If you're concerned about the space taken up by pallets you could build them to nest.

The cart will require you to pick up the wood 1 additional time right?

your system looks good. i have long said the end boss of wood burning is wood chip burning, it's what all commercial or councils use here in europe (sweden). it can be automated to a completely different degree. only thing you could improve is a huge water storage, so the incinerator can run att full blast until it's out of fuel, you lose a lot on the smoldering.

That magnet will have a harder time picking up sheet steel. Not as much density under the magnet. Be careful trying it out!

Build another same size woodshed on the other side of the wood boiler.

Exactly. Gasifier provides maximum possible energy out of wood. And combining gasifier with auger, filling burner with pellets / crushed wood from small diy build mini silo, provides possibility to easily automate whole heating of a house. You can make system which needs human interaction once per month of heating... in European Union, gasifier stoves are only wood burning technology allowed, because of cleanliness of output gases. They can be in multitudes of shapes and sizes.

I type this with a broad SMILE on my face I'll be building my last (retired) home to die in. Roughly 1,000 sq feet on 100 acres of hardwood trees. I became so excited watching a KZfaqr explaining his high efficient outdoor boiler. He heats roughly 3000 sq feet - his home and his workshop with 4 cords! WOW! That's for me, until I heard the price tag. Roughly $25 to 30K installed (HeatMaster). That's not for me or most of us.. Maybe my home is too small for something like this. Please, don't get me wrong, it's a terrific idea but todays "efficient things" including todays state-of-the-art building techniques; 2 to 6 inches exterior foam, monopoly framing, European triple pane windows, IFC foundations, etc. etc. takes a $350K home and turns it into $5 to 700k home. Most of us cannot afford or fathom the savings. IMHO. Best regards, Pete

@@user-ik4fd9ny4b That is why i love gasifier stoves, they are easy to build even DIY, and are most efficient, they are build in europe for hundreds of years. Try to search for russian, swedish, finnish masonry heaters, maybe it will help you and other to heat house with considerably less then 4 cords, lol.

@@user-ik4fd9ny4bI’m 100% in agreement with your comment. Nobody has the stomach or stones to address the fact that the economy has been intentionally destroyed yet technology continues to innovate the world. The problem is being able to afford it.

Not that I’m proud of this but life being what it etc I realized one day that I had not been up on the roof to clean the flue etc for SEVEN (7) Years! (I pull pipe from stove 2x a year) Anyway when I got up there and looked expecting to see a death trap of clogged up flue. What u found was whistle clean flue after 35 cords of primarily mixed hardwood in various states of being dry. The gasifier / type 2 EPA firebox design is a game changer.

It's not so much that the magnet releases at an angle, it's that metal to metal contact has a very low coefficient of friction. When the load gets at an angle, it can start to slide. The magnet is still exerting the same force perpendicular to it, it just doesn't provide much lateral force at all. As the object slides, the weight balance will change and the angle becomes steeper, making the problem worse. The object will slide right off the magnet. You can go from fairly stable to completely letting go very quickly (less than a second or two). We lift with cranes often at our job and, while we have these devices, we only use them as a last resort. They just aren't as safe as typical lifting tackle. They are much faster to use, but not worth it IMO.

Jon, I worked in a manufacturing plant and this warning about following the directions is absolutely correct, also be careful when lifting round stock as this cuts the lifting strength way down, we used these to lift barstock and to be very careful, lifting with these will also magnetize the iron or steel, never place any part of your body under any item you are lifting and be careful when lifting your load over items that would be damaged if the lift let's go. Thanks for your video and we all learn something when viewing these. Stay safe.

Love the splitter! If you didn't have the excavator wood you put that splitter on yer skid steer? Do you use a little generator to run the stove during power outage?

Overkill power is good if you add a big water buffer.

We called it Hog fuel, we had to purchase millions of tons as a commercial source. On most units they used water grates, eventually I had an opportunity to work on live bed system (lime melted into active flowing/circulating).

Wait....how much does an entire.tree suze.chipper cost? A Crain? So this is only a good idea if you own a tree company then? Three do you dry the Chips? You need lots of space for that. Humm...i don't think this is feasible for the average joe.

Curious to know what happens after chipping, assuming the chips need to be dried before they can be stored?

And just like me, you carried wood, uphill, both ways, for over 1000 feet? jk

@roberthousedorfli1743 But of course. Nah, our woodshed was only about 30 feet from the kitchen door. However, in the winter, we did walk 5 miles to school through 3 feet of snow, barefoot, and uphill both ways, naturally. In reality, we only had to walk about a half-mile to catch the school bus, but in winter we often were walking through a foot or more of snow, as we followed a lightly-used railroad branch line that crossed our property. Living out in the country in those days wasn't for the faint of heart.

sounds like Pinhook. Papaw's palace. greatest place to ever grow and learn from, while telling lies playing cards at the kitchen with a fireplace you could throw a whole tree in. WOULDN'T HESITATE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. BATHTUB ON BACK PORCH WITH THE TOILET OUT BY THE CHICKEN COOP.

And I complain if it isn't exactly 70 degrees in every room 😂

Yeah, I wondered about that, too, but I believe he mentioned that they have a heat pump system intended for AC, but which can also heat the house. Heating with a heat pump is surprisingly efficient (to me, at least).

I was wondering about contingencies for machine failures. It would be equally disruptive to have to suddenly process wood with more conventional means. John could and has done it, but now your available labor capacity is used processing wood vs other needed chores on the farm. He does have the heat pumps, too though.

Fuel shortage could be another issue. Can't cut, move, split without processed diesel (tractor/splitter) or gas for the chainsaw. Farms usually keep a decent stock, but shortages are possible.

@@mitchdengler7115 have 4 winters worth under cover here ...........

Marty T - what a bright guy! Boy, they sure have a lot of abandoned stuff over there! HA Ha

He does edit... notice the cow glitches around 1:13

Dear Jon, what's happening with the John Deere? Point of Information : Diesel engines burn about 5 gallons of fuel per 100 hp output So a 200hp Diesel running at full power will require about 10 gallons an hour. Your 27 hp Diesel tractor running continuously at full power will use less then 1 1/2 gallons an hour. Rarely if ever do you run it at full power for any length of time. A 100hp gasoline engine uses about 8 gallons an hour at full power. I can back up these numbers. I work around pleasure boats and I'm very aware of what they consume.

Struck a chord?? Haha

That usually equates to one quarter the amount of people needed though. The more efficient the production machines, the less people needed.

What are the economics of having a sawmill on such a small parcel?

@@vidard9863 I'm not sure if that's a serious question but.... The forests in northern Idaho are extremely dense. Ours is mostly cedar and douglas fir with smatterings of western larch (tamarac), grand fir, and western hemlock. About 15 acres is south facing and is almost all white pine. Almost all are good and very good lumber trees. Logging in this area was all but shut down in the '80's and the forests haven't been managed since. The forests that are adjacent to our land (US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management) are very overgrown as is our land. They are natural, but not healthy. We recently had a forestry specialist come out and learned we really have our work cut our for us. There are way way too many trees. They are all in competition for resources and suffering from it. Many smaller trees have died because some of the larger trees haven't been harvested and we don't let forest fires burn to take them out. We have trees that are 8" in diameter and are over 60 years old. They should be much bigger. We will be thinning and cleaning until we die. Basically when we get done with the first acre we started it will be time to do it again when we get to the last acre. We have to take out and thin trees of all sizes, leaving trees of every "age" so it is continually growing with new trees needing harvested every year. What that means for us is basically free lumber, which given the price of lumber is a huge win. The sawmill paid for itself the first year as we're building on our property. Just clearing and cutting in the almost half mile drive and clearing for the building site got us about 100 millable logs. Since we're building we put a 5th wheel on the property and I milled all the wood to build a 24x44 building over it (winters are pretty severe here). This included all the wood for the framing, rafters, and board on board live edge siding around the entire building. I ended up with about $2k in the building (fasteners, doors, 5 windows, metal roofing) which is unheard of these days. We're building a earth contact home. They're called earth ships. But if you look them up, think earth ship without the hippy vibe (I'm not an artistic type). We using wood for all the framing/formwork then the form gets shotcrete'd. It will be a house/garage, shop, and storage building. It's a barrel vault shape (think Quonset hut) that is 48' across and 160' long all together. So far the shop and storage building have been formed and shotcrete'd. It is tons and tons of wood for the bracing to hold up the concrete. We'd be 10's of thousands of dollars into wood for formwork that would later just be trashed. I couldn't begin to consider this build if I had to buy the wood. With the density of the forest here I'll never not have trees ready to mill. We'll likely have to sell some to local sawmills (real sawmills) just to maintain the health of the forest. But, having a sawmill is awesome. It let's you build things without having to justify the expense of wood. Last winter I built a wood drying and storage rack so my lumber can air dry, is organized and not tarped and buried under 3 feet of snow in the winter. It had 20 4x4x16 uprights. Those are about $25 each and that's not all the wood I used. But, just the uprights is $500 right there I didn't have to spend. To be honest, if I'd had to buy the lumber I couldn't have justified the expense just to organize my lumber. So, for us it's a huge win. And, I'm a builder so having free (other than my labor) lumber is huge. I can consider projects that I just wouldn't do if I had to buy the lumber. I think it all depends on the thickness of your forest, what you want to do with lumber (I wouldn't mill lumber to sell, it's just not that lucrative for the time invested unless you have a $30k sawmill), etc. And, if I'm honest, there's something immensely satisfying for me to take something from a raw resource to something structural that I've built. We also have a very high clay content in our soil here. I'm dying to get the clay out and build a kiln to fire bricks. No idea what I need brick for but the idea of making your own bricks from your own dirt just won't let go :)

@@markbrown9765 very serious question, and I definitely appreciate your response. I'd like to start a more self sufficient life, but I would need a viable income stream and wasn't sure if small scale lumber mills are a thing in regards to income. Certainly I can see how it makes economic sense just for building, certainly sounds like you have a great project going on there!

@@vidard9863 That's what we're doing in retirement. Should have started earlier. Wish I knew then what I know now :) Best of luck.

Sounds great but with all that fuel around its nice to have backups.

i am thinking of having a hybrid system. solar water heater and owb. after realizing everyone here in alaska smells of wood smoke, it doesnt bother you anymore. this lady making my coffe one time, said she lives by herself and heats with wood. she was about 22

Nothin wrong with your setup. Burns less wood plus it works when the power is out.

I was waiting all day bro😢

me too i need my friday fix

I leave our front door cracked for fresh air, it's close to our stove. I live in a tiny cabin.

If one pump were to fail, the amount of water flow would drop enough that the home heat wouldn't be able to keep up on cold days. But it would continue to function somewhat. I always keep a couple spare pumps on hand. Cheers.

I was thinking the same thing. If it was split directly onto the pallet that would save a touch

@@wingman358 He has to stack it in a balanced manner, especially the end pieces. While he could split and dump onto the pallet, it wouldn't be able to hold as much and he'd likely have to pull most of it off to restack anyway. Maybe if he caged the pallet and gated one side it would work, but again, he wouldn't be able to get as much wood on it.

You get half or less PSI on the back stroke. Jon did a video where he explains why in this video he made. It's in the 5-8 minute range. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ec5obNilx7nQYnk.html

But the digger rotating takes just as long as it takes for the blade to return to the stop.

​@@VegasEdo that's very simple. On the back stroke you have the cylinder rod in the compartment filling with oil. Due to that the area of the piston is smaller, so at the same pressure the force is significantly less.

@@VegasEdo right now that splitter is not struggling, so it might work splitting during the back stroke

@@smithgarin9375 rotating? What do you mean