One winter here up in Northern Alberta, we had 10 days of -27C (-17F), we've had -48.2 (-55F) in this Province, our wood stove in the LR kept the entire home warm, and our furnace never kicked on, not even once. My husband had it on a slow burn 24/7, it kept us toasty warm and I was able to cook on the stovetop. Kept a cast iron kettle filled with water so that it put moisture back in the air. Love it.
@@logcabinlifestyle a pelltier fan on the pot belly stove or it's flue pipe will use the heat to run the fan and you can place several of them to get loads of air movement and heat movement btw even that pot belly stove sucks cold air into the home ... the difference between it and the others is that you can control better how much air it pulls in which limits how much f a cooling effect the incoming air has ... since the stove now gets time to heat that new air up
We have our heater stove low burning 24/7 in winter, cooking winter stews, soups, curries on the stove top, stove top fans moving heat around & always have a kettle of water boiling to add moisture back in the air so we never ever get sick in winter. Keeping our home sterile clean always helps.
My Mother always had her fireplace going, i asked her once why, as she lived in a modern home with central heating, She simply replied; “ a fire is company” She lived alone as i do now in my cottage in Northern Ontario, Canada and i now fully understand what she meant. Happy Holidays and i wish you and everyone the very best for 2024.
A real fire does indeed bring joy to the soul. Why? Probably thousands of generations of safety and warmth has seeped into our DNA. It saddens me how most young people have no such experiences now.
When I was little my mom would take my sister and I to Bandon, OR to visit my great grandmother. It was a small house and it was bitterly cold especially in the mornings. The only heat she had in her house was her cast iron wood burning cook stove in her little kitchen. I have so many little kid wonderful memories helping her fetch wood and watch her cook us breakfast!
I completely understand. I had a fireplace and love watching the fire, but wanted more heat for all the effort I put forth cutting, splitting and stack firewood. I have an airtight stove now with a really nice window and it is the best of both worlds. Nothing I like better than starting the morning with a cup of coffee and watching the fire.
There's a reason the phrase "home and hearth" is so comforting. So many family gatherings, daily chores, and relaxing moments were spent in front of the hearth. And what old country store would have been complete without the group of men playing checkers or visiting (gossiping) around the pot-bellied stove. 😊 I love your cabin design. My husband and myself are trying to figure out the logistics of putting a wood stove in our house. Oh, and I'm glad to see that Archie has a feline buddy!
I have always thought you live like a king with your set up!!! I hope every dwelling in Heaven looks just like your cabin but with a little land to farm! I taught 1840 life skills for many years and loved every day no matter how hard I worked and how tired I got. I would still be doing it but "progress" came to the historic site I worked at🙄. Now I still live a life that others don't understand but I'm happy...older than dirt now but happy!😁
The oven at my cabin in Norway has this newer technology where it doesn't even suck air from the room. It has it own pipe going under the floor to the outside, using the cold outside air for combustion. It is a sealed system so no smoke can get into the room either.
Just discovered your channel and Im very impressed by not only your craftmanship, but also how clear and precise you are with your words. The cabin is amazing and to me is an almost perfect balance between old and new. Too many times I see ppl preaching the gospel of off grid, solitary living and to me that is antithetical to being a human. We are meant to have community. I like how how u still have some modern stuff too like electricity. Not everything modern is a bad thing. Honestly just a very balanced and thought out way of living. Bravo Sir
That is one cozy-looking home. I can vouch for a good pot-bellied stove being a champ in the heating department. A relatively small stove will keep a surprisingly large area toaster in cold weather. And I think they have a quaint charm all their own.
Great video. I grew up with wood heat.. very warm. My mom would keep a kettle of water on top to put moisture in the air. One of my sisters would bake bread and let it rise near the stove.
Sitting in front of a fire relaxes me like nothing else. Your fireplace is absolutely perfect, it's not too overdone, yet it's very beautiful. Great job on this!
All 3 Heat sources are Epic. That potbelly is so efficient, The Firellace is Grand and elegant, the stove is a Cooks Best friend👍👍🇺🇸🛠️🔧🛠️Be blessed brother.
My grandparents lived in the Alps in northern Italy, their house was built in 1771 and was made of stone and mortar, the only heating in the house (and only heated rooms) was a cast iron cookstove in the kitchen, and a special masonry stove called "fornel" in the living room. The former was your typical wood cookstove with oven, the latter worked in a principle somewhat similar to a dampened rocket stove, with the smoke of the fire going through various channels and heating it up until you could barely touch it, and because of how it was built, very little wood could keep the entire living room warm and cozy all winter.
I learned how to cook on a slightly bigger cook stove than you have and I absolutely loved it. I also learned to cook in a fireplace. Enjoy using both! LOVE that cabin. Watching a wood fire is so mesmerizing
I don’t live in a cabin but I do have a wood cook stove right beside my fireplace also. I grew up in a home with no heat but wood set up like yours but with smaller potbellies in the bedrooms also. I never asked why so from listening to you I can only assume my parents knew what you know and I just copied what I grew up with. I really enjoyed learning this! My favorite is in front of any fire inside or out. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Jerry!!
My house is 1885 and only had a wood stove for heat. In order to get a mortgage 30 years ago it had to have a heat source other than the stove so they put in electric baseboard heaters which doesn't heat my old uninsulated house. I don't use them. Got a pellet stove about 20 years ago as the fire would go out and my son would get home from school and the house would be freezing ( I worked 77 miles away) that went up a few years ago and I don't have time for the woodstove so I just have space heaters. It's cold in here lol. Oh well.
Okay, I might be too old for you but that is my dream house and that is a dream kitchen, the cook stove and the real working cooking fireplace. I am in awe. That is fantastic brother.
It being your house “because i wanted too” should be all the explanation required, so thank you for going more in depth and passing on some valuable information. Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
My uncle had a deer camp in Alpena, Mi with a beautiful pot belly stove. Lots of brass accents on it definitely a high end model yet still very old. Once that thing was heated up that main room was almost too hot to be in for me, but after sitting in the woods all day it was appreciated by all.
My father built two of our homes in the late forties and early fifties. Before the furnace was installed Dad had a potbellied stove in our kitchen to keep us warm in the evenings in Wisconsin. This video takes me back to simpler times. Beautiful cabin and so homey.
I really do dig your home. This video is so cool. Learning about the difference in your heating devices and marvelous fireplace is a new one for me. Thanks for sharing. Also, your lighting fixtures are lovely. Such a great idea with all the period lighting.
I Absolutely love your home… that fire place is beautiful, the wood cook stove and the potbelly… basically all 3 would be a dream to have. Your whole place is a dream. Love it!
Fantastic place! Absolutely dreamy to me, I'm "city folk" from the 'burbs of Detroit but i will retire ti the country soon. Well i never dreamed of such a cabin but now i certainly will!
@logcabinlifestyle I'm super interested in your cabin and homestead ideas. I subbed. Thanks for showing your place, I will be diving into your videos and sharing it with my family also.
I heat with wood myself in my house living in the Huron National Forest. Had a fireplace the first winter then upgraded to a fireplace insert for this winter. Super efficient and have used only 2 cords of wood so far this winter. Plus I put a pot of water for tea that stays on there all day. Amazing setup you have there and a great cabin
Hello. You should change out to cold water then boil and make tea, it tastes a lot better than tea made from water that has been hot or boiling all day. Tea flavor is actually a lot more muted and hard for your tongue to pick up when all the oxygen has been dissolved out of the water. Another solution is having some way to shake air into your water before making tea, it really does make a difference, cheers.
I love your home. Beautiful. We heat our home with VC Defiant. Been a wonderful 30 year relationship with that appliance. I have burned wood for 43 years. Only air/air., best way to go. Our cabin has FP, woodstove AND vookstove (multi fuel Kalamazoo Pilgram) , my wife said WHY three wood burning items.? BECAUSE of all the reasons you listed. Again lovely home.
Your place is beautiful! My grandparents had a stone fireplace on one side of home and kitchen on other side and they used both in the evening. Sat around the livingroom fire place and listened to the radio.
Love your place! I have a modern frame house, well insulated, on a crawl space foundation. To illustrate your point on drawing air for combustion, the air has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is ultimately from outside. I burn a Kuma secondary burn stove for heat. When I 11:56 first put it in it was vented into the crawl space for combustion air. During -20F weather this drew that outside air through the crawl space access door, chilling the crawl space and the floor in the entire house. The stove couldn't keep up. That summer I installed dryer vent hose from a vent on the access door to the makeup side of the stove. Makes a huge difference. House stays toasty and the stove doesn't have to work so hard.
even though I am only 66 yrs old, I remember living in a house with Pot Belly stove and we lived in the city. One of my earliest memories is my dad and uncle melting lead to make fishing sinkers and using the pot belly to heat the metal. 1958 Evansville, IN
Makes a lot of sense. In summary... Pot-bellied stove: Super efficient heater Wood cookstove: Great at baking and cooking Fireplace: Was installed prior to the others being popularized. Good for cooking meat. Also best aesthetics.
Ich schaue mir dein Video zum ersten mal an. Ich dachte mir so ein gemütliches Sofa und ein Sessel wäre nicht schlecht. Und schau an, genau der Typ Sofa und Sessel die ich als besonders gemütlich empfinde stehen da. Genau an einem so schönen Kanonenofen den ich auch richtig klasse finde 😊. Es sollte möglich sein, das jeder der so wohnen möchte genau so leben kann. Bei solch einem Zuhause braucht es kein Fernsehen 😊
I love it. Your cabin is beautiful. ❤ We’ve got a kitchen queen 480. Can’t imagine life without it. It heats our whole house during the winter. Rated to 5000 sq ft. We only have 2000 sq ft, so it far exceeds our needs. 6 pieces of wood per day during cold days brings our house to 70 degrees. Really cold days we build a fire in the mornings and stoke it up again add one or two more logs to get us through the night. Uses convection to move air, a wonderful design. Built by the Amish out in Montana. What we’re missing is that beautiful fireplace, in the kitchen for cooking. That’s a dream. ❤
I love your cabin, my dream, I have an addiction to cooking with fire and heating with fire. My many stoves can vouch for it. I keep building spaces to give them purpose 😂. I absolutely love your home!! This is the first video of your's that I've seen and I am hooked.
Such a beautiful cabin and interior setup! 🥰🥰🥰 If renovating or building new it would be smart to build radiators in the flue to circulate heat into pipes under the floors and to radiators in other rooms so the fireplace fire is taken maximum advantage of.
Your Cabin was built in the same year that "Stille Nacht" was first performed in Austria how apt. for the time of year, The Song is Silent Night for those who do understand German.
3 diff ways to cook and or heat the cabin is smart. Backups to the backup. That's smart thinking. Would come in handy say for a big Thanksgiving family dinner or in an shtf scenario. Great ideas for viewers if they wanted to do a complete off grid build. 2 thumbs up!
As God, our father puts it so beautifully in Exodus the Pillar of fire. As are light at night is our comforter. Also, warm us. It embraces us. It holds our soul. God bless you, Jerry, and thank you for loving Jesus Christ.
I've always found that burning a fire in a fireplace warms a person up exceptionally well - when one has to constantly go outside to chop more wood. ;) I find it interesting that many such period fireplaces in Europe were often vented for partial oxygen intake at the back of the hearth, and minimize the cold air seepage but I've never seen that done in the US or Canada. That was even more often the case with large brick or cast iron stoves. Our cottage had two such wood burning stoves, and two coal burners. My grandfather still did a lot of wood chopping all the way into his mid eighties. What an appetite 40 minutes with a 3 kilo axe builds.
I totally love your setup. My fireplace was converted over for a deisel heating furnace. I'm hoping to bring it back into a fireplace again! For a potbelly of sorts. We used to have a mama bear stove. But we didn't use it that much. 😕 love your vision!!! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
I only just started watching you and this image of your cabin at 0.46 reminds me so much of the Ingalls house on Little House on the Prairie except behind the fireplace was Ma and Pa Ingalls bedroom with the children in the loft above. I loved watching that programme in the 1980`s. I will need to go back to your oldest video now to watch in the correct order.
I gotta say, this is just about the best thing ever. Love seeing how this potbelly stove works and thanks so much for sharing your home with us. Excellent explanation of how these things work. Lots of appreciation and kindness here, thanks man.
For the first time in my life, I understand why a fireplace doesn't heat a home. All I was told was, you lose too much air. I need to know why something happens or I'll ignore whatever you say!! You are a very good teacher.
First house the hubby and I owned was heated with wood stoves. We upgraded to a Fisher Grandma Bear. Best heat in the winter ever. That type of heat does it thru and thru. Wish I had it today
lived at 11500 ft.cabin had 5 stolves.in it fireplace.needed them all.loved it.frig was a pull up one.2 stoves heated the large water container.and making bread. 1 was back up.2 for cooking and extra heating of the cabin.so I got it why the stolves.thank you.
I use an old parlor stove to heat my old farmhouse( I have a furnace) but feel so safe knowing I have wood heat in the middle of a S.D. Blizzard. Love your cabin.
Thank you for explaining the differences between a fireplace, cookstove and potbelly stove. I have a smoke allergy, but wish to eventually own a stand alone house with off grid capabilities. I live in MN so it gets cold here. Now I know that a fireplace is a definite no, not only for the smoke, but it wouldn't heat my home in an emergency like the furnace going out or the power going out. I was thinking that a Vermont Castings intrepid with a catalytic option would be good since the smoke fumes would be re-burned and it is sealed. It would also satisfy the emergency cook top and friendship features you have with your three fire choices. Maybe not. I was also looking at a Jotul which has no catalyst, but reburns anyway. My ex mother-in-law had a very nice little ceramic surrounded wood stove to help with her heat, but she had issues with the smoke even with the catalyst (that was a while ago). What do you think? Would a tiny cook stove like a Vermont bun baker be a good option for emergency use? I also thought that a wood stove would be easily removed if I couldn't tolerate smoke leaks.
Some very good questions. I say yes you are on the right track if you can only have one. Get something that does it all. A fireplace is my favorite but it is the worst one for heat. In most cases it’s negative numbers. So that’s out. The one thing I can tell you about a wood stove no matter the manufacture is if the chimney is proper, there should not be smoke in the building. So, focus on that. If you need help I’m here.
I am watching this with slow jazz music in the background. One day I would love to have the set up you have but I would hire you to set it up safely ! Thank you for explaining all the nuances of woodburning stove vs. firplace and of course you new Living room stove intstallation. You video are keeping my mind off of health issues ! Perfectly. Many , many thanks.
The kitchen is the center of the home, always been that way! In a one room home in the fashion of a pioneer home, everything will happen in that room, cooking, sleeping, eating etc.. Stands to reason a fireplace would be there.
In the Fifties and Sixties I grew up in a house built in the early 1900's. Very large kitchen, which had been upgraded with electric appliances but the Majestic cast iron stove was still present. It was almost the exact same design as this one and burned both coal and wood. There was still some plumbing behind it where a water tank must have been attached to the back. Handy for burning paper trash while boosting the temp first thing in the morning plus heating and cooking when the power went out. We had a basement filled with wood from the apple trees cut down in the neighboring lots as more houses were built, so we had years of some additional heat for free.
I have a potbelly stove that I heat with and a wood cook stove right next to it. I’d hate that imagine having to heat with a cook stove that would make for a restless night that’s for sure. I use the potbelly stove for cooking things that can be fried at an indiscriminate heat or for boiling pots of water or soup because in the winter there is always a fire going in it and I can’t be bothered to start one in the cook stove and wait for it to heat up (a long process) enough for it to be useful as an oven or for a vigorous heat for frying things. That being said your comment about it being the best for baking is certainly true and for cooking anything that requires a low steady heat (I make cheese so it’s very useful for heating the milk slowly without scorching it.
I have no issues with the video, so I'll just describe my own situation for those who might be interested. I live in urban Seattle, where annual low temperatures are typically no colder than 15 degrees F, buty might occasionally get down into the teens. I have an old house I rent out. It has a conventional fireplace in the living room and has a masonry brick chimney in the separate kitchen which I use to vent a natural gas fired cook stove, furnace and separate water heater. But I would say that that chimney was once used to vent a wood or coal fired cook stove. The fireplace has the aesthetic attractions of a fireplace and the huge inefficiencies of a fireplace as well. In my own home I have a gas fired furnace clothes dryer, water heater and cook stove, and a steel wood stove. I scarcely ever use the gas water heater, dryer or furnace. So most of the heating is done with the wood stove, fueled by scrap wood readily available from nearby commercial and small industrial operations, such as a lumberyard. I can get all the wood I want and typically need do no more than cutting it to the length I desire for burning in the wood stove. So the wood stove provides all the heat used in the house, except in rare conditions. I also heat water on it for domestic use during the heating season, and do much of my cookng on and in the stove as well. The stove top doesn't provide loads of heat for cooking unless the stove is stoked up. At other times, I often cook IN the stove, setting pans right on hot coals. That takes some practice to avoid burning food, but I'm pretty good at it. I can do baking reasonably well in a Camp Dutch Oven, which has feet on the bottom designed to be put over the coals of a fire and a flanged lid designed to have hot coals shoveled on top. That does pretty well for baking. I just used the wood stove this morning to make canned salmon chowder, for example. But the gas cook stove provides superior baking, and I use that for baking things like bread, cakes and pies. Also, during the summer, the BIG disadvantage of wood fired cooking is that an indoor stove heats up a house a LOT! So during the summer I'll typically use the gas range for cooking, and mostly use jugs of water painted black and in a Styrofoam container for heating water much of the time. While these things do save me money, mainly I consider them hobbies ---things I enjoy doing. I also do such things as collecting rainwater, so I've used ZERO citiwater for many years. All hobbies I enjoy doing, which also may save a few dollars. But if they become burdensome or I lack the time for them, I can always use the gas backups. Anyway, those are things I do for my enjoyment in retirement at age 74.
Your kitchen, with the cook stove, the fireplace, and the potbelly is my idea of a perfect dream kitchen.
Thank you my friend
Amen! I Have Cooked On A Few Woodstoves In My Days
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But how much wood do you use all winter? Grandma only had a pot belly and it was only warm in front of it. She used coal
It’s all relative, how warm do you like it, how cold is it. And so on and so no. Saying that I have burnt less this year than I have in years.
Sitting and looking at a fire with loved ones feels like the most ancient soul-bound human experience possible to me
I agree!
One winter here up in Northern Alberta, we had 10 days of -27C (-17F), we've had -48.2 (-55F) in this Province, our wood stove in the LR kept the entire home warm, and our furnace never kicked on, not even once. My husband had it on a slow burn 24/7, it kept us toasty warm and I was able to cook on the stovetop. Kept a cast iron kettle filled with water so that it put moisture back in the air. Love it.
Great story! Thank you!
@@logcabinlifestyle a pelltier fan on the pot belly stove or it's flue pipe will use the heat to run the fan and you can place several of them to get loads of air movement and heat movement
btw even that pot belly stove sucks cold air into the home ... the difference between it and the others is that you can control better how much air it pulls in which limits how much f a cooling effect the incoming air has ... since the stove now gets time to heat that new air up
We have our heater stove low burning 24/7 in winter, cooking winter stews, soups, curries on the stove top, stove top fans moving heat around & always have a kettle of water boiling to add moisture back in the air so we never ever get sick in winter. Keeping our home sterile clean always helps.
My Mother always had her fireplace going, i asked her once why, as she lived in a modern home with central heating, She simply replied; “ a fire is company”
She lived alone as i do now in my cottage in Northern Ontario, Canada and i now fully understand what she meant. Happy Holidays and i wish you and everyone the very best for 2024.
Beautiful story and memory of your mother. You have a most wonderful Holiday yourself.
Makes so much sense
Yeah the fire is like a pet lol :)
I put mine on this morning ,before work Love It
A real fire does indeed bring joy to the soul. Why? Probably thousands of generations of safety and warmth has seeped into our DNA. It saddens me how most young people have no such experiences now.
When I was little my mom would take my sister and I to Bandon, OR to visit my great grandmother. It was a small house and it was bitterly cold especially in the mornings. The only heat she had in her house was her cast iron wood burning cook stove in her little kitchen. I have so many little kid wonderful memories helping her fetch wood and watch her cook us breakfast!
Wonderful memories, wish I had that❤
You are living in my version of Better Homes and Gardens! What an outstanding life you are living!!!
A fireplace creates such a nice warm ambiance.
I completely understand. I had a fireplace and love watching the fire, but wanted more heat for all the effort I put forth cutting, splitting and stack firewood. I have an airtight stove now with a really nice window and it is the best of both worlds. Nothing I like better than starting the morning with a cup of coffee and watching the fire.
What stove are you using?
There's a reason the phrase "home and hearth" is so comforting. So many family gatherings, daily chores, and relaxing moments were spent in front of the hearth. And what old country store would have been complete without the group of men playing checkers or visiting (gossiping) around the pot-bellied stove. 😊 I love your cabin design. My husband and myself are trying to figure out the logistics of putting a wood stove in our house. Oh, and I'm glad to see that Archie has a feline buddy!
I have always thought you live like a king with your set up!!! I hope every dwelling in Heaven looks just like your cabin but with a little land to farm! I taught 1840 life skills for many years and loved every day no matter how hard I worked and how tired I got. I would still be doing it but "progress" came to the historic site I worked at🙄. Now I still live a life that others don't understand but I'm happy...older than dirt now but happy!😁
What a great story. I believe heaven will be a lot of what is in our hearts. I’m going to be the baker. Delicious bread for everyone.
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Because I like it like that! I want it like that! God bless
The oven at my cabin in Norway has this newer technology where it doesn't even suck air from the room. It has it own pipe going under the floor to the outside, using the cold outside air for combustion. It is a sealed system so no smoke can get into the room either.
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Just discovered your channel and Im very impressed by not only your craftmanship, but also how clear and precise you are with your words. The cabin is amazing and to me is an almost perfect balance between old and new. Too many times I see ppl preaching the gospel of off grid, solitary living and to me that is antithetical to being a human. We are meant to have community. I like how how u still have some modern stuff too like electricity. Not everything modern is a bad thing. Honestly just a very balanced and thought out way of living. Bravo Sir
Thank you much for your kind words! Much appreciated on my end
That is one cozy-looking home. I can vouch for a good pot-bellied stove being a champ in the heating department. A relatively small stove will keep a surprisingly large area toaster in cold weather. And I think they have a quaint charm all their own.
Great video. I grew up with wood heat.. very warm. My mom would keep a kettle of water on top to put moisture in the air. One of my sisters would bake bread and let it rise near the stove.
I love your house. I love the way you present it. And I love the fact that you use three sources of the heat. Just like my grandmother used to.
Both of these are wonderful. I absolutely love the fireplace
I too cannot stop staring at a fire, so beautiful
I like how you show different types of wood heaters.
Wow.. what a beautiful cabin!
Sitting in front of a fire relaxes me like nothing else. Your fireplace is absolutely perfect, it's not too overdone, yet it's very beautiful. Great job on this!
Glad to see my dog is not the only one who is always in the way when I'm trying to go in and out the door.
😂😂, true, i thought about editing that out but then thought it’s not only my dog
All 3 Heat sources are Epic. That potbelly is so efficient, The Firellace is Grand and elegant, the stove is a Cooks Best friend👍👍🇺🇸🛠️🔧🛠️Be blessed brother.
I love iron cast stove. It’s my dream to own one. It’s a classic that is ageless. Looking at it as if time stood still.
My grandparents lived in the Alps in northern Italy, their house was built in 1771 and was made of stone and mortar, the only heating in the house (and only heated rooms) was a cast iron cookstove in the kitchen, and a special masonry stove called "fornel" in the living room.
The former was your typical wood cookstove with oven, the latter worked in a principle somewhat similar to a dampened rocket stove, with the smoke of the fire going through various channels and heating it up until you could barely touch it, and because of how it was built, very little wood could keep the entire living room warm and cozy all winter.
Thank you for shareing your beautiful Home with TH-cam :) the driffences between cook stove ,fireplace an potbelly stove is very interesting ✨👍 .
I learned how to cook on a slightly bigger cook stove than you have and I absolutely loved it. I also learned to cook in a fireplace. Enjoy using both! LOVE that cabin. Watching a wood fire is so mesmerizing
I don’t live in a cabin but I do have a wood cook stove right beside my fireplace also. I grew up in a home with no heat but wood set up like yours but with smaller potbellies in the bedrooms also. I never asked why so from listening to you I can only assume my parents knew what you know and I just copied what I grew up with. I really enjoyed learning this! My favorite is in front of any fire inside or out. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Jerry!!
Love the long comment with a back story, a story that let me take a look into your life and your childhood
Merry Christmas to you and yours as well!
My house is 1885 and only had a wood stove for heat. In order to get a mortgage 30 years ago it had to have a heat source other than the stove so they put in electric baseboard heaters which doesn't heat my old uninsulated house. I don't use them. Got a pellet stove about 20 years ago as the fire would go out and my son would get home from school and the house would be freezing ( I worked 77 miles away) that went up a few years ago and I don't have time for the woodstove so I just have space heaters. It's cold in here lol. Oh well.
i camp with my mates every winter and yes camp fire does warm the soul
Okay, I might be too old for you but that is my dream house and that is a dream kitchen, the cook stove and the real working cooking fireplace. I am in awe. That is fantastic brother.
It being your house “because i wanted too” should be all the explanation required, so thank you for going more in depth and passing on some valuable information.
Warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.
You are right! And you are most welcome. Greetings!
My uncle had a deer camp in Alpena, Mi with a beautiful pot belly stove. Lots of brass accents on it definitely a high end model yet still very old. Once that thing was heated up that main room was almost too hot to be in for me, but after sitting in the woods all day it was appreciated by all.
For sure there are times the cabin is way too hot as well! Great memories my friend
This cabin is sweet perfection.
My father built two of our homes in the late forties and early fifties. Before the furnace was installed Dad had a potbellied stove in our kitchen to keep us warm in the evenings in Wisconsin. This video takes me back to simpler times. Beautiful cabin and so homey.
I really do dig your home. This video is so cool. Learning about the difference in your heating devices and marvelous fireplace is a new one for me. Thanks for sharing. Also, your lighting fixtures are lovely. Such a great idea with all the period lighting.
Great cabin!! Perfect fires!! You gave me the proper ideias!! Thanks!!
I Absolutely love your home… that fire place is beautiful, the wood cook stove and the potbelly… basically all 3 would be a dream to have. Your whole place is a dream. Love it!
Fantastic place!
Absolutely dreamy to me, I'm "city folk" from the 'burbs of Detroit but i will retire ti the country soon.
Well i never dreamed of such a cabin but now i certainly will!
Congratulations on your upcoming retirement, and the best of luck to you!
@logcabinlifestyle I'm super interested in your cabin and homestead ideas. I subbed.
Thanks for showing your place, I will be diving into your videos and sharing it with my family also.
@chrisoconnor3119 thank you and enjoy them!
I heat with wood myself in my house living in the Huron National Forest. Had a fireplace the first winter then upgraded to a fireplace insert for this winter. Super efficient and have used only 2 cords of wood so far this winter. Plus I put a pot of water for tea that stays on there all day. Amazing setup you have there and a great cabin
Hello. You should change out to cold water then boil and make tea, it tastes a lot better than tea made from water that has been hot or boiling all day. Tea flavor is actually a lot more muted and hard for your tongue to pick up when all the oxygen has been dissolved out of the water. Another solution is having some way to shake air into your water before making tea, it really does make a difference, cheers.
Love the Cabin and how you put it all together. And how you stayed true to the history and character of the cabin.
Thank you
I love your home. Beautiful. We heat our home with VC Defiant. Been a wonderful 30 year relationship with that appliance. I have burned wood for 43 years. Only air/air., best way to go. Our cabin has FP, woodstove AND vookstove (multi fuel Kalamazoo Pilgram) , my wife said WHY three wood burning items.? BECAUSE of all the reasons you listed. Again lovely home.
Your place is beautiful! My grandparents had a stone fireplace on one side of home and kitchen on other side and they used both in the evening. Sat around the livingroom fire place and listened to the radio.
I think it is beautiful, solid, well built, I want one just like that! Well done!
Love your place! I have a modern frame house, well insulated, on a crawl space foundation. To illustrate your point on drawing air for combustion, the air has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is ultimately from outside. I burn a Kuma secondary burn stove for heat. When I 11:56 first put it in it was vented into the crawl space for combustion air. During -20F weather this drew that outside air through the crawl space access door, chilling the crawl space and the floor in the entire house. The stove couldn't keep up. That summer I installed dryer vent hose from a vent on the access door to the makeup side of the stove. Makes a huge difference. House stays toasty and the stove doesn't have to work so hard.
I love the presentation of this video. I love learning new things about stoves.
You did such an amazing job on that fireplace. My favorite feature of your house.
I love your cabin. It looks perfectly livable and cozy, all anyone needs...
It's just beautiful!
Love you place, and items in it! Love your doggie, too.
even though I am only 66 yrs old, I remember living in a house with Pot Belly stove and we lived in the city. One of my earliest memories is my dad and uncle melting lead to make fishing sinkers and using the pot belly to heat the metal. 1958 Evansville, IN
Great memory! I have done that also! I’m only 52 and we had a potbelly when I was growing up also
Makes a lot of sense. In summary...
Pot-bellied stove: Super efficient heater
Wood cookstove: Great at baking and cooking
Fireplace: Was installed prior to the others being popularized. Good for cooking meat. Also best aesthetics.
Exactly!
Excellent thermodynamics lesson!
I totally love you cabin. i would give up to have your setting. Cabin is beautiful.
Ich schaue mir dein Video zum ersten mal an. Ich dachte mir so ein gemütliches Sofa und ein Sessel wäre nicht schlecht. Und schau an, genau der Typ Sofa und Sessel die ich als besonders gemütlich empfinde stehen da. Genau an einem so schönen Kanonenofen den ich auch richtig klasse finde 😊.
Es sollte möglich sein, das jeder der so wohnen möchte genau so leben kann. Bei solch einem Zuhause braucht es kein Fernsehen 😊
I absolutely love your cabin.
Thank you
I love it. Your cabin is beautiful. ❤ We’ve got a kitchen queen 480. Can’t imagine life without it. It heats our whole house during the winter. Rated to 5000 sq ft. We only have 2000 sq ft, so it far exceeds our needs. 6 pieces of wood per day during cold days brings our house to 70 degrees. Really cold days we build a fire in the mornings and stoke it up again add one or two more logs to get us through the night. Uses convection to move air, a wonderful design. Built by the Amish out in Montana. What we’re missing is that beautiful fireplace, in the kitchen for cooking. That’s a dream. ❤
I Love your home! Perfect setup and decor! Excellent job!
I love your cabin, my dream, I have an addiction to cooking with fire and heating with fire. My many stoves can vouch for it. I keep building spaces to give them purpose 😂. I absolutely love your home!! This is the first video of your's that I've seen and I am hooked.
Thank you, and Congratulations! I am most certainly the same way. Don’t miss the outside brick oven.
I love your home and that cook fireplace is incredible!!!
Thank you so much!!
That completely makes sense. I can see having all three if I owned a cabin. Great presentation! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Such a beautiful cabin and interior setup! 🥰🥰🥰
If renovating or building new it would be smart to build radiators in the flue to circulate heat into pipes under the floors and to radiators in other rooms so the fireplace fire is taken maximum advantage of.
Your Cabin was built in the same year that "Stille Nacht" was first performed in Austria how apt. for the time of year, The Song is Silent Night for those who do understand German.
Wow, this is incredible. Thank you for sharing that with me.
3 diff ways to cook and or heat the cabin is smart. Backups to the backup. That's smart thinking. Would come in handy say for a big Thanksgiving family dinner or in an shtf scenario. Great ideas for viewers if they wanted to do a complete off grid build. 2 thumbs up!
As God, our father puts it so beautifully in Exodus the Pillar of fire. As are light at night is our comforter. Also, warm us. It embraces us. It holds our soul.
God bless you, Jerry, and thank you for loving Jesus Christ.
I've always found that burning a fire in a fireplace warms a person up exceptionally well - when one has to constantly go outside to chop more wood. ;) I find it interesting that many such period fireplaces in Europe were often vented for partial oxygen intake at the back of the hearth, and minimize the cold air seepage but I've never seen that done in the US or Canada. That was even more often the case with large brick or cast iron stoves. Our cottage had two such wood burning stoves, and two coal burners. My grandfather still did a lot of wood chopping all the way into his mid eighties. What an appetite 40 minutes with a 3 kilo axe builds.
Thanks for the heating knowledge. Good to know so I can appropriately prioritize what to install.
I totally love your setup. My fireplace was converted over for a deisel heating furnace. I'm hoping to bring it back into a fireplace again! For a potbelly of sorts. We used to have a mama bear stove. But we didn't use it that much. 😕 love your vision!!!
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
I only just started watching you and this image of your cabin at 0.46 reminds me so much of the Ingalls house on Little House on the Prairie except behind the fireplace was Ma and Pa Ingalls bedroom with the children in the loft above. I loved watching that programme in the 1980`s. I will need to go back to your oldest video now to watch in the correct order.
Good to know! Beautiful Home, rustic, all anyone would ever need right there. Lovely.
Merry Christmas
I love your home! It's super rustic cozy and I would totally live is a log cabin! It's beautiful 😍
I gotta say, this is just about the best thing ever. Love seeing how this potbelly stove works and thanks so much for sharing your home with us. Excellent explanation of how these things work. Lots of appreciation and kindness here, thanks man.
Love ❤️ ❤❤❤❤❤this cabin!!!!
First of all your home is breathtakingly beautiful and second of all thank you so much for such a great explanation this was the best video ever
Thank you so much!
LOVE your cabin !!! 😊
Thank you
Love the content!! Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
Amazing place!! Congrats! A dream place... and very useful information, makes totally sense!
какой красивый дом,с ума сойти,великолепно! 💞
For the first time in my life, I understand why a fireplace doesn't heat a home. All I was told was, you lose too much air. I need to know why something happens or I'll ignore whatever you say!!
You are a very good teacher.
Train yourself better.
First house the hubby and I owned was heated with wood stoves. We upgraded to a Fisher Grandma Bear. Best heat in the winter ever. That type of heat does it thru and thru. Wish I had it today
lived at 11500 ft.cabin had 5 stolves.in it fireplace.needed them all.loved it.frig was a pull up one.2 stoves heated the large water container.and making bread. 1 was back up.2 for cooking and extra heating of the cabin.so I got it why the stolves.thank you.
I use an old parlor stove to heat my old farmhouse( I have a furnace) but feel so safe knowing I have wood heat in the middle of a S.D. Blizzard. Love your cabin.
I was raised with both, a fireplace always my favorite, not as efficient, but my favorite
I LOVE IT AND IS SO VERY BEAUTIFUL AND INVITING.
Beautiful cabin. Feels like home! I was shocked when you said how old it was!
Beautiful cabin, beautiful dog.
Thank you for explaining the differences between a fireplace, cookstove and potbelly stove. I have a smoke allergy, but wish to eventually own a stand alone house with off grid capabilities. I live in MN so it gets cold here. Now I know that a fireplace is a definite no, not only for the smoke, but it wouldn't heat my home in an emergency like the furnace going out or the power going out. I was thinking that a Vermont Castings intrepid with a catalytic option would be good since the smoke fumes would be re-burned and it is sealed. It would also satisfy the emergency cook top and friendship features you have with your three fire choices. Maybe not. I was also looking at a Jotul which has no catalyst, but reburns anyway. My ex mother-in-law had a very nice little ceramic surrounded wood stove to help with her heat, but she had issues with the smoke even with the catalyst (that was a while ago). What do you think? Would a tiny cook stove like a Vermont bun baker be a good option for emergency use? I also thought that a wood stove would be easily removed if I couldn't tolerate smoke leaks.
Some very good questions. I say yes you are on the right track if you can only have one. Get something that does it all. A fireplace is my favorite but it is the worst one for heat. In most cases it’s negative numbers. So that’s out. The one thing I can tell you about a wood stove no matter the manufacture is if the chimney is proper, there should not be smoke in the building. So, focus on that. If you need help I’m here.
Yes! I want a kitchen with a stove and a fireplace. My ideal kitchen 😀
I am watching this with slow jazz music in the background. One day I would love to have the set up you have but I would hire you to set it up safely ! Thank you for explaining all the nuances of woodburning stove vs. firplace and of course you new Living room stove intstallation. You video are keeping my mind off of health issues ! Perfectly. Many , many thanks.
You sold me on a potbelly stove! I did not know any of this! Thanks!
You are most welcome!
The kitchen is the center of the home, always been that way! In a one room home in the fashion of a pioneer home, everything will happen in that room, cooking, sleeping, eating etc.. Stands to reason a fireplace would be there.
If i were living off grid i would definitely have more than one source to heat and cook with in my home,it makes good sense to me❤
Amazing place absolutely brilliant style.
Thanks go steady Sam
In the Fifties and Sixties I grew up in a house built in the early 1900's. Very large kitchen, which had been upgraded with electric appliances but the Majestic cast iron stove was still present. It was almost the exact same design as this one and burned both coal and wood. There was still some plumbing behind it where a water tank must have been attached to the back.
Handy for burning paper trash while boosting the temp first thing in the morning plus heating and cooking when the power went out. We had a basement filled with wood from the apple trees cut down in the neighboring lots as more houses were built, so we had years of some additional heat for free.
My aunt had both. Also, electric stove. We used the fireplace for heat to warm when we visited.
Yeah its a awesome setup you need options for different seasons😊
I have a potbelly stove that I heat with and a wood cook stove right next to it. I’d hate that imagine having to heat with a cook stove that would make for a restless night that’s for sure. I use the potbelly stove for cooking things that can be fried at an indiscriminate heat or for boiling pots of water or soup because in the winter there is always a fire going in it and I can’t be bothered to start one in the cook stove and wait for it to heat up (a long process) enough for it to be useful as an oven or for a vigorous heat for frying things. That being said your comment about it being the best for baking is certainly true and for cooking anything that requires a low steady heat (I make cheese so it’s very useful for heating the milk slowly without scorching it.
This must be the coziest cabin i have ever seen!
Thank you much!
Fantastic explanation. Thanks and regards from Madrid ❤
Hello and welcome!!
I fell in love with your place!!!!!! I love fireplace ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you!
Love it! First time watching
Welcome
I have no issues with the video, so I'll just describe my own situation for those who might be interested.
I live in urban Seattle, where annual low temperatures are typically no colder than 15 degrees F, buty might occasionally get down into the teens.
I have an old house I rent out. It has a conventional fireplace in the living room and has a masonry brick chimney in the separate kitchen which I use to vent a natural gas fired cook stove, furnace and separate water heater. But I would say that that chimney was once used to vent a wood or coal fired cook stove.
The fireplace has the aesthetic attractions of a fireplace and the huge inefficiencies of a fireplace as well.
In my own home I have a gas fired furnace clothes dryer, water heater and cook stove, and a steel wood stove. I scarcely ever use the gas water heater, dryer or furnace.
So most of the heating is done with the wood stove, fueled by scrap wood readily available from nearby commercial and small industrial operations, such as a lumberyard. I can get all the wood I want and typically need do no more than cutting it to the length I desire for burning in the wood stove.
So the wood stove provides all the heat used in the house, except in rare conditions. I also heat water on it for domestic use during the heating season, and do much of my cookng on and in the stove as well. The stove top doesn't provide loads of heat for cooking unless the stove is stoked up. At other times, I often cook IN the stove, setting pans right on hot coals.
That takes some practice to avoid burning food, but I'm pretty good at it.
I can do baking reasonably well in a Camp Dutch Oven, which has feet on the bottom designed to be put over the coals of a fire and a flanged lid designed to have hot coals shoveled on top. That does pretty well for baking.
I just used the wood stove this morning to make canned salmon chowder, for example.
But the gas cook stove provides superior baking, and I use that for baking things like bread, cakes and pies.
Also, during the summer, the BIG disadvantage of wood fired cooking is that an indoor stove heats up a house a LOT! So during the summer I'll typically use the gas range for cooking, and mostly use jugs of water painted black and in a Styrofoam container for heating water much of the time.
While these things do save me money, mainly I consider them hobbies ---things I enjoy doing. I also do such things as collecting rainwater, so I've used ZERO citiwater for many years. All hobbies I enjoy doing, which also may save a few dollars. But if they become burdensome or I lack the time for them, I can always use the gas backups.
Anyway, those are things I do for my enjoyment in retirement at age 74.