 extravagant person. What is it today? Is it Tuesday? Is it Wednesday? It's Wednesday already. Happy hump day. I thought it was Tuesday. That's a nice surprise. You know I'm still waiting for the day when I think it's Monday but it's actually Friday. I just love it when that happens. It hasn't happened yet for me though. I gotta go to Canore today. It might be a bit of a long day. I left Weasel at home today. He can relax at home. Britt's gonna be home all day so he can spend the day with the family. Get some exercise in the yard and get some sunshine. And me and all of you, we're gonna go to Canora in Ontario. We're gonna pick up our culverts or whatever we're picking up there. We're gonna bring them to Winkler, Manitoba. Oh and Stanley, municipality. Yonzi. We're gonna bring them their stuff. We're gonna get that done today yet and that'll take up our whole day. And then before you know it, it'll be Thursday. But let's focus on Wednesday. To start the day, just getting to our truck. I've got to hook onto a step deck with a riser. I see one right here to my left. I'm gonna snag that one. If no one snags it before I leave. Here's Anthony's truck off to the right. He's a good guy. Looks like he's probably going to Canora as well. He's got a step deck with a riser. And what is this? Rick, you're blocking the whole parking lot, man. That's okay. I can get around. I got room. I got room. I'll just go around. There she was. It's beautiful. I wasn't wasting any time. Let's get hooked up. Let's go. We got a long day. She may be old, but she still does the job. Yes. Yes. Come to life, my friend. My old friend. Come to life. A little bit chilly already. A little bit harder to turn over, I can tell already. It's getting colder. It's not cold, cold yet, believe me. This is still hot for Manitoba, but it's getting to the point where, you know, another couple of months we're gonna have to start plugging her in for the night. Tis the season. Signs along the road everywhere we go. By the time you watch this, the election will all be over, but we'll see what happens. Still smoky out there. A couple of months ago now we were in Canora and the visibility was like a quarter mile because of all the smoke from the wildfires. Now it's cleared up and we got all the rain we needed yet, so everything turned out. Everything turned out good. Eastbound and down. Empty and trucking. An empty step deck behind us. But an hour and a half or so, maybe two hours to Canora and it won't take too long to load and tie it down. It's quite simple and I haven't quite looked at how long it'll take to get back to Winkler from there. I'm guessing two hours back here and then another two hours to Winkler. So probably a four hour drive from there and then a two hour drive back to the yard after we're done unloading there. So it'll be two, four, six, eight, eight hours of driving today approximately. So not quite a full day. Not quite a full day according to our e-log. A full day according to me though. I'd still like to be home for supper. Just on the Manitoba side of the border. I always wondered what's in that building over there. I think it's like a tourism museum thing. Here's the Manitoba sign off on the left. So we're just about to cross over into Ontario. I got the Ontario. Ontario gets two signs just in case we missed this one. Welcome to Ontario. Open for business. Are you though? Are you? Funny they left those signs up over the past year. Thought you would have covered that up. But no, I love the open for business. And we've got a little rest area. You know, I'm going to turn into this rest area here. I've got a little bathroom. My coffee went right through me. Let this guy pass me. I know he wants to go faster than me anyways. He's got two lift axles. Fancy. I can get in here, right? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Trucks this way. They built this a couple of years ago. It's actually a really nice rest area. Maybe he got here late at night. I used to, I usually like parking along the side too. It's a quieter sleep that way. Back here too. That's what this line is for over here. This is all parallel parking on this side. All right. I'm going to go check the tires. Got to clean this windshield again. You clean it one day. The next day looks exactly the same. I got to see how far Winkler is from Canora. Let's check this out. Winkler. Directions to Winkler from Canora. How long is it going to take? Come on. Speak to me, Goggle. Finding bastard. There it is. Okay. So, three and a half hours it says. How many kilometers? 300 kilometers. Okay. So it's not as far as I thought. I thought it was going to be four hours. Good, good, good, good. We have to make sure we get there before they close tonight. Okay. The wasp flying around my mirror here or something on the side. It doesn't take long. It doesn't take long. You just got to stop for five minutes and all the wasps start swarming towards you. Man, this windshield is dirty. I didn't get a chance to clean it yesterday or I didn't take the chance. At the end of my day, I just sort of focus on getting my stuff into the pickup and going home. I need to get this windshield clean. I'll do it. I'll do it. Don't worry. I'll get it done. I wonder what's in here. I've never been in here either. I've never seen it open before. They just built a building and it's never been open. Ontario Border Park Rest Centre. Maybe it is open. I don't know. Welcome to Ontario. Thank you. You're so kind of you to put up your sign there just for me. Look, there's a camera over there. They're watching us, watching them. All right, let's go. The most populated province, of the country. But you don't get to the populated part for two days driving through this first. Some of the most desolate areas of the country. This is Northern Ontario, what they would call Northwestern Ontario. The road like this, it's exactly like this for about two days of driving before you get down to Southern Ontario where the people live. Just passed my buddy Anthony and his truck. Looks like we got some easy loads to pick up today. Not very complicated. Quickly thrown on the trailer and easy to tie down. It's just up ahead here, just on the right. I don't know if you guys remember when we've picked these up before. Oh, we got the big OPP right there. They're classic cop car colors of the white doors. Ontario has their own provincial police. Am I gonna go? Am I gonna wait for me? It's my turn? Okay, I'm gonna go. Manitoba doesn't have our own provincial police. We're not, we don't have that big of a population. So we have the Royal Mounted, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It's our federal police that are local police in Manitoba. They sort of operate at all levels. They operate at the municipal level, the provincial level, and the federal level. I guess it all depends what, I mean they're all federal, but they operate at all levels. They're the red coats. In their traditional uniforms, you'll see them in their like bright red coats with their weird puffy pants. And they're like trooper hat, the RCMPs. They don't ride horses anymore, though we have upgraded, which is nice to see. They have cop cruisers now exactly like the United States. They're mostly going towards SUVs now. They have a lot of, what are those Ford explorers? Is that what they are? Ford Explorer? They like the SUVs. They can fit more stuff in them and their four-wheel drive for in the wintertime and stuff. And we have a lot of rural land in Manitoba. So they need to have the ability to get across the rural land. Anyway, that's how it works up here. Some cities have their own police. Winnipeg obviously has their own police force. Winkler, I think has their own force. Morden has their own. St. Anne has their own. But for whatever reason, Steinback still doesn't have their own police department. I think they should have a city police department. Bringing officers that are local that understand the community, right? That are born and raised right in Steinback. Because the RCMP, they're great people, but they're all born in other parts of the country, usually from other provinces. Not always as familiar with the local situation and stuff. It would be nice to have a little more local policing. But hey, that's just a topic for another time. It's a topic for another channel. We're here to pick up some of these culverts. We're gonna bring them on down to Vancler. I'm gonna take you guys with me. Wonder which load is ours. There's the forklift that's gonna load us. I don't know if it's like this one here. I'm gonna park right here. Yeah, I'm gonna park right here. Oh, there he is. He's gonna come meet me. All right, guys. I'm gonna get this on the trail to get her tied down. And I'll talk to you in a little bit. Got off. Got on a little rabbit trail there talking about policing around here. Well, you guys probably don't even care. On duty, loading cargo. I am here. Let the government know the way they stay off my back. Okey-dokey there now. Okay. Oh, I need my hat. Oh, I'm not a professional driver if I don't have my truck and hat on. Now they'll take me serious. Still over there doing something. He's busy. So, I guess I'll just wait here. I don't think I'm gonna need the riser. This is the trailer I took, step deck tandem. And I had to make sure I brought a riser along just in case they need to put something across here. I don't think I'm gonna need it from what I saw on Anthony's load. Uh, it looked like it was just gonna be on this lower deck, but I have it anyway just in case. And we'll see what they got for us. I'm excited. I love trucking. I always get excited to go trucking. I gotta take this sweater off. That was hot. You guys like my shirt? My wife got it for me. Turns out I'm gonna need a different hat. I'm gonna make sure my brain doesn't fall out while I'm here. Over that way. And that's my whole load. Watch out. This is gonna take a long time to tie down. Oh boy. This is gonna take three whole straps, three of them. So I'm gonna do two over from this side and then one over from that side in the center. So it's sort of, you know, does the thing. I bet you I could even belly wrap the center one or maybe even the two edge ones. I'm gonna see if my straps are long enough. I'm gonna throw it over and see if I can wrap it around and winch it into both sides and belly wrap them. That way they for sure, for sure, won't even move a millimeter. All right, let's get to it. I'll show you what I come up with in a bit. So the other day I moved a nice Jeep SRT8 into the city. I have all of these wheel straps that I forgot to give back to the yard. I gotta bring them back yet, but now they're in my way because they're on top of all my regular straps. Roll those up neatly either. I'm gonna take the longest straps I have. They should be what, 35 footers? That doesn't say. I don't think it says. I'm gonna see if I can belly wrap it. I don't know if they're long enough. Let's hope. If not, we're creative. We'll figure something else out. It's the thing about truckers. We're creative people. We can figure out how to tie down a load. You give me a load, I'll tie it down. All right, so what I mean by belly wrap is I want to go over and around back to here and then this side will go around to there and then we winch it in on both sides, sucking the load down and together. This side talks under here from the other side. You pull this side together like this so you can winch it into the strap here. This side's got to go to that side. Way no be long enough. I have to see. So this goes down into here. Back to the other side. I'll take you with me this time through my shortcut. Okay, well I've just barely enough. So now as you can see it goes over and under to there and then the other side comes around to here. I'm going to winch it in on both sides and then it's pretty obvious how those two straps will hold the load down but they'll also hold it together. That's what you do when you have round stuff like this. Like it shouldn't roll because it's banded but you never want to just trust those bands. You want to be able to prevent it from rolling one way or the other or moving on the deck and that's how you do that. I'm going to do the same thing on the end and then on the middle I'll just do one right over the middle just to hold it down from bouncing in the center. It's a very light load. It's probably only, I don't know, 1500 pounds maybe. I've got to remember to return these today when I get back to the yard so they're not in my way. This is what we uh we're talking about. It's all tightened down now. Got that wrapped up up front. Got one just over the top in the center and wrapped up in the back. It's not going anywhere. That ain't going anywhere. So now it's about a three three and a half hour drive back into Manitoba to southern Manitoba above North Dakota. Someone there needs these. And we're the people for the job, me and you. Saving the world one culvert at a time. It took us about 35 minutes since when we stopped to when we're going again. When the wheels stop rolling to when they started rolling again I should say it that way. Makes more sense. I'm in this little area. I bet you I could turn around in here. I bet you I could. I got a very sharp turning truck. Okay so I got my GPS set for where we're delivering between Winkler and Morden. Three hours and 27 minutes Google estimates and I it's usually pretty accurate. It's pretty impressive actually and Google's usually accurate. I mean they're not accurate with everything but with the maps they're doing pretty good. We should be arriving there at 2 24. Let's account for maybe a bathroom break and we should arrive there at about 2 30 p.m. Let's see how accurate she really is. Do you want a school bus? Oh you know what? I'm gonna grease this hood right now because I got my greaseable here. I'm gonna show you how it works. You hear that? You know those chickens under my hood? We're gonna get rid of those chickens right now. Right now on the vlog I brought my bullsnot with me just for this. Okay bullsnot, greaseable. Okay I got the visible right there. Don't pay attention to my dirty floor okay. That's a mess in here. Okay heavy-duty metal lubricant, brake service linkage, radio antenna cams, gears, hinges, hood locks, door locks. Excellent for general marine use because of high resistance to rusting and corrosive action. Home and office, use wherever, metal sheets, metal meets metal. Windows, garage doors, hinges, faucets, lawn mowers, bicycles, toys, garden and household tools, fishing reels, guns, violin cabinets, office equipment. Oh boy there is a whole world of uses for this stuff. Okay and I'm part of the bullsnot posse. So you can get this stuff in the US. It's coming to Canada January 1st. You can find this stuff at like Bass Pro, most truck stops. I know Bass Pro has it for sure. Cabela's. Shut this engine off for a second here just so that I can talk to you. Gotta bring my vacuum to work next I think. Okay so what's squeaking is when, you see those hood mounts way on the end over there? When they rub on this here. It goes squeity-de-de. Like a bunch of chickens. So how do I use this? It's all in all weather, multi-purpose thick. Water-resistant grease. White color helps indicate lubricated areas and reduce the staining and it comes with one This is one of these fancy little sticky things, but I'm not gonna use that today because I'm just spraying it onto that there. Let's see this one. It's got a little metal ball or something in there. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, bullsnot. What are you guys saying? You think it's gonna work? I think it's gonna work. I'm gonna get up on this one, or this one. Okay, let's see this. Oh, it's angry. Oh, it smells good. Oh, I love the smell of chemicals. That's great. Okay, so that's over there, that's over there. And that's where the hood should be squeaking on there. Should we put some on that as well? I don't know if I can reach that. Ah, that'll be good. Okay, there you go. That should fix it. The only other place the hood touches is the frame in here, but that's not where it's squeaking. All right, are the chickens gone? Let's see what happens. I might have to give it a second bullsnotting. Yeah, that's called greasable. Go check it out. You can get it on Amazon, I believe. You get a better hood. Make sure of that before I tell you. Go check, see if you can get it on Amazon. I'm pretty sure you can. I'm sure Mr. Brown, the owner of this, will be in the comments section. He watches the videos. And he's been telling me to give this greasable a try for a long time. And what I wanna do is I wanna get our company on bullsnot as well, as soon as it's in Canada. Because we use a different lubricant, as you saw in my past video, for lubricating the roll tights, right? And they ask me to lubricate them every time I have them. And I pull them a lot. I deal with them quite a bit. So I'm always the one to grease them usually. And I'd like them to start using this. So it's gonna be available in Canada next year. I'll see what I can do. But if you want to, I'd recommend this. Now let's see if the chickens are gone, okay? It's safe. I built a little holder for my bullsnot underneath there. But I will admit my, where'd it go? My floor is still a little dirty in here. It's a work truck, okay? It's not a show truck. See if the chickens are gone. So far, so good. Let's get onto the road here and see what happens. Get some potholes, shake it around. Quiet, Google, let bullsnot do its work. The chickens, they're gone. Okay, Google, you don't know where you're going. I'm going straight. Yeah, the chickens are gone. It worked. Just one application. Now the test is to see how long it works. Let's see if I ever have to do it again or if it lasts a week or lasts a month. We'll see when the next time is. If I don't mention it again, that means that I've never had to redo it and that it's just continued working. That is awesome. Oh, it is so nice and silent and quiet now. Mr. Brown's gonna be happy here and that. Products work. You saw it, unedited. I didn't cut it. You saw exactly how I did it. They're telling the truth. So much construction here in Manitoba and they put these cones so far to this side that we've had to hit the gravel a couple of times to get around them and it's a huge ledge that you're gonna have to, I'll just barely make it past. It's a big drop. It's probably like, at one point back there is about a six inch drop onto the gravel and it was soft gravel too and the trucks were sinking in. I don't know why they put the cones so far this way but it didn't make that big of a difference if it was a paved shoulder or even like a packed shoulder that's just loose gravel there. I don't wanna sink into it and get sucked in, you know? You gotta be very careful. Sort of sneak through here. At least they're paving it, you know? And they are gonna be paving the shoulders. Speed limit going through here used to be 100 kilometers an hour or to 60 miles an hour. They're gonna be lifting it. Once the shoulders are paved, they're gonna be lifting that speed limit to 110 kilometers an hour or 70 miles an hour. I think the speed limit should be 120 across the prairies at least, maybe 130 even. I mean, just south of the border here, same terrain in the U.S. Speed limits are 80 miles an hour which is 130 kilometers an hour. It's just long straight drives. This one's for tomorrow. I'm going up to Arbor tomorrow and I'm gonna get her all hooked up and ready to go today. So there's less to do in the morning. I believe this is the same trailer we had yesterday. I emptied it so. I'm gonna go reload it. I'm not sure where that load's going yet. Somewhere in the States. Let's do a little pre-trip on it, a little mini pre-trip on it now. Oh no, this isn't the same one. This is the one with the backwards wiring. That's right, we hit 603, this is 605. Gotcha. Yeah, let's do a little mini pre-trip right now. I still gotta do the pre-trip in the morning because you don't know if anything's gonna break overnight or anything. But at least this way I know I'm ready to go for the most part.