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Paulie: Next on "Building Wild."
Reggie Tschorn: Go on, scoot, scoot.
I don't want a stick of lumber that does not come
from this property to go into that cabin.
You aren't going to be able to make it up there.
Tuffy: (bleep).
Paulie: I'm busy doing electrical.
Reggie Tschorn: Why are you doing electrical work
when you have an electrician coming tomorrow?
Paulie: Because it's a day late!
He does not get this intense schedule that we
need to do to finish this cabin.
Where are we supposed to be at the end of today?
(bleep).
Tuffy: You need to go home.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh my God.
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.
[whistling]
You're gonna love where we're going.
Tuffy: Yeah, where are we going?
Paulie: Sandgate.
We're gonna be building for an older guy.
Building in his backyard.
Nice and easy week.
Tuffy: About time we got an easy week.
Paulie: Yeah let's hope, let's hope.
Tuffy: Have you met this guy or?
Paulie: No, no I talked to him on the telephone.
Veterinarian, he does a lot of work with
horses and stuff.
Tuffy: Really?
Then I'm just wondering what kind of help
is he gonna bring us?
You think a 70-year-old guy's got a lot of
20-year-old friends?
Paulie: Right.
Tuffy: Sort of doubt it.
Paulie: Yeah, you've got a point there;
well labor could be an issue.
Tuffy: What kind of day's he gonna be able to put in,
he's 70-years old?
What kind of day's he gonna be able to put in with us?
Paulie: I don't know.
Tuffy: So we're not building stairs,
we're building handicap ramps.
Paulie: Come on, he's 70, he's not 180.
Tuffy: When you're able to hide your own Easter egg,
it's time to cash out.
Paulie: And forget where you put 'em?
Tuffy: Yeah, this looks like the driveway here.
Look at this.
Paulie: How beautiful is that?
Tuffy: Wouldn't you just like to retire
and live here?
Paulie: Okay let's go meet this guy.
Bryan Tschorn: Hey, nice to meet you.
Paulie: Nice to meet you finally man, pleasure.
I'm Paul this is Tuffy.
Bryan Tschorn: Wonderful to meet you.
Paulie: And is that your dad up there working?
Bryan Tschorn: Always.
Paulie: Can we go meet your dad?
Bryan Tschorn: If you must.
Reggie Tschorn: I've been called a lot of things in
this world, but my given name was Reginald.
I am a retired equine veterinarian.
Gonna be 67 but I feel like I'm about 45.
Paulie: Reggie I'm Paul.
Reggie Tschorn: Paul, very nice to meet you.
Paulie: Pleasure to meet you.
This is my partner Tuffy.
Reggie Tschorn: Tuff, nice to meet you buddy.
Tuffy: Looks like a pretty nice rig.
Reggie Tschorn: This is an LT40 Hydraulic.
Stand back.
Tuffy: Well Reggie's got his own portable sawmill.
It's a great machine for making panes, wall studs,
any kind of framing lumber, siding.
This is a great machine to have on a
property like this.
I've got a similar saw.
Reggie Tschorn: I want a bigger one.
Tuffy: Uh, mine's 44 feet.
Reggie Tschorn: 44 feet, I can only.
Tuffy: Band saw.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh, nice.
Paulie: Are we gonna measure saws,
is that what we're gonna do?
We're gonna sit here and measure?
Tuffy: Measure saws.
Reggie Tschorn: Mine's bigger than his.
Hi guys!
[geese honk].
Paulie: Are they friendly?
Reggie Tschorn: They're very friendly.
They follow me all over the place.
They follow me to bed.
Paulie: Reggie has a lot of energy.
I should hope when I am Reggie's age that
I have that much energy.
Reggie Tschorn: Go on, scoot, scoot!
Bahhhh!
Paulie: He's got the fountain of youth
going on up here.
After driving up and seeing what you have going,
I think is absolutely beautiful.
I mean you've got a pond here,
you got your ducks right here.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Paulie: I can't think of a better place to
build a cabin.
Reggie Tschorn: No, no, no.
See the top of that mountain up there?
Paulie: Yeah.
Reggie Tschorn: It's 1,000 feet up and a
mile and a half.
That's where the cabin's going, not here.
[Bryan laughing].
We're basically sitting on a little under 1,000 acres
of land here.
My father purchased the first 500 acres for $500.
Tuffy: Backyard.
Paulie: I didn't know his backyard was miles long.
Reggie Tschorn: Three to be exact.
Tuffy: We figured this was gonna be an easy build.
We're building out in the guy's backyard.
Just to get materials up there,
I think we're gonna need 3 or 4 days.
This is gonna create a huge problem.
It's not just in the backyard, Paulie.
Paulie: Here's the thing, it's confusing to someone
whose backyard is behind the back of their house.
Reggie Tschorn: Well this is behind the back of my house.
Paulie: It could be in a different state.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
I have never built a cabin on this property and
the reason why is that I don't have time.
I truly think that if I bring in Paulie and Tuffy,
this project is gonna get done.
Let Bryan take you up the mountain,
we'll take the horses.
Paulie: I'll see ya up there.
Giddy up, up the mountain.
Tuffy: Giddy up the mountain.
Reggie Tschorn: Giddy up the mountain.
Tuffy: A city slicker.
Paulie: Our challenge here is that the build site
is a mile and a half in.
We are up some steep, steep terrain.
I'm gonna go in with Bryan on a four-wheeler.
So have you always wanted a cabin up here?
Bryan Tschorn: Yeah, you know it's almost 2 miles.
It'll be a great place to be able to put a backpack on
and hike up there and stay for a couple days.
Paulie: Sure.
Bryan Tschorn: You know, nothing but footsteps.
Paulie: Your Dad'll dig it.
Bryan Tschorn: Oh my God yeah,
him and his wife wanted to make a camp up there
as part of their retirement.
They wanted to be able to go away off the map.
You know, a place where the phone couldn't ring.
Paulie: God, having a place where the phone
doesn't ring is something that's uh.
Bryan Tschorn: Priceless.
Paulie: Oh, imagine.
Reggie Tschorn: We're gonna head up the mountain
a mile and a half away.
The cabin sits right dead smack in the center
of the property.
Tuffy: So we're going a mile and a half and
it's still another mile and a half?
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah, still another mile and a half.
There are a lot of reasons why I want a cabin here,
some of them very emotional.
Where the camp is going, my father thought was the
most gorgeous piece of property on the land.
I have three grandchildren, all boys;
I can't wait to share this with the grandkids.
Paulie: Do you see where this mountain comes down,
the other mountain comes down?
There's a way.
Bryan Tschorn: It has that valley.
That's Massachusetts.
Paulie: We're a mile and a half in,
literally atop a mountain.
It's gorgeous.
They have a choice spot set.
It is a beautiful piece of property.
It'll be a beautiful cabin with a gorgeous view.
Reggie Tschorn: How long have you been here, an hour?
Paulie: Yeah, I got to look out at this
beautiful, beautiful mountain range here.
Reggie Tschorn: My wife and I used to ride up here
all the time.
10 months ago, she died of cancer and
I'm hoping that we can put the cabin up there.
Absolutely gorgeous spot.
What do you think about in here someplace?
Paulie: Oh, right in this opening, I mean look,
this looks wonderful.
Reggie Tschorn: You got to go that way,
make sure you're square.
You got to do your cross.
Stop right over there.
The hot tub's gonna go right there.
Paulie: Hot tub, huh?
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Paulie: Usually it's me to have to think of
all the ideas.
We've come up here and then Reggie's saying,
"Okay here's where I've cleared the site,
this is what I would like."
"I would like my porch to sit right here."
You know, "I want to be able to see the
setting sun in the west;
I want to see the rising sun in the east."
Now he wants a hot tub.
Reggie Tschorn: Bryan, what do you think?
Bryan Tschorn: A community room,
which consists of kitchen, living room.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Bryan Tschorn: And then cathedral ceilings.
Reggie Tschorn: Excellent idea.
Tuffy: He can do all that,
he can put a lookout in the roof and.
Bryan Tschorn: But what I was.
Reggie Tschorn: Wait a minute, I like this lookout.
What do they call it, a widow's watch?
Paulie: Yep.
Reggie Tschorn: We should have one of the those.
Tuffy: All four windows should open.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Paulie: Can we recap a few things?
Reggie Tschorn: Absolutely.
Paulie: We're trying to fulfill their dreams here.
There are a lot of great ideas flying around
right now, but now it's time to incorporate them
into one design.
Let's start with the cabin.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
Paulie: So we get some cathedral going back here.
Tuffy: Mm-hmm.
Paulie: This is good, we need a cabin for you and
we need one for everyone else.
Bryan Tschorn: Okay so you're building
2 buildings now?
Paulie: I think so.
Tuffy: It's hard enough to build one cabin on top
of the mountain.
Now Paulie's sketches two, just, you know,
just like wow, we can just build two all of a sudden.
We don't have time for this.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah, I like that idea.
A building for me and a building for my friends or
my kids, the one on the left is mine;
the one on the right is theirs.
Paulie: This big expansive porch,
it'll be like 35 feet.
Reggie Tschorn: That's good,
don't forget the little hot tub.
It's looking even better right now.
I am looking forward very much to seeing how he,
Paulie is gonna put that whole thing together.
Paulie: Alright, we'll see you guys at the
bottom of the hill.
Reggie Tschorn: Bottom of the hill,
we're ready to ride.
Paulie: So we've locked down the site and
the design of the cabin but before we can close the deal,
Reggie threw one more curveball at us.
Reggie Tschorn: The other thing I need to tell ya.
Paulie: Yes?
Reggie Tschorn: I don't want a stick of lumber that
does not come from this property to go into that cabin.
I want to cut every single stick;
I don't want any other wood to come onto here.
Paulie: Listen, I love that idea,
but there is a time issue.
Reggie Tschorn: How much?
Paulie: You know, we would like to be in and out
in a week.
Tuffy: He wants to use all his own lumber.
I say, why not?
He's got it here.
He's willing to cut it; I'm willing to help him.
It's just the pride in it, you know.
It's a lot of work involved but, you know,
I see his point.
Reggie Tschorn: There's no way you can do
this in a week.
Paulie: Tuffy likes the idea that everything
comes from the land.
I like that idea too.
The problem is, how much time is that gonna take?
We have one week before we have to go and build
a cabin for our next client.
But Tuffy has drunk the Kool-Aid,
so we're all about to die.
Reggie Tschorn: You tell me what you need
and I will get you the wood if you build the cabin
on the top of that mountain, deal?
Paulie: I guess, a deal.
As long as Reggie gets us most of the lumber
from his land here, gets us the labor we need,
we can build him the cabin of his dreams.
Hey good morning everyone,
thank you so much for coming here.
Hey Reggie, come on up here.
I think this would be a great time to tell us
a little bit about the land.
Look at that.
[group cheering].
From our spry young friend here.
Reggie Tschorn: Both of my sons and my wife,
before she passed away, spent a lot of time preparing
this field to be what it is today.
And that's why it's so special to me.
I also can't thank you guys enough for sharing
this with me and making this all possible.
Thanks guys.
[crew clapping].
Paulie: Let's get at it!
Our goal for today is to have our foundation done,
our carrying timbers,
our floor joists, a floor on top of that
and maybe a couple of walls up, okay?
Let's get started.
[sawing and hammering sounds]
So the deal we made with Reggie is he's gonna mill
and supply all the lumber for the camp.
The problem here is that he cannot get the mill without
taking it apart all the way up the mountain.
So everything's gonna have to be milled down here
at the bottom of the mountain,
which really could kill our schedule.
Reggie Tschorn: Paulie, I want to introduce some
dear friends, Mark Bracket.
Paulie: Mark, pleasure to meet you.
Mark Bracket: Paulie, good to meet you.
Reggie Tschorn: Tommy Williams.
Tommy Williams: Hey Paulie.
Paulie: Tommy, very nice to meet you.
Have you ever seen this guy not working?
I mean, right?
Both: Never, never.
Tommy Williams: I've known him 66 years.
Paulie: 66 years?
Were you guys kids together?
Tommy Williams: You got it.
Reggie Tschorn: In a playpen.
Tommy Williams: I beat the hell out of him.
Reggie Tschorn: Ha!
[laughing].
Yeah right, good luck Charlie Brown.
Paulie: It's pretty cool 'cause Reggie has
many, many friends.
He has two sons, he has three little grandsons.
You know, they've always been dreaming of having a
cabin up here and to now finally get it must be very
exciting for them.
Here is; here is the list.
Here is the list.
I need 6, 2x12x20's.
320, 2x4x12's.
24, 2x10x16's
and then I need 4,000 feet of live edge.
Reggie Tschorn: 4,000 feet of live edge?
Paulie: 4,000 feet from live edge.
To give our cabins a rustic look,
we're using a live edge siding.
Live edge is if you take a log and you just
start cutting it.
You have one edge that comes all the way to
where the bark is.
We're using that edge.
That's our live edge.
It's gonna give us a great, great look.
We need a lot of it because we got these 2 cabins.
Reggie Tschorn: I'll get to work buddy.
Paulie: Alright.
Reggie Tschorn: This is a lot of lumber to cut;
I mean a lot of lumber to cut.
Somewhere around 5,000 board feet of lumber and
without this wood, there's 30 people up on the
top of the mountain who are doing nothing.
I feel behind the 8-ball right now but
we'll get the job done, but we'll get it done right.
Paulie: So we got our foundation done,
now we're waiting.
We are waiting for all of the lumber that's getting
milled by Reggie down at the bottom of the mountain.
This is not a good sign.
We, we are at a standstill.
I mean until Reggie and Tuffy get us the lumber we
need to continue, you know, it's crickets.
Tuffy: Our client Reggie has a beautiful
brand new sawmill.
It's a special machine, it's delicate.
You can't go dragging it through the woods and
over water bars and up the mountain.
So therefore the wood mill's at the bottom
of the hill.
We bring the logs to it.
We mill 'em down here on the flat land and
then bring 'em back to the top of the mountain.
Just adds time to our schedule,
which I don't know if we got.
Reggie Tschorn: Tuffy, that's a good first load.
Tuffy: That's enough to try it out with.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
Tuffy: See how it's gonna go.
Maybe later on we can get a bigger load,
but it's a good first load, right?
Reggie Tschorn: I got to be honest with ya,
you aren't gonna be able to make it up there.
It's slick, there's clay.
Tuffy: I got a few hours in the seat of
one of those you know.
Reggie Tschorn: But you ain't been in the
mountains in Sandgate.
Tuffy: Alright.
I'm sure Paulie's up there,
he's gonna ream me when I get up there.
"Where you been, where you been?"
The build's being held up, there's guys hanging around.
They need the lumber that's on this trailer.
We'll get the lumber up there but I don't want to be
busting my hump bringing lumber up here and
have it sitting in that field.
When that lumber gets there,
they better be waiting for it.
We're trying to minimize the trips,
so we want to load the trailer and try to get
this into 7 or 8 loads instead of 15 loads because
the roads really going to hell fast.
Look at that mud.
I'm gonna need some help on that corner.
It's pulling a wheelie, that's the problem.
Yeah, my front wheels aren't helping me.
(bleep)!
That's as far as it's gonna go.
Tuffy: Look at that mud!
That's as far as it's gonna go.
(bleep)!
Steve Martine: I think I could have made it.
Tuffy: Look how loaded up my chains are Steve.
Steve Martine: Yeah.
Tuffy: You can't even tell there's chains on;
they're loaded right up with mud.
Steve Martine: And clay.
Tuffy: That's why they won't bite no more.
This is our first load, the tractor's stuck.
We can't go any further.
This is definitely gonna effect our schedule.
If this is the way the day's gonna go,
this is really gonna suck.
You might as well walk down and get Reggie.
Steve Martine: Alright.
Paulie: I know it's gonna be difficult getting
up and down the mountain.
I understand that, but we can't move forward
until I get the material I need.
I'm getting tired of a beautiful view.
Reggie Tschorn: Tuffy, looks like you're stuck buddy.
Tuffy: Yeah that's as far she's gonna go.
Reggie Tschorn: I'm surprised you made
it up this far.
This is gonna be a big problem.
Paulie has been on my tail all day about getting
the wood up here and I'm concerned that it;
if he can't make it up with that tractor,
I'm not gonna have enough time to get down,
get all the wood they need to have this
thing get built.
Tuffy: The reason we got this steel trailer is
so you can just push on it.
Reggie Tschorn: Alright, I'm ready whenever you are.
Tuffy: Alright.
This is the worst part.
We'll take the dozer and we'll push me up
around this corner.
The tractor did fine up to here.
We just got this last;
it's 50 yards of bad spot right here.
Paulie: Come on!
Reggie Tschorn: Paulie, we made it buddy!
Paulie: You made it?
Tuffy: Where do you want it, right up here?
Paulie: Yeah, up there about 2 hours ago.
Reggie Tschorn: Good, good, good.
Paulie: Is this what we're to expect?
Is this what it's gonna take?
Tuffy: It's pretty record time.
You have no idea what we've been through.
Pat on the back would be nice.
Paulie: Okay well there we go, we got it,
got it up there.
Will it be this tractor just going 24/7 around the clock?
Tuffy: If we have to, that's what we're gonna do.
Paulie: Alright.
Tuffy: We're gonna get you your material.
Paulie: There's no other way?
Tuffy: No.
Reggie Tschorn: Yee-haw!
Paulie: So our project this week consists of two cabins.
Those two cabins are gonna take a lot of lumber.
So the portable mill is gonna have to
be running 24/7.
Reggie has to just continue doing what he's
doing on his wood mill and then having Tuffy
bring it up the mountain.
This is the process that's gonna be for the
next couple of days.
It's great; it's gonna save us a lot of money.
Problem is, is how much time is that gonna take?
It might kill us on the other end.
We thought this was gonna be an easy backyard build.
I mean, we thought we were gonna be in
this guy's backyard, we're not.
The last of our panelized walls Reggie.
Reggie Tschorn: Sounds good, guys, let's go.
Tuffy: How come I always get the heavy freakin' end?
Reggie Tschorn: Excellent.
There's some very, very special meanings to the
property up there and that's why it is important
for me to have the lumber come off of this property
to build that camp.
Paulie: What about this big old tree sitting
right here in the middle?
You just wanted to keep that one didn't you?
Reggie Tschorn: Uh well, my wife did.
She said, "Don't cut that down,
that's got acorns in it.
The deer will like to eat the acorns,
so leave it there."
Paulie: Terrific.
I mean Reggie knows this land like no other.
I think this has a lot of sentimental value for Reggie.
I now have to come up with a project that reflects that,
that helps show that.
[drill, saw and hammering sounds].
Reggie, you've done a terrific job man.
Reggie Tschorn: Hey thank you.
Paulie: I mean seriously.
Reggie Tschorn: Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you.
Paulie: Look at this, all that rough sawn 2x4,
there all up now, right?
Reggie Tschorn: Looking good.
Paulie: We got our big opening here for our door
that uses every bit of that beautiful, beautiful view.
Because we have this big vaulted ceiling,
I would love to have, when you walk in that door,
a set of beams.
Maybe some truss work that's totally visible
by the eyes.
It feels like we're so close to heaven up here,
I want to give Reggie something special.
I want to build a cathedral-like cabin up here
on this mountain and I want to do it by having a
cathedral ceiling made out of some very special arches.
We got to find some special wood for them,
something different from our knotty Pine walls.
Reggie Tschorn: Have you ever heard of spalted Maple?
Paulie: Oh, yeah, yeah, like a spider's web,
if I remember seeing a bowl, a salad bowl.
Reggie Tschorn: Yes, exactly!
Could you use something like that?
Paulie: Matter of fact, it's almost like where it's
stuff is just moving all around.
Reggie Tschorn: Exactly.
Paulie: That would be beautiful.
Spalted Maple comes from a dead tree that
has this fungus in it.
I have this really light colored maple with
these black lines going through it,
these spider lines.
Almost gives the effect that there's a spider web
inside the wood.
Reggie Tschorn: We've got to go in the woods,
but I can find that, okay?
Paulie: Alright let's, let's do that.
Reggie Tschorn: Off of the property.
Paulie: Off the property.
Reggie Tschorn: Right here.
Paulie: Everything's off the property.
Reggie Tschorn: You got it, you're learning!
Okay come on, we got to find a spalted
Maple here someplace.
We've got to find a dead Maple tree that is upright.
Paulie: So we're in the woods,
we're looking at trees.
Some trees are far too rotted out to have any
spalted'ness to 'em and that's no good.
You're looking kind of for these perfect trees.
Reggie Tschorn: Check it out,
that's what we're looking for.
Come take a look at this.
See that black line running right up there?
That's the spalting, excellent.
Paulie: Spalted Maple can cost, I don't know,
anywhere from $10 to $20 a board foot.
We're getting it for free.
I mean it's coming right here off Reggie's property,
so that's, that's in our favor.
Reggie Tschorn: This tree has been dead
for a long time.
Tuffy: Like 8 or 10 years?
Reggie Tschorn: Oh, probably 15 or 20.
Tuffy: Really?
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah, now.
Tuffy: And it's still good?
Reggie Tschorn: Anyway, it's still good because
it's been standing.
Now this same tree laying down on the ground,
in 5 or 8 years would be rotten.
Tuffy: Okay,
Paulie: Cut it down, cut it down, let's go.
Reggie Tschorn: Alright.
[chainsaw engine revs loudly]
Reggie Tschorn: It's goin!
Yeah-hoo!
Tuffy: So you're gonna wind up about 14 inches.
Paulie: Beautiful.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh, mushroom.
Paulie: Wow.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay, is it edible?
Tuffy: No.
Reggie Tschorn: How come?
Tuffy: It didn't come from the store.
[all laughing].
Paulie: Thank you very much Tuffy.
We have to move this spalted Maple,
but Reggie does not want to use heavy machinery
because it's gonna tear up the land.
So he, he's got another idea.
Reggie Tschorn: I have some dear friends of mine
that have draft horses and I know they do
pull logs out.
I can make a telephone call and I could see if I
can get 'em up here right away.
Paulie: It just seems like we're going back in time.
Reggie Tschorn: To have less impact on nature is
something that I really,
really would like to have on this job.
We'll be able to drag this all the way
down through the woods,
cross the stream and then we got it made.
Paulie: Horses, this should be very interesting.
Reggie Tschorn: Tuffy this is Dave and next to
Dave is Junior.
Tuffy: Junior.
Paulie: Sure you could use horses to do this.
How quickly it can be done I do not know
and time is money.
Now how do you know these guys?
Reggie Tschorn: I've known Junior pretty much
all of my life.
Tuffy: Why do they call him Junior?
He's like 100.
Junior?
I mean, where the hell's senior?
Holy cripes.
Reggie Tschorn: Junior, when did you start
working with horses?
Junior: When I was about, uh, 10-years old.
Reggie Tschorn: And that was how many years ago Junior?
Junior: Oh, that was twenty.
Paulie: About 20 years ago?
Junior: Go ahead, go ahead Softy.
Go ahead, go ahead.
[horse neighing].
Junior: You boys know what water is, go ahead.
Tuffy: Stubborn as a mule, scared to death of water.
He's seeing; he sees his shadow, it's shiny.
Paulie: It is a fine line keeping the client happy and
doing what we need to keep our costs down during
the allotted time that we have.
Right now, it's not looking good.
Junior: Come on!
Paulie: I don't think they're gonna do it and
here we are wasting more time.
Junior: Go ahead, come on!
Paulie: We're trying to get the spalted Maple down
to the mill.
The problem is, is Junior's horses,
they don't want to cross the stream.
So here we are losing valuable time.
Reggie Tschorn: Let's go!
Tuffy: Alright!
Reggie Tschorn: Let's go, let's go!
Come on, come on.
Come on, let's go!
Let's go, come on!
Paulie: Finally Reggie has to go in the water and
kind of lead the horse and mule across the stream.
Reggie Tschorn: Anyplace in front of that pine log Dave.
Paulie: Right here.
We promised Reggie a lot and I want to do it but
this spalted Maple project is killing us.
Reggie Tschorn: Whoa!
Junior, thank you ever, ever so much.
Junior: You're welcome.
Reggie Tschorn: We couldn't have got these logs
down here without your horses.
Junior: We almost didn't get 'em.
Reggie Tschorn: Aw we got 'em!
Vermonters never give up.
Junior: Thanks fellas.
Paulie: Take care!
Reggie Tschorn: Thank you Junior!
Paulie: We lost the whole afternoon playing around
with these horses and we got to make up that time.
So tomorrow needs to be a big day for us.
You have bears in here?
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah we probably have three that
come through here.
Paulie: They stay away from humans.
Reggie Tschorn: Pin a cub against a tree or
against a rock ledge.
Tuffy: Or get that cub to blat.
Reggie Tschorn: Or blat, then hold onto your pants.
Paulie: So blatting is what?
[makes sound of a bear blat].
Tuffy: Yeah, run.
Go in the opposite direction and get the hell
out of there.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Tuffy: 'Cause he's calling for mama.
Paulie: There's a reason one lives in the city and
it's you don't have to worry about the lions and
the tigers and the bears.
Here in the woods you do.
Reggie Tschorn: Paulie I don't know how to explain
this completely but this is been a dream of mine
for a long time.
And you, you're never too old to,
to have a dream and then see it come to fruition.
I can't thank you guys enough helping me have
this come true.
Tuffy: Our client asked us for something special.
He wanted a hot tub, so this morning I'm gonna
build him a wood-fired hot tub.
Just spin this end over here.
Man: There, that (bleep).
Tuffy: That's heavy, huh?
You got to turn it.
It's a boiler, it's gonna make hot water.
We're gonna put water in here and build your
fire in here.
This is your firebox and this other tank goes
all the way through.
This tank is thinner than this tank,
so this tank's really gonna take the
heat really quick.
If he wants to use the hot tub,
he's got to build a wood fire.
It's only gonna take about an hour to heat
the water up.
We're gonna collect the water from the roof into a
tub and then we're gonna gravity it to a boiler and
then gravity that to the hot tub.
You just pour a bath like you would at home.
You're a mile and a half up on the top of a mountain
and you got all the conveniences of home.
You just build a smokin' hot fire in here.
Man: Hot water.
Tuffy: Hot water at camp, that's unheard of isn't it?
Man: Never heard of it in my life.
[drill and hammering sounds]
Paulie: While Tuffy's working on Reggie's hot tub
at the bottom of the mountain,
I'm working in a cabin alone.
Alone!
I've spent the last 2 and a half, 3 hours in the
cabin doing electrical and I don't see anyone.
There's no one around.
If this continues throughout the week,
this will be an outdoor church.
After really losing most of the morning,
a few more guys show up, still not enough.
Tuffy: It looks like a bomb went off around here.
Where do you want this spalted Maple, Paulie?
Paulie: We sure as hell aren't ready for it yet.
Reggie Tschorn: You aren't?
Paulie: No we are not.
We are way, way behind.
A matter of fact we got to make some quick choices
here about whether or not we even finish that
cabin over there.
Tuffy: Settle down, you're panicking!
You're panicking!
Paulie: No I'm not panicking, I trying;
I'm really being very honest here.
Tuffy: The minute I showed up,
Paulie's like flying off the handle.
Tuffy: I'm not alarmed here.
I think Paulie's just plain having a bad day myself.
I've seen progress since I've been up here at noontime,
like these steps, I see rafters.
Paulie: Okay, well maybe, maybe just because I've
been here all day that I just don't see it.
Maybe it's been happening under my nose
and I don't quite see it.
Tuffy: I see a lot done, roof rafters.
It's not gonna take long to finish the roof.
Paulie: There's a second floor that goes on this.
Tuffy: I understand that.
Paulie: Everything is getting sided with wood that
you have milled.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Paulie: This is stuff that's gonna take a
little bit more time.
Tuffy: We're gonna get it done.
Paulie: All I'm saying guys is all the extra things
that you and I usually have time to do,
we do not have time to do it.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah.
Paulie: We need more help.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
Paulie: We have a list of things that need to
be done and it needs to get shortened.
Reggie Tschorn: You want me to come up here and
work and show you how to do it?
I'll do it.
Paulie: Reggie's a great guy but he does not get this
intense schedule that we need to do to finish this cabin.
I'm busy doing electrical so my focus is down here.
I have.
Reggie Tschorn: What are you doing electrical work
when you have the electricians coming tomorrow?
Paulie: Because it's a day late!
We did not fulfill our goals for the (bleep) day!
Someone repeat where we were gonna be at
the end of today.
Where are we supposed to be at the end of the today?!
(bleep)!
Tuffy: You need to go home.
Paulie: I'm busy doing electrical.
Reggie Tschorn: What are you doing electrical work when
you have the electricians coming tomorrow?
Paulie: Because it's a day late!
Someone repeat where we were gonna be at the end of today,
where are we supposed to be at the end of the today?
(bleep)!
Tuffy: You need to go home.
Paulie: I don't know if Reggie gets it.
This is a big project and this big project was
contingent upon having a large amount of labor that
we just don't have.
We did not fulfill our goals for the (bleep) day!
Reggie Tschorn: Paulie I feel bad that I let you down,
but I promise you, you are gonna have so many
people running around here you're gonna go, "Whoa!"
Paulie: Alright, alright.
They better get here or else this cabin's
never getting done.
[drill and hammer sounds]
Here we are, a new day.
Reggie promised us workers, we'll see if they show up.
[faint engine sound]
Reggie Tschorn: I've got a lot of skilled workers
and they're really gonna help us.
This is gonna go, it's gonna be up.
Roof rafters, trim, outside, it's gonna get done.
Tuffy: Quite a few guys.
Paulie: It's what we needed.
Tuffy: A day late but we'll still take 'em.
Paulie: Very nice.
Reggie Tschorn: Buddy, I told you I'd do it.
Paulie: Nice work.
Reggie Tschorn: Put 'em to work.
Paulie: You got it.
Hey everyone, thank you so much for coming,
really appreciate it.
We are behind and we want to try to catch up today.
So as you look at this cabin,
you see that everything is unfinished.
We are all gonna hit it very hard until we
get caught back up.
Reggie Tschorn: Let's get going.
Paulie: Let's get going.
Reggie Tschorn: No sense talking all day.
Paulie: You got it.
You getting there?
Electrician: Yeah, it's coming along here.
Paulie: We got a line going up to the second floor?
Electrician: Yep.
Reggie Tschorn: What do you think?
Mark Bracket: It looks good to me.
Reggie Tschorn: Square?
Hopefully that doesn't move.
Okay next!
Worker: 41 Paulie!
Paulie: 41?
Paulie: Well right now we're trying to get our
siding done with very little time left.
We're just trying to get all of our live edges
done and ready to go.
So that's what we're working on.
Paulie: We're using live edges.
That means it's only dimensioned on two sides so
there bark on it there may be bark over on this side,
but the two sides are flat.
You can't be using all my live edge for the banister!
Worker: Sorry!
Paulie: 40 and 3/8ths!
This is it on live edge.
This is all we have left are these 2 pieces, alright?
Yeah we got two pieces left of live edge!
Reggie.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah Paulie, what's up?
Paulie: You gotta go.
I'm looking forward to starting our spalted Maple
project, but I need to get rid of Reggie.
He's; I don't want him to see this.
Reggie Tschorn: What's going on?
Paulie: We got 24 hours left.
We're in a mad rush to finish this thing.
We need you to cut more live edge, a lot more Reggie.
And I need you to stay down there 'case we got
some things we need to do up here that are special
for you and I don't want to show you.
Reggie Tschorn: So kind of a big surprise?
Paulie: That's exactly right, you get it, right?
Reggie Tschorn: I got it.
Paulie: So.
Tuffy: We'll call you when we'd like you to come back.
Reggie Tschorn: I want to see what's going on!
Paulie: We want you to see it when it's done.
It's a little bit of a, a Santa Claus,
Christmas morning thing.
Tuffy: And you ain't gonna be sneaking back
up here tonight.
Reggie Tschorn: Well one way or another I'm gonna see this.
Paulie: Go fix the.
Reggie Tschorn: No sitting down on the job Paulie!
Paulie: I'll see ya tomorrow Reggie!
Where does this go?
Tuffy: I know the hot tub's gonna work.
It's just how efficient is it gonna work?
I'd like to see the thing fill the tub in
like 20 minutes.
I don't want to be out there tending the fire,
making water for four hours.
When you want to take a tub,
you're ready to take a tubbie.
Mark Bracket: How does, how does the water get from,
from here to the hot tub?
Tuffy: It's all gravity.
See, it's higher than the hot tub.
Mark Bracket: Yeah.
Tuffy: The whole system's gonna run on gravity feed.
We're gonna go from a collection tank to the
boiler to the tub.
It's always gonna work.
Gravity's always in our favor.
Mark Bracket: You took the propane out of it?
Tuffy: Yeah, I hope so;
I've been welding on it the whole day.
Mark Bracket: This is right up Reggie's alley.
Tuffy: Yeah, you think he'll like it?
Mark Bracket: Yeah.
Paulie: This cabin is going over to Reggie tomorrow
and we're not close.
Reggie's down at the bottom of the mountain,
he's milling more live edge siding for us.
We got a ton of projects going on up here.
I don't even know if we're gonna get
these cabins finished.
We'll see where we are.
Take our dovetails and push 'em flush with the front.
There is a bit of a cathedral feel to the cabin.
One of the big projects we're doing here are four
trusses that go from floor to the peak of our roof.
Think of the skeleton of the cabin.
Alright, the skeleton we're making from spalted Maple.
Tuffy: What are you doing?
Paulie: We got to put the sleeves in.
You made perfect time, you'll be able to hand it up.
Tuffy: It looks like a church in here.
Paulie: That's the whole idea that it looks
like a church!
Tuffy: Really?
Paulie: Yeah.
Tuffy: When were you gonna share that with me?
Paulie: I said it's like we're in a cathedral.
Tuffy: I thought you were just kidding.
Paulie: No I was serious.
Tuffy: A cathedral ceiling is big and it's open,
you see the bottom of the rafters.
I don't think the man ever said he wants a cathedral
in the cathedral ceiling.
I don't think he ever said that.
We're never even gonna get the camp done and
you're working on beautifying the place?
Paulie: Really this is what I was saying 24 hours ago,
that we weren't gonna get it done.
That's why I didn't want to build that one.
I'm not gonna go half *** on this for the sake
of doing something else.
Tuffy: You're tying up good men in here working on
beautifying stuff.
Some of this stuff's got to get scratched Paul.
We can't keep going like this.
Tuffy: What are you doing?
It looks like a church in here.
Paulie: That's the whole idea that it looks
like a church!
Tuffy: Really?
Paulie: Yeah!
Tuffy: When were you gonna share that with me?
I get the cathedral ceiling part of the whole thing,
but no, he's actually making;
it looks like a place of worship or something and I,
I don't know what the hell he's doing here.
You're tying up a couple of good carpenters here and
you're making the place look like a church.
Paulie: My partner, he just wants to get it done
but that's something I'm gonna be adamant about.
I need you to go up on the ladder so I can see it.
Tuffy: But you just don't listen to me.
Paulie needed my help so I just said,
"You know what?
I'm just gonna throw my hands up in the air."
Let's just get our job done.
I don't really think I want any part of this.
Paulie's got his own ideas and he's gonna deck it out
the way he wants to and he's gonna burn up a
couple of good carpenters helping him do it.
Paulie: It's got some weight to it.
Tuffy: Why are we wasting time with this?
Paulie: Just hold it up there,
it's not gonna fit good.
Tuffy: Give me a (bleep) sledgehammer, it'll fit!
We don't have time for this!
Paulie: He'll like it in the end;
I'm not worried about that.
Tuffy: I say scratch it.
Paulie: Scratch it?
Tuffy: Yeah, let's get this deck on!
Paulie: The deck can go on easy.
This is the kind of stuff that's gonna give us
a good name.
It's gonna get us more business.
Otherwise they're gonna call us "Cabin Idiots"
not "Cabin Kings."
Alright very good, I feel good about that.
Okay next one.
Welcome to church my friend, welcome to church.
So we're in the final hours of the build here.
Kitchen, how are we doing in the kitchen?
Woman: Great!
Paulie: Good, very good.
Cathedral arches are done,
we're getting the stain on that right now.
You just keep rubbing our linseed oil in.
I like how that gives it a little bit of color.
We have a little bit more live siding that we have to
put up that's going to give this cabin the rustic look
that we've been wanting.
Alright, very good.
We've got to move in our furniture,
last couple of details and then we're going to have one
good looking cabin.
Four hours!
Tuffy: That really helps Paul,
screaming at everybody.
Paulie: I honestly cannot believe that we're
getting this thing done.
Tuffy: That's it, that's the last board.
Reggie Tschorn: This week has been an experience
of a lifetime, bar none.
I, I can't wait.
I absolutely can't wait to see what's going
on up there.
[cannon fires].
[cheering].
Paulie: That's what I'm talking about.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay!
[cheering].
Reggie Tschorn: Oh my God, oh my God!
That moment when I came up over the hill
was just unbelievable.
To see what was there looking back at me.
You all made this happen.
Thank you ever, ever, ever so much.
Paulie.
Paulie: Reggie.
Reggie Tschorn: How can I thank you enough?
Paulie: Oh please.
Reggie Tschorn: Unbelievable.
Paulie: You touched every piece of that wood right there.
I think every piece has run through your hands,
hasn't it?
Reggie Tschorn: They feel that way,
my back feels that way.
Paulie: You see why we needed all that live edge,
don't you?
And it worked, it worked didn't it?
Didn't it work?
Reggie Tschorn: I want to see,
I want to see this!
Paulie: Alright, come on.
Reggie Tschorn: The depth of the cabin,
and I'm not talking about the physical size of the cabin,
I'm talking about how that cabin fits into the land
and how it fits in there is just phenomenal!
Tuffy: This is way cool; you can sit here for hours.
Reggie Tschorn: It's quiet, it's peaceful.
It's a gorgeous view.
I've been dropping hints through this whole project
of how a person has to have some way to relax
when they get up here.
Hot tub!
Oh, oh my God does that look good.
I'm ready, fill it up.
Paulie: Tell us Tuffy.
Tuffy: Well you've got a collection tank up here.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
Tuffy: Roof gutters will collect the water here.
The gravity's through the boiler, runs on the ground,
comes up right here.
Reggie Tschorn: Excellent, so hot and cold.
Tuffy: This one here's the cold.
This is the cold side.
Reggie Tschorn: Soon as everybody disappears,
I'm in here.
Paulie: Tuffy and I don't always see eye to eye,
but he never ceases to amaze me.
He took two propane tanks and made a wood-burning
hot water heater out of 'em.
This is why I partner with Tuffy,
he engineers things.
That's pretty cool.
Reggie Tschorn: Yeah, yeah.
That's almost boiling.
That's the way I like it in there, absolutely fantastic.
This is my father's favorite rocking chair.
Tuffy: Yeah.
Reggie Tschorn: He would not sit down on a couch;
he wouldn't sit down on a chair.
But a rocking chair was just what he wanted.
I'm flabbergasted.
I can't believe that you did this in 5 days!
Unbelievable!
Paulie: A week ago this was just a bare patch of land.
Now we have two fully functional cabins and every
piece of lumber was milled by Reggie himself.
Now he has a cabin like no other.
Reggie Tschorn: Can I go inside?
Paulie: Yes you can go inside.
Reggie Tschorn: Okay.
Paulie: After you.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh my God.
Reggie Tschorn: Let's go!
Paulie: After you.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh my God.
How'd you do this?
Unbelievable.
Look at the arches.
That's all my spalted that I cut.
Paulie: When we first came up here,
I mean, I think of this place as no;
you know, as you do.
You look out at this view and it was like a church.
It was like you were, you know,
you were closer to heaven.
So we went with the cathedral ceiling.
Reggie Tschorn: Look at the different colors and
the different feeling in each one of these logs.
I, I can tell you every place that each one
of these logs came off of.
I can show you the stump that they came from.
Paulie: Come on in, come on in.
It's yours.
Reggie Tschorn: Wow, boy.
I am very impressed with the architecture
inside that building.
Paulie: More of your spalted Maple.
Reggie Tschorn: That's gorgeous.
Paulie: Yep, a little bit of spalting in there.
That's the tree we took down.
Grandma's stove, right?
Reggie Tschorn: That's the stove that
cooked Thanksgiving dinner every year.
This brings back some memories.
There is just a lot of feeling in that room.
That, that room just breathes our family.
Tuffy: That's a nice touch Paul.
Reggie Tschorn: Great pictures on the wall.
Paulie: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Reggie Tschorn: When I saw a picture of my wife,
I had trouble keeping a dry eye.
She's looking down on us right now.
Paulie: That's right.
Reggie absolutely loves his cabin.
I can't wait 'til I get to show him the bunkhouse.
Group: Hey!
Reggie Tschorn: Wait a minute!
Paulie: They've already moved in.
Reggie Tschorn: Partying already?
I walked into the bunkhouse,
all my friends that were sitting down in there
having a party.
My question is, did anybody invite you up here?
Tommy Williams: This is the guesthouse and
by the way Regg, next time would you knock?
[laughing].
Reggie Tschorn: Hey, you guys can come up here anytime.
How do you pay your friends back when they have
given you 5 days of their life?
It gives me great pleasure to see them enjoying it.
I'm planning on having some great,
great parties up there.
Paulie: Go ahead upstairs.
Woman: Watch your head.
Paulie: The guest cabin's great.
You know it's only 12x12.
Two floors, 12x12, that's as big as that is.
The first floor has a pop down table, which is great,
and upstairs has got a drop down bed.
Mark Bracket: It's a Murphy bed.
Oh you got to be kidding me.
Woman: Reggie, you could hide somebody in there.
Paulie: There we go.
Mark Bracket: There's your bench.
Woman: Voila!
Reggie Tschorn: Excellent, excellent.
Mark Bracket: Look at the view.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh.
This is gonna be such a,
a phenomenal place and the vibes that are inside
that building are just unbelievable.
I can't wait to get my kids and grandkids up here.
I am hoping that my family in the future will
be able to understand how important everything inside
that cabin is to me.
Mark Bracket: This will be four generations of
Tschorn's that I've seen up here.
Reggie Tschorn: Wow.
Mark Bracket: Your father, you,
the boys and the grandkids.
Reggie Tschorn: Wow.
Mark Bracket: All on the same property,
all enjoying the same views.
That's pretty neat.
Reggie Tschorn: You know, I never thought about that.
Mark Bracket: Maybe there'll be 5 or 6 generations.
Reggie Tschorn: Buddy.
Paulie: It's fun to know that all this hard work has
paid off for something.
And, and it's certainly has, in this case,
a beautiful cabin where, where he's always wanted it.
He's got his own little piece of paradise.
Reggie Tschorn: Oh, I can watch the sunset from here.
I got to tell you something.
I love sitting with you guys,
but I got to do something.
My dad took me up here many, many years ago and
we watched the sunset right here.
I'm gonna go sit in his chair and watch
the sun go down.
Paulie: Nice job buddy.
It's been a tough week but you look at this man sitting
in a rocking chair looking at the sunset and
that makes it worth it.
Enjoy, we're out of here.
Thank you.
Reggie Tschorn: Hey thank you very, very much Paulie.
Tuffy, keep up the good work.
The day is done, the sun is down.