hello guys and welcome back
yeah
so
no beating around the bush
you can see from the thumbnail we bought
another abandoned
property so this property here that we
bought some of you guys know some of you
guys may not know this property was
abandoned
for like three years before we bought it
host was a complete
mess very close to a tear down
breeded the whole host
changed absolutely everything except for
the rails in this house
a lot of work done to the property
garage pad ready to go all kinds of
stuff here this was left for three years
so
the place that we just bought
has been left for like five or six years
it's literally five minutes away from me
i have the four time we just we just
closed on the sale today like we
literally just closed on the sale today
just got the keys i just took the four
ton to
the house
it's a long road
it's a narrow driveway
it's off grid
we have a ton of work to do
what do i get myself into you know i've
got a million things around here yet to
do and here we are we bought another
property that needs a ton of work
anyway let's uh let's go check this
place out you guys got to see this this
is
this is crazy it's been on the market
for like two years
over two years actually
and
we expected it to be crap we expected to
go into it and just be a mess
it's not
and
there's some there's some hidden gems
left behind i'll tell you more about it
as we get there
i'm super pumped okay here we go
so the entrance to the driveway is very
narrow
and it's very steep do some work here at
the start
i'm gonna add a piece of culvert on
and i'm going to uh
add some gravel to it
but the first section of the of the
driveway is a right away it's it's not
it's not our land
so i'll let you know where our land
actually starts
so the road itself
keep in mind that we have got nothing
but rain
here in nova scotia for the last three
weeks when we first looked at this
property this driveway was as dry as
could be
but the road actually is solid it's in
really good shape it just needs a little
bit of work
but hey guess who has the equipment
but yeah 25 poles to get power back here
so we've got lots of tree trimming to do
we got lots of work because
i never buy anything that's easy on
myself that's for sure i always buy
things that are difficult
even my camp
was like seven clicks back in the woods
and i had to build a road three
kilometers long
uh yeah that's just the way that i do
things
but guys like um
i'm excited and i'm also nervous like
there's a lot of work here to do
um
you're probably asking man 25 poles why
don't you put why don't you just do
solar
well because banks
will not give you a mortgage and then
and good luck finding insurance for a
solar system because that's what we were
going to do originally we were going to
hook up solar
um i'll show you what else is back here
it's got a huge generator back up
powers the whole host
but
they will not
mortgage solar power so poles it is so
right here is where the land starts
we got a bear sculpture there's a sign
so a little bit of story on this as
we're driving through and looking at all
of the logs through here it is all
spruce and hemlock
i'm gonna have some fun in here i'm
gonna have some serious fun in here both
sides of the road
it's uh like 40 acres of land in total
and it is all massive hemlock and spruce
the couple who owned this house were
from switzerland
and they're older they're up in the rage
and i think that the
story that i'm getting is that the uh
the husband is is not well
and you know this is way too much to
leave for his wife to take care of
they have not been over here for five or
six years they haven't been over here
since like 2015.
um obviously then with colvin and i
guess his health
uh anyway so
everything
goes with the property and when i say
everything you guys have no idea you you
have no idea until i take you through
all the sheds there's five or six sheds
everything in the house
um everything goes with the property
everything
i'm gonna definitely do a walk through
of all the sheds with you guys i don't
know if it will be today tomorrow i
would say so but man look at the
freaking logs through here
you can go through here and just thin it
out because it should have it done
anyway
and get truckloads and truckloads and
truckloads of logs
and a lot of it's gonna have to come
down anyway just because of the fact of
getting the poles in here
and i know i know you guys are thinking
man what would be down here there can't
be anything down there like
just wait just wait till i show you this
place
look how thick this is
go you could go through here and cut
10 loads of logs out of here and you
wouldn't even really notice that they're
gone
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massive
all right so it is lakefront
of course
you can just start to see the lake
through the trees there
it's a really tight spot to get down
here and get turned around so
i'm gonna get turned around once i get
in here
and then i'll show you guys around for a
second i'll take you inside
i had i did have the generator fired up
from the outside but i haven't fired it
up from the inside yet there is a switch
on the inside wall so i'm gonna see if
that if that works i have not tried that
yet
so i'm gonna see if that works
and
to show you around for a second but much
more detailed walk through
later on
i gotta clean the flue there's two wood
stoves i got to clean the flues to make
sure that they're not you know full
creosote
um i got to get the water the water
working
you know all that sort of stuff but so
here we are here we are arriving
so first things first
there's the generator room
there's four humongous sheds
and there's a lot of stuff inside those
sheds guys you can just barely see the
cottage through here
again this has been abandoned so this is
the road going to the to the house where
i need to try to get this trailer in
look how grown in that is it's been left
alone
i can't wait to show you guys i cannot
wait to walk around with you guys and
show you what's going on here but all
right so that's where the trailer is
staying i cannot get back around in here
okay guys here we are it's a 2 000
square foot four bedroom two bathroom
log home or you know timber framed
whatever
first things first yes it needs a new
roof absolutely hands down and needs a
new roof and there's some trim pieces
that need to be replaced
the back deck here is rotten we're going
to rip that off and just not even worry
about putting it back on
the appliances are all propane
four big propane tanks right here
i imagine there's still propane in them
i haven't checked
i haven't gotten that
that one's definitely empty
i haven't gotten that far into all this
yet to be honest
this needs to be scraped down a bit
to even get in here
um
yeah
so here we go
here is the outside again i'm going to
do a better walk around all this but
there's a big sculpture here wood
sculpture
there's a well over there goes out to
the point here's the big wood shed
look how neat stacked and stuff this is
guys like this guy was
unbelievable
look how cool this is
coming up here he has an outside kitchen
and some of these old songs are just
so cool
old signs here everywhere this powers up
there's lights out here
there's an outside pizza oven
and then in this shed here
i'll show you but man there's so much
stuff in that shed it's unbelievable and
here is the lake
beautiful beautiful beautiful
i can just imagine what this place
looked like 10 years ago when these
people were here
and you're gonna see more like flower
pots everywhere
um
just
i imagine this place was so meticulous
this was their getaway this was their
this is their paradise
there's old flower pots all through here
different shapes and stuff
he's got walkways built everywhere he's
got a kilometer long
like wooden causeway built over top of
the lake and the swamp that goes that
way that i'll show you guys
a lot of these trees are gonna come down
they're so close to the cottage
the limbs are hanging on the roof that
tree originally they built around
and then they end up cutting the top of
it off but a lot of these are gonna come
down so we get a nice view of the lake
the lawn furniture they left behind it's
all
that really high quality
lawn furniture
i forget the brand i think there's one
here that has a plaque on it
i'm not sure
forget the brand but it's it's the it's
a really high end stuff but
let's uh let's go inside here for a
second and see if that generator works
okay walking in to the mudroom
take my boots off
smell the cedar
one wood stove okay let's see if this
generator fires up from inside
baby look at that
look at that flawless
flawless
the generator hasn't run for like five
years
so here we are let's put a few lights on
here
boom that's the biggest watch nest i've
ever seen in my life
all right so this was built in two
stages this was the original cottage
again all um propane
appliances
a couple of beer cans
fully
fully furnished still
fully furnished glasses galore
it's like we're walking in a twilight
zone
nice
thing here
first bedroom
very cozy
across here is the first bathroom
coming down further another bedroom
they've got tons of books and records
and stuff in here
like i said i mean they left everything
they left absolutely everything behind
some pelts
a very very cool violin
next room a larger room
hot water tank
spices and pastas and everything you can
imagine all in
swiss language
and look at the liquor
okay liquor cabinet they left behind
okay coming further down
to what would be the new section
and take a look at these beams guys take
a look at these beams this thing was
built those are all steel
braced with leg bolts going through
this place is built to last if there's a
hurricane or a tornado or some crazy
storm coming through here i know where
i'm coming i'm coming right here because
this place is not coming down
in a hundred years
more pelts
um
this awesome freaking eagle
there's so much cool stuff in here
another wood stove
this is a humongous room a humongous
room
definitely set up some furniture in here
put a tv i don't know wherever over in
this corner obviously i guess
coming down here is the third bedroom
they had it turned into a
an exercise room again this all comes
with it
cd cd players
again look at the bracing
look at that
and then coming into the master bedroom
two massive beds
again more bracing there's an owl
a walk-in closet full of stuff like all
these are full of stuff
master bathroom we got a stand-up shower
sink
toilet bidet
so that is the cottage take a look at
the view from the master bedroom
again it will look so much better once
we clear out some of these trees
and then you know the view from from in
here
you're sitting down doing some work or
something
yeah pretty crazy guys pretty crazy i'm
gonna check the chimneys i'm going to
check the flue
i just got to take that take that one
off right there that clamp off and then
clean her up do i might do my best to
not make a mess in here
the size of this window sliding door
okay so that's gonna do it for now now i
gotta go home and do some stuff at home
and get more stuff ready here but when i
come back today or tomorrow i'll take
you through these sheds and i'll show
you guys what's going on but
man that's so cool the generator just
fired right up like that from inside you
can't even hear it
i'm gonna bring my 450 in later on and
put a couple tanks of fuel into the tank
so i guess i just turn it off
look at that
i love it i love it
all right so first night of ownership
me and wendell spend the night
watching some old movies that they left
behind
you got a fire going in here
and we've got a fire going
down here
place is very toasty right now
a little fan going
ashley and tony went home
me and when we'll stay the night
tomorrow's gonna be a big day we had
some plumbing issues here so hopefully
take care of those tomorrow
a little bit of work to do to get the
water all geared up but
we should be able to handle it
so day one in the books all right so
day one of actually really getting some
stuff done here
just ran out and got some coffee uh the
fires both lasted the night nice and
warm in here absolutely beautiful
morning out this morning i'll take you
out in a second show you one of the
contents that's in those sheds
ran the generator all night actually no
i shut it off but it ran quite a bit
last night and it didn't even uh
didn't even affect the fuel
the fuel gauge
so the plumbing issue that i was telling
you guys about so when i flicked on the
the power to the water
there's water dripping out of this not
coming to the top
i pulled this little plastic piece off
the top here
and i looked down inside and there's and
there's some water down there so
but yeah let's go see what's in the tool
shed and uh see if i can get that thing
fixed up
so yes again i will take you guys out
there later and show you out to the
point there's lake all around here
wendell's in the fj barking
but yeah absolutely beautiful beautiful
morning here
today
water's nice and clear
not as clear as my lake but still quite
clear
i guess this is my lake too
beautiful
i got the barbecue out last night
so yeah there's a
there's a barbecue here
barbecued some deer steak my father got
his deer
a couple weeks ago
i pulled up the barbecue
did up some deer steak awesome barbecue
massive thing
so i'll show you what's inside this shed
before i go over to the work shed
all right so we've got
coolers
we've got a big you know lobster or corn
boiler
propane tanks a weber charcoal barbecue
we've got charcoal galore
these are all bags of wood chips
there's like 10 humongous bags of wood
chips plus
all these this is all for smoking
more of this lawn furniture
tables
chairs
there's like 50 bird feeders in here
up there big bug zapper
all kinds of hand tools
gardening tools these people did not
mess around
these people did not mess around there's
every kind of tree trimmer that you
could imagine back there
there's stuff i haven't seen yet guys
like
there's a lot of stuff that i have not
gotten to yet
garden hoses nozzles sprinkler systems
they have water lines run everywhere
through under the ground here
man he did not mess around when he built
this stuff he used four by four for his
studs
everything is is steel braced
everything is steel braced
4x4 studs
6x6
supports going up for the for the for
the gable ends
no expense spared here
at all the roofs boarded in not
checkboard
the walls are boarded in
cedar siding
just crazy like it's just it's just
crazy okay well let's see what's behind
door number one
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every tool you could possibly imagine is
in here
those saws are mine everything else
was his
hand tools a hammers
uh a chisel set
come alongs
chop saw
uh drill press
lawnmower
air compressors
there's a couple of those
shopvac
scroll saw
bandsaw
extension cords hard hats
grinders
again there's stuff i haven't seen
there's a sander
a big drill a reciprocating saw
uh we do have a chainsaw
back there in the corner i know it's
dark
leaf blower
these deep sea fishing rods
are absolutely
insane those are the coolest things i've
seen i think
a little electric chainsaw i think
battery operated chainsaw
uh what's this table saw
i didn't see that before
yeah so
this is door number one his tool shed
and this is powered there's power to the
tool shed and then this is a deep freeze
it's a it's a propane
propane operated deep freeze which is in
the propane tanks or right around the
corner here
there's the propane tanks just found
this awesome tackle box and it is
absolutely loaded full of
absolutely everything you would ever
need
it is full
there's like knives up here and gloves
up here
that was absolutely full
we do have some more tools back here
that i i haven't opened yet
um yeah here's an old
you know transit
crazies guys this is nuts and there's
more so stay tuned there's more in the
other buildings
to uh to show you guys
kind of
stuff that's just as crazy as this
all right guys so i started this video
on a friday it is now sunday
we got the chipper here
so we cut a huge amount and chipped
through here
looks so much better now
huge pile of chips
chips through the woods
we have more cutting to do but
definitely definitely much much much
better still taking a lot of these
spruce down
spruce here hemlock here those are all
coming down i might get at those today
um i'll take you inside and show you
these sheds here in a few minutes but
i got the plumbing taken care of um you
know for now it's working
leaks are fixed
there was a leak in the master bathroom
in
in the shower behind the wall
so i just i was able to basically tear
the whole shower apart and
without actually removing it
from the floor from the wall i was able
to get in and
shut the valves off
so that the leak stopped
as you can see it's completely tore
apart it was leaking it was leaking
behind here
so i got that shut off so we're able to
use the water um
yep
renovations
there's the shower
and
there was another leak underneath the
crawl space
it's copper it's copper and then it's
some of its pecks
so it was copper lines and it had the it
had the pex fittings
the shark bites or whatever they're
called i think
um there's a gasket
and then there's they thread on
that was completely pulled apart
and it was just flowing like crazy
so underneath the crawl space and fix
that
we got a trailer full of old blankets
and garbage and stuff
um obviously gonna be coming through
here and thinning all this out but
here's what i was saying about you know
this place probably was amazing 10 years
ago
so all these
planters different shapes
there
the walkways are all lined with rock and
believe it or not there is gravel
underneath here
so this was all gravel at one point
little rocks lined up absolutely
everywhere
there's a bench out there there's a
bench over here
so this walkway comes out to the point
again i'll be thinning all this out
i'll be bringing the mulcher in to mulch
all the small stuff the underbrush and
then there's a ton of spruce and hemlock
that are going to be getting cut out
here there's a lot of spruce over here
there's a trailer load of spruce and i
mean not my dump trailer
of just stuff that i want to cut
so it's it's a benefit it's it's a bonus
i'm going to get some logs out of it and
i want to cut it anyway okay so here we
are at the point
this was a flower pot we're going to rip
this out
dig this all out this is just going to
be a fire pit
the old benches
so yeah here we are at the point and
it's
absolutely beautiful over here
so the lake like comes in this cove
and comes out and it wraps around that
point and then it keeps going further
that way
i'll do all this underbrush
so there's two more things i want to
show you
i want to show you those sheds
and
what's in them
and then i want to show you this walkway
that this guy built on top of the water
so there's another walkway
that goes over to the generator room and
stuff
goes down to the lake
and then there's this walkway here
again all lined with rock
gravel underneath all these pine needles
and it comes out
to a walkway on top of the water
and we've had so much rain this year
typically the water is a lot lower
than what it is right now
and we're getting 200 millimeters of
rain
tomorrow
130 kilometer winds
here's a little bench they got geared up
sitting there at the lake
but check this out man
i'm not going to show you the whole
thing because it's over it's like a
kilometer long but he built this walkway
on top of the water
like he spent
so many hours
so many days
on
in this
swamp building this
it goes and goes and goes and goes and
goes
i'm going to show you about a quarter of
the length of this thing
here it comes
comes around
so it keeps going you can see it
right through there
it keeps going that way
i'm not gonna take you that way
i'm only gonna take you out to here
like i can't believe this
it's all
four by four supports with cement blocks
post blocks
patio stones
just crazy it's just crazy like i can't
i can't get over this
it's got like areas at the end where you
can sit put a bench up
look at this
so we just walked all the way over here
around it keeps going it keeps going
all the way through the woods
comes back up around and joins into the
driveway
i can't imagine i don't know there's
nothing that would make me want to do
this
but he turned a bunch of unusable land
into usable land
so you can see there it keeps going
crazy all right guys so you've seen the
workshop
a little more light here now
those deep sea fishing rods
uh frame and nailers
um
everything you can imagine is in here
everything you can imagine is in here
and if it's not in here the chances are
it's in one of these buildings
so behind door number one
is a huge canoe
a paddle boat
and just some odds and ends for
woodworking some stains
all that stuff
all these buildings are built with four
by four walls
four by four walls
steel bracing
everywhere
so that's door number one
door number two
a wood splitter
another boat
more lawn furniture
another boat
garden hoses
a water pump
hoses
again
4x4 walls
ladder
definitely going to fire this thing up
uh what's back there
here's a motor
some exhaust system stuff
electric motor
for the
boat door number three
big farming jack
ladders
fuel jugs
bottles galore
a little gardening tool
pressure washer gas powered pressure
washer
spreader there's all kinds of stuff
inside these totes i'm not going to go
into that lawn roller some electrical
cable
haven't gone through that stuff
yet he's a food dehydrator he has a big
smoker
he definitely
definitely did all that stuff
and then the huge generator we got going
on
yeah
massive generator you can start it from
inside which you guys seen you can start
it from out here
breakers
um you can power the workshop you can
power the cottage do whatever you want
big diesel generator it's quiet you guys
heard it run i believe
unbelievable in case that one doesn't
work well you got a big you big back up
7500
a humongous fuel tank
you guys already seen that
we've been burning through this
i had it running for uh
oh geez it ran all night last night
you know two days of running
two days of running
it barely even moved the gauge
barely even moved it
all right well i got all those trees
down
this whole corner is gone now
that's all i'm gonna do i'm gonna chip
this up right now believe it or not
but that's all i'm gonna do for today
i'm not gonna worry about that today
we've got all that storm coming we got
that big storm coming i got to get
generators all geared up and ready
because 100 i'll be called out
200 millimeters of rain and 130
kilometer winds
i'll be getting called out but
i'm going to bring the machine in
separate the logs put the logs
over there somewhere out of the way and
then i'll start grabbing this brush and
putting into a bit of a pile
pack the chipper in
blow it all in there
pack up lock everything up
secure everything here
call today
all right well that is going to do it
for this weekend
looks much different and much better
than what it did
two days ago
uh still like i said lots more to come
down this uh this ugly old spruce here
is coming down the birch
uh there's three or four more spruce
through there big spruce up by the hose
a few of these hardwoods will come down
but yeah this looks so much better
take this big pile of rocks out of here
next time i come back in
get rid of that and make this a much
nicer transition into the driveway
we got lots of work to do obviously but
hey it's a good start
but all right guys that is going to do
it
welcome to another journey with me um so
do you think i'm crazy or what
uh definitely some hidden gems here it's
a heck of a property
the logs you know all awesome but a ton
of work there's a ton of work to do here
but
i typically don't really relax very
often
so i'm kind of used to that but
anyway um welcome to a journey but
that's gonna do it so until next time
take care stay safe and we'll see you
then bye