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Enjoying over 1 million people who have taken charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com slash htme. Don't hit that. Oh, acid. The first casualty you find is my bike. My bike was hanging right in front of the door, so it got most of the blast. Got one pedal brake lines. I don't know what that was. Here's the front of it. A little melted aluminum. Handleboard. It's got some fiberglass. Here's a changer. Some of the spokes. Here's the lock. Maybe usable. That's part of the tire. That must have been aluminum. But the aluminum, it didn't stand much of a chance. Where are they all survived? Definitely seen some better days. Solvable? Totally. Fire extinguisher. My attempts to fight the fire did not work out so well. Maybe we can salvage this, at least make a metal crucible or something out of it. What is this? Oh, this is my paddle board. Sad. Don't think that'll float anymore. Yeah, what's left of our oxy-settling welder? I doubt they're salvageable. Maybe we can repurpose them for something, but I wouldn't put flammable gas in them. Torch. Almost seems salvageable. I don't know. Some ingot molds that survived. Pretty much fully intact. They did not form any ingots. Apple box isn't looking too good. One side's good though. Good as new. All right, I got a wood planer here. Electric one. Not looking too good. Kind of got a little smushed and stuff fell on it. All right, so this shelf is pretty much completely gone. Everything fell. I have to dig through that. But these shelves are for the most part intact. This is the compass. Body made out of bronze. Lasted all right. Face on it has completely melted, but rest of it's pretty good. Very hefty piece. Should be able to salvage that. Gas mask tube. Bamboo itself has survived. Mostly. I'm surprised a string is still here. That's interesting. Just disintegrates. So I guess it's not really there. Just the charred remain of it. I don't think that's usable. I don't even know where the actual mask for it went. Looks like it's just gone. That was, I don't know what this was, but it's gone now. A variety of pottery that's actually pretty, pretty much untouched. These are the only first bottles we fired. Wood fired. That might be why it survived. I'll probably scrub this off and get the nice glaze back still even. I'm glad that survived. Oster jig has crocked and shattered. So I don't think it's going to be too good. Smells gross. Had a rock of obsidian. It's like it's shattered. Probably salvage the obsidian itself for future use. Survived pretty good. This was from Dax I think. It held up. Fireproof obsidian in there. What an idea that was. Start the pottery here. It might have cracked the bottom one. That also might have already been there. These all seem to be intact. Looks good. We got a bell still. Don't forget to like and subscribe and hit that subscription notification. If you have a kiss, have seen some better days. Actual pieces seem okay though. Maybe salvage that someday. Oil bottles. And at least made back of the day. They seem to all be intact. Still has liquid in it. Don't know what that is. That's probably oil. I think that's olive oil. Survived. Interesting. Another remains of a tablet. A little bit of writing here. A few letters from our language. Just barely make out. Interesting artifact. We'll see a couple of bigger pieces. Some sort of rock. Seems like glass. It's either obsidian or some of our glass attempts. Everything's black now so it's hard to judge. Funnel. Still good. I cracked this pottery. Also good. There's one way to clean them out. This one might have some cracks in it. But I think that's intact. This is from DAX. We haven't even had a chance to use it yet. Glad that survived. Here's a fermenting vat. This is already broken. He actually sent me a new one. I drugged my feet actually picking it up from the post office. So it wasn't in here. So that's good news. Not too salvageable. Add it to a future grog pile I guess. And four is heavy. That's pretty good. You'll see the inscription on it. I don't know if that'll come off. It might be glazed on there actually. But we'll see if we can clean that up. See if we can get back the design. We have a big pot here that did not make it. We have the bottle from the soda episode. How much did that pretty go? And we got a stack of plates. I think most of these are busted to begin with. That crack was already there. Those are pretty nice bowls. I'm glad it survived. These ones are both intact. A lot of the pottery made it. $0.6. I never really got that hot. What's that for? I don't know. A snail did it. A big rock. A fool's gold we got in Utah. As far as it didn't break up. The pirate's pretty brittle to get it up. It usually just kind of explodes. See if we can clean that up or something. The ceiling. Here's a meridium. That survived. I think it's charcoal already. Head in there. Completely salvaged. That's nice. Pieces of ceiling. This is something. I think this is a bottle gourd. Flammable. The other fermenting vats. Some of the wax was melted and came later at the bottom. But it's still good. A room here. Alright so here we have the wall of tools. You can see what a few things are still on there. You can tell what was there. It's kind of interesting. A dry knife Adrian made us. Caps on them. Handles seem to be a bit busted. Very rusted. But I think we'll get that back to pretty much good as new. So we have the axe head. Pretty much intact it looks. It should definitely be salvageable. I don't think that's worth keeping. And then we have the saw. Still hanging up. Very rusty. But should be able to clean that up. Be good as new. The file survived. All reusable. That'll be rusted. All the file parts. Let's see what's fell down. Looks like the plum bob. That did not survive. That's disappointing. Let's see what we can find Bob. Where'd you go Bob? Should have survived. We'll also go find it in all this mess. Centipedes. The bugs have moved in. There's the pole saw. Definitely rusted up. Should be salvageable. Handles even. Probably salvageable too. Here's the bronze axe. Whoops. Toast. But still shiny parts. Ditch the handle. Plastic. Plastic. It's like glass. Oh that's from the hourglass I think. There's a base of it. Not too much left of that guy. Oh this is actual sand. Here's the top of it I think. Yeah. Looks too bad. I like that thing. It's like metal. No that's plastic. Hard-booted plastic. Rock. I don't think that has any significance. That's just part of the wall. Here's the bronze draw knife. Handles are completely gone. But bronze arrived. There's a key pitch. That's probably something. That good trash can. Cups. He survived mostly actually. Right here. That's a nice one to keep. Archaeological digger. The pelts die backs. I might be a hammer. I think these are both hafted. Here's the tip of that one knife. Found a little mouse. Dobby has not been doing her job. He's pissed. Yeah. He saved her life. Another one. Here he goes. Where are you going to let him go? I'm outside here. Yeah, so I'm going. Hydraulic press stand. Might still be salvageable. Springs don't look too good. Entertainment stand. Hold the monitor when I'm filming. I don't know where the TV went. I think this is it. Not a very good TV. Here we have over here. Pottery stick or something. That's in a little porn. From the bow. Looks like it's pretty much toast. This is a spear. We're going to find this spearhead somewhere. Here's a compound bow. I don't think that's surviving. And the bones are all burnt up. That's a total loss I think. Should be one more bow. How is the self bow? It might be entirely burned up. Some pottery here is waiting to be fired. Looks like I made it. And here's the 80-bitty hammer. And there's the awl. A spoon. I wonder what that was. I think they're good. I have the test square of the line of thorax. Put it through the ultimate test, I guess. Still standing. Cat tail. Baskets. This is some of the tubing from the mask. Hard and brittle now. Stick. Some hollow. It's like a twine survived. Some of it at least. Camera battery. I don't think that's good anymore. A basket of some ploys here. That was a charcoal. That's still charcoal. Still usable I guess. These wax I think. No resin. Melted into one big block. Beaker looks like it's still good. These wax. It's also melted into a big block. Here's the expensive stuff. Camry equipment. They got shoved over here. Lens wipes. Those are good. Diffusion cloth. I don't think that's usable. I guess some actual camera lenses. Might actually be usable. It's probably full of ash though. That doesn't look too good. Probably not. Little tripod. This actually looks usable. Yeah. That might be salvage roll. Other mount. Looks pretty good too. Zoom lens. Maybe. Probably a pretty long shot. Those are good. Battery. It works. You just need to charge it. Maybe good. Looks pretty good. Lens cap. Doesn't look too bad. USB cord. Little rusty. Probably not usable. I think these batteries are good. I think I want to risk it. I don't want the camera to explode. It's usable still. These are all good. Battery pack. Looks a little scorched. That's probably bad. Light. Looks pretty warped. There's that missing task cam. Might all be good. Let's see what's filled behind. I'm going to find that spearhead at least. Found it. Right here. Wedge against the wall. Spearhead. No sign of the bow. I'm pretty sure that was on the wall. So I think it might be completely gone. At least we have the arrowhead. Here's the spearhead here. So it looks like the stone wheel. Still intact. A little shard, but still one piece. Weird banding on the back. Just from the wood it was against. Propane forage is looking a little rough, but it might be salvageable. I mean, it's designed to be fireproof. Propane tank's probably dead. The whining's still halfway decent. I think this was a wood chipper. The box bellows don't look too good. Seen better days. The anvils. They're still solid, but probably lost their heat treats. I might have to try and heat them and salvage them possibly. That one's probably lost its heat treatment too. So maybe it can be reheated. I don't know. Just bought that. Barely used it. So the toms and stuff have survived. All rusted up. At least one of the hammers. Oh, here's my hammer. So that survived. The board itself is all here. I don't know how we'll be able to salvage it if we have to rebuild. We have to disassemble the entire thing and rebuild it or something. Then over here is where we have our more modern tools when we need them. Two different miter saws, a drill press, sander, bench grinder, whole pegboard, those full of tools that has now fallen down. A bunch of miscellaneous things have to pick through and see if everything's probably dead. These are herb shopping axes I was going to give away to patrons and keep not having time to actually do it. I guess it's more rustic. They are still here, so those are still coming, I guess. Here are all the handles for them. These burn just enough to be not really usable. That's the stuff. Expensive camera tripod. All the components are melted. I think the legs are still good. I don't know if there's anything worth salvaging, but it's expensive tripod. Pottery kiln, a little rough, but it's designed to withstand temperatures, at least on the inside. The elements are intact, at least. The cords toast. I don't think the controls are going to work. That's the internals I've tried, but I'm essentially going to place that and salvage it. There's a metal melt furnace. I just bought this. The controls are melted out. There's still a bit at least. Possibly can salvage something, but no much. I'm cleaning out the floor. I have a fridge. I just stocked it. I hope I have any beverages left. Here we go. What is this? Dr. Pepper. Still fresh. If you clean up the lid, they probably are still good. They're still pressurizing. Yeah. Pretty much cleared up the garage now and gotten what we can salvage and what is pretty much just a loss. A fair amount of things have survived. Pretty much anything that's metal. The bronze, pretty much untouched. Just a little bit of some petite on the outside. Anything iron is very rusted now. Kind of burned off the protective coat. So I have to do a lot of rust removal. Probably redo all the wood handles. Most of them are pretty much toast. About 50% of the ceramics ended up surviving, which is pretty good, I think. Anything made out of wood like the Abacus is mostly toast. So should be able to start the long process of cleaning things up and rebuilding them. Got a collection of our store-bought modern tools that potentially can be salvaged. Very rusty. Can't even open it. Got like a whole bin of files. Probably not too usable now, but these will make a good starting stock for future knives and such. And just got giant melted plastic bins that I got to pry apart and figure out what's inside. Lots of fun. Here's our basically pile of our tools that probably not much can be done with. So let's just keep that for insurance to reference what we lost. So now it's just a matter of figuring out what we're exactly going to do next. Kind of a little split on if we try and salvage the foundation and maybe some of the walls. Or if we just start completely from scratch and redo the foundation. Pros and cons to both. Lots of options. And fortunately, thanks to everybody's donations, we can actually afford some of them. So we aren't forced to make do. In the process, we did find a fair amount of old projects and I think probably trying to do a second round of the auction of some of the fire-survived items and give people a chance to bid on some of those. So this is where things are at. Things are cleaned up, I guess. That's a good first step. I'll do kind of regular updates as things move along. Go from here and hopefully start rebuilding. Hopefully it won't take too long to get started on that. Thanks again to everybody for your support both on the GoFundMe, Patreon and anything we do in the future. Really, really helps. Psychologically is very reassuring because it's a very difficult situation to lose all of this and have to start over. But thanks again for everybody's support and thanks for watching. Thanks for watching.