 When this tree fell down it knocked over another big tree over there which knocked over another big tree over there So when I went down here Investigated there was a nice new tree. See this one has has termite damage for the one down here. Oh come take a look. Oh Perfect no cracks termite damage nothing. I mean a couple of little tiny cracks right in the middle, but And I needed some 24 foot long boards. It's like seven and a half meters And it looks like I'll get both of them out of this one piece. Oh That was a long cut. That's the longest cut I've ever done I'll have to cut it right down the middle here because it's way too heavy to move and then hopefully I can move those two pieces Yeah, I'll do it somehow If I have to tie a rope and just drag it an inch at a time All right one step at a time Lay this thing down. It's kind of stuck over there and then cut it down the middle Oh if we go down here the third tree that went down actually got completely uprooted Oh These are supports or something pretty big so they need to be strong I Don't know what kind of wood it is, but there's not a single knot in the whole thing and it's old-growth wood So it should be mighty strong I don't want to leave them here. I'm just gonna have to move them later. Okay, I can move them Okay, this is the tree I cut today So it's the one that got knocked over by the one I cut yesterday The one I cut yesterday only had dead leaves. I can't find anything I got so hopefully I can look up hopefully I can look up whatever this is and When I cut it like blood red sap came out All right, Jamie good. Good. Look at that everything. Okay, and then the third tree that went down It's not as big So, but I should still be able to get a decent amount of boards out of it. Anyway, this is its leaves It had brown or bark The difficult thing about identifying trees here is that there's like 400 different kinds of trees And where I where I lived before in Vermont. It was like 10 kinds You know, this one's bending that way and that one's bending that way So I'm thinking if I wrap a line around here and at the other end leave them for a few days I make it tight enough. I should straighten them out. It looks like they'll get both curves out It's just supported at this end in the far end and we're going like that Yeah Let them dry like that for a couple days. Oh man. It's way later than I realized Sun's going down Don't start moving out without me guys. I'm coming Dolphins a few days ago When I was riding my boat a dolphin came up and swam right beside me for a while. I Pedaled as fast as I could but it didn't look like he was struggling much Wasn't sure about this whole cutting the wood myself thing and I think That's probably the biggest reason I decided to do it challenge is difficult to cut all that wood and do a good job A lot of work And it's just the second day of cutting and I'm feeling pretty good about it The first day I had a headache at the end of the day but today I Loosened the holder part on my ear blockers so they weren't pressing so hard Instead of wearing that face shield with the things tight around my head as were Regular glasses. I think that I think just having that stuff pressed on my head gave me a headache after Wearing it all day today was much better And you know, I moved around much heavy stuff Got tired Took a drink ate some food got re-energized yelled a little bit and Yeah, I'm feeling great I'll do a bit of stretching tonight And I think this should go well So today I got The two biggest boards I need For my mega my super mega project all this woods going into my my super mega project I'm not showing yet because I'm making a you know a mega movie So I don't want to show that but I figured I could show the cutting the wood And I wasn't sure if I was gonna find a straight tree Where I could get 24 foot boards The man that was really lucky I feel a little bit bad for the tree because it fell over and it was perfectly healthy, but you know gave for me And I got those two boards just out of a little side chunk of the tree There's tons of that tree but I can get 10 of those boards out of it so I'm gonna have a good week of cutting that thing up into boards And it was a long tree really tall. I went up to the top to find those leaves And The state you stay almost the same thickness the whole way up papered a little bit Not that much Probably in a week or two I'm gonna get tired of chainsawing and Then I'll go back to what I was doing before Because I have different parts of this big project and working on there. I have to do it long And it's kind of nice to break one up and you know do a bit of one than the other than one than the other Rather than just doing the same thing every day for months Which I was doing man. That's a chain sawing thing. It's such a nice break from what I was doing, which is great I love what I was doing. It was just every day every day the same thing Okay, I'm almost back I gotta get cleaned up for movie night. What else I want to bring up that I'm thinking about And something I've been thinking about ever since I was a little kid, which is like, where does all our stuff come from? You know, like living in North America, you go to the store and pay money You get all this stuff for like not that much money or at least we have a lot of money or whatever You know, you get a lot of stuff. God, everyone has a lot of money And you know, I grew up not wealthy or anything But still relatively speaking compared to a lot of other parts of the world. I had a lot of money Not compared to the people I live near My life was get up who are like forced to work in factories making our stuff for us Or like people who just don't want to do it and are kind of financially trapped or sometimes just like literally Threatened with death if they don't make the stuff for us. It's America. We don't see that. I mean we almost never see that Unless there's like some documentary on TV and it comes up and people spend like an hour going oh my gosh Can you believe that how we really need to think about things and then they just go back to normal the next day appreciate the difficulty and the struggle that I go through in You know cutting my own wood out of the jungle for example and carrying it out myself like Like taking a resource directly from the planet and no middle people in the way But something I really enjoy Even though it's difficult, I mean that's I wouldn't even say even though it's simple I mean that's part of it Part of it is just like going through the struggle in the difficulty It's just I Think it's a really good thing to do It's a really good experience And I think it's also a good lifestyle. I don't think it's a good lifestyle when you have to do that kind of stuff because You know financial pressure or being threatened or whatever. I do think it's a really good way to do things when you get to do it for yourself and You know in the culture where I grew up We didn't do anything for ourselves and it always frustrated me that everything was money like you You get cut. Oh pay something for something and buy something to put on You know you want to eat go buy something you something broken buy something else Send it to the repair shop to get them to you know everything is just all the problems are solved with money Not it's not fulfilling. It's not a fulfilling life this experience when I in my in my last house where I live You know, I was living in that house and everything in it was stuff I made and I could look at it and say oh man Here's all this stuff and I know what that tree came from and I know where that was And I know what I did to make these pipes do this I lived in a big geodesic dome for That was pretty awesome. I left it to move to the Caribbean Anyway, it's just really nice being surrounded by Things you did to yourself. You didn't just buy everything has so much more meaning like those two boards like that today I'm pretty darn proud of myself That's not those boards myself That was cool, and I got the trees right off my own land didn't even have to cut anything down Don't look down on people who do Speaking of hard work. Let's crank up. Yes. These were my white pants. I love this