 Morning everybody, it's early Wait for the gate to open up. We're in Brainerd, Minnesota I have that load of lumber on my trailer behind me tarped So as soon as we get led in the gate, I'm gonna get in there take the tarps off. I'm third in line We'll get the guys in front of me unloaded And I'll get unloaded and we're gonna book it back to Canora, Ontario with six hours north of here in Canada Grab another one of these loads and come right back down here We'll be unloading that tomorrow Hopefully that guy at the front is awake The guy in front of me is He's running and ready to go already No time to waste today So they held up really good for the first trip No holes Got most of my bungees off here I'm gonna get the rest of them off or roll these up for the first time And put them away This is the Mississippi River here in Minnesota, that's a long river Just getting out of Brainerd. We're going up the north side or both the north end headed towards Odette, Minnesota where we'll cross into Canada into Rainy River, Ontario Got an empty step deck behind us Want to get loaded today yet and by the looks of it will have plenty of time to get there On 72 once we get it across into Canada with two hours up to Canora, which will get us there Well, that's good because I said my ETA was 230 So I'm still gonna stick with 230 officially, but I think we're gonna beat that which is good better to be early than late Usually when I give my ETA, I give myself at least 15 minutes So if I know I'm gonna be there at let's say 130 I'll say Turn right on international drive and on 72 If I know I'm gonna be there at 130, I'll say I'll be there at 115 Sorry, I said that backwards now. Karen, you messed me all up. You interrupted me. If I know I'm gonna be there at 130 I'll say my ETA is 145 but good because I showed up early and it also gives a little bit of wiggle room if anything goes wrong Or if I need to stop go to the bathroom or something Approaching destination in one kilometer on the right side. I don't know if we'll see it on the right here There's still people with their vehicles out on the ice on the river You see it through the trees there just a little bit They're the pickup trucks and walking around out on the ice on the river They know this area the locals know this area better than me, so I shouldn't judge but you wouldn't find me out there It's way too warm for that that ice is getting thin Obviously they know better than me so But I still wouldn't do it that's a that's a river beneath there And one of my biggest fears is falling through the ice on a river and being sucked underneath the ice and downstream Nope, I don't go on frozen rivers I'll go on frozen lakes and ponds maybe when it's cold, but not a river Destination of 200 meters on the right side. Yes. Yeah, they're still over there That would freak me out. The flag of Canada is still a half-mast Destination on the right side can't afford a rainy river Still a half-mast all the flags can it must be for The former Prime Minister That's death. I thought that was like two weeks ago already. I wonder I Guess they stay down for a while, which is alright. That's proper respect Welcome to Ontario border crossing They're always so friendly here Not that they're not friendly in other places, but I also like it because there's no toll for Francis Crossing has a toll. I don't like that. I don't like being charged money to come home. I live here. This is my home Why are you charging me money to come home? You think that because at Fort Francis into international Falls, Minnesota You guys all know this already probably but there's no toll if you go south into the US no toll to leave There's only a toll to come back In my opinion, I I I don't know it's kind of insulting. What do you not want me back? You make it free for me to leave you're like here get out of here It's free get out of here. Oh, but if you come back, you're gonna have to pay 25 bucks Wait, what? I Belong here. I could understand charging me to leave, you know Hey, well, you want to go visit our neighbor You want to go spend your money down there because everything up here is too expensive Oh, yeah, I see what you're doing. I'm gonna charge you 25 bucks to leave But it's free to come back if you want to come back and spend your money up here see that would make sense No, they just incentivize it everything's cheaper in the US the fuel is cheaper down there and it's free to cross But if you come back We're gonna get you at the moment you cross over the border and then we're gonna get you again the pumps We're gonna get you again at the grocery store We're gonna get you again on your home heating and then we're gonna get you again every time you buy or sell something We're just gonna get you we're gonna get you we're gonna get you again, and then on all of that tax We're gonna tax that tax Welcome home Thanks a Thanks, so glad to be home You know, it's true. Isn't it? It's true. So we're driving through rainy River right now nice little town right on the border It's sister town would be Bodette on the other side that we went through Gotta go all the way down this road for another 30 miles 50 kilometers Then we'll hit highway 71 And we'll head north all the way up to highway 17 Turn west go a few miles up to canora. There's a lot of people living here I wonder what the main industry is here. There's a lot of people here. Where does everybody work? I don't see any big factories though. I'm sure they're here logging. I'm sure is one of the industries There's got to be something here that's keeping people here. It's got to be jobs for people. Otherwise, why would people live here? Everyone's got bills to pay they got taxes to pay so they all got to work somewhere. We're ready to go That's messy over here. Oh, God That's an everything off Trip number two with these tarps You know these rings are a little further apart than my other tarps See this is a ring here and a ring there my other tarps had a ring in here That would be very nice, but you know what I'm not complaining because I like these they're a lot better They're a lot better. Okay. Okay. I know I missed you too. I missed I missed you too. I missed you too. You're away I think I have about five hours left. I can drive You have five hours and 58 minutes of remaining drive time Thank you All right, we had to make this quick detour Go and grab fuel No, it's wet in our tanks Probably put in about 100 liters or so we'll see just enough to get us down to brainer. It's got a little bit 160 gallons 40 no 160 liters or 42 gallons 164 two gallons The price for me here on my card at the petro pass was $1.60 per liter Canadian cost me 256 43 Canadian Down in the US fuel prices will be more around a dollar 10 to a dollar 20 with all conversions, so God just enough to get us down there. I Put it all in my passenger tank. So it's not showing up on my fuel gauge yet My fuel gauge is on my driver's side. I Have a few gates from a passenger side, but Whoa, whoa That reminds me I've got a dust this place. You see all that dust. Tell me you didn't see it Thank you, you're a good friend. You didn't see anything. I know I know let's Feels good doesn't it? Look at that dust. Okay. I'm a weird guy That back up there. So yeah, this fuel gauge Now work, but this is the main fuel gauge This is the tank where all the fuel gets sucked out of now. They're connected So fuel from this tank will flow into that tank and they'll balance out So this gauge is accurate for both tanks. It just takes a few minutes now For all the fuel to that I put in my passenger tank to level out with the other tank and then it'll show me But it's all good. It's already going up. Let's get going. We got We got a little ways to go. I think we're gonna try to make it to Deer River, Minnesota tonight And don't forget we're also testing to see which road is faster Going through international falls once we cross the border. Is it faster to go on the bypass? Which we timed yesterday Or is it faster to go through town? I was definitely shorter to go through town, but is it faster? We're gonna find out today Time it figure out who's right. Who's wrong? I love how there's signs all over this place. No overnight truck parking every night. It just fills up with trucks Every night as no one says anything to them We're about to start the final part of the test to see which way is faster around international falls So yesterday going around the bypass was exactly 18 minutes and 51 seconds to get to that corner Where we turned south on 71 That's from this intersection right here Today we're gonna go right and see if it's faster or slower to go through town Starting right in my comment section actually. I'm beneath one of my videos. I told you on this road for 18 kilometers So I'm not trying to Rush or beat my record or anything or make this the fastest way Let's just see what See what happens Personally, I think this is gonna be the faster way That's just my opinion See if I'm right. All right. We're at that intersection now where I came back onto the 71 Right here Seven minutes two seconds, you know what the answer is gonna be which one do you think it is? Do you think it was the bypass that was shorter? Do you think going through the town? Push shorter time-wise. What was faster? I'll give you an exact time Soon as we get around this corner and pass that 60 mile an hour sign. That's where we stopped the clock yesterday I don't know right here on this road for 45 kilometers Four minutes faster going through town That has now been settled the bypass takes more time so we did make it to Deer River It's the next morning right now getting ready to go You can hear the engine warmer on my truck already running Getting those fluids running getting warmed up a little bit before I turn it over Not too cold out, but I like to do that every morning anyways at least for a half hour just have that thing running Second load with these tarps. I've been very pleased What I have done though is on the corners here I've added protection underneath there Since these are brand new the worst thing that could happen is that I rip them in the first couple of trips Definitely don't want to do that But they've been really good quality The only thing I've noticed like I was saying in a previous clip there is that these holes are Further apart on the ends my old tarps had one here one here one here like that They had twice as many going up there, but it's okay. It still works just fine as you can see The only difference really nice tough quality has these little flaps behind here to protect from these Some guys what they'll do to protect even more is they'll hook the hooks to The rails here and then just have the rubber going through here That is a way of doing it. I'm not against doing it that way. This is just the way that's always It's just the way that I've always done it this way the tarp gets The most pressure put on it coming down Have one down here and go through there and I go up to the second one to pull that down as well if I can But you know, there's no correct way of Tarping a load the only correct way of tarping it is that it's fully covered and that the tarp Doesn't fly off and that it doesn't rip. You don't want it flapping though. That's why I have this Going up there because there's a little bit of loose tarp there, right? And if I didn't have that bungee going across there pulling it in together These corners will be flapping away and it's really bad. You don't want your tarps flapping at all. You want them to be tight Because if I didn't have corner protection in there and I let it flap Guaranteed by the time I get to my destination, there'll be a hole in each one of those corners there and a hole each those corners up there The flapping it sort of works like a little saw right as it goes on the corner saws right through it That makes sense You don't want flapping tarps at all one of toyed Anyways, I'm gonna get going on my next day here. We're gonna go deliver in Brainerd That'll be in tomorrow's vlog Brainerd, Minnesota, and then from there We hit empty all the way down to Burlington, Iowa for a nice juicy load down there That's gonna take me to Saskatchewan next week, but we're gonna stop by at home on the way So see you tomorrow. Thanks everybody for joining me today. Thanks for watching and following Best way if you if you like my videos the best way you can support me is by subscribing and by hitting that like button Leave a comment down below. 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