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PAULIE: Next on Building Wild.
TUFFY: Last one to the top buys lunch.
PAULIE: Whoever loses has to buy the winners beer.
MAN: No, no, no, no, no!
PAULIE: Be careful with the pontoon!
TUFFY: That's not helping!
PAULIE: I can't hear you! TUFFY: [bleep]
PAULIE: Ask for help, people will help you!
TUFFY: I ask for help, they send you to me!
PAULIE: Go left, go left! Straight ahead.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Team Sweeney!
RYAN: Excellent.
PAT: Looks great!
PAULIE: We are the Cabin Kings.
I'm Paulie, design and detail guy.
Doors 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.
Tuffy, let's go.
TUFFY: I'm going right now.
PAULIE: Berlin.
Berlin, New York, the Sweeneys.
Pat is the dad, Ryan is the son, they're loggers.
Pat Sweeney?
PAT: Yup!
PAULIE: Paulie, nice to meet you.
PAT: Same here.
PAULIE: Pat Sweeney loves rocks.
He's an excavator, his son Ryan is running a logging company.
They are very similar.
Or as Ryan puts it, a hound dog has hound puppies.
Is this your son up here?
PAT: Ryan's gonna be coming down here in a few minutes.
My son took over the logging business.
I'm in the excavating business primarily.
He says, "My dad does the dirt, and I do the trees."
PAULIE: Wow.
Mr. Sweeney's property is just full of excavators and lumber
and logging equipment.
You name it, it is somewhere on this property.
RYAN: The main reason we want a cabin
is my idea of a perfect getaway
is to go where nobody else is.
Unfortunately, busy as we are, we don't ever get the time.
Everybody's been too busy working.
Machinery payments, mortgages.
There's just not enough hours in the day to do everything.
PAULIE: Yeah, I was talking to your dad on the telephone,
and I know you guys are super busy.
RYAN: I do the logging, and he does the excavation.
PAULIE: That's cool.
TUFFY: You share a lot of equipment.
RYAN: Yeah. PAT: Yep.
TUFFY: You share the payments, too?
PAT: Oh, well, we break down something, we--
RYAN: We fight over those.
Way too many sticks in the fire.
PAULIE: Too many sticks.
Was that three of 'em right there?
RYAN: That was three of 'em right there.
PAULIE: You want to give us a little tour
on what's going on here?
I see you got a heck of a logging operation.
We'd love to take a look around first down here
before we head up the mountain.
RYAN: I'll show you the shop.
PAULIE: You guys race these here?
PAT: Yeah, this is the fun part of it now,
where we get a chance to ride these,
kind of race around the woods.
We don't go out on the road racing much anymore.
We kind of stay home and do it.
Racing's kind of been a family heritage, I guess.
I had a race car, and then my son got into racing.
We do a lot of things together.
Years ago my mother always said
that you've got to treat him like your son, not your buddy.
I said, well, he is my buddy.
PAULIE: Now, Ryan, which one do you race?
RYAN: All three of them.
PAULIE: Are you still racing?
RYAN: No, I had a bad accident,
had a rebuilt rotator cuff that year,
and that's when we kind of threw in the towel
and said we've got to pay the bills
and not play all the time.
PAULIE: But you still race one another
going up and down the mountain?
PAT: Yeah, and it's a little cheaper.
What I spent in racing,
we could have bought a camp on Lake George
and ate steak every weekend.
PAULIE: That's where we come in.
Ryan and Pat used to race together all the time,
now they don't do it anymore,
they've got their two separate companies going.
We want to get them back to Team Sweeney,
and we're going to do that by building them a cabin.
Now, I know you said you have
a ton of stuff around the property.
Can we just walk around first
before we even start checking out sites?
PAT: I got a little bit of lumber.
TUFFY: We can use that.
PAULIE: That's good-looking firewood.
PAT: I've got these old trusses.
PAULIE: Oh nice!
PAT: Anything that's here is game to be used.
PAULIE: We love that!
There's a ton of great building materials.
So, we're gonna go ahead, see if we can't find what we need.
And that is gonna keep our costs way down.
PAT: There's stuff all over this place.
PAULIE: I'll bet there is.
PAT: I mean, we could spend hours here
walking around and beating the bushes.
PAULIE: I'm already seeing ideas.
PAT: I've got probably ten acres of truck parts, equipment,
and pieces of this and that all over the place.
We save everything.
TUFFY: Are you kidding me?
PAT: You don't throw anything out
because you might need it someday.
PAULIE: Right.
This is great for kitchen cabinets.
PAT: Yeah.
PAULIE: Tuffy, that's not a bad stovepipe right there.
TUFFY: He said we can use anything on the property.
So he gave us a tour around his--
I'm not gonna call it a junkyard.
We found a lot of useful stuff.
He's even throwing in the kitchen sink.
About five of 'em.
What's this over here?
PAT: That's an old camper.
Even I find [bleep] I don't even know I had.
RYAN: My dad's kind of a hoarder.
I mean, he's not as organized as I am, let's put it that way.
It's good, 'cause I mean, they're finding stuff
that will be pretty neat in the cabin build,
at the same time it cleans up our yard,
so that makes me feel good, too.
TUFFY: What the hell, you got a boat.
PAULIE: And what's it sitting on?
PAT: It's an old house trailer frame.
The pontoon boat has been out back sitting in the weeds
for probably 15 years now.
So hopefully Tuffy and Paulie might do something with it.
PAULIE: Where did this come from? This is amazing!
TUFFY: Watch it!
What are you doing, boy?
PAT: It's only got a plywood deck,
and the plywood's bad.
PAULIE: Yeah. Information I probably could've used
before climbing up here.
TUFFY: Yeah, you're gonna go through this! Oh, boy.
Climb right up on the boat with a rotten deck.
RYAN: Make a party barge out of it.
PAULIE: A party barge, right?
What do you think, Tuffy?
It's pretty cool.
We got to do something with this.
TUFFY: We got it in the budget? PAULIE: Budget? It's here!
TUFFY: It's here, it needs a little bit of work!
This pontoon boat is great.
I can't believe this guy has got something like this
in his junkyard.
But you know, Paulie's always shooting his mouth off,
big ideas, but I don't really think we've got
the time or the money to do this.
What do you think, money grows on trees?
PAULIE: We'll see about that one.
We got to go see the site. Can we go see the pond?
PAT: Yup.
RYAN: I'm an adrenaline junkie.
My father and I, we run ATVs out back,
and we both like to be out front.
So there's always a competitive edge.
Last one to the top buys lunch.
PAULIE: I have money in my wallet.
TUFFY: They've got racing in their blood,
they like to race, race, race,
and the next thing you know we're flying up the hill.
I'm thinking the biggest challenge
is getting materials up the mountain.
It's a very narrow, muddy and steep road.
PAULIE: I do not like to go fast.
I've got the helmet on, you know,
I'm holding on to this, it's called a holy [bleep] handle.
And then, to make it worse, it's a race.
Straight up, over 45 degrees.
[bleep]
TUFFY: Well, obviously we won.
PAULIE: You left before us.
TUFFY: Yeah.
PAT: I love my woods, I love my mountain.
My wife's always like "Let's go on vacation"
let's go here, go there,"
and it's like we are on vacation.
Wake up! Look around.
We've always had a dream of building a nice camp
up on the hill
just so we have a place to get away, just relax.
Well, we were thinking
kind of maybe back, you know, up in here?
PAULIE: Right.
RYAN: Because if you go up a little bit
there'd be a beautiful view.
PAULIE: How about over here? Do you guys like this area?
RYAN: I like this spot
just because it's closer to the pond.
TUFFY: We don't need to look at anything else, then.
PAULIE: No.
RYAN: I'm not a builder, I'm a logger.
So, I mean, our idea of a cabin would be to, you know,
just mill some boards out with a chainsaw,
slap 'em up in a couple weekends
and put a rocking chair in front of it, and there we go.
[laughs]
So bringing Paulie and Tuffy in,
well, they've got the knowledge and the skills
that will be pretty neat in the cabin build.
PAULIE: Here is your big deck that comes out.
Your cabin shoots back this way.
What we're seeing is a big, big deck coming out.
So take full advantage of this view.
PAT: Right. Right.
TUFFY: Before my partner promises these guys the world,
he's got to keep in mind we've only got a week to build
and we got a mountain in the way.
This is only gonna cost us time and money, which we don't have.
What are we doing, increasing the budget now?
PAULIE: There's always money.
TUFFY: You don't think you and I should talk about this?
PAULIE: Well, they have the material.
TUFFY: I've got to talk to my deep pockets partner here.
PAULIE: We've got everything we need here.
We got got wood. We got logs. We have that old potbelly stove.
The materials here are gonna save us
a couple thousand dollars.
TUFFY: You know that boat's gonna cost us some money.
A deck, a roof.
PAULIE: Okay. [bleep] the boat, alright?
So let's try to make this cabin come from the property.
They have a lot of stuff,
so we can use all the stuff they have.
Alright? Let's go talk to these guys.
PAULIE: We want to make this an incredible cabin for you.
What we're seeing is a cabin that's longer than it is deep.
So take full advantage of this view.
Here's the idea. Right, big deck here.
TUFFY: I might have to step down from this deck to this deck.
PAT: Yeah. RYAN: Yeah.
PAULIE: We have our cabin that is 20 feet wide, 16 feet deep.
Off that is a 20-foot-wide, 8-foot-deep deck.
And below that, we'll build a second deck,
terracing all the way down to the pond.
The other thing we want to do is,
from the stuff we've seen here,
you have a gold mine of materials.
We can incorporate all that stuff,
which will keep costs real low.
We'll bring our guys, you can get together your guys
and in a week's time build an incredible cabin.
Ryan, can you be kind of our guy who gets material
from down the mountain to where we need it?
I mean, is that something that your skidder can do?
RYAN: Yeah, well, I've got a better piece of equipment.
It's a forwarder.
It's eight-wheel drive, so you can put all your materials
on that, strap it down.
PAULIE: So you guys are confident
that we can get what we need?
PAT: We're confident that, whatever it is,
we can get it up here.
PAULIE: Okay.
PAT: If we're, if we're gonna kind of help
and do all this stuff and getting this stuff up here,
we need something extra from you, like a--
RYAN: Party barge?
PAULIE: Party barge?
You never know, we may be able to make that happen.
Let's start with what we're thinking.
PAT: We got some skilled carpenters and stuff.
PAULIE: Do you? PAT: We got some skilled guys.
TUFFY: There's gonna be too many guys
crawling around one project, anyway.
PAULIE: Let's start with-- TUFFY: We'll split up.
PAULIE: How about this for--
let's start with what we're thinking.
And if we have the manpower you're saying we're gonna have,
let's do it.
PAT: Sounds good to me. RYAN: Cool.
TUFFY: Anything else you can give away?
[laughs]
PAULIE: We got a deal?
PAT: Yeah, that sounds like a good plan.
PAULIE: We've agreed on the cost.
Now what the Sweeneys have to do is bring the materials,
heavy equipment, some good labor.
Tuffy and I, with all that,
we'll build them the cabin of their dreams.
Welcome to the Sweeney property, everyone.
We're looking at 250 acres,
and it's pretty much straight up, right?
PAT: Yep.
PAULIE: Our cabin is how far up there, Ryan?
RYAN: Three quarters of a mile.
PAULIE: It's a tough mountain to get up.
Where we want to be at the end of today
is we've got to get everything up the mountain,
and if we can get our flooring in,
that'll be a great day.
So we've got our week to do this.
Let's give the Sweeneys a wonderful cabin.
It's all about logging, so let's--
let's embrace-- let's embrace wood.
If you know what I mean.
[laughter]
We're using the ATVs and the side-by-sides
to get our lighter loads for our foundation up the mountain.
Start our foundation work.
While we're up here working here on the foundation,
Tuffy is down at the bottom of the mountain
working with Ryan, working on his forwarder
to load materials and get everything else up the mountain.
TUFFY: The forwarder is a huge, expensive machine.
It's able to pick up the logs, put it in a u-bunk.
RYAN: Everything look good on the bunks?
TUFFY: Good.
The u-bunk is made for the logs to wedge in and stay tight,
it's not really made to be moving lumber.
You think the load will be safe going up?
RYAN: Oh, yeah, it'll be safe.
Long as we strap it down, it'll be good.
TUFFY: The forwarder, it'll pretty much go anywhere.
These things are mountain climbers.
You got huge, massive tires and tracks on it.
Instead of dragging the logs,
it carries the logs out of the woods.
PAULIE: Wow.
It seemed to do it okay, right?
TUFFY: No problem at all, Paul.
No boards even wiggled or anything.
PAULIE: Our business model is to build cabins in a week
to keep costs low.
Thanks to this forwarder, we're gonna see that that happens.
Everything is coming from the property,
so whatever we find.
We'll go ahead and work this frame to it, alright?
The Sweeneys have such a great labor pool
that on day one we already have our floors
and some of our walls going up.
That is a record for us.
So all of a sudden we are ahead of schedule.
Which means your vision kind of gets a little bit bigger.
You know, what was right here, cabin, cabin, cabin,
now becomes, oh, cabin and deck.
Oh, cabin and a terraced deck.
Oh, cabin and a terraced deck
and something maybe down by the pond!
Party barge, this is something we might actually be able to do.
TUFFY: It's is barely the start of the day,
and Paulie wants to go down to the bottom and get the boat
and drag it up the mountain.
I don't know what he thinks half the time.
Looks like we're going to be building a party barge now.
MAN: Whoa! No, no, no, no, no!
TUFFY: Watch those pontoons!
BUILDER: Yeah, it's not going to work.
PAULIE: Be careful of the pontoons!
TUFFY: That's not helping!
PAULIE: We're losing time!
TUFFY: You're costing us time! Zip it!
PAULIE: I can't hear you! TUFFY: [bleep]
PAULIE: For the most part this whole pontoon boat,
it's gonna cost a few dollars.
We have the vision.
We know how to get it done.
Pat and Ryan have the manpower, the machinery
and all the material.
Put those together, we're gonna have a great party barge.
RYAN: Now that we've got it loaded,
the hardest part's gonna be getting it up there,
I mean, the forwarder's got a 16-foot bunk,
the boat's 30 feet long.
TUFFY: So we've got more than half of it hanging out.
You know, which is like a huge teeter-totter.
RYAN: Somebody's gonna have to watch,
to make sure I steer around the trees.
PAULIE: What if we follow with a walkie-talkie?
You have a walkie-talkie, he has a walkie-talkie.
TUFFY: We'll get 'em some walkies.
It's very dangerous.
Ryan gets to see about that much road in front of him
and then he's just looking at the back of the boat.
PAUL: Yeah, you're coming into the tight corner.
RYAN: The trail going up through there is all twisty, turny,
it's not like you can just turn on a dime.
PAULIE: Yeah, you're coming close to this tree,
coming close to the tree.
Good, straight ahead.
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa!
TUFFY: Paulie tells the guy left,
when he really means right.
You got to pretend that you're the operator,
it's his left and his right, not your left and right.
He just don't get it.
PAULIE: Sorry, Ryan.
TUFFY: Let me have that, let me have that.
PAULIE: You got this tree here, I was watching this bank.
TUFFY: You stay with the gator.
TUFFY: Listen, we've got Paulie off radio.
You're gonna have to back up about three feet.
You've got the front end jammed right into a tree.
Don't damage the tube, don't damage it--
of course we're not gonna damage it.
Everything was going fine until we gave him the radio.
Now crank it this way.
You stick with the gator!
TUFFY: You got it now, bring it right in.
PAULIE: Those pontoons came up unharmed.
Luckily there was no damage.
Only a little damage to my ego,
and Tuffy is the first one to point that out,
time and time again.
TUFFY: We've got that boat up here, the party barge.
We stripped the old deck off.
We're gonna put a new plywood deck on it.
We just take the dozer and give it a little skim job
and push it all back.
MAN: You're gonna have to build this up, right?
TUFFY: We're gonna put plywood on it.
We're gonna make a roof out of that old dish.
MAN: Nice!
TUFFY: We're gonna deck it and put some carpeting on here.
We got that old satellite dish,
we're thinking a post in it, turn it upside down,
put some shake shingles on, make it like an umbrella.
It's gonna look pretty cool.
PAULIE: Do you remember where this came from?
RYAN: From the shed roof we had in our yard, right?
PAULIE: Yeah.
There's a ton of stuff on the Sweeney property,
a lot of great building materials.
One of 'em was this corrugated old tin.
Stuff that's hard to find
and has a patina that's absolutely perfect.
It's a great product for us to use on the side of the cabin,
and it's gonna save money.
Do you like this?
RYAN: Looks great.
PAULIE: People will pay $30 a sheet for this.
RYAN: Gives a camouflaged look with the faded tin.
PAULIE: Yeah.
Or like an old gin house or an old still.
RYAN: What are you saying, we have a drinking problem?
PAULIE: No! Well, yes, but no!
RYAN: We don't eat caviar and wine and dine ourselves,
I mean, we're country people, and our idea of a good time
is just getting out and having a couple of beers with friends.
PAULIE: Okay, not to throw too much out all at the same time,
but we have to move ahead with a project of split firewood.
When we learned how much Ryan and Pat love wood,
that immediately gave me an idea.
So say this is the front of the cabin.
Right. I'm looking at the front of the cabin,
the pond is behind me.
What if we took split firewood to build our front wall?
What do you think of that? And we'd mortar these in.
RYAN: Be sort of be like a cordwood wall.
PAULIE: A cordwood wall, exactly.
There are three steps
to giving us the cordwood wall look.
Number one is we have to cut our logs.
Number two is we have to split our logs.
Three is then using mortar in between those logs
and building them up as if those logs were bricks.
That'll give us the cordwood wall look.
TUFFY: We're gonna need like three cords of wood
to do that whole front wall, correct?
PAULIE: So, if you can get three cords up here that--
TUFFY: Oh, just like that.
PAT: Look, we got to get some of our workers together.
PAULIE: And a lot of chainsaws, 'cause we need that quickly.
PAT: We're gonna need lots of chainsaws.
TUFFY: We should have like one guy cutting,
so that way they'll come out the same length.
PAULIE: I want 20 guys cutting.
TUFFY: That doesn't-- it's not gonna work.
RYAN: Our guys can do it,
I mean, we run chainsaws all the time.
PAT: Paulie's got an idea laying up a cordwood wall,
because we're trying to keep this thing kind of ***.
We don't want it to look, you know, like it was--
it come out of New York City.
PAT: We've got two piles.
We got a pile over there, and a there's small pile down here.
We can get two--
PAULIE: Two going simultaneously.
TUFFY: Okay, that sounds like a plan.
PAULIE: Okay, that's a plan. Good to go.
RYAN: The cordwood wall, Paulie made a competition out of it,
which is perfect.
Loggers are competitive with each other
no matter what we're doing.
PAULIE: Our firewood wall, it's gonna take a lot of wood,
so I thought I'd do a little friendly competition.
Plus it gets everyone fired up to do it quickly.
Game rules: We've got two teams.
Pat and Tuffy on one team, me and Ryan on another.
BUILDER: What is the wager?
TUFFY: Who's buying tonight?
MAN: Who's buying.
MAN: Actually we're all winners when we're drinking.
PAULIE: Whoever loses has to buy the winners beer.
Are we ready?
RYAN: Hit it, men!
TUFFY: We're done!
PAULIE: No, you're not done! TUFFY: We're done!
We're done, come and check it out.
Look at how much wood they got left!
MAN: We kicked your ***!
PAULIE: Because you have soft wood!
TUFFY: Game over, we're done!
PAULIE: Not yet, we still got to split it
and get it up to the cabin.
TUFFY: We're already starting to split our wood,
the other team hasn't even finished cutting their wood.
This competition is going to be a piece of cake.
PAULIE: Oh, looking good, gentlemen, looking good.
TUFFY: You're falling way behind.
PAULIE: We're getting a late start, so we'll catch up.
What we're doing here,
we're gonna be using mortar to mortar our logs in place.
PAULIE: Now that we've split the wood,
put mortar in between them
and then build our wall as if these logs were bricks.
And you actually have your own company.
And now you've hired your dad.
RYAN: Correct.
PAULIE: And how does that work out?
RYAN: A lot of arguing and a lot of ignoring each other.
PAULIE: That's what goes on with me and my partner, too.
Does your dad say thank you?
RYAN: Never. PAULIE: Never.
TUFFY: You don't do that in the workplace.
PAT: You're wasting time!
PAULIE: On the job site
they never like to say please or thank you.
I don't know where that comes from,
because I know Tuffy's mom,
and, she always says please and thank you.
RYAN: Ah, perfect. Thank you! PAULIE: You're welcome.
TUFFY: There's no please and thank you
on a construction site.
It's not necessary.
It's like an unwritten law. You don't have to say that.
PAULIE: We'll see.
Don't tell too many people this,
but the whole idea that father and son are so competitive
is really working in our favor.
We split it up and kind of make it,
okay, dad against son, son against dad.
And then they're at it,
so it's a great way to get stuff done quickly.
PAT: Isn't this their wood they brought up?
TUFFY: Hey.
Hey!
PAT: Quit that [bleep]!
I told you we're winning the race, not you!
PAULIE: It's on.
I mean, you know, this course we're winning for one second,
they're winning for the next second.
Then we're coming up, then they're coming up.
We're coming around, our window, we're ahead,
they're coming around the other side of the window,
they're ahead, it's a race to the last log.
RYAN: We're gonna need some more mud.
TUFFY: Oh, good, we're gonna need mud now.
PAT: You're gonna have to mix some mud up.
PAULIE: You're gonna have to get your *** off the ladder
and mix some mud!
TUFFY: I think both teams should mix the mud,
stop laying and mix the mud.
Why should I mix your mud?
All's I need is ten more minutes,
but now I got to mix mud.
PAULIE: Welcome to the party, [bleep]
PAT: You're gonna mix the whole bag, or half?
TUFFY: Yeah, I'll mix the whole bag.
Then, as long as we're mixing it, we won't share it.
PAULIE: Fill that for me, please, that would be great.
TUFFY: That ain't cutting it! Please?
PAULIE: Please fill this for me.
TUFFY: I'm not--please?
PAULIE: Please!
TUFFY: Here. There's please!
RYAN: Son of a [bleep]
PAULIE: The competition is getting heated,
but that's all part of my plan.
The key is that we're getting the job done!
Two, and three.
Done.
Hey, Tuffy, give me your credit card.
TUFFY: For what?
PAULIE: We're done.
TUFFY: You're not done. Who says you're done?
PAT: He's coming to inspect your work now.
RYAN: No, no, no, you're gonna sabotage our wall.
PAULIE: Yeah, you're not gonna touch my work.
RYAN: You can't touch our wall.
TUFFY: It looks like it's done from here.
What the hell, there's no way the guy
can be laying that much, that fast.
TUFFY: There's no mortar in here!
They cheated, half the wall's dry-stacked,
so I tore it all down.
RYAN: Hey, hey! No, whoa!
PAT: Yeaahahah!
There's mortar in there!
PAULIE: We bent the rules a little bit.
We bent the rules.
It's all done. Good job.
TUFFY: Can't cheat. This is serious.
You're playing for beer,
it's the same as playing for money.
When I was in high school,
I worked for a guy down in North Petersburg
blocking firewood for him.
So he says, "You don't even have to get out,
just pull in the driveway,
we'll unload everything out of your car."
I get out.
"No, stay right in there, we'll get it, we'll get it."
A couple days later, I don't know,
I needed something out of the trunk of my car.
Blood all over in the trunk of the car.
Them son of a [bleep] were jacking deer during the day,
throwing them in the trunk of my car.
Every single night, I'm driving down the highway
with an illegal deer in my trunk.
PAT: Here they come with our beer!
PAULIE: Who's thirsty?
It's time for me to make good on the bet that we had,
which was whoever lost the whole log race
would buy a case of beer.
In losing, we won,
because we accomplished what we needed to accomplish.
And that is a huge job.
TUFFY: Well, why did you try cheating, then?
PAULIE: 'Cause I just hate losing to you,
I hate losing to you.
Do you despise losing to your father?
RYAN: No, I don't despise losing to him.
Makes him feel good.
Senior citizens need a break every once in a while.
[laughter]
PAULIE: Have you been able to walk across the back of the pond
and take a look back now that we have that wood all stacked up?
PAT: Yeah, I got a chance today to walk over there,
it looks really good.
If Ryan and I built this cabin with our friends,
you know, just part-time,
we'd probably be a month or two trying to build this thing.
PAULIE: That was a good day.
Well worth the case of beer.
We've come to the time to test our pontoon boat.
A lot of things can go wrong.
We've added a lot of weight because we put a new deck on it.
So hopefully taking care of those pontoons has paid off.
Do you think these pontoons--
They all looked good certainly from underneath--
TUFFY: To me it looks--
PAULIE: But we never tested 'em, we never filled 'em up with air,
we didn't do any of that.
TUFFY: This thing's made to have a V-8 engine on there.
PAULIE: Alright.
TUFFY: I think we've lightened it up
more than it was when it was new!
PAULIE: Let's give it a try.
There's a lot of pressure-treated lumber
that we put on this pontoon boat,
and I don't know if it was set for that, you know.
I don't ever remember seeing a house on top of it.
I just remember seeing a couple of chairs
and a little steering wheel.
TUFFY: We're hooking it up in such a way
I won't lose the trailer.
You, on the other hand,
you might have to swim back to shore.
We could just as easily take a strap
and strap the thing down,
but I'm gonna have Paulie ride up on there
and hang on to it, and maybe I can get his feet a little wet.
Here we go. You ready, Paul?
PAULIE: We're good.
No, you want to go more in that direction.
TUFFY: We look good? PAULIE: Good to go.
TUFFY: For a boat launch, you just back your trailer in
a foot, two foot, three foot.
This like drops into no-man's-land
the minute you leave that bank,
it just drops off like 30 feet deep.
PAULIE: If you see bubbles, go back.
It is 50-50 whether this thing works
or whether it doesn't work.
The best news is that she floats.
Worst thing is that it ends up in the bottom of the pond.
We're going straight down.
We're going straight down.
Stop!
TUFFY: Oh [bleep]
I hear bubbles!
I don't know what the bubbles were coming from.
And you could hear 'em.
Blublub blublub blub.
TUFFY: See ya, Paul! PAT: Bon voyage!
PAULIE: The USS Sweeney took in a little bit of water,
and then she leveled out.
That's what I'm talking about, man!
Did I not tell you this would work?
[cheering]
I successfully launched my first ship.
Dance all night on that.
See what I mean?
By taking care of the pontoons, we got a great party barge.
TUFFY: You guys get him back to shore on your own.
He's better off out there.
[beeping]
PAT: We've given up the whole week to be here to do this.
Ryan and I, we've kind of hung out a lot
pretty much every night this week.
It was good to spend a lot of time together
because there'll be weeks when we don't even see each other.
RYAN: My dad's brought so much to the table
and everybody busted their hump,
including Paulie and Tuffy and their crew
and our helpers as well.
I think everyone's looking forward
to getting this done and relaxing.
PAT: Once it's done, it'll be enjoyed
by pretty much everybody.
PAULIE: Here's the deal. We're looking pretty good.
I mean, you've had a great crew helping us,
our crew's been working hard, you guys have been working hard,
take the next 24 hours and just relax.
You feel good about that?
Could you use a little break?
PAT: I can hear the beer calling my name.
PAULIE: There you go, you go get yourself a cold one.
PAT: Pick up and wait to hear from you tomorrow, then.
PAULIE: You got it.
Even though our clients have a major hand
in the building of these cabins,
we still like to send them away
about 24 hours before we're done.
That way we can finish all the details,
and it's a surprise to them.
PAULIE: You like the porcelain sink?
I think the Sweeneys are gonna like that.
Our goals for today are wrapping up the interior cabin.
Getting our kitchen set. Building the loft.
So there's a lot going on simultaneously.
So this is terrific, we got water, I mean, really,
you don't have water in all your camps, do you?
TUFFY: No, I know, and it sucks not having water.
We're trying to get water as a surprise for the Sweeneys.
PAULIE: Look at the frog.
TUFFY: We found a spring in the bank up here,
nice, clean, fresh water.
It feels pretty cold.
PAULIE: Oh, yeah, that feels good.
Man, that'll keep a beer cold.
TUFFY: Yeah.
I think with a little bit of effort
we could get running water back to the camp.
I'll take a one-inch pipe.
We'll make a starter right here,
it'll cross that road and keep on going.
PAULIE: We are gonna have running water come to the cabin.
It's one of the first times we've done this.
TUFFY: As I pull down there, you guys keep unrolling.
It has to be unrolled.
It's not a lot of elevation between here and the camp.
We have about 14 feet of difference
between this water height and the ground floor of that camp.
So you can run down into your basement and then run back up.
And it'll still come out the kitchen sink
because you've got head pressure.
You've never seen water run uphill.
Next time you're out in a pond with a rowboat,
bring a crowbar with you,
drive a hole right through the bottom of your boat.
You'll see water run uphill.
I believe it's gonna be water coming out the end of the pipe.
PAULIE: While Tuffy's working on getting water to the cabin,
I'm managing the rest of the project--
seeing that the steps get built.
All white cedar.
Getting our rails done and getting our cabinets put in.
We pulled the red truck out of the weeds down there in the yard
because the side cabinets on that
would be perfect for our cabinet.
They're critter-proof, mice can't get in there,
and it's gonna save money.
You got to figure 300, 500 bucks.
It's a good fix to the kitchen cabinets.
That's it, Ken, that's good that's good, that's good,
that's a place to put your dish towel.
TUFFY: Come on you [bleep].
It's got that natural curve in the pipe.
Okay.
That'll clear up in a little bit,
that should be running.
It'll probably beat us down there.
TUFFY: We're gonna have water in the sink
to do dishes, wash your hands,
and we've got another little trick
we'd like to do with the water.
TUFFY: I told you it would beat us down here.
It's already coming out.
Done for today.
PAULIE: Not even close to being done. It doesn't fit.
TUFFY: You didn't have to put four bolts in it
to figure out it wasn't gonna work.
You could've put like two bolts in it,
and the lights should have went off somewheres.
PAULIE: Take a look at that stacked firewood now.
TUFFY: That looks cool.
PAULIE: You see why it has to be stacked firewood all through?
TUFFY: Now we got to do in front of the deck, too.
PAULIE: Yeah. Pile it up.
MAN: Need another two cords.
TUFFY: Who the hell started that program?
We got one more day to finish all this.
PAULIE: I know. TUFFY: What are you, in school?
PAULIE: You woke up on the wrong side of the bed
today, didn't you?
TUFFY: I just dug 600 feet through the woods!
You? I see nothing accomplished.
PAULIE: One thing about my partner is he works alone.
He does not work well with people.
TUFFY: Show me one thing you've accomplished today.
I want to see one thing that you accomplished today.
PAULIE: With the Sweeney competition
there has been a little bit of the Tuffy and Paul competition.
PAULIE: See the steps? How do you like the steps?
TUFFY: You didn't do them.
PAULIE: The hell I didn't.
He's getting work done, which he is,
the work of one man and a tractor.
He's certainly getting work done.
Mike, did we not just work on these steps?
MIKE: It ain't right, look.
TUFFY: It's not right.
Now I believe that you helped him.
PAULIE: Someone has to actually oversee the entire project
and see that things are getting done all over.
How do you like the siding right there?
TUFFY: I do like the siding.
PAULIE: Come around back.
TUFFY: I like the siding, but it's not done.
PAULIE: Come around, come around back.
TUFFY: I have moved thousands of pounds
and thousands of pounds of dirt,
and you moved 50 pounds of lumber.
PAULIE: That's right! But you know what?
I had 20 guys move
another thousands and thousands of pounds of wood.
TUFFY: The guy just just talks too much on the job,
talk, talk, talk.
PAULIE: Brains and brawn, buddy, that's why it's a good team.
What else is on the list that you have to do?
TUFFY: My list is endless.
PAULIE: Do you know why your list is endless?
'Cause you don't ask for help!
Ask for help, people will help you!
TUFFY: I ask for help, they send you to me.
PAULIE: They love you, though, you ask for help and you say,
hey, please, can somebody help me?
What do you say?
The magic word!
TUFFY: Yeah!
PAULIE: Thank you!
PAULIE: They want to span all three joists.
After sending Pat and Ryan away, we had a lot of work to do.
Get that [bleep] done! Yeah!
Where is that going? Do you know where that's going?
Alright, we're moving along, Craig,
you got that mortar mixed up?
Alright, we got to keep it going, keep it going!
We have just a lot of work going on all at once.
PAT: Paulie got a hold of us
and told us to run the machinery down off the mountain,
and we're just, cleaning it up, getting the mud and stuff off.
RYAN: Well, it's been a hell of a week,
they've managed to get all our stuff real dirty.
So what was your favorite part of the week?
PAT: Boy, I think the whole thing, kind of.
RYAN: It was all pretty cool, that's for sure.
Paulie and Tuffy argue quite a bit, don't they?
PAT: Yeah, I guess that goes with being a partner, right?
RYAN: Yeah.
PAT: Sometimes we get into it pretty good.
RYAN: Yeah, crazy.
PAT: I can't wait to go up and see
what they've done since we left!
RYAN: Oh, I'm wicked excited about it,
see what their top-secret surprises are.
PAT: Heard they're putting the finishing touches on up there,
and I know what it looked like when I left,
and I'm sure it looks a lot different now.
PAULIE: We have a little bit more to do
to push to make this thing really come to life.
One thing we need to do is build a second deck
that you can dive off of from the party barge.
And we're good to party.
It's a mad dash to the end before we bring these guys back.
PAULIE: Tuffy! How's it going there?
We only have a few more minutes, let's wrap it up!
Sweeneys are on their way up!
PAT: It's always been a dream of mine
to do something with that spot.
Every time we drive by there on the side-by-sides
we're like, we should build a cabin, clean this spot up.
And then finally it's happened.
RYAN: I'm also pretty eager to see it.
The finishing touches
is what's really gonna take our breath away.
PAULIE: Hey, nice job, everyone, that's a great build week,
you did really, really well, everyone.
[applause]
TUFFY: Fire in the hole.
PAULIE: Nice!
PAULIE: How are you, Mr. Sweeney?
PAT: Good!
[applause and cheering]
RYAN: As we first drove up to the camp,
as soon as we came around the corner,
the cordwood wall idea.
That right there, that was awesome.
PAULIE: Welcome to Team Sweeney!
[applause]
RYAN: Excellent. It's awesome.
PAT: I'm speechless. PAULIE: Are you?
PAT: I love the saw blade.
RYAN: We had Team Sweeney for nine years, we did snocross,
so it's cool to see it re-established.
The cordwood wall came out awesome.
PAULIE: I mean, it certainly says "logger."
RYAN: Oh, yeah, I think so! PAT: It looks great.
PAULIE: Pat and Ryan, they looked at it,
they could not believe what they saw.
Wood, wood, wood, from tier to tier to tier.
TUFFY: I would think you'd be sick of looking at cordwood.
PAT: When you've got sawdust in your veins,
you never get sick of looking at wood.
PAULIE: What do you say we go up?
RYAN: Alright.
[clapping]
PAT: I'd like to thank everybody,
I mean, all these guys are self-employed
and trying to run their own businesses,
and when we asked 'em if they were interested
in working with us on this,
they didn't even hesitate.
[applause]
PAULIE: Want to look at some more?
RYAN: Let's do it. PAT: Love to.
PAULIE: Now, Mike's handiwork right here?
This is all his white cedar.
Victor did a great job on the table,
and he's been working hard not just on the table,
but you're going to see parts of Victor throughout the cabin.
RYAN: Awesome.
PAULIE: Tuffy, put your--your fire pit's going right there.
RYAN: He's got our name carved in it.
TUFFY: I wanted to show the Sweeneys
a little surprise I had.
I figured out how to get running water to this camp.
They're gonna love it.
TUFFY: We got this tub, so you turn the fresh water on,
let it circulate, it's got an overflow...
SWEENEYS: Awesome.
TUFFY: So you always got fresh water running.
PAT: It's really important to have water at the camp
because it's one less thing you've got to carry
when you go up on the mountain.
With the nice cold water, it'll help keep the beer cold.
Nobody wants to drink warm beer.
Not that I know of, anyway.
TUFFY: Feel how cold that is. No ice.
Just let it run, trickle in there all day long
and ends right back up in the pond.
RYAN: Good deal. PAT: Good job.
TUFFY: No lugging ice up the hill.
PAULIE: We found a spring,
and we were able to bring some water down.
You know, that's Tuffy's ingenuity.
TUFFY: We also teed it off, ran it in,
you've got water in the kitchen sink.
PAT: No kidding! RYAN: Cool.
PAT: Really?
PAULIE: Who would have thought?
RYAN: Very awesome.
PAULIE: This was a great build.
Everything came from this entire property.
The first thing we did is we had to deal with the earth.
We started from the bottom and worked our way up
from tier to tier.
You go up to the third terrace, which is our deck.
The view from there is absolutely spectacular.
It gives you the overall impression
that it is a mountain of firewood.
That was the look we were going for.
You want to keep going? RYAN: Let's keep going.
PAT: I want to see the inside.
RYAN: Wow, that's awesome!
PAT: This is great, I can't believe it.
When I walked inside the cabin
I was just blown away by the interior,
the way they had it laid out.
RYAN: Awesome. Love this.
PAT: That's cool.
RYAN: It was just breathtaking.
First thing I saw was the big tree stump chandelier.
PAT: I love this thing.
Years ago when I dug out the root balls,
I said somebody'll think of something to do with them.
And they sure did.
I love the saws on the wall.
That two-man maul right there
was a saw that my father cut wood with.
PAULIE: Pat immediately went into a dissertation
on, oh, there's this, there's that.
PAT: That ladder, it's a thing for an airplane.
I've been saving it for years.
The post office box here?
My wife's parents gave that to us.
That's the block and tackle I had in the old box trailer.
PAULIE: I call it the Sweeney Museum.
PAT: Yeah.
RYAN: It is like a museum.
PAULIE: Isn't it? Isn't it?
RYAN: You know, one man's junk is another man's gold,
and I think Paulie and Tuffy incorporated that
right into this build, and it worked great.
PAT: The old side off of the utility--that looks cool!
That looks good there.
It's a good pantry!
PAULIE: You want to take a look upstairs?
RYAN: They did more than what we expected, so it was great.
Everything was, you know, used
pretty much right here off our property,
so it was really good for us.
PAULIE: It's all you need, right?
RYAN: Yeah, perfect.
PAT: Just lay here and look at the pond in the morning!
Awesome.
RYAN: Isn't it?
PAT: Love it.
TUFFY: Clean running water.
PAT: Goes right into the milk can underneath, that's cool.
TUFFY: We didn't think we were gonna make this work.
We actually had pretty good pressure in the kitchen sink.
I'm just glad it all works.
PAT: That came from out back?
PAULIE: Everything came from the yard.
PAT: Really?
RYAN: Yeah, it's amazing what you guys did,
how you put it all together.
PAT: It was kind of a dream come true,
because it probably would've took us months
to accomplish what's happened in a week.
PAT: Real cozy here. PAULIE: Really?
PAT: Yeah.
PAULIE: What you were expecting, Pat, or...
PAT: I didn't know what to expect.
PAULIE: What was wonderful about this build
is it makes Pat feel good
that all this old stuff that would rot out in the yard
is now being used.
And there's a story behind each and every piece.
Oh, look at the way you used the old truck.
Look at the root ball up above me.
Look at the old sink that was sitting there
that we walked by a week ago, you know?
PAT: Thank you, sir.
RYAN: Cheers.
PAT: It was good to have a little project
where Ryan and I, we could sit down
and actually, you know, talk to each other,
'cause lots of times everybody's been too busy working.
It's going to be remembered for a long, long time.
PAULIE: So what do you say we go and take our first journey
on the USS Sweeney?
TUFFY: Let's go.
PAULIE: So we built team Sweeney the cabin of their dreams,
but we also did the impossible.
That's the party barge.
PAT: This is awesome.
PAULIE: We took that old rotting pontoon boat,
drag it up the mountain, get rid of that deck.
We even gave them a second story platform to dive off of.
RYAN: Yeah, that came out awesome,
the satellite dish came out awesome.
PAT: Holy jeez!
PAULIE: Ah, that is a thing of beauty, huh?
RYAN: We went out and checked out the party barge
and went for a maiden voyage.
PAULIE: Center of the ocean!
Have you ever seen a better, better use of a satellite dish?
PAT: Not in my day!
PAULIE: If you come up here we have the diving deck,
and then we have our nice-- our little bar in the back!
Have a seat.
PAT: Oh, yeah.
PAULIE: That's what I'm talking about, huh?
PAT: Life don't get no better than this, does it?
PAULIE: Right!
PAT: It's kind of cool
because if we wanted our mountain getaway
we can go up and set on the deck at the cabin.
But if we wanted to go pretend you were on a vacation,
you go down, get on the party barge
and turn the radio up,
put some of that music they play in the Bahamas on,
and just, you know, set there
and pretend you're somewhere else!
WOMAN: Woo!
[applause]
Woo!
TUFFY: Alright!
PAULIE: Love those Sweeneys.
PAT: It is a little cool, but it's a lot of fun.
On a nice hot day when it's 90 in the shade,
that'll be the place to be, right there.
PAULIE: Pretty impressive, huh?
RYAN: Looks great from down here.
PAULIE: Take a look. This was a great build.
They absolutely loved it.
So it's time to see if I can't get a thank you from my partner.
Pat, thank you so much.
Ryan, great week, man, great week.
You did good this week, partner, you did really good.
TUFFY: So did you. PAULIE: Thank you very much.
TUFFY: You did good. I've got to admit it.
PAULIE: Thank you. I appreciate it.
TUFFY: This was all a great idea.
PAULIE: Thank you.
TUFFY: You had a couple other good ideas,
I can't remember what they are.
PAULIE: One time, Tuffy, say thank you.
TUFFY: I guess this isn't considered
a construction site anymore, so, thank you.