Rural Jobs, Installing a wood stove, My worst cut from a knife

[@Barbarra63297]

Callie never fails me...another photo bomb! Love that pup!

[@noblevictory2200]

She's absolutely adorable

[@Barbarra63297]

Sitting here admiring your beautiful views out the windows while listening to you, very peaceful!

[@merange1]

I can see you are excited to get the new cabin built and get your family with you. God bless you and your family.

[@User-ql9nq]

Makes me happy to see that you are happy Shawn, these are my favourite kind of videos where I come away feeling like I have learned something that I didn’t know before.

[@sparklyhomesteader5414]

You are a wilderness superhero. I am in awe that you humbly lean against a wall, explaining your chimney plans, in a building you built from the ground up with your bare hands and a few tools. It’s not a small thing and I, for one, am amazed at your abilities. Thanks for sharing all you do. God bless and keep you and yours safe and blessed. 💖

[@sCotto359]

So glad to see Cali doing well god bless all of you

[@pattiwalton8506]

My father had a sheet metal shop and my grandfather before him then my brother took over and his son after him .. 60 years ago I would do little jobs like make those crinkled edges on stove pipes a funny job for a girl back in those days but I loved it ... so thanks for bringing back memories ps I’ve been following you from the start and enjoy every minute of your videos thank you

[@adaleeperkins]

Cali is so adorable! An amazing video to start the day with

[@aliseoliver3537]

Lol...Cali barges in! Love that stove - it’s beautiful!

[@kendaum102]

I think Cali said at the end of the video Enough talking earlier get to work or toss my toy. 🐕❤️

[@voodjin]

I got my worst cut from a knife by the age of 8. I was trying to make my own leather sheath for my new hunting knife (a gift from my uncles) and I cut deep right to the bone. The forefinger of my left hand was basically half cut off 😅 Happend at 10 pm and my parents rushed my to a doc, but as it happens in mother russia in 1989 in a small village, doc was out of anaesthetics, so I got stitched without it. But the doc did a great job. Today at the age of 40, there is just a very pale scar and the finger works just fine. 👍

[@vanrensburgsgesicht]

Someone give that brave kid 100ml of vodka we are out of anaesthetics!

[@voodjin]

@@vanrensburgsgesicht That would have been cool^^

[@nanchesca3950]

I also have a scar on my left hand forefinger, from a chisel when I was 12, mucking about in my dad's workshop. Very thankful for the anesthetic at the hospital!!🤣

[@patriciabarnes7034]

Vood jin... Aaa, bless. Happy to her there's no lasting damage. Be safe. UK.

[@TokyoCraftsman]

You truly have moved on, as you keep saying "The Old Cabin". Best of luck in your endeavors, thanks for taking us along! Cheers from Tokyo! Stu

[@jeanettec6212]

Its the cutest workshop I’ve ever seen!

[@LeighDeitrick1]

That stove is awesome! From your videos, it looks like everything is fitting into place for your new adventure. Take care !

[@NetTopsey]

Nice tips about the stove pipe. I've seen creosote on the outside of them at the seams and never realized what it was or why. Now I do. Thanks.

[@mikefedele4521]

It's looking good. Like you said it will be there forever... Even though it is a workshop it looks cozy ☺️

[@melodybarker9336]

Love your new worshop cant wait for new cabin❤🌲🌲🌲

[@protofmaster]

Shawn, we miss seeing you cooking on a stove, and are looking forward to you getting that wood stove fully functional! The top is pretty small, but I expect that you'll be whipping up something to eat on it..... or at least making coffee!

[@bobobrien8968]

Always something to learn. You’ll be needing that stove with this frigid weather.

[@tonandmarc]

im glad to se you address safety issues. So many times i see people using a chain saw with out chaps. I used to think it was stupid until i cut my leg . thank you

[@tinydancer7426]

Yeah. My cousin was cutting fire wood for my mom. Chainsaw kicked back and got him right above the knee cap. Walked into the house and asked for a band aid ..... while blood was running down his leg. Mom said let me look at that cut ...... good thing he sat when he did ...... again asked for a band aid so he could go back to cutting wood .... mom said you're not going anywhere but the hospital cuz I can see bone ...... got stitched up, came back to the house and went back to cutting wood ...... he was dumb.

[@timofeyserikof8397]

Сali listened very carefully about your experience in the construction ... She is undoubtedly lovely!

[@gregtheredneck1715]

I worked for a company that made store shelving fixtures out of sheet metal and we were supplied with cotton lined rubber gloves or the type of cotton gloves that has the little rubber dots on the palm side. They were more for gripping the sheets than for hand protection and at the end of a 6 day work week the gloves would be almost useless due to all the cuts from the edges of the sheets. We were also taught to pinch rather than put our palms against the metal. Inevitably you would get little nicks on your hands and those were terribly painful and like you mentioned they bleed alot. There was always a roll of duct tape nearby for fixing your gloves and using to cover the cuts.

[@marygordon3032]

It’s just so awesome to see Cali so active again. I just love to see her running around, thanks Shawn! 👍👍👍💯💯💯

[@patriciabeyer7824]

🤗 Good morning! It's good to see you. The build is coming along nicely. It's good to see you have a stove going in. Keep warm. Looking through the window the woods look beautiful but cold. Thanks for sharing this. 💞👍🙏☝️

[@juliecruz9951]

Whoa Shawn, you are a very great EDUCATOR, you had taught a lot of viewers about safety, the forest, animals, and just about anything great and important to learn and know. Very fantastic KZbin channel to watch. I had been watching you channel about over a year, and not one time did I get bored. KUDOS & BRAVO to you. Thank you very much for your channels. I go back and forth daily to both of you channels.👍🏽🙏🏽😀👏🏽 MY SELF RELIANCE & SHAWN JAMES.👏🏽

[@kimlarsson3669]

I sincerely hope this channel blows up and will enable you to make money while doing something you love. Just recently got into the channel, but i can still relate from the "few" videos i've watched thus far.

[@genefoust5569]

Welcome back my friend enjoyed the video thanks

[@baddoopey]

Made the same mistake with a cutter when I was about 7 years old. I’ve remembered it since every time I pulled a cutter in my direction. Best 12 stitches I’ve ever had.

[@brianspencer4220]

Hi Shawn: You've brought back a lot o0f metal working memories. Stay Safe & thanks Brian 80

[@patriciabarnes7034]

It is an absolutely, beautiful worksop. Solid as bedrocks, from how I watch you put it together. It deserves to be treated with the utmost respect.

[@bobbynash282]

Hey lm just glad to be here as always. And interested in that stove being put in. For some reason my wife and l have always been hooked on wood stoves. We were both raised with them in use in home an shop.

[@gordonmelrose4828]

It's always so exciting when you accidentally discover a brand new Shawn James video 🙂🙂

[@gordonmelrose4828]

@@Longing4theWoods or even the Notification button.... yawn!

[@StumblerUSA]

It wasn't an accident.

[@floydlawhon9406]

I keep waiting for each video that comes. . I haven’t learned how to switch back and forth between channels.

[@KidBiff]

“Learn the trades.” Best piece of advice I’ve ever heard. Second best piece of advice I ever heard? Throw a fetch for a Golden! Keep up the good work, Shawn. Thats coming from a guy who learned the trades first, then went back to school.

[@roteladejesus258]

Nice looking antique stove you got there. Love to see Cali right in front of the camera. Her fur are so thick and beautifully golden! Looking forward to spring and the construction of your new homestead.

[@lindas1496]

You bring back many childhood fond memories. Thank you for your video’s Shawn.🇨🇦👍❤️☃️

[@elliotazus6258]

Hello again Shawn, Wow 2 videos in one day what a treat!! God bless and take care. And this for Cali🐾🐾

[@janisgriffin7278]

My Dad had a Sheet Metal Shop and Plumbing and Heating Business in Yakima, Washington. I can remember as a child cutting metal on his giant cutting machines...

[@ladywolverine1828]

I sure hope you never stop making videos and sharing them. You are a blessing. Stay safe and warm.

[@young-soonkim6730]

Good Friday Shawn & Cali🐕!👍

[@marianfrances4959]

Love that little stove!! Yup on the leather gloves. This build is as beautiful as the original cabin! You are an artist and a craftsman.👍😉🇨🇦🌲🔥🐾

[@dorafurness466]

Love watching your videos and Callie is entertaining, and she sure love the water and snow. God Bless you and your family

[@zzydny]

Sometimes you've gotta do what you've gotta do just to get started. But that workshop is so beautiful and solidly built that it will justify the expense to finish the chimney work the best way.

[@lorraineeagle4009]

You are doing such good work. And you are showing us all how to do something without spending a great amount of money. Thank you and God Bless. My puppy Pugsley says Hi to Cali.He watches everytime she's on.Paws up at the tv.

[@grahambilling2135]

Your resilience is inspiring, after having to start again from scratch and to lose the pond....

[@lilghostdotebk]

Hi shawn Ur shops coming along nice.

[@annrhodes3544]

Shawn, You sound so breathless when you are talking even when you are at rest. I guess it’s all the toxic wood smoke you are inhaling every day.

[@lilghostdotebk]

@@annrhodes3544 haha true Ann

[@virginiareid5336]

I thought from the title that you had recently gotten the cut. The little pot bellied stove is perfect for the workshop. .

[@kevinmeece4672]

I appreciate the attention to detail you have and the explanation you want to give for all of us, which is just taking time away from Cali. I'm also a sheet metal worker of 30 plus years and a lot of your stories and memories I can definitely relate to. I only hope to strive and to be as peaceful as you seem to be especially after 2020.

[@Apolliner1]

An excellent house, I can imagine how wonderful the freshness of the tree smells, once in the Carpathians, our group of students spent the night in a freshly cut house.) I didn't see the door, probably, while something temporary replaces it. Good luck! Hello from Ukraine !

[@jennygirl8849]

Beautiful view through the new windows and the aged stove tall & skinny is perfect for a workshop it looks like it has a story to tell....very nice.

[@MapleMonkeyHomestead]

Love it! I am almost at the point of putting in my own woodstove! Your place is looking amazing. Keep up the great work Shawn!

[@ositagordita8550]

Hearing you talk about gathering rocks brings back memories when I was young & along with 4 siblings helped my father gather and haul rocks to build a retaining wall behind our house. 🤔 Hard, dirty but very satisfying work. Thx for explaining the stove install.

[@suezaple4950]

Nice shop i love the wood stove it is coming along nicely inside and out , spring is coming soon and you'll be able to get working on the cabin , thanks for bringing us along you seem happier good to see.

[@nightsong28540]

Loved learning more about you, the things you've done. I grew up on a farm so I'm a Jill of all trades and master of none as necessity is the Mother of invention. A problem arises, you figure a way to make it work..but then I'd call you a master of all trades. Guess that's why I like your videos. Stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep warm and dry.

[@lorchid23]

My husband was a welder & sheet metal fabricator for 27 years. I’ll never forget the burns and cuts he would sometimes come home with. Galvanized metal cuts were *the worst* because they took forever to heal.

[@lindapetersen1800]

Am glad to see you and CALI got the shirt on with CALI and the older cabin on right now it is the one with white. The MOON is going over the cabin. Shawn coming right down to it I can see you making this cabin to join up with the other outside plant form with a cabin there All joined together making it into ONE Bigger Cabin with a Loft into the other one.

[@lindapetersen1800]

Shawn and CALI just love to watch the videos it is calming relaxing used to be able to do more in life . Now it is just what I can do, gardening ,quilting and doing some logging there are times when I find some of the videos really close the HEART have to put them on my face book not to steal from you but to show everyone how Special it is to do those things in life.

[@lindapetersen1800]

Hi I am pretty good at this.

[@markrtoffeeman]

This workshop is a useful emergency shelter too Shawn. Plus good for storage. Always handy to have. Plus think spending a bit of money on the chimney as you say will be worthwhile. Its a quality build you've done and will last.

[@RiverbendlongbowsOutdoors]

I always wore the cut proof fileting gloves for fishing when I used to work with metal. Had the little rubber grippy nodules on them that helped with dexterity. That stove is going to be nice in there. Have a great weekend

[@leeprism9564]

Someone driving ahead of me hit a deer, so I ended up skinning it with a tiny razor blade from a bic razor, decades ago. It’s great watching you know what you’re doing.

[@Oxatolla]

Precision Fabrication would love to do you up some 26ga heat shield. One piece, 90 bend with safety edges. I'll bend you up some 1" channel for the air gap. No charge of course. I understand if you wanna go with stone... which would look best. I'm here, if you need. You da man. Cheers from Parry Hoot.

[@manolisgledsodakis873]

Thank you! You reminded me that I hadn't cleaned my chimney and the stove was smoking a lot. Now that job's done (and I've washed my clothes).

[@MarySmith-gu5nb]

I donated to your 1 million trees project! In gratitude for all your videos have done for me!

[@guyfuller1369]

That scene visible through the window looks remarkably like a Group of Seven painting. Cheers.

[@danielscullion3422]

Nice to see a video where consideration is given to health and safety.

[@KraftyKathi]

Yep, my axe hit my shin, but I was glad it was dull. Fun to see the workshop coming together.

[@jomcgrath9280]

Great tip! Thanks. I once hit my ankle with a pick axe. Oh my goodness it hurt. I had to change my swing and watch it go through the swing to make sure it is now ok. Glad you are cut now.

[@deadpoolstrikesagain3914]

Hey superman, love the light in this room...cant wait to see the new build...best of luck and stay safe.

[@MrTerrencemcgrath]

Hi Shawn, last June, I sliced 4 fingers on my saw table while i was repairing my cedar planter boxes. Two of the fingers were cut to the bone. Doctors sewed the fingers up and follow up Plastic surgery followed immediately to repair tendons and soft tissue. The hand therapists were totally awesome as well as the emergency attendants at the Peter Loughheed Hospital in Calgary. Even though the repairs made were excellent, I only have 70 percent use of my right hand.They tell me to be patient. As well, any temperature below - 6 C freezes the right hand freezes to the bone. I am struggling to play my guitar, it’s gonna take a little time. I’m not one to complain, I’ve gotten by unscathed for most of my life for 69 years. I can identify with your story and follow your channel. Cheers and warmest regards !

[@stoicepictetus833]

The workshop is really starting to take shape. Bet you're looking forward to getting the place warmed through! All the best.

[@stlrsmike]

Excellent comment about dull vs. sharp. My worst cuts were always with a sharp blade, usually a new razor blade. Then you get that oh s moment and being a carpenter/ handyman, I need my hands. It doesn't hurt, but you feel it. I always carry a bunch of good band-aids. The flow works with drains also.

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

The big windows are fantastic for a shop. Also if the shop is this nice I can't imagine what the cabin will look like.

[@Jessica-fj7kc]

My husband did something similar years ago when he stocked shelves at a grocery store. Went to cut open the box and went right into the side of his calf. Stitches and all. And yep, never did that again lol.

[@traciparisey5480]

I also learned through cutting a small piece of my arm about making sure you keep all body parts away from where you are cutting.

[@Uniontin73]

I can relate brother, I'm a Local 73 Sheet Metal worker (Chicago) for the last 34 years, and currently an instructor at our apprenticeship school. I recently bought a Cabin in Wisconsin not too long ago, (that you congratulated me on thank you). I wish I could send you pictures of it, because I stole a lot of your decorating ideas!! You my friend, have some serious skills.

[@libbyannstew8775]

I learn so much by watching you work - thank you!

[@Nannygoat]

Love the parlor stove......wait..oh l think l can smell you cooking something already...lol....

[@tsb2752]

Isn't is the coolest!

[@uguryolalan6111]

Happy carpenter with lovely CARLI Greetings from Sweden!

[@brandonlinley]

Phew! Immediate breath of relief lol I saw u cutting at the beginning and was scared u were going to show said cut! Glad it’s just a story lol

[@dhenschel4]

Thanks for the stovepipe instruction - I have seen the backward M/F orientation of the pieces, but no one was ever able to tell me why it was done that way. Hope you are nice and warm by now.

[@mindyvaughn8217]

Cali is like “Who the heck are you talking to?” Please be careful.💖

[@tomhogue3921]

I had to start over also - what a testimonial!! Thanks for keeping the faith

[@claverhouse1]

Cali - "Stop talking to yourself in that kennel and come play!"

[@donaldmichaellumsden2714]

Ooh Shawn got Yourself a Ringer ( : !

[@PavlovsBob]

😂

[@walterjeffrey6349]

I enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing you start your new cabin build. I was in the chimney business for 11 years and agree with you on the dangers of metal and chimney pipe cutting you.

[@timothycluck678]

man i love that old wood stove man that just to sweet it remind me of my Granny old stove

[@maryannerick7617]

I'd long heard that bit about dull knives but never knew why. Thanks for explaining.

[@maureenbrophy7852]

Lovely little house Looks v cold there ❄️💕

[@devonseamoor]

Thank you, Shawn, for sharing your observations and thoughts, while working on this job. I can imagine the challenge to make a choice between not making too much costs (on a temporarily installed stove) and still doing it proper and safe. That's maybe one of the skills of self reliance, to weigh the costs on one side, and the conditions one lives in with certain standards, choosing between creating waste by choosing inferior cheap material or more expensive quality for durable constructions, which proves cheaper on the long run. It all depends on if one can look past the length of one's nose, as we say in The Netherlands.😊 Keep on trucking 👍

[@cheryltaylor9286]

Thanks Shawn. Haven't commented in a while, but, still watching. Love your channel. Working into 2021 zone. 👍🙏God Bless you and your family. Happy New Year

[@butwereallsombdyspecial]

This cabin shop is really really beautiful. I love the floors 😍 I love it all

[@jimmurphy4703]

Yes Sean I always made the oval to round first piece big to big ! I could never understand propriety flues with the necked end facing upwards! Loving all the vids !

[@herefishyfishy6907]

Thanks for the info on the pipe and chimney. Perfect timing, I need to install mine.

[@JeffWinter1]

When I put in my concrete board in my off-grid cabin I used 1" spacers between the walls and concrete board so I could get my woodstove closer to the walls. Worked well and no heat transfer so I only had to have about 3-4" from the stove which saved a lot of space in a small cabin. 🔥

[@tracythorn2918]

You are describing what to me would be fun projects, also thanks for the lesson on stovepipe fitting!

[@BraxxJuventa]

Thanks for the tips and update Shawn. 👍😁

[@davidmcgrew9433]

I’m right there with you. Been in Sheet Metal for 43 yrs.

[@tomhogue3921]

Starting over - man what a lesson - strength to you - finish strong Bro

[@Lovewins57]

Stay safe ! I absolutely love watching your videos! You inspire us very video 😊

[@kekoamaunakea4473]

Great video Shawn, 🛖the shop is coming right along. Have a safe winter.🧊☃️❄️. ML&Aloha Your Boy Kekoa&Ohana.🤙🏽🙏🏽

[@bernardvog5233]

I have the same woodstove in my shed ,keeps me warm.

[@OurSerenityHomestead]

I am sure happy to find the worst cut was years ago. Whew! I am glad you are making good progress in the workshop. I had a little trouble with the sound being so low but good video all the same.

[@davidezerega4099]

Mitico James, ti guardo sempre dall'Italia. Grande! 👍👍👍