the toyota hiace the most popular work van in new zealand
scott brown here that's what we're going to talk about in today's exciting episode picking up some
materials first i mean in this merchant alone i can almost guarantee that inside there it'll
be vans toyota hiace's and utes these are not the posts i'm looking for the ones i'm looking for are
usually all here so these are already orders that are getting delivered so i can't grab them okay so
the crazy thing about my work van is that it has gone up in value since i bought it
i'm gonna i'm gonna say that again my van has gone up in value since i bought it
vehicles are usually depreciating assets i bought this van for around thirteen and a half thousand
new zealand and now i've seen them on line for around about eighteen to twenty thousand
new zealand the van prices have gone up for a similar reason that there's hardly any timber
back there because of covid everybody thought the world was going to shut down so people
stopped producing as much and stopped supplying as many things and also they didn't anticipate
the building boom that we're currently having my fault my fault i just drove right past them
so those prices that i said that that is now 2021 june in new zealand and in new zealand the house
prices have been going up quite dramatically over the last year well they've been going over going
up dramatically for like 10 years but in the last year they accelerated extremely people are using
the money they do have to invest in houses and renovate houses and that is part of the reason why
building has gone up with it people need more builders and those builders need work vans
so i think in the past that would lead to people buying new vans the problem is anytime you order
anything new to new zealand at the moment you're waiting a lot longer than you used
to wear i got a friend who got a toyota rav4 just a suv and he waited six months
he ordered it in november and it just arrived a couple of weeks ago
so if you can't get a new one you get a secondhand one and the prices go up
so this morning i said this is the most popular work van
the most popular work vehicle and actually most popular vehicle in new zealand
is the ute which brings me to the guests in today's exciting episode
so you've been mistreated i brought that down you what i brought that down it was at the
it's a very big box for something that's very light yeah it's like a it's like a joke package
i've been missed as what do i i miss as well i miss you miss you all ah long time viewers of
the channel will know richard mills here it's a new uh soap holder for the shower so you just you
can have it like wow really yeah wow that's my uh intercom gooseneck i believe is the correct term
yeah yep gooseneck for the gate intercom ah is that so you don't have to reach out to anybody
so richard has been building a garage here and it's well on its way
saying that i was building it's probably a stretch of the imagination but i was definitely involved
you're definitely involved okay richard and a couple of other builders were building this actual
builders actual builders three months waiting on cladding and is there anything else we're waiting
on you waiting on the door now right waiting on the door that's not too bad like that went from
four weeks to six weeks whereas the planning went from like six weeks to 13 weeks or something damn
looks like it's gonna be pretty cool you must have learned a lot building this garage nah i think so
okay you eat so much more or is it just a bigger ball
so what's going on here richard all right so just want to kick this episode off with a little um
presentation today we're extending the deck um some steps up to the front door there or
the back door of the garage rather subscribers the show will probably recognize me as someone
who's done quite a few uh pile holes for scott hope it's a dangerous thing in a place like this
hope could drive a man insane and so i just wanted today to present scott with the speed of revenge
this is all making sense now right this is why i'm here isn't it
volcanic rock in there scott thank you have a great time we're gonna have to dig for well i'm
gonna have to dig four holes here for the deck and the stairs so that's gonna be fun
basically the spa pool is gonna move to that back corner over there and they want to be
able to step up and then just step into the spa pool rather than having it so high from the deck
meet jack and rose by the way hey rose how's it going hey jack how are you
just like titanic i'm not going to go into much more detail about these stairs just here that'll
be the next exciting episode after these posts have been put in we just need to approximate so
we can get the holes dug and the posts in and i haven't forgotten the point of this video
i have been thinking about getting a new van and i was seriously considering it before all
this covert stuff happened and now with the way things are and the prices and the wait times
i've shelved that idea and i'm basically going to try and make my van last as long as i
can make it last those toyota vans they're very reliable and they just keep going
mine's approaching 200 000 kilometers and it's it's fine i have to probably spend
about a couple of grand a year on maintenance um and that's typically because i don't maintain
it since i bought it in 2017 i think i've got it serviced maybe twice of that
um so i've got a couple of uh running costs coming up but i'm just going to keep the van going
why are you choosing you rather than a van because previously people have like oh
well would you have a ute you have a you need a van but i've got a family to drive around and
take a vehicle to go camping in and a vehicle regard the mountain and the vehicle to go
can't do that with a van it's as simple as that
more stuff
nice most i can fit more stuff in this in here and i can put my table saw and i can
fill up the top with materials and i can load up the roof with long lengths and i've got
like a little setup out the back with a tow ball hitch rack thing that means i can put lengths of
long sheets of whether it's ply or plasterboard in here so you can still do the things that i can
do with the roof racks basically mostly i'd like it's kind of 80 it's not quite
as convenient obviously you're like pulling this big drawer out and you cut you know you
don't have quick side doors you've got to but if you need to make it work you can make it work
here in new zealand most of the utes are double cabs so that means you've got the driver's seat
and the passenger and you've also got the back seats oh yeah so it's on rollers transfer rollers
so has that been working pretty well awesome the only time like if if i'm on a lean like
this or a bit more aggressive than this yeah in it like i just kind of have to
use a bit of force to lift it that way a little bit and i can literally just like
slide this whole thing out onto the onto the sore stools and i've got my you back fully open again
very versatile yeah i'm impressed oh yeah wow what a treat yeah
right rose
that's a yes well i've been doing all the hard work which is uh up here hey bro
you know what to do with a scot is that what i think it is
it's electrical lubricant oh okay just for electrical workout kilowatts why so we're
trying to pull the cable through this pipe is that the aim of the game that's the name of the game
well first day back on the tools anyway definitely feeling rusty but it's good to have a job
that you just you're just sweating basically not thinking my ankle's feeling heaps better as well
one thing to consider when you whenever you're doing posts is uh you always wet the hole first
for the concrete just to make sure water gets to the concrete in all areas and you put a bit
of concrete first here in new zealand we put timber posts in the ground um that's probably
another video i could probably go into all of that but one thing you do when you have a timber post
is you make sure there's concrete under the posts otherwise if your post is hard to the dirt you can
soak up moisture directly from the dirt and also posts can slip through the concrete it
acts like a collar so it's very important to put a bit of maybe like 100 ml of concrete first now
this is just a dip so we're just using rapid set so it dries real quick and you mix it in the hole
and that's what the post sits on
there we go team man that's all set and thanks to the rapid set
i tell you what it is very surprising how unfit i am after one month of not working that's all
it takes one month yeah one month to be fair my ankle was stuffed at that time as well so
i couldn't even walk so i had no activity didn't break a sweat for a month so first day back i'm
i'm lying down and going to sleep when i get home catch you in the next exciting episode
before you go there is a promotional thing on teespring which is the people i do my merchandise
with so if you want to get a smoker time hoodie or a van t-shirt or any of the scott brown carpentry
merchandise 10 off until monday july the 5th let me double check that yeah monday july the 5th at
midnight basically and the code that you got to put in is heatwave it's the coldest week of
the year here in auckland but uh in the northern hemisphere you guys are in the summer so heatwave
is the promotional code that you put in and that is till july 5th at midnight so 10 off you