ESCAPE TO THE WILDERNESS - DIY BRICK PIZZA OVEN, Day 9 - Chimney Flue Pipe & Clay Cob - Ep. 111
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Date: 2022-06-23
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Kurt
A general comment, not specific to any particular episode. Back in 1983, we visited the Queens Charlotte Islands and decided to skip the Yellowhead Hghw back to Calgary. We decided, on a whim, to take the Inside Passage ferry from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy and visit family in Vancouver. It's a 24 hour trip. So we booked a sleeper cabin. Endlessly watching the passage coast lines, I asked my dear wife: Why are we living and working in stuffy A/C controlled offices in Calgary, enduring long winters? We should buy a few acres on one of these islands, build a cabin, clear for a garden, and live off the land and seafood! As a city slicker, she was not particularly keen on my suggestion. I was ready for it having learned all about gardening and farming from my many generations farm families (indeed also how to build and maintain a compost heap) - and also built a double garage on my own an many basement upgrades in a new house (plumbing, electrical and tiling. But we ended staying city slickers with two kids a few years later. A suggestion for both of you: Take up the art of fly-fishing and learn how to make your own flies. Tying flies on your many autumn and winter rainy days could be an additional enjoyable activity. I started all this in 1974 and have caught delicious fresh trout trout from Yellowstone to the Queens Charlottes, to southern BC and most of Alberta. A very relaxing but active sport casting the fly and retrieving every two minutes instead of worm or bait dunking. I camperized a 1975 GMC one-ton van in 1983 and it gave us 450, 000km of adventurous vacations in NW Amerika until 2007. A gas-guzzler indeed, but we loved the freedom to go where ever our daily whims trended. The kids just loved it. cheers from Kurt.
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A general comment, not specific to any particular episode. Back in 1983, we visited the Queens Charlotte Islands and decided to skip the Yellowhead Hghw back to Calgary. We decided, on a whim, to take the Inside Passage ferry from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy and visit family in Vancouver. It's a 24 hour trip. So we booked a sleeper cabin. Endlessly watching the passage coast lines, I asked my dear wife: Why are we living and working in stuffy A/C controlled offices in Calgary, enduring long winters? We should buy a few acres on one of these islands, build a cabin, clear for a garden, and live off the land and seafood! As a city slicker, she was not particularly keen on my suggestion. I was ready for it having learned all about gardening and farming from my many generations farm families (indeed also how to build and maintain a compost heap) - and also built a double garage on my own an many basement upgrades in a new house (plumbing, electrical and tiling. But we ended staying city slickers with two kids a few years later. A suggestion for both of you: Take up the art of fly-fishing and learn how to make your own flies. Tying flies on your many autumn and winter rainy days could be an additional enjoyable activity. I started all this in 1974 and have caught delicious fresh trout trout from Yellowstone to the Queens Charlottes, to southern BC and most of Alberta. A very relaxing but active sport casting the fly and retrieving every two minutes instead of worm or bait dunking. I camperized a 1975 GMC one-ton van in 1983 and it gave us 450, 000km of adventurous vacations in NW Amerika until 2007. A gas-guzzler indeed, but we loved the freedom to go where ever our daily whims trended. The kids just loved it. cheers from Kurt.
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Kurt
Kurt's last general comment specific to wood ash being a good admixture to a compost heap. It contains Potassium (much more than in coal ash) and Potassium is a vital plant nutrient, which most gardeners apply by means of artificial K-N-P fertilizers. Chimney soot can be used as natural pesticide to keep slugs and ground crawling pests from devouring cabbage and other vegetables. You drizzle a small 1cm ring of soot dust and flakes around the row of veggies, and the ground-crawling pests won't climb over it because of the soot PAH (poly-aromatic-hydrocarbon) chemical content. Back to your cement curing of the Pizza oven. Cement is basically produced from raw slate and limestone (minerals containing mostly Aluminum, Silica, Calcium and Carbonate - as metal oxides with hydrated -OH content and Calcium carbonate. When the mineral mixture is kilned at high temperature, the CO2 from the carbonate and hydrated -OH are removed thermally as H2O vapor and CO2 gas. When you mix cement with water, it rehydrates into Ca-Al-Si oxides and carbonates. The carbonates formation during cement curing requires CO2 to occur. Ambient air contains miniscule CO2 (ppmv=0. 001 vol% range. Smoke from a wood fire contains CO2 in the around 5-10 vol% range. Hence the faster and better high strength cement curing with a fire in the pizza oven or smoldering char coal beds in a brick house.
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Kurt's last general comment specific to wood ash being a good admixture to a compost heap. It contains Potassium (much more than in coal ash) and Potassium is a vital plant nutrient, which most gardeners apply by means of artificial K-N-P fertilizers. Chimney soot can be used as natural pesticide to keep slugs and ground crawling pests from devouring cabbage and other vegetables. You drizzle a small 1cm ring of soot dust and flakes around the row of veggies, and the ground-crawling pests won't climb over it because of the soot PAH (poly-aromatic-hydrocarbon) chemical content. Back to your cement curing of the Pizza oven. Cement is basically produced from raw slate and limestone (minerals containing mostly Aluminum, Silica, Calcium and Carbonate - as metal oxides with hydrated -OH content and Calcium carbonate. When the mineral mixture is kilned at high temperature, the CO2 from the carbonate and hydrated -OH are removed thermally as H2O vapor and CO2 gas. When you mix cement with water, it rehydrates into Ca-Al-Si oxides and carbonates. The carbonates formation during cement curing requires CO2 to occur. Ambient air contains miniscule CO2 (ppmv=0. 001 vol% range. Smoke from a wood fire contains CO2 in the around 5-10 vol% range. Hence the faster and better high strength cement curing with a fire in the pizza oven or smoldering char coal beds in a brick house.
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Kurt
I noticed Nicolle collecting rosebuds at the the beach, something my Danish aunt did every autumn, beyond mushroom collections. I've seen numerous wild growing elderberry bushes on the west coast during west coast visits. My mother used to collect the dark blue to black fruit clusters every autumn and make soup from them. My Canadian wife (living in DK for two years) absolutely loved it. Here's the recipe (Modern Food cook book, 1969 edition):
1L water
1 roll cinnamon stick
6 tblsp sugar
1 lb elderberries
150g (6oz) apples
2 tblsp potato flower starch
Bring water, cinnamon roll and sugar to a boil, while pealing the apples and slicing them into quarters or eights. Add them to the boil and simmer for 5-10 minutes while ribbing the elderberries off the stems. Remove the apple slices and add the elderberries. Bring to a boil and boil for 20 minutes. Sieve the boil and taste degree of sweetness, and add more sugar if too tart for your taste buds. Then add the potato starch, mixed with 4dL water, and whipped vigorously to thicken the soup. Serve with dry croutons or pieces of dry bread let allowed to semi-soak in the hot soup. Nature's natural good food, eh? FYI should your ever have bought Ribena fruit concentrated extract, a Danish export brand, it's made from elder berries.
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I noticed Nicolle collecting rosebuds at the the beach, something my Danish aunt did every autumn, beyond mushroom collections. I've seen numerous wild growing elderberry bushes on the west coast during west coast visits. My mother used to collect the dark blue to black fruit clusters every autumn and make soup from them. My Canadian wife (living in DK for two years) absolutely loved it. Here's the recipe (Modern Food cook book, 1969 edition):
1L water
1 roll cinnamon stick
6 tblsp sugar
1 lb elderberries
150g (6oz) apples
2 tblsp potato flower starch
Bring water, cinnamon roll and sugar to a boil, while pealing the apples and slicing them into quarters or eights. Add them to the boil and simmer for 5-10 minutes while ribbing the elderberries off the stems. Remove the apple slices and add the elderberries. Bring to a boil and boil for 20 minutes. Sieve the boil and taste degree of sweetness, and add more sugar if too tart for your taste buds. Then add the potato starch, mixed with 4dL water, and whipped vigorously to thicken the soup. Serve with dry croutons or pieces of dry bread let allowed to semi-soak in the hot soup. Nature's natural good food, eh? FYI should your ever have bought Ribena fruit concentrated extract, a Danish export brand, it's made from elder berries.
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Kurt
Chimney soot tends to build up on the interior wall of an exhaust flue pipe, particularly in wood stove flues and usually in the the middle to upper flue sections where the semi-volatile gases of the wood smoke tends to condense on the interior flue surfaces. If the chimney flue interior of your chimneys (upper section visible from the top) shows sign of soot built-up, you may sweep it yourself, and collect the soot in the stove as a natural garden pesticide use for slugs and ground-crawling pests. Now not to overly worry you, today's insulated aluminum or steel flue ducts tends to take longer with soot build-up than old non-insulated brick chimneys that needed annual sweeping to assure against a potential chimney fire. But better be safe than sorry later. Cheers from Kurt
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Chimney soot tends to build up on the interior wall of an exhaust flue pipe, particularly in wood stove flues and usually in the the middle to upper flue sections where the semi-volatile gases of the wood smoke tends to condense on the interior flue surfaces. If the chimney flue interior of your chimneys (upper section visible from the top) shows sign of soot built-up, you may sweep it yourself, and collect the soot in the stove as a natural garden pesticide use for slugs and ground-crawling pests. Now not to overly worry you, today's insulated aluminum or steel flue ducts tends to take longer with soot build-up than old non-insulated brick chimneys that needed annual sweeping to assure against a potential chimney fire. But better be safe than sorry later. Cheers from Kurt
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Kate
Hey Jose, absolutely correct! She looks like she's checking to be sure it's still there. The content? That's like saying you read a girlie magazine for the articles, not the pictures, If they were for real, they'd believe in their content keeping viewer's attention without the candy sideshow. Oh, and here we have 2 people who have never built a pizza oven, but we are gonna nail it the first time! If you believe what you're seeing, ugh I've got some land for sale -
Ps. where the heck do they get all that concrete, bricks? Do they bring a few bags, a few bricks at a time in there little boat. Yep, living off grid and using natural resources.
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Hey Jose, absolutely correct! She looks like she's checking to be sure it's still there. The content? That's like saying you read a girlie magazine for the articles, not the pictures, If they were for real, they'd believe in their content keeping viewer's attention without the candy sideshow. Oh, and here we have 2 people who have never built a pizza oven, but we are gonna nail it the first time! If you believe what you're seeing, ugh I've got some land for sale -
Ps. where the heck do they get all that concrete, bricks? Do they bring a few bags, a few bricks at a time in there little boat. Yep, living off grid and using natural resources.
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Adam
Idk if it's this video or another one you made, but dude, learn how to sharpen a chain saw my word! Fileing in both directions lol friggin noob.
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Idk if it's this video or another one you made, but dude, learn how to sharpen a chain saw my word! Fileing in both directions lol friggin noob.
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Patty
I know someone that had one of those and it became infested with raccoons and rats. full of fecal matter. they crawled through the chimney.
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I know someone that had one of those and it became infested with raccoons and rats. full of fecal matter. they crawled through the chimney.
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The
Rather see what your doing in practical terms then seeing your wife, display her to your self. - (in reference to the title screen please )
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Rather see what your doing in practical terms then seeing your wife, display her to your self. - (in reference to the title screen please )
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LatkaKaufman
am i the only one whom noticed that the arch is wrong? he literaly broke the fundation of an arch at the end
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am i the only one whom noticed that the arch is wrong? he literaly broke the fundation of an arch at the end
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FactsPirate
At no point in the video is she wearing the pink shirt with her nipped showing and leggings. Come on.
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At no point in the video is she wearing the pink shirt with her nipped showing and leggings. Come on.
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