REBUILDING THE FORT and Dealing with BUGS!

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So that's a plus I'm just gonna get some bug spray up on here start her off good, you know, so today we're gonna revamp the fort We're gonna tear all this down what's left of this and we're going to start building the back wall There's gonna be complete redo like a big back wall Big back high wall slanted roof vaguely build sides But today we're gonna get all this down and even probably retie this Yeah, we'll see how it goes Maybe I'll get a little smokey fire going too to keep the bugs at bay. But as long as I have this on, it's not too big a deal. That's why I wore the long sleeve cool guy shirt, you know. So even my big support log fell, which isn't surprising because it was on top of snow a bit. We'll have to drop this down just a touch too to make that fit, but that's okay. So we've got to keep this guy reflector oven out here. It's the last time I was out here with Doug and Boosh, so that's going to come home with me. I only brought banana, and I'll reuse all this stuff, obviously, and I will. So I had a video ready for Friday, this past Friday, I missed the post date because I was uploading my video that I had shot and edited and I was uploading it from my editing software into my computer via my external hard drive and there's a lot going on in my house. You know, I got a baby, I got an eight-year-old and I got Tripper who's a wild, wild dog. Things happen, external hard drive got knocked out, broke and I lost all my files. I lost that, a bunch of Scout stuff, a bunch of Autumn when she was a baby, that video, tons of videos, home videos. The good news is I sent it to Toronto and it's like a forensic data recovery, data recovery thing is gonna help me out hopefully, But that didn't help the video coming out Friday. Especially when I had missed two weeks prior to the video that was put out. So anyways, my apologies. It's the trip, the video is Tripper's First Backpacking Trip Ever. It was a really fun time, it was a good video. And it'll come out in a little bit. I gotta wait a couple weeks for that data service to get back to me. So anyway, it kinda sucks, but it is what it is. A piece of wood right there. So you can see here, my silly bed is no more. I lost a big piece on it, but that's okay. We're gonna revamp everything. Some dry wood under there, a little cooking grill. So, as you can see, this side slopes down. I figure if I put this support over on this side, it will even it out and it will hold this support log in place because it's down on this side. I left a little bit of a lip on this side. I don't know, I can't remember what, if this is the top or the bottom last time. hoping that the lip holds this in place a little bit more bugs bugs in my gloves put some weight on here and it'll hold it good too all right i don't know if i should just slide that right over to the end here gotta flip this around let's see how this side looks tie that together there but that's okay oh it's getting warm getting warm check this out this is one black fly bite there and then it's starting to travel see the spider web the leg go down one black fly bite no joke got one on the back of my head too and behind my ears i react horribly to them obviously make the back wall i gotta pound some big logs in as stakes into the ground so let's do that now i don't have a backpack with me like i said i only have a few things so i'm gonna hang my mask up here so i don't misplace it i saw one log over here that i knew would be good for that and i could just replace it for the back wall here it is it's nice solid pine spruce whatever it is mosquitoes to be safe I think I'll cut this log right in half. It's a bit long That way but I'd rather have it too long and sticking out Then I can trim it down after then cut cut it too short for no reason then waste it because this is going into the Ground I do want it to be as smooth as possible. So it doesn't Make more work for me trying to pound it in so first thing get rid of these knobs old limbs Then I sharpen it up and there's a really nice easy way to do this Should be able to do it in three or four hits one and then see the bottom just needs a little bit of pointing we'll do that in one hit there you go okay so one done, one and done, the top it was a little bit shorter it's a little bit wider too so i'm gonna go on a higher angle and narrow it down so three hits on that one okay both of those are done a good idea too is to chamfer the ends so they don't mushroom out on you kind of taking a little bit of material off the circle of the top helps it not mushroom out so bad or split now that i've got all the logs cleared away back there it's to measure how far back i need to go this log is from that pile of backlogs all those are going to be stationary size because i already cut them to size so i can measure it with this and be good to go so what i'm thinking of is having a little bit of an overhang still with the logs and then having the backlog up about this high and that's i could even go there there's plenty of room especially if my bench is right on the edge or even back a touch i have tons of room for for head head height and then tons of room for storage so i think that's what i'll do go to right about here the back wall so i gotta pound some stakes in right there so the idea is to put one on either side and leave a space in the middle big enough for some logs so that's about big enough for some logs i can even tie it up at the top after we'll just stick that there stick that there and get to hammering get to hammering now i don't mean to sharpen my own axe or anything oh my goodness unless it hit a root, but I have been known for my ax-curacy, ax-curacy, I'm saying accuracy, but with an ax instead, ax-curacy, okay, she must have hit something, but they're in there, pretty good, ax-curacy, okay, they're in there, this little mesh makes it hard to breathe, lesser of two evils though, ah, okay, so I need to replicate that, duplicate it even on that side, I need a drink of water, they didn't bring much food on purpose, I have to eat a little less, Just for give my stomach a break. I got a banana. Well, it's so hot from hitting it You literally feel the heat coming off of this from being hit with the axe. That's pretty cool So one right there make up some some steaks now some large ones cut that right on a knot So hopefully well, it was a little bit more difficult to saw hopefully it'll be a tougher. I'm pounding it in solid solid gold Bugs bugs bugs. I love bugs in my eye. Ow, ow, ow. Things are coming along, coming along. So this is a little, little wide, but I can definitely push these together at the top with a Canadian jam knot once that's all the way up. And I might want it like that too. It may make it wider. The logs make it wider. Well, I don't want to use up too many of these big logs that I have for the back. I don't want to use skinny ones down here either. So we are going to have to go get some more fresh logs. Yeah, These are gonna have to go together a bit more. Yeah, I can fix that after no problem Okay, the good thing is they don't have to be live. They don't have to be standing There's one over here. That's on the ground. It will take some work to clean up and get it over here But it's big it's it's thick around in diameter and I don't have to cut a tree down which is best of both worlds So let's go check this out. Well this top part that's coming down here is garbage this bottom I get two pieces off of I believe maybe not maybe one piece but still nice big fat one be good had to clear it up though do need it pretty smooth fit in there with the other ones so I'll be trying to take the limbs off right at the base if I can that whole body's out of harm's way here on the other side of where I'm chopping on some of these bottom limbs might be helping to support it staying up so be careful that doesn't get pinched super punky down here solid towards the top but it's okay it's going right on the ground anyway she's soaked through ah very heavy extremely heavy darn so warm all these layers ah that took a lot out of me darn darn it all to heck i'm not in shape i haven't done anything like this strenuous in a while i just crushed my grill oh man oh well i took something out of me it's a really good thing i don't have Tripper with me here but i've already had to drive him home i'm not gonna baby this dog You know, I mean his whole life, but he's a baby. Anyway, I wanted to bring him and he wanted to come and be good I don't want any bad experiences out in the bush You know what I mean? I want to make everything positive for the first year. That way he's raring to go These are going to get pushed together Ah bugs, I gotta get a fire going here poke in the bum, I gotta get a fire going, try and get rid of some of these bugs It's getting pretty bad if I were on a lake at a campsite wouldn't be half this bad but we're middle of the bush and it's very wet this time of year or this year especially it's freakin soaking wet it's raining every second day like a lot so these mosquitoes are just just going to town a little small smoky fire going I think sucks when they get inside your bug net and they're just probably should be getting proper and tender I'm just hoping I hold the fire here long enough the lighter here long enough it'll just catch all I can hear mosquitoes in my ear take this flame i'm about to be my youtube career doesn't work out you'll be singing you'll be seeing singing joe that looks like it's gonna catch surprisingly enough this hurt that was caused when you walked out of my ear that might go out but let's just keep putting sticks on it no one's sticking it no all right i zigged when i should have zagged let this be a lesson do what you're supposed to do before you do it do what you're supposed to do before you do it okay got some yellow birch and instead of waiting to do this i'll move that before i light it and then we can just drop it right on top what a novel idea oh my goodness look at that now if that doesn't go i'm going home here's the sun that should make the black flies come out that'd be great okay we do want a smoky fire so i'm going to be putting nasty little rotten things on it we do got to get the fire going strong to saturate myself with smoke here it's already working so i did use some of that wood that i saved already from before that was on my grill i got some punky wood on there she doesn't go out that's a good amount of smoke seeing as how the bottom log is much more fat than the top two than these two and how high up i already am about halfway i think i'm going to get rid of these two and keep the same diameter log on the bottom all the way up i did see when i went to go get that yellow birch i did see a dead big old dead spruce over there that that matches the this and it's standing so it won't be soaking wet it won't be as hard to get over here i feel like if i get two or three pieces off of that i'm gonna be sitting like almost at the top here anyway so it's probably worth it to take down one dead tree to finish the rest of my back wall and then i can continue to use these pieces for the thatching or whatever you want to call it the rafters because I don't think I can I can tighten this at the end after I've been trying now like I sat here and squeeze it together and it's just not budging so I don't want a sloppy back wall I don't want to be all saggy and this one falling down having to prop up and stuff like I'm sure you've seen on some fire reflectors I've even made fire reflectors like that this is the same idea so yeah we're gonna get rid of these two we're gonna go cut it on a big tree probably gonna sweat my little behind off that's all part of it the smoke is helping the bugs big time move these for the last time hopefully out of here at least a little piece out of that that's all right i'll just get in i'm gonna throw back i'll press it or this is what i do to campers anyone anyone still following this this log is bigger than the other one so i've got to uh i think i gotta put this one on the very bottom lighter than the other one oh i'm sweating up a storm my goodness gracious some work. Putting some work in. I'm soaked. I'm just drenched. Ah. Ah. My little heart's a-pumpin'. My little Joe hurt. My little black hurt. Back retaining wall is looking... Is that the right word? Retaining wall? I'm going to use it. It's looking pretty awesome. Got a piece of cord onto there. It's going to fall. It's nice to be out. Anyway, I'm just going to relax for a couple minutes here. Then I'll get back to work. The back wall looking good the retaining wall is looking good retaining wall right well i guess i better get back to work i'm just sitting here getting eaten full of it it's just full of it all right back at trim all these up after two make them the same length more on there before i'm topped out i might as well just take it from here that one's a bit heavy that's just as heavy just thinking the top should have a light one on it but that's okay okay so see how they're starting to go i do have to um pull everything together and that's okay i'll do that no problem yeah a couple canadian gems on there it should work pretty good that's a decent size wall definitely so i'm going to be tying this together with canadian jam knots you guys have seen me do this a hundred times if you want more in detail look on an older video you pass through there i do want them all where where they want to sit i want them to be where i want them to sit so that i tighten it properly I'm gonna get a little toggle to help myself with this But I can just leave it like that for a second until I get the other side on Learned this knot from Terry Barney, Iowa woodsman My mentor, really, my instructor for all things bush Legit dude It's getting there And again, I'm gonna get a toggle for this side too Just so I can really, oh look at that, right here So I can really get some oomph on there Oh, the bugs Oh my gosh, the bugs Alright, that's on there That's on there all I'm gonna do now just so it doesn't want to slip and it shouldn't but I'm just gonna wrap it and tie it off and I'll do that on both sides just as a little extra that's solid I'll be able to stand on that after that's not going anywhere frogman Joe do shabby all right well I just noticed my batteries on red and I don't have any extra batteries with me I thought it was a full battery before coming out here so if it cuts out that's why so what I have to do next is figure out a way to secure I guess I could just butt them up like this that would work too i was going to say i'll put a smaller one up here another log up here on top of the paracord that just kind of wedges in there and then i could wedge this in the crack of it yeah that's what i'll do yeah this will be held in and push that towards the back from the pressure from the logs yeah okay then maybe you know what maybe i could tie an outside i'll show you what i'm talking about here now depending on how secure this gets like with all the weight pushing against it it might be fine here but i might want to tie an extra piece uh like a log coming out here on the outside to just stop it from sliding down and it'll go across the whole way but we'll see that's not a big deal right now everything's everything's how it needs to be right now nice overhang here some of them has that nice overhang i'll put this one on the outside i'm gonna have to tie another one at the bottom it has to happen that sits on there and i'm going to tie it on too i'll get another piece for this side to sit on hopefully i can move those logs after too they're just there to hold it in place for now okay that's perfect okay now you can really see instead of just being uh like propped against them with pressure this this solid log is going to hold them all in place right makes sense eh so we just got two going on the top boom not going to go anywhere we got some good a good start going the good thing is i got a bunch of bunch of logs kicking around it's not going to take long to put them on there and then i'll put some thatching material on there we're not going to just leave it like this we're not going to just leave it like this that would be silly now i can start to put the real hefty ones on be solid to support them oh sticky where was my glove on that one my hands are so sticky now all right gotta wear the gloves gotta wear the gloves don't want sticky hands i'm happy with the progress from today good amount of progress joe well thank you joe very nice of you to say oh don't mind if i do don't even mention it okay some of these have a good overhang some not maybe i'll you know put all the ones that don't have an overhang to one side or something we'll see after but main thing is get these logs up see how it looks good boys and girls all right my camera died i'm gonna see if i can insert this somehow into the video just using my phone anyways i got it all up it's a good amount of uh good amount of progress done today what i definitely noticed now is i need to put sides on this thing like big time so that'll be the next uh excuse me the next build the process put some sides on this piece we'll see how we'll figure out a way to do it properly or not properly we'll figure out a way to do it joe style but yeah man i'm completely standing under here and the ridge pole is half a foot in front of me i'll put the bed here mosquitoes i'll put the bed here i'll have a bunch of storage behind i can even make two beds one way back there that's what i'll do i'll make two beds i'll make one back there and then we'll have a little aisle way and then we'll have the bed in the front and that way i can have a guest back there there's plenty of room like obviously there's a bed there is plenty of room headspace you're not gonna hit your head so very cool i'm gonna go home as i have no more camera to film with and because I'm getting eaten alive so let's get out of here and we'll come back hopefully soon hopefully get back here and start building I'm excited about this it looks looks like a fort now there's just a bunch of logs falling all over the place cool thanks for coming I hope you guys enjoyed it I hope you guys uh yeah are looking forward to the next installment of the fort I'll see you later