 I can make sure this thing's actually started. Okay, it's started. You should be going right now. Okay My last video was a day in a boat. Yeah, and I asked a question in there so I read the comments and usually I don't read the comments because Anyway, I'm gonna respond to the comments now because I don't feel like typing in all these responses Okay, first let's just get this out of the way for for everyone who's informed me that I'm an idiot Yeah, let me give you a little tip when you're calling someone an idiot or stupid or whatever Whatever form of the thing you want to take when you're calling someone an idiot It's better to not follow that up by saying something really stupid because it just comes off as just Ingenuous anyway, I asked about Oh, you're funny. Okay, I'm not reading comments right now. Hold on. I'm answering the thing But hello spaced you and mr. Landfill and yeah, okay I asked a question about Long-term storage food and a few people answered that like actually answered beautiful. Thank you Yeah, I'm looking into what you guys said. Thank you for the responses. That's great Okay, so there were a lot of comments about a speedometer now try to keep in mind this is a pretty small boat and The the point of using my hand as a speedometer where I could put my finger in the water and see how much How high it splashes up my arm The point of that is that then I don't have to bring anything with me So I don't want to I don't want to have to bring like a rope with a bunch of knots or a Car speedometer with a propeller and all this all this extra stuff, right? Oh, it's not that much stuff Jamie No, it's a pretty small boat. I don't want to bring any extra stuff But if I can get an idea of how high the water splashes just on my hand Great, I don't need a perfect speedometer on this boat. If I can just get a rough idea That's perfect and my hands are with me all the time anyway Although someone has also informed me recently that I'm gonna cut them off The weird thing is it was when I was doing a pretty safe thing because I do way more dangerous things than that But anyway, okay So yeah, I don't want to I don't want to bring extra stuff on to the boat for a speedometer The one thing I was considering was like a stick with some lines on it that I could put in the water but Even that, you know, I'd rather just get a rough idea stick in my hand in the water Okay, okay, here's a simple one Someone was upset That my battery was all the way at the front of the boat and the motor was all the way at the back of the boat and that meant So much energy was getting lost with the electricity going through these huge long wires. It's not that big a boat It's not that long a distance And also I use pretty fat wires and it's also not that much power It's 50 amps max like that's if I'm not getting any energy from the solar panels And I'm just running directly off the battery. I mean, you know, the solar panels that are charging rather for the other two solar panels So 50 amps max and I think I've got the boat More efficient now. So it's actually under 50 amps, but I'll have to check that but I use pretty fat wires and the the Real Simple answer to this is where the hell else am I gonna put the battery? There isn't anywhere else to put it is not that big a boat like it's like it's a skinny boat It's got the the pontoons out on the side. Nothing's going in those. Those are just little. They're just enough to keep the boat stable In the back is the motor and then there's no there's no space to put the battery back there basically putting it in the front was the only place to put it without Building some new compartment or something and yeah, I I'm using like way oversized wires I think I was thinking I'm using like two gauge or one gauge or something like that Some I don't know the wires are are plenty big to handle that much Energy. Okay. Now a lot of people got quite upset about my solar panel setup, so I Made I explained it in the video so basically I've got I've got four solar panels on the roof, right? Oh, and one guy was like you need more solar panels. Well Like I've said six times already. It's not that big a boat. There's only so much space on this boat Fuller four solar panels is enough And you know that also just depends on how I'm using the boat obviously if I have more solar panels I can use the boat differently than if I have fewer Oh and one one reason people got so upset about the solar panels and the energy system in general was that when I started the trip I started without the batteries fully charged and People are giving me all these reasons about you know your solar system setup isn't right And yes, you did it all wrong and you're you know, you're an idiot Here's here's why the the The boat was not fully charged when I started The evening before I drove the boat around and Then parked it at night So there was no charging and now someone's gonna say well plug it into your house. No, I'm not I'm not charging anything at night It's dark. I'm on all solar power solar power. Nothing charges at night So it doesn't matter if I had a million and a half solar panels connected to the boat Or if I had it isn't a giant this charge controller in the universe It was nighttime there. There is no charging. So when I got up in the morning, the boat was not fully charged so All that stuff is irrelevant. Okay, but people were a few people are quite upset It's my like I don't know some people totally got it, but some people just were really upset about this Two of my charts to my solar panels out of the four So half the solar panels charge the battery The other half of the solar panels the other two solar panels go through a switch directly to the motor Um And I knew I know people are gonna say no you should put them all through the motor Okay, first that means I have to get a bigger charge controller, which is more expensive. So that's one reason to not do that um But you know, I can just spend more and get a bigger charge controller fine However, I was explaining that I like to be like when I'm driving I like to be able to turn on the solar panel switch and turn off the batteries completely Because then I know that two of the solar panels are charging the battery While I'm driving just on the solar panels. So I if if I'm ever in a situation where I'm not in a hurry and I just want to charge the freaking batteries I can just drive on two solar panels and charge the batteries and I don't need to install like 47 different dials and things that say how many amps are coming from this that in the next thing Because like I said like a dozen times already. It's not that big a boat I'm not going to put like tons of equipment in that small boat like it's a small boat, you know um That's also one of the reasons that I chose to make a resistive charge controller Um, which is something I knew people would be upset about this too, which is kind of silly It's a $10 charge controller that replaces like a $600 charge controller So that's a that's a huge financial benefit of the charge controller i'm using Now the charge controller i'm using does waste some energy in heat But not as much as as people keep thinking and I did a video about this a few videos ago um, it doesn't waste nearly as much power as people seem to think because You know, one guy was like, you know, when you're driving Slow, you're using basically the same amount of power as if you're driving fast Because all the extra energy is just getting wasted in the charge or in the yeah in the in the charge controller in the coil Go go go back a few videos. It's not anywhere near as bad as you're thinking It does waste some energy though So What was I what was I going on about here? Oh, yeah, so the the two the two solar panels connected directly to the motor And then two connected directly to the to the battery people are saying well Just just run everything through the battery Now I would charge faster when I'm parked although I happen to know that when I park in town The front of the boat's in shade So that part of the boat isn't going to charge anyway And this is also one of the reasons that I did this but I would have done it anyway But that is another reason whenever I run I'm parked in town The front of the boat is in shade the back of the boat is in the sun So it wouldn't I mean I could maybe find another parking spot or whatever, but regardless when I'm driving Connecting the solar panels directly to the motor is the most efficient way to run the motor from the solar panels So like I keep getting all these all these comments about I'm not being as efficient as I should be by running everything through that You know the the charge controller and the battery You know going through all that stuff waste energy every every piece of electronics you run energy through Is going to be not 100 efficient. Oh, I'm so glad you have clothes on right now So every every piece of equipment electrical equipment you're running electricity through is going to waste some of the energy They're not nothing is 100 efficient Unless you're using like superconductors fine other than that, you know So if I'm driving the boat I'm losing some efficiency from my resistive charge controller if I'm if I'm going at a lower speed, but But the other two solar panels I'm getting like as As close to 100 efficiency as I can I'm losing a little bit of energy through the wires and the switch But almost nothing that's as efficient as I can get it Yeah, why is that? What is that? We'll talk about that after I have my my computer open here and has the video open. Um, let's see. What else do I want to say about that? Oh, yeah, and then and then the other reason is that Yeah, I mentioned this earlier as well. It's like I can if I'm All right, you relax for a minute if I'm out driving and my my batteries have some kind of problem The electrical system has some kind of issue. I can still run off directly off the solar panels and still get home I like having Different systems and then, you know, various people were like, well, just put a whole bunch of switches So you can switch everything back and forth. It's not that big a boat. I don't want that I don't want like every time I add another switch or another speedometer or another Like dial all this stuff it adds up. It's not a big boat. I don't want to put a lot of stuff in the boat Plus the more stuff I put in the boat the more stuff can break right now It's a really simple setup and I really like the simplicity of the setup And this is also one of the reasons that I really like the speed controller. I'm using It's not as efficient as the the six hundred dollar speed controller at lower speeds It's more efficient at higher speeds at that at full speed It is the most efficient thing you have because it's completely bypassing the speed controller and running direct um But overall it's a little less efficient. However There's nothing to break on it. It's just a coil of wire and I've been in a boat before a few years ago when I was driving and My speed controller just died. Luckily I was like A quarter mile from home But that could totally happen like five miles ten miles from home And then and then what I'm going to paddle the whole way and yeah, I can paddle the whole way and it's Um, but I would I would rather just have I'd rather just have the simple speed controller Another thing is this speed controller is something I haven't haven't used before I like trying different things and uh, you know, I want to test it for a while and see how it goes And so far it's going really well. Um, I'm really happy with it And sure driving at lower speeds. I'm wasting a bit of energy But um, okay, so the way I drove to town and back the other day Worked out really well with the speed controller I can't show you that right now. I can show you that after so I drove to town Partly at low speed and partly just on the solar panel so that the batteries were actually charging So overall I charged the batteries on the way to town and I did a bunch of paddling You know just made it made it into a workout and then When I left town the batteries were full or close to it They were they were basically full and I drove home full speed the whole way until I got about three quarters of the way home and then the the motor overheated and There's I think it might be the the connection between the motor and the propeller shaft it was a little bit loose and you know wiggling and just making a bit of uh friction And uh, you know kind of heated up too much and it took over an hour for it to to get to the point where it was like I started smelling the motor, you know But I turned it off right away and you know Ripped off a little piece of my shirt got it wet and dabbed it on and I partly I was dabbing around to see where the hottest spot was And it was right on the the the motor shaft where it connects to the propeller shaft That was really hot right there. So I think it was that connection which I have since addressed I made a video about that. I'll I'll put it up But anyway, in terms of the power system I I drove full speed three quarters of the way home Maybe even more And still had plenty of power like still had plenty of energy to make it all the way home I just stopped for a while let the motor cool off and then drove the rest of the way slow and then checked everything Although the motor seems the motor's fine Um, I've driven full speed since then everything's everything's been fine. Um, I just have to not overheat it Anyway, so I'm really happy if I if I can drive to drive to town It's kind of slowish although when that boat slow is faster Slow in that boat is about the maximum speed in my other boat So it's like still pretty good speed. So if I can drive to town at a reasonable speed And actually get to town with full battery Then drive home full speed. I'm totally happy with that. I don't need to drive full speed both directions Um, mostly I want to I want to know that I can get home On the battery going out. I'm not worried going out. I'm fine going slow and chill and relaxing It's the coming home. That is the the the The more risky thing the more dangerous thing um Because if I'm going out If I'm going out and I go out slow, I know that I I'm keeping the battery charged So that if there's a storm or whatever happens, I can turn around and high-tail it back home So, uh, I'm totally comfortable driving You know doing a relaxing trip on the way there just chilling and then driving fast on the way home Although the next time I drive fast on the way home. I think every Every 15 minutes. I'll just check the motor. I think I think I fixed the heat thing Well, I definitely fixed some of it. Anyway, um, I'm sure there was something else Uh, I was supposed to say there, but let me just let me just check what's going on in comments here Uh, Adam Savage has a tattoo of a ruler on his arm. You could do the same With a speed scale on your arm. Yeah. I don't think I'd want to get it tattooed on there Um, although it would be useful because it's gonna that will remain consistent for my entire life Although I've got like lines on my hands and my arm like I could just say Like I use this this line here this line right here I put my hand in in the water up to that line And then I can see how high the water splashes up and you know, there's plenty of kind of markers on my hand and my And my arm that I could use to check. I've got some nice scars um That's cool though that he tattooed a ruler on his arm Morning fellas. Oh man. What if he gets what if he gets fatter or skinnier or more saggy over Over time his ruler is going to get messed up no No one around you has a cell phone with a gps feature for a speed estimate. Um I'm sure I can I could get Well, actually I do have a gps thing. Um The battery in it is dead. It's like a car gps thing the battery is dead. So I'd have to take an external Thing with me and plug it in blah blah blah But yeah, I mean I can it's just not that important to me. So I haven't done it but Um, maybe at some point I'll get curious enough to take a gps on the boat Get some some speed readings Compared compared to my to my hand and then I'll have a better idea of the speed and blah blah blah Tell them it's for weight distribution. Well, that's the other thing if I Um, so the battery is up in the front of the boat all the rest of the weight is in the back Um, the motor's in the back. I'm in the back Yeah, the the boat was actually riding You know aiming up a little and now with the 50 pound battery up in the front It's it's more leveled out, which is which is nice. So yeah, I just made in terms of putting the battery in the front of the boat it made sense in like 14 different ways and didn't make sense in one way And the only way it didn't make sense was that the wires had to be longer to the motor, but You know, I have a I have a big What's it called stock pile of used wires and I found some fat wires in there They're actually fatter than they need to be so it's it turned out fine Um Then it's engineering. Yes, it's engineering. I put it in the right place. Hey guys, Tomater. How's it going, man? Um, Yes, I get to use this. Yes. Uh, I think your boat is so cool. Me too. I am so happy with that boat It is so fun to drive And I have to say like one of the one of the reasons it's so fun to drive Is that I don't constantly have it in my head That the speed controller might die Because like even before I had a speed controller die on me And leave me stranded a quarter mile from my house. So glad I was almost home at that point Um, even before that happened. I was always aware that this these You know black black black box speed controllers full of all kinds of stuff I can't do anything with like I can't I can't open it up and repair it when I'm out in the water You know, they they can die at any time. Just just like that I I really like having a boat where there's there is minimal stuff that can go wrong And the stuff that can go wrong is stuff I can fix like like the speed controller I have is just a coil a wire a nichrome wire if At some point it broke or something like say say I don't know for for whatever reason say Magic ferries came and broke the wire. I could just twist it back together Even with my bare hand I could twist it back together. It would it's pretty hard wire But I could I could do it, you know and and get it to work again But an electronic speed controller and I'm always thinking in the back of my head That thing gets too hot or oh, I can it could blow at any time and I did have one of the expensive speed controllers in that boat before And the only reasonable place to put it was right above the motor So that meant the motor and the speed controller are both creating heat in the same compartment Which is you know vented, but it's not like it's not It's not super vented. So now with just the motor back there You know, it's I like that more um particularly since I I did just overheat the motor Uh, let's see Oh Shadowman sir. Well, thank you very much far from an idiot best example of practical intelligence. I've seen actually that brings up a good point Uh, a lot of the decisions that I make On all these things I'm building boats and buildings and all this different stuff A lot of it is based on experiences So everything I did on that boat all the all the choices were with uh, you know How to connect the solar panels and what to do with the motor and you know using the the caveman speed controller instead of the The uh, the the fancy electronic one and all this different stuff a lot of that is based on Experiences, you know, I've been I've been messing around with the stuff and and using it and actually relying on it for you know, pretty long time and So I so I have a perspective of of the experience of that and A lot of the decisions that I make now when I look back Would not have been the the decisions I would have made When I originally started doing the stuff before I had experiences um, so I do understand when people say just run all the solar panels through the Through the charge controller in the battery because that's the way everyone does it. That's the way you're supposed to do it, right? Well, yeah, except, you know Reality is different than than on paper and on on paper. Everything works perfectly On paper, you know in your imagination everything nothing nothing breaks when you're 20 miles from home You don't get stranded everything's perfect Uh, especially when you get to sit at home and just watch videos. You have you have no skin in the game You know, you have no no real experience. No skin in the game. Uh, so You know, you can sit there and say I know what you should do You should do the you do the standardized correct thing that everyone does because that's the way the right way to do it That's the proper thing And I found a lot of times that the proper thing, you know, the proper thing is not is not the best thing It does not work the best Now some okay while i'm on this I wasn't planning to make this this long but um, I do Keep getting messages. This has been going on forever But you know, I get a lot of messages from people Who oh, they're so long too such huge long messages like people who have had disasters happen to them So someone cut off his fingers And sends me this huge long message about how i'm going to cut off my fingers Someone uh got stranded in a boat So he explains to me how i'm going to get stranded in a boat And so everyone has not everyone but a lot of people have their own little disaster stories And Because you've had a disaster does not mean everyone else is going to have the same disaster It also doesn't mean Doesn't mean that that it can't happen to anyone like Shit can happen, you know, I'm not supposed to swear on this channel. This is my not swearing channel. That was stuff can happen Anyway, um Like when Here's the thing if I listen to everyone who who told me about Losing my hearing losing my sight cutting off my fingers breaking my leg breaking my back getting stranded You know in various ways having a boat explode having a house collapse on me Just there's all of these people who've had these experiences if I listened to all that and said oh I better not do any of that stuff. I wouldn't do anything. It wouldn't be possible to do anything Like life is risky You know, you you have to you have to analyze the risks And do what you can to to mitigate them But there's no way to get rid of the risks And a lot of times You know safety equipment doesn't actually make you any safer either and I'm not gonna I don't want to get in a big fight with osha or anything Like you have to decide for yourself in my opinion you have to you like The final person whose responsibility it is is you like you have to figure out what's going to be safe for you And how you're not going to kill yourself so A lot of people talk about safety squints and a lot of people who do Machining and stuff like that that you safety squints and I totally do safety squints Now if I have to look at something right up close, I'll wear the whole face shield Although that does obscure vision to some degree and it gets in the way and it's annoying and stuff Most of the time I feel safer without all that crap on me because it's a distraction So most of the time like if I'm angle grinding something and I can hold it in a direction where all the sparks are aiming away from me And not going toward my face I can squint a little keep my head back and everything's like I still have my eyes I have all my fingers. I have all my toes. The only times I've actually been injured Is when I've had a lapse of A lapse of attention. I haven't paid attention. Those are the only times I've actually been injured It's never been because I didn't have safety equipment or something like that Now I'm not going to talk about anyone else's experience But for me as long as I'm paying attention, that is the most important piece of safety equipment for me None of the none of all that other safety equipment matters unless you know It's a situation where I where I figured it does matter For instance, like I was just saying like if I'm angle grinding something right up close Or if I'm if I'm hammering something and I have to look at it, you know, and then pieces might chip off or something like that And you know when things are loud I'll put on the ear blockers But like a lot like a lot of times when I'm doing fiberglass I don't wear gloves And you know, you're supposed to wear gloves because if you're not wearing gloves, you get it all over yourself And it's terrible and toxic and blah blah blah But the thing is if I'm using bare hands, I have better dexterity So as long as I'm doing something not too complicated I can I can do the fiberglass thing without getting anything on my hands like I can just do it very carefully and and Use the the dexterity I have of my hands where if I was using gloves I wouldn't be able to do it that well and I wouldn't get it on myself. So, you know, it's all like you got it Safety is not safety equipment safety is figuring out what you need to do to be safe. That is that is the actual goal It's not it's not like having the safety equipment because people can have the safety equipment and still get hurt The actual goal is to not get hurt, right? So do whatever you got to do for that All right, I think your boat is cool. Yeah, I do too. How's going tomaters? um You need one battery for Destination and equivalent battery for a tour and this way you never go too far To get home. Well, but like I said battery the boat's only so big battery's not cheap I don't want to I don't want to be like switching over from battery to battery in like I would rather go out slow Just chill and then come home Uh come home with a full battery and know that I can make it home on the battery Yeah, I mean I don't I don't want to put an extra battery on the boat Because it's going to be extra weight extra expense like Someone mentioned in the comments that I don't I don't have like, you know millions of dollars or something um I'm I'm comfortable But like financially comfortable, but not because I make a lot of money I'm financially comfortable because I don't spend a lot of money Like no rent no You know, no electrical water bills any of that stuff That's why I'm financially comfortable not because I have like, you know piles of money to spend on stuff And if you look at the views of my videos, I'm not making that much money off this stuff. So um Yeah, I can't just I can't just go buy another battery and slap it in there Oh, let's see Mr. Landfill and Tomaters. It's good. It's always good to see you guys Hey, Jamie, could you add a switch to connect all your panels to the charge controller for when you are parked in town? You would get more charge I did I did just answer this a little bit ago When I'm when I'm parked in town the front of the boat's always in shade because I parked this dock and there's there's just shade on the front and No, I'd rather I'd rather just get there with a full battery And I don't want to add extra switches to the boat, you know I like I like keeping it simple So, I mean, yeah, it would give me a bit of extra stuff But the thing is like there there are like a hundred different things I could do to give give myself a minor Because what is this right here? What is this? What is this? Yeah, you're right there Just make sure no naked kids run in here right now. Is everyone have clothes on? She just had clothes on Ah, it's it's so funny having kids like They'll be closed one second and then it's like their clothes just explode off them Yes, the older kids are always wearing clothes Anyway, yeah, there's there like a hundred different things I could do to to a boat or to any machine or whatever But I have to I have to decide I always have to weigh like what's going to be worth it Because it would be really easy to add one switch and then another switch And then I've got this panel of 47 different switches that do all these different things and like six different amp meters and And voltage meters and just all this all this extra stuff, you know That I don't need so I just think about what what's What's really going to matter? So I mean if if it was if it was your boat and you were doing a thing You'd probably have different ideas about it than I do Because you're a different person than I am you're working with different parameters and that's that's another reason Well another one of the things that I take into account when I'm when I'm building all this stuff Like I'm building it for me to use So in the little white boat for example, I am totally happy Paddling and using a little bit of energy on the way to town and letting the batteries charge Because I like getting exercise. Ooh, that actually reminds me of another another bunch of comments. There was something about Um, yeah, I I want to spend an hour and a half of that trip Paddling and then doing a bit of rest and then paddling more Um, because I like getting exercise. I want to I want to stay in shape I don't I don't want to be in a machine like it makes me feel terrible to be in a machine That's just doing stuff for me. I feel like what is what is the point of Me even being here? I don't I don't want I made a video about this recently. I don't want to be Made obsolete by machines. It's just uh, I don't Okay, one thing I've that's on my little list of things here that someone mentioned a bunch of people mentioned was pedals um So I took the pedals out of that boat Uh for a few reasons one um When I I I felt like at the at the top speed Even if I was pedaling pretty hard I don't think the pedal power is even keeping up with the boat like I think it was slowing it down And then if I'm not pedaling it's definitely slowing it down And the pedals, you know took up all the space in front of me because there were the pedals there and I had to have All this leg space so I removed the whole pedal system and now I I can fit an extra kid in like I could fit an extra kid in the boat Uh before I had to you know have one kid sitting up on the front of the boat But now they all fit no problem, you know, and I can fit more groceries or whatever So it definitely opens a bunch of space Which is one of the reasons I haven't put anything back in now a few people have mentioned I could put a a pedal system in with a Like a like a an alternator like a little generator on it And then I could pedal and actually charge the batteries Or run it straight to the motor, you know, whatever Somehow get get power out of pedaling and I've definitely thought about that. However, I think I'm I don't know. Maybe maybe I'll do that at some point, but right now I'm really enjoying the extra space I have By not having any pedal system in there and You know, I like to get exercise the paddle is totally fun Paddle I need a paddle in the boat. Anyway, like, you know, it's a it's and it's one of those important emergency items Like I have to have the paddle in the boat because if everything else breaks I can still paddle home And that boat is pretty easy to paddle actually so I definitely want to have a paddle and since the paddle's there Anyway, I might as well just use the paddle for the exercise. So Yeah, it takes up no extra space because it's there anyway Although at some point in the future, I might do A pedal thing to a generator I that would be pretty cool. But, you know, like I said, it's it's not that big a it's not that big a boat Um thumbs up everyone. Mr. Landfill has always given everyone thumbs up Oh, let's see Complex systems equals high failure. Yes, that is so one of the things that I've learned Through a lot of real life experience is just the value of simplicity. So You know, someone just mentioned, you know putting one more switch into the boat would would make it so I could charge faster in town But just adding any any more if any more complexity to a machine I I heavily resist So I need a really really good reason to add more complexity to a machine And the really really good reason could be just that I really feel like it or whatever But, you know, generally it's got to be something where it's going to give me some kind of benefit That is worth the extra complexity even if it's just an extra switch like any any any extra complexity Just adds adds points of failure Ruggedness over efficiency. Yeah, I would take I would personally take ruggedness over efficiency like um Whenever I go whenever I go to the store, I'm always looking around and I'm like, where's the stuff That's not going to break ever Like I would I would rather have a battery that's going to last 10 000 years. That's 80 efficient Over a battery. That's like 98 efficient and will last a few years, you know Like if there's I would I would really totally rather have Long-term solutions to things even if it's not as good as the short-term solution The thing is it's going to end up being the better solution in the long term anyway Because every time you have to replace something that's a whole bunch of wasted energy Cute little helps I have to say that was a cute little helper Um, hey buddy surprise been a while since I got in on one of your live streams. Hey, fredrick. How's it going man? Yeah, I haven't seen you in a while Wow, thanks mr. Landfill perfect grocery Grocery about it perfect grocery getter. Yeah, that boat is like the perfect grocery getter Um, the last trip I went to town where my my camera ran out of Space I only have a two gigabyte card in that camera because I switched I have two different cameras. Let me show you my cameras I normally can never show you my cameras because the camera is the camera Can't share the camera So here's here's the super fancy stuff. I've got this. I think I got for like Come on light I have to block off some of this bright light behind me so that camera readjust So this is a kodak sport. I think it's called Kodak, you know a kodak play sport and I got this for like 30 bucks and A bunch of you guys recommended getting one of these when I was talking about needing A cheap camera that could get wet So anytime I go on the boat and I'm doing video I just use this thing Um, because it is waterproof and only costs 30 bucks So and actually for a while I was using one of these just for everything But now that's just my boat camera and then this is this is my other camera Block off some light. It's uh I guess this thing it's a cool picks aw 120 just a camera and When I switched to using this camera, I had an eight gigabyte card So I put that in this camera so that my other camera just has a two gigabyte Which is which is I mean it'll do like 20 minutes of video. It's it's plenty for for most things But yeah, I ran out of camera on the boat the other day. Uh, so I didn't get Um, I didn't get the trip home the trip home was was great up until the motor got too hot Although, you know, whatever But I was going full speed most of the way still had plenty of energy to get to get all the way home Um, that was pretty cool. Uh, anyway, what was I talking about? Oh, yeah groceries. I went to get groceries And yeah, I can fit a lot of groceries in that boat. It is the perfect grocery getter. Yeah, you're right And like I can fit groceries in the boat and you know a bit of other stuff If I if I went to get cement in that boat, I wouldn't want to get more than two bags And I mean I could I've put like 600 pounds in that boat before but it's I wouldn't say it was It was it was comfortable I was nervous the whole the whole way home when I had that much weight in the boat Because the boat was so low like any waves came right in I did a lot of bailing out on that trip. Uh, have you experimented with anti fouling paint? I have not I was wondering if you mix copper grinding dust in your paint Copper plating was used on wooden ships for that purpose. Yeah, so I personally haven't done it But I have heard from other people that yeah, you know, you mix copper into the resin Like copper dust into the resin You paint your bottom of the boat and then sand it So the the copper is exposed to the water and that will keep stuff from growing on your boat Um It is also toxic to marine life, which is why things don't grow on the boat and then Yeah, bottom paint for boats is generally not good for the environment. It's not good for the ocean Um, and once I found out about that I was like, all right, I'm just not going to use it So the little white boat that I'm responding to the comments about That one I just pull out of the water because it's a pretty small boat I can pull it out of the water pretty easily. So it resides out of the water So it doesn't need any any bottom paint or anything My my bigger boat is always in the water And I just scrub it off every now and then Um before like when I was when I was building my house Uh, I was using the boat every day and every day I would jump in the water with a with a brush and just brush the bottom And it would it would stay perfectly clean Um, it seems that parked in my canal Inside the island like in the island. I've got a canal that comes in and there's you know, I look I guess it's like a little tiny lagoon and it has a muddy bottom Um, which isn't that pleasant to get into because every once in a while I have to get in it and you know Push a boat or something if the tide's really low um But I think the muddy bottom Prevents barnacles from growing in there. I don't know whatever it is I don't really get barnacles when my boat is parked in here like in the water Or or they grow really slow So I only have to clean off the bottom of the boat like every couple weeks And by cleaning it off I just mean like like scrub it with a brush and I might find the odd little tiny barnacle I can just pick off with my fingernail Um, but the barnacles seem to grow really slowly In my little lagoon here compared to being parked out in the ocean somewhere because I've experienced both Um, but yeah, I just I just jump in the water and scrub off the boat every once in a while No anti fouling Heat sink around motor water flowing around heat sink increases flow with speed Oh, man. I don't want to do all that. I I was thinking about that obviously but um, so basically use use water to To keep the motor cool. Uh, this is just a whole bunch of this more complication, you know um, the motor does have a fan on it Which blows from the back um, and I was thinking of putting A little fan right on the connection between the motor shaft and the propeller shaft Uh, because that was the area that got really hot And I think it was because my connection was loose And I was meaning to fix this before I did a trip and I was like, ah, it seems like it's all right And then just did it, you know, but it was it was a little bit wobbly So I'm I'm guessing that You know, I was driving full speed for an hour. It was just wobbling just like a half a millimeter back and forth I don't know like 400 times a second or something not that much but I mean, I don't know. What's that? What's the rpms in that motor 1800 rpms 1800 times per minute I don't know 1000 times a minute whatever the things are wobbling back and forth a tiny amount And I think that's what built up that heat and it took like an hour for it to become a problem So it was like just a slow build up of heat And I'm thinking if I put a little fan there, it'll help, you know, get rid of the heat Which you know, if it takes an hour before it overheats over an hour It should be pretty easy to get rid of that heat, right? So if we put a little fan there, it should be all right although I did also Put some shims in there. So now it fits tight snug So it doesn't wobble back and forth anymore and I also put a bit of grease in there So that if you know, any any bit of wobbling isn't going to create as much heat It'll be, you know lubricated Um Let's see would be nice to have quality estimates for how much charging you get per hour in town Well, the thing about that is it's going to depend a lot on the time of day the clouds and the time of day because Like I'm not I'm not parked out in the water. I'm parked next to stuff. So sometimes the the sun is going to be blocked depending on where where the sun is, you know And that's what I was saying about the front of the boat gets a lot more shade than the back of the boat So the back of the boat charges the batteries to the front of the boat I basically write off whenever I'm parked because it's it's the front of the boat's basically going to get no sun Have you seen the toroidal propeller designs? I have That's that's another thing of complication um So I you know, I looked into those a little bit Keeping in mind how this stuff usually goes and it seemed to go basically how I thought it would You know, I click on some video You know, there's I don't know. There's tons of videos. They're all they're all like 105 increase in efficiency not not 105 of the efficiency 105 increase like double the efficiency and I'm thinking like wait a minute Is a propeller normally below 50 efficiency To get to get that much increase the the propeller needs to be like 40 efficient To double it up to to more than double it up to like 80 or 90 percent, right? That's that sounds like bs And sure enough, you know, you I click on the video and it's like well At certain speeds at really specific conditions It's it's significantly more efficient, you know at the propellers least efficient conditions and um Yeah, it ended up not being that That much of a an increase in efficiency I'll check that out. All right, let me get off this for in a minute and I'll come check that out um I don't know and the other thing is they're going to collect Leaves and grass because it's like a big loop once a piece of grass gets stuck in there. Oh uh Like one of the things I always do with my propellers is I try to make them weedless You know, so the propeller blade is kind of in a shape where as it's turning any Leaves or grass that gets kind of is going to kind of fall off the off the end and actually come off But uh, yeah, one of those toro It'll propellers if you run through some weeds which happens sometimes like sometimes I'm just driving along and There's just like suddenly there's just like a field of like weeds and you know grass and stuff Just floating on the water and I'll try to weave through but I'm going to get some stuck on the boat If you get stuck on the pontoons, I just rock the boat back and forth and it kind of gets them off But the propeller Occasionally I have to stop and then start going again um But almost almost always it just falls off But a toroidal propeller if you get that thing that loop and there's like a weed stuck right through there Uh, I have to get off the boat Swim back there and then pull it out and then I can go and that would be kind of Painting the butt not worth it. However, I don't know if it's if it's Enough of an increase in efficiency. I might think about getting one But they're also just complicated to make and get blah blah blah All right for a cooling system if you use pipe facing down All right, it's just gonna be too complicated. I don't want a water cooled motor um Yeah, okay, so if I use a pipe facing forward in the water It's gonna get clogged up a lot Okay, so then Then I put a screen on it and then you know keep the clogs out with the screen still going to clogged up by other stuff Water is going to cause drag and slow the boat down like all this It's just too complicated. It's going to have problems and it'll slow the boat down. So I'd rather You know since since it took over an hour to overheat this motor I think just a couple little propeller blades By the connection will blow any extra heat up Although I did also fix what I I think was the problem Which was just this loose connection that was wobbling back and forth So until I really test that again. I don't know if there actually is still a problem Skin sags as we age I think you could actually make it wait. All right, frederick. What are you talking about? I think you could actually make it both ways on that system at full speed Maybe just for starters try carrying a smaller charge that battery with you for the first few trips. Maybe just for testing frederick, do you think I just have another 650 battery just like hanging around? Where do you think I get this stuff? But uh, however, remember that in a few months years the batteries might start losing some total capacity. That's true Um For your amp meter you use before you can use a voltage divider on the signal wires To times to the amp meter range. So it'll be 100 amps versus 50 amps. Well, I don't I don't want to I think you're telling me how to How to make it test up to 100 amps. Well, I don't I don't actually want the thing to go over 50 amps. So I want it to be under 50 amps So I'd rather fix it. So it's under 50 amps and then, you know, use the thing I do have an amp meter that's 200 amps. So if I need a higher thing, I can use that came off some I don't know all the stuff I got out of the garbage somewhere, you know Okay, how did you make it that last quarter of the way home when it overheated? Okay, so the motor overheated high price. I don't know how long I spent 15 minutes Like with a little piece of cloth and a piece of water just putting it on different parts of the motor cooling it off um You know kind of investigating I was probably I was probably there for like half an hour And I did a little bit of paddling to to make it part of the way back But then at some point, yeah, I was probably there for like half an hour kind of chilling and investigating and paddling a little Um, but eventually I was like All right, I got to see if this motor is broken or if it's fine. So I put the motor on on low speed And just drove the rest of the way on that and it was fine And I tested high speed a little bit just to see that the motor was still working You know still driving the boat fast, but I didn't want to leave it on that You know, I just did it for a few seconds. Uh, but yeah, I just drove slow speed the rest of the way Although I could have paddled I definitely could have paddled I was I wasn't like screwed at any point If you have a clear plastic tube, you can make a plastic pilot tube and secure Is this another thing Post to your boat easy to implement. Just take some time to calibrate. Okay. I don't I don't want an extra thing I don't want all this extra stuff to take on the boat Um, yeah, I just don't want extra stuff on the boat. Are you worried about the motor drawing more amps Then the panels can put out melting the wire or something like that. No, that doesn't make sense um okay, so This brings up a weird thing about electronics like electrical things that I never understood why people do it this way Okay, am I worried about the motor drawing more amps than the panels can put out So people talk about how equipment draws power from the power source Like a motor is drawing the power Or a computer is drawing the power That never made sense to me because The motor is not sucking energy out of the solar panels or out of the batteries or anything If that was the case you could just short circuit the motor and it would run all day on its own um It is the the power source is pushing the electricity in The the motor is actually resisting. It's not drawing the power It is slowing down the power like if you took a battery and you you short circuited it with a wire That's going to make the electricity go as fast as that power supply can make it go You know minus a tiny bit of resistance. So you put a motor in there. It's actually slowing down the electricity so If I if I have solar panels and they can output 10 amps um The motor can't actually draw more than 10 amps From the solar panels because it is not drawing the power is resisting Uh, you know, all this stuff has resistance. It's resisting the energy flow So the power source you you can't get more energy out of the power source than the power source can supply So, yeah, it's not it's that's not a problem Shit happens ha ha ha ha ch it how many members are in here Tomater's asking You need a large bungee cord tied to your island use the electric motor to go to town and the island pull you back That's totally right. You're you're absolutely right big bungee cord. Do we have a big bungee cord that will reach like All the way to town Come on you could you know as i'm weaving through the islands it can just like draw a line all the way there And then you know, I can park the boat I gotta have power going the whole way But as soon as I park the way I gotta tie it up real good And then as soon as i'm ready to come home I just you know pull that last knot out And that that elastic rubber band can be like Oh you go like 40 miles an hour my hand my pack can get blown off and just Be like a cheetah running through the water That sounds like a great idea that's it Yeah I'm yes, I'm sure he was joking that was maybe I bet that's something the coyote would do These guys have been watching uh looney tunes lately, which is hilarious, isn't it? It's funny because like, you know when I was a kid, you know looney tunes everyone here Everyone here is old right you're all a bunch of old farts mostly We all watched looney tunes when we were kids and then Today looney tunes is supposed to be not cool and boring. That's old stuff, right? Man, these guys freaking love looney tunes bugs bunny and the Tasmanian devil And the road runner oh, I started with the road runner because I was I was talking about cheetahs and road runners and I started talking about the road runner show and they're like, I want to see that and oh my gosh They were cracking up like crazy. They they did some great gags in the road Anyway Yeah, I could I could order I could get the coyote to order me an acme bungee cord for that Hey, let's see frank says Oh Okay, so I guess it came up because I gave my son his birthday His birthday present in a box and I wrote acme on it. He's like acme. What's that? And then I had to show him because you know the the coyote always ordered those sets of like Magnetic shoes or bungee cords or catapults in a in an acme box suction cups suction cups on his shoes or whatever all right Jamie love your builds and your ideas Do you have an estimate for the amount of current coming from the battery on low speed versus full speed? Okay, my last My last measurement for that and I haven't I haven't done it since I've improved a few efficient things I hope I did anyway, but my last measurements were 18 amps and 26 amps for the two lower speeds and then like 49 for for the full speed um, yeah 18 26 and 49 and when I first Got everything on the boat What was it like 30 and 40 and like 80 or something? But you know, then I messed around with the propeller. I did a bunch of stuff. So yeah right now As far as I know, I've got it. I've got it down to 18 18 amps 26 amps and 49 amps and it's 24 volt system um Although I've done a few things to improve the efficiency since then so I'm hoping it's a little bit lower But I haven't actually confirmed that Hi, Jamie been following you since you made your giant spider robot. Oh, I can't wait to make a new a new giant robot I want to get it. I want to get a 3d printer and start making a I think I want to make a couple different prototypes And you know like really get it really get the design worked out before I make the next giant robot um Always great to hear what you have to say and seeing you make your dreams come through props. Well, thanks, man neodos Uh the mat the mat header the hobie drop in kayak pedals. Oh the hobie drop in kayak pedals are awesome They're on second or third generation but lots of failure points Yeah, I actually got to drive one of those one time I was visiting It was actually like a youtube fan guy in florida. I went to visit him and he's like you want to go to the beach I got my hobie kayak and he had the The the trimer and hobie kayak with the sail and the pedals. It was pretty sweet But yeah, I was looking at the So the hobie kayak pedals is like to push things and then there's two fins under that go like this And you know, I could see some cracking and stuff Under there. They were still at the point of totally working but I was It wasn't the design I wanted to copy, you know It would be I would be interested in hearing someone else's uh experience like long-term experience with those I think okay robber says I think energy wise you would get More direct benefit paddling versus paddling an alternator. Well, yeah From what I understand most alternators are 70 percent efficient at best then Add wiring and salt water build up So, yeah, um, if I if I put in pedals with a generator on it It's definitely not going to be as efficient as Paddling the cool thing about it would be that I could charge the batteries When I'm if I'm parked somewhere Uh, so like say I'm camping or something and for some reason this is this is going to be I'm going to have to come up with some really convoluted weird situation where we that useful So never mind. But yeah, I mean it would it would be cool. Um, there was a lurker behind you. Yeah Now there's two of them. Um Hi, thanks. Mr. L for my greenness. Okay Uh, now let's soloist says hi folks. Thanks for the gifted membership. Let's see I thought you have six panels on it. Only four makes sense. You won't drive on all four. Um Yeah, I did have five solar panels on that boat for a while before I switched to the battery And it was a little bit cumbersome. It was worth it when I didn't have the battery But now that have the battery on it. It was worth it to go back down to four Just because it's It's not it's not so cumbersome, you know um Because you know, sometimes the wind gets real strong and with five solar panels. It was really pushing on it And it's since it's flexible. I'd have to hold it to make sure it wasn't getting blown around too much What's that? Cucumber some cumbersome. Yes, it's cucumber some Hokey pokey or the chicken dance. I don't know Uh, look up a belt drive for it and then remove the belt when you want to use solar instead of pedal way less wear I don't know are you talking about like for a A pedal drive. I don't know. Anyway Change the shroud around the motor or make one to divert the cool air to it. Oh, it has a it has a shroud around it that I'm presuming they've made this pretty efficient Like that blows air over the motor, but it blows it from the back to the front And the point where I was creating extra unneeded heat was at the front. So it wasn't really getting that um But like I said, hopefully I fixed that Very easy to pop on and off a belt. Yes. Say hi to your kids You got that Apparently fewer blades equals more efficient more blades equals quieter. So a toroidal might be good Compromise between noise and efficient More blades is probably also more power So, yeah more if you have two propeller blades It it tends to vibrate a lot more easily. So I I've been putting three propeller blades on pretty much all my stuff Um Which is I don't know. I don't think it's much less efficient. I think it's pretty close I did one time make A propeller. Wait, let me think. Oh, that that was a two-bladed propeller But it had like it was two propeller blades that were like a big coil And that ran so smooth um, I keep I do keep thinking about designing a propeller That's just one propeller blade that runs like coils all the way around So I'd have to do it pretty I'd have to get the design pretty Perfect for it to actually be balanced with just one propeller blade But uh, you know, it can be done Um, and yeah, it'd be cool to see how efficient that actually is. I haven't seen anyone doing that I kind of wish someone would do that and make a video about it on youtube, although A lot of times youtube people Someone sent me a video recently about this guy testing toroidal propellers It was like half an hour video and he had all this stuff measuring like rpms and speed and energy usage and he even had bubbles blowing into the motor to check the You know what was going on around the propeller vortices and stuff and all this stuff and then he gets to the end of the thing and he's like Well, I made the toroidal propeller a totally different pitch than the propeller. I was comparing it to and I was like So the entire thing was worthless, you know, and this is the problem when you've got like people Ah Who are just doing stuff that you know, most people are not They're not taking into account the thing the important pieces of information Water cool it. No, I'm not water cooling air cools. Yeah Most efficient propellers are very large surface area blades and and move slowly. Yeah, um, the bigger propellers are more efficient and And run slower to have a slower turning thing on that boat I'd have to add gears which would add complexity And you know take up some efficiency in the gears because they'd have some friction Plus there's a certain amount of space where I can put the propeller I could definitely have it some bigger, but there's a limit It's not that big before it starts hitting like the the rudder and the boat stuff like that And that's actually another one of the reasons I took off the pedal power Because the pedal power propeller was out of the bottom of the boat Which really limited the size of the propeller and it would have been a lot more efficient If I could have used a bigger propeller and I could have but that would make it stick farther down in the water Which means I'm gonna be hitting the bottom more often. So anyway Um Would be cool to do some kids creative creation videos Have them inspire city kids to create Hey, do you guys need to do we need to do some videos of you guys making stuff? You guys always help me make stuff. You guys make your own stuff, too How are the crops doing man crops people keep asking me about this gardening thing Oh my gosh, it takes so long to do gardening like you do something then you have to wait like a year to see if it actually worked Crops are Increasing I've been planting a lot of yucca in one of the videos recently I showed this area of like loose dirt that I just kind of filled in and like put there It was all clay, but it was it was broken up and loose because I've moved it So I've been planting a lot of yucca Which is like a potato-y kind of thing and they're growing they're getting leaves. They're growing they're doing the thing I also planted some yam pea and some sweet potatoes and all that stuff's growing. Well, I also have some watermelon I did not plant the ginger. We need to do that today. I think yeah, um, yeah things seem to be growing Maybe you can make oh, I have I have two huge things of bananas on my trees right now one That's almost ready and then one that's like, I don't know A little bit behind that like a month behind that and then I also have two trees with white plantains on them So the banana and plantain trees are going Going really well You just let me pick your nose Let's see, maybe you can make water cooling stuff using cement or something to avoid the rush problem with salt water I know I definitely don't want to add cementy things to the boat um I'm the lubus says I'm the star trek little girl that spoke with you on In a thought in a thought experiment on austin. Hope you're doing well. Oh wait wait in a thought experiment. That was the the What's it called? The podcast I did a few weeks ago. Yeah, I want to I want to go on there again at some point Um Well, you should send me an email and say hi. I wonder how those guys are doing. I kind of wanted to go. Oh, hold on. Hey, hey All right, these guys are starting to get loud. I'm gonna take off in a minute. Um Yeah, send me an email and let me know how everything's going Um Right, austin was the guy's name. I couldn't even remember his name. I just remember His youtube name or whatever. Anyway, I want to go back on that podcast at some point because he said I can go back And you know chime in anytime. I've just been I'm always busy in the mornings, you know How many people gave a thumbs up to help the channel? Hold on. Hold on All right, you little buggers get your butts out of here and shut up You're being quiet. You can stay Throw him down with these kids sometimes, you know uh, let's see I like the smaller boat better than the big one you built. It is so cool If I was if I had to choose one to drive the smaller boat's so fun to drive However, the big boat so useful like if I have to carry anything, you know Uh, or even just like a lot of people I can put I can sit two adults comfortably in the little boat, you know, it's kind of like a motorcycle I mean sort of like a stretch motorcycle, you know, really fun to drive but there's there's no space in it But yeah, the other boat is really useful. It has lots of space Um, anyway, maybe just stick, uh thermometer or some of some sort near your motor So you can easily glance over and see if it's overheating or not while you test different methods of keeping it cool It would actually be kind of cool to have a thermometer Or something I can use to test the the temperature What when I do different things, although I don't I don't think it's going to be that much of a problem like I I think I fixed the main problem which was that one connection that was that was Vibrating which was I knew it was I knew it was loose. I knew it was a problem. I just Just did it anyway, you know Like I was planning to fix it anyway. Anyway, I have it's Hopefully fixed now And I'll probably put a couple little propeller blades on there just to blow the air around, you know, just in case Um Let's see. Oh luba says you girls are going to be the most able with their hands and skilled Then most boy. Oh, then most boys when they grow up, you guys are going to be more skilled than most of the boys, you know Most people in general don't don't do anything. It's like It's so disappointing to see people growing up with the you know tablets and phones and that's all they use and that's terrible like We're we're we're wasting so much human potential I've got all these people concerned that I'm wasting energy on my boat. How about how about human potential? Oh my gosh, so much is being wasted People good. Ah people are amazing if you if you just If you just try to be and let them be that's that's the thing like a lot of a lot of this A lot of human potential comes out when you just let kids Be curious and and get interested in things instead of stuffing them in these Schools where they're just it's like being in prison and there's force fed all this propaganda all the time Don't don't get me going on schools. We'll never hear the end of it Frederick says dude your kids are so genuinely happy and fun. Are you genuinely happy and fun? You better be All right, that's because I beat them Anytime they complain. I give them severe beatings. Do you get severe beatings? Whenever whenever you complain Yeah, severe severe beatings whenever they complain. So if my kids don't smile enough I electrocute them. I got electric shock them and stuff I'm looking forward to your next robot too. Yeah, me too, man Uh, you should buy them some virtual toys this way. They'll be virtually happy like everybody else's kids Yeah, no kidding man. God. This is all this virtual stuff um, like Like I get it. No video games are fun. I've been playing a lot of video games this week actually just just because I was under a lot of stress and I was like, I'm gonna play some video games um But yeah, at some point you got to be like, okay real life real life is where it really is That's the stuff I really need to deal with real life is the real important stuff A mechanical whale tail on the back of your boat would be cool I actually did make a like a like a fish tail on a boat years ago. There's video of it somewhere Yeah, but it was one that I hand cranked and it worked pretty well It's just you know propellers work because motors spin around That's why that's why propellers are so good. Uh, my pops was an industrial mechanic. He used to engrave Acme ink Into pretty much everything he fabricated big fan of acme here. That's awesome goofy kids. I do have goofy kids Hello lubas, welcome to support. Is that that's um, tomaters doing stuff. I think The coil propellers you mentioned remind me of the impellers they use in jet drives It's not one single prop But the concept is similar. However, it needs to be enclosed in a tunnel also interesting Also more surface area equals more drag less efficiency, right? Yeah Any dragon scales updates? No, I haven't done anything on the dragon scale. So my roof I've been putting tiles on the roof that are That I called the dragon scales because they're just like big giant tiles like big big scales And I imagine the only thing that big with scales would be a dragon Um, but I haven't worked on it in a while partly because there just aren't that many leaks. So it's not What's the word if if my roof was leaking more I would be more on it, but Um, also I need specific weather, you know, and it's been raining a lot. It's been other like Hey There's been really sunny or really rainy, which is not good for concrete Uh, let's see Can I send how can I send you stuff? Well, send me if you want to send me something send me hold on I just fixed my thing. Um If you want to send me something send me an email, which is down here, uh, it's It's not that complicated to email me or to send me something. I mean, um But it's not like I can just give you an address like I have to know what it is and then you know, There's a shipper who imports stuff to Panama and they have to have a list of everything that's in it um So, you know just because they're importing stuff and blah blah blah Um, I also have an amazon wish list though down in the comments. You can send me anything of that. That'll be amazing But uh, yeah, if you have something you want to send me, uh, just yeah, send me an email My email should be down in the comments the adventure builder movie at gmail.com um Which was originally just an email for movie questions, but now it says use it for everything The beatings will will continue until morale improves. That's that's right. Where is that from the beatings will continue until morale improves Insert final credits here The end pa pa pa pa is the wood mill on strike or not no logs to work on Um, I currently have no logs. I need to get some logs um But yeah, I just just there's one me and there's a lot of stuff to do and this I don't want to get into this but this week I had some I dealt with someone's significant emotional problems and it just Ah, it got in the way of a lot of progress this week Um, but I think I think we're basically we basically got it worked out So I can get back on things. But yeah, I have to I have to um get some logs. I do actually have a couple trees like just near my house that are dead We're dying like Termites got to them and but I think there's enough I think most of the tree is intact. So I might cut those down and cut those up But I don't know what kind of wood it is um Seems like I don't know it's wood You can definitely cut those up but to start making To start making boards for the second and third floor What are you doing to me? I'm gonna have to know what that wood is before I start doing it. So yeah, I don't know. Anyway I'm gonna shut up. I wasn't meaning to go on this long But of course you guys were super cool. So I talked to you. Um Now always remember Whenever you want to call someone an idiot Make sure you don't follow that up with something really stupid that you're saying yourself Because then it just they're not gonna believe you Your dad shirt is all messy. My dad shirt is all messy So this is this is actually the shirt I was wearing when I was when the motor overheated and the front of my shirt I don't know if you see here. Let me hold up against the light. Yeah, it's got like holes And it's kind of falling apart So there's a chunk in the front of my shirt here I just ripped off got it wet and laid it on the motor to help cool it off All right. I think I think that's it. So like if someone pushed the the X Hang to hang up on me And push push the okay. Can you tell which letters are okay?