 Man, oh man, good morning. Don't you feel just optimistic sometimes? Let me put those back on. It's bright. Alright, so quick update. Number one, if anybody is not aware, Badge now has a channel. I will link it in the description. He's doing all sorts of videos. He might actually have more videos of me by now. He's been uploading like crazy. But as you know, he's a hilarious guy. A very lovable guy. A likable guy. A great guy. You know, all those things that are true about him. But he's also a very smart guy. He has a lot of very specific RV and mechanic information. So if anybody needs that, check out the link in the description. Tell him I sent you. And, I mean, you get your daily dose of Badge over there. So, I got the bus back. Okay, it is parked back where it's always parked. Over there, off yonder, right there. Here's the update. The transmission is incredible. Now, I've had a couple people ask me, Oh my gosh, I have a 545. Should I upgrade my transmission? I don't have enough power. I, whatever. Simple answer, no. Unless there's something wrong with your transmission, you don't need to spend extra money and spend it on that. I happen to have an issue where there was a lot of brass in the pan and called and wanted to play it safe and basically fix it before it breaks. Okay, so the old saying is true. Don't fix it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There we go. Now, it is heating up in the desert. There are flowers blooming and it's getting hot and I don't like the heat. So, once it starts to heat up, I'm out of here. I'm going north. What else can I tell you? I'm not sick anymore. Three weeks later, I feel great. I feel fine. I feel back to normal. Also, thank you to everyone on Patreon. If it wasn't for you guys, I would have to stop. The channel would stop. I couldn't make videos. I would have to stop and save more money and then take off and travel again. So, all of you guys are making a huge difference and each and every one of you from $1 and up is making a difference in my life, a positive difference in my life and I am so grateful for you. Here's what I'm working on today. I am making a ladder. Yesterday, I cut and grinded all of the metal pieces for my ladder. My ladder will look kind of like a hangman. Basically, it goes up, over, down, mounting bracket, bracket, bracket, bracket, bracket. That's the bumper down below. So, today I'm going to be welding this all together. Welding isn't all that interesting. Watch it repetitively. So, I'll check in periodically and show you the progress. Attach is true. Practice makes perfect. Aside from blowing a little hole in the weld right there, that's a pretty damn good weld if I don't say so myself. Stage one is done. This is upside down, but this is going to rest on the deck. A little support and then go down the roof. I just realized I didn't measure from five inches out until... Yeah, so I might actually have to redo this. You know, it's of course the one measurement that you don't make that screws everything up. This top part actually needs to be about five inches longer. I didn't compensate for the fact that I'm going to have five inch spacers mounting brackets on there, which only leaves me with that much to attach to the wood. It's just not enough. So, I'm going to cut this piece off, cut another one 17 inches long. Alright, here's the finished product. This is, I don't even know, beam number one we'll call it. It's just connected like a hangman right now. So, I'm going to repeat part two, except for making that little mistake. I have a longer one right there. You know, sometimes in life you have a really crappy weld, and that's just the way things work. Especially when you re-weld a weld. But when you have a nice clean, tight, you know, weld like this, it just makes you happy, you know? But you are going to have crappy ones, no matter what. But that's what it looks like when it's nice and lined up properly, proper distance, and all that fun stuff. You know, a lot of this customization is learning and thinking. And since I haven't learned nor thought about this before, here I am with an interesting situation. The wood, the deck platform is about this level. So, I thought to myself from this level down should be a foot, because a foot is standard for a step. Because if I had a step here, it would just be plain awkward. You're going to have to allow your body to travel down enough to be comfortable and hang on to the rails. So this is one of those thinking moments. I have a lot of these thinking moments. Sometimes my thoughts are wrong. I feel like this is a pretty good one. This is a pretty good idea. So, this is after all the work I did on it yesterday. I got everything welded. And next step, I'm going to take this little angle grinder with a flap disc on there. And I am going to sand down the front and back welds. Make it nice and smooth. I don't really care too much about the inside part, because that's just where you step. But I might just kind of hit it and smooth out some parts, especially right there where that wire is. Phase two, look at how much better my welds are getting. I'm putting on the mounting brackets. I cut these down. I had to level the bladder vertically. So, these go into the bumper. These are a little bit shorter. These are about an inch longer. So, those are going to go, I don't know, somewhere about there. Or something. Of course, the top ones. These are already made. Next step is what I already did here is I grinded down a bunch of these welds. So, it's nice. It's somewhat smooth. Won't cut your fingers. Then, of course, after this, I need to wipe this clean, spray it with primer, and then let it dry and then hit it with a couple layers of paint. Add a little weld to the corner here. Just because it was chunking up a little bit. Basically, the thing is structurally done. Just going to hit this with the flap sander. Get all these things smoothed out. More like this, where they are smooth to the touch. And on the inside as well. If anybody wants the, I don't know, design for this thing, it's very custom to my roof. My roof is now flat because of the wood deck, right? So, if you guys make something, unfortunately, it's going to need to be completely custom. But in a nutshell, this thing is about eight and a half feet long. This is a four and three quarter piece. No, four and a quarter piece. Five inch, five inch, 17 and like, I don't know, eight or something like that. So, these are one foot spaces. One foot space, 14 inches wide I think. So yeah, it's just a ladder. If you know how to weld, you can put this together. If you don't know how to weld, well, I highly suggest you learn how. All right, through the magic of filmmaking, this has already been primed. I'll let it sit for an hour, probably not as long as you should. It does say it is dry after an hour. Totally cured in 24, but I want to get this thing done. I might be having a change of locations back to a place that we've already been together. This just, actually, idea just came about. I'm not sure if it is gonna happen, so I won't say where it is or what the idea is, but just thought I would mention that. Got a ton of laps going. Let's watch me paint the ladder. Here we go. As you guys may have seen, I just used one can of spray paint on this. It takes a lot less than primer. And I'm very glad that I primed it forehand because otherwise I'm using good paint to prime. Yeah, got a couple of bugs on there, but just scuff those off after it dries. I'll leave this till tomorrow. Hit it with another coat. Call it a day today. I think it's getting a little warm out here, which is, like I said, one of the reasons why I will be changing locations. And part of the conversation about changing locations was that I could help a friend of mine and get some help in return, someone who is constructing a bus as we speak. Taking on one of these things by yourself is a lot of work. Even with somebody who has way more experience than me, it's always a lot easier with another pair of hands. So that's where I could come in handy. Just have to double check some things, but that's a possibility. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Also, I just want to thank again all of the patrons for helping my channel exist. There's a lot of help that has come my way from different places, and Patreon is one of the places that I dipped into for the transmission funds. It's one of the places that, you know, it's kind of like a little piggy bank. Something happens. You know, I go there and instead of, you know, being up a creek without a paddle, so to say. So I just want to thank everybody who pitches in, even if it's like a buck, whatever. And I might be adding some incentives there in the future once the bus gets up and running, depending on things. I say depending on things because I have a background in TV hosting. There's always inquiries, things like this coming my way. So at any point in time, I might have to park the thing, take a job, be on TV, be on the internet, who knows. Cross your fingers for those things because they are fun for me. I love doing them. And I like passing off the camera duties to other people and enjoying, you know, the rest of the stuff.