After 3 Months, Out of the Mud and Snow! #5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2020
- The two jerks are building with logs! And they are happy to no longer be winter camping. Now permanent residents of the Ringworm wilderness, they have lived and slept on snow, ice, rocks and mud for (hopefully) the last time. After many days of cutting trees and clearing brush then lots of chainsaw milling cedar trees, the deck is done. Again.
Ryan's new tent turned out to be twice as big as expected so the deck had to be expanded before it could even be used. But it being the only flat "ground" on the property, it was worth every minute of the work.
For these friends of over two decades, flat ground to sleep on is worth more than just about anything. Errr, discounting bacon and liquid cheeses anyway.
Want to know how to build a deck? Well, this is how one MIGHT build a deck. If the only tool you had to use was a chainsaw. And you had no experience building a deck from logs and chainsaw milled lumber.
Ringworm is a remote property in Northern Michigan purchased for no other reason than to serve as a grown-up playground for nature-loving idiots. Tito and Ryan have been friends since high school and over the years have spent the majority of their time camping and screwing around in the woods. After two decades of dreaming and scheming of owning their own piece of wilderness, everything finally came together early 2020.
There is no road to the property, no water, power nor structures of any kind. It is simply a slice of Michigan forest remote enough that nobody will ever hear their screams. Or ask why they are carrying a spear to breakfast. Or pick on them for not wearing pants. Or question if they really need a blowtorch that big to light a wood stove.
And they actually live there!
Because I’ve gotten so many questions about the gear that I use on the channel, here are some of the most important pieces I use every day:
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Thank you all so much for supporting this crazy endeavor! Without you folks donating to Surviving Ringworm, I wouldn't be able to even consider staying out here in the wilderness a second year making videos. You seriously blow my mind!
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(As a thank-you for donating $5 or more a month through Patreon, I will carve your name into the picnic table and show it in an upcoming episode.)
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The name of this channel stopped me dead in my tracks - started with the first one and now I"m hooked - so I'll just keep "scratching" my way through each episode until I find the cure.
Haha! You and me both! Luckily, I've found that as long as the humidity doesn't get too low, the scratching and itching subsides. Just have to keep living outside in Michigan!
I'm going back to watch the older ones now. So 😎
I'd really love to see you guys turn the perimeter of your entire encampment into a frontier style fort, with stockade walls, sharpened points on the logs, lookout towers and a portcullis gate. To protect your skittles.
Sorry I just tried to trick you into becoming a militia.
Ohhhh. I like the idea of the sharpened, pointed log walls. Might have to build something that incorporates that!
@@survivingringworm2202 yep! Me too! Sorta like Boonsboro!
What he said. Also, those metal pins are fucking brilliant.
Good afternoon from Grand Forks
much love from Taiwan
Just found your channel this morning on the log bridge video. Decided to start from the beginning. Great stuff. We're pursuing our dream of "Up North" living on a riverfront 5 ac near Gladwin.
Don't waste too much time watching my videos when you could be out livin' the life.
Riverfront 5 acres sounds ideal!
Loved the editing at the end. Buzzz...buzzz...buzzz. All done! Looks good. Nice big tent & no more wallowing in the mud. Truly livable.
ive never thought about what it costs to live, but hearing about how you assemble with screws and finalize with nails is very interesting. Nails cost less which means less time working for money, which means more time in the woods. Call it frugal or cheap or whatever you want but now see it as being smart with your time. Keep it up !!!!!
Keep up the good work and I will be watching god bless
Nice tent. Even nicer platform. Good Luck.
Love your channel. I have 42 acres in NE Texas that I'm starting to develop and part of it is a camp site. First thing I'm going to do is build a tent platform, so this is just the inspiration I needed. Thanks and keep enjoying/sharing your life at Ringworm.
I just found this channel, and I have to say, ur craftsmanship I love it! It doesn’t need be perfect for everyone else, just for yourselves. I do wish u were my neighbors. Because I have been trying to build a lil cabin up in the mountains just for me and my lil guy , who’s 6. He loves the outdoors and so do I. But I’m def not someone who can build things. I did take our 4 wheeler and pull some sheets of plywood up the mountain. We have 60-70 acres , so we do have tons of trees tht we could use. Watching this has given me some ideas, just not so sure I should use a tarp as a roof just in case a tree should fall, etc. LOL. But u guys have done an awesome job so far. Can’t wait to watch the rest 👍
Love the quotes at the beginning of every video.
Glad you appreciate them. I've found that other people do a lot better job of explaining my philosophies than I can.
I'm new to the channel. Lots of fun. Really enjoying your style.
Just Hanging Out😎, just what my ‘internal doctor’ prescribed 🤔😂🤣
Thanks
Just a beautiful job! Love the shape.
Really appreciate your insights of doing your own thing without any compromise. You keep it simple and interesting to people who may try a smaller project just for fun. Going higher up sounds great for coffee and music and watching the great Sasquatch. Now that would make it even more of a safe space for you. Take care of
Thanks!
Can't wait to try topping some trees at 20' then hauling lumber up just to see what comes of it.
awesome..hahaha..good stuff..Honey!.. the guy next door is playing his damn guitar up in the tree again
Hey Ryan, I was skeptical on the platform when you started but it looks great! You and your buddy (Keto? sp?) are great fun to watch. We all enjoyed tonight over dinner, thank you. I will never take a nice, flat, level bed for granted again.
Glad you liked! And take nothing comfortable for granted, ever!
I'm skeptical of just about everything we build. But then I remember that we are only living out here and building these things because it's fun. If it all fell apart tomorrow that would be just fine. Well, maybe not literally tomorrow...
Loving watching your camp come together.
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
Great video of craftsmanship and creative analysis of available resources IAW personal "task, conditions, and standards. We appreciate your use of your chainsaw and "freestyle" approach to creativity and originality. Keep it up. Yes, you are not a "How to Video" but "How it can be done video". Love your Philosophy of Life. I look forward to seeing all your videos. Thanks, "Airborne, All the Way!"
Thank you very much for your kind words!
It just keeps getting better n better!👌👍😉
Great job, having fun is what is all about.
Your video was super enjoyable to watch.
Chees
Truly enjoying watching the back log... in order.
Glad to hear you are taking them from the beginning. Seems that you can watch any of them by themselves but thought it would be fun for some people to see it from the first week on.
13:45 "this is just us out here flailing"
That's what it feels like all the time. Flailing, freezing and hungry.
Sounds like the name of a bad classic rock band...
Sometimes I just run screaming into the wilderness in a fit of rage!
An elevated Ewok village! Thanks for sharing!
It’s on its way! Just wait for the video coming out in a couple days.
Awesome, I have no skills, tools and I'm not very strong, but this is exactly what I want to build.
Don't need that stuff! Just build it however you can manage. Then don't ever let anyone critique it and it will be fine!
You guys are soo funny, and I love you both to bits! 3 & 1/2- "ish". Tito's sordid past. The best! (Btw, Tito's camera work is fantastic.)
Thanks that’s mostly Ryan holding the camera for himself or using a tripod. I’m usually off digging for cheese!
@@Tidto333 Of course you are! Bwahahaha!
He isn't kidding. The man, or whatever he is, has a very serious cheese problem.
@@survivingringworm2202 - Well, a man needs his protein. He works hard all day (as do you), and needs to keep up his strength. He has his cheese, and as I recall, you have your bacon. So ...
Awesome ingenuity
Great stuff!
You guys are awesome. You made this platform seem so easy to build in this video. I love the pine & birch in Michigan, however, I don't believe I'd enjoy the colder climate. Thanks, I've learned so much from you within your creativities how you build !!! Amazing. I've not seen all the videos since you began, but I hope you & your friend build an awesome treehouse way in the forest, then, rent it to me. 🥸
These videos are entertaining as ALL GET OUT!! haha I love it!
Thanks! It’s super fun!
We entertain ourselves pretty well and if others find it titillating too, all the better!
Glad you like!
I envy your life style.
Really love these videos Ryan - looks like great fun times. Maybe I’ll take a ride out there in the fall and say hi!
Wussup David! Thanks! They have been pretty fun to make. Stop in sometime for a guest appearance!
Your platform is ‘a hair out of square’. Trent and Allie
That's one fat hair.
I don’t know, but I absolutely love it.
Cool stuff that you are doing there. Alll the best from Munich, Bavaria
Thanks!
Cheers from the woods in Michigan!
You should have built the first section of deck as fast as the second... it seemed way easier that way! Love the vids!
If only I'd thought of that in time...
Good video.👍
Ok...you two... knowledgeable, nuts....and funny 🤣
Mostly nuts. At least when we are together.
Nice video man
Dude, u Crack me up. 🤣🤣🤣
Pantree...😂😂😂
It wasn't until this video that it really dawned on me, but you guys are like legit Yooper Letterkennies. Better looking, probably smarter, but put some Puppers (or in this case something more like Founders) in your paws and you could star in a US spinoff.
Put your Wristwatch on the Table and you’ll have a Timetable for your future projects.
This got to be your brother you keep talking about and the videos I've seen..🤣🤣🤣..
Love the way I you have the pans & lids!!! THAT TREE WAS A HUMMER !!!!!!!!!!!! AND YOU NEED ME UP THERE I LIKE TO SCRAPE LOGS and cut lumber by hand I am good ME STRONG LADY !!! HAHAHA NO AFRAID OF SPIDERS!!!
Pan-tree!
And man, a LOT of spiders.
@@survivingringworm2202 Used to have a pet toratoslia you know one of those fuzzy spiders non posionous kept in a cage unless we talked or he needed to eat other small spiders !
birch is great firewood once seasoned
Excellent point. Might have to chop up the dead birch trees on the property and make a separate stack for the lean-to.
I am getting more confident that.....with a chainsaw.....yes I can. 😎😎😎😎
Very entertaining , clever, funny, creative and informative 👍
I gotta ask.. where did you get the plates for the 10 foot steel rails?
I'm gearing up to do some milling and that rail system you have is the best I've seen!!!
Steve
Hey Steve. I cut them out of some sheet steel with an angle grinder. Look early on in the comments of the milling video. I gave someone else the dimensions there.
Why don’t you get a canvas wall tent? Those are pretty robust...
Too many tents already! And not enough $.
1st of all need to take the bark off or it will fall off. and 2nd all of the saw dust and bark will draw termites and carpenter ants. Duck tape makes a good patch for gloves
Good Job! Go ahead and make a cabin.
Soon enough...
So Cool what state are you in?
How about a three story log home topping it with a crows nest short wall small roof open windows on top to play your guitar above the trees.
Man, you are on my level! I just bought a tree stand with 20' ladder so that I could stand on the platform and top the trees. Gotta build something taller!
My wife just hates when I say that is good enough now I can say that's what that guy says on TH-cam
How much did it cost for your land.? What state?
DOOD!
Are those stumps from trees you cut? Or did you insert them there??
Haha. Both! The deck is an odd shape because I put it on stumps where the trees were but one corner I had to add a round for a support.
What tent is that?
What are the dimensions of your log dogs?
Man! I saw your comment a couple weeks ago and by the time I got around to measuring them, I couldn't figure out which video you had commented on.
I made three sets but their sizes were just because of the size of scrap steel I had to cut them out of. Couldn't find the smallest set but the others are 7" and 11" point to point. Both lager sets work equally well. Anything over a 6" width would work great.
Where did you get those log dogs?
Made em from scrap metal. Just cut them out with an angle grinder.
@@survivingringworm2202 well that’s a good idea, why didn’t I think of that🤦♂️
I get scrap metal for virtually free from local welding shops. They are just happy to get rid of the smaller pieces. I think i actually measured the computer screen to get the dimensions of some commercially available dogs online.
Man, I'm cheap.
@@survivingringworm2202 I dug out a huge piece of angle iron out of a dumpster that I’m in the process of turning into log dogs. I’m cheap too 😂
The way I see it. man complains about the way your stuff looks and they cannot show you something they did better. tell them to get the blank out of your house.👷👷👷
WELL. SAID.
I can't wait to get up there and sleep in that giant orange monstrosity!!
It’s yours!
And I think it is officially now known as the O.M.
Man, those guys are handsome. And dumb.
Yeah. I'd have to agree with you there, fella.
Mechanics gloves are garbage for almost anything. I had to stop buying them , I go through a pair about every other month. Now using old school plain jane leather work gloves and get about 8 months out of a pair of those. Tree work is especially hard on gloves!
Get a dog for early warning ....ok
@ryan message from the past: dont ever stop putting meaningful messages at the beginning of your mindless wandering video for the week. DONT FUCKING DO IT> it takes incredible amounts of cosmic energy to come at you from the past like this- but I know you are a galactic explorer, and will see what I have done. on my current thread, thanos is attacking and has caused the Thanos-Ryan to stop contemplating his journey and sharing the contemplation and inspiration. It means that Thanos-Ryan has been lost and Thanos has stolen his creative mind. in this reality it is crucial that you choose to include inspirational thoughts as intros to your vidjos. mostly, contemporary viewers want evening sky-or-tree-or-wildlife timeplapses or trailcams to close vidjos to a fine polish. get yer shit together, the Youniverse is at stake. also the btc wallet addy?
I wonder how the mosquitoes are gonna treat ya guys this summer... atleast they don't seem to like chainsaws
We are expecting to be MURDERED by them. I'd be absolutely blown away if they weren't horrendous in the next few weeks. But there is not much that we can do about it. I did some reading on the best bug repellents, ordered several cans and also have three new giant bug nets ready to be deployed.
I’m hoping to get a taste for them!