and if you get your wood from a well managed tree plantation especially if it's a fast growing species like sitka spruce, then you can continue sustainably heating your home off of only a few trees indefinitely and not cause any deforestation.
@Bob Watters all about sustainability, people think that we don't care about the environment when we are the ones who probably care the most about the environment, I don't need to take advice from a person who lives in a city when I live in a small town surrounded by farms and forests.
Here in Norway, some new houses are built without a chimney. I think it should be forbidden not to have a wood stove, at least in places with cold climates, like here. It is not justifiable to have only electricity as a heat source.
You are spot on about EPA's mandatory smoke emissions for wood stoves. There are no monthly payments with a wood stove. They can't attach prison or stadium tax to a wood stove. It is all about control.
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
Rob, there is a new device that mounts into a power drill that splits wood by useing a tapered screw wedge. It reduces the need to swing an axe or maul. They cost around 30-35$ or so from Carlton Industries. They look like something I would use if the wood is dry. I use a 10 ton hydraulic ram press to render 2 or 3 cords into sizeable chunks in about 12 days. Get the kids and grandkids to help. Write their names on a few chunks so when it goes into the stove you all can have something to talk about from the "wood making" adventure.
I have used wood heat since I dropped out of college in '72 and moved to the mountains in Montana with a sympathic young lady to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my young life. Her cabin needed a good amount of work, so together we figured things out. I would enroll in a trade school and learn how to carry on with manual trades, i.e. carpentry, plumbing, electrician stuff. It worked out pretty well, but my main regret was that I didn't become a journyman electrician. I'd still be working today at 75. Instead, I had to give up carpentry in '03. Buy the way, cut up some of those log quarters into smaller pieces. Your stove will give off more heat faster, then toss in bigger chunks. My lady friend got married to a drunk, had a kid and is on her own after 16 years together. We taught each other a bunch of stuff on how to live off the grid and say screw the goverment authorities. I live in a fast growing town in SW MT and long for the days of my youth at 35.
You nailed it on why they don't want us using wood, it's independent of government and a loss of power over those who choose self sufficient individuals. When the grid fails the freezing will be begging for wood stoves.
All the burnt wood from the forest On the west coast of the USA and Canada is being sent to China . It is cheap because of the condition, but they don’t have to debarked or dry so China wins both ways. It is a high logging company in the US, cannot tell you his name. We have a wood burning fireplace in our home and we get clean, dry pine from our log cabin builder. All the short ends we can haul 👍🏼
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
@@baptizedintheholyspirit9691 I am so glad you spoke about the global government agenda behind much of the crippling of peoples and countries. It makes us who understand absolutely sick to see all this progression and it would be unbearable if we didn’t know that Jesus promised to take us home at just the right moment. It is a time as never before to rest in Gods truth and not our emotions! Thanks again for your public comment.
I live in England and bought my woodburning sauna from Finland. They recommended setting the fire upside down. The kindling is put on last because this causes less smoke. So, logs first then kindling. Yes it does work.
It burns the wood gases as they are released which is more efficient. The only better system is a rocket stove as this burns totally leaving only minimal ash for heat released, but feeding the chamber can be a problem.
“The wood stove is independence”.....damn straight. I heat my entire house all winter on 4 cords. We’ve got 21 acres of trees so I’m set. Damn city dwelling Prius drivers trying to tell everyone how to live.
Do you drive a car with wood too ? Its possible to run a low compression rate engine with carbon monoxide , that would be independence from oil companies , or do you use dog sleds and horses for transportation ? ... or it is at that point when you get lazy ?
@@pete_lind lazy!! Obviously you’ve never run a chainsaw and a splitter all day. The point is that I’m not reliant on a utility to keep me warm at night....a utility that will fail you at some point, as happens many times a year where I live.
Thank you for your informative, funny and honest videos, we appreciate how you and your family provide input and feedback into the things going on around you. We do pray for you and your family, and may God Bless you all abundantly and keep you all safe. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us all. And I will say that it is typical Murphy's Law that whenever you are trying to accomplish something around roofing projects, invariably the weather will almost never cooperate. I have been a victim of that myself!
Its not all bad, stoves have become alot more efficient as well. We used to have a 50-60 year old massive stove that would get extremely hot, but rip through wood like crazy, wouldnt retain heat very well and leave large amount of ashes and debris. Our new one performs better on every single point while being a third of the size.
Roof leak note: Not sure whether this applies to your situation now, but generally, flashing can be cemented-in during rainy weather using a wet patch emulsion roofing cement like Henry 208 or one of the similar fibre-infused BlackJack products. Although it is asphalt-based, it is emulsified to be compatible with wet surfaces. Also stops leaks even on flat roofing under pooled water. Makes a permanent fix, not just a temp roof patch.
Love my late 90's Quadrafire. I get excited when there are COLD days in the weather forecast, and getting letters from the power company with graphs showing how 'super efficient' I am compared to my 'efficient' neighbors ;-)
I personally love the efficiency of my newer stove over stoves I've had in the past. I wouldn't consider it to be a terribly complicated build but its obviously more complex than just a fire box.
Why not have kits for old stoves or DIY instructions to improve them with explanation of purpose for doing so? My old stove is of extremely high quality materials. A Fischer.
Heat shielded back on the stove, with a twin wall chimney system. You will have no issues with heat at all with your timber cladded wall. I’m an Installer from the UK. Not sure what your regs are over there. But our regs are pretty tight and with what you showed us it would pass. You have nothing to worry about Cody. Good job 👍🏼
the "forced blackouts" were caused by private energy companies not wanting to be bothered to protect their equipment from the possibility of cold weather. the power went out because the natural gas pumps froze up in weather that wouldn't have caused any problems in Montana.
@@kenbrown2808 We have private energy companies because there was a need for them. Bad or ill advised government regulations often have unintended consequences.
@@GeorgeOrwell-yz6zx no, we have private energy companies because businessmen saw an opportunity to profit. And if you look, you will see that none of those private businessmen lost any profit from their lack of preparation. My state is regulated. My power bills are not going up by one cent per megawatt despite the storm damage we had. Remember: for every one of those crazy warning labels, there was a person who did what the label said not to.
I had a Lopi Freedom insert put in our house in August. I specifically wanted a stove with no cat to clog up or maintain. Couldn't be happier that I haven't had to run my oil furnace except for a few hours when it was 8 degrees outside and I didn't want the pipes in the basement to freeze. Splitting and stacking is now a family activity!
Right on about the attack on self sufficiency. I have been running wood stoves for almost 40 years. They always work in a power outage and have a nice even warmth that oil, gas or electric can not compare to.
I cooked a turkey in my canner on top of our wood stove one year during a week long, power out ice storm. When our frozen kids came home for the holiday you could see the relief a warm house and the smell of cooking meant to them. Candles make everything beautiful too.
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
@Mainely you have no idea.. In Europe, we cant build a house with a chimney, you are forced to have electric heating only. On top of that you must have solar panels for at least half of your electricity consumption for the newly built house.
Not just the EPA either, most homeowners insurance companies seem to be in bed with the government by raising your rates or not insuring your house with their company at all in order to shame you and make it hard to have a wood stove
The carbon footprint from you collecting your own fuel (wood) and burning it is negligible. You are right in your assumption that your government doesn't like your self sufficiency. It means you are not dependant on them, and cannot be coerced. You are the epitomy of the pioneer spirit . Keep it up Wranglerstar.
I don't think it's about the carbon footprint, but the smoke (particulates in the air) that is the issue. No problem for a single cabin in the back country, but in a village or town it can really affect air quality.
I've always enjoyed wood stoves and campfires. Especially fascinated with how a thin piece of almost anything can reduce the intensity of radiant heat hitting my face.
You hit the nail right on the head when you spoke about the power companies and wood stoves. Most of them are still burning coal to produce power. Wood is very sustainable, you can grow a ton of wood in a few years. How long does it take to make a ton of coal, properly a few million years.
Coal is a dirty form of fuel. It puts out lots of heat, but is bad for the air. Wood was hard to come by in England during Dickens' era and later, so, expensive as it was they had to use coal , like we use natural gas and propane. Think of the line in that CCR song--" left a good job in Memphis, pumped a lot of 'pane down in New Orleans"... etc, etc. The 'pane is propane. A very wonderful, portable and effiicient form of energy and not terribly expensive. I myself had pumped a lot of 'pane at a former job I had. I met a lot of great customers and friends.
A coworker just was telling me about the new "standards" for wood stoves and I feel its just ridiculous. The amount of "emissions" from a wood stove can't be THAT much and when taking into account how much of the US population actually uses one, it really makes you think. The EPA should stop worrying about the small percentage of residential homes using wood stoves and their emissions and start worrying more about large corporations and their emissions. And ships dumping thousands and thousands of oil into the ocean. And countries shipping GARBAGE to other countries to "dispose" of it aka dump it somewhere that eventually ends up in our rivers and oceans.
To be fair, litterally every industry and source is under the microscope. It’s hardly just you. And it’s more the problem of even a few million people doing it, or 10, do we even have numbers on this to go off of?
I worked in an university, we had a building sized pellets boiler for heating the campus and was OK, then when buying a stove for my home had to be "defra" approved as I am in the city.
My God, they're worried about wood stove emissions in the face of wildfires? Reminds me of Nellis AFB rules that you can't leave a car running for more than a minute without driving... as I watch the B52s dump yellow clouds on takoff... as I watch 10000 lbs of fuel go into our A10s, 3 times a day.
Collecting rainwater isn't illegal. There are several legal methods of doing it and pretty much any City. From what I understand the only reasons some cities even have regulations have to do with chemical runoff damning pond creation and water buildup on your property potentially damaging other people's property. it has nothing to do with self-sustainability, nice try though. Also from what I understand your comments on gardening isn't much more accurate. Once again you are allowed to have a garden on your own property however in some highly populated cities in business areas not residential areas there are limitations to the garden you can have, but once again it has nothing to do with sustainability.
@@kejadventures241 Out west there are many places where you cannot harvest rainwater. The laws regulating water use differs in the west from the east. Water falling on your land can legally belong to those down stream (or up stream) depending on who has the water rights.
@@dougdow1287 like I said there are certain areas where certain types of collecting are illegal due to environmental and property issues, but not 100% illegal even those areas allow some methods.
LOVE my Woodstock soapstone stove! It is catalytic as well, but has very few parts to mess with. You can walk away and still have coals 24-36 hours later.
The reason Americans start their fires upside down is because when America was founded most of their fires we're outside. The method used to do good fires in the stove doesn't work very well for outside. In a stove the heat is contained ashes and coals fall down into the wood. This doesn't work so well outside the heat goes out and up far quicker. The fire is very likely to just go out. So when Americans started doing indoor wood stoves they started making them like they were doing when they were outside. It's just a cultural tweak that got ingrained. Nothing more than that.
I saw the video when you cut the hole in the roof. I saw you cut through the seam where 2 roof panels overlapped. You will have to calk that seam all the way to the roof peak to stop that drip. Ask me how I know. BTDT.
The same popped into my head. I have a beauty in my basement that my insurance company and myself agreed will never be used. I have a kerosene heater for emergencies.
I am in Ontario Canada, insurance don’t like wood stoves. You need to pay for a WETT certificate before they will insure you. I was paying $150 for occasional use, the was forced to remove it because it was too old and won’t pass WETT..
EPA stoves have the secondary burner tubes. That's actually a good thing cause you reburn the smoke before it comes out of the chimney. Once your roaring you can't see any smoke. Thing is your wood has to be dry and seasoned. EPA stoves don't like wet wood.
@@cynthiacrawford1573 dry wood is definitely a premium this time of year. Thing to do is buy wood in the spring so it's dry by next winter. Too many people wait till October/November to buy wood and suppliers are already out.
Thanks for explaining the setback as all us folks that have used wood stoves since the70’s are used to having more space. Good luck with the rain. Good videos
Awesome video Cody. I learned alot about modern wood stoves. I haven't heated a house with wood since the 80's. I didn't know new wood stoves only need to be 8" from wall. Way back in the day it 2 or 3 feet. Glad to see they've improved.
About banning wood stoves: Now there may be many different reasons for this but I have worked in strategic marketing for long enough to know that there has been a push to get people away from one-off purchases of items that they in turn can re-sell, upgrade or modify or that help them to save expenses in the long run. Instead, millions of marketeers have racked their brains how they could generate a steady stream of income w/o having to move physical objects. We all know the results... they are usually called "plans": you can rent, lease, "share" - but you can't really OWN things any more: software (Photoshop), movies, your music, the batteries in electric cars, tech gadgets you aren't allowed to repair or re-sell - the pattern is very clear. Support for this type of one-sided economy comes from "green" governments (very, very obvious now in the EU) that started a war against cheap energy / fuels, cheap transportation, cheap raw materials - always to "save da planet", of course: this way they can better control people's spending and make sure their friends in big businesses can sell more "plans", resulting in drastically limited freedom of the individual... The old pattern of "You keep them poor, I’ll keep them stupid" is alive and kicking - only this time it's not the Cardinal and the Capitalist, it's the Eco-Socialist and the Capitalist - and with a lot of help from mass media like BBC, CNN and The Guardian, people don't realize how quickly and systematically their rights are being taken away from them. The ideology for this sort of eco-socialism has been clearly laid out in 1977 by Dr. Arnold W. Reitze Jr.*, professor of law and a hard-core environmentalist who demanded that democracy, individual mobility and personal freedom to be sacrificed "for the climate" - ironically, he was afraid of a new ice age, rather than the "Thermageddon" we are supposed to fear today... *| BTW: Dr. Reitze hated wood stoves!
Great commentary...also they want us all contained in smart grid open air prison cities where all our actions are tokenized and bet on in a sort 9f stock market.
@@spirittammyk red states should do away with property tax and replace it with another tax. They should also not be allowed to put a lien on someone's home. It should be illegal to make someone homeless
Praying for you brother, but mostly that your hair grows back quickly. I’m glad to see that even the best of us can admit to mistakes, however rare those mistakes might be.
I'd be tempted to seal up the stovepipe/roof gap, just temporarily, with that foil tape used on ductwork. Should keep your rain out and the flashing will install right over it. Keep up the good work.
I have read that modern wood stoves with re-burners and catalysts (like I own and what this one appears to be) are just as clean as natural gas - which is pretty darn clean. I'm not sure if this is true but I can attest that once my wood burning stove insert gets to temperature there is no visible smoke or emissions from the top of my chimney. I can't say the same for my neighbors fireplaces/stoves -:) Also, though I don't have one, I do like the old school pot belly iron stoves with coal because coal provides a lot of energy in a small package and it keeps forever with no pests or bugs infesting it. My grandmother in Canada had one decades ago and I was always impressed how much heat a softball sized chunk of coal put out when I visited in the winter.
When the average citizen becomes independent for his or her needs, then the government is diminished by that equal amount. The government is in self-preservation mode just as the average citizen is. Pity the two are in diametric opposition to each other. One will win out of the other - any guesses which side is winning and why? WTH, on to learning about wood stoves....
it’s all about control of the masses. White smoke actually has high moisture content I learned about this via Watching videos about how to read a fire from a fireman’s perspective
That's the truth I'd go further than it's just to control the masses they're ultimately working towards convincing the 15-45yr-old's into believing that they should deeply encourage the eldest of the population to wilfully volunteer to give up there land and homes to return the land to it's wild state of existence and willfully choose to de-mechanise themselves and move into the city's to then consent to being humanly euthanized as soon they've reached the age of 70 to help the climate strange crisis that's neither
I just bought an “Old Timer” wood Stove, probably from the late 70’s. Installed in a house but never used; it’s literally brand new. No baffles there! Just 400 lbs of 3/8” steel and firebrick! Excited to see how well it heats
"Add ons", kind of like the government mandated changes to fuel cans for "safety reasons". Now fuel cans, cost more, are more complicated to operate, and leak! They are most certainly not any safer, or environmentally friendly. Enjoyed your video, very informative! 👍
💯 % agree. I buy ‘racing’ style fuel cans. Five gallon jug with an integral handle and a 10” long, clear rubber hose/spout. Very Easy to fill and just as easy to pour. They cost about $30, but the performance is much better than the junkie plastic red cans with all the BS safety gadgets.
Knew someone that worked for the FD. He was always extra cautious. He used 1/4" cement board and actually sliced a 1/4" off reclaimed bricks and cemented a decorative fire wall.
I agree with you, it's all about control! Plastic pollution doesn't seem to be a problem for the mad dogs, only what intelligent humans do to help themselves is a problem! Can we heat a house with a fire made in a whole on the floor with a chimney?
A great way to get rid of the discoloration on the stove's glass door, is to take a cup or two of cooled ash and mix it with water to about the consistency of pancake batter, and rub it on the glass. The discoloration will come off in a very short amount of time, maybe just a few minutes at most. This is a bit messy, so you'll want to use latex or nitrile gloves.
Just take a paper towel, fold it a few times, dip it in water, then ash. Then clean the glass with it. No need to make a slurry. After, clean off with a wet paper towel and then a dry one
Alternatively only burn really well seasoned firewood with an adequate air supply. A quality love burning well seasoned firewood with adequate air will burn clean and keep the glass clean!!
A great stove is made from a 16" to 20" pipe, cut about 24" long, on a pedestal, with a Baffle in front of the 6" exhaust outlet, & a window framed into the side. End loader. Since it's ROUND, it needs no fire brick inside, as it heats evenly. It can be made to glow & it won't hurt it. & it will flat heat your house.
First stove I built was very similar to what you describe, it was my only source of heat for a decade. Stepped up to a Earth stove (still primative by today's standards) and discovered how absolutely horrible the stove I built was. And the new EPA stoves are light years ahead of the Earth stoves.
Middle of winter. I like the “riddle of winter” better. Sounds like something out of a Conan the Barbarian movie 👍🏼. Your assessment on the wood stove utility is key. I would not be without one in a house.
Friend of mine lives in Northern Maine. She has one of those in her living room. Why? Every blizzard the power goes out and it can be days before she gets it back.
“Anything (the Government) can do to take away our independence and reliance upon (the Government) is under attack”. DING ! DING ! DING ! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!
Cody, As usual you are exactly right. Granted I live in Arizona, however a few years back we had extreamly low temps which forced the local natural gas company to turn off our gas supply in our home... they couldn't keep up with the demand. We were without gas, (hot water, stove, heat) for about 4 days. The only way I was able to keep the water pipes from freezing was to use my camping equipment to generate heat and hot water and a lot of electric space heaters, etc. By the way, they build homes so crappy here that all of the water pipes are ran in the attic. So imagine what fun it would be if my pipes froze!! Since then, I moved into an older home with real water pipes and have backups for my backups! Independence is where it is at!
Not to mention what would've happened if those pipes had burst! The water damage would have been tremendous! Many years ago, we had our bathroom sink pipes burst at my parent's house. Mom was at work and my stepfather was away, maybe working as well. It was the neighbor who noticed water pouring down in the dining room, seeing it through the window. Anyway, it was expensive to get every thing repaired! Much of the dining room and bathroom had to be renovated!
And to think I got this place I'm in now cause I wanted a backup / alternative to electric ... have to think again ... probably is trying to put wood stove into existing home ... where would it go?
get yourself a kerosene heater. It works with no electric. No one has to know you have it. Kerosene can be stored for years and not go bad, like gas does.
Should be a crime to shut off peoples access to heat because you cant supply the people you provide with as much as you said you could. Like airlines over booking flights but far more serious. In my eyes that's premeditated attempted murder.
Excellent video. I'm 100% with you - there is no reason not to make yourself as self sufficient as possible. Especially with an electric grid and infrastructure ready to collapse that they are lumping more and more load onto (eg electric cars, etc).
My dad was a mechanic, he had his own garage and last year died from Mesothelioma due to inhaling the dust from brake linings. It is an absolutely horrid way to die.
I believe lobbying by power companies is the cause for excessive wood stove regulations which lead to excessive complications. Burning wood probably isn't the best thing for the environment but it surely isn't the worst. We need a wood stove lobby!
Heck, here in Florida, the power companies are already drafting plans that if you have solar power, you must still hook up to their grid where they will use your solar power and you will rent it back from them. It's ludicrous.
@@spirittammyk Well from a communal point of view it makes sense to pool the resources, supply when you have oversupply and get energy when you have an under supply. So I'd that's worth fighting for. I am sure most are fighting for to make money off of it, as they do with anything else which is disgusting!
Yes sir, 10yrs and 30 bush cords later my Pacific Energy Summit still performs flawlessly. Had to replace 1 firebrick and gasket on the door. Heats my whole house easily (Ontario Canada)
@@NUTZJ98 a person can learn, at any age, just about anything if it is explained properly. Information is often twisted or withheld for a few to maintain power in the world system. “My people perish for a lack of knowledge.” The entire world system works to keep people dependent and perpetual consumers.
@@NUTZJ98 innovation comes from God. Often, in the world system, those with the most power and money will then take it and twist it into a big money maker for themselves only instead of to benefit humanity.
@@NUTZJ98 we have lost the more important knowledge of self sufficiency our elders knew from childhood in exchange for the promise of safety and convenience and now it’s held over our heads as a tool to force submission to tyrants who want to oppress the masses and force their own will on society.
Some towns near near me in Montana had horrible air pollution problems with wood stove smoke spewing out every chimney. After the EPA mandated cleaner wood stoves the air improved greatly. People were very supportive for the most part and appreciate the cleaner air. I use a wood stove myself.
My stove came from Woodstock Soapstone, best part was it was fully assembled. Getting it off my pick up was the easy part. Lifting it onto the hearth took roughly 45 minutes for myself weighing in at 190 lbs & a friend at about 210 lbs. The stove weight was 450 lbs. The point is it was assembled by Woodstock Soapstone here in town
Putting kindling on the bottom is how my parents have always done it... I assumed your way was better... Assumption is the mother of all mistakes :) looking forward to that video!
Professional home owner, reminds me when I was younger doing dishes in a restuarant, we were not dish washers, but professional sanitization machine operators, haha, cracks me up to this day and love how we are able to make our daily things sounds super awesome and to be honest, DO IT, cause if you are a professional at what you do, no matter what it is, being a mom, dad, mechanics, doesn't matter, add that title to your resume', at the very least, add it to your self esteme, cause it matters!
Say our wood stove is about 9 inches away from the wall. Haven't had any problem. No discoloration of the wall or anything like that. It looks wonderful by the way!
I like a man that likes to do things right, even though things never go according to plan, its the effort that counts, pray for the best and plan for the worst, thanks for the video.
The EPA stuff is so true also here in Italy. They're trying to ban every wood stove or self reliance method just like there in the USA. And guess what - gas and electricity prices are skyrocketing.
EPA stoves save you time/money/work because you get a lot more heat out of the wood by combusting fully, them making less smoke is a side effect of that. They are more complicated because the complexity is needed to make them more efficient. Just like a 70's stove is a lot more efficient than a wide open fireplace from the 1200s. The whole point is efficiency, nothing more.
"I'm gonna set you back." I didn't read the comments but guessed they'd be loaded up with the setback. Does anyone really think you didn't research the measurements? Jeez.
They actually did. Lol. It was crazy how many people knew more than the people who built the stove and the man who bought researched and installed it. Go figure. Bunch of Karen’s out there need their keyboards taken away.
There are a lot of people who do not realize some newer stoves have a built in heat shield on the back. They are used to older stoves which either need more distance or a metal shield set away from the wall.
my uncle has a windmill in his backyard. he is still connected to the grid, and about 3 to 4 times a year the guy comming out to read the meter turns off the main switch to the windmill. so my uncle dont find out till a couple days later. and now he has a high bill to pay. its messed up and i told him i think it is time to take yourself off the grid and say screw you Detroit Edison.
@@alexm7777 in the long run yes, however edison can claim rights to the power switch as it was installed by edison. hence why i said time to go off grid.
I was shocked to see him go through the ordeal of using trimmers on his man mop. Seems like a lot of work to keep up appearances, but I am a Midwest man.
The main attack on your ability to take care of yourself is Wall Street, who profits greatly from centralized supply chains. What government agency has tried to protect you from Asbestos?
Starting with not tolerating flame inside my house, unless for specific reasons like soldering pipe, at any time. No wood stove in here. I am warming my feet with an electric space heater powered by a nuclear reactor over on the coast. I grew up with wood and coal heat and all I remember is the upstate NY cold. When the upper classes discovered the mountains of Colorado they went rustic with wood stoves that chocked their perfect resort valleys. They called for cleaner more efficient wood stoves. The stoves have come a long and more expensive way from the Smokey iron boxes. This is a good thing!
Worked in a garage. Knew asbestos was a health issue. Car would come in for brakes or wheel bearings. We'd remove the wheels and the brake drums, then like you said the very next thing was grab the airline and now all the brake dust off. I was young and I knew that brakes had asbestos and I knew asbestos was bad. But somehow since we were doing it and inhaling clouds of dust I figured the people I worked for knew something I didn't. At some point I realized they didn't know anything and I was taking a risk doing it. Only worked there for the summer.
@@miken5413 the idea is to make the stoves so high tech and expensive that 95% of us can’t afford to be self sufficient and we’re forced to do away with wood stoves and be reliant on gas companies.
I agree, that would be a great idea, plus I seen ones that you can get for the flue pipe that clip on, so I would go with 2 on the stove top and one on the flue because its a big space that your trying to heat. The fans for the top of stove they say to keep them away from the flue pipe so I'm not sure how well the one you clip on to the flue would work. Great video thank you enjoyed it
Love the channel. The rules from the EPA are to protect your health, not help the planet. The new rules are particularly cost effective, with over 100 dollars in public benefit per dollar spent to comply, and will probably most benefit the health of the owner of the wood stove, especially that person's health. Also, wood smoke going up the chimney is just unburned fuel. A more efficient stove is awesome and burns longer. I've used older stoves and newer stoves, and the new ones are awesome and make you even more self-sufficient -- healthy, wealthy, and wise!!
wood heat is cheap, efficient and reliable. No power? No problems. Can still cook, heat water, and stay warm. Dries clothes too.
Especially if it burns efficiently! The greenies are insane.
and if you get your wood from a well managed tree plantation especially if it's a fast growing species like sitka spruce, then you can continue sustainably heating your home off of only a few trees indefinitely and not cause any deforestation.
@@BigCroca thank you I learned something new today: sitka spruce can growth 5feet a year.
Maybe people in Texas could have used s wood stove for help.
@Bob Watters all about sustainability, people think that we don't care about the environment when we are the ones who probably care the most about the environment, I don't need to take advice from a person who lives in a city when I live in a small town surrounded by farms and forests.
Here in Norway, some new houses are built without a chimney. I think it should be forbidden not to have a wood stove, at least in places with cold climates, like here. It is not justifiable to have only electricity as a heat source.
That is insane
Its a con to make you a slave to electric.
This is all coming from the UN/Vatican. The pope wants the entire world to be electrified. This is the Inquisition in modern times. They never change.
Oh, but that would lend to too much autonomy!? We must be reliant on the governement don't you know!
@@sandysmith3184 they want people to die by freezing
You are spot on about EPA's mandatory smoke emissions for wood stoves. There are no monthly payments with a wood stove. They can't attach prison or stadium tax to a wood stove. It is all about control.
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin badges...... Good thing we live in a wood stove state....
But they can fly thier rich asses all over the world in thier private jets planes, choppers. That guzzle fuel and smoke like freight trains 🤔
will cancel your house insurance next
So true.
Heated my house for years with wood that I cut and split myself. Very warm, and every summer I'd lose a good 20 lbs just swinging that maul.
A lot of satisfaction from being self sufficient, and a bonus is the wood keeps you warm twice ( more welcome in winter though Rob)
Good, clean, hard work is good for the soul. It eases the mind and releases the stress.
Rob, there is a new device that mounts into a power drill that splits wood by useing a tapered screw wedge. It reduces the need to swing an axe or maul. They cost around 30-35$ or so from Carlton Industries. They look like something I would use if the wood is dry. I use a 10 ton hydraulic ram press to render 2 or 3 cords into sizeable chunks in about 12 days. Get the kids and grandkids to help. Write their names on a few chunks so when it goes into the stove you all can have something to talk about from the "wood making" adventure.
you are so smart, I've been telling people all my life that the government doesn't want the general public to be self sufficient.
I have used wood heat since I dropped out of college in '72 and moved to the mountains in Montana with a sympathic young lady to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my young life. Her cabin needed a good amount of work, so together we figured things out. I would enroll in a trade school and learn how to carry on with manual trades, i.e. carpentry, plumbing, electrician stuff. It worked out pretty well, but my main regret was that I didn't become a journyman electrician. I'd still be working today at 75. Instead, I had to give up carpentry in '03.
Buy the way, cut up some of those log quarters into smaller pieces. Your stove will give off more heat faster, then toss in bigger chunks. My lady friend got married to a drunk, had a kid and is on her own after 16 years together. We taught each other a bunch of stuff on how to live off the grid and say screw the goverment authorities. I live in a fast growing town in SW MT and long for the days of my youth at 35.
Hello from Livingston
Nice story Robert, cheers from Durango, CO.
The dirty glove to the head was a defining moment in the Wranglerstar saga. You are human after all! LOL!
And it’s not even Ash Wednesday.
@@dougdow1287 I was wondering how he got the toupe looking dark, now we know!
Starts at 10:10 😁
Stove Chic
You nailed it on why they don't want us using wood, it's independent of government and a loss of power over those who choose self sufficient individuals. When the grid fails the freezing will be begging for wood stoves.
All the burnt wood from the forest On the west coast of the USA and Canada is being sent to China . It is cheap because of the condition, but they don’t have to debarked or dry so China wins both ways. It is a high logging company in the US, cannot tell you his name. We have a wood burning fireplace in our home and we get clean, dry pine from our log cabin builder. All the short ends we can haul 👍🏼
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
@@baptizedintheholyspirit9691 I am so glad you spoke about the global government agenda behind much of the crippling of peoples and countries. It makes us who understand absolutely sick to see all this progression and it would be unbearable if we didn’t know that Jesus promised to take us home at just the right moment. It is a time as never before to rest in Gods truth and not our emotions! Thanks again for your public comment.
AGREED. Politicans, governments and big business don't want the little guy succeed in anything. They are stomping all over us.
@@baptizedintheholyspirit9691 Close all the pipelines down.. #5 in Canada amd MI next...
Raise the prices.... Should be real fun this winter...
“Carbon” is the “building block” of life!
I live in England and bought my woodburning sauna from Finland. They recommended setting the fire upside down. The kindling is put on last because this causes less smoke. So, logs first then kindling. Yes it does work.
It burns the wood gases as they are released which is more efficient. The only better system is a rocket stove as this burns totally leaving only minimal ash for heat released, but feeding the chamber can be a problem.
The upside dowmn method as described in Lars book it does work
“The wood stove is independence”.....damn straight. I heat my entire house all winter on 4 cords. We’ve got 21 acres of trees so I’m set.
Damn city dwelling Prius drivers trying to tell everyone how to live.
Curious..
About how much wood is 4 cords ?
@@mrjebadia2582 1 cord is a pile 4’x4’x8’
@@motor2of7 👍
Do you drive a car with wood too ? Its possible to run a low compression rate engine with carbon monoxide , that would be independence from oil companies , or do you use dog sleds and horses for transportation ? ... or it is at that point when you get lazy ?
@@pete_lind lazy!! Obviously you’ve never run a chainsaw and a splitter all day. The point is that I’m not reliant on a utility to keep me warm at night....a utility that will fail you at some point, as happens many times a year where I live.
Thank you for your informative, funny and honest videos, we appreciate how you and your family provide input and feedback into the things going on around you. We do pray for you and your family, and may God Bless you all abundantly and keep you all safe. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us all.
And I will say that it is typical Murphy's Law that whenever you are trying to accomplish something around roofing projects, invariably the weather will almost never cooperate. I have been a victim of that myself!
Its not all bad, stoves have become alot more efficient as well. We used to have a 50-60 year old massive stove that would get extremely hot, but rip through wood like crazy, wouldnt retain heat very well and leave large amount of ashes and debris. Our new one performs better on every single point while being a third of the size.
What brand and size did you buy?
Effectivity is realy nice, from 60% modern woodstoves geting into 80%+ effectivity, thats 33% more heat for your buck,...
Roof leak note: Not sure whether this applies to your situation now, but generally, flashing can be cemented-in during rainy weather using a wet patch emulsion roofing cement like Henry 208 or one of the similar fibre-infused BlackJack products. Although it is asphalt-based, it is emulsified to be compatible with wet surfaces. Also stops leaks even on flat roofing under pooled water. Makes a permanent fix, not just a temp roof patch.
I've seen the stovepipe get hot and catch that asphalt stuff on fire.
But you need heat cement so it want crack
Love my late 90's Quadrafire. I get excited when there are COLD days in the weather forecast, and getting letters from the power company with graphs showing how 'super efficient' I am compared to my 'efficient' neighbors ;-)
The face-plant with a dirty glove typified how I feel about life right now. Put another way, I’m ok but the world is crazy
I personally love the efficiency of my newer stove over stoves I've had in the past. I wouldn't consider it to be a terribly complicated build but its obviously more complex than just a fire box.
Why not have kits for old stoves or DIY instructions to improve them with explanation of purpose for doing so? My old stove is of extremely high quality materials. A Fischer.
I have always loved your knowledge and honesty. Thank you for not stopping when things are tough!
Heat shielded back on the stove, with a twin wall chimney system. You will have no issues with heat at all with your timber cladded wall. I’m an Installer from the UK. Not sure what your regs are over there. But our regs are pretty tight and with what you showed us it would pass. You have nothing to worry about Cody. Good job 👍🏼
Im in the UK as well i find these stove fans really heat the upstairs area landing etc
In Texas people have died this winter from the forced blackouts. It’s been a cold winter this year.
the "forced blackouts" were caused by private energy companies not wanting to be bothered to protect their equipment from the possibility of cold weather. the power went out because the natural gas pumps froze up in weather that wouldn't have caused any problems in Montana.
@@kenbrown2808 We have private energy companies because there was a need for them. Bad or ill advised government regulations often have unintended consequences.
@@GeorgeOrwell-yz6zx no, we have private energy companies because businessmen saw an opportunity to profit. And if you look, you will see that none of those private businessmen lost any profit from their lack of preparation. My state is regulated. My power bills are not going up by one cent per megawatt despite the storm damage we had.
Remember: for every one of those crazy warning labels, there was a person who did what the label said not to.
Ken, go watch some more CNN
@@alanj7306 I'm sorry reality triggers you.
I had a Lopi Freedom insert put in our house in August. I specifically wanted a stove with no cat to clog up or maintain. Couldn't be happier that I haven't had to run my oil furnace except for a few hours when it was 8 degrees outside and I didn't want the pipes in the basement to freeze. Splitting and stacking is now a family activity!
Right on about the attack on self sufficiency. I have been running wood stoves for almost 40 years. They always work in a power outage and have a nice even warmth that oil, gas or electric can not compare to.
and wood is a renewable resource!
There's no "attack" on self sufficiency. What a load of bullshit. Stop listening to these TH-cam knuckleheads.
I cooked a turkey in my canner on top of our wood stove one year during a week long, power out ice storm. When our frozen kids came home for the holiday you could see the relief a warm house and the smell of cooking meant to them. Candles make everything beautiful too.
Bilderberg Group members (Rothschild's, Rockefellers ,Soros, Gates, etc.) own most Power ,Gas, Coal, Windmill, etc. they want to profit off you , and be able to punish you if you dont follow orders
@Mainely you have no idea.. In Europe, we cant build a house with a chimney, you are forced to have electric heating only. On top of that you must have solar panels for at least half of your electricity consumption for the newly built house.
exactly - government doesn't like people to have independence and liberty
Not just the EPA either, most homeowners insurance companies seem to be in bed with the government by raising your rates or not insuring your house with their company at all in order to shame you and make it hard to have a wood stove
The carbon footprint from you collecting your own fuel (wood) and burning it is negligible.
You are right in your assumption that your government doesn't like your self sufficiency. It means you are not dependant on them, and cannot be coerced. You are the epitomy of the pioneer spirit .
Keep it up Wranglerstar.
I don't think it's about the carbon footprint, but the smoke (particulates in the air) that is the issue. No problem for a single cabin in the back country, but in a village or town it can really affect air quality.
Still have and use my "illegal" Pot Belly, I'll be handing it down when I'm gone, everybody wants it!
Like moonshine?
hello brother
I am not from the USA so I Googled pot belly, can't unsee that for a while :-)
@@harrycojones4273 That's an unusually definitive statement considering how many wood stoves are in my area of the state.
@@johnenright4969 If you ever decide to sell that stove,let me be first in line 😁
Will never stop me from burning wood.
I've always enjoyed wood stoves and campfires. Especially fascinated with how a thin piece of almost anything can reduce the intensity of radiant heat hitting my face.
You hit the nail right on the head when you spoke about the power companies and wood stoves. Most of them are still burning coal to produce power. Wood is very sustainable, you can grow a ton of wood in a few years. How long does it take to make a ton of coal, properly a few million years.
It also doesn't smell as good, I personally love the way ceder smells when it's burning
Coal is a dirty form of fuel. It puts out lots of heat, but is bad for the air. Wood was hard to come by in England during Dickens' era and later, so, expensive as it was they had to use coal , like we use natural gas and propane. Think of the line in that CCR song--" left a good job in Memphis, pumped a lot of 'pane down in New Orleans"... etc, etc. The 'pane is propane. A very wonderful, portable and effiicient form of energy and not terribly expensive. I myself had pumped a lot of 'pane at a former job I had. I met a lot of great customers and friends.
Lol, no coal and form quickly under the right conditions, you just need instant burial of organic material via a world wide global flood.....
only about 21% of all US electric generation is produced using Coal as the primary fuel source. (60% Fossil, 20% Nuclear, 20% Renewables)
@@robertshorthill6836 Propane is great and has a higher BTU content, but usually much more expensive then natural gas.
My parents are still using a Fisher mama bear. Never let us down and we’ve even cooked on it.
A coworker just was telling me about the new "standards" for wood stoves and I feel its just ridiculous. The amount of "emissions" from a wood stove can't be THAT much and when taking into account how much of the US population actually uses one, it really makes you think. The EPA should stop worrying about the small percentage of residential homes using wood stoves and their emissions and start worrying more about large corporations and their emissions. And ships dumping thousands and thousands of oil into the ocean. And countries shipping GARBAGE to other countries to "dispose" of it aka dump it somewhere that eventually ends up in our rivers and oceans.
To be fair, litterally every industry and source is under the microscope. It’s hardly just you. And it’s more the problem of even a few million people doing it, or 10, do we even have numbers on this to go off of?
I worked in an university, we had a building sized pellets boiler for heating the campus and was OK, then when buying a stove for my home had to be "defra" approved as I am in the city.
My God, they're worried about wood stove emissions in the face of wildfires?
Reminds me of Nellis AFB rules that you can't leave a car running for more than a minute without driving... as I watch the B52s dump yellow clouds on takoff... as I watch 10000 lbs of fuel go into our A10s, 3 times a day.
That’s why they are environmental wack jobs
Do as I say don't do as I do.
I worked in San Diego and there we had to collect Air Conditioning condensate water and dispose of it a certain way. It was haz mat after all
@@harrycojones4273 It's the 'liberals' flying them B52s and A10s. You guys are insufferable.
@@pnwfarmdog4090 that dihydrogen monoxide will get ya.
Youre absolutely correct, same reason collecting rain water in most cities is illegal...or having a garden...
Collecting rainwater isn't illegal. There are several legal methods of doing it and pretty much any City.
From what I understand the only reasons some cities even have regulations have to do with chemical runoff damning pond creation and water buildup on your property potentially damaging other people's property. it has nothing to do with self-sustainability, nice try though.
Also from what I understand your comments on gardening isn't much more accurate. Once again you are allowed to have a garden on your own property however in some highly populated cities in business areas not residential areas there are limitations to the garden you can have, but once again it has nothing to do with sustainability.
@@kejadventures241 i didnt say theyre illegal everywhere, but they are illegal in alot of cities
@@kejadventures241 Out west there are many places where you cannot harvest rainwater. The laws regulating water use differs in the west from the east. Water falling on your land can legally belong to those down stream (or up stream) depending on who has the water rights.
@@josephfidel9837 like where exactly? Because I looked it up and I couldn't find any places that said it's 100% illegal to collect rainwater.
@@dougdow1287 like I said there are certain areas where certain types of collecting are illegal due to environmental and property issues, but not 100% illegal even those areas allow some methods.
LOVE my Woodstock soapstone stove! It is catalytic as well, but has very few parts to mess with. You can walk away and still have coals 24-36 hours later.
The reason Americans start their fires upside down is because when America was founded most of their fires we're outside. The method used to do good fires in the stove doesn't work very well for outside. In a stove the heat is contained ashes and coals fall down into the wood. This doesn't work so well outside the heat goes out and up far quicker. The fire is very likely to just go out. So when Americans started doing indoor wood stoves they started making them like they were doing when they were outside. It's just a cultural tweak that got ingrained. Nothing more than that.
I saw the video when you cut the hole in the roof. I saw you cut through the seam where 2 roof panels overlapped.
You will have to calk that seam all the way to the roof peak to stop that drip.
Ask me how I know. BTDT.
And don’t forget the insurance companies & wood stoves.
Love the smudge of soot on your head.
Kinda weird because my grandparents use a wood stove and corn stove to heat their house yet they still have home insurance
That must vary from state to state because I know lot of people with both wood stoves and homeowners insurance.
The same popped into my head. I have a beauty in my basement that my insurance company and myself agreed will never be used. I have a kerosene heater for emergencies.
I am in Ontario Canada, insurance don’t like wood stoves. You need to pay for a WETT certificate before they will insure you. I was paying $150 for occasional use, the was forced to remove it because it was too old and won’t pass WETT..
EPA stoves have the secondary burner tubes. That's actually a good thing cause you reburn the smoke before it comes out of the chimney. Once your roaring you can't see any smoke. Thing is your wood has to be dry and seasoned. EPA stoves don't like wet wood.
Finding dry wood is very hard
@@cynthiacrawford1573 dry wood is definitely a premium this time of year. Thing to do is buy wood in the spring so it's dry by next winter. Too many people wait till October/November to buy wood and suppliers are already out.
EPA stoves prove the Gov is not trying to ban wood stoves...
@@FJB2020 not really..just want to get their hands in the pot. Just in this case it's a good thing. Most others...not so much.
Thank you for laying out the truth most won’t talk about! This is exactly why you and others inspire me to get a wood stove. Freedom, independence.
Thanks for explaining the setback as all us folks that have used wood stoves since the70’s are used to having more space. Good luck with the rain. Good videos
Awesome video Cody. I learned alot about modern wood stoves. I haven't heated a house with wood since the 80's. I didn't know new wood stoves only need to be 8" from wall. Way back in the day it 2 or 3 feet. Glad to see they've improved.
Use an elastomeric caulk. It can be applied when wet and it never really dries.
I used to put these buildings up. I did it for 5 years
Note to self: Don't place hand on forehead while wearing a dirty glove. LOL
I tutor young guys for a living, its seems ears nose and forehead are where they like to place their new makeup the most haha.
Thank you from Riverside Homestead life 🙌🏽
About banning wood stoves: Now there may be many different reasons for this but I have worked in strategic marketing for long enough to know that there has been a push to get people away from one-off purchases of items that they in turn can re-sell, upgrade or modify or that help them to save expenses in the long run. Instead, millions of marketeers have racked their brains how they could generate a steady stream of income w/o having to move physical objects. We all know the results... they are usually called "plans": you can rent, lease, "share" - but you can't really OWN things any more: software (Photoshop), movies, your music, the batteries in electric cars, tech gadgets you aren't allowed to repair or re-sell - the pattern is very clear.
Support for this type of one-sided economy comes from "green" governments (very, very obvious now in the EU) that started a war against cheap energy / fuels, cheap transportation, cheap raw materials - always to "save da planet", of course: this way they can better control people's spending and make sure their friends in big businesses can sell more "plans", resulting in drastically limited freedom of the individual... The old pattern of "You keep them poor, I’ll keep them stupid" is alive and kicking - only this time it's not the Cardinal and the Capitalist, it's the Eco-Socialist and the Capitalist - and with a lot of help from mass media like BBC, CNN and The Guardian, people don't realize how quickly and systematically their rights are being taken away from them. The ideology for this sort of eco-socialism has been clearly laid out in 1977 by Dr. Arnold W. Reitze Jr.*, professor of law and a hard-core environmentalist who demanded that democracy, individual mobility and personal freedom to be sacrificed "for the climate" - ironically, he was afraid of a new ice age, rather than the "Thermageddon" we are supposed to fear today... *| BTW: Dr. Reitze hated wood stoves!
That's the most sense I've heard in a long time
Great commentary...also they want us all contained in smart grid open air prison cities where all our actions are tokenized and bet on in a sort 9f stock market.
I read that in George Carlins voice and it was spectacular
Even your home or property is a payment. If you fail to pay taxes or process the proper paper work for home exemptions, you will lose your home.
@@spirittammyk red states should do away with property tax and replace it with another tax. They should also not be allowed to put a lien on someone's home. It should be illegal to make someone homeless
Praying for you brother, but mostly that your hair grows back quickly. I’m glad to see that even the best of us can admit to mistakes, however rare those mistakes might be.
I'd be tempted to seal up the stovepipe/roof gap, just temporarily, with that foil tape used on ductwork. Should keep your rain out and the flashing will install right over it. Keep up the good work.
The foil tape with the duct tape weave through it is the business! Love that stuff.
HVAC foil tape will not stick to a WET roof. Been doing HVAC for 20+ years and it won't work.
@@jamesglenn520 did the Mayans stack that wood.
@@stick9648 I thought we were discussing foil tape? Lol
I have read that modern wood stoves with re-burners and catalysts (like I own and what this one appears to be) are just as clean as natural gas - which is pretty darn clean. I'm not sure if this is true but I can attest that once my wood burning stove insert gets to temperature there is no visible smoke or emissions from the top of my chimney. I can't say the same for my neighbors fireplaces/stoves -:) Also, though I don't have one, I do like the old school pot belly iron stoves with coal because coal provides a lot of energy in a small package and it keeps forever with no pests or bugs infesting it. My grandmother in Canada had one decades ago and I was always impressed how much heat a softball sized chunk of coal put out when I visited in the winter.
When the average citizen becomes independent for his or her needs, then the government is diminished by that equal amount. The government is in self-preservation mode just as the average citizen is. Pity the two are in diametric opposition to each other. One will win out of the other - any guesses which side is winning and why? WTH, on to learning about wood stoves....
it’s all about control of the masses. White smoke actually has high moisture content I learned about this via Watching videos about how to read a fire from a fireman’s perspective
Yup... as a fireman and a wildland firefighter, we learned how to gauge fire behavior from the smoke column and colors. Pretty easy stuff it is.
That's the truth I'd go further than it's just to control the masses they're ultimately working towards convincing the 15-45yr-old's into believing that they should deeply encourage the eldest of the population to wilfully volunteer to give up there land and homes to return the land to it's wild state of existence and willfully choose to de-mechanise themselves and move into the city's to then consent to being humanly euthanized as soon they've reached the age of 70 to help the climate strange crisis that's neither
I just bought an “Old Timer” wood Stove, probably from the late 70’s. Installed in a house but never used; it’s literally brand new. No baffles there! Just 400 lbs of 3/8” steel and firebrick! Excited to see how well it heats
Best keep that one away from a combustible wall.
Does it work good?
@@donny8652
Been waiting a long time for a response for this ..
@@livingintongues 😂🤣
@War-Thog noooooooooo
"Add ons", kind of like the government mandated changes to fuel cans for "safety reasons". Now fuel cans, cost more, are more complicated to operate, and leak! They are most certainly not any safer, or environmentally friendly. Enjoyed your video, very informative! 👍
💯 % agree.
I buy ‘racing’ style fuel cans. Five gallon jug with an integral handle and a 10” long, clear rubber hose/spout. Very Easy to fill and just as easy to pour. They cost about $30, but the performance is much better than the junkie plastic red cans with all the BS safety gadgets.
Knew someone that worked for the FD. He was always extra cautious. He used 1/4" cement board and actually sliced a 1/4" off reclaimed bricks and cemented a decorative fire wall.
Man knows about fire.
I agree with you, it's all about control! Plastic pollution doesn't seem to be a problem for the mad dogs, only what intelligent humans do to help themselves is a problem! Can we heat a house with a fire made in a whole on the floor with a chimney?
We appreciate your commitment and honesty with showing us the good and bad, hair worts and all.
A great way to get rid of the discoloration on the stove's glass door, is to take a cup or two of cooled ash and mix it with water to about the consistency of pancake batter, and rub it on the glass. The discoloration will come off in a very short amount of time, maybe just a few minutes at most. This is a bit messy, so you'll want to use latex or nitrile gloves.
Just take a paper towel, fold it a few times, dip it in water, then ash. Then clean the glass with it. No need to make a slurry. After, clean off with a wet paper towel and then a dry one
Alternatively only burn really well seasoned firewood with an adequate air supply. A quality love burning well seasoned firewood with adequate air will burn clean and keep the glass clean!!
A great stove is made from a 16" to 20" pipe, cut about 24" long, on a pedestal, with a Baffle in front of the 6" exhaust outlet, & a window framed into the side. End loader. Since it's ROUND, it needs no fire brick inside, as it heats evenly. It can be made to glow & it won't hurt it. & it will flat heat your house.
Really interested to know more if you have any good links to more info. Thank you
First stove I built was very similar to what you describe, it was my only source of heat for a decade. Stepped up to a Earth stove (still primative by today's standards) and discovered how absolutely horrible the stove I built was. And the new EPA stoves are light years ahead of the Earth stoves.
Middle of winter. I like the “riddle of winter” better. Sounds like something out of a Conan the Barbarian movie 👍🏼.
Your assessment on the wood stove utility is key. I would not be without one in a house.
From the country that claims to be the land of the free.Wake up America.
Friend of mine lives in Northern Maine. She has one of those in her living room. Why? Every blizzard the power goes out and it can be days before she gets it back.
for those of you that think the government are doing good just remember what they did to gas cans.
Like Wranglestar, buy "nato" cans and get Canadian nozzles... ;) problem solved.
And toilets...
C'mon man
C’mon man... look what they did to voting machines..
Look what they did to our health insurance.
“Anything (the Government) can do to take
away our independence and reliance upon
(the Government) is under attack”.
DING ! DING ! DING ! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!
Cody, As usual you are exactly right. Granted I live in Arizona, however a few years back we had extreamly low temps which forced the local natural gas company to turn off our gas supply in our home... they couldn't keep up with the demand. We were without gas, (hot water, stove, heat) for about 4 days. The only way I was able to keep the water pipes from freezing was to use my camping equipment to generate heat and hot water and a lot of electric space heaters, etc. By the way, they build homes so crappy here that all of the water pipes are ran in the attic. So imagine what fun it would be if my pipes froze!! Since then, I moved into an older home with real water pipes and have backups for my backups! Independence is where it is at!
Not to mention what would've happened if those pipes had burst! The water damage would have been tremendous! Many years ago, we had our bathroom sink pipes burst at my parent's house. Mom was at work and my stepfather was away, maybe working as well. It was the neighbor who noticed water pouring down in the dining room, seeing it through the window. Anyway, it was expensive to get every thing repaired! Much of the dining room and bathroom had to be renovated!
And to think I got this place I'm in now cause I wanted a backup / alternative to electric ... have to think again ... probably is trying to put wood stove into existing home ... where would it go?
get yourself a kerosene heater. It works with no electric. No one has to know you have it. Kerosene can be stored for years and not go bad, like gas does.
Forgive my nervous laugh when you said water pipes in the ceiling.
Should be a crime to shut off peoples access to heat because you cant supply the people you provide with as much as you said you could. Like airlines over booking flights but far more serious. In my eyes that's premeditated attempted murder.
Excellent video. I'm 100% with you - there is no reason not to make yourself as self sufficient as possible. Especially with an electric grid and infrastructure ready to collapse that they are lumping more and more load onto (eg electric cars, etc).
Abundancy equals choice which equals freedom
Scarcity equals dependency which equals control
I’ve never thought I would watch so many videos on wood stoves 😂😂😂
Same. Yet here I am..
My dad was a mechanic, he had his own garage and last year died from Mesothelioma due to inhaling the dust from brake linings. It is an absolutely horrid way to die.
I believe lobbying by power companies is the cause for excessive wood stove regulations which lead to excessive complications. Burning wood probably isn't the best thing for the environment but it surely isn't the worst. We need a wood stove lobby!
Heck, here in Florida, the power companies are already drafting plans that if you have solar power, you must still hook up to their grid where they will use your solar power and you will rent it back from them. It's ludicrous.
@@spirittammyk Well from a communal point of view it makes sense to pool the resources, supply when you have oversupply and get energy when you have an under supply. So I'd that's worth fighting for.
I am sure most are fighting for to make money off of it, as they do with anything else which is disgusting!
You speak the truth about "them" controllin us.
“They don’t want you to be independent.”
Sure am feeling that statement right now😞
First thing you learn in Bureaucrat School, there's no power in saying "yes".
@@sally6457 And the real power is making them need to ask in the first place. :-)
Pacific energy is hands down the best wood stove you can get. Easy to service and clean and one of the most efficient stoves on the market.
Yes sir, 10yrs and 30 bush cords later my Pacific Energy Summit still performs flawlessly. Had to replace 1 firebrick and gasket on the door. Heats my whole house easily (Ontario Canada)
Love from Bangladesh
قال الله العليم الحكيم الخبير سبحانه
{قَدْ كَانَتْ لَكُمْ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ إِذْ قَالُوا لِقَوْمِهِمْ إِنَّا بُرَآءُ مِنكُمْ وَمِمَّا تَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ كَفَرْنَا بِكُمْ وَبَدَا بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةُ وَالْبَغْضَاءُ أَبَدًا حَتَّىٰ تُؤْمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَحْدَهُ....} المُمتَحَنة ٤
فلنتدبر قول القوي العزيز الواحد القاهر القهار العليم الحكيم الخبير سبحانه
{لَّا تَجِدُ قَوْمًا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ يُوَادُّونَ مَنْ حَادَّ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَوْ كَانُوا آبَاءَهُمْ أَوْ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ أَوْ إِخْوَانَهُمْ أَوْ عَشِيرَتَهُمْ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ كَتَبَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الْإِيمَانَ وَأَيَّدَهُم بِرُوحٍ مِّنْهُ ۖ وَيُدْخِلُهُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِن تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا ۚ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ حِزْبُ اللَّهِ ۚ أَلَا إِنَّ حِزْبَ اللَّهِ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ} المجادلة ٢٢
That's why they don't want us to have it because it can't be taxed
You are exactly correct on why the government wants to ban wood stoves! Thank you!
People who are dishonest, the government in this case, always complicate things. Honest people keep it simple and straight forward and understandable.
@@NUTZJ98 a person can learn, at any age, just about anything if it is explained properly. Information is often twisted or withheld for a few to maintain power in the world system. “My people perish for a lack of knowledge.” The entire world system works to keep people dependent and perpetual consumers.
@@NUTZJ98 innovation comes from God. Often, in the world system, those with the most power and money will then take it and twist it into a big money maker for themselves only instead of to benefit humanity.
@@NUTZJ98 we have lost the more important knowledge of self sufficiency our elders knew from childhood in exchange for the promise of safety and convenience and now it’s held over our heads as a tool to force submission to tyrants who want to oppress the masses and force their own will on society.
Two to three times as much energy heating my house per pound of wood burned doesn't really feel like an "attack" to me, but to each their own I guess?
That's what I don't get. More heat from less wood, I'll take it.
Going to take 20 years to make the money back that you spend on those insanely priced units.
Some towns near near me in Montana had horrible air pollution problems with wood stove smoke spewing out every chimney. After the EPA mandated cleaner wood stoves the air improved greatly. People were very supportive for the most part and appreciate the cleaner air. I use a wood stove myself.
Do you think it was the new stoves or less people burning wood? Probably some of each I guess.
My stove came from Woodstock Soapstone, best part was it was fully assembled. Getting it off my pick up was the easy part. Lifting it onto the hearth took roughly 45 minutes for myself weighing in at 190 lbs & a friend at about 210 lbs. The stove weight was 450 lbs. The point is it was assembled by Woodstock Soapstone here in town
Putting kindling on the bottom is how my parents have always done it... I assumed your way was better... Assumption is the mother of all mistakes :) looking forward to that video!
Professional home owner, reminds me when I was younger doing dishes in a restuarant, we were not dish washers, but professional sanitization machine operators, haha, cracks me up to this day and love how we are able to make our daily things sounds super awesome and to be honest, DO IT, cause if you are a professional at what you do, no matter what it is, being a mom, dad, mechanics, doesn't matter, add that title to your resume', at the very least, add it to your self esteme, cause it matters!
Say our wood stove is about 9 inches away from the wall. Haven't had any problem. No discoloration of the wall or anything like that. It looks wonderful by the way!
I like a man that likes to do things right, even though things never go according to plan, its the effort that counts, pray for the best and plan for the worst, thanks for the video.
The EPA stuff is so true also here in Italy. They're trying to ban every wood stove or self reliance method just like there in the USA. And guess what - gas and electricity prices are skyrocketing.
EPA stoves save you time/money/work because you get a lot more heat out of the wood by combusting fully, them making less smoke is a side effect of that. They are more complicated because the complexity is needed to make them more efficient. Just like a 70's stove is a lot more efficient than a wide open fireplace from the 1200s. The whole point is efficiency, nothing more.
"I'm gonna set you back." I didn't read the comments but guessed they'd be loaded up with the setback. Does anyone really think you didn't research the measurements? Jeez.
Lots of keyboard know it alls. Cody doesnt do anything half assed.
They actually did. Lol. It was crazy how many people knew more than the people who built the stove and the man who bought researched and installed it. Go figure. Bunch of Karen’s out there need their keyboards taken away.
There are a lot of people who do not realize some newer stoves have a built in heat shield on the back. They are used to older stoves which either need more distance or a metal shield set away from the wall.
Clearances from combustibles. Not setback from consumables. Lol🤠👍
my uncle has a windmill in his backyard. he is still connected to the grid, and about 3 to 4 times a year the guy comming out to read the meter turns off the main switch to the windmill. so my uncle dont find out till a couple days later. and now he has a high bill to pay. its messed up and i told him i think it is time to take yourself off the grid and say screw you Detroit Edison.
Is that lawsuit worthy material?
@@alexm7777 in the long run yes, however edison can claim rights to the power switch as it was installed by edison. hence why i said time to go off grid.
I thought the installation looks great. I install them for a living. Well not just that, we are a full-service chimney company. Good job.
The worst line you can hear from government. "I am from the government and here to help".
I really enjoy your videos. The honesty and truths make you one of my favorite channels. Keep it going! 👊
Cody,
That toupee blends in so well with the new haircut. Color match is so natural. Be careful to keep your toupee at least 8” from the stove.
toupee is looking a little short today!
I was shocked to see him go through the ordeal of using trimmers on his man mop. Seems like a lot of work to keep up appearances, but I am a Midwest man.
Well there's an old saying, the less hair I have the more head I get !
@@uspatriot4261 wish someone had explained that years ago!
@David F Wisdom like that must be why the East Coast man is more elite than Midwest man.
@@joshc3792 me too. I have buzzed what hasn't fallen out. Still sporting a goatee and sideburns. Some things are ingrained in personal style 😎
The main attack on your ability to take care of yourself is Wall Street, who profits greatly from centralized supply chains. What government agency has tried to protect you from Asbestos?
Starting with not tolerating flame inside my house, unless for specific reasons like soldering pipe, at any time. No wood stove in here. I am warming my feet with an electric space heater powered by a nuclear reactor over on the coast. I grew up with wood and coal heat and all I remember is the upstate NY cold.
When the upper classes discovered the mountains of Colorado they went rustic with wood stoves that chocked their perfect resort valleys. They called for cleaner more efficient wood stoves. The stoves have come a long and more expensive way from the Smokey iron boxes. This is a good thing!
Worked in a garage. Knew asbestos was a health issue. Car would come in for brakes or wheel bearings. We'd remove the wheels and the brake drums, then like you said the very next thing was grab the airline and now all the brake dust off. I was young and I knew that brakes had asbestos and I knew asbestos was bad. But somehow since we were doing it and inhaling clouds of dust I figured the people I worked for knew something I didn't. At some point I realized they didn't know anything and I was taking a risk doing it. Only worked there for the summer.
I wonder “who” is lobbying the government to regulate how complicated a wood stove needs to be????
Fire departments, insurance companies, and the EPA or equivalent in your country.
Yes, they all have a say to an extent. I was thinking more along the lines of who stands to profit from the heightened regulations.
@@miken5413 the idea is to make the stoves so high tech and expensive that 95% of us can’t afford to be self sufficient and we’re forced to do away with wood stoves and be reliant on gas companies.
If I may make a suggestion, puting one or two heat powered woodstove fans would greatly help with spreading the hot air around
I agree, that would be a great idea, plus I seen ones that you can get for the flue pipe that clip on, so I would go with 2 on the stove top and one on the flue because its a big space that your trying to heat. The fans for the top of stove they say to keep them away from the flue pipe so I'm not sure how well the one you clip on to the flue would work. Great video thank you enjoyed it
You’re not saying there’s a lot of hot air on Wranglerstar’s channel, are you? Although Mrs W might agree sometimes.
Love the channel. The rules from the EPA are to protect your health, not help the planet. The new rules are particularly cost effective, with over 100 dollars in public benefit per dollar spent to comply, and will probably most benefit the health of the owner of the wood stove, especially that person's health. Also, wood smoke going up the chimney is just unburned fuel. A more efficient stove is awesome and burns longer. I've used older stoves and newer stoves, and the new ones are awesome and make you even more self-sufficient -- healthy, wealthy, and wise!!
Lol I love you man. You're honesty about things is so refreshing.
You hit the nail on the head. It's definitely about government getting more control over you.