Survival Russia I just subscribed to your channel love your videos. Russia is so interesting

What accent is yours? Not Russian. Almost sounds Dutch.

That's salt of the earth living. Do the same in the Midwest to save money and stay warm and it's fun

Nice video

Are you from Sweden? Your accent sounds like you are

algorithm liked it.

Indeed. This is very interesting. If you live in a place with cold winters, staying warm is always interesting, or should be. Where I am right now, I have pushbutton heat. No problem. (Unless electricity or natural gas fails.) But I've also lived in an even colder climate (Montana) where I had to figure out how to stay warm. If you've ever done that, the topic of how to stay warm becomes something that's always interesting.

I'm watching it 😉 , only been 25 F. here in Oregon.

I'm very interested

Everyone should be interested. We may not always have these modern conveniences were so used to,

Of course :)

Cool

couldn't agree more buddy

@@mal2444 yhea i meam Its a really cool video

Hi beautiful 😍

Agree with you, old ways of cooking deliver great taste

Can you tell me the name of the story?

@@basenwagen many Russian fairy tales, folklore and historic tales all feature descriptions of such ovens. Every house was built like this. So cozy. My favorite mention of it is from fairy tales, with "Ivanushka Durachok" - "Ivan the fool" and he's always lazy and sleeps on the oven all day long until the oven becomes sentient and starts going around getting him into all kinds of adventures... Russian fairy tales trippy af.

@@basenwagen yes it’s the bear and the nightingale

@@savannanicoll1507 Yep, I read that triology (great story) and had to look up Russian ovens on KZfaq and general internet. I am familiar with rocket mass heaters and Kachelofens so I had an idea, but I still had to see how a whole family sleeps on top of the oven.

I read this entire trilogy during the Pandemic. This definitely does help picture the descriptions about the warmth and coziness of the cottage ovens. Good point, and good taste!

The reason he calls this one a small russian oven is because he is comparing it to the earth. The earth is by far the most impressive piece of Russian engineering

Oblitorix It's Russian ovens all the way down...

JS 09 no it’s not

@@blakeengle4153 it's a joke, i'm not even finnish and i understood it was one lol

witchgroup you don’t know it’s a joke

Ilya Muromets sleeped 33 years on fireplace

@Christopher Anderson im sorry what?! The number 33 has popped up alllllll the time pretty much daily throughout my life. How is that number related to ones religion?

I took a Russian fairytale course once and had the exact same experience.

@@kachala He didn't sleep for 33 years, he was unable to walk.

@@awbrynes There's one, I think called "The Fool of The World", the third son, who gets all the left overs (brothers go off with fresh meats, he gets water and old bread,etc), but he ends up defeating all the challenges with help of people he meets, and ends up winning the girl. Anyway, seem to recall he slept on a bed like that. Check out the broom at 5:36

We have these in Estonia as well, there are at least two in my family's house. I love the fact we have them! And I also think people are stupid not to have them.

Understanding how they're built is the thing. We don't have long winters with extreme cold. This type of heating system would still save tremendous amounts of money. Electricity is expensive in the states. I like to save money!

Just live simply wood stove only leave the electric behind

I am planning on building one here in the USA for my tiny house but instead of firewood using propane grill nozzles. We don't have many trees where I am and the idea of not getting creosote buildup sounds amazing.

Creosote is less of an issue with these stoves because of their design: you burn a hot, fast fire, which makes much less creosote because most is burned up. It’s suffocating your fire and burning wet wood (like almost everyone in the U.S. does) that makes lots of creosote.

For the old ones and little ones I think..

@@susanthrapp6154 If I lived there, my cats would claim it.

😍😍😍

@@cajunsurvivor You just lost the bet.

Cats in your home lol. You put a box with kitty litter or wood shavings even and they use that, they are the easiest animals to house train.

It is the best thing.

oldsteamguy without the biased media filtering it

Beautifully said

Agreed.

from my limited experience, Russia is wonderful. It is like the USA in the 1950's and 1960's before 1965 and the new world order.

You sure right. I liked this video. It pop up in my feed and I clicked on it. Soon as I seen his stove I subscribed.

Good and funky

1.5 million views.

Full of awesomeness

Crap lol.it's called culture

@Tuberculosis Dan thanks, don't forget to thumbs up

@Tuberculosis Dan stfu

@@mhdfrb9971 GFY

Awesome. Happy Healthy 2024!!

I was thinking the exact same thing. This was actually really interesting.

Because extreme cold is coming and possible no power either

Because it knows its interesting

it's 5am here why is this here. *learns about proper updraft to prevent smoking the house up and wasting heat*. o_o fluent and good editing for time spent watching a video. this russian place is reminding me I haven't had vodka in 5+ years...

Me too

1.5 million views and groving

Keeping these "old ways" alive is important: I was born in 1974, and grew up in a rural area, in an old house heated with firewood, but only one room was heated, and the stove was kind of like this oven but made of cast iron (i think). one half was a fire box, and the other half had propane burners. there was no oven... my step-father who was born in 1911 had a little portable oven that you put on top of the rings (like this man showed here) on top of the firebox, or over a burner. most of the people that lived around me had modernize houses by the 80s with showers and furnaces, and so I'm one of the few people in my age group that actually knows how this type of house is supposed to work. The important part here is that the house is also designed around using this oven. if the oven was not placed WHERE it is inside the house, it would not heat as efficiently. if the house is insulated too tightly then the airflow would be insufficient to burn wood in the oven. modern houses tend to be insulated very well and people updating old houses tend to think that they need to super insulate them. truth is it has to have a certain amount of airflow, and super insulated houses have to be designed with mechanical air flow built-in to prevent people from suffocating. Here he was talking about starting up the air column in the chimney but if the house was super insulated and without mechanical airflow, even the trick of lighting the small fire in the chimney would not be enough to get the fire going, the whole house would smoke out, and people inside could suffocate from carbon dioxide poisoning. The opposite is true as well. With too much airflow, the oven would go through wood like crazy, and the air rushing in would actually turn the house into a freezer instead of heating it.

That’s why bill wurtz is popular

It is not only "fun"... you will see: our today "cosy-cosy" living will break down. (I really experienced -30C - in switzerland.) And then you have to think about how to survive.

@Killary Witch be blessed, I love Russia and my real, great hope ist, to work together with respect.

ya but how do you get down without burning your feat

@@andrewk.277 get that wrong first thing in the morning ganna hurt

What if your 6’6”

@@jcottrill1691 When you're going to sleep the fire is already done for some time, so the bricks and the plate are ~80-90C. So, wool socks made by your babushka will protect your feet nicely (:

@@student8136 It doesn't need to be even that hot, if the house is warmed properly, all that mass of the tiles or bricks, however you want to call them, will have heat energy reserved in them. So basically you wake up, and start burning your oven, let it reserve in the mass of the oven and when you're going to sleep it will heat up the house even if the surface temp is only 50-70C.

The whole world was built around this oven!

@@ShoutsWillEcho1 Lol 🤣❤️🇺🇸

Bit of a silly unnecessary comment.

Hes actually german

Really shitty joke.

Check out videos on "rocket mass heaters". The warm bed, you described, is their byproduct. A lot of times decorated with tiles too.

Yeah! Only a Canadian can understand the need for these mass heaters!

I guess that’s cool … as long as the bed 🛏️ doesn’t get too hot and catch fire 🔥

@@enlightenedchild8373 Oh they've had those style for many decades. I'm sure mooost of them know what they're doing.

fyi this is not sth unqieu to russians. just became famous with russians but such large masonry heaters are used it cold regions worldwide.

@@weeddagr8988 Yo what is your problem

aw awdasd hes a troll. those 5 upvotes are just his alternate accounts just ignore it

We are currently having our short rains and it's still 25 celcius. I've never even seen snow. If it dips to below 20c we start freezing. - 40 degrees, I'd legit just rather die 😭

aw awdasd the funniest thing is that he assumes the poster is black just because they live in africa when other people live in africa too

@@weeddagr8988 report you

A huge part of (cold) rural part of China has their ovens built to circulate hot air under the bedroom floor or the "tiled bed" that is built in it.

@@grungytinman614 Lots of Russian fairy tales describe people sleeping on top of ovens...

@Dale Galiniak that common for fairy tales. It's kind of warm there (quess why) so often ill people would lie there. In one well-known fairy tale protagonist rides an oven)

@@grungytinman614 did the dogs call him "boy on the stove" and one of the dogs would eat a brick if it was buttered? I cannot remember the name of this story ----- had to be 30 years ago. I couldn't visualize the oven in my head; now it makes sense.

Vania the strong, and the witch Baba Yaga

Of course 😊

I do that a couple times a year, I live in a warm snow state.

Trust me I have done it many times!

this - you could become a full time youtuber just documenting those visits

and apparently all of them continually saying "funky" xp

Add to that a few of us living in a decidedly unfunky way!

Lol me too ,Google must know im heading for survival mode .

Same.

I was wondering too? but I actually enjoyed this ty youtube

Original comment right there

😂👍

I was thinking the same thing. Very funny

LOL

Are you crazy . You’ll die- unless you are in fact Russian .

Combine it with Bla Bla Bla and you get really drunk 🥴

Love you Boris!

Life of Boris haha love you man

gotta keep vadim from eating all the charcoals.

But what about babuskad buttebrod?

👀👀didnt expect to see you here

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Best comment ever

Our owen is probably twice the size. Takes entire day to warm up the house.

You have clearly never been to South Africa

In Ukraine, my grandma's oven take a place of a half of a kitchen and a little bit of another room. It's bigger for about in 4 times than the oven in this video. So yes, it's small

He playing Frostpunk for real

Yup, hearth and home.

Very clever and right u are.

I spent my first winter off grid last year. I can attest to that. You never get cold chopping wood. The colder it gets, the harder you chop. And logs split best when they are frozen solid anyways.

Good point

Five times! 1) taking it down anď bringing it home. 2) cutting then chopping it up 3) stacking it. 4) carrying it inside (when it's super cold I don't want to go out to refill too often so I always carry as much as I can carry plus some more). 5) When you finally brun it.

I'm in Oregon and we use pine, as well. I smelled pine, too!

@researchfiend Sorry but, the Jetstream moved south early and it looks like the pattern will hold until Jan at least. Winter of '72 was long and cold like this.

Isn’t it strange that we’re a country of immigrants but this is nowhere to be found here. I saw the same thing when I was in Germany.

Pine and spruce wood is not recommended for these kinds of ovens as both provide high amounts of soot. And since these ovens have a complex internal structure - cleaning them is pretty complicated. Birch, oak, or any other hard wood is ideal.

I lived in Montana for a few years up in Ronan, near flathead lake. I miss having a fire with pine burning away.

Hello Sandy, I didn't see the jacklore jet!

This episode was filmed in Hollywood studios . Dont be such a fool

@@John-ps2jo if it was fimed in hollywood they guy would have earings,tatoos,and pink fingernails. dont be such a fool lolk

What a GREAT VIDEO! Thank you!!! I need to do more research on this type of Russian Ovens and house plans - love the entire concept of how to be self-sufficient that you share!

It really is an awesome little house. Imagine sleeping on the bed above the Russian oven during a coooold night, and the heat rising up towards you. I think the coldest I've experienced is around -30 C, in Colorado.

Haha dying of cold and poorness is awesome and funky!

​@@iveros8481 Why would you say such a rude thing? There's nothing wrong with being 'poor' but I don't see that here either. I would love such a beautiful home, and even with a guest house.

@@dreamingrightnow1174 i was being ironic, you halfwit.

If you ever go to Russia, you will wear everything you own. All at once.

@@omgfinally4340 We have hot summers in Siberia, often up to 40 heat. Russia is different - there is where it is hot, there is where it is cold, there are mountains, deserts, forests, seas, oceans. There is a choice :)))

Soviet thought: So you need a machine that warms your house? Here's a machine that warms your house and then burns your neighbors house down.

@@jmullentech Bad joke

You can put it like that yes :)

Back in the day there was no electricity, specially in most remote of locations, so everything from heating, cooking, baking, to creating hot water for cleaning was made using these ovens. Its yes thermal mass heater that only requires yearly cleaning, firewood and some knowledge how to operate one (one of the dangers being out of hand fire, like resin heavy spruce log popping/exploding and trowing hot cinder? that lights things up and carbon monoxide poisoning if you fuck up and house is too insulated) Even now such system is valuable, as continues power can be questionable due outages of storm damage. Most houses have water systems, so its important to least keep house over 0 degrees, so pipes wont freeze and start leaking, while also it can be life line when there is no natural gas available again due shortages. This is why most people with any brain go with electric or similar heating as primary or support system on day the day, have wood burning stove that can be used to support/drop electric bill and in emergency heat and cook for weeks after natural gas bottles are dry as many do have grills and bottle for that. I lived in city in apartment building and while shortages are rare in city its still possible, i felt so vulnerable with out wood oven and couple of times wish i had one. First there was several hour long outage due storm damage and second time there was problem in my heater, in really cold winter weekend. After freezing my butt off even with PC pushing heat and having to stay in outside clothing, wrap in blankets i decided that least one backup system was required and if all possible second one. Still trying to find such backup systems for phone, as cell towers go dark after few hours of shortage and with elderly around phoning ambulance needs to be solved for these cases. Maybe i can find cheap satellite phone, or even go far as have police and military communication equipment on hand to rise help if in desperate need.

And bed warmer

Thermal mass is the quality of a substance, to be able to store heat, according to wiki. Concrete, brick, and stone hold heat, but the idea that it is the mass which is preserving the heat is somewhat misguided, it is usually air that is trapped in pockets, that is the insulator. The weight of the substance is not the key factor. Obviously this has a lot of mass and it stays warm for a long time, and once it is warm it takes less wood to keep it going. But the bricks and stuff cannot produce heat, they just radiate it very slowly, and therefore you can use a little wood and it will keep the heat radiating at that slow rate, at high temperature. Most of the heat goes out the chimney. To use it more efficiently you have to pass it over more surface area. This is a good idea, the way he lights it in two places to get it going. For more heat you could make the chimney go back and forth before it goes out, or there are designs that pass the hot air through a box that has horizontal pipes in it. As the smoke goes through the box, it heats the pipes, which are open on the ends, so air from the room goes through them, and all the smoke still goes out the top.

I could borrow him one, if he can send it back. Would be kind of interesting where heat losses are in -40 C weather.

The loss of energy is everywhere the same. To know better we need to know How the house was build. Tight roof maybe with insulation? Has it an air tide layer? Brick wall, one or two layered? Which brick. Has it a basement? Is there a door between basement and the other floors. What type of windows, how are they installed. Which direction is the building and so on. Would be nice to check it out in person.

@@sn31t33 Not the same. First of all, it depends on the material from which the house is built. A classic Russian house is cut from solid logs. Logs choose a part for a snug fit to each other. Warming is done by sphagnum moss - a very good insulator plus an antiseptic. The tree is very energy efficient. A stone house takes part of the heat while it is heating. A wooden house heats up immediately. Also, the tree absorbs excess moisture or gives away when dry. The windows always consist of two chambers, that is, 3 glasses, between them there are two air layers. The attic is always cold, but a layer of 30-35 cm of clay, clay with sawdust, clay with pine needles is poured on it on the ceiling. Or just dry rammed earth. High foundation, waterproofing is necessarily made between the foundation and the walls so that excess moisture does not penetrate. The foundation from the street is insulated. Inside there is a space under the house - an air gap, vegetables, fruits, and preservation are stored there. Plus, it is an air gap to the floor from the ground to maintain heat. There is always ventilation in the house from dampness and that there is no fungus and mold. In case of very severe frosts over -40, the windows on the side of the street have blind shutters. A cold vestibule is always made. Immediately from the street there is no entrance to the house. First you go to the cold closed part, and only then the second door is already in the house. And a lot of all sorts of small tricky things :) The average temperature in any house in Russia in the winter is +24 C.

It really heats the house well, it's very efficient and cheap. But these days you have to pay for the wood.

@@vinnievalentine421 In Russia, we have the right to take the fallen forest for free. And in general, the people we wanted to spit on cannibalistic laws, so most often he prepares firewood for himself, not only from fallen trees :))) It is a lot of it. If someone has no time or is too lazy to harvest firewood themselves, then they buy it. I buy - for a year 200 dollars 10 m3.

danish is the accent your looking for, hehe, he really sounds danish actually

after further investigation i found out he actually comes from denmark, it says in his biography on his youtube channel for anyone interested :)

Actually he sounds more like he is from the Czech republic (Arnold Schwarzenegger accent) mixed with russian.

Wow i need to listening more accent because to me sounds like irish 😂😂

nickeh- I was wondering this same thing...

I feel you buddy, only that my grandpa died instead. RIP.

Big F my man

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what are you on about? why would this guy's english be any better than the avg. american's english?

@@Wrtvrxgvcf55 because half of the young kids I work with speak in a slang that doesn't make sense. And grammatically, he speaks better than some of the adults I work with, as well.

@@mattduke6490 That and every other word is either like or totally

He sounds like a german speaking english

@@icanttiemyshoe9005 Precisely! Most kids nowadays are talking like... you know.. like this and it is totally, like, annoying and stuff, you know? Like there is no other word they can think of to you know... like say what they have in their mind or something like that. ^ This is how young kids speak nowadays and it is bloody annoying.

I hope it stays that way for the next 100 years. I hate what changes the bankers are making to America.

With a nice Starlink connection to post KZfaq videos of cooking stew.

And the vodka on the table!

u can check the stew from your bed!

@@hannesdejager3723 Samogon

bro. i legit want to move to russia just to have a little cottage like that. it looks like something out of a fantasy story inside.

That's how they work :)

Thanks 👍

@researchfiend and it's beautiful

I like the man, but if you stop the video at 1.42 I think it looks more like a crematorium

DJ Soul lmao

😂😂😂

KZfaq makes a compelling argument

Dutch oven when you go to bed.

In the video there are many hatch in the oven but lars only fired one. is there a particular reason to have different hatch ?

Search "masonry heater" or "rocket mass heater" (insulated burn chamber for even better efficiency) beware local building codes in your country.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nN1zrZuDztmbaZs.html gives starting point for community developing these type of heaters particularly for DIY. resources for learning ins and outs.

@TEXOCMOTP Ah, I wondered how that was done! I need one to keep my salt dry! Too much humidity!

Yeah this guy is really and laid back.

Some more stuff over there!

I wanna drink and talk about life in that house with this guy lol

You only need to create a draft if the oven is completely cold. It's also a good idea if the outside temperature is warmer or the same as the inside temperature.

I use a blow dryer to create a draft.

Makes ya strong!

Prolly had some vodka. You sure as hell need it if you clear snow all day in minus temperatures

his warm personality stops him from freezing

@@777Jamez777 All the vodka in the world is not enough, if you count how much we clean snow in Russia in winter :)))

Maybe I just see the world a little differently, but I swear Whites, Inuits, Northern Native Americans, and the Japanese all evolved to neither be bothered by the cold or actually enjoy living in it!

In BH/SRB/HR/MNE, "Soba" is a name for a room inside the house.

Reu Furaque funny but where do I buy a walk in freezer?

Ha-Ha, old Russian anecdote.

Damn

@@sbe0001 the same place you buy walk in microwaves: at the walk in appliance store

@@sbe0001 its a surplus store,gulag r' us cccp supplies.They sell pretty good stuff if a bit old and sometimes you find body parts inside their products.

There´s an old saying in Denmark, "Birkebrænde brænder bedre." On english: "Birch bark burns better."

@@gryl.4030 æ

@@sp-nj9le Æ hva´??

"never rots"? it definitely does rot. at least here in America, they are some of the shortest-lived trees around. in fact it's very rare to see a large Birch.

@@better.better Birch wood rots quickly not only in America :))) But the birch bark - does not decay for a very long time. In the old days and now sometimes in Russia we use it as a material for waterproofing between the foundation and the walls of the house or on the roof. Serves up to 150 years. It must be specially prepared. First, cut off the plates, peel the outer white layer and the inner one, which is like a powder. Then cook 3-5 hours in water. Then put under the press and dry. And then do all sorts of useful things :) In a container for storage from the birch bark insects do not start, bread and flour do not disappear for a long time, honey can be stored for several decades. Shoe insoles from birch bark remove odor and sweating feet. You can even boil water in it :))) And if you cook the birch bark in oil or even better in fish or animal fat - you can make boats out of it and use it as skin. Product Example www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&biw=1366&bih=625&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=mA2_XZe6J_CPmwXmsqHYDg&q=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&oq=%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%B8%D0%B7+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i5i30l3j0i24l4.270546.275164..276297...0.0..0.165.2478.0j18......0....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i3._ZnJu7xLOSo&ved=0ahUKEwiX5tnpx87lAhXwx6YKHWZZCOsQ4dUDCAc&uact=5

Thank you :)

Or Sasquatch..

🐻 are hibernating through winter. They wouldn’t awake from slumber to exit their lair until spring time.

@@iMadrid11 bears can awake from slumber early or dint sleep at all, this is the scariest and deadliest type of bears. in russian they are caller медведь-шатун wich can be translated as wandering bear. @Sven Lancaster why didnt you recognised. WINTER FINALY CAME!

Evil spirits dont phase him lol. He just laughs

Russians are should use perkele

Please include "groovy" every now and then too.

Can't be funky without a little groov

@@stroganoffbob7627 You know it!

@@DennisMoore664 heck yeah!

Hey. That's old school -my generation (baby boomers).

Dracula 😂😂

I felt that 😳😳

He learned English from Dave Rubin

No way :)

His accent reminds me of Arnold's accent

His native language is German.

Exactly!

Until I scrolled down, I was thinking he sounded like a German Beatle.