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Carbon Farmers
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2020
We're restoring a 70-acre Scottish Glen to native woodland. Planting 12,000 trees, sequestering thousands of tonnes of carbon, improving biodiversity and water quality.
We've got lots of interesting wildlife, ranging from otters and badgers through to adders and lizards.
We are a family with wide ranging interests. Heddy: The chief forester and cider maker. Hector: The deputy forester, head game keeper and massive John Deere fan. Oscar: Wants to be a royal marine, interested in guns and fighting and nothing else. Wilfred: Chief forager and bee keeper. Rosie: Random towny who likes to read a book if it's sunny.
This channel documents the fun and adventure we are having, looking after trees, making wild brews, foraging, bee keeping, messing around with machinery and living semi wild.
We've got lots of interesting wildlife, ranging from otters and badgers through to adders and lizards.
We are a family with wide ranging interests. Heddy: The chief forester and cider maker. Hector: The deputy forester, head game keeper and massive John Deere fan. Oscar: Wants to be a royal marine, interested in guns and fighting and nothing else. Wilfred: Chief forager and bee keeper. Rosie: Random towny who likes to read a book if it's sunny.
This channel documents the fun and adventure we are having, looking after trees, making wild brews, foraging, bee keeping, messing around with machinery and living semi wild.
How to make beer
We have had a few requests from our viewers on how to make beer, so here is how we do it.
Follow us on instagram: carbon_farmers
Song credits: Guitar concerto in D major, Vivaldi
Follow us on instagram: carbon_farmers
Song credits: Guitar concerto in D major, Vivaldi
มุมมอง: 211
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Making Keeved Cider
มุมมอง 5K4 ปีที่แล้ว
Making traditional keeved cider the hard way. Producing a slow-fermented, slightly sweet, sparkling coder from our normandy and British cider apples her in Scotland.
Planting Native Woodland
มุมมอง 3624 ปีที่แล้ว
2,750 trees and a bunch of lads out in the country. Creating native woodland and sequestering carbon. Our Instagram: Carbon_farmers Email: carbonfarmers260@gmail.com
Update on our trees
มุมมอง 1274 ปีที่แล้ว
Today, we check on some areas that we planted last year for weeds and replacements and show our progress. Some discussion about the different areas of planting along with the different speeds of growth. Follow us on instagram: Carbon_farmers Song Credits: Blue bell wood by Holy Moly and The Crackers
Charcoal retort re-fire
มุมมอง 7K4 ปีที่แล้ว
Today, we fired up Bernard for a second run out having learnt from last time's mistakes. The end result was perfect with some big pieces of charcoal with a range of beautiful colours. We have ended up with a lot going spare, so if you would like you buy some (Edinburgh or London) contact us via our insta or email. Our Instagram: Carbon_farmers Email: carbonfarmers260@gmail.com Song Credits: Blu...
Family shooting championship
มุมมอง 1964 ปีที่แล้ว
Today, we have a visit from the Borders forest trust who are helping us out with our long term forestry plan. More to follow on that in the near future. The afternoon was used for our family shooting competition which is a bit of fun to compensate for all the hard work we have been doing over the last few months. Link to the Borders forest trust: bordersforesttrust.org Follow us on instagram: C...
Firing up the charcoal retort. Did it explode??
มุมมอง 45K4 ปีที่แล้ว
Today we finish building the retort and we fire it up for the first time. will it work or possibly explode? Watch to find out. Follow us on instagram: carbon_farmers Song credits: Blue Bell wood by Holy Moly & The Crackers. The Planets suite, H. 125, Op. 32: I. Mars - The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir Charles Groves.
How to make a charcoal retort
มุมมอง 10K4 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to our first video. Today we're building a charcoal retort from a barrel and a few other bits. Charcoal is one of the most environmentally damaging products out there, but ours will use its own gas to make the charcoal - so much less carbon footprint than with traditional charcoal. This will be a vast improvement - if it works... Follow us on instagram: carbon_farmers Song credits: Blue...
Hello, from which country are you possible?
Hello we are from NASA , we would like to hire you as our rocket engineer. Would you be interested?
Good! You can check our charcoal making machine working 😊
Too bad it didn't work. I looked for a link.
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The heading say how to make one. You did nothing. Bad video
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You guys are basically living my dream life
Love your Intro, if TV series could manage to do as well I wouldn't fast forward them as much.
Making holes in Metall is boring but fastening two pieces of metal together is riveting
Вітаю.
cheap hydraulic jack is way better than this stupid timewasting srcrew.
You play too much yourself
ยอดมาก
So where us part 2?
The next video up
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Very impressive retort you have there. Do you mind to share the design to me?🙏
Thank you. If you watch one of the earlier videos, we explain the process of making it. It’s fairly simple.
Love the subject. There is nothing wrong with shooting video on a phone, but shooting in vertical is shooting yourself in the foot. Very annoying to watch on anything but a cellphone that isn't on a stand.
Yes it’s just as annoying to watch back. Only realised once it was filmed. Learning curves of filing videos..
The hiccups from your cameraman made me smile, haha. Excellent video!
, too much hardcider... maybe?
That young fella about 5:44 min mark ,really startled me for a bit, i'd originally thought that there was a lama looking in on things
Attempting this tomorrow. Will be following your method!
Good luck! We are starting the cycle again. Just harvested the apples but we will be waiting another few weeks before we press
@@carbonfarmers134 thanks! You too. I'm based in Denmark so trying to find the closest thing to cider apples. Time will tell!
Can I ask for your reasoning to draw the biogas down the narrow pipe, rather than via holes drilled into the firetube? TIA
That retort's bloody excellent! Some serious biogas there. I need to build one of those. The little saw I'd thought about, but decided to splash out on a Makita 18v top handled saw as my cordless powerbase is becoming all Makita anyhow (reliable). I plant and crop willow every year for building, baskets & fuel, so can't be messing with 10 mins battery life. I want to move from 2 strokes with their noise, fumes and unreliability.
I like the hiccups 😁
How did the cider turn out?
It was alright not as good as last years as we sort of messed this one up! Still a learning process
I have a similar task to do. Where do you get your tress and protection from? Also, what time of year are you planting? Many thanks
We got our trees from Cheviot trees. We use tree guards but you can use a deer fence if preferred. We usually plant from September to end of April but it’s all weather dependent with dry and wet spells 👍
@@carbonfarmers134 do you use any sort of root grow before planting?
No we just put them straight in the ground
So where is part two?
Next video up 👍
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Nothing better than building something with your sons.
what's wrong with scrubland? did I notice some non-native trees that could be removed to make room for the new plants?
What we mean by scrubland is just huge patches of gorse - very spiky and doesn’t let any trees grow once it’s away. We bought the place almost 20 years ago and the whole thing was covered in gorse with conifers underneath hence the odd comfier patches that made it. We have been working hard these last few weeks on a number of projects taking out non natives. Just need to get round to editing them!!
What was used for the insulation between the barrel and carrying side of the walls?
It was vermiculite. Hope that helps 👍
What is the gap between the two barrels? How much vermiculite does it take to fill up?
was the only change using dry bio mass?
No we made some changes off camera to improve the leaking out of the heat and some other bits and bobs but for the most part the dry wood was the main change
My brother in law has one of those little saws. One of the handiest tools I've seen in a long time. Good job on the charcoal!
Yes it’s great for small branches where it’s too much hassle for the big chainsaw.
What is the intro song?
Bluebell wood by holy moly and the crackers.
apakah ada tutorial cara pembuatan drum nya..??
"3 boys and me, we need a lot of beer" sounds like perfect camp by my teenage standards!
Yes haha. What’s not to like about beer, guns, hunting and building cool stuff!
@@carbonfarmers134 What part of Scotland are you in?
The borders. Underrated part of the country
@@carbonfarmers134 I am in Peterhead, have not explored borders at all, but will put it on my to do list. Healthy and happy new year to you and family!
@@weld-deluxltd7635 Nice. Happy new year to you too!
Good team work!
Was needed for that project. Watching that back reminds me how much of a fiddle that was to make 😆
Nice Job! To accomplish chapeu brun did you use calcium plus PME or only calcium? Thanks in advance.. I have to process my apples during next January... happy new year !!
Happy new year to you to. This year we just used calcium. Took a good few weeks to achieve the chapeau brun. However when we also used the PME last year we got it within a few days. Good luck with your attempt!!
Did you have any problems with leaving the pomace for a few days or did you use sulphites at all?
No we had no problems at all. Didn’t add sulphites or anything.
@@carbonfarmers134 Thanks for that , I will be giving it a go next autumn.
Good luck! It’s a hard process, definitely the hardest homemade drink we’ve accomplished so far!
@@carbonfarmers134 I have made cider for the last 3 years and if it is made with real cider apples it is fine but just lacking that extra bit of bite so I will try your method next autumn.
Yeah we’ve been making it for quite a few years now. Was never very good until we tried this method last year so hope it works for you too!
Cheers! Amazing video once again!
Great video, your commentary is very informative!
Thank goodness for that
banging vid ma boy
Solid my boyz great work keep it up
really solid build, i saw a philipino doing the same and tryed this myself just 1hours ago. i had a little problem and had to cut it short because fire was entering my charcoal area. its cooling down right now but ill see what i got. very nice family project. playing with fire and getting charcoal for the BBQ at the same time!
Thanks!! Yes you may have not sealed the charcoal area off enough allowing oxygen to get it hence why the charcoal will set alight. Its hard to do and we are still trying to find the perfect solution for it. It was really fun to make and hope yours works out.
@@carbonfarmers134 i did a total of 3batches. the first one i had to cut short because my inside pipe was sliding down (i riveted it after), the 2nd batch i stopped too soon, then i added some "insulation" in the form of two piece of sheet metal and it worked. the final drum was about 95% perfect charcoal. here is a picture i took yesterday: i.imgur.com/p56GEVo.jpg mine is based on the design i saw on the philipino video (it was actually from thailand). the drum has a normal flue pipe doing down the middle inside of it. a big strong fire is build bellow it in a brick/cement block oven so the temperature are very high and it burn the smoke. the fire and heat go tru the center pipe inside the drum and heat the wood inside. the inside pipe has some hole drilled into it so the pyrolysis gas can enter the burn area and burn. it took maybe 3-4hours of burn time. here is some things i discovered: -only use small piece of wood, not round logs -dry wood only -must use insulation around the drum -wind affect it (since i had no proper insulation) Thank you for your video! after my successful batch i used some to do a BBQ and grill some sausages around midnight. after breathing all the burning paint and smoke it was a nice break.
Yes we found the same things out. We made a more recent video called charcoal retort re-fire which you can find on our channel page. It’s a much better burn and worth a watch!!
Hello, from which country are you possible?
@@alihammood4637 Canada
Really nice video. Have you made a second try?
Goolge Hatter Thanks. Yes we did another one called charcoal retort re-fire. You should be able to find it on our channel page 👍
@@carbonfarmers134 Yeah I found it, great! Do you have anu possibility to shut off the pipe that collects wood gas, when the burn is finished, lik a valve?
@@goolgehatter1597 We just push a bit of rock wool in to seal it off once its burnt through to stop oxygen getting to the hot charcoal.
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Good job
Wow that’s impressive Hedly ❤️ looking forward for the next one 💪🏼