Back in the 60s and 70s when I grew up in the Soo I almost always went to Clydes there at Rotary Park, where the Sugar Island ferry is. I have also eight at the Clydes down in Saint Ignace. It’s hard to go wrong there. They’ve been a good place to eat for many years. What part of the UPS did you say you lived in Todd?

@@safarijoesadventures My wife and I live next to Escanaba in Wells. We also have some property with a 38' camper on it in Wilson. We are out there right now enjoying some time off from work.

@@FordDude66 I always stop at Rosie’s diner on the way through Escanaba every time I go up there to work on the cabin. I will be leaving here on Wednesday the third to go put the floor system in the new cabin I’m going to build. I got to stop at Menards there and pick up some 4 x 6 x 16 treated beams also. It’s always good to get out and enjoy a little peace and quiet.

@@safarijoesadventures Rosie's Diner has excellent food. Especially their breakfast. Enjoy the peace and quiet and I hope it goes well putting the new floor in your cabin. I'm looking forward to your video on it. Maybe I'll see you If you stop at Menards in Esky. Lol.

Well, thank you. I’m in a position where I never assume everybody knows everything or they know nothing so I try to keep it simple yet informative when I do my videos to try and show people how to do it. I’m glad it helped you and you can share this as much as you would like. Thanks again, Joe.

Well, thank you I appreciate the sub. I will be heading up to my cabin on the week of the Fourth of July and building the floor system and the front porch area. Then I will be headed back up in August to build and dry in the cabin. I will be recording everything for the channel as I go. I hope you will enjoy it. If you have questions or comments as I go along through this endeavor, please ask as I really enjoy meeting and talking with everyone. Thanks again.

The mosquitoes and other flying insects are drawn to the black light. When they get there, the fan sucks them into the screened in cage on the bottom and they can’t fly back out through the force of the fan and they dry out and die.

Every time we went up to work on the property, I kept finding something new that wasn’t quite right. After you guys left, I took a good look at the place from top to bottom. I talked it over with Glenda and we decided we would be further ahead just to start over with a new cabin. Now we have peace in the direction we will go, and I will start building in July.

Joe had a hard time letting go of his original plan. I’m glad he did and I’m excited about having a new cabin. I love everything about this area except that old cabin for a lot of little reasons (mice) But mainly I don’t want him getting hurt on that roof.

I’m headed back up there right after you guys head back to Phoenix from here. I’m going to put the floor system together and in August I’m gonna go up there for two and a half weeks and me and a friend of mine that lives in Michigan are going to frame it up and dry it in. That way it will be waterproof. And when I go up in October this year with your mom, I will install any windows and trim that I can.

You are going to love it, and we are looking forward to your visit also!

Well, nice meeting you. so where is your place at? There certainly is a lot of work to do when you do these things but the reward is priceless. I enjoy every bit of it and I hope you guys do too.

You’re welcome. I have been hitting everything I am at with the one I have on there. I thought it was a great choice. Let me know how it shoots for you. Thank you.

@@safarijoesadventures The scope came today and I set it up pretty quick and got to shoot with it. I only sighted it in at 20 yards today because I didn’t have much time but very easy to use and has great features. Had great groupings less than an inch. Looking forward to hunting this year. Thank you for this video and informing us about this!

@@HomiGrawd we have this little animal here in Northern Colorado called the Richardsons Ground squirrel. It’s a real pest. It’s a lot like a prairie dog very destructive. They keep getting in my chicken yard eating my chickens food bothering my chickens. I have taken care of two of those things in the last three days and my chicken yard is about 30 yards from my back door. This thing is spot on. I can keep them all inside a 1 inch group at that distance freehand shooting. So you should be able to do that also. Needless to say those Richardson ground squirrels are not bothering my chickens anymore.

Well, I am glad you enjoyed it. and now that I have direction on the way to go, I will be getting started with it. It will probably be done in two or three phases starting in July I hope to make them interesting and informative. Thanks for stopping in and checking out the video. I appreciate the support.

You know Dave, it’s not that I can’t do it. It’s not even that I don’t want to do it, but once I was able to take the time and go completely through the cabin, the evidence was there that it wasn’t a smart thing to do.. I will be going up and putting the floor system in the second week of July. And a good friend of mine lives in bark river just west of Escanaba, I’ve known him for 20 years, he’s going to come over in August 2 weekends in a row and help me with it. I will be up there for about 2 1/2 three weeks and we should be able to get it completely dried in. that’s my goal. When that cabin is finished one of these times, I come up there I’m gonna have to talk you into a fishing trip. My boat or yours it doesn’t matter to me. Talk to you soon.

Well brother, each time we go up there we find a little bit more that needs work. This time we were able to spend a good amount of time looking at everything on the cabin instead of working on egress, trash, cleanup, and everything else. It has some pretty skanky building from definitely a novice. But we did buy it for property value only. the existing cabin will be good enough to be a tool shed and store material while I build the new cabin. It’s not a big one so I should have it dried in sometime in August. I am going up in a couple of weeks to build the floor system and seal it then going up in August and I have a friend of mine that lives just outside Escanaba Michigan that is going to come up two weekends in a row and I will be up there for two full weeks. He’s going to help me frame it up and dry it in and there will be video. Prayers are always welcome. Thanks again.

@@safarijoesadventures Prayers always given. Maybe haul up a skid-steer or a Bobcat to make it easy to move the bags of cement and the larger beams of wood. Our redemption draw nigh, brother.

Hey loudmouth New Yorker. You should have seen him cry thinking about all the new tools he needs to get for this project. Joe can do anything and I look forward to enjoying our new little cabin. Thank you for your support, Mrs. Safari.

@@sewbeeitquiltingwithglenda8808 ​ @sewbeeitquiltingwithglenda8808 Tears of joy I'm sure. I know he needs tools and equipment but you need to put your foot down when he says he needs a new Ford F150 Truck! Always willing to help and brother and sister in the Lord. Be blessed!

Yep, if you want a black powder rifle, you can make your own if you have the recipe and the know how. I like the fact that it has so many uses and it does not appear to be hard to make it. Good talking with you and God bless you brother

That’s good information to know, thank you. I’ve seen a few different ways to do this. The one I used seem to be the simplest. I like the rocket stove idea because you can use less wood to get the same job done. I totally understand the concept of rockets as I have built them before.I figured as long as I was cutting branches and trimming back some trees to open up the area around our cabin I wouldn’t be wasting much wood to make the charcoal. I appreciate the information. Thanks again.

Nice! I grew up on a farm that ran from 15 mile Road and Riverside Dr., North for about a half a mile it was 160 acres. I thought it was going to be mine when I was in high school but I was wrong lol. my dad had it rezoned part commercial and residential and sold it to a developer who broke it into I believe 20 acre parcels and now there are homes on it. I recently bought an abandoned hunting camp on 26 acres out by Paradise a year and a half ago. I am in the process of checking out to see if I can rebuild the cabin that’s on there or use it for a tool shed and put a new cabin on the property. It will be some upcoming videos. You are correct the cozy corner is a great place to eat, I used to know one of the old owners of it back in the 70s. His name was Charlie McLeod. One of his sons was in the same grade I was in. Small world.

@@safarijoesadventures Our place is about 5 miles east of Pickford. 25 mile road. We've got 40 acres. About half of it is in the Gogomain swamp. We're just getting started. So far just built an outhouse and bought an Amish storage barn. Trying to figure out what to do for a dwelling. I'd like to build but don't think I have the time so I may get some sort of prefab cabin, or at least a shell. Paradise is nice. Close to the falls. Good snowmobile area.

Well, please don’t tell me that your place is close to Munuscong bay and you don’t go out there and catch walleyes. That was the go to place when I was a kid growing up there. And if you wanted Northern Pike go over to Brimley Bay where the Bay Mills Casino is and take a boat out around the Bay Mills point about 150 to 200 feet offshore where you see the sand disappear into the deep dark water of lake superior. use a slip bobber and a chub and you pull in some lunkers. good luck with your place and keep me informed. I wouldn’t mind seeing it someday.

This one I don’t use as much as I should. But in the summer if I put a few chickens in it I can move it around the yard and they eat the bugs and fertilize the yard and it works great.

@@safarijoesadventures Very smart design. Much more versatile than a typical youtube chicken tractor. Something you can be proud of, for sure.

Thanks 👍

All my friends said I built a chicken castle and not a chicken coop lol. They also say I have spoiled chickens. But it makes it easy on me for cleaning and nice for them for everything else. And our 19 chickens give us about 16 to 18 eggs per day And that’s a pretty good payback. God bless you also and will talk to you later.

@@safarijoesadventures This Knight certifies it as a castle! haha "Long live the chickens"

This was a fun and easy build. You could build a cabin this way, just as easily, but without the coupe divider inside. And yes, the vinyl floors and the painted OSB or plywood is easy to clean.

@@safarijoesadventures Completely agree!!! That's my goal. Excellent example of how to build it right (the first time).

That is a 1954 international R - 160 farm truck. It was bought new in 1954 in Minot North Dakota from my mom’s husband’s father. He gave it to my mom’s husband Eddie in the 1970s. It was used on his farm up by Garrison, North Dakota, where him and my mom lived. When Eddie passed away in 2009 my mom gave it to me. It was always kept in a Quonset hut during the winter months. It has under 73,000 original miles on it as it was just used for farm work. It was running when we brought it down here to Colorado where I live when I got it in 2015. I actually have a carburetor kit and a fuel pump to put in it to make it run properly as the gaskets were bad in both of them. I will probably do a video on it sometime in the near future when I do the work on it. I was actually thinking about selling it to someone who would like to either do a little work on it and drive it the way it is or possibly restore it. There is a tiny bit of surface rust on a couple of areas but is pretty much rust free no bad metal.

@@safarijoesadventures Awesome. I'd love to see a video on it. It's already got a cool backstory. I'd love to own one someday, but I'm sure you understand, a lot of us are experiencing financial hard times. It's a historical truck, would LOVE to see that beauty restored someday.

@@robertdknight I was fortunate to have it handed down to me from my mom. It’s been kind of setting on the back burner because of other projects, but hopefully I will be doing some work on it later on this year when a couple of my other projects are finished.

I know that not everyone has the same level of skill set when working on projects. So I like to interject little helpful hints here and there that would make their job easier. Overtime we will all figure these out, but it’s always nice if you can see someone do it and explain it in a way that makes it easier for you to do your project. It worked for me with my kids and grandkids and friends over the years. So I figured it would work for everyone. I enjoy helping people thanks and God bless.

Thank you, and yes, if you’re foundation and floor are not solid everything above, it will eventually move and cause problems for you. But as you see in this video, it’s not that hard to do. Thanks for watching and subscribing.

@@safarijoesadventures Thank you for sharing your projects and taking the time to put out very good content. Looking forward to getting caught up on your videos and watching the progress on the UP cabin.

Well, I am glad you enjoyed the video. And I’m more glad that you’re going to enjoy your new pellet rifle. I have a lot of fun with the one I got. By the way this week I am in the.UP at my off grid property working on my cabin up in Paradise Michigan. I grew up in Sault Ste. Marie. Went to high school there. I love this state especially the upper peninsula. Thanks for checking in, and good talking with you.

Typically shotgun magazine tube springs are longer than the magazine tube and compress so they have enough pressure to push the round into the chamber when the other one is ejected.

It’s a game changer when it comes to mosquitoes, ticks and other bugs. I think I have to spray a little more on the ground around the sand areas for the black flies though. It kills them, but you actually have to get it on the areas where they land. And in my recollection, I think they like Sandy areas more than the trees and bushes that mosquitoes and ticks hang in.

Well, thank you for checking it out. Funny thing that you said a handle and folding legs I actually have an idea on how to do that. I think I’ll make another one in an upcoming video. I am heading up to my off grid cabin for a week and I will be using this one up there while I work on the cabin and property. I have a few different DIY builds on my channel. I enjoy doing that kind of stuff.

@@safarijoesadventures I'll be excited to see what you come up with for the MkII! Enjoy your time at the cabin!

@Learnandrelax I will do that, it’s kind of a working vacation, but I know there will be some fishing involved.

Thanks for the warning Todd. I bought this last year after our spring trip to work on the cabin. Those things were horrible. I got sick. I got bit so much. I remember as a kid living up there. Mosquitoes hated me lol. But they didn’t have foggers back them that I remember. I have 26 acres and I sprayed about an acre right around my cabin area and I could’ve worked in my underwear. Everything disappeared lol. So it’s going back up this year also. Great to hear from you, thanks for checking in.🤠

Yes, sir, it is. And to think it runs off with the same batteries that power my Makita tools. That’s a triple bonus. I am in the process of loading up my flatbed trailer today and tomorrow and then we are leaving for our cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan on Friday morning at 2 AM. I like driving at night or early morning before light. There is a lot less traffic. Good talking with you as always. God bless my friend.

@@safarijoesadventures Be sure you pack the Glock on them late night drives. Seen alotta foolishness on KZbin about people driving late being targeted.

@@loudmouthnewyorker2803 I don’t own a Glock, but I do carry a Springfield armory 1911 operator 45 ACP. and a couple of other Things🤠

@@safarijoesadventures You go cowboy. Better safe than sorry.

It is very likely that I got a bad scope. That’s why switch to another one and it shoots perfectly now. I enjoy mine also they are fun to shoot. I have taken squirrels, rabbits and doves with it. Great little small game and target air rifle.

@safarijoesadventures yes sir. I really like mine. It's a great one. Also, like how light it is compared to others, I have

Thank you for the compliment. I have two gas generators a 4000 W Honda and the 2200 W inverter Honda. I am brand new to solar. I’ve been checking out a few different systems to use at our little cabin when it’s finished. I will probably build a standalone unit when I am finished with the cabin, but I just recently made a purchase a couple months ago of a Eco flow Delta two max and four 100 W solar panels for it. I seen your video using cattle gates to hold your solar panels. I decided then and there that I was going to do that also after seeing them. I originally was going to build some. That’s why I said in this video I have a couple of projects for them. Two we’re going to be gates for my yard and the others to hold solar panels. That was a great idea. Stronger than wood and will last a lifetime. Thanks for the idea you would think with as many of them as I have hung on fences over the years I would’ve figured it out lol I will be using this for quiet power for now to see how it works. It may even be enough for the cabin as I can add another battery to this unit from what I understand.

It’s always good to have the right tools for the job. But you can make do with others that are almost as good. God bless you and yours also friend.

Compared to some of the scopes they make for air rifles. This was still a budget friendly option. It is hard to find a good scope for under $100. And this particular rifle needed a scope because there are no iron sites on it.

@@safarijoesadventures I understand good optics are expensive, but it is what it is. I just picked it up yesterday, & if the scope provided isn't good enough to pop off a few squirrels under 20 yds, I may just return it. Unless you think the optics should cost more than the actual rifle itself & the investment in the $129 gus is worthwhile?

@@ericscott3997 I could’ve got a bad scope on that rifle. It’s entirely possible. It would not adjust in so it was consistently shooting a good group. Years ago I bought a Tasco four power scope at Walmart for $28 and put it on a little 22 long rifle I had because it’s all like afford at the time I was a kid. I still have that scope and it shoots perfectly on my 22 rifle so you can get good scopes that aren’t expensive. I would sight it in with the scope that’s on it and see how good it is.

You are welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I think Ryobi probably has more different tools to attach to their batteries, than most other companies. this lighting system will give it one more. Thanks for watching.

Yes, I was using one when I was eight years old, but until they know how to use them, they should be supervised

Well, thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I did do another video with some upgrades. I did to it that made it work even better. You can check it out on my channel also. Thanks for watching.

I used it in my Propane barbecue grill two nights ago. I smoked a sirloin tip roast for about almost 4 hours at about 230° until the internal temperature was about 145°. I use the blend of Cajun seasoning that I make myself and it made great roast beef sandwiches. I was using indirect heat. They work great.

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I like the idea of the portable fire pit but then I thought about cutting that top out so I could use it as a cookstove also. It did work out pretty good. This one will be going up to my cabin in the upper peninsula Michigan. Thanks for watching.

Well, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ll be putting the longer version up hopefully in a few days.

Thank you.

I am waiting for the frost laws to lift in Chippewa county. I have to get an excavator in there to move something for me then I will be up there working. And yes, there are tons of projects to keep me busy, which I enjoy, but I will be throwing a little bit of vacation in there too. After all, I do want a few walleyes on the plate.

On most firearms, the serial number is on the receiver, either on one side or the other and sometimes on the bottom depending on the fire arm. This was a friends shotgun that I cleaned so I don’t have it with me. I hope that information helps you.thanks for watching.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpy5m6CDoNh0o7Msi=aM__2KG4eExdU7bp here is a link to the video when I originally built this file cabinet smoker. It shows details on how I did it. The video watched shows upgrades to it. I hope this helps. Thank you and thanks for watching.

Yes they are the same.

@@safarijoesadventures thanks. 👍🇮🇸

@@ZiggyWolf-Jinx you are very welcome. I hope you enjoy using your shotguns.

You’re welcome, I’m glad you stopped by and that it was helpful to you. Good luck on your smoking.

We enjoy having them around. I’m actually sitting in my kitchen right now and looking at about 200 of them out my back door.

@@safarijoesadventures omg that is so cool

@@jake22-1 it really doesn’t get old. We love it.

Thank you so much for the vote of confidence. I do have a construction background, so I do some building projects throughout my channel. I try to keep it all informative and easy to watch for somebody that is wanting to learn how to do things. It’s really not that hard, and sometimes it’s just a little tips that help people a lot again thank you for watching.

@safarijoesadventures you're definitely qualified. It was easy to understand thank you for taking the time to make these videos.

@@user-ce8vu1fr6e you’re very welcome.

I’m glad you like it. You can go back and check my earlier videos when I started the foundation all the way to the finish there are three or four of them. I try to keep them informative. Thanks for watching.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks for checking it out.