IF YOU CUT FIREWOOD YOU HAVE TO DO THIS
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2016
- OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY: If you harvest your own firewood then you know you have to do this. You have to split and stack it for use. In this video is also a couple of tips. Thanks for watching and sharing our videos and we will see you on Sunday =)
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Huge props Doug and Stacy! A drone!? Fresh camera and mic setup!? Love LOVE LOVE Seeing people invest in themselves. Seeing this made our day!!
Wait a second I know you guys! Love your videos as well!
Great idea splitting it right on the trailer. Saves one step in the whole process! The other thing about splitting firewood is the sense of accomplishment when you step back and a bunch of it stacked up. Merry Christmas to you guys!
As I am still relatively young (49) and in good shape, I prefer to split all my wood that I use each year (approximately 4 cords per year) manually with a splitting maul. I don't really consider it hard work as I do it as productive exercise. Basically, helps me maintain good health and get the benefit of heating our home all winter and not being totally reliant on the electrical grid.
And yes, there is definitely something therapeutic about being in the woods and cutting your own firewood. Nothing better than being in the woods alone on a quiet, frosty winter morning, cutting wood and enjoying nature while enjoying the solstice of a good coffee in total tranquility. Something no big city dweller will ever experience.
Me too, smith. But I'm 68, arthritis, pain, you name it, but I use old Stotz Monster Maul ™ to split wood. Dagnabbit whimps who have to use powered log splitter, I have no use for them limp wrists.
D Smith , That's for damm sure I grew up in the country all my life I. I'm 52yrs.old ,and that's how we were raised up I used to love going out to cut wood withy dad ,and help him stack ,and I tried to split to give him a break , but dad wouldn't have it that way he'd telle you stack and, I'll split it'll work out better that way and, damm before you knew it we'd be done..haha tired but, but we got it done..and, on with the next chore ...I miss them day's I tell people I gotta get back to them day's and, they look at you like are you crazy... hell no to live in the city is crazy,!! 😵
PS. and, my dad had 4 boys besides me and, he always said" ah!, they complain too much and, he always said" you should have been a boy because you work better than they do.haha! I just respectedy dad more I think and, that's how it should be.. he's been gone now 23yrs this February the 2nd. and, it still feels like it was yesterday when he passed I sure do miss him.
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I am pretty thankful that my father is still with me. He is now 84 and survived a heart attack a little over a year ago. Understandably, the heart attack and his recovery has slowed him down. However, even this past summer her managed to get out one the water with me in my boat and do some fishing out on the bay, something that he grew up with and that he truly enjoys. I say to my mom, my wife, and my brother, that if something happened and he passed while out in the boat, at least he went doing something that he enjoyed.
I do miss all the times that he, my brother, and I would be in the woods together doing some good old-fashioned grunt work. I do not care what anyone says or thinks about woods work, but there is no better way to keep yourself in shape. Already this winter I have approx. 4 cords of softwood and a cord of hardwood cut, and junked as firewood for next winter.
D Smith , Well that's a true blessing to have him still with you ... I'm very glad for you I think if my Dad would have been the same way ..oh he loved to fish...now I have 3 granddaughter's one I'm raising she is 14 yrs old and, she's the same way she rather be fishing than going to school... she's turned out just like her great grandfather...have a blessed life ..😇
Really enjoying how you are using your drone for your videos. So well done!
It is a great feeling having a good store of fire wood put up, it is time for us to start gathering more ourselves so we can stay a few years ahead. :)
Wow. There's something about splitting wood that makes me feel gloriously alive! Especially if it's below freezing. And I'm a 5'2" woman. I can't imagine working with the strength of a man.
Hubs and I are watching you regularly. We are sixty, both sixty. We just purchased 13 acres in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains, much of it woods. Two year plan to go if that long. It has a small cabin so beginning the process, eliminating and selling and paying off so we can sell house and GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We have been researching and seeking the land we wanted for four years now and found it. Buying cast iron kettles and more for the move and as money is available. Much to do in it but now that we bought the property and your video and others make us focused and starving for the move. I just learned to garden a few years ago and can food two years ago. My grandmothers did it all but I just didn't. I work in a law firm and long to let my files go to another so that I can do my deal too. God bless you and Stacy. We are blessed by your dream.
I split firewood for 20 yeas with a 15 lb. monster maul, then my time became much more valuable and I bought a rapid fire log splitter, wow, nothing like it.
Love those aerial shots of you chopping wood! :-D Happy Holidays to you all!
Love cutting wood and stacking!Cute babies!
You make me want to homestead even more than we are. I'm going to stay on it. Thanks for the vlog and encouragement.
you the man! thats real living, working and feeling good about it in every vid not just sitting in front of a camera
Cheers!!!
Love this video. Spot on and funny! Me and the kids just put in some seeds for our first spring greens! But had a beautiful salad from our frost soften kale tonight. Thanks for keeping the inspection going! Hello from Vancouver Island.
Great production values and tips! Thanks!
Love that screen house! I've seen the vid of it being built. Just giving credit where credit is due! Happy New Year!
Keep working out in that cold and you'll end up a skinny-mini! I went to work in a meat packing plant and lost weight so fast I a actually went to the doctor thinking perhaps I was ill. After a lot of tests we figured out that it was simply working in the cold that was causing it ( my weight loss was dramatic because I was quite overweight and dropped about fifty pounds in three months!) Dr. said the cold forced my body to go into overdrive to keep me warm enough and so every movement burned through more calories than it would have at a more regular room temp. I guess that is why so many of us start putting on weight in the fall, our bodies know what's coming and stores fat to help us through the colder months. Lol.
Merry Christmas guys! I don't comment much but I do appreciate the time you take making the videos for us to enjoy, thank you!
Just watching this...
Yes, splitting is relaxing to me. We used to do 100 cord a year, all hand split. Mostly sold for cash, 15 cord we burned and you have a Fiskers...
BEST splitter ever made!
Some seriously great shots and tips! (love the music too hehe) We have got a LOT of wood to process before our winter begins - now's the time to do it! :D
Yes the drone shots are kickin'!
If your wood is green & frozen and you don't have much of a dry supply put up ahead for the heating season, it drys a lot quicker piled off the ground on small logs or narrowed pallets WiTh a 2' X 8' plywood cover anchored with something heavy, to prevent the wind blowing it off, so the sunlight can dry it out with the breezes blowing through. Always pile bark side up so it sheds water. Within a week you will see check marks in the end grain. Piled tight in a shed inhibits drying. Even a double row, back to back, outside will encourage fungus and mould.
Blessing in the New Year in your Off Grid adventure.
Thanks for the tips Doug! The drone footage is so much fun to watch...
Hi Doug.
Great videos ... i am envious, as i live in an urban UK location and have very little space for homesteading stuff.
If it is helpful can i just make a suggestion ?
Rather than having to keep bending down to pick up split firewood so often could you try this ?
Use a large diameter tractor or car tyre to house around the log as you split it...
then all the segments of split wood will stay together and not fall onto the floor.
Hope it works for ya !!
Simon.
Great video and tips thanks Doug!!
Thanks for sharing. As always a great video. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones 😇
From the mountains of Northeast Tennessee, we wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Like the video. Just retired and trying to decide where to live. I noticed several comments about splitting the wood. It would be good to see one trying to split a large block without scoring it and then after scoring it. I replied below to Sinfonian Barelytone's comment from two days ago about how scoring the block first helps when splitting wide blocks. Smaller blocks 18 inches or less can usually be split without scoring them. Larger blocks split better if scored first (making several hits in a straight line across the diameter of the block of wood) before attempting to split them. Also good keeper's of the land will be plainting some trees (or allowing new growth) to plan ahead for future generations to use. Harvesting firewood is like good farming. Got to plan ahead instead of always just being a reaper. Good video.
Nothing beats the heat of a wood fire.I grew up with a wood fired furnace in my parents home and now that I have my own home we have a wood fired furnace.Yes,it is word to prepare for winter but it is so worth it when the temp drops and the snow flys.
Merry Christmas Doug and Stacy, thank you that was great information.
you guys are one of the few that are REALLY offgrid homesteaders... most say they are but really they're just yuppies with a yard that is a bit outside 'urban' - they didn't build the house, they don't live off grid, they didn't clear the land... and most make vids that have valuable content until they start to feel that 'stardom' thing, then it becomes all about them. and almost everyone has turned right back into the yuppies they moved away from. so thanks... nice to see.
Homesteading does make you feel alive! It is a positive way of life. A true gift.
iam glad I have people split wood for me . I gave a gas log splitter and my employees split 900 plus cords a yr.
have not gave
Good morning from Central Arkansas. I hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas.
No, I was sitting here drinking an iced tea, watching you. Merry Christmas.
Love them tzitziot. Have a great day!
great tip on the wood sun bursts. any other pointers on wood and identifying would be wonderful. we struggle sometimes.
Oak tree sunburst!?! So interesting and very neat! You learn something new everyday!
Great Video Doug! Great minds think alike! Now all I need is a drone for all that fancy video footage! LOL
We'll be looking forward to 'meeting' your sons on a future video. Ours were just here and we featured them in our Homestead Holiday Flyby video - one of ours sons brought his drone with him, we had fun with it.
we love you guys, we need to learn more from you about living off the grid. We don't fully understand it all yet, we are trying to learn.
Just found this channel. Good video. Keep them coming.
Heck of a swing ya got there!
Hope you guys had a Wonderful Christmas,thank you for sharing. C-Ya!,,,,,Peace!
love the air views and music mixed in with tips ,very pro video mad skills guys love it!
Great tips Doug!
Happy Christmas Doug and Stacy!
I love your intro today...love the style! Wishing you a very very Merry Christmas and a happy New year ;) Good luck always ;)
Good tips. I did not know that about wood wicking moisture out of the ground. Like your new style of recording overhead and music!
I didn't know about the wicking water thing with cord wood. Good to know. Our winter's hit -40 or lower. Bitterly cold.
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Makes total sense Mark. Wish I thought of it sooner. Most of our wood is stacked on it's side and covered but never thought about the moisture. I'll bet others are thinking about this now too.
No, most of us actually knew this fact already.
Loving the drone footage!
Love the drone shots. You pass on really great tips and knowledge and I want to thank you. Happy holidays to you and Stacey.
Is that a drone or Stacy on the roof?
It's Casey Niestat hanging off his new drone.....( =
Try using a chopping block and you wont have the bonce of the trailer. you will only swing your maul half as many times
Wow those are some mild winters compared to where I am - it’s common to get to -10 degrees F and even colder! We’ve already had low 20’s and it’s only November 3.
I am impressed with the professionalism of this video
LOVE these two xxx
Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and experience and Happy Holidays to you both.
😆 #LoggingAndStorage Happily watching in North Warwickshire, England, Terry.
Doug , u and wife r full of education for us..I didn't know that about the oak tree
nice to know how to tell if it is a oak tree. Thank you for that.good info.
Hello, Doug & Stacy Thanks for all you share with us! I don't think I would store fuel "wood" next to a building unless it is in small amounts. In fact I would store my fire wood in various cords in one area but separate from one another. I once had a spontaneous fire catch in a pile of seasoned wood on a hot summer day. It burned the building it was stored against. That's how I learned :)
BTW - I also use same Fiskars for splitting. Many people really criticize it, but I think it works better than other splitting axes I've tried. ...But for 'me' I wouldn't chop on my trailer - have to be less energetic, or damage trailer or axe. Great vid - making good use of the drone.
Awesome, love you guys. Happy Festivus. Please do a info video on your drone.
Great video,nice drone cam.
Dang you are wicked good with that maul!
Hello from Colorado! I used a Fiskars axe for a while until I learned more about the metallurgical advantages of a higher quality axe head after researching why my axe was bouncing off the hardwood round like I see in your video here. Not pushing a specific brand, there are many quality ones to choose from and I believe coding your axe is a personal choice, but I just wanted to throw a suggestion that when it's time to replace your axe you get one with a higher quality steel, it will bounce a lot less, hold an edge longer, and cut better, all reducing the amount of work required. Cheers!
Is Stacy flying the drone Good job Stacy!
I just found your channel, and you are living my dream. I grew up in a house that size, maybe 100 sq ft larger. 3 girls in a bedroom, mom & dad sleeping on the hide-a-bed in the living room. It was cozy, but not a lot of work to clean!
Im looking forward to watching each one of your videos, so I subbed you.
Are you somewhere back in Pennsylvania? My grandma's people came from there out here to Oregon as pioneers. They were Mennonite. Lots of them came to the Willamette Valley, and they're still here. It's so flat, you can't be west coast.
Shalom to your home, friends!
I see you will never be lonely with all those sheep around !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great camera shots!
Some beautiful Oak you have there, and the powerhouse tractor.
I split most all my wood on a low large splitting block(round), but yes, your right , get that wood up off the ground, I stack my wood on fence post rails 12" apart, so the air can go under neath, (steel fencing, it was free, and what I had). I use a wedge, sledge, then splitting mall and finish with a variety of axes like you, I prefer Oldschool wood handles. When I was a kid, we had Elm dead from the 50's dutch elm disease. We cut up the dead elm on the farm. If you have not split Piss Elm , it is amazing, I have driven 2 even 3 wedges threw it and still together, the grain weaves together, I did not know differant until we moved from the elm, up into the hard woods, that all wood did not split that hard, now I am in a dream, love those Oaks.. Bless you all, keep it real, and keep up the good work, the good life.
Wisconsin, now Alaska. .
I have a quesyion please? What do you do in the winter?
That wood is splitting really good!
Nice set up you have there.
Just an added thought we put light dusting of borax on the floor and bottom couple of roes for bugs.Happy New Year and thanks for the videos
i am looking forward to the videos on the completion of the greenhouse.
Thanks for the videos!
I feel for you I had to split the wood by hand every year this year I finally broke down and found a cheap Logsplitter online and I rebuilt 35 ton Log Splitter boy I wish I had it years ago it splits wood so fast and easy I can split a years supply in a day now and I burn wood every day I live at 6500 feet above sea level so it's a little colder here but it's a dryer cold I just can't do it anymore I'm getting too old and my rotator cuffs are worn out.
MrJim217, my log splitter is 15 years old. Works good half the time, depending on what new Xbox game is out.
I know a few Amish folks around here, very nice hard working & honest people; but they don't have aerial drones and UA-cam channels!
THANK YOU VERRRYYY MUCH ABOUT THOSE LINES...
Playing some catch up here. That is s nice size oak. I was expecting the grain to be more twisted because of it location it grew. Well put together video
I always found splitting wood very relaxing I just hated stacking it because on my spine issue
11:03 time taken to teach me in 9 seconds how to identify an oak tree... thanks, glad I watched.
You need to ask for a pickaroon for Christmas. Great videos keep up the great work
It is so sweet to be able to circle a nice piece of oak splitting it without dropping pieces. It's like the lottery. Personally I'm partial to my 3 1/2 pound double-bit if it is straight grained. Mauls are for the more advanced jobs that make you breathe and sweat. No harm intended. Thanks for the video.
I learn to chop wood at a early age, my father showed me how. and we even sometimes made a game of it and never thought of it like work
I never commented on this one because I was trying to play them to catch up to current date...but I truly wanted to thank you for educating about heat fire and trees! Loved this one! Very informative! You both are natural teachers! Again I LOVEd the Drone view(birds eye). I was wondering who actually operates that....I have asked before ... I have tried to operate my daughters little helicopter but I have crashed it too many times! Too expensive to loose or to crash....I am definitely not someone who enjoys video games...That what I am told by my husband and kids....you kinda have to be a gamer to be proficient operating those things. Anyways awesome work!
have you considered using a piece of cheap chain and bungee cord to keep the split wood in place while you split. works great for me and the bungee allows enough give that if you strike the chain you dont damage anything.
Try using a tire to chop wood in in - keeps everything from flying around and you can keep chopping down to stick size if you want to - less bending over, more speed, better production etc etc - circle stacking takes less space and is as fun as it gets.
Merry Christmas to you and the family. We also love going out and getting the wood for winter time. Our oak is called a Scrub Oak we only cut dead and nothing over 6 inches around. Thank you for all your hard work. I must say.. we use a log splitter, must be our old age.
whats the point in splitting the wood on the trailer if its just going to fall on the ground.
spoony spoonicus i was going to mention the same thing. you are spending half your time throwing wood on the ground to pick it back up again!
spoony spoonicus it splits easier on a harder surface rather than the soft ground. Thats why you usually almost always see people splitting logs on a stump or bigger log or in this case a trailer
Brian Higgins it seems to me that the tailgate of the trailer is metal and I thought it would be hard on the edge of the splitting mull.
Jeffrey Yeager those logs look big enough that he's not going fully through them and most trailers have wooden beds
spoony,
Well, either way, the wood is going to be on the ground, so what's the difference?
Having it on the trailer gives him a squarer hit with the maul. That's one advantage. I would be afraid I would tear up my trailer though with all the vibration and the mall hitting the bed of the trailer. I guess he could put down a sheet of plywood underneath the log to protect the trailer bed. Also, one of those logs could fall off and hit him in the foot. Ouch!
The best way I have seen, is to attach an old car or truck tire to a big upright 1' to 2' long log. Then put the logs you are splitting in the tire and split away. You can usually put three or more logs inside the tire and they help hold each other up. No logs fall on the ground. Very efficient. Then toss logs in a wheelbarrow.
I use to use an axe...then I woke up to an 8lb maul. $30 at Home Depot. Let the tool do the work.
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Ok, since I was standing over by the tripod, it looked like an axe.
how long have you had the fiskars maul and would you recommend it ? those are some big logs you are splitting
Yes, but you'd be swinging an 8lb maul all day. I keep mine in good use but also swinging a Fiskars ax and others makes for a productive day on the pile and less on the arms.
Great tips Sir
good thing you have help with the bigger rounds of wood! Ive been heating with wood for 29 yrs and you have to take care of your back also, lift with legs, etc. I finally got a small tractor with loader which helps to pick up the big stuff. how many cords on average do you use for your little house?
Great videos..
you guys are so rad!
I have a tip for you if you put a bungee strap around your log before chopping it it will all stay together and you can pick it up all at one shot and carry it all together and it makes it easier to Carrie and stack
Doug,ae you ever considered using a wheelbarrow to collect the wood and transport it. Saves a lot of trips back and forth to tne store. Also what about using a big piece of tree trunk as a chopping block. If cut to the correct hight, it can save a lot of wear and tear on the back. Just found your channel, and am enjoying it. Going to be trying out some of Stacy's recipes in the near future, they look really tastey.
If you don't mind a little tip from an old man try using a chopping block instead of the bed of the trailer. The slight bounce of the trailer bed dissipates much of the force of the axe blow and makes the job harder. If you must use the trailer bed for some reason then at least try to keep the split pieces from falling to the ground so you don't have to bend as far to pick them up. Small things add up when you have a lot of work to do or when you get old and bending becomes a problem.
So you allow the logs to dry out b4 you split them?
Id check those roofing sections on the floor in the uk I used to work collecting those as they contained asbestos if they were made in the 60s-70s and into the 80s usually found on a shed roof
Doug, somewhere on youtube I saw a guy show a wood splitting tip. He takes a bit of chain and wraps it around a wood round in the middle, fastening it with a short rubber bungee cord stretching it tight. Then you can get to splitting the whole round out without having to keep picking up the big pieces that got away. It makes for less work and faster results. I didn't know if you knew that or not. Give it a try. I think you'll like it! Ernie from Fallon, Nevada
Great tips👍🏻