 What do you think? Morning, ladies and gentlemen. We roughed the first night in the trappers cabin. It was dry. I don't believe we slept alone. But other than that, pretty good. Do you have a colony of mice in there with you? Well, definitely we was moving in on there state, I think. Oh, well, got a little rain last night. Got to keep the dust down today. Made progress last night? Best thing is we got a new band in the group today. Yeah, Donnie. Donnie's back in action. I think he might have overdone it, not feeling completely good. But I think he just overdone it with the heat, to be honest with you. Yeah. But we give her all we had till dark last night. And we're going to give her a 12-hour day-to-day. And tonight, it's going to look different, Joe. What do you have for mouse protection last night? What was that stainless steel mouse apparatus you brought in? Stainless steel, what why? Oh, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, this is what this is. This is bare season, Joe. And if you buy the super pack license, then you've got to. Oh, I thought you brought this up for the mice. Well, mostly for roads, yes. Yes, 45, 70-guide gun. Beauty. Yeah, pretty cool cowboy cartridge. That's what you got to use out in Ohio? Yeah, anything out in Ohio when we go out there, me and Cameron, you'll have to use anything with a straight wall case and it can't have no neck to it. It has to be straight. So like a 444, 450, 45, 70, 350 cartridges like that. Yeah. Just because they don't want you to shoot long range, you know what I mean? It's all rolling hills out there, go long ways. You start shooting $30, $6, and stuff would be. But yeah. Well, how's your body feeling getting tossed around yesterday? I feel good about the bed was... Yeah. We're going to get through it. It's going to be better as soon as we get this place built, Joe. Oh, yeah. Brandon's pretty pumped for this place, too. He's a big-time snowmobiler. I guess he comes right through here on a couple of winter trips, right? Oh, yeah, this is the epicenter. This is good snowmobiling up in this country, especially when you're not as scared of a little rod. You can get anywhere from here, you know? Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised you could get up the village of Allagash in an hour or so. Fork can't be an hour and a half, now 45 minutes. But maybe not. I don't know. I got to see where the trail system connects. But I know the main ITS that's running north, where it forks off to 120 is where I think it's close to here to do the doubly loop. But I don't know. I've got to look at it. But we are going to have a little bit of fun this winter up here, no matter what. Oh, no matter what. Yeah, even if we go chub fishing, we're coming up and trying to wet a line in some of these places. Got to. Yeah, we'll give a chub. Well, I'm going to grab my coffee cup. Yeah, that's what I'm headed for, is a cup of coffee. Cameron really pulled through on this trip. We've got a black and deco, the real deal, coffee pot, Joe. No perk coffee this trip. You don't like my perk coffee, huh? Oh, I love it. But I don't like waiting for it. Donnie, welcome. What's that? How you feeling? I feel a little better. You sound terrible. I know. I coughed all night. And this. Man, we were so happy to see you come out of that tent. Oh, man, I hit it. I don't know. I must have got really dehydrated yesterday. I haven't thrown up for ever. No. I threw up twice yesterday. I just drank the liquid and I'd throw it right up. So you mind if I bum one of these coffee cups out of the box? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Did you get some coffee, Joe? Oh, yeah. This fire pit is going to be a part of this. Oh, yeah. I like this fire pit. Yeah, we're going to move that up. Nice. Everybody wants a truck, right? This is a great new fire pit. That's what I'm thinking. What do you think, buddy? Great, Joe. How's your body feeling? Oh, I'm great. You ever slept with so many females? They're all mice. They're all mice? Yeah. He said he had five go across his body. Is that what it is? Are you serious, Cameron? No, this is going to be quite a place up here. Get it now. That's going to be fun. Yeah. I, you know, me and Cameron was talking to, like, there's a lot of beautiful places in this country. But man, there's just something about coming up here. I like spending time up here. You don't see many people. And usually when you go with a bunch of guys, it's a bunch of guys on the same page about, doing the camping style thing up here. Yeah. We're going to insulate that floor with Donnie. What's that? We're going to insulate the floor of the camp with. What do you think? We're going to use a two inch styrofoam blue, the blue styrofoam. Yeah. And what we did on Joe's... You got strips as you just flush nailed it. Yeah, what's that? You got strips and put it up under the joises. Yeah. Yeah. On scoffs, we just, we face nailed it. To keep it all plain so they weren't so many transitions. That's how we, that, the guy that worked for me, we built him a tiny home. Yeah. Nice spring foam, the inside of it. Okay. And then, but I just, I put it on the bottom of the joises. I heard some people say if you leave an egg out there, it's almost like eye value. Right. That's what we did on his. We left it down. Yeah. You know, and I do think that helps. That helps. Yeah. Yeah. How far are you going to try to be off the ground, Donnie? What are you thinking, 30 inches or something? Well, we're going to use those 16 inch round pads. Yeah. And then I was thinking a cement block and probably a four inch solid block too. So I want, I want to be up off the ground, you know, like a couple feet, I think. I shot one laying down out in Ohio, but that was because it had an inflicted gunshot wound. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, God, I, we were hunting this little piece up in the back of my house and drove the doe out across the field in front of a couple of guys. And my God, all the shooting and banging going on and no deer. So we went through the piece again. And Christ, I looked and there was a, you know, a fawn that would fall on that spring. All curled up in a ball, sleeping. Huh. And believe me, I was this close to it. I walked all the way around it, trying to get a headshot, you know, because it curled its head back on its body. I didn't want to ruin the meat. Yeah. And finally I got a, and the thing never moved. They will. I watch on deer drives out in Ohio, Donnie. Like where we hunt is really aggressive hardwood ridges that go down into hollows. You know what I mean? But sometimes when you're deer driving, you can see two of your buddies, they're 300 yards away, but you can see them down in the valley, you know. Yeah. Yeah. We was driving this little block last year, me and Bobby. And I looked down and I could see a deer, 15 yards in front of him laying underneath the blowdown. And he was, he was hauling, you know, we were pushing to the other guys. Yeah. That deer didn't move until I'm telling just like you say that. Yeah. Out there? Out there? We have another spot, a cow stand, we call it. And you go up over this hill and it flattens out and his side by side trail forks like opens up and then comes back together on a little island. Yeah. And that island ain't, I'm not shitting you. You could throw a rock from one end to the other always and it's briar patches that will tear your clothes right off. The worst briar patches you ever see. Wow. You could have a bomb through that hole without pushing deer out of it. They'll let you walk right by and that close. Yeah. Wow. Well, when I was farming, you'd hay a field right after fawns born, they'd get born, mother tell them sit and don't move. You'd get out there with that tractor, mother tried to tell them to move. They couldn't hear it over the tractor. Send them right through the disk behind. Oh, wow. You drove right by my house. I live on that road. A road. Right on the route one? No. You know how that road loops around? Yeah. Yeah, I live on that loop road. But my land goes all the way from that loop road all the way back through to route one. Oh, wow. I own a strip, a mile strip. You'll have to stop and see him. You'll be shocked. Yeah. He's actually quite presentable. He's got a wife. Well, he's got a wife. He's got to be presentable. She's got a whole her teeth filled. You've got a couple kids that dress up nice. Yeah. They go to school. They go to the school and everything. But I mean, you spend enough time with Brandon. You kind of get surprised sometimes. Yeah. We're not from Quebec, Joe. Give us some credit. Yeah. Well, I am the black sheep of my development. It's all millionaires and me, Donny. The same thing, ain't it? I don't give them. They ain't it? They don't. I try to tell them something sensible, and they look at me like I have three heads. They want to put a bunch of money into these dry hydrants, all these out-of-status for more fight-apartment. I said, do you realize? I said, we have a volunteer fight-apartment in a perfect world. If somebody's drinking coffee at the fire station, you're looking at 45 minutes. Oh, my God. You know what I mean? I'm going to put this. It was about, I don't know, Christ. How many years ago now? Four or five, Donny. I was doing a firefighter day down at the ice cream shop, raised money for the fire department. Oh, yeah. So, they's down there, fire trucks, the whole group of them, you know, doing demonstrations and stuff. Freaking plane crashes. Three miles away in the swamp, we had 28 firefighters on scene in less than two and a half minutes. Jesus. The FFA said they've never had a response like that to any plane crash in the whole, the whole U.S. The FAA. Yeah. They, I said, yeah, well, Jefferson, Maine, we're on the map. I think I might try some of that hot sauce if it's still kicking around. What do you think of that? It's delicious. Oh, I like it. Drive that right in the air, see how the morning goes. My morning already went. Oh, did you make a run? Fuck. 10 man of a sheet metal. Plus, I knew you checked. You want to push? That's probably the biggest tree on here. It's over 24 across. Couldn't get through with that. So, I'll show you guys how to let the hinge do the work for you and drop it where you wanted it. This tree wanted to go that way with the weight and the angle. Well, we wanted it this way. So what I did is I took my notch here about a solid third into the tree and then I come across and it tried to be as straight as possible. I left a little extra this way to put that twist on it. But this is all hinge wood right here. And there it is there and that's what got it falling that way. So that's a pretty big old tree right there. That's probably the biggest one we got to get out of the way here. But we're doing all right. No. Catching that five pounder, that made me pretty excited. And the tournament too. It won me a little bit of money. Wow. Great. Yeah, great. There's some good on that machine. We are some happy he came up. He doesn't baby it like he babies his snowmobile and during ice fishing season how he babies everything. But we get him on that machine. He's pretty good. Maybe because it's rented. But we are some happy Brandon's here and Cameron's here. We're getting there. We got like two more decent trees to cotton. That'll be what we think our footprint's going to be and we'll do a couple loads in and out of here with some gravel and shale. If we need more out of here we'll take more out of here. If not, then we're good to go. Brandon, you got a mess out here, Bob. What do you think of that mess? I didn't make the mess. I'm trying to clean up your mess. I'm making the mess. Guys, I think that's the last tree we're dropping. At least that's the plan right now. So a lot of trees come down. Pretty decent area. There's not going to be any trees falling on the camp. So we're proud about that. You know, you clear that out. Pretty good chance we haul some gravel today, which would be awesome. Some shale. I'd like to dig into that shale pit and see how good or bad it is. How much fill is going to be on the front side of that cabin? 18, 20 inches. More. Well, it doesn't have to be flat. We can build off. Well, yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? I don't mind it not being flat because then the water will run underneath. I didn't realize how big a hill this was. It's a big hill. I mean, look, our feet right now are above that roof. Oh, yeah, we're 25 feet above down there. Yeah, and then we're probably 25 feet from there. I think it's time for lunch, old boy. Yeah. So I was noticing you drive that, that machine pretty hard. You don't baby it like you do on your ice fishing adventures. You don't baby nothing though. That was a dig because he don't baby nothing. I never see anybody go higher than him. You know what a friend of mine says? It ain't new forever. That's right. This is going to make it way better. It's a lot of... Yeah. That's a lot of clearing. We're having chop suey for supper. Nice. That's pretty easy to do. That's usually first meal. How you feeling, Donny? I feel not 100%, but I feel certainly a lot better. My wife gets some out at me when I don't feel good, but the best thing for it is cool fresh air. My wife, you know, I need all the sympathy in the world when I get sick. Oh my God, she hated that. I said, Diar, can you give me this or give me that? Oh, shit. That would drive Bobby crazy. Oh, Diar. Now what's... Did you get that message out or no? Landon. So we went down to Landon. They called the frigging moose across the river. Well, the moose just hit the shore that they were on. They started blasting. The moose turned around and started to go back across the river and died out in the middle of the river. They didn't have a boat or anything. We had the canoe, so it went down, got the canoe, dragged the moose in for them, and they were from Monmouth, Maine. And... Oh, Jesus, thank you, baby. I don't know how we would have got it. Well, I don't know how they would have got it either. How did the moose float? It floated. Good. It's good now. But honestly, Donny, my father's worked very hard his whole life. It never made an honest rate at anything he ever done to give it all away. I'm not kidding you. Just like that his whole life, and he's never had a new vehicle or anything like that. He drives around the truck. He's driving around in the truck right now that we put the gas tank blew out of his truck going to the Allagas last time right on the ground. He was sitting at the gas pumps. Boom! Can we go to Stephen before he pull head? We ought to lift that up. We put two ratchet straps on it. One of them is itself before we even got the freaking tealoss road and that same ratchet strap has been still holding that gas tank right now and that's from spring. Wow. Well, lunch is over. We're getting back at it. Brandon's got a mess to clean up. We left him a nice mess. Wish he'd do a little bit better cleanup than this. But that's all we got. So we had sandwiches, cold cuts for lunch. Go pretty good on a trip like this. Donnie and I are each going to drive some emergency into us to see if that straightens us out a little bit. We both got the creepy crud. But yeah, he's going to clean that up, stump it. And then we should be good to go. He's going to flattener the best he can. Then we're going to go get some shale and see how we do. Hopefully if we can get a load or two of shale today, I'd be tickled, thanks. Put a shale on top. Bigger than that blade. How do you feel about this job? Do you feel like you might get paid on it? I feel like that's why we want to get stiffed on. Two months. The windshield. Yeah. When's your new sled coming? December, he says. I guess you'll have to. Just to get that last bit out. What a base that's going to make, huh? Guys, all right, all right, all right. We are pumped. First load. First load official. Dump. We're going to have a lot of loads to do. It's 3.30 now. We're going to hammer till dark. I mean, I could promise you that. And we got lights. Honestly, we can do this stuff into the light. Going back and forth, dumping dirt. We got reinforcements coming tomorrow. Stevie with a 16 foot dump trailer. Double dump. Yeah, so we'll be running two at a time and just getting in there as quick as we can get her in there. But that's the story. We got a loader further in the back. That one was more forward than center. So put a shit load right on the tailgate. No problem. That's not bad in town. That's not bad. What's he saying? He didn't say much. He said, how are you feeling? I was feeling. Got to take over the business. Yeah. Yeah, we have more than a half miles. We're close to a mile. He's doing good. We got four loads in, but that didn't sound too good. That didn't sound good. Too much sidewall. I'll try one. Sidewall. I never had luck with that. Just watch your hands, Donny. Okay, I mean, I could put that. I could put that. Yeah. I could put that brace up. Just, I hate this thing to fall and pinch it. Holy God, I guess so. You see that? It's only got one to deal with now, isn't it? Isn't that some, wow, that's quite a cut. Holy God. I mean, that could have happened on our down trip with a full load. It's hard to tell. You guys could have just heard it. He's adding up. It's going to get a little cumbersome down there. It'll get a little awkward down there in a minute. That's what that is, guys. We're putting a dent in there. I promise you we're putting a dent in it. You have a little hard time on that last little... Why do you sink in one spot, Cameron? About these tires? Yeah. What a hill right here, ain't it, Joe? We're coming down over. I'm telling you, this country, like other... I bet you money this ain't going to be piled up in this one. No, unless they're cutting out the end of it. Oh, yeah, that's over two foot deep and small. Loads in here, done for us. Got one load in us. Then we're going to kind of re-evaluate how we're looking. Full send. Almost full send. You ain't going to have to tell us twice, Donny. No, I'm headed. You've got some hungry boys. Oh, for God's sake. All right, I'm heading in. What an awesome, awesome day, guys. Couldn't ask for a better day. Can't believe how much work we got done. We cut hundreds of trees and got them taken care of, and we got one, two, three, four. We have about a dozen loads of real good quality, high packable shale in here for our base, so that camp should never move. And then we're going to do a pretty decent size parking and turnaround area, because that kind of drives me nuts going to camps where you've got to back one truck out to get another in and all sorts of stuff like that. So we're going to make sure we do it upright while we can. Looks like another dozen hulls out of that shale pit ought to do it. We've got reinforcements coming tomorrow with Stevie. He's bringing a 16 foot dump trailer. Yeah, and then we're going to go get some top gravel after that. Brandon will probably flatten the shale out, and then we'll slide over and get some top gravel. Couldn't ask for a better day. We had some mishaps. We had some tough situations, and that's why you get into tough situations with good people because it just goes a lot easier when you're with good people that think of ways to get through stuff like that, rather than just get upset and throw their hands up in the air because you don't really have that option when you're up here in the North Main Woods. So Brandon, Cameron, Donnie, awesome, awesome day. We got so much done. Now we're heading down to the Trapper Camp and we're going to eat some grub. One of the best reasons to bring Donnie along on any camping trip is because of this right here. Don't worry about it. I know better than that. I don't think we've ever got to the bottom of one of his jobs, Suisse. Well, you think fellas need a bigger shovel? Oh, I like it a lot. What a great day. We got a lot accomplished. Yeah, we sure did. We, I think you guys did. No, we did. No, we got easy 10 hours on that machine today. I'll take that. There was a pile of tree standing this morning when we woke up. We had some serious morning wood. We took care of that. And now we got some shale coming. Reinforcements coming in the morning. Yup. Did you get through to Stevie? Yup. He'll be here sometime morning. He texted me and said he already got PVC glue. Yup. Okay. Great. I had garlic bread but I didn't trust that oven to light it. I don't know how many mice it would cook. I don't think so. What's the bottle of choice tonight, Cameron? Absolutely nothing. McGillicuddy's lemon drop? We got Dr. McGillicuddy. There's a McGillicuddy's peach. I've never heard of that one. I've heard of peach. I've never heard of the lemon drop. That looks like an old bottle. My cousin had some crafts out on some unorganized territory. Mission or whatever. And somebody from town, a guy from town, noticed a sat out off a logging road and he drove his hand right in it. What the hell? Listen. Had his tag in it. Took it to the Game Wardens. After harassing the trap, when the Game Warden brought the trap back to my cousin, I still had that idiot's level of love in it. Oh, my word. Oh, my word. What an idiot. He could be arrested for harassing the trap. What a crap. Geez. I remember one day I was trapped once again. We had an ice storm and we were running 220s and 180s from Fisher and Martin and they were bare. Corner bears? Yeah, but they were bare. We didn't have them in boxes or covered up or anything. They were on lean and poles or straight trees like this. How'd you bait them? You used the same thing as coyote bait? No, we used pirate church carcass. That's not legally the job. It was. Or chunk of beaver meat. You rub that beaver up and down the pole. So we got like an inch and a half of ice on everything. Rain and froze. So all the corner bears were frozen. The triggers were frozen. So we had to run all four trap lines. I had four trap lines out northeast, southwest. 100 and each. We had to run all 400 and clean the ice off all the triggers. Off all the open traps. We were running Montgomery 220s that were the strongest traps. He used to leave them set all summer to try to weaken them springs because they'd snap a marten and rip the fur. They were deadly on a fish here. I'd never seen a better otter-fisher trap by far. Montgomery didn't make cotton or made footholds, but for some reason one year they made them. He got all he could get. So we're running the line. I don't know, we're probably 200, 300 traps in. I was wearing gloves that day. I was wearing gloves ever. And we'd run and I'd have my axe and he'd spruce up the bait in the scent. I'd grab the two jaws on the top of the 220 and take that trigger with my other hand or the axe and scrape all the ice off and reset it. Done, done. We'd run out back out. One of them, of course, had to be one of them Montgomerys. I'd go up, just grab the thing. I don't know what happened. Next thing I knew, snap. I couldn't even blink. Come right across the top of my hand like that and just held me right to this tree. Stacked right to it. I look over to him. My eyes are about that big. He looks at me and goes, what the hell did you do that for? I said, get me out of this thing. He had to take my axe and put it in the jaws and wedge it. The best. This trap was, you couldn't... I'd have been stuck in that trap. I'd have had to take the trap with me if he wasn't with me. And we thought for sure that he would have broke my hand. But I had them leather gloves on with padding in them. Probably helped. That's the only thing that kept me from breaking. Wow. After that, I touched the rest of the traps like this. I was a little bit more cautious after that one. But I'll never forget that sound. Yeah. And it happened so quick. So quick. That's the only regret I did have from trapping is I didn't save anything for myself. Just because I always figured I could just catch another one. Yeah. But I did sell some fish or some female fish that were like pale that I kind of wish I had a couple of them back. Can't thank you guys enough. Sincerely gratitude. Sincere, grateful. We're heading the right direction now. We're going to see something being done tomorrow. It'll look different. It'll look way down. It'll be a different ball game. All right, fellas. It's totally in bad shape, isn't it, Joe? No, we were going to bring that to the other camp or just buy a new one, whatever. But if we're going to leave this standing, maybe we'll just leave it in here. All right. All right, fellas, I'll see you in a couple hours. Right. You want me to shut this light off? Well, that's going to do it for a night for me, guys. I might have a long night with all these skaters. I'd better try to kill as many of them things as I can before they get to me. I'm going to wake up down a couple of quarts of blood if I don't get ahead of these things, put the light on the ceiling. They go to the ceiling, at least, and you can get them there. But I'm going to do a little read-in tonight. I got the Adventures of Lou and Charlie from the Fur Efficient game. This one's volume eight. Pretty exciting stuff. And then I don't think I'm long enough I don't think I'm long for this world. It's only 8.30 right now, but we put in, oh, oh, about a 14 and a half hour day. Minus a meal or two. So a pretty awesome day. Again, Stevie's coming in tomorrow. We're excited about that. Excited about having the reinforcements, too. And yeah, we're going to go hire that tomorrow and try to put in a 15, 16 hour day. So really appreciate all the support, guys. Thanks for tuning in and make sure you check in for tomorrow.