Inside Colorado Homestead Tour! 1895 

I grew up in a house with a wood furnace; that furnace got used by my family as the primary (only) source of heat in the house at least until the year 2000. I sawed and gathered wood from my childhood until I was well into my 30's. I think it is still the best heat.

My two kids were born in my off grid cabin. We had a wood cook stove and propane refrigerator. We also had a screened in outdoor kitchen with a smaller wood stove. We grew our own food, and we had a root cellar. Wick lanterns and candles. We used an outhouse. We hauled our water. My kids had one hour of TV. We plugged into the truck (battery). We used a wheat grinder for baking bread. I was 30 yrs old. I am 72 now. We loved off grid living for years. We live in Montana❤

The refrigerator reminded me of the first refrigerator I remember as a child. The freezer section was the same. 2 ice cube trays and a box of ice cream. Great video!

My wife and I cook on a wood stove like that all the time ours is wood only and it was made in the 20s and works great. She has gotten very good at baking bread in it. We live in the woods of north Idaho, so getting fuel is very easy.

My wife and I canned in 2023, just over 900 jars, a new record for us as in 2022 we canned just over 750 jars. To do this we dedicated every Saturday and Sunday, all day for three plus months. But we have no shortage of wonderful food to eat year round.

Thanks, we all need to be reminded where we come from. My Grandma and Grandpa died 26 & 27 yrs ago both at 99 and it was amazing when l was a kid to go to their farm in Ontario Canada. My Grandma was still cooking on her wood stove with a sink pretty similar to her outdoor kitchens sink. They still had a hand pump for water into the sink, great memories. Keep the videos coming, love your content.

When I was a kid in the 50's we still used a wood/coal stove in the kitchen...on the farm

Thanks for the homestead tour. Your content is so important to teach so many.

Too Cool 😊 Outstanding, Thank you, Sir👍

Thanks good video. I’m 75 and heating with wood. Cooking on wood and a separate gas range.

I remember when my mom had a cabinet like that. I have the tool to put tops on cans.

I saw several items in that collection that I grew up with. Being a Ol Ranch kid myself, we butchered and canned a lot of food. Thanks for Sharing. 😊

Loved seeing this! Thanks! I live just a bit north of their ranch and recognized the terrain before I found out where they're actually located.

There place is like a walking museum, fun to see.

Come see our place some time . homesteaded 1893 sill in the same family south of Great Falls Mt.

Our G,G Grandparents started our farm in 1863 Minnesota when he got out of the Civil War, we still own the land , have a cow / calf operation, selling our own beef, it's supporting seven families. And we can't keep up with the demand for more.

I just love this channel.👍👍👍👍👍

Great episode!

Living off the grid is hard. To those who romanticize it, it can be fun until you have to do the laundry. I remember my mom's fingers bleeding from scrubbing the cloths on a washboard and accidentally hitting it. And she had a fancy glass washboard in stead of a metal one. I still have it.

Pretty neat. The shoes were round stock then it is flattened and then turned for size. Thanks what a wonderful place

Thank You for Sharing !! H.

wow! it is a wonder anyone survived back then. good video

Remember some of us in the east we're homesteading. My Relation were puritans who started there home in 1663 in Massachusetts .

Amazing place and awesome people.

Love it

Love your videos, pure Americana ♥️

I officially realize I may be old after watching this clip I have a refrigerator my parents bought as a 20 year old in 1956. It still works as a beer cooler and ice cube maker. I also have the same lantern you talk about made by Deitz. Many of the ranches I grew up on or worked for were right out of the 1800's in Idaho, Montana, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington. Some of my family Immigrated from Scotland and Homesteaded near Deer Trail, Colorado. The running iron wasn't always welcome in some ranch areas.

I love your life style but my family doesn’t do anything like this I’m very big on it though and I really wanna start this kind of thing could you make a video on how to get into ranching? Also great video loved it.

Awesome looking at some older parts and fridge from years gone by. Thank you for the videos ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

A trip back in time helps us to remember how easy we have it today. I’m not sure the younger generation really understands how it really was. Thank again Trinity for an informative video.👍

I remember visiting my grandparents farm when I was a kid. They had an outhouse and. You would bring a stick with you to run the stick inside the hole to get the spider web out. I was always worried that a spider would try to crawl on me when I was sitting there. They had a few ice houses that were underground and the only thing above ground was the peaked roof. There was a ramp that went down to the door. No matter how hot or cold it was outside it was a nice temperature inside. They stored canned food and meat in there. They were mostly dairy but they did stable a few horses. Most of their fields were for hay and feed production.

Thank you for this fun video

i love rural colorado. we are moving to just outside Fort Garland

My wood stove is the best stove ever. I grew up cooking on it.

Wildlife management, land management, farms, ranches, property improvement..... it's all a net benefit to the ecosystem as a whole. It's a shame this contemporary lie that nature (land, animals, water, etc) be left untouched, left to itself, and man be crammed into urban centers, is somehow better for man and for the earth.

Thankyou for this . Really enjoyed it . I have a question , what is the situation in the USA with TB and cattle ?? Been watching the situation in the UK witch is not good . Thankyou really enjoy your informative contente .

Did Katie say "I like that hat" ?

My parents were marred in 1928 and they heated with wood a heater in the living room and a wood cook stove in the kitchen,she used this untill she got a new propane stove,she never got used to cooking with the propane stove, she passed away 3years later of cancer,in1968.

Many Brands were applied by nothing but twisted wire or a cinch ring.

That is interesting, because I have been trying to locate my grandfather's ranch in Kiowa county near the Big Sandy and Eads, CO. Using the National Census I know he was there in 1910. Could you possibly help?

I lived off the grid for awhile and it’s a lot of work. I couldn’t do it now because I’m disabled in a power wheelchair.

The ads on YT are nuts

We had a gas refrigerator when I was a kid. Im getting old.

We have a woodstove in a modern house and it is not hard work at all. On the contrary, it is a very versatile piece of equipment and beats our modern gas and induction stoves in many ways. If you like castiron cooking ware a woodstove is great help. It also gives us security against all the shit our big eastern neighbour country may cause us in Finland.

My aunt and uncle live up the Dolores river and there house was fairly old and had a sink like that on the front of the house when you came in and my aunt cooked and heated the house with a old fashioned cast iron stove they didn’t have a tv and they lived like the old timers for the most part the stove was hooked up to a hot water heater that went beside the stove they did have electricity and I remember when you would come in the house it smelled like moth balls memories

Nice

Tray is for the ashes