EP 43 Back to Our Self Reliant Life: cleaning the wood stove, framing for solar, working with my dad

[@alvalonline]

Keeping your stove pipe cleaned is VERY important. We learned the hard way our very first winter when all of a sudden, we had hot ashes raining down outside our window at about 2 AM (the wife was up at the time and ran in to get me). The whole chimney was burning inside and flames coming out the top. All we could do was watch and hope. It took a while, but the fire finally went out. That was a learning experience! We'd only been using it for 3 months, but a lot of the wood was NOT cured completely and we were also burning a lot of pine. The creosote buildup happened fast. We NOW clean the pipes about once every two months with a wife chimney brush and then use the anti-creosote chemicals to turn any creosote into a fine powdery flake. And we burn good seasoned wood. Don't learn like we did! And stay SAFE & WARM!

[@woodysbarndominium]

Holy crap that’s scary!!! Woody and Wade sleep up in the loft, and Willie and I sleep downstairs in a twin bed. We keep carbon monoxide detectors, smoke detectors, and small fire extinguishers on both levels of the cabin but if we were sleeping when something happened, I doubt we’d have time to react. This cleaning was overdue, but didn’t seem to kick up much. Hopefully that means we’re doing a decent job

[@woodysbarndominium]

Remind me what area yall are in again?

[@alvalonline]

@@woodysbarndominium We're in Upstate New York, near the Canadian Border.

[@woodysbarndominium]

@@alvalonlinethat’s right! Yeah I’m sure y’all get a lot more use from your stove than we do. I think cleaning it twice a season is probably good for us, but we really only need it running 12 hours a day. Is it your primary heat source?

[@scooter6334]

Those creosote logs absolutely do work. I live in wood stove country. And they make the chimney so much easier to sweep out. Sweep out, is the key word. No beating scraping cutting out creosote. They just turn the creosote to lite powder. :-) I would almost say you wouldn’t even have to clean your chimney under the right conditions. Of course good dry seasoned wood is the key.

[@mikec9311]

Great job on the room build Woody. I have to admit though that I LMAO when the frame fell apart as you were dragging it inside the container. I'm glad you got it done though. :)

[@richardlechtrecker9083]

Another great video! ..Woody has determination which ends up with a terrific finished product…moving along nicely, soon you’ll have power. William is precious and. Megan is a fantastic mom and cook..missed seeing Wade this week..keep on keeping on ❤️

[@cheryesido364]

Watching from Western Australia where we've been having 36°c heat. Thoroughly enjoy watching your channel. God Bless you both.

[@shanedarcy7776]

Watching from Australia

[@woodysbarndominium]

It’s been a long year. Thank you for sticking with us through our largest, and longest project on the property to date! Your support has been a great motivator on this journey & we’re excited to bring this big endeavor to a close ❤

[@MarieTeresaMedina]

Great job 👏🏽

[@maltipoosoffgrid6868]

Less construction more Megan and family 😊. My husband is a contractor so seeing the babies and decorating with antiques is what I love to see. Seeing what others do to live offgrid is helpful too. We've been doing it for 12 years but I am always glad to learn something new to make life easier.

[@cigarprepper7179]

Livin the dream 🇺🇸💪🏻

[@denniswray470]

You struggled a little but you achieved your aim great effort. I am watching from HULL in the UK and have followed from the start and enjoy your content.

[@mgrizz2386]

Good job! Love watching you make progress. Watching from central Alberta, Canada. Temp right now at 7pm is a balmy -4c (25f), which is pretty darn warm considering it's mid December.

[@woodysbarndominium]

That does seem fairly warm for so far north! It’s been getting to 28-34 F here overnight fairly regularly, but still warms up to 60ish by mid day. Thanks for being here with us, can’t believe we’ve been at this for over a year now!

[@TRS-80Fanclub]

Damn Sarge, just watching makes me want to come help you with that wall.

[@stevewalters4565]

Keep on Truckin! From southeast Texas.

[@jayisaac5183]

No advice just keep working together you two make a good relationship look easy but I know it's work ,we've been married 47 years, bless you guys.

[@carmene3534]

If you still have a two by four in the bottom of the doorway, you can cut that out 'cause your tread plate will go there

[@danielroberts5230]

Hello from Waldron arkansas

[@lindag8548]

I've been watching your journey from north east Alabama. Enjoying following the progress 😊

[@billiehuskins8129]

Loved this video .here from Lincoln Illinois

[@joeyplum268]

Good job on the framing the power house room and it wont be long till you will be putting all the solar components in there and watching from West Virginia

[@perbondesson1408]

Hi follow you from . your doing really nice work over there. be safe and take care

[@perbondesson1408]

follow you from sweden

[@xroaddog934]

Watching from 1.5 hr drive south of you...

[@farrellsoileau718]

Good evening Woody and family hope all is well and thank God y'all made it safe back home.It seems things are coming together for what y'all need.

[@woodysbarndominium]

Hello there, thanks for joining us again this week ❤️ I hope you enjoyed this week’s video, it’s a bit longer than usual and we tried to keep it simple. Pretty honest look at our week around here!

[@clanwatkins]

Glad your dad came to help you. I hate watching someone struggle with a project when im doing nothing. Good progress👍

[@gregsaunders1781]

Hang in there woody, framing sucks but it looks strong. Hope you're putting in cross bracing to strengthen the wall s. Love watching what you are up to.

[@woodysbarndominium]

Thanks man. Woodworking is mainly Megan’s thing, and she’s got her hands full with the kids, editing, and running our household while I do woodworking. Go figure! 😆

[@ghostspurgeon3975]

Hello neighbor we live over just north of Hardy Arkansas me my wife and family enjoy watching yalls new projects since yall have moved here to Arkansas our little boy is 3 1/2 he enjoys watching Wade with the trucks and playing in the mud puddles .stay warm its gonna be raining around 4am for all most all of Arkansas all day.

[@stevenhodges338]

Watching from the great state of Kentucky . I live in the heart land. 4am here getting ready to go 🦌 hunting. Late muzzle loading comes in a the break of daylight. You all are doing a great job. Love Watching you all.

[@richardahlquist5839]

Thanks for another great bit of content.

[@littlegriffoffgridalberta6837]

Hi :) Just found your channel 🙂, Great job ! Hey one piece at a time it slowly comes together, Nice of dad stopping to lend a hand 👍, Can't wait to see how you hook it all up :) I have been building for 11 years, still not done lol, I'm just trying to focus on firewood season now :) Time to get in a little sledding ! great video have an awesome weekend"

[@doyleholmes2490]

I was a chimney sweep for years and let me give you a little advice. When sweeping your chimney always wear work gloves because the rods are fiberglass and will start to splinter. It will give you some nasty fiberglass slivers that only come out by slowly festering.

[@johnainsworth6944]

Australia 🇦🇺

[@MrManicola]

watching from Virginia and occasionally from Cyprus

[@JulieCrawford-l8r]

Sedalia, Missouri!❤

[@woodysbarndominium]

Hi Julie! Thanks for stopping in this week ❤️

[@hatcherhollerhoodlum4418]

Wild and Wonderful Wva here watchn an liken 😊👍🏻

[@neil2809]

I would put more insulation between the studs. the more insulation you have the better off your going to be.

[@bossgobbler2]

From Delaware

[@wandaguyton446]

North Mississippi.

[@Roger-lf6ln]

Stud brackets building framing tight spaces FYI

[@shirleywelch4985]

From Leavenworth Ks.

[@micheledenise2305]

I looked to see if yall had a channel membership or patreon or Amazon wishlist but I didn't see any..😊

[@woodysbarndominium]

That’s great to hear! We’ve thrown around the idea of starting a membership for the channel starting in January, but I wasn’t sure if anyone would be interested. Very encouraging :)

[@brandonious9060]

Does the chimney sweep hook to a drill? That’s how my dryer vent brush is but probably different 🤷‍♂️

[@GeoffGale]

Curious, but couldn't you find an adapter for a drill to use with a chimney brush?

[@richardknowles5945]

So, yeah, foil side out. 😅

[@ItsMe-wm4mc]

Not sure if you are a combat vet but get a full male hormone panel including lipids, metabolic and thyroid. If you've had a tbi or saw combat good chance your T levels are low. Look up low T symptoms. Good luck, brother!

[@andrearathbun]

Make the frame two pieces?

[@woodysbarndominium]

Where were you when I was struggling 😆😆😆😆😆

[@southafricanprepper6799]

Not enough videos on KZbin how to do framing???😂😂😂😂😂

[@carolinerollings2576]

Get ur prior priorities in order don’t over build

[@thebenson1983]

Omaha

[@kristdaa4612]

Where's Daivd

[@woodysbarndominium]

He was hanging out at grandma’s house with megan and the kids a couple of days this week while she did laundry and got caught back up on work. He’s loving the cold weather