In France we say wood will heat you three time: when you cut it, when you stack it, when you burn it!!!

Boy I'm 66 now and remember when I had that kind of energy. Wish I still had it. I know a lot of people give u advice but they are just trying to help so listen just in case they have something good to say.

I can't believe I just watched someone cut and stack firewood...lol

Splitting wood with the log splitter is my favorite! We live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and I just told my husband the other day that it's pretty sad when you're jealous of someone else's woodpile! Haha!

We've lived off grid here in Trapper Creek Alaska for 16 years now. We finally went solar 3 years ago. We have very little income because there is just no work where we live. I'm 60 and have SSI which helps some. We ordered cheap solar panels from harbor freight and now I can watch local channels on my 12 volt TV. Plus, I have a tablet now a dear friend let's my get internet through her with her friends and family plan. She also got me on the direct TV from her plan. But for 13 years I had very little entertainment except for my everyday life with my goats and chickens, and gardening. I have osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis and can't do much anymore. But I'm still going to do my best to keep my farm going. Bless your hearts kiddos!!! Your in my prayers everyday. Your firewood will dry faster if you stack it point up.

Love the work ethic and positivity that you both have in your videos, and how you both work together!

As I sit here in my cozy living room, not worrying about the heat, I am so impressed on how hard you two worked to get your wood for the year. Wowzers. Who needs a gym membership when you work like that. New subscriber.

I love wood. We miss our wood stove. Mornings with our young children, the door open and we’re sitting around it. Mom and I with our coffee and the girls still in their Pocahontas pyjamas. Now the girls are adults out contributing to society and the Pretty Lady and I are slowly going off grid. Cheers!

Nothing gives you a feeling of security and contentment like a full Winter's wood supply ready.

As someone who uses chainsaws every day I highly recommend learning to use it without bending over. Otherwise you will destroy your back like I have. Better to have sore knees then a bulging disk.

2 of the most industrious individuals on youtube.

Came home from work. Wife had the wood stove goin... Just can't beat that warm wood heat!

I’m somewhat envious that you work with mostly small logs, just buck and split. In my area (SE PA) I have hardwood diameter from8” up to 30” plus, slow work with 16” bar. But my neighbor has a hydraulic wedge on a Bobcat that turns 30” logs into 8” pieces that are easily cut, ready for some final splitting with a hydraulic splitter about the same size as yours. Glad to see you rotate the wood after the first split so you get 4 pieces in 2 passes. We only do about 2 cords a season, about one days work. We are lucky to have an under cover storage area ( greenhouse plastic over steel hoops) so we fill cardboard Gaylord bins( about 1/4 cord each) that I move with a small tractor with pallet forks. We love wood heat!

Fine work y'all. 99% of America doesn't comprehend this kind of work. Thanks for sharing.

You know life has hit rock bottom when you're watching someone chop firewood... but even you guys make this worthwhile! (Nothing like watching someone else work after a days work)

It's very nice to see someone making something, rather than ritoing, for free stuff.

I can’t believe how much y’all have accomplished since your move. It’s inspiring. Splitting and stacking firewood is my favorite farm chore. It always means Fall is here. 🍁

That’s twice what I cut. What a lot of work but so worth it. You just payed all of winters heating bill with three days work. Awesome.. What a great feeling it is just to know your ready too. Have a fantastic night you two..!!

What a blessed man to have such a wife

So satisfying to have a big stack of wood processed.

Eric and Ariel you are a fabulous team. You work so well with each other. You are both kind, patient and giving to each other. That gift that you both have received will make your love grow with each and every day. Eric you are strong and forthright and I am so very glad you are wisely prepared in your daily adventures to defend Ariel and yourself from bears. Ariel you are truly very beautiful inside and out. It is true. Your great passion and enthusiasm for your daily goals is truly palpable. Never stop. Be good to each other every day. Blessings to you from Martha's Vineyard.

Y'all are just so industrious. Good job! White Out Conditions Tip: Tie a brightly color heavy string or small rope from the door to the wood pile. In the event you are experiencing white out conditions and need to get wood you can do so safely by having a rope to hang onto to ensure you are staying on the correct path to the pile and back inside.

Take some of your split wood and take a piece of roap and staple or screw it into the wood; then use this for ballast to keep the tarp from blowing away!

I always find those splitters painfully slow to watch, but with two people on it, I can see them being a huge help.

Good god. I’m so inspired by your work, not only the wood cutting/stacking, but how you make watching it a pleasure!

I'm sitting here watching this from Washington State with my wood stove going behind me. Nothing more satisfying than getting the cord wood ready for winter and having that radiant heat at your back. Love watching you two; you are a wonderful team and your videos are really special.

Beautiful. Wish I were young again. A 56 yr old 5'2" woman living alone has a rather rough time living the homestead life. I've never run a chainsaw, and firewood seems heavier every year.

Hello there. Try using a wheel borrow to carry the wood to your stack. Put it in the wheel borrow when you take it off the splitter one less time you have to touch it

Nice to see someone who maintains their saw. I was in the California Conservation Corps at the Calaveras Fire center and even though we had a crew Swamper we were required to know how to maintain and sharpen all of out tools. Cutting Manzanita with a brush hook was fun. then we would stack and burn in the rain.

3 cords of firewood for a winter in Alaska. That doesn't sound like much firewood for the winter temperatures in Alaska. What an amount of work that was done in those 3 days.

Wow enough wood. Wish I had a steady supply like that. Hard workers at it again.

Please for the love of God get a pair of chaps and wear them when using your chain saw. Think of it as insurance. They are a life saver literally when accidents happen. I hit a spike in a tree and snapped a chain that came back and bound up in my chaps. If I wouldn't have been wearing them it would have for sure hit the femoral artery and bled out.

You guys r sum tough cookies, smart and driven. Love,love,love this channel 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

You guys building a woodshed would be entertaining to watch. Good job on working together on that fire wood

Safety trousers are a most, they could save your life, I don’t give advise normally but I’ve worked in A&E and the bloke I nursed was lucky to keep his leg, boy it was a mess.😢😢😢

I need to take a holiday after watching all that hard work ....Great job !!

Спасибо! Отлично! Не болейте!

Made me smile to watch the puppies play so happily. With all y’all do, you’re looking a might lean.

Love watching that log splitter 🌲

You all really put in the muscle, sort of makes the rest of us puny----ha ha! really liked the music! Have a great day!

That is a whole lot of log splitting, and I am not a stranger to that. Ya'll did one heck of a job.

I love cutting wood. Don't ask why but last round splitting I picked them up and never tilted the splitter down to make it easy. I got done and thought, " oh yah, could have". " should have".

Bless you for stacking that wood, it was killing my OCD in me lol ...... y"all work your butts off! '

You guys should make cutting boards out of the larger trees and sell them. They would make really nice floor plant stands too. I'll keep my eyes open for that. I'll buy 4 of em 🙂

Wow that is an insane amount of wood, and a lot of work. I bet somebody needs a nap 😴. LOL great job guys, and I am like you I would just put some glue on the glove and let it go. I love to see recycling or as they call it nowadays up-cycling I think. I really love y'all's videos. Thanks so much for making them and sharing them, Jimmy

I give you a lot of credit for putting your life out on the net like this. There is always going to be someone who thinks you are not doing it correctly. I've caught myself a couple times almost inserting my life into yours - hopefully I've caught them all in time. That was a hard couple days work and you two work so well together - at least from my side of the lens. But I think if you would just . . . kidding! Still hoping for the root cellar tour!! As always, thanks for the glimpse of Alaska living - CJ

Amazing you could split and stack this much wood in such a short time.

hi people make work look easy love watching your videos an reading all the comments think most enjoy you sharing your life with us . bless ya

The Garage in a Box is great...! They hold up really well,....ummm,...errr..despite my 4 wheeler parking skills.

You 2 amaze me! What a wonderful partnership you have.

Enjoy your videos. It must be be super satisfying to have that job done!

Pine is soft wood and causes high levels of creosote be sure to clean your chimney every few months to prevent chimney fires.. you could probably get away with once a season if you used hardwoods like oak and maple for burning.. also invest in a electic wood spliter there cheap and stand up to spliting even that much wood ..we live in northern Ontario Canada and use one every spring to split 9 busch cord we have it set on a stand and its quik spitting hard woods like oak and maple balsam etc we bring it inside easy to move around to do our kindling works great ..i got ours used for $100 and does the same job as a 20 ton gas and its a 5 ton splitter ..store indoors .. also i dont cover my wood till just before snow flies i find the constant sun rain wind dry it alot faster than covering it with a tarp

Mind boggling that the two of you can cut and stack a years worth of fire wood in3 days!!! Was really glad to see that you have a log splitter vs.using an axe!! Great job!

best to leave a 'mouse' trail between each stack for air circulation.. if a mouse can fit between so can the air.. quicker dry time

If practical,mount a bench vise somewhere sturdy. Solid work bench or heavy table,etc. Works great for clamping the saw in when sharpening.💪

I wish I had a quarter of your energy. Stay safe.

That's hard work. Good thing you are such good team.

That's some back-breaking work. Well done you two! It must feel good to have a year's worth of wood done and dusted.

😊👍😉 Wonderful to Watch You!

I try to stack firewood in single rows, so they get more air exposure. Also spring is the time of year where wood dries effectively, the air is super dry and the sun helps out. Autumn is too rainy and humid, so try to get at least one spring into the stacked wood, until burning it, or you´ll be wasting a lot of the energy, vaporizing water into steam. I do one spring outside, then at the end of summer, I bring it into the wood-shed, where it often lies another full year until used.

Next year, deliver the wood next to your stack site. It appears you lifted the wood three times, when you could have done it in two. Cut, lift, split and then stack. If you have a third person, you can do it in one step. Plus, you need to get and wear safety chaps! I lived in Alaska for 20 years and put up firewood every fall.

I've cut some wood in my days. You guys moved a lot of wood in three days like a champ! I know you muscles were sore for days... Fit farmer would be proud. Lol

You two are such an amazing team together. You get so much accomplished in such a short time. I just found your videos and I have been binge watching them.

Nicely done. I like to pick all the stringy splintered wood off the ground and use as kindling.

Hi, nice job it must feel good to have that ready for winter👍.

You two did an amazing job, the smell of all that wood would be awesome! 👍

Yardworks has a 7 Hp electric splitter that is quiet, love it. Small, compact and easy to more around, $350 Cdn 5 years ago. Splits large logs with ease. Had some issues with it after it got caught in the rain but is working fine again. Good job getting that firewood done!

That's a lot of wood and work. Stay warm you two. Excellent video and nice saws. I have a Husky. Cleaning the chimney today. Thanks

Loved this vlog. Fr. the philippines.worth watching. No dull moments.

A word of advice, learn how to sharpen a saw. There is no need to be bogging that saw in dry softwood, it should cut through that with ease.

You can't beat the noise of a chain saw I love it I do the same as you oh boy you do get a good night sleep hello from Ireland 👍☘️🇮🇪

Yes please get and wear some saw chaps every time you start your saw stay safe.

When you have a chance, you should make yourselves a shed with pallets and then your wood will be undercover. Lots of effort in a short amount of time... thanks for sharing!

It’s great to have a helper coming behind you,throughing on the logs.Keep up the good work.👍❤️

A couple of picaroons will go a mile in assisting with loading and carrying those logs. I didnt use one for years and when I did, my back sent me a thank you card every season......it seems silly, but try it, you will love them. I can stack and carry logs all day now and not have any issues.

I really love seen you guy working very hard and good team works. Well done. ❤❤💪💪👍👍👏👏💯💯❤❤

Such hard working people, this self reliance is awesome!

You two are so industrious. Good job. : )

So much faster splitting with a good maul . My biddy and I trade off splitting and stacking, no fumes and noise from a log splitting machine. Good excercise , keeps you in shape.

You did more back breaking work in three days than most people do in three months. Alan

also mcculloch and carlton make some nice file plates that are inexpensive and handy to have with you to do some quick sharpening in the field

Great job on being prepared for winter

OMG I do not envy you guys with all that work you did in such a very short amount of time. I hope you two aren't to sore for long.

WOW Eric and Ariel, you both must be knackered at the end of each day. You both work extremely hard but it shows in what you are achieving. So proud of you both. Hugs, Michelle

I absolutely agree with hitting the blades on refill. If I'm running the saw, I'm cutting not wasting time. 👍👍👍

This brings back so many memories from when I was younger. Listening to the chainsaw I could almost smell the wood. My Dad had a wood splitter that hooked up to the tractor. I really remember stacking the wood…long process

Impressive! Goal oriented! Great teamwork!

Man am I jealous. I'm 68 and my water access cabin in Northern MN has no road, no splitter. I have to split the wood by hand. Takes forever. And you have a road. Wow. A truck. Wow. Luckily my place is for fun and privacy, not my homestead where I live in St. Paul, MN. When it's cold I go to my place in Florida. I guess retirement does have some perks but love your set up and you two are very high energy. I am slower. Enjoy.

I need firewood for seven years for room and board and it's really nice to watch you guys do it 8 lb Maul sharp

How great of a feeling is it to be all prepared and ready to go for the winter. Great video.

Wow that's an impressive stack! I am sure you will reap the rewards in the cooler Alaskan temps...

Great work y'all.

Great job you two! Love seeing firewood stacked and ready for the winter. Blessings from NE Missouri!

Nice job! That is so much work! I never got to use a log splitter growing up, but I remember those days! You made it look easy :D

Haha brings way A LOT of memories when I lived up near the Canadian border. Aaaahhh nothing like gettin' the wood in for winter. Thanks for the memory recall!

Handy hint, every time you have to fuel the chainsaw, you should sharpen your chain

Wow! That is impressive... you work well together!

Amazing - I love your music in all your videos!! Bo watching over you in amazement as well ty for sharing your journey.

Looks like a great stock for winter. Renting the wood splitter was a big help. Love your channel and always look forward to a new post.

Always amazes me that they burn soft wood up there. I guess you run what you have, right? splitting that straight grain clear spruce in soooo much easier then some knotty rock maple. we only burn hardwood here in Maine, we go through about 6 cord a year. Buy it tree length and cut and split it myself. Been doing it since i could walk, so about 35 years. crazy to think about the overall scope of it. Good work guys. Firewood warms you twice!!