 Well, Fish and Freaks, welcome on back to the channel. This is a brand new truck and we're gonna be talking about that in just a second. But let me just say, we are back from the great Northern Dangle, one of the best smallmouth fishing experiences of my life. If you guys haven't watched that series yet, I will link it down below. I got these birds are just nestin' up, up in the tree house. And it is just hotter than a dagum toaster oven down here in Texas, man. I mean, it is like sweltering to go out and bass fish during the middle of the day. It's a toughie. So if you're new to the channel, we're inquiring about the Duramax. I've done some other videos with some issues that I have had with them. I'll go over that in just a second. Today, we're just kind of vloggin', takin' a tour of the new rig and why I have it. So three or four times I had manifold issues, transmission, just throwin' codes. It was goin' into the shop basically straight out of the gate, having problems. And then this last week that we were filming, or Googin' week, was like right after I got back from my Northern Dangle trip. I had some other guys in the truck. Lojo was with me. One of our producers with myth was with me. Somebody else was in the truck. It was loaded down here. We didn't have a boat trailer attached. We were driving back from somewhere and it felt like we ran over something. It was like, do-doosh! And the world was that. Everybody was, it was late, you know, we'd been filmin' all day, like, well, maybe you hit somethin' in the road. I was like, I swear, I didn't see anything. And then the next day, I hooked the boat up. We were towing it. I started goin' up these little slight inclines and it was like right when the truck wanted to downshift. It was like, do-doosh! And then I could see clearly I was not runnin' over anything. Everybody in the truck felt it. And we were like, whoa, that is something with the transmission. Kept happening along the trip. You know, we got there, we were able to fish, and then all the way back, it started happening again. And then I just, I parked it. I was at the Guggen HQ, just left it there, you know, we were filming. And then I drove it home without a trailer hooked up to it. And it really, it started doin' it really bad. And then it went into limp mode, which is, if any of y'all have ever had, you know, a diesel engine that's gone into limp mode, basically restricts your speed, get the gearing. It kinda goes into a safe program mode. Definitely shouldn't ride around on it very long, but I was lucky I was only like five miles from my house when it went into that. Luckily y'all, I got in my driveway, put it in park. It was good. I just knew that better not drive that truck anymore. Next morning, called my closest Chevy dealer, happens to be classic Chevrolet over there in Grapevine. Also happens to turn out their service department. One of the guys over there watches the videos. Like he already knew a lot of the issues. They were like, yeah, I mean, this is the last problem you're gonna have. Just come in, we'll come pick it up and we'll take care of you and we'll help you trade into a new truck. So gotta give a shout out to the boys, especially in the service department over at Classic Chevrolet for number one, watching the videos. And then number two, help me out with the truck. I told them in a tight spot, I was like, man, I gotta get back on the dangle, man. Can you help me? Can you help me out? Went above and beyond. It's something I didn't even think about. It was like moving all the stuff I had on the other truck because I had the cap, I had the lift, I had tires. You know, I had all these accessories, bumpers, running boards, all that stuff. They got everything moved over and exactly in place. It is a brand new engine. I even got a sunroof. That's about the only thing that's different. Oh, and the interior. The interior is dark. You know, the other one was like tan, but you know, we got sunroof. We can get in touch with the stars or get the Texas sun beating down on us more than it already is. But anyway, that's all the same LTZ package. Running boards. Wah-Bam. Got our fender flares. Wah-Bam hooked up. Tires and rims, those tires are expensive, you know. So moving those over helped out a ton. Truck cap installed. Very nicely, by the way. They even cleaned the tires, shined them up, made them look brand new. Shout out to Joe and also Toby in the sales department. Let's get in this puppy. Start it up. I mean, it is just a toaster oven. Got a little bit more light coming in here. Look at that. Air conditioned seats in Texas. I can tell you that's an upgrade. That's a major upgrade. Some of y'all are probably thinking, if you had that many problems with that truck, why are you getting the exact same thing? Like, don't you wanna move on to something else that you know is more reliable? That is a good point, my dear friend. But after you've seen the performance out of this SAS truck with pulling a boat, which I have behind me like 70% of the time, and just overall the torque, like the torque in this little truck, I don't wanna switch. If worse came to worse, and like all these little 3.0 Duramaxes we're having issues, then yeah, I'd probably step up to like an L5P2500, you know, the 6.6 liter Duramax, that is, you know, there's tons of information on it. Everyone knows that engine works. It's super powerful, but the truck's so big. It is so big. It's cumbersome to get around. It's cumbersome to park. You know, I've fished in a lot of urban situations. I wanna be able to maneuver the truck, park things easier, it's a rougher ride. There's just a lot of negatives, whereas like the 1500 I feel is perfect size. Colorado too small, not enough. Not enough room for all of my gear. Some people get like a 2500 just for towing, and then they'll have like a Colorado or something instead. You know, they got room for that, and you know, have money to spend on it, whatever. But I think this is the perfect mixture if you're just looking for that one truck daily driver, and then you're getting, I get 15 to 17 miles to the gallon pulling my, my bass boat, which is crazy. And then without it, I'm getting like 28, 29 miles to the gallon. So that's super efficient. Like my wife's car, for example, you know, her Volkswagen, it gets like 20 miles to the gallon. Also, you're getting that torque. And once you experience the torque I'm telling you, it's hard to go back to gas. And the guys at the dealership straight up told me, like if you switch over to a gas engine, your gas mileage is gonna go way down. And they make a 6.2 liter in this Chevy that gets just as much torque. It gets way more horsepower. So you've got that, you know, nice throttle response, getting up on the highway, going muddin', you know, doing whatever you can tow with it, but it's just not as efficient. And it's not putting out the torque at a low RPM. That's the whole thing with a diesel. Like, I forget how much more it is to upgrade. I think it's 2,600 bucks or 3,000 bucks for the 6.2 liter gas or a 3.0 diesel. But with a diesel, you're just getting way more torque at a lower RPM. If you're not trying to, you know, win street races, if you're towing stuff around, a lot like me, easy choice. I liked it so much, that's why I chose to get into the exact same truck. I want to take it for a little spin. I mean, it's literally got less than a hundred miles on it. So far, so good. This has a 10-speed transmission, so it's really smooth. But man, that other one, it felt like, woo, feel like somebody threw a log down underneath the wheels, it's crazy. We will definitely put it through its paces. Like I told you guys, when I first started making videos about this truck, like, I'm gonna let you know what's going on, and I have, okay, the good, bad, and the ugly, and the ugliest. But there's also something in the back of my truck right now, that's kind of like a nice addition to the truck, I'm gonna show you. So of course, all the cameras and stuff on this thing are awesome too. I mean, I think a lot of the other models have that, so that's not like a crazy thing. It's something I like about the truck. But you know, I'm always looking for the next advantage in the outdoors. Ever since I started going like truck camping, it's kind of addicting. Like, you just, I don't know, you guys gotta try it. If you haven't been truck camping, take the fam, go do it, it's fun. Found something really cool. Actually, John B. introduced me to this right here. This is a cooler, it's made by Dometic. And this is basically a refrigerator slash freezer, so you can have whatever in here. You know, you don't have to use the ice. It is electronically powered. It is a very efficient system. So I'm not sure, I don't know any of the technical data on it, but it just kind of sips the power and I'm actually testing it out right now. So Dometic sent me one of these actually. So thank you, Dometic, for doing that. Really nice. But hey, go ahead and get me a full water out of here. You know, I can rough it, I can go up on a mountain, sleep up there for a week, but I'm taking the wife, taking the baby, taking the family, we need some accoutrements going on. So I'm doing some testing and I like that it just sips the power. So we just hooked this up to the jackery and put it on the DC power. I think it's a little bit more efficient with the DC power. So that's just like your regular car plug-in. I've had this on all day and there's another power cell that I've got from Dometic. And I went through that yesterday afternoon through the night and so it sat 70%, it was at 90 this morning, so it'll definitely get all the way through the day. And then I can use a solar panel to charge this and then it'll just keep it rolling so I can actually switch out the battery power cells from the Dometic to the jackery one and just keep the coolness flowing. So another addition, what we're gonna be adding onto this adventure wagon is a camper, or not a camper, we already have the camper. We're gonna be adding a rack to this. And let me tell you guys something about trying to go get a truck accessories right now. It is insane, the market, everyone is like wanting to go camping, they're wanting to go adventuring, I'm sorry about the shriveless dudes in the background, let me scoot over here, sorry about that. It's a 60-day waiting period for one of the things I wanna get on top of this truck, which is a rhino rack. It's basically like a flat top. It'll go, although it's not just the racks like I had on the old Tundra, it's an actual like flat rack and you can put anything up there, it'd be great for the kayak, it'll be great for just putting extra gear, putting a cooler up there if you wanted to, extra diesel, water, whatever, stuff like that, when you're going on your adventures. So that's the next thing, but that is gonna take a while apparently because everyone is tricking out their vehicles, everyone's doing home projects right now. And then I guess we're gonna add some lights up to the top and then really trick it out with some lighting and that's gonna be about it. That's about all I can think of. It's gonna be fully ready and rigged for when it cools down, we start doing more camping, hunting, all of that stuff. Technology these days, technology that you can put into your vehicle, your boat, just the entire outdoor industry has come a long ways since I started my dangle. Back at the tree house, transmission issue free. I gotta feed the chickens y'all, gather the eggs for the day, look at them. They're getting excited. They know, they know what's coming. The flock party is coming. Get your heads out of there, get your hands out of there girl, get your head out, there we go. Get you some, get you some old Ebenezer, he's gotta give him a handful. He'll come on in there, you gotta get you some there boy. Heat up there boy. He is a ferocious eater, look at him. Chickens are like really precise, you know they'll take their beaks and they just like get the one specific thing they want and then you know the duck just blah blah blah. He just comes in there bulldozes it with his bill. So normally this time of day we have two eggs. Our hands have started laying a little bit later than our laying hands. Oh my, we only have one egg. What is going on here? Do we not have another egg? We do not. Normally I pick up two eggs out of here every day, I'm not kidding. This is so strange to be in the afternoon and only have one. But we are at a spring going into summer and then eventually in the winter the egg production will slow down quite a bit. But speaking of that, these hens right here y'all, they're basically full grown. This barred rock right here, she will get all up in your business hand feeding. You can see like these, like a Easter egg, wants nothing to do with it. Just nothing to do with the duck, it's all over it. The wine dot, very timid. Yeah, even the other barred rock, I mean he'll get in there, she'll get in there. But if you guys are thinking about getting chickens, barred rocks, Plymouth barred rocks, reds, like this one right here, they're super friendly and they're really easy to handle. Like I can grab them, I can pick them up. Just makes it easy for animal husbandry. Easter eggers, I don't know what it is, but they are like wild hawks. Hens, give me a treat, let me eat it out of your hand. Easy way, which I think is pretty cool. You know, it's really good for kids, like Emmy, and then you've got the duck. Yeah, he's always down. He's always down for millworm, munch, and sesh. Our other seven chickens will be laying here in another month. So we're looking at potentially getting anywhere from seven to nine eggs a day, five to nine. Five to nine eggs a day, we'll say conservatively. Nine in the spring months and heading into summer and then late fall, winter, and we'll have a little less eggs, but that is a lot of eggs. And what's really cool, they're gonna be all different kinds of colors. Really nice, real nice eggs. All different kinds of colors. And just to let y'all know where my head's at on adventure camping with the truck, I've been salivating it, they truck bagged, so glad I got it out. While I haven't had it, I've been preparing for my adventures. So really want to get the rack on top so I can get some of this gear up there, space it out a little bit. Preparing for elk season as well, let's not forget that. And honestly, it's been so hot here, it's, the water's boiling out there, so fishing is so tough. During the middle of the day, I spent my time, you know, during the hot hours, packing up, getting ready, getting ready for the adventures. Always gotta prepare in the mind. And we are gonna sign it off for today's vlog, checking out the new, new truck and just getting ready for the next adventure, y'all. So thank you for tuning in for every single episode here on the channel. Don't forget to go watch Unthod the Great Northern Dangle, linked down below. Subscribe out here so you don't miss a single episode. I'll see you guys next time, God bless you.