How to Make Charcoal | Cleaning and Using an Antique Icebox
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มี.ค. 2023
- This week, I make biochar in the wood stove, clean out and prepare the icebox for relocation in the cabin, wrap the base of the front porch columns and collect water from the stream.
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I can’t believe how long I’ve been watching this guy maintain his camp, I remember his cute dog running around when she was young
she's a decent sized beast these days
We used empty milk cartons and gallon jugs frozen with water in our ice chests and vintage ice box. When the ice melted, you could refreeze it in winter. When I was in 4H in the 1960s and we showed cattle at the county fair. We camped for the week on the fair grounds. The fair electrical system for the camps would not support a refrigerator but one of our families had a vintage ice box which we used. The same family owned a food cold locker plant so ice was readily available.
Ice boxes are genius. Thanks for sharing.
Well I can say the same....from the very beginning....I just love his cabin....and how he maintains it and he is always building something keeping busy.... Everything is natural wood from his own property....I pray long life for you sir....❤
Just an FYI Shawn the boot company(Schnee) you like is having a March Sale up to 70% off.
Love watching your creative process and how you use so much off of your own land. Also enjoying you narrating a bit more now. Listening to someone else's thought process I find can be very beneficial to my own. Truly love your channel its so calming and peaceful. Your interaction with Callie is so heartwarming, she's so sweet and such good company. Thank you for taking so much of your time to share with us.
If you use salt water in the jugs, they will thaw at a much lower temperature, and keep the ice box much cooler.
Shawn lookin like a true bushman!
Shawn, have you considered cutting a small access door through the exterior wall and then putting a box outside on the porch for cold weather food storage? You could have a sealed door inside and then an exterior vent you could throttle outside to set the storage box cold temperature. A great place to store food cooled by outside temps but accessible from the inside.
Just what I thought
Some animals would love an outside larder...😊😊😊
I believe that’s what the Boss does at his cabin on homesteading off the grid with the boss.
Awesome information. Thanks Shawn, much appreciated. Cheers to good health and happiness to you and yours.
I look to the right at the playlist, and one of his videos has 37 million views. Insane! People enjoy his productions.
Great ice box! I remember when people used to call refrigerators “ice boxes!”
In Australia they were called an ‘ice chest’ and refrigerators were just called ‘fridge’ and they still are.🇦🇺🦘🦘🇦🇺
love the work you are doing im motivated to get back out to the bush to finish my cabin thanks shawn
Screen the end of that hose if open to the elements. Even teeny critters like to explore and eat
You need some welders gloves when you're reaching into the firebox.
I haven't been burned once since I started using the welding gloves. They protect my arms.
I really enjoy hearing the explanations of what your doing and why Shawn and have learned a great amount from you , Thanks , John
Looks like that bottom shelf in the freeze box could use a paint brush and some white latex paint but then that might defeat the object if what it is meant to be, a free draining box. Cheers Shawn and Cali.
Mine was lined with marble, took 2-3 days for it to BEGIN to start melting. Very efficient.
@@jilbertb does the ice go on the top or bottom? On yours was the marble where the ice goes or where the food goes?
Use to use block ice up at our cabin in the 60’s…. The ice truck would come by and buy your ice…. That brings back memories 👍 B Deacon Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
Traditionally homesteaders had a springbox, which was just cold water passing over the milk and eggs, butter, keeping it cool year round.
This is probably a frivolous question, but do you have any plans to build steps down to the stream where you were collecting your water? The slope near the large tree seemed a bit treacherous. We enjoy everything about your lifestyle.
Yes
Happy St Patrick's Day, Shawn, Cali and Family 💚💚💚
I remember my grandmother, having an icebox, back in the day.
I made charcoal when I was a teenager back in the old country, using sod. Also, they used to make natural gas... if you call it that!... with brut coal. The principle is simply to burn the coal with very little oxygen. Then the remnant is charcoal. Coal was for rich people, the charcoal was for "We the people".
Stay safe, and enjoy the season.
You can use clean paint cans in the stove just grab the wire handle with tongs to remove it's just a idea
Great idea!
I always look forward to your videos
As a child, we cut ice out of the river that ran thru our farm. We would bury it in a deep pit and put sawdust all over it. After getting electricity in our home, Poppa stopped this practice. I have such fond memories of those days.🎉
Hello there👋👋,how are you doing today?hope all is good at your end? always keep your faith in Jesus Christ our savior and you’re blessed today.Amen!!
Thats a nice icebox!
When I was young I remember going to see the ice man to buy a big block of ice for the old fridge we had in the cellar. It was where my dad kept his rabbit, venison and other meats mom wouldn’t let him put in our regular fridge in the kitchen. It kept stuff really cold. It had been in my grandfather’s house and when he passed away my dad brought it home. My dad loved antiques.
Thanks for filming Shawn. 👍😁
2 videos 1 day we can't ask no better not👍👏⭐⭐⭐⭐
Good Friday Shawn & Cali🐕!
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always great video's !
Nice addition to the cabin!
I’m so diggin this channel.
Seja feliz a cabana ficou maravilhosa 😮❤
Very nice video
One hell of a job Sean
merci JAMES
great videos usual..........
The water much cleaner and it is ready for a drink . Well master knows best . We have not seen your vegetables garden for long time . Be safe and look around . Aameen .
thats what i like to see keeping yourself mobile
Good morning Shawn. Spring is certainly getting nearer. Stay safe
Thank you Shawn 🙂 Always great to hear from you, appreciate you my friend, stay safe and take care 🙏
Wieder ein tolles Video Danke 👏🏻🤗😊🙋♂️🇩🇪
Thanks Shawn. Happy St. Patrick's day to you an yours. Cheers
Thanks Shawn you learn something new everyday! ✅✅✅🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯
Love Edible Acres channel too ❤
Hallo ich wünsche euch beiden ein schönes Wochenende. Macht so weiter. Danke für deine Videos. Ps Albert
We had one of those old timer coolers in our hunt camp back in the early 1960s
I just love that wood stove, it reminds me of what my grandmother cooked on in the 30s and 40s, roast turkey never tasted and good as on that old wood and coal stove.
nice
SHAWN & OUR CALI this is so nice to see you again!!! Just love this !!! Been through a lot and this is what I want but not able to do any longer !!! It is different when You reach a age that you can still learn but do somethings !!! BUT NOT ALL!!!
You've done the stairs to your cellar. When are you going to show that build?
We had a spring that flowed out of the high bank of the river and into a short stream on the floodplain before flowing into the river at our hunting camp in the Adirondacks. The water was perfectly good to drink and cook with. We assumed the river water was not safe due to beaver and hunting camps miles upstream. When we had heavy rain, the river came up and flooded our spring stream. When we knew rain was coming, we got several days water ahead. The river typically came up fast and went down fast. There was a ford near our camp used by hunting camps downstream. One brave (and foolish) soul tried to cross the ford at high water when the river was raging. He tipped his CJ5 or CJ7 Jeep over midstream on the driver's side. I don't know how he ever got it out and it was a wonder he didn't drown.
I always thought about that on a bigger scale, like for a central heating for a two family house, but I couldn't come up with a feasible solution. This seems low tech but efficient, Thanks Shawn.
cripsbread is super easy to do, and long lasting!
and super duper hard, lol, breaking of the bread
Still love what you’re doing, brother.
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When you showed this last week, thot you were making it for medicinal purposes. Good to keep on hand for wounds and upset tummy.
Also good as a layer of sand a layer of charcoal to clean water
Small pebbles
Sand
Charcoal
Equal cleaned water as it filters through 😊
Shawn just a suggestion get a tighter container and drill a hole in the center of the lid and you will get a better quality charcoal. When the smoke stops and starts to flame from the hole leave it for 30 more minutes and you get a complete glass sounding charcoal. You may even be able to put an airtight container with a hole in the top on the top of the wood stove with a hot fire. I enjoy every video thank for your knowledge and videos.
Aqui no Brasil boa tarde quatro lenha pois creio muito feio aí parabéns pelo seus cuidados com seu moradia abraço 🤗 Deus abençoe sempre sua vida 😘❤️💞
LIKE aqui do Brasil
You could set up a simple RAM pump and pump the water up to the cabin
Ser inteligente, ter o poder de criar , fazer com perfeição, passar conhecimentos, não tem definição.Cada dia te admiro mais.Parabéns pela tua criação, pela coragem e por tudo de bom que você me faz sentir. Essa natureza linda, essa cabana top de linha As gravações noturnas são belas, até o uivar dos lobos em lua cheia é bom. Você merece um documentario. Parabéns James! Um abraço de sua admiradora brasileira numero HUM!
PS, sinto saudades de suas pescarias!❤
I was taught to freeze a recycled milk jug or two and use them to keep the freezer or frig "full" (when your supplies are running low). It helps the frig/freezer to save power by keeping them cold and full.
Ashes puts lots of Nutrients in your garden ect.
Recall as a 6 or 7 yr old attending a camp and my aunt & few grown cousins. She had an icebox. I thot it was a cool thing since electric was limited mostly to run lights & a fan. This was in the early 50s.
Some type of kiln tongs would help you remove hot items from the fire. Also you should make a couple of wooden foldable butler trays, so you can read, make, or eat from wherever your sitting.
Thanks so much for sharing I learn something almost every time I watch your videos! How is the greenhouse doing.
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After World War II, my father and I made an ice box. You can use galvanized sheets metal, the best is copper sheets metal to box in the interior nailed/screwed to the exterior walls and door (s). Creating an air chamber on all vertical surfaces, the ice will be dropped in a galvanized center chamber with a bottom drain. The door (s) should be insulated just as well with a very tight and secured lock. A large ice block, depending on its size should be placed in the center chamber, it could last up to a week. I would not recommend to consume its defrosted water, unless absolutely necessary. It can be used for other purposes, such as laundry, or watering plants.
Bonne chance,
I stumbled on the water jugs as ice blocks my first year into living on my property in a trailer. At a certain point in winter my propane fridge stops cooling so I take 2, 1 gallon jugs that are frozen and place them on the top shelf and keep the food below that...works like a charm and i always have another 2 frozen outside ready to rotate in. My question is how do you freeze those jugs once winter is over? Lol...
I have the solar powered freezer in the basement to freeze them. It’s not too expensive an option
Hey Shawn! I've been watching you from the beginning. Great channel and way of living. I will say, i don't think there is any way those front porch post will settle as much as you need for them to draw up that 6" gap. It they do. I will eat crow lol. Either way, great content and cabin! God bless you and yours.
@@amytaylor5454 Yes the Lord reigns supreme! God bless you and yours!
@@amytaylor5454 Amen
Have you seen the five gallon food grade bucket water filtration set up? They are even for sale on line.
I made one for SHTF. 3 buckets, cellulose filter in top, charcoal filter in the middle, clean water on the bottom.
Man I thought you had a duck roasting in there. Not hard wood. Cheers bud, love the Chanel.
I missed watching him make the stairs to the basement and that railing. Can you point me to that video?
I haven’t finished editing it yet. It will be out next week some time.
@@ShawnJames1 Thank you! You may find it odd, but we are very invested in this cabin build and don't want to miss a thing!
You need a 10 gallon cast iron rendering kettle for your out door fire. Makes getting fat cooked down faster and safer. Some of the old ways still are better and you can make soap.
I’ve been looking for one. I usually use those wide turkey roasters that I used to wash my dishes in.
Hope that helps you.
You can go on line or go to farmer markets to find one antique shops
Have you heard of electroculture for the garden? It uses copper and very interesting.
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Надо вам вставить ещё по одной раме, будет теплее.
Maybe you could rivet one or two metal handles on the charcoal box to pull it out of there easier?
Have you thought about a ram pump for water?
The easiest way to put biochar in your rows of gardening is to is to actually dig down about 18in make a long fire right in the bed AKA tomato bed cover it with soil then use a rototiller less work less effort more time to producer other things and put sawdust in a burlap bag and put over your ice blocks that's what they did in the olden days how they stored ice throughout the summer when they cut it from the lakes looks like you can fit four gallons up there and you need to insulate that box more in that cover and install a 12-volt fan and you'll get 4 gallons of ice to last you 7 to 10 days
Also he said he wants to grind down the biochar "really fine". For garden use, it's better to not do that, rather leave it in small-ish crumbs. Provides better hiding spaces for the soil life bacteria that way.
Thought you Canadians would call it aluminium. Not also aluminum like your neighbour down south 😂 Love the videos!
Shawn , why you don't put hand pump .
Shawn, have you ever used fat wood to make a black tar drawing salve? When you first put the wood in the container and placed in the stove I thought that was what you were doing. Bio char was my second guess, lol. I’ve made the latter but not the drawing salve.
Yes, I’ve made a couple of videos of making pine tar and birch tar
Hi Shawn, if the posts don't meet up with the porch eventually, couldn't you just slot a piece of log, to go over the bolt, and slide it under the poles ?
Hello
Hi that's a great Channel and i find didn't Sticker in the Merchandise .
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Hi Shawn. To keep food chilled or for cold drinks, will you harvest any ice and cover in sawdust?
He said he runs the creek water through a filter so any harvested ice would not be safe to drink.
Love your videos Shawn. I don't believe that I've seen this asked. How do you do your laundry?
In town 🙂 at a laundromat. It prob has free wifi, and he uploads while he washes and folds.
Hi Shawn, could you just stick wood in the oven in a covered pan and would it end up charcoal in an electric oven?
Can you show us you shower situation?
EVERYTHING FIND his right place in your deir preaty PARADISE...i am in love in your world
Have you got any plans to install and use a radio ham set at the cabin in case the mobile network goes down and you have an emergency at the cabin Shawn?
How cold will it get, and how long does the ice last? Thanks for the double!
The big jug lasts about a day. Not sure what the temp is but it’s cold enough for milk
@@ShawnJames1 wow, would not have guessed that thanks
Hi Shawn, why did you placed aluminum around the posts?
I like making bio char when I'm clearing glass and weeds to get the beds ready. Burn the weeds and grass and let it burn down a bit. cone dirt around the fire to make a small vent in the top and will burn slow for 2 days. Too expensive to buy!
Shawn, what do you do with the ash from your fires? Does it go into the compost pile? I think it could be used for making soap products for cleaning.
Yes it does. And the outhouse
When are you going do another greenhouse video?