Okay, Jessica's favorite father.
I'm not Jessica. Okay cut!
I always do that.
Dad, you have five girls, I'm Camille.
I know.
I always do that, if I don't think, I always do that. Jessica was the first one and that's the only one..Jessica, you're the favorite!
Filming? Okay, here we go, start, on your mark, get set, go!
This is Camille, my favorite third daughter, and what we're gonna do today, this is what
she did it, when she was growing up at home, we'd go out, and we would make firewood.
It's true.
And for heating in the winter, so this is a typical project that we would always do,
and we would, we're going to cut down trees, we'll find dead ones, we cut them down, we
fill up the gator here, and we're going to make a full load today, and for a whole winter
we would make 50 loads.
So we'd fill this gator up 50 loads, haul it in, and we throw it down, some of it down
the basem*nt.
We got a wood shed over there, so you can kind of see a typical day in the life of Camille.
Yep, my dad is putting me to work, trying to bring back childhood memories, or trying
to get some free help.
I don't know, but I'm excited to haul wood, it's been a while, and we hope you enjoy the
process of making wood here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
And she asked me to do this video, and I said we'll do it if we make a load, I'm not going
to come out here and pretend to work.
Dad!
That's true, that's true, my dad's a hard worker.
Well, we found a tree, we're gonna go cut it, you guys stay here until it's down and
we'll get started. Okay, be safe dad.
Okay, I can drive the gator over here, and Maddox can come to work, and you guys can
start filling it up, and I will cut this tree.
Two rows like that, and you put them all the way across, and then you fill it up, and that's
it, put them as far as you can, there you go!
You want your gloves? That a boy.
I'll get busy on the other ones over here.
Well, this is fun, lift some weights out here.
So Camille was trying to get by with a small load here, for pete's sake, we got gotta get a full load.
Gotta stay hydrated.
There, we do that, and we'll fill the front, and we'll be done.
uh there's part of it, then we've gotta haul it down.
Yeah we gotta get the chute.
Yeah, throw it down the basem*nt after we're done with that.
You gotta be tough to live in the U.P.
It is like about survival here, that's why I moved.
Neutral.
I got a good team today, didn't take long, we got a load.
Phase one done.
Phase one done, leave it there, we don't want to overload it, we won't get out.
Really, is that good? That's good. Okay.
Woo! Success in the woods!! Yeah good job.
I tell right here, we've got an inch here to spare, so that'll get us out.
All right, time to carry this home.
Right there, front tires are up in the air.
We're a little overloaded.
Hard soft maple, mostly hard maple, that's what we like.
Hard maple burns the hottest, and it's the most dense, and you get the most heat out of it, so.
Let's go check the chute.
You might have to put the brakes on.
You think?
Well hopefully it doesn't start rolling down the hill.
Oh look, grandpa is on the tractor over there.
So you'll burn all this wood this winter?
Yeah this wood is normally, we'll generally we'll burn all this wood.
What we like to do is, on this wall here, pile a row on this wall about,
starting right here about this, as high you can reach the whole length.
Wow.
And then we usually have two or three rows in the back, and then we might have two three
cords left over, so.
Wow.
And if you didn't use wood, how much would you pay in oil to heat your house?
Well, right now the price of oil is a little bit cheaper, so if we were to heat our house
with oil in the winter, number one, we would keep the temperature down, probably 67 degrees,
because it's so expensive, and we'd probably pay, wow, we'd probably run right now at two
dollars a gallon, it probably cost us about $700 USD a month.
Okay seven-eight hundred a month, and sometimes the price of oil has been close to four dollars,
at three and a half hundred dollars a gallon, it probably cost us $1500 a month.
Wow, either way you have to work for it.
You go out there, and you work your job, and you pay big bucks, or you just go out the
wood, in the woods, and cut down trees.
Sweat a little.
Have a lot of fun, a little workout, you know, it's a good family time and it brings reality
into the factor.
So, yeah, yeah so we really like it.
We can spend a few days making firewood, keep the house all nice and warm all the winter,
we're walking around in t-shirts and barefoot all winter.
It's true, it's toasty warm in there.
Yeah, you wanna go on the tractor?
So we'll throw throw it down the chute now.
It's taller than me, it's taller than a giant.
So they use all this wood in the winter huh?
Yeah and then in the summer they cut down more trees.
Uh and that's what we are doing now.
Yeah.
Cutting down more trees.
Did you have fun?
Yeah.
Are your arms sore? Yeah.
Is that high enough?
Yeah, that should be good.
Okay just come right back a little bit that way, bring it a little bit that way, a little farther.
Okay that's good.
A lot of times in the winter, you get a little snow and ice on these so they really fly down there.
There you go there's another little one for you.
So five to six loads fills this basem*nt part.
That lasts like three weeks in the winter.
So then my parents take the wood and they put it in this amazing fire.
Yeah so right here, and it actually heats the house super well, like in the winter you
can wear your t-shirt in the house, bare feet, it's pretty incredible how much firewood wood
heat, does for a house.
I hope you guys liked this crazy process, it's reality as life as a yooper, you gotta
haul the wood, you gotta put in the work, it's crazy.
Well we finished up with the hauling of the wood for today.
It was about a two hour process, and now we're gonna go on the boat.
We're gonna go fishing for walleye, and then we've gotta pick the vegetables in the garden,
that's pretty much a day in the life here.
We're gonna go catch our dinner, pick our vegetables for dinner, and carry on with our day.
What did you guys think?
Is this just a crazy way to live in the U.P.?
I think it is.
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