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hello and welcome back to adventurous
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way i'm diana and i'm matt and we're
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back here at the property again today
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with quite a few little things to uh to
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get on with yeah i'm back from my course
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at yesterday and uh matt has done a few
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things while i was away yes the driveway
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finished uh the construction about two
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and a half weeks ago it's kind of
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mid-september now so we're into fall uh
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the colors are starting to change on the
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leaves and the trees and things and it's
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looking really beautiful but we do have
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quite a few things that we we're trying
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to sort of tackle i guess small jobs
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that we uh we need to do
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so already i created a quick little
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sawbuck that i can put some logs on and
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start chopping those up into firewood
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we're not going to be burning firewood
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in the house but we do want some that we
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can use for campfires and things like
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that uh so it's a good way to use up
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some of the logs that are too small or
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too crooked for milling so that's uh
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that's been one good job that's uh that
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i've started on there the other big job
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you can kind of see behind us here so we
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started this uh was it last week i guess
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yeah uh our builder colby had made this
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stone wall which we really like down
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here at the front of the property and so
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we just filled in the dirt behind it and
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started adding some mulch on top yeah so
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today um one of the jobs for today is to
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kind of finish it off and the mods that
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we used was uh from the last time we
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used the chipper we put it in the
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boulder bags and we kind of put them
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away so they're not in the way while
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doing the construction of the driveway
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and at first we thought oh it's going to
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be a compost eventually but it actually
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turns out that this is a great use case
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so we're putting mulch and then we'll
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seed it with some wildflower native
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seeds yeah just find some like grasses
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and wildflowers and things the goal here
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really is not just to make the entrance
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look a little bit nicer we don't want to
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be those neighbors who have that
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horrible looking entrance that's just
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a mess so we're trying to tidy it up for
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that reason but also to help prevent
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erosion we don't want the
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the water to run down here and wash all
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that soil away and start to undermine
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the the road surface down here so by
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backfilling the dirt and putting the
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mulch on top that helps but then having
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some actual plants and things going on
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top should really help to stabilize that
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area as well yeah
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and that is on one side of the entrance
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and the others hydrogen entrance they're
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still just big piles of rocks
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and it is going to be a mess for a while
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because first we want to
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get the electrical in from electrical
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pole and then when we know you know how
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is that installed and what kind of space
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they need then we'll deal with the other
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side
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yep so just trying to tackle these
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things one at a time uh the other big
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job that we're gonna be doing today is
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hopefully it shouldn't take that long uh
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but it's a really monumental job which
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is to install our mailbox so
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back when we got the road access permit
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to put in the driveway we needed that in
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order to get the street number assigned
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for the property there was no address
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for this property uh or pre-existing we
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had confirmation uh last week that our
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address has been created and we have a
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street number and everything now and so
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we met the mailman out here a couple of
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times actually just to confirm the
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placement of a mailbox it's nothing
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super fancy it's just using kind of a
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post and a mailbox i picked up from home
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depot at the weekend
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but we'll get those in it's a little
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tricky position it's kind of right next
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to the culvert and kind of the drainage
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ditch at the side of the road so uh it
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is a little tricky to put in there we've
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also got bedrock really shallow so we're
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going to be putting down a little bit of
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gravel for drainage
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putting the post on top and then
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surrounding it with concrete and we're
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hoping that will be enough to uh to
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stabilize it fingers crossed um it's
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kind of the best best idea we've got at
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the moment um so we'll just have to see
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how see how that goes
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nothing super fancy though so but it
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will be exciting to have the mailbox
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yeah and uh kind of maybe a quick update
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on kind of behind the scenes uh stuff so
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you know we got the first permit the
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road access permit and now we have the
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driveway in so that's great um we have
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the survey done of the area of the house
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and like the septic area so now the um
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the septic engineer uh is going to be
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designing the septic system and then
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putting in the wastewater permit it's
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it's going to take a while because he's
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been super super busy and he's still
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very very busy um and then after that
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will be um the zoning permit yeah so
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if you read between the lines of what
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diana's saying there we're not going to
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be building this year um by the time
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we've got the zoning permit and
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wastewater permit in hand uh it'll just
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be too late in season to start building
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yeah but that's okay uh it was kind of
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we'd hoped we're gonna be able to get to
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building this year that would have been
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really nice um but it's no big deal
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we're we'll uh we'll just pick up yeah
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and that's just
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you know the life of covid and
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everyone's busy not enough people to do
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the work and so on so
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totally fine um our in terms of like
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shipping stuff we ordered our sawmill
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and it's still on track yeah sawmill
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should be here end of october is what
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they're saying i called them a week or
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two ago and that was still the case we
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have heard from other people that
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they've had theirs they're sort of doing
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a shipment at the end of each month i
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think and i think it was like the august
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shipment was
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weeks and weeks uh faster than scheduled
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yeah so there's a chance it could arrive
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earlier um but at the moment we're on
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track apparently for end of october and
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we ordered it months ago yeah we ordered
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it back in may june yeah may i think
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yeah june probably june june um and then
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we also ordered the grapple for the
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tractor but that is delayed that should
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have actually arrived today today was
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actually the the original estimated date
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i called them last week
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they had to shut their entire factory
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down for multiple weeks
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due to supply chain issues so
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that's been delayed we probably won't
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see that until october
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he didn't even sound very confident
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about that so maybe november which is a
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real shame because that grapple would be
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great for moving some of these stones
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around yeah it would be great for moving
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the brush around and it would be great
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for moving the logs around
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but we don't have it we haven't got it
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uh so we'll just have to make do with
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the bucket and the pallet forks and
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things the other thing that we've got
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arriving uh next week uh you may
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remember it a little while ago in one of
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the videos we said we were thinking
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about getting a shipping container but
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we decided against it because the price
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to buy a u-ship container is just
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astronomical i think it was
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three times smaller yeah it's about five
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thousand dollars for a used
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not great condition used 20-foot
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shipping container yeah um
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so we just decided that wasn't worth it
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but uh we have decided to rent a
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shipping container so this is something
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that we couldn't do originally because
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without the driveway in we had no way to
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easily get a nice new shipping container
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good quality shipping container up there
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but now that we've got the driveway in
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it's no problem for a semi or whatever
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to reverse up here and drop off a
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shipping container and the rental prices
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haven't really gone up that much so i
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think it's something like 150
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a month to rent a 40-foot shipping
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container
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and that'll be great we've got a site
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for that that we asked colby and the
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guys when they were doing the driveway
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just to clear a flat section for us up
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there so we've got a good location for
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that to go and that will give us some
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dry
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relatively secure
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storage on site so we don't have to keep
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carrying everything back and forth in
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the truck bed which is killing me it's
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just yeah i can't wait to have my truck
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back to be honest yeah so
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even though we're probably not gonna get
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to building anything this year we still
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have plenty of stuff to do so now that
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the trees uh you know were taken down
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because we are putting in the driveway
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now there's a lot of slash that we can
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deal with um bucking logs um piling them
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up for milling so that we can do until
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the salmon arrives and then when the
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samuel arrives then we can start milling
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our wood and i think you were doing some
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estimates weren't you the other day oh
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yeah looking at the pile of logs that's
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up there already so this doesn't include
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the ones along the driveway that we
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haven't taken up yet nor does it include
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the ones that will have to like the
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trees that will fell to clear the house
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site and things so just the logs that
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are there already you estimated
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something about 4 000 board feet yeah 4
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000 board feet so i was playing with
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some numbers this morning if you're not
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familiar with what a board foot is it's
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a measure of lumbar quantity and it's a
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volume equal to
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a piece of wood 12 inches by 12 inches
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by one inch thick
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and so if you sort of play around with
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the numbers and things and you convert
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that into like two by sixes yeah i think
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i worked out that
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if we milled everything into two by
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sixers full dimension stuff which we're
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not gonna do we'll keep a load of slabs
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and things but if we did mill it all
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into eight foot long two by sixes it
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would give us over 600 two by sixes um
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it's an astronomical amount of wood yeah
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and i think i was trying to do call
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collections if we use that for if for
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let's say siding around the house uh
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that's like i don't know like
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three
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more three times more than deciding we
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would actually need like the square
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footage um so yeah that's a lot of wood
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and for your europeans listening uh in
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europe i think they measure it in cubic
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cubic meters cubic meters and uh it's
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about 10 cubic meters of like the
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finished lumber
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it's an insane amount of wood so when we
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get the sawmill we're going to try and
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get that milled uh before the winter
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that's going to be our kind of like
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final project so we still need to work
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out where we're going to put it all
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um
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we're obviously brand new to milling so
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there'll be a steep learning curve there
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but i hope we've got enough lumber that
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we can make plenty of mistakes and not
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worry about it and we'll just just move
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on and get another piece of wood so so
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yeah lots to do lots of little small
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things um but lots of things to keep us
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busy we got this rake with the fiber
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glass handle and the great thing it's
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super lightweight the bad thing is we
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already broke the um handle in half um
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but it's still usable but maybe next
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time it's gonna be different kind of
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break
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so goal for today is to remove these
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rocks and kind of smooth it out and put
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the wood chips on
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well
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we made great progress today i'm very
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happy
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so today we finished kind of grating and
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smoothing this area behind the stone
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wall and we put our third and last wood
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chip bag on it and it still has
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more wood chips to go on it so now next
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time when we do chipping we will lay
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those wood chips down here and actually
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there's a couple of slash piles just
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here yes so we'll get the chipper and
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we'll just chip it straight into this
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area so we don't need to bag all that
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stuff up we can just spread it straight
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away yeah and then some of the other
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piles will probably try and bag up best
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we can and
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move them around but
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yeah i think it's looking great we
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haven't yet decided what we're gonna put
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in here in terms of plants and things
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but we're thinking probably some wild
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flowers and some grasses um something
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that we do not need to know yes and
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we're hoping we can get away with just
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sort of sprinkling them on the mulch
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although maybe we're being optimistic
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yeah um so we've got a couple of phone
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calls to uh
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a few local
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garden nurseries and things to uh to get
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some advice and see what works around
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here yeah
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so then while dyna's been doing that and
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really you have done nearly all of the
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stuff with sorting the stones and
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some
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manual labor today
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i've had the relatively easy job of
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putting up the mailbox so we put it over
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by the road it was the location that we
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agreed with the mailman i'm not in love
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with the location it is
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closer to the road than i like in an
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area where there's snow plows so i am a
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little bit concerned about that that
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said we didn't have a lot of choice uh
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that was really just about the only
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location that we could put it we put it
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in with two bags of the quikrete sort of
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no mix concrete stuff so you just pour
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the the powder in and then um add water
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and we did that
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underneath gravel underneath so that any
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water that does get in there can drain
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and honestly we sort of hemmed it in
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with a load of rocks and things it's
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solid like it's only been testing for
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what six hours or something and i don't
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want to wobble it too hard but you can
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tell it's it's
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pretty well in there and we wanted to
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put the rock so that it's kind of almost
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like a retaining wall so it doesn't push
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in into the uh
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stream where the culvert goes yeah our
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next uh little job will be later on this
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week we'll be renting the chipper again
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like we said and starting to get through
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these slash piles uh in particular the
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two here because we're going to bring
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out our v to the property fairly soon uh
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just for a few days just just to park it
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here and say we
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can do it we slept on our own land so uh
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we're gonna park the rv actually just up
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there where the tractor is pretty much
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um so we do want to get those slash
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piles out of the way first and there is
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also a slash pile
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way at the top near the house site that
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is going to be trapped behind the
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shipping container so we will rent the
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chipper start with those three piles
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see how much further we can get but
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today it is 5 30 we still got over an
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hour to get back to the rv yeah so i
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think we're done for today thanks for
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watching and if you enjoyed this video
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