OFF GRID LOG CABIN Overnight!- Bear Ribs, Cold Temps, Firewood.. My Self Reliance Log Cabin Life

Hey guys, how you doing? Joe here, thanks for joining me. I'm pretty excited. I'm on my way up to see Mr. Shawn James at his log cabin he's built. We're gonna stay here overnight. Tomorrow we're gonna go ice fishing, stay in a canvas tent. Stay along, I think you're gonna enjoy this one. Hello, Mr. Shawn James. How you doing, buddy? How you doing? Good to see you. All righty, it's cold. Yeah. Oh man, this is nice. Thank you. Look at this. Warm, inviting fire. Bam. Nice and warm in here too. We're cozy. Yep, hang your stuff up there and settle on in. You have your lunch here? Yeah, no, but let's eat for lunch, have you? No. Nice. Lunch day! This place has changed a little bit since I saw it last. Yeah, I don't even think, there wasn't a floor when you were in here. No, it was a half floor. Yeah, you're still working on it, but this is all new. Like, it looks, it's like a, like a house, like a, like a log cabin. Look at this, he made a chair, you made that table? Yep. Nice. Some people recognize the legs, come from a local shelter. Oh, it looks like Striped Maple under there too. Yeah. And then these are, Sean's referring to our old shelter. Those are from that, nice. Is this my bed? That's your bed. Oh, snap. You're making it just for me? Yours and Cali's. Aw, piss. Dog bed. Dog bed. On the same level. That's pretty cool, man. The fridge here, keep my food down in the icebox. How was that, digging that out? It was real fun. But it's been effective. It's 22 degrees Celsius up here, and it'll be about two to three degrees Celsius down in the block. That's handy, dude. Yeah, it's perfect. Yeah, summer and winter kind of thing. Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, so it's a work in progress. A little bit more to do. Next phase this week. So Tom will start making the countertop here. Got a sink that's going in there. A couple of shelves. maybe like a jam cover here and then a couple of chairs back there and then pretty well done like interior that I can get working inside. Yeah it seems like you've utilized the space in it pretty efficiently. Yeah and we were talking earlier, my wife and I, about putting a door through here so cut a door through there onto a covered porch so a full screened in porch so we can overlook the stream. Yeah it looks bad there's a little pond back there. Yeah. Nice. Yeah very cool man this is this is awesome pretty uh you feel pretty accomplished over this i would i feel very accomplished you know i'm just working away at it and wasn't thinking too much about it but now that it's done i do have to admit the first time i sat by the fire and had a meal by myself and and got comfortable when it was freezing inside i think that's when it really hit me that i did it on my own i used to have done oh yeah this is nice to be here i can't imagine the uh like i built some shelters and felt accomplished but this is pretty cool man yeah making it home man just hanging things everywhere i'm loving it everything in here is pretty personal there's stuff on the wall the bear the deer antlers the paddle here everything has a story behind it that's very cool still got some tools on the wall that'll come down with some finished construction that's part of the motif, no, very cool, very cool man, next week i'm gonna make a cutting board To be fair, Sean did offer me some. To be fair, my wife made enough for me. Do you have any mustard? I actually do, I think, in the icebox. Well, that makes my day. Yeah, I'll eat some of those. Oh yeah, hot peppers all day. I'm going to mix up some salmon. Boys and girls, thank you. This is luxury. It's going to go soft. I don't know if we're going to make it out contenting an ice fishing. That's a very true statement. it's funny you get uh where i've gotten used to i've mentioned this before but i've gotten used to cold camping over the last several years well since i lost my cabin or got rid of my cabin first cabin was that the year 2000 or 2001 so i've been basically cold camping in winters and not um you know having the luxury of a heated cabin so it's starting to go soft already even though it's only been a couple of months yeah i never uh used the hot tents until maybe last year as well yeah i like them there's two you know it's two different kinds of camping right i'll still do both but let's get this real quick well look at the difference with um well we're getting older too I guess a little bit I am but if you look at um the hot tenting wasn't really mainstream until recently you couldn't get tents unless you went to the great big blues or a guide tent you know right oh yeah yeah yeah so now it's more available and more information out there a lot heavier right so it's not stuff I like to explore when I go to do stuff, so. Yeah, they're good for a base camp kind of thing and then go from there or whatever. Yeah. Definitely has a place. So do just bivvies, right? Oh, mustard! Oh, I'm gonna, uh, you got, you got a pot of coffee, pot of water on right now? Yeah. Okay, cool. I'm gonna make up some coffee. Oh yeah? Yeah. Oh yeah! I've, uh, I've adopted the coffee ways. Yeah, I actually just said to my wife, I don't think Joe will actually drink coffee. Yeah, so I do now. This one's caramel. I don't know. It's Colombian. It's legit coffee. It's the JivaCube stuff. That's awesome. I remember seeing that on TAO Doors. Yeah. Anyways, so, they're good. I've never tried that. So what do you do? You stick it in your cup? Yeah, you can try one if you want to. That one's caramel. Yeah, do you mind? No, go ahead. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'll make you an espresso tomorrow. Oh, fancy pants. All right, cool. I might be bouncing off the walls of an espresso. But yeah, they dissolve after a while, they're super hard, the Colombian, and then they taste really good. I don't put anything in it. Yeah? No. Will was putting like coffee and sugar, so I don't think it needs it at all. So there's... Yeah, there's multiple in it. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's just a stick one in there. Come on. That's awesome. That's very, very easy Yeah, very good. Flip them out. You can buy them anywhere, or what? Oh, it's travel to you, or I should probably have a link to it. Wood stove really warms this place up, dude I got my down booties. I threw those bad boys on. No peasant life in the cabin. This trip is going to be split up into two. We're staying here, Sean's cabin, the full day and night tonight. And then tomorrow we're going to get up early and hike out from here. Sean knows there's a pretty cool lake, a couple set of lakes we can go to. We're going to hike out that way with our sleds behind us. Sean's got an ice auger, as you can see right here. We'll be drilling a hole, ice fishing all day. And we'll set up the canvas tent, the snow trucker. So it would be almost as comfortable as in here Yeah, well, yeah, actually when they're when the wood stove's humming it's hotter. Oh, yeah, cause it's smaller. Yeah. Yeah, it's almost unbearable And then you have the option of staying up all night and stoking the fire, just letting it go and Oh, that's I go to bed. I don't yeah, I'm not trying to get up and stoke the fire or nothing No, if I brought a sleeping bag that wasn't rated for it, obviously that'd be part of it, but yeah, I know I don't like to get up and stoke the fire No, my sleeping bag, the mummy bag from Mac, it's down to minus 30 or something, and it does. I've been down to minus 38 in it, and I've been warm. Yeah? Oh, yeah, it's awesome. That's the same one you used last year? Yeah. Is that synthetic? No, it's down. What's it called? A storm? Really good. Nice. In the cabin here, which I didn't know either, even though it's not fully changed, If I let that die completely, that wood stove, it's about 10 degrees Celsius when I get up in the morning still. After having it fire up the day prior? Up till literally, yeah, if I stoke it for the last time, say 11 at night. Right. It dies completely to the point that it's actually cold and I can take the ash out. But the heat in the walls, these logs heat up and just release the heat all night. So you're getting 10 degrees Celsius in the morning. Yeah. That's pretty decent. Yeah, I go to bed, it's like 22, 23. That's not unbearably cold in the morning. No, in fact, most of the night I have to keep my sleeping bag open. My house in Huntsville was colder than that. The morning when we woke up, I swear to God. Yeah, actually, my first house was a story home. It was really well insulated, but we heated it. Well, we had electric like you did in Huntsville, but we didn't put it on. Yeah, we barely put it on. No, we couldn't afford to. No, no, who can, right? Yeah. So the wood stove would die. Come home late at night and it's like two degrees in there. You just bundle it up. trying to watch a movie is impossible yeah have a couple kids yeah trying to sharpen up this be sure so I'm just put a strap on that I sharpened it last week as you saw before I headed out with my wife ice fishing so I'll just touch those up this is actually a Mora everybody's into the Mora knives so this is a Mora auger ice auger so it's kind of an old style and I've had this forever and nothing really can happen to it you can replace the blades if you do chip them they love painting the baby blue on stuff yeah so for you guys don't know that or haven't watched which probably isn't too many of you Sean James here has a YouTube channel called my self-reliance and he's built this cabin by hand with with hand tools and he's got a whole list of catalog videos was building it from the ground up starting when last spring yeah like may last spring till now and he's still he's done the cabin 90 percent done the cabin as you can see tons of stuff more to do on it more homesteading stuff to do so check his channel out i'm sure you guys will like it's very interesting he's blowing up right now it's uh you got to get on in on the ground floor got a couple of new knives here Joe brought up for me from Adventures Corner I don't know do you know anything about these things i do yeah i do um this is the fisherman model this is his first I believe first run at the take of the fisherman models so he had a little bit of trial and error with the sheaths but came with a really really quality sheath I think yeah oh they made it in house oh yeah everything yeah everything so we got pretty good bend on it for a pull knife and that's cedar that's a cedar wood with OD green spacers so So it's really nice. I've never seen a cedar wood handle before. When I saw that they were doing that, I was pretty interested in it, and then it turned out to be yours. And then he sent a matching Classic, which is a really nice knife. I'm actually pretty jealous of the color combo on this one and the whole getup, but they're matching. Cedar with green again. Nice knife there. No, no, you're good. But yeah, and then a matching Firesteel, so thanks to those guys. thanks guys appreciate it very cool I got you I showed you mine so I got the same when Sean's order came to my house I got mine I got the white one with the orange and then the matching fishermen as well we'll try to get those put to good use especially that fisherman come on I'll teach you how to trout fish, yeah, well to find a grocery store, I got the guy who commented the McDonald's thing. I got him back. I'm sure it's him. I saw a comment the other day about a true Canadian leaving without camping or something. Don't forget to put the McDonald's or the Tim Horton out of frame. I was so trying not to just write back Tim Horton's. Like an asterisk. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I should have done it. For the record, I wanted these, it's not Sean knows I can't, yeah it's true I can't even make it easy, we have to stop twice on them yeah, well I think we've uh stayed in here and chatted long enough catching up, we don't go now we're not going at all, right? I'm losing light so uh not really, but it's gonna get dark in a couple hours I think we're going to go outside and fix up the fire pit, there's a lot of snow around there. It needs to be dug out. Sean brought some bear ribs and some grass-fed beef steaks. Grass-fed beef steaks. Some bear. So yeah, we'll do that. We'll grill those guys up outside of the cabin instead of sitting in here and cooking on the wood stove. Grilling is a little bit tastier. Oh yeah, yeah. I'm actually saving them to actually go outside with the two cold and lazy. That's that whole getting soft thing. Yeah. All right, cool. Yeah, let's go do Look at that, it's a little brighter out here. So that's the fire pit we're talking about. Where did you get that metal thing, the fire pit thingy? My buddy Kyle in Barrie, Ontario has a machine shop. Actually, he's got a pretty cool little Instagram page, Iron Arts. Iron Arts. Or Iron Hiker, so he made this little hiker out of railway spikes. Okay, oh yeah. Yeah, and he goes to Killarney and he'll put that on a little ridge, a close-up photo so it looks like a full-size person oh that's cool yeah i've seen things like that before with like little like bigfoot statues yeah yeah yeah well that's kind of cool yeah i haven't used it yet so this is good there you go so sean's gonna let me use his fancy axe tell me all about that axe please chopper one usa this is uh this is one of the original models i think they were made from 1978 to 1986 or something like that went out of business or you guys shut down on production for a number of years, and they just kind of made a resurgence recently. I did a review on this and a couple of other channels like Crazy Russian Hacker and Wrangler Star, and it's kind of been a resurgence. People are interested in them again. Can you show me the, yeah. It's the way it works. There's just a spring in there, a pin with a spring, and when it bites into the wood, when the bit bites into the wood, that spreads quickly and just shoots the wood open. splits it like crazy yeah cool I'd love to give that thing a shot yeah it's not much you don't need to swing very hard you come straight down on it nice long handle and less energy for sure cool oh man I almost split those chopping block yeah so no power right you don't have to like put any oomph into it wow okay and because it starts and it's very blunt anyway because yeah it's not biting in so you don't waste energy biting in and trying to get it out again dude that's insanity that was no effort at all granted these are pretty straight grain pieces yeah but I'm sure well that's when I was testing it in one of my videos I got the chunkiest maple that old gnarly knots and everything still still a couple swings but should have taken me five or six right that's nuts you can't even do it too hard because you're searching for your wood the whole day. That's pretty cool. A whole bunch of people ordered it right after I did that video. Oh yeah? Yeah. Should have had an arrangement. Yeah. Where's that affiliate link for the axe? The axe affiliate. That's nuts, dude. That really makes things a hell of a lot easier. And by all accounts, these springs do last a long time. actually that's how I found out they're in business again I was looking for spare parts so I should at least have them on hand but yeah they have a website again so you can get them so the only thing that would go is the pins yeah or the springs would weaken right this is pine that's cedar yep that's the cedar offcut It's like I feel like I'm not swinging it like nearly hard enough Well, I'm pretty impressed if I ever need a splitting axe. This is where I'm going like did this this brand for sure There's no doubt in my mind. Well, it's still crack What do you want to what are these things run do you think? 70 US maybe? It's not that bad. No, it's not like you're paying much of a premium Dude, for a tool that's going to make your life easier? Yep. Pretty cool. There we go. Okay, well, fixing up that fire pit didn't take too long, Sean. Now what do we do? Now what do we do? So we're going to go take a walk down to the old shelter we built, the old shelter location. Some kids built it, I think. Some punk kids, yeah, didn't know what they were doing. But yeah, so we'll go down to there, the lumber location. we'll go check out the pond maybe see if we can see any animal tracks so we'll go on we'll go on a little winter hike right on the edge of a winter deer yard so like two miles up the way here to the north of us there's major one of the biggest deer yards in Ontario tons of deer but also means a lot of wolves hang out in this area so we're right on the southern fringe of where they come down to there might be some wolf tracks or moose down in here fringe you might have heard sean talking about it earlier but we're pretty lucky right now we don't have to use snowshoes same thing with my last trip. There's a lot of snow, but there's a crack. Even though we're punching through, we're not punching through much. Really too sure what these tracks are, but they're all over the place. You can tell they're not hooves. In themselves, too, though. Which is normally a fox, right? Yeah. Going in their own track? Yeah, exactly, yep. And this is prime firewood over here, these dead cedars. You see a lot of this sometimes, or a lot of the time, actually, in old ponds or even in lakes, these tall dead cedars. They're Completely petrified wood, rot resistant, make great firewood, but they're always super hard to get except for the winter time. This is the area that you hear the wolves howling from normally? It is, yeah. Yeah? Three people on the entire road that live here full time. The next guy up, which is a few miles, he befriended a pack of wolves six years ago. So they come and hang out on his driveway. They can do howls with him. Oh, man. One that's about six feet, six years old this year. Six or seven feet long, pure white. That's pretty cool, that's cool Smart it's not a far-fetched for me to believe it Whoever watched that that big old Shelter build video back in last March we'll recognize this spot. Oh Look at that. She was a biggin. Oh, man. We put some work into this thing I forgot how big it was what do we camp out here for two nights? We built a campfire for two nights, two nights. Oh, yeah, cuz the first thing First night Captain Morgan Well, I'm glad that didn't happen yeah we slept one night before the shelter was done and then another night with it back to the shelter hey just don't worry nothing happened that's a shelter that's shelter guys blame it on kids but no what happened was the uh the one support tree got uprooted that's all that happened but that stood for what six months seven months that probably happened we had some fall rains I would say that root ball got loosened up and then it pushed it over when the beauty of this is that nothing goes to waste so what you see here I've got well I made the table legs that you saw earlier right in the cabin yeah yeah I'm building the stairs up to the upper floor out of this the kitchen and then the remaining ones I'll build the workshop walls structure I'm gonna start in the spring I get more use out of it that way now it's season oh I knew this is gonna happen i was like we're just you know this is money in the bank for later yeah it's like a log cash yeah exactly you can really see just how big it is or big it was um yeah this is a fun project we we wanted to build this together and we had a good time doing it if you guys want to check out that video like i said it was from last march sean and i both have a video of that on our respective channels i think mine's called um no i don't think i know i know it's called 48 our camp and build large semi-permanent adirondack shelter on newly acquired property she's a little long on that one but you know what yours is called i don't even have a clue anymore uh if i can remember if i remember i'll link it in the description both of ours but uh yeah that was fun then that was i guess there would have been ice on that little thing because we were walking back and forth cutting wood we did walk we were a little sketchy we walked the edges on the way over here but i know we got across yeah well it was then we heard water running these are all balsam fir logs tons of balsam and fir around here this is actually a really cool spot remember we thought that it was a nice spot oh beautiful i've been back a couple times since then and the stream's running it's actually a really nice spot really nice uh when you look out across the meadow and watch the sunrise this is where we had that deer backbone or the deer rib yeah that's right yeah yeah that was the ribs yeah we did learn something about uh making things with balsam firs don't sit on it fresh because all this sap gets all over your clothing in fact we're both wearing the same pants we are both wearing the pants that we wore on the last march trip to do this and i've got also for a sap all over the butt of these pants my wife is not impressed Washington State. The moose tracks going up through the deep snow here. I had a feeling there was moose back here again. I saw them last spring, but they haven't been that many around. So this is just a single moose walking through. Pretty good sized track, so it's probably a bull. where he came through also and it got melt so it's frozen now and it's pretty defined. I'm not sure how well it'll show up in the camera but look at the hue of blue spruce there compared to the pine. The hue of blue. Blue hue. Don't need snowshoes here. What are you talking about? This is the burn. We're in the lightning. I would say two years ago lightning hit just this one little island. Burnt all these trees up. Are there still some remnants? Yeah, we should be able to see all the new trunks. Cool, let's go check it out after we get out of this snowdrift. There's a theater outside into actual wood. Lightning, fire, the old mother down. Alright, Shawn, you think that ax will split this wood? Look at the grain on that bad boy. Look at that, like a twist on a walking stick. It has a nice homely feeling to it. You know, like, you can go in there, just get warm, basically, is the thing. Ah! Oh, man. Oh, man. I think I saw a negative 20-ish sleeping pad tonight. I stopped at MEC on the way up here, Mountain Equipment Co-op, Canada's version of REI, as I've said many times. And I stopped to see a buddy that works there, but he talked me into this pillow. So I've had the same pillow for quite some time. It's worked out fine for me, but it's losing its pillow-like features, so it's on to the next one. This one seems pretty cool. It's actually way smaller than my other one. My other one was down, and it didn't roll up or pack down or anything. It kind of just smushed like down does. This one rolls up, and that one lost its filling, and it was really kind of flat, so I guess I'm blowing this one up. There's a little valve here for I think a pump, but it didn't come with a pump unless I'm supposed to roll this bag up No, I don't think so. So we'll blow into her see how it goes. So it's like this soft Fleecy kind of feel to it. It's got a little contour and some bubbles some bubbles in there And I'm sure I'll probably end up doing this one of these and letting some air out. Thanks Brendan Brendan's the friend that works at Mac if you didn't catch on to that. Time to light the beacons You can smell that cedar like crazy. Yeah, beautiful. You know, somebody said, when they saw me cutting log ends off, that I should have left them on. What you normally do is leave them on until you need them for emergency firewood. Oh yeah. But, there's not going to be too many emergencies here for one thing. No, but it's good. It makes sense. Yeah, it does, yeah. It's really something cool to think of. Yeah, if it was a wilderness cabin. Right. Because yeah, that would be like kiln dried almost, by the... Yeah. Plus three on my thermometer, but that was sitting on the floor in there, away from the wood stove, so I'm going to hang it maybe over on the outhouse out there, on the outhouse out there, and we'll see how cold she is. My hands are pretty cold. Oh, is it? Yeah. Well, that'll work too, right? I forgot to put that in. Derp-a-derp-derp. It's just a big-ass outhouse. Can't miss it. It's pretty big, right? Oh, man, I shouldn't be holding my tripod with no gloves. This is cold. It's sitting at almost negative 11 maybe, negative 11 Celsius, so I guess I don't need to hang mine. I'll hang it in the cabin. How about that? That'll make sense, right? Hang it in the cabin. I'll hang it kind of near head height. We'll see the temp. Temp's is short for temperature. Stick with me, boys and girls. Gloves on. Look at my gear pile. Sean's nice, clean cabin. Everything's immaculate. it's got all its own spots where it needs to be and I got a gear pile making himself at home this light I got a light for the top of my camera as you can see it seems to be working out pretty decent be good for like watch go over on the corner if I shut the light off I shut the light off pretty big difference gets all grainy right now my lens is getting a little foggy too so you can take that into consideration coming in and out of the cabin with the wood wood stove going That happens. I got these gloves for ice fishing tomorrow. These ones aren't gonna cut it It almost has like a glass breaking sound with the axe lovely blends in very well in my camera He's sitting up eating something. Yeah The fly all stacked up inside and out fire gone Sun just set sky was nice and purple and pink actually very pink getting firewood and did not have our cameras That's really nice, dude So I don't know how long that this thermometer has been sitting up here, but I'd say about an hour or so Let's check it out plus 11 or 12 Celsius, so that's pretty decent. It's about a live negative 11 or 12 outside It's probably dropped even more now a while when we looked and it's that inside so nice and comfortable They're gonna go out and sit by the fire now cook up some steaks and bear ribs It's Sean look at Sean over there. You see him shut this off It was kind of creepy just watching him work out there. Put a base of ice and significantly big logs down. Sean's treating me to some steak tonight. Those things look really good, dude. Whole beef, actually. Didn't plan on it. Good price. Five bucks a pound. Finished. Grass-fed Dexter beef. My favorite. What is Dexter? It's the species of smallest. We raised them ourselves, actually. So they're only like... Like Great Dane size? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Huh. Full-sized deer. That's about 600 pounds live, actually. We got the whole thing, which means I'm eating beef every second, right? 220 pounds of lean meat in the freezer. So that's the size of the T-bones. You see that? They're smaller. Those are the bear ribs? Spare ribs? Spare ribs. Spare, bear, bear ribs. Bear, spare? Spare. Potatoes are looking good. We'll grab the last of the bear ribs off of him. Hello, feast. Okay, that hand's a little warm. Handle's a little warm. There's a lot of comments saying, how is he picking up the pan? There's a little black handle. Oh, I saw it. Is that it? Yeah, a little silicone cover. Oh, look at those fancy pants. The mystery is done. Big ol' plate of ribs. Minus 20. Are outer layers up? Yeah, they're lower than those. is not grippy at all. It's like anti-grippy. It's like fun little skis around the fire when the fire melts. You get the icy slope towards the fire. The dangerous slope. They are very warm though. Right now mine aren't, but they will be in a second. Do you like spinach? Yeah. No, you do? I seem surprised by that. Martin, this is well done buddy. I got you one of those. Check out the name on it. It's true. I'm not joking. We are not going on a long dark voyage here. It's a strange trip. The cabin lights, man. Yeah. So the temperature is dropping more. It's negative 15 outside. And for some reason it's keeping up. It's positive 15 on the inside. When it was negative 11 outside, it was negative 11 inside. negative 11 inside and now there's negative 15 outside positive 15 yeah obviously it's just coincidence or whatever yeah it's funny it's funny it made me laugh that's actually my last video was minus 22 outside plus 22 inside right at all yeah before i do that i wouldn't buy so much wood just let it hit that that ratio on its own call it good cheers yeah yeah yeah all right Sean, what's the temp over there 25 degrees Celsius would you have known that if the Fahrenheit wasn't put on the conversion yeah all right so sorry what what 20 20 degrees 25 degrees Celsius pretty well 80 79 or 80 Fahrenheit okay That's the coldest, literally this is the coldest part of the cabin. It's the furthest from there. Okay. It's the north wall, it's the coldest. Up there, I bet it's like 40 degrees. Well, I have mine here, which should be a little bit different, I assume. I got just right at 20, I think. Is that what that says? Is that what it says to you? Maybe, well, we're going to call it 20-ish. Oh, it's right on it. It is right on the... With the kinking knife. Oh, excuses, excuses. anyways it's around 20 to 25 in here uh and let's go outside to the outhouse outside to the outhouse oh sean and then we'll this one's saying 28 over here 28 oh my gosh it's warm it's toasty all right **** the thing don't let sean to get mad at me for for letting all the the warm air out we're not light we're not warming up the outside my mom used to say okay i can't really see because this light is so bright in my in my eyes so i'm gonna turn it around outside we got negative 15 right on the dot and that it says it's what like two or three degrees fahrenheit something like that so my day all right let's go Let's go back. My little booties. Put my little booties on. Poor handle. Little Dick Perenike style. Uh, negative 15. Yeah. And that's only like 2 or 3 degrees Fahrenheit, which doesn't sound very cold to me. I know. The rope that I have on the sled is not bigger distance height. So, it's just paracord on it. It's not wide enough and it's not long enough. This is some old school rope I've had for years. Got it from Canadian Tire probably. I had this before Will and I went on our first Algonquin trip, so that was like 15 years or something anyways bigger thicker rope maybe 20 feet long maybe a little bit long but i can always bunch it up cut it a little bit because the ends were all frayed i'm just going to burn it up it burns just like paracord most ropes do melts at the end solidifies so it doesn't fray anymore it's easier to get through things too so on my sled i'll have to make the holes bigger i made my own holes uh paracord through but get this through but that's all right the idea of having the longer um rope is it helps going up and down uh hills is there many hills you think shall we go it would be steady downhill nothing i don't know so i'm way out then yeah perfect you can push them so anyways make it a little bit easier on myself uses my sleds outside so i'm not going to bother put it on uh today but i'll look definitely uh in the next video show you how i'm doing that and what i'm doing so i'm going to split it up into two videos if i haven't already said that today i'm going to end this video tonight i'm going to go to bed and then tomorrow will be the ice fishing video and the camping video and stuff i'm not i'm not really 100 sure what order i'm going to upload them in either so it's a whole mystery stay tuned just for the mystery you heard it here folks yeah that heat is pumping out of there yeah i guess it is worth I like it yeah put that screen on there you don't need to you got all that rock in front yeah it's not gonna pop out that far I know that's a very good yeah fine i'm like your thing on fire anyway fire fights kids stick with us kids alright we're gonna turn in here soon so whoa turn soon it's almost 11 o'clock but I got to go up upstairs and see Sean's Sean's quarters No, he's not up there Oh, pass him See Sean's quarters Come on, Sean Oh, this looks a little bit nicer than what I got downstairs I am appreciative of the bed you made for me Don't let it sound like I'm Oh, wow Yeah, this is alright It's quite warm up here, Sean It's like unbearably warm, actually Yeah, it actually is I definitely need a window up there So, I'm going to shut this off so you can see the whole effect Look at that, the lights and the deer antlers It's too hot up here You're not going to be able to sleep up here This is unbearable Oh my goodness Very cool Not literally What is that 90 Alright guys I think that's where we're going to end the video For this one for me Yeah it was a cool time Cool day out here in the one man's Log cabin in the forest The Canadian wilderness Yeah no good times and tomorrow will be a good day too we'll go and we'll ice fish like we said so we'll start off early in the morning head out uh find a suitable spot to camp we'll set up that tent we'll get some uh ice fishing done auger a hole manually, hopefully catch some fishies cold weather so a bit of a challenge just to fight the weather off yeah so that'll be good lots of fun uh sean has promised fish Thanks for watching this video guys. I appreciate it. Like I said earlier check Sean's videos out, check his channel out, my self-reliance Be sure to tune in for the video that we're going to shoot tomorrow. It'll probably be up in about a week I believe again, I don't really know which order I'm gonna set them up in so maybe that's all I'm gonna avoid but watch both videos That's yeah, that's a cool day tomorrow. Actually, this was cool, but tomorrow will be I think maybe a little bit more cool Yeah, I'll be more of a camping kind of thing, outdoor adventuring. Yeah, I haven't done that this year yet. Yeah for me I'm looking forward to it. I'm sure we're gonna get on some fish. So yeah, your your time's all been wrapped up in this Hey, yeah, yeah, so yeah, it'd be cool to go. All right guys. Thanks a lot