 All right guys I'm here yet, but we'll have some people on here pretty soon, and I think you could just start this stream anytime So I'm at the sawmill. I'm here in Jefferson, Maine at Donnie's sawmill. It's an antique. It's an oldie. It's It's really just held together by a couple strings. I'll show you those strings. But there she is right there That's an old timber harvester Donnie bought this in the 1980s. We figured with Bobby Lawrence Before Bob died and they milled out for camps and for houses and a cheese. We've built Just myself, you know, I've been involved building probably Probably 12 houses out of this mill or 12 buildings in general, you know, some were garages somewhere out buildings houses camps We built Greg's house twice. That's about a 4500 square foot house Burn down the first time so we had to re mill it and build it again and then Built Darcy's house Darren's house We built a camp up to Lobster Lake we built a camp a couple different camps on damaskotta lake and Quite a few things built my axe shop out of this mill so Then that's just in my time and before my time I don't even know what Donnie and Bobby Lawrence built it out of this and how many they milled out of here I know they did Tom Middleton's house and they I think they did Dana's house out of this So this old mill I know I take a lot of grief in the comments about how slow it is and and it's an antique and stuff But it does the job and I don't like to push it much So it was broke down the last couple weeks the head gasket on one of the sides Went we were down to we had a hundred pounds of pressure on one side and on the other side It had 60 pounds of pressure. So got the head gasket replaced retightened up and We did a couple of various other things. So we're running good now The tractor broke though in the meantime, so I had a really bad hydraulic leak It was hard to get to a couple o-rings that were tucked in there pretty hard So we've only been able to load small logs, which is why we got Donnie's little like 35 horse Kubota right here and so we changed our pattern we were milling some big stuff for for floor stringers and for Rafters and and even the rim joist and the box and everything and we switched down to eight footers because Donnie's tractor can handle eight footers and We've been milling two by four studs for those because we need about a hundred and seventy studs Or roughly and and there's a decent amount of coals when you're doing studs so we've been milling two by fours last couple days and You know, we don't like to waste anything on a tree. So as you could see right there There's it's it's pretty much the tops is what we're using when we're milling those two by fours Because it's they're just so small They're like anywhere from eight to ten inch diameter That you can only get two by fours out of it So we're getting like anywhere from four to six two by fours out of each one of these tops And I'll show you the rest of that pile of tops is right here You know, that's all we got left of the tops of the hemlock one two three four There's five more there one on the mill and like some of these I might only be able to get three or four out of it It's hardly worth it, but it beats wasting it letting it rot or cutting it in the firewood or something like that. So Donnie has taught me for years, you know, never be wasteful with especially with things that are in nature So we don't like to be wasteful. We like to use all the trees So we'll take the time and cut them and they add up, you know, I'll show you guys my I'll show you guys the The four by two as they call it in Canada. I'll show you the four by two pile over here These these are our two by four studs. These are eight foot six right now We'll cut them down to whatever length we want them before we head up north with them But that's the stack right there. So we figured we had like a hundred and 130 in there, I think yeah, and Those are just you know getting, you know, four to six per log top out of them and every once in a while We get a little bit bigger log and we'll cut some two by eights two by tens out of them have like a two by four left over so I Figured if you guys want to see oh, we got like 25 people or more watching now Cool if you guys want to see the mill run live pretty loud. I'm gonna have ear muffs on I put my glasses on too and Doesn't have any mufflers on it. This is like I said really old mill not a ton of maintenance Lately on it because I don't know just how it's been, but it works and it still runs. So I'll show you the mill real quick It's a 24 horsepower Onan motor onan got bought out by Cummins. I don't know 20 years ago or more But that's what pushes it. We're probably running like 18 horse to be honest with you with with the lower compression Bansaw that's the blade right there You can see in there or running like a tooth every inch it looks like on those those are resharpened by the Amish and This is how I I control the mill with this hydraulic leaf so to run it for the width of board that I'm cutting That's how I run the mill up and down And that's also how I run it forward and backwards and then I control it speed wise by a little hydraulic valve right here By how much I turn that thing and it's pretty easy to run. It's It's nice that you don't have to push it some mills you actually have to push all the way down and pull back Whereas this one's got an automatic return and just a push button to go forward But that's the mill right there timber harvesters been out of business for geez. I want to say like 25 years I think the last I did research trying to get some parts for this thing. They turned into like You got sold out for like tiger something tiger mill or something and then I think they're out of business now completely but one of them companies where they probably went out of business because it didn't break and And they weren't selling a ton of parts because this thing's needed very very little Maintenance and very very little work. I'll knock on wood after that one You guys hear that but um that might be one of the reasons why why they went out of business because they built them so darn good, but yeah, this mill is done Hundreds of thousands of hours, and I don't even know how many board feet a million. Maybe I don't know it's hard to say but these are some stacks of pine we got there and I'll show you some of the hemlock we got we're milling all our dimensional stuff. We're milling out of hemlock That's the best building material that grows here in Maine. It's tough It's rugged when you get in the good hemlock it and it holds a nail really well, too Whereas pine is awesome. It's a little lightweight and pine Can you know you can back a nail out of pine pretty easy so These these were the hardest ones for us to mill these are all two by tens and they're they're 12 to 14 foot long and it takes a decent tree to get some good two by tens and then here We have a stack of like long two by fours and then here We just started milling the rafters the rafters in this camp are going to be two by eights The floor stringers are the two by tens and then our foundation for it are right here These are six by sixes and they are heavy. They're 16 foot long Donnie's gonna do like a 14 to 16 inch overlap on each one and Yeah, they're long and they're heavy. So I gotta mill a couple more of those get those drying For you guys today on the live show, I'm gonna mill this little tiny hemlock here try to get like four maybe five Two by four studs out of that thing and then after if you guys are still enjoying it And we can still keep going with the stream. I'm gonna mill this a really sweet piece of ash Donnie and I have had this piece of ash on the ground for like I want to say two years and Just before we stopped working today. We picked it up off the ground just so it wouldn't rot You know or take take in must for moisture and when we had it in the air We so why don't we just mill the darn thing? So we're gonna mill that I think I'm gonna mill it into Boards because I really like the looks of ash. It's one of the prettiest woods once especially if you get good clear ash and And put a little bit of lacquer on it or any stain that really brings the grain out It's just such a beautiful like tan wood That's really fun for projects and really nice hardwood. So I'll try to mill that one next We'll see how it cuts. We'll see how it does after being on the ground for a couple years But let's let's go to town on this mill on this log right here. It's not much of a log I'll I'll kind of walk you through my process I'll do that right now actually before I start the mill because we're not gonna be able to You won't be able to hear much. I'll try to yell into the camera every once in a while but so come a little tape measure Right there, so I'm gonna measure the end of this log and We have just under nine inches, so there's eight and three-quarters inches Diameter it's tiny. I got it jacked up an inch So so we're at nine and we're at nine and three-quarters inches high off the mill It's got a crook in it I jacked it up that inch as you could see to try to level it out and split some of the difference with that crook And then it gets narrow there. So my first cut if we're nine and three-quarters inches off It's probably gonna be I mean I'd like to throw a nine inch cut down that it might be a wasted cut I might end up having to go like eight and three-quarters and or maybe even down to eight inches But I guess the goal is to try to get this one in that six inch range That way I could take a two inch slab off and leave Four inches left to get two by fours and then flip the two inch slab and be able to get a two by four that way So I'll check. I don't know if I could check for comments here guys before I get going Shoot I'll do a real quick comment check if I can see if I can answer any questions for you guys or I Don't know how to do this Sorry guys top chat. Let's do top chat. Let's do live chat. All right live chat there We go. I wonder how fast it takes When I'm milling two by fours with logs this size and when Donny and I get into a rhythm if we can get into like the nine and ten inch Stuff for diameter. I can rip those out and like I got to believe like less than five minutes Because we rip those out pretty quick and that stack goes up pretty fast. So that answers one of the questions Black and gold left work early today nice buddy. Yeah, I didn't know if anybody be able to watch this We're had a weird time of day and I don't know sometimes, you know I had an office job once for like a couple years while I was fishing the the pro tour In between events I was in the office and every once in a while I'd flip the old the old live screen on and watch some other things in the background while I was working So I didn't know if that if that would work for you guys But I'll read a couple more comments here if I can and then then we'll get to getting on Okay, oh, there's some all right cool. There's some comments Vancouver. That's so awesome Can I come and help man? I probably use the help today? Kyle is that his dad saw mills dad's got a great mill. He's down the road for me Donnie milled with me this morning and then he's got some stuff to do He likes to put in like a good half day good start early in the morning at the mill You know and just get a bunch done and then then get to other stuff during the day. So So this afternoon I was lucky enough to get a little bit of time to come out and work on the mill now So I'm gonna set this up and start to mill guys. Like I said, it's gonna be a little bit loud I'll try to to walk you guys through what I'm doing But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take like an inch and a half off the top of this Throw the slab in the slab pile for to be burned and then roll the log And I'm gonna end up doing that four times and then get it down to a block or a cube where I can cut Dimensional lumber on it and hopefully have some two by fours to build and the cool thing for you guys is What I cut today, you're gonna watch get put into a wilderness camp Seven and a half hours north a year. So you're actually get to see these things You know from the after just after the tree got felled to cut it in the lumber And then you're gonna get us to see these same exact ones Maybe I'll get the pen out and put a mark on them so you guys know which ones they are when we use them In the building. I think that'd be kind of cool. So I'm gonna set this up. Hopefully Let me see my angle Alright, I got some funky thing on the screen. I don't know what it up. There it is It's gonna keep up the good work. Yeah, awesome, man I gotta tell you guys like I you guys know me. I really really really appreciate all the support on the channel I feel like with the channel we get a ton of support, but I got to tell you like Donnie Really really enjoys it and appreciates the support to it's you know, he's not on cell phones and computers, you know and like He's got a million friends, but he doesn't get a chance to see everybody every day So when you guys leave comments, you know, like about Donnie and stuff He he really appreciates that stuff. So so keep it up if you guys if you guys have something nice to say to Donnie He always likes it. So yeah, so here we go I'm gonna I'm gonna fire it up It's gonna be a little noisy at first and and you guys are gonna see me turn this little tiny log and As many two by fours as I can or as they say Some of my Canadian brothers to the North say the four by two. So here we go guys. Stay tuned Our ear protection. I gotta see if I could find some I know I left mine at home, but Bear with me one second. All right guys, sorry about the delay But one of the most important parts about running this mill is having your protection Mine plays music, but I left it at the ice cream shop. So I'm gonna wear these I'm gonna put these on for you guys There you go. And We get this mill fired up and see see if we can get a couple couple four by twos out of this log I threw the whole process here. Just if you're taking the time to watch I think it's important to help share what I'm doing. So that's my first cut right there. I actually started at eight and a half The part about being like a good Sawyer and so on is knowing like how much you should take and how much you can Take and what's too much and what's not enough. So I mean The perfect plan here is to have very little waste But you're gonna have waste because logs around and you're trying to make something square So that's why we're taking this part off right here. So that's not a bad slab right there as you could see There's very very little waste. It's like in Maybe inch thick on this side maybe an inch and a half on the on the on the butt end And that's just gonna that'll get reused There's one of my one of my subscribers actually asked for a bunch of these hemlock slabs to use to Boil down maple syrup in a in an evaporator because it burns really well. So one cut. We're flat on that side I'm gonna roll the log right now with this PV for this can't dog and put it up against the rails I've upright over here, and I'm gonna leave this one inch in you could leave it in for two cuts You can't do it for more than two cuts or you'll get a crooked log So I want this as straight as possible up and down so that way that we have a 90 degree On the next cut if you go too far or not enough then you're gonna have a weird angle on your two by four So there we go there That's that's good and flat that way and I'm gonna start the mill back up and we're gonna take another slab off that We're probably gonna go the same so I'm at eight and three quarters there, but I gotta add in the one inch jack I put underneath that so I'm gonna try Eating a half again, and then then we're gonna take it down to six inches after that. So here we go I ended up going down to seven and three quarters inches off the off the bottom You always measure from the bottom up and that got me this slab right here and it's pretty close to having like no Wains on the saw on that corner So that's gonna make a nice two by four of that corner right there and right now I have the log down two sides so half of it's cut down and then there's a Another slab for the pile there now. I'm gonna roll it this log small enough. I could do it by hand I'm gonna pop that one inch to drag her back And then there's there's like half inch cleats on the other side so I can Let those arms down so I don't run into them with a sawmill and then I'll show you what I got left after I cut that I'm down to seven inches Six inches is gonna get me the most two by fours. So I'm gonna take this right down I'm gonna take it down to six and the wall I still have it flat if you guys follow along I'm gonna throw another cut in there at four So that way the next time I roll it I'm four inches wide for my two by fours And I have one that's already two inches wide that I'm gonna cut to four inch next to it So that's the way you get the most efficient out of a log in the most efficient time. So here we go This one's four inches. So I'm gonna every two inches off that is a finished two by four I'm gonna be able to get two for sure. I was gonna try to get three I'm gonna get three and see what Donnie thinks of the third one. He's the he's the general He's the carpenter. He's in charge. So I'll show him that third one It's gonna be close. It's gonna have a little wane on on the edges, which he doesn't mind And as you see this one is perfect on that side So I'm gonna put this side up and then when I get to the four inch, which will be the next cut Just back up and then I'll have a two by four on the very next cut. So here we go. I got a one two I got two more cuts to do Dog is done right now. I was able to get four two by fours off of it Um, this top one's got a little bit of what you call wane on it But it still needs to be cut down. We're a little bit over eight foot So we're gonna end up cutting like six eight inches off that to there And you can still build with that because there's plenty to nail to on this side Structurally, it's all right because it's a full two by four. So These are full two by fours. I'll show you guys that with my tape measure So if you actually measure it across that's four inches Just a hair over and that's two inches wide. It's not the stuff that you buy at the ho depot where it's like I think it's like inch and a quarter by Three and a quarter now. I don't even know it's crazy that they're allowed to sell something They call a two by four and it'll only be that small I sell ice cream in the summer and if I if I sold something That I said was 24 ounces and put put eight ounces in it We'd probably have a problem with the wind though, but that's just how it goes But here's I'll show you guys these these are done now So that that one's perfect. It's an awesome perfect two by four right there This one had a little wane on it, but we're going to use it for sure Got another absolutely perfect one right here and then we got another Absolutely perfect one right there and just so you guys get to see how cool This is like one of the coolest things for me is to actually see these Is to cut the tree down, you know, that's growing. It's time for it to come down And then cut it to length And then make a plan and then follow that plan and put this to use and build something that's going to last for Well over my lifetime bar and any any um natural disasters So I want you guys to that follow along on this live with me looks like we got 40 something watching or To to remember these and to see how cool this project is i'm going to write i'm going to write live On the side of this because you guys watch during the live And in about a month from now There it is In about a month from now I'm going to actually show you this two by four with that live on it And uh show you actually how we're going to build with it. I'll write it on on all four of these And then i'm going to show you how it actually gets used in a camp and how we How we're able to cut our own and make our own camp out of it It's just you know making a camp or building anything is just an awesome Feeling you know to watch something build or build something with your hands and build something you could use is always awesome But uh to start right from ground level Literally ground level and cutting the tree down and getting it to this stage Is just so much more rewarding and and just such a great feeling so So put that on there for you guys and for myself because I love it too You know, I'll remember almost all these two by fours and all the dimensional lumber we cut It sounds like we've got something going on out there Sirens in a small town is never good So there's uh, there's the four right there. They're all written up Really appreciate you guys tuning in really appreciate the support for the channel. If you're new to the channel guys Um, it's been a nice fishing channel. It's been a nice fishing cooking channel A lot of just fun stuff that I do and and the characters I have along on there with me You know donnie and brandon and and cj and all the other guys and and uh camera and everybody else And pat and stevie but what we're going to do is donnie and i're building With stevie too. We're going to build a wilderness camp up in zone two We're we're about an hour away from portage lake main which is far It took us seven and a half hours to haul up that uh that jag of boards that we hauled up So it's it's quite a haul up there. So The project itself is going to be a beast, you know, it's In our own yard it'd be a tough project, you know And we can go to a lumber yard and get tools and supplies and stuff. So Being in the wilderness and that far from home Makes the prod project Exponentially at least 10 times harder, you know donnie said he woke up at 2 30 this morning And couldn't get back to bed because he was just running the plans through his head on You know what we got to bring up there for tools how we're going to get this load up this Uh, how we're going to clear some of the spot and you know, there's just a lot of thought to it and a lot of Forethought and you know, we're going to make mistakes. We're going to mess up and that's part of it you know, and it's just how we recover from those mistakes and And um, you know, how we adapt to to being in that situation is going to be a lot of fun to the project and Of course, we're going to have a blast doing it. We're going to be camping out probably staying intense right there on the property and Camping so we get to have camp coffee in the morning together and cook up breakfast and Work till we get tired and eat some lunch and pretty soon. It'll be uh bird season up there So if we can get into some birds early on in the day, we'll bring you guys with us and Go shoot our lunch and then come back and maybe maybe hang some boards or hang some rafters or um Or work on the the rim joist or whatever we're working on at the time. So You know, and if the birds are coming out in the afternoon and picking gravel and we're riding the roads Maybe we'll work in the mornings and we'll shoot birds in the afternoon So it's kind of it's kind of a really really really cool project that we're undertaking Um We're super happy to have you guys along with it. It adds a big element to me No, I wouldn't be doing it if I wasn't getting the support from you guys And I felt like it was important for other people too because It's really hard to video and bring up the equipment store it on on uh disks and computers and And you know, we're far from power source and save it all up and then catalog it and then put it together For like a film we're going to make like a little documentary then we'll do like a day by day film too Um, there, of course, there'll be a delay on it just because we're nowhere near any power or internet service But but with the support, you know in the comments and everybody hitting the subscribe button and and liking the videos It kind of drives us on and makes us want to share this whole project with you guys and And then you know, we're excited to be able to use it over the over the years for whatever it may be snowmobile and Moose hunting bird hunting deer hunting camping looking for moose antler sheds You name it. It'll be fun to do, you know and even do some trout fishing too. So Yeah, so appreciate it guys. That's the plan I know I know some of you guys who've been following the channel for years already heard the plan So so that was all a little extra to you. But that was for the new people. They're tuning in now Feel free to share it with your buddies and You know any growth we get on the channel goes right back into the channel So that's the cool thing about getting some growth on the channel. But uh, I'll try to look at uh Some some comments here. I know what one thing I do on my channel guys is, you know, I just With all your support past 30 000 subscribers, which is a number I just never ever even imagined and um One thing I do And I don't think other channels do it is I answer every single comment. It takes a while Donny and I read them a lot together or I'll read them to him and we answer them together And I think it's important like, you know, if if someone at home takes the time to watch one of our videos You know, and then and then takes even more time to comment on it with a question Comment or share a story or or or have you know, some insight into something else or help us out I think it's important that we take the time to to also um resend that and give it back and and um So that's something that we've always done on the channel as it grows I hope I can I can always do that. It does take a long time to do it But it's it's worth it. So it shows my appreciation to you guys too. So Yeah, so really appreciate it guys appreciate all the support if you guys are liking this mill content Just let us know because it is it adds another element of work to it when we have to video and And do the video editing and stuff like that But but it's well worth it when people say they like it or keep doing it or if they have questions or about it too So donny and I shot a little video earlier today Stay tuned for that on how we uh stack the wood and why we stack it a certain way and and also like what we're cutting But we're you know, we're kind of new in this genre of videoing, you know in the mill and stuff We've been milling for you know 20 30 20 30 years donny's been mulling for over 40 years So we're pretty we're pretty adept on that but not on the video stuff So if you guys have questions about the mill why we do something a certain way or or um or what we're doing We're guys you got like there's no dumb questions You got to start somewhere and the only way to learn I I've always felt is either through asking someone with experience or Gaining that experience yourself So feel free to ask and we'll always help out any way we can but like I said really appreciate all the support Looks like we're up over 60 viewers right now and a bunch of thumbs up there and I think i'm gonna I don't know if you guys are enjoying this enough to watch me cut this ash tree out Or if I should just kill the live right now I got another battery source in case the phone's going but i'll watch for a second here For some comments. They kind of pop up like as i'm as i'm watching Um, but if you guys want to see me if you guys want to stick around for the live I'm i'm gonna mill that ash anyway, so I can leave it rolling. I probably won't stop as much Uh awesome video love it thumbs up from jason tim bailey Yeah start cutting Downy master love the name There's 60 might as well keep going kyle. You're right buddy. Keep it going kevin said all right guys That's all I needed to hear so I got an ash log here It's um, it's hardwood. It's gonna cut a little bit slower than that hemlock. I think it's been on the ground Oh buncha Nice. Okay. It's been on the ground for two years. So I'm really hoping it's nice and solid inside if it's not We'll we'll make a few extra slabs out of it and get down to the heart of it But I'll show you why I love ash so much and I'm probably gonna take that I got I got probably a thousand ax handles Ready to go in in ashwood. So I don't need any more for ax handles. I don't need two inch stuff So I'll probably cut this one down to one inch And maybe we'll uh get that ash on the mill. Let's do the ash. Oh boy guys. You got me going. All right Here we go. I'm gonna get it ready. Yep. So I'm gonna plug you guys into a power source And then you'll have to bear with me. We got we're not loading this thing with forks We're we're using some foolish grapple hook. That's just the biggest pain in the neck in the world So you're gonna see me on the Kubota in a second Loading this thing up and it's a little bit of pain in the neck So don't laugh too hard when you when you see this and I'll try to make it not a blooper reel But here we go. I'm gonna so I'll take the hemlock off We'll stack this later And I gotta put up my I'm gonna pull up my pants I'm gonna put these arms up that way the log doesn't Complete roll off of the mill and it gives me something to push the log up against and that looks like it's about a It's either 10 or 12 foot ash. I'll I'll give you a quick measurement Yeah, it's a 10 footer 10 foot ash log and it's uh on the butt It's 11 inches so you guys who do math and measure logs for 11 You tell us what's in that for board footage ahead of time Now at the small end it's 10 inches So we got 10 inches on the small end 11 inches on the big end 10 foot long. Here we go. Let's load her up This is the butt end down here. We're cutting into the butt That ends 10 inches. This is 11 and I'm gonna show you guys. I don't know if you could tell but There's a a bit of a crook to this log meaning it wasn't perfectly straight So I'll show you guys just so you can see at home You can see that bow in the log And you can look at the top or the bottom and see it We're gonna try to cut that out of it and this is where like an experienced saw Sawyer Would try to get the most out of this log. You could just lay it flat and just go right now and slab her down Or you could jack this end up Oh About a half to a full inch right there And that'll make that top a little bit flatter for your first couple cuts Then when you roll it you're flat again. So that's what I'm gonna do right now Um, I like to take that extra minute or two every time before I start cutting the log To to get it right to get the most out of it. So Let's get these out of the picture And this has got to be broken. So we're good to go That flattened her out. That'll get me an extra inch on the on boards. It'll be less waste This keeps it from moving or rolling as I'm cutting it. So So let me get a measurement again. We should be at 11 on this end Yep, we're at 11 there This end is going to be with that bow Down it's still at 10 right here. It should be closer to 11 So I think I want to make that I don't want much for waste on this and I'm doing boards. So I think I'm going to do 10 and a half is going to be my first cut. I actually cut Uh half inch increments to or quarters to get the most out of it And then you can figure it out on your next roll. So here we go Let's get her going pretty thin slab. I could have taken a little bit more but I hate to waste any ash ash is starting to is one of those woods where they're uh, they're under attack by a type of beetle that's Just decimating them in Connecticut, New York and starting to move north. So In in our lifetime, there might not be any ash. So I'm gonna try to get the most I possibly can out of this I got a flat edge on it now I could take another inch and then roll it but I'm going to roll it right now because I don't mind I don't mind getting the little wings off at the end. So I'm going to roll this log be whatever you like to call it TV invented this in the 1800s That's pretty well flat right there I'm going to while it's still flat. It's like I lost my inch there, but I'm going to look it over It's pretty flat the the inch uh Jack I had in there It's still there. It kind of curls up at the end. So we'll have a bigger slab down this end than this end But we should be good and flat So I'm going to be in that 10 and a half range again I could probably go 11. Yeah 11 is going to be pretty nice So this one I'm going to cut at 11 inches from the stanchions up on this end as you can see By how a tree grows with a taper. There's not much on that end So that might be cool during a project to two solid sides The wood's looking looking all right. I was a little bit nervous about it was with the saw blade And we're good to go now. So right now I got it From this side. I got it at 10 I want to take just a little bit more than that and we're going to be down into one inch increments because I want one inch boards And then this is the lowest spot right here. So I'm going to take her down to nine right now So we'll have a nine inch wide board when I flip it one more time I now have an eight by eight inch block. So no matter how I cut this thing now I'm going to get eight one inch boards Either direction I got a little bit of wane on it a little bit of live edge Which I actually don't mind for for some of my boards because some of the projects I do I like to leave like a live edge on it. So we'll get like Oh, well, I could just tell you instead of gas We'll get uh, we're going to get five boards with no live edge that are eight inches And then we're going to get four With a little bit of live edge that I can cut down the seven inches wide instead of eight inches wide But I think I'm just going to run them like this and have eight nice flat boards. The wood looks good I was happy with that I can't wait to show you guys the grain on this thing and how pretty it looks once I get into the middle or a couple more So I'm probably just going to run all eight cuts right now or at least four and then maybe stop the mill again So bear with me and if you guys are enjoying this, let me know in the comments I can't read them all right now, but I will read them at the end. I promise you the impressive piece of ash They'd say a nice piece of ash But look at that beauty right there this one Is a hundred percent clear got a couple pin knots one there one there But for the most part she is perfectly clear and beautiful. We're starting to see a couple more knots In the heartwood in the middle because we're pretty much in the middle of this log I didn't give you guys a year, but how old this tree is but It's pretty old. There's dead center and you're getting like Wow, you're getting like Well, let's figure it out real quick. Just let's just use our math It looks like every inch There's going to be more towards the end, but I'm just going to measure in It's about 11 years per inch right there and This log was 11 inches so over 110 years old um Is what this tree was but Really tight nice growth rings on this thing nice log I'm going to show you how clear it is and how how it looks Right now and this is in the heart So this is when the tree was the smallest it would have had more And then those you know those smaller branches die or break off as the tree grows taller It sprouts more branches. It doesn't push a branch up You know as a kid I always thought like If you just tied a rope around the tree when it was like a two foot tall And then when that tree is a hundred foot tall that that rope would be two It would be a hundred feet off the ground or 98 feet off the ground doesn't work that way It grows this way and adds on to it So like a lot of these knots were when the tree was at its youngest And then as it grew taller it it doesn't have as many lower branches As it grows taller if you look into the forest So I'm going to show you what some of those branches look like now and that's why It's not perfectly clear in some sections, but we'll get the sawdust out like right there But man this thing is an absolute Beauty I am fired up right now how pretty this is And already thinking about all the projects I could do with this thing I mean that is just pretty pretty pretty pretty drain right there No rot nothing and then we're going to have like one or two cuts with these Little knots in it, which is fine. They look good in in a project too And then we're going to have like four cuts probably where there's Where there's none at all so I'm going to splash a little bit of water on that for you guys So you can really see what that grain looks like if you ever played baseball and use like an ash a wooden bat It was most likely ash because they didn't get into maple and other hardwoods till recently and so you know how pretty it can look But I'm going to throw a little bit of water on that thing for you and pop that grain so you can take a look That right there's a thing of beauty Look at that Absolutely beautiful wood beautiful grain It's going to get better as I I get away from the center too So I got a couple more cuts to do to finish this log and that's going to be it for today So if you guys want stay tuned and I'll talk a little bit at the end On how the mill is and how it's running and all that good stuff, but right now I got a couple more cuts to do To be done or I won't get paid today And by being paid I'm paid with smiles Here we go bottom, but I left it two inches because I can't I can't resist not having a axe handle out of this beautiful piece of ash This is just perfect and I got it down to flat grain for that bottom two inch cut And I'll show you what that means if you guys if you guys did play baseball You know You know what that means as far as getting a flat grain for the strength of the wood So when you make any kind of tool that's that's like a one-way tool like an axe or a split mull or something like that You want the grain you want a nice flat grain for the for the strength of the of the tool It gives you that structural integrity With the wood so I left the bottom one two inches because because you can get an axe handle out of two inches This board's out of the way and it's just beautiful beautiful clear wood right there and you can see this This grain's all going to be flat running this way And that's how I'm going to get that axe handle out of there and if you guys stay tuned to the channel subscribe Follow along maybe I'll make an axe out of this one. It's pretty dry. It'd been down two years Um typically your hardwoods like ash maple Some oak take Two years to air dry if you dry it like we do out here With gaps as you can see and then just put something over the top So the the rain and water doesn't permeate and soak down into it But this one right here is a two inch plank that that I can make a couple axe handles that of I have a I have a Tester that can test for how much moisture is in that wood if it's down Anywhere like in the 11 range or less I can go ahead and make an axe handle out of that if I make one now or if it's uh If it's got too much moisture content then it's it's going to shrink and it might even move or or um Or dry it like an angle. So then then you got a crooked axe handle and you got to cut You got to cut trees around corners and stuff like that. You don't want that you want a straight axe handle So that'll be an axe handle all these boards. Um, we don't have a plan for them yet But we'll do a project for them. Maybe they'll end up in the camp. Maybe we'll do uh Like a real pretty wall with them or or something But that's uh, that's the melon from today guys. We're we're like an hour and 10 minutes into this live I probably could have done this in half time if I wasn't stopping to talk, but I got I got one two three. I got four two by four four by twos Uh eight footers So, you know, I don't know what are they going for now like three bucks each if you buy junky ones That are like an inch and a quarter by three and a half. I think And then I got all this beautiful beautiful white ash To do projects with and just have and and make a pile axe handles out of that one So that's the mill for you guys. Um If you throw a couple comments on there right now with any questions I think I can read them as they pop up if you guys have any questions or anything I'll answer any questions for a few more minutes on here And then uh, and I'm gonna get back to work at the ice cream shop and we're training a couple of uh Of young kids right now. It's always one of the funnest times for me It's you know, it's it's tough to it's tough to train a kid who's never had a job before but it's also Super super rewarding if you if you do it the right way and you get to keep that employee for a couple years and You know, I've always said they're easier to train if they don't have bad habits. So I got a couple of uh 14 year olds Coming in for for a couple hours to train. So I really want to be there for that even though If you guys have been to my ice cream shop It's by far the best staffed Store in the country. I'd have to say and and I'm not gonna be modest on that I'm gonna go ahead and say that because because they the people that work for me are the nicest kindest Just awesome people. So if you've been to my shop, you've seen it if you haven't it's in Jefferson, Maine at the Jefferson scoop swing in be open a little bit while longer Um For the season But yeah, so this is it. This is donnie's mill. That's donnie's tractor Oh one thing I did think of that. I wanted to tell you guys is this mill's so loud We gotta we might be able to get down tonight. Awesome. Yeah, Kyle's been there He knows he knows how great the kids are that work there Um, so one of the things about this mill is hasn't had mufflers for like, I don't know 25 years Apparently, you can't get the mufflers or whatever. I don't know something bolt broke off I don't know. I really didn't look into it too much because Because uh, that's just what I was told but we wear obviously we wear your protection and uh And you get if you're not listening to music, which you know, I'm 50 50 sometimes I listen to music sometimes I don't rook trout ice cream. That's hilarious So, uh, when you're not listening to music you get to listen to your thoughts, which is like a really really really important thing to do nowadays that I think we all overlook and um And a lot of us just don't take the time to do it. I'm guilty of that myself I've just got my first phone in my life a year ago and I've noticed in this year I probably haven't been thinking as much as I used to before, you know So so when I put those earmuffs on and this thing's running And I've milled enough where I don't have to really think I can just go go through the motions and And do the minimal amount of thinking Is you get a long time to think when you're just milling all day and running logs and We'll usually shut it off in between logs and usually the most insightful Or funniest thing that you hear all day is within a minute or two of that mill getting shut off because it's something like either I I've been thinking of for like 20 minutes a mill in or donny's been thinking of for 20 minutes a mill in or uh You know and you're thinking about it and you can't talk to anybody because it's so loud around here So as soon as you shut that off and you get a chance to talk, it's pretty funny because you get because uh Usually whatever's coming out of donny's mouth is going to be hilarious Or uh, pretty darn insightful, you know, he thought of something that we could do to make ourselves more efficient or better or You know better in the future. So so that's always been like one of my favorite things about milling and milling with donny is Is um everything really but that first couple minutes after you shut it off is usually You know something comes out of his mouth or or even my mouth. That's that's either worth repeating or you can't repeat Yeah, oh yeah, kevin Nice. Yeah. Yeah, if you came with a ups truck, kevin I'm sure I hooked you up with a free ice cream. We we take care of all our delivery drivers You know, we're never sending anybody down the road without without a free ice cream if they're helping us out especially and And uh, you know delivery guys, I don't know how many you guys are delivery guys that watch the channel I've never done it myself But it's a job that I think is like probably one of the most thankless jobs in the u.s. That's so important To get your packages to get them on time to get them at the right place And there's just so much pressure and stress on these guys to do it And it's just a job that I've always uh respected You know anybody that's that's making deliveries, whether it's for the us mail or the us p or the Ups or fed x or whoever it is or bigger stuff, you know, I always try to take care of my delivery drivers and um A huge respect goes out to those guys and they're they're the unsung heroes I think in the u.s. Them and the the truck drivers so hats off to those guys You know take a second and think of those guys next time you're 20th amazon packing shows up while you're at work And your wife gets her gets her amazon deliveries think of those guys is Don't hate them for for what they do. They're just doing their job But yeah, that's uh, that's about it. If any if any more questions come across the board Let me see if I could bring up this chat Guys, I'm not the best at this whole chat business. There's definitely listen to the machine And dream of ice fishing man. I am dreaming ice fishing We're so pumped Yeah, a table a table would be incredible out of that ash. You're right You know, you put like a thick restaurant gloss coat on top of that a lacquer and look at that grain pop It's just it's just such a pretty wood such a fun wood to work with too All right, I'm learning how to look at the chat guys. All right, you're in trouble now Kyle's coming down tonight What's he getting fly fishing fudge probably Where does all the sawdust go great question? So you see some of it blowing in the air on a on a On a bad day, but it kicks it out the blades running from me that direction So it kicks it out over there. Um, some farmers use it, you know, like if we're in pine we use it We'll give it to the farmers. Um, I take it for my chickens, you know for inside the chicken house But we we generally don't like to use hemlock hemlock has got Uh, I think a little bit more acid in it And we were always really careful when I melt cows not to use as much hemlock Shavings or sawdust because I don't know if it created more infection on their udders or or um Or exactly why I could do a little research on that But Wayne always said it wasn't good for the cows So we didn't use the hemlock for that But we right now we have a sawdust pile we dump in the woods if if um, if none of the farmers around wanted Or if it's more than we could use for um For like our chickens and stuff All right getting back into the chat On the traditional. Yeah, just curious on why the traditional two by four has gotten smaller over the years Thank you for asking that. I think it's a scam I think it's one of the biggest scams in retail america to be honest with you I think if you could sell like if you figure out the math on Selling it's pretty easy if you're saying there's two inches and you're selling an inch and a half You're getting what's that 25% You're you're saving You're selling 25% of air And then that's not even counting the four inch wide part. So I think it's the biggest scam in the world Um, they they've called it because of shrinkage. Okay, so like you cut a two by four It's two by four now Wood if when it's green has the most moisture content in it, you know, when it's a fresh tree It's going to shrink down. So like naturally A two by four that goes through like a giant mill comes it's supposed to come out two by four and then it shrinks down and I don't buy anything more than a quarter. I don't even buy anything more than an eighth inch of shrinkage Um with douglas fur or spruce or whatever they're using. I just don't believe it It's not shrinking a half inch one way and not in a and uh more than a half inch the other I think it's a bunch of bull. So don't even get me fired up on two by fours That's why we cut our own and you know ours with this hemlock is going to shrink You know some of it we put up green anyway, but it's going to shrink an eighth inch tops It's not going to be an inch and a quarter by three and a half or whatever the heck it is um, yeah, so so that's that gets me going on uh On on the two by fours that really grinds my gears as peter griffin would say So that was a comment there I'm going to see if I'm not sure if I'm going backwards or fours As my canadian relatives used to say I cut it three times and it's still too short. That's the truth. I've been there I love the canadians man. They are my favorite people No, up in the especially up in the north main woods that that northern main canadian accent like fort camp Alligash portage lake or above is just you you can't be too Cool, well i'm not seeing a lot of questions um I'm not seeing a lot of questions or anything guys. So i'm probably going to tune out pretty soon. Um, if anything Yeah, some Lindsey says hope we have more ice this year So farmers all in that called for a really wet summer and in main it's the bend the wettest summer I could ever remember Rain two times the first time was like 41 days. The second was like 32 days So if that was all snow, we'd be We'd be taking pictures like they did a hundred years ago with snow up to like the second story um I I've heard that we're going to have a really cold and really hard winter. So A lot of people don't like that, but i'm really looking forward to it Yeah, squatting. Yeah the suspension hauling that up there on the on the suburban on the uh, ucon Donny and I were white knuckling and i'll tell you that I was white knuckling the wheel And donny was white knuckling my shoulder We were a little bit nervous coming down a few hills got trailer brakes got electric brakes and everything but But that was a load, you know, we aren't going to push that load much more than that I promise you guys that we got some heavier stuff to bring up than the board. So we're going to come up with a different plan We need to plan an ice fishing trip that's for sure Bring on the ice guys. I'm so ready for the ice normally um, the first thing you'd see on my channel is Um, a couple videos that I usually hold over from last year I'm going to give you guys since you guys are tuning into the live. I'm going to tell you guys I got two cork and series That I held over from the end of last year cork and series like Ha ha. Yeah. Yeah, you're not going to want to miss these i'm going to post them I don't know when i'm going to post them, but they're going to post right before ice fishing season Once everybody's getting really fired up for it, but i'm going to tell you one of them moose head PB brook trout and just an insane Three days of brook trout fishing with just two of the best guys was sean from jack traps and chubbs from jack traps um, we got seven I think we got seven or eight brookies over 20 inches and one Stava that you guys are going to not want to miss it's on tape. I've been sitting on it I'm getting excited just talking about it. So we got that series coming up I'm going to let the cat out of the bag on that one And how much do I want to talk about on the next one? I'll go ahead and give it to you guys because you've been so loyal following this channel and stuff So the next one is a place i've never been in main Super super popular place. I've always wanted to be Half us half canada went up with brandon and the boys Sean and chubbs made chubs. No chubs didn't make it up for that one. Sean made it up for that one too Double digit trout on the ice My pb lake trout And I don't know how many double digits we got but that's got brandon and the boys and That's a series and a half. So I feel like I'm starting Out this ice fishing season with those two series. It's going to be hard to top Like I'm I feel like I'm setting myself in a hole to start to see to start the season already So those are going to pop in like October November, you know at the beginning of ice fishing season I've always tried to bring you guys content when it's most relevant and you want to see it So I got a couple holdovers that I'm just like I'm pretty fired up about hope you guys are going to be fired up for those too. Um, it's got like Everything you could ask for we even oh, yeah, I forgot like I'm remembering some of these too on the moosehead series Chubs brought is like four-wheeler is like backcountry four-wheeler And I don't know what happened. Maybe I dared him to see if he could climb this hill And he buried her off grid off track Off everything out of his mind straight sideways into the brush And I had to go pull him out with like a four foot tow strap with the old uh expedition Might have ramped the expedition on one jumped her a little bit. So Might show that to you guys too What else happened that trip? We've got some wild stuff happen. So you should so be ready for that trip Be ready for the the other ones east grand be ready for the east grand trip That was pretty insane and then hopefully we can top a few of those this this winter coming up. But before then Make sure you guys are are subscribed to the channel because we're going to be showing you this type of stuff And we're going to show you what we're going to do with all that wood that we're milling out Is we're going to build a wilderness cabin. It's going to end up being like a log sided cabin And uh donnie drew up all the plans. He's 81 years old So donnie and I are going to be up in the woods full time and steve He's going to be up as long as he can for getting wood work off Might get a special guest appearance by brandon Open to and a couple of the down east boys might get a special guest appearance by patlas sad And uh, who knows who else is going to show up up there, but we're looking forward to that. Um We'll bring you, you know, none of like donnie donnie built houses for the last, I don't know 50 years So he's phenomenal at it. He's he's great at it and but he's like the most humble person I know whereas he's like, you know, there might be better ways to do it But this is the way we do it and this is the way that works for us So you're going to learn the way that I learned how to build by donnie And donnie sun greg and you're so you'll learn the way that I learned how to build and and um, it works And it's traditional new england carpentry. So that's what we're going to do up in the middle of the wilderness Hope we remember all the tools. Hope we remember all the stuff I know we're going to be making some serious trips in and out of the woods and And uh, you know, I'll be videoing every single part of it and storing up as much footage as I can to put it together for you guys Hope there's another meet and greet on the ice. Yeah guys that um That meet and greet not this last winter, but the year before Was one of the best days I've ever had on the ice it it was one of those days where You know, I didn't sleep the night before because I was preparing and getting everything ready and You know, just running everything through my head it was a lot of moving parts and and I was bringing everybody together and The next thing I knew it was over and I was like picking up and it was just one of the greatest days I've ever had on the ice and just getting a chance to meet so many great people and And share like my passion for the outdoors and for ice fishing and And show people the stuff i'm using or how I do it and and um, just listening to people like, um You know hearing what the channel means to them is is really It's really important, you know, so so that that was like the best day I had last year I couldn't pull it together because the weather we just never had safe ice and one thing I will not do is Is put anybody else in danger, you know, and the day we did it on dammer scott People came from all different boat launches all different access points and You know last year if they did that we'd have we'd have lost some people or some snow machines for sure So I want to try to find a little bit better place to do that I want to make sure that we have good ice to do that But I will do it and then I'll let you guys know who we're following from From the midwest or the central part of the states is there's a pretty good chance that I do a meet and greet Maybe on the ice too In the great state of minnesota I went out there last year official with my good buddy nick linder and a couple other guys and And just kind of fell in love with the state and the people out there And I've always enjoyed the people from wisconsin and In minnesota, I know you guys kind of fight with each other, but but uh, but it's all good. They're great guys And there's pretty good chance i'm going to be out there in early december for that st paul ice show again Um, I got a couple big announcements to make for for like the ice fishing part of it But I can't do that till at least the end of the month So i'm going to be out there for that for that show And while i'm out there might as well do a little bit of fishing while i'm fishing Maybe set something up with um with a bunch of the fans and and give me an opportunity to meet a bunch of Just great fishermen from out there and and a bunch of great people. So There should be like a midwest meet-up. There should be a main new england one too I hope this year and hopefully i'm able to bring you guys all the content that you that you've come to expect and And enjoy on the channel because I sure as heck love making it and I love sharing it with you guys too. So Really pumped for that. Uh, I feel like I don't really need much equipment for this season But you know me I'll pick up some more equipment some new stuff too So that's about it guys. I don't know if there's still a bunch of people on here So I'm still talking Let me think for a second. We got the mill got ice fishing season got this fall Donnie and I used to do a lot of fur trapping. It's changed a lot since we've done it the laws have changed a lot The game has changed a lot. We might We might dabble a little bit in and I'm not much to dabble in anything I don't dip a toe. I jump in usually head first And uh all the way if as you guys can see if you know, you know, I don't just go ice fishing for an overnight I go for a month So there's a chance we might set some steel this fall if we get time I mean, we're you know, we're gonna be super busy with with all this and trying to get some bird hunting and and some um some deer hunting in too, so There's a chance we set some steel But if you guys want to see some bird hunting that's something I haven't really done a lot of on the channel But it's one of my favorite things to do in the world If if you guys want to see some bird hunting, let me know Got David Dudley at David Dudley. He'll probably come up for this camp build at some point That might be pretty pretty entertaining for you guys But he'll definitely come up to the camp to David David tried to get back up again last year for ice fishing season. He had so much fun with him Just such a great guy. I know some of you guys on the channel He was a little much for you and some of you guys couldn't get enough of him So but he's a great friend of mine and and it's meant a lot to me when I fish pro and he took me under his wing as like As like the top of the game, you know, he was top two top three fishermen ever live In the in the game and here I am as a rookie, you know coming out of Maine wet behind the ear and And uh, he took me right under his wing and just a great guy and we just hit it off right from day one So David's always welcome I know a lot of people are pretty upset with him for not sharing a secret Spice rub there and I don't blame you because I'm almost out and if he doesn't share it Maybe we won't bring him back. So David if you're watching this That's your four warning pretty good chance. He's probably watching it Yeah, yeah, we saw a pine martin. Yep, Lindsay. That was awesome. That's uh, that's my favorite animal One of my favorite animals to trap that and coyote Martin are easy, you know, they're they're um, you don't really have to trick them much But the pelts are like beautiful beautiful pelts are they they've always been valuable when I trapped They were up to like 140 bucks each super easy to clean to um To skin and everything I always said if you can peel a banana you can skin a martin And they're um, they're like a pleasure to put up. They're not fatty or greasy or or too hard to put up I mean I'm getting ready for the fur trade. So seeing that martin was awesome Fisher are always fun to catch too. The area we're in has got a ton of ton of hardwood ridges and and softwood gullies and Pockets and stuff and rivers and streams. So like it should be ideal for fish or cat So we're so if we you know, that's an animal that I just love to catch and One of the only regrets for my trapping days is that I never saved one to get mounted or something because I always knew I could catch another one, but But um, but yeah, the area looks pretty pineapple for for Coyote come and go with the deer herds. So you know the deer herd in northern Maine is really in trouble right now It's been on a pretty steady and sharp decline for for a couple decades. So With that the coyotes actually decline too. So Are you doing full-time youtube or self-employed? And need more time to fish so so definitely not full-time youtube. I I really feel like I could do full-time youtube But it would it would take full-time full-time effort and full-time work. Um I I own an ice cream shop here in Jefferson, Maine. It's called the Jefferson scoop. It's a full-time job too So it's full-time, but it's uh, you know a six six seven month business So it gives me the winners off and in the winners as you can see I go full-time at it for ice fishing And therefore I go full-time at it for youtube as well. So um Yeah, so like some some years like the ice cream shop, you know I own a net running it and everything is a lot a lot of hours a lot of work. It's it's um Rewarding though, you know, like it's something I wouldn't want to give up because It truly means something to to the community. It truly means something to my employees It truly means something to my family too. So, you know, when I first started getting a little bit of um traction with youtube You know, I started doing the numbers and think whoa, I could do this full-time and continue to grow But then I was like I I'd have to give one up or the other And there's no chance right now that I would give up What what my stream chops means to to me and the community and and my family? So So the youtube I just do for the winner now, uh, typically you wouldn't be seeing a video from me this time of year typically You just see ice fishing stuff at the beginning of the year until ice fishing's over and then I'm full-time Working and I don't really shoot a lot of videos um I started a golf channel Like last year just because I started golfing a little bit I was able to find three or four hours off here and there so I started a golf channel. It's called joey shanks I let my buddies name it because because I was shanking a lot Just came out of nowhere all of a sudden once I started playing good got my handicap down to like I think four And then for some reason I couldn't hit an iron off a tee So I stopped hitting irons off tees, but for the meantime I I hit a couple straight sideways there and I let my buddies My two college buddies that I was playing golf with I let them name the channel and they called it joey shanks so It was either that or joe hozzlund So I like joey shanks better. So So you can see a little bit of the summer stuff on the golf channel I haven't really posted as much there just because we've been busy with the mill and stuff, but um That channel is not monetized yet. I think I think I need to get more hours while watched. It's something like 750 subscribers But this channel is monetized, you know to answer your question about that And it makes enough to pay for the winter, you know, like one year it bought my snowmobile The next year it bought a snowmobile trailer. So what I typically do is I take all the money that I can make From youtube over the winter and I dump it right back into the channel for next year to make the channel better You know snowmobile trailer gear tackle more trips, you know, and then I live pretty pretty, um Pretty much within my means during the winter, you know, as you can see like my tackle is all great You know a lot of people Talk about that but like sleeping on the ice doesn't cost you a dime once you once you got All year, you know and and and going lake to lake you're just paying for gas and then you stay there for a week It's it's not much money. So so that's what I do in the winter um And then usually by the end of the end of the winter going into spring and into the ice cream season I'm usually so tired because the ice fishing and the youtube becomes like an absolute full-time job like Like I'll like I should shoot a video on like a behind the scenes for you guys But I think it might be boring, but uh So typically if I go on like a five-day ice fishing trip, let's say It's five days of just full-time Going as hard as I possibly can ice fishing going as hard as I can video and storing up as much content footage as I can and then I pack up drive home Start to unpack like the things that need to get unpacked to dry out or or thaw out Some food stuff or whatever and then I just start Uploading content to my computer and I'll I'll binge on that computer. It's just my personality We're all sitting in front of that thing for 16 17 18 hours editing film And you know, it was typically to put out a one hour video for you guys like edited Polish cleaned up it would typically be anywhere from six to nine hours of editing to get it down to one hour So when you what when you see a one hour video and you see like five days in a row One hour videos of like a of a trip Um to get it to the level that I want it, you know to show for you guys It takes me roughly eight hours, you know, and I've been getting better at video editing You know, I'm getting better at it. So maybe I'm down to six hours now But so if you see like five nights in a row hour videos with the complex stuff, you know In the trips and and getting some drone and music in there and and just um spliced together and and You know flashbacks and other things Typically that takes that six to eight hour range. So if you see five days in a row, that's 40 hours of editing So and I don't freaking I don't I don't mess around and do 40 hours like over the course of a week I do 40 hours over the course of three days if I can because The clock's ticking on when ice fishing season's over, you know And the ice is isn't gonna be around that long and and I know I got to get back to to work at the ice cream shop Eventually too. So when I'm off the ice In my head, I'm already planning my next trip, but I'm also editing just as quickly as I possibly can To get that stuff out to you guys and it also allows me to get back on the ice to make another video And get more content and create another trip full of awesome memories with great people. So So planning stuff's a little bit hard for me that time of year Um, you know fishing with a bunch of different people is really hard for me because you know It's just it's just however much I can get done and and sometimes I just can't can't get it all done You know, but um, but that's typically what it is. Maybe I will shoot like a behind the scenes this year on like Like when the trip is over, you know, like you guys see me pulling off the ice trips over You know, thanks for tuning in all that great stuff loading up the trailer Music cues see me maybe going down the road and that's over. Maybe it'd be a cool idea I've never seen anybody else do it on youtube. Maybe it'd be a cool idea to the film like, okay This is what's gonna happen now, you know and like see you guys I'll set up the camera of me like unloading the truck and piling everything in my wood shop and like Thawing this out and and finding this food and emptying this tote and like cutting some more firewood for next trip And then going upstairs and and like hooking up to the computer and like, okay download card four hours Okay, four hours. I'm gonna go do something for four hours constructive and and productive and then okay four hours is up Download another card because the first thing I do is save all my footage Learn that the hard way not saving at all and trying to edit from cards And I'll never do that again. So it takes me, you know, it does take a little bit more time to do that Um Usually I take a nice hot shower while one of the cards is downloading Usually first shower in a week And then I'll get and I'll make a pot of coffee And get in front of that computer and just start the editing process, which You know, some people hate it. I actually love it I just don't like how long it takes and I don't like that. I could be fishing while I'm While I'm editing so like those are the only downfalls to it And I know I know there's people out there that can edit for you, you know And like my golf channel I could hand my footage over to 99% of people and feel comfortable That the product coming out of it would be the same exact thing that I could produce or better or way better And I could create content. I have a buddy that's got a a channel Um with over 120,000 subs. It's a golf channel and that's what he does now You know, he started out doing himself all organic and then he just got to where he needed to create enough Content so he he hired somebody to do it. I feel like with my fishing guys And if you follow the channel and you follow like my winter exploits, I feel with that channel I just I don't think I can hand that off to somebody. It's just so unique and like None of the trips are the same, you know, and it's not just like Okay, this is how you catch a fish catch a fish like it's never like that, you know, it's There's no blueprint to my to my videos and there's no blueprint to my My um my ice fishing trips, you know, it's just that's what that's what I enjoy about it too And I'm sure you guys probably enjoy that about the channel is that there's no blueprint to it And you never know what you're gonna see when you when you tune into like a joe holland Ice fishing series, you know on this lake or that lake. You just never know what you're gonna get So that's why like the editing part would be tough and it would be really hard to pay someone You know eight hours in front of a computer to pop out one hour of footage, you know I don't know. It's just not something that I feel like I could I could do Get some more lives on the ice this winter Yeah, I think I did do a live stream on um On a lake last year. I will I will do more of that The only trouble I've been having with that is most of the places that I enjoy to ice fish You don't get any service, you know, they're so far into the wilderness or or so far away If I do get service on some I'll definitely do some live streams. That would be a ton of fun That's fun for me. I'm I'm surprised how many people are watching this one to be honest with you I did some live stream when I was out in minnesota too and my buddy alex hooked into that That 26 or 25 pound musky hooked it with two pound test and fought it for we did like an hour and 10 hour and 20 minute lives live a footage of it. It was amazing. So I do like the lives I do want to do more of those for you guys And you know if there's anything that you guys want to see and any questions Feel free to ask, you know, one viewer said they'd love to hear some more Interviews from donnie. So right here on this woodpile, you know, we just sat down didn't even do an interview or anything Just sat there talking like we normally do after mill and I put that up and it's getting a little traction You know, I think people enjoy it. I'm not a hundred percent sure But I do have a plan for donnie and donnie's humble. He loves He does love being in front of the camera, but he doesn't love being in front of the camera So I want to shoot a video I want to do an interview like a podcast interview like a pretty serious interview with donnie on like What he wants to talk about from his life up to this day, you know, he's 81 years old and just top notch guys a ton of adventures ton of great stories and and you know, I'm I'm not going to be the type of guy who doesn't share something like that with the rest of you guys so it's something that I feel like needs to be shared and and You know donnie should be protected at all costs so I'd like to maybe do an interview with donnie on on that and Seeing what he's willing to talk about and what he's willing to say to so So yeah, so that's that's definitely in the future with donnie I'm excited to introduce you guys to steve. You've seen him on the channel a few times You know ice fishing but one of the greatest people I've ever met in my life One of my best friends and and he's in on the cabin And he's going to be doing the build on the cabin with us and just a great guy So i'm excited to introduce him to you guys and and maybe you guys can um, maybe he'll Maybe he'll want to do a little interview talk about his life or or um, or whatever, but uh, that'll be great Yeah, donnie top notch super lucky. Yeah Yeah, if I'm doing something wrong if you guys can't tell How grateful I am to have donnie as a friend and and a mentor and and everything that he is so If you can't tell that by watching the channel then then i'm definitely doing something wrong, so But that's about it guys. I know we got 60 people on there. We got 64 thumbs up, which is pretty cool Um, really really appreciate the support For the channel. I know I say that a lot, but it's honest and heartfelt and guys I try to get back to every single comment, you know that you guys give and I really really appreciate and respect the positivity, you know, that's what we need more of in this world and Pretty much the easiest thing to do is Is to say something nice to somebody or be positive or or um Just try to make somebody's day better every single day So if you get a chance to do that do it do it for me do it for donnie We appreciate that and uh look forward to seeing you guys on the next one I'm gonna see if I can figure out how to sign out on this thing Let me see. There's an x in the corner. Let me push that and see what happens Are you sure you want to stop streaming? I'm not really sure. What do you guys think should I stop or should I keep going? I'll see if there's any comments I'm not really sure it doesn't give you like a maybe it's just as cancel or end All right. See you later. They say see you. All right guys. We're tuning out. Thanks again. Really appreciate it And uh, see you on the next one