Our Final Episode-1 Year Renovation DONE

[@sarahschlosser1203]

Susan is a living treasure, learn all you can from her. Such great knowledge. The steps loom great

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

She truly is a treasure 💗 So much wisdom-she will definitely be back in the channel. Hope to do some sewing on a treadle sewer together

[@onetimearound1275]

@@Montana_Ranch_RescueI would love to see more cooking episodes with her- I really enjoyed it

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@ Absolutely! We have some GREAT ones in the works! 🙌🏻😄 Halfway done with a treadle sewing episode with Susan and her early 1900s machine. And we want to try old fashioned laundry! 🫣 (maybe when it’s a little warmer out)

[@Pipsqwak]

To heat the oven, the firebox and flue have to be hot. Open the flue damper and let the fast, hot kindling fire heat the flue to clear out cold air and increase the draw so you don't get blowback and smoke in the house. Once everything is hot enough, the fire will draw and you can adjust your flue damper and other air intake to force the flames and heat to go around the oven box before going up the flue and chimney. Every wood stove is a bit different but they all work on the same principles. I'm sure you'll have great meals from this fabulous old stove! Edit: I wrote this before watching all the way through - it looks like you had plenty of expert help with the stove and I haven't said anything new! Oh and your stonework is so impressive!! Such a great old-time traditional craft. I'm so glad you are keeping it alive. A hundred years from now, I'm sure that your stonework will still be standing strong!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Great advice-you know your stuff! I am open to learning everything I can so keep advice coming 🙌🏻 Thank you for your kind comment. Much appreciated. Hope you stick with us 😊

[@michaelgardner800]

Thanks for taking me back home, I was born and raised in the mountains of southern West Virginia. I remember both my grandmothers and our mom cooking on wood/coal burning cook stoves. I can still smell a pot of pinto beans slowly cooking most of the day and come winter the warmth you would get from it. Enjoy the rebuild of the old house, we still have people back in the mountains that live in houses like that. Can’t waste to the next project.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Beautiful comment-Thank you so much! I love that you can remember the smell and feel of life with these cast iron stoves 🔥 This is a way of life that so many good people have lived. Hard, yes, but so wonderful. It must be marked and remembered for the next generations 🔥🏔️ Thank you for watching & commenting & being with us on this journey. More ranch projects to come 🙌🏻

[@michaelgardner800]

@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue You know living that way was not all that bad, as a young boy growing up in the 50 and 60s my brothers and I would make sure the coal buckets were full before it would get dark. Mom and/or dad would bank the stoves down at nighttime with slack coal, this way the fire burned slow. Come the next morning all that was needed to get them going was to stoke the remaining fire and add lump coal a little at a time until the fire started burning really good. Momma was the one that always done this since she was the first to get up. People just do not understand us when we say that was the good old days, because they were. Stay warm and have great fun in that little house!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

That is really meaningful to hear-families worked together ❤️ Thank you for this comment. I believe you that those were good times. Beautiful.

[@FamilyOutdoors161]

Hello. I am delighted with everything I saw. I accidentally came across your channel and it hooked me. I watched all the videos from the very beginning of construction. As a historian, I shake your hand, you are doing a great job preserving your history. I have long had the idea of ​​​​building a traditional home of my people and conducting historical experiments in it, but I had some doubts. After seeing your channel, I realized that I need to drive out doubts and move towards my goal. Good luck to you! A friend from Russia

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

God Bless you! Love your comment 😄History is a treasure-go for it! Aim at your goal and you will get it. Thank you for being on this journey with us

[@larryjones8928]

My grandmother used a wood stove and she was such a great cook. Everything she cooked was so good. We all gathered it their home on Sunday afternoon to eat it was Sunday ritual that all the children would be there we grew up in West Virginia on an old hill side farm we were taught good work habits and it served me well all my life. I sure do miss her an grandad

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh I love your comment ❤️🔥 May God Bless you-what beautiful memories of family you have! I can almost picture those meals you all shared. Cheers to you!

[@billchristopher8892]

I’ve really enjoyed watching your progress on your family cabin the memories that you are making with your children will stay with you and them will be forever I’m 76 years old and grew up with a wood cook stove and still have one today and enjoy cooking on it

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Love that you still cook on it 🙌🏻 Really special way to cook/bake. Never tasted anything like those scones 😍 The kids are excited to join in & that makes my heart very full

[@carolynmoody9460]

This morning your candle video popped up an I have literally spent the whole day watching every video you have made .. I was mesmerized by all your hard work I can only think what are legacy you are leaving not only for your children but their children's children. May you be blessed in all you do..❤❤❤🕊️

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Your comment means so much 💗🙏 Thank you! I will remember what you’ve said for a long long time. I’m so glad you found us! The kids and I made wreaths in the old homestead house today, sitting by the fire, with no tv or phones and it was perfect 😍

[@dirkcoetsee6767]

Hey guys, I am from South Africa, and I just want to say, you are blessed being able to resurrect something as simple as a late 1800 house to preserve history. History is literally the one thing for us to relate to. I know some relate to a historic event with a negative mindset but for some it means a lot. Here in South Africa, personally, I would never try and resurrect something out of history. It is first of all unsafe and not to mention it, but the backlash would be enormous. Keep up the great work in preserving historic memorabilia. Even if it is something as small as a spoon. Cheers guys!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Great comment-thank you 💗 I can imagine history and even old house history is tarnished by troubled times in South Africa. It’s a shame the good is often thrown out along with the bad. History is full of wonderful, strong, and noble things (especially when you look at humble things) Love your comment. Thank you for watching & sharing your thoughts with us! 🙌🏻

[@johnnyholland8765]

That lady is the real deal. I grew up with all the modern devices so I didn't know how good food cooked on a wood burning stove tasted. I went to a local fall festival and an old lady was making breakfast on a wood stove. I got a plate of eggs some sausage and two biscuits and let me tell you it was devine. I think the best biscuits I have ever eaten with fresh churned butter and some fig jam. You folks have some beautiful healthy cows by the way. This has been a great series and you saved a part of history in the process. Bravo on a job well done...

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Wonderful comment-thank you! Susan has so much knowledge! She can weave, cook on wood stoves, & grown giant gardens in one of the harshest climates around. I just want to sit by her side & learn. Oh! And you at right-woodstove biscuits are the BEST 🤩

[@mikenicholson2548]

This video reminded me of the days on the ranch watching my grandmother cook. I would ask her about a recipe, and she would just say a little of this and a little of that. All her recipes were in her mind amazing.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

There is a magic to the old ways of cooking-truly a “feel” more than a recipe. Cheers! Love your comment

[@gerryhartung736]

I-1 glad I was able to stumble onto your channel. You and your family are an inspiration to all Americans. From cutting down old cabin, through stone foundation, just WOW! Now 80, I travel a lot and see old homestead decaying.....so sad. Your channel displays the hard work Pioneers used in starting a home with little or nothing. You have shown what dedication, love of your past, (and family) can do, as your forefathers/ mothers have done. What about a Pioneer special of Thanksgiving and Christmas. So cool. No lights, no candles just decorations and more home cooking!❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Absolutely love your idea of a Thanksgiving & Christmas special! Planning right now 🙌🏻 Hoping to bring in friends to show how to make hand-crafted pioneer gifts & decorations 🎄 Great ideas! Thanks for being with us on this project-appreciate you very much

[@AZJH8374]

OH NO! NOT THE FINAL EPISODE! I'VE BINGED ALL DAY!! ❤❤❤

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

HOORAH! Thank you for watching the whole journey! I feel like you should win a free t-shirt 😆 You’ve made me smile!

[@LisaFerguson-c2j]

You made me cry! What a beautiful timeless episode. Thanks you guys 😢 Can’t wait to see what’s next

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you 😊 🙏 Good things planned. Thanks for being there from the beginning

[@TheDungeonMinister]

OK. This one hit me. The memory of what we've lost, what was taken and destroyed and discarded, can make a person bitter and hopeless. And here you are, feeling the loss as hard as anyone but deciding to militate against it by reclaiming and rebuilding. Beautiful. If hand baskets and hell are indeed in our future I can't think of a better response or solution than the one you're engaged in. And a shout out to Susan! Jess is amazingly capable, in everything from baking to building, and then in comes Susan to make everyone look like amateurs - but without even a hint of ego or one-upmanship. All grace and wisdom, she is.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh my goodness, your comment hits me to my core 💗 Thank you for your perfect words. Susan is an amazing & rare person-inspirational doesn’t even cut it for words to describe her. Thank you for being on this Uncle Dan’s journey with the us from the start. You’ve given me a unique perspective on this whole project. Cheers to you 🙌🏻 Best, from all of us!

[@matswilliams1058]

That’s a renovation project you should be proud of! Well fone (and great storytelling).

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

That means a ton-thank you 🙌🏻 Appreciate it

[@mikecliff2367]

Love this. Pure life. And basic food. And people to love. It doesn’t get any better. You have found and built treasures. May God bless your family and farm.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you, beautiful comment-Asking God’s blessing for you as well 🏔️🔥💗 Life has so much good in it, especially in the simple small things

[@paulyoung5327]

I've enjoyed all parts of this restoration. I'm 79 years old from Indiana .

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you so much-means a lot ❤️ God Bless

[@mleppert8535]

Good evening! You all have skill and patience to lay that stone. But l argree, it is really fun once you get into it. And last for centuries. Just like Our Blessed Saviour word. He and His Word is the soild rock on Which we all can only stand against a world full of evil. Beautiful beautiful work guys! But most beautiful is your little family. Don't get so busy making a living,( paying for things we really don't need) That you don't take a lot of time to just enjoy each other!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Totally with you 😄🙌🏻🙏 Time together is an incredible gift. Trying to appreciate it daily. (Even when exhausted) May God Bless you-thanks for your kind comments. Means a lot to us

[@JimBach-sq5kg]

Congratulations on a job well done! Enjoyed the journey that you and your family,friendsand neighbors shared.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thanks Jim! So appreciate that you’ve been with us from the beginning-what a journey

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

Congratulations on finishing your remodel ❤❤❤

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Love your comment ❤️ It was a wild year!

[@karlanorvell9573]

As a 4th generation Montanan, I think you for saving a piece of it's history. I knew people who cooked on wood stoves as a kid. Loved watching you figure out how to bake on the beautiful cast iron stove.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you so much for your comment. Really appreciate it, especially from a Montanan. So many ranches have these pieces of history, but lots are already lost. Tough to save ‘em. Time & money, time & money…

[@brianmachan6959]

Amazing job!! I have the same appreciation for history. I grew up with an old cast iron wood stove, and wood furnace.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh what a childhood!-very special. Wood heat just has a certain aroma and feel to it, right?! Thanks for your comment 😄🎄

[@elizabethcoviello985]

Loved your progress and final result! Coming from an urban life style in the UK and reading Laura Ingels Wilder with my kids, it was fabulous to see how you built the cabin and recreated a time capsule! In Newfoundland I first saw your type of stove and ate bread from the weekly baking in it! Thanks for bringing it all alive

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh I adore your comment 💗🙌🏻 Thank you! I’m reading Laura Ingalls with the kids every night these days & it makes me want to cook in the old homestead constantly. Love that you’ve had the same experiences even across an ocean & across this country. I’m planning some great Christmas pioneer skills in the cabin, so hope you keep on sticking with us 🎄

[@outthasky]

I really enjoyed the dry stacked stone work. Thank you for sharing

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you! I’m no expert on dry stack, but I sure love trying

[@mikemccollum4521]

Oh my. What a wonderful series you have completed. It has been a grand journey. Thank you very much.❤️❤️❤️

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers, it’s been a really fun story to tell 🙌🏻 Thanks for watching!

[@ladylocust1118]

Love those steps and the old stove cooking! Please don't take this the wrong way, but the addition of Susan was wonderful (& her reading of the poem). I'm a pretty new follower & like y'all too, but that was a little bit of "living" going on in that darling ol' cabin. Keep warm.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Love your comment 🙌🏻 Susan is a gem & absolutely stole the show (in all good ways). I would love to have her on again to show us all how a truly knowledgeable woman works these pioneer skills. Great comment-hope you stick with us 💗

[@ronwheeler1400]

Man I really enjoyed watching this series. Awesome job. Can't wait to see the next project.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Really appreciate that 🙌🏻 Good things ahead. The old ranch has lots of history in need of rescue

[@juergenzenner4219]

Thanks for sharing. Been a fantastic journey to follow you. Have all fun in the new cabin 🎉❤🎉

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Thanks for your wonderful comment. Hope you stick with us for more projects & adventures

[@juergenzenner4219]

@ sure I will stick with you. I love to see future projects!

[@CarolynStandley]

Congratulations on a big, hard and wonderful job well-done!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you!

[@reggierico]

Thank you so mush for this! I am a romantic at heart and this story, this journey that you have taken us on is very nostalgic and meaningful to me. I love the cabin. I was once an architecture major at WSU in the 70's before switching to aeronautics. That was a good choice for my career, but I love the building of things. I have not made it to Montana this fall and that has made me melancholy. I am usually walking the Custer National forest or riding into the Bob for hunting adventures, but circumstances have kept me home this fall on Fox Island. I love your ranch and your cattle. You all have done a wonderful job with this channel, the editing and content are excellent. It is nice to see your friends come over and help pitch in. Cheers to you all and thanks again for this wonderful journey....

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Man, thank you 🙌🏻 Your comment is so meaningful to all of us-we’ve put our hearts into this project. Been a great ride. Hope you get to Montana soon and soak up some adventures 🏔️🔥🏔️🔥🏔️

[@Captain-Max]

Oh my God, Susan is such a national treasure! Me, at 74, never got to know my grandparents. I'm sure she has a lifetime of self-sustaining knowledge that needs to be preserved. Is that a shepards wagon coming soon? I was an off grid mobile nomad for 10 ys after retiring. I've admired modern day Sheep Camps, wishing I still had the means and strength to live that life again.

[@oliver9089]

Not just the knowledge, but the attitude and personality of this whole family is as good as it gets. When I (rarely) see a family like this, all I think is, "please, breed like rabbits" 😂 we need more of these kind of people in the world.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

God bless, man! Love your comment-Susan is a GEM 💎 Wow you have lived the life & know your stuff! Off grid nomad is my kind of adventure. It does take a strong body & will-hard to do forever-but to have even done it once is a testament to strength. So impressive you took that route 🙌🏻🔥🏔️ Cheers from Montana. The old railroad cookcar is next up on our list of projects. It should still have its original cast iron stove in it 😄 Excited to figure out how to bring it back to life.

[@Captain-Max]

Railroad cook car sounds like a great project, looking forward to it! I'm a follower of Kent Rowlins and Chuck wagon cookery. Cooking is still my main hobby since I no longer travel far.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@@oliver9089 hahaha love your comment 🙌🏻 Very kind compliment to us & I appreciate it 💗

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@@Captain-Max I just saw a cowboy Kent Rollins video last week! Love it 🙌🏻

[@jkq9717]

Just found you today!! Wow! Love this! You are speaking our language totally! ❤

[@jkq9717]

Yes..."tell them again when they forget"

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Hoorah! Glad you found us 🙌🏻🔥

[@Nello353]

I,m sorry that this is your last video, but the project is a big success and you have our congratulations and gratitude. I hope you feel the pride and the fulfillment of your dreams that you deserve. May our Lord bless you and your family for the rest of your stay on earth.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment 🙏 Appreciate you. All the best to you & asking God’s watchful blessing for you as well

[@matthewschultz7945]

That was a great series. I loved it. Great work.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Thanks for coming along with us-this little house has been full of stories

[@helensamsonow321]

Love the idea! And the project!❤ from 🇨🇦

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers!! Appreciate it 🏔️🌲🙌🏻

[@corrineyoung5934]

love that cabin and stove. I lived on the praries as a kid, our stove used coal, so we would walk the railroad line and gatheered the clinkers, we hand pumped and hauled our water, and lit our oil lamps, good memories.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh my goodness you have lived this life!! Coal is something else… I tried using it a bit in the Cookstove I once had. It held heat all night long on the deep cold winter nights. Love hearing your story 💗

[@anyssarobertsify]

Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing ❤

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers, appreciate your comment 🙌🏻

[@royshidler3351]

Thanks gor sharing. This is quickly becoming a favorite for me

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! 🔥 Thank you so much for watching the work

[@royshidler3351]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue i like it when people do fun constructive things with family. Do see that much anymore

[@davidsmathers5621]

What a great video I could live there for ever thank you for sharing your videos.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

I feel the same-I’d live there if laundry wasn’t so darn hard 😉 Love your comment. Thank you 🙏

[@LoveOffGrid]

Congratulations on completing the cabin so beautifully! It’s already coming alive with its own stories of busted Pyrex, glistening sugared scones and freshly baked bread (next time, tell Robbie he’s clearly not hungry enough and should go back to work for awhile… hunger is the best gravy!). Meanwhile, the world can always use more poetry. Nicely done.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers, friend 💗 Thanks for being on this journey with us-been a wonder time telling stories and going back in history. Love from Montana

[@robertjwilliams3532]

The stove and cooking parts of the video are of the best I have ever viewed on Utube! They take me back to my young childhood in the mid 1940's at my grandmother and great granddaddy's home in Cumberland City Tn. (find that on your maps!). My grandmother cooked on a wood stove much like this one (no so fancy) and there was a fireplace across the room that in the cold weather never went out. There was a cistern on the back poach, an outhouse on down toward the kitchen garden and at nights if you had to come out from under two or three feather beds, the slop jar rim was very cold!! Those were the days!!!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Wow!! What fantastic memories you are so lucky to have 🙌🏻 Lost way of life now. People took care of their families and one another. May God Bless you 💗 Thank you for your beautiful comment. Warms my heart.

[@Jackofalltradesmastersofnone]

I like the old woman. Reminds me of my grandma and great aunt. I enjoyed her. Have her back if she will

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

She is brilliant & so knowledgeable about so many pioneer skills. I will DEFINITELY beg her to come on an episode again

[@HubertusSchaper]

Hi Jessie & Robbie & coworkers such as the kiddos.Thanks for sharing this great adventure & restoration journey whit Us. I as so many of the spectators or followers of the Resurection in original autentick rebuilding of Uncle Dan`s Cabin, It was with great pleasure & Philosofical Thouts I did follow you lovely people on this way far a way in Montana but not that far for following live style of hard working Farmerslive in the fields. With the best Wishes & Healht for your little Familie,God bless.Greetings from the Old Dutch Norwegian Hubertus. 🙏🏻🇳🇱🇳🇴☮🍀🇺🇸

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you, Hubertus! You’ve been with us the whole way 🙌🏻 We so appreciate you. More adventures on the ranch to come-hope you stick with us.

[@HubertusSchaper]

@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Yes I surely will If Im still are alloud playing around on this great Bleu Planet called Mother Earth.

[@gerryhartung736]

And your husband says....here we go again!" Keeping you channel subscription, something tells me this is not the end! Happy Holidays to your family!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers 😉 Many more adventures to come! This old ranch has endless possibilities

[@Anony_Mouses]

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your series. Thank you for bringing this history to life. You and your family have done a tremendous job. Kudos!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you so much-appreciate your comment! Old Uncle Dan’s has been a great ride

[@kenthorsen4558]

Mom and Dad had a Home Comfort cook stove, come fall dad would fire it up. Before they went to bed dad would load it up, I would wake up around two am to make to go to the bathroom and I would add more wood to all our stoves. I would get up at six to do chores and load them up again, by the time I was done mom had coffee perking on the stove... what a smell ! To this day I still wake up to go to the bathroom at two, but no wood stove to load up. I'm sixty five... thanks for the memories.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh wow what a rhythm to life! Sure, it work more work, but what memories 🔥 Pretty special you grew up with that life. Bet you knew you were needed 💗

[@Hillbilly007-yd9gu]

Growing up my grandmother used a wood stove to bake bread and cook on. Boy do I miss those days.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Wow that is so special and rare! What beautiful memories 🔥 You are very fortunate

[@markhammond6420]

Thank you. A million times thank you for sharing what you do.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Many thanks to you! Trying to tell the story of this house has been a great adventure for us

[@lindaharris5704]

Smiling through the whole episode.😊

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Love your comment 😊💗 Thank you for being on this ride with us!

[@gardennonsense]

I didn't read the comments so I don't know if anybody got the same idea. Love the show. Started the fire in the boiler which is perfect, when you have 🔥 Hot Coals / No Flame 🔥 you put them at the bottom of the stove that way you're getting a circulation of heat from bottom to top. Depending on temperature you might have to add more fire in the boiler up top. I am no professional just an idea from a follow cook. 🤙 Keep up the hard work I love it I will be subscribing and looking for future content 👍

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Hey that is very clever! Thank you 😄🙌🏻 I’m always eager to learn tips/tricks from people who know their stuff! Thanks for watching & hope you stick with us

[@jerrystout3032]

Great job guys!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thanks Jerry!

[@KaquolMeliReno]

I love watching you in all you do!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Thank you! More adventures to come 🙌🏻🏔️🔥🏔️🔥🏔️

[@roberttomlinson1007]

I know I’m late to this but great job. Too bad most people aren’t willing or able to take the challenge of life like this. Proud of ya..

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Your comment means a ton. Thank you 🔥 It was long hard work to do, but the old house has new life. That feels like we did something worthwhile

[@mikebox]

I grew up on our family farm in Louisiana. We also have many out buildings on the land. Only one log barn left. And sadly my grandparents house. My grandpa built after the War is slowly decaying. The fields are over growing. The ponds are overgrown. But it’s still a beautiful place.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh I’m sorry to hear that much has fallen to Fr. Time, but how wonderful you have memories of a place like that! My family place too is lost, but Robbie, my husband is 5th generation on the family place so we live through his history now

[@noiseosoutros]

Very very good thank you my friend ❤love

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers, friend 🙌🏻🏔️🔥💗 Thanks for being with us along the journey

[@richie9005]

That is sooo cool ..

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Thanks 🏔️🔥🏔️🔥🏔️

[@timothychandler1725]

I have really enjoyed your videos 📹 on this homestead cabin. I was hoping you would of keeping making more videos. This coming spring I hope 🙏 you guys inviting a school field trip. Show kids how 🤔 wheat is flour, milk 🥛 cow turn in butter 🧈. Sheep 🐑 being sheer for the wool. Making candles. Logs are turned into borders for an outhouse. What treasure do you guys have with friends know things to help.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Great ideas! We would love to share the place and teach kids about pioneer life this coming summer 🙌🏻 cheers! Love your comment

[@timothychandler1725]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue I really like 👍 👌 how Susan helped you in the kitchen cooking on the Wood stove. That is how my grandma 👵 would cook and bake. Watching her it brought a fine memory. My aunt and my mother wrote down grandma's recipes. So I hope you and your husband take the time next month find a great grandma 👵 cook recipes to bake with the kids 😋 for Christmas 🎄. Even bring in a little evergreen 🌲 tree to decorate. Can't wait for a new video.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@ Yes 🙌🏻 We will do exactly that 😄🎄 I agree 100% with you!

[@timothychandler1725]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue our family after Thanksgiving like to pick our Christmas 🎄 trees. We like making swags on the front door 🚪 with things growing wild on the ranch. Like juniper with blue berry red rose 🌹 hips and wild red sticks or white bark from aspin trees. All tied together with cotton string. Happy holidays you guys.

[@timothychandler1725]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue I forgot evergreen 🌲 branch top it off with a ribbon 🎀 bow.

[@LonelyEcell]

Great!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers!

[@jewella2687]

I grew up cooking on a wood cook stove and I miss it. You can get a thermometer to sit In the oven so you know if it is the right temp. Less wood for cooler more for hotter. Left the oven door be open a little time to cool the oven temp some so bread bakes all the way through without burning on outside

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Exactly right! I’m learning, I’ll learning 😄 I should get an oven thermometer 🌡️ Good idea. Although I think I am getting better at putting my hand in the oven to gauge temps. It’s definitely a practice-makes-perfect skill. Looking forward to spending the winter studying this stove 🔥 Thanks for the great comment

[@gerryhartung736]

I'm curious as to your next major project, maybe next spring a small two horse barn? Watch Last Stand on Saber River, with Clint Eastwood, I think they nailed th tiny barn.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh man I’ll go watch that movie tonight 🙌🏻 Classic!

[@gingw7333]

The strange moment when the older woman, cooking as a pioneer did, stopped to check her phone. My grandmother was born in a covered wagon on the Oregon trail in 1905. She passed in 2000, aged 95. She lived the pioneer life through the 1920s into the 1930s while raising 4 daughters as a widow for about 15 years. The 2 room shotgun house my mom was born in lives on as an updated workshop. The changes Grandma lived to see and experience are mind boggling.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

WOW what a life! That generation saw immense change-beyond anything I’ll see in my lifetime. Think how strong a woman she was… steel to the core. Susan is an impressive woman; modern and yet one foot in the past with so much knowledge.

[@jered1940]

❤ this

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers 😊

[@richardrice8239]

i didn't grow up on a ranch but we did have a wood fired cook stove that was the 1940s east williston long island new york

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Ohh wow that’s pretty special-do you remember people cooking on it? 🔥

[@colinvoss8484]

I love pressure canning on a wood stove.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh wow! You are brave! Pressure canners are wonderful but a bit scarier than water bath canning

[@colinvoss8484]

Not really you need to watch it for proper heat you should never leave a çanner.​@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue

[@chrisp9538]

Use manure to bury your cement work in winter if your that worried about it.. It takes 3 weeks to dry. You need one week of above 0 for concrete or mortar. You can cheat too. Use more glue. Use less water. If you like. Use anti freeze too. GO BUY a carbide chisel, not those cheap chisels your using. A real chisel is not the same. IT goes though all stone. Sledge hammer are great too. Manure for fuel too. ;) great video.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Hey brilliant tips! Thank you 🙌🏻 Appreciate it. You’re right-cheap chisel. I rarely tackle such giant rocks 😆 The manure idea makes sense and is very clever

[@chrisp9538]

@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue When you get a chance. Buy a 2.5 pound bell hammer or 3 pound. Next buy a 1.5" Tracing carbide tip rock chisel. I think it will change your life. Heavy metal is not the same as soft metal. Carbide tip makes all the difference. Well worth the money. Pinch a little piece off at a time. Not big, You got what it takes. Take it to this level. You have very nice square stone in those fields, look like fun stuff. Gather square rock that are brick like. Try to get rock that is similar in size for each row. USE CLAY instead of Mortar. Old farmers trick. Use mortar if your smart. lol Remember the rats are watching your every move. lol You should be very proud of this building.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@@chrisp9538 Love your wisdom-thank you! 🙌🏻 I’m writing this down. Dream is to build a structural stone chapel somewhere on the ranch one day, WITH mortar 😉 I’ve got a pallet of NHL 5 kicking about in the old log barn… Appreciate your knowledge. You must be a professional? You know your stuff. I dabble, but I truly love the work, long as my body holds out.

[@billiejeansmith-yh2fc]

Well I’m sad if this is the last episode😩

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

More to come, more to come. Massive log barn needs rebuilding. Historic railroad cookcar! Stick with us 😊 Thanks for being on this year long project with us 💗

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

I got through them all, from first to last of the building. My conclusion: It's not perfection, but it'll do right fine. It's not about historical accuracy. It's about life-experience. Yours and your kid's. It's about living out a dream. As such; I would have done some things differently. But then, I don't know if I would have even taken on the project. I'm more for keeping the old log cabins safe. _(In one of your videos, you showed a fallen down piece en piece log cabin. Now there is one of the very first homesteaders to the Lewistown area.)_ There are still some things that puzzle me about your cabin. I would date it to between 1900 and 1910. But, there's something else that is off, very off; The roof structure is truss. Firstly; imagine, without any machines, how many men it would have taken, to get those trusses in place. _(Even using a horse & a pully system, that's still 3 to 4 men needed.)_ Secondly; and even though there's nothing special about the principles of a truss, they simply were not used much... until after WWII. The most commonly used prior to that, was a purlin and rafters construction. Even a rafters roof, would still have used a ridge-board. _(Where is it?)_ Are all the bottom cords actually needed? _(I'm not a structural engineer, so I can't say.)_ But then, where are the king or queen posts? So I'm going to say; the roof structure is not original. It came well later. It's a 50s style construction. _(Cedar shingles are only going to last 20...maximum 30 years. So that roof; could _(theoretically)_ have been rebuilt, up to 6 times, and an absolute minimum of twice. But all in all, you kids know better, are smarter, at your age, than for certain I was. You both are quite talented... and industrious.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

God Bless, appreciate your comments & I’ve been taking in all your thoughts. Thank you for watching the whole series-means a lot; you’ve given a good amount of your time. The cabin still has mysteries it’s holding onto. Maybe we will uncover more documents or old timers who know its stories 🤷🏻‍♀️ Most memories died with its original builders. Cheers from us in Montana

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

@@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Ah yes, Montana. I left in 1971, and except for a few visits now and then, I stayed abroad for almost 30 years... traveling the world over... multiple times. I came back, on Thanksgiving Day of 1999. And I tried to fit back in, come back home. But, old Montana wasn't there anymore. It had all changed. I was a foreigner; in the very places I had known so well. I couldn't take it, and left. So in all honesty; You shouldn't be thanking me. My thanks goes out to you all. For showing me, that at least in parts, in places, my Montana still remains alive and well. I've enjoyed every moment watching your videos so far. Please keep them going.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@ ❤️🔥 The real Montanans are the best people I’ve ever met in all my life. Sounds like you are the old stock, & I can’t tell you how much I respect that. God Bless you, friend. Thank you for being a part of this.

[@MEDavis-kn3ph]

My Grandfather horse logged the materials for his house, logs for the main part of the house and to mill for lumber. He bought a small mill, ran it himself and traded boards for planing for trim and floor boards. The gambrel rafters are rough true dimension, a real art work with no vertical support on a 48 foot span. Neighbors helped him raise it with his team of horses. That's how things got done. The cedar shakes he hand split still grace the upstairs ends of the house. He was 56, 58 at the time. At 78 + I am his last living grandchild and a 4th generation Montanan. The house was well used before my parents met.

[@michaelwittkopp3379]

@@MEDavis-kn3ph Thanks for sharing your Montana story. Too many of us, with families having been for generations in Montana, live now in a form of diaspora. The old ways are dying out with us. Btw, I've actually done logging using horses. Not in Montana, rather in Germany. You harness a Belgian or Clydesdale up, to go out into the forest, and they are prancing for joy...overjoyed in anticipation. They love the work, and are ecologically, the best possible solution, doing the least amount of damage. _(Plus beautiful animals.)_ We skidded the logs down to a dirt road, then used a Unimog with trailer, to haul them out. We pulled 200+ year old select Spruce out; to make the 5 purlins _(plus all the rafters and ties)_ for the house I was building. Each tree was around 175ft long, with an average trunk diameter of over 3ft, for at least 100ft of the length. We got the square-cut roof timbers, plus a lot of lumber out of those logs. More than enough lumber to sheath the whole roof, leaving me plenty to make all the furniture _(table, chairs and cabinets)_ for an eat-in size kitchen...about the size of this video's whole cabin. _(Logs came from family owned forest.)_ I was in my early 40s at the time. I can only imagine what it would have been like, in my late 50s. It was a cold winter's cut. We did all the debarking by hand, using old fashion long-handled bark spuds called Krumpholzer. Only modern tools that we used; were chainsaws. _(Try rolling those size of logs too.)_ At the end of a day, we _(two of us)_ were more tired than the Belgians. They'd run back to their stalls, for a brush-down and a feed bag of grain. While we'd be aching from head to toes, too tired to even eat dinner. So while I never homesteaded, only being the grandson of homesteaders, when I hear young kids talk about going homesteading, I can only roll my eyes. I know what it takes to be successful at homesteading. And I know a *_lot,_* but ain't got it in me...never had. It takes more than a special kind of person for that. You have to be that kind of person, and grow up in a similar to homestead environment. And you have to be a Jack of all trades.

[@EVGENIVS-LXIII]

🤠🖐👌👍👍👍

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers!

[@eydeekay]

Where's the bathroom?

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Excellent question 🤔 It’s back at the ranch shop at the moment but we really should do an outhouse. It’s so close to the creek that the government might not let us 🙄

[@jerrystout3032]

Where s your bed ? Outhouse?kitchen sink ?kinda small??

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh yeah super small! Bunk beds in the SW corner. Outhouse will be built soon (ranch shop is a little ways away). No running water-dry sink for the kitchen. That’s how it was originally & you can absolutely make it work… just isn’t easy 😉

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

Drat I was hoping to find the name of flour mill

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Oh I can ask Susan if you’d like 😍 I think it’s quite an old mill though

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue If you don't mind please asked her about it, I need to find a flour mill because my granddaughter is allergic to gluten so I can change All my baking recipes and make her a cookbook that is specifically for her, she is just 16 years old and beginning to learn how to cook... Lol trials of a Step-grandmother! Donna Lane Kingman Az

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Hi Donna, I asked her today and she said it is called a Corona flour mill. Stone grind. She got it 50 years ago & loves it! So hard to find these things today 😔

[@DonnaLane-pw4rg]

@Montana_Ranch_Rescue Thank you for your help and information Maybe I can find something that is similar to the one that I saw on your video. Thank you, Respectfully yours, Donna Lane PS. Keep In touch with me and I'll be letting you know about our dairy (goat) eventually we will have a poultry hatchery, we have a 10 year plan for This it will become a fully functional self producing farm, growing our own vegetables and grains and we hope that we can even open a bulk supply store for our family, community and for the Lord.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

@ Oh well done!! May God bless your efforts-I fully support your philosophy ❤️ Where are you all at again?

[@colinvoss8484]

Wood cookstoves are easy to figure out you should have cleaned it out before you used it.

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Hi Colin! We did give it a good cleaning-the episode is in our 1889 Homestead renovation series 😄 We have a whole playlist you can click into if you’d like to see the journey.

[@anniegrace7407]

Excellent!!!🥲Wow. I am always so amazed at your storytelling ability! Thank you👏👏

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Ah thank you! And thank you so much for being a part of this whole process-we have loved the experience 🙌🏻 Hope you stick with us for some more adventures 🏔️🔥

[@MikeeonYouTube4]

All the best for the future with your cottage,it’s been an enjoyable journey with you people,and just do it one step at a time,ATB from Perth 🇦🇺🦘👍👍👍👍👍

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

Cheers! Love your comment! Thank you for being along on this journey from early on 🙌🏻 Hi from snowy Montana 🏔️ ❄️ 😄