The Most Efficient Way To Heat With Firewood.

[Music] woo hey there welcome back to farmcraft I'm John this is my wood boiler and we're going to talk about heating a house with firewood now we've heated with wood my entire life I've been through heating with fireplaces with wood stoves with boilers pretty much you name it we've done it and we've always processed a lot of our firewood and of course now I process all of my firewood there's a lot of different ways to do it some efficient some less efficient and for me I think I've worked out the most efficient way to heat with wood that makes it sustainable for me it's not so much work so I'm going to show you the system that I use for processing and handling all of the firewood so that it does minimal work on me and on my back and then we're going to talk some more about my wood boiler uh and I also want to show you my uh the log splitter that I made in a recent video and kind of update you on that and we'll see that in Action a little bit more so let's get into it so there's three things at the heart of my system it's the boiler the tractor and these which I call wood pallets so my goal is to only touch the firewood twice once when I cut it I put it on this and then from this it goes into the boiler and that's it the more you have to handle firewood it just works you to death and every step is time and energy and it just becomes less and less of a return on investment if you're handling it over and over again so these really are key and of course having a strong tractor that's able to lift a lot is also very helpful one of these can hold uh about 2/3 of a cord this can lift most anything I put on here if I do nothing but Green Oak it's not going to be able to lift it if I fill it all the way to the top but it could lift it if I just kind of Stack it to here but if there's any popler or pine or cedar or any lighter species in there it'll lift it all the way full and and that's generally what I do if I have a bunch of these pallets and I will fill them up and leave them up here in my hay barn and then as my wood shed gets empty I can just grab one of these and bring it up there and most of the time one of these will heat my house like even in the middle of winter when it's pretty cold for a week and a half maybe two weeks it depends on the temperature obviously but it's up here it's under shelter staying nice and dry and uh ready to go in the boiler the only time I've ever touched this is when I processed it we'll look at the boiler later but that's where a lot of the efficiency comes from is I don't have to process this wood down to normal sized wood when I say normal what people are used to little logs like this that you can put in a fireplace I have big chunky logs basically I process it down to where I can lift it up and throw it in the boiler it'll burn anything let's go cut some firewood so here we are I had this pile sitting here forever and I'm going to finally get it into firewood fair amount of pine some Oak some hickory and probably a couple other things one consideration my personal opinion is unless you have ready access to free or very cheap firewood it's probably not going to financially be worth it for you to heat with wood I have an endless supply of free firewood on my farm so for me it's a no-brainer but if you don't have land call some of the local tree companies they're frequently looking for places to dump their wood when they're doing jobs they've got more wood than they know what to do with so you might be able to pick up free wood that way but if you're having to go out and buy wood by the cord I think you're going to end up spending every bit as much or probably more than you would just running a heat pump unfortunately now for me I usually try not to split my wood and I have the advantage you know I've got a sawmill right over there so anything that's big enough to make Lumber generally I'm sawing now some of this I started to saw you can see I took this slab off here but then rejected the log I probably found a bunch of bugs in it or something I'll probably need to do some splitting on that one cuz that's a bigger log but I prefer to use logs like this that aren't going to need anything but just cutting them up and then chucking them in the boiler splitting to me is just an additional step one to avoid if possible and yeah there's some those are hickory that I had actually squared off and then rejected because of too many bugs [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] so one of the huge advantages to doing this obviously is that I don't have to process these very much now these logs are kind of half rotted they're a lot lighter than they look they're still very heavy but they're light enough that I can manage them like that without splitting if that was fresh green Lumber I would be splitting those at least in half in my view this wood none of this wood would be suitable for fireplace wood cuz you have to take this stuff into your house and I mean this stuff is buggy there's like fungus in it it's all Punky on the outside I mean look at this stuff I would not want to take any of that into my house but I can throw it in the boiler it's no problem at all it doesn't matter if it's Pine you know a soft wood it doesn't matter and um if it's got bugs in it none of that matters you don't have to carry wood into your house you don't have to track all the the sawdust and stuff across the floor and you don't have to empty out Ash in the house either all those chores that I used to do I don't miss so that's a piece of black locust an amazingly rot resistant wood bugs do get in it often times when the tree is alive so that wood has been sitting on the ground for probably 10 years and it's still solid this is Hickory right here it's not rot resistant and it's probably been sitting there for five and it's totally eaten up yeah interesting now something to think about with wood is when you're heating with it it's it's really all about weight the species doesn't matter in that respect Pine per pound has about the same amount of heat in it as oak or hickory or you know even the heaviest woods now the size of the log changes so you know this giant log here that's not a piece of pine but it has as much heat as it has per pound as this really dense piece of wood and in fact they're probably about the same weight even though that's much much bigger so they're going to produce the same amount of heat in the boiler that does Translate to needing if you're burning soft light Woods like Pine you're going to need more of it because it takes more logs to make the same amount of weight as it would Oak and when you're loading it you have to load more logs to get the same amount of heat but uh but it is kind of interesting that even across species uh the BTUs or the jewels per kilogram whatever you want to say it's all weight based and it's all almost exactly the same so let's talk about the sponsor today's video vivor they said they wanted to send me a material handling magnet I said said sure send it on holy cow now that's a magnet it itself weighs 60 lb it can lift 1,000 kg 2,200 lb what this is for is Material Handling large sheets of Steel so this is one of those magnets that you just physically you turn it on and off what inside there are magnets that are rotating and right now the magnets are conflicting with each other canceling each other out so it's not magnetic when I rotate this handle they're going to rotate around the magnetic fields all align and it becomes a very very powerful magnet so this is my Forge Welding Table you're not getting that off of there let's do something heavier how about my Anvil so the Anvil itself weighs 87 kg and then I've got pieces of Steel I've got chain I've got a bunch of hammers that's a hickory stump which Hickory is very heavy I think this whole thing is somewhere in the range of 300 lb like 140 kilos so let's turn our magnet on and now obviously I can't lift that up you want me to stick my fingers under there yeah it's not going to happen pretty cool so this is definitely going to come in handy in the future when I'm dealing with sheet steel uh it's going to give me a way to pick them up and move them around uh without too much trouble I've even thought it might be cool to rig this with a hydraulic actuator so that I could use it on the excavator and turn it on and off from the cab but that's a very far future project anyway if you guys are interested this thing is very impressive and a really good deal for the price I will leave links in the description let's get back to some firewood oh yeah those are heavy so those are going to need to be split so an interesting way to think about firewood 25 lbs of firewood is about equal to 1 gallon of heating oil 25 lb is like 11 1/2 kilos which is about equal to it's a little over 30 Kow hours a gallon of heating oil right now would cost you like 4 bucks I think and 30 kwatt hours of electricity would cost me around about the same actually it's a heat pump is much more efficient cuz you're not actually turning the electricity into heat you are but you're also moving heat with it so you get a lot more than 30 kwatt hours of eat in other words when you put 30 kwatt hours of energy into your heat pump system you're going to heat your house a lot more than 30 kwatt hours worth of heat if that makes any sense I want to get this pallet done get the rest of this stuff cut up and then we're going to have some splitting to do all right that's about it I know what you're thinking can that thing actually lift that I think it will if it doesn't I might have to knock a couple of them off but not much I think it [Applause] will [Music] [Music] all right let's go get the log splitter so pretty much all of this I'm going to split there's a couple pieces I'm not one thing with these pallets the way I have them built I need like some longer pieces to go along the sides if I try to put shorter logs it ends up getting really unstable so I've saved some longer pieces here so as I'm stacking splitwood on the pallet I've got some stuff to kind of go up the sides with to keep it all in place [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now when I was first using this splitter I was uh I was worried about having to protect the cylinder because I was just kind of throwing wood all over the place and I kept accidentally jamming the cylinder into a log but I've learned that it's pretty easy and you don't really have to worry about it if you just work from the right to the left like I'm doing here so I just make sure that that area the cylinder is clear like it is right now and then I take the logs [Music] just using the left side of the splitter cuz that's all toughed you're not going to hurt anything over there and then bring the log over to a pile I have to have some Force under it so I don't lose my grip on it and now that one's small enough I can do that [Music] but basically I'm not planning on doing any additional work to this splitter because if I use it like this the hoses in the cylinder never get um are never in danger of anything another thing a bunch of people suggested is that I put a te on the split so that it splits more frequently I don't want to split more I I want to be able to just split in half now sometimes I guess that would be handy a big enough log splitting Force but uh if I split too much that just means more time loading into the boiler I want I want big heavy logs I want every time I'm throwing something in there for it to be a lot of heat that I'm throwing in and not doing a lot of back and forth with little tiny [Music] logs I don't want to throw k in the boiler I want to throw big hunks of free [Music] heat and one more thing I want to say about this splitter I'm really happy with it uh a bunch of people felt that um now I was burning a lot more fuel splitting my wood and that may be true but I don't think that's uh as apparent as people think yes now I'm running a 27 horsepower diesel engine which by the way that's all that's in this is 27 horsepower but it's a much bigger engine than the log splitter was which was I think a 9 horsepower gas but I am so much faster you know so if it's burning three times the fuel while it's running but I'm going five times as fast I would actually be burning less fuel so I'm just not sure that uh that my fuel usage has gone up uh I can tell you what though even if it has I don't care this is uh this is way better just the time savings alone would make the additional cost worth it but like I say I don't I'm not sure there is an additional cost I can't really test that cuz I don't have the old splitter and uh it's also variable depending on the laog how hard they are to [Music] split yeah there you go the wood is split that took no time at all compared to what I would have spent with that other log splitter it it would have been running much longer than this than this has to do the same job so just cuz the engine's bigger doesn't necessarily mean the fuel economy is worse so a bunch of people said that I should be splitting the logs over a dump trailer or something in most cases I think that would be legit but since I have these wood pallets there's really no point in doing that I can just stack them on the pallet from that point on the tractor moves them everywhere until I'm taking them off the pallet and throwing them in the boiler I guess my point is if I were to put it on a dump trailer I then go dump it somewhere well I've got to handle it again to stack it so this is my stacking now that's going to be close I don't know if it'll be able to lift that there's a lot of heavy wood on [Applause] there [Applause] [Applause] f well damn it it doesn't happen often but I actually saw there was a big knot in the beam right there and it broke so uh that pallet needs a new beam and I got to put all this wood onto a new pallet yay yeah you can see that knot went all the way through the beam I'm actually surprised this thing's worked for years but uh today's the day it's done so it's been a day and it was pretty cold last night and I don't think I I think the boilers uh burned down some cuz it's only at 140° in there yep burn it all but it's still pretty hot there's some coals in there I should be able to get it going again yeah that's going to go you know it got down probably into the lower 20s last night yeah and that happened because that was loaded mostly with pine if I had loaded it with Oak uh it would have been fine now I'm not going to fill it all the way up just in case it doesn't relight I'm 99% sure it will but uh if it doesn't it's nice to leave yourself a little room to start a fire on top so I'll check on it in a few hours and we'll make sure it's back at it so now that you've seen the wood pallets you might notice an issue here and that is that I don't have this on palets in this shed and there's a reason for that it's because I can get through the whole year with a much fewer pallets which do take up SP storage space in my other areas and this takes an additional handling uh because I have to stack it in here I have to lift this stuff up quite high and this isn't strictly necessary I could do this system all with pallets if I wanted to but for me I just kind of chisel away at filling this thing up as the year goes on like during the summer and when I feel like some exercise some sort of mindless grunt work put in an Audi book and and get to work I'll do something like this so this doesn't bother me doing this but this this does add an extra handling step uh but I can fit about five cords of wood in this shed whereas if I do the the pallets I can only fit two pallets and that gives me about you know a cord and a half maybe so it's a big difference when you can stack it you know all the way full front to back floor to ceiling uh so that's why I'm doing that so you might ask yourself why not just build a bigger wood shed so that you can fit all your wood right there by the boiler well I burn about 13 cords a year this wood shed can hold about five so it would be like two and a half of these it would be such a large shed that it would be unavoidable that I would be carrying the wood a very long distance to load it at some point it's actually very nice that when it does get empty I just put a pallet there and then I've got wood that's pretty close to the boiler door I still have to do quite a bit of back and forth but a larger wood shed would make this a lot worse and a lot less efficient so while we're talking about this I'll show you what not to do I used to have my boiler set up like this with the woodshed right in front of it I would load it from the back and it always kept the firewood really right beside the door made it very quick and easy to load longtime viewers of the channel will remember the results of this I have a couple videos on it I guess I'll link to them in the description but yeah you can see what happened uh an ember kicked out when I was loading it I didn't notice it I always tried to be vigilant about that but it got into the woodshed and started on fire and before I realized it it the whole thing was engulfed in flames you can see where the Flames were shooting up the side of this tree and it very well could have burned my shop down I got really lucky that day melted the controls in the boiler I had to do a bunch of repairs on that to get it going again uh it even got hot enough to to melt the copper wiring that was quite a fire that's when I decided to move the boiler and do my current Woodshed setup so yeah a little back and forth I'm okay with that let's take a closer look at these pallets these are 5x5 I put a little spacer underneath so that I can get the forks under there but those are 42 in and then those are 48 in overall length is 9 feet just over I've made several that had wooden braces here but they tend to break so a piece of angle iron there definitely works better I'm using wood off of my Sawmill stuff I've got laying around and you can see like this is a low quality piece of wood but works fine for this so you know you could go to a local Sawmill if you don't have a way to get your own wood and you're going to be able to get stuff suitable for this relatively cheap and I've got these screwed in and then occasionally I'll use some other screws I'm just kind of using what I have around there's no but this joint needs to be a pretty big Hefty bolt that's a a nice big lag screw going all the way through there obviously if your tractor is not as strong you can scale everything down you don't have as much weight you're not you're not lifting as much these beams don't need to be as big and you know you can figure out what's going to work for you it's been a few hours it's back up to 163 so it stayed lit all right before I close this thing up I want to point out one thing that I think is very important on any boiler and that is the size of this door and the size of the Firebox the Firebox on this is 48 in tall 44 in deep and 32 in wide which comes to 39 cubic feet you can put a lot of wood in there the door is critical because if you have a small door you're going to have to process all your wood down to that size to get it in all right so outdoor wood boiler is really kind of a it's not really a good name uh cuz it's not a boiler it doesn't boil water it's basically a water heater that uses wood as its power source so and this is a a gasifier type which they're more expensive um but they are going to be more efficient they're going to make less smoke they're going to use less wood to produce the same amount of heat and what that means is all the exhaust gases from the Firebox go into a secondary burn chamber that gets much hotter and burns them further so that the smoke completely combusts and when it's really running at Full Tilt and everything's hot you see very little smoke coming out of the stack so in this one this is a forced air version there's a fan in the back that we'll look at in a minute and a damper a door that opens and closes so when when the boiler right now the boiler Oiler is not trying to produce heat because the water temperature is high enough so it's just like your domestic water heater when the temperature is where you've set it it's in between Cycles right now cuz the water is hot enough so the damper's closed the fan is off and oxygen can't get to that fire when the blower and the damper open and it starts pushing air into the fire box the only exit is down so the air comes in the back and it goes then down into this area and this is the secondary burn chamber uh there's like a a channel in here let me go ahead and open that up and show you so this is also where you empty the Ash and I will do that now so the fire comes from the Firebox down into this chamber when this door is closed obviously the air can't come out that way so it's forced back and then it splits into two there's slots on the [Music] side just like these that I can I can reach in with this and show you so there's slots on the side that allow the the exhaust gases to go in here and here so it splits into two that kind of slows down the velocity and these get really hot and burn more and then obviously it goes through these slots into the outer Chambers that's even bigger the gas velocity slows down even more and by the time it gets here it's pretty much completely combusted you just have a lot of hot exhaust gases from there it goes up outside of the Firebox and then gets funneled into the chimney where it goes out now also as it's going up there is a water jacket here there's like 250 gallons of water in this thing that is is in close proximity to all those hot gases coming up so the whole thing is surrounded by water and that's the water that's getting heated and that's the the water that has the temperature being monitored that then gets sent to the house to use for your heating empting the [Music] ash here I'm emptying the ash the center one needs to be emptied about every 3 days and then the others you empty about every 1 to two weeks [Music] okay so I think you get the gist you got a big Firebox with a big door allows you to put very large logs in there that makes you much more efficient you're not fooling with all these little pieces of wood it goes down into a secondary burn chamber where it burns again that extracts more heat out of your fuel so if you don't have the gasifier yeah the boiler is cheaper but you're going to burn more wood and you're going to put out more smoke so then the secondary burn chamber Burns everything up and then the hot gases come up the sides they transfer a good bit of that heat to the water in fact when this thing's running Full Tilt I can actually hold my hand over the output you know for a second it's it's still hot but it's nowhere near as hot as like the chimney going up from a fireplace it extracts a lot of that heat and puts it into the water so there you can see the current temperature of the water we're at 161 fah and you can change the temperature settings on that to what you [Music] want okay so in the back of the boiler we've got the damper here and the blower here and of course the thermostat controls those when it calls for heat the damper opens and the blower turns on that blows air into the fire box which Flames up the fire uh once it's up to what whatever you've set the thermostat to 170 it will then shut down close the door turn off the blower now I've got water pumps here I've got two of them cuz I'm quite a distance from my house and I'm also down the hill a fair ways so one pump wasn't enough to produce enough flow and I could have bought a much more expensive larger pump but it's cheaper to just buy two they actually take the hot water out from the bottom and and then it's coming up through the pumps and then this is going to the house it's actually in that hose right there and um and then it returns from the house in this hose here uh and then it dumps the cold water into the top of the tank which of course encourages it to mix and you have a more uniform temperature of water in the tank I want to show you guys what happens when this thing turns on so this is just a a blower air goes in there comes out there but right now it's hitting this this door which is basically a gate valve going straight down and this linear actuator will pull that door open so that this then becomes an open tube into the Firebox look in here just right see all the way into the fire box there pretty good uh pretty good fire going on in [Music] there now these pumps run continuously uh but they don't draw that many watts I think you know I maybe have 100 Watts uh that is constantly keeping the heat in the domestic hot water heater and it's also constantly mixing the water in the tank so that it has a good uniform temperature top to bottom if if you turned those off you'd end up with a lot of hot water on top cool water on the bottom and you wouldn't have as much heat storage in here when it did turn on the hot water line gets circulated continuously to the house underground it's an insulated line obviously uh goes to the house goes directly to the hot water heater and then goes through a manifold where if any of the air handlers it's a forced air system in the house if any of the air handlers in there are calling for heat then they can take from that hot water distribute it through the air handler and heat the air and then of course the water just returns back and then comes back to the boiler also and maybe I'll go through this in a different video this is a bit much for this one uh there's also a branch off of that line that goes to the shop and does radiant floor heat just in the upstairs I have radiant floor heat up there cuz you really don't want something like forced air going around in a woodworking shop that's just going to get clogged up with sawdust so I have to add in this video that it's more than just a finan cial decision for me there's something really rewarding about cutting your own firewood and heating your house with your labor and your energy and using what the land is providing you know I'm kind of coexisting with the land on this Farm the wood is constantly being produced and I'm using it to heat typically I'm using either the Treet tops from Lumber trees or just stuff that's Deadfall that's dying anyway then I turn around and I use the ash to fertilize the fields it's just a very rewarding process to really use the land and be able to provide for yourself it also adds a level of security because I can heat my house with minimal electricity input basically in order to heat the house I need to be able to run the two blower fans that are in the air handler and some water pumps probably 6 700 Watts at most you know about half the energy it takes to run a microwave far far less than it takes to run a heat pump and that's also giving me my domestic hot water as well considering that I have an endless supply of fuel right here that I can Harvest and use uh there's just no system for me that can compare to that and that's a really kind of a cool feeling uh even if the grid goes down and I'm without power for many many days I can very easily generate on site the little bit of electricity I need to keep heating the house so this is a pretty typical what it would typically look like after about a day so I just so that's pretty typical after filling it you know it's not much more than just a a fireplace as far as how much it smokes and that will die down as the uh as the boiler heats up and that fresh wood that I put in there kind of bakes all the moisture out of it and everything and it'll burn much cleaner in later Cycles There It Is Burning after the wood has had time to bake and all the moisture and everything's out of it you cannot see any smoke but I'm hoping the camera will pick up the heat that comes off of that chimney here's one interesting thing you don't typically think of a wood fire as being explosive but uh when this thing's been running and you shut it off now there's a bunch of wood gas in this chamber and sometimes it will flare up rather aggressively you'll notice a lot of times when I open the door I get out of the way cuz it will uh it'll flare on you like that that one wasn't too bad sometimes it'll do it a lot faster and more aggressively it gets your attention that's quite a fire in there so I'm going to do something stupid cuz that's what I do while the thing's running I'm going to open it up and we're going to look at the secondary burn chamber under here the furnace was running but just by chance it shut down right after I opened this that's why it's not smoking so much right now you can kind of see all the coals and heat in thereo look at that I'll try to get footage of it I've seen it down here where it's really blowing like a propane furnace just super hot flames shooting out of the Firebox down into that chamber it's pretty impressive I tried filming it at night and you get a little bit better idea but the camera is just not doing it justice and when I tried to put the camera closer to it Ash covered the lens I tried again the next day I'm going to cover it with glass and then hopefully make the gas go where it's supposed to go it up immediately yeah it's like impossible to film but hopefully that gives you an idea of The Inferno that's going on down there it's impressive so yeah I mean these furnaces are are really nice they can pretty much heat however you want to heat that hot water can be turned into forced air can be done as radiant floor or any other number of heating systems that you want to use it for and they are really nice all the ash all the bugs all the sawdust and everything stays out here nothing goes into the house after years of using a wood stove in a house and carrying logs in off of the porch and tracking in sawdust and snow in the middle of winter uh I just I love this this is so much better and it's heating two buildings for me unfortunately they're expensive but everything's expensive anymore isn't it if if you're wondering we also have uh heat pumps in the house that we use primarily for air conditioning but can also be used for heating so uh there is a backup heat system so full disclosure my boiler is not full of water it's full of propylene glycol or at least a concentration of propylene glycol and I use this refractometer to check the the level of that it won't freeze until it gets to like -30 Fahrenheit which is about the same in Celsius and it's never going to do that where I live so the reason for that is if I don't fire the boiler and it gets really really cold I don't have to worry about it freezing inside the boiler Chambers and expanding and cracking the welds and I've also been sure to keep up with the rust treatment uh it's a mild steel boiler it's not stainless steel so it will Rust over time they say they're supposed to last about 20 years but I'm hoping I'll get longer out of it uh because I've been pretty diligent about this and I got a test kit so you know you maintain the nitrite level at at least 500 parts per million uh basically I think what that does is any oxygen that dissolves into the the water or propylene glycol that's in your system uh basically gets attacked by this and isn't able to form iron oxide because this is is using it up so generally I try really hard not to repeat myself in videos because I find that annoying but um if you're interested in this kind of stuff I think it does bear repeating what are the major points if you want to heat primarily with wood I think an outdoor wood boiler is the way to go trying to do it with stoves inside unless you have a smaller house certainly it's possible and and that probably works well for a lot of people but for me and especially the size house that I have I think that would be a tremendous amount of work and there's no way I would do it so in order for me to be efficient I need a way to handle the wood with Machinery you only want to handle it twice you want to handle it when you cut it and handle it when you're loading it when you're doing wood stoves the way it always worked for me is we'd have a big wood pile out back somewhere and then we'd take some of that wood and we'd bring it up on the porch so that we didn't have to go all the way out to the wood pile every time we needed wood for the stove then we're stacking it again on the porch then we take it from the porch we bring it in the house we stack it beside the stove and then we're throwing it in the St I mean you're handling it over and over and over again and they're they're small pieces of wood they just don't have that much heat in them so this really cuts out a lot of that work you want a a boiler with a big Firebox so you can load plenty of wood in it that'll get you through a day or even two sometimes and make it so that you're not having to tend the boiler two three times a day and you want a big door so that you can throw big logs in there you you don't want to be trying to shove them where you just barely have clearance you want room to throw it in there and if you can afford it you want a gasifier because you're going to burn less wood you're going to have to load it less often and you're going to produce less smoke and less pollution so you know there's there's a lot of Pros to it that it's just the cost is the big thing if you're really going to be serious about heating with wood long term using a system like this you want to make sure your tractor or whatever you're using to pick it up is going to be strong enough uh my tractor is rated to lift just over 4,000 lbs at the pivot pins and of course once you put Forks on it and you extend them out you're not going to be able to lift anywhere near its rated lift capacity it can definitely lift more than 2,000 had a delivery here before that was kind of at the limit but I was up high and it was able to lift 2500 lb on a pallet so that's probably about what those wood pallets are weighing uh somewhere around that obviously ly you can modify it you can do a smaller tractor with smaller pallets but just then there's going to be more moving back and forth uh more handling to Trying to minimize all the handling is the what really what I'm trying to get at that's the main thing for firewood efficiency in my view and a big one you need a cheap source of firewood if you're having to go buy firewood by the cord uh I think you're probably going to be better off just running a heat pump and buying electricity and last but not least make sure you have a good log splitter that log splitter on that excavator is pretty nice huh honestly when I started building that thing I didn't know how that was going to turn out and it turned out way better than I was expecting saves my back and it's fun to use and it's fast yeah amazing so I hope you guys found this video helpful or at the very least interesting and thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one [Music] on [Music] [Music] look [Music] sh right [Music] [Music] right [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] we [Music] [Music] [Music] if you got this far you must like my wood splitter too thanks for watching we'll see you on the next one [Music] [Music]

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Length: 55min 33sec (3333 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2024