I went on TV and gave away junk

our next guest is a mcgyver of sorts and a passionate environmentalist his enthusiasm for recycling reusing repurposing waste I reckon we'll have you rethinking life around you meet Bo miles the backyard Adventurer ABC Brey TV called and said hey bug come in and talk about backout adventuring and I said sure but why don't I cook up something adventurous and do it between two shows 24 hours to do my thing we are very lucky to have B Miles join us in the studio today welcome sorry about my my um you know thanks for dressing up my plan is to run around the pretty streets of Sydney with my awesome wheelbarrow and collect junk wood jeez I love wood when my Barrow is full I'll head to a mate's Workshop in the BBS and make these fine ABC people something you know pretend your seven-year-olds made you a present I'm going to be giving you a hopefully a better version of that tomorrow so do you have a sense at this point about what you will make yes I've got some very good up but I'm not telling you to thank you very much I'll I'll see you tomorrow morning whatever I 24 hours that's the idea see see you see you B take care and and off he goes off he goes you don't see that every [Music] day look at that oh that's very satisfying that's a satisfying elastic [Music] band you look awesome [Music] yes hello I do enjoy um wheelbarrow running you know it's got a certain pleasure to it you know it's got a nice balance it's hard work I got a good sweat up I'm sweating well and so wood on no wood this is a good morning so now I'm down at the Sydney Opera house and it's very clean and neat down here very glitchy glamorous no wood lying about but it's very pretty I'm having a bit of a touristic experience I love looking for stuff because I never know if I'll find anything it's all about the unknown so does old mate here in the blue jeans he has no idea what I'm doing and can't look away this is double bang for buck I get to find wood he gets something to look at a that's a beautiful bit of Cedar now looking in the nooks and crannies of our famous and obvious places is exactly what backyard Adventure uring is a willingness to be busy and perhaps even a little [Music] odd uh yeah going pretty well well actually no it's not I haven't collected much wood [Music] yet wheel barar running is very fun hard [Music] [Applause] work if I was 20 years younger I would be getting in there and getting that lovely imported Spruce but now I'm a responsible family man now that's what I'm after a tree steak but not used as a tree steak thank you thank you thank you I know I should be collecting wood but it's actually really good fun to weave through people slum [Music] ping hello hi thank you ma'am you want me to put in the small back no I've got a wheel bear here I'm good to go thank you I don't have as much wood as I thought but I think I'm in the home of wood now in the industrial estate 7 8ks out of the city oh yeah beautiful yes that's going to work I've met Christian Anna who were giving me chips they were asking me what the hell I'm doing they've been watching me I'm like their TV entertainment they've just been watching me gather wood with the Barrow at capacity and arms a little longer than when I started I arrive at Adventure Merchants to unpack the loot and get stuck into making something out of nothing oh yeah I think I'm going to make two things a canoe paddle and a chair first of all I got to get cracking on the the canoe paddle cuz that requires gluing it's just a bit of radio of pine so it's got a nice grain and I've got to then glue these On These Wings this one's going to be a 5 piece paddle two blades one shaft two bits of handle so I hope this glue is okay it's been in the cupboard for a [Music] while [Music] still got my running kit on I don't really need my running kit on while building but health and safety you almost got the old uh toggle caught in the saw that's why I've got insurance and of course I'll shape that beautifully so it's a nice bulous shape that fits into your palm of your hand anyway it's quite satisfying done now that's glued up that's called the blank it's as ugly as a hat full of bums right now but it's going to look bloody like a Paris model the next Project's a bit more uh cuty and screwy rather than gluey and messy so uh I might have a cup of tea cuzz I'm about to [Music] faint so I'm just constructing my Hardware over here I'm just going to make nice neat piles and then I can conceive this magnificent chair that I'm going to build it might be very ordinary this chair that I build too so I've got to maybe liow on my expectations planes going on outside we're under the flight path in Sydney airport it's very impressive it's like bloody dony Darko I feel like there's an engine going to drop out of the sky in a minute I'm just dancing with the devil right now let's check it out that look at the nails I've denail all of the pallets and I've got my little Little Hardware store over here but now it's about designing the chair and getting it all right cuz everything's got to be bilateral it's got to work and I don't have any measurements so I'm just making it up everyone needs a chair everyone needs to sit down sometime almost got hit by a car hello so what are you doing B well I'm going out again to get more wood I'm a bit short ah pallet fell oo mama oh it's an old door look at this seed of weatherboards dang oh that's good wood good spiders [Music] too yeah lovely bum slat there [Music] I'd be very surprised if I don't this [Music] [Applause] [Music] up it was very good to turn uh Sydney's wood into a chair how can you not be excited about that look at that look at all those spring [Music] times [Music] it's very good I don't know I got much more to say than [Applause] that I've um run out of screws long screws for the frame so I'm reusing Nails you're really living it you're really living it when you're straightening Nails in life bloody hell that Nails pop through what a dirt bag this is the third time I've attacked this nail today first taking it out of the pallet second then uh straightening it to use and then it popped out the [Music] top everything's unique yeah it's completely bespoke cuz I kind of like the idea of just this time pressure thing you just have to rip into it and you know run fiddle last and make it the perfect Arc you just got to make it the best you can it's kind of an arising way of doing [Music] things I give it an 8.2 out of 10 nah seven and a bit 7.5 by popular demand which is Mitch saying B you should paint it cuz there's a big tin of paint that I used as a weight for the the paddle uh I'm going to paint it which is going to take a lot of its blemishes away and maybe some of its character but it'll also give it a nice clean start in life you know now it's let's had a midlife crisis as a palette and now it's going to be an ader chair Helen says this color blue looks good on me so I'm going to use a similar color blue on the [Music] chair when I make things I try and make them well enough to outlive me Timber from softwood pellets are usually only ever intended for a single use getting stuff from one Factory to the next then thrown away but as a well-made chair out of the weather cheap Pine can last 100 years locking away the carbon and giving a tide set of Bones somewhere to have a beer or a copper staring off into space thinking about all the excellent stuff you can make from junk [Applause] [Music] wood [Music] [Applause] tell you what this BL could have done with a few more hours sleep but uh I'm excited about the idea of making a paddle 3 hours 3 hours till I got to leave the glue feels like it's um it's held which is good we can only see [Music] hey it's um it's going to be a delicate p I wouldn't give this to a student that busted I reckon cuz I've done the handle I've ripped into the handle too hard buddy pohe headed bow you got to be gentler in life right and the paddle is a perfect way to be gentle so this is going to be a gentle paddle disaster has struck the sand caught on the handle and um has pulled on its weakest point which is a bit of dry rot just here so unfortunately the beautiful paddle is no more the best bit of Timber of a paddle needs to be the shaft and I chose not the best bit of Timber so there you go nice cheese platter that means getting to the studio to give away a chair and a busted paddle thanks Workshop good morning Sydney I'm doing my shoelace up in the street love you good on you mate he loves me how about that if I saw me running down the road I'd I'd tip my cap H like's doing a good thing he's got the chair going on he's got the power transport going on he's Sunsmart he's probably even very handsome underneath that [Music] hat out you okay yeah I'm running along life is really good Sydney's putting on a show and I smash into a stainless steel bab my shoulders okay thanks for asking it still thubs a little but I'm okay now if you didn't catch weekend breakfast yesterday you would have missed our chat with Bo miles the backyard Adventurer he set off on an adventure from this very Studio promising to run from here at the a BC to a workshop 6 km away where he would build a something with only item along the way without too many spoilers we managed to capture a little bit of that Journey here it [Music] is oh I'm very excited to see what he's got for us where are you oh my God go wow I hope you like blue yeah it's the color it's the color of my shirt that is amazing so F I think you get the chair because you know you sent me an email a while back so you know you made the connection wonderful uh Dan I made you a beautiful paddle um but I used a bit of old stud frame out of a house and it's got some dry rot as I discovered whilst doing the shaft this morning it was coming along beautifully so sorry mate it's got a big cracking so I might have to put a new shaft in I'm glad you folks are over there because I'm radioactive this is this is legit this is the real Workman and this is after makeup and hair too you should have seen me 10 minutes [Music] ago

Channel: Beau Miles

Views: 617,176

Keywords: Backyard Adventure, ABC, Beauisms, Woodwork, Sydney

Id: OdgNcoVzl2o

Length: 16min 57sec (1017 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 20 2022