 If you're new to the channel or to the series, what you're going to see is my 81 year old best friend and I are going to build a wilderness cabin along with Stevie and a few other friends in the North Main Woods. You're going to see us do everything from knocking down trees and milling all of the lumber for the build to clearing the lot, hauling it and gravel and shale. And we're going to show you every step along the way of just how easy it is and maybe some of the difficulties along the way. You'll see us loading our lumber on a lumber truck and getting it delivered up into the wilderness of the North Main Woods. It's quite a project, quite an undertaking and we're going to try to show you guys every step of the way from us on the build day by day and step by step. We're no experts by any means but we do have a lot of fun doing this and Donny has a lot of experience in building. So come along on the journey, it's a lot of fun for us and hopefully it's fun for you as well. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, hum. I can't wake up this morning. Enjoy the time. What time is it? 6.20. Oh my God, it's late. Yeah, it's up in really late. I don't know what time were you up, Stevie? 5.30, I guess. Oh, wow. Your usual get up time? Yeah. Yeah, I had to pee so bad I had to get up and had no idea what time it was. Yeah. 5.30, so I figured I'd make a fire and get coffee started. Yeah, it's good to have that chill taken off of that stove. Yeah. That helped, it warms up pretty quick in here. Welcome back as we document our wilderness cabin build. This is where we left off yesterday. We were able to get a couple of walls up, got the sub flooring down, and they're all ready to put on the gable ends. You got enough studs? I think I need one more. Okay, there's some right here. Okay. I knew you were going to steal one of my studs, darling. When it's got to be straight, I'm so lucky to be able to do this. How frigging lucky would it be? It's amazing. That's what he asked here. We start the day out with Stevie framing the gable end on the east wall. I'm working on building headers, and Donny's working on something that's a couple steps ahead of both of us. In between hammers and nail guns and circular saws, I hear a moose grunt on the next ridge over. You hear that moose? No, did you hear one? I still got the truck to call in. Huh? Yeah, yeah, go for it. Did you see him, buddy? Yeah. He was 15 yards. He was right. You see that birch right there? Yeah. He was right behind that 15 yards away at one point. Did you get him on camera or anything? I was on him. It's just so dark in the woods. He's still in this path. Yeah, he didn't go too far. Cut him off, let the road see him walk out, but he's got wind. So I'm like, I know what I stink. I knew I was such a bad luck if he got wind. He weren't coming out, so I tried to get around him. Donny and I had a good view of him. Oh, you did? You got a good look at him, Donny? Well, not a good, but I could see you. Moose up is a lot easier this time of year, isn't it? Yeah, when we did go. I called him. He didn't cross the road. He didn't cross, no. He's still here. I heard him take like three steps kind of that way when I started raking the bushes. That was cool. Tell Donny if we ever get drawn for another tag. Just hang out at King's. Just sit right here. I got chalk right here. See that? The shorter Milwaukee box. It was in there. I don't know if it made it back or not. Measure in four inches from the other plate. Which is, yeah. From the plate. Wow. From the end of this plate. That's flush from the outside. Is that plate flush? Oh yeah. The plate's the key though, right? Because we were square and flush. All right. And plumb. So if I measure four inches in from this plate, we should be golden. Should be. Because I trust we're overhanging here, so I'll go off the plate. I'd rather go off the plate, because we know this, this. Right. Is that going to put us out or in? It'd be right. No, like on this. I thought you said you noticed a little in this strip. Oh, on the, on the, uh, the band tech. Yeah. It felt like it stuck out a little bit. Okay. Places. Which we can grind off of it. He's got that wall looking friggin' gorgeous. Jesus, Jesus. Oh, do you wind it into the threads? Must have. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, I gotcha. Pretty straight. The first one was the second one, just double-check the end. Yeah. It looks like it's his. Yeah, don't worry about that. We'll board right over it. Drive the nail right to it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If the top of that header's in and he's not on it, we're going to just send the board across it anyway. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. When you nail to it, if a board breaks right on it, nail it to the 2x4, if you can, not the 2x8. Get the 2x8 in. When we're boarding, I'll get you a level, Donny. Hold on. Do it to here, but you can either way. Just hold that stud up, and we need seven more studs. Seven more studs, Donny. I'll get them. Get fancy jigs. Yeah. Check it once. Big mistake. That's what my parents told me. So I was 16, Donny. I'm going to be 19 by 27. Perfect. We'll save money on taxes. Yeah, making it as heavy as we can. What was that sum this, 86 and a quarter? 64 and three quarters. You keep thinking we left on four. Stevie and I left on three. They left it on four. It's not staying. Can you pull as I... Am I hitting something on that? That's why. We're going to hammer. Stevie, hammer. Hey, look at that now. We're going to take it apart. That's why she went down through. She hit a knot. Don't you touch that friggin' thing. Beautiful. All right, Stevie, you lift that wall and we'll watch. All right. Donny, you ready for us to lift this wall? I'm ready to help you. Try it. You only lift with your back. Yeah. All right. Don't lift with your little legs. I don't know how you get in this place. Hold on one second. I'm wondering if I shouldn't lean these out just to hair. I'd try it, right? Try it. Squeeze them. You stay here because you're nailing the plate. Oh, here you go. That's your favorite thing to do. You love nailing that plate. Look at the size of that kid's calves. That makes three of us. Look at his calves, Donny. Look at his calves. Under his knees. That makes two people. That makes two people right there. We're doing this, Stevie. We're going to get about a quarter of the way up. She's going to fetch up on the other wall. If it does, I'm going to release one of these. Can I get some blocks in there? Yeah, let's get some more. I got two here. I couldn't make it any heavier. This was it. I picked out all the heavy two by fours. Put that window in. Yeah. Donny, you want to put that window in? The other side. I guess you're going to be heavy. Release it right now. I would think so, Donny. I'd love to release it right now. We've got a brace here. She shouldn't go anywhere. You've got to get to where you can still push off even though you're in the middle. You ready, Donny? I'm ready. I don't know if you can do that. One, two, three. Hold on. One, two. A little fire on the left side, Donny. How's your right side? Your side. No, I'm at the bottom. We went a little... Four or five inches. Yeah, good. Perfect. Right here it can come in. Start down here. I like this building stuff, Stevie. You're good to hear, Donny. All I got to do is whatever you guys tell me. I don't see that building stuff. Neither one of us know. Look at this wall. This is awesome. Wow, this is something going on. Yeah, I've got to come out. Hold on. This is good right here. This isn't so good out here. Way in. Well, that's what it is. Is this good here? Perfect. It's showing the line. Yeah, we did it, Donny. I mean, we could have hung it out. It's not too late. We can hang it out a half. Flush right there, right? Flush at the top. Flush at the top. We've got to come out a little bit. We've got to make that flush at the top. I know. To back it. Okay. You know, it probably isn't perfect. How is it showing level this other way? The top's been welling here, right? I know. Got a little bit. Not there? I'm saying it's perfect right there. We've got to make the top level. Do you want to finish the bottom first? Yeah. We'll worry about that in a minute. We don't have a string for this one, so we're just going to line it up to out here. Okay. It went a lot easier. We might not have a problem. Right? It shouldn't. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, if you can do it, we'll give it to you. I'm going to cap that another one. One more in. What do you mean? Pull the nails. Get it to here. Get it to here and then do it. One, two, three. Ready? One, two, three. She's so narrow. That wall can't be leveled. I'm hoping that wall is not leveled. We'll make it up with a buddy. Difference and thickness of these studs. Okay. Then I can help him. Which way are you going to go? No, I just need to build one wall an extra two inches longer. There you go. That's where the door is. We'll be cut out anyway. There's a mouth to put somebody through there. I mean, we'll have this boarded anyway, but still. Yeah. Pretty flush on the bottom. Best it can be? Best it can be. They're different. Oh, yeah. Are they apart? Yeah. Yep. The head was washed. Even though this is just going into that spacer, it's still better than nothing, right? Yeah, better than nothing. Stick and thin the other way. Stick and thin lumber company. So smash the higher one straight down. All right. That's all you're going to get. It's worth taking any. Anything we can get? Yeah. It's higher? Yeah. Quarter. Can't have any help. Hang on to your ladder. No, the wall. Give me a toenail big enough. I'll move the world. Still up. Work it down. Right here. You have to move them. It's this magical level. Well, it's not working. You just have Donny cut it. What's this going to be? Don't have them cut. He's got a simple brace. Yeah, have them cut a 10, 12 footer, 10 footer. To your measure. Two by four cut for a brace. We want to keep it inside the wall, so it doesn't go to like the middle of that. You need an angle on it. 10 would be perfect if you want to do a 45 on. All right. You can. That's going out the door. So if you're long, that's fine too. And have you pull it in and screw it. Okay. Once it's directly over the line. You're probably going to have to pull in for me. Okay. Yeah, pull in. Can you get this started? Okay. Yeah. Pulling in about a half. Did you already pull it in? I did. You want to go out of here? Yeah. Good. Yeah, that might be enough. I keep thinking like heat's going to be a problem. We might have too much heat. Yeah, I think we probably will. You could probably lay out this way for honest studs. Yeah, just leave him in that room for his flights. Six by six. Two by eight's got to be seven foot eight. Oh, you already know what they are? Eight foot eight. Seven foot eight. Seven foot from here. Seven foot eight. So one inch higher of our jig. Throw a one inch board in there. Seven foot eight. We're going to make a total of eight feet from here. Is that what we're doing next? Yeah. Great. We're doing that for one foot eight, right here? Well, you're doing the 14-eight total. 14-eight from the end. Yeah. Here. Nope. We're going to measure one. Wow. On the other side. Did we cover it? No. Pretty sure. That was 14-eight here. There you go. To the long point. Yep. 14-eight, one-seventy-six. That's the only way we could have done it. Down, down, down. He's out cold. We're just a little bit more. One more. Three hours to get out. So this one one is 14. So it went back eight. They stitched it up. My wife's mother is an ER nurse at Mercy. Yeah. And I called her. And she's like, Mercy won't be able to wait. Let me see if I can get ahold of my friend that main man. Where? And I drove down there. One morning. And went to a orthopedic associate. Went in there. And just straight up. It was like, yeah, I have a drink. I got my surgery that day. And reattached everything. 14-five-sixteenths. Uh, Donnie. Write that down. And let's go get the last one. Let's get that last one. Because look, if that last one makes it on this block, on that block, you could steal it out of that post. Oh yeah. We might only have to... Here, using chains. Well, in here, I was trying to do Mr. Safety. Yeah, I think we might make it. Yeah, go ahead. 14. Dory, we'll see you, bud. Yes, you will. Yeah, take care. 12 and 3 quarters. Yeah, swing it around. It was standing less than a week ago. We'll get him for a squared. Donnie. We're going right to the end, right? Yeah. Gonna come back. Let me lift it so we don't canter these. Ready? Yeah. Beautiful. Looks like it's gonna mess you up. Use it somewhere else. The next step is putting on the top plate. This doubles up the plate, and it overlaps other joints on the top plate. So it really helps stiffen up the entire building and each individual wall. This middle partition's gonna get overlapped on the outer, longer walls, which will hold them together. Working with a rough cut lumber, there's a little bit of thick and thin going on. There's some bent lumber and a little bit of twist to it. But we make it work. What you think, old boy? I'm thinking it's a beautiful day out. I'm thinking we are some freakin' lucky to have everyone on board. I got bread here. You got bread? In all the years, I think I'll get the camera for this one. I think I know what you're gonna say. You already know it? Yeah. In all the years I've worked with Donnie, I've only seen them wrong once. You know what? What are you gonna say, Joey? Well, we were cutting that tree for the collar die, for Greg's camp. Yeah. And you had me shave it down. Yeah. Go find the straightest spruce and shave it. And peel it, yep. We got it up on the staging. And then, boys, put it on. We need some! We need some! We're not used to it. You're there at the bottom goal like this and then you just start laughing. And you go, is this 28 or 26? Yep. Let's go and make the drawing on that one. The next morning, when I was peeling the next log, a moose walked right through camp, five feet from me. No way. Yep, didn't even flinch. Can't use it. No! How are you putting that friggin' shaky thing out? I don't have to do it. It's going out. I'll cut the shake out of it. Oh, yeah. Those are all 12. I'll try to do better than that. If you're so fussy. You gonna be alright having just like a four footer? Well, that's gonna do it for this episode, guys. Thanks for tuning in. We really appreciate all the support, the comments, questions, subscriptions, all the thumbs up. It was so far a great day. We were able to get those gable end walls up. Everything squared up. The top plate's on. And we're starting to build the deck. So stay tuned. Next episode, we're gonna sheath this building in and get the front deck framed and on. It's starting to look like a cabin.