 We started Mill and Lumber all summer to fulfill a lifelong dream of one of my very best friends, Donnie. At age 81, he took on the challenge to build a wilderness cabin in the North Main Woods. From there, we cleared the lot, hauled in loads of shale and gravel as a base, and have building the project step-by-step. We've been trying to bring it to you every episode as we progress. We've built our foundation, gone vertical with the walls, sheathed the walls, built the farmer's porch, have created headers on the farmer's porch, and they're all ready for one of the hardest parts of the build, which is the roof and the rafters. We called in some down-east reinforcements for this episode. We really hope you guys enjoy it, and if you do, leave it a like, share it with your buddies, or let us know in the comments. Really appreciate all the support for the channel. There you go. 1115. Oh wow. He's got three rafters up already. No, imagine we got to shuffle a couple of vehicles and get the staging in here. It sounded like he drove right down in here. He pointed this way a little bit. Yeah, like he... I know. That's why I said it. When it showed up it sounded like he pulled right in next to the fence. You forgot to run your drone last night on the porch. Yeah, it's kind of embarrassed. Why? Because the porch isn't finished. Well, so what? It's a construction project. It's a working project. Well, it's not in progress anymore. Just because I messed up on it. I didn't want to show your mess up and have a thousand, I have to answer a thousand times. Why did you guys not have enough deckboards? Because I messed up. That's why it's not done. I cut the first one and I'm like, I'm looking at the pile. I'm like, how thin are we on boards? Donnie goes pretty thin. He goes, I figured it tight. So don't have any waste. So I was like, all right. So I put three rows on, slapped on it. The next morning I get up and I'm like, doesn't it look like we got enough? And he goes, huh. Yeah. You're right. But we got enough to do this job. Hopefully. Right on the number. Right, Donnie? Hopefully. Well, what is up guys? It's day number. What are we on this job? We are six, seven. Seven on this job, I think. And we got a crew today. We got a big day ahead of us. Roof rafters today. Hopefully the roof, hopefully the boards, gable ends, all sorts of stuff. And I think I heard around 11.15 last night. I heard some reinforcements rolling in. What would you look at that? There's a bear. It's a bear. What are you holding on to? What's up, buddy? Morning, Joe. What's all your roll in? You guys making good time? Not bad. 11.15? Yeah, who's this? Bella. It's off to gravity. I can't see your other side. You look all right. I'd keep her right straight if you can. On this side. Yeah, you're beautiful over here. Beautiful. Looks a little different than when you were here last time. We were thinking of changing the rafters and going this way with them. Stevie, if you want to go inside, I'll send this in here. Have you ever set this stuff up before? Nope. Four of these anyway. Actually, eight of these probably. You're not doing one in the middle. I got two by 10s we could throw across. What is? I didn't know if you could get them between them. Looks like a runway up there. I'm going to finish that with coffee before you get any more work out of it. Ain't that right, Stevie? That sounds like a plan to me. From your corner right there, Sean. There it is. Where was it? You're a job, Donny. Right where you are. Happy. Yeah, it does. That was growing last week. Oh, they get heavier. We wanted to start you with the light ones. Uh-oh, Donny. Uh-oh, Donny, they're perfect. We haven't got a ridge pole yet. We can still peg that side to slide the ridge pole in. We've got it right there. I'll be right up, fellas. Would it help if we held that ridge pole up if two of us come up? We've got to set it here. If that was a six-footer, I'll have Sean help you and I'll hold this end of the ridge pole out. I think so. Yeah. I just want a piece of it off. Yeah. I'm sorry. I can't go nowhere. Nail this on the sand. I'm just going to put it down in here to hold it. Yeah. Good. It looks decent on the top. Somebody don't have the buck stop on the nail gun to be going to get pissed. Put it on mode three. Yeah, she is now. Slide ridge height to the wall. Sean, it's looking like you've got to go up with yours. It'll close your bird's mouth and it'll get you closer to newbie. Don't, Sean's got to go up. Stevie, hold that staging for him. Yeah, try it. Shakey button, Sean. I will say don't twist it. I don't want to... Can you nail the top? Can I try to twist that bottom in at him? Go up to the top top. This one. I'll take a lot of that wiggle out. I hope I got that on camera. I don't. Yeah, there's one right there. I'm going to get one midpoint just to hold it. Oh yeah. New favorite algorithm. Nail if you want. Do you like the joint or no? Oh yeah. Yeah, he likes it. I could screw that through. I never had problems with that. I've never gotten older. Don't love it. Throw me up the hammer, old Joe. What's up for that drone behind you? What? I brought my tool belt and everything to look presentable, Joe. Hold my freebie's belt off. No! You've got to stop eating so much. What is that noise? He blew that thing right up to find my face in the excavator. Joe, how's that look on that gay blend? Powder in, Joe. It looks in. I'm going to get the board and scarf it up. Yeah, just see what it looks like on the screen. This friggin' first one we sent off is bent. I wish we didn't do that. I sent off a bent one. You know what I mean? I think they're all twisted. No, they're not all twisted. It's looking like it can go out. Donny! Let me put a two-by-four up. You want it off the boards? Off the boards, right? I'd like you to stand the dummy piece out and just put a couple screws in it, Joe. This is off the boards. Isn't that a really nice, freebie on a two-by-four? It's as straight as there is on this job site. Okay. That's off the board. We can turn it. He wants to be in. How much does he want to be in, Donny? A board thickness. Just a board thickness. So he's got to come out of the front. Hold on a second. Donny, will this stay if we nail it? It does. Can you have any... Toe nail it? Can you go this way? No, but you can't go that way. That'll flex the top. That's what makes it so fast. We have to toenail the whole thing. I'm going down and grab four. For all the night, we need to be on the stand. Shut the video off. Wrong one. Donny, you didn't number those? He did, because we're on nine. You need a cat's paw? No, I just got to grab his paws off. Cut them nails off real quick. I got one right here ready to go. Here you go. Brandon, I got one ready to go. We had to cut one nail on this job so far. How do you control what's up there? No. Is that one by Steve? Yeah. Like toenail screw it? Yeah. Watch yourself while that's still up there. Give us a reading. It'll just pull that two by four in. We're just going to hold them straight to the building. We can free a guy up here so it doesn't flop off. Because I put that spacer in there, that should be what we want. To come off that. I'm going to blame it on them. Camp runners have stretched me out. They skipped down and burnt me for $600. No, they didn't. Yes, they did. They never paid me. I went in to take the trash out for them and they told me this store. They hide another guide. I called the guide and the guide's like, yeah, that's not true. Well, they did. He's stuck the guide. Let's go take a ride. Yeah, we should move that stage in center. Steve, you can do it with you guys up there. Just grab the red pole, lift your feet out. Yeah, kind of French-Canadian. My Adam was ready on this. Besides first, Adam? Probably put Steve here. I'll go over there. He's the boss and he's being quiet, so that must mean... Yeah. Good job, Adam. I don't know if we're getting taped by the owl, but the snow's coming, Donny, isn't it? Things are heavier now. This one's crooked and Kevin's small, Adam. Holy... You got it on there. Yeah, I got it. Who's first? You or me? Yeah. Would that close you in, Joe? Steve, you gotta slide the stage in, buddy. Ready for one? No, they want the front rafter first. You done with the screw gun? Yeah, you done with the screw gun? Great what you had in vision? Yeah. It looks like that outside rafter really isn't tight to the red pole. That's one of that one. Oh, the outside one? No. That's great. I'll tell you in a second. I'm perfectly meant for you right now. Let's see, you know... You're good, man. You're good, man. Taylor? We got one, Brandon was just on it. This is a horizontal stripper pole. We never started it. What do you mean? Like this way to that way. Well, you have 24 feet exactly across the off. It's 20 feet. Yeah, that's pretty much it what it is. Right? You got it, John? Something's dingin'. Yeah, I hear it. Adam's side, next. It's like giant. I think it's got like a giant. It's right under your feet. They're saying somebody cut the rafter short. Guess who that is. There's a reason he didn't want to go up there. Well, he's going to take the blame. No, he does the rafter. They're just coming down. Nope, we're ready. Just like one of them rode just a little tiny bit down, but now that sat and looked fresh. They never rode? Is Smith your cousin or not? Nope. We had to move for 15 yards to this Gavin on a stall. I believe it. On your jack. Brandon, no, your jack. Your rafter jack. Yeah, that's what I want. It should be left. Should I have that six foot level seat to get it inside my shack? You want to move anything before you do this or slide a piece of straw? John, you can pick that piece behind you. You can pick that off instead of the straw. There's a pile here, but that's a six footer. Right there beside Donnie. Play your foot. Sorry, John. Don't worry. It's not heavy. Can you hold it right there? Yeah, you got it. Do a bit of help here. That's incredible. I ain't got no high beams in my truck. We're not there in the morning when he wakes up. He's going to know something's wrong. I'm good. A chip. Can you have a chip in your part so it follows you? That's what he's asking. Well, it just locks on the note of chip. You just pick the target. Give it a couple seconds and it'll play on. I want a little bit of the same one. Yeah. There you go. Put it down here, fellas. There ain't both, too bad. Good. You got half one. I think it'd be smart to do that first. So the other one can lock into it. Wait, you butt up? I just put a blocker on each side in between them. You know what I mean? Yeah, nail them. I'd say put this one on. That way that'll give us a saddle. We'll be even. We'll set it anyway. Let's put a wrapping on it and see what it looks like. Is it good or not? Yeah, I'm getting good. There's a three screw thread in there. That's the table. That way we can have a book. Good. Yeah, that works. That's fine. That's tight, yeah? Yeah, I'm good, man. Put two more out and try this outside. Make sure we don't get a rustic one. We're just kind of living on a six-foot level. That's what I'm talking about, you know what I mean? I'm talking to you. Hey, Steven. You want to wind up another drill with a T25? Yeah. You go out the trap and get the napkin. Yeah, man. Go away. You can go back and forth. Everybody's in the drill. It's the shot screws. Steven! This way. Do it again. Good job. I think what I looked at was the center. It's the new drill. They're already bent forward. I'm standing. I'm glad it was shot. You're taking off. Up for a new drill. Are we doing all the work? Dude, we got this buddy live. We got this buddy live, actually. We went and took the box in the other day. What's the matter? Gotta pay the bill, boys. You bitching because I'm over here. How am I going to financially recover from this place? Hold this. I'm going to stop above here now. There's trash right here. I mean, it's parallel. It's just an eight. It's an eight out, which I'm not too worried about. I don't know if I can... Yeah, that helps. Tell me when you're ready. 16th, we're good. Yeah, I'm up over the rig. If you want to send one to Sean right there, that's fine too. Sean, you can push those back into those other rafters if you want. Yeah, it's got some strength to it already. Oh yeah, this is going to be a rugged house. For the drone. I mean, do you want me to do anything? I'm back. We might be exactly 20 where we got this partition. You don't do well in here, though. You guys waiting on me? You got any notch? No, I got nothing. He's got one notch here where you can hang, Joe. Don't he set that ten up? When we did, he hasn't moved it. Did it really? Four by fours and four by fives or what is that? Four by sixes at the corner. Yeah. Four by four for the upgrades in the middle. Ready? That's what she said. Yep, send back. Perfect. You feel pretty rugged up here, Brandon? It needs some cross-bracing, but it's getting better all the time. You think you'd get a free cup of coffee if you ain't getting paid than me? Could you put on a pot of coffee for Brandon, please? Yeah, yeah, it gets meat hooked away from that. What? Yeah, don't touch my blood. What made him want to crawl in between the shack and the heights underneath? I don't know, about a 30-kit? Who knows where we're at? They were on some pills. He wasn't into something. You're good. Who was it? Wait a minute. He was up there with the guys. One of them was a young kid. He hadn't worked for a very long, right? Yeah. And he didn't work for a very long after. Can we take a break? A bunch of monkeys climbing down. Hey, banana. That looks awesome. Oh, that didn't look like nothing. They weren't as heavy with four guys down. Stevie's the only one who really knows how to fit in. Yeah, Stevie. There's a couple light ones next to him. That's the quickest dive I've ever put rafters up. And we had a couple screw-ups. It's hung down too. Oh, we're up too high? Yeah. We made such a good decision working this base down. We got a nice base. This is a good friend. Yeah. Forever. And I like the looks of the camp on the ground and not in the front more than having it right flat like that. Oh, yeah. I think it looks more curb appeal. You know what I mean? Have the porch a little bit elevated like that? Yeah. We get drunk. We only got, what, three feet to fall at? Yeah. Shit. We're putting padding around those flats. Yeah. Them guys used to leave Eagle Lake and not even hit the I.T.S. trail. They used to boondock right down through it. I got pins where we boondock just through the north of my GPS. Yeah. I want to do that with you guys this winter. Coming through. I want you to ride with me. Oh, jeez. I get that new turbo eye, Daughty. I'm going to give you a ride. You got me thinking about turning mine in and getting one out now. I'll be sucking hide and kid behind you guys. No, no. You're going to be sitting on his back seat. Strapped in. You want to talk about a wheelie machine?