 Hi, my name is Ethan and I'm from sunny central, Florida You're watching trucker Josh and diesel on the best general on YouTube TJV Call us a sketch one Got ourselves woken up for a new day We're headed Towards home today, so we're going east into Manitoba with five hours of driving to do today Then we have a couple days off Before we take this or before we head down to Iowa On in front of me anyway, we're both leaving the parking lot at the same time. That's okay. Good sleep Sounds good to me Karen sounds like a good time Well, this guy's just going into the lot here probably to switch up his trailers They have a special lot here. No one else is allowed to park here except for these pipe drivers We pulled two fifty three foot trailers Wouldn't mind doing that just try it out. I've never done that before Seems like it would be a lot of extra work I mean you are pulling two loads, right? A lot more places than those guys go those guys pretty much just stay on the prairies They run between like Winnipeg and Calgary Winnipeg and Edmonton and everything in between just the prairies Whereas I do the continent Aside from Mexico Right there mr.. Ford find your gear Come on, bud. I believe in you Get ourselves onto the road here. So how was your guys night? How's your guys day? What are you guys up to? Let's get on the highway one trans Canada. This is sort of like our interstate It's a highway that goes from coast to coast along the southern part of Canada Not much going on up north so we don't got many highways going up there I mean northern Manitoba and Nunavut the big territory above my province They don't even have roads that go up there. You got to fly up there So Nunavut is the one territory. I have not been to And I haven't been to Alaska or Hawaii yet either. We do go there, but I Haven't had the pleasure of going yet My angle yield sign and there is nobody coming 10-4 our own little corner of the country that everybody flies over that's okay. Don't mind us We're just doing our thing down here fly right on over We like the peace and quiet So little bit Foggy ish here. You can see that all the trees around us have that whore frost on it again from the frog from the fog that was Look at that big one off on the left over there beautiful. It's like a big ice tree Little small on the fisheye lens I get These off to the right there the same thing. There's not quite as big as that one. They look like decorations That's what the fog does in winter time So like I said weather always comes from the west and moves east for the most part on the prairies So I was in Saskatchewan yesterday and it was foggy So I assumed overnight that that fog would travel over Manitoba and I was right It's been coming and going today Sort of I think I'm on the tail end of it here. I don't think we'll really have to deal with it the most part But another two hours down this road With all of this beautiful scenery around us all of these magnificent landscapes And we'll be done this part of the trip. We'll be done this trip over the weekend Not too sure what we have planned yet. I think we're just going to relax. I got a lot of work to do around the house I gotta Get the snow off the roof Probably work on our master bedroom a little bit more redoing the drywall in there and couple of things sort of updating the master bedroom redoing the master ensuite and stuff Sort of in my winter project and I've got a crawl under the house when I get home To see if I can shut off the water so that I can take the old bathtub out of there There's gotta be switches whoever installed that bathroom had to have put on off valves, right? Well, they didn't put them above the floor So I've got to go under the crawl space under the house and see if they put them there and if they didn't Well, then I'm gonna have to shut the water off for the entire house when I when I can cut these Waterlines then right and then go to the store and buy like a plug for the end of the plex pipe or the plexy pipe Whatever they call it. It's all plastic pipes. We don't have any copper piping left in the house Not to plug those off so I can turn the water back on and take that tub out of there without You know Spring water all over the place under the house while I'm under there I also want to take a look at How I can insulate it because our crawl space isn't insulated and neither is our floor So we have very cool floors in the wintertime and once we have a baby We're gonna want to make sure that our floors aren't so cold So I've got to insulate the exterior walls of the crawl space And possibly even the floor, but we'll see if we can just insulate the crawl space and heat it down there as this stuff I got to do this weekend, you know, just That little to-do list going on plus we got to take the garbage away. I've got stuff to do Plus like I said yesterday There has to be a time this weekend But I could just sit on the coach and stare at that black frame hanging on the wall with moving pictures in it For a good amount of time. I just want to sit and just watch the TV We'll see if I have time for that We're in a peg winter peg I need some fuel in the up tanks We'll drop our trailer off and go home and enjoy a nice weekend stare at that black box on the wall a bit. I Keep saying that In reality, I probably won't have time But we can dream and hope Traffic lights I'll give you one guess where we are in what city a capital city If you guess Winnipeg You guess the correct and obvious answer if you're from here Winnipeg has an obsession a strange obsession with traffic lights and Their city planning has been known to be a little questionable from time to time Here we are on the perimeter the trans-Canada our interstate going around the city of Winnipeg Slowly making our way stop like to stop light Dragon 45,000 pounds of wood You know, they're so worried about the climate, you know every time you make me stop and start I burn a whole lot more fuel than if I could just drive right on through this same I'm all for the warmer weather, so I don't carry the way really but I'd rather you know save the time That's what I'm thinking. I'd like to save the time Hey, you're all big into the save the whales thing so Traffic lights aren't helping that cause at all Greta would be very disappointed with all these traffic lights. I think we should build overpasses Make her smile You know I think so it make me smile too everybody's happy then really everybody's happy overpass Nobody listens to me. That's okay Eventually the right person will watch my video and that person knows a person who's gonna tell another person That knows a person that has a cousin who works in government who's gonna tell another person That they need to do something cuz trucker Josh said so and they're gonna nod and say okay, and then proceed to do nothing So, you know the message will get there eventually and Winnipeg wouldn't want to disappoint Another traffic light The last one this is the last one though I wanted to make sure that we were well aware that we were passing around Winnipeg one last time before we Get out of the city And we're way back here in the line too, so I hope I'll even make it when it turns green before it turns red again Lovely Winnipeg lovely Winnipeg Is there anybody from Winnipeg or Manitoba area that knows Winnipeg? Well that could that would dispute what I'm saying about Winnipeg's obsession with traffic lights Because you know, I'm only one person. There's like what 700,000 people that live just in the city here We got one point something million that live in the province So, uh, is there any of you out there that would disagree with me? And say that no no Winnipeg city planners are on point They do a really great job With their roadways and they definitely do not use traffic lights Too much And we could definitely not use any more overpasses. Is there anybody around here that would that would say that? That would disagree with me Let me know down below in the comment section if you're from Winnipeg and what you think Of Winnipeg's road systems. Maybe I'm wrong. Hey, I'm just one guy I don't even live in the city I'm an outsider I know what you're going to say I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna say I complain too much trucker job You complain too much trucker job. Yeah. Yeah, it's hard not to when going around But hey Winnipeg is in my home problem allowed to isn't that how the rules work? If you live there, you can complain about it. I sort of live nearby That's the capital of the province I live in but I don't live in Winnipeg. I don't want to live in any city That's personal choice I don't like living in big cities, but we're home Chevy. Say hello to everybody. Everybody missed you Everybody missed you, right? Are you sure did they really miss me? They all did every single one of them except one of you No, they all missed you They all did It's a good boy Chevy It's a good. Oh, thank you. Thank you, but I don't need any kisses. Thank you Very good boy. What else we got around here? We got the weasel down here Is he going buddy relaxing we got big Frank up there foster boy Say hello to the good people Everybody loves you everybody Boy, it's been eating much better too When we first took him on as a foster it was really hard to get him to eat But he's actually started eating really well just takes a little bit of extra effort with him A little bit Uh Takes a little bit of effort to get him to eat, but we we figured out a way. We got a new system We're looking for a weiner looking for a weiner around here. Any weiners in here? Any weiner Weiner Are you sitting in here by yourself sulking because mom's at work? Is that what's going on here? All by yourself. This is what he does when Britt's not home I don't matter at all. I hardly exist in his mind Is she back yet? Not yet Frankie Don't get too excited But everybody missed you two buddy, even if you didn't miss them Well, it's good to be home a bit of a longer trip than usual and the truck goes into the shop for a safety And I've got to get the snow Cleared off the roof because it's built up quite a bit again And I like to keep that clear so that not only is there less weight being pushed down on the roof But it also stops ice from forming up there because we still need to move our furnace To go underneath the house and I figured out how I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this myself to save ourselves a lot of money because it really won't be that difficult Right now here in our furnace room. This is our Natural gas furnace. So a big shout out and a big thank you To the guys working out there in the fields Bringing us our natural gas and oil Thank you for keeping my house warm And those of you who want to charge me extra just for using heat In my house in the wintertime. I have a different thing for you Uh I can't do I can't show it on youtube though They'll kick me off So here's uh The furnace and it sucks the air in here and it also sucks the air in from the other side of the house. Anyways Goes up here and the heat blows into the attic and goes through insulated ducting Goes through the roof and it comes out little ports like this all over the place in the roof, right? The problem is that the insulated ducting isn't insulated enough It warms up our attic And what that does is it heats up the top of the roof enough to melt the snow at the very top That water runs down and you know, we have this veranda out front here So it meets the house right about here and you can see there's been damage up here before from this This is why we have a new roof on But it gets stuck right in the valley right there and the ice goes down there And then it builds up builds up builds up till we have a lake behind there, right? And it's called an ice dam So The problem will be solved by Taking insulated ducting the same thing as this Except instead of the furnace blowing up into the attic It's gonna come here. It's gonna end off here. I'm gonna be the top there This thing's gonna be flipped around and it's gonna blow out the side and down Into the crawl space You guys want to come check out the crawl space with me. It's kind of spooky down there We're gonna need a flashlight. All right, if you uh, if you don't like spiders Join the club pray for me We're going in let's do this So this is our dungeon. This is where we keep the people we don't like All right, so we're gonna Slowly go down And if I get eaten alive by hungry spiders Well, you'll know where to find me Okay, here we go Here we go Here we go We are now in the dungeon. So this is where our water system is. We put this in a year ago Actually, we have really good water here now because of that water filter there water pump over there All right, so it's a little messy down here. So Don't mind that. So this is the crawl space underneath the house. I've never taken you guys in here A lot of junk in here. This is all from the previous owners all this junk So I gotta take all that out of here and what we're going to do Is we're gonna bring down the furnace Air down through here, right it's gonna come down right over there And we have insulated piping that hang from these joises That make their way all the way down all the way to the other side of the house way over there I'm gonna figure this out I'm gonna do it myself Okay That's what's underneath our house All right, so Let's get out of here It's actually not that bad. There's no spiders under there right now. I'm just sort of They're gonna sound worse than it is. It's winter time. They're all dead The best part of winter is all the spiders die or they they hide anyways So that will go down Underneath here you can hear it's on right now instead of blowing into there I'm gonna blow down there and then first of all what I'm gonna do Is I'm gonna figure out where we want all the vents along the outside of the house All the way around the house And cut the holes install the vents and then we're gonna hook up all of the insulated ducting With those vents And then we're gonna come in here and just flip this around so that it blows underneath All right, right make sense make sense Good that's a project for sometime this winter Hopefully as soon as possible as soon as I can afford to get all of the materials and stuff What that'll do is that'll stop the heat from being blown into the attic and hopefully solve the ice damming problem We put a new roof on here now. So hopefully that won't leak this spring If it does we got a five-year warranty But that's what I think is causing the ice damming up there. I could be wrong but uh That's that so I've been yapping here for eight minutes already at the end of this vlog Thanks for joining me today guys. We're gonna be home for a few days. Uh, probably not gonna film every day Got some work to get done But as soon as the truck is out of the shop and safety, we will be headed down to iowa So don't forget to tune in then I'll see you later if you are a Duct installer and install heating systems regularly Through the crawl spaces of the houses and you want to give me some tips Down below in the comment section. I am open to learn. I'm an open book Okay, I'd appreciate it. Thanks a lot. See you later