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You accidently made what is known as a Berm and Swale. Even if it is a small one. This is how you green the land. Several countries have been greening their desert land this way. This trick has been around for centuries. Good job. 👍

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You are the perfect person to take this experiment to the next level. I'll bet you a steak dinner you will be happy with the outcome. With your excavator, select a site that has a good size watershed uphill that you can dig in one day. Start at the top of your experimental slope and dig half moon holes using the spoils as the downhill berm. Align the straight edge of the semicircle with the contour line of the elevation and dig the semicircle the size you can reasonably manage with one machine setup. Whatever that length is, skip that distance and move to your next location. When you have completed your on contour row, drop downhill to your next on contour line of half-moon's. Slipe the pattern so these semicircles fall between the uphill row. Repeat this pattern as you work your way downhill until you are satisfied with the scale of the experiment. Then wait for the rain to come. Steak is on me if you are not pleased with the amount of veg that has occurred naturally one year later. 😊👍

Those are also called "dirt bathtubs"

Simple but effective

Nature will always seek a niche to thrive. Thank you for sharing.

Any place that catches water grows things.

Green begets green! I haven't checked back to see how much has changed since the start, but good luck with all of it!

I know chickens are probably not really feasible there at this point, but free range chickens are really good at digging shallow holes all over the landscape in whatever bare soil they can get into.

I just checked the weather in Alpine, 58 degrees, cooler than South Texas right now where I am at and I bet its real dry and nice. I enjoy the winter sunrises with the pink clouds early in the morning,

I think that it is too simple that it is just the hole. Especially for a desert species the extra water is like an oasis, no doubt about that, but plants can also accumulate water from the air especially the desert species. And with a big pond nearby there is lots of evaporation and moisture in the air, relatively speaking compared to an area where there is no pond. There is also a lot more animal and bird activity that bring in nutrients and micro organisms and seeds with their droppings, and they also loosen the dirt that would otherwise pack down under the baking sun.There is also a little more protection against sunlight inside the hole, and it traps seeds more easily and the seeds do not get washed away. There are more insects so there is more pollination happening. So there are many factors that contribute to the growth from the surrounding vegetation. And I think that it is the combination from all those factors. So yeah, it is not surprising that the most hardy desert species benefit the first from all the changes and all the water. As always thanks for sharing 👍

The future is holy. Nice observation

That's great.👍👍💕💕

Enjoyed the ride. We use Spypoint cellular cameras. On our place. Mainly watching for tresspassers.They are reasonable, work off att and verizon simultaneously. You get good video and you get the videos back right away.

Ash will get the soil ph level up to help grass grow in areas where it normally wouldnt. We throw our bbq ashes out on bare soil to help. Years ago we welded a wood stove up out of a big old propane tank. Its cool, but yours looks awesome

From what I have seen of your house it looks small. With seeing you work on the walls upsairs in seems to be small. Just 1 bedroom space. Since you have 2 small kids wondering how many bedrooms you have & where they are if you don't think that's being to nosey in my part. The light seemed bright while you were putting up that sheetrock. Good to be able to see what you are doing. That was something seeing where that fuse melted. Glad you caught it in time to not have a fire or major damage. You do great work. A real craftsman

THanks for sharing the first burn Simon. There is something very special about a woodstove in a living space. With the first fire, you imagine all of the future fires to come and the welcome comfort the stove produces when the weather is blustery and cold weather. Wishing much luck and many happy memories to come in the future around this stove. 😊👍

Simon, great informational video 😎👍

Awesome setup. Perfect timing for fall temperatures.

Beautiful sunrise. You and your family will enjoy wood stove and making memories for years to come.

Would be really great to see some sort of observation study on firewood usage. Like, how wood does it take to get a fire union? Is the local saplings good enough? How hot and how long can you run off of what. That kind of thing. Been thinking about other stove like that.

Way to go 👍

05:45 just got back from getting the mail for wifey , got my coffee, turned on the set and got ready to start work on my online shop and there is Simon from Timeline Ranch lighting up the woodstove. Great way to start the day. That is a nice looking woodstove. Have a good day Simon. Thanks for sharing. Note apparently I was still asleep and posted on the wrong video.

Yes yes yes. BBQ fire outside the house. Woodburn stove inside the house. Life is good.

Good morning, nice to hear it's cooling off out there for you. Although soon the wind speed may be the next element working against ya. 😅 Thanks for the nice video. I'm curious as to your first floor dimensions vs your second floor. They look different in size. I'm guessing around 12x12 upstairs and 16x16 down. Have a great day Simon.

❤ Beautiful. Nice stove.working great❤😊

Burns well. I used to have the problem when opening the door from my rocket stove that coals could fall out. When the wood burns the wood can tumble over or it can splatter coals against the door. And then when you open the door to refill with fresh wood a small piece of hot coal can drop out. I solved that by making a metal piece of flat bar to size, that is about an inch high, and I made it in such way so that I can slide it into place for when I am burning a fire so that when I open the door no coal can fall out. It functions as a small but very useful barrier. And when I want to clean the burn chamber I can just take out the metal bar because it is not permanently attached to anything. It just fits really snug and it slides into place and it can fit only one way. As always thanks for sharing 👍

Are you going to cover your floor with anything or will it stay as is?

Sweet job on the whole installation Simon. Brilliant disassembly and reassemble of the double wall insulated pipe. Who knew? 😉 If you have a chance before you leave, set a couple of pieces of your stone behind the stove so we can get a feel for how it will look. Excited to see 👍

I saw a video where the Aztecs used ashes to augment their soil. Might be an interesting experiment for future videos.

Great decision to buy the outside air intake. With the crazy winds you get, everything that could leak outside air would if you were drawing down a vacuum. Although, your building is so tight, I doubt there would be a lot of air leaks 😉 I imagine that stove will heat the space pretty well. The only consideration will be air circulation within the building envelope. That will take something more than natural convection I expect. 👍 The top will be a great cook surface. THe eternal pot of soup 😊

Nice job smarting your way through that install

Good morning Simon, well you made my day with the woodstove install which I watched while enjoying my morning cup of coffee. Today is my 68th birthday here in Redlands CA, we're escaping to Oklahoma when the wife retires next year, possibly El Reno or Yukon. I'm glad that your channel showed up in my algorithm as I really enjoy watching your well thought out plans come to fruition on your desert homestead. We burned firewood for 7 years in our home in Thunder Bay Ontario, (before moving legally to the USA and becoming proud citizens). Luckily we had a neighbor Bernd Schnipper a German who escaped from East Germany who owned a skidder and was contracted to a huge local sawmill. Every weekend Bernd would bring me a bucked up load of white birch for $50 dollars a load, which I would split and stack to dry for the winter. Birch I think is about 25-26 million btu's per cord so we were always very warm. We burned several cords every year, wood is definitely the way to go. I'm looking forward to seeing your first light off of the woodstove, and you timed it perfect as cool weather is coming soon. Thanks for the great videos Simon. Dwight

fantastic,dont forget save all ash for garden,best fill 45 gallon drum,then you can treat garden as and when,great work❤❤❤❤❤

Put fire to it!

Nice little stove. The only disadvantage from a small stove like that is that it will take a little more work to get the wood to fit the stove, and also to keep it burning. But other than that it will give a lot of comfort during the colder days. You probably won't need it that much to begin with. I personally like the mason stoves that have a lot of mass. Those burn efficiently, and they also store a lot of heat. Years ago I made a rocket stove out of steel, just out of curiosity. It also has a relative small burn chamber. So I learned a lot from that. And I learned that I made some design errors, and that steel is not the right choice of material for that type of stove. At least steel is not the best material for the heat riser. I have to keep feeding wood almost constantly to keep it hot enough so that it keeps working as it should. And that is not very practical. So I kept it as an outdoor garden stove. But I rarely use it. It was a nice project though. I had never welded anything in my life before that. Catalytic wood stoves are also very efficient. But any stove is better as no stove at all. And besides comfort and warmth it will also keep the moisture and mold out of the building. Thanks for sharing 👍

I've had fireplaces in homes. Last two homes we built both had wood stoves. So much more efficient.

25 feet with fish and some plants around the edges, that will make for a sweet pond. Cheers

Yes sir you have a desert oasis.

Looking good 👍

Nice work! Good fishing to come 🤝🏻

Catfish have low oxygen needs and live in warmer waters. Thank you for sharing!

Good capture Simon. Sheltered the way that the pond is by the earth walls, the wind lined up just right. As you say - a beautiful sight. 😊

how do u keep the water thin there? it happened naturally?

Nature seems to have fgured things out.

Yes, it is a beautiful sight.💕💕💕💕

Beautiful indeed 👍

Awesome job Simon.👍

Once the rentals are available, you bet I will come one weekend and check it out!