I figured a good stove would last a lifetime so we went with the Jotul that has been a problem free and fairly efficient stove so far. Thanks so much for watching my videos.
Great set up. I heat mostly with a wood stove and it's one of the great joys of life. I find the stacking the waiting and the burning very relaxing.Really enjoyed the video too.
Thanks for the video. Appreciate you taking the time to take us through it all. Starting to heat with wood for the first time this season after getting hit with heavy energy bills last winter. Looking forward to it.
Just watching your videos brings back so many good memories of when I was younger and would go to visit my grand-mother in the country in the winter. She had an old pot belly heater, that thing would put out some heat !! Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos. Stay warm, looking forward to more!
I guess our grandchildren will be telling stories like that someday. The only change will be nanny & poppy were to cheep to buy oil so they had to drag in wood and wouldn't let us use the internet in their house. Thanks for watching.
I always love your simple, no complex language, humble narration. Its such a pleasure to observe life halfway across the world. Best wishes for the Holiday season from the south of India.
There's just too much crazy ranting on youtube so I try and keep it simple. Also with life keeping things simple makes it more enjoyable. I hope you also have a great holiday season. Thanks for watching my videos.
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Nice demonstration on how to prep a wood burner for the winter fires. I also appreciate you explaining that you clean the flu in January. My rule is one and a half cords and then clean the flu.
That is usually about 8 face cords for me. I have never gotten more then a couple cups of creosote at that point. It is a very clean burning stove with the afterburner. Thanks for watching.
Great video! That brought back some memories. We heated with wood growing up. Me and pops cut truck load after truck load of wood every year. He is now retired and in his 70’s. He now just plops in his recliner and grabs a remote, points it at the fireplace, and ‘poof’ his gas logs fire up.lol
You are an infinite bank of knowledge. You know a lot about a lot, and like it has been said in other numerous comments, you are just easy to listen to with no drama. God Bless from Phoenix.
That looks like a Jotul Firelight 600 CB. Beastly stoves for sure. That "active ash pan" is one of my favorite features as it keeps the inside of the box mostly ash free but you still benefit from the heat of the coals. I sell stoves and fireplaces for a living so it's always fascinating to see others using them and to see how you maintain the stove. Awesome video!
Thanks. It is a Oslo 500 and has been a great stove. The afterburner on the top keeps it burning fairly clean. It was the perfect size for my house. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for posting this video - I've been looking high and low for how to clean the creosote from the stove pipe on my Jotul F500. Found several for the new version, the V3, but I have an older model that matches your stove. Now I'm ready to tackle it!
This one is very easy to keep clean. Just be careful when vacuuming that insulation blanket on top. I replace that blanket every couple years. Just buy the sheet insulation from your stove shop and cut it down to fit. Great stove that's very easy to use. Thanks for watching.
Nice video and solid advice. I see you reply to all comments, you are quite the man. We have the same stove and I didn't know the top comes off. Thanks for the info and nice presentation. I will be following more of your videos.
Thanks. Be sure to check that top insulation blanket when you clean it. It has been a great stove and is the perfect size for our house. Hope you find other videos that interest you on my channel. Thanks for watching.
Every time I watch one of your videos it always jars a distant memory from my past and this one is no exception. Years ago, as a boy, that was my job to clean out the stove. One time I had this idea of using the shopvac too. I was about 3/4 the way through the cleaning when I heard a change of pitch and turned around to find that the filter had dropped off the mount and soot was shooting out the exhaust. Needless to say Mom was furious and the white painted ceiling wasn't white no more .It wasn't funny back then, but it sure is funny now. Thanks for posting.
Excellent choice in a wood stove. I have multiple stoves. I finally got one similar to yours. A buddy of mine had your same stove and I was hooked on the look and quality. Good video
I’ve been looking at your stuff on and off for a little while now brother I have say you’re probably one of the most down to earth guys I’ve ever come across and probably an engineering genius you’re very pleasant to listen to and to learn from appreciate your channel I think you’re doing a fine job at educating the public about a lot of different things and we really enjoy watching you and listening to you Whatever you do please keep those wonderful videos coming
Finally I witness a guy who is properly taking care of his life and limb. Clean the pipes, control the heat, use a magnetic thermometer, know the safe ranges......cooler bad, warmer better, hot best. regulate, regulate !!! Do your homework.
Very thorough video! I've heated exclusively with Jotul Firelight 600 for 13 years and it will come with me if I should ever move to a different home ... no ifs ands or buts. I use single wall for the first 6 feet above the stove and stainless double insulated for all above that (I'm in a warmer zone than you) because I was concerned about losing the good pipe heat closest to stove by insulating it. 13 years of pipe cleaning later and seeing the drastic difference in creosote buildup between the two types of pipe, it will be time to replace the lower pipe at the end of this season ... and after seeing your video, I might reconsider the insulated.Thanks for the great video!
I used the double wall because the stove is installed with a heat shield so it could sit closer to the wall and single wall pipe did not meet the building code required clearance. Thanks for watching.
This is a fantastic video thank you for taking the time to make it. I've always heated with wood my dad burned wood all his life and his father did as well, paying $4.50 for heating oil is plan out thievery in my mind and I've had a 1/4 tank of fuel oil in my basement for the last 15 years. You got a new subscriber take care and thank you
We love wood heat. A couple years ago I cheated and bought a log load that really made it easier and still saved us a lot of money. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Love a good wood stove. Nothing better than the smell of a good fier. I miss the days when I was the "Automatic Wood Spliter". With 20# mall and Steele wedges. Oh I did not see your new truck when standing on the roof. Hope you and your famely had a merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing your videos in 2019.
It is a great way to heat if you have the time. I used a maul for the first year and it just took too long so I built a splitter to speed things up. That truck is well worth the payments, it is the best vehicle I have ever owned with no problems yet. Happy New Year to you and your family. Thanks for watching.
I've been using a woodstove as my main heat source since the winter of 1983. My first woodstove was an Efel that was really efficient but not made very well. My second stove was a big Jotul, the biggest one they make. I liked it but it was way too big for my house. So in 2008 I bought a DutchWest stove by Vermont Castings and I dearly love it. I've been using it for ten years and haven't had the first problem with it, and it works as good as it did when it was new.
@@unemployedredneckhillbilly2023 ~ Teah, I loved my Jotul too, but, like I said, it was way too big for this little shack I live in now, which has 950 sq. ft. of floorspace. That big Jotul is made to heat a 3,000 sq. ft. house. In fact I still have it stored in my smokehouse, but it's not hooked up. It's been sitting there for ten years. I should probably sell it.
Our roof is a 10/12 pitch so going up there is near impossible, so what we did was put a clean-out tee right above the stove. We use a flex brush and clean upwards and have a mark on the rods (you add rods as you push it up) where to stop. We have a 'Durango' stove that is 2' deep on the inside, and a fill fill last all day. We have a super insulated house so it takes very little to heat it -- real easy to over heat in fact. It gets 40 below (without wind chill) here in SW Wisconsin some winters, and wood heat is wonderful for those days!
That would be a scary roof to try and stand on while pushing a brush. Being clean is all that matters how every you do it. Our stove is perfect for all but those real cold wind chill days. All the big old windows in the great room loose a lot of heat and the stove can really crank through wood on those days. Luckily we only get a couple days like that a year. We love the wood heat. Thanks for watching.
That's a modified army truck. They are so cool. I got to ride in one one time. It's huge and gets less than 10 miles to a gallon of diesel if I remember correctly. Lol. It's quite a head turner also. You've got quite a nice place.
They have about 6 of them converted to get the potatoes out of the muck fields. I think each load is 10 tons of potatoes. Before they fixed our road there was a bump in front of our house and every day I would pick up a couple pounds of potatoes that bounced out. Muck potatoes are sweet like sugar when first picked. Thanks for watching.
Love wood heat. I heat my shop with it and its the cheapest heat out there. I can get pallets from work for kindling and there are always ads on Craigslist around here where people either want a tree gone or had it blow down in a storm that you can take for free. Sometimes its even blocked up into larger chunks. So a little chainsaw and maul time and free fuel! I've gotten tired of the little woodstove I have, especially since it doesn't have a blower so I'm in the middle of welding up a new one that should fit the bill for the shop quite well. The beauty of it is, its built with leftover steel from old jobs and leftover welding rod that is still good but was out of a rod oven more than 2 hours so cannot be used for code welding. Basically a free stove. Blower supplied by spare parts from when I replaced my old house furnace 2 years back.
It definitely is a great way to heat. It does take some work but is great exercise. Around here you can't build your own stove because they need a UL listing to get a certificate of compliance from the town so your insurance company will cover the building it is in. Thanks for watching.
I have had my Oslo the same number of yrs ....it has treated me well . Jotul was a very good choice for me .....so good I am building a new place 600 miles away and it is going with me.
From what I understand to meet the new EPA requirements they have replaced the afterburner with a catalytic converter on the new Oslo's. It needs lots of maintenance and only gives it another 2% efficiency. Keep that old one as long as you can. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the information, and for sharing also, I just move into a house that has a woodstove, but I’m afraid to use it because I never had one before.
Nice video. Nice piece of property, very well organized. We sold our cottage which was heated with a wood guzzler Franklin stove. My new cabin came with a stove similar to yours. So much easier to keep a fire going. My husband wants a pellet stove. I am leaning towards propane. With the propane I can keep my indoor plants alive. With the pellet and wood stove they die in the cold.
We have no problem keeping plants alive with the woodstove. On real cold nights I have to get up and add some wood in the middle of the night but it stays nice and warm in the house. Propane is very expensive to heat with around here but I may switch to it for backup because oil grows alge in the tank if left too long. I used pellets in my garage for a while but gave up after the price spike and shortage back a while. You should check that you have proper insulation. Thanks for watching.
I bought a ecofan that's driven by the heat from my wood burning stove to help speed the heat. I bought from the amish works perfectly. Basically heat rises, the fan when running pushes heat straight. Helping heat a room.
Just thought you might like to know - the reason why the ash trick on the window works is because it produces lye (potassium hydroxide KOH). When hardwood ash is mixed with water, it produces potassium hydroxide lye. Buckskinners know that trick because it's also an excellent way to remove hair from a deer hide for tanning. When you're using the wet paper towel, and you dab it into the ash, you're putting lye directly on the smoke/fire stains. IF you continue to clean the glass that way, I would HIGHLY recommend wearing rubber gloves when you do, to ensure the wet ash doesn't come in contact with your skin.
Thanks. I had no idea that is what causes the ash to clean so well. I thought it was like a pumice that polished the creosote off. Rubber gloves don't do good near hot glass so the stove gloves should help. Thanks for watching.
Buckskinners have been using it for centuries. We mix hardwood ash with water and let it sit for about 2 days. Then you drop an egg in the solution. The egg should sink until an area about the size of a quarter is at the surface of the water. At that point the solution is ready. Strain it/filter it. Then you put your deer (elk/moose/antelope/buffalo/other) hide in the solution and let it sit for a few days. Every couple of days, test it by gently pulling on the hair. When the hair slips out of the skin with just a gentle rubbing motion, the hide is ready to scrape. I'm sure the grittiness of the ash has something to do with the cleaning properties.....just like I'm sure the lye portion has something to do with it. Thanks for sharing the video.
our new house we installed a oil boiler-we have spent over $30,000 since 2003. it sucks lol for sure-especially at our old house we had coal heat-hot air. it was installed in 1962-was my home place-and then i bought it off my dad in 85. we got away for the winter there for less than $300 for coal. wood was free and i cut it myself. here i have been insulating the attic better, still have the basement wall that is out of the ground. i got sick in 2012 and haven't been able to work since-so money is tight now. good video. glad u can save on the oil for sure.
The scary thing about oil is how the price fluctuates. One year it is $5.00 a gallon, & the next year it is $2.00. I wish we had natural gas available because the price of that seems pretty stable. Thanks for watching.
yes-i worked with a fella who lived near town-and his natural gas was piped right into his house-jeepers what a difference in his price compared to what i was spending on oil at the time. we have been getting away with roughly 1 and 3/4 tanks of oil since the attic was done over. if i had the one wall done int eh basement-i could probably lose some gallons. i filled up this yr at $1.59-its now close to $2-so in January it probably will be $2.50 a gal.
Love it. We burn mostly wood here in western new York. This year we started burning coal and wood both. The heat is perfect. Gas or oil would cost us triple to heat our 3500 sqft home.
I would have never dreamed that the ashes could be used to clean the glass. From the video, it appears the soot comes off with ease. I do not have a fireplace, but at the end of the video, seeing the fire through the glass looks so inviting - kind of makes me wish I did.
I feel it is a great way to heat. The ashes on a damp paper towel are the only thing I have found that easily removes soot from glass. Thanks for watching.
Thanks. It takes a little work to heat with wood but is well worth it. This Jotul has worked great with no problem keeping us warm on the coldest days. Thanks for watching and subbing.
I miss the wood heat! I grew up in a house heated with it. Miss country living period! Miss the canning and storage of food!! Live in the city in a small apartment:-(. If you are looking for someone to adopt I’m your volunteer!! New subscriber here! Love the videos I’ve seen! 👍🏻👍🏻 God bless
Nice video Ed, you really handle the firewood an awful lot. I scored some 4' x 4' x 4' heavy duty wire bins. Split the wood into the wire bins, put a tarp over them, let it dry, then fork lift the bins one at a time into the garage as needed. Now for a couple of weeks I don't have to go outside to get wood for the stove. It has make my wood buring life easier.
I don't mind the handling. I find by getting everything spread out in the wind and sun for a couple of weeks brings my creosote down to almost nothing. Maybe when I get a little older, I will get a bigger tractor that will be able to handle bins like that. I see big folding bins like that on Craigslist quite often. I keep one rack of wood in the garage for the days when the snow is so deep that you can't get the front door open. Thanks for watching.
Excellent video and the property looks great very much to be proud of. Just a consideration but might want to reconsider blocking the windows with the woods stack. Could be costly in the event of an emergency.
Thanks for your reply. I live in the Eldorado National Forest about 40 mi West of South Lake Tahoe. We have a single ranch style with central heat and air and a propane fire place. We bought this place in Nov of 2017. Love the location and remoteness, but no way to burn wood. So we are installing a Jotul F400 next month. I’m in the process of gathering and cutting wood. One additional question I have is moisturizing the air. Do you get ample moisture in the air with tea kettle device on top of your stove or does it take so much water to make a difference it only for looks.
The kettle helps but only evaporates about 1/2 gallon a day. We also have a cool mist humidifier we run in the bedroom. The humidity always drops in the winter in cold climates and a woodstove constantly pulling in cold air for combustion doesn't help. On the other hand rooms farthest from the woodstove will gather condensation on the windows if the humidity gets too high. It will take a while to get it all figured out.
A nice pellet stove eliminates ALL of that hassle. I have a Fisher Mamma Bear stove and it cooks me out of my living room on a regular basis. I kick myself every winter for leaving my new pellet stove in the house I sold during divorce. 40lb bag of pellets heats for a couple of days leaving a tablespoon of ash. I absolutely hate having to collect, stack, transport and then CONSTANTLY add wood to keep the stove going. Love the wood heat, and wish my Mamma Bear had a glass door. Great video, and I will subscribe. Mamma Bear was in the house when I bought it, and have only had to replace the fire brick as many were missing or broken. I plan to repaint the stove this summer, and need to get up and brush the pipe as I have not done that, and this is my 3rd winter. Though I don't use stove exclusively, try to keep propane use down due to the cost of propane.
Having the right size stove for your house is very important. Also having a way to circulate the heat keeps fairly even temperature throughout the house. I like having the window also. I used pellets in my last garage and would never use a pellet stove again after the shortage of pellets that happened one year. Thanks for watching and subbing.
can you tell me what do you have under the stove? i am trying to figure out if i need to put tile. thank you taking the time to sharing great information
I have 2 inches of cement board, ceramic tiles, and a heat pad for my stove r rating. Your stove will have a r value that the base must meet to comply with building codes and get a certificate of compliance so you insurance company will continue to cover your house. Take the stove information with you and talk to the building inspector when you apply for a permit to install it to see what you need to pass the inspection. Thanks for watching.
Is it just good practice to keep a kettle on top for increased humidity or do you do it just for practicality of an instant cup of tea when you need it? With your typical northern winter weather, how much wood do you go through in 24-48 hrs? Our weather in NC, zone 7 is rarely into the single digits. We’re considering this model stove.
You need the kettle for humidity. There is very little humidity in the winter months and it helps to keep everything in the house from drying out. We go through between 5 and 6 full cords (15 -18 face cords) of wood each winter and real cold ones can use more. It is important to properly size the stove for your house and climate. This stove burns cleanest when run very hot and tends to soot up the glass when run at lower temps so it is perfect for our house and climate where we run it at 400+ degrees most of the winter. Be sure to have a plan for proper heat distribution throughout the house to keep the whole house comfortable before selecting a location for it. We love wood heat. Thanks for watching.
We are in Alaska in an A frame cabin with a tall steep roof and its almost impossible for to clean mid winter because of all the snow. Have you ever used any of the Creosote sweeping log type products with any success? Thanks
No, I have never tried them. I didn't think they were any good for stainless steel pipe. We are usually lucky with a January thaw that melts everything off the roof. Thanks for watching.
I have a vigilant wood burning stove but I can't open my door like you did. But I saw you use that pearl handle thing like a key to open that door. is it a spring on there or do I twist mine off or push it up or down to get my daughter open.
The pressure of the gaskets is what holds the latch in place. Be sure your dood gaskets are still soft and squishy. They need to be replaced every couple years. thanks for watching.
I used a regular chimney brush my entire life, well a fiberglass pole broke a few years back, then 2 years ago another, I ordered the kind you stay on the ground & run it up to top of chimney & your drill spins it, plastic balls attached to nylon ropes, like 1 1/2 - 2 inch balls, plus nylon brushes following behind them, as the bash the walls of the flu liner the brushes clean it, boy, I thought it was a gimmick, it’s SO MUCH CLEANER than when I used the old style, was only like $40 on Amazon
My brush and poles are about 13 years old now and still look like new. Perfectly shiny chimney every time using it. I don’t imagine its good to beat this triple wall stainless chimney with something like that . Thanks for watching.
I have the Jotul 600CB. Do you ever pull the ash pan during the heating season. I just open the side door and dump the ashes in a bucket. Opening and closing the ash pan is a pain when in use due to the wood in the stove falling behind the pan when you reinsert it.
We scrape the ashes in the pan every morning and then take it outside to empty into a steel can. About halfway through the season I vaccum out the area. There is no way for wood to fall behind this pan. Thanks for watching.
Ash with oily resin from trees makes a simple soap!!! It's lye and potash, probably not an abrasive for tempered glass. Beautiful stove, a Joetl, how do you keep it looking so nice? Wire brush? Cleanser?
The wet ash is the easiest way to clean the glass and it doesn't require chemicals. We just wipe it with a damp cloth a couple times a year. Whatever they finished it with at the factory has stood up well. Thanks for watching.
If you go with propane it might be a good idea to get a 1000 gallon tank, bury it in the yard. You can get a great deal on propane if you buy it off season and by volume. 1000 gallons would last for years. Doesn’t go bad. Just a thought. My brother did it and loves it. Vinny 🇺🇸
Beautiful place you have there my friend.
That wood burner is a beauty too.
Thank you for your videos.
I enjoy every one of them.
Eric
I figured a good stove would last a lifetime so we went with the Jotul that has been a problem free and fairly efficient stove so far. Thanks so much for watching my videos.
Beautiful place you have and that was a good tip to use the ashes to clean the glass.
It is the only thing I have found that removes the soot easily. polishes up the glass in no time. Thanks for watching.
Great set up. I heat mostly with a wood stove and it's one of the great joys of life. I find the stacking the waiting and the burning very relaxing.Really enjoyed the video too.
We really enjoy the way it heats the house. Plus I get some exercise cutting, splitting, and stacking the wood. Thanks for watching.
What I like about you, is you can make mundane tasks interesting. Love your channel
I appreciate that! Not taking care of things like this sure can ruin a day quickly. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video. Appreciate you taking the time to take us through it all. Starting to heat with wood for the first time this season after getting hit with heavy energy bills last winter. Looking forward to it.
It takes some work and pre planing but saves quite a bit if you have a source for wood. Thanks for watching.
Just watching your videos brings back so many good memories of when I was younger and would go to visit my grand-mother in the country in the winter. She had an old pot belly heater, that thing would put out some heat !! Thanks for sharing your wonderful videos. Stay warm, looking forward to more!
I guess our grandchildren will be telling stories like that someday. The only change will be nanny & poppy were to cheep to buy oil so they had to drag in wood and wouldn't let us use the internet in their house. Thanks for watching.
What an awesome video, great place, great stove. Thanks for sharing!
It is a great way to heat. Thanks for watching.
I always love your simple, no complex language, humble narration. Its such a pleasure to observe life halfway across the world. Best wishes for the Holiday season from the south of India.
There's just too much crazy ranting on youtube so I try and keep it simple. Also with life keeping things simple makes it more enjoyable. I hope you also have a great holiday season. Thanks for watching my videos.
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Another amazing, informative video. I would love to heat with wood. always look forward to your videos.
It is a little work so if you have the time and a source for wood it is a great way to heat. Thanks for watching.
Nice video. Love the stove and your property.
It is a great way to heat if you have the time. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the video I enjoyed it beautiful job well done I'm planning to get Hayward stove when I move to PA 👍👍👍
They are a great source of heat. Never have to worry about power outages. Thanks for watching.
Nice demonstration on how to prep a wood burner for the winter fires. I also appreciate you explaining that you clean the flu in January. My rule is one and a half cords and then clean the flu.
That is usually about 8 face cords for me. I have never gotten more then a couple cups of creosote at that point. It is a very clean burning stove with the afterburner. Thanks for watching.
Great video! That brought back some memories. We heated with wood growing up. Me and pops cut truck load after truck load of wood every year. He is now retired and in his 70’s. He now just plops in his recliner and grabs a remote, points it at the fireplace, and ‘poof’ his gas logs fire up.lol
If I make it to my 70's, I will probably do the same. Right now I can use all the exercise that I can get. Thanks for watching.
You are an infinite bank of knowledge. You know a lot about a lot, and like it has been said in other numerous comments, you are just easy to listen to with no drama. God Bless from Phoenix.
Thanks. CZcams is a great place to share ideas. Thanks for watching.
That looks like a Jotul Firelight 600 CB. Beastly stoves for sure. That "active ash pan" is one of my favorite features as it keeps the inside of the box mostly ash free but you still benefit from the heat of the coals. I sell stoves and fireplaces for a living so it's always fascinating to see others using them and to see how you maintain the stove. Awesome video!
Thanks. It is a Oslo 500 and has been a great stove. The afterburner on the top keeps it burning fairly clean. It was the perfect size for my house. Thanks for watching.
At last, an American I can actually listen too, youve got a new subscriber. Great video thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks. Hopefully you will find other videos that interest you on my channel. Thanks for watching.
What a great calming video. Thanks so much.
Glad you enjoyed it! Wood is a great way to heat. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for posting this video - I've been looking high and low for how to clean the creosote from the stove pipe on my Jotul F500. Found several for the new version, the V3, but I have an older model that matches your stove. Now I'm ready to tackle it!
This one is very easy to keep clean. Just be careful when vacuuming that insulation blanket on top. I replace that blanket every couple years. Just buy the sheet insulation from your stove shop and cut it down to fit. Great stove that's very easy to use. Thanks for watching.
Nice video and solid advice. I see you reply to all comments, you are quite the man. We have the same stove and I didn't know the top comes off. Thanks for the info and nice presentation. I will be following more of your videos.
Thanks. Be sure to check that top insulation blanket when you clean it. It has been a great stove and is the perfect size for our house. Hope you find other videos that interest you on my channel. Thanks for watching.
Every time I watch one of your videos it always jars a distant memory from my past and this one is no exception. Years ago, as a boy, that was my job to clean out the stove. One time I had this idea of using the shopvac too. I was about 3/4 the way through the cleaning when I heard a change of pitch and turned around to find that the filter had dropped off the mount and soot was shooting out the exhaust. Needless to say Mom was furious and the white painted ceiling wasn't white no more .It wasn't funny back then, but it sure is funny now. Thanks for posting.
Wow, that would be a hard mess to recover from. Thanks for watching.
You look like a Santa clause in a beautiful and peaceful land. Love ❤️ the video!
Thanks for watching.
Excellent choice in a wood stove. I have multiple stoves. I finally got one similar to yours. A buddy of mine had your same stove and I was hooked on the look and quality. Good video
It has been a great stove. Works perfect for our size house. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks for sharing your home is very nice and you definitely got a lot of firewood
Take care
God Bless
It's a great way to heat your home. Thanks for watching.
The perfect woodstove! Maybe Santa will bring me one!
It has been perfect for our house. Thanks for watching.
I’ve been looking at your stuff on and off for a little while now brother I have say you’re probably one of the most down to earth guys I’ve ever come across and probably an engineering genius you’re very pleasant to listen to and to learn from appreciate your channel I think you’re doing a fine job at educating the public about a lot of different things and we really enjoy watching you and listening to you Whatever you do please keep those wonderful videos coming
We all have different ideas and experience. CZcams is a great way to share them. Thanks for watching my videos.
Finally I witness a guy who is properly taking care of his life and limb. Clean the pipes, control the heat, use a magnetic thermometer, know the safe ranges......cooler bad, warmer better, hot best. regulate, regulate !!! Do your homework.
This has been a very hard year to keep the stove burning properly with all the swings in outdoor temperature. We love wood heat. Thanks for watching.
Loved your video! Down to earth and practical. No rocket science involved. TX
Thanks. Just keep the chimney clean and burn seasoned wood for a trouble free experience. Thanks for watching.
Love this video. Very easy to watch and explained well. Would love to come and have a coffee in front of that stove.
If you have the time woodstoves are a great way to heat. Thanks for watching.
Very thorough video! I've heated exclusively with Jotul Firelight 600 for 13 years and it will come with me if I should ever move to a different home ... no ifs ands or buts. I use single wall for the first 6 feet above the stove and stainless double insulated for all above that (I'm in a warmer zone than you) because I was concerned about losing the good pipe heat closest to stove by insulating it. 13 years of pipe cleaning later and seeing the drastic difference in creosote buildup between the two types of pipe, it will be time to replace the lower pipe at the end of this season ... and after seeing your video, I might reconsider the insulated.Thanks for the great video!
I used the double wall because the stove is installed with a heat shield so it could sit closer to the wall and single wall pipe did not meet the building code required clearance. Thanks for watching.
This is a fantastic video thank you for taking the time to make it. I've always heated with wood my dad burned wood all his life and his father did as well, paying $4.50 for heating oil is plan out thievery in my mind and I've had a 1/4 tank of fuel oil in my basement for the last 15 years. You got a new subscriber take care and thank you
We love wood heat. A couple years ago I cheated and bought a log load that really made it easier and still saved us a lot of money. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
Nice explanation ! Thank you, greets from overseas, France 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻😀
You are welcome. Wood is a great renewable source of heat. CZcams makes the world seem small. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for taking the time to share some great tips. My wife thinks you look like a cute Santa Claus on the roof!! 😊🚂
Heading up there today to clean the chimney for the start of this year's heating season. Santa likes big chimneys 🎅. Thanks for watching.
Great video- love it.
Thanks for watching.
Love it it's a lot of work but the money saved can be substantial your lucky to have your own supply more money saved
If you have the time, it is one of the biggest savings a homeowner can find. Thanks for watching.
Great video!
Love a good wood stove. Nothing better than the smell of a good fier. I miss the days when I was the "Automatic Wood Spliter". With 20# mall and Steele wedges. Oh I did not see your new truck when standing on the roof. Hope you and your famely had a merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing your videos in 2019.
It is a great way to heat if you have the time. I used a maul for the first year and it just took too long so I built a splitter to speed things up. That truck is well worth the payments, it is the best vehicle I have ever owned with no problems yet. Happy New Year to you and your family. Thanks for watching.
New subscriber, really enjoying your videos. Thanks for the tip about cleaning the glass with wood ash.
It is the only natural cleaner we found that works on that soot. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
That was an awesome tip, and it is free.
That trick with the ash on the window was awesome.
It is the only chemical free way to clean the window we could find that works. Thanks for watching.
I've been using a woodstove as my main heat source since the winter of 1983. My first woodstove was an Efel that was really efficient but not made very well. My second stove was a big Jotul, the biggest one they make. I liked it but it was way too big for my house. So in 2008 I bought a DutchWest stove by Vermont Castings and I dearly love it. I've been using it for ten years and haven't had the first problem with it, and it works as good as it did when it was new.
We love this Jotul. No problems yet and it is the perfect size for our house. A great way to heat. Thanks for watching.
@@unemployedredneckhillbilly2023 ~ Teah, I loved my Jotul too, but, like I said, it was way too big for this little shack I live in now, which has 950 sq. ft. of floorspace. That big Jotul is made to heat a 3,000 sq. ft. house. In fact I still have it stored in my smokehouse, but it's not hooked up. It's been sitting there for ten years. I should probably sell it.
Nice tip with the ash and wet paper towel to clean the stove glass. Looks Great.
It seems to be the only combination that loosens the soot without chemicals. Thanks for watching.
Great video. Thank you!
thanks for watching.
Our roof is a 10/12 pitch so going up there is near impossible, so what we did was put a clean-out tee right above the stove. We use a flex brush and clean upwards and have a mark on the rods (you add rods as you push it up) where to stop. We have a 'Durango' stove that is 2' deep on the inside, and a fill fill last all day. We have a super insulated house so it takes very little to heat it -- real easy to over heat in fact. It gets 40 below (without wind chill) here in SW Wisconsin some winters, and wood heat is wonderful for those days!
That would be a scary roof to try and stand on while pushing a brush. Being clean is all that matters how every you do it. Our stove is perfect for all but those real cold wind chill days. All the big old windows in the great room loose a lot of heat and the stove can really crank through wood on those days. Luckily we only get a couple days like that a year. We love the wood heat. Thanks for watching.
Good video, good tips. Thanks
There is some work associated with wood heat but we feel it is well worth it. Thanks for watching.
That's a modified army truck. They are so cool. I got to ride in one one time. It's huge and gets less than 10 miles to a gallon of diesel if I remember correctly. Lol. It's quite a head turner also. You've got quite a nice place.
They have about 6 of them converted to get the potatoes out of the muck fields. I think each load is 10 tons of potatoes. Before they fixed our road there was a bump in front of our house and every day I would pick up a couple pounds of potatoes that bounced out. Muck potatoes are sweet like sugar when first picked. Thanks for watching.
lol - I'd be "re-installing" that bump every fall....
Nice, informative video. Thanks!
Thanks for watching.
So beautiful! I’ve always wanted a wood burning stove.
We love it, it takes a little work but is worth it. Thanks for watching.
Yup. Just double checked. This guy is awesome. Love the video.
Thanks for watching.
Love wood heat. I heat my shop with it and its the cheapest heat out there. I can get pallets from work for kindling and there are always ads on Craigslist around here where people either want a tree gone or had it blow down in a storm that you can take for free. Sometimes its even blocked up into larger chunks. So a little chainsaw and maul time and free fuel!
I've gotten tired of the little woodstove I have, especially since it doesn't have a blower so I'm in the middle of welding up a new one that should fit the bill for the shop quite well. The beauty of it is, its built with leftover steel from old jobs and leftover welding rod that is still good but was out of a rod oven more than 2 hours so cannot be used for code welding. Basically a free stove. Blower supplied by spare parts from when I replaced my old house furnace 2 years back.
It definitely is a great way to heat. It does take some work but is great exercise. Around here you can't build your own stove because they need a UL listing to get a certificate of compliance from the town so your insurance company will cover the building it is in. Thanks for watching.
That stove is gorgeous brother!
It is a great way to heat. A good stove will last a lifetime. Thanks for watching.
GOOOOD Info, thank you Brother.....Amen
Thanks for watching.
Very nice video! 👍
Thanks for watching.
The work you have to put in is well worth it. Nothing like a fire on a cold night.
Sitting next to one now and it feels great. Thanks for watching.
Very nice summary tutorial!
It takes some work to heat with wood but it's worth it. Thanks for watching.
Excellent information. Thanks
Thanks for watching.
I have had my Oslo the same number of yrs ....it has treated me well . Jotul was a very good choice for me .....so good I am building a new place 600 miles away and it is going with me.
From what I understand to meet the new EPA requirements they have replaced the afterburner with a catalytic converter on the new Oslo's. It needs lots of maintenance and only gives it another 2% efficiency. Keep that old one as long as you can. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the information, and for sharing also, I just move into a house that has a woodstove, but I’m afraid to use it because I never had one before.
The big thing is have a qualified person check the chimney to make sure it's safe. Thanks for watching.
Very good installation I have installed a few jotul stoves for my company in the U K
It has been a great stove and the perfect size for our house. With the after burner they burn very clean for a woodstove. Thanks for watching.
Gorgeous property
Thanks. Nice living in the country. Thanks for watching.
Great tips. Nicely done video. Sounds like you might need to pump out that old oil tank and go to a smaller tank.
I have been changing filters often and so far it is still burning . Hopefully I can use most of it this year. Thanks for watching.
Nice video. Nice piece of property, very well organized. We sold our cottage which was heated with a wood guzzler Franklin stove. My new cabin came with a stove similar to yours. So much easier to keep a fire going. My husband wants a pellet stove. I am leaning towards propane. With the propane I can keep my indoor plants alive. With the pellet and wood stove they die in the cold.
We have no problem keeping plants alive with the woodstove. On real cold nights I have to get up and add some wood in the middle of the night but it stays nice and warm in the house. Propane is very expensive to heat with around here but I may switch to it for backup because oil grows alge in the tank if left too long. I used pellets in my garage for a while but gave up after the price spike and shortage back a while. You should check that you have proper insulation. Thanks for watching.
I bought a ecofan that's driven by the heat from my wood burning stove to help speed the heat. I bought from the amish works perfectly. Basically heat rises, the fan when running pushes heat straight. Helping heat a room.
They are nice to have. Our ceiling fan also does a good job. Thanks for watching.
Nicely done.
Thanks for watching.
Just thought you might like to know - the reason why the ash trick on the window works is because it produces lye (potassium hydroxide KOH). When hardwood ash is mixed with water, it produces potassium hydroxide lye. Buckskinners know that trick because it's also an excellent way to remove hair from a deer hide for tanning. When you're using the wet paper towel, and you dab it into the ash, you're putting lye directly on the smoke/fire stains. IF you continue to clean the glass that way, I would HIGHLY recommend wearing rubber gloves when you do, to ensure the wet ash doesn't come in contact with your skin.
Thanks. I had no idea that is what causes the ash to clean so well. I thought it was like a pumice that polished the creosote off. Rubber gloves don't do good near hot glass so the stove gloves should help. Thanks for watching.
Buckskinners have been using it for centuries. We mix hardwood ash with water and let it sit for about 2 days. Then you drop an egg in the solution. The egg should sink until an area about the size of a quarter is at the surface of the water. At that point the solution is ready. Strain it/filter it. Then you put your deer (elk/moose/antelope/buffalo/other) hide in the solution and let it sit for a few days. Every couple of days, test it by gently pulling on the hair. When the hair slips out of the skin with just a gentle rubbing motion, the hide is ready to scrape.
I'm sure the grittiness of the ash has something to do with the cleaning properties.....just like I'm sure the lye portion has something to do with it. Thanks for sharing the video.
Thank-you and best!
Thanks for watching.
Excellent video.Somebody who knows what the are talking about.Nice home too.Thanks.
Thanks. It takes a little work and planning to heat with wood but I feel it is well worth it . Thanks for watching.
Nice work. I use tea bag on the glass front when its cool. An it just cleans right off.
I haven't heard of that. Thanks for watching.
Nice lawn too!
Thanks for watching.
Like it,good job
Getting ready to do it all over again this year. Thanks for watching.
our new house we installed a oil boiler-we have spent over $30,000 since 2003. it sucks lol for sure-especially at our old house we had coal heat-hot air. it was installed in 1962-was my home place-and then i bought it off my dad in 85. we got away for the winter there for less than $300 for coal. wood was free and i cut it myself. here i have been insulating the attic better, still have the basement wall that is out of the ground. i got sick in 2012 and haven't been able to work since-so money is tight now. good video. glad u can save on the oil for sure.
The scary thing about oil is how the price fluctuates. One year it is $5.00 a gallon, & the next year it is $2.00. I wish we had natural gas available because the price of that seems pretty stable. Thanks for watching.
yes-i worked with a fella who lived near town-and his natural gas was piped right into his house-jeepers what a difference in his price compared to what i was spending on oil at the time. we have been getting away with roughly 1 and 3/4 tanks of oil since the attic was done over. if i had the one wall done int eh basement-i could probably lose some gallons. i filled up this yr at $1.59-its now close to $2-so in January it probably will be $2.50 a gal.
Love it. We burn mostly wood here in western new York. This year we started burning coal and wood both. The heat is perfect. Gas or oil would cost us triple to heat our 3500 sqft home.
It's definitely a greaway to heat. With oil at almost $3.00 a gallon here now it is a big savings. Thanks for watching.
I would have never dreamed that the ashes could be used to clean the glass. From the video, it appears the soot comes off with ease. I do not have a fireplace, but at the end of the video, seeing the fire through the glass looks so inviting - kind of makes me wish I did.
I feel it is a great way to heat. The ashes on a damp paper towel are the only thing I have found that easily removes soot from glass. Thanks for watching.
Nice ...clip love the fire burning bathing beats wood as heat..thnx
It's a little bit of work but we love it. Thanks for watching.
By the way thanks for another great video
Watching a real fire burn on a winters evening is better than watching TV.
We have been enjoying it with all the cold weather lately. Thanks for watching.
great video nice place you sir earned a sub
Thanks. It takes a little work to heat with wood but is well worth it. This Jotul has worked great with no problem keeping us warm on the coldest days. Thanks for watching and subbing.
I miss the wood heat! I grew up in a house heated with it. Miss country living period! Miss the canning and storage of food!! Live in the city in a small apartment:-(. If you are looking for someone to adopt I’m your volunteer!! New subscriber here! Love the videos I’ve seen! 👍🏻👍🏻 God bless
I often wonder when the day will come for us that we have to downsize. Always plenty to eat. Thanks for watching.
The way he takes care of that stove,it will last for years and years to come
These stoves are built to last generations. Thanks for watching.
Nice video Ed, you really handle the firewood an awful lot. I scored some 4' x 4' x 4' heavy duty wire bins. Split the wood into the wire bins, put a tarp over them, let it dry, then fork lift the bins one at a time into the garage as needed. Now for a couple of weeks I don't have to go outside to get wood for the stove. It has make my wood buring life easier.
I don't mind the handling. I find by getting everything spread out in the wind and sun for a couple of weeks brings my creosote down to almost nothing. Maybe when I get a little older, I will get a bigger tractor that will be able to handle bins like that. I see big folding bins like that on Craigslist quite often. I keep one rack of wood in the garage for the days when the snow is so deep that you can't get the front door open. Thanks for watching.
Outstanding
Thanks for watching.
Excellent video and the property looks great very much to be proud of. Just a consideration but might want to reconsider blocking the windows with the woods stack. Could be costly in the event of an emergency.
None of those windows would ever be used as a exit. Thanks for watching.
THanks for the video :)
Thanks for watching.
Thanks for your reply. I live in the Eldorado National Forest about 40 mi West of South Lake Tahoe. We have a single ranch style with central heat and air and a propane fire place. We bought this place in Nov of 2017. Love the location and remoteness, but no way to burn wood. So we are installing a Jotul F400 next month. I’m in the process of gathering and cutting wood. One additional question I have is moisturizing the air. Do you get ample moisture in the air with tea kettle device on top of your stove or does it take so much water to make a difference it only for looks.
The kettle helps but only evaporates about 1/2 gallon a day. We also have a cool mist humidifier we run in the bedroom. The humidity always drops in the winter in cold climates and a woodstove constantly pulling in cold air for combustion doesn't help. On the other hand rooms farthest from the woodstove will gather condensation on the windows if the humidity gets too high. It will take a while to get it all figured out.
A nice pellet stove eliminates ALL of that hassle. I have a Fisher Mamma Bear stove and it cooks me out of my living room on a regular basis. I kick myself every winter for leaving my new pellet stove in the house I sold during divorce. 40lb bag of pellets heats for a couple of days leaving a tablespoon of ash. I absolutely hate having to collect, stack, transport and then CONSTANTLY add wood to keep the stove going. Love the wood heat, and wish my Mamma Bear had a glass door. Great video, and I will subscribe. Mamma Bear was in the house when I bought it, and have only had to replace the fire brick as many were missing or broken. I plan to repaint the stove this summer, and need to get up and brush the pipe as I have not done that, and this is my 3rd winter. Though I don't use stove exclusively, try to keep propane use down due to the cost of propane.
Having the right size stove for your house is very important. Also having a way to circulate the heat keeps fairly even temperature throughout the house. I like having the window also. I used pellets in my last garage and would never use a pellet stove again after the shortage of pellets that happened one year. Thanks for watching and subbing.
beautiful fire id love one in my flat but council most likely wont allow it
Good job thanks
Thanks for watching.
Well done you👍👏👏👏👏
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Great stove:)
It does a great job keeping us warm. Thanks for watching.
Nice place mate 👍
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can you tell me what do you have under the stove? i am trying to figure out if i need to put tile. thank you taking the time to sharing great information
I have 2 inches of cement board, ceramic tiles, and a heat pad for my stove r rating. Your stove will have a r value that the base must meet to comply with building codes and get a certificate of compliance so you insurance company will continue to cover your house. Take the stove information with you and talk to the building inspector when you apply for a permit to install it to see what you need to pass the inspection. Thanks for watching.
Is it just good practice to keep a kettle on top for increased humidity or do you do it just for practicality of an instant cup of tea when you need it? With your typical northern winter weather, how much wood do you go through in 24-48 hrs? Our weather in NC, zone 7 is rarely into the single digits. We’re considering this model stove.
You need the kettle for humidity. There is very little humidity in the winter months and it helps to keep everything in the house from drying out. We go through between 5 and 6 full cords (15 -18 face cords) of wood each winter and real cold ones can use more. It is important to properly size the stove for your house and climate. This stove burns cleanest when run very hot and tends to soot up the glass when run at lower temps so it is perfect for our house and climate where we run it at 400+ degrees most of the winter. Be sure to have a plan for proper heat distribution throughout the house to keep the whole house comfortable before selecting a location for it. We love wood heat. Thanks for watching.
I had a similar Vermont Casting Stove all piped in nice when I bought the house.
Wife didn't like it, so I removed it and gave it away.
Big Mistake.
Lucky my wife likes ours. Actually she tends it most of the time. Thanks for watching.
Yeah, we rarely used ours.
The previous home-owner rebuilt the fireplace, a brick landing just for this, etc.
Oh well. lol
You got rid of the stove or the wife?
You mean I had a choice?!
Yes ,get rid of her soonest possible what aver it costs!
We are in Alaska in an A frame cabin with a tall steep roof and its almost impossible for to clean mid winter because of all the snow. Have you ever used any of the Creosote sweeping log type products with any success? Thanks
No, I have never tried them. I didn't think they were any good for stainless steel pipe. We are usually lucky with a January thaw that melts everything off the roof. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing
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Very helpful
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I have a vigilant wood burning stove but I can't open my door like you did. But I saw you use that pearl handle thing like a key to open that door. is it a spring on there or do I twist mine off or push it up or down to get my daughter open.
The pressure of the gaskets is what holds the latch in place. Be sure your dood gaskets are still soft and squishy. They need to be replaced every couple years. thanks for watching.
Nice video .
Thanks for watching.
I used a regular chimney brush my entire life, well a fiberglass pole broke a few years back, then 2 years ago another, I ordered the kind you stay on the ground & run it up to top of chimney & your drill spins it, plastic balls attached to nylon ropes, like 1 1/2 - 2 inch balls, plus nylon brushes following behind them, as the bash the walls of the flu liner the brushes clean it, boy, I thought it was a gimmick, it’s SO MUCH CLEANER than when I used the old style, was only like $40 on Amazon
My brush and poles are about 13 years old now and still look like new. Perfectly shiny chimney every time using it. I don’t imagine its good to beat this triple wall stainless chimney with something like that . Thanks for watching.
@@unemployedredneckhillbilly2023 it’s not a stainless liner, it’s the red ones, like ceramic
I have the Jotul 600CB. Do you ever pull the ash pan during the heating season. I just open the side door and dump the ashes in a bucket. Opening and closing the ash pan is a pain when in use due to the wood in the stove falling behind the pan when you reinsert it.
We scrape the ashes in the pan every morning and then take it outside to empty into a steel can. About halfway through the season I vaccum out the area. There is no way for wood to fall behind this pan. Thanks for watching.
I have a 600 and have no problem removing the ash pan while the stove is running. Can't imagine how wood falls in it?
Ash with oily resin from trees makes a simple soap!!! It's lye and potash, probably not an abrasive for tempered glass. Beautiful stove, a Joetl, how do you keep it looking so nice? Wire brush? Cleanser?
The wet ash is the easiest way to clean the glass and it doesn't require chemicals. We just wipe it with a damp cloth a couple times a year. Whatever they finished it with at the factory has stood up well. Thanks for watching.
If you go with propane it might be a good idea to get a 1000 gallon tank, bury it in the yard. You can get a great deal on propane if you buy it off season and by volume. 1000 gallons would last for years. Doesn’t go bad. Just a thought. My brother did it and loves it. Vinny 🇺🇸
I am thinking that would make it easy to run a whole house generator also.