I was born in 82'. not that long ago I suppose... but my Grandma heated her house with a wood stove. never in your life will you be as cozy when its freezing cold outside as you are sitting in the living room with the wood stove burning. There is something that all the central heating in the world cannot replicate. The smell, the subtle crackle... the infusion of real warmth. Almost like a loving hug.
I met my wife in 2008, while on a solo motorcycle trip from Watsonville, CA, to visit some friends on Vancouver Island. We live in Mendocino County at 1100' elevation about a mile from the ocean. A wood stove is our ONLY source of heat for a small, but two story house....although we do have some portable electric heaters and can use them in a pinch.....although it is not uncommon to lose electricity here in the winter for three or four days in a row.
@@thruitallauto2538 In 2007, I was kidnapped by aliens in a classic Flying Saucer almost two decades ago. They heated their craft with reverse candusa sub orbital drive anylax....when they dropped me off, I managed to 'confiscate' thier primary heating unit, installed it in my forest home and have been keeping my house in northern CA toasty warm ever since! So, WHAT does it use as a power source? .... It glows a soft purple when operating! I have NO idea as to why!
I was born in '83 myself.... grandma had a wood stove as well!.... Yup... whenever power was out, which didn't happen often but when it did it'd be out for 2 weeks! ... I swear the hamburger's and fries tasted waaaay better...but getting it started and what not actually took skill!... Oh yeah and the fact that it was a big house it'd take a couple of hours to get heated up!.... I gotta strange feeling things are going to go back to those kinda days! Get right with the LORD please... Please ♥️
I live in Bulgaria and my heat source for winter is wood stove, which I also use to heat continual hot water for dishes and cups of tea etc, I also cook on my wood stove , it’s all part of the joy of winter
Myself and my husband ended up spending the night with a Amish family..because his truck broke down..they can cook and they had a wood cook stove..it was awesome if you want something built you ask them to do it.. they don't build anything half-assed they do it right the first time..
And WHILE they work the DO NOT take so called "smoke breaks" for 15 minutes per hour wasting their employer's money and making non smoking employees work harder to compensate for the absent smokers. We had an Amish crew put a metal roof on our home. Took 2.5 days and that included all the clean up. And they worked for half the cost of the local non-Amish companies. Nice quiet crew without blasting radios, no yelling cuss words and no gross visible tattoos. We are so thankful we lived close enough their non Amish driver hauled them and their equipment trailer right into our driveway. When my hubby offered a gift of $25 for the fine work --- they thanked him and refused the money, saying they had given an honest price for the job and it had been accepted. That was fair to them and they just couldn't take more. They did leave business cards to let other people know what work they did and how to contact them for job estimates. Very nice, good men to have on our property and we always recommend them.
I have much respect for Amish people! Amish people are survivors and you can learn a lot from the Amish. Thank you for sharing this video. I think Amish homes are beautiful! I have loved the way the Amish live every since I was a little girl. There are Amish people where I live just further out in more rural areas! I learned a lot from this video. I like wood stoves and the lamps they use.
My grandma in Ireland burned turf which was dried out peat from the bogs where this fuel was harvested.Steady heat and in brick form kept her cottage cozy.Not to mention as a child with four siblings we all slept in the same bed during our visits.Laughter warmth and family is what I remember and also the beautiful aroma of the fireplace ☘️
I grew up in rural Oregon....both our cooking stove and house heater burned wood, and I, from the age of 12 to 15, being the eldest of five, was responsible for keeping the supply in the house (we let it go out at night) Then we moved to CA and I, for decades, relied on natural gas. Then, while on a solo motorcycle trip, I met the woman who would become my 2nd wife....a former toughened Aussie. We live in rural CA, 110 miles north of San Francisco, a small wood stove being our primary source of heat, so....now, at age 84, still MY responsibility of keeping the porch supplied with wood....although we do have a propane cook stove....and occasonally some help from people she works with....YES, she still, at age 87, works.....NOT because she has to, but because she WANTS to! BHE
I live in Central NY. it's starting to get cold (mostly at night) here now. Last October, I was thinking about random things and it popped into my head how my parents had a place east of where I live that we used a wood stove for heat. I'm so sick of 3 4 hundred dollar electric bills. So I made my own wood stove. Used all winter, saved hundreds. Used it a few times this autumn already too.
@@NaiaHickey-NiblettThey have tons of teaching tutorials on here that might be helpful. Best of luck if you determine to make your own. Just make sure you insulate it properly and make sure it’s up to code so your home is kept safe.
Wood stoves have really been a life saver and yes, they're a lot of work, but they throw a great heat and as a bonus can be used for cooking if your power goes out.
Jason Stewart, "The FIRE MASTER", New Zealand, started my interest in masonry heaters and their secret to turning a stove or fireplace into a "gasification" high temperature heater that "burns smoke". If you use pellets or SMALL wood to get a fire to 1,050F degrees and direct that fire into a refractory tube (3-4" diameter) placed above the flame. Within that tube's first 2' the fire temperature will jump to 1,500F degrees and within another 2' of travel inside that tube 2,000-3,000 degrees will manifest (I bought instruments to measure this). And, at this elevated temperature "draft" becomes PUSH (not suck!). This fact can allow a tube to to PUSH hot air back and forth "side to side" inside a firebrick or stone fireplace or stove that will heat a vast heavy mass that will stay hot for more than 1 day on a (short) 1 to 2 hour burn. This refractory gasification principal was discovered in the far East Europe thousands of years ago and is found today in a "masonry heater" computer SEARCH and also in wood and oil gasification "WOOD GUN" boilers built by ALTERNATE HEATING SYSTEMS. Amish have built "WOOD GUN" GASIFICATION boilers for boiler dealers operating NORTH of Warrensburg, NY when I lived near there an elected Assistant Stony Creek, NY Town Assessor and Architectural designer with my Wife who leads the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra.
We have only discovered wood as a fuel since moving to rural Wales (UK). We assumed we would be able to obtain wood fuel cheaply or for free if we put in the effort, but it was hard going for the first few years. We used a lot of driftwood, culled trees in our garden and occasional gifts from neighbours.The local wood suppliers , obtained from the many managed forests in the area provided backup, after charging to `season` the wood by drying, `using massive amounts of fuel. Then we were lucky enough to discover pallet wood! Even in a small rural town, businesses put out broken pallets for locals to use as firewood whilst businesses charged exorbitant costs for holiday visitors to buy cut logs to have a `fancy rural experience`. We now have almost free heating, but it takes a lot of effort to gather, transport, cut and store our supply. Keep working at it and you will find your solution!
I grew up on my grandfather's farm. We heated with wood and coal. Cooked on a wood cook stove. The 1710 home was heated with a coal steam furnace. I still live on part of the farmland.
I grew up with 2 Amish grandmothers. They heated with wood when it was free or cheap, but they also used a lot of Anthracite Coal. The coal works great, especially overnight, it burns steady and for a long time
my parents and grandparents heated their homes with coal. it is very dirty , yes anthracite coal is dirty buring. washing walls was a major spring cleaning every year. bad for your lungs as well.
im not Amish, heating our house with wood for years, loved the wood heat and miss it. I dont miss getting 6 cords of it to burn, bucking it 16" lengths, splitting it, packing it home, packing it to the wood shed, packing into the house to burn. cleaning the stove, cleaning the chimney and constantly dusting the furniture.
@@betharris633 being able to cut my own wood to heat with is much more efficient: no income tax, no fuel tax, no propane fee. Better on the environment too!
I’d rather do that than pay $50 or more for a gym because we live sedentary lives. My father did it, never made more than $40K a year, retired at 45 and was worth multi millions when he passed away
Grew up in Iowa and we heated with wood. Split wood and stacked it for winter use. When I got my own house I heated with wood. I did have a gas furnace for backup but rarely used it.
I had friends who lived in rural Illinois they had a two-story farmhouse they had a fireplace and two wood burners on the main floor up in the ceiling there was vents placed in the flooring upstairs which let that heat transfer to the second floor in the middle of winter when it was 12/13 below zero the house stayed about 68 to 72° it depends on how much wood was in the fire fireplace or in the wood burning stoves they did it right because I remember sleeping upstairs in that old farmhouse and it stayed warm and cozy
If you want to burn wood for cheap get to know your local Amish. Sawmills and furniture type places can have all the hardwood you need. Here I can get hardwood slaps for $20 per all I can haul on a 5x10 Trailor. I can heat my 1200sqft ranch in southern Ohio for $100 p/yr.
I was glad to see that you mentioned the proper installation and care for the fires damper and placement. Otherwise all that heat just goes up the chimney. And May I add trying to find a tradesman with the relevant knowledge and expertise or specific parts and knowledge. Just to know and appreciate how a chimney works efficiently and vents properly while still giving the occupants a safe supply of oxygen inside.
The new EPA wood burning stoves and inserts are really nice. They have a secondary burn that is really hot. It produces more heat and no smoke when it's properly set up. This means less maintenance cleaning the exhaust pipe. They are pricey, but it pays off because you use less wood.
Sounds like an excellent thing to do. I'm wondering how Amish support the weight of those heavy quilts when they hang them over their windows? Do they have some sort of special heavy duty curtain rods?
My best friend heated his home with a wood stove. I used to drive truck for him when I was single back in the 90's. So when I came off the road I stayed out at his house, which was a big six bedroom home. I always had a room to myself. Always was warm there.
We once stayed on vacation at a mountain cottage with a tin roof for one week and it rained a lot that week, I LOVED falling asleep at night listening to the rain on that tin roof!
I live in rural NW Wisconsin and about a third of is up here including myself heat with wood and if you have the time and the want you can collect enough free wood to provide for most of your winters heat or you can buy a truckload of oak or ash, good burning woods for $1000, delivered, that will last many years. I love the heat and ambience of heating with my wood stove.
Cutting wood is a great work out and way to clear your head. If gathering , cutting and chopping wood is going to prevent you from going down this route to heat your home it is not bad at all. If you own land it is ideal. If you live in an apartment I can't help you but I look forward to my time chopping wood throughout the week.
It is OBVIOUS!!! The Amish absolutely refused to give-up and forget their common sense. I wish i could become Amish! Their lifestyle seems to be very congruous with True Christianity. Thanks for this posting.
i was raised mennonite, so we had electricity and such, but my dad always tried to keep the heating bill down and as we lived in northern wisconsin winters got pretty damn cold. we had an outdoor woodfurnace for water heating, an indoor cast iton woodstove for reducing the electric bill for heat, and all our wood was free as we went to the local woods and literally found anything that had already fallen and cut it up and brought it back with the truck. ahh those were simpler times.
My in laws had a 10,000 sq.ft three story plus basement built in the 1800’s. The house was heated with a huge wood burning furnace. It worked wonders….
We bought a Generac generator. We have to use propane with it. We have a fireplace that we are going to hookup propane to heat with it. We don't have natural gas where we are and our home is all electric. We have double paned windows and have blinds on them. I'm thinking about getting curtains to go over all the bedroom windows too. Our home is really insulated good. But it's 2300 sq living ft with a 12 ft ceiling in our great room. Since heat rises a fireplace alone doesn't keep it warm and the rest of the house is cold. Going to see if we can figure something out to save on electric bills. I keep my thermostat at 67 degrees and I'm confortable.😊
Pellet stove are NOT efficient especially because you have to buy the pellets and lug them to the stove. As a 60+ female it just wasn't practical. As well, the pellet stove still needs electricity so no good if the power goes out. I ditched the pellet stove for just a wood stove which gives me more heat that the pellet stove couldn't provide. Than yous for the information! My biggest take away is a lower ceiling needs less space to heat.
A pellet stove, we'll burn for 12 hours. A wood stove will burn for maybe 4 hours. I have both. I use both all winter. When it's really cold, I run the woodstove and pellet stove. If it's not that cold. I just run the Pellet stove
I did not know they used low ceilings in cold areas of the country, it makes sense because in the deep south it was normal to build homes with high ceilings to keep the house cool in the summer, because they knew that heat rises.
@@goatman6151 Does it use electricity? Do you buy the pellets? For me, the wood is free -- just have to harvest it. If the electricity goes out so does the pellet stove. If you run out of pellets you can't just go into the forrest and get more.
@@goatman6151 You need to get a better wood stove, and use harder wood . My stove can slow burn easily for over 8 hrs. I'm in Canada so winters are no joke .
We had oil heat in the mid 1950's. I was about four years old and watched the "oil man" fill the tank. So, I could do this too. I put the garden hose in the filler neck and waited until water came out. I was satisfied it turned out well. My dad tried to turn on the heat. He found out and decided to put electric baseboard heat in. I don't remember getting in trouble.
You don't have to be Amish.... I'm in the UK, living in a 1950s ex-Council semi-bungalow in a residential area. I ripped out the knackered old mains gas boiler when I moved in and have heated with wood only for over a decade. I run a cast iron wood burner in a large thermal mass chimney breast which heats the main room and the bedroom above. Main section was built when the house was built but I added mass in the main room when I moved in and it now releases its heat over more than 24 hours. I'm careful about prepping my wood fuel and when the thing is running, it isn't noticeable to neighbours or passers-by. The main room is a sitting area and office and stays cosy whatever the weather and is half the ground floor. Wood comes from a nearby ancient woodland. It's derelict hazel coppice being restored to coppice cycle with excellent nature conservation benefits. I cut it myself which keeps me outdoors and active in winter helping my mood. If anybody is interested, click the Anemone icon and go exploring amongst the videos (unmonetised channel). The other benefit of burning wood is that I no longer burn fossil fuel for heating - this means that I don't contribute to increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. I never burn coal. However, I do cook with electricity and if we're away in winter, we do have low-output electric heaters to avoid frost damage. My halo isn't as tight as it could be..... I do cook stews on the wood burner when it's running and the back-up to electric light is paraffin (kerosene) lamps, which get used once in a blue moon when the power goes off. They were all inherited and are older than my Dad who'd be well into his 90s now.
@@Sadler2010 I'm not breaking any law by burning wood as domestic heating. It is unusual.I don't live in a smoke-free zone or anything. I could possibly get into bother with the Council if someone complained about smoke being a nuisance, so only burning properly prepared wood keeps the likelihood to a minimum. My neighbours burn wood and coal. Coal means more pollutants, smoke and odour.....
@@anemone104 I figured it'd be at least looked down on quite a bit if not illegal, here in the states they've gotten insurance companies to threaten to cancel folks insurance for having the wrong kind of wood burning stove even when it's original and working fine.
I don't like living here in the UK at all, trying to be self sufficient and independent is very hard without some kind of rule or regulation. If I had the money I would be living abroad and wish I would have done years ago, the way things have been going and is heading it's a no brainer for me. I don't feel like an adult most the time and really get blue hearing about the freedoms my friends abroad talk about having. It really puts your own life into perspective.
The climate crooks are trying to outlaw wood and coal stoves worldwide. I live on a canal boat in the UK. Our heating is small wood/coal stove. I burn a mixof "smokeless coal briquettes" and wood. The briquettes are basically crushed and washed coal. The quality is not what is was! I cannot carry enough wood to lasy all winter but with the coal at £13.50 a 20kg bag it makes it go further. We have the fire on pretty much continuously from Oct - April. We slow cook stews and have a kettle or two on the top for tea and hot water. Baked potatoes in the firebox..YUM! 😁 However, the UK gov are banning where we can use them. Thankfully I avoid cities like the plague. However, the long term plan is to ban them.
They are doing the same in Canada . I live in a rural area and wood is cheap since farmers have to manage the forests on their properties , so they process it and sell it . Win/win . $110 CAD for a face cord . The warmest heat you can get. The playbook seems the same in western countries . Same narratives and same destructive policies that are seemingly designed to destroy economies .
It's downright EVIL what the woke liberals communists are trying to do to our normal wholesome living practices in our countries, things such as heating by fire wood/coal. I'm in the USA.
Generally speaking, burning things is not good, but burning wood is an exception if it has been sustainably harvested. Of course, you don't have to cut down healthy trees for this.
They are doing the same in the USA. Trying to bann wood stoves,fireplaces.. I use mine to heat and cook aswell . I'm poor and rely on it in winter months. Nov- April.
@@jamesmurphy713 It's disgusting what the woke socalist/communist/marxist Democrat left is trying to do to us and take away. Make America Great Again TRUMP 2024❤🤍💙.
I’m not Amish, but here in the north woods almost everyone heats with wood either as a back up or primary heat source. Wood has been the primary source of heat in my homes for more than 42 years. Yes, it’s work to maintain, but the quality of the heat is better than any other kind. Food tastes better cooked on a wood flame too. Oil is only for backup when I’m away. I buy 100 gal every couple of years, usually in the summer when the price is lower.
The best part about it in Canada is you are not giving the government their criminally high taxes on a necessity of life . The Canadian government is beyond unethical and immoral .
Look up kachal ofen a fire place with the flues going horizontal at a slight upward pitch usually going into two rooms always in the center of the house
Dog mills and mistreated draft horses who are worked into the ground, sometimes literally. Horse Plus (Tennessee) has rescued some as well as other rescues.
They do in fact use solar panels. They as a group are the largest users of PV solar in the US. Their trade magazines are full of ads for turnkey PV solar systems, and battery powered tools.
Off grid and been heating our house with a wood stove for 26 years. Flat top Jotul, can Cook on it if needed. But I like to make pizza in it after I’ve just cleaned it out. Fire on one side. Have some extra fire bricks I set on the other side. Put my nine inch stone on them and make pizzas for the wife and I. Old saying. Firewood heats you 4-5 times before you burn it. When you fell the tree When you Buck it up When you haul it When you split it When you carry it in And when you burn it.
@@mariekatherine5238 that is patently false. Alot of Amish have to use the 'English' as they call them for rides to jobs and to do other errands in the cities, and they found out fast that Covid was around. You act like they are totally isolated from the rest of the world --they actually arent, and I know that living not far from them
@DJ_BROBOT No, they don't. They don't even need any of us. They rely on each other. You're probably thinking of Reform Amish. I also lived very close to the Amish/Mennonite community
While I could argue about some of their philosophies and logic behind them, let me say this about the Amish. It's a good honest wholesome lifestyle. Yes, I spent a fair amount of time with them myself, did a barn raising with them, worked with them, and so on. I really wanted to start a business that I saw a store in Oklahoma City (before the whopper big tornado destroyed it) called Amish creations. They had home furniture they built, lawn furniture and gazebos, and all sorts of products. This next item I saw on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno where he did his newspaper things and I actually saw one of these and think it was pretty cool. He showed an add for an Amish Monster Wheel truck made out of wood that you could buy. I would have thought it funny if I hadn't actually seen one with my own eyes. Yes, they do excellent work, very fine craftsmanship in their products. I enjoyed being around them and hope I was not disturbing to their way of life or comfort. BTW, this video, where did all those pictures come from? Very little of it was a reflection of what Amish use, do, or subject related to the narration. Seems like most of those pictures were just grabbed from somewhere on the internet and inserted without total thought as to what was being explained. There were hardly anything to show the wood stoves they use to heat and cook with. A lot of narration without a proper picture to explain what was being said. It lost me on a lot of stuff knowing what I do know about their lifestyle.
I noticed a lot of the "video" it showed was from a movie-back in the 1980's or early 1990's. It was about a murder, set in Amish community and the lead actress was the same lady that was the lead female actress in the original Top Gun movie with Tom Cruise. I think her name is Kelly McGillis? Anyway-lots of scenes from the Amish movie she was in. A smile hid her with them to keep her safe.
So many of these you-tube producers are rank amatuer wannabes....and, it definitely shows. About ten years ago, my wife and I visited some friends who lived in Amish country (Who were NOT Amish) and drove a rented car down some of the paved roads in the area....covered with plentiful horsesh*t droppings from thier horse-drawn buggies. BHE
4:22 The primary source of heat for most Amish homes is the wood-burning stove. These stoves not only provide warmth but are often used for cooking as well. Wood is a renewable resource that they harvest and store themselves, allowing them to stay independent from outside energy sources. These stoves are placed strategically in the home to provide maximum warmth, often in central areas where heat can radiate through multiple rooms.
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain But that's just perfect for an Amish like me You know, I shun fancy things like electricity At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine Then tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1699😉🎶🎵🎼
Masonry stove heating systems have been around for at least a thousand years and maybe more. Cast iron stoves arrived after the invention of, yep, cast iron. We have heated with a fabulous cast iron stove that keeps our home at 80' while it burns on very low for many hours. My husband has bulk whole logs delivered and he cuts and splits it with power equipment. Why are you showing other burn sources when you talk about other types? DOWN RIGHT MISLEADING TO THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE SPECIFICS. You should also make it clear that almost all the footage you use to represent the Amish is stage movie or TV footage played by ACTORS since you would never get permission to film or video observant adults and their children that way. I think you should be honest about this.
Yeah, I've heard them called either a Russian Masonry heater or Swedish tile heater. They have been around for a millennia or more. There's a pre manufactured one out there, I installed one for some rich guy.
It's wild to me that we "needed" a video on how the Amish heat their homes and it turns out its just wood stoves lol. There are tons of people all over the country, especially those who live outside of large cities, that heat with wood stoves. In fact, if I had to guess, there are more non-Amish Americans that do this than there are Amish doing so. What a wild and unnecessarily long video to just say "heat your house with a wood stove to avoid electric and gas".
So sad for all you citizens everywhere who live under British rule and never figured you needed a Constitution, Bill of Rights or our Amendments. Right now our government barely follows them but at least we have them. You Empire people have nothing to protect you from a government gone communist. I know you always relied on the sovereign to stop bad government but Charles is even worse. That sadly is why you can't cut or collect fire wood. I grew up with coal oil heat, wood cookstove to heat and back up the LNG cookstove as well as an inefficient huge fireplace. Now we heat a 2,000 sqft home to toasty warmth with wood that is free and legal and currently delivered right to our property so we can cut it to length and split and stack it. Our great big back yard looks like a fortress as we keep 3-4 years wood to dry by stacking it within our fence and covering it. When the zombie apocalyps happens we have excellent shooting lanes, great deep cover and fuel for fires and heat!
In Australia, we also have " Combustion Stoves". Usually using either wood or pellets as fuel. These stoves can be set up so you can cook on their surface, bake or roast internally, heat up so you'll get THE hotest water you can imagine. As well as build on a kind of ducted heating system throughout the house/ building. Very efficient and c ost effective/ saving . Maybee.... Our problem here is the high, high, cost of purchasing the wood. Deornding on where you live here, you can pay around $250.00 - $400.00 PER Square Metre of wood. In very cold parts if Australua, you coukd easily go through a metre of wood per week.
I had a newspaper route when I was a kid back in the late 1960's.. The paper stations where we picked up our papers were just metal sheds, about 20X30, with no insulation. One potbelly stove in the middle, heated with coal. There were metal tables stacked with newspapers 6 feet high and metal coal bins around the outside walls. Those stoves would keep those paper stations toasty warm even when it was 20 below zero outside. Even though they were jammed with paper and kids no one ever got burned, and there were never any fires. Then, in the 70s, the city forced the company to get rid of the stoves, said they were dangerous. They put in overhead forced air gas furnaces. Those stations were always cold after that.
Isn't this how Americans lived once upon a time? The Amish has kept this tradition as a part of their lifestyle, while America has accepted the use of updated modern types of heating. My grandmother had nothing modern in her home except an old fashioned black circular dial telephone. It was always cozy and warm, lighted with kerosene lamps. But that was considered POOR, in the 1960's not frugal. Thank you for explaining how frugal this way of life can be today, and the needed equipment is still available.
We grew up with a wood burning stove. We also grew up with a lot of manual labor. Even when you can barely hold on to a log, you're still forced to participate in the ability to enjoy the heat When we got out of the house, my youngest brother and I would cut wood for him to heat his home. It would be a negative 27 degrees F. We would bundle up and go out into the woods. After a couple of hours of cutting and stacking wood for transport (will raise your body temperature). So we would start peeling off our clothes. By noon time, we were in just plain clothes. Heating a home by wood takes a lot of energy and time. If you have that much time on your hands, jump at it.
Honestly, I would stay away from pellet stoves, just because you're solely dependent on pellets. When the price goes up, you have no other alternative than to pay up. With a wood stove, at least you have more options. But... a pellet stove is more convenient.
I Wish I Was Born Into the Amish community instead of this messed up world we live in right now because if we all lived the way they live now just imagine that I give them much respect
There's a thriving community of people that help abused women, children and even adult men escape that cult. That should tell you everything you need to know.
@@nodak81 100% true in our area. And for these folks to flee, they are desperate. Unless it is the male head of family, that person is leaving with only the clothes on their backs. They are leaving their culture. And most of them are leaving everyone they've ever known. (Not all sects practice shunning, but most do and all the sects in our area do.). That takes utter desperation. I remember one older man who told his story from decades before that when he fled as a young man, he wasn't even wearing winter outerwear and had no idea where to get help. I remember that he said he spent the first night buried in a pile of leaves for warmth. He was a desperate young man. If you are a female, unless you want to be property, you do not wish you were born Amish.
I've passed many buggies hauling 40 plus gallons of gasoline. Let that sink in...your using a horse to haul gasoline. While I respect the work ethic of the Amish, it seems more like a massive organized crime family than a religion.
In Denmark in a town called Christianfeld, they use simular masonari ovens, some of Them 300 years old, firering only ones a Day, they are stille used at the lokal hotel, where you also can wiew Them.
We're in northwest Indiana, and our insurance premiums would double if we used wood heat, per our insurance agent. Heated with wood stove 40 years ago, and it was the best heat ever.
@@gsdalpha1358 Northwest Ind too. I like the the thermostat on the wall. Until I was 15 I didn,t live in a house with a furnace. Our Mother hung our sweaters behind the coal stove to dry, they were frozen the next morning. My sister were sleeping in the same room . 😪
@@andegrace6935 Oh, wow, that sounds *rough*! When I was a kid we had a central furnace underneath the floor with one big vent in the middle room of the house. My sis and I would get out of bed in the morning and run to stand over it to get warm.
Our great grandparents had stoves with boilers that heated the water for their radiators and baths. Sadly these were phased out because in the 50s gas was cheaper than wood or coal
One little problem with burning wood, ask your insurance company how much or even if they will insure you. When I moved out in the country one of the first things I did was to buy a wood heater for the basement where all the pipes and water heater are just incase. When I had a insurance company come to inspect and quote me a price stated that I couldn't even have it in the house hooked up or not. So Maryland area. And for anyone who may not know if you place stone or rock near a fire to much heat will make them explode.
I live in Philadelphia 64. I remember my father lighting a coal heater in the cellar of our row home and the city would have specific trucks pick up cinders for snow days on the roads. We had a coal bin in the cellar for coal deliveries. Now I think insurance companies do not insure properties with coal heaters either.
Something that my father built that's better than just a wooden stove is a Wooden stove with pipes connected to the Reservoir full of water and pipes going out of it in a loop back to the wooden stove. When the stove gets heated, the pipes warm up, the valve for water gets opened and water starts circulating. Water gets hot, it goes up the pipes and all around the entire house. However, this requires a skilled welder like my father. The issue with standard stoves like the one at 1:45, is that all the heat goes straight up the chimney and barely stays in. The wood burns too fast, thus the reason my father decided to remove that furnace, fix up the hole and build the furnace in the garage 5-6 feet below ground.
German -Swiss American here! I admire a lot about the Amish. However, it would be very difficult for me to be an Amish woman! I am too liberated to be Amish! 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🤔😉😉😉🤗🤗🥰
@@crystalbluepersuasion1027 U are a blind fool. Anyone that has read the Holy Scriptures can see their fulfillment in today's current events. Your destination regrettably is "Shake and Bake Snake". John Froelich Ph.d mathematics, NSF postdoc, IT consultant etc.....etc.....
Here in Ontario as far as I know Ontario Canada, we cannot have wood-burning stoves in our home if we want to have insurance, so therefore we rely on either gas or electricity would I love to have a wood-burning stove yes but at the age of 81 who’s gonna cut and chop my wood and bring it in for me, but you’re right there’s no better heat than that from a woodburning stove
All homes should have a wood burning cook stove for power outages. We certainly do. Been off grid since 1969. We are never cold in the dark or hungry. No utility bills because we make our own power with solar and wind because the sun don't shine at night but the wind blows. We make power 24/7. Have everything in my house you do except a monthly utility bill.😂😂 Dandahermit Washington NE mountains above the snowline.
I've read a letter from year 1905 written by a Croat who settled in USA to his family in Croatia. "Best thing here is that once you build a house, you live for free the rest of your life. You make a hole in a bottom floor and put a pipe down untill you hit a layer with gas. Then you install pipes and vents, and you heat, cook, light a house. Everybody does that in the USA." Have you heard about that, Americans? P.S. I have an average house in Croatia, and majority of heating we have on wood, mostly on leftovers we collect around and put in a barn where it dries, actually we clean the surrounding and our nearby wood. Also we have our well for water, which is clean (I took a sample to be tested). All our grandparents lived like that, even in big cities.
We have a cast iron stove/ Fire place imbedded in a masonry fireplace in the basement it can easily heat the entier house a regular stone fireplace in the living room upstairs on the living level.
An old "pot belly coal stove" (from 1910 to 1950) can be a decorative piece in the house, but also provide emergency heat if things got bad for a while because they also burn wood. Of course, you would need a "temp" chimney system and stove pipe "ready to go" and stored somewhere to vent smoke out of the house. In the siege of Stalingrad in WW2, many used an open window for their chimney pipes in apartment buildings. It's prepping that seems like a decoration.
Korean ondol underfloor heating system. Combine with one of these. If you have an underfloor area, solid pipes from the masory heater then outside vis the flu or send to an external shed etc then out a chimney if only one building.
It's hard work and sacrifice, living in an Amish Paradise. Most of us don't have the time, the health, or the means to do what the Amish do. I don't have to agree, but I do respect their culture and beliefs... They are also awesome.
Nearly all council homes here in the uk were coal fired heated,usually with a back boiler to heat the water,that was until the mining strikes and Maggy thatcher that killed off the coal industry,now we are all dependent on russian gas😢
I heat my house with an open fire in the sitting room and a solid fuel rayburn in the kitchen run on wood, coal and peat , it heats the house and does all the cooking
So, sure wood works. You need a way to distribute it within the house, so all rooms are warm. You must get the wood and take care of the wood supply long before the winter. Even if you buy it, it must be kept near the house, protected from rain and snow, stacked correctly to dry, and brought to the house consistently to have on hand. it is dusty in the house, must be attended to as it burns, and wood burning stoves can be especially hot. Used one for 20 years as an addendum to oil. Worked great, but it is work, and can be expensive if you don’t cut your own wood.
No insurance....no building inspection....no bank holding the mortgage....no neighbors to complain about ...no city by-laws disallowing wood burning in a city .....
There are gravity fed pellet stoves that function like a rocket stove and radiate heat with no electricity. But otherwise, almost all pellet stoves are plugged in to drive an auger, fan, and fan exhaust.
Its great if you dont have to leave for work. I just heated with wood years ago. I had to drive 77 miles one way to work. My son would come home from school and the fire had gone out. He would say he was freezing and at 11 i wouldn't let him start a fire. I had to buy a pellet stove which would run way longer but didn't really heat my insulated house but it was something. We would stand in front of it all the time.
I wish I belonged to this kind of community. The world is falling apart, but Amish people will survive, cos they're self sufficient and actually can do smth on their own. Unlike us, who think food grows on supermarket shelves
I was born in 82'.
not that long ago I suppose... but my Grandma heated her house with a wood stove.
never in your life will you be as cozy when its freezing cold outside as you are sitting in the living room with the wood stove burning.
There is something that all the central heating in the world cannot replicate. The smell, the subtle crackle... the infusion of real warmth. Almost like a loving hug.
I met my wife in 2008, while on a solo motorcycle trip from Watsonville, CA, to visit some friends on Vancouver Island. We live in Mendocino County at 1100' elevation about a mile from the ocean. A wood stove is our ONLY source of heat for a small, but two story house....although we do have some portable electric heaters and can use them in a pinch.....although it is not uncommon to lose electricity here in the winter for three or four days in a row.
Wood heat radiates near and far infrared energy, which is source of healing for humanity.
That's part of what feels so good about wood heat.
I was born in62 raised on coal heat, an when out on my own, I used wood, best heat around, went to heat pump in 2010, froze my hindend off ever sence
@@thruitallauto2538 In 2007, I was kidnapped by aliens in a classic Flying Saucer almost two decades ago. They heated their craft with reverse candusa sub orbital drive anylax....when they dropped me off, I managed to 'confiscate' thier primary heating unit, installed it in my forest home and have been keeping my house in northern CA toasty warm ever since! So, WHAT does it use as a power source? .... It glows a soft purple when operating! I have NO idea as to why!
I was born in '83 myself.... grandma had a wood stove as well!.... Yup... whenever power was out, which didn't happen often but when it did it'd be out for 2 weeks! ... I swear the hamburger's and fries tasted waaaay better...but getting it started and what not actually took skill!... Oh yeah and the fact that it was a big house it'd take a couple of hours to get heated up!....
I gotta strange feeling things are going to go back to those kinda days!
Get right with the LORD please...
Please ♥️
I live in Bulgaria and my heat source for winter is wood stove, which I also use to heat continual hot water for dishes and cups of tea etc, I also cook on my wood stove , it’s all part of the joy of winter
Just visited Bulgaria and loved it. Would love to see winter
Myself and my husband ended up spending the night with a Amish family..because his truck broke down..they can cook and they had a wood cook stove..it was awesome if you want something built you ask them to do it.. they don't build anything half-assed they do it right the first time..
And WHILE they work the DO NOT take so called "smoke breaks" for 15 minutes per hour wasting their employer's money and making non smoking employees work harder to compensate for the absent smokers. We had an Amish crew put a metal roof on our home. Took 2.5 days and that included all the clean up. And they worked for half the cost of the local non-Amish companies. Nice quiet crew without blasting radios, no yelling cuss words and no gross visible tattoos. We are so thankful we lived close enough their non Amish driver hauled them and their equipment trailer right into our driveway. When my hubby offered a gift of $25 for the fine work --- they thanked him and refused the money, saying they had given an honest price for the job and it had been accepted. That was fair to them and they just couldn't take more. They did leave business cards to let other people know what work they did and how to contact them for job estimates. Very nice, good men to have on our property and we always recommend them.
@@348Tobico the Amish community is absolutely awesome.. people could learn a few things from these people
@@348Tobiconice rant, Karen
The Amish are tremendous, God loving, hard working self reliant people.
@@348Tobicolmao okay boomer gahhhhh I hate loud music gahhhhh I hate tattoos gahhhhh I hate the young 👴🏻
I have much respect for Amish people! Amish people are survivors and you can learn a lot from the Amish.
Thank you for sharing this video.
I think Amish homes are beautiful!
I have loved the way the Amish live every since I was a little girl.
There are Amish people where I live just further out in more rural areas!
I learned a lot from this video. I like wood stoves and the lamps they use.
My grandma in Ireland burned turf which was dried out peat from the bogs where this fuel was harvested.Steady heat and in brick form kept her cottage cozy.Not to mention as a child with four siblings we all slept in the same bed during our visits.Laughter warmth and family is what I remember and also the beautiful aroma of the fireplace ☘️
I grew up in rural Oregon....both our cooking stove and house heater burned wood, and I, from the age of 12 to 15, being the eldest of five, was responsible for keeping the supply in the house (we let it go out at night)
Then we moved to CA and I, for decades, relied on natural gas.
Then, while on a solo motorcycle trip, I met the woman who would become my 2nd wife....a former toughened Aussie. We live in rural CA, 110 miles north of San Francisco, a small wood stove being our primary source of heat, so....now, at age 84, still MY responsibility of keeping the porch supplied with wood....although we do have a propane cook stove....and occasonally some help from people she works with....YES, she still, at age 87, works.....NOT because she has to, but because she WANTS to! BHE
Still burning peat in Co Mayo 👍
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I live in Central NY. it's starting to get cold (mostly at night) here now. Last October, I was thinking about random things and it popped into my head how my parents had a place east of where I live that we used a wood stove for heat. I'm so sick of 3 4 hundred dollar electric bills. So I made my own wood stove. Used all winter, saved hundreds. Used it a few times this autumn already too.
YES! It is a well known fact that it is colder at night than during the daytime!
What did you make it from? How did you do that
@@NaiaHickey-NiblettThey have tons of teaching tutorials on here that might be helpful. Best of luck if you determine to make your own. Just make sure you insulate it properly and make sure it’s up to code so your home is kept safe.
My grandpa lived in sodus and only used a wood stove his whole life.
@@Carbon-DD There is something so amazing about wood stove heat. It’s my preferred way to heat a house and I cannot wait until I have another one.
We bought a Scandinavian wood stove. That wood stove is equipped with a stone layer for heat storing. We and our cats love it. 😊
Where did you purchase
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@@georgeanngash9896google it.
@@georgeanngash9896 I am living in Germany. The distributor with the craftsman is located in the neighborhood village.
Wood stoves have really been a life saver and yes, they're a lot of work, but they throw a great heat and as a bonus can be used for cooking if your power goes out.
Jason Stewart, "The FIRE MASTER", New Zealand, started my interest in masonry heaters and their secret to turning a stove or fireplace into a "gasification" high temperature heater that "burns smoke". If you use pellets or SMALL wood to get a fire to 1,050F degrees and direct that fire into a refractory tube (3-4" diameter) placed above the flame. Within that tube's first 2' the fire temperature will jump to 1,500F degrees and within another 2' of travel inside that tube 2,000-3,000 degrees will manifest (I bought instruments to measure this).
And, at this elevated temperature "draft" becomes PUSH (not suck!). This fact can allow a tube to to PUSH hot air back and forth "side to side" inside a firebrick or stone fireplace or stove that will heat a vast heavy mass that will stay hot for more than 1 day on a (short) 1 to 2 hour burn.
This refractory gasification principal was discovered in the far East Europe thousands of years ago and is found today in a "masonry heater" computer SEARCH and also in wood and oil gasification "WOOD GUN" boilers built by ALTERNATE HEATING SYSTEMS. Amish have built "WOOD GUN" GASIFICATION boilers for boiler dealers operating NORTH of Warrensburg, NY when I lived near there an elected Assistant Stony Creek, NY Town Assessor and Architectural designer with my Wife who leads the Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra.
We have only discovered wood as a fuel since moving to rural Wales (UK). We assumed we would be able to obtain wood fuel cheaply or for free if we put in the effort, but it was hard going for the first few years. We used a lot of driftwood, culled trees in our garden and occasional gifts from neighbours.The local wood suppliers , obtained from the many managed forests in the area provided backup, after charging to `season` the wood by drying, `using massive amounts of fuel. Then we were lucky enough to discover pallet wood! Even in a small rural town, businesses put out broken pallets for locals to use as firewood whilst businesses charged exorbitant costs for holiday visitors to buy cut logs to have a `fancy rural experience`. We now have almost free heating, but it takes a lot of effort to gather, transport, cut and store our supply. Keep working at it and you will find your solution!
I grew up on my grandfather's farm. We heated with wood and coal. Cooked on a wood cook stove. The 1710 home was heated with a coal steam furnace. I still live on part of the farmland.
You are blessed! Enjoy life. I bet it’s wonderful.
Never heard of a coal steam furnace. You were lucky to grow up in a normal house in a peaceful country setting.
I grew up with 2 Amish grandmothers. They heated with wood when it was free or cheap, but they also used a lot of Anthracite Coal. The coal works great, especially overnight, it burns steady and for a long time
You are absolutely right,Coal is great , in Utah, is plentiful and we used both, wood and Coal.
Grandma used to heat with coal when I was a kid in the 60's. It really burned hot.
You are so correct. I lived in
B oston and had a Russo for 16 years, and you can't beat coal fuel.
Coal burns hot but makes alot of ash and dust. Very dirty compared to wood.
my parents and grandparents heated their homes with coal. it is very dirty , yes anthracite coal is dirty buring. washing walls was a major spring cleaning every year. bad for your lungs as well.
It should be a staple in every home. It is such a great place for family to gather!
Now I understand the use of extra heavy curtains in very old homes and some ghost towns I've seen ... To help retain heat or cool. Thanks.
im not Amish, heating our house with wood for years, loved the wood heat and miss it. I dont miss getting 6 cords of it to burn, bucking it 16" lengths, splitting it, packing it home, packing it to the wood shed, packing into the house to burn. cleaning the stove, cleaning the chimney and constantly dusting the furniture.
I second that motion!!! 🤠👍
At $1,000 for two months of heating oil I've switched to wood and gladly put up with the wood problems
@@betharris633 being able to cut my own wood to heat with is much more efficient: no income tax, no fuel tax, no propane fee. Better on the environment too!
I would love a wood cookstove which serves two purposes.
I’d rather do that than pay $50 or more for a gym because we live sedentary lives. My father did it, never made more than $40K a year, retired at 45 and was worth multi millions when he passed away
Grew up in Iowa and we heated with wood. Split wood and stacked it for winter use. When I got my own house I heated with wood. I did have a gas furnace for backup but rarely used it.
I had friends who lived in rural Illinois they had a two-story farmhouse they had a fireplace and two wood burners on the main floor up in the ceiling there was vents placed in the flooring upstairs which let that heat transfer to the second floor in the middle of winter when it was 12/13 below zero the house stayed about 68 to 72° it depends on how much wood was in the fire fireplace or in the wood burning stoves they did it right because I remember sleeping upstairs in that old farmhouse and it stayed warm and cozy
I have always respected their way of living.
If you want to burn wood for cheap get to know your local Amish. Sawmills and furniture type places can have all the hardwood you need.
Here I can get hardwood slaps for $20 per all I can haul on a 5x10 Trailor. I can heat my 1200sqft ranch in southern Ohio for $100 p/yr.
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@@JeniferTroxel oh thanks!!!!
@@JeniferTroxelhero of the day. Couldn't resist could you Karen? You must be a Yank?
Thanks. We live in Southern Ohio, and have Amish families all around us.
My family have always had real fires in the house. People used to asked us why we don't change to gas or electric heating - they don't ask anymore.
I was glad to see that you mentioned the proper installation and care for the fires damper and placement. Otherwise all that heat just goes up the chimney. And May I add trying to find a tradesman with the relevant knowledge and expertise or specific parts and knowledge. Just to know and appreciate how a chimney works efficiently and vents properly while still giving the occupants a safe supply of oxygen inside.
The new EPA wood burning stoves and inserts are really nice. They have a secondary burn that is really hot. It produces more heat and no smoke when it's properly set up. This means less maintenance cleaning the exhaust pipe. They are pricey, but it pays off because you use less wood.
They cover the windows with quilts at night.
To keep the cold out and I warmth in
Mentioned 8:53 into vid
Sounds like an excellent thing to do. I'm wondering how Amish support the weight of those heavy quilts when they hang them over their windows? Do they have some sort of special heavy duty curtain rods?
Nails lol @@Earthy-Artist
@@treverwhoevera nail wow how can this be a secret
@@treverwhoever Proof?
My best friend heated his home with a wood stove. I used to drive truck for him when I was single back in the 90's. So when I came off the road I stayed out at his house, which was a big six bedroom home. I always had a room to myself. Always was warm there.
I grew I with wood and coal heat and water from the well I loved it really miss lying in listening to the rain hit the tin roof miss those times
Me too, I still have a wood heater in my outdoor building and sometimes I just go build a fire in the stove and watch and listen to it burn
Me too have a wood burning stove in my Workshop/ Manden. Heavenly.
A wood fire has a certain ambience about it, doesn't it 😅.
Yes it does
We once stayed on vacation at a mountain cottage with a tin roof for one week and it rained a lot that week, I LOVED falling asleep at night listening to the rain on that tin roof!
Fantastic insight into this group of very peaceful people. Long live their way of life. Gods blessings to them
I live in rural NW Wisconsin and about a third of is up here including myself heat with wood and if you have the time and the want you can collect enough free wood to provide for most of your winters heat or you can buy a truckload of oak or ash, good burning woods for $1000, delivered, that will last many years. I love the heat and ambience of heating with my wood stove.
Masonry heaters have been referred to Finnish or Russian stoves for many years.
Cutting wood is a great work out and way to clear your head. If gathering , cutting and chopping wood is going to prevent you from going down this route to heat your home it is not bad at all. If you own land it is ideal. If you live in an apartment I can't help you but I look forward to my time chopping wood throughout the week.
It is OBVIOUS!!! The Amish absolutely refused to give-up and forget their common sense. I wish i could become Amish! Their lifestyle seems to be very congruous with True Christianity.
Thanks for this posting.
i was raised mennonite, so we had electricity and such, but my dad always tried to keep the heating bill down and as we lived in northern wisconsin winters got pretty damn cold. we had an outdoor woodfurnace for water heating, an indoor cast iton woodstove for reducing the electric bill for heat, and all our wood was free as we went to the local woods and literally found anything that had already fallen and cut it up and brought it back with the truck. ahh those were simpler times.
My in laws had a 10,000 sq.ft three story plus basement built in the 1800’s. The house was heated with a huge wood burning furnace. It worked wonders….
I work in my garage for the last 25 years have wood burning stove going in the winter. I repair small engines, mostly lawnmowers & snowblowers.
Some Amish communities use propane, and gas generators for power. This is considered a natural resource.
Those are Menonites, not Amish. There is a difference.
@@timlynn4708 Mennonites are less strict on technology use than Amish are...
Could be amish. There are like a hundred amish groups with varying rules
We bought a Generac generator. We have to use propane with it. We have a fireplace that we are going to hookup propane to heat with it. We don't have natural gas where we are and our home is all electric. We have double paned windows and have blinds on them. I'm thinking about getting curtains to go over all the bedroom windows too. Our home is really insulated good. But it's 2300 sq living ft with a 12 ft ceiling in our great room. Since heat rises a fireplace alone doesn't keep it warm and the rest of the house is cold. Going to see if we can figure something out to save on electric bills. I keep my thermostat at 67 degrees and I'm confortable.😊
We have both Mennonites and Amish where we live. The Mennonites use electric and drive cars. The Amish dont.
Pellet stove are NOT efficient especially because you have to buy the pellets and lug them to the stove. As a 60+ female it just wasn't practical. As well, the pellet stove still needs electricity so no good if the power goes out. I ditched the pellet stove for just a wood stove which gives me more heat that the pellet stove couldn't provide.
Than yous for the information! My biggest take away is a lower ceiling needs less space to heat.
A pellet stove, we'll burn for 12 hours. A wood stove will burn for maybe 4 hours. I have both. I use both all winter.
When it's really cold, I run the woodstove and pellet stove. If it's not that cold. I just run the Pellet stove
I did not know they used low ceilings in cold areas of the country, it makes sense because in the deep south it was normal to build homes with high ceilings to keep the house cool in the summer, because they knew that heat rises.
@@goatman6151 Does it use electricity? Do you buy the pellets?
For me, the wood is free -- just have to harvest it. If the electricity goes out so does the pellet stove. If you run out of pellets you can't just go into the forrest and get more.
@@goatman6151 You need to get a better wood stove, and use harder wood . My stove can slow burn easily for over 8 hrs. I'm in Canada so winters are no joke .
If a pellet stove doesn't shut down properly it smoke up the whole house.
Absolutely fantastic video. From Australia ❤️ 🇦🇺 😊
We had oil heat in the mid 1950's. I was about four years old and watched the "oil man" fill the tank. So, I could do this too. I put the garden hose in the filler neck and waited until water came out. I was satisfied it turned out well. My dad tried to turn on the heat. He found out and decided to put electric baseboard heat in. I don't remember getting in trouble.
You don't have to be Amish.... I'm in the UK, living in a 1950s ex-Council semi-bungalow in a residential area. I ripped out the knackered old mains gas boiler when I moved in and have heated with wood only for over a decade. I run a cast iron wood burner in a large thermal mass chimney breast which heats the main room and the bedroom above. Main section was built when the house was built but I added mass in the main room when I moved in and it now releases its heat over more than 24 hours. I'm careful about prepping my wood fuel and when the thing is running, it isn't noticeable to neighbours or passers-by. The main room is a sitting area and office and stays cosy whatever the weather and is half the ground floor. Wood comes from a nearby ancient woodland. It's derelict hazel coppice being restored to coppice cycle with excellent nature conservation benefits. I cut it myself which keeps me outdoors and active in winter helping my mood. If anybody is interested, click the Anemone icon and go exploring amongst the videos (unmonetised channel). The other benefit of burning wood is that I no longer burn fossil fuel for heating - this means that I don't contribute to increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. I never burn coal. However, I do cook with electricity and if we're away in winter, we do have low-output electric heaters to avoid frost damage. My halo isn't as tight as it could be.....
I do cook stews on the wood burner when it's running and the back-up to electric light is paraffin (kerosene) lamps, which get used once in a blue moon when the power goes off. They were all inherited and are older than my Dad who'd be well into his 90s now.
Isn't that an issue with laws over there or is that why you keep a low profile so the neighbors don't go Karen or Ken on you and rat you out???
@@Sadler2010 I'm not breaking any law by burning wood as domestic heating. It is unusual.I don't live in a smoke-free zone or anything. I could possibly get into bother with the Council if someone complained about smoke being a nuisance, so only burning properly prepared wood keeps the likelihood to a minimum. My neighbours burn wood and coal. Coal means more pollutants, smoke and odour.....
@@anemone104 I figured it'd be at least looked down on quite a bit if not illegal, here in the states they've gotten insurance companies to threaten to cancel folks insurance for having the wrong kind of wood burning stove even when it's original and working fine.
I don't like living here in the UK at all, trying to be self sufficient and independent is very hard without some kind of rule or regulation. If I had the money I would be living abroad and wish I would have done years ago, the way things have been going and is heading it's a no brainer for me. I don't feel like an adult most the time and really get blue hearing about the freedoms my friends abroad talk about having. It really puts your own life into perspective.
The climate crooks are trying to outlaw wood and coal stoves worldwide.
I live on a canal boat in the UK. Our heating is small wood/coal stove. I burn a mixof "smokeless coal briquettes" and wood. The briquettes are basically crushed and washed coal. The quality is not what is was! I cannot carry enough wood to lasy all winter but with the coal at £13.50 a 20kg bag it makes it go further. We have the fire on pretty much continuously from Oct - April.
We slow cook stews and have a kettle or two on the top for tea and hot water. Baked potatoes in the firebox..YUM! 😁
However, the UK gov are banning where we can use them. Thankfully I avoid cities like the plague. However, the long term plan is to ban them.
They are doing the same in Canada . I live in a rural area and wood is cheap since farmers have to manage the forests on their properties , so they process it and sell it . Win/win . $110 CAD for a face cord . The warmest heat you can get. The playbook seems the same in western countries . Same narratives and same destructive policies that are seemingly designed to destroy economies .
It's downright EVIL what the woke liberals communists are trying to do to our normal wholesome living practices in our countries, things such as heating by fire wood/coal. I'm in the USA.
Generally speaking, burning things is not good, but burning wood is an exception if it has been sustainably harvested. Of course, you don't have to cut down healthy trees for this.
They are doing the same in the USA. Trying to bann wood stoves,fireplaces.. I use mine to heat and cook aswell . I'm poor and rely on it in winter months. Nov- April.
@@jamesmurphy713 It's disgusting what the woke socalist/communist/marxist Democrat left is trying to do to us and take away. Make America Great Again TRUMP 2024❤🤍💙.
I’m not Amish, but here in the north woods almost everyone heats with wood either as a back up or primary heat source. Wood has been the primary source of heat in my homes for more than 42 years. Yes, it’s work to maintain, but the quality of the heat is better than any other kind. Food tastes better cooked on a wood flame too. Oil is only for backup when I’m away. I buy 100 gal every couple of years, usually in the summer when the price is lower.
I heat my home with wood, best source of heat. Get super cold here in Canada. We used dried wood much better for burning.👍
The best part about it in Canada is you are not giving the government their criminally high taxes on a necessity of life . The Canadian government is beyond unethical and immoral .
Fireplaces do not heat nearly as well as a wood burning stove.
That's the truth.
She said it stays warmer for longer once out and she's right
Put stove in fireplace hole
Look up kachal ofen a fire place with the flues going horizontal at a slight upward pitch usually going into two rooms always in the center of the house
Being centrally located, it's somewhat better than heating up an outside wall. A centrally located quality cast iron wood burning stove is best.
One of the most beautiful and honest people’s by all means
No they aren't, clearly you've ignored the many many maaaaaaany court cases involving rape and pedophiles in amiss communities.
Dog mills and mistreated draft horses who are worked into the ground, sometimes literally. Horse Plus (Tennessee) has rescued some as well as other rescues.
Wait until they are your neighbors and poach wildlife on your land without a care and some can be rude
They do in fact use solar panels. They as a group are the largest users of PV solar in the US. Their trade magazines are full of ads for turnkey PV solar systems, and battery powered tools.
Off grid and been heating our house with a wood stove for 26 years.
Flat top Jotul, can Cook on it if needed.
But I like to make pizza in it after I’ve just cleaned it out.
Fire on one side.
Have some extra fire bricks I set on the other side. Put my nine inch stone on them and make pizzas for the wife and I.
Old saying. Firewood heats you 4-5 times before you burn it.
When you fell the tree
When you Buck it up
When you haul it
When you split it
When you carry it in
And when you burn it.
Fun thing is, i think the amish would survive a total collapse of human civilisation and just carry on as if nothing happened.
They missed COVID because they don’t have TV.
@@mariekatherine5238 it was a good show too
@@mariekatherine5238 And they know Dandelion kills it & flu
@@mariekatherine5238 that is patently false. Alot of Amish have to use the 'English' as they call them for rides to jobs and to do other errands in the cities, and they found out fast that Covid was around. You act like they are totally isolated from the rest of the world --they actually arent, and I know that living not far from them
@DJ_BROBOT No, they don't. They don't even need any of us. They rely on each other. You're probably thinking of Reform Amish. I also lived very close to the Amish/Mennonite community
I’ve always great respect for the Amish for not letting the government and certain people for not letting them interfere with their lifestyle. ♥️🙏✝️
While I could argue about some of their philosophies and logic behind them, let me say this about the Amish. It's a good honest wholesome lifestyle. Yes, I spent a fair amount of time with them myself, did a barn raising with them, worked with them, and so on. I really wanted to start a business that I saw a store in Oklahoma City (before the whopper big tornado destroyed it) called Amish creations. They had home furniture they built, lawn furniture and gazebos, and all sorts of products. This next item I saw on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno where he did his newspaper things and I actually saw one of these and think it was pretty cool. He showed an add for an Amish Monster Wheel truck made out of wood that you could buy. I would have thought it funny if I hadn't actually seen one with my own eyes. Yes, they do excellent work, very fine craftsmanship in their products. I enjoyed being around them and hope I was not disturbing to their way of life or comfort.
BTW, this video, where did all those pictures come from? Very little of it was a reflection of what Amish use, do, or subject related to the narration. Seems like most of those pictures were just grabbed from somewhere on the internet and inserted without total thought as to what was being explained. There were hardly anything to show the wood stoves they use to heat and cook with. A lot of narration without a proper picture to explain what was being said. It lost me on a lot of stuff knowing what I do know about their lifestyle.
What MORE proof do you need? Many you-tubers are amatuers!
I noticed a lot of the "video" it showed was from a movie-back in the 1980's or early 1990's. It was about a murder, set in Amish community and the lead actress was the same lady that was the lead female actress in the original Top Gun movie with Tom Cruise. I think her name is Kelly McGillis? Anyway-lots of scenes from the Amish movie she was in. A smile hid her with them to keep her safe.
So many of these you-tube producers are rank amatuer wannabes....and, it definitely shows.
About ten years ago, my wife and I visited some friends who lived in Amish country (Who were NOT Amish) and drove a rented car down some of the paved roads in the area....covered with plentiful horsesh*t droppings from thier horse-drawn buggies. BHE
Great information! Wood stoves are a must for WV winters.
Tennessee has some harsh winters too.
If there was not so much tax on petroleum products the cost would be significantly reduced
The thing about cutting and splitting wood is it warms you up three times when you cut it and when you split it and when you burn it 0:00
4:22 The primary source of heat for most Amish homes is the wood-burning stove. These stoves not only provide warmth but are often used for cooking as well. Wood is a renewable resource that they harvest and store themselves, allowing them to stay independent from outside energy sources. These stoves are placed strategically in the home to provide maximum warmth, often in central areas where heat can radiate through multiple rooms.
The Amish people are amazing people to live the way they do.
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain
I take a look at my wife and realize she's very plain
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me
You know, I shun fancy things like electricity
At 4:30 in the morning, I'm milkin' cows
Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool
And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that
Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone
I'm a man of the land, I'm into discipline
Got a Bible in my hand and a beard on my chin
But if I finish all of my chores, and you finish thine
Then tonight, we're gonna party like it's 1699😉🎶🎵🎼
@@mattiasandersson2315 Your Amish?
EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THEY ABSOLUTELY ABUSE THEIR HORSES TO THE POINT OF DEATH OR AN INCH OF THEIR LIFE
@@chriskeating5926 Big cover up in the media over this?
@@mattiasandersson2315 Weird Al's best song
The Amish have been living quietly and to honest I think what they have done is really great!
Masonry stove heating systems have been around for at least a thousand years and maybe more. Cast iron stoves arrived after the invention of, yep, cast iron. We have heated with a fabulous cast iron stove that keeps our home at 80' while it burns on very low for many hours. My husband has bulk whole logs delivered and he cuts and splits it with power equipment. Why are you showing other burn sources when you talk about other types? DOWN RIGHT MISLEADING TO THOSE UNFAMILIAR WITH THE SPECIFICS. You should also make it clear that almost all the footage you use to represent the Amish is stage movie or TV footage played by ACTORS since you would never get permission to film or video observant adults and their children that way. I think you should be honest about this.
I think this video did what it set out to do...
Yeah, I've heard them called either a Russian Masonry heater or Swedish tile heater. They have been around for a millennia or more. There's a pre manufactured one out there, I installed one for some rich guy.
It's wild to me that we "needed" a video on how the Amish heat their homes and it turns out its just wood stoves lol. There are tons of people all over the country, especially those who live outside of large cities, that heat with wood stoves. In fact, if I had to guess, there are more non-Amish Americans that do this than there are Amish doing so. What a wild and unnecessarily long video to just say "heat your house with a wood stove to avoid electric and gas".
You can feel free to watch something else then. It seems from the other comments, many actually appreciated this video.
We had wood oven and hot water here in australia.but now it's hard and costly to buy wood oven and illegal to cut fire wood in most areas now
So sad for all you citizens everywhere who live under British rule and never figured you needed a Constitution, Bill of Rights or our Amendments. Right now our government barely follows them but at least we have them. You Empire people have nothing to protect you from a government gone communist. I know you always relied on the sovereign to stop bad government but Charles is even worse. That sadly is why you can't cut or collect fire wood. I grew up with coal oil heat, wood cookstove to heat and back up the LNG cookstove as well as an inefficient huge fireplace. Now we heat a 2,000 sqft home to toasty warmth with wood that is free and legal and currently delivered right to our property so we can cut it to length and split and stack it. Our great big back yard looks like a fortress as we keep 3-4 years wood to dry by stacking it within our fence and covering it. When the zombie apocalyps happens we have excellent shooting lanes, great deep cover and fuel for fires and heat!
But the Government is there to help you.
So much for fire mitigation
Its a great way to use up old wood
The main issue is that lately there is a trend to outlaw any wood or gas burning processes. Even burning the autumn leafs. Because omg CO2.
In Australia, we also have
" Combustion Stoves". Usually using either wood or pellets as fuel.
These stoves can be set up so you can cook on their surface, bake or roast internally, heat up so you'll get THE hotest water you can imagine. As well as build on a kind of ducted heating system throughout the house/ building.
Very efficient and c ost effective/ saving . Maybee.... Our problem here is the high, high, cost of purchasing the wood. Deornding on where you live here, you can pay around $250.00 - $400.00 PER Square Metre of wood. In very cold parts if Australua, you coukd easily go through a metre of
wood per week.
We used multi-fueled stoves on the railroad in cabin cars for heat, food, coffee, etc. You could use oil, wood, coal, or coke to fire the stove.
I had a newspaper route when I was a kid back in the late 1960's.. The paper stations where we picked up our papers were just metal sheds, about 20X30, with no insulation. One potbelly stove in the middle, heated with coal. There were metal tables stacked with newspapers 6 feet high and metal coal bins around the outside walls. Those stoves would keep those paper stations toasty warm even when it was 20 below zero outside. Even though they were jammed with paper and kids no one ever got burned, and there were never any fires. Then, in the 70s, the city forced the company to get rid of the stoves, said they were dangerous. They put in overhead forced air gas furnaces. Those stations were always cold after that.
I have a log burner in the U.K. now. It does my hot water and heating. Love it. And cook on it
Hey guys, remember wood stoves and chimneys? Yeah me neither! 😂😂😂
Isn't this how Americans lived once upon a time? The Amish has kept this tradition as a part of their lifestyle, while America has accepted the use of updated modern types of heating. My grandmother had nothing modern in her home except an old fashioned black circular dial telephone. It was always cozy and warm, lighted with kerosene lamps. But that was considered POOR, in the 1960's not frugal. Thank you for explaining how frugal this way of life can be today, and the needed equipment is still available.
We grew up with a wood burning stove. We also grew up with a lot of manual labor. Even when you can barely hold on to a log, you're still forced to participate in the ability to enjoy the heat
When we got out of the house, my youngest brother and I would cut wood for him to heat his home.
It would be a negative 27 degrees F. We would bundle up and go out into the woods. After a couple of hours of cutting and stacking wood for transport (will raise your body temperature). So we would start peeling off our clothes. By noon time, we were in just plain clothes.
Heating a home by wood takes a lot of energy and time. If you have that much time on your hands, jump at it.
I noticed about your video clips we're from movies I recognized some scenes from the movie witness
That's what I thought, thanks for posting.
Honestly, I would stay away from pellet stoves, just because you're solely dependent on pellets. When the price goes up, you have no other alternative than to pay up. With a wood stove, at least you have more options.
But... a pellet stove is more convenient.
In the winter, dress warm inside your home. Cook early in the morning to heat the home. Cook late in the evening to stay warm during the night. ❤
I Wish I Was Born Into the Amish community instead of this messed up world we live in right now because if we all lived the way they live now just imagine that I give them much respect
Looks good on the outside looking in but once you're on the inside looking out it doesn't look very nice. Abuse of all kinds is common.
There's a thriving community of people that help abused women, children and even adult men escape that cult. That should tell you everything you need to know.
@@nodak81 100% true in our area. And for these folks to flee, they are desperate. Unless it is the male head of family, that person is leaving with only the clothes on their backs. They are leaving their culture. And most of them are leaving everyone they've ever known. (Not all sects practice shunning, but most do and all the sects in our area do.). That takes utter desperation. I remember one older man who told his story from decades before that when he fled as a young man, he wasn't even wearing winter outerwear and had no idea where to get help. I remember that he said he spent the first night buried in a pile of leaves for warmth. He was a desperate young man.
If you are a female, unless you want to be property, you do not wish you were born Amish.
I've passed many buggies hauling 40 plus gallons of gasoline. Let that sink in...your using a horse to haul gasoline. While I respect the work ethic of the Amish, it seems more like a massive organized crime family than a religion.
It ain't too late for you yet 🤫🤫
In Denmark in a town called Christianfeld, they use simular masonari ovens, some of Them 300 years old, firering only ones a Day, they are stille used at the lokal hotel, where you also can wiew Them.
FYI in the county of Vanbruge in the state of Indiana you are not allowed to have a wood burning system
We're in northwest Indiana, and our insurance premiums would double if we used wood heat, per our insurance agent. Heated with wood stove 40 years ago, and it was the best heat ever.
@@gsdalpha1358 Northwest Ind too. I like the the thermostat on the wall. Until I was 15 I didn,t live in a house with a furnace. Our Mother hung our sweaters behind the coal stove to dry, they were frozen the next morning. My sister were sleeping in the same room . 😪
@@andegrace6935 Oh, wow, that sounds *rough*! When I was a kid we had a central furnace underneath the floor with one big vent in the middle room of the house. My sis and I would get out of bed in the morning and run to stand over it to get warm.
@@gsdalpha1358 That,s the kind we had in the last house we moved into when I was about 15 had that kind. Not alot better, but alot less work.
I love the Amish way of life. I have been using paraffin cookers and heating from 2021.
Our great grandparents had stoves with boilers that heated the water for their radiators and baths. Sadly these were phased out because in the 50s gas was cheaper than wood or coal
These stoves are still sold with back boilers..I have a Stanley 90..brilliant machine.
Thank you for the wonderful and informative video ❤
One little problem with burning wood, ask your insurance company how much or even if they will insure you. When I moved out in the country one of the first things I did was to buy a wood heater for the basement where all the pipes and water heater are just incase. When I had a insurance company come to inspect and quote me a price stated that I couldn't even have it in the house hooked up or not. So Maryland area. And for anyone who may not know if you place stone or rock near a fire to much heat will make them explode.
In Canada it is 10 %
I live in Philadelphia 64. I remember my father lighting a coal heater in the cellar of our row home and the city would have specific trucks pick up cinders for snow days on the roads. We had a coal bin in the cellar for coal deliveries. Now I think insurance companies do not insure properties with coal heaters either.
Thats if they have moisture in them, river rock
Something that my father built that's better than just a wooden stove is a Wooden stove with pipes connected to the Reservoir full of water and pipes going out of it in a loop back to the wooden stove. When the stove gets heated, the pipes warm up, the valve for water gets opened and water starts circulating. Water gets hot, it goes up the pipes and all around the entire house. However, this requires a skilled welder like my father.
The issue with standard stoves like the one at 1:45, is that all the heat goes straight up the chimney and barely stays in. The wood burns too fast, thus the reason my father decided to remove that furnace, fix up the hole and build the furnace in the garage 5-6 feet below ground.
Natural resources, lite and heat, it is what you just need, and cosy vibe, great😊
German -Swiss American here! I admire a lot about the Amish. However, it would be very difficult for me to be an Amish woman! I am too liberated to be Amish! 🇩🇪 🇨🇭 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🤔😉😉😉🤗🤗🥰
Lol I don't think your" liberated" much ,with that stinking thinking. 😂
When we all stand before the Judgement seat of God we will see if your "liberation" was of any profit.
@@WmTyndaleThat’s a myth….plagiarized from older myths.
@@crystalbluepersuasion1027 U are a blind fool. Anyone that has read the Holy Scriptures can see their fulfillment in today's current events. Your destination regrettably is
"Shake and Bake Snake". John Froelich Ph.d mathematics, NSF postdoc, IT consultant etc.....etc.....
@@WmTyndaleWhat she means is she's a modern woman, works outside the home, and there is nothing sinful about that. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
Here in Ontario as far as I know Ontario Canada, we cannot have wood-burning stoves in our home if we want to have insurance, so therefore we rely on either gas or electricity would I love to have a wood-burning stove yes but at the age of 81 who’s gonna cut and chop my wood and bring it in for me, but you’re right there’s no better heat than that from a woodburning stove
All homes should have a wood burning cook stove for power outages. We certainly do. Been off grid since 1969. We are never cold in the dark or hungry. No utility bills because we make our own power with solar and wind because the sun don't shine at night but the wind blows. We make power 24/7. Have everything in my house you do except a monthly utility bill.😂😂 Dandahermit Washington NE mountains above the snowline.
I've read a letter from year 1905 written by a Croat who settled in USA to his family in Croatia.
"Best thing here is that once you build a house, you live for free the rest of your life. You make a hole in a bottom floor and put a pipe down untill you hit a layer with gas. Then you install pipes and vents, and you heat, cook, light a house. Everybody does that in the USA."
Have you heard about that, Americans?
P.S.
I have an average house in Croatia, and majority of heating we have on wood, mostly on leftovers we collect around and put in a barn where it dries, actually we clean the surrounding and our nearby wood. Also we have our well for water, which is clean (I took a sample to be tested). All our grandparents lived like that, even in big cities.
We have a cast iron stove/ Fire place imbedded in a masonry fireplace in the basement it can easily heat the entier house a regular stone fireplace in the living room upstairs on the living level.
An old "pot belly coal stove" (from 1910 to 1950) can be a decorative piece in the house, but also provide emergency heat if things got bad for a while because they also burn wood. Of course, you would need a "temp" chimney system and stove pipe "ready to go" and stored somewhere to vent smoke out of the house. In the siege of Stalingrad in WW2, many used an open window for their chimney pipes in apartment buildings. It's prepping that seems like a decoration.
Korean ondol underfloor heating system. Combine with one of these. If you have an underfloor area, solid pipes from the masory heater then outside vis the flu or send to an external shed etc then out a chimney if only one building.
What would the Amish do without Benjamin Franklin and his Franklin Stove? He saved the entire eastern forest single-handedly.
Everyone has a wood stove here in Denmark. Thought you were talking about something not everyone knows.
Here in Kentucky most homes in rural towns still use wood stoves.
Makes me want to throw this phone down and step on it. Thats the life we all should be living.
It's hard work and sacrifice, living in an Amish Paradise. Most of us don't have the time, the health, or the means to do what the Amish do. I don't have to agree, but I do respect their culture and beliefs... They are also awesome.
Nearly all council homes here in the uk were coal fired heated,usually with a back boiler to heat the water,that was until the mining strikes and Maggy thatcher that killed off the coal industry,now we are all dependent on russian gas😢
I heat my house with an open fire in the sitting room and a solid fuel rayburn in the kitchen run on wood, coal and peat , it heats the house and does all the cooking
I have always thought them wonderfully self sufficient, to be admired
Good old cast iron pot belly stove works great to heat up the house and cook on with a small amount of fuel
So, sure wood works. You need a way to distribute it within the house, so all rooms are warm. You must get the wood and take care of the wood supply long before the winter. Even if you buy it, it must be kept near the house, protected from rain and snow, stacked correctly to dry, and brought to the house consistently to have on hand. it is dusty in the house, must be attended to as it burns, and wood burning stoves can be especially hot. Used one for 20 years as an addendum to oil. Worked great, but it is work, and can be expensive if you don’t cut your own wood.
Hey, that's Martijn Dooilard in Italy!
Thank you for this service
No insurance....no building inspection....no bank holding the mortgage....no neighbors to complain about ...no city by-laws disallowing wood burning in a city .....
There are gravity fed pellet stoves that function like a rocket stove and radiate heat with no electricity. But otherwise, almost all pellet stoves are plugged in to drive an auger, fan, and fan exhaust.
Its great if you dont have to leave for work. I just heated with wood years ago. I had to drive 77 miles one way to work. My son would come home from school and the fire had gone out. He would say he was freezing and at 11 i wouldn't let him start a fire. I had to buy a pellet stove which would run way longer but didn't really heat my insulated house but it was something. We would stand in front of it all the time.
I wish I belonged to this kind of community.
The world is falling apart, but Amish people will survive, cos they're self sufficient and actually can do smth on their own. Unlike us, who think food grows on supermarket shelves
One thing to remember is to keep the home warm enough so the pipes don't freeze. Some Amish don't have plumbing.