Moving 2,000 pounds without a Crane

Okay, this is about as ghetto as it gets. Nailed it. Nailed it. Don't let me hit anything like >> I'll try not to. >> Oh, yeah. I just hold camera and walk around looking pretty all day long. Oh, >> that's a weird treat. This is another phase of the project. We said we were going to do this landscaping in phases. How do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? And so Frankie is working on wrapping up the deck. So he's going to be building on the staircase on the railing. I'll help him with that. I'll jump off. But while he's doing that, I'm going to come over here and start prepping for the sauna. Now, in this case, the sauna's going to go here. It's got to go outside the drip line of this tree because it's a wood burning sauna. We don't want the exhaust going up underneath the tree cuz we don't want the sparks going into the dry leaves. Okay, this makes the most logical sense for the area except for the topography. The terrain is not going to allow us to set a sauna in place unless we want a sauna that's kittywampus. And unless we want to sit kittywampus, we've got to level that ground out. To level that ground out means we've either got to dig it down to its natural elevation or we got to raise it up. Now, in this case, we have a decision to make, and that's to look at the drainage pattern. This right here is the low point. So, as a landscaper, when I'm designing, I don't want to stick one of the main features in the low point where it's going to run into water problems. So, taking that into consideration, that means I need to raise the sauna elevation up, which is going to give me a little bit of a challenge because if I raise this elevation up, it doesn't match with any of the other elevations. And in fact, it would start to flood out the house. So, we've got these interesting challenges that we need to work into. So, all we're going to do right now is focus and concentrate on just raising up the spot for the sauna and leveling that out. And then in the previous video where we were talking about building the deck, we're going to see how that looks. And then we're going to decide how we want to build up to it. So, we got a pretty full day. We're going to be using the cast loader. We're going to be using an excavator. We're going to be using boulders. We're going to make this not an overly complicated project because sometimes less is more. And uh let's just get this uh let's just get this show started. All right. The plan is to do the work with the excavator, but use the cast loader to feed the boulders to it so we don't tear up the turb. Got that one guy. Heat Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] There you go. Good job. [Music] We got a lot of black dirt hiding under here and we don't want to put a building pad on that. So, we're going to scrape some of that down till we find some non-organic material and then we'll bring in some decent stuff and we'll just tire pack it. Compression compaction. There's vibratory compaction and then there's compression compaction. vibratory compactions where you take a plate packer, jumping jack or sheep's foot and pound, physically pound the soil in. The secondary way to do it is compression compaction where you drive over it and you basically squeeze it together and you rely on the weight of the machine and then the tires. You can do it with tracks. You can do it fine with tracks. You just got to do it thinner lifts and more often, but you you're relying on the weight of the machine to compress that material together. you get to the end goal the same. It's just a matter of whichever one you want to use. Don't tell some Don't let somebody tell you you can't do one or the other because I have had contractors, general contractors, come up to me and tell me that you can't use compression compaction. You can don't buy don't buy it. People will try to tell you it doesn't work. It works just just the same. And Frankie's Mountain Post. You guys will see that in the Deck Mountain video. [Music] I come down anyways. >> That's all right. You're busy. I like to keep you doing skill things. So, it's main support is there. That runs that way. There runs that way. So, we got to get those measurements. Okay. So, I'm laying things out and I'm looking at the back. I think that looks good. What do you guys think? Clear. No, I got to pull them out and get that pad level right about there. [Music] Okay. So, we've leveled the pad and then the actual building itself will sit the saunas will sit on those two runners right there. So, those got leveled. Each one got leveled individually, but then they got leveled from side to side as well. So, next thing we got to do, boy, cross your fingers. We've got to move this in and set it down. We've never done this before. And there's always a little bit of nervousness, but that's the fun about what everybody gets to do. You know, when you do something that you've never done before, it's always that nervous excitement. That's what life is about is nervous excitement. Always try something new. If you guys ever have a chance, I'm not trying to be on a soap box. I'm just saying when we get to the end of our road and our days are done, I don't believe we're going to regret the things we tried and failed. I believe we'll regret the things we were too afraid to try in the first place. And we have so little little little little time. Please try everything. Please give it everything you have. And don't try it halfway lukewarm. Give it everything you got. And if you fail, fail miserably. And if you succeed, succeed triumphantly. That's what life is about. Experience. It's not about running from experience. It's about running to it. embracing it and feeling everything you can, good, bad, and in between. And the ex the I'm doing this because of experience. I just want the thrill of trying to do something new. That's what Frankie and I are doing this entire project for. Building a deck on top of stairs, trying something new, putting a building down like this, trying something new. These aren't things that in our are in our wheelhouse. I mean, we've done similar stuff, but they're not what we do in our day-to-day grind, but we want to have the experience. And I hope you guys have tons and tons of fabulous experiences, whatever you do and wherever you go. But now, let's have another one and try to move a building into place. Frankie, we got lucky. >> Why? >> We made that gate just just wide enough that we could squeak a trailer through. >> Oh, >> and we were just guessing. Yeah, >> it was just a guess. They're like, "Let's make the gate wide." Okay, I see nothing. Like, I can't I I can't see a thing. So, I'm going to be listening for you and looking for you. And if I stop, that means I see nothing. But you get to also hold the camera. >> Oh. Oh. >> Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. Okay, come on back. doing. Okay. Right there. Oh, wait. I got to come this way. You're going to have to pull ahead and come over about a foot. Okay, >> that was that was Frankie doing pretty good. He handled the camera and kept me from running into a fence. And the I what I was saying, you guys did probably didn't hear me, is I do have a lot of control. I'm using this thing, this hitch on the skid hitch. We sell it at the dirt monkey shop. It is a game changer if you have to move trailers. Game changer. Don't use forks and a ball on the end. I mean, you can. That's up to you. All right, we got to open up the gates and then uh >> roll about a foot. >> Roll her roller back and then we'll start uh unrolling it. [Music] [Applause] [Music] >> This is rolling. >> Yeah, the whole thing is There you go. You got to hit the front. You got to hit the bar. >> Got to go forward. >> No. Up. >> Up. We free. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to bring her down. Keep an eye on that. Okay. Suck it in a little bit. about the same amount of overhang. >> Do we want that pushed forward as far as we can or are we okay with that little >> I'm okay with that cuz it doesn't stick past the deal. So, I can always cut them if I need to. >> All right, let's go inside and see if it rocks. Plus, if it rains, it's going to be even be better cuz it'll wait to kind of push it down and settle everything. >> It's done. I mean, it's it's pretty straightforward, I'd say. Let's put a level on her inside and see how she's doing. >> Yeah, should be pretty close. I don't >> where does it say on the floor? >> The floor comes up. >> So the floor >> you're going. She's pretty damn close to level. I mean tiny bit low in the back. >> I say give it a week of sitting here. you know, >> she'll she'll level out more one way or another way. >> Especially if it rains. >> Yeah, which is going to happen tomorrow and the next day and the next day. So, all right. Well, good. We got that settled. I'll get there. I'll get that out. We got to get the equipment out of the yard, though. All with the building set. That really helps visualize everything cuz now we've moved the stairs. They're going to come straight down here. Almost like you're walking off from the deck to get specifically to the sauna. But now we got to figure out what we're going to do in front of it. So, let's clean that up to see what we're working with. All right, guys. Well, in the very next video, we're going to tie all of the pieces of this puzzle together and show you how we can do a project like this on a next to no budget. I mean, we're talking about thrifty, thrifty, thrifty. But here's the building in its final state. How I've got her resting. Everything came together great. Let's take a look at what I've done around the outside of it. The little retaining wall, which just basically leveled this area out just enough to to uh get the building pad in without really disrupting the actual physical grade, which ran right here. So, we still have good flow. We're not backing any water up into the house. Um, and there she is. We didn't end up cracking that back glass. What would happen if we had dropped that at all? It would have cracked. So, we use those pipes to roll this into place so that we had it all uh pretty much slow and steady won that race. And uh yeah, it was just fun to do. So, I guess that leads me to one question. Do you guys ever do stuff like that just for fun? I mean, is that would that some be something you'd be like, "Ah, let's try to do something like that." Or do you do some different things for fun? I mean, how do you go about doing that? I'd love to hear from you. What do you guys do for fun? Like Frankie and I love just trying new things. Well, that's what we do. We have fun doing that. That's That's what makes us tick. What makes you guys tick? I want to hear about it. And heck, you watch me. I'd love to hear about you. But that's it for this one. God bless you guys. Go get them. We'll catch you on another one.