My brother bought an 80 acre woods and built his house to be heated with wood. People predicted he’d have to cut down every tree to do it. 50 years later the woods is thicker and healthier than at purchase because he cuts only the damaged, diseased or dead trees, which makes the others healthier. And for kindling etc he uses the fallen branches. He avoids pine because it deposits a lot of creosote in the chimney, and prefers hardwoods because they burn slower hotter and longer. Wood heat feels great. Enjoy!
Cindy, the rule of thumb is you can take 1 cord of wood off one acre a year for ten years and not damage the property. I have been burning wood all my life and I will never change
Yep. People don't seem to understand wood heat lol. We lived on 80 acres when I was young and we used probably 2.5-3.5 cords a year for two woodstoves. You could have never noticed. We got most the wood from a neighbor's property because he was trying to clear some land but we barely made a dent in 3 years.
Creosote build up is temperature dependant. As long as the flue is maintained at a high temp, moisture can not condense on the inside of the flue and cause a build-up. Burn it hot enough and you'll have no problems. I've been doing it for over 25 years.
Imagine if everyone heated their homes this way. There would be a lot of air pollution. It's not sustainable. Also, so called dead wood is habitat for critters in The ecosystem.
My grandparent’s old home had no central heat, and they used a wood-burning stove to heat their house. It would get so cold that they’d just block off openings to other rooms. When that old house got bulldozed the stove was one of the many things we salvaged from it. Now it sits comfortably in their garage.
My uncle had a huge wood stove in the basement with vents in the floor. In mid NC it never stayed cold for a long time but that was his only heat source. In the last few years of his life, he added fans to circulate.
Thank you for this video! Gmpa, BNSF, had heeated his houses with wood until he'd moved to a retirement residence in 2004. Gma had kept their electric bill at three dollars/month. (One dim light bulb per room was too dark for me.) They'd sometimes used Birch bark to start the wood stoves in their house/cabin. That bark burns longer than paper and cardboard. They're both gone; watching your wood stove brought back great memories! Merry Christmas! 🎄
I've been using a Blaze-King for 18 winters...two wrong things mentioned here is the handle on the side is not the damper, it's actually the diverted plate to bypass the catalytic chamber while starting the fire then closed once the catalytic chamber is up to temperature as indicated by the gauge on the stove top. The damper is controlled by the knob just behind the diverted handle. When loading open the diverted plate and partially close the damper to mitigate smoke and embers from coming out the open door. One other point is the stovepipe temperature Guage should be no more than 18 inches above the stove top. These things are fantastic but must be used properly to avoid a tragedy.
You are correct. The big lever is the by-pass plate and the plastic knob controls the amount of air allowed into the firebox. The Low-Med.-High knob is a thermostat that is opened and closed by use of a bi-metal strip attached to the inlet 'damper'. I think Blaze King may be the only brand with an automatic thermostat control. "Set it and forget it."
I've had a Blaze King Princess insert for 3 years or so now. I love it, they are fantastic. I can get overnight burns no issues. Be forewarned when you take the cat out to clean, there's a gasket you'll need to replace when you put it back in. Make sure you have one ready to re-install. The only thing that comes out of my chimney is heat waves, no smoke at all. I used two floor vents, one next to the insert and one at the far end of the house connected with a flex duct with a high flow grow tent fan in the middle. If you do go the route of active circulation, be aware that it is better to push cold air then to try and pull hot air.
Great video! I’ve been burning well seasoned pine for years. It’s indigenous to my area and free. The beauty of these new stoves is you control the burn not the density of the wood. I clean my stove pipe in October and inspect it every few months by pulling off the cap and looking down the pipe with a flashlight. No issues or crazy soot everyone claims with pine.
I have never used my pellet stove as much as I have this year. Agreed, the price of heating oil is shocking. I have a 550-gallon in-ground tank. I cannot stomach paying three thousand dollars to fill it from empty. I still have approximately two hundred gallons left over from last year. I think you made good decisions to try to save some hard-earned coin. Thanks for the video!
Excellent video and beautiful wood stove! We used to have a wood stove then later, installed a wood furnace in our basement. In 2000, I installed an outdoor wood boiler which made it so much easier with loading it up and storing the wood outside. After 22 years, I now miss having a wood furnace in the basement. There are pros and cons about using both indoor wood heating appliance vs an outdoor wood boiler. Mostly, it was nice to go down into the basement with the temps being in the 80's throughout the basement with the concrete floor warm to the touch.
Great as always! Love your explanations of the rationale and everything. It's interesting they mentioned using a blowtorch to get the chimney running; I've seen in older Russian masonry stoves, they often have a hatch in the chimney about 4-6 feet up with a small grating in it, the idea being you start a small fire in the chimney deliberately to warm it up, start the draw, and "pop" the cork of cold air and stop the room filling with smoke. It's an interesting little solution to the problem (I'm guessing it's safe because of how masonry stoves are by their nature more or less nonflammable).
I've burnt wood for over 40 years have had a blaze king for 4 years, best stove I've ever owned. The lever you call a damper is the catalytic bypass. Make sure you open it before opening the door as the rush of cold air can damage your converter. The knob controls the air intake and regulates the heat output. You will find the sweet spot and and turn it up or down a little depending on how much heat you need. The gauge on the top of the stove shows the temp of the catalytic converter. You just want to have it in the active zone when you close the bypass. It's not uncommon for it to be pegged out with a new stove, you don't try and regulate the stove temp by it. All it does is show when the cat is hot enough to close the bypass after that you don't care what it reads.
Thank you, I always gets concerned when the catalytic thermometer gets all the way to the end because I thought it was overheating while the other gauge says it's good
I have an old fashioned brick fireplace that is open on two sides (but was enclosed in glass a decade ago) in addition to central heating and I love it in my living room because its just such a cozy warmth coming off of it. 😌 And its really reassuring to have backup heating in case central heating goes cold.
Mmmm, I love the sound of fire crackling and drafting good! I live in a central heated apartment complex, but my childhood home had huge wood-heated masonry stoves. I miss the feeling of sitting with my back leaned against the hot masonry
I love the way a wood burning fire sounds. That crackling is so soothing and can put me to sleep in a matter of minutes. We had a wood burning stove (we called it a "pot-bellied stove") when I was a kid and that was the only heat our house had. The room it sat in (the dining room) was comfortable but the rest of the house stayed cold. We got really good at piling a lot of blankets on our beds to get warm enough that we could sleep. We also had no indoor plumbing so getting up in the middle of the night to go outside to the outhouse was a cold and miserable exercise. Let's say we didn't waste a lot of time doing any lollygagging on our way there or back. We wanted to get back inside and under our covers as quickly as possible. I don't think we kept the fire going all night very often so when we woke up in the morning, we were pretty cold until we could get that stove fired up again. I do NOT miss that part of the "good old days". A few days ago the temperature here in Nashville got down to a few degrees below zero (which is EXTREMELY cold for Nashville) and we had a power outage that lasted about 12 hours. My heat is electric and it is amazing how fast my house got seriously cold when the power went out. Remembering how we piled the covers on when I was a kid, I pulled some extra blankets out and surprisingly I got warm enough that I slept quite comfortably. In fact, I slept so well that I didn't wake up until 10 a.m. and my electricity was still off! I was sitting here wondering what I would eat for breakfast because about the only thing I had that didn't need to be baked or microwaved or toasted or heated up in a skillet was peanut butter and crackers. As I was trying to talk myself into believing this would be a great breakfast, at about 10:30 my power came back on. I wish I had owned one of your wood-burning stoves because I was pretty uncomfortable for a few hours. It's amazing how much we depend on our "modern conveniences" ... to the point that when something stops working we sort of don't know what to do... or at least I didn't. BTW, I don't know if you have any plans to do any cooking on your wood-burning stove but let me tell you that soup or chili or beans or stew that sits on a stove and slow cooks for hours is the best stuff you will ever put in your mouth. In my opinion there is no comparison, between something that is cooked on a wood burning stove and something that is cooed on an electric or gas range! And if a fire is burning in your stove anyway, you might as well take advantage of that fact to cook something delicious to eat. That's the end of my rant.
Yep the past few years just seeing what can happen to the supply chain and how prices can jump so high made me turn into kind of a prepper so I'm ready if anything ever permanently shuts off
@@post10Vlogs yeah i was thinking about that too and how to handle an emergency situation. we have liquid gas as our primary heat source and it would be nice to have a wood burning stove that can run on low expenses. we bought the house 5 years ago and it's an old house that has been messed with by the previous owners who did various stuff they might have not had the proper expertise about so our chimney is quite worthless to use bc there's all sorts of pipes and plasterboards and whatnot in there, plus there's poor insulation in various spots so in winter it gets quite cold. in our living room (which has 2 radiators) we have an extra mobile electric radiator we put away during summer. i wish things were a tad less difficult...
Sounds like my grandma's house from the early 1900's! No insulation in central Minnesota with the only heat coming from a huge kitchen cook stove! The kids (7 of them) slept 3 and 4 to a bed to stay warm under feather quilts. Dad used to tell me about ice in the water glass in the morning. Brrr.
This is a great video as always. I have been using a wood stove as supplementary heat for my house for close to 30 years. I do suggest you get an electric log splitter. I've had one for 5 years now and I love it. It requires no maintenance and it makes splitting so easy. Thank you for providing excellent content on your channel.
I bought an HVAC temperature test gun to determine what areas of my wood stove heat up the most. I found the front opening doors are thinner than the side walls or top and they heat up the hottest. I place my round temperature guage on the door to show the hottest temp my stove reaches. Thank you for your video. We all learn from you.
Now 67, had a wood fire or heater for all but 10 of my life. We have a wood heater now with fan circulation which is brilliant, we’ve had it for 30 years now and the only maintenance I’ve had to do on it is clean and oil the fan every 2 years. Started splitting with an axe and wedges now just using a hand block splitter or maul, whichever floats your boat. Good exercise, 😂😂. If your glass blackens your fire needs more air, most of the black will burn off, but to clean your glass use dampened newspaper dipped in the fire ash rub the glass and then use a moist cloth followed by a dry cloth to polish it. Bloody good stuff. Our glass is 30 years old and still perfect. A lot of your resultant heat will be radiated from the flue so the corrugated iron should reflect that as well. Keep burning a clean fire and once a month given it a couple of hours flat out burning, that the keep the flue clear, especially if you’re going to burn pine even if it is seasoned. An active fire will also help keep your glass clean. With your air coming in over your glass, as much as you can, keep a bed of white ash, what I do is dig ours out 2 or 3 times a year, leaving at least an inch covering, by just moving the charcoal from side to side. Any black stuff removed is removing fuel and efficiency from your heater. Keep an eye on your chimney top because excessive smoke is loss of efficiency and pisses off any close by neighbours. If you can avoid it, don’t burn a lot of bark, it is loaded with tannins. Enjoy your fire, but it should have been place where you can see it. Nothing as calming as watching a fire, 😂. Our kids loved it, now our grandkids can’t watch it enough. Thanks for posting Post. All the best for the season to you and yours from me and mine. 👋👋👋 🎄🎄
Great video man! Love the new stove. We're dealing with propane prices over $3.00 / gallon. I'm so thankfull for our geothermal as our primary heat source.
My family had wood stoves when I was growing up. They were great for warming your backside on a cold day! We cooked pots of soup and beans on the top. My uncle would roast peanuts for us on top of the stove. Hope you have good luck with yours.
Great video, I feel your pain with these crazy fuel oil prices. I have two 275 gallon fuel oil tanks and this September I filled them from 1/4 tank to full. Costed me around $1500 at 4.07 a gallon. I have a pellet stove I use to curb the fuel consumption like your doing. I really enjoyed this video, that’s a beautiful stove you got there! Good luck!
Great video. We have an oil burner and a fireplace. It gets expensive to just use heating oil. A wood stove is the only solution. You made a good presentation of these great stoves. Thank you.
This is probably the best video Ive seen on wood stoves and their operation! We just put in a Lopi stove with the re-burn tubes and catalytic converter and still getting the hang of it. The way Lopi wants us to get it started and shut the top damper at 500 F so the catalytic converter starts to work seems to smother out the fire so then we keep the lower air inlet wide open and doesnt seem to make a difference in the size of the fire. We used to hear the roar of the fire when it got going but that only seem to last a week or so. Long story short we're following what you did and look at our manual temp gauges and control it that way and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing!
I’m doing the same. I’ve got a multi fuel stove so can burn coal as well. I brought 50, 25kg bags in the summer, I’ve had it lit constantly since the beginning of October. 1 load of coal lasts all day. Top it up at bed time and stays all night.
I purchased my first all-by-myself house four ago. It had a wonderful bluestone wood stove inserted into the fireplace and I use it instead of the oil furnace back up and the gas back up because it’s cheaper and because it’s friendlier and because it works. It heats the entire house without electricity which has😢 not been a problem yet but it could be. I love it. Thanks for this. It was interesting in case I change houses, because I didn’t start with the new stove. (This was well-established and efficient.) Because the stove and Chimney are in the center of this craftsman house, it heats the center of the house, so that none of the pipes will ever freeze. As long as the stove is working on end fired up. The bathroom is upstairs. The kitchen is behind the chimney on the first floor, and the washing machine and dryer and outside spigots are in the cellar underneath the stove. It’s well placed I must say.
That, is an excellent heating choice! A Blaze King, is exactly what I am considering. A long burn time, and great efficiency - is highly desireable. I also use the same type of wood cart; I can roll it right into the room with the current wood cook stove. I will definately look for your future, new stove update - thank you!
I only made this video a 4 days ago and I have not shut it off since, I'm amazed at how little wood it's actually using and the furnace hasn't turned on at all even with some pretty cold nights, it appears by the ash buildup I'll have to shut it down once every 10 to 14 days to clean it out
@@post10Vlogs 10-14 days, that's amazing! My wood Cookstove will only run about 4 hours, if I stuff it full. Then, dump the ashpan, every day. You made a great choice!
@@post10Vlogs I'll confirm that, I just got my Blaze King Princess 32 3 weeks ago also and have gone 15 days till I cleaned the ash out, and if you clean when the cat temp. needle is in the middle and save the glowing coals you just reload it and keep going. The temp. of the stone will stay constant for 95% of the burn then start going down. But it was over 6k for everything
That's is such a nice wood stove. My family, had one way back in the 80's. It wasn't that nice. One time my Mom put way to much wood in it. And made it super hot. It was huffing and puffing. She didn't know much about them. What a great way to heat your house.
Yes, interesting. Good looking stove. Been wanting to get one (an insert) for years to fit into the fireplace. Growing up with one as a kid, we used to put a pot of water on top to up the humidity in the room. A little smoky scent is part of the beauty of having one. Gas powered splitter could be the way to go. I like the manual ones for the workout value. 👍👍
get a electric splitter with a built in stand unless you have a heavy duty workbench to place it on you dont want to work off the floor if you are old like me
i have four sores of heat, propane high efficiency, electric radiant heaters that i use with my solar, during the day when i am producing enough electricity, a pellet stove, and also a wood stove, i switch back and force between the cheapest sores during each day. and your right a wood stove is truly a go to for backup heat when there is no reliable electricity. and a electric log splitter works great with the small logs that you are splitting.
The aspen may not have high BTU content per unit volume, but it's still free heat, and it's very clean burning wood that would be well suited to heating in the "shoulder" of the heating season. It also has a sort of unique smell when burned that some people like. I would happily burn aspen!
Good morning. Thank you for the great content. Some early morning cannabis vape and coffee make this video a good start to the day. I have a Pacific Energy stove in Minnesota and it does 90% of our heating. We have a small fan pointed towards the stove to spread the heat out of the area and to the rest of our house.
Enjoyed your wood stove video and operation. Appreciate your pragmatic ocd . You have a lot of energy on your property. I live in Alaska and I see $ in your resource.. just the sale of a few loads of firewood would fund a new splitter …
I own a blaze king for my house and princes in my garage for about 5 years now and I have cut my wood down in half. Next to no carbon build up in chimney, the usual on my cap but as long as u do the start up procedure and burn seasoned wood these stoves rock. I'd never run household wast through it though.
I had a similar set-up many years ago. You don't have to cut a hole in the ceiling. Just set the box fan on the floor at the top of the stairs pointed down into the basement. You will get more than adequate circulation of heated air.
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That's really nice looking stove. Here in Finland we use much our nordic birch for firewood, but also pine, spruce, alder and aspen too. It's not that horrible for firewood. Many use it here to heat up their smokesauna. Though, I'm not sure if the aspen here are different than those u got there in the US. But anyways, great video and have a nice holidays and happy new year!
Post Ten, just a FYI you can move both of the handles of your logsplitter at he same time. One of the handles is for fast speed splitting and the other is for slow speed splitting.
You have a good stove. My friend just bought a blaze king and we are amazed at how little wood it uses. As for splitting get yourself a Stihl splitting axe. That will do most of your splitting and get you in shape as well. I have 3 hydraulic splitters and still split by hand occasionally just for exercise. You will be surprised at how much you can split if you stay at it 20-30 minutes at a time.
Wait till big brother changes his mind on wood burners ! It’s starting to happen again in Washington state. Come on man you want full electric says the big guy 😂 Nice burner been at it for 35 years it’s great exercise and the $ savings help at the grocery store. At $6-7 a gallon for oil you should have your $ back faster then 4 years. Have fun !
If everyone had to switch to Electric it would cripple the grid and cause blackouts at the moment. Electric is also the most expensive heating in the area unless it's a heat pump which is extremely expensive to install
This is a really good video. I love wood burning stoves. We can’t have them in our urban area just outside London as we’re in a smoke free zone but in the countryside they are very popular.
🇬🇧😀 - also live in London, I also would like a stove ~ as long as the tree cut down has had a new tree/sapling planted in its place = the carbon dioxide being emitted by the one being burned is being re-absorbed by the new re-planted one 🌱, burn well-seasoned wood/smokeless coal to get no-smoke 😉 🔥
Good idea getting the woodstove. In my experience. With a modern EPA app. Stove. The key to it’s efficiency is making sure the gases are burning. In order for that to happen a flame has to reach the gas burning area. Then you will see the blue flames. After that it can stay lit but will go out without a flame to relight it won’t be burning gases. At some point When wood is burnt to embers and coals there’s no gases to burn. Operation of stove on low setting while keeping the gases burning is key for a clean, efficient all night burn. Smoldering a woodstove is dangerous as is wet wood. Soot will soon clog your catalyst, chimney, chimney cap. With my Pacific Energy stove. A normal load is 2 pieces of wood like a half log split in half. Set wood flat part down and leave about 1/2 in. Crack in the middle. The flames will go up through it. The bigger the pieces the hotter it will burn.
We've heated our house with a catalytic wood burner for 22 years. (Several videos about it on our channel if you'd like to check them out.). There is no substitute for wood heat. And if you can process your own firewood - it's highly efficient (but a lot of work). Great video!
My catalytic stove is a dual fuel and I can with certainty say that coal is quite the better substitute. It may not be cheaper than free but holds way more BTUs per pound. One load burns for 24 hours compared to 12 with wood, not to mention the heat throughout the entire firing cycle is wayyyyyyyy more even. No wild fluctuations like wood. But free is the best if you are going by cost....
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they have a product to clear the piping from creosote maybe do that once in the spring, then once again in the fall. They have upgraded the wood stoves since I had one. Good for you Post.
I have an outside fireplace just for recreational use and I've had some really sketchy moments burning pine lumber. 2x4's pop a lot even when they've been drying in the house for 50 years. And I've had some thin stuff, think broken down wooden pallet type wood, but covered in really old sap and it burned thick black like a car fire! That's just for fun, I don't heat my home with it.
I made a heat exchanger for my fireplace, to get more heat. The pipe is heated by the fire, and i put a adjustable fan into the pipe at 3 difference speeds as the pipe is heated the hot air goes around into the pipe and out of front of the pipe with bunches of hole out into the room. Now its 50% efficent
Very interesting video, thanks. The way energy prices are going, people all over the world are going to have to go back to old school methods for heating and cooking. In a way, this could be a good thing, people in general have become far too complacent and wasteful with their energy hungry life styles. This is all going to have to change now. I love the wood burning stove, I could just sit and watch the flames for hours. You'll be able to cook and boil water on top of it too.
Your neighbor is like a modern-day lord of the manor. When collecting firewood, medieval peasants were only allowed to collect branches that had already fallen to the ground.
Wish i was closer have soo many darn maples been dropping a few a year. Miss having my fires but last few years smoke and dyer sheets and well just soo many smells make me sick from a headache to loss of motor skills to memory loss. PSA be very careful leaving the door cracked like that to get it to burn better. My dad did that on Christmas morning and forgot to shut it again and somehow started the house ablaze didn't lose the house but wasn't a great Christmas
My brother bought an 80 acre woods and built his house to be heated with wood. People predicted he’d have to cut down every tree to do it. 50 years later the woods is thicker and healthier than at purchase because he cuts only the damaged, diseased or dead trees, which makes the others healthier. And for kindling etc he uses the fallen branches. He avoids pine because it deposits a lot of creosote in the chimney, and prefers hardwoods because they burn slower hotter and longer. Wood heat feels great. Enjoy!
Cindy, the rule of thumb is you can take 1 cord of wood off one acre a year for ten years and not damage the property. I have been burning wood all my life and I will never change
Yep. People don't seem to understand wood heat lol. We lived on 80 acres when I was young and we used probably 2.5-3.5 cords a year for two woodstoves. You could have never noticed. We got most the wood from a neighbor's property because he was trying to clear some land but we barely made a dent in 3 years.
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Dead on agree with that.
Creosote build up is temperature dependant. As long as the flue is maintained at a high temp, moisture can not condense on the inside of the flue and cause a build-up. Burn it hot enough and you'll have no problems. I've been doing it for over 25 years.
Imagine if everyone heated their homes this way. There would be a lot of air pollution. It's not sustainable. Also, so called dead wood is habitat for critters in The ecosystem.
My grandparent’s old home had no central heat, and they used a wood-burning stove to heat their house. It would get so cold that they’d just block off openings to other rooms. When that old house got bulldozed the stove was one of the many things we salvaged from it. Now it sits comfortably in their garage.
Our furnace is too small; we close our attic/front porch doors to keep the living room warm. The furnace still works. Knock-on-wood. 🤞
You can restore it
My uncle had a huge wood stove in the basement with vents in the floor. In mid NC it never stayed cold for a long time but that was his only heat source. In the last few years of his life, he added fans to circulate.
Thank you for this video!
Gmpa, BNSF, had heeated his houses with wood until he'd moved to a retirement residence in 2004.
Gma had kept their electric bill at three dollars/month. (One dim light bulb per room was too dark for me.)
They'd sometimes used Birch bark to start the wood stoves in their house/cabin. That bark burns longer than paper and cardboard.
They're both gone; watching your wood stove brought back great memories!
Merry Christmas! 🎄
Im not from the country at all, but its truly amazing how much heat these wood stoves can put out.
I've been using a Blaze-King for 18 winters...two wrong things mentioned here is the handle on the side is not the damper, it's actually the diverted plate to bypass the catalytic chamber while starting the fire then closed once the catalytic chamber is up to temperature as indicated by the gauge on the stove top. The damper is controlled by the knob just behind the diverted handle. When loading open the diverted plate and partially close the damper to mitigate smoke and embers from coming out the open door. One other point is the stovepipe temperature Guage should be no more than 18 inches above the stove top. These things are fantastic but must be used properly to avoid a tragedy.
You are correct. The big lever is the by-pass plate and the plastic knob controls the amount of air allowed into the firebox. The Low-Med.-High knob is a thermostat that is opened and closed by use of a bi-metal strip attached to the inlet 'damper'. I think Blaze King may be the only brand with an automatic thermostat control. "Set it and forget it."
That's right. Blaze King King owner.
Thanks for the info.
Mmmm!! When's din din😁
@@CW1116 back in the 70's there was a woodstove called Ashley, it had a thermostat. It may be related to Blaze King.
I've had a Blaze King Princess insert for 3 years or so now. I love it, they are fantastic. I can get overnight burns no issues. Be forewarned when you take the cat out to clean, there's a gasket you'll need to replace when you put it back in. Make sure you have one ready to re-install. The only thing that comes out of my chimney is heat waves, no smoke at all. I used two floor vents, one next to the insert and one at the far end of the house connected with a flex duct with a high flow grow tent fan in the middle. If you do go the route of active circulation, be aware that it is better to push cold air then to try and pull hot air.
Great video! I’ve been burning well seasoned pine for years. It’s indigenous to my area and free. The beauty of these new stoves is you control the burn not the density of the wood. I clean my stove pipe in October and inspect it every few months by pulling off the cap and looking down the pipe with a flashlight. No issues or crazy soot everyone claims with pine.
I have never used my pellet stove as much as I have this year. Agreed, the price of heating oil is shocking. I have a 550-gallon in-ground tank. I cannot stomach paying three thousand dollars to fill it from empty. I still have approximately two hundred gallons left over from last year. I think you made good decisions to try to save some hard-earned coin. Thanks for the video!
That's what I love about your channels, a good variety and always learn something.Keep up the great job Post and Happy Holidays 👍🎄
Excellent video and beautiful wood stove! We used to have a wood stove then later, installed a wood furnace in our basement. In 2000, I installed an outdoor wood boiler which made it so much easier with loading it up and storing the wood outside. After 22 years, I now miss having a wood furnace in the basement. There are pros and cons about using both indoor wood heating appliance vs an outdoor wood boiler. Mostly, it was nice to go down into the basement with the temps being in the 80's throughout the basement with the concrete floor warm to the touch.
Great as always! Love your explanations of the rationale and everything. It's interesting they mentioned using a blowtorch to get the chimney running; I've seen in older Russian masonry stoves, they often have a hatch in the chimney about 4-6 feet up with a small grating in it, the idea being you start a small fire in the chimney deliberately to warm it up, start the draw, and "pop" the cork of cold air and stop the room filling with smoke. It's an interesting little solution to the problem (I'm guessing it's safe because of how masonry stoves are by their nature more or less nonflammable).
I've burnt wood for over 40 years have had a blaze king for 4 years, best stove I've ever owned. The lever you call a damper is the catalytic bypass. Make sure you open it before opening the door as the rush of cold air can damage your converter. The knob controls the air intake and regulates the heat output. You will find the sweet spot and and turn it up or down a little depending on how much heat you need. The gauge on the top of the stove shows the temp of the catalytic converter. You just want to have it in the active zone when you close the bypass. It's not uncommon for it to be pegged out with a new stove, you don't try and regulate the stove temp by it. All it does is show when the cat is hot enough to close the bypass after that you don't care what it reads.
Thank you, I always gets concerned when the catalytic thermometer gets all the way to the end because I thought it was overheating while the other gauge says it's good
We just got a wood stove and we are in love with it as well !!
I have an old fashioned brick fireplace that is open on two sides (but was enclosed in glass a decade ago) in addition to central heating and I love it in my living room because its just such a cozy warmth coming off of it. 😌 And its really reassuring to have backup heating in case central heating goes cold.
Mmmm, I love the sound of fire crackling and drafting good! I live in a central heated apartment complex, but my childhood home had huge wood-heated masonry stoves. I miss the feeling of sitting with my back leaned against the hot masonry
You should get a cast iron kettle shaped like a train or a dragon to put humidity into the air.
That wood through the window idea is so efficient and pleasing 👍😊
I love the way a wood burning fire sounds. That crackling is so soothing and can put me to sleep in a matter of minutes. We had a wood burning stove (we called it a "pot-bellied stove") when I was a kid and that was the only heat our house had. The room it sat in (the dining room) was comfortable but the rest of the house stayed cold. We got really good at piling a lot of blankets on our beds to get warm enough that we could sleep. We also had no indoor plumbing so getting up in the middle of the night to go outside to the outhouse was a cold and miserable exercise. Let's say we didn't waste a lot of time doing any lollygagging on our way there or back. We wanted to get back inside and under our covers as quickly as possible. I don't think we kept the fire going all night very often so when we woke up in the morning, we were pretty cold until we could get that stove fired up again. I do NOT miss that part of the "good old days".
A few days ago the temperature here in Nashville got down to a few degrees below zero (which is EXTREMELY cold for Nashville) and we had a power outage that lasted about 12 hours. My heat is electric and it is amazing how fast my house got seriously cold when the power went out. Remembering how we piled the covers on when I was a kid, I pulled some extra blankets out and surprisingly I got warm enough that I slept quite comfortably. In fact, I slept so well that I didn't wake up until 10 a.m. and my electricity was still off! I was sitting here wondering what I would eat for breakfast because about the only thing I had that didn't need to be baked or microwaved or toasted or heated up in a skillet was peanut butter and crackers. As I was trying to talk myself into believing this would be a great breakfast, at about 10:30 my power came back on. I wish I had owned one of your wood-burning stoves because I was pretty uncomfortable for a few hours. It's amazing how much we depend on our "modern conveniences" ... to the point that when something stops working we sort of don't know what to do... or at least I didn't.
BTW, I don't know if you have any plans to do any cooking on your wood-burning stove but let me tell you that soup or chili or beans or stew that sits on a stove and slow cooks for hours is the best stuff you will ever put in your mouth. In my opinion there is no comparison, between something that is cooked on a wood burning stove and something that is cooed on an electric or gas range! And if a fire is burning in your stove anyway, you might as well take advantage of that fact to cook something delicious to eat. That's the end of my rant.
Yep the past few years just seeing what can happen to the supply chain and how prices can jump so high made me turn into kind of a prepper so I'm ready if anything ever permanently shuts off
@@post10Vlogs yeah i was thinking about that too and how to handle an emergency situation. we have liquid gas as our primary heat source and it would be nice to have a wood burning stove that can run on low expenses. we bought the house 5 years ago and it's an old house that has been messed with by the previous owners who did various stuff they might have not had the proper expertise about so our chimney is quite worthless to use bc there's all sorts of pipes and plasterboards and whatnot in there, plus there's poor insulation in various spots so in winter it gets quite cold. in our living room (which has 2 radiators) we have an extra mobile electric radiator we put away during summer. i wish things were a tad less difficult...
Our farm house had a large would furnace. Remember going to bed in an over heated house but waking up to ice in my drinking glass.
Sounds like my grandma's house from the early 1900's! No insulation in central Minnesota with the only heat coming from a huge kitchen cook stove! The kids (7 of them) slept 3 and 4 to a bed to stay warm under feather quilts. Dad used to tell me about ice in the water glass in the morning. Brrr.
This is a great video as always. I have been using a wood stove as supplementary heat for my house for close to 30 years. I do suggest you get an electric log splitter. I've had one for 5 years now and I love it. It requires no maintenance and it makes splitting so easy. Thank you for providing excellent content on your channel.
we have an electric splitter and it has split everything i put in it never ran out of power and it oly cost 300 bucks works awsume
Which brand splitter do you use I'd love to invest in one also
I think all your content is very interesting, you are definitely one of my favorite content providers! Please stay safe and Keep Well!!
I love wood stoves. Its relaxing to watch and the heat is nice and warm.
I bought an HVAC temperature test gun to determine what areas of my wood stove heat up the most. I found the front opening doors are thinner than the side walls or top and they heat up the hottest. I place my round temperature guage on the door to show the hottest temp my stove reaches. Thank you for your video. We all learn from you.
Now 67, had a wood fire or heater for all but 10 of my life. We have a wood heater now with fan circulation which is brilliant, we’ve had it for 30 years now and the only maintenance I’ve had to do on it is clean and oil the fan every 2 years. Started splitting with an axe and wedges now just using a hand block splitter or maul, whichever floats your boat. Good exercise, 😂😂.
If your glass blackens your fire needs more air, most of the black will burn off, but to clean your glass use dampened newspaper dipped in the fire ash rub the glass and then use a moist cloth followed by a dry cloth to polish it. Bloody good stuff. Our glass is 30 years old and still perfect.
A lot of your resultant heat will be radiated from the flue so the corrugated iron should reflect that as well.
Keep burning a clean fire and once a month given it a couple of hours flat out burning, that the keep the flue clear, especially if you’re going to burn pine even if it is seasoned. An active fire will also help keep your glass clean.
With your air coming in over your glass, as much as you can, keep a bed of white ash, what I do is dig ours out 2 or 3 times a year, leaving at least an inch covering, by just moving the charcoal from side to side. Any black stuff removed is removing fuel and efficiency from your heater.
Keep an eye on your chimney top because excessive smoke is loss of efficiency and pisses off any close by neighbours.
If you can avoid it, don’t burn a lot of bark, it is loaded with tannins.
Enjoy your fire, but it should have been place where you can see it. Nothing as calming as watching a fire, 😂. Our kids loved it, now our grandkids can’t watch it enough.
Thanks for posting Post.
All the best for the season to you and yours from me and mine. 👋👋👋 🎄🎄
Great video man! Love the new stove. We're dealing with propane prices over $3.00 / gallon. I'm so thankfull for our geothermal as our primary heat source.
My family had wood stoves when I was growing up. They were great for warming your backside on a cold day! We cooked pots of soup and beans on the top. My uncle would roast peanuts for us on top of the stove. Hope you have good luck with yours.
Very cool! I'm hope it keeps your place warm and cozy
Great video, I feel your pain with these crazy fuel oil prices. I have two 275 gallon fuel oil tanks and this September I filled them from 1/4 tank to full. Costed me around $1500 at 4.07 a gallon. I have a pellet stove I use to curb the fuel consumption like your doing. I really enjoyed this video, that’s a beautiful stove you got there! Good luck!
Great video. We have an oil burner and a fireplace. It gets expensive to just use heating oil. A wood stove is the only solution. You made a good presentation of these great stoves. Thank you.
This is probably the best video Ive seen on wood stoves and their operation! We just put in a Lopi stove with the re-burn tubes and catalytic converter and still getting the hang of it. The way Lopi wants us to get it started and shut the top damper at 500 F so the catalytic converter starts to work seems to smother out the fire so then we keep the lower air inlet wide open and doesnt seem to make a difference in the size of the fire. We used to hear the roar of the fire when it got going but that only seem to last a week or so. Long story short we're following what you did and look at our manual temp gauges and control it that way and see how it goes. Thanks for sharing!
What model Lopi do you have? I got the evergreen with just the tubes, no catalytic
@@denverbasshead Lopi Rockport
I’m doing the same. I’ve got a multi fuel stove so can burn coal as well. I brought 50, 25kg bags in the summer, I’ve had it lit constantly since the beginning of October. 1 load of coal lasts all day. Top it up at bed time and stays all night.
That was interesting. Keep us updated on how it keeps your house warm looks like a nice wood burner
My sister and husband have a cold stove keeps their house warm and toasty..I have a small one in my apartment..I love it!
I can feel the warmth already 😊
I purchased my first all-by-myself house four ago. It had a wonderful bluestone wood stove inserted into the fireplace and I use it instead of the oil furnace back up and the gas back up because it’s cheaper and because it’s friendlier and because it works. It heats the entire house without electricity which has😢 not been a problem yet but it could be. I love it. Thanks for this. It was interesting in case I change houses, because I didn’t start with the new stove. (This was well-established and efficient.)
Because the stove and Chimney are in the center of this craftsman house, it heats the center of the house, so that none of the pipes will ever freeze. As long as the stove is working on end fired up. The bathroom is upstairs. The kitchen is behind the chimney on the first floor, and the washing machine and dryer and outside spigots are in the cellar underneath the stove. It’s well placed I must say.
That was fun to watch… and informative, as always!
keep a kettle full of water on top of it. that will help with the air getting to dry
Very interesting, thank you for sharing! I love glimpses into your life.
👋 Best heaters for keeping your home warm on a cold day, had one for years 🔥👍🇦🇺
That, is an excellent heating choice! A Blaze King, is exactly what I am considering. A long burn time, and great efficiency - is highly desireable.
I also use the same type of wood cart; I can roll it right into the room with the current wood cook stove.
I will definately look for your future, new stove update - thank you!
I only made this video a 4 days ago and I have not shut it off since, I'm amazed at how little wood it's actually using and the furnace hasn't turned on at all even with some pretty cold nights, it appears by the ash buildup I'll have to shut it down once every 10 to 14 days to clean it out
@@post10Vlogs 10-14 days, that's amazing! My wood Cookstove will only run about 4 hours, if I stuff it full. Then, dump the ashpan, every day. You made a great choice!
@@post10Vlogs I'll confirm that, I just got my Blaze King Princess 32 3 weeks ago also and have gone 15 days till I cleaned the ash out, and if you clean when the cat temp. needle is in the middle and save the glowing coals you just reload it and keep going. The temp. of the stone will stay constant for 95% of the burn then start going down.
But it was over 6k for everything
That's is such a nice wood stove. My family, had one way back in the 80's. It wasn't that nice. One time my Mom put way to much wood in it. And made it super hot. It was huffing and puffing. She didn't know much about them. What a great way to heat your house.
Yes, interesting. Good looking stove. Been wanting to get one (an insert) for years to fit into the fireplace. Growing up with one as a kid, we used to put a pot of water on top to up the humidity in the room. A little smoky scent is part of the beauty of having one. Gas powered splitter could be the way to go. I like the manual ones for the workout value. 👍👍
How much are they ???
@@philliphall5198 I looked on Amazon. Nothing for under $600 USD. You get what you pay for though.
get a electric splitter they work great way more power than you expect for about 300 bucks i have had it all been burning wood for 50 yrs
get a electric splitter with a built in stand unless you have a heavy duty workbench to place it on you dont want to work off the floor if you are old like me
I love my wood stove. You get to be an expert on what to set everything at.
i have four sores of heat, propane high efficiency, electric radiant heaters that i use with my solar, during the day when i am producing enough electricity, a pellet stove, and also a wood stove, i switch back and force between the cheapest sores during each day. and your right a wood stove is truly a go to for backup heat when there is no reliable electricity. and a electric log splitter works great with the small logs that you are splitting.
really happy for you, and that splitter, wow
Dam that was a good investment and free fuel. Interesting video indeed
Trevor from England I’m sure a big sharp axe would be less effort and a lot cheaper than that splitter .Have a warm and happy Christmas
I learned a lot from this one. Thank you!
Man at the end of the season you're going to be a beast that's a lot of work
The aspen may not have high BTU content per unit volume, but it's still free heat, and it's very clean burning wood that would be well suited to heating in the "shoulder" of the heating season. It also has a sort of unique smell when burned that some people like. I would happily burn aspen!
Good morning. Thank you for the great content. Some early morning cannabis vape and coffee make this video a good start to the day. I have a Pacific Energy stove in Minnesota and it does 90% of our heating. We have a small fan pointed towards the stove to spread the heat out of the area and to the rest of our house.
....GOOD IDEA , KEEP WARM AND SAFE
Wow. Love your new wood stove Post. Very beautiful looking😍
Great idea for the indoor wood storage.
Enjoyed your wood stove video and operation. Appreciate your pragmatic ocd . You have a lot of energy on your property. I live in Alaska and I see $ in your resource.. just the sale of a few loads of firewood would fund a new splitter …
Most of my firewood is evergreen, nobody would want to buy it except for a campfire, I buy some of my own wood to mix in with the low quality stuff
i use a wood stove too! Good work. Love your channel
Very informative! Great video!
Beautiful stove. Fun video.
I hope this stove provides you with many warm nights mr post
I own a blaze king for my house and princes in my garage for about 5 years now and I have cut my wood down in half. Next to no carbon build up in chimney, the usual on my cap but as long as u do the start up procedure and burn seasoned wood these stoves rock. I'd never run household wast through it though.
I had a similar set-up many years ago. You don't have to cut a hole in the ceiling. Just set the box fan on the floor at the top of the stairs pointed down into the basement. You will get more than adequate circulation of heated air.
That's really nice looking stove. Here in Finland we use much our nordic birch for firewood, but also pine, spruce, alder and aspen too. It's not that horrible for firewood. Many use it here to heat up their smokesauna. Though, I'm not sure if the aspen here are different than those u got there in the US. But anyways, great video and have a nice holidays and happy new year!
Our Aspen and Poplar are pretty much similar type trees and probably the same as yours.
Awesome stove, love it!
We heat in NY with a Lopi Endeavor. We’ve never bought wood, always had it given to us from storms or people who wanted their trees removed.
It is always interesting to see what Post10 have in his basement. No spiders, frogs or beavers however.
Post Ten, just a FYI you can move both of the handles of your logsplitter at he same time. One of the handles is for fast speed splitting and the other is for slow speed splitting.
Is he not clearly using both hands? And may humbly suggest using a axe.
awesome stove and setup!
I came across your channel your vidio camping in the big truck i injoyed the vidio you put a wood burning stove i hope u keep wooking on the truck
I hope u work on the truck.. Like wood floor's sink bathroom.. It be cool
You have a good stove. My friend just bought a blaze king and we are amazed at how little wood it uses. As for splitting get yourself a Stihl splitting axe. That will do most of your splitting and get you in shape as well. I have 3 hydraulic splitters and still split by hand occasionally just for exercise. You will be surprised at how much you can split if you stay at it 20-30 minutes at a time.
Not on black jack oat, power splitter much easier
Completely loved this video more like this please 😊
Wait till big brother changes his mind on wood burners ! It’s starting to happen again in Washington state. Come on man you want full electric says the big guy 😂 Nice burner been at it for 35 years it’s great exercise and the $ savings help at the grocery store. At $6-7 a gallon for oil you should have your $ back faster then 4 years. Have fun !
If everyone had to switch to Electric it would cripple the grid and cause blackouts at the moment. Electric is also the most expensive heating in the area unless it's a heat pump which is extremely expensive to install
Makes me happy to live in the south.Those dollar figures are nuts.
I like your lifestyle. I wish I could do that. Im Stuck in the concrete jungle for 56 years. As soon as I can retire, I’m out tho!
If that’s bottled water in the corner…I would definitely move that to a cooler place. Nice stove and super clean basement 👍
Thanks Post 10. From New York
This video was very interesting to me. 👍🏼
This is a really good video. I love wood burning stoves. We can’t have them in our urban area just outside London as we’re in a smoke free zone but in the countryside they are very popular.
You are allowed them if they're approved for smoke free zones. And get a multi-fuel version to burn smokeless 'coal'. It's excellent.
🇬🇧😀 - also live in London, I also would like a stove ~ as long as the tree cut down has had a new tree/sapling planted in its place = the carbon dioxide being emitted by the one being burned is being re-absorbed by the new re-planted one 🌱, burn well-seasoned wood/smokeless coal to get no-smoke 😉 🔥
Very very useful video sir! Thank you much!!
I dont know anything about wood stoves however it sounds like you got a very good stove!
you should put this on your main channel....very interesting video
Good idea getting the woodstove. In my experience. With a modern EPA app. Stove. The key to it’s efficiency is making sure the gases are burning. In order for that to happen a flame has to reach the gas burning area. Then you will see the blue flames. After that it can stay lit but will go out without a flame to relight it won’t be burning gases. At some point When wood is burnt to embers and coals there’s no gases to burn. Operation of stove on low setting while keeping the gases burning is key for a clean, efficient all night burn. Smoldering a woodstove is dangerous as is wet wood. Soot will soon clog your catalyst, chimney, chimney cap. With my Pacific Energy stove. A normal load is 2 pieces of wood like a half log split in half. Set wood flat part down and leave about 1/2 in. Crack in the middle. The flames will go up through it. The bigger the pieces the hotter it will burn.
We've heated our house with a catalytic wood burner for 22 years. (Several videos about it on our channel if you'd like to check them out.). There is no substitute for wood heat. And if you can process your own firewood - it's highly efficient (but a lot of work). Great video!
My catalytic stove is a dual fuel and I can with certainty say that coal is quite the better substitute. It may not be cheaper than free but holds way more BTUs per pound. One load burns for 24 hours compared to 12 with wood, not to mention the heat throughout the entire firing cycle is wayyyyyyyy more even. No wild fluctuations like wood. But free is the best if you are going by cost....
@@kylemccourt663 Very interesting! Thanks! I’ve never tried heating with coal.
Wow what a cool neighbour
'Hope this video's interesting, thanks for watching' is not only a genuine statement, but it also works as a subtle, classy reminder to hit that Like button.
they have a product to clear the piping from creosote maybe do that once in the spring, then once again in the fall. They have upgraded the wood stoves since I had one. Good for you Post.
I bought a home and put in a wood stove in it and it was the best!! Investment I ever did to that home!😁👍
I have an outside fireplace just for recreational use and I've had some really sketchy moments burning pine lumber. 2x4's pop a lot even when they've been drying in the house for 50 years. And I've had some thin stuff, think broken down wooden pallet type wood, but covered in really old sap and it burned thick black like a car fire! That's just for fun, I don't heat my home with it.
I made a heat exchanger for my fireplace, to get more heat. The pipe is heated by the fire, and i put a adjustable fan into the pipe at 3 difference speeds as the pipe is heated the hot air goes around into the pipe and out of front of the pipe with bunches of hole out into the room. Now its 50% efficent
Very interesting video, thanks. The way energy prices are going, people all over the world are going to have to go back to old school methods for heating and cooking. In a way, this could be a good thing, people in general have become far too complacent and wasteful with their energy hungry life styles. This is all going to have to change now.
I love the wood burning stove, I could just sit and watch the flames for hours. You'll be able to cook and boil water on top of it too.
Your neighbor is like a modern-day lord of the manor. When collecting firewood, medieval peasants were only allowed to collect branches that had already fallen to the ground.
Wish i was closer have soo many darn maples been dropping a few a year. Miss having my fires but last few years smoke and dyer sheets and well just soo many smells make me sick from a headache to loss of motor skills to memory loss. PSA be very careful leaving the door cracked like that to get it to burn better. My dad did that on Christmas morning and forgot to shut it again and somehow started the house ablaze didn't lose the house but wasn't a great Christmas
Didn't know you had a second channel Mr Post.. 🤷 lol
Subbed! 🤘
That video.. "was interesting". Thanks
I just found this second channel...yea!
If it ever gets on fire the water when it melts will help douse the fire.
Beautiful stove.
really good video. Please do a follow up a month and a year from now.
Just curious if there is a central air intake and a damper for that as well.
you said the top got hot but the sides were cool, would the top have been hot enough to throw a pot on there to boil water or cook food?
Great video