 Hey guys, my name is Joe Michael driving along my co-pilot Georgia You're watching TJV and diesel the weasel don't forget Hey everybody today's video is more of just an update. I didn't really film much today I was at home today We got home last night and I got to spend the night and most of today or all of today at home with Brit and Now I'm back here at work hook back onto my trailer and I'm gonna bring this out to so central Manitoba for the morning I've got my next load sitting here right beside me Tomorrow I can go home for the night yet and then Tuesday morning Which is the day after tomorrow I come back and I hook on to this new trailer here And we're pulling this all the way down to Indiana and Kentucky There she was we're taking farm equipment headers One of these is going down to Indiana I believe Princeton Indiana and the other one's going down to somewhere in Kentucky Indiana and Kentucky or Indiana and could tell one of them one of them. That's that's what's going on here, so Looking forward to that next week Well, we're not going very far. We only have like another hour and a half to drive from Winnipeg here But I'm still gonna get a coffee anyway because I've been craving one all day coffee this afternoon. I've been saving it waiting to get here put the flying J in West Winnipeg heading Lee And get our bean the cup coffee and then I'll still have lots of energy when I stop I don't have a problem falling asleep after having coffee this late at night But once I stop I'm in the middle of a good book right now anyway So I'll read a couple of chapters that puts me to sleep if I can't fall asleep simple Just read a book puts me to sleep. I like reading I just it takes me forever to get through a book because I always fall asleep This guy parked in front of the pumps, but he left his trailer in the pumps That's not how you do it buddy Gotta get out of the pumps and clear the pumps so that people can fuel up behind you That's the whole kind of thing. I got a ball of fire in the sky It's way too low in the sky to do anything. Look at all this Sun way down there in the south. We're facing south right now We're just leaving the co-op where we spent the night and we're about to go deliver this load to that trust company in South Central Manitoba near Carberry Manitoba All right, let's go deliver some stuff I've got three tarps on this load. I'm gonna have to load up pardon me roll up and only minus 10 or minus 15 somewhere in there I'll have to wait till my truck gives me a little bit more of an accurate reading once we get moving because when you're sitting It really doesn't give you an accurate reading at all. It just gets all the heat off the motor and tells you that is actually That is warmer than it actually is We're returning apparently gravel road. I'm glad I didn't wash my truck These are how the majority of roads are in Manitoba The main roads are all paved obviously but All the grid roads between farms his farms are all split up into quarters right a quarter mile East farm gets a quarter mile Or each field is a quarter mile each farmer's got varying quarters It's in grid patterns that go around the square mile and inside the square mile. There's four properties Sometimes the farmer owns all four sometimes it's split between four Sometimes they split them in half and there's eight people that own it But there's a road every square mile here that's just how they They divvied up the land when they settled it And all these roads are gravel. I call them grid roads or back roads farm roads That way everybody got a nice big quarter section of land to to farm And everybody had access to the road because there's no rivers here, right back in the day. They needed rivers To transport their goods to market now that we have vehicles They can just use trucks, but trucks need to be able to access the farm that was What they did they did the same thing in the united states look at a google maps picture or google earth and zoom into like Iowa and you'll see the same thing the whole state is just a grid pattern of these grid roads every square mile It's pretty neat to see from above. Let's check it out if you have time. It's amazing How they've developed that entire state and it goes like that all the way through North Dakota right up to Canada right up to the top of the prairies here in uh Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta They're pretty solid roads like they are all season roads. So You can drive on them for seasons In springtime you got to be careful because some of them the ones that aren't traveled as much sometimes they get a little bit soft but Usually they have signs that they say not in all weather roads then normal amount of roads Get on them and give her Actually, you shouldn't just get on these roads and give her there are speed limits on these roads Uh, I believe if it's not posted the speed limit on a back road like this is 90 kilometers an hour or like 55 miles an hour And when you come up to intersections like this one here up in front of us, there are no stop signs for any direction no stop signs So the way it works is whoever is on the right has the right of way So if there was someone coming here from the right I would have to stop if I was going straight and let them do whatever they're doing because they have the right of way Oh, they actually have a stop sign here. Pardon me. A lot of these intersections don't have stop signs And then uh, yeah, just remember that because uh Otherwise you'll have uh Oh boy slippery slippery slippery. Yikes She had quite a big accident All right, let's get onto this uh Property here wherever it is supposed to be just a head here. I think I'll unload this and rush home I have a doctor's appointment today at 4 30 in Steinbeck. So I don't want to miss that. It's very important to me. I don't know It's we're going over the results of my blood tests and my CT scan recently And I'm hoping he's gonna say, you know what this discomfort you're feeling in your back it's probably just either your spine or Or what I'm really hoping is gonna say is probably just your muscles like go see a masseuse We'll go get a massage or something Trying to rule out the worst case scenario first Work our way down from there. Good That's a long story, but I've Dealing with some some stuff. I wouldn't call it health issues because I feel fine. Don't worry about me. I feel fine, but it's Something that I I just have to get checked out What's down at the end of this about another okay another two miles yet. Okay. This colony is fascinating It's just like an Amish colony But it's a Hutterite colony and they use machinery Brand new machinery everything here is tip-top Everything is organized perfectly lined up precisely in their yard. Everything is clean. Everything is in good working order. It's just Wow, they take care of their stuff here And it's so interesting because there's like a like a little town and stuff all over here, right? Like they got their living quarters here. They all live here together They got the school over here a play player for the kids They got the warehouse here where everybody works and they got a couple more on the other side on the colony over there where everyone works as well And they're totally self-sustaining. They got a whole bunch of uh fields around here They own tons and tons of land around here. So they farm their own fields They got their own little society going on here I've known Hutterites before I'm I have a Mennonite background. Those of you who've been watching a while You know that very similar Mennonites and Hutterites uh We sort of went our own ways but Amish we're we're the same bloodline same We're like cousins with the Amish. There's like the Mennonites up here And then there's the Hutterites and then there's the Amish and the Amish is sort of like our extremists You don't really got to worry too much about our extremists. We're fine. We're just a bunch of pacifists. Just leave us alone All right, we just want to do our own thing over here go to church Make some money Raise our families in peace. That's all we want So Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish very similar. Uh it goes in my mind it goes in that order like Obviously, this is just my my view of it. But you know the Amish they don't use any electricity. They use horse and buggy Hutterites they use equipment, but they're still more segregated than the Mennonites Whereas the Mennonites were sort of uh more assimilated right into mainstream Canadian societies More so not completely. I mean Steinbeck still has the more the most churches per capita of any city in Canada But when you come into the city, you won't feel like you're on a colony You won't feel like you're on a Mennonite colony. There's people of other nationalities that live among us as well Whereas in Hutterite colonies is just them that live here right in Amish is pretty much the it's the same thing Whereas Mennonites were sort of a little bit like It's a little bit more mixed up. You won't be able to notice it when you come into town Unless you know the history of Steinbeck and you know the history of southern Manitoba That's just how that is. So it's interesting seeing this is how like my family lines used to live Secluded from the rest of society having their own little thing going on But they were always very successful just like the Hutterites very hard workers very successful They always uh, they always profited, you know, maybe they got a pointer. Maybe they got something going on here, you know And they're all very happy Very happy people very friendly people. They actually let me park inside their their big shop here They wanted me to untarp out here and I strapped out here at first and then I asked them nice And I would you mind if I would you know, could I do it inside, please? And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no problem. Yeah, I'm okay. I should have offered that for you You go inside you do inside it's cold out here. So they let me roll up my tarps inside Unstrap inside I got to look I'm in a t-shirt instead of working out here in the freezing cold very nice people so five-star review Anyways, let's go home. I got the doctors appointment. It's just before noon right now I should be able to get home first and then go to my doctor's appointment after I shower I'd like to shower first as you know, you never want to go to the doctor without showering You never especially when you don't know if you're getting like, uh You just don't want to stink when you go out in public Well, I filled my tanks up with some good old Canadian fuel Because we know that Canadian fuel works better in Canada in the wintertime I could have waited I guess Because we're going south, right? So we're going to be going now all the way down to Kentucky in Tennessee You don't want that fuel that you fuel up with in Kentucky in Tennessee in your tanks when you get back up here to the cold If it is sometimes, you know, you don't really have much of a choice Always make sure to put that uh, I use power service anti-gel the white jug I buy the big jug and I put half of it in each tank When temperatures are below minus 25 Celsius Around minus 20 I even throw it in there. So if I got fuel in my tanks from down south Up here in Canada. I only use it if the temperature goes down below minus 20 And you don't really need it as badly because the fuel appears conditioned already for winter But you still you don't want to freeze up You want to make sure that that diesel fuel remains liquid in your tanks and not jello Because that's what it'll do Gasoline doesn't do that the same We've got to make sure on the way back up that we're careful where we refuel Because it's probably going to be pretty cold. We got a pretty warm day here. We got lucky I got home right in sort of like a little warm spell for january But last week while we were gone it was negative 20 degrees A negative 30 one night and I'm guessing For the rest of january in february it's going to be around minus 30 to minus 40 plus the wind show Which could get down to minus 65 I always look ahead look at the temperatures before you come up here And we got a diesel and we got a Chevy nice kiss. I didn't know you wanted to kiss everybody This is my cotton head in any mukins Man doesn't got much cotton left in him anymore though. Does he does he took them all out? He needed an operation. I had to remove a squeaky device He did What else we got around here feeling we got someone else around here There's a vino There's a little vino orphan Little vino orphan don't be shy He's all sad right now because brit just left for work I gotta leave for work right now too. Does that make you sad too? No, not really you can go. I just miss mommy Now we got one more around here somewhere somewhere around here laying around here We've got a foster boy of sorts around here. How you doing big frank? Just checking in checking in with everybody He's a good boy He has made himself very at home here just part of the pack already to go boy And uh, it's a winter wonderland outside everybody getting a good snowfall today. It's actually slowed down quite a bit good Good good good good because in tomorrow's vlog today for me, I've got to go and chain down some firm equipment Take that firm equipment all the way down to Indiana and Kentucky And we have a load that's waiting for us in Tennessee. It's ready already. So I got to get there as soon as I can So it'll take two days to get down to Indiana and Kentucky. We'll unload those day after tomorrow And then we go pick up our load preloaded trailer in Tennessee and that's taking us up to alberta I believe and it's supposed to be like minus 40 when we get there to alberta So let's just look at this winter wonderland from the warmth of home What's some bald eagles flying around back there? Oh, yeah What's up America? Got some america flying flying around got some freedom flying around back there somewhere It's not right over there a couple of bald eagles. Oh, there he is. There he is. Do you see him? It's a huge gauge huge freedom birds Yeah, this is our backyard It was coming down pretty good before now. It's just lightly snowing which is good because I didn't really want to be outside tying down and chaining down in the In the snowstorm. So we better get going. I want to get out of this weather before it gets worse Let's go south. Let's get away from this winter thing that they got going on up here in canada I'll see you guys tomorrow. Don't forget to like and subscribe and make new videos pretty much every day And we're gonna go visit america. So if you like america tune in tomorrow subscribe Have I told you that already subscribe that way you won't miss it hit the bell and we'll see you tomorrow