We're NOT Freezing This Winter!

PPO3 is supported by Timber King Sawmills. For more information on my 1220 CRZ mill or one of many fully hydraulic options, go to TimberKing.com. I got a lot of this oak already split up and cutting these into shorter rounds was a good call. Of course when it's nice straight grain stuff it splits easy, obviously, but there are so many of these knots and big chunks in here that are just brutal to split so this big chunk when it dries out that one's going in the fire just the way it is see all these knots right so those are challenging and fun we'll say this one's got a bunch of knots going through the side and curly grain and ah here's what it is it all burns the same it doesn't matter if it's two smaller chunks or one longer chunk it all burns the same and it all goes into our driveway for some reason i don't know why all of this firewood ends up littered in our driveway i have no idea why did you put that there did you put that there for me to run over in the car did you put that there for me to run over in the car did you oh it must have been your brother wasn't you Nolly did you put that one there okay maybe it was Nolly well you're picking up after yourself that way oh gosh i don't get onto them for doing that they're just dogs being dogs and it's okay i love my dogs uh so much has happened have you noticed the videos have slowed down that's because we uh all kinds of all kinds of fun stuff happened uh we took a break for six days to go to michigan for a weekend wedding and that turned out to be a lot of uh a lot of help and a lot of work getting helping with the wedding my brother got married congrats to my brother but that was such a fun trip such an absolute fun trip i completely shut off the business mentally it was so needed but as soon as we got back it was just not really a rush but it was it was fast pace just just get back in the flow of things and start checking some boxes i didn't record hardly any of it and i didn't record any of this i got the heater installed uh i think i still want to put one more support bracket right there to the shop uh but this bracket right here the instructions said it's rated to support 30 feet of vertical class a chimney above it and that's only eight feet right there so two six uh two three foot sections and a two foot section and those brackets up there at the top uh those are actually the top brackets there that come on IBC totes so i took those off and piled them up in the corner for use in a later day and very useful for that that's why i don't have to buy something and you get up there and you can see that they're kind of ugly and twisted and whatnot but from the ground you can't tell the difference and uh who cares anyway the stove comes out right here uh right inside the door is the heater i got it installed uh up to the wall thimble just like so and i have it on some blocks not to protect the ground but just to make it a little bit easier uh to load so you don't have to bend all the way to the ground for heat shield i just have a piece of concrete backer board like tiling and it's on a wooden frame and it's literally just sitting there it's not touching the back of the blower motor it's not touching the wall it's not secured to anything it's literally just sitting there and that's fine i already had a small fire in here just to kind of test the blower motor see if the thermostat's working and all that everything's good everything's good to go i've got the pipe all screwed together up here just to make sure nothing's going to come apart all good to go and because that chimney pipe outside it drafts really really well uh i don't i think i did show this on one of the videos it's made from a company out of Parsons Tennessee called Toxic Fabrication and i know that's their branding and all that good stuff but part of me wants to just cut this off anyway um it's just tack weld in the three spots i may or may not cut that off anyway uh they they include a small plate for us to put whatever we want on it and i thought why not put BPO3 we've got of course the fire door put a little fire in there just to test it like i said air intake on this side which is just on a little swivel as well as a bigger air intake over there as well as the original air intake on the door right there so this hopefully should last us forever in this shop hopefully it should i don't see why i wouldn't and it's thermostat controlled the blower motor on top kicks on i believe it's set to 110 degrees and yeah you can adjust the temperature back there but it's set to 110 degrees to turn on and then it shuts off at 90 degrees this blower motor is not that loud at all it's really quiet much quieter than my air cleaner cart but i just have it rigged up here with an extension cord to test this out so uh soon i need to run electricity over here and i think what i'm going to do is uh the shop it doesn't the apartment doesn't matter if we come on this side of the apartment or that side of the apartment the electricity run is still the same because that's you know it's a rectangle so well back up my initial plan was to go over this i-beam to my sub panel right there uh but that doesn't offer me any benefit if I do that it's a little bit shorter of a run but it doesn't offer me any benefit if I come from this panel I can piggyback off that beam come across here right at the eight foot mark right so there's eight foot OSB on the wall and you can clearly see the eight foot line right there come off a little bit higher than that and that'll allow me to drop down right here and put some electricity on this wall when we built the apartment some people were giving me some flack about not putting outlets on their wall because I'm going to need outlets on the wall and my method to the madness there was i don't know where i want them at that point well now i do and i can put them exactly where i want to put them uh and running them on the outside doesn't matter because if i stay say an inch or two above that eight foot line then i put my eight foot vertical boards on the bottom uh then i can have the electricity right above the top and then from the top or from the electricity line up we're going to do horizontal boards just to make it look a little different and then that'll kind of leave me a little trough i guess you could say with electricity line and then I can cap that with a trim piece very similar to the way I have that horizontal chair rail on the other shop walls. So I think it's going to look pretty cool. It'll allow me to cover up the OSB. It'll allow me to hide wires through there and it'll allow me to drop down wires so I don't have to deal with this extension cord that I've been draping over the top of here back to there. It works but I don't want to live like that forever so there's that uh so firewood is on the brain firewood is what we need to focus on right now that i didn't interrupt anything did i you guys you can continue chewing on each other i love you hey manners Grace do you have manners good girl Nollie manners manners Nollie good boy i love you i love you too but you're so jealous of each other this video is supported by Brunt these are the Costello tech line of pants from Brunt these are the Marin boots from Brunt both of which i give two huge thumbs up to the the pants are stretchy where they need to be stretchy they're durable they've got uh rip stop technology so that means the material is woven in two different directions so if you do get a rip it's not going to spread like blue jeans if you get a little rip in blue jeans well next time you wear them they're a little bit bigger and a little bit bigger and then eventually you got a big problem on your hands as far as work pants uh the boots are the Marin boots from Brunt they're super comfortable these are what i call out of sight out of mind boots if you're thinking about your boots you're thinking about your feet throughout the day odds are you're not really comfortable right with these boots i don't think about my feet or the boots at all until i'm ready to take them off at the end of the day they're really really comfortable uh they've been my daily drivers since i got them basically and you can get in a different height. 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I have four of these IBC baskets and all this is hickory that was cut a few years ago so this is well seasoned ready to use. I'm gonna consolidate these. I'll get a free empty basket or free up one of the empty baskets. I've got one set in here already and I think I'm actually going to probably pull this back out and get that smaller one stacked on top. That's a lot of pretty big hickory and I've got a lot of wood. I don't I think I have have enough dry stuff for this winter if not i'll do like primarily dry stuff and mix in some green stuff here or there uh just to kind of ration the dry stuff that that totally depends on how bad our winter is last year we had a really bad winter with the ice storm and they're calling for another really bad winter this year so uh time will tell but at least we'll have heat uh not freeze our butts off here regardless of if there's power or the power goes out yes there a fan that uh that can distribute that heat but it doesn't need to be ran just for extra heat for all the stuff that i'm continuously splitting i'm trying to split more every day than what we think what i think we will use in a day and it's just a thought process i don't i don't have any experience here in the shop cutting i'm sorry using firewood for heat although i do have three years of experience uh cutting firewood and using it for heat the last three years i lived with my mom before getting out on my own so it's not completely new to me it's just been a minute you know what i'm saying uh so for all this stuff uh we have two options we i want to lay down a whole bed of pallets and then just load up all the stuff in the tractor bucket or all these splits in the tractor bucket and then just dump it on top the pallets the pallets will keep it off the ground and keep airflow running through it uh jamie doesn't want to do that she wants it to look nicer and she wants to we she wants us to stack each one of these pallets so guess who won that one i guess we pick our battles right so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna stack each one of these pallets best we can at the very least it's actually probably the better idea you hear that that's probably the better idea of course i'm glad i came up with it anyway i think it's probably the better idea that way we can move the pallets around a lot easier than reloading into a tractor bucket and then getting it closer to the wood stove so i think that works out quite well we're basically making an a-frame so that whatever's on top is holding out the bottom i think the plan for all these pallets because we didn't we didn't uh put that big of a dent in here that is as as big of a dent as i thought i think we're going to start on the far end of the garden on the north side because that's where it gets sun all the time all year round we'll put them on that side of the fence from that side working our way this way that way they're out of the way but they're neatly organized and you'll have full breeze blowing through the stack of course all this that i'm chopping up is all green so that means that this is not this year's stash this is for next year i think all the bigger chunks that have knots uh just too big to split even at shorter height they're just they're just too crazy to split with a maul or an axe or just not worth effort i think for those i'll pile up in the outdoor firewood pile and once you get a good hot coal bed going you can set one of those or two of those on there and let her rip tater chip you know what i'm saying uh but jamie's been a big help stacking all this stuff i think these three logs that i cut up for the last video are going to end up being four pallets of split wood although it's not super high stacked on the pallet the rest of it like i said outdoor firewood but pretty good yield and also this isn't the best like I said splitting stuff because all the knots in it I've got a pile of red oak a stack of red oak logs that have been sitting for over a year now the logs have and we anchor sealed the ends for the sawmill but I cut a bunch of them up for a friend of ours a relative of ours and there's just checking all the way through the logs so I think those nice straight grain logs which aren't that big anyway when it comes to the sawmill right the bigger logs is where the majority of the good quality lumber is and the smaller logs people say a small log is typically a post log a big log is typically a lumber log well the majority of those red oak logs on my sawmill red oak log stack are really nice straight grain logs so i think that'll be a good firewood and red oak isn't the best material for um for furniture around here no one is interested in red oak i'd rather use hickory or something else anyway so i think that's where i'm going to start pulling from uh for good quality splits and whatnot oh speaking of firewood like i said previously we listed all this this firewood we're getting from the tree service companies for free on facebook marketplace it gives the tree service company a place to dump it rather than paying for the landfill i'd hate to see all this wood go to the landfill anyway and uh keeps keeps them on our good side you know what i'm saying yeah you can dump some firewood here and we could also dump all over your wood chips here right they've been helping us out tremendously with wood chips i've got some kid coming later today to get a bunch of this firewood he's going to bring his chainsaw i said he's going to start a trying to start a firewood business and kudos that's that's awesome that is that's music to my ears the young kids starting a business sweat equity i'm all for it and it saves all this stuff from going from the landfill so we're helping people out we're helping ourselves out and uh burning some calories and feeling good i am going to sleep really good tonight today has been a pretty physical day i've been on and off splitting and stacking and splitting and stacking throughout the day and then uh around lunchtime today uh Tyler K cashed in a promise i promised her today that i would jump with her on the trampoline quite a bit and uh as a father i know it's extremely important it is to me anyway to not make promises that i can't keep and then also deliver on those promises kids really look up to us and uh don't break promises right so i promised her i'd jump on the trampoline and by golly i jumped on the trampoline with her quite a bit and also split a bunch of stuff and stack today and yeah i'm gonna sleep good tonight uh but i would like to get these three pallets moved over to their destination where they will dry for the next I don't know year maybe I could use them at the later part of this winter it's October now when I'm when I split these and say February or March if it's still cold I might dig into this stash maybe maybe not but I got to get to moving because I'm losing daylight that makes me feel a little bit better got these stacked out of the way and they're somewhat uniform and as we continue to do firewood we've got plenty enough space for pallets and if we get to a point where we have more than we'll need which is going to happen then we can start selling by the pallet or something i don't know but anyway calories burned and boy do i feel good something else that makes me feel good oh i forgot to shut that camera off something else that makes me feel good is the watermelons over here remember we did these planting uh we planted these watermelons pretty late in the season and according to the Googles it wasn't too late for where we live we haven't had a frost yet it's the middle of October and we still have plenty of time before we get our frost we didn't have like massive success but literally we just walked and spit seeds and all of the seeds came from one watermelon well we got one big one right there a medium one right there one that's getting a little bit big one that's getting a little bit big uh and some other ones i think there might be some over there Jamie counted six out here earlier that earlier today yeah there's some other weeds and some other stuff going on in there but hey we've got some watermelons growing that's pretty cool especially for just walking and spitting seeds that is it for me for tonight it is getting darker earlier and earlier as winter approaches and uh you know what i tell you what it's been just a huge sigh of relief and excitement to get this wood burning stove in the shop completely finished and buttoned up before winter hits before we actually need it and knowing that when the time comes for us to need it it'll be there and we're not going to freeze our tushies off this year so that's good i'll catch you on the next video i am so bad about not putting the three points down when i'm done with the tractor for today did it for once i did it