I LOVE wood heat! I grew up in old farm houses and the rule was at night if you got up to use the bathroom, you put wood in the stove. With seven people in the family, it was always full! Great video! Love the wood stoves you showed!
I grew up on a farm and we heated our whole house but the kitchen and that had it's own stove... so my mom only had the electrical bill and that wasn't much, I believe?
last summer I went into a fireplace store in Los Angeles and I saw this adorable little stove. Nobody knew anything about it and they were trying to get rid of it. So they gave a great price. It turned out to be the Jotul 602. Can't wait to use when I buy my cabin.
That house is almost a museum piece with all those wood stoves. The tile ovens were popular in Germany too (kachelofen). There is a movement in the US to go back to tile ovens in a more DIY fashion. It’s called Rocket Mass Heaters. Short burn time, long thermal mass heating time.
all these stoves were absolutely wonderful i really like the holding onto tradition instead of out with the old in with the new which seems to be the way we do things generally here in the U.S. every stove he showed had character and function
Great channel. Your last stove is a Jotul F602 Little Giant, my favorite wood stove. Jotul states they have sold over a million of these. The new ones have a glass fire window in the front loading door which is nice to watch on a cold winter night!
I remember going to visit my great grandpa over the holidays with my parents when I was a kid, and standing in front of his two burner wood stove just soaking up the heat after chores was heaven. He had a 3 burner coal oil (kerosene) cookstove in the kitchen that worked exactly like lighting a kerosene lamp. It was so neat to watch him cook on that stove; one burner had an oven over top of it and he made the best biscuits. Y'all got me tripping down memory lane!
I lived in Bavaria when I was about 20 years old (I'm 63 now) and a square design of those tile stoves is what a lot of places have as a source of heating and they are AMAZING
Thank you. This made my day. I really enjoy when a person is thankful and appreciative of the simple things in life. A grateful heart is a good heart. I actually felt joy in seeing how much you enjoy wood stoves. :-)
We have a Jotul stove like yours (not cracked). It has green enamel finish on the sides. When we used it (lived in the northern US) it was a very efficient wood burner. Now, it sits in the garage in South Carolina. But, today would be a good day to use it--40 degrees F and wet.
That little Jotul is amazing. I don't have one but I've experienced the heat it gave off in an old house about thirty years ago. I envy your stockpile of firewood!
Thank you for the tour and showing your traditional stoves. I also heat my shop with wood and use to heat the house with one small American made steel stove, called a Temp Wood top loading stove. I got them about 1969 when we moved to the country, in S.E. Illinois,USA. My boys were young ( around 4 & 7 ) I was fearful the might open a door and coals wood roll out. The draft control is about two, 2" holes with a sliding steel plate cover over them to control air flow. I still use the one in the shop all winter. I spent as much as the stove for Insulated SS chimney. The only heat that comes close to wood heat is Geothermal which we have in the house now. Yes the wood stove still sits in the house for back up heat. We have went as long as 4 days snowed in and no electricity. We can slow cook food on top of them. Thanks again , Vic
We had wood heat in northern Wisconsin. Nothing a beautiful as these however. The last one you showed was similar to ours in the kitchen and it was used to heat the kitchen and bedroom just off of it. We cooked on it (if you remove the rings on top you can control how hot your pan can get depending on size.) We also had an odd little oven just over the top attached to the stove pipe going to the chimney. We baked biscuits, fruit strudel, and strata with eggs and bread. No smoke just the heat as it was closed off. Otherwise we heated the whole house with a large brick lined stove that held the heat overnight. I would have loved to have the stoves you showed. Just beautiful.
I grew up on a farm, in a wood frame house with a wood stove. ALL my family has some kind of lung issue now. When you went to school YOU were one of few that Smelled like burning wood. The ONLY room that was comfortable was the one with the Wood Stove in it and the constant processing of wood in summer took away from the daily chores of the farm. When my oldest brother came out of the military he bought a home with CENTRAL HEAT. I thought I was in paradise. No smell, all the rooms were the same temp and you didn't need to wear long sleeves, sweaters and socks and shoes ALL winter long. Nope. Grew up with this source of heat,,am NOT going back to it either. I built my home so well insulated that we use very little power to heat it and THAT I LOVE.
Electric heat is great too. No collecting and chopping firewood. No scrubbing dirty walls and ceilings because of smoke and soot that escapes the fireplace. Just a tiny electrical device that cleanly blows hot air as soon as you plug it in and turn it on. Imagine that! Or, to heat larger areas silently and cleanly, embed electrical resistance wire in the floor and enjoy warm floors and warm rooms regulated by a thermostat.
Wood heat is is just comfortable..the top of all wood stoves is for cooking but above all is for water. Wood is a very dry heat. Put a pan of water on and you have a humidifier..love it!!
I absolutely love, love, LOVE wood heat! When we lived in Oregon we had a very large wood stove that would hold huge logs. Once we had the logs going, it would smolder all night long, heating our house which was more long than wide. Even the bedrooms and bathrooms in the back stayed warm. They say that wood heats you twice - once when you split it and again when you burn it. I can attest to that! I actually loved splitting wood. If you have any frustrations from the day, this is a great way to burn them off. lol We also had an electric furnace with floor vents, but I don't think we ever used it. There is simply nothing that can compare to wood heat.
Very common in old houses in Scandinavia, they are awesome! If You´re interested, look at ´kakluuniverstas on the net. Newbuiltr ovens, I had one built last sommer. They need very little firewood comp to iron fireplaces we call ´kamin´.
Having been born and raised in rural US and having lived in cities for 42 years, I am completely enchanted by rustic cabins and the heaters such as you demonstrated. Haven't seen this type thing since I was a young child.
Wonderful video! Those older stoves are works of art...so beautiful. I grew up cooking and heating with the old fashioned stoves. There is nothing like wood for heating a home. Thanks for sharing.
I love my Jotul stove which heats my entire 900 sf house. There is nothing better than wood heat and also great to watch the fire while drinking wine at night.
Such a wonderful tour of your family wood stoves. We have a Jotul and it too is nice, but not old like yours...they are some of the most beautiful stoves I've ever seen. What I like most was how much you appreciated their beauty and the warmth they provided to you and your family. True gratitude is a lovely thing to behold. Thank you for sharing..
Thanks for this great video. I especially apppreciated that you showed an old Jotul 602! That was my first woodstove and it heated my entire house in Northern Minnesota even during our 20 to 40 degrees F below zero. I have a newer and bigger house now but still heat with wood as a secondary heat source using a newer and bigger Jotul stove. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your viewers.
the Kakelugn is the much better built predecessor to the rocket mass stove. Used a different model Jotul in an 1100sqf house as sole heat. Worked great, low wood use and meets US EPA emmision levels.
I was a fan of wood stoves for years until pellet stoves improved over the years. Now we have pellet stoves that will handle all sorts of pellets from compressed wood to cherry pits and corn. And what I prefer about pellet stoves over wood stoves is that they burn just as hot but don't create as much smoke as a wood stove. So, it ultimately depends on what you really need because I've seen some pellet stoves that do a better job of heating a home than a wood stove.
I’ve had wood since 50 yrs. it’s supreme! I like how you’ve just hucked the wood into the shed. I’ve painstakingly piled it in rows. No need to really!
I love those wood stoves! If I had to live in another country permanently it would be Sweden. I was in Langsele for a few months back in the early 80's and fell in love with the country. Great youtube channel!
love the stove tour! years ago in the cold upper N.Y .we had a Jotul stove,which was highly recommended as the most efficient we could buy.It burns wood very hot and very slowly,I will never forget that little beauty.Thank you.!
Back in 2004 in Arkansas, we had an ice storm that knocked out everything for two weeks. It didn't thaw for a week. The first house I bought had a large Schrader cast iron fireplace with 6" brass air knobs on the front. We kept a fire going in that stove for two weeks, and the house (3400 sq ft, all on one level) stayed around 60 at the ends and 80 or so in the family room. I recall chipping ice for hours then coming in and sitting in front of that stove. What a pleasure it was. Thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed it!
Not often do we experience the exquisite nature of the creative mind. These beautiful stoves have launched me into a quest to find one for my home. Thank you.
is it me or did anyone else get that " BOB ROSS" feeling while listening to his voice? Really amazing old home , and very cool wood stoves. Thank you Swedish Bob Ross for showing us.
The Kakelugn stoves are beautiful. I believe they are the same technology as the Kachelofen, the Finnish Stove, the Russian Stove, which was used in many European countries historically. Here in Canada the technology is referred to as Masonry Heater. We had our masonry heater installed in our country home in 2004, to heat an 1800 square foot house, one heater. Ours was faced with rescued brick, and as you say, we fired it once or twice a day depending on the outdoor temperature and wind chill. Ours could keep the house above freezing for two days, without a firing, once it was fully charged. It was insanely expensive to install, we hired a stone mason to do the job, and he was at our house full time for weeks to complete the job.
I have the same ikea stool and bar chairs lol. The entire house is cozy, wonderful. I can just imagine living there myself. The stoves are incredible, well built and purposeful. Everything is just beautiful. Thanks for the tour.
I loved the video!! Those were awesome stoves! When I was about 12 years old in the 80's living in our small farm in upstate NY with 120 acres of land, we had a Poppa Bear Fisher wood stove that served as the primary heat source for our 2 story, 3 bedroom farm house. That sucker would fire up like a locomotive train! It totally warmed our house up. I love wood stove heat too. Currently, I live in New Mexico, and it does get cold in the winter, and my home has a wood stove insert in the fireplace. I love it and it adds so much to the home in my opinion. It even has the blower unit. I have access to all kinds of firewood near my cabin in the mountains and the wood stove totally save my family money on central heating. Thank you for your video and your family wood stoves are so unique and pieces of art! They were all so beautiful!
I fell in love with Scandinavian wood burners while living in London, England. They were everywhere I went and, boy, did I fall hard for them. I finally managed to install a mid-size Jotul burner in my house, in the USA, two years ago. I enjoy every aspect of heating with wood, and I know I am not alone in feeling like that. Thank you for sharing these beautiful treasures.
Agree that they look great but I have the wood stove in iron myself and I don't use it at all. Heat in one minute and when the fire goes out it's cold in a minute. But I love the tile ovens. And they do build them nowadays. Expensive but really good for heating your house cheaply. Cheers
I love that you appreciate low tech, traditional, historical ways from your traditional Swedish ways. Thank you for sharing it with us Americans here - we have very little appreciation for our history from any one younger than 60.
I just love the tile stoves, with all that mass to keep the heat. In the 70's I was the farthest South and West dealer for Jotul wood stoves, at the time they were the most efficient wood stoves available in the US. I still use the Jotul combi-fire #4 to heat my house on the chilly winter day here in central Florida. I sold many of the little #602's like you have, I wouldn't worry about the crack in the side to must. One thing that was hard to get my customers to do was NOT tighten the bolts holding the parts together, just snug, then build a small first fire so the parts can move a little with the heat and find their place, then clean it, snug the bolts again and put furnace cement into all the joints. I would do the same with your #602 and cement the crack. If you tighten all the bolts on a stove and start a big first fire it will crack somewhere almost every time. Thanks for the beautiful video of your home and stoves.
Your Swedish stoves are beautiful Simeon. We use to heat our house in the winters with a wood stove setting in our basement. My husband built the wood stove from left over steel used for building ships. It was big and held a lot of wood. Once we fired up the wood stove we would stoke and add wood so it burned constantly for days. The smell and warmth from that stove was like no other, I loved it. I could make soup, chili, stew, coffee, heat water and all kinds of food for us if we lost our electricity for very long in the winters. Sweet memories.
Thank you for showing all, especially tile ovens. My grandfather came to us from Finland, we heated with large woodstove made for our hearth, turned out, not horizontal, held logs. Birch, too. Wood is very comfortable. Great show! Jacqueline Skur Gibbs
Growing up usng wood heat I totally agree with you . Of course ours were no were as beautiful as yours are ! I esecially loved the tile firelaes ! They look beautiful the whole year. I also have to say I loved the wood flooring in your parents kitchen. We also grew up with birtch as well as Tamarack or they also call it Buckskin after it has fallen and dried with n bark left on it ! Wood heat is a beautiful thinkg and although I live in arizona we do have a couple of weeks that we start my day with my cofee while enjoying the heat. At night we often roast marshmellows or hotdogs ! What a great tie of year to have that heat !
Yes, wood heat does warm your bones deep inside. I heat my house with two wood stove. Very nice to see different designs in wood stoves to heat with and cook. The one in the kitchen had many uses... People have forgotten how many good things you can do with the old stoves to help you around the house. Thank you for sharing.
I think that one of the reasons that these wood stoves have a place to heat up things on the top is so you can boil water. Heating your house makes the house extremely dry and boiling water to put it into the air will help that. Idk if that’s really why they have those burners but it is a good idea to humidify your house in the winter.
I left Norway in 1959 and have been living in Canada since then. I love to see videos from the Scandinavian countries. I still feel a twinge of connection to the old country. We supplement heat in the old rural house we live in with the wood burner side of the kitchen range. I bought a small hand crafted Swedish wood axe a few years ago. I'm always on the lookout for Scandinavian things. Thank-you for your lovely video. I really enjoyed it.
Great video. You might consider adding a masonry heater if you can afford to. They are expensive to construct, but they are super efficient and with a ton or more of thermal mass they radiate the heat for 12 hours or more. Those beautiful Swedish tile ovens are a type of masonry heater.
The stove at about 9:25 was most likely designed to burn coke or coal. That's why it has a door on top where the coke can be poured in. The little gate behind the lower door is to keep the hot coals away from the door.
What a beautiful video. Your brought me back to my childhood back in the 60s growing up on a rural farm in northern climate...the family gathering in the kitchen as our grandmother had already fired up her wonderful, and huge, cast iron cooking range....thank you for bringing back the smells and the wonderful breakfast moments of my childhood!
The kakelofens are still being built and frequently in Germany and central Europe and in Canada. And in the US there is a variant being built by the Weisners and Paul Wheaton et al in the Pacific Northwest and called rocket mass heaters.
Ok. That is interesting to know. You can buy these old one used here and you pay between $5000 - $10000 dollars for them. I have been wanting to build my own rocket mass heater. One of the ones that you cover with clay.
Thanks for the tour of your home. The stoves are beautiful pieces of history and functioning parts of our lives. It's also a part of history that most Americans have lost in this country. We turn up a thermostat pay a big electric bill complain about it and we're cold most of the time. I grew up with a wood stove to heat her home, cold mornings hot evenings dusty and dirty but there is no better heat then a wood.
Loved the walkabout describing and showing your families heat sources. I live in the country here is Canada and too rely on wood burning fireplaces and stoves. I have a Belgium made Morśe stove built in 1920's. Like yourself I love the gentle heat they give off. Great video and keep up the great work
You had me at "I don't care what you say, firewood is the nicest heat on the planet".
HAHAHAHAHAHA
On 🌎. I agree.
That heat goes to the bone.....
I mean I prefer peat it goes completely blue if you have the right amount of oxygen but wood would be the next best thing
I completely agree
I LOVE wood heat! I grew up in old farm houses and the rule was at night if you got up to use the bathroom, you put wood in the stove. With seven people in the family, it was always full! Great video! Love the wood stoves you showed!
I grew up on a farm and we heated our whole house but the kitchen and that had it's own stove... so my mom only had the electrical bill and that wasn't much, I believe?
I've heated with wood for the past 50 years and love the warmth that wood stove gives off.
So do you think that if we continue to chop trees for wood we'd run out and take away from the wildlife?
@@cynthiagonzales9131 Trees are a renewable resource that can be planted and harvested again and again.
last summer I went into a fireplace store in Los Angeles and I saw this adorable little stove. Nobody knew anything about it and they were trying to get rid of it. So they gave a great price. It turned out to be the Jotul 602. Can't wait to use when I buy my cabin.
That house is almost a museum piece with all those wood stoves. The tile ovens were popular in Germany too (kachelofen).
There is a movement in the US to go back to tile ovens in a more DIY fashion. It’s called Rocket Mass Heaters. Short burn time, long thermal mass heating time.
I have been a chimney sweep for over thirty years - the old Norwegian heaters are so simple and efficient - and the 602 Jotuls are the best
Whoa! Those ovens are incredibly beautiful! And yes, wood heat is the BEST!
Heating with wood warms you to the bone..love it..its a different heat than electric or gas...you have a nice home thanks for sharing 👍
Got appreciate the design and history of wood stows and heaters :)
Great to see someone who shares my admiration for these types of beautiful old cast iron wood stoves! - thank you for sharing!!
all these stoves were absolutely wonderful i really like the holding onto tradition instead of out with the old in with the new which seems to be the way we do things generally here in the U.S. every stove he showed had character and function
Great channel. Your last stove is a Jotul F602 Little Giant, my favorite wood stove. Jotul states they have sold over a million of these. The new ones have a glass fire window in the front loading door which is nice to watch on a cold winter night!
Yes. They are amazing. We leave the door open sometimes. Makes a beautiful atmosphere in the room.
I remember going to visit my great grandpa over the holidays with my parents when I was a kid, and standing in front of his two burner wood stove just soaking up the heat after chores was heaven. He had a 3 burner coal oil (kerosene) cookstove in the kitchen that worked exactly like lighting a kerosene lamp. It was so neat to watch him cook on that stove; one burner had an oven over top of it and he made the best biscuits. Y'all got me tripping down memory lane!
I lived in Bavaria when I was about 20 years old (I'm 63 now) and a square design of those tile stoves is what a lot of places have as a source of heating and they are AMAZING
Thank you. This made my day. I really enjoy when a person is thankful and appreciative of the simple things in life. A grateful heart is a good heart. I actually felt joy in seeing how much you enjoy wood stoves. :-)
We have a Jotul stove like yours (not cracked). It has green enamel finish on the sides. When we used it (lived in the northern US) it was a very efficient wood burner. Now, it sits in the garage in South Carolina. But, today would be a good day to use it--40 degrees F and wet.
That little Jotul is amazing. I don't have one but I've experienced the heat it gave off in an old house about thirty years ago. I envy your stockpile of firewood!
Just found you while researching stoves. Beautiful & informative video. Subscribed! Love from America🇺🇸💕
Thank you for the tour and showing your traditional stoves. I also heat my shop with wood and use to heat the house with one small American made steel stove, called a Temp Wood top loading stove. I got them about 1969 when we moved to the country, in S.E. Illinois,USA. My boys were young ( around 4 & 7 ) I was fearful the might open a door and coals wood roll out.
The draft control is about two, 2" holes with a sliding steel plate cover over them to control air flow. I still use the one in the shop all winter. I spent as much as the stove for Insulated SS chimney.
The only heat that comes close to wood heat is Geothermal which we have in the house now. Yes the wood stove still sits in the house for back up heat. We have went as long as 4 days snowed in and no electricity. We can slow cook food on top of them.
Thanks again ,
Vic
Thank you for showing us these wood burners, not only warm & cosy but beautiful to look at too.
I grew up in Oklahoma USA, on a ranch, we had wood heat, I miss it
We had wood heat in northern Wisconsin. Nothing a beautiful as these however. The last one you showed was similar to ours in the kitchen and it was used to heat the kitchen and bedroom just off of it. We cooked on it (if you remove the rings on top you can control how hot your pan can get depending on size.) We also had an odd little oven just over the top attached to the stove pipe going to the chimney. We baked biscuits, fruit strudel, and strata with eggs and bread. No smoke just the heat as it was closed off. Otherwise we heated the whole house with a large brick lined stove that held the heat overnight. I would have loved to have the stoves you showed. Just beautiful.
They're like works of art!! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!
I grew up on a farm, in a wood frame house with a wood stove. ALL my family has some kind of lung issue now. When you went to school YOU were one of few that Smelled like burning wood. The ONLY room that was comfortable was the one with the Wood Stove in it and the constant processing of wood in summer took away from the daily chores of the farm. When my oldest brother came out of the military he bought a home with CENTRAL HEAT. I thought I was in paradise. No smell, all the rooms were the same temp and you didn't need to wear long sleeves, sweaters and socks and shoes ALL winter long. Nope. Grew up with this source of heat,,am NOT going back to it either. I built my home so well insulated that we use very little power to heat it and THAT I LOVE.
I am older and no longer heat with wood... I worship my thermostat.
Love these old stoves and just the whole feel and look.
Electric heat is great too. No collecting and chopping firewood. No scrubbing dirty walls and ceilings because of smoke and soot that escapes the fireplace. Just a tiny electrical device that cleanly blows hot air as soon as you plug it in and turn it on. Imagine that! Or, to heat larger areas silently and cleanly, embed electrical resistance wire in the floor and enjoy warm floors and warm rooms regulated by a thermostat.
Wood heat is is just comfortable..the top of all wood stoves is for cooking but above all is for water. Wood is a very dry heat. Put a pan of water on and you have a humidifier..love it!!
I absolutely love, love, LOVE wood heat! When we lived in Oregon we had a very large wood stove that would hold huge logs. Once we had the logs going, it would smolder all night long, heating our house which was more long than wide. Even the bedrooms and bathrooms in the back stayed warm. They say that wood heats you twice - once when you split it and again when you burn it. I can attest to that! I actually loved splitting wood. If you have any frustrations from the day, this is a great way to burn them off. lol We also had an electric furnace with floor vents, but I don't think we ever used it. There is simply nothing that can compare to wood heat.
Simply beautiful stoves! Thank you for sharing.
I agree wood is the best heat. Nothing compares. I love your tall fireplace you had upstairs,
I really enjoyed this vedio. I enjoy seeing how other cultures make the same products but in so many different ways. Beautiful example.
My wife grew up in Romania and used tiled stoves very similar to yours.
Nice.
The tile stoves are beautiful, never saw one before.
Very common in old houses in Scandinavia, they are awesome! If You´re interested, look at ´kakluuniverstas on the net. Newbuiltr ovens, I had one built last sommer. They need very little firewood comp to iron fireplaces we call ´kamin´.
@@peikstenberg6184 Thank you
We something similar in Romania, we call them " Soba de Teracota" Terracotta stove
I would like to import one to Shillong
Having been born and raised in rural US and having lived in cities for 42 years, I am completely enchanted by rustic cabins and the heaters such as you demonstrated. Haven't seen this type thing since I was a young child.
Thank you. Wish I had a Jotul fireplace. I'll have to check around. You have a nice collection!
Wonderful video! Those older stoves are works of art...so beautiful. I grew up cooking and heating with the old fashioned stoves. There is nothing like wood for heating a home. Thanks for sharing.
I love my Jotul stove which heats my entire 900 sf house. There is nothing better than wood heat and also great to watch the fire while drinking wine at night.
Such a wonderful tour of your family wood stoves. We have a Jotul and it too is nice, but not old like yours...they are some of the most beautiful stoves I've ever seen. What I like most was how much you appreciated their beauty and the warmth they provided to you and your family. True gratitude is a lovely thing to behold. Thank you for sharing..
Thanks for this great video. I especially apppreciated that you showed an old Jotul 602! That was my first woodstove and it heated my entire house in Northern Minnesota even during our 20 to 40 degrees F below zero. I have a newer and bigger house now but still heat with wood as a secondary heat source using a newer and bigger Jotul stove.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your viewers.
the Kakelugn is the much better built predecessor to the rocket mass stove. Used a different model Jotul in an 1100sqf house as sole heat. Worked great, low wood use and meets US EPA emmision levels.
This is one of the most enjoyable videos I have seen in a long time! Thanks so much!
Your parents house is beautiful. Much respect and please thank them for letting us in there beautiful home. And yes I know this is 5 year old.
Beautiful. Wood heat is so warm and consistent
I was a fan of wood stoves for years until pellet stoves improved over the years. Now we have pellet stoves that will handle all sorts of pellets from compressed wood to cherry pits and corn. And what I prefer about pellet stoves over wood stoves is that they burn just as hot but don't create as much smoke as a wood stove. So, it ultimately depends on what you really need because I've seen some pellet stoves that do a better job of heating a home than a wood stove.
I’ve had wood since 50 yrs. it’s supreme! I like how you’ve just hucked the wood into the shed. I’ve painstakingly piled it in rows. No need to really!
Except when snow gets deep.
What a beautiful farm house. Those floors! All of those woods stoves are just incredible.
I love those wood stoves! If I had to live in another country permanently it would be Sweden. I was in Langsele for a few months back in the early 80's and fell in love with the country. Great youtube channel!
love the stove tour! years ago in the cold upper N.Y .we had a Jotul stove,which was highly recommended as the most efficient we could buy.It burns wood very hot and very slowly,I will never forget that little beauty.Thank you.!
You have many beautiful stoves in that house!
Back in 2004 in Arkansas, we had an ice storm that knocked out everything for two weeks. It didn't thaw for a week. The first house I bought had a large Schrader cast iron fireplace with 6" brass air knobs on the front. We kept a fire going in that stove for two weeks, and the house (3400 sq ft, all on one level) stayed around 60 at the ends and 80 or so in the family room. I recall chipping ice for hours then coming in and sitting in front of that stove. What a pleasure it was. Thank you for sharing! I really enjoyed it!
I used wood stoves for years, loved the warm morning brand. Add a chunk or two of red dot coal before bed and you had heat all night.
Not often do we experience the exquisite nature of the creative mind. These beautiful stoves have launched me into a quest to find one for my home. Thank you.
Those tile stoves were really nice, thx for sharing,, from America
is it me or did anyone else get that " BOB ROSS" feeling while listening to his voice? Really amazing old home , and very cool wood stoves. Thank you Swedish Bob Ross for showing us.
I love wood stoves. You have some beauties. You have a nice woodpile too.
The Kakelugn stoves are beautiful. I believe they are the same technology as the Kachelofen, the Finnish Stove, the Russian Stove, which was used in many European countries historically. Here in Canada the technology is referred to as Masonry Heater. We had our masonry heater installed in our country home in 2004, to heat an 1800 square foot house, one heater. Ours was faced with rescued brick, and as you say, we fired it once or twice a day depending on the outdoor temperature and wind chill. Ours could keep the house above freezing for two days, without a firing, once it was fully charged.
It was insanely expensive to install, we hired a stone mason to do the job, and he was at our house full time for weeks to complete the job.
Beautiful wood stoves. I just love the old cast iron designs.
I have the same ikea stool and bar chairs lol. The entire house is cozy, wonderful. I can just imagine living there myself. The stoves are incredible, well built and purposeful. Everything is just beautiful. Thanks for the tour.
I loved the video!! Those were awesome stoves! When I was about 12 years old in the 80's living in our small farm in upstate NY with 120 acres of land, we had a Poppa Bear Fisher wood stove that served as the primary heat source for our 2 story, 3 bedroom farm house. That sucker would fire up like a locomotive train! It totally warmed our house up. I love wood stove heat too. Currently, I live in New Mexico, and it does get cold in the winter, and my home has a wood stove insert in the fireplace. I love it and it adds so much to the home in my opinion. It even has the blower unit. I have access to all kinds of firewood near my cabin in the mountains and the wood stove totally save my family money on central heating. Thank you for your video and your family wood stoves are so unique and pieces of art! They were all so beautiful!
what brand insert do you have?
I fell in love with Scandinavian wood burners while living in London, England. They were everywhere I went and, boy, did I fall hard for them. I finally managed to install a mid-size Jotul burner in my house, in the USA, two years ago. I enjoy every aspect of heating with wood, and I know I am not alone in feeling like that. Thank you for sharing these beautiful treasures.
Wow, never thought of a tile stove. How amazing!
Agree that they look great but I have the wood stove in iron myself and I don't use it at all. Heat in one minute and when the fire goes out it's cold in a minute. But I love the tile ovens. And they do build them nowadays. Expensive but really good for heating your house cheaply. Cheers
Great video! Keep them coming. Share your knowledge with the world. Thank you for reaching out to us.
Thank you.
I love that you appreciate low tech, traditional, historical ways from your traditional Swedish ways. Thank you for sharing it with us Americans here - we have very little appreciation for our history from any one younger than 60.
I just love the tile stoves, with all that mass to keep the heat. In the 70's I was the farthest South and West dealer for Jotul wood stoves, at the time they were the most efficient wood stoves available in the US. I still use the Jotul combi-fire #4 to heat my house on the chilly winter day here in central Florida.
I sold many of the little #602's like you have, I wouldn't worry about the crack in the side to must. One thing that was hard to get my customers to do was NOT tighten the bolts holding the parts together, just snug, then build a small first fire so the parts can move a little with the heat and find their place, then clean it, snug the bolts again and put furnace cement into all the joints. I would do the same with your #602 and cement the crack.
If you tighten all the bolts on a stove and start a big first fire it will crack somewhere almost every time.
Thanks for the beautiful video of your home and stoves.
Love the cast iron stove there's nothing like it .. thanks for sharing your video
We had a Jotul and the side cracked we contacted the company and they replaced the broken part. great stove. Wish I had kept it.
This video stirrs the soul. Thank you for showing us love these beautiful fireplaces
Such wonderful wood stoves !! Would love to see more on your way of live up there . Thank you so much for this unique journey !
You were not kidding, those are some beautiful wood stoves...and some innovative designs as well.
We fell in love with your gorgeous home
Your Swedish stoves are beautiful Simeon. We use to heat our house in the winters with a wood stove setting in our basement. My husband built the wood stove from left over steel used for building ships. It was big and held a lot of wood. Once we fired up the wood stove we would stoke and add wood so it burned constantly for days. The smell and warmth from that stove was like no other, I loved it. I could make soup, chili, stew, coffee, heat water and all kinds of food for us if we lost our electricity for very long in the winters. Sweet memories.
- really nice old stoves, Thanks for sharing.
Wow, you are so lucky to have these jems from a past and forgotten era !!! Preserve and enjoy forever 🙏.
hell that's a full-time job cutting all the wood to feed all them damn stoves and fireplaces. I'm glad I live in Florida
Thank you for showing all, especially tile ovens. My grandfather came to us from Finland, we heated with large woodstove made for our hearth, turned out, not horizontal, held logs. Birch, too. Wood is very comfortable. Great show! Jacqueline Skur Gibbs
Yes thumbs up for wood heat...best heat ever!!
Very nice ovens.Nice to see that some of the simpler things in life,that add heat to our lives are still appreciated.
Growing up usng wood heat I totally agree with you . Of course ours were no were as beautiful as yours are ! I esecially loved the tile firelaes ! They look beautiful the whole year. I also have to say I loved the wood flooring in your parents kitchen. We also grew up with birtch as well as Tamarack or they also call it Buckskin after it has fallen and dried with n bark left on it ! Wood heat is a beautiful thinkg and although I live in arizona we do have a couple of weeks that we start my day with my cofee while enjoying the heat. At night we often roast marshmellows or hotdogs ! What a great tie of year to have that heat !
Nice. Thanks for sharing. We really enjoy the heat right now in the winter.
Yes, wood heat does warm your bones deep inside. I heat my house with two wood stove. Very nice to see different designs in wood stoves to heat with and cook. The one in the kitchen had many uses... People have forgotten how many good things you can do with the old stoves to help you around the house. Thank you for sharing.
I think that one of the reasons that these wood stoves have a place to heat up things on the top is so you can boil water. Heating your house makes the house extremely dry and boiling water to put it into the air will help that. Idk if that’s really why they have those burners but it is a good idea to humidify your house in the winter.
Yes...wood heat is the best! We heat our house with wood. I love all your fireplaces, stoves...very beautiful!
Grandpa heated the sod house with one of these n one in the living room.28x40 in the30-40.ironically he was sweedish
The tile stove is impressive I’ve never seen one before
I left Norway in 1959 and have been living in Canada since then. I love to see videos from the Scandinavian countries. I still feel a twinge of connection to the old country. We supplement heat in the old rural house we live in with the wood burner side of the kitchen range. I bought a small hand crafted Swedish wood axe a few years ago. I'm always on the lookout for Scandinavian things. Thank-you for your lovely video. I really enjoyed it.
ESPECIALLY THE CERAMIC HEATERS VERY PRACTICAL 😍
Great video. You might consider adding a masonry heater if you can afford to. They are expensive to construct, but they are super efficient and with a ton or more of thermal mass they radiate the heat for 12 hours or more. Those beautiful Swedish tile ovens are a type of masonry heater.
I totally agree with you woodstovws and fire places are the best.
I love the old style in German Kachel Ofen
In Canada the same technology is being used for masonry heaters/fireplaces. Wonderful!
BEAUTIFUL!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
I love all the beautiful wood stoves. Thank you for sharing.
The stove at about 9:25 was most likely designed to burn coke or coal. That's why it has a door on top where the coke can be poured in. The little gate behind the lower door is to keep the hot coals away from the door.
I also love the old style wood fireplaces. They incorporated style and functionality and art work. Beautiful.
Beautiful stoves dude good job showing them off.
What a beautiful video. Your brought me back to my childhood back in the 60s growing up on a rural farm in northern climate...the family gathering in the kitchen as our grandmother had already fired up her wonderful, and huge, cast iron cooking range....thank you for bringing back the smells and the wonderful breakfast moments of my childhood!
That was pretty interesting, thanks.
Wow, the Kakelugn is gorgeous. Love all the wood stoves and heaters. Absolutely wonderful.
Thank you for sharing.
The kakelofens are still being built and frequently in Germany and central Europe and in Canada. And in the US there is a variant being built by the Weisners and Paul Wheaton et al in the Pacific Northwest and called rocket mass heaters.
Ok. That is interesting to know. You can buy these old one used here and you pay between $5000 - $10000 dollars for them.
I have been wanting to build my own rocket mass heater. One of the ones that you cover with clay.
At $5,000 I would rate them as a steal.
Thanks for the tour of your home. The stoves are beautiful pieces of history and functioning parts of our lives. It's also a part of history that most Americans have lost in this country. We turn up a thermostat pay a big electric bill complain about it and we're cold most of the time. I grew up with a wood stove to heat her home, cold mornings hot evenings dusty and dirty but there is no better heat then a wood.
I love wood heat !! I love my wood stove and my Sthil chainsaw !
Loved the walkabout describing and showing your families heat sources. I live in the country here is Canada and too rely on wood burning fireplaces and stoves. I have a Belgium made Morśe stove built in 1920's. Like yourself I love the gentle heat they give off. Great video and keep up the great work
Great video...!
Nice stoves, I agree with you, nothing beats wood heat...!
Thanks for sharing...
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Lots of stoves in your house to keep warm. Must be a big house. Great exercise cutting that much wood! Thanks for your tour of the stoves.