 there is yeah so we're ready to we're getting ready to load a log and we're gonna build out some tuba for us yeah we got some pretty small logs yeah they're really small they're basically what some people might call sticks yeah well they they would probably throw them in the call pile oh yeah forget about sawing anything out of them yeah they'd be winners at the toothpick mill but yeah and a lumber mill they probably get thrown away yeah they would be ground up as biomass so i milled last night if you guys saw that live and i left the mill dry so there's nothing on it so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go pick up a log with donny we're gonna pick up one of the bigger ones at the top we have uh we have five little guys left we're gonna pick one over up and come bring it over and load it up somebody says bogan xc says hello guys so we got people already on there donnie we got people commenting we're up to seven we're up to 13 we're up to 15 people already donnie so this is donnie's first time live guys make sure you welcome them uh throw a comment on there they're saying hello donnie we're a bit of bad or indifferent yeah we're gonna keep this way to a minimum yeah we're gonna try to keep the injuries to a minimum to andrew petty welcome buddy we're gonna so i'm gonna fire up this cabota and donnie and i are gonna load up a log and we're going to show you guys how we mill a log but like i said this is donnie's first time being on live for youtube so we're pretty excited about it fired right out first shot let me see if i could turn this camera around so you guys could see what i'm doing you're gonna hear some beeping it's a stupid emissions thing on this tractor we tried to run it through the other day and it just didn't do a good job so put her in high gear two hands for this job like it you clear let's see if we can grab it yeah we got it little guy yeah i think i could work with that donnie all right guys we've got a hemlock log here ain't much of a log it's a top but we're not going to waste it we don't like anything going to waste that's something that donnie's reached for years especially with a renewable resource like a tree or a forest so we're gonna load this on the mill right now i'm bringing her over and with the grapple hook and i'm gonna show you how we guys how we do it i'm gonna put her we're running out of minutes i'll slow her down when i get closer but it's hard to do with one hand a lot of operating all right so got her close i'm gonna slow her right down i got it donnie yeah i think i can get under that cable there's a cable up top there i gotta watch for but i also gotta get the log up as much as possible too all right here we go look out guys this could get ugly in a hurry nope nope looking pretty good i'm gonna slowly lower it as slow as i can oh watch out donnie watch your fingers there she is he's gonna take that grapple and i'm gonna back her straight up you all right beautiful she's a thing of beauty we are loaded we are loaded taint much of a log fellas i'm gonna show you what she looks like ahead of time donnie's gonna get it so yeah we're just gonna turn it so it kind of sits on all the box yeah as best as possible it looks pretty flat to me it looks pretty good yeah i'll lock her in everything's a little bit harder on the hand but i'm happy i got two and one so we're locked in there um this is a hemlock once again guys i'll i'll get you a dimension it it ain't much i'm gonna tell you that i'll tell you right now she ain't much we're trying to get about three or four four by twos out of this thing that we can use for building and for a measurement i got it's just under nine inches so jeez so we don't have much to work with there uh i'll do my best i'll shave her down thin for you but i'm gonna set you guys up in the tripod so that way donnie and i can can uh can work actually why don't i bring you over to the mill first let's get the mill running i'll show you that you got your ears on yeah this mill is pretty loud fellas you might want to put your your volume down right now but yeah put your earmuffs on so we got to take this can off that's our mufflers that aren't really mufflers and what we're gonna do is we're gonna staff this old 40 year old mill up we got enough gas to do this log right yeah we should yep so normally we fill it but here's my choke this is my water for the blade to lubricate the blade this is my on off donnie's already tightened up the saw blade there and we're gonna see if she starts all right guys so that's it we just got uh we got four four by twos studs that we're gonna use to build this wilderness camp um donnie'll show you the wane on one of them and how it's acceptable yeah and these are these are an honest two by four you know they'll have a tiny bit of shrinkage but if you look right there that's uh that's four inches and solid two two this way right there so those those are ones we're actually going to use we're going to build with them we ended up getting four out of that little tiny log so you know that's why we don't waste anything you know that that tree took a long time to grow right that was not a young tree so we're not going to waste the top of it and we're going to take her down as much as we can until we can you know get four or less you know maybe anything less than three I guess wouldn't quite be worth running the mill right but I mean these are three bucks each are a little bit more so there's there's $12 in a couple minutes and what we're gonna do now guys we'll show you how we actually stack these um we'll show you how we stack these and and how we we uh prepare them for for uh the time being before we get to build so donnie's gonna show you guys how to do it and I'm gonna hold the camera how's that work out pretty good I'll bring one over yeah it works out real good for me I gotta hold the camera donnie's just like when we go fishing he catches a big fish but he doesn't know how to run the camera so or I tell him I don't know how to run the camera so I gotta hold the fish and you take the picture donnie but this is our stack right here and you know guys it's growing you know four at a time you know four at a time and we could rip out a bunch of logs it grows you know so you know it's not done over you know in one day we don't get it all done at one time it's not something that you could just get done it takes a little bit of patience and and uh kind of staying out of it like the the rabbit and the hair right donnie these are our stickers one inch pine stickers it looks like we got about 17 in the row 14 16 or 17 in a row and right now we got eight rows high so there's 128 right there I think and this one's going to make 129 and there's one more on the mill but yeah we got a we got over 20 people watching donnie I'll look for comments good day from making sawed us he said that's that's for sure yeah and we got like you guys see this old roof and that we saved from like an old junk building we just throw that roof in over the top of this so it stays dry you know with the rain but it still gets airflow all the way through it it looks like a radiator you know so so air can get through it that way and we're a honeycomb but donnie so we got 20 people on here and 20 of them some of them might not know what we're doing with this lumber why we're milling it do you want to let them know yeah we purchased a piece of a lease up north of Maine way to heck and gone back in the woods and on this lease presently is an old trappers cabin which is in deplorable shape it would take quite a bit of effort to get it revitalized and and going so we decided to build a new camp there so that's where we're going to start the new camp sometime in probably September or work on it through October hopefully to get it weathertight by snow fly and so that's where all this stuff is going it's about a with a load on it's about a seven hour ride from here yeah seven seven and a half and it's as I say back in the boonies just where we want to be uh it's not on any lake or anything of that sort but there's plenty of ponds and lakes in the area which will provide us with a little fishing and and uh great bird hunting area deer hunting moose hunting uh so it's just just in the wilderness and uh and believe you me there's a lot of wilderness left in Maine yeah and then guys I'll interrupt just for one second because there's something that Donny and I've done for years and years and years that we really enjoy and I'll let him tell you why we do it and how we enjoy it but we both have the means to go by this lumber you know like lumbers come down quite a bit and you know we could afford a little bit of a lumber but we really really prefer to cut down the trees ourselves and mill the lumber and Donny's fortunate enough he's got a couple a hundred or a hundred plus acre of wood lot here that he's been managing for as long as I've known him you know to to preserve it but also harvest it too rather than just let all the trees die and fall down so I'll let him take over from here and tell you guys why we like to mill our own stuff and why we and build with it too well you know we I've owned this my parents owned this lot previous to me and and uh so they they gave it to me and and uh we uh I do selective cutting here every year I take out a little bit of that big growth because some of it actually is going kind of going by some of the big pine it's kind of going by probably should have been cut you know half dozen years ago but you as you can see there's some tall pine right here and so anyway during the winter months we had my friend Jamie come in and he skidded out a bunch of pine forest and this hemlock which we're sawing right now for this camp yeah yeah And if you guys don't know that or haven't done it before I know a lot of you guys are into fishing and hunting on my channel as well it's really similar to like going out and shooting your own deer and cutting it up and then getting to feed it to your family you know and use it for a while and it's kind of the same feeling wouldn't you say or like catching a mess of crappy and cooking them up and then getting to feed them to some friends and you can't meet it it's it's kind of the same feeling for us you know you know watching these trees grow and Donnie just doing such a great job selectively harvest and him and Jamie for for decades literally and then you know taking taking what needs to be taken harvest the trees off and then cut them down into in the dimensional lumber you know logs first then lumber and then then we're gonna take all these that you see here and all these here and we're gonna build a wilderness camp that hopefully lasts longer than both of us and yeah Stevie's involved and Stevie's daughter she loves the outdoors and hopefully she gets to enjoy it someday and maybe bring her kids there you know and something that we can enjoy for the rest of our lives so we're really excited to do that yeah yeah and we're in an area up north that's just beautiful a lot of game you know beautiful beautiful area yeah and anytime you get the north main woods it's it's an adventure it is really yeah and this trip I mean you guys are gonna watch us build and Donnie's Donnie's a professional builder don't let him tell you otherwise I'm a hammer or maybe on the nail I don't know but but you're gonna watch us build and there's a hundred different ways to build things a funny thing was is I own an ice cream shop it's a community center to you know it's the center for the community and Donnie and I built my axe shop there my woodworking shop and I bet you we had about oh probably ten different carpenters from town you know this is a pretty carpenter strong area they would get go get an ice cream and they'd walk over and they tell us how they'd build it they wouldn't quite say we were doing it wrong but the funny thing was you know if I wrote down how everybody built something it'd be ten different ways but the results gonna be the same you get the same result yeah so there's more than one way to skin a cat exactly so that we had a lot of fun with that build and and Donnie so humble he listens to everybody and all the carpenters and even though he's built a hundred houses he still listens to him and you know we we try things different ways too so we know there's there's different ways to build so um so this build that we're gonna do is one heck of a project I think the hardest part is gonna be the logistics of getting everything up there tools you got a stat out level otherwise you're running a problem all the way through a building process yeah frame this up on six by six he is in and so go from there and getting that getting that decking level is a little bit of a challenge takes a little bit of time but after that is on why it goes pretty pretty fast so we appreciate you guys supporting us supporting the channel I read the comments to Donnie one of his or both of his daughters watch the channel now right yeah and they read you the comments when I don't get to him so yeah he gets them I get them by mouth yeah I I don't do the computer so they want to know how big the camp is gonna be Donnie we're gonna try to answer some of you guys's questions the camp is gonna be 20 by 28 which isn't a huge camp and then it's gonna have an 8 foot farmer's porch which will be 8 feet by 20 the whole length of the whole length of the cabin and that'll be roofed over be open open to the elements other than the roof being over it yeah which will provide us with a great place to stack firewood winter and put your coolers out there what you're cool yeah whatever hanging deer if we need to yeah yeah and then what are we doing on the inside a third loft or we're doing a partial loft yeah it's probably gonna be about an 8 8 8 foot loft or 10 foot loft and the rest will be cathedral ceiling with we're gonna cut some spruce poles to put across the tie every tie the two walls together nice and that'll that'll that'll certainly add to the look of the place and then eventually we're gonna get it V matched inside and which will probably happen this year but just to get it closed in and usable for this wonder is what we're aiming for yeah and then we'll you know when we're up here in the winter time and we have some V match up here we can stop insulating and V match in it just pick away yeah just pick a way I think it was Kevin or Keith said that that ash that we cut milled yesterday on the live would make some nice furniture or make something nice a table or something nice in there beautiful you know butcher block top you know for a countertop or whatever if you guys got any have any questions for us I got Donnie standing right here and they could be questions about the build or whatever else you want I'm able to read the questions as they pop up right now and I'll read them to Donnie as they're coming so if you guys have any questions feel free to fire them our way if I don't know the answer I'm gonna give you don't make some now yeah yeah but I'll give you all as a treat for you guys tuning into this live in the middle of the day I'll give you guys a story a couple of my favorite building stories with Donnie one of them I wasn't there for one I was there for I'll let him tell you the one about with Eric but I'm gonna turn the camera my favorite one about when you said it was because it was so hot when the when you guys run out of nails you go home donnie donnie was the boss you know I had a couple kids in the summertime to help me build and so it was a real hot humid day we were we were bored in a roof and and the end walls and it was like a two-story building and it got so hot about 1 30 in the afternoon I said look we're not pouches are empty of nails we're gonna head up he would reach in his pouch to get a nail and he'd pick out three or four nails and three of them would drop in one in his hand he'd nail that and every time he reached in his pouch he dropped three or four nails so he ran out of nails pretty fast he wanted out of there so we get out of there pretty quick yeah was that the kid that wanted to get paid by the hour oh jeez that was another funny one I had a kid for the summer and I had him painting the trim before we put it up and about one hour an hour and a half into the painting process he said this was his first day on the job he said what when when do I get paid on this job I said well usually I pay every week or every other week but I can make a check out you know every hour if you want me to pay you by the hour he thought ten bucks an hour meant ten bucks an hour we have a good time when we were building and it was a lot of fun and I'm sure a good experience for teenagers to help out on that type of job so guys can you hear Donnie now let me know in the comments I think I had my hand over the microphone so so yeah so they said they couldn't hear you very well so I I think they turned it up but I think I've moved my hand enough now but yeah that was one of my favorite carpentry stories with Donnie and a question came through someone asked if we're gonna be doing two by six walls so I'll let you let him know we're just gonna use two but these two before is that we're milling out they have a well they have different types of insulation now the old five fiberglass obviously and and they have a high density insulation which you can use it's a little better off actor in a two before wall and then you would get out of normal insulation so we're considering that and we're also considering a new type of insulation which is kind of friction fit it's not five a glass it's some other product very well insulate has good qualities of insulation it's all so wrote it would be a plus area and you know you get more and you get a variety of different you know small animals that could get up into your bill they cannot make a bed or insulation that we're thinking of using this something rodent proof they will they get into the blueboard usually they don't chew that up too bad because we plan on using some blue board right two inch blue board in the on the on the subfloor and then we're going to use that van tech which is a man-made product for the for the flooring you know over the the two buttons so pretty much what do we what do we buy in for building material like just the subfloor right for wood yeah you know the advantage is about all we're buying for that and then everything else is pretty much well except for the insulation right so forth but as far as like the construction part where we're pretty much milling everything right yeah just about everything we'll probably buy the V match because you know we don't have a means of making V match for one thing and and that'll be kiln dried and yeah but all the framing and boarding and the roofing material is going to be metal which we'll get from the Amish and yeah and that'll be a lasting lasting roof yeah I talked to Wayne Jones yesterday and he told me that he showed me the actual bend that they'll put for us for that overlap it's a seven inch overlap yeah yeah and they'll bend the ends for us yeah okay I was curious on how they did that I I know on my folks by and they they roofed that and they and there was quite a quite a serious it came down really steep pitch and then it kind of leveled off on a pitch and they put a piece of metal in there rather than bending it yeah I just had a question come through I just took the phone out of the case hopefully that's coming in a little louder for you guys I don't know maybe if I turned it around while we're talking but I got a couple people comment it's been harder to hear Donnie so we'll try to figure that out on our end but what questions came through asking if we were within a snowmobile ride of any big lakes for ice fishing the state of Maine's really funky they they've not done a great job with their laws in my opinion on what's open to ice fishing they close the whole northern part of the states close to ice fishing unless it's open by special rule per lake or body of water which to me it's like the king the king's telling you what what lakes you're allowed to fish it is and what lakes you're not and it's it's not because there's a management plan I think it's just it's a broad broad paint brush they're putting over the whole northern zone anyway getting off my high horse there's there's a really good ice fishing like nearby that I've never fish called car upon that we can snow be able to we're not too far from that I guess we can we can snow be all the way up into Fort Kent go for some of them musky too up on the on the like Glacier and bow I think is the St. John's River the St. John River and then we should be able to snow be able to big much lake fish River Lake I don't think it's open yeah which is so dumb to close a lake to ice fishing you know when I talk to the commissioner directly on this and and she has opened quite a few lakes you open up some up in the range the area of ice fishing that have been closed you know forever and you know basically she said unless they have like a specific management plan they should be open so I I think they should too but but Donnie's still here we're still here we're still live we got a couple more minutes left if you guys have any other questions I may have missed some let me see if I can figure this out bears yeah there's a lot of bears where we're going to be yep so it's a short snowmobile ride the plan is definitely to snowmobile do a lot of snowmobile and up there snowmobile into ice the road that we're on I would doubt very seriously that they plowed this that road in the winter time so that's a snowmobile ride into our camp the main main road I'm sure is plowed but some of these sub roads you know off the main road unless they're working in that particular area one of the one of the people asked one of viewers asked if you'd live in Maine your whole life I sure have I'm a real maniac yeah in fact right now I live about 200 yards from where I was grew up born in Denver Scott of Maine and I did move away for a while to school and work out of state from I guess probably two years but other than that I've been right here in state of Maine nice well that's I don't see any other questions coming through you guys we'll give you a couple more minutes for any questions otherwise Donnie and I gonna end this live and maybe get back to work we might call it a day too I don't know this has been kind of a split-up day you know with the Joe had some duties he had to do with his business and so we're kind of late getting going and but we might mill up a couple more of these small logs and get those out of the way now we have a big tractor here my son's tractor got fixed so that we can put some heavier stuff on the mill and we get a mill on a serious amount of two by eight 14 footers yeah for the roofing rafters so that's gonna take some big stuff and with my little tractor we were unable to do that that's why we're milling the small stuff but we do need to before so we're not wasting our time at all and so you know what you will see us milling some big stuff come first of the week or maybe the end of this week we'll be doing some of that so there was one last question from Jared he want to know if we have any meet-ups planned coming up like the one we did that ice fishing yeah that was a great that was a so successful and everybody I think that Joe's talked with and that I certainly have talked to found that to be a super thing and and I think maybe if ice conditions ice conditions this past winter were really pretty darn poor and it was iffy to do it to do it you know just for a safety factor but if we get some serious freeze ups this winter I think it may happen again you know it's it's in the works I'll say that yeah it's it was such a great day and such a great it was a picture perfect day you couldn't ask for a better day for families to come out and yeah and set a few traps and learn a few things and see so the 350 350 Mack wants to know how far home is from camp so we got two different answers for that depends if we're loaded loaded was seven and a half hours five and a half five yeah yeah I think it was five because we stopped at the Chick-fil-A to get my sister some chicken and stuff remember that took a little while yeah so probably five and a half when they say and it's downhill you're going up to up up the camp up to camp it literally seems like when you go up the interstate and up some of those hills through Patton and into Ashland it seems like you're going up to northern Maine yeah I mean it looks like it's a gradual uphill climb and coming home they call it downstate downstate yeah so there's something to that yeah yeah and then 350 back is also he sent out the invitation he's talked about Vermont before have you spent much time in Vermont donnie I've been to Burlington and you know to the museum the you know and so forth but I guess we did go to Ben and Jerry's where they produce that was great you know I've traveled through it and it's a beautiful state I would say as beautiful as Maine is yeah to me it's a little seems like it's more rural than Maine yeah obviously southern Maine has really developed and built up in other Maine is very very wild still and yeah that's why we like to go there and but I never go south in the summertime no it's just too busy for my for my bones and if I were going anywhere it would certainly be no yeah but I gotta admit Vermont is a beautiful thing yeah the green there is a different color green than I've seen anywhere else yeah yeah oh they want to know if I found Dudley's secret seasoning no I haven't found it yet well I got a little bit left and I've been I've been keeping it in case I gotta run it through the lab but Dudley I mean he's had an open invite since he's been here he wanted to try to get back and but I'm pulling the open invite until he brings up either more of that secret seasoning that we put on the fish or until he gives us all the rest of you but I'm gonna get that I'm gonna get the seasoning mix for you guys because you guys have earned it in my opinion but Donnie I think I think I gave yeah Donnie had some when we were on the river remember that season and when we were on the river when I cooked up that fish yeah it was some good and and I caught a mess of crappy the other day I took out one of my ex-girlfriends wanted some fish to eat so I took her out and we filled up half a pail and Donnie said yeah he said just give him some meal I think I only gave you like two right two fish like four filets I mean the filets were big I mean they must have been pretty big crappies yeah they were decent size yeah and I can't I heard you ate with something pretty good too was it the was it baby potatoes and new potatoes this year's new potatoes which are about as big as a half dollar mm-hmm and you just leave the skins on cut them in half and boil them up and put plenty of butter on them yeah and salt and pepper boy you just can't beat that if I only had some fresh peas to go with it but I didn't yeah that would have been it frozen peas had to work and yeah fresh peas oh my gosh you can't be fresh peas yeah oh they want to know Tommy Carbon there he is when they could order the shirts we're gonna we're actually gonna make some Tommy we're gonna make some shirts like like I'm wearing right there this is this is a design I made quite a few years back and we made some with like moose and bear too and Donnie and I just we like wearing t-shirts Donnie's running low on them as you can see so you know I got a farmer's tan I don't know if you can see the hell yeah I got a farmer's they call us a farmer's tan I'm really tanned here you pull whoa cover your eyes that's a farmer's tan because most farmers just wear short sleeved shirts or t-shirts and and they get a nice tan on the low around but man yeah exactly but yeah we'll be getting we're gonna do some merch you know I I don't know if it's worth it you know if you lose money like I at my ice cream shop I order that couple thousand dollars worth of t-shirts I used to order every year and and I'll lose couple thousand dollars on it pretty much I mean you can't really make money on merch because of how much it costs to get into it I know there's some sites that'll do everything for you now but but you know I use it you know it's more like a marketing and tax write-off and I like wearing shirts so I called my shirt guy actually yesterday after shooting that live and and asked him to get me a quote for some of these I hope you got some green yep I told him green is my fate he's got a red state of Maine I like the green one yeah I told him get us get me a quote on like on greens reds and then maybe like an army green colored shirt with like a dip like a white state of Maine yeah maybe the bear and the moose and then of course some ice cream shop ones too well we're printing that because he does it's a screen printer it's a local business I like to support local businesses I you know having one especially it's really important to support your local businesses yeah I know there's other ways but we got company oh he's not gonna like me on camera he probably doesn't know we're shooting live but but that's Greg's son right there he's coming out check on the mill make sure we haven't broken anything they said the back of her legs are like Donnie's arms she fishes in a kayak and her backside is Casper white yeah we can show you our backsides but not on the live video but yeah we're gonna we're gonna tune out here Greg's just getting here to the mill there's Greg Greg you're on live so so no swears yeah we're on YouTube live right now Greg's Greg's got this fixed he got the mill fixed for us he's just coming behind us and fixing stuff so that's been his job lately but but yeah so that's gonna do it for for today guys we're about to get serious out here and get some work done but we appreciate you guys support in the channel appreciate you tuning in and if you leave any more comments or questions we'll get to him after this publishes so I'm gonna hit that X right there