建造阿拉斯加第二季 P4 - Building Alaska S02E04_Ryan_s Song.UMMU.NET

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他們完全不在乎
這將是極度勞動性的
三個男人 冒險地砍掉他們的家
在地球上最不公平的森林中
危險在哪裡
在遙遠的阿拉斯加
激烈的力量可以摧毀人類和機器
我們必須利用我們擁有的東西
因為這就是我們擁有的
但充滿決心和勇氣
這些男人帶領隊伍進行一個任務
這是一個艱難的國家
我們是最艱難的
這是建造阿拉斯加
在阿拉斯加的後森林中
活動正在盛行
野生生物正在敲打我們三個
極端建築師的後門
他們正在前進
三個遙遠的阿拉斯加
沿路的陰森建築
第一 82公里從安格里
靠近馬丁尼斯卡嶼
很酷 他們在那邊玩
我不知道他在想什麼
他喜歡
他頭上戴著耳環
應該是在釣魚的季節
他應該是在想
這些男人不畏懼高度
因為巨大的輪框
被固定在地上
然後天花板開始形成
下一組有六個
然後這組有七個
Gustavus在465公里遠的地方
職業工程師Jim Wagner
手工製作和建造
他的羊群的基地
在自己的後屋
再把它和他的家人
放在一起
這是右前方的旁邊
前往他建造的地方
在遙遠的阿拉斯加
384公里
兩趟車程後
這群人準備重組
最後312公里遠
是建造在最遙遠的地點
安靜的湖
這全都是血汗和淚水
為強硬的人Lee Raymond
和他的Burley隊伍
而重重搬搬
正在開始
這是一個慢的過程
但是我們會快速地開始
當我們把這幾個搬起來
不意識到
蝙蝠也在把他們的標籤
放在地上
看那些
可怕的蝙蝠
他們把我的門
我的天啊
看看這個
新的蝙蝠
他們可以是
更多的一種瘋狂
一場遇到
一頭一千磅的蝙蝠
幾乎給了
合作人Chuck Gerwig
和他的妻子Broleen
他們的生命
一夜之夜
我們的23週年
從教堂那天晚上
當那隻蝙蝠
在我面前踏出來時
我走得太快了
她用一隻腳
踢出頭燈
再用另一隻腳
踢出頭燈
我們得到的一切
都是我的血腥指甲
從瓶子裡
那是駕駛座
就在那裡
但是當你
遇到一頭一千磅的蝙蝠
神在我們身邊
祂還沒有
完成我們的任務
人們已經死了
比那時候還少了
這些繁忙的
阿拉斯加公路
每年都成為
接近八百隻蝙蝠的死囚
也會損害幾個人的生命
為了Chuck
他沒有時間
去思考可能發生了什麼事
他的建築
在行程的後半段
而且他的供應量
而他的右手手
Ryan
兒子Joe
和工作人員Jesse
正在忙著
在建築的地方
他在他家的工作室
十公里從阿拉斯加
倚靠他最年輕的兒子
十歲的Zack
和一個朋友Caleb
來踏上擺盤
所以這些是我們需要
切割的
廚房窗戶
廁所窗戶
廚房門
你知道這是一塊
2x4的紙嗎
對
這裡沒有紙
很難把一塊木頭
摧毀掉
為什麼要扔掉
如果它還沒有
標記在上面呢
Zack
把它開啟
我很高興
能夠做我所做的事
讓孩子們
可以和我一起工作
讓我可以教他們
這些東西
這並不是
火箭研究
像這樣掘洞
但是他學到了很多
Chuck將使用
這些角鐵
來設置窗戶
在他的客戶的
退休屋
一棟兩層的樹林
總共有2600平方米
這是他目前
最有潛力的項目
把燈關掉
我們可以出發了
你來了嗎
Zack
每個十歲的孩子
都會穿這種東西
穿在他的袖子上
如果他掉進洞裡
他會溺斃
但首先
在鄰居的磨刀工廠
希望他們可以
把垃圾木
變成可用的磨刀
用來做窗簾和窗戶
當我看見
剩下的東西
我心想
糟了
我要去買
買一個
Sitka Spruce
是一棵海邊樹
來自於阿拉斯加
因為它長在
潮濕的環境下
垃圾是一個
常見的缺點
如果他們
無法充分挖掘
他們會被迫
回到城市
找更多垃圾
你去安克里茲
你花了四個半小時
五個小時
只是旅行時間
而隨著更多的風暴
迅速地進入
Chuck正在戰鬥
向母自然的戰鬥
很高興
我們沒有這個雨傘
讓我們到達
也沒有路上濕透
和路上的噴霧
但我希望
這週能把傘
蓋起來
讓所有東西都乾燥
同樣地褪色
一百五十公里西北
當蝦子飛
下雨後
在安靜的湖邊
為雷曼的合約人員
和他的三人團隊
我希望
這個天氣
可以像這樣
Matt和Mike
開始一天
從垃圾掘起
你想要一個直的
對吧
它有一個好彈性
哦,是的
嘿,我恨告訴你
但你已經知道
你的木頭已經凝固了
這是阿拉斯加木材
Matt和Mike
非常聰明
你知道
有時候
雖然這個聰明
會走到一個黑暗的方向
你喜歡嗎
Lee的雷曼形狀的船艙
是兩樓高
下面有一個核銷商
今天的計劃
完成掘洞
為最後三個位置
來支援
一個包圍的船艙
很不幸的是
這個地球移動機
無法做所有的重量提升
它掘了最高的半個
簡單的洞
讓我們掘了
最低的半個
困難的洞
Earl是我的右手
如果沒有Earl
我會被淘汰
我會做
任何需要做的事情
我猜
我不知道
Earl必須掘至少
四呎深
才能到達
冰川線
Earl
你還不夠深
我還可以看到你
同時
Lee開始
掘起巨大的鑽石
它會支撐
整個上層的鑽石
這叫做
阿拉斯加鑽石工廠
這裡
是放在
這個框架上
然後我用這個
然後我用這個按鈕
在這裡
同時
它會像槍一樣切
只有一個問題
就像Lee
它是老舊的
Lee
你那根鑽石
我好想知道
歡迎來到Lee的工廠
這裡沒有正確的工具
如果正確的工具
肯定會壞掉
嘿
Lee的鑽石工廠
可能重50公斤
但它比其他工廠
我們可以在
更遠的地方找到它
幾呎的距離
Earl遇到一個難題
他已經掘的洞
有些東西看起來不好
我做了一些測量
然後鑽了一條線
我的洞在這裡
而不是在這裡
在這裡
我的天啊
這意味著
他必須在幾呎的距離
我們真的不再
跟計劃合作
因為計劃已經發展
嘿 那是一塊石頭
我的天啊
那裡有一塊大石頭
Lee承認
他不喜歡
用藍圖
這可能是
問題的一部分
我有能力
看到東西三角形
是的
我會在那邊
我們不是用藍圖
而是用藍圖
沒有藍圖
它們都在這裡
終於
洞的位置正確
他們可以將它們補上
我們補上了一塊磁鐵
因為磁鐵
在阿拉斯加州
因為磁鐵重太多
他們不會送回南部
當然
他在那裡
丟了幾塊石頭
破壞了
我們可以
展示一下
我們以前如何破壞
嘿 你想用槍
我們以前會掘洞
然後那些人
會拿著12號槍
把磁鐵破壞
阿拉斯加人工智慧
最佳
那些人很狂野
很安靜
911
有一輛摩托車
撞到一棵樹
兩個人倒下
一個似乎在呼吸
另一個人
我不知道
在夏天
阿拉斯加的某些區域
每個月
甚至每個月
都充滿著不斷的日光
但在幾個短短的月份
某些區域
不會再看到陽光
直到下個春天
在阿拉斯加的極端建築師
你學會了
每個小時
每個夏天
這是8月初
我們現在
大概在三分鐘
一天的日光中
我們也注意到了
8月也帶來了
涼快的溫度
穩定的雨
甚至雪
為了高度提升
和這個氣候變化
還有更多的
超級大型摩托車
大概在那裡
不 在後面
你讓它們走
它們逃跑了
你來到這裡
你就乾淨了
大多數
然後蟲就會找到你
你看 當旅程進行
你就會有層層的蟲蟲
蟲蟲蟲蟲
把沙灘加熱
我來幫你脫衣服
這傢伙跑得太快了
太安靜了
裡面的溫度有多高
我不知道
電磁爐在冒煙
現在是119
Earl在冒煙
你看這胖子在跑
這不舒服
我的天啊
我要做這個水瓶
在我平常的工作
我會跑到沙灘上
脫衣服
在沙灘上脫衣服
但大部分工作地點
你不可以這樣
在奇奇怪怪的
小山谷附近
一隻雞在阿拉斯加
只有七個年度居住者
這裡只有一個地方
一隻雞住在整個城市
牠們在洗廁所
我猜牠們在裝模作樣
因為遊客們喜歡這樣
我猜
太陽還沒下
讓Jim和Tanya Wagner
和他們的隊伍幫忙
我們還有很多事情
要思考
正確的位置
我們需要的東西
都準備好了
Jim的大廈
是一個優質的
兩層建築
16英尺20英尺的建築
他看到了一個
很好的位置
唯一的問題
那裡有森林
滿滿的樹
我們用手
把樹撐起來
很簡單
把樹撐起來
6-8英尺的範圍
用手撐起來
牠們就撐起來了
這些是男性
住在這裡
我們喜歡把樹撐起來
我保證
我今晚會吃個好飯
因為我太太看到
我的肌肉有多大
我做得有多辛苦
但要用重量的支撐
把基礎撐起來
我們要去
把所有的沙
整個範圍
直接撐起來
然後在那裡做一個大洞
把它撐得
盡可能地平滑
希望不會再下太多雨
因為那會改變一切
當你的家人
住在一片茫茫的地方
把房子撐起來
是另一個最高的優勢
在這裡
好的 老闆
對 給我看看
我在做什麼
可能在這裡
撿到的金額
應該是零
試試看
看看這裡有什麼
在阿拉斯加
金礦業是一項重要的行業
事實上
人們在這裡
都在尋找金額
自從19世紀以來
在這裡
我把整個盤子搖晃
把所有的金額
都搬到下面
是的 你可能會說
瓦格納人會
用任何機會
去尋找寶物
喬丹今天
嘗試把金額
搬出房子裡
而且這總是可能的
但是
我意思是
這有什麼好笑的
我找到金鯨
回到默默的李
一切都在手上
簡直
而李正在和軍人
爭奪金額
如果我們可以
把這個東西搬遠一點
我們今天下午會去釣魚
那個人
抓到最大的魚
或最多的魚
明天會有
比較容易的工作
否則
你今天晚上會做菜
李想要他的盤子
快速完成
但是把盤子
設置起來
實在太麻煩了
我今天晚上
想要把盤子
放在這裡
所以我真的很想
看到你們
把這個東西
完成
今天晚上
我最想聽到的是
李告訴我
我做錯了
快點 麥可
把這個東西
放在那裡
我們在做
沒有人想做的事
但是
把軍人的工作
做好
是很簡單的
在做河鞋
我們在河裡
是雙腳
這裡有些石頭
這不是很好玩
這很完美
這是真正的
三國的河鞋
我做了靴子
槍都髒了
這裡全部都是髒的
這個也沒用
我做不到
我們不知道
他是否還活著
我收到一通電話
說是摩托車碰撞
摩托車
摩托車和摩托車
不是很好的組合
在靜悄的河裡
這也是一個
很興奮的下午
給李雷曼
Lee is finally getting his wish of having a deck
He snowmobiled in stacks of Trek's decking last winter
and the guys are finally ready to lay it down
The decking is pretty cool
I'm trying to get the deck built around this thing
so we have an extra place to work
But in typical Lee fashion
the blueprints for this keep changing
and its size keeps expanding
Earl, do any of these guns work?
One's not working and one's barely working
No, this one's not working either
I can't do this man, these need to be fixed
I don't always bring my newest, best
brand new equipment out here
I bring out stuff that's been used
It's obvious when the nail guns start dying on me
and quit shooting
The guns are dirty, everything's dirty out here
Everything that doesn't run
that takes time for us to fix it
With the deck work at a halt
Lee sends Matt and Mike out on another assignment
and one they might actually like
You can go fishing now
I like it
You better bring me back some fish
Looks like my grill's gotten a little bit out of level
Lee's the cook out here, he loves cooking
Straighten it out a little bit
Oh, that's looking a lot better
You know, I do all this for my crew
Because like Hannibal would say
An army travels on its stomach
My guys, they can't wait for the next meal
And Lee's hoping he'll be grilling up
Some fresh fish fillets tonight
After all, they're sitting on
Some of the world's finest fisheries
Lake Creek is world-renowned
It has every species of salmon it runs up
It is equal to the Kenai
There should be some reds out there
And some kings
There's a big cut bank over there
With rapids
Oh, there's a big one out there
The problem is they don't want to eat any of this stuff
113 miles away
Chuck Gerwig and his young team
Have finally made it to Matanuska Glacier
With a truckload of timber and angle iron
In just a few short weeks
His build has seen the biggest transformation
As his men work dangerously high up
If you're not thinking, things can go wrong
You do take a step back
And you might slow down half a step
It's hard for Ryan to ignore
The sheer beauty that surrounds him
We can stand here and hear birds chirping
It's cool
With the roof now on
Chuck gives his strongest men a much-needed break
Meanwhile, he and the boys
Will focus on the home's smaller details
Despite an on-and-off drizzle
Waiting for them is property owner Rebecca Steadman
And she wants a progress report
So Rebecca, this is what's going on
Here at the window
There'll be two layers for a sill down here
But the angle iron will go in here
So that that log, when it dries out
The logs can continue to shrink
Chuck's entire home is built of Sitka spruce
Cut down two to three years ago
Near Alaska's Kodiak Island
These logs still hold a lot of moisture in them
Any miscalculation on his part
Could cause severe settling
And the wood to split
Log homes, you gotta allow shrink
Your house could probably shrink
Two inches at a time, it's over easily
And more like possibly four
The window company won't warranty
If you just crush their window
Somehow they don't like that
I don't understand building
And just like, you know, the shrinking of the logs
And that, I had no clue that that could happen
So I've got to rely on him a lot
Because, you know, this is my retirement home
And Chuck's not letting the rain
Hamper his attempt to install
The decorative trim on the gables
Okay, Zach, I want you to center up on the building
Kind of pull in there
I drive sometimes
Raise them to be independent
Let them go
The lift thing is awesome
I'm trying to make this simple
But it's not working out in my head right now
Today we're just basically doing trim work
You know, none of this is structural
So we're doing 104 ¾, I believe
One by one, Chuck has to measure and cut each board
To duplicate the slope of the roof
This will be the finished product on the end
Up in the air, he and Caleb work carefully
Not to slip on the wet machinery
Alaskans are hardy people
That kind of work ethic
It isn't surprising to see in Alaska
Even with the youngest crew member
I want down, get me down, man
Don't look so excited, Zach
Go on down
What did you shut off for, man?
We ain't done yet, are we?
Is that as good as any place to quit, Zach?
Or should we work another hour?
We can quit
What? We can quit?
Okay, Zach says we can quit
I think we'll quit for the day
Work hard, play hard
That's Chuck's motto, too
Guide is clear
And he's getting his entire crew together
For a much-needed barbecue on the river
That is, if they can get through the mud
I'm saying you suck at riding a four-wheeler
That's not true
I think the food's right at the fire
Let's go eat
We often forget how nice it is
To have this at our front door
We're less than 5 miles from home
We've got the whole river
And in front of us, you've got the mountains
The Chugach Range over there
This is our little piece of Alaska right here
This has been a motorcycle that hit a moon
He was about the same age as I am
It gives you that sole reminder
That every day you need to take forth
And take advantage of it
We never have plans
The Alaskan landscape claims nearly half
Of the nation's surface water
Each year, commercial fishermen reel in
Billions of dollars of salmon, halibut and cod
But near Quiet Lake, Mike and Matt
Can't seem to hook even one
The boys must have beat the hell out of that river
'Cause they were down there for four hours
The stream is full of fish
I was throwing everything I had at it
The whole tackle box
And we can't catch them
These fish are hard to catch
Come to me, fish
You catch anything?
I want to see a fish
No fish
No fish?
No fish
So wait, if he went deeper, you lose
Michael, you do dishes
Throw it clean, come on
Don't get your panties in the log
No fish means dish duty
And getting stuck with one of
Lee Raymond's least favorite jobs
Peeling logs I will cherish forever
Lee, we have more logs to peel
Hell, yeah
Yeah
You're just starting
That's what I'm talking about
It'll wear you out pretty quickly.
Couple days in a row like that and your back's pretty shot.
It's just monotonous.
All you do is you sit there and do this all the time.
Mike and Matt start sniveling.
I'm tired of peeling logs.
Oh, my shoulders.
It's like, oh, I can't handle this.
I don't look forward to peeling logs.
It's not as much fun as people tell you.
I'm not having fun.
Can't argue with that.
Lee harvested 50 trees for his cabin.
I'm gonna go get us a log
we can use for the header above the front door.
Oh, look at that.
It's perfect.
I like to carry a big wood around with me.
And in order to support the entire third-floor loft,
he needs the biggest ones up and over their heads.
This guy right here is gonna go right here.
Mike, Matt, up here.
Keep it right there, Matt.
Right there. Stop.
Let's lift it.
Ready? Up.
OK, he'll sit there.
We're just doing a poo-poo train right there.
All right, get under it. Ready?
Up.
We gotta go 4 more feet. Let's go.
Getting the beams up is back-breaking.
There's no equipment to help with the heavy lifting.
That's good. Right there. Set her down.
Ranging in diameter from 8 to 12 inches,
one linear foot can weigh as much as 45 pounds.
That's good. Right there.
But Lee believes in mind over matter.
I'm glad I do this for a living.
If I did something else, I'd be...
Out of shape?
Fat and out of shape, yeah.
Once up, the massive beams, or purlins,
as they like to call them...
Keep shoving.
have to be carefully rotated and fit into the grooves.
I want you to drop it down in there
'cause I got a scribe to fit it.
Work with me, damn Lord.
Lift up. There you go. Roll it over.
All right, I'll work on it there.
If they're off by just a hair,
Lee has to reconfigure the plumbing.
Once it goes in there, it isn't coming back out.
That beam's nice and tight.
Obvious hazards surround these guys as they work,
which raises the question, what if?
In most cases, we've only had minor bruises and scrapes.
Nobody's been cut really bad.
We've not had anything fall on anybody yet.
You kind of, in the back of your head,
know that you can't really get injured out here
because there's not a lot of ways about getting help.
I have been stuck in here for days
because they can't fly.
We may be 3 to 4 hours out, at the best.
But invincible they are not,
as one of our extreme builders is about to find out.
9-1-1, where is the emergency?
Do you know where we are?
Hello?
What's the emergency?
There's been a motorcycle that hit a moose.
At least two people down.
One seems to be unconscious and breathing.
The other guy, I don't know.
There's a flood everywhere.
I got the call of a motor vehicle collision
with a motorcycle that collided into a moose.
Whenever I arrived on scene,
EMS had pronounced the male deceased
during the collision.
The victim was identified as 29-year-old Ryan Beachy
of Sutton, Alaska.
The female was being worked on.
We had landed a med flight helicopter
and they had taken her to Anchorage.
He was about the same age as I am.
We never have plans for the end of life.
Ryan went home to be with the Lord.
It was a shock.
He and his girlfriend had been out
on a short motorcycle ride.
He hit a moose.
Moose and motorcycles are not a good combination.
He was taken instantly.
She's in the hospital right now.
Chuck's main man, Ryan Beachy, was only 29 years old.
A talented craftsman making big plans for his future.
There was a receipt for a wedding ring
and there was house plans being drawn.
No engagement yet that anybody knew of.
But plans were headed that direction.
Those plans, forever gone.
And now, the fate of this build is up in the air
as Chuck prepares to lay his partner to rest.
As the weather turns warm in Alaska,
there are few, if any, more beautiful places on the planet
to ride a motorcycle.
In fact, Alaska has more registered bikers per capita
than any other state.
But in a moment's notice,
a scenic joy ride can end tragically.
Heaving pavement from permafrost
and lower sun angles that cast severe shadows
can hide dangers looming.
A reality that hits too close to home for Chuck Gerwig.
For Ryan, it's comfort to know
that he was doing what he loved.
I think he's just out fishing or in the bush or somewhere.
And I'll see Ryan again.
But then the other part of me knows that
Ryan's not coming back.
As word of Ryan Beachy's death spreads,
an entire community gathers to remember him
and pray for his girlfriend's recovery.
He was a bright spot on the construction.
He was my first employee.
I've worked for Chuck on and off
since, uh, 2005 or 6.
We wonder if he still had this T-shirt
that, uh, Chuck's Custom Construction
number one employee.
It's fun working with his family.
Zach's great.
You can just see how they adored him.
For the ones he left down here, there's pain.
The last thing we did on this house together
was run the tire paper.
Everything I build has memories.
So there'll always be good memories of Ryan.
And these will be the last ones.
It's far better for him.
He's in heaven.
But the question remains.
Can Chuck move past such a devastating blow
and finish what he and Ryan started?
In Alaska, summer's calendar mimics the fireweed
When the blossoms start to fade
and the stems turn cottony
summer is coming to an end.
In remote Chicken, Alaska,
Jim and his extended family
are still stuck in the muck
from the soupy foundation
to the impassable road in.
It's just so slippery.
I can't get any down pressure on that thing.
Kinda feel like I'm making it worse, not helping.
It's being so slippery.
Every time you try and put any down pressure
on the blade, the machine just slides.
With concrete scheduled to arrive
in just two days,
Jim's gotta fix this problem fast
or he'll pay the price.
We have to pay for transportation time
for the cement truck
because if the cement truck gets stuck,
it's a $2.50 a minute charge.
If it gets stuck, it will cost us a fortune.
Lucky for Jim, a neighbor's come to the rescue.
Well, this gets pretty marshy.
It gets so boggy
that it'll just sink out of sight.
So what we have to do up here
is we'll cut these trees
and we'll lay them across the road
and that allows us a little structure
to lay their gravel and sand over.
And this way, you've got
what they call up here corduroy,
which you just put across there
and then you just put your road on top of it.
It's just like the Alaska Highway.
90% of it was built on top of trees.
Otherwise, you just sink.
Fixing the road will take an entire day.
Meanwhile, the Wagners
are in the middle of a game of lake and logs.
So let's just destrap it
and hand offload this lumber, huh?
Yeah.
It's a huge undertaking
to unload and organize
all of Jim's pre-labeled boards.
We'll put it right over there.
Looks like a good spot.
Maybe have Jim give you a hand.
Elm, your woman's over here
packing around, like, 150-pound logs.
That's why he married her.
We only have so many materials
that we brought for the cabin,
so we are trying to use materials
that we have right here on the land.
While Jim meticulously pre-planned
and pre-built his cabin,
the family outhouse
is requiring some primitive thinking.
It's a recycled log cabin outhouse.
We're gonna rip these logs in half
to give us a flatter floor to walk on.
You can see in the wood
there's some wormholes
from the worms eating through the wood,
so that'll give it some character, too.
We like rustic character.
One requirement for all Alaskans
is to be able to diversify easily.
You have to be able to come up with
other ways to do something.
We're staking out the 4 corners of our cabin.
Just one big problem.
Well, it ain't level.
Jim needs another 6 inches of gravel
to flatten out his very uneven pad.
I'm just gonna kind of rake this all this way.
What we're doing here
is we've brought in some fill
to build up a pad,
and we've tried to grate it off,
and it's really hard to do
in a real small area.
After that, we will start
setting up the footing and the walls.
We're hoping the concrete truck
will come on Friday.
That completely depends on the road.
It's an aggressive deadline,
or so they think.
Is today Thursday or Wednesday?
Does it matter?
Do you guys know what day it is?
So confidently, I have no idea.
Nobody has a clue.
Over 300 miles away,
Lee Raymond and his motley workers
are fighting severe fatigue.
I'm so tired.
Nice.
Has it been that long?
Chocolate or something.
I need something.
No, Monday showed up again.
Well, it is Friday, isn't it?
Thursday, isn't it?
Is it Friday?
It is Friday.
And I don't push him.
You know, I want him to get the rest.
I don't want him to be
any crankier than they are.
I expect a day's worth of work out of him,
and I expect to yell at him a few times
to get that day's worth of work.
Ahead of them is another 14-hour day of this.
One, two, three.
All right, push.
As they hustle to raise the last few
but biggest beans.
Push, there you go.
It's very important that the guy's got
the stick-to-itiveness to stay at projects
because it's hard.
He's right there.
They are getting burnt out.
One, two, three.
We do need some new blood, some fresh blood.
I may have to bring in a couple more guys.
Three huge 28-foot logs
hang out over the front of the cabin
and will support a balcony off the log.
Let's go, easy.
Their hefty size is needed to tolerate
Alaska's massive snow loads.
When finished, the balcony will be strong enough
to handle 200 pounds of snow and ice
per linear foot.
Send it.
The weight up here for snow load
can get tremendous.
How'd that fit?
Perfect.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna score
this side, this side
with the saw blade thickness only.
And then we scribe it to fit what's existing
and slide it back over.
You ready?
Yep.
But even after all these reinforcement,
the cabin is swaying.
I'm doing the dance and I don't like it.
We have a BM.
That's a beam movement.
We're gonna strap the thing together
and crank it.
Oh, man, I feel it already.
A little more, come on.
A little more, a little more.
This is how we move house logs.
Now it doesn't move at all.
I love it.
It's going up here, too.
That gap right there
is what you have all the way around.
I need some screws in it.
Now I'm getting ready to put
this little filler underneath here.
I'm not sure how far these screws
are gonna go through it.
What?
These overalls make my butt look big.
No, it's perfect for Santa Claus.
Their sense of humor
helps them endure each exhausting hour.
But at some point,
their bodies will give out.
The problem is
there's just so much going on now.
The place is starting to look really cool.
It's not gonna get any easier
'cause now we have to get them
all up on the next floor.
Hey, Matt, you're gonna have to
go up the ladder.
Both feet up.
Come on.
Get one more step higher.
One more step.
Come on.
Put it down, Michael.
Down.
Come on out.
Out.
There you go.
Up.
I almost walked the ladder
off the deck.
Come on.
Up.
Come on.
Hey, Matt,
you almost fell backwards
off of there.
How does that feel?
I was trying to fall off a ladder
is what I was doing.
I was out of control.
While Lee's cabin
continues to take shape,
113 miles away
at Chuck's Build
near Matanuska Glacier,
all remains quiet.
A new day
brings new life
to Matanuska Glacier
and the Stedman's Log home.
Chuck is back.
What would Ryan want us to do?
He wouldn't want us
to just kill the whole project.
So it took a little bit.
We didn't work full days
for a while.
Here's two sets of battens.
Got it.
We just go through it daily
and keep on going.
We got 8 windows in the house.
We're gonna cut up
the 2x10 pile here
and make the window jams.
There's the cut list.
So if Caleb's got it figured right,
we cut it right,
in a few hours,
we're gonna have window openings.
You can't measure that opening
and make what you want
because we make it sloppy.
We give it room to shrink.
You know, we're trying to conform
a chainsaw-cut window
into dimensional lumber.
So I'll take a little bit off
and we'll be okay.
The angle iron at gap above
allows the window frame to float
as the house settles.
Looks good to me.
A log house will naturally breathe.
I can't make this airtight here.
I can't caulk this joint.
For the next 2, 3 years,
this baby's got to shrink.
A little bit of air movement
in the walls
is actually healthy for the house.
If there's no air exchange,
you can be sick
just from the house itself.
Caleb, you're getting behind.
And hiding those gaps
is an easy fix.
We're gonna trim these
with 1 by 4.
We can put one layer right there
and it hides all that.
So that's the way I found
that trimming the windows
goes the easiest.
While Chuck presses on,
Rebecca finds herself
focused on another project.
It occurred to me
when I was thinking about,
you know, the last days
that, you know, Ryan was here
that I'd like a picture
to kind of pay tribute to him.
He was standing on the pillar
between the 2 garage doors,
and he was, you know, working on that.
A really great tribute
would be to get that picture
and to put it on that pillar
as a reminder.
That in particular
would be something
that I would enjoy seeing very much.
He'll always be a part of the house.
