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Welcome to the back of my truck.

Well, actually, this is the side of my truck.

This is the back of my truck, the bed of my truck to be specific.

And this is also going to be my studio while I figure out how to do video.

Actually,

it's about my fourth try at recording this,

and I'm kind of learning some things as I go along.

As you can see, this is my pole barn.

And it's called a pole barn because even though it has a concrete floor, which you can see here,

It is actually just a bunch of poles in the ground and the tin on the sides It's

got a slant roof actually has an attic See how this looks when I show it up there.

Yep.

So yeah,

I can get up there I haven't been up there yet though,

and I'm not entirely sure if I'll ever go up there

I've been on the roof enough times and I think I might be pressing my luck.

But anyway, this is the bed of my truck.

As you can see, it's pretty old.

It's a 54-year-old truck.

It's a 1970 Chevy K10.

Now, the difference between a C10 and a K10 is the K10 was a four-wheel drive setup.

Everything really is exactly the same.

The difference is this has a heavier frame and it has obviously the transfer case

and the front differential and all that stuff,

but otherwise the same truck,

which is great because they made a bazillion of these damn things and getting parts

for it is actually quite easy.

As you can see, the bed is kind of beat up and which is fine with me.

I don't really care because my plan is initially is to get roadworthy so I can use

it as a truck truck.

I've got some, as you can see here, I have trash to haul.

This is mostly from what I inherited, although I contributed to the pile.

And I have supplies to buy for redoing the basement.

At some point,

there will be a video of me showing you the basement and what I'm planning to do on

the project.

But I have to actually get my thoughts together on that first.

But anyway, this truck at some point will become a project.

But for now, it's going to be a truck truck.

And when it becomes a project, you know, I started looking into what I can buy.

Like you can buy an entirely new bed for $2,500, which is really quite a bargain.

Now you have to weld it up.

As you can see, these are actually riveted together.

I think you can see that.

Again, I'm learning how to do this stuff.

So we're going to learn together.

But,

you know,

these days there's all kinds of additional materials you can use to put these

things together.

In the old days, 50 years ago, it was rivets and welding.

Well, anyway, the plan is to sit my butt here and put the camera over here.

As you can see,

I have a nice,

I think you can see,

I got a nice bench here that was built by the previous owner.

Actually, I think the previous, previous owner, I'm not entirely sure.

I have a microwave here because I think as I'm working in here,

I might want to just keep my lunch in.

I'm going to put a little fridge down here too.

Got all kinds of junk.

Obviously, it's full of junk.

This old U-Haul dolly is a pretty good example of the junk I inherited.

The gas can that I bought that I don't really know how it works.

Anyway, some other junk that I bought to set in my garage.

You can see here I have, these are cinder blocks that I found laying around in different places.

Not really sure what to do with them.

I think what I'm going to do is I have a,

my property crosses the creek,

so I'm going to use these and some big timbers I found that look like railroad ties.

Build a little bridge so I can get it on the other side with my mower.

Have some pink granite, I think it's what's called pink granite.

Let's see if you can see.

I don't know how well the color will come out, but those are lying all over the place.

I don't know what to do with these.

I think people use them for like gardening and stuff.

I've seen there's some around my house that I think were originally supposed to be

for decorative purposes,

but I'm not really sure.

It could have just been somebody drop them there.

Here's my wood pile.

Actually, I'm a little winded down because I've been carrying wood up to the house.

But this thing was about twice the size.

Yeah, about twice the size.

I got a little carried away with the first fires because, you know, the new house and all that.

But this will probably last me the rest of the winter, give or take.

I don't put a fire on every night.

If not, I have a whole pile of logs, which is as tall as me.

It's about six foot high and about 12 foot logs and about six foot deep.

So I can start cutting those up.

Well, anyway, this is what the plan is.

I'm going to, again, start doing some videos from here.

I'm going to keep them short for now as I learn how to do this stuff because

editing video is a real pain in your ass.

It's not easy like audio.

There's a bunch of stuff you've got to think about.

You also have to think about what you're going to do because of the difficulty editing video.

you've got to keep that in mind as you're recording and say you stumble you do

something you want to cut out you have to really think about how you create these

breaks it's different than audio where you can just stop and kind of go backwards

you can't really do that with video because it otherwise you get all these weird

jump cuts so anyhow that's the plan the other thing i'm struggling with is how long

they'll be probably short like this one probably five minutes at a time and then

we'll see where it goes well anyway that's

the first video from here.

At some point, I will figure out how to do this so they're pretty consistent.

But for now, it's going to be like once a week until I start getting the hang of it.

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my pole barn and the back of my truck, and I will see you soon.