- Hey everyone, my name is Matt. Welcome to my back yard. Today, we start the
last phase of the move. We are moving the saw mill and everything that is
a part of that thing. So mostly slabs, lots and lots of slabs. So today I am gonna get
started on some prep work. I'll be meeting up with my friend Josh, over at the warehouse. We're going to be taking my
forklift from the warehouse, bringing it to the house, getting things maybe
staged today, maybe not. And then sometime next
week I should start moving. So let's head over to the
warehouse and grab my forklift. Hey little Forkey. Let's let's go for a
drive, show you the world. (forklift engine starting) There we go. (forklift engine revving) So my forklift has arrived. So again, huge thank you to Josh for taking some time out of his Saturday to help me haul this here. Josh makes some really
awesome slab furniture and just furniture in general. I will leave you a link to his stuff down in the description below. He also produces probably the most robust and like ridiculously
awesome slab flattening table that you could probably buy. I showed this over on Instagram, probably like last year some time. The thing is a beast. It can hog through like anything, and it also has a sanding attachment, too. So you can surface and
sand directly on the table. So probably not a whole
lot going on today. The whole plan was just
to get this thing here and get that kind of checked off the list so things are ready to go. I am gonna take back, I
have a couple of logs here. I'm gonna haul those back today. And then next week we'll be back and doing some actual stuff. I do have my banding, too, with me. So I may just start banding things to get that out of the way
as well while I'm here today. But then I will see
you sometime next week, and we'll start staging things, which should be interesting. (forklift engine revving) Well, good morning. It's a little after 7:00 AM. Sun is coming up, and we're gonna see about
getting this thing out of here. So it is below freezing, but I don't think it got cold enough for long enough last night
to fully freeze the ground. And we had heavy rain yesterday, so I don't know that the slab
thing is gonna happen today. I brought some stuff to drive on, and there's plenty of stuff
around here I can drive on, but we'll see. At the very least, let's see about getting the saw mill out of here. Last time taking the tarps off. Well, last time here, at least. The last time traveling
down the track here. Let's see. I'm gonna undo this cable. (forklift beeping) (forklift engine revving) All right, how about a
little lift off, huh? Let's see. Oh, we're sliding now? That's nice. If this driveway wasn't
destroyed before this, it will be afterwards, that's for sure. This forklift is not very kind. (forklift beeping) (forklift beeping) This would be a lot easier
if the ground was flat. There's like a twist in the ground here. I guess, also if I had it in
gear, that would also help. What's this tree doing? Who put this tree here? (forklift engine revving) And now there's a log there,
who put this log here? (Matt laughing) Let's kind of, let's level this
out a little bit, all right. Gonna try and make this turn. Big log. (metal crunching)
(Matt laughing) Oh man. Off to a good start, I see. Someone buy me a downspout. Too busy paying attention
to what's going on up top so I hit the house. Don't hit the soffit or the gutters, Matt. Nobody's saying anything
about the downspouts. All right, I'm gonna set this here for now because we're gonna put the, we're gonna put the track on first on the trailer, so that can wait here. Let's go get the track
out of the backyard. That's a little heavier, but not by much surprisingly. So I'm just realizing that
this is not my skid steer, and it's way longer. So I was planning on just
swinging in here and picking it up but I'm not gonna have room to do that. So we've got to shimmy
it over a little bit. And then hopefully pick it. Like it's nothing. Woo, there we go. (forklift engine revving) You know what, I can
probably end-pick this thing. So now before I invest any more
time in rigging this thing, let's just see if this is a
feasible way of moving this. Proof of concept, here we go. No, because it's not attached to the... Oh, wait, there we go. Gonna lift that way. Well that surprises me. I guess that works, yeah, all right. I'm gonna put it back down and tighten those chains up a bit. Get a little more lift on that, I guess front end, back end,
whatever you want to call it. And away we go. This is so ridiculous. Somehow I got it just perfectly sitting on top of the D-rings on the deck. (Matt laughing) Okay, okay. Well, we can, we can fix that later. Before it starts getting too warm, let's see if we can get some of the slabs out of the backyard. Let's see how the ground feels. It's warming up quickly. Oh boy, I'm already hot. How we looking? I mean the front tires look fine. I'm more worried about
those tiny little back ones. Already stuck. All right, let's get some stuff down. No? (forklift engine revving) Wow, already stuck. Haven't gone anywhere yet. I think at this point, we're just gonna try and back out of here. Get some mats. I may come back. I don't think we're
moving any slabs today,. That's mushy. Okay, So I got the
track up on some blocks, so it's good to go. I'm gonna throw this saw head
on the trailer now, I guess. Should be interesting. This is a little difficult now, 'cause I'm coming down a
hill because of the driveway. So as I'm coming down, it's changing the angle
the mass is tipped at, which is changing the angle the saw is at. So slow moves and you know what? Hopefully I have enough reach here to actually go over the fenders. Not enough, okay. Let's go back I guess. (Matt humming) So to give myself a little
more reach with the forks, I made a quick set of fork extensions with some pieces of wood. It feels stable. I mean, it's off the ground. It's definitely a little more bouncy than it was before, but it's not like it's gonna go anywhere. I just have to go even slower. I think real quick, I'm
gonna throw a chain up there just in case something happens. So the front side can't roll forward and tip completely over. And then we should be good
to go to go onto the trailer. (Matt laughing) Something else I didn't plan for. You gotta be kidding me. Now the problem is that I'm a little too wide to
sneak down between the bunks. Because of this support. I'm flush on the other
side, this one's in the way. Dang it. Okay, new plan. Plans, so many plans. There we go. We'll just drop it on some boards. All right, I think that is about it. Time to hit the road. (truck engine revving) All right, a pretty uneventful drive back. So now let's get it unloaded with that thing back there. (Matt laughing) So this just showed up today. I just bought this, a
9,000 pound telehandler. I'm sure we'll do a video
about this in the future. Probably like when I
bought the skid steer. I did that about six months later. This is a 2014. It was previously a rental unit, and it has about 5,000 hours on it. So let's get this thing
picked up off of here. Should be a lot easier to get
it off with this telehandler because now I have a boom, so I can actually reach out and grab it. And the forks on this
thing are five foot forks, versus the four foot forks on my forklift. So it should be much
easier to pick this thing right up off of here. Should probably unchain it. (Matt laughing) (telehandler beeping) And that completes the 35-mile
journey to its new home. I don't have an actual permanent
place for this right now. This seems like a decent place to put it as it needs somewhere to sit for now. And I could probably just
put it in the driveway whenever I used to use it until they get an actual
permanent spot set up for it. I could probably do a
little bit of stuff here, but the ground conditions aren't
super great for machinery. So a relatively uneventful
move for this thing. It's nice to have that kind
of checked off the list. Next time we were going
to pull every stack of slabs out of my backyard. It should be way more work. (Matt laughing) So look for that next time. That is gonna do it for the saw mill move. I am happy. Thank you, as always, for
watching, I greatly appreciate it. Put any questions or
comments on the saw mill, the move, or anything here, please feel free to leave me a comment. As always, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have. And until next time, happy woodworking.
