All right, good.
See if I can help you pull Matt, so we can get over that way a little bit.
I can feel the tension.
Keep an eye on the tail hold.
Okay.
You can go ahead and pull on yours, Matt, as much as you can.
I'm not seeing anything, yet.
Ope, there it goes.
It's coming back against the cliff.
Hold! I popped a spike.
One of them popped out?
Yeah.
All right, go ahead and stop for a sec.
Let's have a look-see.
My plan here is to build a pier that comes off the cliff
in front of the house.
Me and Morgan are real close to moving into the house.
Before winter fingers crossed.
And the hoist is gonna hopefully be able to lift
things straight up the cliff and right to the front of the house.
Just leave it be.
Yeah.
You getting any movement at all down there?
I'm not seeing anything yet.
Ope, there it goes, it's, swinging my way.
It's lifting, ope, ope.
Swinging.
, it just wants to pivot right over.
It's not coming up straight.
It's just swinging.
I gotta stop and rethink it here, figure out what
we're doing wrong.
Otherwise, I'm kind of screwed.
It doesn't seem to be doing what we need it to do.
It is not doing what we need it to do.
Yah, damn it.
What's your plan then?
Somebody down there with a tag line.
Yeah, we're gonna have to, I'm just gonna tie a line
to it and yank on it.
So, I got a couple of, big creosote pilings beach combed
and I'm hoping that they're long enough to stand up
against the cliff, the cliff is fairly vertical and
I'm gonna stand two pilings out in front of it, deck it over,
bolt down a mast with a, a boom arm on it and a winch,
kind of close to what, squibb did.
Every time I go by I'm, like, god, I need to build that in
front of my house so now's the time.
One, two, three.
Ready for another one?
Yep.
One, two, three.
Okay.
That's pretty straight.
Take up your slack, it's pretty square right now, just
crank up a little bit.
Okay.
Okay, Matt, I'm giving you some slack, go ahead and
take yours up.
That's everything I got.
Okay, there you go.
Take up on yours, Matt.
You go reset that other side tight.
This is a bitch.
It is a worry that the piling is gonna fall.
I mean we haven't done this before so I don't know if this
bebe winch is gonna take the weight of it,
it could definitely fall.
Take up on yours.
Okay, good.
And tighten up Matt.
And stop, reset the other side, tighten.
Okay.
I'm just running back and forth.
Yeah, this is kind of a four person deal now.
Holy hell.
I am directly in line with the bite, and that just
means that if anything goes wrong it's gonna happen right
where I'm standing.
Hold on.
Yeah, you tighten up, love.
Man.
There's gotta be a better way to do this.
Stop.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Here in port protection, sometimes there's certain
things you need help with.
You see your neighbor struggling you help them
with their load.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, taking line, holy.
Stripping line.
Holy cow.
What the hell you got?
I don't know.
Maybe you got a Halibut already or a big ling.
Holy cow.
Here it comes.
There we go.
Ooh, beauty.
Just beautiful fish.
They are really cool looking.
And the Halibut love to eat them so.
You always gotta out do me, don't you here?
Today me and my friend jiggy are trying to jig some,
greenling they're great bait fish.
They don't like my lure.
They usually like this thing.
Yeah.
Damn you. No.
Fish on.
You don't have one already, do you?
Jiggy is a neighbor of mine.
Yoo-hoo!
And he's known in port protection as one of the best fishermen.
Okay. Here it comes.
Good one, that's another good sized one.
All right.
Well, I'm gonna get them in a pan.
I don't think I'm getting down to the
damn bottom here.
That just ain't right man.
Yeah.
Damn it.
I'm glad somebody's having fun.
Show off.
Once we catch some fresh bait we'll go hit my favorite spot
and set my Halibut set and hopefully fill our freezers
for the winter.
At least give me one fish.
Ooh, ooh, I got one, I got one!
We hang our hat here on the rugged fringe.
And if you don't have some more to hang your hat,
before the frost start flying,
and the rains really start coming down,
you're just not gonna make it.
That, you ready for a board?
Yeah.
Stacked on top or.
Yeah, on top.
Well, once again we are battling the elements to try
to achieve our end goals.
Cutting studs to length so we can get this,
first wall framed up.
Ooh, that's got a pretty good split in it, but it'll work.
Today squibb and Sam are helping me build my cabin.
Erect some walls and hopefully roof on soon after that.
This is the most important part of the job,
making sure you don't up on your layout.
That's what I'm trying to avoid.
Everything's gotta measured so the plywood will
fit without having to trim a bunch of plywood.
Excessive plywood trimming is to be avoided at all costs.
With any luck, within in a few days we can get Troy
out of the weather.
Not too far north of us it's already freezing and snowing
so it's coming, it's only just a matter of a few weeks,
so we gotta get our asses cracking.
All right, we got two, four, six, seven, eight,
so we got all the full length studs we need.
So, I guess it's time to start tacky, tacky.
I am absolute novice when it comes to construction,
especially construction out here.
Tap it down towards me.
Keep going, okay, good.
Good.
Squibb and Sam are huge assets for me out here.
Just with their knowledge, preventing me from making any
mistakes they've made previously.
Is this, this is gonna be flush with this?
Yep.
It should be, I say 48, eugh.
What... mother.
I pooched it.
I am taking a piece out of this tree trying to see
what kind of tree it is.
Give it a little smell, well looks like it's a red cedar to me.
It's not what I'm after, darn it.
Red cedars just don't really have the strength that
yellow cedars have.
My search continues.
Deeper into the woods we go.
One nice thing about being out here in this community is that
there are people that are always willing to help and
this is finally an opportunity for me to be one of those
people to help out.
Troy's a new member of the community, and he's, got a
new piece of property and he's building a house on it.
He needs a couple 20-foot boards for rafters in his roof
and I think I might be able to mill them up for him if
I find the right tree.
Ho, ho, ho.
All right.
Coming into some more cedars here.
I'm seeing a nice dead tree right here.
It might be the one.
It's fairly big, it's gonna have definitely the boards
I need in it.
The only problem with it is, the kind of it is in a death
zone from this tree.
Holy, this thing will kill you, somebody left a
wicked tree right here that'll fall on someone's head, looks
like they took a little bit too big of a face cut and she
leaned back on them, they're lucky they didn't get their
saw pinched with that thing, but that's a nice dead cedar
right there.
Crazy man, craziness, take your trees when you cut
face cuts out of them.
See what this guy has to offer.
Ooh.
That's definitely some yellow cedar right there, you can tell,
the bark's real thin, the wood's nice and bright.
Fall this one really fast and definitely pay attention to
what that guy is doing, definitely creates a little
bit of a challenge for this fall.
It's kind of blowing out here, you just, you know it's kind
of the recipe for something if it's gonna go wrong it could
definitely go wrong here.
Hopefully everything goes smooth.
I'm pretty handy with the chainsaw,
I can definitely fall trees.
You've got to just keep your head on a swivel and
pay attention to things.
Whoa..
Beautiful. Sweet!
That tree went right where we wanted her to go, I think it's
gonna be awesome, it's laying perfect for milling and
I think it's gonna be plenty long enough to be able to get
some boards for Troy's build.
But I don't really like trying to mill anything with this
tree kind of hovering over my head.
I'm gonna get him out of my way and make this
a nice safe work area.
What do I got, what do I got?
Hopefully it's a bait, so I can contribute something.
God, man.
- This. - Is it still there?
Well, the, my wrist is getting worse and worse, jiggy.
This is not good.
I've been having problems with my wrist, I was a mechanic for
years and using the impact tools I wore all the cartilage out.
Damn, I can't even reel this stupid thing, my wrist is clicking.
One, two, three.
We're coming, all right, you gonna pull tight on your side, Carl?
Yep.
There it is.
Whoo!
Everything is loose, it is standing.
Okay, that's one.
All right, that thing fell perfect, it was super rotten,
I'm glad it's out of the way.
I think we screwed the layout, we're gonna have to
move these studs to the outside here.
But I'm gonna have to go grab the, sawzall and
whack these two and.
Into the other side.
Framing adjustment.
All right.
We should now be golden.
Nice. Got him.
That's what we're looking for, kelp greenlings.
And that's a nice one.
- Woo! - Hell yeah.
Right on, Mary.
That's gonna be the bait for some Halibut fishing.
Cut them up in pieces, bait some hooks.
All right so guys, this next piling is,
it's about twice as big.
Yeah, it's like a lot bigger, I can't do that stuff
with my back, dude.
You have that machine down there.
- I know it hasn't. - I do have a machine.
It hasn't run much in a while but, I think,
I think it's worth it to incorporate it.
I have a lot of stuff that my dad's lent me to move
heavy things around here.
One of those tools is a giant homemade gas engine powered bebe winch.
It's got big ass cable and a lot of it.
Yeah.
Geez, this is older than I am.
By a lot, yeah.
Way older than me.
It's on a skid, so it can drive itself around, I think
that might be a way better tool for this big piling.
My god.
It only weighs about 400 pounds.
All right.
First things first we gotta get the cable.
We're gonna basically make the winch drag itself up
the mountain so we're just gonna hook it to tree to tree
and it's just gonna drive itself on in, hopefully it'll,
will not take anybody out in the process.
I'll go ahead and let you fire it up.
Be careful 'cause it will backlash the out
of you if you're not careful.
Want, you want me to do it?
All right, hold on.
All right, stop.
Hold on.
Okay, come ahead.
I think I, I think I like it!
Figured you might.
Now push that way.
Go down and grab that next, that last board, back down there.
It's really important for me to see these two
close friends of mine get well established here.
And have a bright future.
It's going.
Yee-haw.
Whoo.
Anything I can do to make that help without maiming
myself in the process I'm, I'm gonna do.
Okay, and little bit further.
Whoa, whoa, stop.
Stop.
Yeah, you can't pull from the side.
Okay.
We just gotta pull this way on it.
Ready?
No.
There.
- Well. - Okay.
We're ready to pull up the piling.
- Hopefully this pulls it. - Hopefully.
I'm sure by the end of the day we're gonna have this
wall standing up, we're gonna put some tar paper on it next.
Okay.
We are looking pretty damn good here.
Starting to look like something.
Big day for Troy.
I used to be a senior financing consultant and so
this is, definitely a little out of my element.
We have to get this up before winter hits.
Community coming together has been great.
Sam and squibb have both been huge, huge help.
'Kay, coming towards you.
Yeah, go ahead.
That's good.
'Kay.
That's close enough.
Yeah, looks pretty good here too.
All right, take a moment gentlemen and a couple
deep breaths 'cause it's about to get interesting.
This is really just a little postage stamp of a
building we're putting together here and it's gonna
have a high wall with a pitched roof, they call that
a shed roof.
It's a great starter home.
Okay, we have to really focus on not hurting ourselves.
Yeah.
It might be heavier than I think.
It's probably heavier.
For the first wall I ever built was, I think it took
about six people to stand it up.
- Put Troy in the middle. - Yep.
Once we're start getting up close go slow 'cause we don't
want to go that way with it.
I don't know this might hurt me, I'm not sure.
Three, two, one.
Okay, stop.
Ope.
Corner slip.
Do you see your corner, Sammy?
- Yeah. - Boy.
- You okay? - I'm good.
All right.
Okay, Troy brace yourself, I'm letting go.
Just.
I got it.
The hammer's right behind me, I think.
Or no it's down front.
I'm gonna put this one home.
Yeah, once.
Homey.
Nice, we have one wall stood gentlemen.
Well done, boys.
We're good.
Wall number one was eight feet.
Wall number two is, 14 feet so six feet taller so a
little more work and a lot heavier on the lift.
Well, if you want to start rigging for the pull on
this wall, well me and Troy can continue skinning it.
I want to get as much mechanical advantage as I can.
I hear you, this is gonna be a heavy ass wall, brother.
We've got a lot of framing in it 'cause it's got three
windows in it.
And, it's 14 feet tall with just the three of us,
damn near impossible just to, he man the thing up in a place
so what we're gonna do is find ourselves a little mechanical
advantage by getting a block up in the tree there, we've
got a couple come alongs and a nice rope along and that
should be enough to pull it up into position for us.
I want to get up at least to that little limb that's
sticking up out there which is it's approximately 30 feet
which is hell of a lot higher than I've ever gone up a tree.
If I do it correctly, I can turn the rope along into
something that could move like 6,000 pounds with
two extra pulleys.
So it won't get in my way.
I do have vertigo, you just get the sensation like you're falling
and I got a 20 pound block I gotta get hung on this tree.
The higher up this tree I go the more efficient my
come along is gonna work lifting that wall.
The older I get, I never had vertigo when I was younger but.
I, get a sensation like I'm being sucked off the
edge of a cliff.
And it can be quite disconcerting when your
head starts to spin.
Okay.
I just don't like my knot is not forming the way I want it to form.
Getting all my baits rigged up so they're ready to
go when we drop the line.
I might have to get me an electric reel man.
Yeah, I know you love fishing.
Yeah.
That's kind of a bummer to have.
It is.
Have your hands quit working on you.
It is I mean literally I could just feel the bones
smashing together.
Sorry to hear that, Mary.
It's okay, to grow old, you just gotta stay young at heart, man.
Yeah. If I can keep going fishing I think I'll stay young at heart.
That's right.
Fishing is my happy place.
Mine too.
All righty.
So we're ready to move to set our gear then.
We got everything baited.
Yep.
My wrists have been bugging the hell out of me,
but in the long run I'm not gonna let an injury stop me
from doing the things I love most.
And that is fishing.
I know when I set these things and then get them the next day
I always lay in bed at night thinking about how many fish I have.
I try not to have too many fish dreams.
So that's gonna be the last one.
There we go.
Okay, buoys away.
Yes.
Success.
So we're putting this, our tail hold on the house? Yeah.
We're securing this whole thing and that log in
turn to our house?
I think so.
This is stressful.
Perfect, okay.
We're on.
Anytime you're lifting thousands of pounds in the air
on old busted up equipment is gonna be stressful, it's not a
fun time, it's get this up the hill right now time.
We're about to lift a giant thing into the air with
terrifying unproven equipment.
What could possibly go wrong?
Hi, Don.
The master rigger.
- Good morning. - Good morning.
Well.
Thought you might need an extra hand.
Yeah.
I'll try and run it slow, but.
Try not to break anything.
I'll get this figured out.
You got the winch covered?
I got the winch covered.
Okay, Morgan you're pulling slack.
Matt, you're running the come along, you're good, you guys
got that side lift, I got this side, supposedly, everybody's ready?
- Yep. - Ready.
Crap.
It's always something.
Well, this'll be the first time I actually use this here mill.
I think it's pretty cool, I got it here in a trade earlier
this year with some gurdies.
It's got a nice little thin blade and it wouldn't have any
waste as I'm cutting down this log here and I'd be able to
maximize all the boards I'd be able to get out of it.
So, I'm definitely excited to see how well this thing works
and how well I can make it work.
So this thing is gonna be a total game changer for me.
And once I'm done milling Troy's boards, I'm gonna be
milling all kinds of boards up for myself.
Ooh, damn. What's going on here?
Is something bound up?
God I am smoking up my clutch, I can see it
just heating up hotter than over here.
You know I'm not really sure what the heck is going on with
this band saw mill, I don't know if it's my bar oil heating up,
or if it's my clutch burning up,
or if it's my piston rings burning up,
I'm not sure what's going on
but I know it's definitely not good.
Please don't torch my brand new saw.
I don't really know what the hell I'm gonna do here, damn it.
Well, I'm a little bummed I couldn't get this
band saw working, but this thing here is a good old
faithful back up that'll work just fine, something to,
something I can count on, I, something I know that'll work.
It backfired, sucked the starter cord back in and
snapped it off, but we've got an exposed flywheel here if,
if we can get.
If we can probably.
The line to wrap it tight enough, I think we could possibly still.
You want here, too?
Start it. Okay.
Go all the way around it.
Okay, the moment of truth.
Moment of truth, all right please run.
Ho.
How about that? Back in business.
We're good.
That should be good.
Perfect.
And obviously it's always easier going down than it is going up.
There we go.
All right.
Gonna start jacking this thing into position.
It's time to start milling and I can't really
mess around with trying to figure out all the you know
adjustments and all the haywire crap going on with
that other mill, I gotta just get stuff done.
Bingo, bammo.
I don't really want to risk burning up my saw any more
than I already might have,
so I'm gonna switch to my other mill.
It's gonna make a little bit more mess out here and a
little bit more saw dust and take a little bit more,
material but that's okay, I'll still get a pretty good board out of it.
All right, old faithful.
All right, everything looks to be working.
My plan to get some boards out of this log is to shave the
top part off so I can get a flat cut.
Then I'm gonna make two more cuts to get my nice pieces
and then I'm gonna run it through my table saw and
make the other width cut.
All right.
Bam, look at that.
There's definitely a couple boards in that right there.
I'm super stoked to be able to help Troy out with his first house.
It's awesome to be able to have another person our age in the bay.
And it's just great to be able to lend a hand to get him there.
Woo.
It's a dandy slab.
This'll be my last cut 'cause I'll definitely be able to get
two nice boards out of this one and definitely a nice
board out of that one and maybe even some extra.
I am absolutely stoked with these boards and
how they're turning out.
There's still plenty of wood left in that tree to mill up a
couple more boards for myself and still get some firewood too.
Nothing is going to waste out of this thing.
Sweet.
That's a slab.
That is a slab.
But now I'm gonna try to get this heavy bastard out of the woods.
Holy smokes.
And go cut them down to size.
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
It's got so much pull it just spun the whole piling,
I couldn't keep up with the line over here.
Okay.
Yeah, too fast.
Too fast.
I could have gone a little slower by working the clutch.
Feathering the clutch?
Yeah.
We're gonna have to complete reset the piling.
Yeah, let's try it one more time.
All right.
We're having a hard time keeping up with this winch and
it's, it's creating other problems that we didn't foresee.
As good as we're gonna get.
So, let's do it again.
Yep.
Pull, keep pulling Carl.
I'm, I'm tight, I'm tight.
I got; I got no pull.
I don't see him pulling at all.
No.
All right, go help him.
Okay.
You hold on to this, right back here.
Yep.
Watch this line.
My god.
There's a hole right there.
I gotta adjust the clutch, so if you guys can
hold it there.
I can't see a thing and nobody's talking to me.
I can see what's going on real good, he's watching me.
Okay.
We thought this winch would have enough power to
just pull this thing straight up and it does, in fact it's
pulling it so fast that we can't keep up with our, our
safety lines on the side.
You want to start cranking, you want to crank
for a little while, Carl?
Just talk to me which way it's swinging, never mind,
we're not cranking.
Holy.
Okay.
Ope. Stop.
All right. Okay.
- Stop! - Do want me to pull?
Stop, stop, stop.
Hold.
- Stop. - Hold! Hold up.
Pull, pull, pull, pull.
Can we finish this via block?
I think we can pull it up by hand now.
One, two, three.
Are you pulling on three or are you just doing it whenever
you feel like it?
I'm pulling when you're yelling.
A little of both.
On three!
Pull. Pull.
One, two, three.
Pull Carl, pull, pull, pull.
I, I got it, dude.
It's gonna come tight right there.
That's it.
Whoo!
Yeah!
Ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
It almost looked like we knew what we were doing.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Good job, Matt.
All right, let's start bracing.
Yeah.
Now that the pilings are up, got it in place where we
want them, the next big step is to try and get them level,
so we need to get a little bit of bracing on.
It works.
That's level.
I have to be able to walk out onto the cross piece and cut
the pilings off level with the back foundation.
And then do you want to set my length once I'm out there?
Sure.
I wouldn't care too much about the harness, but if the
top of the piling falls and lands on the end of the board
that all of my scaffolding boards are standing on and
knocks it loose there's nothing holding me up anymore
so this is probably one of the most dangerous parts of this thing.
Are we ready?
The situation is pretty nerve racking if this six-foot
piling falls the wrong direction, and takes some of
the structure out with it,
he's gonna go tumbling down the hillside.
Stop.
All right.
Do you want me to slack up on this one?
Carl!
Hold, hold, hold, hold.
Okay, you ready?
You want me to slack up on that one?
Nope, nope are you ready?
I'm ready.
Okay, ready, set, go.
Go ahead and crank it up a little bit more,
keep going, keep going.
This is the high-tension bit of the rig.
I'm just moving the block down a little bit.
At least you'll, you'll gain an inch or so.
Mother of glory, this is gonna be fun.
- There you go. - Okay.
You know I'm using a high lift Jack until we have it at least
up to about a 40-degree angle and then the come along should
help us pull it up the rest of the way.
One more block.
Should I throw some down the other end, side?
Yeah, get it, get some in the middle so that if this
craps out it's not gonna go flying.
Big wall is definitely a tricky situation, it's
extremely heavy and to me one of the biggest concerns is it
might slide off the back deck back there.
We do not want anybody getting crushed under there.
Yeah, you can see.
I can see this bottom's lifting up there.
Well, it shouldn't.
See, see daylight.
That side's lower.
Yeah.
The whole wall just moved.
This is making me really, really nervous.
I see our buoy.
Cool, I'm excited.
Are you?
Always.
All right, that's good, slow.
Okay got the buoy.
I love catching fish.
One of the great things about living here in Alaska is it is
your right to go out there and do this.
I'm fishing 30 hooks and its legal.
I don't see any color yet.
We got an empty hook.
Well.
That's not good.
Well, something was eating.
Something was eating, all right.
So, we're doing our job feeding the fish, is that right?
Well, hey.
Seems like our hooks keep coming up empty,
there's another one.
Well, crap.
That's what I say.
There's a little extra weight down there.
Right.
There's something white.
We got something big down there coming up.
It's huge, woo-hoo!
Wow, huge COD.
Good, lord, look at that thing.
Yeah.
My god I don't think I've ever seen one that big.
All right.
We're not skunked.
We didn't get our Halibut till right now, here's a Halibut, Mary.
Check it out.
Woo-hoo! Perfect size.
Yes, yes, yes!
Jiggy, good job.
Woo-hoo! Nice.
Woo-hoo! She's a beauty, man.
- Ha, ha. - Woo-hoo!
- Yes. - Yes.
We got one, that's called fish tacos tonight.
It's good all the way around.
I guess I still got a little way to go.
I thought that was the anchor.
But no, I guess you got a few more hooks.
Hold it.
Whoa.
- Hog, my god. - My god.
This thing is about, 70, 80.
80.
Maybe a 100-pounder, that's too big, Mary, that's too big.
I don't like dealing with these big fish in a small boat.
What can I do?
Whoa, whoa. Whoa. That's a big one, folks.
Holy.
You really want this one?
Yeah.
'Cause if it's me, just me alone I think I'd let it go.
It's a hard call to make bringing a huge fish like that
into a small skiff.
He could flop and break your leg he could flip you out of
the boat, it's pretty dangerous.
All right, I'm gonna have to whack him on the head.
And hold the rope too.
And pull him in.
Okay.
Get the next gaff, Mary.
My god.
Don't do.
My god.
Woo-hoo!
There we go.
I gotta get him tied up fast.
So, you don't break your leg, man.
That's a nice one.
That's the sea monster.
We got more fish coming up, man.
Another Halibut is on the line.
Ooh, and he is mad.
A perfect little eater.
We are kicking some butt out here, jiggy.
Here comes something.
Woo-hoo!
Right.
We're filling freezers, man.
Whoa, there's another one.
Woo!
Good, lord.
Well, you know what, jiggy, I was gonna say maybe we should
go out again, but I don't think we're gonna need to.
I think we got enough today to treat us for a while.
This last pull was incredible, we got 60 to 70
pounds of fish each without my, neighbor jiggy there'd
be no way I could do it.
I just can't thank him enough.
Who would have thought?
Woo-hoo!
That's a load of fish.
Yes, it is. Good job, neighbor.
He, he.
All right let's go, sun's about ready to go down.
This corner went two inches that way from that,
you know just this way.
The bottom's lifting up there.
Well, it shouldn't. Really nervous.
If we keep blocking in the middle.
Stressonators.
This wall is just very heavy.
Yeah, if that Jack isn't perfectly positioned the wall
could actually fall down which is not good.
All right, it's probably as far up as we're getting.
It's the moment of truth.
My primary concern with this 14-foot wall is its heavy, you
can't brute force a 14-foot wall.
You know all we have is a little candy ass,
rope along basically to try to get this thing up in the air.
Yeah, I don't want it to slip.
Yeah, 'cause it's gonna jump and maybe pop us.
Can you see that wall moving at all, Troy?
Not yet.
No, I see tension coming up on it though.
Okay.
See it moving a little bit.
That's a heavy wall.
Okay, sounds like she's getting close.
Okay, Dave.
I think if I just, kind of, pull.
- Yes. - On this rope.
Yeah?
I think it's close to being able to stand up.
Stand up.
Just by pulling on this rope.
Yeah, I think so too.
All right, Sammy. Start pulling.
Just talk to me.
Keep going.
Talk to me.
Keep going till it's up level.
Well, I want to go slow.
Yep.
Got another seven degrees.
Okay.
A little more.
I, I'm not doing anything, you're doing it.
Okay.
Another, there.
Tack it.
Okay.
Well done, Sammy.
Looks big.
Yep, big and heavy.
Woo.
Now that we got the big monster of a wall up, the rest
of it should come pretty easily.
Okay, guys.
We just need to make sure that, it's all
buttoned up before the first frosts hit.
Every step we get I can just picture it so much better.
Well, it looks like a two by six, if I've ever seen one.
Hey, Troy.
Ahoy.
Got you some boards.
It's awesome man, thank you.
Yeah, I got the tide going out, just pass these to
you right there.
So, how's the house coming, man?
Good, it's becoming a house.
It's becoming a house, I was gonna say that's a good
start on a house.
Yeah.
You wouldn't need a hand, or anything would you?
Yeah, man if you're free.
A lot of work still to be done as you can see.
Yeah, I can see that.
Yeah, I wouldn't mind coming by, and you know
helping out a little bit.
- Absolutely. - Cool.
Put these boards in place, you know what I mean.
Yeah.
Right on, buddy, have a good evening.
Safe travels.
Go.
Woo. All right.
All right, let's do the next one.
I think the hard part's pretty much done, standing the
pilings was, that was my biggest stumbling block.
Ready, set, go.
Next step is walking the header out, screwing that down
and starting to lay beams.
There we go.
And then we can deck it and we're pretty much done.
Hi.
- Hi. - Hello.
We did a thing.
Wow.
Yeah. Just don't leap on it yet.
What do you think?
This is insane.
Yeah, it's kind of huge.
Wow, this is amazing. I.
It's kind of a beast, isn't it?
I did not think it was gonna look like this when we started.
Did you see it from the water yet?
- Yeah. - When you came by?
Yeah.
Now that the decking is on this is the time for the last,
most important piece.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Don't push backwards.
Well, I wasn't trying to push backwards.
And that is the actual hoist that goes on it.
It's all ready to bolt down pretty much and slap a winch
on it and see if it works.
He's swing it out there and lift something up.
Fire up the generator, see what this thing does.
Three, two, one.
Nothing is exactly how you picture it in your head
when you come out here and you kind of think you're just
gonna be doing everything on your own and, luckily that
was not the case.
You just gotta get it secured.
Sam and squibb have both been dang near like family
out here to me, and taking days and days right before
winter to help me get this done.
Four walls, what do you think of that, Troy?
Seems like a high fivable moment.
Getting the four walls up feels great, ready to get this
roof on and be warm and dry.
- All right. - Holy crap!
Yes.
That's what I call a good day fishing.
It's kind of good sense of community that we have here.
You see your neighbor and need a hand you give them a hand
because that's human nature and it benefits everybody.
Well, I'm a little bummed I couldn't get this
thing to work out there in the woods when I really needed it
to but, Troy got a little bit of lumber which is great and
I got a little bit of experience using this thing, I got to
figure it out a little bit and I think with a little bit of
time I'll be able to get it working just right.
I've gone through definitely my ups and downs with, like,
trying to live out here just alone, not relying on anyone
or anything and it's just too much on you, you need that
shoulder to lean on and so it's great that we have a
community here that we can all rely on each other to help out.
Are you ready down there?
I'm ready.
Okay, stay out of the way.
- Okay. - See how everything works.
Yeah.
Looks good, feels good.
I'm about as happy as I could be right now.
It works good.
I'd say with the hoist up and the pier done I think we're
pretty damn close to moving in.
It takes a crew sometimes; I'd call it a family.
That tight knit group that works so well together because
if you don't you get your ass handed to you by wintertime.