 So, windy morning. This is exactly what I'm worried about. Worried about these trees falling over. I'm going to get those cut down sooner than later. Severe thunderstorm watch this morning and through the night. I'm worried about our trees falling on our house. We're already growing kind of crooked. She's angry. That's an angry sky. There is a risk of tornadoes. Though there isn't any specific tornado watch or tornado warnings, there's just a warning to watch out they could develop. It's going to be a fun day today. It's supposed to peter out in a couple of hours, but... Yeah, those trees, see, that was kind of growing crooked already. Like I was telling you in past vlogs. And the wind is just like pushing it over our house. Be calm. It's going to be a wet day. I brought an extra sweater along just in case this one gets soaked. At least I have something to keep me warm that's dry. We're supposed to go up to Arbor, so... It's actually a pretty good thing, whether it gets supposed to clear up by later this afternoon or by noon. And, uh... I got a two hour drive north this morning. All I got to do is hook up. So I'll get a little wet while I'm hooking out. That's fine. The water never hurt anybody. And I hope by the time we get up there, the rain will have moved on into Ontario. They can deal with it. Got to go pick up Dad's trailer right now. I'm going to bring it to work so that when the motorcycle is ready, I'm also ready to trailer at home. Have you noticed we haven't stopped at Tim's in the morning in a while? Trying to save money for a little bit. Believe me, I've missed it. But I've been having my coffee at home and eating breakfast at home before leaving. Just a pinch a few pennies. It's a whole bunch of things we need to get done yet and all of it costs money, so... Penny saved is a penny earned, right? Don't worry, we'll get back into going to Tim's every now and then. But I started this when I started riding into work on my CBR before I sold it. I can't have a coffee on the way to work riding a motorcycle, so I'd always have it at home. And then I just sort of made that into a habit recently, and I'm trying to keep it going. Because once you get into the habit of, you know, getting a little lazy, like, yeah, I won't make coffee in the morning, I'll sleep a little longer, and then I'll just stop at Tim's. And you do that day after day after day. Yeah, it does add up. I mean, I didn't spend a huge fortune there every month, but that's mediocre coffee, right? I don't know why we get so crazy over Tim's. It's not the best coffee. But we keep going. We keep going back. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nice. Thank you, backup camera. Never let me down. Come on. Come on. Take it. Take it. There we go. I'll just leave the little shove. Oh, come on. Oh, I'm going the wrong way. Yeah, that's not all the way on there. What's going on? There you go. That's a little kid. He's starting to rain harder now. Heesh. Hurry, hurry, hurry. Hurry, hurry, hurry. You're going to take my motorcycle home for me whenever it's ready. Of course, as soon as I step outside to hook up, the guy upstairs turns on the water full blast. Because it's funny. I guess you need to get a good laugh too. That's all right. I'm not too soaked. I'm OK. Just water. First thing in the morning. It's going to be a good day. It's going to be a good day. Check my trailer brakes. They're working. Yep. Such a habit to do a brake check. OK, let's go. Trailer is chained on. It's hooked on. It's locked on. And yes, I could load the motorcycle into the back of my pickup. I just choose not to because I find it's a lot safer just to use a lower deck of the trailer. Instead of, you know, getting it on the truck isn't that hard because we have a ramp at work. I could just use that. But at home I do have ramps to go down, but they're pretty steep and narrow. And I find it's just a little bit dangerous. I don't want to dump the bike over my first day. OK, so I figured it was just easier to use the trailer. That's why I'm using the trailer. I know I can use the pickup. I chose not to. I chose to use the trailer. It's an easier, safer option. Well, the rain stopped and the severe thunderstorm warnings have disappeared since I got to work. And the sky out west, there looks a little lighter than the sky out east. So remember what I said about Manitoba? You want to know what's coming. Look to the west. Better times are coming. We're through the worst of it. North of us got a little worse, it looks. That's where we're headed. OK. All right, so got the trailer here. Just going to leave it hooked up here in the back corner. I think I'm out of the way enough here. And we'll worry about that later. I'm going to get all loaded up in the truck right here. We're going to go hook up to our roll tight and start meandering our way up to our bird. Look out, our bird, we're coming for you. Off we go another day underway. We got a roll tight behind us. 53-foot flat. We're filling up with some stuff with our good friends in our bird. It's already stopped raining, but it looks like we've got some more coming from the west a little bit. That winged this morning, though, eh? I was just kind of hoping to be able to do it next summer. Everyone's so close together. I can't wait till we can build out in the country. And when we build, we're going to make sure we clear the forest and the woods so that they're far enough away that even if the trees do fall towards the house, they're not going to hit the house, right? Checked out our property this weekend and it was a yesterday or a day before and said that it didn't look like we had any trees that fell down that he could see. You can do it without the wind. Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best. Freaked myself out a little bit. This batch told me to take a 53-foot step or a 53-foot flat roll tight this morning. And I thought they were all 53 feet. So I hooked onto this roll tight and just headed out. Good to go, let them know which trailer I took and then all of a sudden my heart sank. I'm not that far, I'm just around the corner, and shoot, this trailer feels and looks shorter than 53 feet. Apparently we have a 48-foot roll tight. We do. So I went back there, I measured it out. Okay, this is a 48-foot. Definitely a 48-foot. I'm pulled over here, I messaged them, I let them know this is a 48-foot. If I need a 53, I'm going to have to turn around right now and come back and get it. And they just got back to me and said I'm only loading 40 feet of freight. So I should be good. So it doesn't matter. So as soon as traffic allows me, I'm going to make my way back on to the highway. Ah, it's going to be a little long. Okay. Well, at least I don't need to go switch trailers. And now I know. Trailer 546R is a 48-foot trailer. I just never assume, never assume, okay? I got saved today. I'll be okay. Well, I should say I got lucky. Come on, Josh. Pull it together. All right, traffic's going to let me in. I'm just going to push my way in. Now it's coming. Heads up. Southern Ontario. This is just pretty good here. Let's go straight through. I'm not very heavy. So I'm not even close to being overweight. I got maybe a total of like, under 10,000 pounds on the deck behind me. They're working. Everything should be good to go. They probably just want to run my plates and my numbers. And hey, this is the scale I asked about those gravel trucks headed north a few vlogs ago. You guys remember that? Yes, there is a sign that obviously I'm blind. It didn't read underneath the scale sign. It says that empty gravel trucks and garbage trucks or refuse trucks, as they call it, are exempt. So yes, I did embarrass myself and asked a question that I already had the answer to. But here we are. We're going to make it over the scale or are you going to stall it? I'm going to go that slow, buddy. Come on. Come on. Come on. You got the green light before they change their mind. First axle. Tell you to stop. You don't stop. That looks suspicious. Then they think you can't read some heavy rainfall on the way back from Harvard. And have you ever wondered how well these roll tight trailers actually seal? I think that they do a better job than tarping. Because tarping, the wind gets underneath the tarps and rain and dirt still gets up under the tarps onto the freight. Unless if you do an absolutely incredible tarping job, which, you know, and it takes a long time. And this is so quick and easy, but is there any drawbacks? Does any water get inside the trailer? We're going to find out. I'm about 15 minutes or so from our yard. I'm going to bring in the paperwork. We're going to go park this trailer in the loaded lineup. I'm going to crawl inside and see how well this trailer seals and keeps the dirt out. Because you see the inside of the trailers, they get dirty over time, right? And nobody washes the inside of them except for me. Had the chance yet to do it because I've been busy. It is getting dirty. That builds up on the inside over a long period of time. I've never seen dirty freight inside a roll tight. So I'm curious when we get back to the yard, we will check to see how well it does. Here's the test. We're going to go through some pretty heavy rain. Let's see. This is where the tires would be kicking up some water. I don't even see a few drops. Go to the back over here. It's not 100%. I'd say 99.9% sealed. This is an older trailer though too. I'm sure the newer ones would be even better. But from what I see here, this does a way better job than tarping would. Every time I tarped a load, if I ran through a heavy rainfall, every time the water finds a way in. Every time. Let's go back here to... You can see it in there just a little bit. Not bad though. Not bad. All the way back here by the trailer tires that are right over here. And there's a little bit of moisture on here. Nothing big though. Just a little bit. I'm actually pretty impressed. Not impressed with how dirty these walls are here, but lucky for us, that dirt doesn't touch the freight. But whenever I have a spare afternoon or time to do nothing, I grab the pressure washer and I come in here and I wash the inside of them. Because if the driver's on the highway, even if they take care of the trailers and they take them to the blue beak the truck wash doesn't wash the insides. They just wash the outsides. Just noticed something here. I'm gonna have to fix this real quick. Oh, that's what's going on. I see, I see what happened here. Let's... One second, let me put you over here while I do a quick fix. All right, this freight is going to make its way on over to Ontario. Nice and safe, nice and clean. I'm gonna park the truck and hang around to see if there's any last-minute things for me to do. If not, I'm gonna mosey on home. I have a feeling the motorcycle's not gonna be ready today yet. That's okay, kind of expected that. But I'll be ready when it's ready. I know I've been talking about it a lot. Can you tell I'm excited? Very excited. Oh, if I can get past here. Man, there we go. Let's get out of here. Well, trees are still standing. You should have seen that in the height of the wind this morning. Because this tree, like I've always shown you, right, grows kind of crooked that way because there was a tree there at one point, made it grow that way. This tree in the wind, the wind was coming from there that way and it was like bending over our house. This one is just bending over here into the yard and there's a dead one back there that was just bouncing all over the place. Hey, Diesel. Definitely gonna have to put a high priority on getting these up down. We'll plant new ones. Stronger ones, not pine trees. Or maybe blue spruce, Colorado spruce. Colorado blue spruce, is that what it's called? Something a little bit stronger than these shaggy things. Diesel! Just wanted to see how you're doing. How you doing, man? Get him! Come on, I'm asking you to run. Get him! Turned out to be a nice day after all. Commander? Give us your orders. No pressure, mate. I'm thanking.