"Must have fire! Big fire!" I tried to decipher the smoke signals over here. I think you either want it to rain pianos or burritos. Not sure. Nice job on Mount Cottonwood!

That pile at its peak burn was a thing of beauty. I’m no criminal, but if I were to pick an illegal discipline, it would be pyromania. Watching a burn is some gooood medicine...

Glad to see things are starting to move in your favor...... “persistence” |per’sistens|. NOUN. firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition 👍. I think you have this definition well understood !

Nice fire! I don't mess with the trees when I'm clearing. Straight to a burn pile or stacked to dry and be used for next year's burns. It's a much smaller scale than your project -- but I'm doing it by hand. I had one pile that took all winter to burn because of the stumps. Just keep consolidating it and relighting. Eventually you'll be done. Also keep in mind, cottonwood rots pretty fast.

Josh I know you have tried for a long time to give away these logs for a long time.. I believe you are doing the best you can.. God bless...

I still trying to figure out why they cut the trees down just to stack them.

massive burn pile is an understatement, holy cow. Did you guys stay and tend the fire the whole night or let it burn down enough where you were comfortable to leave it? Id be afraid of burning down half the state.

Well explained vlog❕

Isnt cottonwood kinda soft? So no good for building with?

I think you are doing the right and safe thing to burn this huge amount right now before fire season.Too bad I don't have my property up there yet.

🔥Burn baby burn!🔥

Cottonwood doesn't burn easily does it? In the past, here in OK they used to make long rows of downed trees and cover them with dirt to make a huge long berm where they would eventually rot out. Good luck with your big bonfire! :)

@leoruocco9128

5 жыл бұрын

YES THE BERM IDEA WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA AROUND THE OUTER EDGE OF THE PROPERTY LINE.

@NewGuyMedia-xe7bm

2 жыл бұрын

Cottonwood burns fine if seasoned properly.

Is Red Poppy Ranch not going to take logs now?

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

5 жыл бұрын

We still have a bunch that he may take home at some point

wow now that's a burn pile holy crap

Do whatever is the cheapest and easiest for you, that's what matters. It would be great if you had a 5hp or 8hp walk behind blower and just pointed it at the base of the fire at 1/2 throttle for the first 20 minutes. It can just sit there and turn it into a forge in that 20 minutes ! And that is one heck of a fire ya got there !

I wish lumber was still ‘cheap’

Great idea’s for burning is Kindling Material, to start your Fire- Flame dragon, to light your Fire- Fuel, Diseal fuel to give it Power- Oxygen, Leaf blower will help give the Fire some oxygen.

That whole log deck on fire was way cool!

Man, i bet your nieghbors and alot of us locals just love you around here

@JohnDoe-np3zk

5 жыл бұрын

Must be great living next to hillbillies that destroy the environment on a daily basis while proclaiming to somehow be environmentalists.

@randomlyfunny2657

5 жыл бұрын

Well i think i would rather live with that than city slickers driving 100 mph, cutting me off, flipping me off, tailgating me, putting up no trespassing signs every 10 ft, gates at every place they can, video cameras up everywhere, because you know every hill billy out here is out to get em some how. Then claim they came here for a slower pace life with less stress, what a joke

@randomlyfunny2657

5 жыл бұрын

And so would the city people becaose they keep coming out here to us hill billys

@JohnDoe-np3zk

5 жыл бұрын

@@randomlyfunny2657 isn't that funny, it's the local good old boy that wants to create an easement where none exists and try to get the neighbors property through some kind of legal action. He thinks he can use my private road as his driveway I guess. Already did his good old boy slash and burn to "clean it up" seems to be a common theme among hillbillies.

@randomlyfunny2657

5 жыл бұрын

John Doe i dont understand what you are tr ying to say, you talking about this essential guy or what

It’s funny hearing lumber is cheap. Watching this video 3 years later.

If you know anyone with a CNC machine and a bandsaw, or even a table saw some of that wood could be sold as arts crafts or even mold making materials.

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

4 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right! I should start my own woodworking empire and be the next Bob Ross of the craft world. Who's ready for some beautiful wooden masterpieces?

10:48 where video starts

Watching this in march 2021, where lumber costs are up 150%

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Cottonwood in 2021 is still shit and needs to be burned 🔥

@marknatividad6310

3 жыл бұрын

I need the trees 🌲 in my property cut and burned 💥🌲💥🌲

Agree with other stack layers at 90’ if possible. Fire needs oxygen.

I think that was your only realistic option. Keep moving forward!

Make some hugelkultur mounds. It is great for the soil. Cuts down on water plants need.

@HiddenValleyHomestead

5 жыл бұрын

Make a hugulkulture mound and then do what? Have people downhill ski off it in the winter???🤣🤣🤣

You should have bet on the future with lumber prices today!

Where was this?

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

Sandpoint, Idaho

I bet you are burning and cleaning up all summer... Smaller piles might burn faster and with less smoke etc... I'd suggest stacking for better drafting to combust more fuel... lots of char ahead to cleanup... Good luck!!

Why not use the logs to make wood two by fours

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

You can’t

@johnpettitt

10 ай бұрын

Watch the video he says why at the beginning

When I lived in Idaho the forest service would cut away the dead and dying trees as well as scrape the forest floor of debris. They would pile everything up in a large clearing then let whoever come out with their trucks and chainsaws to get as much firewood as they could carry. The leftovers would then be burned like in this video.

wow

Well, that's a bummer. Why not convert it to charcoal for BBQ? Why not chop into firewood? Why not reduce to wooden pellets? I'm at loss of words here.

Why not cut it up for firewood, or sell to a chip yard?

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

Because it’s not good wood for that

If you have a generator you can generate power with wood furnace and fuel your house

16:25.... now that’s a fire!!

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

5 жыл бұрын

This is the best bonfire I've ever had!

So as a man with chickens hang them feeders make them birds stretch thier necks less waste.and stays way cleaner same as for the water jugs hang them.thank me later.great video

I really think those dudes (or dudets) in the helo want to drop a load of water on the fire.

Thatbsscalated wuickly

Josh I don't know is you tried it but empty old 5 gal plastic buckets is a great way to start fires. they last a long time and burn hot

More FIRE much less talk.Much less talk,more fire🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤫🤫🤫🤐🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE

🤘💪🙂👍👌🚜🐓

Good that they are not fracking in that area or-💥🤯🌋🌋🌋🌋☠️☠️☠️☠️

Complete oppisite problem with lumber now. The prices are super high.

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

Still can’t sell these for lumber

I'm surprised that you couldn't get anyone to take them for firewood

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

4 жыл бұрын

Cottonwood is not great for heating with as it burns up so fast and leaves a lot of ash.

Hey Brother, I hope you bring some hot dogs and marshmallows to work everyday. You need a little bit of luck. Don't get discouraged, just keep pushing on

Any furniture makers up there?

Why did you not cut it up in to fire wood to sell

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

4 жыл бұрын

Its cotton wood and we tried to give it away but had no takers

@guyparham575

4 жыл бұрын

Did you cut wood up so people take it?

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

4 жыл бұрын

@@guyparham575 We cut a bunch and people came and cut a bunch, the problem is we had close to 900,000 board feet of lumber

@nickw101381

3 жыл бұрын

@@guyparham575 Do you realize the amount of labor it would require to cut that into firewood? It's no where NEAR worth any small amount of money it would bring. Trust me, I've done the math. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Nice bon fire

Have to do what is cheaper burning is fun

Kinda surprised you didnt offer them to red poppy ranch. while its nice wood if you cant earn money on it then theres no other option then having a nice bonfire

@offgridpirates4598

5 жыл бұрын

Trucking it would be counter productive ... they are not close by

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

5 жыл бұрын

Red and I had long conversations about moving some of this to his house but after counting the cost he found he could buy a load of logs locally alot cheaper. Lumber is so cheap right now.

@randomlyfunny2657

5 жыл бұрын

So what is cheap, i know a pile of 2 by 12 18ft. Long to build my shop is anything but cheap

@odin8214

5 жыл бұрын

@@EssentialMountainHomesteading ah didn't know he lived that far away. Then there's no other choice then burn it

Despite your explanation, it's a shocking waste of good timber!! Watched a few of these videos and can't believe the scale of deforestation!! Surely it could be stored and seasoned and used for construction at a later date? If you're building a home on this site, you must have log burning fires and stoves incorporated within the plans. This would be free fuel for many years? A very disappointing outcome.

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

You make a very good point, thanks for taking the time to comment. 👍

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not good timber that’s the point

Why not sell it for firewood? What a wast

Why don't you cut it up for fire wood get a spliter and make a side road fire wood things that you can make 5.00 bundle or a whole stack for 40.00 or sell as a truck load for 150.00-200.00

@hippie_james

2 жыл бұрын

Ur making some profit from doing all that work

cool fire, but why not turn it into woodchips?.... dangit, I should learn to watch the entire video before commenting...

@float_sam

5 жыл бұрын

9:28

@Danny_Boel

5 жыл бұрын

@@float_sam yep , cost... and if I think about it, proccessing those logs into chips might even produce more CO2 than just burning them.

Why aren't you cutting that for firewood???

@randomlyfunny2657

5 жыл бұрын

John M. Evangelis that kind of wood is not really that good for much, real soft, rots real easy, spunky, just kinda crap wood. No one around here likes burning it that much

@nickw101381

3 жыл бұрын

because it's a waste of time and money...

Burning is good

Looks like a waste of good indoor or campfire firewood to me

BURNING ANY FULL SIZE LOG IS THE MOST IGNERINT THING EVER SAW ANY PRICE IS BETTER THAN NON

Lol, I'm from the future, he could have retired.

bummer they aren't really worth much... low BTU so not great firewood.. not really good for hardwood furniture .. they can be used but its really something that you would use for yourself because its free.. you could heat your house for the rest of your life probably with all those piles but.. too bad someone hasn't taken it though 100 years ago it would have made a nice log cabin house.

@HiddenValleyHomestead

5 жыл бұрын

Well that's my question is how good of a wood is it for building either a log home or cutting up for lumber?

@zippythechicken

5 жыл бұрын

@@HiddenValleyHomestead it depends what is being called cottonwood is often a mixture of tree species .. in conventional building today Spruce and Southern Yellow Pine is the common framing material because it has been tested syp is actually stronger than spruce but not by a lot so its interchangeable to some extent.. this wood would have to be calculated to what the loads can be. A log home wouldn't be much of a problem even though its softer it would last longer than the rest of our lives if taken care of.. on the other hand milling it into dimensional lumber and not kiln drying it has its problems.. you never know the loads it can take unless you really do your work and find out everything.... so that leads you thinking well then its garbage.. but its not.. when I built a deck on my house I oversized the lumber because I didn't want any wiggle in it. I technically could have used 2x8's since i had a beam but it was very close to the load rating and you never build what just passes inspection because that construction is crap.. I should have used 2x10's because that would have given me a good amount of margin but I went with 2x12's because I wanted it to be solid even if 10 people were on it. ... so thats how you build with that type of lumber.. when you can get away with a 4x4 post you can use a 6x6 but you use a 8x8 inch post and then you never worry at night... anyway heh whatever

burn it and move on

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

5 жыл бұрын

Done!

Well this didn't age well...

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

2 жыл бұрын

No but it dried really really well.

Block it up and split it and sell it for firewood for money.

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

He couldn’t then

Good riddance --> --> --> moving forward

timber does not look like of a good quality for anything.

SELL IT FOR MONEY. YOULL MAKE MORE MONEY BY SELLING IT TOO CUSTOMERS THAN YOU WILL ON LUMBER. TRUST ME I SELL FIREWOOD AND I MAKE REALLY GOOD MONEY.

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

He couldn’t that’s why

Such a waste, people would come cut it for firewood, make money on it.

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

3 ай бұрын

I wish it worked that way. We had it advertised for free for a long time and a few people come and picked up a little but in north Idaho there is some much wood and this cotton wood is not the most desirable to heat your house with. So we decided to just get rid of it

what a waste

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

Why

There is too much pause in the the way you talk like " um ..... um .......... um' . Very slow thinking

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

You’re a moron

Ecologically irresponsible for sure. You single handily caused the lumber prices to go thru the roof. Nice job

Please get to the point, this is 23 minute video that could have been completed in 3 - 5 minutes.

@EssentialMountainHomesteading

3 жыл бұрын

I'll work on that!

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

You can fast forward lil girl

All that wood you could heat 10 family easy for a year shame on you for wasting it

@sammyn9345

3 жыл бұрын

Hush Karen you don’t know what you’re talking about