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PAULIE: Next on "Building Wild"...
Ohhh!
TUFFY: This thing weighs six tons.
If he hits the camp it's game over.
PAULIE: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
MAN: Stop! Stop!
TUFFY: The excavator just tipped over in the pit up there.
TOM: Hurry up, Chuck, it's caving in fast.
Hurry up!
PAULIE: Hold on!
TUFFY: This thing's got to be driving over one foot rock,
ditches, twisting.
It's just gonna blow the windows out of it.
Get me out of this thing.
BRENDAN: Oh!
Oh, my goodness!
PAULIE: We are the Cabin Kings.
I'm Paulie, design and detail guy.
The floors are looking good.
That's Tuffy, backwoods inventor.
And when it comes to heavy machinery, he's the man.
TUFFY: You need to get out of there.
PAULIE: Our business, Building Wild.
If you want a custom cabin,
we can build it fast for a great price.
To keep costs low, you help supply materials, manpower
and a lot of hard work.
Together, we'll build the cabin of your dreams.
If you could be any animal, any animal,
what animal would you be?
TUFFY: A dog.
PAULIE: Yeah, that's a good one, man.
Dogs are cool.
I think maybe a beaver.
They're good carpenters.
TUFFY: Yeah, but you're hunted for your hide.
PAULIE: I think those days are over, aren't they?
TUFFY: I trap beavers.
PAULIE: Do you?
TUFFY: I got a beaver vest.
PAULIE: A beaver vest?
Like you wear it, keeps you warm?
TUFFY: Yeah. Oh, it's wonderful.
Takes three beavers to make a vest.
PAULIE: My grandfather always had a beaver hat.
TUFFY: I wouldn't wear a beaver hat.
PAULIE: It was a nice hat.
TUFFY: Can't go running through the woods with a beaver hat on.
You'd get mistaken for a deer or something.
PAULIE: Opposed to a beaver vest,
where they put one in your heart
because they think you're a beaver.
Tuffy, you're gonna like these guys, John and Brendan.
I'm telling you, Brendan, Navy SEAL.
Best of the best.
Him and John have a thousand acres.
TUFFY: What are they gonna do with a thousand acres?
PAULIE: That's the whole thing.
When I talked to them on the telephone,
they say, "We would love to have five camps,
we'd like to have camps all over the property."
They like bringing up vets, guys coming home, you know.
They can come up and use the land.
So they want a lot, and I'd love to be able to give it to 'em.
TUFFY: I really need to be involved
in these conversations, you know,
when you first talk to these people.
You sit there and promise 'em the world.
PAULIE: He's a Navy SEAL, what am I gonna do?
TUFFY: Now we got to get out of this.
PAULIE: We're gonna make it happen.
TUFFY: You don't want these guys hunting us down.
PAULIE: No, we do not want that.
I'm telling you, they can kill you with a cup of coffee.
TUFFY: You got to be careful what you promise these people.
PAULIE: Well, at least I got us the job.
TUFFY: Yeah, it's a job we could lose our *** on.
We could be hunted down if we don't deliver.
PAULIE: This is where we're supposed to meet 'em.
What time is it?
TUFFY: 10 o'clock.
PAULIE: They said they'd be here.
PAULIE: Take a look at this.
[horn honks]
Get out of the way.
Well, that, that's pretty nice.
BRENDAN: Alright, you like the Beast?
My name's Brendan Rogers.
I'm a third generation military guy.
I spent 10 years in the SEAL teams.
Was really honored to be a part of that unit.
And kind of once a SEAL,
you always feel a tightness to that community.
PAULIE: You were saying you have ex-military guys come in and...
BRENDAN: It's really a chance for us to get up here,
not just with our families,
with our friends and groups of people,
and this is a chance to kind of get out there and do things
from hiking to orienteering and compass courses and shooting.
JOHN: You name it and it's fun,
we want to do it here.
My name's John Fichthorn.
We come up here because it gives you a sense of freedom.
You can go ahead and shoot guns.
You know, jump off rocks and swim in a river and ride bikes.
Kind of getting dirty and just feeling alive again.
PAULIE: Do you want to get started? I mean...
JOHN: We're ready to go. BRENDAN: Absolutely.
PAULIE: Show us some of these places?
BRENDAN: Sure. Do you want to come with me?
PAULIE: Sure, sure.
BRENDAN: And then we'll go in the Beast and...
PAULIE: The Beast, it sounds like the Beast.
JOHN: You got to kind of yell when you're next to the Beast.
BRENDAN: The deuce and a half, or the Beast,
it's kind of an all-purpose vehicle for us.
You can kind of throw anything in the back of it.
You can get from A to B.
JOHN: And it still works. '63. Still runs like a top.
PAULIE: Very nice.
JOHN: It's a little bumpy so I'd say fasten your seatbelt,
but that's not an option.
PAULIE: So I jumped into the deuce and a half,
Tuffy jumped in with John, and we headed out
to see different sites where they thought would be
a great build site for a cabin.
The deuce and a half turns into six-wheel drive
at the flick of a switch, and the steering wheel locks.
So there's no turning.
It'll get you through whatever you want,
but nothing better be in front of you.
It's an amazing piece of machinery.
BRENDAN: Take the guys around today
and show 'em a couple of the key places
that are around the property.
Ultimately what we're looking for
is Cabin Kings to kind of bring us some ideas
in terms of how we can kind of build
five or six different cabins
that we're kind of thinking about.
PAULIE: Now up here, is that part of your land there?
BRENDAN: It is.
JOHN: Yeah, so it goes to the top of that point.
PAULIE: Wow.
JOHN: Straight down around all the way that way,
and it runs that entire ridge.
TUFFY: They own 1,200 acres
and they want to try to utilize all this land.
I don't know how we're gonna do it.
BRENDAN: Watch yourself.
Woo!
PAULIE: Just miles in here, aren't we? Just miles.
BRENDAN: Yeah, it's really, it's really kind of amazing.
PAULIE: I sometimes get myself in trouble
by promising too much.
What we talked about on the telephone was a number of places
where they could set up camps.
So that's our challenge.
How are we gonna do this for the cost that we discussed?
That's a workout.
BRENDAN: That is a workout.
One of my favorite views of the whole place.
Every time we would come up here,
we'd just kind of drive by and go, wow.
So the idea was, this was one of the areas
as we were walking around about a build site.
TUFFY: Wow, I'd like one over here,
one over here, one over here.
Well, it's not reality, you know.
I don't care what Paulie promised 'em over the phone.
He shouldn't have been
blabbering off at the mouth so much.
PAULIE: So far we've seen the beaver pond, where we're at.
We've seen the old rock wood mill.
That's really cool.
Fayville, that's three. I mean...
JOHN: Got one left. BRENDAN: One more.
JOHN: Well, we want a bunch of different cabins,
because it's a big property
and there are a lot of different features.
Up at the top of the ridge is totally different
than being down on the river.
PAULIE: Wow.
BRENDAN: So isn't that awesome?
JOHN: Yeah, this is our favorite section of the river.
BRENDAN: So we just love, I mean, you get the sound
and the--and just kind of the view.
PAULIE: Look all the way up.
TUFFY: We've seen some good sites,
but you can't pass this one up.
BRENDAN: Well, good, because this was our favorite
and we wanted to save it for last.
PAULIE: This is the spot.
I mean, you can hear the river, you see the river.
Beautiful hemlocks all around it.
This is a great spot.
To give you guys a great cabin here,
for the cost that we discussed,
we may have to put those other areas as secondary.
And we concentrate on a nice, you know, 400-square-foot cabin.
BRENDAN: Yes, but I mean I think one of the reasons why
we called you guys in the first place
is there's a lot to do here,
and that was really kind of our dream to come true.
So I mean, yes, I appreciate this,
but to be able to somehow leverage those other spots
in some way,
I mean, that's, that's really what we want to do.
JOHN: We have 11 people, you know,
I'm not sure we'll all fit in one spot here.
We need to kind of spread it out.
BRENDAN: John and I are kind of scratching our heads, like,
hey, we called you guys 'cause like you get it done.
And so we have a challenge here. We'd like to get it done.
So we wanted to push 'em a little bit,
see if they can come up with something
a little more interesting.
TUFFY: Go ahead, partner,
tell 'em how you're gonna do all this.
PAULIE: Let me talk it over with Tuffy and...
BRENDAN: Alright, alright.
Work the math, work the magic.
JOHN: Well, our hopes is that because they have experience
and creativity, that they'll be able to solve the problem
of building lots of sites in difficult places.
TUFFY: There you go, partner, now you can backpedal.
PAULIE: Well, I mean, all I was trying to say
is just concentrate on this area.
TUFFY: That's not what he wants.
He wants to do something with those other sites.
PAULIE: Any suggestions?
TUFFY: No, no.
You know, you're just making 'em sound happy on the phone.
Saying, I promise you this, I promise you that.
Now you get out here in the real world
and you're looking at four-ton boulders and stumps.
PAULIE: Well, if we get the little excavator down here,
that'll help.
Though...
TUFFY: What do you got figured out?
I see the wheels.
PAULIE: What do you do to spend the night
when you go to the county fair?
TUFFY: Tent it. Go in a camper.
PAULIE: You go in a camper. TUFFY: Mm-hmm.
PAULIE: We take the army truck
and we build a camp on top of it.
TUFFY: You're gonna build a camper
on the top of the army truck?
PAULIE: Yeah, we went everywhere with that thing.
It goes anywhere.
TUFFY: Yeah, but the thing is gonna fall apart.
You're gonna have to bolt 'em together.
PAULIE: Right. Bolt the thing down.
TUFFY: They seem to have a lot of fun with that truck.
How are we gonna get the truck away from 'em?
PAULIE: That's the deal. That's the deal.
TUFFY: That's the deal.
PAULIE: The deal is, you want five cabins,
you got to give us the deuce and a half.
TUFFY: Okay.
Paulie will pull a rabbit out of his hat every once in a while,
and then get us bailed out of that,
so I think that's what's gonna happen here.
PAULIE: I mean, the thing does go anywhere.
Now if we can just sell it to these guys.
Then we're gonna have a deal.
We're gonna be able to start this.
We can do what we said.
We're going to build you a great cabin right here.
We're also going to build you a cabin
that you can take anywhere on the property.
JOHN: Awesome.
PAULIE: But...
BRENDAN: But?
PAULIE: We need something from you.
BRENDAN: Alright.
PAULIE: We need the Beast.
The Beast becomes a mobile cabin
that you can drive anywhere on your 1,100 acres.
With the cabin on top of it, on the back.
TUFFY: We just went to the other four sites.
JOHN: Like a mobile home for the woods.
Well, there's no way you can look at a truck from 1963
that has no shock absorbers and is very difficult to drive,
and not have some reservations
that they're gonna be able to pull this off.
But I will say, they're creative guys
who seem to be able to solve problems.
So let's just say I'm optimistic.
PAULIE: To make this thing really look good,
we have the river down here.
So a big deck, and then a big cabin
that's gonna sit right here.
The main cabin will probably be close to 400 square feet.
It'll have a loft in it.
Not unlike a lot of the cabins we build.
This deuce and a half's gonna pull right in flush
so you can walk out of the door of that cabin
on the deuce and a half.
Two cabins become one.
So to make it work we get the deuce, that works.
We got to get a road built.
BRENDAN: That's a lot to do. We'll bring the team.
PAULIE: The deal we made with our clients is this--
that they supply a big chunk of the labor
and some of the materials.
In order to keep the costs down,
we have to build our cabins in one week.
So we have to be very fast and efficient.
The number works for you?
BRENDAN: Sounds good.
PAULIE: Thank you.
Alright.
BRENDAN: Let's do it!
PAULIE: Hey, everyone, how are ya?
This is Brendan Rogers, John Fichthorn here.
These are who we're building the cabin for.
Hopefully at the end of the day we'll have a road
that we'll be able to bring all of our materials
down to this site.
That brings in your guy, right?
JOHN: You got it.
Road crew, we got Tom Towslee and his whole crew.
If anybody can build a road, it's them.
TOM: My name is Tom Towslee.
I'm a logger, landscaper.
Do anything I can to make a dollar.
PAULIE: Do you feel confident that we can be there
at the end of the day?
TOM: Yeah, I think we can get her done.
PAULIE: Our goals for today, day two, are this.
Get our road built, get our foundation in,
pour our concrete.
Alright, everyone, let's go to work, alright.
We'll see you at lunch.
So while we're working on the foundation,
Brendan's guy, Tom, is helping us build a road.
One of the keys to building this road is getting gravel.
You can't move these rocks,
you literally have to cover them with gravel.
So it's a slow process.
TUFFY: What the hell?
Agh, man.
PAULIE: Again.
TUFFY: There's nothing here but rocks and rocks and rocks.
It's a horrible, horrible build site.
There is no bulldozing these rocks.
You bulldoze this rock out, there's just another rock under.
You turn one up, you turn another one up.
It's a nightmare. It's the moon.
This is like the other side of the moon.
PAULIE: We're able to drill down and put a piece of rebar.
We're able to put a tube of concrete on top of it.
On top of the concrete, all of our major carrying joists,
and that carries the load of the whole cabin.
TUFFY: We got 14 piers to put in, concrete piers.
And this is the base of the whole camp,
so if these things go in crooked,
then the camp goes up crooked.
We have to get 'em in today
'cause we want to start building tomorrow.
We have cure time here, which is the hardening of the concrete.
PAULIE: It needs to be here.
TUFFY: Over this way more, yeah? PAULIE: Yes.
TUFFY: All's I need is a rough mark on the ground.
It doesn't have to be pinned, just a rough mark.
It should be aligned with those other ones, right?
PAULIE: Yes, it should.
We're way off, man. We are way off.
Once you make a mark, that first bucket load takes the mark away.
So he drifted a little bit off the mark
after he had taken it away.
TUFFY: It's your only damn job is to keep up with me.
You can't keep up with me with the measurements?
PAULIE: I can, but when you dig the hole in the wrong spot,
it's no good to me.
JOHN: They're going back and forth trying to figure out
where to dig the hole, where to not dig the hole.
It wasn't exactly an easy site, so I don't blame 'em,
but, you know, I think they've got some work they have to do
on their relationship.
Maybe they should talk to somebody.
TUFFY: The hole's big enough to stick an elephant in now.
PAULIE: Yes, except that the elephant needs to go
to this side of the hole.
JOHN: Can you move it over?
TUFFY: I don't know.
But once in a while instead of standing around,
take your ruler, put it back out there,
and show me where the hell I'm going.
Sometimes I drift to the left, drift to the right.
Depends on how bad I got to wrestle with these damn rocks.
PAULIE: We are already behind, day two, and we're in a mess.
A mess.
It's getting late and we're already behind
and tempers are flaring.
So, you know, it's frustrating.
TOM: Tom to Tuff.
Tuffy, this is Tom up here at the gravel pit.
We got a little problem.
TOM: Josh just tipped over the excavator.
TUFFY: You're kidding me, right?
TOM: Yeah, the whole excavator's in there bottom side up.
PAULIE: Why did everything stop on the road being built?
TUFFY: You're not gonna believe it.
The excavator is tipped over in the pit up there.
I mean tipped over.
PAULIE: We were just about finished with our roads,
and we get word that Tom flipped the excavator.
TOM: Hurry up, Chuck, it's caving in fast.
Hurry up!
PAULIE: Why did everything stop on the road being built?
TUFFY: You're not gonna believe it.
The excavator is tipped over in the pit up there.
PAULIE: Over, over on its side?
TUFFY: Upside down.
PAULIE: We were just about finished with our roads,
and we get word that Tom had flipped the excavator.
TOM: Hurry up, Chuck, it's caving in fast.
Hurry up!
I just called my son, Chuckie,
and we're gonna try to hook a cable on it,
tip it back over on its tracks.
Work the boom and the tracks together.
If that all works and there's nothing wrong with the machine,
we'll be back going within the hour.
If it doesn't work, then we're looking at four to five hours.
PAULIE: At some point we got to start mixing concrete.
TUFFY: It'll take me an hour to crawl up out of here
and go all the way to help 'em.
You don't want me to go up there right away.
He said the skidder will do it.
TOM: We got the machine back out of the hole.
There's no real major damage.
The main thing about this whole situation is nobody got hurt.
And that's all that matters in this business.
I think she's gonna be all right.
I don't know.
TUFFY: The excavator cost us a lot of time.
We finally got this rocky site cleared off,
but we've only got two piers poured.
We've got to get the other 12 done
or it's going to throw the whole schedule off.
Now it's getting late,
so I brought in an invention of mine, my mountain mixer.
PAULIE: Yo, did you see this?
JOHN: What is that?
PAULIE: He made it.
TUFFY: The barrel's just an old air tank,
and I just cut some paddles in it.
JOHN: Perfect.
PAULIE: Think of the amount of cupcakes you can make
in something like this.
TUFFY: You don't. You go to the school of hard knocks.
PAULIE: Pier 1, done.
Pier 2, done.
Pier 3 getting filled right now.
Because we build in one week, time is everything.
Tuffy's mixer just put us back on track.
Tuffy, nice work.
See what I mean? Listen.
Put us behind by drilling the hole in the wrong spot, and...
TUFFY: Yeah, right, yeah, I know,
I dug it in the wrong spot.
PAULIE: You did good.
Hey, Brendan, let's talk about the flagpole.
Brendan has served his country,
and one of the things he asked me for was a flagpole,
so we're gonna make him a custom flagpole
from a tree we find on the property.
BRENDAN: There we go.
Fayville, and as much as we've done here,
I have that reflection in the back of my mind is,
it's never about individual achievement,
it's about the team.
And my hat's off to the boys that are overseas doing it now,
and I hope that when they come back,
I'll get a chance to bring 'em up here.
Flag flying over Fayville.
PAULIE: There we go, very nice.
Beautiful.
Alright, everyone, let's get started.
BRENDAN: Thanks, guys.
PAULIE: Today's goal is to get our main deck
all the way finished so we can start putting walls up
for our main cabin.
You can already see all the guys looking at that view
and the stream coming down,
so we definitely picked the right place.
I mean, check that out.
The view will be there forever.
Let's get to work!
[bleep] guys, man.
JOHN: It's been a challenging day so far.
PAULIE: See, we have guns, too.
JOHN: It's taken a long time to do just this part, so you know,
I hope it speeds up from here,
'cause it's gonna be tough for us to finish this
by the end of the week.
PAULIE: Okay, that's not toenailing.
You got to get that on a nice...
There you go. There you go. That'll hold.
It looks like a junkie's arm.
TUFFY: We got Brendan in the deuce and a half,
now he's going to back it in next to the porch.
We mainly want to see how the level of the deuce
is gonna match up to the level of the porch
so we can figure out our ramp system,
see how that's gonna work.
TUFFY: Paulie.
PAULIE: We're gonna want to put our--what?
TUFFY: We're gonna be bringing that deuce down.
We're going to get it backed in here if we can measure this.
PAULIE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Back end right into here.
We want it as tight to here as possible,
so we got to be careful of those wheels.
TUFFY: Here comes the truck.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna guide them in here.
You watch the back end there and I'll bring 'em right in.
PAULIE: Stay away from the, stay away from the deck.
BRENDAN: So we're bringing in the deuce this morning
'cause we've just got the deck up and the walls up.
So now we have to go through kind of the process
of getting the deuce backed in,
which, by the way, is a little bit tricky.
TUFFY: Listen, I don't think this thing's gonna back it in,
one shot being no power steering.
We're gonna have to back up, go ahead, back up again.
We'll just jockey it in there.
BRENDAN: No problem.
JOHN: Whoa!
TUFFY: He's got to be super careful with this truck.
This thing weighs six tons.
It's not like backing up a Volkswagen.
If he hits the camp or one of these posts, it's game over.
BRENDAN: No throttle.
TUFFY: Just back it up. Back it up, no throttle.
That's good, that's good.
Take your foot right off the clutch.
MAN: Ho, whoa, whoa!
MAN: Stop, stop!
JOHN: Whoa!
MAN: Ho, whoa!
MAN: Stop, stop!
PAULIE: This thing's brutal to drive.
I mean, there's no power steering.
Because of the rain everything's very slippery.
So we're having problems getting the traction that we need.
MAN: Ho, whoa!
MAN: Stop, stop!
PAULIE: That close!
JOHN: There's no power steering, we've never done it before.
The driveway's made of dirt.
But Brendan was able to pull it off.
He almost took out the deck but he missed it by a half inch,
so, you know, it was, it's still there.
PAULIE: Come back two feet, two feet.
JOHN: Two feet, Brendan, two feet.
PAULIE: Good, good. Right there, good.
BRENDAN: Alright.
JOHN: Alright, dude, nice work.
BRENDAN: It's like parking a small compact car.
JOHN: Good work.
BRENDAN: Alright.
JOHN: The Beast is home.
PAULIE: You've got to cut this steel out here.
TUFFY: Cut this section out here.
PAULIE: We have a nice door that opens up here.
And a little fold-down ramp.
That way you can be further away.
You don't have to be exact every time.
BRENDAN: Yup. PAULIE: Alright?
BRENDAN: It's not an exact science.
JOHN: You need to build for error.
PAULIE: I got the deuce and a half all measured out
so we can build walls for that and the main cabin.
Once we do that, I'm gonna take the deuce and a half
out for a spin with Tuffy.
Yo, so you get the idea here, look what's happening here.
Rails are sitting right up here.
Everything will get sheared
right down on top of this, alright?
So everything becomes one.
TUFFY: And then the sheathing goes down like this?
PAULIE: No, no, no, no, but on the inside, it sure does.
We're bolting everything, we're shearing the walls,
which means we're putting a skin on both sides of the 2-by-4s
so it makes those 2-by-4s very rigid.
PAULIE: So look at the inside.
TUFFY: You're gonna sheath all the way down to the floor.
PAULIE: All the way down to the floor.
So all this is gonna be sheared right into here.
TUFFY: I wish this sheathing came all the way down to here.
PAULIE: We're doing that on the backside.
TUFFY: You're gonna go all the way on the backside.
You don't think it would have been better
if you done both sides?
PAULIE: Yes, but then I wouldn't see this,
and I want to see this.
TUFFY: I think it's a great idea
having the camper on top of the truck,
but a little more engineering would've helped.
What happens if this does twist, where's it gonna take it out on?
PAULIE: This isn't gonna twist.
TUFFY: You go over the first bump,
you're gonna be blowing the windows out of this thing.
PAULIE: No, we're not. TUFFY: You don't think so?
PAULIE: No, you know what I got, the kind of windows
I got in here? Bus windows.
Pretty cool stuff, huh?
Shearing keeps things from moving,
and we feel that we have a structure there
that can take a beating from the Beast.
TUFFY: There's no way to diag this?
There's no way to put some diags in here?
PAULIE: Well, I mean, we could with 2-by-4,
but we end up running into our window.
TUFFY: I'd feel better if it was all strapped.
PAULIE: The shearing that we do on the inside
should be okay for that.
TUFFY: This thing's gonna be driving over one foot rocks,
ditches, twisting.
He's telling me the body's not gonna twist.
I'm telling you the body's gonna twist.
It's just gonna blow the windows out of it.
This is gonna go through hell up on here.
PAULIE: It's real easy calling shots from down there, isn't it?
TUFFY: You know what? Good luck with this.
I'm gonna go work on my own project.
PAULIE: I understand.
TUFFY: So Paulie's off building his crazy ideas,
which leaves me a little time to work on my idea.
Seeing how these guys like heavy artillery so much,
I think I'm going to build them a trebuchet.
They're going to love this thing.
They'll be able to throw rocks, pumpkins, watermelons,
whatever they want.
Theoretically, if we go 4 feet, that's 4 feet to here, right?
MAN: Yup.
TUFFY: If we go 4 feet ahead, blow another hole in,
we're gonna be the same angle, right?
MAN: Yeah.
TUFFY: You're gonna *** it about like this,
the weight's gonna drop the top dead center like that.
The pouch is gonna unhook and it's gonna go.
This thing's gonna go like this, whoom!
The trebuchet is no invention,
I mean, the Chinese actually used a trebuchet like this
back in the 3rd century BC.
There's so much that could go wrong, it's not even funny.
Be a [bleep] miracle if it even [bleep] works.
Who wouldn't want to launch a watermelon into the next county?
I mean, it's a lot-- you can launch anything.
Pick up some roadkill, toss it over to the neighbor.
PAULIE: So as far as the space goes,
that pretty much dictates our kitchen back here.
BRENDAN: Yep.
PAULIE: Our loft is where our loft is.
But as far as what you see specifically
that you'd like to do here...
BRENDAN: Well, having a general-purpose table
would just be great.
Like one of the things is teaching people
how to read maps.
You got to lay the map out. A multipurpose...
PAULIE: Multipurpose table.
BRENDAN: It's meal prep, it's instruction, it's sit down...
PAULIE: It's that kind of a... JOHN: You could tie flies.
PAULIE: Fly-fishing? JOHN: Fly-fishing.
PAULIE: Is that something that-- does the stream offer that?
JOHN: My daughter caught a trout in here just a month ago.
Her first trout, a little brookie.
PAULIE: With limited space
everything has to be multipurpose.
We're building a table that I think they're gonna love
because it does just that-- it gives them many options.
BRENDAN: Hey, Paulie, question for ya.
Now that I'm kind of seeing it all come together...
PAULIE: Yeah.
BRENDAN: If we have like all the boys up here
and it was kind of the man camp getaway weekend,
and one team rolls in the deuce,
how's that gonna work?
TUFFY: You're saying there's not enough room in here?
BRENDAN: Yeah.
I genuinely do think we're gonna need more space.
Just thinking about the cabin and where we're at.
Between John and I alone we have 7 kids.
If the deuce is gone with one family
or one group of friends kind of out,
then I'm primarily concerned about just sleeping.
Like, where are we literally gonna lay bodies down at night?
TUFFY: We can't start changing plans now.
We've got the foundation all in, everything.
Now they're not happy with it.
PAULIE: No. No, no, no, no, no. They're still happy with it,
they're just wondering what happens when everybody comes.
TUFFY: Well, they're clearly not very happy
with the size of this now.
You're the one that promises everybody everything.
PAULIE: Maybe we can put two floors on the deuce.
TUFFY: You're gonna drive down the road with two floors?
No, you'll tip the thing over.
It'll be top-heavy. You can't do that.
They look at the size of the camp.
Now the handwriting's on the wall.
You can't go making it bigger now.
I mean, Paulie's gonna have to come up with something,
because I can tell you right now, these guys are not happy.
TUFFY: We got a couple of days left, a couple days.
JOHN: It's not just being in the different sites,
it's about having enough space, so how many can we sleep in it?
PAULIE: I've got to figure it out.
TUFFY: It's day five, the cabin's taking shape.
We've built these guys two separate cabins,
and now they're telling us
there's not enough sleeping space.
So Paulie's grand plan is not coming together.
These guys are not happy, they need more sleeping quarters.
And we just can't afford that.
JOHN: Hey, guys.
You know, we're still wondering
if you guys had thought about the question before.
Like, when we drive this thing off,
is there anything we could do to maybe add capacity back?
You know, we only have a couple days left,
and so I'm not sure if they'll be able to jam anything else
in there or maybe there's nothing,
maybe we just end up camping
down where the tent's set up now by the river.
PAULIE: I would hate to lose any of that deck.
That deck is beautiful.
We can't build on top of the cabin
because we didn't engineer it for a second floor.
BRENDAN: I'm hoping we got enough space,
'cause I tell you what, we're gonna get this built
and everyone's gonna want to come.
We're gonna have to get 'em down somewhere.
PAULIE: We have a pier here.
JOHN: Yep. And one on the other side of it.
BRENDAN: On the other side of the truck there?
PAULIE: We have one on the other side of the deuce.
We could come with a fixed bunkhouse up here.
BRENDAN: Oh.
PAULIE: Now it would be high.
BRENDAN: Oh, so it's almost like
pulling into a garage type of thing?
PAULIE: Yes, it would almost be like that.
JOHN: That would be awesome.
BRENDAN: I love the idea. I'm a little blown away by it.
I didn't envision the lookout tower at all,
so that just kind of blows away any of my expectations.
So I love it.
So this'll straddle the deuce?
PAULIE: Yes.
And we think we can get four bunks in here.
I think both Brendan and John are happy with the solution
we came up with for more bunks.
The lookout tower now gives them four more.
That's four there, four in the deuce, two in the main cabin.
Total of 10 bunks. That's pretty good.
BRENDAN: Well, we love the idea. JOHN: It's brilliant.
BRENDAN: We're gonna get really good at backing the deuce up.
JOHN: It's gonna be pretty interesting to see
if they can squeeze in an entire extra house
on top of what we were already trying to accomplish
with really about 50 some odd hours left to go.
PAULIE: So there are 2-by-4s that are right up there.
JOHN: Yeah.
PAULIE: I need 34 cut at 86 inches.
JOHN: Alright.
This has been a lot of work, but it hasn't felt like work.
It felt like work when I woke up this morning,
and I could barely stand up,
but it's just been a lot of fun also.
I mean, coming out into the woods and chainsawing trees
and screwing in deck stuff, it's really been a blast.
PAULIE: Right up to John.
That's our T1-11. See that?
BRENDAN: Every day it kind of gets bigger,
and in this case, higher.
We've been thinking and talking
and trying to come up with these ideas.
And to actually see some of 'em come alive,
you know, it's fantastic.
I like it.
PAULIE: With one day left we have to divide and conquer.
We're gonna have teams working on the main cabin,
teams working on the watchtower, and a team working on the Beast.
You know, when we set out,
we set out we were gonna build five cabins.
We're building three anyway.
BRENDAN: Pretty nice boom.
TUFFY: I built this boom extension for days like today,
where it needs a little extra lifting.
In a situation like this,
it's saving a tremendous amount of time.
Can you imagine hoisting all that up there by hand?
BRENDAN: So what's going on here this morning
is we got to get the walls up to the lookout tower.
We got to get it up now
because we're kind of running short on time.
Hey, John, how's that going there holding those walls up?
JOHN: I'm just hoping it doesn't get windy,
'cause I can feel this whole wall just bending.
BRENDAN: They're gonna take a lunch break, John.
They'll be back.
[John laughs]
JOHN: Sure this is totally safe.
STEVE: If it starts to go, hang on to it!
JOHN: I'm not gonna promise
I'm gonna ride it all the way to the end.
STEVE: Well, don't be chicken [bleep].
BRENDAN: Well, don't ride it halfway.
Alright, Tuffy, take it up.
TUFFY: I knew that, you know, we were gonna be out here,
and I knew how high this thing was gonna be.
So I brought this extension that goes on the mini excavator.
It's gonna save a lot of time hoisting this stuff up.
BRENDAN: Hey, John, final panel coming up.
JOHN: Send it.
So what do you think?
How's it look from down there?
BRENDAN: It looks great. It looks great.
TUFFY: These guys slammed this thing.
They got the walls up, the roof on in a matter of hours.
And that's good because there's still a lot of other work
that needs to be done.
PAULIE: When do we want to take it for a drive, for a test spin?
MAN: We're not far from it.
PAULIE: Alright. The deuce and a half really needs to get
all over this 1,100 acres, so it's got to be tested.
I don't want to give them a product
that the first time they take it out, it's gonna fall apart.
I mean, the whole thing may fall over, but it'll stay intact.
You know what I mean? Sheared inside and out.
My bus windows ready to go?
MAN: Yep.
PAULIE: I think we're ready to take this thing out.
Our entire build is relying on testing out our mobile cabin.
Now if this doesn't work, we are back to square one.
Clients will not be very happy.
TUFFY: I want you to go over some bumps
and we'll see if the windows are gonna break out of it.
PAULIE: I'm gonna go everywhere,
everywhere she's gonna go, alright?
TUFFY: I don't know. No provisions for cross-bracing.
They've got school bus windows.
If you close the windows and doors on that
and take it through these ditches
on some of these backroads,
you're gonna blow the windows right out of this building.
PAULIE: You got a walkie-talkie in there
so you can communicate me in the front, alright?
TUFFY: Yep. I'll know right away.
PAULIE: Alright.
TUFFY: If the thing twists at all,
it's gonna blow the windows out.
PAULIE: Yes, it is, but it's not gonna twist at all,
because you know why?
TUFFY: 'Cause you built it.
PAULIE: Thank you.
TUFFY: My partner.
PAULIE: Hang on [bleep].
I'm gonna rattle your fillings.
TUFFY: You better slow down!
PAULIE: Hold on!
TUFFY: Get me out of this thing!
PAULIE: Ho!
PAULIE: How's that going, huh?
You liking the ride back there? How's that glass?
TUFFY: You just worry about driving.
PAULIE: The deuce and a half really needs to get all over
this 1,100 acres, so we're gonna do a little road test here.
I'm just gonna prove Tuffy wrong.
I mean, he believes that there's no way this is gonna work.
I believe that this is gonna work.
So confidence is very high.
Alright, here goes third gear.
Oh!
TUFFY: I'm gonna sit inside with a helmet on
and a bucket to catch all the glass that's gonna be falling.
[bleep] You better slow down!
PAULIE: What are you talking about?
I'm looking in the mirrors! I can't see a thing!
TUFFY: Get me out of this thing!
PAULIE: What we got going on in the deuce
is a constant earthquake when you're driving.
In California where we have earthquakes,
you have to shear all exterior walls.
By putting that plywood on,
it allows the house to go like this, but not like this.
And we think we got it in such a way
that it is going to be around for a very long time.
PAULIE: If I do say so myself, it worked out perfectly.
TUFFY: You're really gonna have to secure these cabinets
and stuff in here.
PAULIE: Oh, I know, right?
TUFFY: It's brutal back here.
PAULIE: Imagine cast-irons flying around.
TUFFY: Everything's got to be bolted down.
PAULIE: Yep.
Very functional though, man, I mean, it is functional.
TUFFY: Yeah, this is cool.
You could use two or three of these around here, you know?
PAULIE: Couldn't ya?
How nice is this, man?
TUFFY: Couldn't sit right here for a weekend
with a little deck on here?
PAULIE: Gorgeous.
I did a good job, huh?
Thank you. Thanks, Tuffy.
TUFFY: It's not really a great big wahoo of an invention.
You know, he's not the first guy
to put a camper on a back of a truck,
but it is a pretty cool idea for here.
PAULIE: Ready to get back to work?
TUFFY: Yep. Take me back.
[owl hoots]
PAULIE: We've got really one day left here,
and it's gonna be a long push,
because though we have a lot of things done,
nothing is completely done.
So everything is happening simultaneously.
So, so listen.
We got a lot to do.
BRENDAN: Put us to work.
JOHN: What can we do?
PAULIE: No, we don't want to.
There are things we want to do that surprise you,
so go away for the next 24 hours
and we'll see you tomorrow, alright?
BRENDAN: Alright. JOHN: Alright. Hey, good luck.
PAULIE: We wanted to send them away,
because they've been working really, really hard.
So let 'em go have a day and kind of relax.
Come back tomorrow and it'll almost feel like
they haven't seen it all happen.
Brendan and John have left, alright,
so we got about 24 hours left.
So we got to finish this thing before they come back, alright?
What we're up against here
is these guys go back to work a day after tomorrow.
So we got this little bit of time left
and we got to finish it.
Dual purpose. Nice, old, steel army desk.
You know what I'm saying?
No critters can get in there, right?
TUFFY: Nope.
PAULIE: You wash your hands.
Keep going.
MAN: You want to camo then net this whole thing?
PAULIE: Yes.
So what's great about the camo, guys,
is it's actually waterproof.
So this is actually a great, great material
to stand up to weather.
So it matches the deuce and a half, which is perfect, right?
It's all gonna tie in real good.
We got a lot of stuff going on.
We are dressing the cabin, getting everything in its place.
There's still a lot getting done all simultaneously.
We didn't get this all painted.
We still got to get this all painted?
Jesus.
We have a little bit more to do
to push to make this thing really come to life.
You know what the Navy SEALs say.
We get it done.
JOHN: So, Brendan, any luck?
BRENDAN: I'm definitely better at shooting than I am fishing.
I think what I'm hoping to see when I get down there
is really that kind of realization of the dream,
which is kind of standing on the deck,
seeing the river in the background.
JOHN: How awesome has this been?
BRENDAN: No, it's been awesome.
JOHN: And look what we're gonna end up with.
BRENDAN: I know, I can't wait.
JOHN: Brendan and I both said
it's, you know, top 5 weeks of our lives.
This is really a 10-year dream for us.
And the fact that it's happened now,
it means my dreams and the fun gets to start 10 years sooner.
PAULIE: We got our lights set up,
we're ready to go long into the night.
Whatever it takes to get it done.
TUFFY: Paulie, we can use some more power up here.
PAULIE: I'll plant it in the Sierra.
I got a 110 outlet right in the dash.
TUFFY: I'm up in the lookout tower,
and the generators are maxed out.
We need one more lead light.
We got a guy trying to insulate in the attic.
He can't see what he's doing.
So I just dropped a lead down to Paulie.
I said give me some power.
So he pulled his pick-up truck down around there
and plugged it into the glove box.
Damnedest thing you ever seen.
Look, it worked!
PAULIE: Yeah, of course it worked.
TUFFY: Thank you.
PAULIE: You're welcome.
You know, if we can get all of our exterior
wrapped out tonight, we can put a few hard hours in,
in the morning on our interior.
We should be in great shape.
We worked all night to get the cabin done.
But before these guys come back we have some special touches
that I think are really gonna bring this cabin to life.
Let's leave it out here until we get it done.
BRENDAN: We've had an absolute blast this week.
When you think about Christmas morning as a kid
and all that excitement.
It's like bringing that feeling back.
So, yeah, I can't wait to check it out.
JOHN: We were very skeptical that in the last 24 hours
the cabin could go from where it was to finished.
There is no way you can do that in 24 hours.
So I can't wait to see it.
PAULIE: Thank you, everyone. The build is over.
TUFFY: Fire in the hole.
BRENDAN: Wow. JOHN: Look at that.
BRENDAN: Yeah. JOHN: Way to go.
BRENDAN: Fayville.
We're able to kind of walk up the river and steps are done.
We got a rope stair.
As you're walking up you just see it and go, ah-ha, I'm here.
This is Camp Fayville.
Oh, it looks fantastic.
It's really cool when you actually walk in from here.
You're looking up the hill and then you see it and go, whoa.
Thanks for making a dream come alive.
We've been thinking about this and dreaming about it
and kind of had a 10-year plan.
And you guys jammed it in, in a week.
PAULIE: So let's take a look.
You see why we picked this spot.
JOHN: It's spectacular.
PAULIE: It really is.
JOHN: I mean, it's river in every direction.
That's just great.
PAULIE: When we started this build a week ago,
it was nothing but a pile of rocks.
You couldn't even get there.
We built a road, we built a beautiful deck with a cabin.
We built a watchtower.
We turned the deuce into a mobile cabin.
We took a lot of risks this week
and the clients weren't always convinced.
I hope when they see the finished product,
that they'll be pretty impressed.
Yeah, so why don't we take a look at the main cabin?
BRENDAN: Yeah.
JOHN: Sounds good.
BRENDAN: Oh, my goodness!
BRENDAN: Oh, my goodness!
PAULIE: Huh? 24 hours.
BRENDAN: Wow!
[laughs]
It's fantastic.
I'm blown away. I mean, really amazing.
You walk in the door. Amazing job.
It really beyond any expectation that I had, and so much cooler.
JOHN: That, that is spectacular.
This is just so awesome.
It's beyond words.
BRENDAN: Oh, yeah, this is...
When we talked about the multipurpose,
yeah, you took it to the next level.
PAULIE: First thing the guys saw was the table
with the map of the land on it.
Great place for everyone to sit around the table,
get briefed on what they're doing,
what the action of the day is.
JOHN: There's the cabin.
BRENDAN: There's the deuce.
JOHN: There's the deuce.
[makes truck noise]
PAULIE: Funny thing about it, we're all sitting around a table
playing with little army men and the trucks.
It's like we were all kids again.
BRENDAN: This is great. JOHN: This is brilliant.
PAULIE: You like this? JOHN: How fun is this gonna be?
BRENDAN: You got the trident up.
I start scanning the walls
and just pick up all the fishing and old skis,
and then you just kind of look down to the benches,
these beautiful benches with the birch,
and Tuffy turns around and says
all the birch came from the property,
which is really cool and special.
So I loved it.
JOHN: Oh, look at the fly-fishing table.
PAULIE: There you go, John.
BRENDAN: What do you got there, John?
PAULIE: We didn't forget about you.
All your stuff you need there.
JOHN: All the stuff to tie flies and I'm ready to go.
I have been trying to set up a fly table for 15 years.
I had spent years trying to figure that out,
and, you know, it got done in basically a day.
PAULIE: One of our carpenters, Flip.
JOHN: This is very cool.
BRENDAN: Yeah, he's quite talented.
TUFFY: Yeah, he figured this out. Every window.
PAULIE: All your windows open. BRENDAN: No way.
PAULIE: Yeah. And now see how that works?
How that has that little bit of a shim here?
So just a little bit up.
A little bit up and it closes and it'll drop down.
JOHN: You can sit there, you can open the window.
See what bugs are outside.
Tie the fly, go down, catch the fish.
Come back, cook it on your frying pan
on the wood-burning stove.
BRENDAN: Oh, this is fantastic.
JOHN: The loft at the top of the cabin
is just a perfect little bedroom.
You can easily sleep two, three, even four people
if you wanted to jam them in.
It's perfect.
BRENDAN: We're gonna go up to the lookout tower
and we'll check that out.
JOHN: Perfect.
PAULIE: The lookout tower, again,
you know, that came late in the game here this week.
A way to give Brendan and John more sleeping quarters.
Four bunks are in there.
You can even have two more on the floor if you wanted to.
BRENDAN: All the way up the river.
PAULIE: What do you say we go check out the Beast, huh?
Ready?
BRENDAN: Wow. Look at that door.
PAULIE: You like that?
BRENDAN: That looks really cool.
JOHN: I mean, it looks like a building.
BRENDAN: You guys did it.
The Beast has never looked better.
JOHN: Oh, how cool is that?
[laughs]
BRENDAN: Immediately what hits you is all the gear on the wall,
which is really cool.
They did a nice job kind of securing everything.
PAULIE: Let's say you want to have a little picnic outside.
TUFFY: These are unbelievable. PAULIE: Have a seat.
BRENDAN: He actually found these four great old chairs.
You can just pull 'em out.
So if we get up to Fayville clearing and set up our camp,
we're just gonna pull those chairs out, set up the campfire.
It's gonna be great.
PAULIE: And, John, your own beer holder right there.
BRENDAN: Oh, yeah, it's an ammo pouch.
PAULIE: There you go, yeah.
JOHN: In the ammo pouch.
BRENDAN: That's fantastic.
PAULIE: The best part of this
is listening to what somebody wants.
You know, they wanted to be able to embrace all of this land,
and we found a way to do that.
JOHN: I mean, you really can take this out
and go camp somewhere.
I can't even call it the Beast anymore.
It's like the Beast is dead, now it's the beauty.
PAULIE: I'm driving. TUFFY: I don't think so.
PAULIE: I'm driving.
BRENDAN: Really?
[horn honks]
PAULIE: After showing Brendan and John the cabin,
we have one more surprise for them.
Tuffy's been working on it all week long.
It's gonna get applause from these guys.
We're gonna see a lot of high-fiving.
BRENDAN: Wow.
PAULIE: It's called a trebuchet and it fires watermelons.
It's been used in ancient times in battles.
TUFFY: There's some bicycle parts in here.
There's a truck mud flap up there.
That's the pouch.
JOHN: That's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
TUFFY: Pumpkin chuckin'.
JOHN: Give me a high-five for that one.
TUFFY: You haven't seen it fire yet.
BRENDAN: I thought Tuffy could pretty much build anything.
This was well beyond my kind of imagination.
PAULIE: Are we ready?
TUFFY: This is crazy.
On the count of three.
Alright.
One, two, three.
PAULIE: Oh, baby!
Oh, baby! Oh, baby!
That's what I'm talking about. That's my partner.
JOHN: Tuffy is like the mad scientist of fun in the woods.
The catapult that just launched
is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
PAULIE: Nice job, partner, really.
BRENDAN: Good job, Tuffy.
JOHN: Amazing, amazing.
BRENDAN: We're really, really happy.
I mean, we're blown away.
We told them, they really crushed it.
We are extremely happy clients, and also I'll just tell you,
those are just great guys
and we're happy to know 'em as friends.