Neighbors Laughed When She Built a Wall Inside a Wall — Until It Hit 52°F Inside at −40°F скачать в хорошем качестве

Neighbors Laughed When She Built a Wall Inside a Wall — Until It Hit 52°F Inside at −40°F

In October of 1903, a widow named Marta Holovka was doing something no one in Broken Creek, Montana had ever seen — nailing a second wall inside her first one, leaving a four-inch gap of nothing between them. Her neighbors laughed. Her bank was ready to take her land. And the worst blizzard in a generation was weeks away. When the storm hit — 43 below zero, 50 mph winds, three days straight — Marta's cabin held at 52°F inside. Her neighbor burned through a cord and a half of wood and still dropped to 22°F. Old Bjorn Nordstrom frostbit two fingers just reaching his woodpile. This is the story of dead air, thermal mass, and knowledge carried across an ocean in the back of a Bible — and why the men who laughed spent the next summer asking Marta to teach them how she built it. What you'll learn: → Why dead, sealed air insulates better than solid wood → How conduction, convection, and radiation steal heat from your home → The difference between insulation and thermal mass — and why you need both → How a $3.80 cast-iron stove heated a cabin through a 3-day blizzard This story is based on the real building techniques of 1900s homesteaders and the physics of heat transfer that modern building codes are still catching up to. 🔔 Subscribe for frontier survival stories every week. ───────────────────────────── ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — The wall inside a wall 2:00 — What Marta stood to lose 5:00 — How heat actually escapes (the physics) 10:00 — Building the double wall 17:00 — The neighbors mock, the money runs out 22:00 — The January blizzard arrives 28:00 — 43 below — what happened to each cabin 34:00 — The verdict: 87°F difference 38:00 — Spring, the bank, and what Marta proved ───────────────────────────── #Homesteading #FrontierLife #SurvivalStory #OffGrid #CabinLife #BlizzardSurvival #MontanaHistory #WinterSurvival #HistoricalStory #PioneerLife #DoubleWall #ThermalMass #NaturalBuilding #OffGridLiving #SelfSufficient #CabinBuild #InsulationHacks #SurvivalSkills #FrontierWoman #DocumentaryNarration