What It’s Really Like to Heat a Tiny Home Yourself

Heating a tiny home in the winter means being resourceful — and for us, that means firewood. In this video, I take you through our full process of harvesting firewood, splitting logs, and stacking wood to keep our family warm all season long. Instead of paying over $1,600 CAD for four cords of wood, we harvest and process our own firewood for just $150. Using a chainsaw, wood splitter, and some DIY firewood storage systems, I’ll show you how we collect fallen trees, buck logs, check moisture content, and prepare dry firewood for our tiny home wood stove. You’ll see: - How we gather firewood from our own forest 🌲 - Processing and splitting logs the DIY way 🔨 - Stacking firewood for proper seasoning & storage - How much firewood it really takes to heat a tiny home - The cost savings of heating with wood vs buying delivered firewood Heating with a wood stove isn’t just about saving money — it’s about learning self-sufficiency, building homesteading skills, and staying connected to the land. Whether you’re interested in DIY firewood, tiny home heating, or off-grid living, this video shows the real work (and rewards) of heating with firewood. 👉 Comment below: Do you heat with firewood, propane, electric, or something else? 👇 MY RESOURECES 👇 Tiny Home Building Plans - https://stan.store/thisiswildhomestead/p/tiny-home-plans Off-grid Bathroom Plans - https://stan.store/thisiswildhomestead/p/offgrid-bathroom-plans FREE Emergency Kit E-Book - https://stan.store/thisiswildhomestead/p/free-emergency-ebook Ultimate Guide to Starting your Homestead - https://stan.store/thisiswildhomestead/p/ultimate-guide-to-starting-your-homestead 0:00 – Heating our tiny home with firewood 0:29 – Why we harvest our own wood (cost savings) 1:43 – Firewood processing area tour 2:46 – Collecting fallen trees for firewood 4:21 – Checking firewood moisture content 5:08 – Hauling and moving logs 6:28 – Our tiny home wood stove setup 9:00 – Splitting firewood with our wood splitter 11:00 – Stacking and drying firewood for winter 12:29 – Our homestead arbor & outdoor setup 13:54 – Birch, poplar, and maple: best woods for heating 14:40 – How we stack firewood (bark up or down?) 15:45 – Is burning firewood sustainable? 16:30 – Why we share our homesteading experience #Firewood #WoodStove #TinyHomeHeating #DIYFirewood #Homesteading #WoodHeat