Amazing Off Grid Yurt | Installing a Wood Stove - Part 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kuOmsAyiEnQ.html - We are living off the grid in the Canadian Wilderness and attempting to install our new wood stove and wood stove chimney in our yurt. Winter is coming...will we be successful? Comment below... DID YOU MISS OUR YURT FINALE Part 1??? Click Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ezMTQ9Eisd0.html We bought 8 acres of raw land, off grid, in the Canadian Wilderness and decided to build a tiny house as our first dwelling. Our Tiny House will be a Yurt. A Yurt or Yurta is a Mongolian Style Teepee or Tent. This is part one of our Yurt Building FINALE and part 2 is being uploaded at the SAME TIME. Click Here for Yurt Finale part 2: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BDzISUOrzCw.html This Yurt build and Yurt life will be a journey, we hope you SUBSCRIBE and come with us! Enjoy #offgrid #tinyhouse #woodstove #alone #livingoffgrid #garden #offthegrid #boat #yurt #DIY #gardening Nicole and I are attempting to live off the grid in British Columbia, Canada. We have 8 acres of forest property sandwiched in between the Pacific Ocean, a fresh water lake, and a stream which flows year round from the lake into the ocean. For over nearly 10 years I grew a fruit tree, permaculture, garden, and native edible plant, herb, and raised bed garden food forest. You can still watch all the garden videos of my old desert garden in Arizona. I was born in British Columbia and I have returned to the Rain Forests of British Columbia to a "Raw Land" property to grow my 1st FULL EDIBLE FOOD FOREST Off Grid on a wilderness property. This climate is temperate and coastal, rarely seeing snow in the winter and highs in the 80's (30 Celsius) in the summer. It is a rare microclimate that spans from gardening zone 7-9. The property is 8 acres and completely overgrown, mostly with conifer trees. This area is a verifiable rain forest and situated in the Southwestern-most tip of the Canadian "Great Bear Rain Forest". NicHolistic (www.RU-vid.com/HolisticNicole) and I will be learning about edible seaweeds, edible native plants, edible mushrooms, and many other edible native trees/plants as we attempt to Build a Yurt, Draw Our Energy Clean, Live Off the Grid, and Grow an Epic Superfoods Garden and Fruit Tree Orchard. We will also have a lot of changes coming so get ready. More videos and BTS Clips at my VLOG channel www.RU-vid.com/AdventuresWJakeNicole Many of you have been asking what our address is so you can send us items to be featured in our videos.....please use this address (must be send with Canada Post): PO Box 1297 Port Hardy Port Hardy, BC V0N 2P0 Special Thanks to Pacific Yurts: www.yurts.com/ Instagram: PacificYurts Our Boat: Stryker Hunter Jet 420 Instagram: StrykerBoats RU-vid: bit.ly/2TzM2d2 strykerboats.com If you would like to help us on our journey please hit the LIKE button, SUBSCRIBE, click the BELL and turn on the notifications If You Would Like Us To Continue, Please become a Patron and support our production! www.patreon.com/JakeNicole Subscribe to My Other RU-vid Channels: 1. www.RU-vid.com/ShaolinCenter 2. www.RU-vid.com/AdventuresWJakeNicole 3. www.RU-vid.com/MaceYoga ***ORDER MY NEW FULLY COMPREHENSIVE GARDENING COURSE HERE: diyhp.co/gardeningbasics Join My Facebook GARDENING GROUP Here: facebook.com/groups/ArizonaGarden/ Instagram: Jake IG: @JakeOffGrid Nicole IG: @HolisticNicole ---------------- *Join My Online Kung Fu & Tai Chi School for $5: subscriptions.viddler.com/jakemacekungfu **Email Me at JakeNicoleVlog@gmail.com ***My Facebook Page: facebook.com/jakemace.taichi ****My Website: www.LearnFromJake.com *****Instagram @JakeOffGrid ******Twitter at "KungFuUniverse" 1. Please Help Our Journey by Supporting Our Patreon Below: www.Patreon.com/JakeNicole www.GoFundMe.com/JakeNicole 2. My Incredible Online Gardening Course is HERE: diyhp.co/gardeningbasics 3. Join My Online Gardening School for $5 at subscriptions.viddler.com/JakeMaceKungFu (Scroll to the Bottom) 4. JOIN My NEW Facebook GARDENING PAGE! Click HERE: facebook.com/groups/ArizonaGarden/ 5. Join My Free BLOG and More at: www.LearnFromJake.com 6. Hit the "Like" button, Click "SUBSCRIBE", Comment Below, and Share this Video! 7. Check out my website at www.LearnFromJake.com 8. Email me at: JakeNicoleVlog@gmail.com
I love the Yurt, its so cosy & practical. Just the thing to live in during my later years. Only thing is i'm there already. 83 later this mth. :-) Thank you for sharing will keep watching from England.
Thanks for all the informative videos and comments !!! Its great seeing the Team work between the two of you and the obvious love y'all share. Its great to see y'all having fun and enjoying the process together too !!
I usually go to sleep with youtube rain sound video's or wind and sometimes a train. What does the rain sound like on the yurt? It may be a good idea if it sounds nice to make an hour long video when there is heavy rainfall and focus the Camera on the stove too, loop the hour footage for 8-12 hours? I think it would be a hit.
As an 81-year-old dreamer I can remember living in a canvas roofed house with a little path out to the toilet. It was all that my mom could afford to buy on a secretary's salary in 1947. I chopped a little firewood but was restricted to a dull hatchet because I was only 8 years old. It was one of the best times along with some of the worst. I have too many memories to write about here but each step of your story brings back memories that I cherish. Thank you for sharing your dreams with me. My mom bought 16 acres in the heart of gold country in California's El Dorado County. We lived there for three years and moved on. I went to 16 grade schools all over the state of California and all four years of high school in that county. I went on and got more education which served me well. Dick 'TheEngineer'
I'm 82 and have some good stories too, was born in the Bay Area, Alameda is the place and we both know we came along at a wonderful time to grow up after the war.
my Uncle owned the Diamond Springs Hotel and western Bar back then and that's where I spent my summer times. Big Red's in El Dorado was a hot spot and is still going today. Aloha Nui Loa
G'day. As a 20 odd year old odd Aussie, I thought of doing something like what you have done and are still doing. It's a continual work-in-progress and it's also a labour of love. I'm now in my early 70's and am watching you and your Yurt develop into a loving home. You two are very very lucky to have found each other and your yurting project and it's good to watch you two and the yurt develop. All the best for your future.
VERY EXCELLENT VIDEO.....BEAUTIFUL COUPLE....THIS 64 YEAR OLD LADY LOVES SEEING BEAUTIFUL COUPLES HAPPY AND BUILDING AN INDEPENDENT LIFE FOR THEMSELVES
I wish I had the land, knowledge, physical ability and partner to do what you are both doing. Enjoy this time in your life. It will pass quicker than you know.
Love what you guys are doing. I am a 70 yr.old Grandfather of 10 and run a small farm/ranch and I stay busy 10 hrs a day. keeps me outta trouble !!! Well, mostly. Good luck guys and may you be blessed with your place. Led in Texas
Now you have the stove going you really need to think about clearing a large zone around the Yurt as a fire stop zone as the area drys out you have to make sure you are as safe as you can be incase of a forest fires (hope the fire has a spark guard at the top of the chimney stack?)
Beautiful intent to create a life that will only best serve the future and who we were meant to be. If you choose to further create and have Children. Wow what a life for them to be born into. Much love and support x
From my two daughters- age 4 and 7. "I love your video. we watched them all. My favourite part was when you put the roof cover on your head and climbed the ladder." (this was in your video that showed you building the yurt from scratch) -My 6 year old daughter "My favourite part was when the girl was making the spring rolls." -4 year old. We watched your video to learn about strong structures. THANKYOU SOOOO MUCH FOR SHARING!
Great job. Hard work and persisitence pays off. Tip: Burning Pine isn't the best as it deposits creosote on the lining of your chimney and can cause a chimney fire down the road. Take care to burn hardwood as much as you can to burn out the creosote/resin deposits, keep your chimney pipe clean and avoid a dangerous chimney fire.
I've burned a lot of pine, the trick is to keep the fire burning fast and hot. Hardwood is the best for night-burning because it won't burn as fast or create as much soot when the damper is closed. Love the smell of a woodstove!
I remember the wood burning stove my family had in our house when I was a child. My dad fitted two pipes for the exhaust, and mounted a blower fan to blow air back down between the too pipes that blew the heated air into the house. Fan motors don't use that much electricity so it worked well to heat the large house... off of a little cast iron wood stove. As long as we kept the fire stoked, it produced heat very well. We would get our wood from fallen and dead trees at Dad's cousin's property. It was about 1200 acres of wooded lands, usually leased out for cattle grazing. But, then, over the year, before burning the wood we collected, it would dry out. Most of the wood was dead oak.
ITS NICE TO SEE A COUPLE WORK TOGETHER AS ONE AS SHOULD BE WORKING TOGETHER IS THE KEY LEARNING TOGETHER BUILDS GREAT BONDS TO EACH OTHER, PATIENT AND UNDERSTANDING FOCUS TOGETHER SHARING YOUR ALLS TOGETHER REALLY MATERS PLEASE CONTINUE TOGETHER THANK YOU FOR BEING GREAT MENTORS TO ALL OF US OUT HERE
I wouldn't leave the splitting for later, you'll want that wood to dry out long before you need it. If you don't season it now, it won't want to burn well and you'll creosote your chimney up. And whatever you do, don't stack it directly on the ground or you'll turn it into termite food.
I grew up in Montana, and miss the nature of working hard for yourself, with the ability to feed and warm yourself off the land and your own energy. I could never live off grid today, so I will live vicariously through you 2.
sweet people showing ALL nice ideas,,,GREAT IDEA FOR WONDERFUL PEOPLE-----CONGRATS TO YOU KEEP YOUR SHARING SPIRIT, THIS IS HOW WE BUILD SOCIETIES WITH LOVE FOR OTHERS.
Jake, can you say hydraulic log splitter? Haha, my back was aching just watching you lifting those log rounds, and then splitting them with your axe. Just a thought! Lol!
Hi Jake been following you for a year or so now. Much the same as you been a martial artist for the last 30 years. I’m very jealous of your life style an your partner. Your a very lucky man. I wish you well in all you do.
Yes, it would be so awful if you got hurt. Especially living out in the wilderness. I know my dad would have yelled at me to STOP and change my shoes if I were chopping in those sandals. One time I was REALLY glad I did!! Anyway, I love the videos and I'm constantly inspired by you two. Keep up the great content!!
"Primed with sun energy" No. Split your wood into pieces suitable for your stove then stack them undercover in such a way the air can flow through and dry the wood. Always burn the wood that has been drying for the longest time, preferably a whole season or more. The less moisture in the wood the more heat energy will be imparted to your stove because it is not having to vaporise the water in the wood.
I have a feeling jake you are gunna hurt yourself swinging that axe!!! them pieces you split didnt need that much effort please remember to work smart not hard your body will thank you for it when your my age i have split wood for most of my life please be careful
I thought the same thing..This guy is going to end up hurting himself & then they will be in a pickle. Lifting those chunks of wood like that,..whoa..no good man. Very nice stove tho.
Just one more... I have always followed Jake and currently subscribe to both channels. I prefer to watch Jake's videos. Do you benefit if I watch and like and comment on both? I would be glad to support in that way if it is preferred. 😎
You two beautiful people are doing an amazing job of creating an incredible life in a perfectly sustainable way! I'm very envious of you both. As someone who has been mostly vegan for 35 years, I love all your videos!! This is the dream life most people can't even comprehend. You're an inspiration for millions!!! 🥰😍🤩
!!**IMPORTANT JAKE** NEED A WAY TO CLEAN OUT THE BUILD UP IN THE PIPE. .. A way to open the elbow or open the outside part if the pipe to insert a chimney clean out Brush. (like the old school chimney sweepers use) please Google some ideas that will be best for you. This pipe design doesn't look like it has an way to clean the pipe out??? Cool video. Many blessings to you and Nicole.
Colleen Lassie the piece installed directly outside of the yurt (the first piece) has 3 openings. One going inside to the stove chimney, one going up the chimney on the outside, and one going down that you open to clean the chimney. If you look at the video starting at 30:18 (or so) you can see that the platform he installed outside to hold it has a large hole in it and the piece he installed has the 3 opening. Just thought I would point it out so that you don’t worry.
If you burn an Alum. soda or beer can every so often, it will clean out the creosote buildup. I do this every time I start a fire during the cold months here in my Jotul wood stove. It really works. I also save all aluminum foil, pie pans, food containers too. They do just as well as a can. Try it. You will see that it really works. Especially when burning pine like you have just salvaged.
I can see there is a lot of pine on your property, make sure not to burn any of it in your word stove. It will coat the interior of the chimney with a flammable residue and will be a fire hazard. Make sure to use hard woods. They're safer and provide a hotter fire with less fuel. #chocolatethunder
Dry softwoods are good for kindling, though. I prefer red cedar, which is common in my area, and old growth Douglas fir is pretty good for kindling too, but avoid hemlock. Pine, once dry is my favorite for lighting fires, though not common where I live. Once well dried, it splits easily and the oils and sap in pine helps get the hardwoods I use in my wood stove, ( primarily alder and Big Leaf maple, and even birch ) going in our typical wet weather. I use hardwood, to avoid burning softwoods as my main firewood, due to creosote build up in the stovepipe, which if left uncleaned for lengthy periods, can cause stack fires -something to avoid, particularly in a hurt which is off grid. No handy fire department when you are in the outback.
Jake Reed complete rubbish about not burning softwoods. You burn what grows locally. How do you think people have heated their homes for centuries in northern climates where only coniferous trees thrive? As long as whatever you burn is properly seasoned and your stove maintained you shouldn't have an issue. Slumbering a stove for hours, on hard or softwood is never a good idea though and will lead to creosote forming. A modern stove should have secondary burn and get more than hot enough if operated properly to burn any creosote before it settles on the flue. I would watch that horizontal flue carefully though, it wouldn't be permitted here under building regulations as soot and ash can settle in it more easily than a vertical or angled pipe.
Love & Grace & Peace to you in your new yurt home! Labor and Unity have been displayed in the dance you engaged in to put it all together! A piece of Art!
When we had a wood burner, I found it better to leave the wood outside to get saturated and then bring it in to dry for a week or two before burning it or the sun drives the sap out and it seals the wood like a varnish and seals moisture in.
@@matthewtanner9823 You also dont want super dry wood, since that stuff will instantly burn up and generate no heat. So you would need 2 if not 3x the amount of super dry wood compared to non "sun primed"(lmfao) wood.
@@Ormathon how is possible that superdry food generate no heat? It is vise versa actually. The wetter the wood -> the more energy goes to evaporate water.
You don't even know what a yurt is, do you pmoore4321. I lived in one with my friends years ago. First of all, it is NOT a TENT!! It is self sufficient. Did you watch Part 1 where Josh and Nicole built it? A daunting task and not for the faint of heart. it was very hard work to say the least and they documented it wonderfully. They are warm and one does NOT have to depend on plugging in an appliance in the wall to generate electric. They live off of the land, plant gardens, and don't have drive to town for food, if they don't want. The firewood is free, plants on their 8 acres are free, and they do not have to have noisy neighbors nor traffic. You can live in a yurt for the rest of your life, just like a house. Everything one needs is inside. You move any furniture, etc into it. It took great patience and fortitude to build this and stock it and I think these two awesome people have given us a wonderful look into their lives and knowledge. Lastly, "hipsters" would not be the word I would choose to describe them! They are people who made their dream come true with the patience of a saint!
I totally enjoy your videos.....both of you are doing a great job working together, You've made such a beautiful Home~Yurt.....Jake, marry that woman.....!!
félicitation a vous deux , vous etes vraiment des champions . Faire ça ( construire un YOURT ) rien que vous deux , je vous dit GRAND BRAVO A VOUS DEUX .
Your amazing both of you guys I've watched over a dozen of your videos Over 20 years ago I wanted to build a hurt but a little acre of woods and live off the grid..... Alas life doesn't always play out liked we'd wished But I have a new dream of living in a van or a schoolie off the grid -enjoying the forest and the beauties mother nature has show me - far away from the hustle the bustle and smells of the town I live in - my whole life I longed for a simpler life. You guys work so darn hard yet you seem to enjoy it so much..... Being a poor Gramma - I have great hopes to follow my dream in a about 3 years..... You both have inspired me along with Bob from born to wander van life and aemon and Bec from Toronto their life in a sprinter. Rambling on here just to tell you both I have luved you both from the 1st video of yours. You are true artists in the wild.....I am an artist as well nature and trees my favorite things except for granbbs. Luv and blessings to u both !! Thank you thank you Connie north tonawanda, n y, usa Conniegarverart@gmail.com 💜🎨🖌️🚼🔆🌲🐦🌲🐦🌲☮️
Great video.. You are over powering your axe. It looks cool on video but if your going to do it all day you will need to learn to let the axe and momentum work for you. good luck
the thing is, you guys lived your dream and did it........that's all that matters....i got one such hut with 3 big windows on all sides built by my dad at my farmhouse...deserted for now after my dad passed away and we rented the lands to other farmers but i shall go there one day like my childhood to cultivate those lands and to live in that beautiful hut again
