I've worked at Vermont Castings building wood stoves, and my first job was installing the windows. There is a "right" side and a wrong side that goes towards the inside. The inside is conductive. PLEASE do not install it backwards. It will ruin the glass, or even shatter it. Also, that black paint has lead in it. Spraying outside was a good idea, but a mask should have been worn too
Black Paint does not contain lead. Lead was used in WHITE paint. If you add lead to black paint your going to end up with a grey leaded paint which has been illegal to use in the USA since the early 70s. Just sayin'
Hello Duitch, I love what you did for the chicken coupe. Life is good for chickens. I enjoy the work Hadlee was doing. A terrific helper for sure. Always remember metal weakens with use. So just concentrait on the days to come. Thank you for the video, I really enjoy what you are showing us. I am a widow and don't get out so watching you makes me happy. Thank you🤗🤗💕💕💙💙
Nesting boxes should be far away from the front entrance door. It helps. Hens want seclusion while laying and sitting. That's why the far right nesting box isn't being used
Should put the wide side of your roosting board up so your chickens can keep their feet flat under their bellies and not curved around a narrow sharp edge. Toes will then be covered better in cold weather preventing frostbite, and it's more comfortable for them.
Great job on adding more perches and moving the unused nesting box👍🏻! The chickens should be more comfortable now 🥰! The door to your fireplace heater looks really good! That sand blaster will be a handy tool for future projects 😊! Great job helping your Dad, Hadlee 🥰! Thank you for sharing, take care and God Bless🙏🏻🤗💕!
Hello Sean, you did an awesome job on your door it looks good. To bad about those bolts. They must have wore out from the heat. The chicken coop done & than when the doors are done a couple of things off your list . Hadley sure likes helping that is so good the girls help you & Brandi do things. I will let you go take care & God Bless! 👋🎄❤️🇺🇲⛄️🙏
Hey Dutch, love your videos!! 👍👍. Your animals all look healthy and well fed. The fire place door looks really nice, I hope it holds up for you. Hadlee your a pretty good camera lady👍👍 good work. 👍👍❤️❤️🎄🎄🇨🇦
Enjoyed seeing you and Hadlee working on the chicken coupe. Hopefully that will fix your problem with the doors to your heater. Gunner is getting big. Glad him and the pigs are getting along. GOD bless Y'all.
Considering how much you used the ceramic oven and heating oven, it's understandable that those bolts or screws snapped. Maybe buying heavier ones than can withstand the heat could be used in the future ❤
My ex worked at a monument company. His job was polishing the stones smooth & ppl would also bring their cast iron cookware in to be sand blasted. The monument company used water.
Dutch buy grade 8 bolts, they also make black paint for wood burning stoves and you can clean the glass using Dawn dish soap mixed with vinegar and use a razor blade to scrape it clean
All the animals and all the chickens,turkeys and Bobby are looking good. The door looks great a little set back on the bolts is bad enough but it could have been worse but is totally aggravating. Son y’all keep on keeping on God Bless Love ❤️👵🏻
One thing you might think of is collecting the sand that you use when sandblasting try it in an enclosed area so you can reuse your sand. I used to work in a sandblasting factory and we always reused the sand, Just saying this because sandblasting is always good for restoring metal just don't use it too long in one spot will eat the metal up quickly, Love all your videos my friend and hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to come.
I have an idea for when you feed the pigs to keep grain from falling out of their bowl. Get a tall cardboard funnel (can't leave it out in rain) or a plastic pipe (better) to put over the fence. A metal pipe may be too heavy for Brandi/girls. Place one end of funnel in bowl, other end for dumping in the feed into 🎯 ... No more spills!!👍 YAY 🐖...... (🐔🐓 won't like the idea). Happy feeding, Dutch...Btw, ❤ all the waddling🦆🦆 ducks when you opened their door 😆 Hilarious❣️ 🐾
That stove black product really works. I use Rutland's stove polish and they sell it on Amazon. I used it years ago and I don't use my stove except for emergencies. My stove still looks like new and it had started rusting in a spot on the top. My stove is way too heavy to sandblast or move.
I got a used stove that I caught get cleaned and finally I found some oven cleaner at walmart in a yellow can and it made the stove and glass look brand new sorry can't remember the name but so glad the stove looks wonderful ,
Now the chickens is happy. now get fire place fix ya'll will be cooking. we had a tornado here in TN. deaths and alot of damage. be bless. SAVANNAH TN.
Hi from New Brunswick Canada little TIP TO CLEAN UP THE WINDOW OF YOUR STOVE IS USE OVEN CLEANER...AND IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO GET THE JOB DONE. USE PAPER TOWEL TO WIPE UP USE A LITTLE SOAP AND WATER IF NEEDED. (IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ) COVER YOUR BRICK WITH NEWS PAPER OR AN OLD SHEET FROM OVEN CLEANER OVER SPRAY. your glass will be sparkling :) love you guys your program.
Here in Sweden many people are using a black cream that you put on the stove with a rag. It dries up when you use the stove for the first time. I used it once with great result
Long limp branches are better than 2 by 4s there feel can get injures to there feet ,so keep a eye on there feet and bales of hay will cut down the cold air for the chicken pens
🤔🤔 Why not use the skidsteer and bucket to build an area a little higher (that won't flood) to put chicken coops? Take some dirt from an area that doesn't get used or you're clearing a trail/road.
I Think You Should Oil Rub To Cure Those Cast Iron Doors, Like You Do Cast Iron Skillets To Slow Or Stop Rusting. Fire Heat Will Help Cure It. After A While That Paint Wont Last.
The door looks great 💯 I saw you didn't sandblasting close enough at the beginning, could see you didn't get in the rusty pores , but then you did get closer with the sandblaster so we'll see if you did it good enough 😜👍 sorry about the screws tho 😕. Hope it didn't get too cold that night?
I love love love your masonry heater. Not being bossy but just some advice. If you don't want the doors on it to rust anymore once that paint is dry and set you should rub the doors down with lard. Not bacon grease or sausage grease but lard. Just coat it really thick and let it sit on there for a day or two then rub the excess off with sweatshirt cleaning cloth or mismatched winter socks turned wrong side out. It's cast iron and cast iron will rust unless you season it once a year with lard. Ask any older mountain folks and they will tell you that you have to season or reseason cast iron. I've been subbed since yall were at your other house with Gabe. I really enjoy watching you and Brandee and the kids and animals. It's great to see how the kids and the farm has grown. I enjoy watching the creek property. I like watching how yall share your joys at the Creek property. Don't feel defeated over some stripped bolts. I know it's frustrating when you want to finish a project but just start counting all your blessings out loud and naming them. Defeat isn't an option. Lol.
Dutch- just breathe! You won't always get things done in your time - but His time. Things happen - you gotta roll with the punches. Hadley did great as your helper & camera girl. Hope you start getting more eggs soon. GOD Bless Your Family 🙏 🙏🌹 Love 🌻 from Apex NC 💜
Get some straw bales and put them around the bottom insides of chicken coup(layers) to stop the cold air and make it warmer and places to snuggle in hay for warmth, also get more laying boxes some old milk cartons stacked with bedding inside work great and are washable with water in spring, put your two flocks together so they have more body heat in their enclosure ❤
Gunner is one of the smartest dogs and Hope and Brandy have done amazing training him, sorry to say Dutch but you are way to wishy-washy that's why Gracie and Gabby NEVER listen to you lol and you always start talking when your hunting lol two of your traits, but you are a fantastic father and a great brother(where is Vincent praying all's well)...those things that matter like love and kindness are spot on🙏💕🥰 start stacking your compost from your coups and horses so you have fertilizer for a garden for Brandy she and the girls really are great at growing and producing this year Hope being older I bet she takes to preserving like the other ones love to cook... And that will be a super support to your homestead, meat and veg and eggs Keeping it Dutch Homestead is getting awesome 👍👍👍👍👍 go guys
If your concrete porch is clean from other debris , could you Vacuum up the sand from the sandblaster & reuse it in the same gun , instead of having to go into town to get some more ( just a thought ) , I often think ahead & buy all the bolts & screw's i will need just in case i break one or two , because where there is a heat source the hardware get's annealed ( metal's get softer unless they have already been heat treated ) these are some of the thought's that run through my mind if I am doing different projects in & around the house ...
Dutch, if you get yourself a large cardboard box to put your objects in before you sand blast then you will be able to capture and reuse your sand. It should last you a long time and multiple uses. BTW putting your hand in front of the sandblasting top to check if it is working is a perfect way to deliver your fingers and inbed sand in your bone. It's like watching a scary movie every time you climb a ladder hanging over your lake front property or start working with a new tool.
Dutch I always thought your best was up to high! I’m thinking that’s why they don’t lay in the last one! They fly over from roost to the other two. JMO now that I watched the whole video I understand why they are high! The dogs! The third nesting box moved was a great idea! Love your videos and following you!
Fyi as far as blasting if you want a cleaner looking blast drain the water out of your compressor. Great video as always may the Lord's blessings pour on you and your family
Hey Dutch, I’m sure someone else already stated this but if you save a big box and spray your media for the sand blaster in that box you can reuse the media 3-4 times before it’s real dirty and needs to be replaced. It hurt my wallet pocket watching you blow off all that good media when you still had more work to do.
Hunting clash link huntingclash.link/KeepingItDutch
Don't dwell on the defeats brother, stay positive and focus on the wins! God bless you and your family brother.
I've worked at Vermont Castings building wood stoves, and my first job was installing the windows. There is a "right" side and a wrong side that goes towards the inside. The inside is conductive. PLEASE do not install it backwards. It will ruin the glass, or even shatter it. Also, that black paint has lead in it. Spraying outside was a good idea, but a mask should have been worn too
Black Paint does not contain lead. Lead was used in WHITE paint. If you add lead to black paint your going to end up with a grey leaded paint which has been illegal to use in the USA since the early 70s. Just sayin'
On the glass. You can use oven cleaner on it. It works great
He had a mask on.
Hello Duitch, I love what you did for the chicken coupe. Life is good for chickens. I enjoy the work Hadlee was doing. A terrific helper for sure. Always remember metal weakens with use. So just concentrait on the days to come. Thank you for the video, I really enjoy what you are showing us. I am a widow and don't get out so watching you makes me happy. Thank you🤗🤗💕💕💙💙
Everyone needs husbands like you Dutch! And dads! I bet those chickens will love all that roosting area!
Hadlee, what a precious young lady, she's so self contained, she personifies that old saying: "still waters run deep".🙂
Awesome video. You will get it done. God bless ya'll ❤❤❤❤❤
Nesting boxes should be far away from the front entrance door. It helps. Hens want seclusion while laying and sitting. That's why the far right nesting box isn't being used
Chicken coop adjustments look great. You had a super helper.
Gunner is growing so fast.
Masonry heater door looks brand new. Awesome job.
I just can't get over how gorgeous them white turkey's are!! The door looks much cleaner for sure!! See ya's in the next one!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Should put the wide side of your roosting board up so your chickens can keep their feet flat under their bellies and not curved around a narrow sharp edge. Toes will then be covered better in cold weather preventing frostbite, and it's more comfortable for them.
Great job on adding more perches and moving the unused nesting box👍🏻! The chickens should be more comfortable now 🥰! The door to your fireplace heater looks really good! That sand blaster will be a handy tool for future projects 😊! Great job helping your Dad, Hadlee 🥰! Thank you for sharing, take care and God Bless🙏🏻🤗💕!
Be bless
Leave a light on in the coop after dark for 1 hour and you’ll get more eggs. It works.
Yes...I've heard that also!!! The comfort from the light !!!
You take care of your birds beautifully they are loved and spoiled and happy I love that
That is so cool to watch them run straight to the trail and the horses
Turn your 2x4’s so the four part is what they roost on. Gives them more room and they won’t fall off!!
You can use the sand blaster to etch glass. Just tape off what you don’t want etched. Love the videos.
Hello Sean, you did an awesome job on your door it looks good. To bad about those bolts. They must have wore out from the heat. The chicken coop done & than when the doors are done a couple of things off your list . Hadley sure likes helping that is so good the girls help you & Brandi do things. I will let you go take care & God Bless! 👋🎄❤️🇺🇲⛄️🙏
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures and your farm
Looks like a great job for someone that never sandblasted before.
Looks really good!!
You did a good job. The door looks better . The chickens will like what you did.
Horse stall shavings work really well to line nest boxes with.
Thank you for your honesty on your channel. You're very responsible with your family and your animals. I learn something from every video you post.
Hey Dutch, love your videos!! 👍👍. Your animals all look healthy and well fed. The fire place door looks really nice, I hope it holds up for you. Hadlee your a pretty good camera lady👍👍 good work. 👍👍❤️❤️🎄🎄🇨🇦
Enjoyed watching,good that Hadlee is helping you,all the children are helpful,all the animals looks so healthy 😊😅🌲❤️
You did good Sean. The chickens will like that new roost and you just showed me how to fix mine. Thanks.
roosts should be round so the foot can grasp it. old branches are way better than 2x4's.
Enjoyed seeing you and Hadlee working on the chicken coupe. Hopefully that will fix your problem with the doors to your heater. Gunner is getting big. Glad him and the pigs are getting along. GOD bless Y'all.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ive seen PVC pipe used at petting zoos to feed. Just pour it in the top and it will go in the bowl
Great video Sean. You hanks for the update. God Bless. 🙏💕
Considering how much you used the ceramic oven and heating oven, it's understandable that those bolts or screws snapped. Maybe buying heavier ones than can withstand the heat could be used in the future ❤
Ask the hardware store for grade 8 bolts. Much harder
My ex worked at a monument company. His job was polishing the stones smooth & ppl would also bring their cast iron cookware in to be sand blasted. The monument company used water.
Dutch buy grade 8 bolts, they also make black paint for wood burning stoves and you can clean the glass using Dawn dish soap mixed with vinegar and use a razor blade to scrape it clean
I love your heating system! When I had a wood stove, I kept a razor handy to scrape the glass clean of soot. Works great!
That is an impressive Tom that you've got in the coop
Loving how you put up more nest boxes great job Sean🥰👍
Keeping it Dutch Dutch you did a good job on that door. God bless your channel.
All the animals and all the chickens,turkeys and Bobby are looking good. The door looks great a little set back on the bolts is bad enough but it could have been worse but is totally aggravating. Son y’all keep on keeping on God Bless Love ❤️👵🏻
One thing you might think of is collecting the sand that you use when sandblasting try it in an enclosed area so you can reuse your sand. I used to work in a sandblasting factory and we always reused the sand, Just saying this because sandblasting is always good for restoring metal just don't use it too long in one spot will eat the metal up quickly,
Love all your videos my friend and hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to come.
If the paint does not hold, I use a product called Stove Black that works well.
Use you drill when putting in smaller screws. You should be able to adjust the torque level so you arent snapping bolts
I have an idea for when you feed the pigs to keep grain from falling out of their bowl. Get a tall cardboard funnel (can't leave it out in rain) or a plastic pipe (better) to put over the fence. A metal pipe may be too heavy for Brandi/girls. Place one end of funnel in bowl, other end for dumping in the feed into 🎯 ... No more spills!!👍 YAY 🐖...... (🐔🐓 won't like the idea). Happy feeding, Dutch...Btw,
❤ all the waddling🦆🦆 ducks when you opened their door 😆
Hilarious❣️ 🐾
That stove black product really works. I use Rutland's stove polish and they sell it on Amazon. I used it years ago and I don't use my stove except for emergencies. My stove still looks like new and it had started rusting in a spot on the top. My stove is way too heavy to sandblast or move.
I got a used stove that I caught get cleaned and finally I found some oven cleaner at walmart in a yellow can and it made the stove and glass look brand new sorry can't remember the name but so glad the stove looks wonderful ,
Now the chickens is happy. now get fire place fix ya'll will be cooking. we had a tornado here in TN. deaths and alot of damage. be bless. SAVANNAH TN.
Hi from New Brunswick Canada little TIP TO CLEAN UP THE WINDOW OF YOUR STOVE IS USE OVEN CLEANER...AND IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG TO GET THE JOB DONE. USE PAPER TOWEL TO WIPE UP USE A LITTLE SOAP AND WATER IF NEEDED. (IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ) COVER YOUR BRICK WITH NEWS PAPER OR AN OLD SHEET FROM OVEN CLEANER OVER SPRAY. your glass will be sparkling :) love you guys your program.
It looks good we will see what happens Love you all God bless and take care
Thanks for the video, love to watch things in progress. Hope you find the bolts your looking for.
Use pvc pipe attached to poles with the bowl at the bottom. You will not have to reach in then. We used this method for our hounds.... United We Stand
Looks like a good restore. I’ve restored my HD cast iron ca. 2000 Charbroils guts every 5 years with a side burner. Still going.
Here in Sweden many people are using a black cream that you put on the stove with a rag. It dries up when you use the stove for the first time. I used it once with great result
Don't feel so defeated. You did a good job.
Long limp branches are better than 2 by 4s there feel can get injures to there feet ,so keep a eye on there feet and bales of hay will cut down the cold air for the chicken pens
Try giving the chickens crushed oyster shells, it helps them produce hard solid egg shells.
Once the doors back on let the cooking begin 😋 you made really good meals in that Dutch , looking forward to seeing new recipes coming. Enjoy ❤
Hello Dutch and family
The oven door looks 100 times better 👍🏻 great job.
Good video. Always enjoy watching you work on things.
The oven looks great and the new roosting posts look great! That one chicken stayed with you!
Good job Sean. Oven door looks great 👍
It is one nest box for every 4 hens.
🤔🤔 Why not use the skidsteer and bucket to build an area a little higher (that won't flood) to put chicken coops? Take some dirt from an area that doesn't get used or you're clearing a trail/road.
I Think You Should Oil Rub To Cure Those Cast Iron Doors, Like You Do Cast Iron Skillets To Slow Or Stop Rusting. Fire Heat Will Help Cure It. After A While That Paint Wont Last.
Hadlee, great job videoing!
The door looks great 💯 I saw you didn't sandblasting close enough at the beginning, could see you didn't get in the rusty pores , but then you did get closer with the sandblaster so we'll see if you did it good enough 😜👍 sorry about the screws tho 😕. Hope it didn't get too cold that night?
Hope you find the bolt quickly 👍. Blessings to Keeping it Dutch 🙏🫶🙏
Use hand tools when installing the power tools are to powerful for them
I painted my woodstove with the same paint. Arter 3 years it still looks great.
You can use 0000 steel woll will clean the glass and not scratch it
Try baking soda in your sand blaster
Ok .we all know how to feed. Oh we also know how painting, home repairs work.
It’s always something Dutch lol have a great week ,thx Hadley for helping dad.😊💕
Love your videos and enjoy watching them. May the lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals.
Get some regular play sand and use..it's a lot cheaper and it will work just as good.
@@garyburgess3829 ummm, what does this have to do with her post?
This was to dutch when using the sand blaster. Mind your own business...
If I remember correctly, according to Cassie's lecture, it was 5 chickens per nesting box ❤
Hadley, you are so pretty, and your hair is gorgeous.
I love the oven I want one
Accidents do happen Sean so don’t let it get to you
Maybe you should move the one laying box they don’t use to the other side maybe that will work think about it
I love love love your masonry heater. Not being bossy but just some advice. If you don't want the doors on it to rust anymore once that paint is dry and set you should rub the doors down with lard. Not bacon grease or sausage grease but lard. Just coat it really thick and let it sit on there for a day or two then rub the excess off with sweatshirt cleaning cloth or mismatched winter socks turned wrong side out. It's cast iron and cast iron will rust unless you season it once a year with lard. Ask any older mountain folks and they will tell you that you have to season or reseason cast iron. I've been subbed since yall were at your other house with Gabe. I really enjoy watching you and Brandee and the kids and animals. It's great to see how the kids and the farm has grown. I enjoy watching the creek property. I like watching how yall share your joys at the Creek property. Don't feel defeated over some stripped bolts. I know it's frustrating when you want to finish a project but just start counting all your blessings out loud and naming them. Defeat isn't an option. Lol.
Very true info here ! My daddy greased our cast iron skillets and threw in a fire then he cleaned em up and greased them again ! Never rusted again .
Dutch- just breathe! You won't always get things done in your time - but His time. Things happen - you gotta roll with the punches.
Hadley did great as your helper & camera girl.
Hope you start getting more eggs soon.
GOD Bless Your Family 🙏 🙏🌹
Love 🌻 from Apex NC 💜
Could have oiled the door and seasoned it like a cast iron skillet. God bless you and yours 🙏❤️🇺🇲🙏❤️🇺🇲🖖 live long and prosper!
Where has Vincent been lately, haven't seen a video from him in some time.
Get some straw bales and put them around the bottom insides of chicken coup(layers) to stop the cold air and make it warmer and places to snuggle in hay for warmth, also get more laying boxes some old milk cartons stacked with bedding inside work great and are washable with water in spring, put your two flocks together so they have more body heat in their enclosure ❤
Straw has no nutritional value but hay does, second cut has best nutritional value... To much alpha hay can founder a horse...
Gunner is one of the smartest dogs and Hope and Brandy have done amazing training him, sorry to say Dutch but you are way to wishy-washy that's why Gracie and Gabby NEVER listen to you lol and you always start talking when your hunting lol two of your traits, but you are a fantastic father and a great brother(where is Vincent praying all's well)...those things that matter like love and kindness are spot on🙏💕🥰 start stacking your compost from your coups and horses so you have fertilizer for a garden for Brandy she and the girls really are great at growing and producing this year Hope being older I bet she takes to preserving like the other ones love to cook... And that will be a super support to your homestead, meat and veg and eggs Keeping it Dutch Homestead is getting awesome 👍👍👍👍👍 go guys
The sand blast is the ultimate
If your concrete porch is clean from other debris , could you Vacuum up the sand from the sandblaster & reuse it in the same gun , instead of having to go into town to get some more ( just a thought ) , I often think ahead & buy all the bolts & screw's i will need just in case i break one or two , because where there is a heat source the hardware get's annealed ( metal's get softer unless they have already been heat treated ) these are some of the thought's that run through my mind if I am doing different projects in & around the house ...
Updating the chicken coop looks great ! All your animals look awesome, healthy ! Your heater door looks great ! God Bless ❤
Might try some "Stove black" wax to keep the cast iron black. Worked for my dads stove, for years. But he did have to reapply it about twice a year.
The chicken roost is totally awesome. Bummer about the screws but all in all it’s going to look great. God bless
It's so frustrating not to be able to finish a project because you need more material or when stuff breaks.
Hopefully we can all learn by our mistakes.
Dutch, if you get yourself a large cardboard box to put your objects in before you sand blast then you will be able to capture and reuse your sand. It should last you a long time and multiple uses. BTW putting your hand in front of the sandblasting top to check if it is working is a perfect way to deliver your fingers and inbed sand in your bone. It's like watching a scary movie every time you climb a ladder hanging over your lake front property or start working with a new tool.
Fermipan bread or buns are delicious and are made with eggs so if your chickens start producing alot google the recipe 😊❤
Dutch, you could have the over doors Powder Coated. Which stands up to high temps and stresses. Just a suggestion.
I still say, those hogs have a face that only their mother could love, but they would look pretty good, on a plate, along side a couple of eggs.😊
His wife and girls would disown him if he put the pigs on a plate lol 😂 be a major disaster !
Next build work shop!
Good job. Good helper. Take care.
Dutch I always thought your best was up to high! I’m thinking that’s why they don’t lay in the last one! They fly over from roost to the other two. JMO now that I watched the whole video I understand why they are high! The dogs! The third nesting box moved was a great idea! Love your videos and following you!
I TOTALLY ENJOYED WATCHING 3HE VIDEO DUTCH 😊
Fyi as far as blasting if you want a cleaner looking blast drain the water out of your compressor. Great video as always may the Lord's blessings pour on you and your family
You have to dry that iron thoroughly before applying any thing
Hey Dutch, I’m sure someone else already stated this but if you save a big box and spray your media for the sand blaster in that box you can reuse the media 3-4 times before it’s real dirty and needs to be replaced. It hurt my wallet pocket watching you blow off all that good media when you still had more work to do.