All I look at is that same view but a different mountain. That is MT Saint Helen's that he looks at. I on the other hand live 150mi north and I get a good view of mount Baker with magnificent sunrises over the mountain!!!!!
Hi Cody, I've been a subscriber for a while and I just wanted to say that I really appreciate how respectful you always are. I love your manly mannners and think that so many great lessons are embedded in that book. I've also seen a lot of youtubers get super outraged and adversarial with the demonetization policies and I just think it's great that you find a way to respectfully disagree with it all. Too many people today jump to instant outrage, you've seem to have both a disagreement and understanding with the policies, as silly as they may be, and I think that quality is so important to meaningful discourse. Keep up the great work and I hope you and your family continue to thrive.
Thanks again Wranglestar for displaying ideas for improving kindling splitting. I went out to my garage and welded up a good splitter out of 1 inch square tubing that I had a lot of with 9" square bases and top square ring. Uprights were made out of two pieces of tubing for additional strength in the middle of the two pieces for welding the cross knife to. Used middle of a quarter inch thick lawn mower blade with a solid steel round bar about 5/8 dia at the bottom edge of the knife blade to increase splitting.
Hopefully someday there will be viable alternative to RU-vid. The more I learn about their ideology the more guilty I feel for supporting their business by watching videos.
JP Hickory And how do you know anything about them, seriously, havn't you considered all of the shootings that have happened in the last couple munths? Or what about all of the hate and divisiveness that Trump is spreading around this country and the world, pinning democrats and republicans against each other makeing us hate on one another to the point that there is no communication and instead we use the Internet to rip each other apart, even though what I'm talking about May have nothing to do with it it's worth considering.
I'll answer that for them. Trump hasnt devided anything that is a person's heart as well as killing people with guns. It's the person's evil heart and mind that causes them to do these things. Just live the best life you can and try not to get caught up in all that mess
Emilie, you are blaming Trump? Are you a total idiot? Yeah, just look at your spelling...YOU are the problem, not guns, not Trump, not Republicans...or Democrats. It is YOU and people like YOU.
Thanks Cody! We are relatively new to heating with wood, and most of what we have on our new property is Douglas & Grand Fir. We have a LOT of standing dead & cleaning up to do, so we will be burning a lot of fir. Good to know that's primarily what you use and that it works fine for you, regardless of what some people say! :)
Great stuff. I also gather the debris under the log splitter. With 10 acres of trees, branches and tree tops are alway falling. Letting nature have a year, and dried and ready to stack in the kindling rack or buckets. Bark, especially birch bark, burns hot and last long enough to ignite the kindling with ease. I have a long table, and I put an old chop saw on it. I lay a long branch on the table and feed it to the chop saw cutting it in 1foot lengths. Thicker pieces of two inches or more I split after it is cut. Cedar is the best, splits easy, burns hot, and starts the other pieces of wood. The importance of kindling is a huge necessity for those who heat with wood.
Oh god this reminded me of the time I had a chimney fire years ago... I had no idea what to do so I ran outside and blasted it with my water hose lol. I just tried to arch the stream to make it fall into the chimney, but thank god it worked!
Nice anecdotes about that lifestyle. But other than a mention of grain and wood type, little or nothing for a city boy like me trying to learn how to chop wood. Well, except for the section at 9:06 showing you how to maximize the chances of chopping your fingers off. That’s always useful.
Happy wife happy life. I find it relaxing to see a wife happy with her husband, even if i am not at all connected to the situation. - can anyone else relate?
I signed up as a Wranglerstar Member earlier today, as soon as it was available. Found this channel in January 2016, and is the reason than I created a RU-vid account to be able to subscribe, like and comment. I rarely miss a video, and have watched many older videos as well.
Happy to have become a member!!: I thought about it and since I have moved to Maine I have learned a lot from your channel it's only right I pay it back!!
Thank you Cody and fam! I subscribed to your channel years ago after searching for hiking boots. I found you showing off some of your wildland fire gear. Not only did I buy a set of whites, I also became a wildland firefighter. I am now a crew boss up in BC. Your devotion to your subscribers is amazing, so I've become a member. Looking forward to seeing some private "non monetized videos" of you shooting soon!
Those little buggers they're quite amazing hearing them squeal and laugh in the morning is the best. They're laughs are the best and just perfect start to a beautiful day.
Hi, I am from India and I do not know much about life over there, so few questions out of curiosity. 1. Do you stack all that firewood piles by yourself alone? 2.How much do you have to spend on firewood for a single year ?
I can prob help , I see he didn't reply to you , many cut and stack our own wood, and he and his son stack his poles yes, like me he owns a farm so cuts his own firewood , as do I in Canada, I'm 60 and we still do most our own wood for winter, to buy Harwood in Canada is $ 180 to 200 per cord, like Maple , Oak , Ash , we also have pine, lodgepole , ponderosa, apple , birch , lots of variety , most people here use a mix of woods , depending the cold, and what's available locally, do you cut and use woodstoves in the winter in India, what type of woods do you use ?
@@daleval2182 Thanks for the the detailed reply and your time ☺️. In our state the ,except from some hilly regions , temperature varies between 32 and 22, so almost all of us does not use firewood. At a few regions temperature drops to 5 degree celciois for few hours during the winter season but fire place is not part of house design there. Other states in India have freezing temperatures during winter. I am not sure what kind of fire logs they use. Since forest rules are not very strict in India when comes to the case of harvestation by local people, I believe people at those places collect all kind of logs from the forest.
I'm glad to support the channel. I have always liked your videos but have been frustrated that RU-vid was refusing to monitize 'contoversial' content. Your training with Clint Smith @Thunder Ranch is always very interesting to me as is your shooting on your property. Especially impressive is Mrs W's interest and skills as a shooter. What a partner! You are the closest thing I have as a pastor these days and I welcome your thoughtful discussions on Christian values and Bible stories. It may be presumptive of me but I consider you, Mrs W, Jack, Sweetloaf, Ginger aka Heartracer, and Ms Pants aka Lucy as family.
We had pinion pine in our area, but mostly shaggy bark juniper, but we would burn some pinion on occasion for the heat and smell, then burn something hot after, like juniper or oak or cedar and it would burn off the soot from the pitchy wood ,or so I was taught
I joined up Wranglerstar !!!! That was some really good news being able to JOIN up and contribute somehow to y'all for all the hard work you do each week to get these great videos up on yt. thanks for all you do & looking forward to the videos as always Cody.
Josh P I am a Wisconsin native stationed in San Antonio- I can believe the temperature difference. When I first came to Tx it was 15 degrees leaving Wi and 87 arriving in Tx. I only owned 2 pair of pants that weren’t insulated. It is just a completely different world
I love these videos where you show something practical like cutting kindling or making coffee then sit down and tell a couple stories. Wholesome, soul filling content!
Thanks for this video. You said to "remind me sometime on how to put out a chimney fire really quick" (6:44), were you able make that video yet? I ask because I see a bunch of creosote building up, I think from this last batch of wood we were sold, which is between 16% and as high as 30% and think it is from the wet wood.
Awesome! I went back, just this weekend, and watched the video series of you building the NANA kindling box. I also recently watched 'the good Samaritan' where Jack takes kindling on his little quad to a neighbor. Good memories... Love it!
I call my Mother in Law Nana as well, my French uncle Charles who I was named after had a good system for starting fires which I have adopted. While cleaning up around his property he would take a paper grocery bag and end up filling it with twigs. He would keep one or two indoors and a bunch in the woodshed, I heat with wood as well and live on an island on the Atlantic coast where the temperature fluctuates a lot in the shoulder seasons and also in Winter. It's very handy when I get up in the early morning or need a quick fire to put in a bag with a few small logs on top and touch it with the torch and away it goes, thanks, Chas.
You can do it too I've lived in the city my whole life the wife an I moved to northern New Hampshire got 4 acres of land got a wood stove, river. Can shoot an hunt on my land if needed too. Got a job that takes 5 mins to get to. Cost of living is low. Just take the risk an do it!
New member here. Long time viewer, rare commenter, and always inspired. Thank you for making the content you do. I’m happy to finally give back, however small a contribution it may be.
@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 lol you're dead on. My peach moonshine easily exceeds 100 proof and even my Applejack will start a fire. I think you can get a legal fuel distiller, but it's nicer if you can give half a jar to fire and drink the other half to warm yourself up 😄
I have resubscribed; I appreciate the more descriptive titles. Time is valuable and I like being able to tell what a video is about when I decide If I have time to watch or not.
Hello from Finland! Have you ever burnt birch? Do you get it around there? It's supposed to be one of the most efficient firewoods by weight and there's quite a lot of it here. The bark also naturally comes off during the drying process and makes for great kindling - zero effort.
Please wear leather gloves when working. The smallest slip could result in a pretty uncomfortable trip to the Emerg. If it’s snowing out like Jack the Bear, that might prove problematic.
Your over a million now, CONGRATS!!. I assume its pretty dang hard to get through to you, a message, but I want to say, I liked you in the beginning but drifted away. I drifted because you changed up your video logs from homesteading to some of the "other things under the sun". I kinda understand what youtube has done but, you solidified your channel, to me, when you were done making ""How To Cut Kindling Like A Pro"" and being the family-husband/father. CONGRATS ON THE DAUGHTER!!! best wishes and prayers to you and your family..
Lots of great stuff to comment on in this video, but the "cameo" appearance of the apple press is what got me. My whole family loved the whole series of the restoration (well, that was mostly me) and the first use of that grinder/press. Looking foward to seeing that cider drip and flow.
Really enjoy your content Mr Wranglerstar. You and your family seem like such a warm, kind and loving group of folks and I wish you all the best for your future endeavours. Much love and respect from England.
I love making kindling ... but I love it so much more since I learnt a new trick which is to place a big sharp axe facing up in a vice and hitting the logs down on to it using a mallet ... you can make the pieces just the thickness you want and they can be really neat and accurate. You should try it some time. I think you'd enjoy it!
yup and when they do, they will enforce their current statement about guns and religion again. by telling wranglerstar and other channels ''stop with your guns and religion or we will put your membership(income) down'' you really think youtube would let cody put guns and religion behind a decoder?? maybe for a year but after that when patreon dies out they will be re-enforce the ban.
@@redsampler2017 It's less about RU-vid and more about the advertisers. Due to the higher frequency of mass shootings, companies who associate with firearms have been getting a lot of heat. It's not just leftists, conservatives have been doing the same thing, digging through people's past looking for anything they can call employers and advertisers to be outraged about. Trying to get people fired and take away their livelihood, like it's a game. Pretty sad.
0:13 Beautiful mountain! What about climbing up and making a video about it? Starting at your home with a backpack with food, camping gear, climbing gear, etc. Hiking through the woods, camping on the mountain, and then returning back home... It would be great.
Cherry wood has the best smell when burning in my opinion. When you split it, it has a great smell. It splits and makes kindling like a dream. And it burns for a while too by far my favorite firewood.
The most lovely family on youtube! Love the videos Cody. They bring light to my life and give me peace and hope in the midst of all the darkness! God bless you and please stay safe🙏🏻
My parents house was heated with maple because those grow like weed in my aerea, especially in the gravel plant, our family business. In our backyard we had the biggest maple trees you probably have seen. The biggest one was more than 2,5 m in diameter. This tree allone made a warm home for a long time. The Kachelofen is burning all day. The chimney cleaner comes once a year, and he never had any complains.
I know it's his Job and I feel bad that RU-vid has restrictions on freedom of speech on this platform, because of a group of individuals who can't handle certain topics. We are then forced to pay up for the things we enjoy.
@@jamiephillips3315 very true. Plus different countries allow different things. Could you imagine seeing stoning in UAE or something like that. Bet it happens.
@wranglestar, is there much aspen in your area? It’s usually found in high altitude, or western forest areas. Also, it’s a softer hard wood that is known for cleaning creosote out of the chimney. It splits easily, and makes fantastic kindling.
What a coincidence, I’m watching this just getting back from an apple press party, they’re such fun, especially when your using a press 150+ years old!
I really like your statement about burning pine. I am fortunate enough to live (in the city limits) on a 10 farm and have a few tree services deliver logs, rounds and wood chips to me...and it is all free! I get some osage from time to time but it is mostly silver maple, some elm, cottonwood, locust, etc. Not too much oak. But hey it is free, well all except the labor, fuel and oil, plus it keeps me busy. Thanks for sharing another great video!
Clicked on it for the title, but the only cutting of fire wood is about half way through, and apparently "how to cut kindling like a pro" is to just 'chop'. If i had been interested in long-winded folksy dialog, i would have been satisfied with this video. You should try to stay true to the tile.
When I saw the title of this video, my first thought was Beaver Lever. Like you, the first tool I picked up was my old Garant hatchet to split some offcuts and top up my kindling box. After a few trips for stitches at the Navy hospital on a Sat/Sun., I always wear a decent leather glove to sacrifice; instead of me. Tons of other unexpected content also. Best wishes on your new venture.
Great video Cody, I too have the job of maintaining our firewood supply, at our home here in England. Keep up the good work, thank you for the videos, they're my morning watch before heading out to work or my evening watch once the jobs are all done.
I really enjoy your videos man. I'd really like to live on a homestead, unfortunately we don't really have em here over in Germany... Just wanted to say you're a great person and you have a great family.
If you think that wool blankets are warm, you should try a buffalo hide as a blanket. It's incredibly warm. And it's kind of temperature regulating, and the fur from the cows is very very soft.
From what I was told, those corrugated plastic mail boxes that the US mail offices have are so darn sturdy to hold a good amount of firewood in. They look just like your red box, and it's very light and sturdy. Works great...I am told...lol
