ENCLOSING THE FORT IN THE WOODS, WATERPROOF ROOF Fireplace Issues! Building a Window TRIPPER UPDATE

Hey guys, how are you doing? We've got lots to do at the fort today. Today we are going to enclose the fort. I have two tarps and I have a couple pieces of big plastic. I brought some nails. I'm going to show you guys my two oldest pieces of kit. I've got good food to cook up. We're going to address people's concern with the fire pit. A lot of people commented in the comments about these rocks not being good for the fire pit so we're going to show you and we're going to explain that. gonna spend all day out here I'm happy to have Keeps as a sponsor for today's video did you know that two out of three guys are gonna experience some form of male pattern baldness by the time they're 35 this has certainly got me thinking you know I'm 37 am i 37 I'm on the other side of 36 and you can see the gray has come in to stay but the best way to prevent hair loss is to do something about it while you still have hair left so in the past you've had to go to the doctor's office for your hair loss prescription now thanks to Keeps you can visit a doctor online and get hair loss medication delivered right to your door they make it easy and deliver your medication every three months so you can say goodbye to pharmacy checkout times and awkward doctor visits keeps offers generic versions of the only two FDA approved hair loss products out there you may have tried them before but probably never for this price so if you're ready to take action and prevent hair loss go to keeps.com/joerobinet or click Click the link in the description to receive 50% off your first order. That's Keeps.com slash Joe Robinette, K-E-E-P-S.com slash Joe Robinette. Thank you very much to Keeps for the sponsorship. Thanks to my audience for watching. On to the video. I'll explain my plans with all this here shortly. A heavy load, it's a heavy load. Watch out for that, that soft ground we're dropping these rocks on. The ground's kind of hard now, touche. Lots of supplies today. We are gonna beef the fort right up. We should have it all hot seat hot seat look out again I found good thick mil, probably three mil, even thicker Plastic in my garage, so we're gonna use that. I've still not bought anything except for that big tarp back there That's still wrapped up. I did buy that the other day to bring here. I brought some tape as well this time Fix up that tarp if you want to, okay one more, one more Load, one more load potentially my door with that, heavy with that. I'm done carrying things in This is a solid oak or maple Pallet, no pine here. It's cold carrying all that stuff in, it's helping me warm up. Okay, first things first Let's address the comments, the comment section on my last video is rife with people's concern and people telling me that I do not know what I'm doing because of the rocks, so let's get that out of the way. I 100% agree with most of you, yes you can have rocks blow up if you use rocks around the water and put them for a fireplace, guarantee it. Yep, you are right, I do not debate that one little bit and in hindsight definitely I should have said in a video that that's, that's a possibility and the reason why I'm not concerned about it with these, but I have said that many times in the past in videos and you don't even have to take my word for it, there's proof you can actually just go back and watch the videos i've actually had had it happen to me someone said in the comments that i was surprised they could say they could tell that i was surprised so i didn't know that rocks could explode if they're in the fire they they told they said i was surprised by the the original one that had the little crack on it but that can't be further from the truth and I actually have videos of me talking about it when I did one with Boosh maybe two springs ago and we made the leak the wild leek soup we actually had a river rock explode on us and we got real lucky that day so in my experience I've only ever had it happen once and it was with a river rock and I believe it was made out of sandstone these are limestone I believe those are sandstone there are more bouldery as opposed to slate like this the reason I I'm so confident in this is I already made a fire pit at home with these exact rocks You know, I've gone from the same exact spot and I've been using it all summer and it's fine But again, we don't have to take my word for it. It's totally cool. Let's start a fire in this fire pit We'll get keep it going hot fire all day long over here And if that doesn't satisfy you then we'll just keep it going You know what? I mean every single time I come to the fort we'll get a big rager fire going and and and see what happens I'm not concerned if they crack not concerned if they split off you know what i mean like like the original one the boulder that did that i had there that someone was saying that i was confused about but never had that issue only once with river rocks i'm very very uh confident that this won't happen again i appreciate the concern and i also appreciate the people telling the people i didn't know the deal that i actually did know the deal because there's proof of it there's there's years and years and years of a video proof okay so we've filled in we've kind of filled in that little angle I wanted to make it more of a rectangle got it all in there and we put some more rocks on the back so it's nice and sturdy I'm happy with this fire pit now it's time to get a rip roaring fire going not only to test the rocks out but because I'm chilly the coals will spread them all out through the whole thing and keep her going nice and toasty I'm thinking with the proper skin on this this could be my door right and i don't need i don't mean a door in a sense where i open it and shut it all the time but just more of like a a blocker for the elements that i can shut while i'm in there or when i'm gone it's definitely tall enough i just need to see if it's wide enough too tall actually it fits over here pretty good and don't worry i'm not going to leave it ugly like this it's going to have a green tarp wrapped around it and nailed to it uh so it will be more of a wind block door type thing from the ground a little bit there but that would block off a good portion I'd still have an opening here and there to come in from and some some airflow but that takes up a good chunk pretty hungry and cold so I'm gonna get something in my stomach to make up a tea here real quick told you I'd talk to you about and show you my two oldest pieces of kit well this is my Zebra Billy can I've talked about this recently this is the 12 centimeter look how shiny the lid is now I've SOS padded it at home I got a little shiny but the pot itself that's as clean as she comes look at right there that's as clean as it comes I spent some time cleaning it up today too anyway just a little bit of tea have that going while I'm working my other piece of old kit I will show you later on so this is probably circa 2005 2006 it's zebra billy pot I got the idea from watching Ray Mears bushcraft before everything blew up on the internet before you could get knowledge and and I knew what gear to get so I came here the other day and did a little bit more work to the fort that's why the chairs moved around there's some extra logs here I'm pretty confident pretty happy with this solid wall and I actually believe it's done originally I was gonna go out to here and then over that way but if you look this kind of lines up perfectly with that tree there maybe one more and it would be perfect but I'm okay with lining this up that way in order to do and then this will be my front right and I could do whatever I could put plastic here now or put a tarp here now and block all the snow until the snow comes and take it down and then build my snow wall with my slide like I wanted to do crossing my fingers that there's enough snow this year there's nothing there's a little tiny dusting on the ground and by now every other year there would have been a couple feet so anyways i can do that but in order to do that i need to take down this cherry tree which is okay because it's dead and i was just using it there for firewood anyways leaving it there to dry there's a big hump here that i'd have to uh level out the ground for too which i think is doable there's a lot of roots there but let's say we do that this is gone this is our our last pole we just go right across to here it almost lines up perfectly with this maybe in this tree a little bit better and then that's our front shot closed off we have a little bit of overhang extra to store stuff if we want to but this is this is closed off here and I think that that's a good idea because this is the biggest opening where the snow is going to come in the most big opening in front where it can kind of blow in so I think that's what I'm gonna do I think that's how I'll start off today by cutting this even in the ground out and trying to wrap either plastic or a tarp around and enclose the front off and again this is not permanent this is this is temporary until I figure out what we're gonna do for the front wall remember I'm filming in here this isn't just for hanging out and having fun so I need light big time in here okay well that changes the look quite a bit actually changes the look of it, nice, a little bit more uniform this way cool and see here what I mean like this is a big difference right like a a foot taller, I'm gonna have to dig this stump out and probably cut it too unless I can squeeze in between but oh no, ground is frosted up, it's pretty hard that's gonna make things a lot more difficult, we are I'm on borrowed time now like with the snow like for real chunks of earth yup, that's about right it's nice having this little rock platform I can keep my tea warm here without actually cooking it, don't let it get too cool, cheers, I broke the stupid shovel so let's see what we can do, should have known, pretty dense, pretty hard ground there to be smashing in like that anyway, no big deal, we'll figure it out, already pretty good rock and bed of coals and throwing hardwood on left and right, but again let's test this, so we're gonna throw some big rounds on, this is dense maple, maybe I'll split this one down just this one but throw it on, see happens live a little right Anyways I am confident I could probably come on to the inside of this stump so I don't have to try and put remove worry about removing it Yeah I think I can I've done the best that I can there it's not going to come any further so I've got to come up with another solution one that I'm thinking I might do is to take a big log from the one of those down trees back there saw a big length of it put it on the ground here and tack the state the plastic or the tarp to that run it along the ground and stop it here though put it there at the lower spot and stop it here because this is higher and have like maybe like a flap where I can open it out open and close pretty easily to get in and out let's try it and see how dark it makes it in there and uh then we'll go cut the log the tarp out first I have this ugly like mint green tarp which I don't really want to put up I have two of these surplus tarps this one was one that was here before it's just like literally frozen with ice on it I'm trying to melt the ice off so it doesn't it ripped the tarp but I have two of them and so let's see how these would look on the front instead we've got I brought some nails I brought two sizes of nails I brought these guys and these guys so let's see what we can do told you guys I would show you my other piece of old gear this is a Gränsfors Bruk hunter's axe it's got the rounded pole I had this is probably circa 2005 or 6 as well this and my zebra pot were the first two pieces of bushcraft gear i got the eye is all messed up extra wedges in it sharp as the dickens though nice and rounded very convex 19 inches i've used this uh quite a bit but i learned learned a lot on this okay so we're going to use and this might cringe some people out but we are going to use the pole for hammering and i'm not going to leave the axe mask on i will be careful but the reason i'm not leaving the axe mask on is i've seen before and people have used it for hammering that when you're doing this to the leather actually gets hammered onto the edge farther and farther farther they will split the the sewn part of the axe mask so that's why I never use the mask on when I am using it as a hammer it will work with the two of them okay some taping to do, got some taping to do, but that's not even where I wanted it is it I do redo actually work if I tack it if I get a big round log and tack it to the bottom one of these actually will work going across, yeah I can even wrap this around a little bit, we have extra, okay so um, I guess the thing to do would be to get that log and see if it's wide enough to even to make it close off on the bottom, well that's a good start and I can even adjust it quite a bit, come up here you know what I mean and make it completely flat, but I'm gonna do the long hard arduous job of sawing a big piece of wood first, you know what we got to do something important before we go and use that saw a whole bunch, we've got to switch out that blade actually, we have to trim up the blade to make it tighter changes the look of it already the coals are going real good and put some more wood on here, keep it going real hot, all right, check it out, I've had this seat for a couple years, I got it for Christmas I think for my mom my wife a couple years ago I've never used it once figured need a spot to bring it out leave it at the fort, keep my bum bum warm, okay we're gonna do this, remember last time how I opened it up, we won't have to show you the whole process again if you haven't seen it, just check out last fort video and you'll get the gist of it got the multi-tool not my Leatherman would you believe that I lost my Leatherman already literally just bought it for myself and lost it right away I bet you would believe that I bet you that's not hard to believe that's tall see how it has the two holes you just got to clip close first hole and pinch it work it back and forth break her off if you had decent snips that would even be easier there we go it's off see there's only one hole now that really should do it i'll leave the other side for now and if it gets pretty bad sawing wise i will uh i'll fix it but i don't think i have to all right we did it now she's just a little bit tight to clip on but no harm no foul will be uh it'll stretch out and it'll be much better to work with all right let's go do that this is the length that i need or that i think i need i'm almost done cutting it very dense and very thick long time to clear off the branches and start on the sawing and i've left two big branches at the end there because it it seems like it might be propping the log up so we'll take care of those after but i've got a good chunk of this done i might have to get rid of those they might be making this pinch the ones that are holding the log up yeah i think it is it's getting pinched i gotta stop for lunch after this i won't show me cooking it in detail i know i do that a lot we gotta concentrate on working today the attack that's a rip out though not too shabby pretty straight line big log though so It is a bit off, but I do believe that the saw is working properly again Now we got to figure out how to carry this monster back to the camp He's a big and she is a big and everybody keeps telling me stop lifting with a rounded back I can't straighten my back. I do appreciate it, but it's how my back is Okay, this is gonna take some doing. You know what? Right up and over, this will be the top of or as the crow flies at least that's heavy okay time for lunch ah okay okay double boil action pretty rocking bed of coals if I do say much so myself we're almost done okay great success here we go look at that how cheesy is the day is long oh that looks so good and upside down and everything no back in your home cheese no bacon today that's okay food certainly hit the spot lots more energy now so let's do this it slopes the other way so we actually want it. I turned the other way around big side on this side just up down the shirt figure out how we're gonna do this on the inside or what's happening that's about as far as it needs to go over then this stump is in the way that stump is in the way Just fits in there shave it out some see if I can get it in there even so it's gonna be uneven like crazy huh you prop up the other side have a little gap on the ground All right, it did a number on the stump now We got to see if I can fit it in I dug some out to behind it Hoping that this will just nest in there Toit pretty snug and then I will be able to Not have to worry so much more anymore about this part of it still off the ground a bit, but not so bad Here's the test though So I do need to move that tarp up a little bit on the ceiling or on the roof rather So this probably is not going to even be long enough. I might try the two tarps lengthways though. Let's see Whoo working up a sweat See it changes the whole look of the fort with this up and the light will be so drastically different So, you know what? I think I'll do is I'll make this so that I can pull it down in the daytime If I want to pretty easy, I'm not gonna secure anything I'll just have it pretty tight on nails where I can pry it off and slide it down and then I won't be out of sunlight When I need it with my eyes, let's hang it lengthways and see the question is do we wrap it around the outside? Or the inside try the inside The inside looks a little bit better. I think around here tacked down See it's got to get all tied up hold tight stuff. Let's get the other one up and see all right Well, this is working out pretty good actually Tarp is still stuck together for the most part, but see we can do here. It's not perfect it's not completely straight I do kind of like this if I if I go on the outside of this one and on the inside I have this little bit of a door that if I need so I can just kind of go through and it's still closed off obviously like no snow is gonna blow through that if it does not much is gonna go through I still do need to tack it down a bunch but I gotta figure out if that's how I want it or if I'm gonna go all inside you guys think do you think let me know please I I don't think it looks bad I like the color I wish that this is a little bit more uniform but it can't be I also do have to make my windows still so it's kind of in the way if I put if I tuck it in but we think it's going to keep the snow out until I don't want this up here anymore until I want the snow as a snow wall let's go on inside there's some holes I gotta patch up and I do gotta tack it down a little bit more but still go in if I need it too bad I don't hate it And the snow that would originally accumulate here and maybe put too much weight on the tarp is going to mostly be blocked by this. So I'm not too concerned about that. Let's go inside. We're running out of doors. That's not bad. That's not bad. I wish at the top there I said, like I said, it was a little bit more uniform, but I can't. It just doesn't work. I don't hate that. I can't bring this to the top. I guess I could if I wrapped it inside. Okay, let's try that. Oh, much better, hey? Much better. Look at that. Fancy. fancy-nancy look at some wood on that I love it when a plan comes together this is even better I'm blocking off some of the side I gotta put my window up next for sure enclosed extremely enclosed I even have it like an L angle here my fire is doing all right you know it's died down pretty good now I've had this going for hours and hours today already No bad things. No explosions. No real cracks even actually I thought I did see a crack here. Maybe there's one there starting but not an issue more firewood right now and window We got to tape up that hole too, yeah I don't know what to think about this big pallet here Once I get like a tarp skin on it, it might make a difference I don't really like the way it looks being honest and plenty long getting somewhere folks I'll eave that on there for too long how you doing we're getting there framing it out happy with that real happy with that this is the messed up part I guess I'll do it on here well guys believe it or not in the whole 13 years I've been doing this on YouTube this is the first time you've ever seen me hammer a nail and I'm not even using a hammer in the middle there I think I messed that up I started way down here I should have started in the middle I've had to come all the way maybe I'll just put an extra piece here don't call it good no big deal okay if this looks subpar because i've never done anything like this before but i'm pretty happy with it to be honest it's going to do its job at least that i'm certain of lopsided joe okay yeah i like it i like it a lot we're getting there folks we got the front wall covered for now until we figure out what we're going to do with it be it snow leave this up for the winter whatever the case may be again I need light in here and being able to take this down or even access indoors without having to pick my way around and choose choose a side where my door my one specific door is that is a bonus to me we got our plastic up it did cut down the light in here not too much in the camera which is the big deal so that's okay I feel pretty good about it I'm not done just yet I just still do want to do a few more things I really don't know what I'm gonna do but I'm not ready to go home good as new well if nothing else this will be a pretty sturdy ladder for the fort this log up here it's a real heavy one it's live and frozen it was live now it's frozen you can see the setup that side we've got a log holding it down so it doesn't blow around in the wind I can adjust this by unrolling it give myself more space or sorry more airflow or less regardless this is now tied to the bottom of this tree and i can move it up the other side is re-tied back way over onto the other tree but i can move it onto this one for airflow so it's all completely adjustable very easily as well it's not an issue to do it when i come out when i come out here maybe i don't even need to do it sometimes but it's there if i do okay one more thing i think i want to get done before i go the back the back is ugly let's go look at it this will all be covered in snow very soon and i can throw more stuff on it to to cover it up but because it's from it's the it's the roof it don't really matter all right there she is the unphotogenic side to the fort since we're improving our life out here at the fort I'm making improvements to this fort winterizing it if you will let's I got all this deadfall all this tops of trees I've been using I think we just throw it on I'm trying to keep this tarp and that did something anyway I cleaned up all the area at least over there around the fort too all this is old cedar branches or I believe rabbits ate that the bark off of it could be wrong but it sure looks that way to me top for for holding reasons you know on account of on account of it'll hold the stuff down trapper went and had his second surgery second set of surgeries on both elbows so he's at home could be feeling a little bit better but he's on the mend that's less obnoxious a bit more natural oh look at the fort taking place taking shape I mean the fort is really starting to take shape if I do say so myself pretty happy with it I'm really happy with the progress for today and I'm not gonna light it anymore let's check it out check out the fire pit we'll go around and check out everything we did here Pretty I feel pretty accomplished. I've cleaned up a lot of the area around the fort too foot traffic area no explosions and Doesn't look like any of these are cracked at all Anyway, so pretty pleased with that these rocks are piping hot like yeah piping hot Anyways an all-day fire for sure and we'll keep doing it Well, the sun's going down and I am done for the day. I'm pretty hungry ready to go home and eat some supper uh if you guys want in the comments you can let me know what you want the next video to be and i'll check it out i want to do an overnighter the next video for sure i just don't know if i'm going to come here and build some more and sleep here or if i should go and do a uh start completely different and do like a minimal gear type thing overnighter which i'm kind of leaning towards but uh i'd like to know your opinion i'd like to know what your preference is to be honest I'll do both of those videos regardless. I just I know I don't know What one do you want to see me do next if you want to let me know in the comments? That's cool, and I will try and appease Majority of the crowd alright guys. Thank you very much for watching the video I'm going home, and I'll see you soon on the next one. I can't leave yet silly I forgot I cut up that cherry wood Really fun time today. Just kept delaying leaving. I was gone a long time ago like an hour or two ago So I just really did a lot more stuff. I walked around and cleaned up the area and sawed up a bunch of stuff that I didn't need to. I'm taking pride in this. I'm having fun, but it's starting to take shape, and it's becoming pretty cool. I'll walk you around the fort here real quick. I've got another piece of cherry, but that can stay there, standing up. Look at the ground, though. Cleared it all up. Put a big brush pile there, all useless pieces, rotten, that is. cleaned all that up got a brush on there got a window on a ceiling pretty happy all right i'll see you next time for peace