25 LOST Mountain Skills They Don't Teach In America Anymore

🔗 Get Ruth's Mountain Fire Notebook, every method from this video plus the ones I didn't have time for: [YOUR LINK] One season of seasoned wood and a clean chimney pays for it many times over. Everything I know about fire, I learned from my grandmother Ruth Sizemore. She heated her house and cooked every meal on wood through the winter of 1962, when the mine shut down and there wasn't a paycheck in our holler. She never wrote any of it down. In this one: the chimney-fire belief I had wrong for thirty years (#19), how Ruth read her oven's heat with a pinch of flour (#16), and number one, the fire I lit in her stove the morning after she died. Nothing to buy in the video. Just twenty-five things worth keeping. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction 01:50 #25 Seasoning the Wood 02:56 #24 Reading Dry Wood 03:55 #23 Knowing Your Woods 04:51 #22 Char Cloth 05:50 #21 Flint and Steel 06:47 #20 Burning Off the Brush 07:51 #19 Pine and the Chimney Fire 08:53 #18 Priming the Flue 09:51 #17 The Upside-Down Fire 10:53 #16 The Flour Test 11:53 #15 Dutch Oven Coals 12:54 #14 The Keyhole Fire 13:45 #13 Fatwood 14:44 #12 The Wet-Day Fire 15:41 #11 Borrowing Fire 16:38 #10 The Smokehouse Fire 17:30 #9 The Smudge Fire 18:30 #8 Sweeping the Chimney 19:26 #7 The Ash Bucket 20:18 #6 Putting It Out 21:24 #5 The Coal by the Railroad 22:25 #4 Sitting Up With the Fire 23:14 #3 The Story Fire 24:03 #2 The First Fire of Fall 24:53 #1 Her Last Fire 26:10 What Forgetting Costs Us 26:56 Final Recap 27:39 Next Video Preview Safety note: never burn poison ivy or unknown vines, painted or treated wood. Have your chimney inspected every year. Store ashes in a covered metal container at least 10 feet from the house. Never use water on a grease fire. Never bring a smoky fire or smudge indoors (carbon monoxide). Check your state's burning laws before any outdoor burn. Appalachian skills, mountain know-how, and the stories behind them, from the people who lived them. Subscribe for new videos every week.