How to Build a Fire in a Woodstove & the First Fire of the Season
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- The first real cold weather has moved into our area. Come along and see how Matt builds a fire as we enjoy our first fire of the season.
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I'm 73. My dad's folks were Missouri farmers. My grandmother had the most beautiful square, ornate pedestal oak table. There was a place in the center for leaves but I never saw them inserted. I asked her one time where the leaves for the table were and she said that they probably burned them for heat one winter. Tough times some years.
I'm 72 and also from Missouri mama and daddy had a coal stove
Hey 👋👋 Tipper Matt , Appalachia ❤😇❗... NaNas here 👀💭❗... Oh, nothin like a 🔥 wood stove ☺ to keep warm n Matt is 💪 strong to swing the axe like that 😅😂❗... I 👀 em cutting outside that day n he was competing with a imaginary lumber Jack 😅😂 ❗... The smell is amazing n someting we had thought of but his heath kicked that dream down altho we have a pot belly but my ❤ hasnt let me sell it off yet)❗.. Sending bunches of 💞💖💞 love warmth n blessings yor way y'all 😘😇❗
When I had a fireplace with a wood stove we were told not to use any kind of pine in it because it coded the chimney with creosote and could start a fire. I find this intriguing.❤❤❤
Pine is great for this but in little quantities and always keep a eye on your chimney it can need cleaning more than once a season just depends on the wood. I always have mine checked half way through winter to be safe but I heat completely with wood.
Here in SC we call it fat lighter
I went to Colorado to visit some friends. The guy did some laundry and put his jeans on the stove to dry. When he went to work I did some laundry and decided to 0ut my jeans on the stove. I burned my clothes. The Rest of my clothes got hung up outside in the snow. Good time. 😂
In Colorado hang things up for an hour they'd be dry you're talking 15% humidity
Many of the younger generation are not taught basic survival skills.
Matt's clear demonstration of how to start a warming fire may help save lives: who knows?
I use to have a woodstove and sometimes I would put cinnamon sticks, whole cloves and orange peel in the water pot on top of the stove. I made the whole house smell so good 😊
If you decided to film Matt splitting wood, that would be interesting to watch, personally I always loved watching my Daddy split wood at home. There's something really satisfying about it. I'm so happy for you both to have him helping with the channel!
I planted 100 black locust trees. Most of them took.
I cut them to the ground every few years. They regrow. Love the wood.
Listening to Katie making the Jewelry makes me think of the elves working in Santa's shop. Lol
I had the same idea 😊
😂Matt is too much with his poses 😂 . 😊I could Katie tinkering in the background . 💖🍁🍂🙏🏽
This video reminds me of when I was much younger, about 12 to 14 years old (now in mid 50's) My dad was on disability but my mom worked a full time job as well to make ends meet, it was mom and dad with four kids to provide for on a limited income between my parents. We lived in an old two storied farm house when I was about 12 to 14 years old. It didn't have good insulation, so we supplemented our heat with a wood stove in the living room(only heating the downstairs/first floor of the house) during the fall and winter. I have memories of my dad having loads of wood delivered to our house where we would spend several hours that day splitting and stacking wood. I know that I didn't really enjoy all that hard work back then, but the memories of feeling that warmth from the wood stove on a cold day will forever be a fond memory. Prayers and blessings to you and your family and granny. Hope her treatments continue to go well. 🙂❤️🙏
Love those memories 😀 thank you 😊
Oh, I can almost smell the woodsmoke! It's been a long time since I lived with a wood stove. That first fire of the season is so cozy and cheery. Enjoy! Prayers for Granny. Peace be with you. 💚
My husband wanted a wood stove that he could cook on so I bought him one. He made some delicious one pot meals on that stove!
I LOVE these Matt "how to" videos. I'm no kid, but I guess I'm a girl scout at heart.
Thanks, Matt!
I was born and grew up in Asheville and back in the 50’s & 60’s we heated with coal and my brothers would have to stoke the fire at night to stay warm thru the night. My mama hated coal it left all the soot tags outside all over everything.
Hope your mama is doing good Tipper I’m still praying 🙏
My Papas and Granny heated their home with coal when they were in Eastern Ky. When they moved to Indiana they heated with wood stove. It was always so warm I would go outside to cool down even as little girl. At 60 years old those memories are precious.
Matt builds a mighty fine fire. I love hearing the crackle of the fire. Thank you for sharing Tipper and Matt.
Now that country boy can build a fire! Great job Matt! I love you all. Blessings to you.
My husband told one time he was full grown when he realized that not everyone cut wood every singe Saturday of their lives. His family heated with a wood stove, and him and his dad cut wood every Saturday to keep enough wood going. His folks are old now and his dad gets by on having one load of big pieces delivered per year, we have one big cut, split, and stack Saturday and that lasts the season now.
Love hearing regular sense from what I consider to be regular folks. Many good memories of our wood stove. When we had the bad ice storm at Christmas we had every morsel of Christmas dinner except rolls thanks to Mumma's skills & our stove. God bless y'all
Our home.is 42 years old. Unfinished basement. We have electric baseboard, and gas heat also a woodstove in the basement. NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING can compare to wood heat. ABSOLUTELY THE BEST.
Thanks for the cheerful fire making Matt and Tipper!! 🔥 Prayers for Granny and the family❤️
I love the crackling of a fire. Makes me think of long ago when my children were actually children and we built fires around Christmas. I miss those days. One thing I always tell young parents is be the parent you always wanted as that time is precious and it goes by so fast.
The sound of the fire crackling makes me want to take a nap. It was my favorite place when I was young, on the floor right in front of the woodstove. Watching the snow fall through the front window. The sound of my Dad chopping the wood and kindling and the crunching of snow under feet, those were such special times. There's nothing like heat from the woodstove, so comforting. 💕 I sure do miss that.
My husband taught our kids how to build a fire when they were young. I remember him stressing to them that a fire needs oxygen to burn good. My son told me once when he was little that “all boys like fire mom”. Lol There’s just something about a fire either inside or out that warms the heart, mind, and body. 🔥 ❤️
I’m sitting here with my blanket just cold so that stove looks so warm and comforting!! Frost warning tonight for us!!I know y’all enjoy that warmth!! God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻
When I was a kid we had a coal heater. One of my chores was keeping the coal bucket full. We had a local store that would deliver you a truck load of coal, they eventually got to where they couldn’t get it so we switched to wood. I miss having wood hear. Nothing better than sitting by the wood stove. I could sit and watch a fire all day.
Dear Jan, so many of us have been in the same position of no teeth for a period of time. Anyone who matters doesn't care, just that we are seeing you again. Wonderful to hear your sweet voice again.
I crawled into my bed in Southern California and began to watch you build your fire but somewhere along I opened my window because I was too warm. About the time I heard Katy working I had to kick off my covers. It was 82 degrees today and will get down to 62 later tonight.
It's wonderful to watch Matt build a fire. I subscribe to many camping videos and I'm always interested in how they do it. Matt is clearly skilled and it must be so nice to have a nice warm fire source in your home.
I like the camping videos too it’s so relaxing watching them build fires we used to go camping and I miss it❤
I have fond memories of wood stove growing up…my granny used a wood cook stove for many years & of course they heat with it…
❤Matt is funny😂…prayers for Granny❤
Nothing better than wood heat. We have two stoves..one in basement and one on first floor. It certainly warms you to the bone ❤
Growing up, I used to nap Sunday afternoons by the wood stove. Good sleep!
Matt is definitely a fire building expert! It's a sure sign winter's on it's way when the Pressleys light the first fire of the season. Y'all must save a lot on gas and electric using that wood stove! I think I heard Katie working in the background. Tell her that Leigh Ann from WV got the ring I ordered from her today and it's so pretty! I'm glad I got it because I sure did miss the one I lost.
Yay 😊 Glad you like it!
We are expecting our first frost from 3 AM to 8AM Thursday. I am trying to save some inground 22:28 . 22:28 plants by placing tarps over them as it looks like we will have a warming trend for a few more weeks. Hope it works!! Thanks Matt for teaching me how to build a fire in my wood fire pit outdoors. Nice to know that you have to start small!!
@@robertgibson723 I hope it works!!
Today, Western Massachusetts had its first light snowfall of the season. We use a pellet stove (+ 3 tons of pellets) and really enjoy that first seasonal whiff of wood smoke. Nothing beats it.
My Primary school Carrickmannon here in County Down was an old building from 1840, it was heated by an iron stove feeding iron radiators. It was in the room where the grades 5-7 were in, and fed the other room where the 1-4 grades were. The kids took it in turns to light the fire in the winter mornings, took a while, could've done with Matt's magic pine. Health and safety wasn't part of the curriculum in the 70's!
Enjoying being With You All to start the 1st Fire of the Season.. I grew up with Wood Heat & nothing beats the warmth. Sometimes Dad would get it Cranking until we had to fan the screen doors. GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES!
I love a good fire in a wood stove. That’s a nice stove too❤
We are having cooler weather and watching Matt build that fire makes me want to do the same 😊❤
We heat with wood and just no heat like it. Great job starting the fire. Praying for granny and all you great folks.
It makes my heart so happy to see you get excited about the simple things in life like your first fire of the year. Enjoy ❤
My dad built two wood sheds one for oak & maple and the other for fir, each held 2 full cords. We were taught these needed to be full before Fall so as to be ready for the coming cold. Kept busy splitting all the wood, hauling hay, checking fence lines. Lots of good memories.
I currently have propane heat but am looking to buy a small woodstove. Already collecting downed limbs, etc. Wood heat is wonderful.
Prayers for Grannie & y'all
Love listening to the roar of the stove. I miss a wood stove. It heated out home very well.
I'm 78 ,and grew up w a wood stove .We cooked on it and boiled water on it to take a bath in a galvanized tub .7 girls .l was the last one to get in .🙂
Y'all look so cozy down in the basement. I love your stove! It's very well built. Stay warm, and God bless!
Good memories of growing up with a wood stove all we need now is a pot of beans cooking on it thanks for sharing
I had my first 🔥of the Season last night ,too! Enjoyed mine! And, then yours! Hopefully all of us in the colder reigns of orcountry will all be warm through these next cold months! Stay Warm & Well everyone! Lord's Blessings to ALL!❤🕊️
My Granny always kept an old teakettle on her old coal stove.kept the house warm.
Dear friends..over here in clyde , i am enjoying matt and his special wood as a fire starter..my dad taught me this and how grateful to him i am for tonight at 17 deg im warm . Keep the faith... guys..how proud i am to be a mountain man.
Thank you!!
Nothing like a good wood burning stove
I miss my wood-burning stove. I chopped over 40 cords of wood when I had the little stove. There's nothing better than radiating heat! God Bless you all and stay safe. 😘
One last comment. Matt was talking about burning alive there towards the end. A good wood stove is a great "butt warmer". There is nothing better than coming in from the cold, getting off your outer clothes and backing up to a wood stove to get warm!
I love this. One set of my grandparents had a wood stove in their house and always kept water on it for moisture in the house. Sweet memories. ❤🙏Jane
Cooking. Gardening. Building. Hunting. Winter fire starter Fisherman. Hes a keeper.
That supper he made was delicious and thoughtful. You taught him well Tipper.
I grew up knowing a woodstove. One tip to keep the pipes clean is to throw in all of your potato peelings and orange peels. Helps a lot and there are always potatoes to peel.
We call it rich pine, too. Love the smell.
Very much enjoyed this, I'll bet the fire felt good! Matt cutting up at the end made me smile
All those nights after Dad or Mom first built the fire was so soothing. Pine rosan or cedar was the thing to look for in the woods year round. We would sit around the heater and just listen. Talk became lower. Good "chillin" sounds. I could easily listen to it now and actually "smell" the pine or cedar. ❤
Came to Cleveland tenn 7 yrs ago from So Calif🤮. Love tenn. Had a wood stove in the mtns. and thought I would be happy to be done with that chore. WRONG! I miss it sooo much. Dry, warm heat and you can cook too. It wasn’t actually cheap to use in so. Cal. but I had a truly wonderful wood guy. He always insisted on stacking my cords. I know he was from the south because he always called me miss Cheryl. Wood heat is a magical thing. Warm, dry, and lots of work. Worth every minute. I never kindling because when I walked my dog, she brought home souvenirs of twigs all year long. I really miss this.
I can almost feel the warmth and coziness the stove gives off. All you need now is a mug of hot chocolate to top it off!
Nothing like Good Wood Heat! We have had Freezing Temperatures here in Arkansas, this Week, but Supposed to
Start Warming back up Today! Matt knows how to build a Fire! Thanks for Sharing Ms. Tipper! Prayer’s 🙏 for your Mother!
I don't have a flu or wood burning fireplace at the house we have now and I sure miss it. I had a Fisher papa bear stove for years and nothing put heat out like it did. There's just something about a wood stove that makes cold days nice. I'd always go outside and watch the white smoke come out of the chimney, not sure why but I liked watching it. After being out hunting all day and froze to the bone, nothing like backing up to the wood stove and getting warm again. After that and something good to eat, I'd lay back in the recliner and take a long nap. I had a buddy who worked on a tree trimming crew and he'd call me and tell me where a yard full on tops were, never had to buy any. Red oak and hickory were my favorite but also burned a lot of elm and locust. Like Matt said, locust would get almost too hot.
I’ve been running our stove for almost all our heat for about 7 seasons now. Took me 6 to figure out what I’m doing! But now I mostly just enjoy it until about early March when I get itchy to do other stuff. I don’t think I’d know how to run a stove without glass, though. I use the visual of the fire to know whether it’s doing what it should. I’m impressed by people who can run a stove without a window!
I’m sitting in front of my fireplace with one of my dogs. My kindling is twigs and branches from the yard, and I use packing paper I receive. I also make wax pinecones with the ends of candles and cones from my mother’s tree. 🌲 This is my third fire 🔥 of the year
I love Matt he is the perfect balance silly ❤
A good fire warms body and soul.
I remember visiting my granny and grandad in "little" Washington N.C. from Virginia Beach Va. in the winter time. They only had a wood stove but it was so hot in their small home that we had to step out back for a breather. And they had quite a few acres with those stumps, my grandad called it "light wood". It smelled great. Remember "Apinol"? The company would come to my grandparents property and get permission to extract the pitch or whatever to make their product. It smells so good.
This brings back so many memories when growing up wood heat was all we ever had. We had a stove in the living room and momma cook on a wood burning stove in the kitchen. Daddy always said he would build one fire every winter. At night he would fill the stove up and turn it off. The wood would slowly burn during the night and the next morning he would have hot coals in the stove, he would add wood and it would keep the house warm. I love natural heat it was good for your aching joints sometimes.
Thank you for giving me reason to walk down memory lane again.
You two definitely need some comfy chairs to sit and relax this winter next to your wood stove
That's incredible that the stove is a custom build.
I went to school there in mineral bluff and we had a coal furnace behind the gym. It would heat the radiator in the classrooms. At home we used wood for heat when I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s
Thank you for sharing your first fire of the Season. I felt like I was right there with y'all. 😊
Love that sweater. The hunting public. Good people there
♥️✝️🇺🇸 there’s nothing better than a crackling fire on a cold winter night or day 😊 . Sending love and hugs & prayers to your mom ♥️
Matt always makes me laugh with his mischievousness and joking around! 😂❤😂 In our stressful world today we definitely need to have laughter and something to smile about. Prayers for Granny and y’all 🙏🙏🍁🎃🍁🤗
Matt and Tipper I enjoyed seeing how Matt builds a fire it was really neat I know you all enjoyed the warmth from it❤️ Shelby
Thanks so much for posting this, Tipper. As much as I have always enjoyed the channel, I must say it is great to see more of Matt on here since he joined you as a full-time celebrator. Very good work, sir. When your second axe blow hit the same spot as the first on that log @5:34, I could not help but give a "Yeah!" Okay, show of hands, folks: how many of us out here save dryer lint and cotton wadding from pill bottles for starting fires with a spark?
It’s a pleasure to watch your channel. I split many wood as a young boy.
There is nothing like the smell of burning wood Thank you Matt and Tipper!🔥❤️🔥🇨🇦🙏
Thanks for that fire, Matt! I could close my eyes and smell that fat lighter and it took me back to my childhood. We had a wood stove in our living room and you’re right about it putting you out of the house! lol It sure did a great job of keeping us warm and I miss having one. We kept a cast iron water kettle on top of ours. Great memories…I appreciate y’all taking me down memory lane.
We are in Montana and have a wood stove. We made our first fire a few weeks ago when our temps dipped to 0 fahrenheit. The first fire always feels special.
That lighter wood sure has a wonderful smell to it..gets everything smoked black 😆 but it's great fire starter. I remember bout 12, goin in the woods cutting lot of it off big stump. Really did enjoy that. It's dropped down in the 30s here in south Carolina too.. beautiful crisp mornings now wake up to.. ohh cleaning out ashes,that reminded me 😆.. daddy woke me early one cold morning bout 4 .. to clean ashes out the heater.. I was half asleep, so just grabbed ole cardboard box..throwed em in there and shoved box out on the porch 😆.. bout 30 minutes later or so.. daddy woke me up cussing, yelling..the porch on fire 😆..had get pots water start throwing on it.. didn't burn bad but had a good size whole lol.. that's a very nice wood stove y'all got.. thanks for sharing..God bless and stay warm..
😀oh goodness!
Nice fireside chat. Love to see you two cutting up while doing the thumbnail❣
We had a wood burning stove when I was growing up and one of my fondest memories was after I was married and we always had Christmas Eve at mom and dads.. it would be late in the evening and dark when we would get there. But when I'd open the car door and smell that aroma of that burning wood it was wonderful!!! Back then it did snow alot more then now here in Indiana but I can remember it was so cold the snow would crunch under your feet❤
It was chilly last night here in low 20s - again tonight. At least the wind has layed tonight. Im very happy you have a woodstove. I sure miss those days. Enjoy! I know you’re warm n toasty!
I’ve got an old Fischer grandpa stove. Probably twice the sizr thst one - back when they were built in USA. Been holding onto it. Too big for my little house. We got it new way back I guess in late 80s, eary 90s. Not much use. If you know of anyone, it would make a fine stove. No need letting it sit and keep going bad…
Matt , you need a propane blow torch, you don't even need kindling, just toss the logs in the fireplace and light them up, works perfect!
I do love the noise of the draw on the started fire. Matt describes it perfectly like a story. We had a Fire King insert in our fireplace in San Jose, CA. It had a glass door that you could see through to the beautiful fire. Then California outlawed wood burning stoves. Such a crime. Really love this , thank you, Matt. Karla in Cali.
We can still use existing wood burning stoves in California, except for when the local air quality is so bad that they declare a no-burn day. You just can't put a wood burning fireplace in new construction. I checked the regulations carefully because I have a wood stove. I seldom use it anymore, though, because the house gets too warm. It's nice to know that I'll have heat if the power goes out, though.
My parents in Menlo Park, CA had a pretty insert as well. Enough trees went down on their large lot that they had a good supply of wood.
That splitter thing looks safer than doing it the old way. That's cool
Thanks for sharing ! Y’all have so much fun . ❤ to Granny & Prayers
You two are so different. Matt is funny and Tipper, you are solemn. You're a great match. It was very interesting to see how you build a fire. It makes me want to enjoy one but here in Florida cold days are pretty rare. Stay toasty.
We've been having fires in the woodstove here in Central Pennsylvania. Love wood heat!
Prayers for Granny.
Yesss! I’m loving this weather, it makes me happy 😊 I’m ready to start our first fire as well. You can certainly tell Matt has used that axe a time or two, he’s a pro at it. This is my favorite season! Pray y’all are all doing well and granny is as well. God bless you all 🙏🏻
I love listening to the fire burn in a stove. I about fell asleep and almost felt like I got warmer, lol Thanks so much for sharing. God bless you and your family Tipper.
My father would have loved that wood kindling splitter.
Fat lighter is what we call it yes great fire starter. Love that smell . ❤ Love to hear that crackle,my pappaw said when you hear it sounding like someone walking in the snow , snow is a coming❤
I was past 70 when I moved to a house with an Ashley wood heater. I learned to manage, but Matt taught me some things about building a fire today. I guess the native tree here closest to pitch pine is Eastern Red Cedar. I have to buy fatwood but will now use a hand axe to splinter it further . . . and might explore shaving cedarwood. 28 degrees last night--you two made it feel warmer today!
When we 1st moved to Oregon the house had an Ashley stove. That was hard to get a fire started in it. Glad we also had the cookstoves in the kitchen.
Loved this video. In our earlier married life when our girls were little, we heated with a wood stove in addition to a heat pump. Most of the time my husband took care of kindling and the wood. He left for a week long business trip one time and I was to keep the stove going. He left a box of kindling in the garage and when he came back he said “where’s all my kindling wood?!” It burned good and quick so I guess I used a lot of it for convenience🤪. But now that stove heated our whole house. It would get so hot the kids put on their bathing suits!😄
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We visited the smokies last week and I started our fire basically the same way . I learned from watching my dad when I was growing up. Lessons learned and lessons remembered
❤ the playfulness at the end.
I know how excited yall are to be able to light the first fire. It is fun to watch Matt in his element and you can tell this is his as he is so good at all of these task. You can hear the excitement in his voice when he talks about it and that is a joy to hear. Such a great outdoorsman and to live where you do, you need a man like him around. We got down to 47 this morning in Jacksonville, Fla. and that is cold for here, but I love it. I hope to be building a fire myself soon. Thanks for sharing your wonderful life with all of us that love you. Keeping you all in thought and prayer daily.
I'm enjoying every minute of this and the fire is beautiful.Thank you. God Bless. 💛🧡🤎&🙏🙏'ers for Granny. Jean