We Bought a Vacant 70s Compound...Now We Have To Fix it! (Shop Progress and Logan's Office)

We did not anticipate this many people watching the first video we made about this place. And there's at least 10,000 new subscribers who do not know anything about us and want to see us put this place back together. We thought it'd be a good idea to tell you a little bit about ourselves so you can get up to speed on who we are and what we do. I'm Mitchell. >> I'm Logan. >> We come from racing and race cars if you hadn't looked at the channel already. And I do race myself. Not in NASCAR, not yet anyways. But this is an old NASCAR car from about 20 years ago. and I run it the series that does that stuff. We do videos about that, too. We don't have construction backgrounds or anything like that. We build cars. We're selftaught and we'll figure it out and kind of show you what we're doing as we do it. What parts of the house are you doing? >> Like every room. >> And what am I doing? >> You're cutting trees and stuff >> in the garages. So, your your wheelhouse is doing stuff in the house. I'm doing stuff outside the house and with the land basically is what we're going on here. >> Yes. And I've put in a lot of work since the last video. Yes, she has. And since we did not anticipate this many new people to see the video, we thought that it was just going to be who already knows who we are, we forgot to show you Logan's car. >> This is my 67 Mustang, and it is a major project. Almost every piece of metal on this car is new. >> Who put it there? >> I put all of this together. Every single piece. You didn't do a thing. >> Nope. And you've been filming all that, but we haven't posted any videos about it. So someday you'll see videos about this car probably once the house is more livable and I get the garage put together. >> Yeah, >> cuz you'll be working on it in here, but it's still a staging area for stuff that we're >> moving >> in. So many boxes and stuff in here that haven't been unpacked. This car is completely full of stuff, too. Like on the floorboards, uh like >> Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. So, we just bought this property here. Everything was built in the mid70s except this garage here. It's about 20 years old and it's been overgrown and neglected for a very long time. The house about 5 years of vacancy. The rest of the land around it really hasn't been maintained in 15 or 20. A lot of these trees were never supposed to be here. I looked at historic aerials like Google Earth of this place. Everything in here where you see these pallets of bricks was part of the yard and it will be that way again. That's what we're going to work on today. As you can see, I got a little carried away last night and just started knocking stuff over because I was having fun. And I found another small pile of bricks that I didn't know about before. And I went on the internet and I looked up what is the most powerful leaf blower and did some research and I bought one. So, we're going to use that, too. Now, before I get to cutting down anything else, I should probably drag out of here what I had fun doing yesterday. Um, cuz cutting it down is the fun part. Getting it out of there is the not so fun part. [music] >> Apple beans [music] where the rips taste so good from the track to the booth. He's calling the shots on a cold connecting the dots. [music] Yeah, he's a racing machine. Well, I'd say that's pretty good progress for a couple hours from one dude without a tractor or a real chainsaw. What are you even doing in here? >> Obviously, it doesn't look good and it needs to be sanded. They have wood paneling in here and they painted over it. So, I don't want to pay for drywall right now. I know someone's going to hate on me for that, so whatever. >> It's not even like It's just got a little bit of texture in it. It's not super crazy. >> So, I'm going to patch that. I have to patch this door at least on this side for now so that I can mud it and then worry about the drywall on this side later. And I need to knock out or you could knock out a hole on that side. What' you do with my little bar? >> Nothing. >> Oh, >> you always think I move your stuff and I don't. Well, the door was so heavy it drug it with it. Okay. Well, I started pulling off already. So, I haven't broke anything this far. >> Well, that's good. >> I wonder if they took the baseboard out of here or if there just wasn't one in here. >> Yeah, that's a good question. >> Cuz they're in every room, even the closets, obviously. >> You know what I also do? >> What? I could just saw the nails. >> That's not a bad idea. >> It's one surefire way to make sure it comes out in one piece. Yeah, I think I might do that. I guess since Mitchell hasn't knocked that hole out, I'm going to go do it myself. Okay. Well, that's roughly where the door will go. Oops. I roughly drew out where the door is going to go to make it even with that door. Um, [clears throat] at least now we know where the hole is and that stud's going to have to come out. So, yeah, that'll be fun. There's little bubbles inside the drywall mud and you kind of got to work them out. So, you really got to press into it as you smooth it, or else you'll get little spotty pieces and you'll have to do more sanding and more layers. I was a little sloppy when I was doing this the first time. I was a little messy the first time I put the first layer on just because it was hard to do in such a big area. I've only patched little small spots, so this was new to me. But it seems like when you put the second or third layer on, cuz you're supposed to do thin layers, it all fills in pretty nicely, no matter how sloppy it was. I did my other coat of the drywall mud, and now I'm going to start painting the ceiling. This is a Sherwin Williams rosemary at 75%. It's a green And I'm doing 100% for the walls. So, I'm color drenching, which is actually popular right now. And it was popular in a lot of vintage homes. Oh, definitely need another coat. I'm just going to go around the whole perimeter of the room first with a brush. I'm sweaty. Very sweaty. So, I've got most of the first coat on. So, a couple days later now, and it is starting to get into the 40s at night, and it's making me realize that I got to get going on getting this garage sealed up so we have a comfortable place to work on stuff in the winter. Which part of that would be getting rid of this I think it's Andura. We figured out siding back here, which kind of looks like was just thrown on to make the thing have a wall back there. That and there's an extra stack of it in the tractor shed over there. Um, we want to take that off and replace it with some OSB or something more secure. And it would be way easier to do all that back here if I cleared out some of these little trees, which I needed to do anyway. Ideally, everything that's not a foot thick in here is going to be gone. I already made significant progress over there. So, right now, I'm going to knock out a bunch of these to make this job easier. Actually, you know what? I'm going to leaf blow some of these leaves out of here before I do this cuz it'll be easier to do it now than there is when I knock down more stuff. When I went on the internet and looked up what is the best leaf blower, um there were about three options, I think, and through my deductive reasoning of something that really didn't make any sense, I felt like I should get this one. It's the Echo PB910. I've never used a leaf blower like this before, but so far, I think it's fun. Anybody want to trade a flooded Rolls-Royce for a nice tractor and some attachments? Let me know. I would do that. instantly because you could just go fold Darn Hart and just run over all these trees and uh you'd be done. You can see these leaves have been here for a long time. They're starting to decompose in big piles. They're actually pretty heavy. That is a substantial difference. It might not look like it on the camera with the saturation and colors and whatever, but actually standing here. That's a big difference. We're walking on bare dirt right now and there was probably 8 in of leaves everywhere. Dead battery. Need more batteries. The blade for my little electric chainsaw is extremely dull. And not wanting to stop what I was doing to ruin my day and go to the store and get another one. I just decided to bear through it, take forever to cut them, knock down a bunch of stuff, and then drag it out, which is what I did. Took me way longer than I should have. But we made a huge dent back here. And it's actually pretty dang cool. Here we observe the wild Logan in her natural habitat, digging holes for plants I don't know anything about. today. She's struggling with the augur in the rocky dirt. Give it the old clutch dump. >> Huh? Give it a clutch dump. Like, let it spin and then push it in while it's spinning. >> Okay, maybe that works for me, but not for you. >> Tell me what to do. >> It worked for me. I didn't really think it through. You want me to try it? >> Yeah. It's heavy. >> OKAY. THAT CHUNK OF CONCRETE. >> NO, it's just a big rock. >> Huh. >> Well, I don't think that's too bad for couple more hours work today and my chain popping off about 16 times. I think it's dull. Needs a new chain. I think it's been run uh without having enough oil in the lubrication system too many times. There's nothing that tells you that it's low or out of oil until it starts making smoke when you're cutting, which is also a symptom of a dull blade making friction instead of taking chunks out of it. But do you see a chainsaw blade store right here? No, me neither. So, I made it work with what I had. Now, we have something. I didn't get this one yet cuz with the dull blade, that would have probably killed an entire battery. So, I could leave that one there and probably cut down 15 little ones with that. And we're actually getting really close to the original tree line. You see there's only a handful a little more tiny guys here before we get to the big ones. Getting this underbrush out is really quite satisfying. But we really unearthed a lot of new potential here. It's fun. Well, the seeing the result is fun. Doing it. Let's zoom in a little further. The physical act of dragging a tree is not fun. But in the context of why you are doing it and the result that you can see afterwards, every time you drag a tree out of there, you see more bare ground. That feels good. That is fun. And even though I don't have a tractor yet, I'm glad I did this the hard way cuz it's a good workout. It's probably good to spend some time with the land or something. make me appreciate it a little bit more than you wouldn't have the same scope for it if you just came through here with a tractor and ran everything over without ever having done it this way first. Someday I think it would be cool to extend this garage this way and have you maybe like another 25 30 ft deep if the pitch of the roof would even allow that to happen and [snorts] then have another bay in here that you could do. Uh then you could have like all your fab stuff in here. You could have like a whole fab dirty area back here with a door to the setup stuff over [snorts] there. Or you could clear this out more and back in here, put a nice RV pad with some of that cleared out more and you have a nice patio and a fire pit and you could look out over the the valley there and go camping right behind your house. I'm still not really used to the feeling of what it feels like to be standing here and knowing that this is my dirt. As long as I pay my property taxes, rent. Um, this is my dirt and nobody can tell me what to do with it. I don't have to ask anybody for permission first. And I'm a big views guy, so I definitely want to have something back here to see to look out over there. Unfortunately, when I was leaf blowing, clearing out behind the shop here, all of the openness blew a bunch of pulverized leaves in inside. So, it's a little bit messy right now, but if there's anybody watching this in the 704 or 336 area code that cuts down trees and is good at not dropping them on houses or vehicles, um, let me know cuz maybe we can work with you or something cuz we have some trees that we need to cut down before we can move dirt around. And we got to move dirt around, too. We know a few people with tractors and skid steers. We just haven't asked them about it yet. But we're hoping that somebody can help us with that too cuz we're spending so much money obviously just to buy the place and get everything going. And I'm trying to be as tactical about things as possible to make stuff go far. And I know a lot of you know what that's like and what I'm talking about. >> Oh, hi. >> How's it going? >> Fine. I needed to do another skin coat on top of this. >> We'll have to put this in the video. Do do the thing with your arm again. We can see standing over here. We just see dust just pluming out of the side of the house. Yeah. He thought this it was this thing making blown up engine smoke. >> It's not as bad now, but it it looked like there was a fog machine up there for a little bit. >> Yeah, it's bad. >> I'm on the home stretch, though. >> Good. Big old. Yeah, I'm to the point where I'm like it. Like I'm just going to make a break cuz I'm so I'm so tired of it. I didn't see how dirty it is. >> Oh, it's gross. >> Smell smells weird. >> Not as bad as it looks. It It looks like it would smell worse than it does. >> The cigarettes. >> Pull on it harder. >> Ew. What the It's like vomit. Well, there's some other weird stuff mixed in there for sure. >> Some cheap ass. >> Uh, I don't know. You're a bold man for touching that. >> I thought that was a condom at first and >> I did, too. >> I know I've said this a lot recently, but $1,500 that definitely ranks up there with some of the best deals I've ever found. Oh, there we go. Oh, out of gas. >> Oh, I thought you left. I didn't know you saw that. >> I grab my sunglasses. I keep forgetting. >> Oh, yeah. That's right. [laughter] >> I started priming the walls in here. I'm also putting together this cabinet or finishing putting it together. I got new trim for it, so I've been cutting it out and placing it in. So, that one's mocked up. And I kind of figured I haven't been filming myself, and I should be. I've been looking everywhere for my marker, and it [clears throat] was in my pocket. That looks so much better than what was there. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy with that. Look behind you. >> Doesn't that molding look good? >> Yeah. >> That trim like looks so much better than like that 2x4 bull was on there. Yeah, it does. What? >> You going to open that? I left the instructions and stuff with it. >> Okay, it works just fine. >> Oh, are you serious? >> What did you do? >> How did you turn it on? >> I put the batteries in the right way and poked the button. >> Which button did you poke? >> Any of them. They They all do something. Yeah. >> What the >> You just didn't put the batteries in right. >> I put them in three different ways. >> Did you put them in the way that it says to on here? >> Yes. And it didn't do anything. Is it possible you did it opposite the way it said to? >> No, I tried opposite both ways. >> Cuz when I opened it, they were all facing the same direction. >> Yeah, I know. Cuz that was the last effort. [laughter] >> So yesterday, I roughly outlined where I'm going to put my picture frame molding. And I'm not too far off, which I'm pretty impressed with cuz I didn't have a laser level. And [clears throat] I was just kind of eyeballing with um the frame of the window. And I [clears throat] have a [laughter] I have a piece of a side skirt from Mitchell's race car that's 5 1/2 in. And I was using that as my measurement and level tool to make the straight lines. And that is what I ended up with. Yesterday, I didn't quite finish measuring each of these boxes to make sure they're the exact same size. So, right now, I'm going through making sure that they are 32 across from inside to inside. And then using the laser level to [clears throat] line up the tape lines to make sure that they're straight. And then I can start cutting some of that trim. So, let's get to it. Now I have to measure out a square the exact same size as the one on the left side of the window to the right side of the window. Finishing up measuring out these other ones. I got this one halfway taped up. Taped up that one. It's going pretty well. Eventually I'd like to put in IKEA packs cabinets over here. So, I don't want to put wall molding over there. Um, just in case I do end up doing that. And you can always add the wall molding later. I've never done this before, so hopefully I don't mess this up. I'm not sure if I want to make it form around the cabinet or if I just want to do a square. Like part of me is like, "Oh, do a rectangle." And the other part of me is like, "That'll be weird with that little pocket right there." Now that I taped off where my baseboard is going to go, then I'm going to measure 5 and 1/2 in from the top of the baseboard. to the line, which I think I already have the laser level calibrated. >> In the process of transporting all of the vehicles we had in here and all of our stuff, we have had a lot of mechanical things to mess with, issues come up, tools needed, breakdowns, blowouts, everything. I like to keep some tools in the vehicle that I'm driving. These pliers right here from Tooling are great to keep in your car because they are adjustable and they can do a lot of things a wrench can do in a pinch. No pun intended. One tool for gripping, tightening, and holding without slipping. It's super easy to adjust. And it pivots on this fulcrum here. So, whenever you squeeze, it's flat. You can really grab onto stuff well with this. It's got a 10 to1 leverage ratio, so you don't have to have a gorilla grip strength to get the job done with this thing. It's so easy to adjust that I'm doing it with one hand. It's got the smallest head in its class for extremely tight spaces. I remember one time when I started working on cars that Christmas, my dad got me uh light up hazard lights. And I thought, "Wow, I'm kind of insulted that you think I'm going to break down and I will need these." But at the same time, you're looking out for me and I appreciate it. So, you can do the same thing for someone you care about. Stop adjusting and start wrenching with tooling. Check out the link in the description to find yours on Amazon. Today, we got a shop update, too. So before we can do the drywall, we have to do the insulation and all that. Well, before any of that happens, it'd be a lot easier to run the outlets and the light fixtures the way we want them. So we had the electricians come. I didn't do this. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff. Not yet, anyways. At least not not on something this important. I might fix thing here and there, but I'm not going to wire a whole garage. We're going to use these LED wafer lights that flush mount into the sheetrock up there. And there's going to be 16 of them. And they ran the wires everywhere that they're they're going to be. And that's ready to go. Now we can go ahead and close this up when we can get to it. We added a bunch of outlets. And we got one here. Got one in that corner. And something interesting I'm trying out is we I had them put one up in that corner and up in that corner. So, I can put retractable extension cords up there out of the way because when I walk in this place, I want it to feel like empty…