 Okay, hello humans. Are you in there? So What's going on today first? Let me check who three people are here already. Whoa. That was quick. I just turn this on anyway. I Don't have anything Super philosophical and amazing to talk about today. Mostly. I'm just a I'm nose to the grind stoning Tomorrow I'm going into the jungle with my chainsaw And a bunch of gas and some oil and cutting I think well, maybe over the next two days tomorrow and the next day Hopefully cutting the rest of the wood for my second floor. I May not cutting not cutting everything but like cutting it into slabs So I can bring it to my lumber mill then cut the the important Dimensions and then the wood has to dry out and blah blah blah But whatever I got to do a lot of chainsawing tomorrow and the next day And I have a guy coming tomorrow and the next day that I'm hiring for those two days that I've hired for three days previous To come help and yeah, we should be able to get all the wood done by Tuesday I think if not, there will be a little bit more. I'll just do that myself anyway Then I gotta figure out where to dry the wood. I guess I'm probably just gonna put it Put it up here. Well, I should be able to cut no not not cut I should be able to to build the joists part Before the wood is totally dry We would someone says something about pets. Hey guys Jamie by your cuts are impressive. Oh, thanks, man Yeah, so much my chainsaw cuts are pretty good. Thanks. Yeah Hopefully I can get all those done by Tuesday and then start bringing them over here start cutting them into into the right dimensions on the lumber mill and Well, I have to let them dry some first, but I think fairly soon I can Cut all the joists and put all the joists together But then that the floorboards on top those will have to like really be dry before I start putting them together because I put Them together when they're not dry, they're gonna shrink and big gaps will open up Maybe that would be alright. Maybe I do want gaps. I don't know I think I don't want gaps, but I don't know we'll see No, I don't want gaps because then Lego is gonna rain on the people on the first floor Whatever people would plan on the second floor. So yeah, I want to make sure that the floorboards are totally dry before I start doing those start putting them down and Yeah, I'm gonna have to do some interesting tricks with my lumber mill to cut strips for this this race track I'm building on the second floor. So my second floor is like here's this this thing right here is like a pillar the second floor is like right up there and And the second floor is not gonna extend out into the middle of the building it'll only be like, you know, two and a half meters on the outside going all the way around and The last I Know 30 centimeters like a foot against the wall is gonna be banked So you can run around on a banked track all the way around the house and I'm thinking for that. I'm going to cut Relent maybe maybe one inch by one inch Boards long boards, so they'll be they'll be flexible enough that I can get them into position and like get them, you know It'll make sense when I'm doing it Anyway, so tomorrow in the next day, I'm just gonna be chainsawing basically from sun up till sometime in the afternoon and Oh, I got a I got two root canals last Last week wasn't as bad as it sounds root canal sound like they're gonna be terrible but yeah, not definitely not as bad as it sounds and Like I got this this tooth infection like a year ago And I just had too much to deal with at the time I wasn't gonna deal with this tooth thing to I just had too much going on to deal with it So for like a year, I've had this, you know infection in my tooth Which I was just I could feel my body constantly fighting it off and you know Like every once in a while it would just I would just kind of feel sick because of it, but Yeah, now it's gone. I kind of have like all this extra energy now, you know Like over the last year my body's gotten used to fighting this infection all the time and now that it's gone My my immune system is like yo, what's up? I've got nothing to do baby. Let's go, you know So I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty energetic In terms of that although I'm still a little bit sick I think because last week last week the whole family was sick and everyone everyone around here sick the last couple weeks I don't know what's going on someone's passing germs around Kind of makes me feel like just locking myself in and not not interacting with the world out there because It's annoying when you get sick because it's like days of wasted time You know what I'm cooking bread right now. Let me let me just go check that it's not burning. I'll be right back Okay, okay for anyone For anyone who just got here and was like why is this just a blank screen? There isn't even anyone here Yeah, I was just checking my bread that I'm cooking Yeah, so I probably I probably seem a little scatterbrained Right now this is because all I'm all all my brains are on is like just just going like I got stuff stuff to do Just just go And that's that's kind of an important skill to have to be able to get into that mode of just kind of like Like disconnecting from the big picture and just like just nose to the grindstone Just just going doing the thing and and not getting distracted by by you know, big picture things What's going on the world? What the plan is where you're headed, you know, sometimes you just got it You just got to like say okay. I've got this plan I've already made this plan. I must have made this plan when my brains were thinking right right I was thinking about the big plan when I when I made the plan and right now I'm on the path and I just I just got to trust the plan and just just just go for it You know something I try to teach my kids to you know, like to stay focused on a task like if you if you have a goal and you want to you want to accomplish something like Like like vacillate between two different two different mind frames like the the big picture mind frame is the one where you say Okay, this is what's going on in the world. Here's plans. Here's things that can happen You know, you take into you take into account a lot of a lot of big picture things But then once you start going, you know a lot of times It's good to just put all that stuff aside when you when you have the just some hard work to do in the trenches And you know, just just forget about that stuff just forget about the world and the distractions and the big picture and just all that stuff whether it's gonna go right or Ryan is like now right now. I'm just going and This this phase always reminds me of when I was digging a road in Vermont many many years ago you know, I I had this I had this property with no road access and I kind of scouted out this this place where if I could somehow manage to get a road in here There was like a mile and a half of road going through the mountains in my imagination And I was like, I think this can happen I think I think I can do this with my hands and some tools and then for like a month and a half I just didn't pay attention to anything. I didn't even make any videos or anything during that I made like two videos like at the end Yeah, every day I just was just in there in the forest I couldn't see very far like my my vision not not my eyeball vision But just my my awareness my presence. It was just like right there doing the thing So that's that's kind of the mode. I'm in right in right now. So yeah, tomorrow I'm just gonna be chains on trying to cut straight and not worrying about the rest of the world Let's see what else do I have going on? I don't know. I just I just have a lot of stuff going on Let's see what you guys are doing. Hey, Jay, man. What's going on? What's going on Hans? Do you have any questions this week because I'm ready for questions? Anyway, mr. Landville. What's up? Tony has it going. Hey guys. Hello, Jamie. Oh my cuts are impressive. Yeah, thanks, man Janet metson. Hello. Is that a peace sign? Yeah, what's up? How's it going Wendy? Hope all is well glad you're living the dream. That's something I was reminded of recently by a guy Nicholas He just it's a guy who's been watching my videos for a long time I've talked to a bunch of times and he's an artist and makes music and does arts and does all kinds of art stuff They just messaged me the other day on Facebook just saying hey, you know, Jamie You know, I watch your videos and I see, you know, you've you've got some pain I can I can tell you've got some pain. I'm just like I got some pain because you know There's some there's some pain in my life and in the world and he's just like, you know Remember what you're doing, you know, you're you're living this dream and it's awesome and amazing and remember to love yourself That that's a tough one for me love myself. This is a this is a tough one for a lot of people actually, you know loving yourself because I know a lot of people have the situation where you where you grow up and If you ever kind of feel good about yourself like someone is there to crush it like a parent don't get arrogant Don't get proud of yourself. Yeah, that's like, hey I just want I just want to feel good about myself for doing something good just for like a minute Come on and it's like no you feel bad all the time, you know, that was really beating into me I should feel bad about myself all the time and a lot of people And I've gotten this kind of message beaten into them by by various people and whatever I mean, the funny thing is like if I if I think about myself in a rational way I'm not pretty happy with who I am. I like who I am but just having that feeling of loving myself. It's like It's kind of weird even just talking about it. I should love myself though I love myself. I love myself. You should love yourself too. That's an important thing to do So anyway, he's just telling me that and I was like, yeah, man I gotta I gotta remember to love myself and he's like just surrender to the self love. So I've been I've been trying to you know So self love myself Didn't come up right at all, but anyway, you get you get the point. It's important stuff Hey Jamie love the content. You always got something fun and interesting to watch Can't wait to see the finished results finished results. There's a finish. Oh my god. I didn't know there was a finish I know what you mean, but man, it's like it's like endless. It goes forever like even even when I was like in Vermont my my my first Off-grid experience where I was just like doing my thing and I built a dome and I was like, it's amazing And then like a few years later, I renovated the crap out of it and turned it into like the palatial Megadome And I was like, oh my god. This is the most amazing thing ever. I was still like, you know Three months later, you know, it could be better if I just did this and if I change that and I move this like this It's like there's no end. There's always there's always more stuff to do, you know, but it finished results. Yeah Okay Why don't you use the aluminum aluminum ladder and chainsaw guide technique to get super clean cuts for the slabs? Okay? That's pretty slow actually I've used an Alaskan lumber mill. He's talking about an Alaskan lumber mill. So basically It doesn't have to be a ladder But you can you can take a ladder and put it on top of a log and then have this little frame on your chainsaw That attaches to the blade the bar let's just call it the blade because Everyone's gonna know what I'm talking about if I call it a blade even though it's not really a blade So you attach this little frame to the chainsaw blade that that comes up and rests on top of the flat surface of the Ladder and then you can just kind of run your chainsaw Through right And then once you have a flat surface on your log you can get rid of the ladder And then just use that flat surface and put your frame on that and you can dial in your thicknesses and stuff Now it's very nice for getting Good dimensions on your boards However, it's slow. It's a slow way to cut because I don't know. I don't need to get into all the details and everything But basically if you cut with it the tip of your chainsaw it like It like gouges in it just it cuts faster than when you're cutting a big long thing across And you know, you can you can get chains with fewer teeth and you know all this fancy stuff, but I mean Ah the fact is it's not gonna it's not gonna be any faster than just cutting with the tip of the chainsaw which really just just gets in there, you know and When you get good at cutting with the tip of your chainsaw, all you need is a tip ladies when you get good at cutting with the tip of your chainsaw You had using an elastic and lumber mill isn't going to get you much better straight results like much better Dimensional results right like I can cut a pretty damn straight line Doing it the thing and I that way I don't have to Take a ladder with me I don't have to have this frame on the chainsaw that I have to adjust and move the ladder and deal with all this stuff Um and I can cut faster. It's just it's just less stuff to deal with And it's it's faster to just just rely on pure human skill Um and you know if you if you're just starting You have it would be easier to use an Alaskan lumber mill or something like that I used uh, I used this Kind of lumber mill thing years ago when I was actually in Alaska I didn't use an Alaskan lumber mill there, but I did use a lumber mill attachment thing on a chainsaw to help guide um But I've even when I was doing that like kind of halfway through the log cabin I was building there. I was just like I don't I don't need this guide I can just do it by hand just just get this thing out of the way. Just let me just do it, you know um So yeah, um once you once you get A bit of experience and gain some skill There's no reason to have an Alaskan lumber mill. I don't know maybe I shouldn't say there's no reason I'm sure there's some reason but I don't I don't need it Your freehand cuts the slabs are a okay anyways. Yes, I can I can cut pretty darn good Good boards freehand your explanation about your resistive speed control still sucks Wow, thanks, man You know why because you can put a $10 speed control on top of your resistive one And you're always worried about Making the full trip dude, you're Your explanation about what you just said sucks, too Okay, let me let me try to let me try to understand what what this gibberish you're trying to say is okay Your explanation about your resistive speed control sucks. What what explanation you have to give me some more I don't know you I don't think you're intelligent enough to be having the conversation You're attempting to have right now like you got to explain what you're saying to me. You can't just say Like vague thing that you said once sucks Is like I what what sucks about it? What what I say that's wrong And and I can put a $10 speed control on top I I have no idea what you're trying to say here Like it kind of sounds like you're in ai Trying to sound like a human, you know, but you don't really Is this English your second language or something? I don't know you got you got to work on your explanation Because I have no idea what you're trying to say Hey, jayme. What's up tomaters Wendy says if you plan for the shrinkage Uh, there's no shrinkage around here. What are you talking about? If you plan for shrinkage of floorboards, could you do it now and fill the spaces later? ah well it's oh Yeah, I mean I I could Do the floor not right now, but like, you know in a week or whatever And just expect the shrinkage and then there's going to be big gaps between the boards And then I could fill all those gaps with something later, but man, oh That's just sounds exhausting. It's it would be like making a whole new floor like cutting cutting slivers to fit every Every gap and they're not going to be the same gaps and some of them won't even be Like the same thickness all the way down the gap. Let me just check my bread again. I'm gonna I'm gonna Flip it first Um, yeah, it's just that's a lot of work filling in gaps so What I'm thinking of doing is You know building all the joists because if they shrink a little bit, it's not a big deal and then Lay just laying floorboards on top of that And then you know, I kind of have a temporary floor that I can you know put stuff on and maybe hang out a little bit Do some stuff up there? But I won't actually cut anything to fit or you know nail anything in place or anything like that um, and then you know two or three months from now I can then Uh, actually cut them to fit and screw them down and all that. Let me just turn on my little What's this called my my lighting? Is that enough lighting? That's totally enough lighting. Oh, yeah, right down it. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, down there. There's some good lighting right there. It's good enough for me um When I uh, when I am in landscaping work mode, I have to tell my neighbors To try not to stop me for conversations You know, so you're talking about like when you're when you're in when you're in those to the grindstone mode You're you just going like yeah, don't don't stop me for conversations. Yeah, that's like totally know what you're talking about David Rubino. What's up, man? What up, Jamie? How's it going beat? You went and did what you wanted to do and didn't let any restrictive norms hold you back And you should feel accomplished in being able to do that because it's not easy to break free You're right. You're right. You're totally right. I should feel I should feel pretty damn proud of myself Although I don't want to feel too proud of myself Because you know, I got I got to keep humble enough to know that I have a lot of improvement to do But yeah, I should I should feel pretty good about about what I've been doing and I yeah I feel pretty good about about what what I've done so far. You know, I have some plenty of mistakes and stuff It's part of part of life And you know frustrations, but yeah overall. Yeah, things are things are going pretty well Of course, you know being Being an engineering minded kind of person I focus most on my mistakes because that's what I that's what needs to be fixed That's where where I need to give attention and make improvements So I don't really I guess I guess that's That's the problem that I have. It's like it's like a It's like a two-sided thing I'm always focused on what's wrong with me and what's what's wrong with what I've done Because that's the stuff that needs attention. That's the stuff I need to fix But then I forget to ever think about the things that I've done that are right and forget to think hey, yeah, jamie You're doing okay So yeah, it is it is a good reminder So once in a while have someone just say hey, man, you you're doing pretty good stuff Like you're not Don't just focus on the on the things you're You're don't just focus on your mistakes that you need to fix But yeah, most of my focus is always on the things I need to fix because that's the stuff that needs attention But yeah, I should also feel pretty good about what's going on Hi, jamie. Have your subscribers check and make sure they remain subscribe youtube unsubbed me No way someone um Someone else told me that they were Subscribed to my channel, but my video has never shown up for them. Even though they were subscribed. I don't know I don't know this crazy stuff works Um Okay, confusco says I could this is about the speed controller again I could just carry a $10 speed control spare the mass produced 24 volt ones are so cheap I think another point here is you make your life harder than it needs to be I notice that a lot I don't know you're talking about you. I mean give me you got it You can't just throw out these vague things like I can't just respond to Some vague accusation of you're doing it wrong. Oh Uh, okay Uh, well, I don't think so like what what did you not give me anything to respond to Now one thing I can respond to is this $10 speed control you're talking about what the Can you send me a link? To a $10 speed control for a dc motor that can handle 100 amps ish Like where the hell are you finding that buddy? Because like people have people have told me about these cheap speed controllers before and then I go look and it's for like Some dinky little like 10 amp motor or something and I'm like, well, that's completely useless I've got like a thousand watt motor like 1500 watt motors like a hundred amps not a hundred amps, but 50 like 50 amps, you know Um, but you know, I wouldn't want to use a 50 amp speed controller on a 50 amp thing because you know, it's it's gonna It's gonna blow I I need I need like a hundred amp one to be able to run a 50 amp thing because they make everything fall apart these days so You gotta have twice the the the rating to get Your thing to work and last anyway If you if you know about these $10 speed controls that I don't please Please send me a link or I'm just gonna presume you're just doing what everyone else does and you know just making stuff up Mass produced speed controls for brush motors will will also have resistive losses heat losses Yeah, you too well It's it doesn't I don't know with the speed controllers. It's not that they're mass produced It's it's the cheapness of them and stuff. So Yeah, I don't know Where where are these good speed controllers for $10 that I need to hear about? Uh confusco says like youtube has a character limit. I will explain your explanation is that The resistive one is more reliable. There is the resistive one is absolutely more reliable. That's That's pretty much a hundred percent guaranteed Okay Uh, but why confusco? What's the benefit to carry extra trash in the boat? Hans makes an excellent point. So confusco says why don't I just bring an extra speed controller with me But the point I was making is I just made an extremely reliable speed controller So I don't have to take anything extra with me. I don't I've got a little boat. I don't want extra stuff That's a that's a hugely important Part of this whole thing Uh, let's see Um What is your main account this one is only five days old did you get banned? Yeah, you probably did get banned How's the fart tank? Also, have you seen badder? Okay the fart tank the fart machine. It's a you know a methane producing machine thing it has Well, I checked it the other day and it has It's not airtight around the the top lid So I think I'm gonna have to just fiberglass over the entire top to make sure it's It's not leaking at first. I was like well, maybe it's just the where the pipe comes out at the top Um, but then I kind of pressure tested it and it's yeah the entire cap lid I glued it down, but it's not quite airtight. So yeah I think I'm gonna put fiberglass over the whole the whole top and just seal it like crazy I was actually going to do that today, but it started raining and it can't do fiberglass in the rain um, let's see Also, have you seen batteries and solar panels have come way down in price. I did see that um The lithium batteries are keep coming down. Yeah So the the lithium batteries I got the 24 volt 100 amp power ones. They were like I don't know like 650 bucks now. They're like 500 Um, I haven't checked solar panels, but um, yeah, maybe I should although I don't need any solar panels at the moment um Okay Confusco says the resistive control is trash Why is he carrying it? Um, yeah, you can you can just block that confusco guy He's he's probably been blocked already and now he's just I don't know He's just making up garbage. Like if it's trash, how am I driving around on it? It's oh, it's so awesome. I love it um Yeah, someone's explaining to this guy that there is no lossless way to drop voltage. Yeah um Yeah, totally um Okay, I'm just gonna skip over a few things that's explaining something really obvious to someone else. Uh, what are you? um Yes, Hans Hans exactly what Hans Hans said so I don't know this this confused guys is basically trashing one of the the electrical systems on one of my boats and and Hans and vegan surfer are just explaining to him that Why it works and I I don't know. I don't need it. Oh, let's see Oh god Yeah, I can't take the stupidity anymore. Somebody block that Confusco guy. Wait, can I vlog? There you go. I don't know. I'm just gonna skip his um rambling from now on Oh, thanks man. That's great. Um Okay, I have a question ken says So I have a property that I could potentially potentially make off-grid the off-grid setup is expensive up front But no longer have ongoing utilities What what is the question? Uh, I'm guessing the question is um I guess I'm guessing the question is coming But one thing about living off-grid that a lot, you know, I'm gonna get a light. Hold on. Let me just grab a light It's getting dark and I'm you know um So one thing that a lot of people um Kind of don't realize about living off-grid. Oh crap. That's too bright Is you don't You don't have to set up the same energy system that you would have like in the suburbs like you don't have to have like 20,000 watts of solar power coming into your house just because that's what like the average family uses or whatever Like you can live very happily with Like one solar like my house right now I just I just connected some more solar panels But that was mostly so I could use tools and 3d print all day and stuff But for the last year most of the last year up until a couple weeks ago I had one solar panel on my roof. It's a 275 watt solar panel and that was it and that ran my computer and my lights and stuff and Uh I just I just don't use a lot of electricity. So I wouldn't have a lot of lights on at night and Most of the day I'm outside just doing stuff, you know, I'm not If you live off-grid you don't have to spend all day inside with the air conditioning cranked up and like eight tvs and 14 fans and All the all this stuff like one of the cool things about living off-grid is it gives you it gives you all this stuff to do that's That's not just sitting there being entertained at the at the expense of massive amounts of power So you don't need tons of power Of course, you know, it depends how you want to live and what you want to do or whatever But yeah, you definitely don't have to Go crazy with the energy system um Especially at the beginning like maybe maybe you want like a 10 20 000 watt system eventually But maybe to start you just put it you get a thousand dollars and set up like a you know a fairly minimal system And that'll that'll do a lot of things, you know, even like 500 dollars Like you don't you don't have to go crazy with with money right away Oh, let's see. Is it three channels now jamie builds jamie tux and jamie stuff. No, I just I'm just using this channel now uh, I just went back to basically one so I mean I split them up for a while there and I kind of had a reason but then I eventually I was like I just feel like going back to one channel because I don't know. It was just an extra step in everything I had to do and I had some reasons to do it before but then They kind of disappeared. So I just went back to one channel. So my my Jamie builds is back to jamie stuff. I don't know what it was originally Um, but yeah, I basically just have one channel though If you get one of those $20 four channel or $40 eight channel remote control modules, you get your hexapod robot to con trees Oh, it's a question well, um, someone Okay, someone just Just got me a radio control thing. I put it on my amazon wishlist And uh, he sent it to me. So it's like a like a radio control controller and then a receiver I think it was eight servos, you know the servos are these little little wiggly things So you push the controller and the little wiggly things wiggle and can turn on switches or move stuff and stuff like that So, yeah, that's going to be here Maybe I don't know in a few weeks And I can use that to radio controller eyes The robot I've been working on which is I only have oh, I only have two more two more pieces to To print out to make it walk I could have printed them tonight, but I don't know. I don't like to print when it's starting to get later in the day Like one day I printed a few things at night and just ran it off battery power for like half an hour um It worked fine, but yeah, I you know, I don't I don't need to strain my energy system. I can just do it tomorrow um And then and then I have a bunch of parts to print out for a ping pong ball blaster But yeah, it should I should be able to get it walking tomorrow um Is it worth the upfront cost of a well instead of a ten dollar water bowl? Oh, it's totally worth the upfront cost Oh, yeah, man, and um It also depends how you do it like like are you digging your own well or are you gonna spend like some huge amount of money for some Weirdo to come in and do you need all kinds of inspections and stuff like A lot of this stuff comes down to the red tape involved like it This stuff gets really frustrated when you look frustrating when you live off grid and you're in, you know a uh, a developed society where Anything you try to do the cost is going to be a hundred times what it would be if you just did it Because you got to deal with paperwork and inspectors and permits and just all this garbage. Oh um So I guess it depends what the regulations are around you, but if you can just dig a well yourself and just do it yourself I mean it can be very low cost and You know, it might be the kind of situation where you can just dig with a shovel It might be a kind of situation where you have to pound a pipe into the ground and and pull it up and you know Take the dirt out and go again. They're they're uh Like well pumps that you can actually jam into the ground and like like crammed down with a with a pipe Um, like there are there are a lot of different options that you can do to drill your own well Um, you know including drilling machinery and stuff um true it's going to be from the 1900s so early And low energy septic versus sewer and solar instead of electric bill And propane instead of natural gas. It'll be an air bnb. That sounds awesome man. Totally do it. Yeah, totally do it you know The thing is with that kind of stuff Once you set it up if you do a really good job of setting it up Like the payback is over a long period of time like a really long period of time if you do a good job So just do a good job on it and it'll last I mean the rest of your life, you know Okay, would putting strings of led lights up into the cathedral dome Uh, take too much energy. That would look great. No, that would not take up too much energy. Um I actually had some strings of led lights up a while ago, but they got moved for some reason I don't know. They were just in the way. I was doing other stuff. Um Well, it's going to be interesting to see what happens on the third floor When I get up there because you know, I'm going to build the second floor next and then hopefully sometime this year I'll build the third floor And the third floor is going to be cool because that's just going to be a wide open floor all the way across with a big big high ceiling And I'm going to have to do some kind of cool lighting up there. And I don't know it's it's going to be cool um But yeah, I could totally run some led lights. I I don't know. There's there's so many things I want to do in here It's just I've got like this big list of things and whatever bubbles up to the top priority that that's what I'm working on and right now I'm just just trying to get these boards cut for the second floor and I just filled in Uh a low spot in the walkway around my house that was pooling water and I got this this methane producing fart machine tank. I got a I got an air air title eyes I got a seal. I have to seal it You know, there's just a lot of stuff. I mean, it's all good stuff. I like doing this stuff Um, I I agree with you on the single channel update your description though. Yeah, I gotta update my description um Really, I probably need like another person like Helping me manage this channel and you know my website and all this stuff because um You know 90 percent of my time in energy just goes into the projects themselves And then I you know have a little bit of energy to turn on a camera every now and then and aim it at myself Or say something and then by the end of the day I'm so exhausted. It's like, all right. Let's see if we can slap some video together and upload it And I'm like out of out of gas by the time it's time to type in a description or something Um sand point. Oh, you're talking about the sand point. Um Drill well well thingies. I think that's what you're talking about. Anyway Uh vegan surf says I have three wells But no good way to get water out of them if the power is out. I need to put a handpipe A hand pump in one for emergency. Those things are awesome So when I was when I was a kid we would go visit my my grandparents And they lived on a farm That had been I don't know in the family. I don't know how long I'd been there But there was like there was like old stuff, you know, there were there were There were like some some old rusty tractors that were like covered by You know 20 foot tall grass and stuff and behind their house Um, we were told not to mess with this too much But there was there was like one of those old cast iron well pumps and it totally worked like you Pull the handle a few times water starts pouring out the top You just had to be careful where you stepped so you didn't fall into the well because there was like a well Like a hole down and then some boards over it and then this this pump came up Um, so we're always no one ever fell in it that I'm aware of but we're always warned to make sure we didn't Um, that thing was great. Um Yeah, I if if I was gonna have a well That that's probably what I would do. I probably wouldn't even want an electric pump. I would just want the That's because that's the way I am I would feel lazy using an electric pump actually um That would look awesome. Wendy. Wait, what did it when you say? Oh, yeah, the uh, the leds, right? Um, exactly my point It's in city limits. Oh, this is about ken's property. Oh, you're in city limits But I was going to just do it so if it's sitting for a while and it's not an ongoing cost just to have city utilities Yeah It sucks being in city limits man. They they'll they will just red tape you to death Mr. Landfill I have hand drilled wells like jamey said 25 years later and still working. That is super awesome I would love to see how you do that. How did you hand drill? What was the process? Was it like, uh Like literally by hand or was there an auger thing on a machine or how did you do it? dig it with a shovel Wendy says I have so enjoyed seeing the jungle on the island I recognize a lot of the plants because they're used as house plants in the usa. They look amazing. Thank you. Well, thank you very much um, yeah, it's funny, uh being being in the in the tropical jungle here When I was growing up in Canada my mom had all these all these house plants a lot of them were tropical house plants So now I see them here. I'm like, uh, it's totally that thing my mom had in the you know The whatever room and or the this other room. She had a lot of tropical house plants and yeah, it's funny recognizing them Uh, let's see Check your bread. Oh, thanks. Thanks classic, dude. Mike. I think my bread should be done by now Ah, let's see what we got here Or where's the bottom of my bread? Feels pretty good. Yeah, I think it's done. Sweet. Thanks for the reminder, man Just putting my pots away Check your bread for a second. I was like check your bread. What are you talking about? Um Okay, how much longer would it be to handsaw the logs good exercise? Oh my god Handsawing the logs that that does take a lot longer. Um Oh, that that takes a long time um Yeah, I just don't have time. I mean I would I would eventually get it done. But yeah, it's just It's that's a lot to do um The way I kind of think about it is Like I pretty much started my my life here maybe Two or three years ago So I was maybe like 45 when I kind of started like really making my life here um So I gotta I gotta kind of speed things up a little I can't they can't do it all by hand Maybe if I was 20 I could I could spend more time on a bunch of things and you know take my time more But I gotta speed things up a little more now Uh well point pipes and driven with a weighted Down tire rim So we don't yeah lift tire and drop Lift tire and drop repeat for hours. I see that's cool, man And you did that and it totally worked, right? That's awesome Yeah, I wonder I actually wonder if I might have um Decent ground water in the jungle on this island. I'm pretty sure I have no water table because it's just like solid clay like a waterproof clay um But out in the jungle there I probably do have some spots where I could drill a well Although there's also a stream so I can get water out of the stream pretty easily Although I wouldn't drink from the stream. I don't know maybe I would You it's probably drinkable actually it looks pretty clear anyway Will says great video about brain code. Well, thanks, man. I did try to explain it pretty well You know another thing another cool thing about brain code. I I didn't talk about this. I don't think the other day um But just just thinking of brain code. It gives you lots of skills, you know lots of abilities um, and one of those things is being able to see into the future like you can see um You can see paths really far ahead so you can say Okay, if I go in this direction What's going to happen and you just like look through these strings I always kind of see it as like strings if I if I if I get on this string and it goes into the future Where does it go and I can see where it where it leads and where it ends up Um, then I can be like, okay. That's a good string. I want to be on that I want to stay doing that or or oh, that's not going somewhere. We're going to switch to this string over here and You you you can't you don't just see your own strings. You see the strings for other people too Which can be very frustrating because many times in my life I don't I don't even try to do this anymore generally speaking But like in the past I've had situations where I've I've had friends and I'm just like Man, you should not do this. This is not going to get you to a good place It's going to take you down a very bad path. You're like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? Okay, look When I look through the strings through future the strings you're on right now do not go to a good place And I can tell you exactly what you'd have to change to get on these better strings to get the goal that you're looking for And then he's like, what are you talking about? This is crazy stuff and it's like you can't explain it and then they have to go through it and then like three years later the like Man, I should have listened to you. Man, you're right. It's like Yeah, I wish I I wish I could have explained it in a way that would have been valuable and useful at the time But yeah, like like I was saying last week or the week before whatever it was When you think in brain code and it's not a generally accepted or understood thing It's really hard to communicate Any of that to other people it's amazing for figuring out your own stuff and figuring out what you should do and blah blah blah But uh, yeah makes makes communicating with people very difficult Unless they're also very open-minded and you know Get this stuff, whatever I grew up in a family business with a ton of young programmers and I feel like I can see people doing brain coding. Yeah Yeah, I mean once you once you start once you start like really kind of thinking about Brain like thinking about things in brain code It it totally just makes sense like so many things just fall into place because it's your brain's native code If you just like accept it and go along with it It's like Suddenly all this stuff becomes clear and it's like you have this you have this whole language That you know so well You've mastered it because you've just it's your instincts. It's built in when you were born, you know It's just too bad that we were taught for so many years to not use it The first 18 feet went down by hand Down by hand the next 30 was slow so 18 feet in about 60 seconds. Wow Uh, then five hours. Yeah. Yeah drilling a well. It's gotta be interesting Paths like in Donnie Darko I gotta watch that movie again. Maybe I vaguely remember the movie I'm gonna have to watch it again Yeah, I'm totally gonna have to watch it again now that you're making this path's reference Greetings from over the pond cornwall uk. What's up, man? Kerr now Okay, Wendy says brain code made by the nurture half of the nature versus nurture of humans Um Is it made by the nurture? No, it's made by the nature half Um, yeah brain code you just get it. You're just born with it Like it's the it's the it's the code. It's the native language of your brain Like you don't have to learn anything. That's why it's it functions so efficiently Um, because you don't have to translate anything In or out of what your brain just gets like if you if you can think in brain code It's just it's just a really natural thing. It's just you know, we we're taught not to think that way so I don't know people resisted have difficulty with it. They think it's it's not the right thing but it's totally good the nurture is is When we're taught to not use that kind of thing, you know Ignore your instincts. Don't trust what don't trust your instincts, you know, do Do things that have a concrete answer that you can write down, you know Uh, I I have to have enough power for an electric jackhammer to lower the basement So I was going to just keep it off grid and use generators because it's 37 a month if I use electric or not same with gas Um, just keep it off grid and use generators. Yeah Yeah, I mean if you if you have like one thing you need to use That that uses a lot of electricity. Yeah, I mean make sense to just get a generator, you know Just set up a small solar system to run your lights and your computer and whatever Little things you use all the time, but then, you know, you got a jackhammer or you got a weld Keep a generator round for that and then yeah, totally makes sense The holiday season is over and the social media season is starting. Oh, no, what's that? Do I do I need the social media more? I don't social media much and I think that's a good thing Um, I kind of feel like I should erase my facebook and all that stuff But um, it is useful at times as long as I don't Don't use it much and I don't use it much. I don't even I don't even find it Interesting like like, you know how people gotta get sucked into like instagram or facebook or I guess twitter or stuff like that and you keep scrolling and scrolling. I don't get that at all I think you have to like use it for a certain amount before it starts Getting addictive to me. Just it's just annoying Okay, I need to power 3000 watts should I just get a gas generator or do an inverter with battery? Well, I mean It depends what kind of system what kind of solar system you're gonna set up If you're gonna send it set up a pretty decent sized solar system Then just use that but if you want to set up a small solar system And then you just occasionally need to do some 3000 watt thing just just get a generator And just use it whenever you need, you know, that's I mean There's no correct answer, but That's what my brain is telling me Will darling at wendy my view Is it's a non-verbal internal language system somewhat shared by Inherent stuff in us the same way a lot of cats have the same habits Just as is brain code as dna rna rather than learned response then Jamie is social media Yeah, great. Okay, so like brain code It's just it's just the language That's already in your head. You know when you're a baby you you have some kind of thoughts And as you grow up you you have some kind of thoughts of your own And then you have to be taught like English or whatever language and then math But before you're taught that stuff like you have this language already in your head and we're as we're taught Verbal and written languages We're taught to stop using the the language that that's built into our heads But that language is super useful. I I would not I would recommend keeping it or or reactivating it like trying to use that brain code. It's really useful Even if you can't communicate with people well with it Solar is probably the best way to do it because you don't have to spend out any money apart from buying the solar setup Well, that's the thing If you need us if you need to run 3000 watt equipment You're gonna need a pretty decent solar system and if If the only reason if you only have one one thing that's going to use that much power and everything else could run off like 100 watts or something Like you could get away with a much cheaper thing and just use a generator once in a while But yeah in an ideal world just get a big enough solar system to handle everything you want to do You know, it was great It's just it is, you know a big investment um Neighborhood no wait neighborhood like solar over generator neighbor like Solar over generator noise and air pollution of generators is awful. Yeah, totally. Um Yeah, generators are not ideal, but like I said, if you only have one one thing that needs that much power Uh, perfect self-facing property And I was going to put about two to three thousand watts of solar and maybe four batteries to power what I ate You know, if you're putting that much solar power on and you and you need to run something That's three three thousand watts once in a while Just run it on a sunny day like right to only use your jackhammer When the sun is blazing and you're you're getting like almost that much power. Anyway, that's what I would totally do Um skip the generator And you know if it's rainy day then you don't jackhammer. No big deal. Um All right We're at the end of comments here And I think it's time for jamie to finish his dinner and go to sleep so I can get up nice and early And start chains on and I hope you guys. Oh wait, wait, wait Andrew Potter says off topic because I just tuned in Okay, the what advice do you have for letting go of stuff thinking about buying 10 acres of land up in Tunbridge, Vermont and going off grid Um, what do you mean by letting go of stuff like letting go of your previous life? I'm just gonna kind of guess At what you mean here unless you give me another comment here and kind of explain what you're letting go of um but when Okay, I'll tell you my experience when I first Wanted to move off grid wait don't ever move to the uk With that attitude toward getting regular sunny days. Yeah, the uk is terrible in terms of a lot of things man Terrible place to live off grid in terms of regulations in terms of weather blah blah But anyway, okay when I when I first moved off grid I was told all kinds of things about how I'm gonna Your life is gonna be so hard and I'm gonna freeze to death and you know just everything's gonna go wrong And I won't be able to handle it just oh man. Everyone. I knew was telling me no You're absolutely out of your mind for even thinking of that you do not do that And then when I just did it like none of that stuff applied None of the stuff I was warned about actually ended up being a problem like it was it was amazing It was super. Oh, it was so good Um Generator works day and night though Ken you do not need a jackhammer at midnight Especially when you have neighbors but anyway, um Yeah, Andrew if if you want to go off grid um I would recommend Getting rid of as much stuff as possible like sell everything you own that's not going to be useful off grid Don't don't take a bunch of crap with you that you don't need like just I mean, maybe your question is asking okay letting go of attachments like what kind of attachments to what? attachments to Inanimate objects attachments to people I mean Hey like like do it do what you want to do Um and deal with whatever consequences there are Like if there are if there are things that you don't want to let go of Um, then if you really really don't want to let go of and they don't let go of them like if there's something Like the way I think about living off grid is you get to do you get to make your life whatever you want it to be so People always ask this question when when you move off grid, which is like what do you miss? What do you miss about life before and it's like not really anything I mean, maybe the the huge amounts of garbage people threw away in the cities I could pick through and get like brand new stuff that people use once but You know, whatever other than that like there isn't really anything I miss Because I'm in a place where I make it be whatever I want. So if you're moving off grid Just make it be whatever you really want it to be although don't get stuck Making it what you think other people should think it should be That's that's something people fall into a lot is a trap of of trying to make their off grid home Suitable for other people's judgment Forget about that forget about the other people's judgment In fact, don't even invite anyone over for like the first six months or year or whatever just just do what you want live the way you want make it be what you want and You're not you're not letting go of of anything. You're just making whatever you want. That's that's what the life is all about But if you have some specific attachments in mind, let me know and maybe I can address those better Uh, let's see Stuff acquired over 20 plus years Okay, if it's just stuff you have andrew forget the stuff this stuff is not important Sell it all sell all your stuff Just take your your tools and whatever is going to be directly useful to Sorry Yeah, just take the stuff that's going to be directly useful to you going off grid Um, all this all this sentimental nonsense, you know, you just won't have time for that garbage Like you got more important things to do when you're going to be you're going to be in vermont, right? You got to cut your firewood. You got to take care of business You got to do stuff make sure you eat well and be healthy and you know, you're going to have a lot of stuff to do and Like your priorities are probably going to change in a lot of ways and like all these knickknacks and gobbledygook That you've collected over the years is going to kind of lose meaning. So I wouldn't worry too much about Attachments to that stuff. I I would just say get rid of it. The sooner the better sell sell as much stuff as you can And don't worry about the you know, the sentimental value because you're going to die one day, right? You're going to die and you can't take any of that stuff with you anyway, so Like why are you going to waste your life worried about it? All right, let's see what we got here UK UK regulations are horrible. You can use more micro hydra than solar put a generator If you can even make a micro hydra thing in the UK, your your council members will come by and say, ah Yeah, I can't do that without permission. Oh my god, that place is horrible Have you seen the beautiful YouTube of the stream generator made from an old washing machine? I have not Hydro is good free water for free energy. Don't bury lovely waterways under concrete. Yeah I should clarify that I only work on the house one day a week So a generator is all ready to go with no additional components But I was just going to do a full battery And run an inverter. Yeah, I can given given the information you give me I would I would skip the generator just just do the thing An Andrew Potter potter. I mean you're very welcome. I hope it goes well And seriously sell all the stuff you don't need and get stuff that's going to be useful to you in your off-grid life Because your priorities are going to change the things you care about are going to change like the things that are important They're going to become more important the things that are just not that important They're just going to fade away. You know, that's the one of the cool things about living Living your own life like the things that matter to me. I would skip the generator It's one of the cool things about living living your own life like the things that matter really start mattering Thanks for always having a great Having great videos. Everyone be safe. Thank you, Mr. landfill. And yes, everyone be safe I'm gonna get out here and have a great morning or evening or whatever you got wherever we are