Most rural French homes have a hydraulic log splitter. You could probably build one from an old bottle jack and some pieces of angle iron.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Nice idea

Nice to see the bees are out and about and fingers crossed they survived the cold snap. As always great to see the progress 😊

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I was delighted to see them out and about. A good sign for the rest of the year hopefully. Still need to prep and clean a hive or 2

@PinkettsHoney

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce fingers crossed 🤞 I am still cleaning hives and have making up few more spares. No matter how prepared I think I am I always seem to be scrambling around for kit when things start to really get going. 😁

Yay! Was hoping for a new video this sunday! Got myself a sunday coffee and enjoyed! Your place looked magical in the snow! And Annie... you have a way with words! I don´t know how to describe it but the way you word things and your timing, even if it is just short simple things, makes me feel deeply. I hope you do find the courage to maybe narrate some more bits or maybe you will find another formate for every now and then where you are the voice in the off? Even though I really love your normal very personal and uncomplicated vlog style. And maybe it does not even have to find a place on KZread, but I just wanted to voice that I feel you are a poet and it shows.

@innerwilddiaries1903

Жыл бұрын

Hi it’s Annie, thank you so much for hearing my words and depth. You have reminded me of an old idea I had to record some of my writings, I’d also love to write a book one day 🙏💫💚

@anniinglucksdorf960

Жыл бұрын

@@innerwilddiaries1903 Hi Annie, sounds like a lovely idea. I for my part love hearing you speak!

@c-monsta

Жыл бұрын

Nice!

Timber blocks heat you twice!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

That they do

Hi Bruce.. I was down your way on Thursday ..ye had no.shortage of Snow wide open countryside..I always have a few gallons of water in a container ..cause you never know when a power cut happens or pipes freeze .. part of mine are overground A gas cooker is handy .. Stay Free and Safe

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Hey Mike. It’s definitely a good idea. I was going to fill some anyway as I was worried about getting frozen pipes but I was late to the party

Pigs in snow. I’m afraid you’ve peaked - not sure anything is going to top this for you. What a delight! 💚🌱

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Those pigs 😂

Still watching although not commented. So lovely to see your all well & loving the snow! We miss Ireland loads. Send our love to the girls & Annie. Bex & Sam, Iz & Euan x

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Will do. Hope you are still enjoying your travels

Love this time of year, so full of potential as everything starts to sprout.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Mee too

Nothing like true off grid to remind us of real living from our ancestors time, but the jackery is a handy modern help 😁

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Super handy but I actually loved the downtime of no power

@jacksg1809

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce u won't know the 70s they were fun with power outs 🙂

@davidfennell5124

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce yep, having no power can often mean quality family time and living more mindfully. Glad you enjoyed it

that was a much more exciting snow day than the one we had on wednesday over here.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

You didn’t build a snowman?

Awww, loving the snowball fight, proper smiley moment.

@innerwilddiaries1903

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! It was soo fun! The dogs were chasing after the snowballs, and digging for them in the snow ❄️ I love snow! From Elsie

"Trying to show off that you don't drink" Out of the mouths of babes 😆😅

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

😂 I have been banging on about it drinking recently. They take everything in

@lizgarland2241

Жыл бұрын

👍🇮🇪🍀💚👍

Great to see you all enjoying your Off Grid spell,

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It was lovely

On Grid Bruce!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

😂

I’m From Sunny Florida USA. Loved the snow. Really enjoy the blog.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Daryl

I love watching your family.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching :)

You guys are always working your butts off!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It’s fairly hard work right now but it’s getting easier. We still find time to relax :)

quick tip an old chippy thought me for splitting logs - use an old tyre and you can chop multiple logs at once without having to collect them after wards as they are contained within the tyre. keep up the good work lad!!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. A few people have suggested that now and I keep thinking while I’m doing it that I should get that sorted 😂 then I forget till next time I need it

hi bruce , if you nail a tyre to your chopping block, it prevents the split timber from flying everywhere, from someone who splits timber and has a bad back!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I have been meaning to do that

Always fun to watch the snow while sitting at 85f in the Caribbean. Looks so pretty outside. Can’t wait to see the finished bedrooms.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

The Caribbean! Sounds lovely!

As a wise man once said processing your wood warms you at least 4 times. Cutting it, Splitting it, Stacking it, Burning it. I love it. Although using a Maul especially if not correctly is very risky if you have back problems. I put my back out for 2 months earlier in the year splitting wood with knots in it. Not worth it. If you must use it, I do not pull or swing it from behind. I now bring the Maul straight up toward the sky from my centre of gravity then let it fall forward and guide it down in an arc using its own weight and gravity. Actually the heavy the maul the better with this method and off course the quality and type of timber factors in too. But a log splitter would be a handy investment.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Defo going to get one at some point. I do weirdly enjoy splitting wood though

Lets get this party started nice one bruce crack on

I agree with Annie, it all looked magical. Love the excited reaction of your dog's.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

They are always funny

Was glad to see the jackery in use again. We are in the market as altho our yurt is arriving later in spring and we have a wood stove for it power is the next thing.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely good. But we use it very lightly. Charging phones, laptop and running lights. You can use it for some power hungry devices but at this time of year the solar wouldn’t fully charge it

@bigwilf1966

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce yeah it's just till we get the full system in. Problem with bare land with no structures your need to start from scratch.

🎉 Snow was lovely!! Great family time too 🎉

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was! We had great fun

The wife is always right Bruce remember lol 😂

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

That she is but I can’t always admit it

Bruce we always keep a metal kettle handy to put on the log burner

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

That’s what we do :)

Power out u have snow to drink (beware of the yellow snow🧐 ) it's testing u to how much u can take that power cut ... I would put my frozen outside . I have no working fridge I have used cool boxes all winter to keep things chilled . Being in Devon we haven't had much snow at all . Been so rainy (heavy) so my hedgerow growing had had to stop 😏 . Great family time having snow and snowball fights ... Enjoy Bruce family 🙂👍

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Good idea there. It’s funny how you can slip into old habits. When we lived in the van we just got used to not having a freezer and we were fine

Great Vlog Bruce and looking forward to the progress on the Rooms in the fullness of time.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

You and me both! Hopefully make some good progress in the next couple of weeks

Hey Bruce, be careful with them cone splitters. I had one of them a few years ago, picked it up on donedeal near me for 150€ if I remember rightly. It was lethal! Spun the timber round & almost broke my arm on more than one occasion. If I was to buy a tractor driven one again, I'd buy an hydraulic splitter. I went back to my trusty splitting maul. Some people say the firewood warms you twice, but when you cut, (haul), split, haul, stack & then burn it, I think its more like 4 or 5 times 🤣

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

They do look quite savage. Did it have a big flat table to stop the spinning? Currently I don’t mind splitting by hand it’s just the time I can’t spare right now

@OffGridAnthony

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce Yep, it was a similar one to this one m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/imeG29KbYcfJhag.html

Loved seeing you all!

Nice sharp chainsaw 👍

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Makes all the difference

Powerful stuff

Ah! Our Neighbours to the north have entered the chat.

I love how your girls are helping. Such great kids.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

They are great help

Such an amazing family. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

Nice late season snow! Very pretty! We are getting that, too, here in Michigan where I live. In fact, we seem to be getting ALL of winter in March after having a springlike stretch in February. And we had a doozy of an ice storm where 900,000 lost power. The joys of climate change are everywhere! Nice progress upstairs! That will be a supercool sanctuary for your girls! You two are such great parents! Cool that you stop working to celebrate things like a snowfall as a family! As much hard work as you put in, you do seem to have a much better balanced life than most modern families! Happy spring! 🍀💐🌷🌹🌸🌞🌼❄️❄️❄️

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It’s a hard balance to get right somedays but I did have an amazing time playing in the snow with the family. You guys get some serious weather where you are!

Woooooo. Snoooooow. Love fraggle.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

❄️

Love that kettle thing!!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Kelly kettle. It’s like a rocket stove

Another entertaining video Bruce and fam!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated

Hard work in cold weather. Once you rent a splitter for a big job, you'll never look back

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Defo would like one

Amazing video as always

@OffGridBruce

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Great video guys xx

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤗

Thanks for another lovely video. Love the drone shots of the snow covered landscape. You managed well in such a long power cut. We had lots of snow here in Cavan too, thankfully no power cuts - so far.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I thought they may had forgotten about us. Had plenty of fun though

Great to see the timber chopped and stored 😀 I must attack mine again soon lol *always puts that off*... the snow was lovely and horrible all at once lol we were snowed in for 2 days, luckily no power cut through. Your place looks magical with proper snow! ✨️ regards, Eileen

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Satisfied now store number 1 is full. Thanks for the timber :)

Great vlog as always. It was kind of nice to be snowed in for a few days.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I thought so. What’s your fields like now though? Mine are soaked!

@malcolmduggan5130

Жыл бұрын

Yep place's get fairly boiled up after snow but it's nice to see once in a while 🙂 the country side looked amazing

We definitely didn’t get as much snow as ye did back there but did hear the roads were atrocious, we passed your way this morning going to Lahinch , awful flooding along the river and fields , hope ye are safe from that .

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

We were ok. The fields were soaked after the thaw and they were drying nicely before that 😂 loved the snow break though

11:36 wow... 🙂

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Was unintentional head shot 😂

@kingloser4198

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqCY086LoaTAZqQ.html 😀

got a couple of meters of snow up here I could send you, if you'd like 😁 I don't need it this week 😅 will you be building stairs inside the house or build out the "addon/sunroom" to house a stair to the loft? ..or will it be ladders for the forseeable future? 😉

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Stairs inside. I have drawn up plans for an l shape winder. I need to do the floors downstairs first though

I think you should try the tyre around the log stand ,the log stays on the block while you split them then

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I have been meaning to do that

great aerial video of your Home workshop and poly tunnel, the music is really good who is it by

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It’s a random collection from Epidemic sound. One of my favourite bits of vlogging is selecting the music

What type of dogs are the puppies?

The upstairs room looks great! And I lobe your battery pack. I think it would be good for a boat. As back up. What is the brand name?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

That one is an EcoFlow and the one in the yurt is a jackery

I'd say so! 😀

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Looks like you could use a wood fired Rayburn or Aga!

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I have an Esse waiting in my workshop to be installed once my floors are done

I do love your vlogs. Does Annie help with the editing?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

The edit is all me (Bruce) Annie helps with the camera work sometimes which is a great help

Hey Bruce You mentioned suffolk is that where you are from originally ? The fun of chopping wood with an axe soon wears off when you have to do it to keep the fire alight 💪🏻

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I lived in suffolk for about 3 years before moving to Ireland

@jaysjourney365

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce nice one, there are some beautiful places here I’ve lived in suffolk forever 😂 born and breed 🙃

Fab. Is your stove a nester Martin?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

It is and it’s brilliant

Fair play mate your giving it a good go. I'm looking through ya vids as toying with the idea of moving to Ireland , what area are you in roughly and does it rain a lot? cheers.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

We are in the west in north Clare. I can tell you this winter we had biblical amounts of rain but it does make me appreciate the good days a little more

Just come to South Africa and you'll have State induced off Grid living

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

😂 My great aunt used to live in Zimbabwe

Hi Bruce, is there no staircase to the attic rooms?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Not yet but I have drawn up plans

Hi, they do a screw splitter that fits to a battery drill, maybe it sould be converted to the tractor if its big enough?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I think they would be fairly small

@jacksg1809

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce they are but u need exercise 🤭 chop logs in half then use tool in drill I have one they are good 🙂

100% not a fraud. Have you guys started seeds for growing food this year?

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

We have the propagator going and some friends have some seedlings for us in theirs

First comment I’ll watch the video now 😂

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Haha! On the bath there Jason!

With a name like off grid Bruce, one would think your actually off grid.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

You would have thought that 😂 I am in all the other areas water, heat etc. Need to get my solar and wind and I’m 100%

Where is the old tyre screwed to stump! I told yeh saves shins, back and cameras lol. Sorry bruce your not off grid i am in city on grid use rainwater except for drinking heat with wood and although i have elec connection i use batteries and solar 4kwh. my other property is completely off grid and its bloody ruff in winter even for a week or two. Keep going any how not slagging you off! The less impact we have on the earth the better imo. No tyre bungee cord and a bit of chain works too.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Hey Mike. The last cord for me is electricity. The solar and batteries are very expensive although I’d love to have them. Maybe I could go full Mark Boyle and turn it all off but I’d find it hard to make KZread vids 😂

@mikegb1969

Жыл бұрын

@@OffGridBruce yes ano i have land line and net at both! when remote its a life line , no mobile signal at my off g rid place. not that i use a moby so important if i have if accident.With loved ones kids even more important to u.and yesi have bolyes book but just havent had time to read it. lol seriosly

Definitely the toils of REAL living reducing the carbon footprint without realising it. Makes for a lot less waste and makes us value things more.

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Totally. I enjoyed the forced slowing down

Those nuts look so big. What variety is it?

@innerwilddiaries1903

Жыл бұрын

Hi it’s Betsy the nuts are hazel and some cob nuts from the Burren I had fun collecting them and cracking them 😊

What did the Snowman look like?? Have some mercy on us South Africans who don't get to build things like that (although I'd pass on a snowball in the face... that would have justified a hit with Annie's Meter-stick right there... very forgiving woman, that Annie if yours 😬)

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

I’ll have to post a pic. They made a few but the dogs kept stealing the carrot nose

algo comment

@OffGridBruce

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏