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I’m building my home from scratch with very little experience on 18 acres of raw land that I’ve worked to develop for the last two years!
This week I needed a bit of a break from the house and felled a dead tree, bucked and split wood and answered some BIG questions!
Thanks for being here!
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I have to add a comment after watching this video young lady you and your family are doing an admiral job, clearing this land and building a house. Don’t let anybody get you down. me and my wife enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work stay positive and remember….. God loves you.
Thank you so kindly for this :)
What song is playing while you're bucking the tree? His voice is amazing! Whats the name of that song?@@SimpleLivingwithBiata
@@SimpleLivingwithBiata Geothermal heat pump as "additional" heater next to your wood burner might be useful support. Giving some base heat, keeping things heated when no-one is home and making it easier to add heat with woods
Love watching your videos I am a HUGE FAN! Keep up the hard good work! Your house is coming along beautifully!
Ben Goldstein - Home Flower! @@Yahawah_
Girl, I know it is tough sometimes, but don't let narrow-minded people try to pigeonhole you, your husband, and your family into what they think is appropriate. I appreciate you and am thankful you let us into just a tiny bit of your life building your homestead. I hope whatever is stressing you out gets resolved. Take care, and I look forward to seeing your next video.
Thank you so very much. I hope it all get's resolved too. Everything should in time!
Keep it up! Awesome video series. My wife and I built a 2 BR house in a calendar year, ground up construction loan to finished new house mortgage. We had three sons under 7 at that point all of us living in a construction site. She was an electician and I was military (USAF). Amazingly, no one died, no divorce. Good job!
Thank you! Wow that's so much work! Haha no death or divorce is key!
Tractor or a piece of equipment that has more than one use, plowing snow, clearing a area, taking lumber to a splitter, working in your garden, I hope I explained myself clearly. Really enjoy your videos
Thank you! Great idea!
So proud of you! So happy for you. I would love to live out there building my own and truly owning it. Don't stop there's people here rooting for you.
Thank you so much 💛
If you wrap jute cord around the brush in a few places, you can cut them and have neat bundles to chuck into the toboggan and wood boiler.
It's awesome that you stick up for your husband. People are thirsty for drama these days
Oh I love that idea! Thank you! That would be much easier!
You guys as a family are doing a great job. 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you!
I love the sass! It's no one's business where your husband is. The channel is called Simple Living with Biata so I feel you can share what you want without explanation. Weirdly, people don't understand the channel is your full-time job. It takes a lot to create content. Choosing a topic, filming, editing, and uploading is some serious work. I appreciate your work and am inspired by you. Each time I watch, I learn something new about homesteading that I can use in real-time. Thank you!
Yes yes yes! Thank you so much 💛! It’s a ton of work. And even if I got my husbands help one day, editing takes like 20 hours a week. So I’d love his help there!
Biata. Out of courtesy to you, i am informing you that i am closing my TH-cam subscription down. Thank you for being a part of my life. This has been a hard decision, because i wanted to continue the journey to see the end product. But for personal reasons i have to do this. So i wish you all a successful completion and happiness in the future. Stay safe, keep smiling, you know what to do. ❤❤🫶🇬🇧
I loved your comments about you and your husband. Im just sorry that you felt you had to explain things. You are a total class act!!!!!!!
Awh thank you!
It's so easy to watch a video and tell someone how to do something, but you're the one there you know best! You're doing an awesome job!!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
As a tractor owner I must say the pto is a great advantage. A rotor tiller, chipper and snowblower save me time. For digging through a tractor doesn’t cut it. Adding a backhoe with a thumb will round out your equipment.
Burning the brush in your burner make sense why waste it in brush piles. I burn a lot of my small branches in my wood stove. And yes you are correct about wood in the house, the dirt, bugs and wood chips makes for lots of sweeping and vacuuming plus the ask and smoke.
Thank you so much for the tips! I appreciate it!
@@SimpleLivingwithBiata Absolutely...a tractor with a PTO and only get a backhoe with a thumb!! Being able to grab on to things (as you know from the excavator) is priceless. I have a couple of small Kubotas. They're nothing big, but the amount of work they've done and back breaking work and time they've saved is valuable. Clamp on forks for the bucket sure are handy too!
Everything thing that you so generously shared about your personal life is really no one’s business. Live your life your way and please don’t apologize for it.
Thank you so much
I have never split logs but will have to try it some time. It’s great to see you in action and to hear all your plans. Lord willing all will work out in the end. Don’t feel you should have to explain what’s the dynamics of your personal relationship - it’s no one’s business but your own! Stay healthy!
Thank you so much 😊
I haven't commented recently, but I have been an avid admirer of you and your adventure from the very beginning. I am so pleased that you have become such a skilled axe and chainsaw worker, even now skilled and fit enough in using different weight axes !! I thought I would just like to say you are brilliant, and you shouldn't get too upset with negative or bullying comments. Remember, it is often a sign or indication that people are jealous . Take care of yourself and everyone in your family.
I’m saddened you had to answer personal questions or more so felt a need to. One’s personal life is no one else’s business. You and your family make an amazing team and it shows. Be safe and may God Bless each of you. Nice skills on that tree by the way.
Thank you so much. Yah it felt like a need at this point to stand up for someone I love the most!
You are awesome. Do everything and make improvements little by little as your time permits. Always ignore the negative people. You and your husband do the absolute best to balance out building, work and family. Keep up the great work.
You should buy a 15+ year old Kubota. They are amazing and bullet proof. I owned one for years when I built our house. They are easy to repair by anyone if you have issue, but honestly don’t really ever fail if maintained. Get one with a front loader and then you can buy a used snow blower. I live local to you and would be happy to help you with the search as I’m a diesel mechanic and know what to look for.
Thank you! I’m hearing good things about older machines!
I have a Kubota B8200 4wd manual transmission if you’re interested. Only reason I’m selling is I bought a second one with a loader. I’m located in SW Ontario. Cheers.
I have a 1994 27hp Kubota with a loader and the only regret I have is that I didn't buy it new in 1994. It is difficult to express how much time, money, and energy it has saved me. I would suggest you get a quick release on it. I added one to mine and it was a game changer. You want to be able to have both a bucket and forks and I can switch in about 60 to 90 seconds.
I truly admire what you are doing to help your family! You are doing an incredible job from building to bucking the wood! I know people can be rude and cruel, but they are the ones with the real problems! I love your channel! Just keep doing what you do!
Just a little trick to split by hand with an axe: if it doesn't split on first hit instead of trying to remove your axe and hit again just lift up both axe and log up (if not too heavy) and at the high point rotate the handle so that log is upward and hit the axe upper part on another log. The log gets split by its own weight falling onto the axe. It works very well.
Thank you for explaining your life, telling the story. I cannot wait for Sunday videos. I raised 4 kids myself, a bunch of that on my own, built my house and did the things you are doing too. Three of my kids and I built three tiny homes on a piece of land we bought, and have a nice little compound. The kids learned so much from what I call farmsteading.
Wow! Beautiful life! Thanks for sharing!
I definitely think a tractor is a good choice. You are doing awesome. I am 59 but when I was younger, I would have loved to do what you are doing. My husband and I are partners too and share the load. You don't have to explain yourself or your relationship with your husband to anyone. I am totally enjoying your videos.
Thank you so much for this! Glad you have an equal partnership too
You should get a Tractor. Help with all the chores around your place...plus you can get a wood splitter attachment. The split wood can be hauled back with the tractor saving your back.
if you go for a tractor and have one with a PTO, you can put a lot attachements on it for removing snow, chipping small branches (might be easier to load chips in the burner than a bunch of small branches) and even a wood splitter.
Thank you so much!
Those haters must not have watched your earlier videos where you explain that your husband works full time and that he does help when he can. You and your family are doing amazing in building your homestead. Would love to be your neighbor, cause I certainly would offer my help. Not an expert but have remodeled our house with wife's help. Again, you're amazing. Gid bless.
Personally, I think you are AWESOME! Taking on a home build is a huge task. You and your family keep doing what you are doing. I also think it is great that your husband supports you and helps with everyday family things and also works a fulltime job! Kudos to him also!
I’m sorry that people feel the need to make negative and hateful comments .I am so impressed and think you are an inspiration. My thought would be to get a four wheel drive tractor with a bucket. You can get forks on the front for scooping brush . What I do is drag the cut trees to where I stack them then cut them up and that way I won’t have to load and unload them. The bigger trees I cut in half before I drag because I have a smaller tractor. I enjoy watching every week.
Most of us use pickup truck's to move stuff like that around. I would not go through life without a pickup truck. If possible move a splitter to your big rounds so you won't have to move them very far. Roll them on there sides to the splitter. Then load the split wood on your pickup to move the wood to where you need it.
I have a small compack tractor (25hp) with a frontloader bucket, pallet fork on the back. It also runs my woodchipper as well as the tiller. It pulls, lifts things i can never by hand, it moves 3 wheelbarrow loads at one time. The frontloader can have a snowplow. We do not get enough snow for that so no experience here. But the tree you just cut down i would have cut in 7ft sections and moved with the front forks.
I love that! Love the idea of the forks too because then you can cut the trees off the ground with the forks, right?
This is what she needs. I added my comments as well.
Yes absolutely. @@SimpleLivingwithBiata
You don’t have to make excuses for anything, it’s you and your husband life,enjoy each other and your daughter.
Some people just have nothing better to do. god bless🙏🏽
Biata as I have said before you are doing a fantastic job at building your new home and taking care of your family. Your personal life and relationship with your husband is none of anyone’s business. You both are doing an amazing job of making your family run smoothly.
As far as buying a machine to haul wood and plough driveway, I would look at a little tractor. Or a Kawasaki Mule. I watch Demasi’s Log Cabin videos and he uses one. Anyway good luck. Looking forward to your next video. 🙋🏻🇨🇦
I'm 44 and have been hand splitting since I was 10, and I will continue as long as I can. I find it very cathartic. You're not wrong on a power splitter needing that "buddy" equipment to make it work. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! It is so cathartic!
You split that wood amazingly. Your doing a great job.
Thank you so much!
My friend has log splitter that he tows with atv to the big rounds. Splitter tilts down so he can just roll rounds in. Then he tows the split pieces back with atv trailer. He can plow the driveway with atv too, but he has to make couple passes during large snowfalls.
Oh wow! That’s super smart. And ATVs can go anywhere on the property too
People should worry about their business and leave everyone else alone. You and your husband have a good working relationship and that means more than worrying about your neighbors business. I love your videos and admire what you and your family have accomplished. Keep up the great work.
I love you and your attitude and life plan. I, as a woman, split wood by hand until my late 60s. Now I use a splitter. Each to our own.
You do not have to explain your life or your husbands to anyone just keep doing what you are doing .
My daughter has been working as a mechanics assistant for two summers in a row and last fall started her apprenticeship for heavy equipment mechanic all while finishing high school and starting college and she is only 17 (very proud of her) .
Ignore the ignorant people and comments the rest of us have your back .
Keep smiling and putting out great videos 😊
For those big rounds get a couple splitting wedges. A tractor would be a huge help. Because it can utilize various implements. The thicker ends of those limbs are excellent firewood because they are dense. You're do great.
Thank you so much!
you are very welcome@@SimpleLivingwithBiata
I enjoy your attitude and outlook. You're a great person to experience in this format and despite a break in watching because my life got in the way I love how coming back to this channel every now and then always feels great!
You rock! And yeah, it is 2024. Some people need to wake up, they apparently missed two decades...
Hahaha thank you! Love that last comment hahaha! And life does get in the way doesn’t it. Thanks for popping back!
Wood chopping is an excellent way to get your core strength, but it will give you a full body workout too, dont worry about trolls dont give them any of your energy, keep plodding along at what you do best, your content is great, you have loyal followers, getting close to 50K.
Biata I am a Dad. May I say I am proud of my children and would smile from ear to ear on your strength to journey your dream. Never let anyone critique you negative bother you , it’s done sorry to say to make them less negative of themselves.Dad is watching.
to make them
Thank you so much ☺
My vote is for a tractor, great for every season, and many useful attachments. Hope to see that 50k subs soon. God bless you & yours Biata.
Thank you so much!
You go Girl. My wife will willingly help with anything I ask but getting out there on her own to split wood or build a house, yeah right. Your husband is a lucky man and your love for him shines through. Blessings to you and your family.
Love seeing you progress over the months! Keep up the good work!
Good day, you and your husband are doing an awesome job of be a young family. You have worked out what suits your family needs best and you’re getting on with it. Good on you both!
Thank you so much!
A big wooden mall is nice to have on hand when your splitting mall is stuck, just hit it again with the wooden mall. Love your channel.
Hi Biata, I'm a 65 year old Australian male, IHMO I think your doing a great job, Cheers m8. In regards to your Hubby, every video I have seen him in, he is always Smiling & Happy, I always assumed you 2 were very happy about your roles. Cause seriously, building a house & learning as you go is a lot of hard work. Why would you do it if you wern't being supported by your partner??? Stay Happy, When you have finished this project, you will look back & be able to say "Look at What I did, I built that, with the help & support of Friends & Family". Way to Go Biata!!!
When i started my homestead i got a skid steer. It will literally do anything. For my logging process i drilled a hole in the bucket for a trailer ball. Then i got a trailer style splitter with a bad motor. Pulled the locked up engine off it and now it runs off of the auxiliary on the skid steer. I can haul everything in the bucket and tow the splitter around.
Definitely invest in a sub compactor tractor with a loader. Living the way you live you need one. You just need one. You will be physically exhausted and done ina few years. You work too hard for that. Get a towable log splitter, tow to where you are splitting then load the split wood into your front bucket. Or get a small trailer and tow back, then come back for your splitter. You can get a snow blower attachment or front blade to push snow for a sub compact.
I have had a small John Deere tractor for 25 years I don't know how anyone gets by with out one. I cut the grass, move dirt around, 3 point snow blower, haul fire wood, move the splitter around, use the forks to move anything heavy. I've had great luck with John Deere, kubota is great too. I don't know much about bobcat, they are not made by bobcat just rebadged. I really admire you trying and doing all these things.
Congratulations! Splitting wood is exercise, not work. I'm glad you're happy about it. My only suggestion for moving the logs would be a dragline type of winch, to pull the logs to the driveway. Then the cutting and splitting might be easier. Keep moving the winch as needed. Good luck to you. Thank you, and keep working.
Biato, tu pozitivní energie kterou vy a vaše rodina máte prostě nemá chybu. Jste úžasná rodina, proto vás máme všichni moc rádi a hlavně si ochranujte svoje zdraví👍👏❤
Luvs...From Vermont....One Tough Lady...Love Your Vids !!!.......You Owe No One.....An Explanation Biata
Wonderful to see the smile back.
Hi Biata thank you for your videos really looking forward to seeing your house finished
I have a loader tractor, but side by side may help haul wood but also pull the sled. Can use for snow removal too
You go Gurl! As my close friend say F%*&um. Do you. You are beautiful & a strong woman. Good for you keeping your personal life to yourself. You blow my mind with what you are doing & all the fabulous things you are learning & teaching your daughter. Please keep it up & be true to you🥰
Hello, I did a lot of wood cutting and splitting, a tractor with a loader works great for it all. In the winter put on chains and go anywhere. You can put a splitter on the back and lower it down to the ground easy to use. A tractor is one machine for doing it all.
Before I had a tractor I used a 5/16” cable and a few blocks. Pulled everything out using my old 1969 ford. 2 wheel drive. Look into rigging. I’ve never had a hydraulic splitter. Just like you are doing, I learned the best ways as I worked. 😊
Get yourself a tractor, multi use, with a bucket, you can get a plow attachment to plow your snow or a snowblower attachment as well and it will help you on your land much better then a snowmobile.
In the spring or summer we partially buried a large log base. For the difficult pieces it works well.
Also your splitting form is excellent. Most people don' t use their legs and swing only from the upper body.
I love your channel. It has inspired me to try my own repairs and building in my new home. Keep up the great work. What you did was phenomenal. You have my respect.
Biata, you are amazing, I can't imagine how much you have accomplished, and how well you are doing. Many people would not take on what you have, and that is alright, but you are doing a great job. Looking forward to the next video. 😊
Biata, you rock and your husband rocks too. I really respect and admire you, for taking the time to respond to those comments. I would have kicked them like a can. Are you sure you’re not related to Zena, Princess Warrior, Wonder Woman and Shira🧡🧡🧡🤗
Going to put my vote in for a compact loader tractor as well. Try to look ahead at what potential projects you have planned for your homestead as well as your immediate needs when doing your research. (Gardening, saw milling, landscaping etc) This will help you in your considerations for attachments as well. My biggest advice is DO NOT make the mistake of getting an underpowered tractor the first time. 40 h.p. Is a good sweet spot for small to light duty all the way up to medium duty projects especially if you plan on lifting or dragging logs. 4x4 (MFWD) is a must along with a loader. Hope this helps! Cheers from Minnesota🇺🇸🇨🇦
Your doing and amazing work 😊…little by little your making progress that’s awesome 😊😊
Nice video, I agree, a couple is just that, and each have to share the family life and work. Good for you if you like the outside work. For the machine, I suggest a small Kabota tractor with a front bucket (to carry items) and a wood splitter pto attachement on the back. You could also purchase the snowblower attachement for winter. One do all machine. Keep up the good work.
You don't HAVE to answer anything. You are you. You share, what you are comfortable sharing.
I heard some wise words from you; "One step at a time" and "It is such a nice day today". Keep remembering those small things, and you will succeed. You get there.
Thank you for sharing you super interesting journey 👍🌞👍. Congrats on your new maul. Have a nice wood splitting party 🌞🌞🍰🎈💪💪💪.
You're doing a great job in this stage of the work. FWIW I've been burning firewood for over 20 yrs lol. My #1 machine is my Polaris 4wd ATV (2005 bought new). Plows snow, pulls small trailers and skids logs out of the woods. I use that machine 12mos. A logsplitter that tilts vertical will make rolling those big gooner logs easier. I bought a used splitter and works great for that. I have woodstove so I split smaller, but you can leave bigger cuz that boiler will burn longer with bigger pieces. Chainsaw: never should the chain touch anything but the logs. Not even snow. I cut thru maybe 80% or so, then roll the log over with a "cant bar". Then cut the remaining 20% thru off the ground. The really big base logs I tow the splitter out, tilt vertical, and split those in the woods and haul back later. Firewood work is 12mos, never stops.
Great job with your explanation on your personal choices and maintaining the relationship aspects separate from your vlog. Your husband is very important to you and your family therefore if he appears in the content, you both have fun working together, he works hard and long hours but so do you. Congratulations on pushing this message that your relationship is based on working “together to achieve your goals “.
Keep up the great content and communication
I look so forward to your videos. Thank you.
As many people have already commented, it would be nice to find something that is more than one use, a tractor would be awesome. I also thought maybe a side by side you can hook a trailer to either one for hauling wood. A tractor might be more useful with all the attachments. Maybe pick up a old four wheeler that you could hook a trailer to.
By the way, you have mentioned several times that your husband works a full-time job. Maybe people do not always pay attention. just keep doing what you’re doing and thank you again
Tractor with 4 wheel drive front bucket and 3 point hitch so you can buy impliments like rotitiler, plow, wood splitter etc. You are doing a wonderful job building a beautiful home. A bob cat would be ideally the best (with tracks) because you can do so much more with it. You got this and i ❤ watching your progress.
You can also make a block about 4 to 6 inches high and roll your log onto it. For the difficult ones you can get a splitting wedge you hammer it in and it slowly cracks the log. Take care!
I have a boiler. 80 acres of land. I decided to go with a, Can-Am outlander with a track kit and plow for winter. I skid all my logs out in winter. Here in Wis. US.
I garden, tap trees, hunt, fish, etc, etc. The Can-Am does it all.
Best wishes to you and the family
consider looking for a small 4 wheel drive tractor, with a 4 in one front bucket and a splitter with a lift on the side to raise logs for splitting. Also consider building a table at your wood furnace at "door height" make it easier to load!!!
I usually refrain from commenting especially on a women’s channel! Much respect splitting wood.
I tell ya tho, a wood stove inside is amazing. We installed mini splits big ones 2 36k btu units, and it doesn’t come close to heating as good as a wood burning stove.
You mentioned having a room to keep wood inside. I keep mine in a detached garage or a covered outside, and grab what I need for the day. Look forward to the next video!
so most log splitters have a hitch and an axle with wheels so you can bring it to the tree and split wood where ever you would like but yes you would need something to tow it to the tree say even a riding lawn mower would work but maybe not so much if you are trying to do it in the winter months
awesome work btw!! your killing it :)
When you have property definitely a pick up truck is the ideal vehicle 4 x 4, with a plough on the front for your driveway and to be able to haul all the wood that you need to haul but if you're looking for something a little bit more compact a side-by-side or UT is great. It has the towing capacity to move your wood and you can also put a snowblower or a plough on the front.
A compact tractor with a bucket and forks would be a big help and good in all seasons. Instead of a snowmobile I suggest getting a UTV - again useable all seasons. With a winch it can help pull trees out and a trailer attached for moving logs. A plow for moving snow is terrific. Get one with a cab so you are protected. Kubota RTV's are perfect for your application. Plowing wet or deep snow is no problem - I maintain about two miles of dirt road with some good hills and never have had a problem. The high capacity dump body makes moving logs, gravel, stone, etc. easy. Good luck.
An atv with a trailer for the trees in the bush. Can also put a plow on the front. Plus fun for recreation on your property.
I'm 70 years ol and split about 6 cords per year. Two suggestions to make your life easier. By the way, you are doing great at splitting wood. Roll the logs next to your sled, where they need to be. This allows you to. immediately keep the area clear and step sideways to split the halve logs. Get a Hookeroon so you don't have to bend over and grab the logs. It will save your back and energy. I have a custom made AXEROON, a splitting axe with a hook on the back. I never bend over to move logs and lift only small split logs. Keep it uo, you are doing great and right on the learning curve.
Oh that’s a great idea! Thank you!
...Oooo...it's a Bless,n to have a lady that will jump in an work on family projects...
Keep at it..looking back at what u hav built...!!! I got it from my Dad,,an family..farm/cattle/building an repair Equipment , old car,s an trucks...a
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The commitment, stamina and determination you have is absolutely amazing to see. So happy to have found your channel.
If anyone did a little research on the past in rural areas (pre-electricity), the women did most of the wood splitting for the home fires. The men were doing their job and the woman were taking care of the home, so there is nothing odd, historically, about what you are doing. You're right about it helping the back, as long as you stay within your limits like you seem to be doing. Impressive work and thought process.
I have a Kioti tractor, Bobcat tractors are made by Kioti. Kioti tractors are real work horses and are less money. Get as much tractor (HP) that you can afford. If you get a tractor with mid-PTO, you can put a snowblower on the front. Get it with the loader. Tractors are very versatile! Don’t get a backhoe, rent an excavator when you need to. We don’t need to know every detail about your lives, I don’t talk about mine on my TH-cam channel! People just need to be supportive! Have a great week!
I’m in awe of you, and I didn’t think for one minute your husband didn’t help you when he gets chance, it’s great the work your both putting in, don’t listen to any negative comments your family is amazing, I would love to know if your house slab is warm and how warm, all the best from the uk.
Good evening Biata Your doing a awesome job at building your home and keeping up with the wood, your a smart lady and i am sure you will figure what you need it all takes time and doing the right move is important. in my area we all got quads with trailers to move wood around in winter skidoo and wood slides. some say built a shed what you got is good if you don't want to buy new lumber make it out of pallets there free and wind can blow through it drying the wood. take care and have a great week
I have really appreciated this video. Just to add to your video, my wife and I do the firewood together. I will cut and split, and she usually will stack the wood. Team work.
That’s awesome! And thanks!
Get a 4x4 quad then you can use that as a tow vehicle for splitter and transporting the wood or even dragging smaller trees. You can also buy a trailer to use for moving all kinds of things around the property. you can also attach a plow to it
Skid steer. They have snow thrower attachments. They have log splitter attachments. They can haul a big ass wagon full of your wood. 😉 definitely look in to solar. If you can add a big enough farm, the gov't will give incentives if you allow them to tap in. Also, small wind turbines are gaining popularity. Keep up the great work! Fist bump to the hubster. 😆
I've been watching your videos since YT suggested it 8 months ago. I LOVE how you do things. You have an interesting way of communicating... and the energy!!! Even though I'm 53 yrs. old, I want to be like you when I grow up. My wife frequently walks by when I'm watching and she's like 'Wow' look at her! I LOVED cutting down trees and splitting logs when we had a wood stove. It's one of the best feelings in the world to split a log. It physically feels good AND knowing it's saving $$$ is just icing. I didn't know it was good for the back. You are literally awesome young lady! One of the best things to watch on TH-cam if you ask me. I can't do what you do, but I can tag along while you guys. Thanks for doing this. I always look forward to your uploads!
Hi Biata, I hand split my firewood for many years and stuggled to move logs around using my pickup truck as a skidder. (Very hard on the truck). Finally I was able to afford a tractor. Works GREAT all year round. Buy as large a tractor as you can afford. I bought a Kubota L2501 which works ok, just wish I had gone a size larger. When pulling logs or moving heavy snow the extra weight would be the difference between really working the tractor vs breezing through a job. The bucket is like having a full time hired hand at your disposal. Once you have a tractor you'll find all sorts of things to do with it. I use a push blade on the back for snow. Buy only heavy, high quality implements for it too! Implements are necessary so plan ahead and include into your overall budget. Good luck and best wishes. Steve
JD 1025R would do wonders on such a small scale it would also help clear snow. I strongly recommend a larger tractor with a power down three point hitch and a cab. I also recommend a rear mounted blade, a front bucket, an auger with at least a 12 inch bit, and a rear mounted snow blower just to start. Make sure you have a trailer to move the tractor or other piece of equipment the trailer doubles as a log carrier quite often.
100% a small tractor in my mind... excellent for hauling tree, creating woodchips, attaching logsplitter(if ever), mini-digger(backhoe style), frontloader with pallet forks and SO much more.
Also, your husband is out providing for his family, and you do amazing stuff while he's away for work... what's not to like or even love about that 🙂I sure do !
As you continue with the inside of the house, you can look at the possibility of installation a wood stove with water jacket if you install correctly, you can choose whether you want to burn the wood outdoors or indoors.
You are an amazing woman. Thank you for sharing your videos and time. It is such a joy watching you complete projects and living life. I split wood by hand and I enjoy the exercise and it is such a stress reliever when you only need to worry about hitting that piece of wood. Hope you find piece and can relax soon.
Utv's are a great help around the yard and more simple to work with but a tractor is a great work horse for some of the heavy jobs. If you plan to always work in the woods away from the yard you will probably end up with both over time. 😊
Good afternoon. I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and have watched all of your videos and loved what you have done. The only thing I keep thinking is that you needed a tractor with a front bucket and backhoe to save you from renting equipment. The things that you’re step dad did in the wetlands could not have been done with a tractor but a lot of the other things you could have done. One thing I learned about splitting wood is always try to split from the bottom of the tree as the fibers are meant to hold it together from the top.
That said I can’t wait for your next video. It will be a long week.
Hi biata! for sure a tractor would be versatile enough to take care of various chores around the property, adding the attachment of multiple functions and of course the brand would be from suggestions made. Blessings
My "vote" for next machine investment would be a tractor. It'll help skid the logs out after you fell them, can use it to plow out your driveway and any other trails you want clear, and with so many other attachments available, you can do so many other tasks with it as well. Kubota is my preferred brand. And yes, also a log splitter 😁
Thank you!
Hey there I'm with you on cutting my own wood I feel so much better after less acts and pains 👌
Glad you got out of the house for a while 😜 cutting up some firewood and brush reminded of your early videos to be honest it's kinda relaxing you guys will get it done one day at a time!! Go with the bobcat it would be great all around!
Thank you! It’s kinda fun to do a relaxing wood splitting video