MOST IMPORTANT RULE in Alaska - Don't freeze to death!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Main heat source failure at the off grid Alaskan homestead. Bring your parkas, folks.
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Mr. Reeve wasn't dressed appropriately to clean the stove pipe, he should have had a top hat and tails on. ha ha Glad you got the stove pipe fixed.
Right?! Where is my song and dance!? Ha! Be blessed Bill.
I enjoyed how you two chuckle at little things. That's what its all about. You may as well find things to laugh at. Things are going to break. The key is to find the little things around that to laugh at.
Absolutely. You can laugh or let it eat you. I choose laugh! 🤪
I’m so glad you got it fixed! Nice seeing how you replace that part! We will do that at some point!
It’s good for 10 years. Whoop!
Ms Chrystal, Mr Reeves deserves his cookies for a job well done. It’s 68* and a little breezy, nice. Have a great weekend 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩
Oh! That’s nice temperatures for you!
I love watching you two laugh and joke with each other, especially after I have a rough day at work. You make me forget about my daily troubles and make me laugh. Stay safe and warm my friends ☺️
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You two are such a joy. The neighbors everybody wished they had. Be safe be well.
Awwww! Thanks!
Another great video, the banter between you two is hilarious.
Glad you enjoyed it
So glad to see you have a backup heat source 😊, so many up here don't. We have the wood stove & Toyo team-up in our living area, basement, & shop🙄. We went with Alderlea stoves, no catalytic converter to mess with, and love them. I definitely think Mr. Reeves should get some cookies for all that wonderful job he did.
That is awesome!
Being a homeowner there is always lots to do regarding maintenance. So happy you got your stove going again OH and not seeing Mr Reeves trying to get up on the roof and waiting till spring whew!! lol Nice pot of soup on the stove to prove all is well and very toasty. Good to see the 2 polar bears too! lol They are so beautiful! Great to see you both smiling again. Sending hugs
Thanks sweet friend!
I love watching you two interact you have me laughing along with you.
Awesome! Glad to have you along friend. 😊
Great video Reese and Chrystal
Thanks friend!
I love listening to you two. My husband and I have similar banter, so it's refreshing to know thay somebody ELSE is as crazy as we are. Haha. God bless you!
Bless you too sweet Sunny!
I’m on the other side of the valley towards Sutton. The cold has really settled in here also. Love the channel guys. Stay warm
Thanks neighbor! You as well. 😊
I’m in Meadow Lakes and we had -35 this morning. I think we’re in for that again tonight.
Booo! I’d be happy with single digit negatives at this point. Ha! Stay warm friend.
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska You too. It’s the first time in years I’ve seen it this cold here. I lived around here since 1980 and weeks like this were more common then.
And 3 feet of snow overnight in Wasilla was how we got out of going into school the next day. Ha! No remote learning those days. Whoop!😊
Back up heat source is priceless. I like the Smokey Bear shirt while you fix the smoke leak.
Thanks friend! We didn’t realize about the shirt til we were editing. Ha! Must have been fate! 🤪
Definitely fate. Stay warm.👍🏼
Good job getting the stove cleaned and going again.
Thanks!
You guys are hilarious! I laugh so much watching your videos. Great job fixing the wood stove! Stay warm!
Thanks, you too!
We call that cattiwompus! LOL
Ha!
Ohhhh, smoke in the house is the worst for asthma and allergies!! It usually happens in our house when wind is really really bad and get down draft.
So glad it’s better!
You two are a hoot! Love watching yall. With all Mr. Reeves hard work i'd make him a skillet cookie,lol.Keep the video's coming.Love you two,from Ky.
Thanks!
Good food after getting a good job done, life is good!
Thanks friend!
I'm a new sub. Just found your channel. LOVE your banter and comedy. Hello from Minnesota ❤❤
@@freedomkeeper1776 hello sweet friend! Thanks for hanging out with us!
OMG !! Another wonderful laughter filled visit with our favorite Willow couple! 'Boy magic smoke stack stuff' ?????!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Ha!
As usual love your video. That soup looks so good I can almost smell it 😂..ENJOY MR REEVE
Thanks friend!
Glad it all worked out especially with the cold snap you are having.
Yeah! I was it was -6° still. Ha! -27° right now and getting colder as we fall into night.
I look forward to seeing your new videos. I enjoy them so much , the way you both get along and show the love you have for each other. Sorry to hear about your loss. And Daisy was awesome. God bless your family
Thank you friend. Have a blessed Wednesday. 😊💕
I'm so glad you got it fixed. It's to cold for y'all not to have wood stove. I get tickled at you too. As always be safe and God bless you.. Tell your husband I made sugar and peanut butter cookies last night and I thought of him
I’ll let him know. 💕 You are sweet. Hope things are going better on you side of the screen. ❤️
I really love y'all's videos. Always so good!!! I can't imagine dealing with the temps y'all do. I live down south in Ga
Thanks friend! We are wimps when it’s hot. And we think hot is 75°. Ha!
You guys are so fun to watch love yas GOD BLESS
Thanks friend. 💕
OK, you comedians, good job on fixing that pesky smoke problem, lol. I have had the same problem with smoke arrestors and I just don't use them anymore. Now that you are able to slide around that stove better, you can eat more cookies, lol. I have -20F this morning so you must be pushing -30F or better. That soup looks really good. Thanks for sharing
We are definitely considering removing the spark screen. Never had an issue til now. Might try to take it down and use oven cleaner on it this spring. Ewwww!
Awesome work, Mr.Reeve! 😊Miss Crystal, that guy needs some cookies..lol You bring joy to my day with your banter 😂 Take good care, friends! I'm glad your chimney isn't smoking any more
Sooo glad it’s fixed! 😊
I know you guys have to be happy that the wood stove fix wasn't to bad! And a plus the pipes are clean & xmas is put away...lol 😊
Right?! Ha!
Good job getting it done and with a smile on your faces and a joke thrown in hear and there.
I think he earned some cookies just for keeping it smoke free for you, ha.
Have a blessed day!
Definitely!
Hey, Jarhead, I heard the pups got cookies! 🙀😹😹😹😸✌️🇱🇷
That’s true…but they didn’t get any of that soup. Ha!
@izzaMeanCat 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ooooo... you're stirrin' the pot now! 😂😂
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She comes up with some pretty good names for stuff
Ha! Be blessed friends
Not cheap...only thrifty! You two are a hoot! Owl watch you anytime!!!
Ha! Love it! You’re so punny!
its a good job that didnt happen when you were asleep! scary stuff! glad you still had heating though. can imagine you and all the animals tucked up in bed trying to keep warm hahahahaha. great video guys! x
Right?!
Hi! Great idea to do all the maintenance at one time, just get it done! You two always make us laugh! Great team work as always! Your pot of yumminess on the stove, at the end, Jason said "looked delicious!" Another great video! See you on the next one!
Thanks sweethearts! 💕💕
I wasn’t thinking. Broom. I was thinking a shop vac lol. Dirty job but glad you got it done ❤
Vacuums take 1200w of power. Ha! Itty bitty solar system at our house. 😊 We live off grid. When we were talking about the broom, we were talking about sweeping up the floor, though not vacuuming out the stove. Ha! 😊 be blessed friend
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska oh yea that wouldn’t work then lol Have a wonderful evening 🥰🥰
@@n2skiing76 💕Be blessed sweet friend.
At least you caught this before things got worse... as in any colder. While I don't prefer to use the oil burner it does serve its purpose.
Thanks 😊
Good job getting that fixed! Soup looks great, Yall stay warm 💖
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You too are hilarious Every time I turn you Turn you guys on It just makes my day It's so happy So we'll catch you another one have a good day Stay safe stay healthy stay happy
Thanks friend. 😊💕
It helps to brush off that combustor about every cord or so of wood to keep them from plugging with fly ash. Some low pressure air can works too.
Thanks friend! Good tip. Have a blessed week. 😊
I'm so happy you are both smiling again and being yourselves. You're both great people. Next time wear more clothes outside. 😂😅😊❤
Nah, we’re use to this weather. We’re pretty acclimated to it. But anything over 75° and we melt. Ha!
Alaska is Cookie Monster land, lol. love the video
Definitely! Ha!
U 2 work so well together 😅
Thanks friend. We kinda like each other. 🥰
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska 🤣🤣🤣
Oh my goodness, I'm glad you still have some kind of heat! Smoke interference, dang it! Could of been a bad thing
All fixed and toasty! Be blessed sweet friend. 😊
Great job on fixing the stove.......that is no joke, ask us how we know! Homesteading is great......never a dull moment and you can guarantee something happens daily haha. Chrystal would you share YOUR chicken tortilla soup recipe please? I've been using our wood stove to cook eggs for our senior dogs and a few other things. God bless and hope the stove is burning much better!
Ugh these comments, people are so gullible!
Hey friend, I made a community post about the chicken tortilla soup “recipe” it’s more like I use what you got, leftovers soup recipe. But it’ll give you an idea. I don’t mind answering the comments where people aren’t quite sure how things work. Education with a giggle. Ha! Be blessed sweet friend! 💕💕
Thank you! @@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska
Show is hilarious.
Doing the best they can, learning as you go.👍
Modern primitive pete.
Thanks friend. 😊💕
You all are so funny.🤣
Awww! Thanks!
Many years ago I had a friend that moved into a new house. There was a wood stove in the house with the pipe going out the wall similar to yours. When ever it got real cold like it is now all that pipe outside would cool off and the smoke would quit rising. He ended up putting double wall pipe to the ceiling and then used insulated Excel stove pipe through attic and he never had that problem again.
With a pitch of our roof it’s so nice having that clean out T outside. And with the combustor system and bypass the smoke that goes up the chimney is never really hot anyways. Double whammy. Ha! Actually, we love this stove and the set up and I don’t think we’d do it any different. We ran it for four years this way and this is the first time we had this issue. Glad we got it all figured out though it’s gonna be cold around here. 😊
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaskaA steep roof can be an issue. Our remote cabin in Talkeetna Bluffs has an 18/12 pitch with the pipe coming out right near the peak. It is 33 feet off the ground and I get someone younger than me to go up there.
In the summer I clean out my stove and then I disconnect the stove pipe and have a plate I set where the pipe goes that the shop vac fits in. It cleans all those little air passages in the stove pretty good.
@@Chris_at_Home right?! we trying to plan out this cabin so that we could be able to use it as we age. Imagine that… We planned something out. Ha!
@@Chris_at_Home awesome!
Just realized the shirt Nr Reeve has on to fix the stove ! 👍😄
Right?! we didn’t even realize that till we were editing. Ha!
My husband took our burning logs and pitched them out the window when we had smoke around our chimney (turned out the dryer was going at the same time). We haven’t had a fire since.😮
Oh no! Classic! Ha! Be blessed friend. 💕
Alone in remote Alaska did a video on Woodstove and chimney fire prevention that you might want to check out too. :)
Thanks! Been living with woodstove since we were kids here in Alaska. 😊
Good Day !!! Nice job & you make it look so fun. Question why do you not have damper above stove in chimney pipe ??? Just curios. I have a Columbia II Drolet , Canadian made stove with vent underneath & I installed damper for safety to help shut down the fire if need be.
Hey friend, if you check the other comment, I responded to explained about why we don’t have a damper. But this stove has a bypass inside the stove. The bypass shuts down the flow up the chimney and allows the the catalytic combustor to reburn the smoke inside the firebox to create a more efficient and longer burn. When the combustor is engaged, the smoke going up the chimney actually isn’t even hot. The stove can hold a burn with one load of wood for up to 30 hours because of the catalytic converter system. Pretty cool. We find that for Alaska’s temperature is 30 hours is a reach. The stove will definitely burn for 30 hours. But keeping the house warm and -30 for 30 hours on one load of wood…. not so much. Ha! Still, definitely significantly longer than a stove without a combustor. 😊
Get a bottle brush with bendable wire handle to clean inside your box in stove.
Great job guys! Y'all crack me up.
Does the steel wall help reflect the heat or is it just awesome looking?
I think it’s mostly aesthetic, 😊 But we can pretend its functional too. Ha!
Hello my friends how are this week I have silly question did you clean the outside pipes or do you do that in the spring time I am so glad that Mr. Reeves did a amazing job and I never seen you make him cookies do you have a video on cookies 🍪 used to be my favourite Crystal you make them from scratch you have a wonderful week and weekend here from Ontario Canada ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦😎
Hey sweet Mike, we clean the chimney every few weeks in the winter.
-miss Chrystal
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska it’s very important when I cleaned my cabin many years ago I used to clean it four times per year I used to burn tons of hardwood
@@mikemckinley1031 Because we are burning mostly beetle killed spruce, it builds up a lot of creosote these days. But normally we would just do it once a month or so in the winter because we’re using it as our full-time heat. 💕
I have watched all your videos on your channel I love them all and will be posting them on Facebook all the time
@@mikemckinley1031 you are awesome!
Make that man some cookies ❤
He deserves a bucket of cookies. I better get baking!!
Did you find out where the unknown part went back in? Somewhere around the catalytic part. I think the cap was causing the problem. Mine would always be the worst coated part in the spring.
Unobtanium is always the part I need to get my car fixed fast.
Ha! Yep. It went back. 😊 since we have a metal roof, I think we’re gonna just take the Barker arrestor off the cap this spring. Still a little bit undecided in four years of having the same system. We’ve never had this issue until this year. That’s why we’re pretty sure most of it was that the stove pipe wasn’t seated. The cap is always part of of normal life issues here. Ha! But this time we had extra bonus issues. Ha! 😊
What caused the problem was the flames freezing half way up the pipe, pretty common here.
Hey Jim, been way colder than this before around here and in four years this is the first time this is ever happened. Ha! Flames don’t go up our chimney. We have a catalytic combustor and a bypass system. And when the combustor is engaged, the smoke that makes it up the chimney pipe isn’t even very hot. So far, we’re really happy with this system. Miss your face! Are you coming to the meet up?
At least Mr reeves had right shirt on for telling story of how it was smoking😅
Right?! Ha! Totally a coincidence!
PS : Is there a need for a damper above stove if you have a factory stove vent ?? which mine has.
Hey friend. The damper is not recommended for the catalytic combustor bypass system for this blaze king. I think we find our biggest issue to be that the creosote builds up above the spark arrestor. And that build up blocks the outlet at the top of the cap where we can’t clean it with without getting on the roof. And that just can’t happen in the winter time. Well… Not unless we want to live. Ha! Be blessed friend. It’s working great now. Whoop!
have you ever been tested for Asma? and the reason I ask is that for many years every time I got a cold, it would turn into Bronchitis, and I had walking pneumonia 2 times and after one cold I had I could not get rid of my cough and so went the doctor and she sent a lung doctor and she I have Asma and I was 48 years old I was in shock so that my story so I would get check out and I am not saying you guys are that old I think still young in my eyes
Hey my sweet friend Wade, thanks for thinking of me. I don’t have asthma. When I was 16 we had a volcano that erupted here, and I was riding my bike and had to ride 6 miles home, breathing in the volcanic ash. The ash particles are like a little glass shards. And that compromised my lungs a little bit. I’ve worked with children for the last 20 years so I have the immune system of an ox. Ha! I barely ever get sick. But when I do it settles in my lungs for a while. This time it just kinda got the best of me. Burning the candle at both ends too much. Ha!
In an emergency you can just shoot your chimney cap from the safety of the ground. Expensive but it works.
Haha
Ha! Good idea thanks Ed… 🙄I’m trying to wrestle the ol’ 12 gauge away from Mr. Reeve right now!!! Ha!
@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska 😂😱
Not cheap..discount oriented 🤣🤣
Yes! Love it!
That Christmas garnish around your stove pipe is a bit scary. I think that you need to find another place for that stuff.
It definitely looks scary for sure. It’s double walled chimney pipe by the mantle so it’s safe to go through the wall. It doesn’t really even get warm. Thanks for thinking of us. 😊
Mr Reeve needs to wear the old man glasses more he looks good in them. Mrs Crystal please take care of yourself. We need to!
Mr Reeve cheap is what you call the girl in the bar you guys are all about recycling and being frugal. 😂
Ha! I love it!
Chin chimney cheroo!
Ha!
Bro has anyone ever told you that you look like Jason Kelce? 🤷🏼♀️🏈
Ha! Nope. You got to it first on that one, friend. Be blessed.
Why dont you just vacume the entire area inside the stove?
Hey friend, we do that in the spring when the stove can be shut down for three days before vacuuming. I don’t want to risk sucking hot holes into my vacuum. That’s why we use a metal shovel and scooped it into a metal bucket. Hope that helps. Be blessed friend.
I don’t think it’s a good idea too put all that stuff, so close, around that Hot Pipe……. That makes me nervous!
The pipe is double walled there. Doesn’t even get warm. 😊 thats why it can go through the wall and be safe too. Thanks for thinking about us. We’ve lived with wood-stoves since we were little kids.
Number one rule is always… don’t burn yourself down. Ha!
Cleaning that outside next to the pups? You always wanted black dogs didn’t you?
Right?! Getting dirty is their super power. Ha!
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We just getting older not wimp
How y’all dressed like that at six below lol
It warmed up from -30°, felt like summer!
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I hope Spelt his name, right
Chrystal 💕 apparently my parents thought I needed a silent H in there. Ha! No worries everybody misses it.
Annnddd... it's Mr Reeve for the win!! 😂 Unless you hid the evidence, that was a lot less messy than I was expecting it to be! I'm sure glad you got it up & running again. (Without benefit of parkas!)
I agree with one of the other comments that if you were to give us the soup recipe, it would be great! (ESPECIALLY since there's been very little PROOF of sufficient cookie distribution to date) I mean, he even pointed out that it was easier for him to slip behind the stove... that can only mean 1 thing. 🥹 Oh yeah & maybe share a couple of recipes for his favorite cookies. It would be like a Miss Chrystal PSA. You'd be helping the rest of us reward OUR knights in shining armor when they rescue the situation! ♥️😎
Stay warm you guys. Fun video (for us anyway) 😉
I wish I was fancy enough to have my own cookie recipes. We just get out the 1984 Betty Crocker book and go at it. Ha! I posted the “ recipe” in the community posts. Ha! Love you lady. 😊
I'll go ck. I think that needs to be supper tonight! Yummm. Thanks!❤
No new hubby, instead, how about you just give him a tune-up?? 🔧🪛🧰
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@@FlatTireFarmHomesteadingAlaska 🤣 kiddin... I think