And Don takes a peek at how his guest quarters are coming along!! Brilliant teaser Kevin👍🏼 ( if Don sends you video you can upload PEI Don updates❤❤ , just saying lots of Don fans here🙏🏻)
Hey Don!! -It negatively pressurizes the building, pulling air in from all the cracks and wall penetrations. That's why the rest of the house gets cold farther from the fire, without circulation. If you want to put a 2" pipe from the outside to right underneath the fireplace it will help mitigate that.
Kevin Great channel. I love your content. Your a great DIY guy, I like how your brother and nephew pop in to help at times. I know you miss Don. Keep up the great channel
Enjoyed your brief tree felling explanation, that was quite a big one you took down. I enjoy your videos immensely Kevin your ingenuity and creativity are inspiring, your wife is a gem and thank you for bringing us along for the ride. You might have to do something about that peeping Don tho, maybe a few sets of plantation shutters? Lol.
I used a wood stove as my sole source of heat up in the Colorado mountains for a few winters and loved it. Cutting and splitting my own wood was tons of work but I miss it. Recently I have been using a hot tent wood stove in a portable cabin made of panels that stack up in my car ... I have been posting some videos of it.
I also totally agree with living in a space before renovating it ... I spend lot of time/days/weeks looking at something, thinking about and visualizing drawing and calculating a lot of different versions of what I might do, materials I might use and the construction process before deciding. Over time, I wake up in the middle of the night with many of my best ideas.
Your rock crusher is an MVP, but you must have to use it when your wife and daughter are away! Very loud. The off grid cabin is coming along nicely. I spied a Don sighting outside the window!
Kevin, have you considered making a grading seive for the rock crusher? If you had a chute that the conveyor dropped the gravel into, with the bottom of the chute is a series of different sized mesh, it would sort the sizes of the gravel as it shakes the gravel along the chute. Not really necessary unless you want to seperate it into coarse and fine gravel so you have the chunky hard core for foundations and drainage and the fine gravel for footpaths. Also, you could easily build a cement mixer. It’s just a rotary drum with some flanges that you can tip out. Also for a good solid concrete they use a vibrating thing to shake all the air bubbles out after you pour it because it will reduce the chances of cracking later on.
Kevin, I would love to see a deep dive in splitting field stone for stone veneer applications. I've seen it used on other channels, but it's much harder than it looks. You are unique in finding ways to make this valuable skill accessible to us followers.
@@ModernSelfReliance contact that guy with his own stone quarry, I think his name is Alfred, “my buddy Alfred, he lives just down the road” (it’s a song) a neighbour of gold Shaw farm. They live just south of Quebec so maybe a source of hand cut stone. Both have you tube channels.
An old use for fire ash is to make potash, which is useful for all the things you mentioned but without as much dirt. You can also use it to make glass.
Wow, thanks for all these projects you shared with us today Kevin. it was nice seeing your brother Chris. Sure appreciate you sharing them all with us. Hope you have a good day.
Nice to see your concrete finally set up. Was sort of hoping we would have seen the chipper eat some wood. Always great to see the crusher make an appearance and to see Don poke his head in too… John
Another idea: you can get the cheap gloves and dip them in the liquid rubber paint to give them a rubberised coating to make them waterproof and more resilient. It depends how flexible it is when it dries.
If you get a heat resistant paint like hammerite you could just paint the hearth. It would also stop it feeling dusty. If you get a second colour you could also add decorative designs, while keeping it all fire proof.
Also you can add as much fire brick to the stove as you want. You can literally build a stove entirely out of bricks. Just don’t overload it with weigh because the legs aren’t very beefy and there is no central pillar so the bottom might drop out.
Another great episode Kevin while enjoying my cup of coffee and my breakfast! A lot to do but that's future Ryan's problem as you would say! Until next time.
I had a stove in my camp that was very similar for 40 years that I had bought for.$250. I put in on a bed of sand and brick. It worked perfectly. There is nothing like wood heat!
Nice job on dropping that tree. Im excited to see what you convert that oil hot water heater into to heat the floor using a syphon system. Maby next Saturday you will upload more on the infloor heating system. Have a good week
Really good video Kevin. The concrete base that you made for the stove that looked really good. It was kind of funny when Frankie walked all over and left his print her print. I guess looks like the fish of the Pond are ready for winter getting ready for winter. Really good job on cutting down the tree, even though it looks like a small piece of branch hit the platform a little bit but not bad actually I thought it was a pretty good takedown. Yeah, getting the stove in there looks pretty good. It’s gonna be nice and warm in there anyway. It looks like Don stuck his face in the window, thought that was cool. Really good video man you definitely think out of the box big time! Look forward to your next video and take care.
That rock crusher is awesome... Frankenstein as it is Fresh rocks are indeed so important otherwise your concrete will go stale and get mold and mildew in it Very important tip! Fresh crushed rocks
Hey neighbor! I loved this video. It shows the reality of what goes on when you're unexpectedly delayed with your plans. I was worried when you were making your concrete form. I thought for sure you would puncture an in floor heating tube. I'm glad you created a cover shield for your rock muncher because damn, those rocks can come flying back out! Your tree felling was awesome, and I think you should have bet Chris some money instead of just words. You could have gotten an egg sandwich out of it! And last but not least, DON!!!!!! I hope you guys had a nice visit while he was there.😊 give hugs all around and stay safe until next time.✌️
Every concrete pour we have ever done as a family. We have left our handprints and initials. there is some from the time I was 4 to in my 20s. Haven't poured none in a few years.
I've had a pond for many years. I never feed the fish when the temperature drops to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The fish can no long digest it. If there is a temperature fluctuation, the fish will eat algae to survive. You fish may be tempted to eat, but the food can rot in their gut. Stop feeding when the temps drop. Love seeing the wood stove up and running. It looks very cozy.
We had a 20gallon tank hooked to our wood cook stove and that's how we had hot water, it was a good thing because we were 16people including my parents, it served us well until 1976 when we got a 40 gallon electric water tank that we know today.
The shrink wrap cabin is still going but what about the A-frame style cabin built with he glass garage door panels? It’s been ages since we’ve seen that one… Great job dropping that ash tree by the way…
Consider a heat exchanger on the woodstove, feeding your hydronic system. Store those BTUs in a water heater tank. You can still build a wood burning firebox into the water heater, but maybe use a gasifying stove, tlud or rocket stove, to keep the combustion clean. Great video, as always.
If you can find some soapstone slabs to line the outer walls of the firebox followed by a layer of firebrick to make the firebox smaller, you will add heated mass to the stove. The soapstone absorbs the heat and retains the heat for quite a long time after fire is out providing for extended heating with less wood consumption.
47:39 you can also mix the light ash with water to make lye water which is chemically known as (potassium hydroxide) which was mixed with fats or plant oils to make soap in the old days. You can also use it to make mortar or concrete mix, the channel ( Primative Technology) has great videos on this subject.
Love your channel all the way From PEI Canada..we have starlink as well..I ordered a new router to use with starlink and it definitely increases the range and speed of WiFi...the starlink router is "ok"..but using it in bypass mode and a proper router will help immensely... cheers Happy wine Wednesday
*Full cabin playlist!:* th-cam.com/play/PLwj3sDjjGtJqR8ySzZkNbagkaXYSBwnGB.html
👍👍👍
And Don takes a peek at how his guest quarters are coming along!! Brilliant teaser Kevin👍🏼 ( if Don sends you video you can upload PEI Don updates❤❤ , just saying lots of Don fans here🙏🏻)
*a wild Don appears*
Was that Don waving at us from the window!? 🥰
I believe it was Don. 👍
Don Dad-or Don long-time friend? They look a lot alike on screen-at a distance!!
Definitely Don 💯
I thought I was imagining it until I saw your post.
Funny cameo, and good to see he still by..
@ 50:39 Hi DON !! Don loves a good fire!
Hmm Sasquatch disguise using the ole Don costume. Stealthy.
Hey Don!!
-It negatively pressurizes the building, pulling air in from all the cracks and wall penetrations. That's why the rest of the house gets cold farther from the fire, without circulation. If you want to put a 2" pipe from the outside to right underneath the fireplace it will help mitigate that.
Hello Don! Nice cameo!
Hi Don!
Nice job on the stove installation Kevin!
Kevin Great channel. I love your content. Your a great DIY guy, I like how your brother and nephew pop in to help at times. I know you miss Don. Keep up the great channel
i like the little easter egg suprise on your video (don siteing) lol
I like the fast motion segments, especially with sound🎉. And when you appeared in the stovepipe opening from the outside at 29:00 😂
Hi Don! 👋 Loved all the different projects you did in this one. Thanks for sharing 😊
50:39 Hi Don!!!!!!
Brand new subscriber here and have been binge watching all your content. Love your videos and look forward to all your future work!
Welcome aboard, it's a wild ride.
The wooded beardsman is his brothers channel and they have done some property videos on his channel as well if you are looking for other ones.
I jumped back when that rock bounced up at the camera! An it appears that you have an elusive donsquach pearing in windows lol
Enjoyed your brief tree felling explanation, that was quite a big one you took down. I enjoy your videos immensely Kevin your ingenuity and creativity are inspiring, your wife is a gem and thank you for bringing us along for the ride. You might have to do something about that peeping Don tho, maybe a few sets of plantation shutters? Lol.
Love your videos. Hello Don!
Don sighting!!!!!!
love the wild Don appearing!!
I used a wood stove as my sole source of heat up in the Colorado mountains for a few winters and loved it. Cutting and splitting my own wood was tons of work but I miss it. Recently I have been using a hot tent wood stove in a portable cabin made of panels that stack up in my car ... I have been posting some videos of it.
I also totally agree with living in a space before renovating it ... I spend lot of time/days/weeks looking at something, thinking about and visualizing drawing and calculating a lot of different versions of what I might do, materials I might use and the construction process before deciding. Over time, I wake up in the middle of the night with many of my best ideas.
Don! Are we just going to ignore a Don Squatch sighting? lol
Your rock crusher is an MVP, but you must have to use it when your wife and daughter are away! Very loud. The off grid cabin is coming along nicely. I spied a Don sighting outside the window!
I enjoy whatcha your adventures. Thank you for bringing us along with you.
Full stop
Took me years to understand how important “fresh rock” is to making a batch of concrete. Very, very wise move for sure.
Have you tried fresh sand...? It's next level.
First fire in a cold winter cabin must be feels so satisfying as nothing ever)
It is one of the most satisfying milestones of any project.
Kevin, have you considered making a grading seive for the rock crusher?
If you had a chute that the conveyor dropped the gravel into, with the bottom of the chute is a series of different sized mesh, it would sort the sizes of the gravel as it shakes the gravel along the chute.
Not really necessary unless you want to seperate it into coarse and fine gravel so you have the chunky hard core for foundations and drainage and the fine gravel for footpaths.
Also, you could easily build a cement mixer. It’s just a rotary drum with some flanges that you can tip out.
Also for a good solid concrete they use a vibrating thing to shake all the air bubbles out after you pour it because it will reduce the chances of cracking later on.
Kevin, I would love to see a deep dive in splitting field stone for stone veneer applications. I've seen it used on other channels, but it's much harder than it looks. You are unique in finding ways to make this valuable skill accessible to us followers.
My elbows hate this comment. ;-)
@@ModernSelfReliance contact that guy with his own stone quarry, I think his name is Alfred, “my buddy Alfred, he lives just down the road” (it’s a song) a neighbour of gold Shaw farm. They live just south of Quebec so maybe a source of hand cut stone. Both have you tube channels.
Awesome job Kevin! Enjoy watching your builds and adventures 🎉
9:07 The cameraman never dies moment
Don in the background! :O
A Don cameo. Nice touch.
You caught it!
Gotta love a Don Cameo
An old use for fire ash is to make potash, which is useful for all the things you mentioned but without as much dirt.
You can also use it to make glass.
Wow, thanks for all these projects you shared with us today Kevin. it was nice seeing your brother Chris. Sure appreciate you sharing them all with us. Hope you have a good day.
Nice to see your concrete finally set up. Was sort of hoping we would have seen the chipper eat some wood. Always great to see the crusher make an appearance and to see Don poke his head in too… John
Another idea: you can get the cheap gloves and dip them in the liquid rubber paint to give them a rubberised coating to make them waterproof and more resilient.
It depends how flexible it is when it dries.
Yay! It's Don!!!
I'm a big fan of the cheap nitrile dipped gloves. I usually rotate 3 or 4 pairs of them so I always have a dry pair on.
If you get a heat resistant paint like hammerite you could just paint the hearth. It would also stop it feeling dusty.
If you get a second colour you could also add decorative designs, while keeping it all fire proof.
Also you can add as much fire brick to the stove as you want. You can literally build a stove entirely out of bricks. Just don’t overload it with weigh because the legs aren’t very beefy and there is no central pillar so the bottom might drop out.
Another great episode Kevin while enjoying my cup of coffee and my breakfast! A lot to do but that's future Ryan's problem as you would say! Until next time.
HEY DON!!
Good morning from Minnesota USA! Great episode
Great video. Can’t wait to see what’s next!
Hey, great to see Don! We miss you!
I had a stove in my camp that was very similar for 40 years that I had bought for.$250. I put in on a bed of sand and brick. It worked perfectly. There is nothing like wood heat!
I know that heat is welcomed! The cold weather is here.
Respect to you as always, Kevin... & Don!!
Heck yeah buddy 🤟🏻
What a stone contraption you’ve created it’s awesome😂😂😂❤
Nice job on dropping that tree. Im excited to see what you convert that oil hot water heater into to heat the floor using a syphon system. Maby next Saturday you will upload more on the infloor heating system. Have a good week
Really good video Kevin. The concrete base that you made for the stove that looked really good. It was kind of funny when Frankie walked all over and left his print her print. I guess looks like the fish of the Pond are ready for winter getting ready for winter. Really good job on cutting down the tree, even though it looks like a small piece of branch hit the platform a little bit but not bad actually I thought it was a pretty good takedown. Yeah, getting the stove in there looks pretty good. It’s gonna be nice and warm in there anyway. It looks like Don stuck his face in the window, thought that was cool. Really good video man you definitely think out of the box big time! Look forward to your next video and take care.
That is one Cool Rock Crusher!!!
Great job, Kevin and special guests 🎉
Don!!!!🫶🫶🫶 Excellent fire! Love how big the glass is.....great job felling that Ash.👏👏Cheers from Hastings Country, Ontario ✨
Don was just here for a visit, he's doing well, and will be back soon for another update.
@ModernSelfReliance excellent! We all miss him!
Don sighting 👍👍👍😊
That rock crusher is awesome... Frankenstein as it is
Fresh rocks are indeed so important otherwise your concrete will go stale and get mold and mildew in it
Very important tip!
Fresh crushed rocks
You have really turned the rock crusher into a great machine
5 years I’ve been watching…oh boy …time goes on….I’ve really enjoyed your videos
well good morning guys!
Home is where the Hearth is...
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I saw Don! And got no Don in the Video! Give us Don. 😊
Stay tuned next week.
Don! 😍
Hey neighbor! I loved this video. It shows the reality of what goes on when you're unexpectedly delayed with your plans. I was worried when you were making your concrete form. I thought for sure you would puncture an in floor heating tube. I'm glad you created a cover shield for your rock muncher because damn, those rocks can come flying back out! Your tree felling was awesome, and I think you should have bet Chris some money instead of just words. You could have gotten an egg sandwich out of it!
And last but not least, DON!!!!!! I hope you guys had a nice visit while he was there.😊 give hugs all around and stay safe until next time.✌️
We did, he was only here for a couple of hours... He's doing well next week there will be a full Don update.
@ModernSelfReliance how wonderful, I can't wait to see it!
Don !
I get a whole lot of happiness and great tips watching your show 🤗😮🤔😎
I miss don so much bros. I hope he stays awhile.
Hahahaaa i like how the googly eyes bounce around when it's crushing
Thanks for the video Kevin!
Best part of the video was seeing Don
50:40 we see you don😊
Awesome as always nice job
Every concrete pour we have ever done as a family. We have left our handprints and initials. there is some from the time I was 4 to in my 20s. Haven't poured none in a few years.
I see your chickens love to drink the non chlorianated and flurinated water, ,great video kevin, have a great day both.
I love the wood stove
I've had a pond for many years. I never feed the fish when the temperature drops to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The fish can no long digest it. If there is a temperature fluctuation, the fish will eat algae to survive. You fish may be tempted to eat, but the food can rot in their gut. Stop feeding when the temps drop.
Love seeing the wood stove up and running. It looks very cozy.
We want Don back!!
And Don obviously heard all the holes were dug! Smart man!
Maybe name the Makita auger, Little Don???
Don’s Here. 😀 👍🏼
I would have loved a rock crushing machine, very practical
Rock Crusher...... Yessssss!
DON!!!! I saw Don in the window! 😮😂 Great video! Love all you do!
We had a 20gallon tank hooked to our wood cook stove and that's how we had hot water, it was a good thing because we were 16people including my parents, it served us well until 1976 when we got a 40 gallon electric water tank that we know today.
Next project. Maybe a winter shed for all your equipment, tractors, rock crusher, wood chipper, etc...frankie😊
I may have already started that
.. if you look closely.. it just needs gravel and a front door ;-)
@ModernSelfReliance looking forward to watching how you design that door and always like the crusher stuff, too. Kinda mesmerizing, weird huh.
The shrink wrap cabin is still going but what about the A-frame style cabin built with he glass garage door panels? It’s been ages since we’ve seen that one…
Great job dropping that ash tree by the way…
Warmth is good.
Consider a heat exchanger on the woodstove, feeding your hydronic system.
Store those BTUs in a water heater tank.
You can still build a wood burning firebox into the water heater, but maybe use a gasifying stove, tlud or rocket stove, to keep the combustion clean.
Great video, as always.
Personal favorite gloves: Bionic Men's ReliefGrip Gardening Premium Leather Gloves
Good morning, Kevin!
Good Morning!
excellent work
If you can find some soapstone slabs to line the outer walls of the firebox followed by a layer of firebrick to make the firebox smaller, you will add heated mass to the stove. The soapstone absorbs the heat and retains the heat for quite a long time after fire is out providing for extended heating with less wood consumption.
Good Episode
second like for Don! 😀
47:39 you can also mix the light ash with water to make lye water which is chemically known as (potassium hydroxide) which was mixed with fats or plant oils to make soap in the old days. You can also use it to make mortar or concrete mix, the channel ( Primative Technology) has great videos on this subject.
Kevin - "safety eventually". Also Kevin - sticks face, and camera, perilously close to the crusher jaws. 😅
Awww - you could have left one of Frankie's decorative pawprints in situ!!
They were too deep....
I'll let you off then!
Thanks again My chickens love to drink the water off the ground also and they like rain water in a mud hole the most
Love your channel all the way From PEI Canada..we have starlink as well..I ordered a new router to use with starlink and it definitely increases the range and speed of WiFi...the starlink router is "ok"..but using it in bypass mode and a proper router will help immensely... cheers Happy wine Wednesday
You can use it in a water filtration system. It's also handy in stockings. To send a message.