 So, Donny, I think it goes these ones right here first. I think it's this one. Nope. Flip it over so the bees down. Right. I was just trying to get these lined up. Oh. And then I think the next ones are the short ones. And then the longer ones are the bottom ones. Yeah. Because I think the bottom one is only up one. Let's see. Then this goes into that. That goes into that. That goes into this. Okay. Yeah. Here. That one we're missing the one. We're just going to...here. Yeah. That goes with this. Those go together. It's just going to be missing one. It's off the flattest piece of ground, but it's the flattest piece right here. Right. Which side do you want to start on? We're missing that full section, right? Yeah. We're just missing...well, we're missing one piece. So, if you're missing one, you might as well miss two. Now, we have to drape the tent over there. Yeah. Yeah. Or do we put those legs on? No. We do the tent now because we could reach it over. And then we put the... Then we just lift everything all at once. All? Yeah. This will put a nice tent for the mother. It'll get...no. Well, maybe. Got you a wood pole for that one, Donnie. We could do a wood pole if you want. We just have to do it now. If you think we need it. We might be able to do it after, actually. Put a little bend on it. Where'd we throw that tent? I'm going this way. All right, we're going that way. Sure. Okay. You know what, Donnie? If we go right now to the piece, we can probably unroll it on the piece and keep it off the ground. You know? Wait, is that going to work? Yeah, that'll work, right? Here, let me... I just don't know if we've got the right angle. Here, I'll lift it up over. Let's switch, let's switch. And we're going to go right to the front there, okay? Yeah. Ready? Let's try to keep it out of the mud. I don't know if that's going to work or not. We could probably let her go if we're working with her. All right, I've got a zipper here. That's a window. Should make the doors there or over here? Yeah, I guess it doesn't really matter, does it? No. I just got to figure out which... which way is the right way. What's this? This would be... which is the wrong way. I don't know. It's got a... it's got like a hole here. Like maybe a... a hot corner. Might just have to open it. Let me follow that peak and see if I see. Okay. If that is a peak, if that is a peak then then that needs to go right here. Okay. If it is. I'll try it. I feel like it's the inside. Oh, the inside out? Yeah. Why don't I take this? Donnie, you're 100% right. Why don't I take this? Let's go to that side then. Let this go because I got to... I think I got it inside out. So is this it? Wait. This is not netting. On the inside of the window. So that's the inside. Okay, so this is the outside. Oh, what's this? Yeah. Yeah, so flop this. Yeah. I'm going to flop this down. That looks so clean though. That... almost looks like that's the inside. At any rate, we got to go from the outside now in. So... let me try to... I'm just trying to stretch this one. There we go. Alright, here's the chimney hole. Yeah, so the chimney will be that way. Door will be that... the same side. Question is, are we inside out? I can't figure out if we're inside out or not. Donnie, do you have silver on the chimney hole? Is that supposed to be on the inside or the outside? I'm pretty sure we got this inside out. So... So let's do that. There we go. Yeah, I got it, Donnie. Here. So this skirt's from... fell by my feet. We got to pull that... up and over. Ah, that was a good one. By me. Is that okay? So I'm guessing this skirt goes up and over. Right? Yep. It's looking good. Okay. You have a little extra lengthwise on yours? Could I come to me about three feet? Beautiful. I believe I'm right where I'm supposed to be because I have a slit here... on the skirt. And you've got one right there. So now if we pull this down... and over... we might just have it. That looks like the ridge there, this double-stitching. It's either the ridge or that pole. That's the ridge? Beautiful. Beautiful. I think we're golden. I think if I go in there and just prop each leg up one at a time, we're good. I think. Unless you're seeing something different. I'm going to open this door and go right in. I'll start at that far one by the trailer. To work my way. Are you able to... Right leg. Look, you're ahead of me. Hold on, honey. If you left this back here one, I think you're going to be near me. I think we do. So I think it might be easier if I left the tent and you do the slide those poles in. Which one do you want to start on this one? Yeah. I'm going to lift your sky high. I'll see if you can. I can't lift that. Alright, come to this side for a second. Hold this down. If you hold this down. Got it? I'll rake this out before we put this tent down. Let me rake these rocks out of here. That was off a little bit, but not too bad. Just a little more off. Wait, what's it look like here? This one needs to come up with a tent. And it could be I'm not square. I didn't realize that. Yeah, we're looking good. It's looking really good, darling. Now we just got to do our tie-downs, right? Yeah. Okay, I got a hammer. Metal stakes, you got it. Alright guys, we did it. I can't believe it, but we got all the lumber in here. Unloaded. We got Dave back on the road, brought him out. We set up the wall tent. I'm so pumped we set this up. This is going to be home for the next month, pretty much. I still have the, I can still sleep in my truck on that bed in there, but we're going to be having a couple of fellas coming up to help out. So now we have a really nice clean cook tent and a place for people to stay to. And Donny's still got his tent set up. He just left it all week right through that hurricane. It's right there. Still dry, 1940s canvas. You cannot beat it. But here's our set up inside the wall tent. That cooler is awesome. That's packed back, cooler. It folds out. It's got a cut board that comes off. It's got a table that folds out onto it. And it's got three different compartments in there. Yeah, you can clean a fish. I kind of beat on it. 88 cork. So I'm pretty stoked to have that. We've got a couple chairs set up for now. We're going to have corks set up in here for the fellas when they come up. And this is going to be our cooking station. I bought a floor, a nice carpet for in here. But we're going to give it another day to dry out. It's supposed to stop raining tonight at some point. And then this good gravel will drain through. But it's just, it's coming in as fast as we can bail it out. I dug some moats like I used to when I was about five years old to get this water diverted. So anything coming down off this hill is going down that way. Anything coming off my trailer and everything is going down that way. And guess where it all goes? Every bit of rain from behind us goes right to that old trappers cabin. Because it's down in a hole. Donny said the water is just flowing down there. The brook trout can't even sustain it. There's no brookies in there because they're getting washed down stream. So that's how hard she's blowing. But that's the set up right there. So we can sleep in there. Sleep wherever we want. And that's going to be like our work intent for dinners, lunches, breakfast and everything else. Same between. And that's going to be my sleeping tent over there. Nice. Beautiful. Until Pat comes, Pat's going to join you. Pat's going to be down there. There's no way he's going to be that close. Yeah, the moose will be in. The moose, yeah. They hear him snoring. But I think I snore a little bit too. So I can't say much. But yeah, so we're about as pumped as you could be when you're soaking wet. I got my rain gear on, but I don't know. I didn't have it zipped up all the way. I didn't have my hood on. So of course you're going to get wet. But we cut a couple of trees to help the unloading process to put underneath. And yeah, we're unloaded pretty good. We did a rough measurement to see where the cabin's going to be and it fits. So we're happy. There's no standing water at all on any of this gravel that we hauled in. So we're stoked about that too. So I'm going to sit down. Rest a little while. It's been a long, long day. Yeah, the seat on the outhouse is long straight up instantly, doesn't it? Instant more. Yeah. Perfect. This tent is pretty nice. Yeah. Nice. Ways up. You know, it's all the metal frame in there. Yeah, you don't want to move it. But man, you can't beat canvas. The only thing you can't touch it or it'll start leaking through it. Gotcha. Well, I'd call that a great day, Donny, so far. Yeah, I'm surprised the rain is still raining. I've had enough rain for the entire year. I think this spot was the hurricane. The rain. Where we live. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, down east. No. Yeah. Where we live. See my breath? That's a good sign. 50 degrees. 50. Did we ever find out what the elevation was here? Brandon said it was 375 feet just from the bottom of that turnoff. Oh, okay. There's some serious elevation around here. That was a great day. Getting all that lumber up here all at once. Yeah, that was. So far, there's really been nothing easy about this project. We struggled at the mill. We struggled getting all the logs up to the mill. On the mill. Oh. We struggled milling them. And then today, we struggled a little bit getting them up here, but we did it the right way. Yeah. But, you know, all that struggling. Yeah. It's going to pay off at some point. There's not going to be any struggle. Right. Yeah. It's all part of the game. If it was easy, everybody would do it. Yeah. I think we're living a life right now. Look at this. Got the wall tent. Good food. Good friends. Yeah. Going to build one heck of a wilderness cabin that we could share with other people. We're damp and soaking wet right now. But tomorrow's another day. It's going to be bright and sunny. It's then 70 or 69? Yeah. Tomorrow. Even up here? Yeah. Well, it's in portage. Okay. It's the next three or four days. It's supposed to be close to 70. Clear? Ah. Sunny. We'll be coming in the tent for shade, Donny. Yeah. I mean, we'll be bitching about it too hot. Today, we'll be bitching about it raining. We just can't be happy. No. Rain kept the dust off our lumber. Yeah. It sure was. It made it a little heavier probably. Yeah. Yeah. It's got a difference in color. Is that spruce on the very bottom too or no? Yeah. Oh, it is. Because remember we had two spruce logs. Well, I'm pretty content just to sit here and watch that dinner cook. Same thing. Beautiful. Why is that? Why do you think it did dried out like this? Good gravel. Kind of mushy. Good gravel. Yeah. Diverted. So we're not getting any more coming in because it's all diverted around it. Yeah. I unhooked my trailer right there on that slope. Oh, really? But I left it hooked up to see if it could roll. I got four inch blocks on each side. Yeah. It didn't go anywhere. Yeah. Well, let's think far enough ahead for dinner. What's going on for dinner? We got these stuffed regatta shells. Holy cow. That my son's wife Mary made. Thank you, Mary. I got some corn boiling in here. Tone in? Yeah. Yeah. I guess that'll make a good supper. Sounds good to me. Good enough for tonight. Yeah. We got all sorts of food for, we don't know how long we're staying. Yeah. And what we don't use this time, we'll be back and just leave it up here. Yeah. Pretty happy with the setup. How about you? Yeah. I like it. Now we'll get a rug put down. Yep. And, uh, no, that's great. Yeah. We may have to, may have to use some of this gravel a little bit to level up our pads and see how that goes. Yeah. No problem. I can shovel some over. Yeah. Well, guys, we're pretty stoked. Donny and I were just sitting down finally and relaxing a long day for us. Um, we were just talking about the whole plan. He's got it planned out. If you didn't know, Donny's been a builder for, she's most of his life, right, Donny? We're not most of it, about 38 years of it. I guess that's not most of it. That ain't even half of it. No, that didn't even have. No. No. So Donny built for 38 years and he's a hell of a builder. He's thorough. No, I'm not that good. No, don't listen to him. But we just sat down and I've learned a couple different ways to build. And obviously the way Donny builds is my favorite. So that's how we're building tomorrow. Uh, it's a little bit different than building off of a concrete poured foundation. Obviously that's the best way, but this is a wilderness cabin. We're not pouring a foundation up here in the wilderness. So we got to get a little creative on what we're going to do for the foundation. We did the hard work. Most of the hard work already was just hauling in the shale and the gravel and flattening it out and getting it ready. So that's kind of our base. And then we're going to go off of some blocks and maybe some cylinder blocks, maybe some other concrete blocks, some of those big round pucks and then maybe even some six by sixes. And then ultimately we're going off of six by six hemlock that Donny's going to join together. And we're going to have three and a fourth row of those where we're going to go the floor choices above those. So it's going to be rugged. I promise you that. Yeah, it's going to be wicked rugged. And it may move, you know, the first winter it may move and we may have to come up and jack it around a little bit because things aren't completely settled out. But that's no big deal once it does that. But I feel bad for you guys because I didn't have the camera rolling when we were going over the game plan for tomorrow and it's a real treat for me to listen to that and mentally kind of prepare and plan, okay, we're going to do this first and then after we do this we put this together, then we mark them out and then we put the choices on and then we do the rim joist and mark that out so we have something to nail through and it's a real pleasure for me to learn, you know, how to build, how Donnie builds and then kind of try to... I'm more goal oriented so I like to set like a goal for tomorrow. So like it'd be awesome if we can get everything square, plumb level tomorrow and maybe even do a layout for the joist you know, get all the beams and the foundation ready so we can at least do a layout. If we're able to hang or lay a floor joist down that would be beyond my goals for tomorrow because we're not making this a sprint this thing is a marathon and combined we're well over 120 years old so average age on this job is 60 something so we're not going to push it too hard this smells incredible Mary's an incredible cook Yeah, she sure is She takes good care of me She makes a wicked chicken pot pie This is going to... if this flops on the ground Where are you putting it? Just so I know Right on top of the stove I can't even move down Nice work Donnie Well maybe we can scoop it out of there I think we can if we're hungry enough we can That's Donnie's Coleman fold out cook stove it goes on top of a propane burner And it really works super Yep You've cooked pizza on that? Yeah, I did pizza You've done cake, some stuff He's going to do some loaves of bread on the ice this year I was fortunate enough Donnie gave me a spare one He inherited one this past winter and brand new never been used and he gave it to me so I'm stoked I used it a little bit already So I guess to eat his own, dig in Yeah Hopefully this is done It was frozen so it's not enough Looks done It looks done Beautiful That's all you're going to eat Yeah, this is plenty Oh my gosh Got the butter over here You can roll it in the butter Cool one anyway Salt seems to work Isn't that thing awesome built Don't write it into that cooler You can put the table on either side I've got too much to do Have your sleeping bag Yeah Do some reading And then I've got to sleep We're putting steel in the wood tomorrow Hopefully We have screws Yep It's funny if I'm laying down and they start reading I'm honest to God I'm going to sleep in ten minutes But if I sit in the chair and read I'm all fine But man This puts me to sleep It does to me unless I've been something good That fur fishing game series I'm reading That gets me going I got to finish every chapter Yeah, Morris was an incredible writer I don't know how he could think up all this stuff He wrote for what, 40 years? Well guys, that is going to do it for today Hell of a travel day Absolutely amazing We overcame a little bit of adversity with that We're able to get it all done I'm going to do some reading I'm going to crawl back into the old Yukon hotel And call it a night I'm a little bit damp I've got to dry out a little bit Never easy when you're camping But I'll figure out a way to get her dried out And cleaned up a little bit And that's going to do it I'm so pumped for tomorrow To be able to finally start using all this lumber That I've been milling for months And months and months And just really working my tail off Trying to get it done And it's here We got it up here I'm amazed at that all at once And tomorrow I get to start putting some steel to it And cut it and screw it And nail it down So we're really excited for that We're going to take it super slow For the We're going to take it super slow On the process to get the floor in And the floor system To make sure that it's perfectly square Perfectly level, perfectly plumb And then it just gets easier Building off of that You know, each step after that So we always check our squares We always check our levels and plums All the way up to the top But that first It seems like if you're off on that first one You're going to fight it the entire job So we take a little bit more time On the first round And yeah, we're going to get it done So I'm pretty pumped about that I'm going to read some books tonight And I actually got a couple of letters From some subscribers That I'm going to read too I won't say who they are But I'm pretty excited to read them Because one showed up just soaking wet And I've been drying it for about two weeks I'm going to open that tonight And then the other one I was able to open And just briefly scan But I wasn't able to read it yet So I'm pretty pumped to read those I'm going to read some Fur Efficient Game Maurice Decker stories About Charlie and Lou And then that's going to be it for me I don't know if I'll be able to get much sleep tonight I didn't get any last night I was editing as late as I could And then up super early to get here But still I'm so excited to be here And so excited for tomorrow That I don't know if I'm going to sleep at all tonight So that being said Really appreciate the support You guys give to the channel Support for me, support for Donnie I'm so excited to be building this project with Donnie And every day that I get with him I consider a blessing And I just soak in as much as I possibly can And learn as much as I possibly can too He's a great friend of mine He's a great mentor And he's just a great person to be around And I consider myself super lucky That he gives me most of his time So really happy for that For you guys that are new to the channel We're building a wilderness cabin We're up here in the north main woods In the wilderness and no power Pretty far from civilization And we're going to build a dream It's a dream come true for Donnie Dream come true for Stevie And dream come true for me So really pumped to see this thing come To fruition and happen And just I'm pretty pumped Thanks guys, see you on the next one