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Starry! We hear beautiful music to work by! LOL. Last week, I tripped and fell on concrete at home. Broke my right arm at the shoulder, knocked out a tooth, Lord knows what else! At the ER, I kept thinking of you and how lucky I was. Just wanted to get home to my bed and sweet dogs. The rest will mend, with His help.
So sorry about your fall. Hope and pray you heal fast. Your spirit sounds good, that is half the healing right there. Prayers to you.
Working smarter, not harder increases one's speed & efficiency. I have spent a lifetime trying to fix inefficient processes. Much to the chagrin of my employers. Yet they loved the increases to their efficiency numbers and the reduction in costs.
I really enjoy when we get to visit with Mr. Hilder. It's refreshing to talk with someone that's not about feelings and more about honesty & integrity.
STEVIE NICKS playing! I can work to that! Awesome. Wood is YEAR ROUND. Thank you for speaking truth! xo
when I lived in Alaska, my best friend told me that you can never have too many rooves. he has lived there for over 30 years and having sheds and shelters for wood and animals or just storage is great. be safe always
It's so charming that you refer to your hubby as Mr. Hilder
I am enjoying listening to Mr. Hilder! My hubs handles all of our wood. Of course, the wood stove is in his barn [[ grin ]] we hope to install a wood burning stove inside our house soon(ish)
I miss having the Schrader stove INSIDE the house!
I love the smell of burning wood especially applewood. You guys rock!
Hey Starry ..you looking great .look like your lip gone down . So happy . Wow what A beautiful winter wonderland View.. the only time we seen that much snow is when we go to Colorado.
And yes you do have a lot of fire wood ..but I know you 're staying warm . Well when you 'll finish with the wood . It 's tea time Starry. Blessing
Good wood practices and Journey playing fron the cab of the truck. Can't get much better then that.
May your winter be filled with red wood warmth.
We put up 8-10 Rods each year. We have two wood sheds so we can rotate. Old homestead had a long big wood shed and we burn half each year, refilled, and rotated that way.
My brother uses wood for heat BUT he had a small basement built and that is how he enters the home (Which in size is about the same as yours). The wood stove is placed exactly in the middle of the basement and where the stove pipe comes through the upper part of the house is heat shielded pipe in an area that he uses as a broom closet. With shielded pipe and insulation he does not have a fire hazard with it. That little wood stove gets fed 2x in 24hrs. He puts it full of fir and maple then sets damper on low. Even at -25 Celsius it is toasty warm in all areas of the house. He goes through about 3 cords or so in a winter that lasts 4-6 months here in Canada. His father-in-law taught him that trick....small basement, stove exactly in the middle and use so much less wood....but then he does not use a wood stove for cooking on. He does keep a full pot of water on that wood stove to balance the humidity because wood heat is so drying!! Good video.
Great video, interesting info on wood. We don't have the variety you do there, ours in cottonwood SOFT& burns like paper, elm (burns hot & is hard), cedar, tamarack (very hard) & hedge (Osage orange - hard as a rock). I found your comment about the wood color interesting, I'd never heard that before, but it certainly makes sense. Cottonwood burns like paper & hedge burns slow
Starry I just want to tell you I really admire how much respect you have for Mr. Hilder. It's beautiful. I am 29 have been with my husband since 17 and our relationship gets better and better with each day. God bless you both. ❤
Love Mr. Hilders choice in music. lol
all I kept thinking was. I hope a log doesn't go through the back window. lol!
Your red versus white wood tip works pretty well for oak here in the southeast and the tip on maximum gain with minimal handling (reality) is very well received. Someday I hope to hear the story on how your tailgate got so boogered up!
Its so beautiful there! Thanks for the great information & video!
Hi Starry and Mr H! Great video. Awesome tips and love the the addition of the music!
I love you guys❤ You both have so much energy coming from both of you! I'm happy you found your little slice of heaven. God bless the both of you😇
thank u!! mr.hilder
Forever yours, faithfully :) I just love y'all. .y'all are so inspiring! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and life journey ♡
Thanku Mr Hilder for pointing d difference between white n red woods
Love you both and your honesty, Starry and Mr. Hilder are absolutely amazing folks in everyway! Thank you for always sharing your lives with us, so grateful to you both! Stay safe and warm..
Karey~~ From: Missouri
Love the outdoors 2- you two are an awesome couple love your videos and your lifestyle, have a blessed day!!
very informative, thanks. my sons usually do the wood but helps to learn also.
Starry you look great!!!! So happy to see you back in action😀. Lookin good! Not to mention how proud and thankful I am for you. You are an off grid leader! Thank you and God Bless!!! BTW... great music👍 and thanks for the tips Mr H
Ahh bless you! I am recovering..tried to skip the whole lip healing journey...was a little not made for camera action..BUT now it is...it feels funny and numb..but all good! Thank you so much for being so sweet! People like you really make all of this so worthwhile...! BLESS YOU!!!!
Here in TN we use pine for kindling or just a quick fire to knock the chill off. It creates a lot of creosote! We burn oak once it's cold. We are blessed with lots of red and white oak here, but we only burn the trees that get blown over by storms. They keep us supplied well, without having to cut live healthy trees.
oaks the best!!!
Thank you for the video, very informative !
Firewood and Journey...good combination ;0) Great tips on the wood color - thanks!
The wood color tip broke up, don't know what he said. - If you're looking for efficiency in firewooding, a dump bed can not be beat. Maybe an electric wheelbarrow with a dump. Or a dump bed, or dump insert, for your truck.
What a great video! Mr. Hilder is da man! Starry, your lip is looking SO much better with less swelling; hope your healing is progressing well!
God has been good with my healing.. I wish I could move a little better..but thats ok..Im still walking and able to even help with the wood now!!!
Nice Journey song in the background, lol. Great song. Love the 80's music. That's great you guys have a lot of wood and it's awesome how mr. Hilter really keeps up on all that.
Thanks for sharing. Have a good afternoon!!!!
Starry, will you and Mr. Hilder do a video on marriage--tips and tricks. I notice homesteaders have a lot of respect between each other. How do you make that happen, how to apply, what works for you and if there are tips to work through struggles. I know channels show "the best" but I'm looking for encouragement for "midlife/peri menopause" time in a marriage. I especially believe you will give truth and relate the most due to the bike accident with health struggles and how that could possibly "test" all levels of marriage. God bless. I'm not a homesteader but am a wannabe and have learned a great deal from all of you and it is inspiring me and changing our ways and our family!
Jackie Dalton oof, this is an awkward comment to come across considering all that's happened.
Excellent advice. Thank you for sharing such beneficial tips. God bless you.
working hard Mr Hilder !! That's a TON of wood y'all have there
Mr H why not get 2 shipping containers and put them next to each other leaving space for wood put roof between them and put wood covered in the middle and store toys and tools in containers nothing to build and they will hold up against elements and termites
yes great idea. room is an issue here. i have 2 containers end to end with lean to built off the sides for wood storage. u can see them in some of the vids. thanks for watching. mr.hilder
love the music in the background...gotta love Journey
can get much work done with music...
Valuable tips and advice, thanks! 2nd music was GREAT!
Would a pick pole or pickeroon help you pick up the logs better?
110% agree with the Hilder Monster. Doing things the "supposed to" way, and then doing it your own way. If you get the same result, with even less effort, why wouldn't you do it that way. Not doing it that way because it isn't stacked, is ridiculous. Like the Hilder Monster, I believe in working smarter, not harder. Trapping taught me a lot about working smarter instead of harder. Something as simple as a longspring/coni-bear setter to set #3 Sleepy Creek longsprings with, instead of breaking them over my knee saved a lot of cramps and soreness in my hands and wrist at the end of the day. Same thing with 4 coiled coilspring traps. Setting Montana #3's that have music wire springs and are 4 coiled will kill your hands and wrist at the end of the day. Especially the dexterity in your thumbs and tendons. The majority of the time now, I'll push the levers down with my feet and have both hands to flip the jaw up to set the pan. Being a manly man is fine, but my hands, back, and wrists couldn't take it anymore. I call it working smarter, and the Hilder Monster will agree. Great video guys
SMART MAN..like your style!!!
D.J. Taylor how do i message u?? mr. hilder
D.J. Taylor yep! My husband always says work smarter not harder too! 👍
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starry I was so happy you were dress warm beautiful video stay warm.
We burn Hickory, Red Oak, & White oak, Rich Pine at times. Great information. I got my Body Suit today and what a great product. I saw yours on the porch. Paul & Susan North Georgia
I understand the argument for efficiencey, but for me, I Live semi off grid (we have power connected) but cutting, splitting and taking my time stacking it the way I like to stack it is best form of therapy. Each to there own 👍🏻👍🏻
Got to have my Starry fix for the day! :) Mr. H is a hard working man. And Starry you are looking good., wow what a difference from a couple months back right? You seem to be feeling pretty good and getting around with ease. God Bless you guys, have a nice weekend. tfs.
Thanks for sharing.
Maybe make some pallets for the wood and then just use the tractor to move the wood from then on. Split it and stack it on the box pallets then just fire up the tractor and grab one pallet at a time and never have to stack it again just set it right on the porch with the old tractor. Just a thought
Stay Warm!! In Australia , we are dealing with temperatures over 40 C (I think that's close to 105 F) at the moment...preparing for 42 C.....don't think we are worried about the wood heap at the moment!
Watching, Watching.... Love Ya,Thanks for sharing, Lo :)
Wood warms you at least five times....once when you fell it, once when you buck it, once when you split it, once when you stack it, and finally, once when you burn it...and sometimes maybe another time or two :)
i agree...main thing is get it home...smiles i am a wood horder...smiles
Really,we all owe our lives and the comforts and necessities to energy..oil, coal, hydro. Food production, travel, clothing, distribution of the machinery of life, fuel etc. even when you live off grid, you depend on thousands of things that rely on oil. Unless you live like a early American or Native American you are really not living off grid. You are basically camping with a weekly trip to Winco and Costco.
The rounds wont dry unless there split! Cut/split/stack and only cover the top. I let my wood dry for a minimum of 5 year before it goes into my Blaze King Ultra! zero creosote 40 hr burns in Spring/Fall and 24-32hr burns in middle of Michigan Winter!
great name if your middle name was morrison that would be even more amazing
you guys are ok, Journey playing in the back ground! lol
haha!! 80's music rocks!!
Wife and I love you guys, all the way from Alaska. Wish you guys much happiness! By the way its -25 outside our dry cabin.
we still haven't finished splitting up a century old oak tree our neighbor gave us. we have been burning through the willow which doesn't give off much heat though. stay warm :)
Two things you may want to consider, a pickaroon and a rack for the back window of the truck. Hope all is well.
Here in IL. we cut live black locusts trees burn it without seasoning it.Awesome heat from it.Ash is good too
Hi Starry, you and you husband are so fortunate with all that you have. I have watched you and prayed for you when you hurt yourself and through all your healing time and i was informed that you have a E-BEG TAB on your home page for money! You probably won't answer me or even post this.You all have so much more than half the people in our small church of 17 and many are elder and sick and they don't ask for money!
They ask GOD for help. I am sorry but this saddens me. God will help you in time of need without this. God Bless you.
Living in the Upper Great Lakes country means we go through a bit of firewood too, and as I age I really appreciate anything that can trim the amount of handling the average chunk of firewood requires. I believe I handle EACH piece 6 or 7 different times......1--cut off tree/limb, 2-split if needed, 3-load in truck, 4-unload to woodpile(includes stacking), 5-load in wheelbarrow and bring in house, 6-toss in the stove, 7-carry out the ashes!!! I have no idea how many separate pieces of firewood we go through in a season, but it is likely 3-4000 chunks......X7 times per..........yikes! I should have arms like Popeye.
Yep you start adding it up the handling alone//so as you know yourself from experience..IF we can cut down on that..AWESOME!!!
Do you think the stacking wood thing comes from wanting to get as much as possible into a woodshed? It's perhaps more important in a finite space.
"Ash burned green makes a fire fit for a queen"
we have a lot of Ash trees,, but it has the ash bores and I don't know if u can burn it ? a lot cut down..
white and red AWESOME TIP!
you got t hat one...easy to remember with pine!
If you are going to build a wood shed, instead of making one big one make a few smaller ones with a bit of distance between them in case there is a fire then there is a chance you won't loose the whole thing.
great video
Ah Journey! My hubby and I special group and song!
Awesome 80's tunes starry! I absolutely adore Stevie B. You should give him a listening to.
From my experience wood will not dry nearly as well not stacked. If it works for you then it works. But stacking gets much more wood surface area exposed to air and sun. My pile of junk-wood in the back that is thrown together in a pile never really dries in the center of it. Wood will rot before it dries. My opinion/experience. I also heat with wood.
birch has an AMAZING PROPERTY burns when wet
H EMAIL you thought of a rocket stove conversion?
Ur lip is looking better... been praying dearly for u.. & praying for Mr. Hilder too!
I LOVE Mr. Hilder's MUSTACHE! ..Please let him know...ok 😀
oh wow, we've burnt a lot more wood than that this year. Lucky! It was 70 here yesterday, and now back to being cold today! ugh
God Bless and stay WARM
my city hands would be splintered to heck after loading that wood
Starry please be careful. I know it is hard not to do stuff but try not to hurt ur back. love Mama Giddens
A wood like he is talking about here is Hackberry...burns green very well.
Starry and Mr. H... when it comes to the type of wood does it matter what type of wood burning stove you have? Is pine good for fire wood... I always have been told that pine or cedar would clog up your chimminy and not to use it as home firewood. The main reason I ask is because I am going to be moving soon. Recently my daddy past away and left me and my siblings 2 acres each all joined together (of which I have full use of 4 of those acres) it is COVERED in pine completely and alot have been damaged in ice storms and already fallen... so if it is safe to use as fire wood I have plenty of it for a long time as well as tons of babies growing to keep the regrowth going. what are your suggestions and knowledge/advise on pine? You two have been my biggest inspiration to move off grid and I have been studying it for years and watching you now for over a year (I even go to ur channel and play ur videos all day long over and over but no matter how many times one plays I find myself sitting and watching them again and each time I realize/learn something from you) and to see you go through your recovery after your fall and the strength and faith you have is even more of an inspiration to me that I can do my dreams of being off grid and self sufficient with my medical issues as well. God will get us through what ever our struggles, dreams or trials life give especially us through our faith in him. Thank you for being a part of my life!!
That place is going to be one muddy mess when that snow melts.
Stupid question: How do you start your fires for the stove ? I use those eco logs ... Not sure if lighter wood is safe for stoves. Of course- you two have a mack Daddy stove. Mine is much smaller. Thank you in advance.
I wimped out and opted for pellets.....
I would have been the one to haul all that wood and maintain the stove. And probably delivered split. I didn't feel I would be able to sustain that by myself.
And while you all are stoking your stove......my part of Michigan will be 40+ degrees all week...50 on Saturday.
Firewood always warms you twice - hauling it and burning it.
pardon my ignorance , but what or how much is a cord ?
Mixing some green with dry also keeps the burn longer and hotter. If you have green.
here (westcoast) that will get you clinkers and needing to sweep every couple of weeks... just saying
TheCanadianBubba We probably don't come near the volume of firewood you guys use. Down south we maybe clean our chimneys out once a year.
black cherry you can do that and ash
good luck on your wood we don't do it this way we keep it off the ground . and closer to the house. stacked so the air can go thru it and cover for winter.
Ash is the only tree you can actually burn green, safely.
Just got back from the Doctor's :-( Lots of Hugs Starry !
Was the wood Mr. Hilder was trying to remember shagbark hickory in Wisconsin?
great music selection in back ground lol
haha...good tunes makes me work even faster! mr.hilder
Do you pile it in the house also or just bring enough in for a day or night?
yes , inside we have a woodbox that holds about 3 days worth in colder weather.
Ash, low moister content and a nice hardwood.
ash is my favorite here in PA.
Life in Farmland best there is in Michigan
when it's stacked irregular like that it has more air space to dry lol
stacking is triple the time to just piling it lol
I know I have asked before. but what style house did Mr hilder build
Passive solar...timber frame built into the mountain (slab)
hard wood .amen
You guys are awesome
Can you please tell what state you guys in ? How big the house and how much it cost you to build it ? Thanks and keep it up
They are in Idaho. 😄
starry, becareful with your back. I sent you some books did you get them? it was from N.Y.
Possibly this is an Americanism .... but do you not get efficient woodburners there? In the UK we can get modern designs that gasify the wood and get efficiencies in the 80% .... you can't see the smoke when it burns efficiently! Some interesting "Rocket Stoves" too .... the top hits 400 degrees, but by the time you get to the exhaust (chimney) it is about 80 degrees! ....... Heat smarter not hotter ;0)
Looks like you might want to consider an upgrade to your firewood storage. Thoughts on this?
Actually not really. I fast forwarded through quite a bit of it. I was just surprised this had not already been done. Were I to go off-grid, the first thing I would build is a pole barn with lean to for that storage option.
Good video , but would rather hear the peaceful sounds of nature vs the clamor of of a city radio, have noticed the blaring sounds of a city radio and it's noise takes away something special from nature and it's magical beauty and instead distorts it.
Bless the poor man's hands! How does he handle all that wood in the cold without gloves? Are his hands full of splinters? My hands hurt just looking at his. Starry, get the man some gloves!
I hardly ever get splinters from firewood, usually boards. Your hands can become quite callused and take more than you'd think. When I was younger my hands would blister from square baling without gloves, they don't anymore. Speaking of cold hands, you know it's bad when your hands hurt from the cold, and then the pain goes away even though you're still outside. When they thaw out it feels like your hands are going to break apart.
I had to look up 'lodgepole'. Not an eastern tree.