Thanks for the review on heating a small space with a single bio brick. I am considering these for use in my 13.5 × 13.5 bell tent. Your video was helpful.

Thank you for the instruction. You are very methodical and it shows. You have a dream cabin. Many many years for you to enjoy. You take care of your property well.

Unloading the pallet still looked easier than cutting and splitting firewood! Interesting product, glad you are enjoying it.

Very nice Dale, reminds me of my 4 days without power, thanks to Sandy. There is something very sublime in simplicity.

Looks good Dale! I have never heard of those bricks before, but they seem to be doing the job quite well! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you they are stacked in my basement I had many fires this past winter and enough left for several more years.

Just discovered this...delightful...Dale, you remind me of Thoreau in so many ways.

info about bricks Tacoma Firelogs are a combination of softwood sawdust and pound for pound they are comparable to any other pressed sawdust log available with the exception that some other logs have wax or binding agents to hold them together which will cause contamination in the flue and burning device. Pound for pound there is not much difference between softwoods and hardwoods, hardwoods do burn hotter and longer but that is a function of their density and no other characteristics. Some comparisons of wood weight per cubic foot, seasoned. Alder 26# Doug Fir 33# Cedar 23# Madrone 45# Maple 39# Red Oak 45# Apple 41# The softwoods average about 28.25#, while the hardwoods are more like 42.5# so it makes sense that you will get 50% or so more energy out of hardwood raw log. But once they are ground to fine dust and compressed to the same density all wood contains approximately 8600 btu heating units per pound and actually it is the pitchy softwoods like pine and Douglas fir that push the top end of the scale up to 9100 btus per # because of the higher energy density in their pitch. Tacoma firelogs are held together 100% by high pressure and at at 51.4# per cubic foot pack as much heat per volume as anything else available. So with all that said sawdust is pretty much sawdust and wood is wood. The most important detail is what does it cost per pound, how much of that weight is water and how convenient is it to store and use. Tacoma Firelogs win again. Buy by the box of 8 or by the bulk 1 ton pallet with 696 bricks

Your voice makes me sleepy, but in a good way! I'd like to sit by the fire and listen to you read a book.

Dale, I love your videos. Very relaxing and fun to watch. Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Just got around to watching this. I have just bought a big ton bag of apple wood that has been air dried for a year. It's got two purposes, to supply apple for turning and firewood from the stuff I can't turn. I should have it this week but I don't really need it because the temperature is going to be 12C tomorrow and mild all week. I want it to get cold so that I can light my stove in the workshop. Those bricks great, I am going to get something like that for the house fire.

Thank you very much for your video. I agree with the post about how relaxing your voice is to listen to. It was great to see the Bio Bricks in action. I am researching the inexpensive pellet baskets, and another device that sits directly on the ash box right now. I want to burn clean fuel in my wood stove here in my uninsulated cottage in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I would burn Bio Bricks or another brand, if I could find a local dealer. Thanks again

Looking forward to your winter holiday time videos ! It's been a brutal hot and humid summer here in north Jersey, and love watching your blizzard videos. I am sure they drive you crazy cause we also get them here. They are fun and beautiful when going on, but clean up is not fun at all. Me and my wife are in our late 50s and feel the same. But all and all you deliver some of the best stuff KZfaq has to offer! Also a fan of upnorth40! Thanks Dale and hope to see the cabin decorated for the holiday season this year! We will be watching! Thanks Dan

Great videos. Love the cabin

I really like your videos. Looks like so much fun! Very nice job on everything!

Hi Dale. I've checked out a few of your videos just for fun. I live in the states just south of Boston, so we don't always have the same weather as you folks. At any rate, your videos are fun to watch, and you do a good job producing them. Thank you and keep them coming.

Subbed ya for two reasons. 1) Love the down East accent. Although I live in the prairies now, I grew up in N.S, and hearing you speak makes me feel like I'm back home. 2) I love how very Canadian you are. My husband and I try very hard to buy as much Canadian made product as possible. About a year ago we bought a boler (Canadian made mini Camper). We're hoping to add many camping vids to my channel this coming summer. Anyway, great vids. I've been binge watching a few days now.

Dale, This is interesting information. In Colorado people use pellets which are a byproduct of our wood industry and pine beetle kills. Great alternative energy sources. Steve

Thank you very much glad you enjoy them.

Pretty interesting! I'm sure that's great for keeping a the woodstove area clean as well! I cut my own cords of wood and I don't mind since my neighbor has a gas powered logsplitter, but my biggest complaint is the mess it creates in the house from the bark and dirt.

Thank you I'm using it almost daily now and really enjoying it.

Looks like a nice writer or artist retreat. Did you have to flag the truck down? Looked like you can miss your driveway before you know it. It sure was nice and quiet after the truck left. Those bio bricks look like a better option than the pellets.

I checked and here in the Pacific Northwest they mill, Douglas fir and other softwoods. The manufactured firewood is known as "Presto Logs". 5 1/2 inches in diameter and 12 inches long extruded product. Available also on most of the starting products you mentioned, but no bio bricks. We just don't have the wonderful hardwoods that you have, and that most of us consider two valuable to burn. My cabin is heated by a propane gas furnace. I have a 500 gallon tank that is filled once a year by the propane company delivers the gas by tank truck. Heater is thermostatically controlled, set at 68 to 75° depending on the temperature.

Thank you. Yes I think the Bio Bricks are a much cleaner process, still some loose shavings and saw dust though but nothing like what comes off logs. Also it stacks and stores in a smaller space the pallet is supposed to be the equivalent of a cord of fire wood.

It's going to be soooo cozy in your cabin!

Bought a bag of "Gren" brand bricks as a test, they burn great. Off today to get a ton while on sale. I enjoyed your video, cabin looks comfy.

Thank you. I think the Blood Good Japanese Maple in my favourite tree in the garden it is red all summer but in autumn it turns that beautiful flame red. Seems to be very hardy too.

LOVE THE CABIN IDEA WISH I KNEW YOU. BRING MORE SHOWS

Thanks Freida it is cosy and I'm looking forward to enjoying it in a snow storm or many even during a power failure.

Great video thanks for the info

Great video ,agree with other ppl your voice is very calming great video.

Thank you. I guess a lot of people who heat with wood are switching to them because there is a lot less work and mess involved and they give a great heat.

Thank you for the video!

Hi Steve, those are very popular around here too but of course wouldn't work out at the cabin because they require electricity to run the blower.

Thank you it will be a nice place to go if we have power outages this winter.

What a great place to relax and read a good book!

Funny I seem to be looking forward to colder weather too LOL. Apple wood now that is an exotic fire wood.

Thank you very much. I've put a bird table outside the windows and it is amazing how many birds are using it, there should be a video of this soon.

If that were me... I'd be, see ya in the spring!

Dale,was watching an old video:Bio bricks delivered and warming the Cabin(Nov.10,2012)Enjoy all the videos with a cup,or 2 of coffee!Could you tell me the make of your tablet size weather station on the cabin eating table(your fold down table,that is.Thank you very much.Please say HI to Angel!!

I agree I have a fair amount of wood from trees that I cut last spring because they were going to shade the hoop house, now I've lost the incentive to saw and split them.

Thank you I have had other people say the same thing, shame that I don't have any artistic talents. The company that delivered the Bio Bricks is the same company that I buy building supplies from so they have been to the house several times. Actually my property is a bit deceiving I'm in a small subdivision, 20 houses or so, but I bought up a lot of the land around me 8.5 acres, most of which I have kept as natural forest, so it appears as though I'm way out back in the forest.

Tranquility, it looks wonderful

Looking forward to fall, it's so beautiful. And you know snow may be on the way soon. I hate summer.

Love watching over and iver

Enjoyed all the infro..My hope is that you are doing well...

I'd love to hear you reading poetry, like Franklin McCormick did back in the day. I'd like to learn more about you. Have you ever shared anything personal about yourself? Have you written a book? I know it would be lovely.

Thank you very much

LOL I think I would miss the running water, bathroom etc.

You are great thanks

I envy your life style :)

I think we pay $195/Canadian cord (128 cubic feet) of split hard wood. (It goes up a few $ ever year & we didn't buy any this year because we are using our heat pump as the main heating source). The Bio wood is much cleaner and neat. No dirt, bugs or mice coming into your house from one of those boxes. And it requires so little storage, it's all so civilized. 8-)

How are you and your cabin doing? I like the bio bricks....need to find some myself.

Thank you.

I DREAMED OF BIO BRICKS LAST NIGHT

Were did you put all those bricks? Such a Nice cabin.

I agree I've been doing that a lot lately.

Nice little cabin pal .

You should have a bio-bricks party and invite all your friends LOL

Thank you. I think the amount of smoke has a lot to do with the efficiency of the stove and this is a very cheap old fashioned type of cast iron wood stove not at all efficient.

I enjoy your videos. Just wanted to say that although this video is a few years old, please discard the gloves you use (if you still have them) for feeding the fire, as the outer material on the back side of your hands is fabric and will fuse onto your skin if exposed to the right amount of heat. A number of nice full leather gloves are out there, and optimally it's nice to use insulated leather gloves like welders use, which are available in most home improvement stores. It's only a few dollars more than basic leather gloves, and greatly lessens the chance of burns/infections, plus you feel the heat a lot less when loading wood. I have an older Jotul combi-fire, and it makes it a lot more pleasant not to feel extreme heat when putting in firewood,

canawick is another good source for bricks - and they also have them in block size

I know a guy with a voice like yours who has been a voiceover guy for 40 years. He just retired. Good video.

It's a lot cleaner than firewood... but it's not free - stay warm.

If the bio bricks burn 1-2 hours and you have to continually feed more into the stove can you actually sleep through the night in the cabin in the dead of winter.? Won't the fire go out eventually and the cabin become freezing cold inside while you sleep? How do you deal with that or do you rarely sleep the night in the cabin when temperatures are very low?

I love to read also I use the nook by barns and noble I read every night I have used the bricks a lot on my patio I have a fireplace out there and love to sit and watch it burn my son is putting me a wood burning small stove in my sunroom so I don’t have to close it up my son gets all the dead wood from his farm ground

LOL, County Armagh is the apple growing capital of Ireland, the Orchard County' so there's plenty of it about.

I agree it isn't free and it has been so many years since I bought fire wood I have no idea how it compares cost wise. I think it also appeals to a lot of people who are environmentally concerned as it make use of a byproduct of the lumber industry that would just go to waste.

Dale, I live in the US and link link for the biobricks doesn't seem to work. Keeps telling me I have won a contest. Can you provide another link or tell me where in the US to find them?

Hello. How long do biomass bricks burn?

Lovely Japanese maple tree

Hi sweetness can you give us an update on bio bricks the cost and burn thru the winter

This is supposed to be the equivalent of a cord of hard wood so yours is still the better deal.

LOL Thank you I think a lot of people wish I were on TV so they could turn me off.

How long does it take to burn

How long does one Bio Brick last ?

Unboxing bio-fire logs

So, you had to pay import tax (or sales tax) on a RE-import?

Get yourself a butane torch and just light the fat wood. You don't need to fool with all that cardboard. I only use one piece of fat wood in my small stove, no kindling.

what state do you live in.

I can’t find these

how often u in the cabin

1:21 This looks like my first time! Haha :)

another you tuber I watch has a coffee can filled with saw dust and soaked in diesel fuel she puts two tablespoons lights it

Thank you.

Thank you.