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We're going to be looking at a portable scaffolding system unlike anything that you've ever seen before. And wait for it because this thing transforms into something else. But let's just watch this thing in action. Now Todd, you're the inventor of this, right? Yeah, there's actually two minds behind it, but yeah, I'm one of them. Okay. So as we're going up, this is actually able to go on to uneven ground as well. Correct. Each leg has 13 in of extension, so we can level it off on unlevel ground. So see you're taking the squat right out of the machine. Yep. Then we have a safety bar to put on. Now how high is this going to get you right there, Todd? Um this has one extension on it, so we are actually at 11 ft to the base. So if you look at if you look at this building, it's 18 ft. Okay. But now, that's not the maximum height you can go with this, right? >> No, we can go up in 3-ft increments higher with more extensions. And now you Now, this will hook [music] up to just a UTV, or will it hook up to other things as well? >> This is an ATV that's on I mean ATV and a Yep, but we do have a UTV bracket. We have a a base mount, so we can put it on like a trailer. We can put it on a like a a ladder rack on a pickup. Um we've got all sorts We've got boats that have them on them. We've got Now, how much higher can you go with this, Todd? This is This is 11 ft. Yeah. >> one more extension, it'd be 14 ft. Okay. And another extension would now make it 17 ft. And is that the maximum height you can go with it? You know, we tell everybody it's like common sense. If you don't have common sense, you [laughter] know, don't put extensions on it. Okay. Now, as we look at this uneven ground right here, right now you picked a level kind of a level spot, but [music] with those adjustable legs, how comfortable would you be kind of going up in the awkward positions? I'd be okay going in the awkward positions, especially like like around the curve of the house here. Um [music] then we can actually bring one leg up about 5 in higher than the rest of them, and then it'll compensate for the different grounds. Now, you also made this the all the world's only tax deductible deer stand. I'm going to jump in here because you have to stick around to see what these guys are doing with this thing as a hunting blind. It's not just for deer stands. We're talking about coyote hunting, moose hunting, grizzly hunting. And the way they're utilizing this, it is absolutely gave gives me goosebumps. It's so freaking cool. But I'm going to show you that in just a minute. Let's just check out how this thing comes down and all the other cool things that this How you drive around with it, how you can get out into the back country with it, how you can get into construction job sites with this thing where you can't get it with other things. There's so many cool things that I learned as I was talking to Todd and his business partner Jeff while I was filming this thing. It just opened my mind to possibilities, but let's keep going. that we know of. Right. So you actually This is not just a construction scaffold. You also set it up so that you can make this into a portable deer stand that is legal even in states where you're not allowed to hunt off from a vehicle. Correct. And we're going to show you guys that in a minute. So we originally made this for hunting purposes, but then we figured out that the construction side of it, you know, is more than 50% of our business. Right. And then in Alaska, you guys are real popular, aren't you? >> I'm Everybody that has a tower in Alaska is a contractor. Right. So now, will you Will you show me how this comes down and then how it rolls and it moves on the on the on the ATV, will you? Yep. Okay. So now, when you actually want to move this, you don't have to pull the the rails apart? No, actually, if we want to move it, um with one extension on here, And that's what you got, one extension. >> all we have to do is take the put the legs up. You don't even have to put the legs up very high. All I have to do is put the legs up, and then we just got to put it in neutral, and then if we wanted to move it like forward or backwards, it's just a matter of either pushing the machine cuz the legs are already on the off the ground, you know. Okay. So Or if you really wanted to, you could crawl you get a skinny guy to crawl in there and just drive it forward. >> You can. Now Now, uh take it down for me once, will you? I just want to watch this thing go down. You got one safety bar that you got to pull down. That's the safety bar, so just in case a cable or a bolt were to break, it's not going to come collapsing down. Okay. I'm going to let this play out for you guys in real time so you can just see exactly what it takes to move this thing. Then I'm going to ask you to hop on this four-wheeler and drive with it to see how stable it is. It only takes 18 to 20 seconds to lift it. And this is how you can actually hop on it right now and drive it around at this point, right? We're going to show you it converted into a deer hunting stand in a minute whenever he finally comes back from wherever he's off to. And then uh you guys can get this inside the Dirt Monkey shop. So we do sell this. I first seen it a couple years ago, and then uh my video actually got stolen by quite a few people, so you may see it uh my old videos uh rummaging around other places, but it's available inside the Dirt Monkey shop. All right, Todd. Let's go show these guys how it gets converted into a deer stand next. >> Okay. So we'll do it. All right, I'm going to jump in here while these guys are converting it over from a construction scaffold to to a hunting blind. The process takes about 15 minutes or so, and I'll let you watch that. There's two things I actually want to tell you about them. The first one is I said it's a tax deductible uh hunting blind. The rules are made for everyone to use. So if you're going to buy this as purely a hunting blind, maybe you take it out to a job site one time, and you take some pictures of it out on that job site, whether that's for your grandma or your aunt or your uncle or something like that, and um you use it for construction purposes so that it can be a business write-off. If you don't think that the big wigs out there in the corporate world are doing this, then you need to think twice because that's exactly how they use these tax loopholes to uh their advantage, and there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't do it and I shouldn't do it as well. If they can get away with it, then we should be allowed to be able to do the exact same thing. Utilize these strategies to our own advantage. Now, I also want to tell you a very interesting story that he kind of breezed over, but off camera he showed me. He says they're using these things on on boats, and they're doing it in Alaska. And what they're doing is they've got like 4,000 mi of riverways. And when they're hunting moose and grizzly, the moose and grizzly, what he explained to me is like the moose will come down to the water's edge, drink, and then they go back up onto the side, and these the sides of the river are only about 4-ft high. And [snorts] then the moose are bedding down within 30-40 ft of the sides of the river. They don't go deep off into the marsh into the brush land. They just stick where they stick, right? And these riverboat captains, what they're doing is they're taking these boats, and they're mounting the traveling tower on it, and they're standing up 18-20 ft so they can see clearly over the entire marsh line down it. And he showed me pictures of one guy in particular to He's like bragging about his traveling tower showing that he had harvested three full-size moose and a grizzly utilizing the traveling tower. He had it mounted on his boat. He'd just climb up to the top. He could see them bedding down, and boom, it worked like magic. So there's a lot of different ways you can leverage this thing to your advantage, and I thought that was just so cool. He actually showed his trophies. His boat was so heavy, he was worried about it sinking cuz he had the the traveling tower on it, three moose, and a grizzly simultaneously. It was the coolest thing I think I've seen in a forever. All right, but let's just go back jump into this one. Todd, do you have windows on all four sides? Yeah, there's windows on all four sides. And each each window has four zippers. So, you can actually mix and match and you can actually do like uh corner slots, you know? Um or if you wanted to like what I like to do is I like to just keep it only open about this far because then when you open only open about this far, if you see something you want to shoot at, you can rest your gun right here and use this then as a gun rest as well. Huh. So. And you can have a heater in it? Yeah, we have uh we have solid fold-down option. So, we uh solid fold-down window. So, if you want to put a heater in there and sit in 60° versus zero, you can do that. Okay, for legality purposes in Minnesota, you're not allowed to hunt out of a vehicle. Not Not allowed to discharge a firearm on a motorized vehicle. Well, technically, with the legs on the ground, even if it's still attached to the machine, you're rendering the machine immobile, you're on a non-motorized platform, 100% of your body weight is transmitted to the ground. So, technically, you're on the ground. So, So, by rights, you're legal, but if you really want to go the extra distance, >> then you pull these pins right here, and then you dis- you detach it. You just pull the machine right out from underneath it. And now there is zero question at that point. >> zero question. >> Now you can have your stand hunting stand wherever you want wherever you want. >> Yep. And then you should also strap it though. So, once you get it there, >> Yeah, whenever you whenever you get it out there, you put it we we recommend at every corner to either sapling trees or ground anchors. Okay. >> Yep. All right. And then we also have auxiliary ladders that you can put on there. So, if you didn't want to drive your machine up to it and then crawl up on it, we got another ladder you can use. And it's available all at the Dirt Monkey shop. >> It is. Yep. Ever since I saw you last year and you thought what the heck is this guy doing? He actually did think that. >> I knew what you were doing. >> [laughter] >> These These are good folks, you guys, and we're honored to be able to have these guys in the Dirt Monkey shop. Now, next, we're going to head north to my land and we're going to scope out a couple different pieces of shooting lanes that I've never been able to get at before and I want to get your two cents on what you think of those spots cuz we've never been able to access them, but now with something like this, we absolutely can. All right. I really enjoyed bringing this one to you. Love I love helping small guys like this. These guys Todd and Todd and his partner were the one that came up with the idea. They manufactured it. This is the eighth generation of this thing, and I love being able to bring [music] this to you guys. So, I feel like it's I'm helping two people. I'm helping my audience discover something new that they've never seen before, and I'm helping the inventor bring their idea to light, and that's all what Dirt Monkey shop [music] is all about. And you guys have been And I want to say thank you to you guys for helping with some of these giveaways we're doing. It's been a such a blessing to give away these trucks and trailers. It's been stressful and chaotic, I'll be quite honest with you cuz we don't always we don't know if we're going to be able to even afford it, to be quite frank with you. Um heck, we thought uh Dirt Monkey 2 giveaway where we gave away the uh the Ford with the snow plow, >> [music] >> that was going to be a flop, but at the last minute you guys came in, and then we were thinking the high country giveaway that dually with the dump trailer was going to be awesome cuz we were really go- going all in on that one. That one didn't turn out to be almost the worst of all of them. I can't I can't make this stuff up. But, you know what? Life is an adventure. >> [music] >> We're I firmly believe we're only here for such a small amount of time, and the reason why we're here in the first place is to experience everything life has to offer. The highs, the lows, the goods, the bads. Experience absolutely everything, and then we take that with us in the next stage when we go onward and upward to meet our heavenly father. And I think that's what life is all about. So, whether it turns out great or whether it turns out to be something else that you needed to learn from, I think [music] there's always something some way to benefit, and I hope I hope that that's the same way that some of you guys can view life as well. It's >> [music] >> even even the things that hit us the hardest are the lessons that propel us forward the absolute most. Firmly believe that. But, that's all I got for you on this one. I hope God blesses everything you do, and I hope you see the joy and the beauty that lies all around us even in the trials, tribulations, and the fires because that's [music] where we grow the strongest from. But, God bless you guys, and we'll see you guys on another one.