Your comparison is beyond stupid cars aren't needed to survive but a wood stove is. This is literally the worst choice you can make for that size cabin.
My brother in law tell me about living off grid all the time . He’s never done it . He watch’s the shows . Some times I feel like backhanding him . I never would do that . I spent over 30 years in Alaska. I’ve done it . I know what - 60 below is . I lived it . The good is . Opening up my back door and seeing moose sleeping 20 feet away . It’s never hunting season when they do . So they are safe . They come back every year . Besides the make good trails .
Hi and thanks for the comment and info. A few people have mentioned Baffin boots. If you are working in those locations, they must work! I need a pair 🤠🍻
Kenny V please can you tell me wich Baffin boots you use in Winter time in Alaska? Because i live in Romanian Mountens and i want to buy Buffin boots from Amazon but they are many of Buffin boots. Many thanks and good luck guys. God help you.
I beleive they are the heavier rated -70 pull on style I don't have them in front of me right now. I am working in Alberta this winter and have a lighter pair of Baffin monsters that are holding up well. But it hasn't been that cold. I hope this helps. You will love them.
When looking for good winter boots make sure that they have a porous layer under the liners that will allow sweat to get out of the liner. If it doesn't have a fibreglass or similar in sole under the main liner, keep looking or try to find an in sole to go under the liners. I spent over 40 years working in temperatures down to -50 C and once I discovered fibreglass in soles I never had a problem again with cold feet.
Alaskan here, use really old lacrosse bunny boots with some sorel caribou inserts. Also hunt with old surplus mukluks, 2 sizes too big with extra wool inserts. Works great for arctic oilfield work, and late season caribou hunting. But im definitely gonna take a look at those gloves, props on the video, stay warm brother!
I wear my insulated rubberr baffin's and one pair of sock snowmobiling and it keep me warm all day at -40C. To anyone looking for boots for cheap, buy those.
a little suggestion for wall behind woodstove, make some small wood rippings to space a piece of tile backer cement board off the logs, hold backer board up about an inch off floor, then you can tile and wrap edges, the masonry mass will warm from the stove and the spacing off floor and behind will create a natural convection in cabin, pilling the cold air off floor, warming behind tile board and rising, plus the shiny tile will reflect the heat better in front, just one sheet, 3 foot by 5 foot, can either install horizontal or vertical,
I live in Saskatchewan. I love love love winter. I wish it was winter all year. But I'm glad I live in an apartment building, and don't have to chop wood.
Would you tell us more about your wood stove. Would it burn over night? How many square feet is your cabin? If you were to do it again would you have went with a larger wood stove. Thanks.
Being from middle Georgia just wondering why you wait until its cold to split fire wood? Should you not split in the fall so all you have to do when it's cold is carry it in. just asking? for a friend.
Thanks for the comment. 🍻 Yes, should have been totally prepped long before I even needed to light it. I was doing it to keep warm and it was more of an experiment to see how long it would take ro get the cabin up to temperature. I didn't run out of wood, I can cut it as fast as I needed it but again it was just an experiment.
jedward hey jedward, even the meanest knarly rounds of wood split much more easily at cold temperatures, The sap and free moisture inside the logs is frozen and thus splits easily. I spent most of my life in Canada, ask me how I know👍
@@edwardfinn4141 No question as to when to spit the wood. But jedward was more asking why there wasn't any cut and split beforehand. When it is that cold having a fire is a must, but if there is an injury or other emergency when you temporarily cant split the wood to make a fire, things get dire fast. Jimmy answered the why and it made sense
Never do double socks unless the boots are oversized. You need a buffer of warm air around your feet inside the boots in order for your feet to stay warm. When everything is tight to the cold outside of your footwear then your feet will also be cold. Learned this the hard way.
The proper use of double socks are one pair of synthetic closest to the skin and after that a pair of thick wool socks to transport the moisture when hot and retain a nice buffer of hot air to remain warm. This is what we Swedes do in arctic bootcamp.
Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet at -40. Kelvin scale increases and decreases at the same rate as Celsius, they just begin at 0 degrees at a different state, K at absolute zero, C at the freezing point of fresh water. There is a 100 degree difference between the freezing and boiling point of water at both K and C scales. -40 is just plain cold, however you measure it.
Jimmy they are saying this winter in the rockies will be one of the craziest get ready to hunker down. A delivery of 3 cords of hardwood may seem like a big chunk but will be worth its weight when it hits the cold temps again. Hope all is well
Thanks for the heads up. Yes it sounds like it's going to be good one! I have to run two more trips through the Coquihalla highway in the next week or so so hoping it holds off till then 😆😆
The stove not ready to go at this time of the year? Get a couple hay bales for the deer it's 40 below for them too I feds 11 of them last winter in the cold snap Take care be safe
Here in NC we get bust all our wood in fairer therefor we r prepared for the cold. Before a snow or incoming rain I have my covered porch loaded with split wood ready.
It is common to be as cold as -40 up here in interior Alaska....we always store our birch firewood down in the boiler room so we are not wasting energy getting -40 degree firewood up to temperature inside the woodstove.
always keep enough wood beside the stove to last 24 hours ( keeping it warm helps ) . also when its winter i keep red brick on top of the stove for the winter brick stays warm and puts off a lot of heat . never be cold again .
I would recommend that in late September or early October you spend a full week eight to ten hours a day cutting and storing wood. that way you go outside with a t-shirt and spend one minute filling a small wagon with wood and rolling it into the cabin. Just a thought.
Nice cabin. I think your standing armoire is from Mexico. I had one of those before. There’s a little trick you can do with small square hinges if you take a skill saw and cut along the panel just on the inside of the door frame. Basically cut the doors off and reattach with the square hinges. Then they are double hinged and you can open them more than 270 degrees. Idk just a thought. Mines floating around San Diego somewhere.
I could imagine it never gets “comfortable “ at those temps if +10C is comfortable. Do you know the approximate rated BTU/hr of the stove? Is combustion air piped to the stove from outside? Otherwise you are using room air that is sucked in through cracks from outside which cools the inside. Heat losses are calculated as Q = (TH-TC ) * A * U where: Q is the heat loss rate TH is inside warm temp TC is outside cold temp A is the surface area of the cabin exposed to cold U is the overall heat transfer coefficient So, as the cabin warms, the heat loss rate increases because the other factors are constant. An inside temperature is reached where there is an equilibrium where the stove heat generation rate equals the heat loss rate. You mentioned using 3 to 4 hours to get to +10 inside when its -10 to -15 outside. That differential temperature of 25 degrees may define your maximum inside temperature. Your maximum Cabin temperature may be 25-40=-15 degrees when it is -40 outside. Would be interesting to know if you can reach a higher temperature and in how much time.
I worked in Montana and North Dakota for about 4 years nothing beats a wool balaclava and real sorrels with wool socks. Insulated carharts bibs and jacket with hoodie. But at -30 you better keep moving.
Don't wait until it snows to cut wood.I burn wood and have plenty inside to burn for a couple nights and days.Also have a shed to keep wood in out of the snow and rain.You have a nice cabin
I had a metal 'fan' that sat on top of my wood burning stove, and the heat made the fan circulate and push the warm air into the rest of the room. Worked great. Silly me, if I had your cabin, I'd built a bit of a hut outside with a fire pit resting up about 3' high, and build a big fire for the deer - a warming hut of sorts. I'd lay straw deep on the ground inside the hut. The doors would be open so they could come and go. I know to expect comments telling me how silly or stupid I am, but I'd still do it.
I heat my cabin with a ROUND OAK stove from 1902. Was raised with woodstoves for heat. So, who gets to be the one who gets up in the middle of the night to feed the fire, or the first up in the morning? :)
Wow, I know my cabin, at -20 f takes 45 minutes to get to almost 80 then I open the glass door to the enclosed front porch and the entire 20 by 24 area of the cabin is 70 within an hour. Now on sunny afternoons the front porch can get into the 50's at -20 with no heat. Then again it was the way I designed the cabin for the middle of winter. Then I have an oversized cast iron stove for what I need.
Heh, heated full house with wood 27 years. Funny, as teens we had access to this cabin. Super cold one day. It had a little wood stove. We once chocked it full with kindling and kept feeding it. Turned cherry red for a while. Heated that place up in less than an hour. The mass maybe 6 hours but we weren't watching the clock then!
I have a well insulated camp in central Ontario and I went in several years ago when it was -41 outside and -43 inside. That means everything in my camp was -43. Normal winter temperatures two hours will make it comfortable, that nite it took a good nine. A rule that I always follow is never ever leave without a full wood box. We also have hard wood I don’t know how long it would have taken with pine. Have fun in your place the winter is the best time at the camp. Enjoy your scotch.
Pine? Hell you go through a cord of wood in no time. Plus leave a lot of tar and soot buildup in the pipe. Always try to go with hardwoods. They burn longer and cleaner. And come like cedar leave a nice smell in the house. If you live in an area devoid of hardwoods, plant some. It might take 20 - 30 years before they are harvestable but when they are they are a blessing to have.
Plant hardwood out here? They won't live and that's a fact. In the past eastern hardwoods were a no grow proposition, it is too cold in the winter, and too dry come summer. Plant them all you like but they'll never grow here so not an option
Crack both a scotch and a beer...-40C you earned them. Great cottage! My cottage in BC Canada topped out at 12C in the winter...partly because the walls were missing. Only had time for 3 layers of plastic. Great times though:)
It gave me a chuckle, the way you kept going back to the various items of clothing it required in order for you to attempt to chop wood. Question: the blanket you have on the bed-where did you get that? Do you remember? It’s hard to find where it looks more cozy like what you have vs. cheesy log cabin ‘look’ for blankets/pillows.
What about using a spray of heat conducting metal rods about 5 ' up passing thru the chimney to get more surface area heated to change the temp faster.?
I had to drive one morning when it was 26 below zero F. I didn't have adequate gloves and by the time I got to where I was going, my hands felt like they were on fire! They hurt for days, especially when I got them wet. Frostnip is no fun, even if it isn't as serious as frostbite.
Putting all that clothing on seems crazy to me. Here in southern Arizona we hit the 20s and were acting like it's a blizzard out. Nice cabin, you did a great job on it.
Not very much warmer. You have to remember all the furniture, all the logs are frozen solid, and all the bed material, anything inside the cabin, are like giant Ice cube's. Felt no difference in temperature on the interior for hours
And also coveralls.We build a log fire to stay warm.We were outside 3 hrs at time.That was tough weather conditions with 6 inches of snow on the ground.This video i give the guy credit when your working outsde splitting woodyja at 30 below.Then to get logs in cabin and get stove fire going and warm it up in 5 hrs is good.
Eh... One night when it was 19 degrees F, I ran out to the woodshed in my underwear and sponge bob flip flops, to get firewood. I forgot to fill the hopper. Drinkin' ya know.
Wow, heating with pine wood! that is why the burn times are so short. Maple or oak could work wonders in that stove, but if pine is what you have, then that is what is burned.
Are you from the Moon? There's only softwood available in the Rockies what should we burn? Should we drive for 4 days to find some hardwood? Crawl back into your tent you have no idea what you're talkin about
@@JimmyMeatwhistle I agree with you. Yea if that is all that you have, that is what you burn. The only thing that is important is to season it properly and burn at a proper temperature for complete combustion. EPA certified wood stoves make that a whole lot easier than in the old days.
Ahh, -40, the only temperature that Celsius and Fahrenheit can agree upon.
Haha I came to make almost the exact same comment. Nice to see it done. +1
Ha.. Celsius is Fahrenheits red headed stepchild...
Its actually -37 but close enough
Lol 🥶
@@AF-hx4xz I thought it was -42
This fire pit is one of a few covered pits that is on the list ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxAU9pOCSV9Y5JprooHvfxTpOrt4hx8uRM of approved products for Disney Fort Wilderness. The product served its purpose well and provided excellent fires throughout the evening. We were able to open the door and do s'mores, but I had to be careful because the handle was a bit hot on occasions. Additionally, I wish they had replaced some of the standard nuts with lock nuts in some places. We lost the door handle after just a couple of days of usage. Not a deal breaker, just a recommendation. I still give it 5 stars.
You really don't know what you take for granted until the temperature is -30 below and you are responsible for keeping yourself alive
what you say is true. but when the temps are going to to tank, it would be wise to have your wood in a wood box. I know we had that & you could add it to the box from outside, so all we did was open the small door in the kitchen to grab more wood. I miss that place
Ikr 😮😅🥶😫
One nice thing in the cold there’s no mosquitoes or bugs.
The only biting things we have here are grizzly bears and cougars LOL
@ I watched a few episodes of that and thought that these guys should be dropped off on the Alaska tundra when the mosquitoes are out. They are so bad you will,breath them in though your nose or mouth. A headnet isn’t an option but a necessity.
@ I worked close to 25 years in Northern Alaska. MY 2nd year up here after work drove south a few miles on the highway and went fishing. The winds was blowing and the fishing was great until the wind stopped. I had to run a ways back to the truck.
The mosquitoes drive the caribou crazy up there.
I used to live in Ontario, in Ontario the black flies are thick. After a day in the bush you would come out covered in blood LOL
And you dont have to cut the grass
I would recommend an ecofan or two fastened just above the stove pipe elbow with a hose clamp. Also, any kind of air circulation like a large desk fan will do absolute wonders for heating up a big space faster.
I had the exact same wood stove for over 25 yrs, Hearthstone, the best wood stove on the market. Retains heat and you do not have to stack it up, just 3 logs will burn all night, stays warm even after the embers burn out. Loved it, and love yours. Probably the best $$ spent.
I am making a wood stove. Got any tips for what I need to do to make it even better? What principles do the best stoves follow? Thermal mass seems to be one thing that you like about the stove. the small amount of wood needed through the night, is that because of the small air supply and small size?
If you sheath your stove pipe with a larger pipe, then run a 1/2 inch copper tube through the wall of your cabin and into the sheathing, after packing the bottom of your sheathing, the stove will draw cold air from outside pressurizing your cabin slightly. You will be warmer in a cabin than you ever thought possible. To control the heat, add a valve to the 1/2 inch pipe to regulate the flow of air. If you do it right all of the drafts will be gone. As a bonus, you will breathe 100 percent fresh air while you sleep and wake up fresh enough to barely need coffee.
Can you explain further? Where does the 1/2 inch pipe go exactly? How does that work? A drawing?
I agree with the other commenter here. Please elaborate.
I too want to know more.
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Basically you are feeding the fire with air from outside. Instead of your heated air from inside the cabin. Also preheating the air before it's burned will make the fire burn hotter. The valve he mentioned is to control how fast the air is flowing. Basically a draft control or valve.
I live in Yakutia and for us - 40 in winter is warm because in winter here -60... 😁
It's good for your body to get that cold and then warm up. Makes you feel alive and greatfull
No wood in cabin when you got there? Are you leaving it without firewood ready for next time? Ahhh...I think I see the problem.
You should have a stored covered firewood pile of at least 7 cords of wood. With a prepared pile of dry wood in the Cabin, every time.
It's so you don't have to rush about cutting wood as soon as you get there. It's dry, and ready to go.
If you cut, it should be stacked, protected in advance, never the same day of, getting there.
As soon as you arrive, bingo, ready to go loading up firebox.
Interesting you say that, but I have a remote cabin here in Alaska and I always leave two days supply in the cabin for my next trip in in the winter. The first thing I do when I get there is get the fire going. I wear bunny boots and I have good snowmachine gear to keep me warm.
I lived in a remote area of Northern ON and no one locked their cabins and always had a supply of fire wood ready in case anyone was in need of an emergency shelter. With the advent of ATVS though we had to start locking everything up.
We have grizzly bears here. Need to lock it LOL
@@JimmyMeatwhistle Yes understandable...we had metal fencing over our windows and metal fencing attached to a metal frame the hung over the door on two hooks and latched at the bottom....but we only had black bears and they really never bothered to try and get in that I know of. Thanks for the vid.
My one observation is when chopping your wood for winter chop it to the size you need so you don’t have to chop wood again in -40 or -20 degree weather just go grab it and fire it in the fire place. If you leave the cabin and come back to it whenever make sure it’s stocked inside with a whack load of wood not just 10 pieces. So you can start a fire while doing other stuff. Prepare ahead.
Chopping wood warms you twice! Also easier to split when the wood is frozen!
@@adamscott8489 You sound just like my husband. He 'll wait for the last moment, too.
I don’t know why he didn’t light that thing immediately he kept getting wood get it fired up then go play in the cold and splitting wood just to split it again was a silly move in my eyes
@@seantokash1655 thought the same thing. had enough wood in the cabin to get it started and then chop for a few hours while feeding the stove
always open the door forty times an hour too
Watching this in New Zealand while huddled in front of our open fire on one of our coldest winter days (6C). While there is snow on nearby Mt Taranaki it rarely snows down here at sea level. I simply can't comprehend -40C! And neither do I ever want to experience it! Though I'd love to explore Canada - such a beautiful country.
Hi and thanks for the comment. Beautiful country that New Zealand, would love to visit one day. 6c is t-shirt weather 😁🍻
@@JimmyMeatwhistle from a fellow Canadian, that is correct. Definitely t-shirt temp :)
-51.11 c in Wi 2 years ago I drove to work still
You don't experience -40c very different from -20c. The difference between 0 and -20c is much more noticable than -20c to -40c. Though you can feel the difference breathing through your nose (it almost hurts in -40c (-40c in Dalarna in Sweden 1987 was the coldest I've experienced).
I'm Canadian. I live in the province of Saskatchewan. It was -50 with the windchill this week. -30 and -40 is the norm for our winters.
The crazy thing about Saskatchewan is that we get up to 35 or even hotter in summer. I know there's been times where it's been 40 degrees.
So, from plus 40 to -40!
There are places in Canada that are much much more moderate; they have much cooler summers than us, and much warmer winters.
I guess this is just a place of extremes. The cold, I don't mind at all. But I do hate the heat...I can never wait for summer the end, I can't stand it when it's 35 degrees out and I'm sticky and hot and boiling.
I travelled to Vietnam, once. I met this couple from New Zealand there, up in the north, in the hills, where it can actually get a bit chilly....can't rememebr the temp, but it was cold enough to see your breath. We were on a hike. I was in a t-shirt and yoga pants and runners, and the couple was all bundled up in warm coats and boots and even tonques (although I think they called them beenies? but we call the toques).
It's all what you're used to. It was a bit chilly to me, but the hiking kept me plenty warm. Whereas, the temps must have surely been colder than they were used to, so they needed to stay bundled up.
One of my wishes is to cozy up with my husband in one of these for a whole week . No kids, work, phone calls, nothing. Just us and the cold.🙂🙏🏾
Nine months later, you'd be cozied up next to your husband and a newborn. 😀 😃
@@kish-river I am afraid that I am a bit out of the child bearing age. Fortunately 😂😂
& Beddäim störeece xD
You might be sore after that much "cozy" time...😊
@@richfarfugnuven6308 why do you have to be such a creep
Those deer’s are really the tough guys. Out in the cold weather all year long
Agreed 👍
I got two minutes in and had to bail out. After freezing my bells off every winter for 45 years in construction I am finally retired and I moved south. Just watching you toss out all the layers was painful. God bless!
I came to wonder why 1.4 million people want to watch this video of a wood stove heating a cabin. This is just astounding.
That makes no sense.
Take it from a guy who lives in Wisconsin, get a pair of insulated Carhartt Bibs. These are simply the best for doing hard work in the bitter cold.
Good plan, thanks for the comments 🍻 I have some shopping to do 😁
I have some, and I agree! Get the ones with the black lining (not the red) as they’re the warmest. (This is coming from Montana)
I used to live in Fairbanks Alaska and I can remember being broke down and a truck at 47 below . I had my friend and her three-year-old baby with me . We walked quite a ways in the cold . the cabin we went into was nowhere near as nice as the one you're in . it didn't take me long to heat it up and get it warm enough that the baby didn't freeze and get hypothermia or frostbite.
you're a hero. God bless you and the ones you take care of.
Man, the cold is just bitter. The deer are really hoping you would feed them Jimmy. Get a bail of any feed and they will never forget you for sure.
Why not have a supply inside already?
Not the time to be putting wood.
Also need some sort of heat shield on the wood of the cabin
Cozy log cabins and wood stoves. Perfect match :)
And beer in the fridge 👍
@@terrydactyl6751 and mushrooms in my tea , and Two snowmobiles.
I'm hooked, Australia here thank you so much for showing Celsius Temperature. Beautiful little deer, Beautiful Snow, Amazing cabin. Kindest thoughts to you and your family from Australia xx
Wow thank you for the awesome comment. I have some good friends living in Australia and when it hits -40 here I sure wish I was there 😁🍻
@@JimmyMeatwhistle lol vise versa Jimmy, when it hits 40c here I wish I was there, but then I'm a winter girl. I have never seen snow. That's why I adore your video's. We do get snow in the mountains here in Australia Victoria, N.S.W as you would know Jim. Kindest thoughts to you and your family. Will be watching your video's during this 2nd or 3rd lockdown here in Victoria Australia. 🇭🇲🇺🇸🐨🦘🕊
Forget watching him chop wood or sit by the fire, I wanna see how he gets all those clothes on! I’d expect him to wind up looking like Randy from “A Christmas Story.”
When I worked up in the High Arctic I wore a thin pair of socks ,some guys wore panty hose¸ then I would put on a pair of thermal socks then Mukluks and I had no problem with my feet staying warm. On my hands up to my elbow mitts and gloves inside and and two layers followed by an arctic parka,snow glasses and toque. The only I worried about was the bears because Nanook never sleeps.
Cold air intake for stove, have a batch of wood inside. It seems like a 30% gain in heat vs outside wood. You can gage temp by sound of crunch on the snow.
Greetings from Alaska. I discovered trapper hats about 10 years ago. I had always worn knit hats up until then. Once you try a trapper hat you will never go back.
Thanks for the comment! If it works in Alaska, it will work anywhere. 🤠🍻
I helped install a wood stove at a friends place and we put it around 36 inches away from the wall, this meant that he could store wood for burning on wide shelves behind the stove, this was stacked from floor to ceiling, the lower level had a removable sheet of steel to protect it against the excessive amount of heat, he was able to dry his wood weeks in advance of when it was needed and when conditions allowed he would re-stock the shelves as required.
Thanks for the comment 🍻 That is an awesome idea👍 thanks for letting me know, I might just do that this fall.
@@JimmyMeatwhistle He had 5 shelves in total, and they were around 60 inches wide, he believed that meant that at anytime he had at least 500kg of wood drying in the house. and of course when it's in the house it will always be dry!
It's a great plan for sure! Thanks again 🍻
In the winter I burn a fourth of a cord a week minimum. So several weeks worth of wood is 3/4 of a cord. It sure wouldn't fit in what you r describing. I stack it along a wall on the other side of the room 8 feet long 5 feet tall .
If you're getting that low, it's worth thinking about what you can put up on the walls for insulation. Even just curtains and rugs will help considerably. Someone else mentioned a reflector - that's a good idea, but also add some thermal mass, like a stone hearth. That'll help retain heat and blast it out into the space.
Yeah, he really needs a different stove for those kinds of temps, something more like an actual fireplace with rock/concrete/brick placed directly against the stove. Mass to absorb and retain heat is everything, because air doesn't have the density to transfer heat as much, so most of the heat is being lost through the chimney. I would say that even some bricks stacked along the backside of the stove he has, would make a big difference. Even just putting a few dozen metal disks around the ducting from top to bottom, would dramatically improve the heating, acting like a heatsink to increase surface area and dump heat in the room, and it can be done without looking bad aesthetically.
@@peoplez129 I didn't watch past videos from him, but most woodstoves have fire bricks built into them. Some smaller ones don't, though.
@@peoplez129 the logs hold heat also. After about two days of a fire going my logs warm up and radiate heat.
Even just buckets of sand or bricks go a long way.
I've had a weekend cabin in the mountains for years and heat it with wood. Quick tip: you need to ditch that box and get a bigger rack for your wood inside that can hold much more wood in roughly the same space. I have a big box of kindling that I fill in the warmer months so it is always ready to go, and my firewood rack holds enough to not only get the fire going but feed it all night and into the next day. That way if I get up there and the conditions are bad, I don't have to deal with it the night I get there. When it is dumping down the rain, snowing, super cold or whatever that nice pile of dry wood inside the house makes life so much easier. Figure out how much wood you go through in 36 hours on a cold night, and size your rack to roughly that size. I keep a winter sleeping bag up there and fire up the stove and crawl inside until things warm up, takes a long time because everything in the house is the same frigid temp as the air when you get there.
good plan and thanks for the comment. 🍻
36 hours is a long night.
I was thinking the same thing. As a kid, wood burning was our primary heat in the winter months. And we lived in a much warmer area. Rarely got -10 degrees below freezing. But we always kept more wood than what I was seeing in this video by the wood burning stove. Every week we would stack enough wood on the porch to last a week and indoors there was always enough to last for a day or more.
Back in my military days we did a training operation at Fort Bragg, NC. It was in the middle of winter and it dropped down to about ten below. We were sleeping in two man pup tents. Standard issue at the time. Sleeping bags were standard issue as well and weren't rated for anything below freezing. We had field jackets and military issue wool gloves but nobody had jacket liners issued and it was up to you to have brought thermal undergarments on the op. Most people didn't. Myself included.
The spot we were bivouac at had a burn barrel. Was almost completed rusted out. But one of the guys started a fire. Didn't even ask permission. Just started one. But everybody was freezing so nobody complained or argued. I had security watch around midnight. And when I got relieved I was going back to a cold sleeping bag on the ground in negative degree temperatures. There was no sleeping in that situation. So I did what anybody practical would do. I kept the fire going all night. I have no idea how much wood we burnt up. But when we left, the barrel was completely full of ash.
I saw temperatures like that when I was growing up in southwestern Wyoming in the 60s and 70s. We'd have temps drop to -40F to -50F with highs of -20 for a month at a time. Then, we had the wind chill to make it even colder. We saw the first snow during the first week of school and the last snow during the last week of school in the spring. Sometimes the snow drifts near the snow fences wouldn't completely melt until the first week of July. My dad was a pastor at the Baptist church in Big Piney for 10 years but we lived 20 miles south, in LaBarge. I remember sitting in front of the church with the car running, with the heater on full blast, but it would never really warm up the inside of the car. So, we had two layers of blankets covering the laps fo four kids in the back seat, and body warmth between us. Those were times you never forget!
THOSE TYPES OF TEMPS ARE CANADIAN OR SOUTH POLE,,,ALASKA OR SIBERIA.
I'm afraid of cold
I always have a 1 gallon can of diesel fuel that I use to start my wood burner. You can put in larger pieces, no need for kindling wood. Just throw a small amount of fuel on logs and throw a match on it...and it's instant warmth. Diesel doesn't have the explosive nature of regular gas so there's no explosion. It's a convenient way to start a woodstove and you'll be warm in minutes.
Cool story. You missed the part where diesel isnt flammable.
Good idea but make it even better having half used motor oil or vegie oil.
Still nice to have kindling unless your wood is 100% season.
@@JJ-mh3hb Wait, what?
@@JJ-mh3hb Try it before saying something like that youre misinforming other ppl
@@JJ-mh3hb What?? I assure you that it's flammable. Or did you mean to say that the flash point was much higher than gasoline.
I love the way Canadians, Aussies, Brits and Kiwis use “bloody “ as an adjective. Like this bloke “It’s just too bloody cold”. Cousins for sure.
What a nice cabin.....I would like to put that in my backyard and use it for my man-cave....ha.....I'M too old to start living off grid, so I could make believe that I'M in the wilds of Canada and be only a couple hundred feet from my regular house....DREAM ON OLD MAN...HA...
Norman Wyatt , Have a nice sized she'd delivered to your back yard, BINGO!!
Yes I’m gonna do the same.
Remember , flame consumes air , if your stove is not fed air from outside it will cause air to enter thru windows and doors and unsealed joints in construction . Find a way to feed outside air to the flame or you will suffer cold corners and rooms .
You know its cold when the snow makes that creaky sound
That appears to be a hearthstone stove. I have one very similar. 4300$ new. Bought mine for 35$ on auction with insulated pipe and roof and ceiling flashing. It took four of us to get it in a low trailer and it wasn't by lifting it!
If I had to live in that temperature, you would find my dead body , still in bed in the spring. I cannot imagine that kind of temps. In winter here, I throw on a sweater over my usual summer clothes and that may off come midmorning when it is warmer.
Wellco N-B1 boots are not water proof, they are for extreme cold weather, where the is only snow and ice. Pretty inexpensive, so keep a pair for those few days you really need them, for most people that is. Liners are usually sold separately.
I didn't see a fan there. A thermal fan is a good way of spreading the heat around, rather than rely solely on radiant heat.
@Jason your vehicle is a joke. Much better vehicles out there.
^Retarded comment right? Plenty of vehicles get the job done. Yet there are better ones out there. So why don't you have one of the better ones? Probably a similar reason why dude chose this piece of equipment. Cost, availability, performance (etc.).
@@micsierra806 This is the dumbest shit I have read in awhile. Your comparison is beyond stupid cars aren't needed to survive but a wood stove is. This is literally the worst choice you can make for that size cabin.
And rotate the fan backwards
@Jason Name them.
@@belliduradespicio8009 a thermal fan does not require electricity.
I had a heat exchanger on my stove pipe flute the heat would rotate the fan and the fan would distribute the heat evenly
My brother in law tell me about living off grid all the time . He’s never done it . He watch’s the shows . Some times I feel like backhanding him . I never would do that . I spent over 30 years in Alaska. I’ve done it . I know what - 60 below is . I lived it . The good is . Opening up my back door and seeing moose sleeping 20 feet away . It’s never hunting season when they do . So they are safe . They come back every year . Besides the make good trails .
I work outside in the Yukon and Alaska. Baffin boots are my favorite wear them at 40 below with regular socks never have cold feet.
Hi and thanks for the comment and info. A few people have mentioned Baffin boots. If you are working in those locations, they must work! I need a pair 🤠🍻
Kenny V please can you tell me wich Baffin boots you use in Winter time in Alaska? Because i live in Romanian Mountens and i want to buy Buffin boots from Amazon but they are many of Buffin boots. Many thanks and good luck guys. God help you.
I beleive they are the heavier rated -70 pull on style I don't have them in front of me right now. I am working in Alberta this winter and have a lighter pair of Baffin monsters that are holding up well. But it hasn't been that cold. I hope this helps. You will love them.
Winter wolf baffins. Minus 100 rating
Great price on these boots as well.👍🍻
When looking for good winter boots make sure that they have a porous layer under the liners that will allow sweat to get out of the liner. If it doesn't have a fibreglass or similar in sole under the main liner, keep looking or try to find an in sole to go under the liners. I spent over 40 years working in temperatures down to -50 C and once I discovered fibreglass in soles I never had a problem again with cold feet.
have you got a couple of links to products like that?
Bring the wood inside, chop in the warmth of the cabin, then sweep up the mess.....nice video.
Alaskan here, use really old lacrosse bunny boots with some sorel caribou inserts.
Also hunt with old surplus mukluks, 2 sizes too big with extra wool inserts.
Works great for arctic oilfield work, and late season caribou hunting.
But im definitely gonna take a look at those gloves, props on the video, stay warm brother!
Mike, great info! I have heard so much about the surplus mukluks. I had ordered a pair, but still waiting for them... Thank you sir, stay safe 🍻👍
Great video watching from my work with Envy from northern Ireland ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ have a good day with the whiskey 😊😊😊😊😊😊
I wear my insulated rubberr baffin's and one pair of sock snowmobiling and it keep me warm all day at -40C. To anyone looking for boots for cheap, buy those.
Someone else mentioned Baffin's recently as well. I better look into them. Thanks for the comment 🍻
We get those temps for long periods of time up here in interior Alaska. I totally understand the difficulty trying to warm a cabin!
a little suggestion for wall behind woodstove, make some small wood rippings to space a piece of tile backer cement board off the logs, hold backer board up about an inch off floor, then you can tile and wrap edges, the masonry mass will warm from the stove and the spacing off floor and behind will create a natural convection in cabin, pilling the cold air off floor, warming behind tile board and rising, plus the shiny tile will reflect the heat better in front, just one sheet, 3 foot by 5 foot, can either install horizontal or vertical,
Great info there. Thanks for the information, much appreciated🍻👍
I live in Saskatchewan. I love love love winter. I wish it was winter all year. But I'm glad I live in an apartment building, and don't have to chop wood.
Wood splits really easy when it is cold. I did it many times as a kid when dad asked me to split wood. Easier than when it is warm.
I agreed, it split beautifully that frozen wood. 👍
Would you tell us more about your wood stove. Would it burn over night? How many square feet is your cabin? If you were to do it again would you have went with a larger wood stove. Thanks.
Being from middle Georgia just wondering why you wait until its cold to split fire wood? Should you not split in the fall so all you have to do when it's cold is carry it in. just asking? for a friend.
Thanks for the comment. 🍻 Yes, should have been totally prepped long before I even needed to light it. I was doing it to keep warm and it was more of an experiment to see how long it would take ro get the cabin up to temperature. I didn't run out of wood, I can cut it as fast as I needed it but again it was just an experiment.
jedward hey jedward, even the meanest knarly rounds of wood split much more easily at cold temperatures,
The sap and free moisture inside the logs is frozen and thus splits easily. I spent most of my life in Canada, ask me how I know👍
@@edwardfinn4141 WOW, Learn something every day.
Splitting wood warms you twice. First when you split it. Then when it burns.
@@edwardfinn4141 No question as to when to spit the wood. But jedward was more asking why there wasn't any cut and split beforehand. When it is that cold having a fire is a must, but if there is an injury or other emergency when you temporarily cant split the wood to make a fire, things get dire fast. Jimmy answered the why and it made sense
Never do double socks unless the boots are oversized. You need a buffer of warm air around your feet inside the boots in order for your feet to stay warm. When everything is tight to the cold outside of your footwear then your feet will also be cold. Learned this the hard way.
Yes, wear one proper pair of merino wool socks. Double socks cut the blood flow.
The proper use of double socks are one pair of synthetic closest to the skin and after that a pair of thick wool socks to transport the moisture when hot and retain a nice buffer of hot air to remain warm. This is what we Swedes do in arctic bootcamp.
@@plyschbyxa1337 100% silk sock liners then 100% wool socks
Did he ask you? No!
@@plyschbyxa1337 You're right. Liners + sock is a good combination. Double socks aren't in my experience.
Celsius and Fahrenheit scales meet at -40. Kelvin scale increases and decreases at the same rate as Celsius, they just begin at 0 degrees at a different state, K at absolute zero, C at the freezing point of fresh water. There is a 100 degree difference between the freezing and boiling point of water at both K and C scales. -40 is just plain cold, however you measure it.
Jimmy they are saying this winter in the rockies will be one of the craziest get ready to hunker down. A delivery of 3 cords of hardwood may seem like a big chunk but will be worth its weight when it hits the cold temps again. Hope all is well
Thanks for the heads up. Yes it sounds like it's going to be good one! I have to run two more trips through the Coquihalla highway in the next week or so so hoping it holds off till then 😆😆
Gotta love global warming ruining seasonal norms
This is normal LOL
Nothing better to feel your cabin start to warm up in those temps! And I can tell it's cold by your footsteps. Greetings from Norway ❄🇧🇻👋
The stove not ready to go at this time of the year? Get a couple hay bales for the deer it's 40 below for them too I feds 11 of them last winter in the cold snap
Take care be safe
You need a couple of those wood stove fans. They are dual non electric fans. One for each side of the top of the stove...they WORK.
From past experience, wood splits so nicely at minus forty. Loved the video.
You know it's cold, when the temperature in °C matches the temperature in °F.
Agreed, and then C starts getting colder than F after that point. Burrrr
-40 merge
fall and summer is when u get yer wood ready for winter woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Here in NC we get bust all our wood in fairer therefor we r prepared for the cold. Before a snow or incoming rain I have my covered porch loaded with split wood ready.
"Claire vous recommande ses rillettes du Mans"
Hum, ça donne faim !
What a nice panel on the wall !
It is common to be as cold as -40 up here in interior Alaska....we always store our birch firewood down in the boiler room so we are not wasting energy getting -40 degree firewood up to temperature inside the woodstove.
always keep enough wood beside the stove to last 24 hours ( keeping it warm helps ) . also when its winter i keep red brick on top of the stove for the winter brick stays warm and puts off a lot of heat . never be cold again .
I would recommend that in late September or early October you spend a full week eight to ten hours a day cutting and storing wood. that way you go outside with a t-shirt and spend one minute filling a small wagon with wood and rolling it into the cabin. Just a thought.
Nice cabin. I think your standing armoire is from Mexico. I had one of those before. There’s a little trick you can do with small square hinges if you take a skill saw and cut along the panel just on the inside of the door frame. Basically cut the doors off and reattach with the square hinges. Then they are double hinged and you can open them more than 270 degrees. Idk just a thought. Mines floating around San Diego somewhere.
Just go skinny dipping! How will a pellet stove do ao -30 F?
I could imagine it never gets “comfortable “ at those temps if +10C is comfortable. Do you know the approximate rated BTU/hr of the stove? Is combustion air piped to the stove from outside? Otherwise you are using room air that is sucked in through cracks from outside which cools the inside. Heat losses are calculated as
Q = (TH-TC ) * A * U where:
Q is the heat loss rate
TH is inside warm temp
TC is outside cold temp
A is the surface area of the cabin exposed to cold
U is the overall heat transfer coefficient
So, as the cabin warms, the heat loss rate increases because the other factors are constant. An inside temperature is reached where there is an equilibrium where the stove heat generation rate equals the heat loss rate. You mentioned using 3 to 4 hours to get to +10 inside when its -10 to -15 outside. That differential temperature of 25 degrees may define your maximum inside temperature. Your maximum Cabin temperature may be 25-40=-15 degrees when it is -40 outside. Would be interesting to know if you can reach a higher temperature and in how much time.
UA-cam comment of the year. Rational thought based on physics. Outstanding!
I worked in Montana and North Dakota for about 4 years nothing beats a wool balaclava and real sorrels with wool socks. Insulated carharts bibs and jacket with hoodie. But at -30 you better keep moving.
Don't wait until it snows to cut wood.I burn wood and have plenty inside to burn for a couple nights and days.Also have a shed to keep wood in out of the snow and rain.You have a nice cabin
Hi and thanks for the comment. I'll be fully prepared this year and hopefully we won't see - 40 😁🍻
What type of caulk is that? Rubber? I never saw logs caulked that nice.
I had a metal 'fan' that sat on top of my wood burning stove, and the heat made the fan circulate and push the warm air into the rest of the room. Worked great. Silly me, if I had your cabin, I'd built a bit of a hut outside with a fire pit resting up about 3' high, and build a big fire for the deer - a warming hut of sorts. I'd lay straw deep on the ground inside the hut. The doors would be open so they could come and go. I know to expect comments telling me how silly or stupid I am, but I'd still do it.
Hi Judith and thanks for the comment. We have one of those fans now. It's a cheapo off Amazon but it works great!
I knew it’s a couple of years later but bless you Judith for having such a good heart
Would it be quicker to heat the room with one of those thermoelectric stove fans?
It sure would, and since this video I bought one and it works great 👍
You know it’s cold when you step on the snow and it crunches
haha, indeed! nasty cold 😁🤠
Or worse, squeaks!
I heat my cabin with a ROUND OAK stove from 1902. Was raised with woodstoves for heat. So, who gets to be the one who gets up in the middle of the night to feed the fire, or the first up in the morning? :)
Wow, I know my cabin, at -20 f takes 45 minutes to get to almost 80 then I open the glass door to the enclosed front porch and the entire 20 by 24 area of the cabin is 70 within an hour. Now on sunny afternoons the front porch can get into the 50's at -20 with no heat. Then again it was the way I designed the cabin for the middle of winter. Then I have an oversized cast iron stove for what I need.
good info, thanks for the comment. 🍻
I would look into a pair of bunny boots ! Your feet won't regret it ! Best pair of boots I ever owned for cold weather.
Have you tried a stove fan that sits on the top of the fire? They move air around pretty well to help keep the air moving to warm the whole place
Texarkana. Yes I picked one up and they work great
Heh, heated full house with wood 27 years. Funny, as teens we had access to this cabin. Super cold one day. It had a little wood stove. We once chocked it full with kindling and kept feeding it. Turned cherry red for a while. Heated that place up in less than an hour. The mass maybe 6 hours but we weren't watching the clock then!
I have a well insulated camp in central Ontario and I went in several years ago when it was -41 outside and -43 inside. That means everything in my camp was -43. Normal winter temperatures two hours will make it comfortable, that nite it took a good nine. A rule that I always follow is never ever leave without a full wood box. We also have hard wood I don’t know how long it would have taken with pine. Have fun in your place the winter is the best time at the camp. Enjoy your scotch.
Pine? Hell you go through a cord of wood in no time. Plus leave a lot of tar and soot buildup in the pipe.
Always try to go with hardwoods. They burn longer and cleaner. And come like cedar leave a nice smell in the house. If you live in an area devoid of hardwoods, plant some. It might take 20 - 30 years before they are harvestable but when they are they are a blessing to have.
Plant hardwood out here? They won't live and that's a fact. In the past eastern hardwoods were a no grow proposition, it is too cold in the winter, and too dry come summer. Plant them all you like but they'll never grow here so not an option
@@JimmyMeatwhistle Point made Jimmy.
Is your roof insulated, if not it would speed up the heating process.
If he lives in Alaska I think it will be insulated .
Crack both a scotch and a beer...-40C you earned them. Great cottage! My cottage in BC Canada topped out at 12C in the winter...partly because the walls were missing. Only had time for 3 layers of plastic. Great times though:)
It gave me a chuckle, the way you kept going back to the various items of clothing it required in order for you to attempt to chop wood. Question: the blanket you have on the bed-where did you get that? Do you remember? It’s hard to find where it looks more cozy like what you have vs. cheesy log cabin ‘look’ for blankets/pillows.
Nice cabin, and deer ! I made myself a small cabin too. Alot smaller then yours :) Takes about 20 minutes to heat up to 40c . :)
Thanks for the comment. I'll head over and check your cabin out 🍻 looks like Ontario to me? I'm in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Cheers 👍
It takes 20 minutes to heat up in -40c 😁
@@JimmyMeatwhistle Not ontario but close :)
Hmm. So thinking, lots of black flies and no grizzly bears 😁
@@JimmyMeatwhistle Black flies, black bears... no grizz though ;)
hope so atleast!
What about using a spray of heat conducting metal rods about 5 ' up passing thru the chimney to get more surface area heated to change the temp faster.?
While you were going through your list of clothing to go outside, I was thinking " winter will be over by the time he gets dressed!"
Haha, true 👍
I had to drive one morning when it was 26 below zero F. I didn't have adequate gloves and by the time I got to where I was going, my hands felt like they were on fire! They hurt for days, especially when I got them wet. Frostnip is no fun, even if it isn't as serious as frostbite.
Nice axe, Hultafors is nearby here in Sweden and I've actually been there and got the tour. Some really old traditions are kept alive
Thanks for the comment. I would love to do that tour that's for sure. 🍻👍
Hey Jimmy! Can you post a link where you got the mittens? Appreciate it man! Many thank from Scotland!
Here they are amzn.to/3dZUOI8
@@JimmyMeatwhistle I appreciate you dude
Putting all that clothing on seems crazy to me. Here in southern Arizona we hit the 20s and were acting like it's a blizzard out. Nice cabin, you did a great job on it.
I wish that you would have told us what the temperature was inside after lighting the fire
Not very much warmer. You have to remember all the furniture, all the logs are frozen solid, and all the bed material, anything inside the cabin, are like giant Ice cube's. Felt no difference in temperature on the interior for hours
And also coveralls.We build a log fire to stay warm.We were outside 3 hrs at time.That was tough weather conditions with 6 inches of snow on the ground.This video i give the guy credit when your working outsde splitting woodyja at 30 below.Then to get logs in cabin and get stove fire going and warm it up in 5 hrs is good.
Thanks for the awesome comments Terry, much appreciated.🍻👍🍻
Scotch and a beer go perfect together!
For those temperatures you really need stone harth around it. It will help to heat the cabin long after the fire go's out.
Another large solid object to try to heat up. No thanks 😉
Eh... One night when it was 19 degrees F, I ran out to the woodshed in my underwear and sponge bob flip flops, to get firewood. I forgot to fill the hopper. Drinkin' ya know.
Wow, heating with pine wood! that is why the burn times are so short. Maple or oak could work wonders in that stove, but if pine is what you have, then that is what is burned.
Don't burn pine in your heater!! The resin in the pine will stop up your stove pipe. Worse,the resin may catch on fire!!!
Are you from the Moon? There's only softwood available in the Rockies what should we burn? Should we drive for 4 days to find some hardwood? Crawl back into your tent you have no idea what you're talkin about
@@JimmyMeatwhistle I agree with you. Yea if that is all that you have, that is what you burn. The only thing that is important is to season it properly and burn at a proper temperature for complete combustion. EPA certified wood stoves make that a whole lot easier than in the old days.
Love the white lines on the walls...really gives it a unique look
-40 is a regular day in interior Alaska.
why not chop wood when temp higher?
trying to keep warm 😁🤠