Deal of the Decade! Runs Great, Will be Perfect For Cabin Property

so welcome back to outdoors with the Morgans I'm down here at the cabin this morning it's first thing and that is the insulation guys right there they just came to measure everything up hopefully we will get that taken care of here in the near future and since I had to come down and meet them I brought some more Red Pine that I will stack and sticker around the patio back there so every time I come down here I can't help to think about that movie The Great Outdoors remember trees in the parking lot that was a great movie that really was they don't make them like that anymore nothing close to that but it is uh a little chilly down here today it's almost the middle of June and uh I think it was 49 when I left the house this morning I think tomorrow yeah I think tomorrow it's going to warm up a bit but just for a day or two hopefully though the cooler temperatures last throughout the summer I would rather it be you know in the 70s pretty much year round than 90 any day I like the cooler weather so these are the stickers that I brought down and I think I got 40 more 1 by sixes here which is about 200 square feet we'll need more but I figure each time I come down I might as well you know saw a little bit on the mill throw it on the truck or the trailer bring it with me you can see how quickly uh this stack right here is getting a little darker see where the sticker was now I decided that uh instead of using a drum sander on this I'm just going to use a handheld orbital sander before I put it up and that'll kind of bring that color back and all I really want to do is just knock the roughness off it a little bit I don't want to run it through a planer we're going to put this up rough you know it's a cabin behind the insulation will put like a black vapor barrier so if there are little gaps between it you won't see anything because it'll be black but I think it's going to look really nice and like I said once you sand that stuff it'll take the roughness off just a little bit and it'll clean it up a little bit once I get this Stack Up not this time but maybe the next time I mean it's going to take a lot of wood because we're doing everything inside with wood I'll bring some metal roofing down and we'll just cover the top but this stuff dries fast I mean I'm saying a month and a half two months uh it's ready to put on the walls you could even put it up green it's going to shrink some and then in the winter time you know when you're running the wood stove it's going to shrink some more in the summer it'll expand a little bit it's what wood does but uh I look forward to it I think it's going to be great [Music] so I just realized something it's pretty cool it's about 10 after10 in the morning right now and what you see here what I brought down these were logs not even 24 hours ago I think we started sawing yeah yesterday about 10:30 a.m. and uh yeah less than 24 hours from logs to Lumber and stacked and stickered in another state not too shabby so I have over 100 1X sixes so far uh I'll have to start to get an idea on how much we'll need like I said next time I come down I'll bring another 60 or so with me and then we'll probably start another stack right here not sure what I'll all need I have to figure that out so yesterday uh when we were sa that Lumber I was listening to a podcast like a podcast interview and boy was it good it was a uh interview with Thomas Massie from Kentucky and it wasn't political really at all uh but he was talking about I had no idea he built his own house timber frame has a sawmill he's completely off grid uh it's been taking him a while it's not done yet he's been working on it for I think close to 20 years he Powers the house with a Tesla battery that he bought from a junkyard and uses solar to charge it and sometimes a generator Heats with wood and uh yeah he sounds like a really a handy guy and I guess he took just a couple day Timber framing course didn't know anything about it and they had a big storm or something knocked down a bunch bunch of trees which is when he bought the Sawmill and decided they wanted to build a house and it's been taking years but it sounds like quite the journey but uh really really interesting it really was uh you look at all those people in Washington you don't realize there's probably a few of them that actually know how to do some things you know what I mean very few but apparently he is one of them Thomas Massie from Kentucky but uh yeah very very interesting when I'm running The Sawmill or you know the excavator or skid loader or even driving down here I always listen to either audio books or different podcasts uh but there's all different sorts of things that I listen to but I like information you know what I mean I like to see what's going on in the world and see how other people do things and sometimes you learned something about someone that you had no idea just like Thomas Massie the insulation guys they got here a little bit before I did and they said when they pulled in there was a big old dough over here uh pregnant looked like she was ready to go at any time I've seen a bunch of fawns this year but I haven't seen one set of twins yet which is kind of strange I'll have to start checking some of the cameras I have around here uh the other day I got a video of a dough and a single walking right down this road here but yeah but this this was a short trip we have to hit the road I got a bunch of things to do at home when we get back I may make the customary stop at Bass Pro on the way uh I just like doing that it's a good break it's about it's about halfway give or take and it's nice place to stop walk around for a little bit see some stuff who knows maybe pick something [Music] up so I got back from the cabin a couple hours ago took care of a few things and just put the brush hog on the tractor cuz we need to mow some Trails it's about that time of year things are getting grown up and I haven't brush hogged the trails yet and I want to get it done soon because like I mentioned the other day the LX 4020 and the brush hog will be leaving and I'm not sure how soon I'll have a replacement so we need to get the trails taken care of but first I got to show you the deal of the Sentry so check this out Yamaha EF 3000i SE it is a inverter generator 3,000 WS nice and quiet it weighs I think I read 149 lbs it's pretty heavy but it's on Wheels and the best part is the price was0 do uh some friends of ours are moving and they're kind of purging a lot of their belongings and I offered to pay him for it he wouldn't take a penny for it and uh it's very very nice to him it's a really nice generator it is I've got a couple of them uh but this one will be good down at the cabin actually a 3000 watt will definitely run everything I need down there we have a few battery banks that we'll be able to get through like probably 3 days just using like LED lights and then you could charge them up to probably 80% with this generator in an hour so I think that's going to be the initial plan at the cabin now I'm not sure how long this gas has been in here uh it's running fine but I think I'm going to run it for a little bit you know what while we're doing that we might as well charge something so that generator has a 3.4 gallon fuel tank on it and it says it will run 19 hours on that at a quarter load as far as charging the mower goes I unplugged it from the generator since I'm leaving but at the rate that it was charging it said it would be fully charged at 2:2 a.m. in the morning and right now it's 6:30 in the evening so takes a while it does which makes about yeah that makes sense because I think they told me it would take like 20 hours or 22 hours for a full charge and that's charging off of uh 110 you can also charge it off 240 and it'll charge overnight so just some information looking better [Music] [Music] all right I made it down to my mom's driveway this is probably the roughest part from here up to our house is probably a little over half mile but there's some real steep stuff and some real you know a lot of s Hill but I got down to here and I was going to mow along the driveway but one of these days they going to have to put the stream back where it belongs got to be real careful here it's uh the last couple floods that we had as you can see there's not much between here and the edge of the driveway this Pole's coming out they got an x on it there's a new pole there but yeah that stream needs to be kind of put back over that direction I could probably come right down the trail with the excavator yeah that should work so it is first thing in the morning and I am going to resume Trail mowing here in just a bit but the other day I mentioned in a video that occasionally I may start including a little content about the Civil War war and going over some of the uh things that my dad collected over the years from the Civil War and I mentioned that and I talked about possibly starting another channel for it or maybe just including it on this channel every once in a while I still don't know what I'm going to do but I was in the building there reading some comments and comments are like getting a Christmas present from your grandmother when you're a kid you know you're going to get something but you're not sure what that's going to be but Harve he says please let us know what videos are talking about Civil War content so I can easily skip them I said sure thing Harve when I get up each day that's my goal make Harv's life easier all right we are headed out on the trails uh once I get this all done maybe I'll hop on the four-wheeler and we'll do a time lapse kind of show you the whole trail system we have here right right now I'm at the lower Woodyard and I'm headed down to the pond uh this section never needs mod but when you get up the hill headed towards the old apple orchard uh it gets pretty thick up through there and we may even mow the uh Meadow up in the apple orchard while we're over there I haven't been over there in probably oh it's been a couple months easy [Music] all right so I made it up to the old apple orchard I got things uh widened out pretty well but we just have so many invasives um just they come creeping in on the trail all the time but I did get it widened out a little bit and cleaned up and if you're wondering why I call this an apple orchard uh it's cuz it used to be one years and years ago I believe this is the only remaining apple tree but it's crazy how things grow grow up you know when I was a kid there were just apple trees in here and nice rows and they produced a lot of apples and then over time it all grew up in Maple cherry and Oak and then probably four or five years ago I came in here and cleaned out a lot of the underbrush and smaller trees and uh just kind of made a meadow in here left a few trees but I'm going to walk through all this before I mow it because it's that time of year those fawns that would be horrible I don't want to hit one of those so I got to take some time here walk all through here cuz what they'll do they'll get scared they'll just lay right down when they're real little and uh you'd hate to hit one it's not real high all right I've been all through here a couple times S I think we're good and by the way if you ever wondered why I wear light colored pants like this it's because it's very easy to see ticks on there even if you're wearing uh blue jeans or something you just can't see the little buggers people are always asking about that what do I do about ticks not much uh they don't bother me too much normally I don't know once or twice tce a year I find a couple and if they ever get dug into you I just call like a t do thing I had to do this a couple years ago I got it out and they give you one of those big uh it's an antibiotic and I think if you take it within like 48 Hours it greatly reduces the risk of limes disease but I never had like that Bullseye or anything that they talk about I usually get them before uh before they get me but they are a pain in the neck they really are [Music] all right got everything mowed up here in the orchard next up we're going to head down over the hill here it's only about uh maybe 200 yd down to my mom's place little steep a little bit of s Hill but it's not near as bad as the hill going up to my place so we'll get this knocked out do a little mowing down at the driveway and then uh we'll take a ride on a four-wheeler once I get back to the house [Music] all right so I got the main trail done the one that goes from here all the way down to the pond up over the hill to the Orchard Way over that way down past my mom's across the driveway up the hill come back in here to the new road that's the main trail and we have another one you know we got some side ones going off here and there there but another one from out at the new Meadow that heads over to Levi and Kos and down to Maple Grove I may hit that one uh this evening but this works good for mowing Trails I didn't say great it works really good uh it's just a tractor and a brush hog it's so long you know it's more set up for moan Fields obviously it's a tractor and we have so much of that invasive stuff you have to get so far off the trail because it grows up and over you got to get so far off the trail to get it cut off and mulched up with a brush hog the best way to do it it would they're expensive is a uh brush hog for the skid loader because that way you could turn on the trail kind of reach up knock all that stuff down tractor works good like I said and it's all done but I think a brush hog on the skid loader would be better for trail maintenance you know they have flail mowers forestry heads for the excavator that would be an option as well they're real expensive also and you only do it like once or twice a year usually twice a year so I don't know but I may make a change at some point on the trail maintenance we'll just have to see it's not the mowing that's the tough part you know what's on the ground around it's what's coming in from the sides is what is kind of the pain in the neck you know what I mean so it's good for now all right we are going to speed up the trail ride here two times normal speed we just left the house headed down to the Woodyard kind of snake through here I need to move this one IBC Tote it's right in the middle of the trail to go around that this is the lower Wood Yard hey there's a full firewood basket there I keep for for getting about that was my emergency one for last year anyway we're down here make a hard right and the pond is about a 100 yards ahead of us right here come down here you make a hard left all through this section there's really not any moan that needs done it gets used quite a bit and uh there's just so much canopy on the trees not much grows so we went across the dam of the pond back through the Oaks here it's real pretty back through here put a Calvert in right there last year or the year before and up here we're going to make a sharp right and we're going to head up to the old apple orchard cruise up this hill here it's all uh kind of washed out and red up but for the four-wheelers and the side by side it's totally fine and you come up here about another 150 yards or so and we're running into the property line we are on my mother's property right now property Line's right at that Tree Line hang a left come down here this is the old apple orchard that I talked about earlier it's all grown up this is what I mowed earlier right here and we're going to hang a right go down over this hill it's pretty steep uh nothing on video ever appears as steep as it really is cruise down here to my mom's place and then we'll continue down her driveway here in a second okay we're heading down my mom's driveway here uh this is where it intersects with my sister's driveway just go to the right down here another 100 yards or so then there's a hard left across the stream all through this area we're kind of going to be running parallel to the driveway going to my sisters on this section of Trail uh but boy the deer are always in this area right here when I was a kid none of these trees were here people always ask me about why I don't plant trees this is why there were no trees there they just grow that's what they do cherry and Maple and we're coming around to bend here we're going to start to climb up on top of the hill this is a it's a steep hill right here but I'm getting after it on that uh 850 ultimate trail that thing rips it does I don't get too carried away but uh it'll run it really will so we're almost up to the meadow here a little bit further and we'll be popping out here in just a second and if you look close for some reason there's a deer in the brush pile look right to the left real quick I I'll stop it but anyway I think that's about it for today's video I hope you enjoyed the uh Ride Along appreciate y'all being here and I will catch you on the next one

Channel: Outdoors With The Morgans

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Length: 26min 3sec (1563 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 15 2024