All I look at is that same view but a different mountain. That is MT Saint Helen's that he looks at. I on the other hand live 150mi north and I get a good view of mount Baker with magnificent sunrises over the mountain!!!!!
Thanks again Wranglestar for displaying ideas for improving kindling splitting. I went out to my garage and welded up a good splitter out of 1 inch square tubing that I had a lot of with 9" square bases and top square ring. Uprights were made out of two pieces of tubing for additional strength in the middle of the two pieces for welding the cross knife to. Used middle of a quarter inch thick lawn mower blade with a solid steel round bar about 5/8 dia at the bottom edge of the knife blade to increase splitting.
Thanks Cody! We are relatively new to heating with wood, and most of what we have on our new property is Douglas & Grand Fir. We have a LOT of standing dead & cleaning up to do, so we will be burning a lot of fir. Good to know that's primarily what you use and that it works fine for you, regardless of what some people say! :)
Great stuff. I also gather the debris under the log splitter. With 10 acres of trees, branches and tree tops are alway falling. Letting nature have a year, and dried and ready to stack in the kindling rack or buckets. Bark, especially birch bark, burns hot and last long enough to ignite the kindling with ease. I have a long table, and I put an old chop saw on it. I lay a long branch on the table and feed it to the chop saw cutting it in 1foot lengths. Thicker pieces of two inches or more I split after it is cut. Cedar is the best, splits easy, burns hot, and starts the other pieces of wood. The importance of kindling is a huge necessity for those who heat with wood.
Hi Cody, I've been a subscriber for a while and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate how respectful you always are. I love your manly mannners and think that so many great lessons are embedded in that book. I've also seen a lot of youtubers get super outraged and adversarial with the demonetization policies and I just think it's great that you find a way to respectfully disagree with it all. Too many people today jump to instant outrage, you've seem to have both a disagreement and understanding with the policies, as silly as they may be, and I think that quality is so important to meaningful discourse. Keep up the great work and I hope you and your family continue to thrive.
Nice anecdotes about that lifestyle. But other than a mention of grain and wood type, little or nothing for a city boy like me trying to learn how to chop wood. Well, except for the section at 9:06 showing you how to maximize the chances of chopping your fingers off. That’s always useful.
Hopefully someday there will be viable alternative to UA-cam. The more I learn about their ideology the more guilty I feel for supporting their business by watching videos.
JP Hickory And how do you know anything about them, seriously, havn't you considered all of the shootings that have happened in the last couple munths? Or what about all of the hate and divisiveness that Trump is spreading around this country and the world, pinning democrats and republicans against each other makeing us hate on one another to the point that there is no communication and instead we use the Internet to rip each other apart, even though what I'm talking about May have nothing to do with it it's worth considering.
I'll answer that for them. Trump hasnt devided anything that is a person's heart as well as killing people with guns. It's the person's evil heart and mind that causes them to do these things. Just live the best life you can and try not to get caught up in all that mess
Emilie, you are blaming Trump? Are you a total idiot? Yeah, just look at your spelling...YOU are the problem, not guns, not Trump, not Republicans...or Democrats. It is YOU and people like YOU.
Cherry wood has the best smell when burning in my opinion. When you split it, it has a great smell. It splits and makes kindling like a dream. And it burns for a while too by far my favorite firewood.
Oh god this reminded me of the time I had a chimney fire years ago... I had no idea what to do so I ran outside and blasted it with my water hose lol. I just tried to arch the stream to make it fall into the chimney, but thank god it worked!
I love making kindling ... but I love it so much more since I learnt a new trick which is to place a big sharp axe facing up in a vice and hitting the logs down on to it using a mallet ... you can make the pieces just the thickness you want and they can be really neat and accurate. You should try it some time. I think you'd enjoy it!
Happy wife happy life. I find it relaxing to see a wife happy with her husband, even if i am not at all connected to the situation. - can anyone else relate?
We had pinion pine in our area, but mostly shaggy bark juniper, but we would burn some pinion on occasion for the heat and smell, then burn something hot after, like juniper or oak or cedar and it would burn off the soot from the pitchy wood ,or so I was taught
Hi, I am from India and I do not know much about life over there, so few questions out of curiosity. 1. Do you stack all that firewood piles by yourself alone? 2.How much do you have to spend on firewood for a single year ?
I can prob help , I see he didn't reply to you , many cut and stack our own wood, and he and his son stack his poles yes, like me he owns a farm so cuts his own firewood , as do I in Canada, I'm 60 and we still do most our own wood for winter, to buy Harwood in Canada is $ 180 to 200 per cord, like Maple , Oak , Ash , we also have pine, lodgepole , ponderosa, apple , birch , lots of variety , most people here use a mix of woods , depending the cold, and what's available locally, do you cut and use woodstoves in the winter in India, what type of woods do you use ?
@@daleval2182 Thanks for the the detailed reply and your time ☺️. In our state the ,except from some hilly regions , temperature varies between 32 and 22, so almost all of us does not use firewood. At a few regions temperature drops to 5 degree celciois for few hours during the winter season but fire place is not part of house design there. Other states in India have freezing temperatures during winter. I am not sure what kind of fire logs they use. Since forest rules are not very strict in India when comes to the case of harvestation by local people, I believe people at those places collect all kind of logs from the forest.
I signed up as a Wranglerstar Member earlier today, as soon as it was available. Found this channel in January 2016, and is the reason than I created a UA-cam account to be able to subscribe, like and comment. I rarely miss a video, and have watched many older videos as well.
You can do it too I've lived in the city my whole life the wife an I moved to northern New Hampshire got 4 acres of land got a wood stove, river. Can shoot an hunt on my land if needed too. Got a job that takes 5 mins to get to. Cost of living is low. Just take the risk an do it!
I love these videos where you show something practical like cutting kindling or making coffee then sit down and tell a couple stories. Wholesome, soul filling content!
Those little buggers they're quite amazing hearing them squeal and laugh in the morning is the best. They're laughs are the best and just perfect start to a beautiful day.
Happy to have become a member!!: I thought about it and since I have moved to Maine I have learned a lot from your channel it's only right I pay it back!!
I really like your statement about burning pine. I am fortunate enough to live (in the city limits) on a 10 farm and have a few tree services deliver logs, rounds and wood chips to me...and it is all free! I get some osage from time to time but it is mostly silver maple, some elm, cottonwood, locust, etc. Not too much oak. But hey it is free, well all except the labor, fuel and oil, plus it keeps me busy. Thanks for sharing another great video!
Josh P I am a Wisconsin native stationed in San Antonio- I can believe the temperature difference. When I first came to Tx it was 15 degrees leaving Wi and 87 arriving in Tx. I only owned 2 pair of pants that weren’t insulated. It is just a completely different world
I am always in need of kindling. Been using wood since the mid 70s. I live in the NE so have hardwood aplenty. I also claim the litter made by splitting. but once that is used up I have to split my own too just like you. No matter what method we all use be sure to keep all your fingers as they are needed for many other tasks. As for needing to go private just to shoot and or express our faith is just so unamerican. That new little addition to your family is sure growing fast.
Not going to lie... Loading the kindling Nana box on the side then flipping it over and carrying it was genius! It makes sense rather than trying to stand each individual piece up and get them in there accordingly! Great video!
5 cords a year is SOLID for pines and such. Interesting info, thanks for sharing! I use some White Pine and some Eastern Red Cedar - both have a nice fragrance also. Mostly I use hardwoods (Maple, Cherry, Ash, Oak, Hickory, Birch, Locust)
I have resubscribed; I appreciate the more descriptive titles. Time is valuable and I like being able to tell what a video is about when I decide If I have time to watch or not.
Thanks for this video. You said to "remind me sometime on how to put out a chimney fire really quick" (6:44), were you able make that video yet? I ask because I see a bunch of creosote building up, I think from this last batch of wood we were sold, which is between 16% and as high as 30% and think it is from the wet wood.
I lived in east Texas and we were using post oak for our firewood, not a straight piece among them, no fun. We’d use drop offs of pine for kindling, soaked cardboard in used motor oil , let it drain. Fastest way to start a fire.
Thank you Cody and fam! I subscribed to your channel years ago after searching for hiking boots. I found you showing off some of your wildland fire gear. Not only did I buy a set of whites, I also became a wildland firefighter. I am now a crew boss up in BC. Your devotion to your subscribers is amazing, so I've become a member. Looking forward to seeing some private "non monetized videos" of you shooting soon!
My parents house was heated with maple because those grow like weed in my aerea, especially in the gravel plant, our family business. In our backyard we had the biggest maple trees you probably have seen. The biggest one was more than 2,5 m in diameter. This tree allone made a warm home for a long time. The Kachelofen is burning all day. The chimney cleaner comes once a year, and he never had any complains.
What a coincidence, I’m watching this just getting back from an apple press party, they’re such fun, especially when your using a press 150+ years old!
Please wear leather gloves when working. The smallest slip could result in a pretty uncomfortable trip to the Emerg. If it’s snowing out like Jack the Bear, that might prove problematic.
Back in the day.... Growing up in a wood-fired farmhouse in the snowbelt, we went through about a dozen cords per winter... between the open fireplace, the cookstove in the kitchen, the wood-fired boiler in the basement and a couple stoves located in various workshops & out-buildings.... anyhow, we recycled all brown paper grocery bags by stashing them in the wood bin off the kitchen. It was the children's chore to fill at least one bag every day with finger-sized twigs and snapped limb sections. Kept the yard clean and the kids busy outside. It was a big deal (rite-of-passage, of-sorts) to "graduate" from the kindling corps. I thank the good Lord daily for being raised like this.
I call my Mother in Law Nana as well, my French uncle Charles who I was named after had a good system for starting fires which I have adopted. While cleaning up around his property he would take a paper grocery bag and end up filling it with twigs. He would keep one or two indoors and a bunch in the woodshed, I heat with wood as well and live on an island on the Atlantic coast where the temperature fluctuates a lot in the shoulder seasons and also in Winter. It's very handy when I get up in the early morning or need a quick fire to put in a bag with a few small logs on top and touch it with the torch and away it goes, thanks, Chas.
I was always told burning pine was bad, so for my grandmother, we always looked for hickory or maple. Good to know that Pine can be used for when I finally have a homestead.
yup and when they do, they will enforce their current statement about guns and religion again. by telling wranglerstar and other channels ''stop with your guns and religion or we will put your membership(income) down'' you really think youtube would let cody put guns and religion behind a decoder?? maybe for a year but after that when patreon dies out they will be re-enforce the ban.
@@redsampler2017 It's less about UA-cam and more about the advertisers. Due to the higher frequency of mass shootings, companies who associate with firearms have been getting a lot of heat. It's not just leftists, conservatives have been doing the same thing, digging through people's past looking for anything they can call employers and advertisers to be outraged about. Trying to get people fired and take away their livelihood, like it's a game. Pretty sad.
I'm glad to support the channel. I have always liked your videos but have been frustrated that UA-cam was refusing to monitize 'contoversial' content. Your training with Clint Smith @Thunder Ranch is always very interesting to me as is your shooting on your property. Especially impressive is Mrs W's interest and skills as a shooter. What a partner! You are the closest thing I have as a pastor these days and I welcome your thoughtful discussions on Christian values and Bible stories. It may be presumptive of me but I consider you, Mrs W, Jack, Sweetloaf, Ginger aka Heartracer, and Ms Pants aka Lucy as family.
@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 lol you're dead on. My peach moonshine easily exceeds 100 proof and even my Applejack will start a fire. I think you can get a legal fuel distiller, but it's nicer if you can give half a jar to fire and drink the other half to warm yourself up 😄
The better half and I sleep the exact same way, we have our own blankets/quilts, I'm a mover so it has saved alot arguments. I recommend all young/new couples to do the same. And another plus, when one of us gets under one another's covers we both know what the other one wants.
Hi! Dumb question. If youtube is demonitizing religous and gun videos why set up the membership thing with them. Aren't they going to get a cut of that. Isn't that rewarding them for demonitizing? Do you have a patereon account? Not trying to be critical just wondering? Thanks for all the great videos!
My technique is I split the logs into slabs, then split the slabs into fingers. I use a hatchet and a good wood mallet. I don’t know if it is more efficient, but you can get just the right size kindling, and it is sooooooo satisfying.
Fatwood (which is resin impregnated pine from stumps so it's similar to the kindling that you are making) is the best (safe/intended use) fire starter I have ever used. 2 sticks can get you a roaring fire with little effort if you are halfway decent at stacking .
If you think that wool blankets are warm, you should try a buffalo hide as a blanket. It's incredibly warm. And it's kind of temperature regulating, and the fur from the cows is very very soft.
I know it's his Job and I feel bad that UA-cam has restrictions on freedom of speech on this platform, because of a group of individuals who can't handle certain topics. We are then forced to pay up for the things we enjoy.
@@jamiephillips3315 very true. Plus different countries allow different things. Could you imagine seeing stoning in UAE or something like that. Bet it happens.
Your over a million now, CONGRATS!!. I assume its pretty dang hard to get through to you, a message, but I want to say, I liked you in the beginning but drifted away. I drifted because you changed up your video logs from homesteading to some of the "other things under the sun". I kinda understand what youtube has done but, you solidified your channel, to me, when you were done making ""How To Cut Kindling Like A Pro"" and being the family-husband/father. CONGRATS ON THE DAUGHTER!!! best wishes and prayers to you and your family..
Lots of great stuff to comment on in this video, but the "cameo" appearance of the apple press is what got me. My whole family loved the whole series of the restoration (well, that was mostly me) and the first use of that grinder/press. Looking foward to seeing that cider drip and flow.
I apologize for the spelling in advance. 1 rick of wood measures 2 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet. 1 cord of wood = 4 Rick of wood. This measure ment comes from a book of standard measuments printed in the 1940's. Just a little fyi from the past. Love the videos. Keep them coming.
The most lovely family on youtube! Love the videos Cody. They bring light to my life and give me peace and hope in the midst of all the darkness! God bless you and please stay safe🙏🏻
New member here. Long time viewer, rare commenter, and always inspired. Thank you for making the content you do. I’m happy to finally give back, however small a contribution it may be.
Really enjoy your content Mr Wranglerstar. You and your family seem like such a warm, kind and loving group of folks and I wish you all the best for your future endeavours. Much love and respect from England.
Clicked on it for the title, but the only cutting of fire wood is about half way through, and apparently "how to cut kindling like a pro" is to just 'chop'. If i had been interested in long-winded folksy dialog, i would have been satisfied with this video. You should try to stay true to the tile.
Awesome! I went back, just this weekend, and watched the video series of you building the NANA kindling box. I also recently watched 'the good Samaritan' where Jack takes kindling on his little quad to a neighbor. Good memories... Love it!
0:13 Beautiful mountain! What about climbing up and making a video about it? Starting at your home with a backpack with food, camping gear, climbing gear, etc. Hiking through the woods, camping on the mountain, and then returning back home... It would be great.
Fantastic work on restoring the apple press . Hats off to you ..... I love the lifestyle and home that you and your wife have created ... That's what I call REAL SUCCESS. Have a great 2020.
I love how you keep grand dad’s hatchet in nana’s box, keeping them together still. It’s wonderful
Farmer Tyler that sounds dirty
“I love how you keep grand dad’s hatchet in nana’s box”
Sounds kinky
The only think perverted is both of your minds. It's wholesome, not sexual
I have to admire your operation. You're doing something you enjoy and helping people at the same time with useful information. Well done.
0:15 that's the view from your house?? I'm genuinely so shook I'd probably cry every morning at the sight of such magnificence.
Bill Dauterive all I look at is grass mud woods
I look at grass and a fence that it the fence between my yard and the house behind mine.
All I look at is that same view but a different mountain. That is MT Saint Helen's that he looks at. I on the other hand live 150mi north and I get a good view of mount Baker with magnificent sunrises over the mountain!!!!!
Braedon Phillips - I am in between, west of the big shitty, and look at both. 😉
exactly, when it snows properly, it must be absolutely amazing
*"uuuuhhh math on camera....:* I feel ya brother
Thank you for the opportunity to support the channel, I really do enjoy your content.
Cheers from Tokyo!
Thanks again Wranglestar for displaying ideas for improving kindling splitting. I went out to my garage and welded up a good splitter out of 1 inch square tubing that I had a lot of with 9" square bases and top square ring. Uprights were made out of two pieces of tubing for additional strength in the middle of the two pieces for welding the cross knife to. Used middle of a quarter inch thick lawn mower blade with a solid steel round bar about 5/8 dia at the bottom edge of the knife blade to increase splitting.
Thanks Cody! We are relatively new to heating with wood, and most of what we have on our new property is Douglas & Grand Fir. We have a LOT of standing dead & cleaning up to do, so we will be burning a lot of fir. Good to know that's primarily what you use and that it works fine for you, regardless of what some people say! :)
Great stuff. I also gather the debris under the log splitter. With 10 acres of trees, branches and tree tops are alway falling. Letting nature have a year, and dried and ready to stack in the kindling rack or buckets. Bark, especially birch bark, burns hot and last long enough to ignite the kindling with ease. I have a long table, and I put an old chop saw on it. I lay a long branch on the table and feed it to the chop saw cutting it in 1foot lengths. Thicker pieces of two inches or more I split after it is cut. Cedar is the best, splits easy, burns hot, and starts the other pieces of wood. The importance of kindling is a huge necessity for those who heat with wood.
Hi Cody, I've been a subscriber for a while and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate how respectful you always are. I love your manly mannners and think that so many great lessons are embedded in that book. I've also seen a lot of youtubers get super outraged and adversarial with the demonetization policies and I just think it's great that you find a way to respectfully disagree with it all. Too many people today jump to instant outrage, you've seem to have both a disagreement and understanding with the policies, as silly as they may be, and I think that quality is so important to meaningful discourse. Keep up the great work and I hope you and your family continue to thrive.
Nice anecdotes about that lifestyle. But other than a mention of grain and wood type, little or nothing for a city boy like me trying to learn how to chop wood. Well, except for the section at 9:06 showing you how to maximize the chances of chopping your fingers off. That’s always useful.
Hopefully someday there will be viable alternative to UA-cam. The more I learn about their ideology the more guilty I feel for supporting their business by watching videos.
This is the thought I just had too
JP Hickory And how do you know anything about them, seriously, havn't you considered all of the shootings that have happened in the last couple munths? Or what about all of the hate and divisiveness that Trump is spreading around this country and the world, pinning democrats and republicans against each other makeing us hate on one another to the point that there is no communication and instead we use the Internet to rip each other apart, even though what I'm talking about May have nothing to do with it it's worth considering.
I'll answer that for them. Trump hasnt devided anything that is a person's heart as well as killing people with guns. It's the person's evil heart and mind that causes them to do these things. Just live the best life you can and try not to get caught up in all that mess
Emilie, you are blaming Trump? Are you a total idiot? Yeah, just look at your spelling...YOU are the problem, not guns, not Trump, not Republicans...or Democrats. It is YOU and people like YOU.
Emilie, most of the hate I see comes from the political left.
Cherry wood has the best smell when burning in my opinion. When you split it, it has a great smell. It splits and makes kindling like a dream. And it burns for a while too by far my favorite firewood.
Here's your reminder please do a video on how to extinguish a chimney fire we're all waiting love your videos God bless you and yours
YES! How do we put out a chimney fire quickly?
Throw wet news paper into the stove,close the door and close the air intake. Steam snuffs the fire immediately.
good to know. thanks @kjames
Oh god this reminded me of the time I had a chimney fire years ago... I had no idea what to do so I ran outside and blasted it with my water hose lol. I just tried to arch the stream to make it fall into the chimney, but thank god it worked!
@@kjamesjr Hey man! That could have been a 45 min video!!!
I love making kindling ... but I love it so much more since I learnt a new trick which is to place a big sharp axe facing up in a vice and hitting the logs down on to it using a mallet ... you can make the pieces just the thickness you want and they can be really neat and accurate. You should try it some time. I think you'd enjoy it!
Good idea
Happy wife happy life. I find it relaxing to see a wife happy with her husband, even if i am not at all connected to the situation. - can anyone else relate?
We had pinion pine in our area, but mostly shaggy bark juniper, but we would burn some pinion on occasion for the heat and smell, then burn something hot after, like juniper or oak or cedar and it would burn off the soot from the pitchy wood ,or so I was taught
This dude splitting the kindling at 9:05 was like watching one of them pro Japanese chefs making sushi. so elegant.
@@RichM1793 never denied that.. I'm just saying watching that looks like an art.
@@RichM1793 without a question, no way in hell I could do that without taking off a finger
I'm old now , so use a frame hammer to smack the back of my hatchet, safer than always worrying about a hand hit
I like the tip of stacking with the box vertical. something so simple that will make the task so much easier!
Hi, I am from India and I do not know much about life over there, so few questions out of curiosity.
1. Do you stack all that firewood piles by yourself alone?
2.How much do you have to spend on firewood for a single year ?
I can prob help , I see he didn't reply to you , many cut and stack our own wood, and he and his son stack his poles yes, like me he owns a farm so cuts his own firewood , as do I in Canada, I'm 60 and we still do most our own wood for winter, to buy Harwood in Canada is $ 180 to 200 per cord, like Maple , Oak , Ash , we also have pine, lodgepole , ponderosa, apple , birch , lots of variety , most people here use a mix of woods , depending the cold, and what's available locally, do you cut and use woodstoves in the winter in India, what type of woods do you use ?
@@daleval2182 Thanks for the the detailed reply and your time ☺️.
In our state the ,except from some hilly regions , temperature varies between 32 and 22, so almost all of us does not use firewood. At a few regions temperature drops to 5 degree celciois for few hours during the winter season but fire place is not part of house design there.
Other states in India have freezing temperatures during winter. I am not sure what kind of fire logs they use. Since forest rules are not very strict in India when comes to the case of harvestation by local people, I believe people at those places collect all kind of logs from the forest.
We live on a hundred acres in Slovenia and found your instruction a great help thanks.
Firewood season is here.
Something happened to the audio, your voice sounds funny.
I was thinking the same thing.
Playback speed too fast? Sounds like either the frequency is faster than normal or the whole vid is done on helium, lol
Ditto. I immediately thought my playback speed was 1.25. haha
It was clipping in the beginning then the higher pitch came on. Sounds like a new mic setup and he's trying to work the bugs out.
GearheadTed thank god its not just me 😂
"That's two weeks of 'I love You!' " - priceless! Thumbs up for a loving husband & father.
You sir, are having fun. Thank you for your inspiration. I'll go cut some wood for mum....... And live vicariously through her........
I signed up as a Wranglerstar Member earlier today, as soon as it was available. Found this channel in January 2016, and is the reason than I created a UA-cam account to be able to subscribe, like and comment. I rarely miss a video, and have watched many older videos as well.
Thank you Ted,
You sir are leaving a life I can only imagine of.
You can do it too I've lived in the city my whole life the wife an I moved to northern New Hampshire got 4 acres of land got a wood stove, river. Can shoot an hunt on my land if needed too. Got a job that takes 5 mins to get to. Cost of living is low. Just take the risk an do it!
How do you determine work?? I want to move so bad and wish everyday to get away into the woods
I love these videos where you show something practical like cutting kindling or making coffee then sit down and tell a couple stories. Wholesome, soul filling content!
Hi Mr. Wanglerstar.
Those little buggers they're quite amazing hearing them squeal and laugh in the morning is the best. They're laughs are the best and just perfect start to a beautiful day.
Happy to have become a member!!: I thought about it and since I have moved to Maine I have learned a lot from your channel it's only right I pay it back!!
I really like your statement about burning pine. I am fortunate enough to live (in the city limits) on a 10 farm and have a few tree services deliver logs, rounds and wood chips to me...and it is all free! I get some osage from time to time but it is mostly silver maple, some elm, cottonwood, locust, etc. Not too much oak. But hey it is free, well all except the labor, fuel and oil, plus it keeps me busy. Thanks for sharing another great video!
I would love to see more firearm content !!!
Just found your channel because I have a new homestead and a pile of uncut firewood laying on a field. Great content and thanks.
Can't believe the difference in temps we hit 92 here in Southeast Texas today, and probably won't be building any fires for a month or more.
Josh P I am a Wisconsin native stationed in San Antonio- I can believe the temperature difference. When I first came to Tx it was 15 degrees leaving Wi and 87 arriving in Tx. I only owned 2 pair of pants that weren’t insulated. It is just a completely different world
I am always in need of kindling. Been using wood since the mid 70s. I live in the NE so have hardwood aplenty. I also claim the litter made by splitting. but once that is used up I have to split my own too just like you. No matter what method we all use be sure to keep all your fingers as they are needed for many other tasks. As for needing to go private just to shoot and or express our faith is just so unamerican. That new little addition to your family is sure growing fast.
Wrangler star has it made for an outdoorsman I wish I owned this property
Not going to lie... Loading the kindling Nana box on the side then flipping it over and carrying it was genius! It makes sense rather than trying to stand each individual piece up and get them in there accordingly! Great video!
Settlers of Catan! Love that game. I've heard of couples breaking up over it.
5 cords a year is SOLID for pines and such. Interesting info, thanks for sharing! I use some White Pine and some Eastern Red Cedar - both have a nice fragrance also. Mostly I use hardwoods (Maple, Cherry, Ash, Oak, Hickory, Birch, Locust)
This audio makes you sound like Jack
Father like son
I have resubscribed; I appreciate the more descriptive titles. Time is valuable and I like being able to tell what a video is about when I decide If I have time to watch or not.
Thanks for this video. You said to "remind me sometime on how to put out a chimney fire really quick" (6:44), were you able make that video yet? I ask because I see a bunch of creosote building up, I think from this last batch of wood we were sold, which is between 16% and as high as 30% and think it is from the wet wood.
Alternatively, you could clean your chimney.
I lived in east Texas and we were using post oak for our firewood, not a straight piece among them, no fun. We’d use drop offs of pine for kindling, soaked cardboard in used motor oil , let it drain. Fastest way to start a fire.
That apple press is sweet! Great work, Cody!
That apple press is a thing of beauty ... kudos for getting it up and running again!
Hey Cody I just want to say I really enjoy your videos
Congratulations on that sweetloaf! My son just turned 2 this summer.. Man... What a joy they are
THUNDER RANCH ROCKS!
Thank you Cody and fam! I subscribed to your channel years ago after searching for hiking boots. I found you showing off some of your wildland fire gear. Not only did I buy a set of whites, I also became a wildland firefighter. I am now a crew boss up in BC.
Your devotion to your subscribers is amazing, so I've become a member. Looking forward to seeing some private "non monetized videos" of you shooting soon!
Your audio sounds different the past few vids. Something new?
It’s like helium kind of
Yeah I've noticed too, his voice sounds kind of squeaky.
Must be those tight tin pants.
Was just noticing this as well. Sound kind of high pitched.
Might be the Mic some of the newer camera mis are more sensitive to the midrange. Bit like the mics from the 1940s and 50s
My parents house was heated with maple because those grow like weed in my aerea, especially in the gravel plant, our family business. In our backyard we had the biggest maple trees you probably have seen. The biggest one was more than 2,5 m in diameter. This tree allone made a warm home for a long time. The Kachelofen is burning all day.
The chimney cleaner comes once a year, and he never had any complains.
LOL. I heard myself thinking: "You work from home? So what do you do?""
@@davidkirkpatrick712 No, he slings crack rock
What a coincidence, I’m watching this just getting back from an apple press party, they’re such fun, especially when your using a press 150+ years old!
Please wear leather gloves when working. The smallest slip could result in a pretty uncomfortable trip to the Emerg. If it’s snowing out like Jack the Bear, that might prove problematic.
I am a old grandfather and ever time I see the sweet loaf it brings a smile to my face. I have 8 grand children and 2 grate grand children.
Me too!
Watching you is like going to "common sense school". Thanks again
Back in the day.... Growing up in a wood-fired farmhouse in the snowbelt, we went through about a dozen cords per winter... between the open fireplace, the cookstove in the kitchen, the wood-fired boiler in the basement and a couple stoves located in various workshops & out-buildings.... anyhow, we recycled all brown paper grocery bags by stashing them in the wood bin off the kitchen. It was the children's chore to fill at least one bag every day with finger-sized twigs and snapped limb sections. Kept the yard clean and the kids busy outside. It was a big deal (rite-of-passage, of-sorts) to "graduate" from the kindling corps. I thank the good Lord daily for being raised like this.
"we can't share our blankets"
Mrs. W. "What do you mean "we." You mean "you" can't share the quilt..."
I call my Mother in Law Nana as well, my French uncle Charles who I was named after had a good system for starting fires which I have adopted. While cleaning up around his property he would take a paper grocery bag and end up filling it with twigs. He would keep one or two indoors and a bunch in the woodshed, I heat with wood as well and live on an island on the Atlantic coast where the temperature fluctuates a lot in the shoulder seasons and also in Winter. It's very handy when I get up in the early morning or need a quick fire to put in a bag with a few small logs on top and touch it with the torch and away it goes, thanks, Chas.
What song was played as you cut the kindling?
A song for a wintry night by gordon lightfoot but it's the cover by joe paulik
I was always told burning pine was bad, so for my grandmother, we always looked for hickory or maple. Good to know that Pine can be used for when I finally have a homestead.
Just keep your stovepipe clean.
Hmm. Sounds like UA-cam is trying to kill Patreon.
yup and when they do, they will enforce their current statement about guns and religion again.
by telling wranglerstar and other channels ''stop with your guns and religion or we will put your membership(income) down''
you really think youtube would let cody put guns and religion behind a decoder??
maybe for a year but after that when patreon dies out they will be re-enforce the ban.
They won't succeed at it. Patron pays out far larger percentages to its users. Using youtube membership system makes youtube money, not the creators
@@redsampler2017 It's less about UA-cam and more about the advertisers. Due to the higher frequency of mass shootings, companies who associate with firearms have been getting a lot of heat. It's not just leftists, conservatives have been doing the same thing, digging through people's past looking for anything they can call employers and advertisers to be outraged about. Trying to get people fired and take away their livelihood, like it's a game. Pretty sad.
Also my favorite part of your show is your humble,you respect the trade and your a family man!!
Oh can’t wait for some fun gun content.
Love your videos. My little one is pulling herself up in her crib also!
How many axe or hatch’s have you had
Scooby Doo691 hatchets
I'm glad to support the channel. I have always liked your videos but have been frustrated that UA-cam was refusing to monitize 'contoversial' content. Your training with Clint Smith @Thunder Ranch is always very interesting to me as is your shooting on your property. Especially impressive is Mrs W's interest and skills as a shooter. What a partner! You are the closest thing I have as a pastor these days and I welcome your thoughtful discussions on Christian values and Bible stories. It may be presumptive of me but I consider you, Mrs W, Jack, Sweetloaf, Ginger aka Heartracer, and Ms Pants aka Lucy as family.
The best kindling is gas 😂
You mean a propane torch and propane and propane accessories
boy scout juice !
@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 lol you're dead on. My peach moonshine easily exceeds 100 proof and even my Applejack will start a fire. I think you can get a legal fuel distiller, but it's nicer if you can give half a jar to fire and drink the other half to warm yourself up 😄
rule number 1 do not use gas to start a fire
Gabriel Bonnell
No Diesel is better
The better half and I sleep the exact same way, we have our own blankets/quilts, I'm a mover so it has saved alot arguments.
I recommend all young/new couples to do the same.
And another plus, when one of us gets under one another's covers we both know what the other one wants.
Never underestimate a Swedish woman's wrath!
Hi! Dumb question. If youtube is demonitizing religous and gun videos why set up the membership thing with them. Aren't they going to get a cut of that. Isn't that rewarding them for demonitizing? Do you have a patereon account? Not trying to be critical just wondering? Thanks for all the great videos!
Did you switch or damage your mic? Voice pitch is slightly higher.
My technique is I split the logs into slabs, then split the slabs into fingers. I use a hatchet and a good wood mallet. I don’t know if it is more efficient, but you can get just the right size kindling, and it is sooooooo satisfying.
Settlers of Catan, I'll trade you wood for sheep.
that game is a nightmare, but amazing at the same time
Fatwood (which is resin impregnated pine from stumps so it's similar to the kindling that you are making) is the best (safe/intended use) fire starter I have ever used. 2 sticks can get you a roaring fire with little effort if you are halfway decent at stacking .
you know you can still get around that by following the rules they set and put gun videos up because lots of other gun channels do gun videos too!!!!!
If you think that wool blankets are warm, you should try a buffalo hide as a blanket. It's incredibly warm. And it's kind of temperature regulating, and the fur from the cows is very very soft.
I wish I could join you special UA-cam member area but I can't 😥 afford it
yeah I want a spaceship. UA-cam is this guys job
It gives me a goal, something to save for. And $4.99 is good value for getting round the censorship, just a pity that it's a necessity.
The censorship will still be there. It's elitist if they charge
I know it's his Job and I feel bad that UA-cam has restrictions on freedom of speech on this platform, because of a group of individuals who can't handle certain topics. We are then forced to pay up for the things we enjoy.
@@jamiephillips3315 very true. Plus different countries allow different things. Could you imagine seeing stoning in UAE or something like that. Bet it happens.
Your over a million now, CONGRATS!!. I assume its pretty dang hard to get through to you, a message, but I want to say, I liked you in the beginning but drifted away. I drifted because you changed up your video logs from homesteading to some of the "other things under the sun". I kinda understand what youtube has done but, you solidified your channel, to me, when you were done making ""How To Cut Kindling Like A Pro"" and being the family-husband/father. CONGRATS ON THE DAUGHTER!!! best wishes and prayers to you and your family..
Gab gab gab gab gab.
Lots of great stuff to comment on in this video, but the "cameo" appearance of the apple press is what got me. My whole family loved the whole series of the restoration (well, that was mostly me) and the first use of that grinder/press. Looking foward to seeing that cider drip and flow.
reupload without chipmunk voice?
Wow really enjoyed this video we just moved up north to Michigan I love the up north living. Your videos help very much
No! no! no! A GAS barbecue?! What are you? An American?
Tokke van Leeuwen, “Taste the meat, not the heat.”
I apologize for the spelling in advance. 1 rick of wood measures 2 feet x 4 feet x 8 feet. 1 cord of wood = 4 Rick of wood. This measure ment comes from a book of standard measuments printed in the 1940's. Just a little fyi from the past. Love the videos. Keep them coming.
You kinda sound like Ben Shapiro in this video
The most lovely family on youtube! Love the videos Cody. They bring light to my life and give me peace and hope in the midst of all the darkness! God bless you and please stay safe🙏🏻
if its not about money..... Put video's on Dtube!!!!
That tip on how to put out a chimney fire would make a great video. Just reminding you, per your request. ;)
Rambling ends and cutting begins at 8:40.
Thank me later. Lol.
Thank you NOW !
New member here. Long time viewer, rare commenter, and always inspired. Thank you for making the content you do. I’m happy to finally give back, however small a contribution it may be.
For some resion
His voice sounds
Hie pitch
Tooooo mmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Really enjoy your content Mr Wranglerstar. You and your family seem like such a warm, kind and loving group of folks and I wish you all the best for your future endeavours. Much love and respect from England.
Clicked on it for the title, but the only cutting of fire wood is about half way through, and apparently "how to cut kindling like a pro" is to just 'chop'. If i had been interested in long-winded folksy dialog, i would have been satisfied with this video. You should try to stay true to the tile.
Awesome! I went back, just this weekend, and watched the video series of you building the NANA kindling box. I also recently watched 'the good Samaritan' where Jack takes kindling on his little quad to a neighbor. Good memories... Love it!
This was uploaded 4 minutes ago... GET BACK UP THERE ITS A 20 min video! Unless you are from the future then welcome to the past.
Little hypocritical eh
@@BlindGuardian050 it is hypocritical, I just thought this was funny.
Cody you have done a great job on the house and property....watching you cut kindling makes me look forward to winter.
Makes me know what I need to get started on this weekend including cleaning the chimnet.
This is not how a pro cuts kindling lol.
0:13 Beautiful mountain! What about climbing up and making a video about it? Starting at your home with a backpack with food, camping gear, climbing gear, etc. Hiking through the woods, camping on the mountain, and then returning back home... It would be great.
Fantastic work on restoring the apple press . Hats off to you ..... I love the lifestyle and home that you and your wife have created ... That's what I call REAL SUCCESS. Have a great 2020.
Nice watch. Instantly recognizable when you where one. Tough as nails. Never think about it. Never lets me down. Great video. Good tips.