wood heat is cheap, efficient and reliable. No power? No problems. Can still cook, heat water, and stay warm. Dries clothes too.

Here in Norway, some new houses are built without a chimney. I think it should be forbidden not to have a wood stove, at least in places with cold climates, like here. It is not justifiable to have only electricity as a heat source.

You nailed it on why they don't want us using wood, it's independent of government and a loss of power over those who choose self sufficient individuals. When the grid fails the freezing will be begging for wood stoves.

Heated my house for years with wood that I cut and split myself. Very warm, and every summer I'd lose a good 20 lbs just swinging that maul.

You are spot on about EPA's mandatory smoke emissions for wood stoves. There are no monthly payments with a wood stove. They can't attach prison or stadium tax to a wood stove. It is all about control.

The dirty glove to the head was a defining moment in the Wranglerstar saga. You are human after all! LOL!

I have used wood heat since I dropped out of college in '72 and moved to the mountains in Montana with a sympathic young lady to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my young life. Her cabin needed a good amount of work, so together we figured things out. I would enroll in a trade school and learn how to carry on with manual trades, i.e. carpentry, plumbing, electrician stuff. It worked out pretty well, but my main regret was that I didn't become a journyman electrician. I'd still be working today at 75. Instead, I had to give up carpentry in '03. Buy the way, cut up some of those log quarters into smaller pieces. Your stove will give off more heat faster, then toss in bigger chunks. My lady friend got married to a drunk, had a kid and is on her own after 16 years together. We taught each other a bunch of stuff on how to live off the grid and say screw the goverment authorities. I live in a fast growing town in SW MT and long for the days of my youth at 35.

you are so smart, I've been telling people all my life that the government doesn't want the general public to be self sufficient.

“Carbon” is the “building block” of life!

I live in England and bought my woodburning sauna from Finland. They recommended setting the fire upside down. The kindling is put on last because this causes less smoke. So, logs first then kindling. Yes it does work.

Love my late 90's Quadrafire. I get excited when there are COLD days in the weather forecast, and getting letters from the power company with graphs showing how 'super efficient' I am compared to my 'efficient' neighbors ;-)

The carbon footprint from you collecting your own fuel (wood) and burning it is negligible. You are right in your assumption that your government doesn't like your self sufficiency. It means you are not dependant on them, and cannot be coerced. You are the epitomy of the pioneer spirit . Keep it up Wranglerstar.

“The wood stove is independence”.....damn straight. I heat my entire house all winter on 4 cords. We’ve got 21 acres of trees so I’m set. Damn city dwelling Prius drivers trying to tell everyone how to live.

The face-plant with a dirty glove typified how I feel about life right now. Put another way, I’m ok but the world is crazy

Not just the EPA either, most homeowners insurance companies seem to be in bed with the government by raising your rates or not insuring your house with their company at all in order to shame you and make it hard to have a wood stove

Roof leak note: Not sure whether this applies to your situation now, but generally, flashing can be cemented-in during rainy weather using a wet patch emulsion roofing cement like Henry 208 or one of the similar fibre-infused BlackJack products. Although it is asphalt-based, it is emulsified to be compatible with wet surfaces. Also stops leaks even on flat roofing under pooled water. Makes a permanent fix, not just a temp roof patch.

A coworker just was telling me about the new "standards" for wood stoves and I feel its just ridiculous. The amount of "emissions" from a wood stove can't be THAT much and when taking into account how much of the US population actually uses one, it really makes you think. The EPA should stop worrying about the small percentage of residential homes using wood stoves and their emissions and start worrying more about large corporations and their emissions. And ships dumping thousands and thousands of oil into the ocean. And countries shipping GARBAGE to other countries to "dispose" of it aka dump it somewhere that eventually ends up in our rivers and oceans.

Right on about the attack on self sufficiency. I have been running wood stoves for almost 40 years. They always work in a power outage and have a nice even warmth that oil, gas or electric can not compare to.

it’s all about control of the masses. White smoke actually has high moisture content I learned about this via Watching videos about how to read a fire from a fireman’s perspective

You hit the nail right on the head when you spoke about the power companies and wood stoves. Most of them are still burning coal to produce power. Wood is very sustainable, you can grow a ton of wood in a few years. How long does it take to make a ton of coal, properly a few million years.

Its not all bad, stoves have become alot more efficient as well. We used to have a 50-60 year old massive stove that would get extremely hot, but rip through wood like crazy, wouldnt retain heat very well and leave large amount of ashes and debris. Our new one performs better on every single point while being a third of the size.

Still have and use my "illegal" Pot Belly, I'll be handing it down when I'm gone, everybody wants it!

Thank you for your informative, funny and honest videos, we appreciate how you and your family provide input and feedback into the things going on around you. We do pray for you and your family, and may God Bless you all abundantly and keep you all safe. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us all. And I will say that it is typical Murphy's Law that whenever you are trying to accomplish something around roofing projects, invariably the weather will almost never cooperate. I have been a victim of that myself!

Heat shielded back on the stove, with a twin wall chimney system. You will have no issues with heat at all with your timber cladded wall. I’m an Installer from the UK. Not sure what your regs are over there. But our regs are pretty tight and with what you showed us it would pass. You have nothing to worry about Cody. Good job 👍🏼

I had a Lopi Freedom insert put in our house in August. I specifically wanted a stove with no cat to clog up or maintain. Couldn't be happier that I haven't had to run my oil furnace except for a few hours when it was 8 degrees outside and I didn't want the pipes in the basement to freeze. Splitting and stacking is now a family activity!

I've always enjoyed wood stoves and campfires. Especially fascinated with how a thin piece of almost anything can reduce the intensity of radiant heat hitting my face.

I agree with you, it's all about control! Plastic pollution doesn't seem to be a problem for the mad dogs, only what intelligent humans do to help themselves is a problem! Can we heat a house with a fire made in a whole on the floor with a chimney?

In Texas people have died this winter from the forced blackouts. It’s been a cold winter this year.

I personally love the efficiency of my newer stove over stoves I've had in the past. I wouldn't consider it to be a terribly complicated build but its obviously more complex than just a fire box.

I have always loved your knowledge and honesty. Thank you for not stopping when things are tough!

From the country that claims to be the land of the free.Wake up America.

LOVE my Woodstock soapstone stove! It is catalytic as well, but has very few parts to mess with. You can walk away and still have coals 24-36 hours later.

Will never stop me from burning wood.

for those of you that think the government are doing good just remember what they did to gas cans.

My parents are still using a Fisher mama bear. Never let us down and we’ve even cooked on it.

Some towns near near me in Montana had horrible air pollution problems with wood stove smoke spewing out every chimney. After the EPA mandated cleaner wood stoves the air improved greatly. People were very supportive for the most part and appreciate the cleaner air. I use a wood stove myself.

Youre absolutely correct, same reason collecting rain water in most cities is illegal...or having a garden...

My God, they're worried about wood stove emissions in the face of wildfires? Reminds me of Nellis AFB rules that you can't leave a car running for more than a minute without driving... as I watch the B52s dump yellow clouds on takoff... as I watch 10000 lbs of fuel go into our A10s, 3 times a day.

Knew someone that worked for the FD. He was always extra cautious. He used 1/4" cement board and actually sliced a 1/4" off reclaimed bricks and cemented a decorative fire wall.

Awesome video Cody. I learned alot about modern wood stoves. I haven't heated a house with wood since the 80's. I didn't know new wood stoves only need to be 8" from wall. Way back in the day it 2 or 3 feet. Glad to see they've improved.

Thanks for explaining the setback as all us folks that have used wood stoves since the70’s are used to having more space. Good luck with the rain. Good videos

Praying for you brother, but mostly that your hair grows back quickly. I’m glad to see that even the best of us can admit to mistakes, however rare those mistakes might be.

EPA stoves have the secondary burner tubes. That's actually a good thing cause you reburn the smoke before it comes out of the chimney. Once your roaring you can't see any smoke. Thing is your wood has to be dry and seasoned. EPA stoves don't like wet wood.

The reason Americans start their fires upside down is because when America was founded most of their fires we're outside. The method used to do good fires in the stove doesn't work very well for outside. In a stove the heat is contained ashes and coals fall down into the wood. This doesn't work so well outside the heat goes out and up far quicker. The fire is very likely to just go out. So when Americans started doing indoor wood stoves they started making them like they were doing when they were outside. It's just a cultural tweak that got ingrained. Nothing more than that.

About banning wood stoves: Now there may be many different reasons for this but I have worked in strategic marketing for long enough to know that there has been a push to get people away from one-off purchases of items that they in turn can re-sell, upgrade or modify or that help them to save expenses in the long run. Instead, millions of marketeers have racked their brains how they could generate a steady stream of income w/o having to move physical objects. We all know the results... they are usually called "plans": you can rent, lease, "share" - but you can't really OWN things any more: software (Photoshop), movies, your music, the batteries in electric cars, tech gadgets you aren't allowed to repair or re-sell - the pattern is very clear. Support for this type of one-sided economy comes from "green" governments (very, very obvious now in the EU) that started a war against cheap energy / fuels, cheap transportation, cheap raw materials - always to "save da planet", of course: this way they can better control people's spending and make sure their friends in big businesses can sell more "plans", resulting in drastically limited freedom of the individual... The old pattern of "You keep them poor, I’ll keep them stupid" is alive and kicking - only this time it's not the Cardinal and the Capitalist, it's the Eco-Socialist and the Capitalist - and with a lot of help from mass media like BBC, CNN and The Guardian, people don't realize how quickly and systematically their rights are being taken away from them. The ideology for this sort of eco-socialism has been clearly laid out in 1977 by Dr. Arnold W. Reitze Jr.*, professor of law and a hard-core environmentalist who demanded that democracy, individual mobility and personal freedom to be sacrificed "for the climate" - ironically, he was afraid of a new ice age, rather than the "Thermageddon" we are supposed to fear today... *| BTW: Dr. Reitze hated wood stoves!

When the average citizen becomes independent for his or her needs, then the government is diminished by that equal amount. The government is in self-preservation mode just as the average citizen is. Pity the two are in diametric opposition to each other. One will win out of the other - any guesses which side is winning and why? WTH, on to learning about wood stoves....

Thank you for laying out the truth most won’t talk about! This is exactly why you and others inspire me to get a wood stove. Freedom, independence.

Thank you from Riverside Homestead life 🙌🏽

And don’t forget the insurance companies & wood stoves.

“Anything (the Government) can do to take away our independence and reliance upon (the Government) is under attack”. DING ! DING ! DING ! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!

Lol I love you man. You're honesty about things is so refreshing.

My stove came from Woodstock Soapstone, best part was it was fully assembled. Getting it off my pick up was the easy part. Lifting it onto the hearth took roughly 45 minutes for myself weighing in at 190 lbs & a friend at about 210 lbs. The stove weight was 450 lbs. The point is it was assembled by Woodstock Soapstone here in town

Middle of winter. I like the “riddle of winter” better. Sounds like something out of a Conan the Barbarian movie 👍🏼. Your assessment on the wood stove utility is key. I would not be without one in a house.

Use an elastomeric caulk. It can be applied when wet and it never really dries. I used to put these buildings up. I did it for 5 years

I really enjoy your videos. The honesty and truths make you one of my favorite channels. Keep it going! 👊

“They don’t want you to be independent.” Sure am feeling that statement right now😞

My dad was a mechanic, he had his own garage and last year died from Mesothelioma due to inhaling the dust from brake linings. It is an absolutely horrid way to die.

I just bought an “Old Timer” wood Stove, probably from the late 70’s. Installed in a house but never used; it’s literally brand new. No baffles there! Just 400 lbs of 3/8” steel and firebrick! Excited to see how well it heats

exactly - government doesn't like people to have independence and liberty

We appreciate your commitment and honesty with showing us the good and bad, hair worts and all.

I saw the video when you cut the hole in the roof. I saw you cut through the seam where 2 roof panels overlapped. You will have to calk that seam all the way to the roof peak to stop that drip. Ask me how I know. BTDT.

I'd be tempted to seal up the stovepipe/roof gap, just temporarily, with that foil tape used on ductwork. Should keep your rain out and the flashing will install right over it. Keep up the good work.

Excellent video. I'm 100% with you - there is no reason not to make yourself as self sufficient as possible. Especially with an electric grid and infrastructure ready to collapse that they are lumping more and more load onto (eg electric cars, etc).

You are exactly correct on why the government wants to ban wood stoves! Thank you!

Note to self: Don't place hand on forehead while wearing a dirty glove. LOL

I have read that modern wood stoves with re-burners and catalysts (like I own and what this one appears to be) are just as clean as natural gas - which is pretty darn clean. I'm not sure if this is true but I can attest that once my wood burning stove insert gets to temperature there is no visible smoke or emissions from the top of my chimney. I can't say the same for my neighbors fireplaces/stoves -:) Also, though I don't have one, I do like the old school pot belly iron stoves with coal because coal provides a lot of energy in a small package and it keeps forever with no pests or bugs infesting it. My grandmother in Canada had one decades ago and I was always impressed how much heat a softball sized chunk of coal put out when I visited in the winter.

Hair, Warts and all! My dad used that phase when I was starting my own family 😂😂😂, love your channel and pros and cons of things before we buy

Worked in a garage. Knew asbestos was a health issue. Car would come in for brakes or wheel bearings. We'd remove the wheels and the brake drums, then like you said the very next thing was grab the airline and now all the brake dust off. I was young and I knew that brakes had asbestos and I knew asbestos was bad. But somehow since we were doing it and inhaling clouds of dust I figured the people I worked for knew something I didn't. At some point I realized they didn't know anything and I was taking a risk doing it. Only worked there for the summer.

A great way to get rid of the discoloration on the stove's glass door, is to take a cup or two of cooled ash and mix it with water to about the consistency of pancake batter, and rub it on the glass. The discoloration will come off in a very short amount of time, maybe just a few minutes at most. This is a bit messy, so you'll want to use latex or nitrile gloves.

I believe lobbying by power companies is the cause for excessive wood stove regulations which lead to excessive complications. Burning wood probably isn't the best thing for the environment but it surely isn't the worst. We need a wood stove lobby!

The EPA stuff is so true also here in Italy. They're trying to ban every wood stove or self reliance method just like there in the USA. And guess what - gas and electricity prices are skyrocketing.

Friend of mine lives in Northern Maine. She has one of those in her living room. Why? Every blizzard the power goes out and it can be days before she gets it back.

Yes Cody my father-in-law was a mechanic he made it to 88 years of age but in the end it was asbestosis that got him. He was perfectly well one day 5days later we where laying him rest. His lungs just reached that point and literally exploded have never seen anyone go downhill so fast and in my 70 years I have seen a few people pass. Your granddad was lucky as you said.

A great stove is made from a 16" to 20" pipe, cut about 24" long, on a pedestal, with a Baffle in front of the 6" exhaust outlet, & a window framed into the side. End loader. Since it's ROUND, it needs no fire brick inside, as it heats evenly. It can be made to glow & it won't hurt it. & it will flat heat your house.

Had a Vermont Castings Radiant model wood stove that was awesome! It had the manual Thermostatic control and reburner features. Great stoves, cast iron, well built. I got it for $300 (retail back then was $1800) because the previous owner had overheated with a packed firebox of Pinion...melted the wood stove cement so bad it covered the control linkage. I told the owner we could fix it for about $40 in parts and an hour of labor, but he wanted one of the red enamel models instead and offered it to me for $300. I jumped on it! Repaired it, replaced my old p.o.s. stove with it, and used it for the next 10 years until I moved from that place. I would buy another Vermont Castings in a heartbeat. I've also had my experiences with Fisher's and Soapstone wood stoves, they work well too...I just preferred the VC's with the glass doors that allow you to see the fire. While you may have a 'heat shield' on the back of that stove, I would still install something on the wood wall behind it. Over time, that area will be damaged by the heat and be more susceptible to ignition. Overkill? Maybe, but sometimes 'Code' is the bare minimum...and I like my home/shop enough to not take the chance. As a firefighter in wood stove country, I've seen my fair share of fires from the embers of a wood stove getting too close to bare wood walls. That's just me tho..you do you.

The worst line you can hear from government. "I am from the government and here to help".

Cody, As usual you are exactly right. Granted I live in Arizona, however a few years back we had extreamly low temps which forced the local natural gas company to turn off our gas supply in our home... they couldn't keep up with the demand. We were without gas, (hot water, stove, heat) for about 4 days. The only way I was able to keep the water pipes from freezing was to use my camping equipment to generate heat and hot water and a lot of electric space heaters, etc. By the way, they build homes so crappy here that all of the water pipes are ran in the attic. So imagine what fun it would be if my pipes froze!! Since then, I moved into an older home with real water pipes and have backups for my backups! Independence is where it is at!

You speak the truth about "them" controllin us.

You are only human. NO ONE IS PERFECT! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY

Thanks for all your videos, always informative and entertaining.

I’ve never thought I would watch so many videos on wood stoves 😂😂😂

Two to three times as much energy heating my house per pound of wood burned doesn't really feel like an "attack" to me, but to each their own I guess?

Professional home owner, reminds me when I was younger doing dishes in a restuarant, we were not dish washers, but professional sanitization machine operators, haha, cracks me up to this day and love how we are able to make our daily things sounds super awesome and to be honest, DO IT, cause if you are a professional at what you do, no matter what it is, being a mom, dad, mechanics, doesn't matter, add that title to your resume', at the very least, add it to your self esteme, cause it matters!

Starting with not tolerating flame inside my house, unless for specific reasons like soldering pipe, at any time. No wood stove in here. I am warming my feet with an electric space heater powered by a nuclear reactor over on the coast. I grew up with wood and coal heat and all I remember is the upstate NY cold. When the upper classes discovered the mountains of Colorado they went rustic with wood stoves that chocked their perfect resort valleys. They called for cleaner more efficient wood stoves. The stoves have come a long and more expensive way from the Smokey iron boxes. This is a good thing!

Love the channel. The rules from the EPA are to protect your health, not help the planet. The new rules are particularly cost effective, with over 100 dollars in public benefit per dollar spent to comply, and will probably most benefit the health of the owner of the wood stove, especially that person's health. Also, wood smoke going up the chimney is just unburned fuel. A more efficient stove is awesome and burns longer. I've used older stoves and newer stoves, and the new ones are awesome and make you even more self-sufficient -- healthy, wealthy, and wise!!

First thing you learn in Bureaucrat School, there's no power in saying "yes".

Love your channel, glove on the forehead did make me chuckle, keep up the good work

I cant do wood stove in the city but I can do a pellet which I love to do, a bit more money than wood but no large storage, no seasoning and much less time spent cutting/hoarding. Love your videos!

People who are dishonest, the government in this case, always complicate things. Honest people keep it simple and straight forward and understandable.

Say our wood stove is about 9 inches away from the wall. Haven't had any problem. No discoloration of the wall or anything like that. It looks wonderful by the way!

Thank you and thank God for the knowledge and kindness in your videos.

Putting kindling on the bottom is how my parents have always done it... I assumed your way was better... Assumption is the mother of all mistakes :) looking forward to that video!

"I'm gonna set you back." I didn't read the comments but guessed they'd be loaded up with the setback. Does anyone really think you didn't research the measurements? Jeez.

Cody, That toupee blends in so well with the new haircut. Color match is so natural. Be careful to keep your toupee at least 8” from the stove.

Sitting in front of my old school insert which sits in a brick mason fireplace.. Love it! Spent years doing a firewood delivery service and stopped in large part due to the administrative hoops that kept getting harder to jump through.

Mr. Wranglestar I worked in the boat industry for years in the Portland area. 3M makes a eurathane 2 part sealer that can be used and will setup under water. You can buy it at home depot online or marine supply. It comes in a squeeze tube or a chalking tube, brown or white. The "2nd" part the sealent is oxygen.....there is enough oxygen in water to allow it to set up! Thats why it can set up underwater....,! Amazing stuff, in the winter in portland's cool temperatures, it takes a week (not underwater)to set up. Summer time, three days. If you get it on your clothes......it's never coming out! When dry/cured it is both never hard and incredibly, unbelievably strong. .......so never use it on anything you want to take apart. But if you want something to "never" leak and be strong, then the part number is 3M 5200. It is expensive. Used to be $20.00 a tube years ago. Never tried it in freezing temperatures....so not sure about your situation.?? Oh yes, I don't repesent or sell this.....just do woodworking..... All the best just jim

Pacific energy is hands down the best wood stove you can get. Easy to service and clean and one of the most efficient stoves on the market.

The main attack on your ability to take care of yourself is Wall Street, who profits greatly from centralized supply chains. What government agency has tried to protect you from Asbestos?

Another tip. Use flesline gas water heater flue pipe to attach to the hole I. The back of the stove. Connect that to a fresh air supply. This will stop the stove from taking air from the room and reheating it. It creates a positive air pressure in the heated room. Without it air is pulled into the room by the stove.

From 3:30 to 6:00 was like listening to myself explain why I bought a wood stove 6 years ago. You're a good dad.