WINTER IS COMING TO THE FORT IN THE WOODS! I Build a Half Wall to Block Snow, GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCED.

Winter is coming. Oh my goodness. Well, the plan is to get this fixed up before the snow fell or before the snow stayed on the ground. This isn't going to stay in the forecast. There's like plus seven degree weather coming up soon. So this is all going to melt off, but it really got a little fire under my bum bum. Tells me I got to get out here and start working again. That's what we're going to do. No messing around today. I got some tools. Got the new Echo Canyon bigger saw, the 24 inch. So we'll be using that lot today I want to finish off the roof I want to start on another wall I show a comparison between this one and the original boreal 21 in my last video the ATV camp with Bush so go check that out if you'd like to learn a little bit more information on that saw but basically Echo Canyon came out with three sizes now instead of just the 21 they have three different sizes it's cold today and just try to find my gloves in here right to it let's go find a big downed log and start sawing to get a wall done I do want to finish off the roof like I said too but I want to get some I want to get moving to warm up so we'll start by sawing a big ol log this this log is definitely suitable it's very big I'll be able to get some really big pieces off of it don't start at the other end but I do got to go back and get my axe so I can clear off these branches and start working easier i should bring some of these branches back and just make a warming fire as well okay so i'm just looking how deep how how much i want to cut and i imagine i don't really want to cut a width too much thicker than here so we'll start here and create a space for me to work start sawing this is a dead spruce obviously dead my knuckle a couple times on that one this is the dry wood blade it's gonna get pinched obviously so i'm gonna have to fix it after but it seems to be working all right change the angle for you here this knuckle breaker she's sailing through it too about halfway through okay this might actually not pinch it might have a lot of tension coming down so i've got to watch out dude this is where the extra depth comes in the blade's not just longer but this is deeper i couldn't have cut this through like this with the boreal 21 i should have brought it to show you okay she's through starting to pinch at the bottom That's a workout. Let me tell you you can see it's loose now I'll put another piece now. Give my heart a little little rest first. It's okay All right. Well, I take a break from all this sawing Let's go find out just how I'm gonna build onto my shelter and build my first wall Okay, I'm thinking let's just let's build the first wall from here to here that way I can get a lot of big pieces from there and they're not very long and I can do a lot in a little In a short amount of time So if I if I build on the outside of my shelter so as not to lose space on the inside That means we'll put the big rounds here say it's about that big. Oh, it'll start there So I need to pound a couple big tall poles in right in order and then tie them at the top can I jam them or whatever to support the wall sticks Going up if I put the logs laying this way on the side Which I think I will and I don't even necessarily have to you know what I could put them going all the way I could put them going all the way there and then this side would be blocked But I don't know that I want to block it all off Maybe if I put the first one down and then I'll have a barrier Yeah of a barrier from inside and out and even if I don't continue going up with them Then I'll have one or two there that I have to step over to get into my shelter because I do need a door somewhere And that potentially is my door. That's not a bad deal. Let's do that. Let's cut the longest let's cut the first one long and we'll put it going from, we'll see how we can do it, but we'll put it going from there to there. So I need to measure it. So it has to be a touch longer than this log, which is decently long. So maybe I can put the skinnier end on that side. We'll see. Let's go cut our piece though. It's about the length I need. So we'll cut it and we'll see, and if it doesn't work, we'll get a smaller piece and we'll at least have this. And we know that half of this is half of what I need. I'll even cut it a touch longer than I actually need to. Alright, the saw is making quick work of this wood. Let's get this log carried back to camp. It's kicking up. Let's see if I can pick this log up. Okay. She's heavy, but not light. Let's go see how she fits on now, what we're going to do. Woo! It actually kind of stabs in the ground pretty good with all these little pokies. I might see if I can push it just a touch more, although it kind of hooks into there. My fan needs to go back. It wants to go right there. That's where the perfect fit is, okay this isn't so bad, I can work with this actually Check it out, okay picture it with me This is all cleaned off neatly, I can even flatten it a bit The next one gets put up either in its entirety on top and then there's logs here holding it up or I stop here and I only put up logs to here and create a wall here and leave this for my door where I can still put more stuff in to make it smaller but this is for my first little step to get in and out of my shelter, that could work or I can go one full more, have two steps and then into my shelter so I'd make the top of this somewhat flat so that the next logs lay on them properly or at least as good as they can, so bad The dog, he's on the mend, he's doing much better, uh has to go under surgery again for his other arm and to do some stuff on the one he already did, so he'll be out of commission for the rest of the winter, miss the little guy out here And we will get to the boot giveaway winner in this video, I promise These can use a little bit more cleaning up, but I just want to put them on here more for the placement Let's see if it's gonna work or not, I'm gonna go Big to small, you know like big side on that side, next layer small side, so that it doesn't get Wampus to the one way, just looking at it right now I'm gonna have to put two logs in there to support that side because it's not reaching this side it'll be fine to just put one one support log up and down so I got the big side over here means I'll put the big side of this one over there okay okay I don't hate it I don't hate it it is gonna gonna need to get all tightened on there better but it's not bad the biggest problem is is right here when it starts to get wampus we gotta keep them in a line so we've got to put the stick in right here a log in right here on the back along a tall one that that has to be what I do now or or else the whole thing's gonna go wampus-y. It looks like we have a second use for this measuring pole. I think I have a good spot to put it. I think it'll be great, nice and easy. Making a point without trying to degrade the strength of the . Here is exactly what I plan on doing. I wanna put it at the very end of these logs. because any closer up, and I'll be impeded by the roof on hammering. If I get it right there, it's gonna be nice and close to this tree, right? And the best part about it is I can get up onto the roof and really hammer it down with my ax. So that's what we're gonna do right now. Getting as far as I can. Windy. Snow up here. That's in my way, and we'll obviously tie it off too. She's already starting to break. We're in there pretty good, and as long as I can tie this off to my, one of these ridge poles, it's gonna be nice and sturdy, and then all those logs hopefully will stay in place. Now you may hear conflicting stories, and I don't really care at all, I was taught by my mentor someone I really know is the real deal this is called the Canadian jam knot that's what I'm tying here I'm gonna go around both these I'm gonna cinch cinch it right brick down and you don't need a big piece of paracord for this at all I cut it very small so I don't waste I'm just gonna go grab a toggle so that I can reef on this a little bit better so it's a constricting knot and it works quite well toggle is going to go to mush Well, she's on there. It's solid. I will tie a little stopper knot I don't know that it's necessary, but I like to do that anyway. She's on there Okay, no concern there dunzo very sturdy very very sturdy Yeah, the whole shelter shaking the whole fort shaking when I move that so that's perfect So these can all get kicked as far back as they're gonna go because I want them to sit both They're all want all of them to sit on the log. All right. I'm not hating that at all. It's working out pretty good good let's go get a few more probably start to deal with more normal sized stuff now because if we continue to go big bigger than this obviously it's gonna look weird so we'll go from this size and then smaller up but probably try to stick around I don't know double forearm like width on these ones we'll need I don't know a bunch more even if I only get the wall up to here or something like a half wall today I'm cool with that and maybe even that's how it stays Who knows but yeah the goal is to enclose the whole thing so back at it that log I was using is pretty much used up now, but I think I see a dead standing. Let's go check it out Yeah, it's hugging this other one. It's hugging that tree and going up. It's dead for sure Oh, and this one too is broken off cool join here the right size thickness, so it's good It's worth taking it's weird. It's a weird hang-up. It's like hugged around this other tree weird hang-ups bro weird hang-ups man when that wind comes out it's could four more pieces a little pokey still I think I might have to tie them tie each of them individually up like I did the rest of the fort instead of putting another log down log out who knows I'm not sure yet but we'll have to figure that out it is a possibility anyway because these don't really want to stay all that great okay like I said maybe we'll try this one in its place tied one end of this here and I tied the next log over here that might be sufficient let's see for now at least so the next fattest one is this one trim this guy up she sits good though it's good it'll have to be tied for sure we're getting somewhere one touch long ain't going nowhere this one's gonna get tied on i think they're all gonna have to get tied on from this point on this one's got kind of a bend to it curve right that side there not so bad it's the last one i to have so far gets about halfway up not too bad all right i'm very pleased with the wall so far i can go maybe one or two more before this other log starts impeding me and i'll have to think of something else to do so we're going to take a break from that right now and i was able to grab two decently long straight pieces of wood that i can use to finish off my roof or to help finish off my roof so that's what we're doing now just gonna clear this all off and i will measure them up and cut them to length and add them to the roof that way we're getting even more protection from the top we will worry about the chimney effect later on after this is all done i've got a good idea from Buddy Riverbend Longbows on instagram he's got a pretty cool page so thanks dude check him out and we'll probably end up doing a variation of what he meant what he said a little tripod on the top maybe a tarp over top of it right now my goal again is just to get everything as covered as possible before winter proper sets in let's get this up there we want the small side on this side so everything continues to flow down that way i do notice a pretty good bend in this log actually that i didn't really notice before i trimmed it all up but we'll try to take off as much as possible best to line them up she's got a big bend in it making it Want to sit away from the rest of them There we go. That's as close as it's getting on that and I'll just cut over here I've got some birch bark some twigs and some fuel bigger pieces I mean gonna light this fire up for some warmth and make up a tea nice little cuppa Oh cuppa all willy-nilly there we go willy-nilly with it Joe willy-nilly with the fire steel He is willy-billy with the fire steel lots of time at home rooms been having some trouble with her eye turns out it hasn't been a clogged tear duct you guys all know you follow me on instagram she had some surgery for her eye twice because they believed it was a clogged tear duct finally after two surgeries then they do the ct scan or whatever it is i know it's not and she needs plastic surgery so she's been having some problems with her eye and stuff and she's been wanting her dad and i've been home hence the little kid talk she'll be fine everything's fine just gonna take some work and some time that's good it's a little warm and fire going I think I have a granola bar I didn't bring much out with me I'm pretty hungry too too though this is nice and comfy in here man I like having the ceiling up gonna finish it up here a couple more logs but even the half wall really adds to it before this side will be a lean-to I believe just to maximize the space there's a nice big long length that somebody can lay and then I'll cover this off like a door this will be completely covered off probably from like here to here or something just up nice and easy I could even do that that's a pretty easy job put some tea on easy the poor thing you hang out a bunch of RevolutionRace clothes today like always in the woods now snow pants they're fleece lined I got a puffy I got my Skolt logo sweater on to get that a Bunker Branding you can get all this at RevolutionRace, so I'll put links in the bottom and really pleased with them. Send me a ton of clothes Here the geese a ton of clothes and coats look at this softshell coat is a legit coat I've been wearing it all all day carrying logs and not having to worry about puncture on my pokey I'm sorry my puffy pokey in my puffy nice and easy zips really good quality stuff super happy with these guys though Okay, I'm at T. Go nice and easy on the tummy today let's uh let's get this tea done and we'll tell everybody the winner of the boots piece of wood I've used those pieces of wood for tons of stuff my granola bar is frozen lots of people entered to win the hikes boots and I appreciate that only one pair will be given away you need to go to Instagram and private message me from the account that I saved that one that way everything's legit and I don't have to fish for replies or anything like that if I find them somewhere this will make sense all right I've got a screen grab of the winner and out of the 9700 and seven hundred whatever entries the big winner of the hikes boots the hike Scout hiking boots are is Matt Parks 1991 Matt Parks 1991 so Matt get a hold of me buddy on Instagram through private message and let me know all your info and stuff we'll chat back and forth but we'll get those boots out right quick so thanks for joining thanks for everyone for joining in on the giveaway again there'll be more in the future for sure well i actually don't even know if i'll be able to get any usable pieces off of this i just noticed how rotten this is it's got to come down anyway so it doesn't fall on my shelter on the on the floor i probably won't just because the way it's leaning but we might as well take it down and see if we can use the top of it for anything it looks like it might just go to mush but who knows let's try and get it down that was was close almost got the camera on that one camera you can see what I mean no integrity to that one at all okay okay the wood is totally fine at the top so we can use a couple of these pieces for the ceiling or the roof rather all right I was only able to get one good piece off that rotten tree but I found some other stuff in the meantime so I've got two three and four there I'm just gonna gonna clean up just gonna clean up twigs on them which isn't too many and we'll get up fit it up there I think it might be might need a couple more but we're getting real close to meeting up with the tarp be happy with that gonna be a good look relatively straight and correct size around and easy enough to work with not too too many pokies when they're live they got lots of branches coming off of them obviously close to the tarp and I cut that one too short maybe I can switch that one with another one that sucks no you know what that was the one that was there was two pieces and I tried to get two out of it there was one not not quite two pieces I tried to get two out of it okay well we can use that later on for the lean tube or something getting there couple more pieces good though looking like a roof right I've got three more logs to put up there I'm hoping that that is plenty I think that'll go past the tarp and I'm going to push them up with the tarp if that's the case or sorry I pushed the tarp up with the logs if that's the case some decent sized ones here yeah put it underneath the rope I have to fix this one there we go push the tarp up a little bit more so we're we're golden we are golden here in the golden era of the fort all right added another log to my wall here I'm just noticing I'm a touch too long now so I'm gonna trim it up but I still want to keep getting another long look at that nice and tidy this is how tall it is how tall it is on me look to my stomach I mean starting to my ribs my door is pretty wide in hindsight I could have cut these pieces longer and just extended them past this log like another six inches I mean my door narrower but a wide door is not always a problem especially when you're trying to carry things in and out and I can still mess with it after nothing's set in stone here but yeah feel pretty confident about this I do want to get some more though I love the way this looks and i'm kind of getting excited so i'm gonna get a couple more of these logs it's getting dark i might be losing light pretty soon here to tie these up still but let's just put them up here and see there's gaps i know that it's not gonna get airtight and that's totally fine it's just to keep most of the snow out but i can go around and fill the gaps in with some moss and bark and stuff like that not an issue look at that i think it was meant to be okay pretty slick now it's up to my chest high up on my chest cool more than halfway done that wall hope you guys enjoyed the video excuse me i hope you guys enjoyed the video i had a great day this is awesome out here i do believe i'll come back tomorrow continue to work on the fort so that when the actual snow flies have a little bit of a haven here come do it overnight here soon enough i'd like to get a friend over to come do an overnight here with me considering i have the room for it but we'll see it's hard to get people to do stuff sometimes it's a crazy crazy year crazy time of year you all know all these things right implore you if you liked your boreal 21 and you need a new one or been a long time since you've got it or whatever i would go or if you're just looking for a saw check out the Agua Canyon Boréal 24. again i showed a little bit more in depth on the last video and this this uh carrying case has a few different cool options that i talked about in in the last video as well. I think that's it for me today. It is called Well They're having chicken drumsticks for dinner. So I think that's what I'll go do. But you guys have a great day. Enjoy your families and come check me out soon again on the YouTubes. Progress, progress.