 all right we are live yep we're doing a naughty like it or not don't he's not a big fan of going live all the time but we are going live against Donnie's wishes got a mega hemlock on there not as big around but it's 16 foot plus actually this one was 19 foot we cut about two and a half feet off it so we're 16 and a half feet long this one we're looking for two by eights oh northern Ontario's tuning in Minnesota's tuning in Chicago's tuning in we got Minnesota Chicago northern Ontario already Donnie they're right on top of things these guys don't mess around we got the we got the best group of subscribers on on YouTube I promise you that all right so we yeah Ontario that's oh another Ontario Ontario Canada cheese I got to get there all right so we got a monster log on guys it's a 16 footer it's a hemlock it's about 70 years old this one just came down two days ago we're looking to get oh South Bristol main there he is match how are you buddy yeah we're looking to get two by eights out of this the goal for today is to get this one trimmed down in the as many roof rafters as we can Greenville Greenville New York Grandville and then after we get this one trimmed down in the two by eights and possibly a couple two by fours we're gonna try to oh what was the problem yeah I'll go over the mill in a second we're gonna try to rip a bunch of boards down into one inch slots that we can put on the inside of our floor are we got another minute Minnesota Halliburton Ontario Donnie yeah and Minnesota again and then we're gonna rip a bunch of boards next to each other wide into one inch so we can get a bunch then that's gonna hold our blue Styrofoam up if you could picture it on the sides of the floor joist it'll be a lot easier to do that ahead of time than once we get the floor joist laid and in place so I'll give you a quick recap of the mill so yesterday I talked to Greg who'd been working on the mill and he said yeah I know exactly what it is it's the bolt that holds the starter key is actually a ground it's not grounded because it's stripped out so yeah it was stripped out we screwed it down it tried to start so we thought that was it and it never started again so then we tried so we moved another ground it started never started again we moved another ground didn't start again we messed with a starter we messed with about 15 things finally I just shook the wires as I was turning the key and it started so somewhere we got a loose connection limington main nice we got a loose connections somewhere on those starter on all the wires that are running in and out of the starter and the battery did end up charging yesterday too so eventually I think we gotta go through the wires but we just don't have time right now we're gonna try to do our best with what we have and I think Donnie's ordering a new motor for this thing either today or tomorrow he's either looking at a Honda or a Kawasaki you guys what do you think they said that I think rough estimate the Honda's like four thousand five hundred US dollars and the Kawasaki was like two thousand five hundred so I don't know I'm a big fan of the Honda Bill from Pennsylvania Bill how are you buddy I just saw you up here in Jefferson we got another one from Ontario Gravenhurst Gravenhurst Ontario ever heard of it I never heard of it sounds like an awesome place everybody online saying go with the Honda Donnie yeah don't mess around with anything but Honda and you've had good luck with Honda's yeah it's just money yeah everybody everybody's saying you only pay for quality wants he's right Star Link don't skimp out on a good thing Canterbury Connecticut I think I've been there when I fished Lake oh shoot what was the name of that lake began with a D can't remember it I'll remember it soon but it was a it's like the biggest hydro dam created Lake in the US where they actually pumped the water up into the lake from the river it was near Danbury I thought but anyway I'm gonna see if I can get the mill going we're gonna yeah what is it rot I don't think it's right but it's yeah something we could use for the our project all right Donnie's getting stuff ready for the next round but this log is gonna take us quite a while this if things go well I'm gonna trim this thing down pretty nice for you guys this will be the best 2x8 you guys have ever seen milled out of this we should be able to get I'm hoping to get 6 6 2x8 out of this maybe a little bit more you guys near you you guys near saw mills or or can check pricing on us find out how much a 2x8 by 16 footer would cost us because that's what we're gonna be milling out of this and we want to see what kind of value and then also if you could find out how much a 2x4 by 16 is because we're gonna get some of those out of this too so and it's you could kind of compare it to pressure treated it's not pressure treated but it's not so it's a lot stronger in the long run than spruce or pine so it's somewhere between pressure treated and spruce in my opinion yep so I'm gonna set you guys up we're gonna get our earmuffs and see if we can get this thing started today there's the log right there all right we're looking good you wiggle the wires enough yeah what's she need does she need water I can't remember I think you just filled it not long not long ago any gas here I got a gallon that might get us through this I know it burns quite a bit yeah there's some in there already gas tanks full and this one's empty you can see it happens these have been sharpened at least these have already been used at least two other times this might be the third time so you're gonna see a blade I'm gonna back her up and change her out get it from this size up to the full size there's a little art gonna finish this cut and then we're gonna do some fancy cuts for you stop on this one that we're milling we ended up getting six two-by-eighths by footers out of it pretty excellent but I left I left the bottom four inches so we have something to push all these boards against because we need one by one inch pine boards to use to hold up our blue styrofoam for under our floor system on our floor joises so rather than run them down a table saw one at a time back and forth we're gonna stack like I don't know six eight two four five six seven boards together and just run it all at once so every time we go down we get seven at a time and there they'll be uniform and pretty quick that way too I'll get this one out of the way I'm just gonna throw this on there we can stack these later they are heavy and we're gonna stack these boards next to the four inch next to the four inch block that we have and show you how we cut these down let's put a whole slew of them up there Donnie let's let's put a whole slew of them up there be able to take it four inches this is gonna save us a ton of time and effort when we're up north building so I'm gonna start at nine inch we're gonna make one inch increments you're gonna be calling them worse than that by the time we get them up once they're 20 foot up in the air I'm gonna be calling them something a little different yeah they might get an adjective in front of them yeah I think they will man they're gonna be brutal they are heavy what do you think this one weighs it's gotta be well over a hundred right it's I mean it's all two guys really want a leg for very far you think it's 150 pounds no I don't think it's that heavy I bet it's a good like if you had to pick that up on the end this is the time in a life that you want to be old so you don't have to get up on the stage and do this that's for the young guys to do yep you are right Donnie and I'm really hoping some younger guys show up I hope they younger than us yeah I'm hoping we get some moose on her experimented with this we've never done this before we know we're gonna get a little bit different size cut I guess I just I don't want to put the no if you can nip an inch with that thing or not that's right yeah always the bottom one is a little thick it doesn't matter so I'll make this last cut I think it's gonna hit more east of where we are the way they're talking not too bad here shouldn't be too bad no I'm not too worried about last time tomorrow and the last time we faced a Lee in the north we sent him packing that's right the app of next courthouse don't get offended my southern followers I know I know you guys are still upset about this Civil War but yeah we got Hurricane Lee coming in and we've the the the main has done pretty well against Lee's in the past all right so we just had a price up we just had a price come in Donnie ready yeah oh shoot there's a cost of two by four by 16 885 pressure treated $15 really yeah the cost of a two by eight by 16 spruce is 15 55 pressure treated 27 huh yeah so we just got six out of that log yeah so somewhere in between 16 and 27 dollars so probably took us what an hour and a hour and a half yeah this is a this is saying an hour and 15 since we started yeah so it would have been a little bit less than an hour to mill that yeah that one log yeah you know if you figure out time is nothing which we're not worth too much you know I think we're ahead of the game by milling it rather than by buying it yep I'm gonna check out Donnie I'd vote for you for president doesn't matter the party yeah we don't want to get into politics somebody somebody said that's talk about politics or women somebody said that sucker is slow but glad but glad she's up and running and you're making feet boards that's true I could tell I could noticeably tell the difference today yeah we lost some serious horsepower so somebody wants to horn it update all right I'm gonna go over it's active no I was watching them earlier Donnie yeah they asked me to stick my finger in the nest see what's in there oh one just buzzed right in all right there it is guys you keep an eye on that opening guess what you're gonna see something coming out of there in a minute quite as active as it was that hot no I see I just saw one fly in yeah oh another one white-faced hornets they call them oh they are nasty you think that well what do you think would happen if I stuck my finger in there I don't know go ahead I'll hold that that machine you got yeah record all I bet I wouldn't do it twice oh another one coming in I remember the other day when I was re-stacking this pile over here I noticed something hit me and brushed it quick it was one of these suckers but he didn't sting me so that's what I really noticed the nest that nest has grown yeah it's doubled in the last week yeah Wayne Jones collects these you suppose we ought to bring this one over to him as is yeah we'll put it in his sugar shack tell him we left him a present Wayne if you're watching this we got one for you Donnie and I milled out this stump yesterday for sitting on Donnie we got a couple more comments come through for you I hope I have half Donnie's energy when I'm as young as he is we got one viewer watching from Parrish New York they're saying it's a good-looking afternoon better get some mill before the rains have a great weekend blade broke we got a guy from Wisconsin watching they want to know what we did to get the motor on him so so yesterday oh it was just a calamity of errors on that motor but it ended up being you have to you have to shake the motor the wires and the wire harness from the yeah from the ignition switch to where it goes into the motor so definitely a loose nut behind the wheel somewhere and that was the problem yesterday forecast what's the forecasted rain totals for this weekend Donnie in Maine yeah yeah yeah down by Callas and Eastport they're supposed to get from two to four two to four inches of rain in strong wind so I imagine there's a lot of lobstermen over that way they're taking their boats out I have been taking their boats out the last couple of days well you got a couple of Vermonters watching yeah Kyle asked does hemlock have a smell like when you rip pine or cedar it has a slight smell to it but not a strong smell not an offensive smell you know but it's not like pine cedar obviously is the best aromatic oh yeah I'd go for me I'd probably go cedar then spruce yeah I like that spruce then pine yeah we don't have any in this particular area but down near the coast of salmon and more inland and up northern out of Maine there's a bunch of yeah we kind of missed out on a spruce and cedar here we got a fellow watching from Pitchton in Maine and all that lumber pricing was from Barry Vermont so how you say that BARRE Barry bar Barry yep yep but they said Godspeed with a storm building in life so yep so we're looking at like Donnie said we're looking at close to they had us at an inch of rain here they're dropping it down to half so it's not looking good for tomorrow but man they're talking like 78 79 on Sunday so we don't have the big tractor today Greg took the tractor so he could tie it to his outbuilding because his last hurricane the outbuilding went by the way of Dorothy's which it's a big big tent type outbuilding and huge 10 took took a real beating yeah so he ties the he ties it down to the machine now so we're gonna have the machine back here on Sunday I got to go get a alignment on my truck I just put some new rubbers on it so Joey looks like the temperatures up around 70 tomorrow your ice cream shop could be busy tomorrow we got to get some rain on Sunday Sunday yeah yeah Sunday ice we'll be selling some ice cream so but Donnie and I will probably be over here at the mill cuz how many more of these do we need we just got six more I think we got a 23 total 23 total and I count 789 10 yeah you know I think we got about 10 in that pile they have cedar in there mom so probably we need about seven or eight more yeah they just report we can get it we got some we got a nice log up over there a couple nice I gotta take us a four by four out of one of those right a six by six I mean a six by six but there's another one up top yeah and that's does that need to be 14 or 16 16 okay yeah so they do have cedar in Vermont okay they want to know what the top-selling flavor at the ice cream shop is well it's it's I know how to eat it but I don't know what's the best Donnie's been hammering the ice cream pretty good he's I hired him on as my quality control expert so every day he's got a test a different flavor if he likes chocolate lovers chocolate is a big favorite yeah Donnie's been hammering that he's been hammering the main black bear since yeah which is a raspberry yeah swirl was what vanilla vanilla base the raspberry swirl chocolate covered raspberry cups yeah and then Moose tracks is always a big one that's got a fudge swirl in vanilla with chocolate covered peanut butter cups but the number one seller by far you guys want to sit down for this one because you're not gonna believe it vanilla but it goes in everything it goes in your banana splits a lot of your hot fudge sundaes has vanilla base goes in root beer floats a lot of milkshakes come out vanilla so that's our number one seller number two is chocolate then number three is chocolate lovers number four is coffee really yeah coffee yeah number five is Moose tracks number six is mint chocolate chip and then after that it kind of blurs in yeah strawberries up there black raspberries up there okay yeah how many flavors you geez so this year is our worst year ever because Giffords is who makes it here in Maine and they had a fire on February 2nd and lost their factory so it's been a struggle this year but we're we're holding strong right around 33 flavors on a good year on a regular year we're at 60 flavors yeah that's quite an inventory to carry yeah yeah yeah and you still get people who get up sat it's quite an inventory for people to decide what the heck they want I know it yeah that's true yeah I'm next year when we get all the flavors back I'm gonna put a wheel a spinner wheel yeah with every with every flavor for the people who can't decide they can spin the wheel that would be a great idea bow season starts tomorrow in Wisconsin oh wow for dear okay holy crap there is a bow season doesn't it start here in Maine in September the end of September yeah I think it does or an October I'm not up on that no it's an October remember Pat chased after that giant oh yeah right yeah Pat chased after the biggest deer the Donnie with him and I can testify to the fact it was the biggest deer Donnie's ever seen in his life right in front of the truck during moose season and it was it was still it was open to bow hunt right and our good buddy Pat had a homemade bow that you'd have at like six years old he had built this thing is a I guess a I don't permit permit it's pretty pretty primitive he took a shoestring out I think or bootlaces during yeah he got all tangled up yeah I had a couple of bluejay feathers for Fletchens yeah and he went after this mega buck yeah but this was honest to God it was a huge thing biggest deer Donnie's ever seen in his life he's 81 and Pat couldn't see the big boy but he expanded started the 15th okay in archery zones of September yeah okay so then in the oh that's in the expanded zone okay yeah so but anyway so Pat went after this mega one with his bow and arrow set up and the four pointer was standing like 10 15 feet away he took a whack at that and the arrow knuckled like Tim Wakefield went right over the thing and hit a tree and splintered yeah and then that was the end of that story yeah and then they looked for two days to try to find the spot yeah they drove for two days after that trying to find the spot any any reception up there for you know for GPS and we didn't it just couldn't get back to it that was the funniest thing Pat still haunted by that big boy yeah yeah the gut the fella Kyle came back on it was asking about how hemlock smells he missed the boy he missed our answer so oh it doesn't it has an odor but not an offensive odor yeah I tease I can't really describe it it's not fine a spruce it's not as strong as that I'd say it's halfway between like spruce and pine maybe yeah but not on the better side you know but it you know it's not as I say not offensive you know I don't mind the smell of it no I don't either it is distinct though you know when it's yeah when it's hemlock right you know if you had to do a smell test yeah you could definitely pick it out yeah it'd be kind of fun to set that up like a like a blind smell test yeah do a little blind taste test yeah we'll get a beaver for the blind taste test yeah and then you and I can do the blind smell test I bet we could I bet we'd be pretty good at it from millen but this hemlock you know in construction you don't want to have it perfectly dry because it's so miserable to work with nailing if you were hand nailing it would be much hotter it splits a lot yeah when it's perfectly dry but we don't have to worry about that this is gonna be pretty pretty damn I remember about 20 years ago we were building Greg's woodshed yeah and he had 10 by 10 hemlocks for the post and they were fairly dry and we had 14 inch nails that were like the diameter a little bit small in your thumb probably your finger yeah and I remember he drove on wrong and he told me to try to go pull that out there's no pulling it out you pull the head right off the nail yeah we had like a four foot crowbar and we could not get that nail we ended up just cutting it oh they just they really hold nails yeah be a fun be a fun trick though seeing somebody try to pull nails out yeah right out of this yeah even a even a spike would be hard to pull out of that yeah yeah yeah well we'll we'll donnie and I are on here for a little while longer we'll take a few more questions and then we got some serious stacking to do with this lumber all this gotta go over there and it looks like a pretty easy job but it's not I'm gonna tell you right now those things are well over a hundred pounds each yeah as far as hunting season is going in Maine right now bears been open for she's been probably bear over first right yeah yeah and then there's a they hunt with dogs at some point in time I gotta believe it's going on now because she said at the gate remember Chris at the gate said a bunch of dogs came through yeah that we're barking yeah but yeah we'll take some questions right now guys on anything you guys want to hear from Donnie or the building process or the project itself the first leg of the trip for the projects just gonna be Donnie and I we're gonna go out and take our time really working hard to get the box the lower box plumb plumb square and level and also on top of the share we hauled in good gravel yeah it's gonna sit on that and I expect the first year there probably will be a little bit of movement in the building yeah yeah I think it's gonna hold really well because shale makes a heck of a base yeah when it's settled in and packed down it they use it a lot on the road that they build in and wicked hat on tires it's sharp pointed you know it's a stone and they break it up with huge excavators and into smaller pieces but it makes a heck of a road base yeah they want to know an estimated time on when we can get that roughed in we get a lot of rain and stuff but we hope to have it closed in by I'm guessing probably by the middle of October that'd be perfect and then the next question was how long do you let the wood dry for well this normally we would let this wood dry probably you know close to a summer yeah but we've been up against it you know we've worked at the milling process when we can you know we got other duties and we're not always here steadily and then we had a lot of mill problems with breakdowns and stuff so that that set us behind so we got pretty green obviously we got pretty green lumber which we're going to use and we figure we're gonna wait on the insulation of the building because we got to let this dry out and and we will have a wood stove in there and probably a propane heater of some sort and we're gonna run that probably for at least at least a month and let this wood dry out really well because we don't want to trap any moisture in the walls no so that that that's the game plan and we hope to use this at some point this winter to get to go up there a little do a little antler hunting and the most usually drop their antlers in December in January and there's a lot of people that enjoy doing the same thing that we're going to enjoy about finding them ice fishing snow will be on yeah there's a lot of the ponds and lakes in that area which obviously I haven't ever fished and I don't think Joe is I never have either they want to know what we're doing for a roof we're putting a metal roof on there's a Amish community probably now and a half away two hours away yeah probably yeah probably two hours away so that's once we get the rafters up and tied in we'll go get a metal roof and yeah and I don't know if you can guess what color it's gonna be but I know exactly what color it's gonna be it's gonna be pink so so one thing we will do for you on this project is we're gonna post the plans Donnie drew up the plans geez probably year and a half ago when this started to come to come into fruition so we'll post the plan so you guys can follow along with that and then we'll also post his material list and then I think I'm gonna post like an ongoing just cost you know like a running cost on what on what the project's costing us a lot of people don't for some reason like to share talk about that but I got no problem saying what I think awesome yep so we were thinking of trucking all this stuff up by trailer from here and hauling it up that way well we did that on the boards and it was one heck of a job we had a huge oh god yeah it was pretty scary obviously to be honest with you so we've hired a local lumber to truck our material up and they're gonna load it come here and load it probably sometime Monday afternoon and we plan on heading up on Tuesday morning nice we got some comments on the color of the roof so small fish big pond said it's gonna be red or green go plaid and green I can tell you right now what color it's gonna be definitely green the way yeah the Vermonner said green Brian said green would Chuck man wants to know what pitch on the roof are you going for so tell him I mean we got some serious snow in this area yeah which means if you go in horizontally 12 inches you go up 10 inches that's like a 10 pitch yeah and that's a good pitch you know usually a lot of the roof in the wingland of the older houses anywhere are 12 pitch which is a 45 degree yeah and 10 with the metal auto slide that's no right off yeah we're gonna be pretty high off the ground the peak will be up there I think I think the walls when they are gonna be about 8 foot 3 or 8 foot 4 so which is a pretty high wall and we are gonna have cross ties yeah it's gonna be cathedral in one a part of the building and we're gonna have a loft area in the other part of the building so where we're gonna have a cathedral ceiling we're gonna cut some spruce poles and tie across the 20 foot area span to tie the walls together in the farmer's porch and the farmers porch will be you know on the outside obviously about yeah yep 10 12 pitch is what we got guys any other building questions you got the you got the man right here that knows exactly what's going on if I don't know I'll give an answer anyway that's not true but yeah we if you guys have any more building questions or any questions for Donnie fire away it's starting to get a little breezy out here as you can see yeah yeah I'll give you guys like an update on what we're planning on doing for video and is if you followed my channel in the past it's kind of like a vlog like a video log or video blog when we go ice fishing so you get like a day by day and you get the whole day from the right from breakfast till dinner with everything in between you know all the highlights of the day so so that's that's one thing I'm gonna really try to do on this channel and then on the other channel the jade rough cut one I'll try to do a little bit more specific stuff in there so like we'll show you how we build the box you know we'll show you how we we hang floor joists and roof rafters and how we board up walls and what we use for tools and I got up I got a trailer full of brand-new Milwaukee tools so we're gonna also do battery oh yeah we're all battery power yeah so we're gonna we'll give you reviews on those and let you know which ones are good and which ones are junk but a couple more questions came in Donnie for you one guy wants to know how long ago was your first build I started building in 1970 wow so that'd be 53 years ago 38 years before I retired the first building I ever built was in my hometown Jefferson and it was a post and beam building a two-story post and beam where we the owner had a mill and we sought out all the timbers and I gambled and I took a pre-cut and and put together the building on the ground before we even erected it and believe it or not obviously we had to have a crane to you know lift a lot of the timbers and not to brag because I'm not a bragger I notice you don't gamble anymore oh no but that was the first house and I was also done a lot of remodeling putting sills underbounds building kitchen cabinets I kind of did the whole thing yeah rather than you know up here in the country you don't get so specified like the city or close to the suburbs you'd have a team come in and do just the framing then you'd have another team come in and do just the finish work and so forth and so on but up here when you're a carpenter you kind of have to learn to do everything so that's what I did and you know I didn't think I was gonna do that as life career but you know I went to college and took mechanical engineering which obviously did help me in building construction as far as loads and so forth but you know my passion was for building because you're doing something different all the time you're not just doing one phase of it which I like I didn't like repetition I like the challenger of doing something different yeah I can't imagine roofing every day but it is worth doing because then you can respect the guys that do roof and which one was that it was a full two-story you know and we were doing a Dahmer on the on the building and we were up there and we had to lug shingles up a ladder a bundle at a time and throw them up over the Dahmer well I got to the top of the ladder and you know the bundle of shingles had kind of drooped over my shoulder and I just worked my butt off to try to get that to come and I couldn't do it and you know in the process of trying to do it it went to the ground no way and I was scared to death that it was gonna hit the bottom of my ladder oh my gosh but yeah that was that was pretty hairy but we used to have competition I had two guys that worked for me when I was young and we could see how many bundles of shingles we could lug up in a time and three I could get three bundles of shingles but that was really it was it was kind of fun but you needed somebody at the top of the ladder to obviously help you get a little competition here and there about different things makes it fun makes it fun makes the time go by yeah it doesn't you know interfere too bad with no it's minor that's the extent of my knowledge yeah well I haven't seen any other questions come through I can leave it rolling let these guys watch us stack these because it's always fun watching someone else work I've noticed that a lot of times at the ice cream shop I'll be out there working on yeah Donnie watches them work and then a lot of times I'll be out there mowing the lawn or working on the gardens or the door on the property somewhere and it just makes everybody enjoy their ice cream a little bit more when they get to watch someone else work so I'm gonna set this camera up here and let you guys watch us work carrying these big heavy 2 by 8 16 footers that the tree was standing two days ago so Donnie and I are gonna carry them and stack them right pretty not so bad this is the lightest one so far yeah probably a center cut of the tree yeah well center this this way get some more sticking 2 by 4 back down low oh okay I put the 2 by 4 down on the boards on top of it yeah but the way you did it was better 4 more Donnie this one's got pieces that one's got some weight to it any time you get near the bar you know she's heavy this one's heavy you can get all these on the truck I know it yeah yeah I'll probably only pay them one put it on me yeah yeah I'll grab that 2 by 4 throw that 2 by 4 on there go at this one 2 by 4 yeah where do you want it right on this pile we gotta cover them we got some wind coming guys so we like to cover the lumber so it doesn't suck in the rain from the top but we leave the sides open so it can get some airflow still we got some serious cereal wind coming tonight and tomorrow with hurricane General Lee coming hurricane hurricane Robert E. Lee is coming to Maine to get defeated by the North once again I guess we'll cover up the mill yeah we ought to cover that mill up I don't know how much more life it's got but we don't want to attend on our term on our duty so we're going to cover up the mill we put coffee cans over the mufflers since it's just half straight pipe no mufflers so water doesn't get down in the heads and then we're going to put a tarp around it too what was wrong with the mill? so the mill it ended up being this wire and harness right here coming off the ignition it's working right now but I had to shake that and I guess it was super hot and melted Greg thought it might have been the ground so we changed out like two or three grounds and we hooked it up to his truck and I don't know that whole having to jump start it too happened around that same time so so I guess the alternator wasn't getting any juice either so I guess it was just bad wiring or hot wires or loose wires is what it was I'm going to go back through and check for any questions yeah key switches started exactly just wiggled it because we're not taking it apart as of right now a cushion at Massachusetts that's pretty cool Windsor main that's right up the road Mike Windsor main they're watching from yeah so let us know where you guys are tuning in from Donnie loves here and where everybody's tuning in from I do too it's kind of neat we got quite a few watching from Ontario right now Andrew Harris is watching from Colorado that's pretty cool we're quite a bit different than Colorado we got a few from Mass a few from the local area but mostly it's spread out yep anybody out of the country right now we got I know we got some Canadians watching but let us know where you're watching from Donnie loves to hear that and yeah and then we're going to close down the mill for the day originally from Connecticut but he's in Colorado now Merrimack, New Hampshire yeah I've been there that's a nice area New Hampshire is a pretty state doesn't Cape Breton, Nova Scotia oh no kidding that's cool Cape Breton, Nova Scotia you have? beautiful up there it is gorgeous following the coastline around it's just gorgeous huh they have great campgrounds yeah they want to know if I'm sick yeah I've been sick probably Jesus probably a good month now been hanging on yeah a little bit over a month the last two days I have felt a lot better my energy is coming back but we don't know if it's COVID basically the same thing Joey's got yeah Donnie had it for about a week you're feeling better though now they want to know if we're going to skip our annual canoe trip oh I hate to say it yeah it's only going to make it better the next time we go but I do promise you we're going to have a lot more adventures from this one you know Donnie's Donnie's the boss Donnie's the foreman on this trip right here that we're going on so if he says hey we're going to go today we're going to take a moose ride or let's go look at the aligash or whatever we're going to just drop our hammers and go so we're going to get some adventures in this trip might not be canoe based but you never know we might go out while everybody else is chasing moose around and we might go help them see if we can get involved in a moose hunt I think we're going to be pretty busy where we are because we do want to get it framed in and snow could happen it's really up there so you know we definitely are going to go bird hunting in October that's a favorite thing to do we're not bringing up any food we're only bringing up shotgun shells and garlic and you can't eat on those two vlogs no garlic and corn they want to write you in for president Donnie maybe I could be as VP I could get into politics because it's not a smart thing to do no we got another viewer watching from Harrison Maine Andrew Harris wants to know the thoughts on Eskimos new products for this year so pretty extensive list pretty extensive list of new products I'm pumped about it I'm excited to try that new auger although that new ion I was running last year and the year before just the lower they bought out they bought out Jiffy they did buy out Jiffy too I hope that's public news I don't know Craig said is Donnie going to take a break up there to find some hugs from the ladies he will if you guys were watching I haven't even posted that one yet wait until you see the next episode from the trip up north I haven't even posted that one yet but the last day wait until you see I've been trying I get about half hour in the editing room at night and it's like 11, 11.30 at night my head starts doing this cause the stuff isn't interesting it's just beat down tired viewer you gotta wait on that one yeah that is coming up so good call on that you called it just right actually you gonna see Donnie getting North Maine Woods hugs from the ladies up there yeah what else we got going here any other questions guys Donnie needs to make sure he brings stuff to make his donuts you guys are you're right on top of the channel right now I got all of I made donuts what about a week and a half again when we were up Sunday morning Sunday morning Sunday yeah this last Sunday he did he made donuts and I'm gonna tell you guys this and this is no word of a lie they were the best Donnie's donuts I've ever had and I've had a lot of Donnie's donuts I don't know what it was if it was the maple syrup I think probably it might have been the maple I added a little pure maple syrup some that I had wow there's a few maple trees around here it's like perfectly crispy on the outside too unbelievable best I've ever had you've got to use lad when you fry a donut oh yeah vegetable oil just doesn't cut it no I'm all set with that lad makes it really crispy on the outside yeah and I think the maple flavor along with the cinnamon and nutmeg that I put in I kind of spiced it up a little it was the best I've ever had they said that you need to set up a donut booth when we're in St. Paul at the Minnesota Ice Fishing Show I bet you I don't think I can keep up with it I don't think you can keep up with it it would be funny though if we dragged the Coleman's donut we're gonna have all the stuff anyway because we're gonna be doing if you guys if we end up fishing for a couple days and get everybody out then then you'll see he is gonna do donuts one day I'm gonna try somebody just said that lad strengthens the heart it's health food can't argue with it they always said it clogged your arteries but my grandfather who lived to be a little over 90 had more lad in his body I think over the years he was a country farmer grew up on a farm ran one his whole life always had biscuits always had donuts cooked everything in it and that's what they used for like Crisco they used lad instead of Crisco they were making like biscuits and so forth and he lived to be well over 90 so I think it's genetic a lot of that stuff is genetic in the longevity of life but lad certainly didn't hamper him too much you had a couple of pretty old in your family didn't you my grandmother on my father's side lived to be 102 my mother lived to be she just passed away this summer she was 105 105 as mom and she cooked with Laird all the time in her earlier days she always made she was a great cook and Donny taught me this is a little tip or trick that I didn't know anything about till Donny taught me this this is an old main thing I like making popcorn in like a kettle on the stove and I'd always just throw in some oil but Donny taught me here's the secret to what to throw in yeah this was taught to me by my grandfather who lived to be over 90 he always put in he saved when he cooked bacon he always saved bacon fat and he would instead of putting like a vegetable oil or an oil in or whatever you used to popcorn in he would always put in bacon fat and that would give it a great flavor oh my god it's so good guys it is so good it blew my mind yeah you'll thank me and you'll thank Donny and you'll thank Donny's grandfather try something special if you cook popcorn over a stove put in some bacon yeah because most people save the bacon grease and the bacon fat anyway in a jar at least in Maine everybody's got a jar by their sink everybody does then you put that in the pan or the pot and throw in some kernels and you won't believe how good that popcorn is you gotta try it I'm gonna tell you guys you're gonna thank me, you're gonna thank Donny then you're gonna thank his grandfather because it is good yeah maple syrup on the kettle corn too we do not have bacon ice cream I bet you that would be good how's your maple syrup supply holding up? I got three more quarts left that's what I got we'll bring them up north and we'll do some eating and cooking on them so yeah we're not gonna get crazy cooking on this next trip like we usually do we're gonna try to do some quicker easier breakfasts and lunches it takes a little time we'll have a decent meal but it takes a lot of time to cook and then clean up and then get to work and we're on a mission to get to work so we're gonna hammer on peanut butter jelly sandwiches can't beat it for lunch breakfast we'll do something simple and then dinner we'll do it up for dinner I think you're gonna like our setup we're gonna bring the big tent up with a wood stove and bring a couple extra beds for when Stevie comes up if we're fortunate enough and Brandon and the boys come back up to help hang rafters what I'll do is I might even get a special guest appearance by Pat if this character Pat who is a friend if he comes he snores like you would not believe he sounds like a wounded bear I mean he he fights all night with himself poor guy so we gotta put him in a separate building no I'm gonna put him in the tent with you I'm gonna go sleep in my trap I'm gonna be sleeping in my little tent a mile down the road yeah he's self conscious about it so don't make fun of him he said we're not making fun of him but it's just the fact the nature that he he's probably the worst snorer in the world but he's got one of them CPAP machines that he plugs in as long as he's got battery and then he's not bad and then he gets to night sleep poor guy I've seen him without that machine it was bad he is just fighting himself yeah but we're gonna set up a pretty cool place yeah it is it's called sleep apnea that's good we'll set it up pretty nice today we're gonna bug you on out of here once we tie the mill down and we're gonna go we're gonna start to pack the trail or even more yesterday we packed our windows and our doors and I started on the tools we each have a list about that long of stuff we wanna bring up cause you can't just run to the hardware store when you're up in the wilderness so we've been thinking for months what we're gonna get and hopefully we got it all but we're gonna pack the trail as much as we can today and then tomorrow we gotta go shopping both for groceries and for some more tools I wanna add some more tools to the repertoire and we gotta get some screws and some nails just various stuff like that and then then we're gonna head out Sunday we might mill a little bit if you guys like these live shows let us know if we can we obviously got to mill Sunday because we need one more 6x6 and some more 2x8 for rafters those are pretty essential and then Monday Sunday morning I gotta do that alignment on my truck and then I'll be milling the rest of the day Monday afternoon we're loading up the lumber truck and we're gonna load it as much as we can put on there hopefully we can get everything in one trip and then Tuesday we're heading there with the lumber truck and following us it's 100 bucks an hour to get them to go up there round trip I think it's worth every penny because we gotta get this up there somehow and Donny lost his magic wand a couple of years ago so there's no other way other than grunting and ignorant yeah my truck's getting a little tired it's nearing 350,000 miles on it and that last trip was pretty hard on it at the gravel pits you better fly to Minnesota when you go to Minnesota no, we're driving oh man I'm not gonna fly I'm gonna tow my snowmobile and tow all year can you slid out? all the year for us to sleep on the ice I'll bring all the fish in the year we'll bring a tent so is that where we're gonna set up is there water right near where the they got what they call 10,000 lakes in Minnesota their lakes are like frog ponds they call everything a lake, it's hilarious to me I spilled a couple of water walking back to the truck one time and somebody came up and renamed it a lake Lake Joa Spillatonka that's how they name their lakes in Minnesota and it froze up and people were skating on it we're not making fun of you Minnesotans no, we're not but it is different you know a lake up here is a huge body of water a lake up here is 13, 14, 15 miles long a couple miles wide we got 30,000 lakes rivers and streams in Maine 33,000 and I think Minnesota's got the land of 10,000 lakes Brian from Minnesota just said don't worry we chuckle about it too I was just shocked it but yeah, so they got Lake of the Woods right, you guys got lakes that dwarf ours Milax is a huge lake they got lakes you can't even see the other side like I guess is it rainy or rend or red lake they got five or six big boys but then they call everything else if there's a frog in it it's a lake leech lake, that's the other big one and then we're hoping red freezes up early that big mud hole but I was talking with my buddy Nick the other day and he said that's a really good early one I remember last year I just made it to Minnesota and it came on the news that a chunk of ice broke away on red lake it was a Monday and 300 people were stranded from shore and I was like oh, they said Wisconsin got 15,000 lakes including frog ponds well well so we're going to find somewhere to fish we'll find some ice somewhere even if we have to bring it for Maine but yeah so when that ice broke free it just baffled me one that they had ice already on a big lake like that but two that they had 300 people out there on a Monday fishing because I mean in Maine we don't get that you go ice fishing you get the whole lake to yourself how does thunder we going to get a fishing license I don't know if you have to get one do you have to get one if you're over 80 years old in Minnesota I remember last year I got one and I had to call some hotline to get it and I was on the phone and pushing buttons and it was just a mess but I ended up getting one do they have like three day licenses like Maine does I bought a season one it wasn't too bad of money they don't really stick it to the out of state they are too bad you know yeah but I can see I got some Minnesota and Wisconsin people talking we got them riled up there's a little bit of a rivalry between Minnesota and Wisconsin I'm kind of learning it and I'm not going to take a side because I like both I'm going to be Switzerland by the end of this thing I'm going to be right in the middle but the trouble is I love everybody Wisconsin that I've ever met I love everybody from Minnesota that I've ever met oh they're saying they just ignore the cheese but I don't know I haven't really been following the NFL lately who is that one Green Bay or Minnesota seems like two good teams I think Minnesota is going to yeah we've had such a a dynasty year in Maine in New England I mean for so many years we didn't really consider the other teams professional yeah we just had the patriots and everybody else was kind of minor league yep for a dynasty but now I think we're going to suffer a little bit and Belichick's getting old but I don't watch a lot of football it said the Vikings are 0-2 against Green Bay that's what it says I don't know if it's true but that's what it said they ought to know yep well we got to get this thing buttoned up I got to get down to the bank and get some money before my checks bounce yeah right so so it's been wicked good chatting with you people and we'll be doing these live things yeah well the fans like it we'll be doing these some more the subscribers like it yeah it's kind of nice to see the progress and so yep so let's get the mill covered up and button down and see IDOs to you viewers and we'll be seeing you in a day or two alright guys I know you're just tuning in we got a couple guys tuning in we're going to close this baby down we're going to get ready for the hurricane we'll give you an update tomorrow I don't know if you're going shopping with me tomorrow or not to the big city if Donny and I end up going to Disgusta together that's the big capital city in Maine to the big city it's called Disgusta Maine for a capital city I don't think it's a very good one no it ain't too awful bad they've lost the downtown area I like when I was a kid to go to Agusta and when the malls came in that all changed and so it's kind of the downtown is pretty dead yeah it ain't much it's one of the weakest capitals I've ever been to yeah I think it is although I went through Montpelier and Vermont it was too there wasn't a lot going on there no I stayed in an old hotel there one time did you? oh my gosh Babby and I and the two kids and we went to Burlington, Vermont and it happened to be graduation weekend we could not find a room anywhere in Burlington we went to the Shelby Museum and so forth and we had to drive back to Montpelier to find a place and we stayed right downtown in an old hotel I swear at least the third or fourth floor in a little small room in a single bed in it it was the only room we could get and we all slept in that bed it was quite something well I can tell you that reminds me of all you guys are on here one of the coolest places I ever stayed on the road was when I was visiting so you guys know me I'm from Jefferson, Maine one day I was just kind of curious because I'd heard about other Jeffersons I said I wonder how many Jeffersons are out there you know a lot of towns a lot of states had statehood after Thomas Jefferson named it after Jefferson so there was 28 so I said well I'm going to go visit them so I threw my sleeping bag in the truck shot gun a couple of other things all the Jeffersons and the first one I stopped at was Jefferson, New York I met this group of guys that were awesome they were in the fire department I don't know how but at about two in the morning we were in the fire trucks with the lights going on in the fire department and then we were in a bar like an inn or a bar or something right in downtown Jefferson New York and they said yeah we got a room upstairs if you want to stay we stayed in this room above the bar in New York and Jefferson, New York and it was something else there was some history there a lot of I think women of the night frequent in that place we stayed in a similar place I think it was Belfast, New York and we said and it was in a bar with the rooms up overhead and they said well we got as a we call it the honeymoon suite that's the same thing for me yeah it was the honeymoon suite but it weren't much of a well I was in Jefferson maybe all the towns got the same blueprint yeah this was in Belfast, New York but it weren't much of a honeymoon suite and all the racket downstairs in the bar oh my gosh yeah it was great no experiences like that which is kind of fun actually I love it but I met a trapper in that bar and I think for the next two days I ran his trap line with him yeah we went trap beaver and coyote and coon and fox and it was pretty fun he was a good trap line real cool guy so his wife's dad lives in Jefferson, New Hampshire but they want a quick just tuned in so we're going to show you guys a wasp nest we'll give you a wasp nest update I have not run into it with the drone yet but I'm thinking about pissing them off a little bit and flying the drone into it might as well right might as well get these guys upset there's nobody at the door oh there's one walking around the top of it you see them they're building onto this nest wicked I don't see any at the door I could probably stick my finger in there now Donny I don't see any in them oh one just come out no Jesus Donny don't do that no get out of there Jesus this could get ugly no they don't want you to hit it online well they're laughing at you Donny with you alright guys well thanks for tuning in as always really appreciate all support I really appreciate all the love and support you guys showed to Donny too he truly enjoys it we're going to give him the drone treatment I'll video that if I do it but I'll do it from the truck pretty far away oh yeah they can watch this anytime so you want to say hi to anybody I don't know anything about that little device that we're talking on you just be yourself and I'll do the rest yeah you do so if you want to say hello to anybody Donny feel free Campobello Island Stephanie and Brent Bertha oh my gosh I got so many up there so Bob Storm so hi to you guys hope you're doing good I'm going to try to get up there sometime this winter I know exactly when now with this building project he'll be up by winter awesome guys thanks for tuning in thanks for all the support we're going to X out of this and get back to work we got a lot of work to do and you guys some more good footage so here we go