How Amish Get ENDLESS Heat For Their Homes Without Electricity

[@michaelbeggs2013]

When I was in Jr. High and high school in the late 70s- early 80s in Maine, the price of oil went up dramatically. We turned off the furnace and just used the airtight ashley woodstove in the cellar with a heating register opening in the floor above it and the kitchen woodstove when it was really cold. We also installed a thermosiphon water heating coil on the cellar woodstove. It had a 30 gallon tank and would heat the water to 130 degrees Fahrenheit with no pump. My Dad and me and my brother cut, aplit, and stacked 8 cords of wood each year. We also raised animals in the backyard. Growing up like that , I have a lot of respect for the Amish way of like. There is an Amish colony in Northern Maine and they make beautiful furniture. The Amish have to be hard, hard workers to cut all their wood with hand tools and horses and buggies. One thing Maine has plenty of is wood..

[@MrBrian8749]

First thing you dont know the first thing about the Amish. My brothers and I split mountians of fire wood. We heated two rooms in the house. The kitchen and den were the center of our lives. The windows were frozen over with ice in the bedrooms, once you got up it was a dead run to the den and kitchen. I like the way you make it "all warm and cozy". Next time you think you know thee amish, sleep in the barn with your teddy bear and four brothers in one bed.

[@Grannyma_says]

The idea that the Amish 'mastered' home heating seems more like modern marketing or a romanticization of their lifestyle, rather than an acknowledgment of long-standing, simple techniques. Before electricity and central heating, people everywhere used wood, manure, and basic stoves to heat their homes, often designing buildings to capture sunlight. What the Amish do today is just an extension of what everyone used to do

[@angieketcher5917]

Ppl still use wood to heat.

[@kitkat186]

I've got a stack in the barn. They build houses without fireplaces but I'm not giving mine up.

[@michaell8295]

This has the same cadence and speech pattern as a lot of prepping advertisements

[@robyn4062]

Don't see the point of that crazy hard work, that profits nothing in eternity..

[@davidfout3781]

Amish have and use common sense..it's like ... Ive went so long with so little there qualified to do anything with nothing..they work togather support one another..and they reference God in there lives .standing in faith..

[@annalorree]

My home is heated primarily with a wood stove. I supplement with a propane heater if needed. And yes, I cut my own firewood, from standing dead oak trees to split cordwood.

[@Kim-yy8kl]

If we all use wood no trees would be left!!

[@annalorree]

@@Kim-yy8kl where I live, I’m surrounded by dense forests. It’s not an issue here.

[@rosiesgrandma]

My grandma grew up using wood stoves one year the oil furnace broke down in a 2000 square foot old 1890s house and she took one of those old wood stoves that have the enamel sleeve around it we didn't even know that the heat was off in that big house. It's all in how you open doors and flow the heat to centralize it. Germany with wood and coal and there was nothing like when you were just rigid cold to come in and be with that nice warm dry heat. We have lost the art of knowledge.

[@EV1926-GRC]

You need an interior brick or stone wall to absorb the Sunlight to hold the heat and that will then radiate through the room during the night.Large south facing windows and small north facing windows is another method to hold heat in the house. the Amish mostly heat there homes with firewood stove and firewood cookstoves.

[@anthonymonnier1494]

I usually don't turn on my heat until about January when it really gets cold I just plug in my electric blanket and put it on the lowest setting and when I do turn on heat I set it at 59 degrees cow dung has been used for years in third world countries for years to heal their homes

[@rodalynrarogal8803]

Thanks for sharing the lives of Amish community quite good improvising in these times 👌 ❤❤

[@johngroll9186]

I have heated my home without electricity in zero degree weather. Using both a wood stove and a fireplace, I kept my home at a temperature of 68 degrees. Of course you can always find away to collect the methane gas. I have the book "Back to the Basics" that tells you how.

[@JimCates47]

We turned off the furnace and just used the airtight ashley woodstove in the cellar with a heating register opening in the floor above it and the kitchen woodstove when it was really cold.

[@wolfgangbarreto1833]

There is a lot right about keeping the knowledge of more rustic ways.

[@ross-smithfamily6317]

The same passive solar design (windows facing south) also heats up a house unbearably in the summer. Then you have to layer blinds, curtains, reflective film AND A/C to keep cool.

[@susanrarey4307]

Hanging shade cloth outside should fix that problem.

[@sleepsoundsbystaci6981]

​@@susanrarey4307That's a wonderful idea ... thanks!

[@sumillyard9181]

We live in a old mill we have a wood aga in the kitchen and a large wood burner in the sitting room. I think people have their homes to hot these days . We sleep with the windows open all year round and if we feel cold during the day we put a sweater on. We never have colds or flu im sure its because we don't have a hot house.

[@johnh9748]

A 32 minute video to say "They burn firewood"

[@diannanoe9017]

If horse and cow poop is dried it doesn't stink bad. I used to enjoy riding in my grampa's dried manure wagon and I am extremely squeamish.😂

[@BT-ir5zl]

It's not bad at all compared to that awful liquid manure they spread on fields now. That stuff is horrible.

[@freshtwink]

My friends' family farm burn manure to generate electric. They sell it back the the grid, much like many solar panel owners do. If I was burning poop for home heating or cooking, I'd be trying to rig up a heat exchanger. Warm hug feeling, without the vintage aromatic ambiance.

[@christianemmanuelf.domingo793]

They are so awesome, very cool!

[@patricialong5767]

Any good architect will tell you when building a home, build south facing windows to catch the rising sun and its' warmth. No mystery about that! This is what they do in CA all the time.

[@wemcal]

Wonderful video and great information

[@13c11a]

Less than 40 seconds into this video they depict a wooden chair a couple of inches away from a blasting hot wood stove. Trust me, nobody, Amish or not, does anything that stupid--at least not twice.

[@shawnalleman7535]

I'd be afraid of a fire using straw to insulate my home!

[@pier-olivierlapointebeauce1675]

My house heated 100% woods electrique heat only emergency

[@teemum.9023]

Plot twist, there are no Amish or Amish traditions in the north. It based in the temperate mid-west

[@joannsester7968]

I. Like. This ❤❤❤

[@UnFun--_--]

Well, NYS will put an end to this pretty fast

[@patrickschneider1289]

AMEN !!

[@HalaluYAH_Homestead]

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[@KellyKovergirl]

I once respected and admired the Amish communities until I learned how many are involved in some of the most horrific puppy mills..too list in Indiana.

[@BrieCracker]

I find it hard to believe that the Amish puppy mills are abusive. They might not be treated like pets and instead are just a commodity to the Amish but that's hardly horrific. Some folks would say forcing a dog to stay outside and sleep in a dog house is horrific because they treat their own animal as a psuedo child.

[@patricialong5767]

This technique has been used for centuries world wide. Nothing new about this idea at all.

[@rgbrown90]

Coal

[@bce1279]

Bill gates could learn something here.

[@starship8960]

too long.

[@patricialong5767]

Nothing in this video is new. My father used to use all these techniques with great results. Any smart farmer will tell you about these ideas.

[@rocknroth764]

Amish on camera?😳🤔

[@EnergyTRE]

No fuel is actually from fossils 🤷 plastic is also a petroleum product

[@EnergyTRE]

5:41 you mean it's amazing how far backwards we have gotten. With explosion tech

[@josephspruill1212]

You talk about the Amish way as if it’s the best way. What you don’t talk about is once the population of any Amish community reaches 100k they have no choice but to go electric and modern. They can’t keep up with the demand etc. it’s the reason for the minis they live like the Amish yet with electricity. They understood that modern tech is needed or you can’t feed the community after it reaches higher levels. It was the reason some communities could never grow past a certain point without failing apart. You didn’t see cities with 20 million living like the Amish in the past much less the future. That’s all I’m saying about that……. You think we have problems cutting down trees now. Just wait let everyone on the planet go back to heating everything with fire…..

[@chriscarrol9373]

So their heating system is basically crap? LoL actually some of my family uses wood but then again to be sustainable you need to own alot of land. Oh plus the land to feed you and the animals need food as well. Basically when oil runs out 3/4 of the world got to go. Sorry.

[@genespell4340]

There is way too much blathering and way too little nitty gritty. In plain English, this video is not worth watching.

[@nelson8527]

16:37 that Amish isn’t chopping any wood. They want people to think that’s how they live, they’re adopting gas and electric scooters. So if I ride a scooter around can I skip on taxes??? Asking for a friend.

[@NectereYT]

So, a bunch of prepper communists. NO shame, I think its awesome. But it is interesting that if you put a religion behind it makes it ok.

[@mainelivin3699]

yeah Yeah Yeah its not rocket science