 If you're new to the channel or new to the series, here's a quick recap. Donnie and I started milling lumber this summer for an off grid cabin build in the North Main Woods, where we cleared our lot, hauled in a bunch of different gravel and slate for a base. We had quite a few days of one step forward and two step back, but that's all part of taking on a big project like this in the wilderness. But we ended up getting some great gravel and a great base to build on. We hired a local lumber company's flatbed truck to haul up all of our lumber. Six, seven hour drive, got it delivered and we've been shooting video step by step on how we're doing our build and the construction and trying to bring it to you every video on every advancement that we make in the process. We really appreciate all of the support for the channel and for the build and can't tell you how much the comments mean to us. We read them when we get a chance and when we get back into civilization. We need from here up, so I don't care where I take it here. Donnie sent Stevie and I to go cut two collar ties to hold the two outside walls together. We got permission from our local forester to take a couple of trees and Donnie said, go get a couple of spruce trees. So that's what we're after. There's your notch. I'm still going to try to leave a hinge. Getting close. That's want to leave just a little bit less hinge in the... You hear something coming down the road? You hear somebody coming? You want to go check? This will reach the road. Yeah. All or somebody's coming. Otherwise, I'll haul a timber walk one to the side. That side. If you can. I'll let you know if she starts going. You out of the way. Pretty close. A little too much on this side. One more. The wind's against me. I got to take another inch. Let me know if she comes back. Timber. How you do it? Perfect. We left our hinge. Absolutely perfect. So she's only going to go one way. That's that way. Wind was against us. But we got there. Is she in the road? No. Beautiful. Got to get it by that mason. She'll go. That's it. She wants to go. Timber. Perfect. Get her. Hey Lynn, waist high. I know, right? I want you to measure it. So you can only go 15. So you're 15 right here. You're 15. See it? You have a spot? Yeah. And I'll walk you out five more. You see it? Yeah. All right. So that's where the end is. So is it up by those last dances? That cluster of branches? Right there. All right. So we'll go to the next set of branches. Yeah, we'll go right there. That should be enough diameter, right? I think so. Okay. That was a really high cut on that tree because the bottom was all spindly and around and it wasn't anything we're going to use. So we cut it a little high. I got to work on my left hand a little bit. But by shortening up my grip, it's a lot better. So let's see your strap. I think we can just pull around. I got the other one to the road. If we hook up the big ends and get them to like your ball hitch up off the ground. Yeah. We could drag them. Just slowly pull the same direction you're going. Yep. Perfect. Hold on one sec. We'll back her up just a couple of foot or so. Yeah, that's good. All right. Can you get turned around? We'll see. As long as that hook stays the right way. It might pop out, but just you could drag her down to that other one. I don't know if I could twitch them both forward twitching. It'll just gonna be hell on the draw shave with a with a grit. It'll be hell on the draw shave. But who cares? I got a sharpener. Dennis just grabbed my hand. Oh, it's super clean. All right. That's how you get to color ties in the North Main Woods. That was my old trusty Emerson Stevens three and three-quarter pound head. Connecticut pattern. We got two logs following us down the road with a Ford skidder. And the Forester did give us permission. Oh, yeah, we got permission. We're not going to say who we got permission. We're trying to debark them on the way to definitely a D limb. All those little crank limbs. It's all right. Yep. Back up a foot. Yep. Good. Now, minor. You like them, Donny? Should we put them right out? This thing will work just fine. I think because I don't go too far. Hit their own not done pretty good. Yeah. I'm going to try to keep it out of the gravel till the end. It's not hard. If there were no knots or less not one strand. I'm staying out of the dirt till last. You know where we're going with them, Donny? No, I think you ought to mark it out. You know, between that petition. 10. So five feet in and then 10 feet from there. Oh, every five feet. Well, we've got 20 or 20 foot box, right? We've got a 20, roughly, yeah, 20 foot. So should we go six foot? Six, six, six divided 20 by three. Right. Yeah, that's what I would do. Okay. So it'll be like six foot eight. Six foot eight. Even if it's over that window. Yeah, it doesn't really matter. Friggin' header is about as strong as it can get. You can't ask for much more out of a header. This is the heavy pruning blade. That's some heavy pruning. That's true. All right, we made her as light as we can. All right. I can push if you two can lift. Yeah, is get it in there one foot. And then one of us will go inside. Donny, I don't even know if you have to push. Be honest with you. Well, it'll help you. Okay. So should we get a ladder? Or no? Let me grab one. All right, Stevie. You ready? Yeah. One, two, center right down on the ground. Fine, right on the ground. Yeah, beautiful. All right. She's up. She's done. She's up. All right. See you guys. I gotta go. I'll get there. I'll get I'll get the rest. All right. So, so you and I will go inside, Stevie. Yeah, and I'll push out here. Yeah, or I don't know, but maybe one of us inside. Why don't you go inside? Yeah, probably because you're gonna I'm gonna have to friggin probably get most of it in and or two of us in. What do you think? What's the best way? I think two out here one two out here. Don't you just to get it inside? Yeah, because we don't want to drag it through that sill. Right. Yeah, so you go in Stevie. If you want to set it in that window sill you can if you want to just set it on the ground. Yeah, just get it just get it in the ground on the ground fine because you got to measure where it's gonna go roughly. Yeah. Donnie, if you get closer to that around by the things that's where I'll need the most help is pushing this up in the air once I get like I can get it to the joist is just fine. But once I get in by the joist is I think I'm screwed thing. So don't I don't think I can lift it. No, no, not till I get way in there. Don't you'll just got to wait. So Stevie, all you got to do is just get an inch above the window sill and walk it if you can. Yeah, I'm going to lift this up as much as I can. Yeah, and just get it in there like 15 feet set it on the ground. We'll leave this up in the window sill. Okay. Okay. Yep. And then and then just so we know that ends going on that wall. Yeah, ready? All right, rest for a sec. Ready? I got it, Donnie. I got it, Donnie. All right, rest it for you can set it right down, Stevie. All right, I'd say we got that one under control, right? Yeah. Should we put her up? Yeah. Right. That's flat right there. I'll go like this. A slight angle this way, right? Yeah. When we get there. We didn't flatten anything on that side. Do you need another ladder? Yeah, we need another ladder for sure. So, Donnie, yeah, you're just letting us know when we get in past the window. Rest it on the... Just like that. Okay. And you're going to go past it. So, don't get hung up. Past it. Yep. Don't get hung up on the thing, okay? You guys ready? I just don't want that crashing on the floor. Right, we need that. Can you go with Stevie and I'll... Should I get it in and rest it on top here? No, I think you could carry that up the ladder, okay? Why don't you come with Stevie? I'm going to rest it on top of this ladder if I can. I'm coming all the way in, resting it here, and then somebody get on the ladder and we'll go up. Okay. That all right? All right. Yep, that'll work. You want to get higher, Stevie? I'm going to help you as much as I can. Okay. Ready? Yeah. One, two, three. Go by. Are you by? I'm by. Yep. All right, put it on this ladder, Donny. You just hold it, Stevie. Yep. Pull the ladder from here. Yep, that's a great idea. All right, Stevie, I'm about to go up. Okay. Okay. Come to me. Yeah. All right, hold on. How much? I got an inch and a half. Bring it. Ready? Yep. Are you in? I'm in, and we can shift back to my side to tighten it up against the... There. That's home. Oh, we're perfect over here. All right. Let me give you a screw, Joey. Give it to Stevie. You want me to... Give Stevie the gun. Donny, you want me to pull it back this way a little bit? Yeah, because you want to... Yeah. Around time. Oh, not yet. No, we're going right... All right. A little bit more. Back this way? Yeah. That's pretty close right there. So, when you get it... Are you... You're not overhanging your plate, are you? I'm in like an eighth. So, if you need... If you need to come to me, you can. No, I'm flush on the outside of that. You're flush, okay? Yeah, that's perfect. When we get the rafter on, we may just have to take the chainsaw. Yeah, we'll have to... If we do, we got to take those screws out. Well... Yeah, maybe. I don't think we're going to shave it too much. No. Donny, I'll take a screw too. One or two. One or two, what do you think? I think two. Okay. You want me to send these? Send them if you can. There's different settings on it. I'd put it on one. See the settings? It's a hard ball. I see the lights on. I don't know how to change. I'll hold them until they change. I think. I'll keep pushing them. I don't know, I've only changed it once. I went to like high speed. We don't want it on high speed. I guess so. Put it on three. Donny, I got like an eighth hole. Inside of the head off. Well, it's in there. It's in there, yeah. Try the other one. Try the other one, yeah. As straight as you can. Did I just do it again? I wonder if they have bits, John? I got more bits. Yeah. Here, I'll take it down here and try it. I mean, it's in there, right? One of them is anyway. Yeah, this one probably got some. See the bits are a little small. No, it's the right bit. Okay. Well, I bought it for the... I might be able to get 10-inch versions of these. Beautiful. Well, that's something that ain't going nowhere. Yeah. Like it? It could be those other ones are cheap. I don't know. Put one of these gold ones in. Ah, will it reach? It will reach, but... I think it will. There ain't much, right? Bottom's out before, Donny. Yeah, those screws must be junk, Stevie. I don't know. It did. It just spun the head right in the arm. Cutting these off or something. Super. Yeah, if we do have to cut that off, I could actually drive this one down even more if we need to. I mean, it's going to be hidden once you get... Yeah, but I mean... Right. But these are not cutting off. I hate looking at them for your names. All right, let's do one more of them. So... So I'll try to go 6'4 from that. Yeah. This next one will be a pleasure. The first one is right over the sink where we can have possum pans hanging off it. Oh, correct. This one's going right by the wood stove. So you can hang your jacket and your boots. Put some big spikes there or something to hang clothes on it. I got big spikes there where we can drill in. You hear that, Donny? The first one's right over the sink. Couple pots of pans. Oh, wow. Right? We'll have to get a nice cast iron set up here. Yeah. And some dawn. fellas, we got to roll it towards you. A half log. Yep. Then go out towards you. Whenever you're ready. And the cell right here. Yeah, we got to go on an inch. Back to me. Okay. I'm perfect. You are? Yeah. Right there. Perfect. Yeah, it's in like an eighth of an inch. Good. Good, good. Donny, I think... I got two screws in this window right here. The kitchen. The sink. You left a little room for that. For the, what can we call it? The wrap, eh? Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're perfect. Well, should it go a little... No, it looks good. Well, it looks like it'll get by pretty easy. Donny, you want me to slide it over just a little? Just a bit. Yeah, just a bit. Yeah. Oh, come on. Yeah, bring it back. Yeah. Oh. Right there. Yeah, it's good. That's good. I mean, we don't need them this big for the, to go through the wrap. No. Well, on the big one you probably... The big one you probably do. Do it again. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Well, there she is. That's a good project done. Not only is it going to look great and be functional, but it's also going to help strengthen the building and keep the walls together. As you can see, the joists are up in the loft. We'll show you that on the next episode. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for all the support. We really appreciate it.