man don't make fun of me
howdy everyone good morning eric here from nomadic fanatic hope you guys doing well uploading this
video with nomad internet link below if you need some unlimited internet we're going to get back
at this project we've been getting some high winds here in illinois still going to be 76 degrees here
in november and the leaves i mean i'm not even sure really why i started cleaning up leaves so
early you might as well wait till all the leaves have actually fallen eric so i'm not messing with
it again you know i was getting tired of picking them up by my hand and everything so i got this
uh this mulcher by by works and these are really popular here in this area remember i have already
cleared all of the leaves over here look at all the leaves that have fallen and so i'm gonna
eventually there's you can see there's there's still some leaves on that tree that need to fall
and my neighbors treat leaves and everything so once everything is there i'll i'll blow it all
back up to the side of the house and and mulch it back up i think i was a little overzealous to
think i could just continue to keep all my yards all four sides of the yard clear all the time
there's there's no point eric just just let it happen i know it doesn't look like it's
too warm here with the falling leaves but it is still humid and warm here i can't believe it
so i'm going to be working in the heat and probably breaking another sweat today i guess
i think i'm going to run out of two by fours to finish the project in here the way i had it
designed so i've made a quick little change here and that is that i'm going to finish off the bed
area and add the custom underneath shelving later i can do that because i'm going to hinge the
entire bed with the old struts and everything my mattress has arrived and this you have to set up
and then wait 72 hours for it to expand before you can sleep on it which means you have to wait
three days so i'm gonna finish up the bed as normal i added one more brace this morning see
it's as if i could hear all of my framing viewers telling me eric you need more support on that long
stretch yeah yeah i i i really did even though the half-inch top's gonna be here i added one
here added one over there for this because this is where i'm gonna slide off the bed anyway and put a
lot of weight right there obviously i'm not doing 16 inch center studs because this is a very custom
thing and it's not inside a house and even behind these walls it's like one by ones everywhere and
i'm doing two by fours to make this really sturdy and everything so i'm happy with the support the
next thing is we're going to be putting some hinges along the back wall and then connecting
those to the piece that will go like this with the whole mattress everything will tip up for the
storage underneath and like i said for right now i'm not going to build the custom shelving because
i don't have enough wood i want to get the bed set up and make this livable again and then later on i
will bring the bed top up and i'll finish this off later before i leave end of the year also
a little update on the internet here at the house because i left you stranded several days ago about
uh the the the router working and then not working and then them having to send the tech
out the tech came out this morning he was here it's here bright and early at 8 a.m on the dot
but he still had to do the entire diagnosis he had to he had to climb up the pole again and test
there and then he had to do tests in the line of the house and at my router and run his ipad
through everything and two and a half hours later he came back and said ah you need a new router
but that is a new router it's brand new it worked for okay i need another one so get this he doesn't
have a router and maybe that's the weird thing about mediacom that i'm so used to other companies
you know they have everything they need to do the work at your house well this guy doesn't
even drive a mediacom truck it's just a pickup truck he doesn't have a mediacom nametag he's just
a he's just a third-party technician and when i first signed up for this service through mediacom
they told me about my professional installation date and then they said we're going to be mailing
you out your kit and i remember telling them like well what do you mean mailing me out the
kit i thought they're gonna do the install and they said no we're mailing you out the hardware
and everything you give that to your technician when they get there okay well that seems weird
but now it comes back into play because the guy in the truck that came today doesn't even have
an extra router in his truck he had to contact mediacom and set this up and then mediacom called
me and said hey we're overnighting that to you you are guaranteed to have it tomorrow by 9 pm
and i laughed over the phone i said lady don't even start with your guarantees
i live out in the country nothing i pay for to have overnight shipped arrives the next day
i guarantee you i will not have your overnight shipment until wednesday or thursday she said
well that may be the case but either way when you get it you just plug it right in and everything's
gonna magically work now you're just messing with me lady you don't know who you're talking to this
is nomadic fanatic nothing is going to work that you say is going to work but we'll go ahead and
play your game so here i am another five six days after it went out and i still don't have internet
hopefully there'll be an update here soon uh and i'm still on the fence about the company mediacom
you know at first when i saw the speeds and everything i was really really excited but if the
thing only lasts for one day and then you have to wait two weeks to get it back up that's that's not
feasible and anyway i can't do anything about it just laugh smile and move on let's get the let's
get the rest of the rv bed stuff finished today i think i said half inch last night no i got three
quarter inch it's a little little thicker actually the same exact bed material that was in the rv i
couldn't reuse the old hinges like i wanted to i will be able to reuse the struts but i'll show you
the plan for my hinges yeah the old hinges were just uh completely bent up and and just totally
tore up so i i did get these and they had them in pieces of 30 inch and 15 so if we put them back
here i'll kind of show you what they're going to look like going to have the two 30 inch rails on
the ends and then the 15 no it's a 12 inch there in the middle and what i'm going to do is get that
3 4 inch board and i'm going to cut it half of this so that there's a piece here to connect to
which will look something like that and then the new piece will start here that way they're both on
the same level so this will actually be sitting up here like this this side attached to a stationary
piece along the back and then the main piece will be the bed right here that will hinge up
like this so i'm gonna go get my measurements and then cut the three quarter inch plywood
all right
so things don't always work these seem like a really good idea unfortunately
they are way too flimsy and cheap and they are not going to support this big honking piece of
three-quarter inch plywood so my backup plan is a three pack of these heavy duty
gate hinges these were in the gate outdoor gate section of lowe's
i got three of them so as you can see over here i've got a slight gap running down the center and
that is because no matter where you put these there's there's going to be a little bit so
it goes like that that helps with the little bit that intrudes in there and i think definitely
three of these are a lot better than that cheesy flimsy aluminum stuff so get these installed here
all right got the other hinges put on there left the right gap there's one thing i
i kind of overlooked and i had to change the one hinge i caught it in time though and that
is that i have to leave more of a gap over here because of this window sill right here it can't be
flush so i did move it down about just under a half inch which you might notice yeah it
runs off a little bit right here you can tell right there and i may just get my circular saw
and just cut off that half inch right there so it's even with the post in fact i'm pretty sure
that's exactly what i'm gonna do but let's see how she works one-handed without struts
yes awesome guys we have a twin size bed frame here and i'm really happy with it i still may put
some cabinets here guys i mean it really wouldn't be that hard with that quarter inch that i got
to just put little hinges right there and then put some kind of an adhesive on this
beam right here so that this opens this way and then i have access here as well as pulling this
up so don't don't quote me on it i may not use the struts after all
shifting gears slightly here still still working on the project at hand but i'm changing the way
i'm going to put it together i just actually got some bad news from back home in washington state
and no matter what this never gets easier on the road because you're physically so far away
but my brother barry has been in a car accident
and he has sustained some pretty major injuries and
it's really hard for family there because washington state is one of the very few
states that is still not allowing family of any kind to physically be in the hospital
so my dad's at the hospital and he can't even see his son who might not make it through the night
because of covid restrictions at the hospital barry's got a punctured lung
he's got broken ribs and he has two severed arteries on both sides of his neck and he's
undergoing surgery here this is delayed obviously but my dad can't even see his son in the hospital
there's nothing i can do from here it wouldn't do me any good to hop on a plane right now however
i sure would like to be with my family right now i've lost a lot of family members and i lost a
brother last year and i'm telling you man it never gets easier being a nomad and being the only one
of the family away so i not that i could do anything if i were there i would literally
just be sitting standing outside the hospital because we're not even allowed to see barry
hopefully i'll have an update on barry's condition here at the end of the video
i've been putting stuff together let me show you what it looks like inside so i am wrapping this
project up and i'm going to get back to building the inside and putting the hinges on the front
here later i got the two front panels on i've got the side panel on and i got to connect the wiring
the electrical stuff but and i got to put the struts on but there we go it's finished let's
grab the bed and open the bed and do like having this nice expanded hallway for clearance
this was um a hundred and twenty nine dollars on amazon the lowell mattress of the same
caliper like the one i have in the house that i've had in the rv is 500 usually it's 699
but it's on sale for 500 so 500 129 that's why i went with the cheaper one and we shall see
there's magic hard to believe that's a bed oh it's a knife they gave you a freak knife
it's a safety knife so you don't cut the mattress but you can't even
okay what do we do here oh let me move this one that's cool
it's like completely shrink wrapped
all right let's just start from this edge right here it's already making weird noises though
really
let's get this
all off plastic's off
needs three days to expand i don't know what it's like if you use it the first night but
i'll get back to you hey i do have a little bit of cardboard to burn so i'll do that and i'll
cut back in here and uh tomorrow when i maybe hear more about my brother and show you the bid
we got a lot of wind last night pretty much the first big storm it's still really windy
pretty much knocked out all the rest of the leaves so feeling good about that good morning guys uh
family got an update late last night that barry got out of surgery he is conscious um his ribs
did puncture a lung and there's not apparently there's not serious damage with his his arteries
in his neck so barry looks to be like he's going to be recovering this week and i'm really happy
about that really really glad our family has uh been through a lot this year and last year so um
anyways yeah that's good okay so i can i can relax and not feel helpless here in illinois
let's check out the bed all right so yeah look at that mattress just fluffed itself right up to its
11 inch thickness there you can also see my plan to keep the bed right underneath the emergency
exit latch there so i still have access to be able to get some wind flow in here oh that breeze feels
good actually i am really happy with how this came up except i i am worried that eventually even with
the weight of the pillow and the comforter that if i slam on the brakes this will slide around
you know and this wouldn't happen with the queen because it was already up against everything it
can't go anywhere now with my old bed right here it certainly never slid off so i don't even know
why i'm thinking that's going to be an issue but i think before i hit the road and head out to
illinois i am going to put a block 2x4 that's out here that kind of goes to there to hold it there
and same thing over here on the other side just to keep it from keep it from going crazy i think
that's what i'll do okay and don't worry about the wire the wire needs to be there because the
outlets there and stuff's up here that's plugged in that'll be covered up so jax won't chew it
later um and i still got stuff to do i still gotta put the struts on and stuff but i want
to show you how easy it is like i said you do got to kind of pull the bed out to be able to do this
and then i can grab here here lift the bed up get it to where i'm going to get it to
i'll use my little i'll use my little dowel here put that guy in there then i have access
to everything in here lots more shelving and stuff to build in here and the other thing is
because i said i didn't overlook anything well getting up here it's not impossible
it's just and that that's a long way down in the morning too well a lot longer of a climb
than before so also before i go i'm going to build a little custom step there because
jax is going to need it too this is too far for jacks to get up so we're going to build at least
one step here in the corner where i can step here and then easily go to the bed and jax
can jump up maybe even two steps i don't know i thought about putting it here but i have plans
for storage in this corner so came out good rv is pretty much back to normal minus leveling
generator and i have some updates on the generator i'm i'm happy moving forward so
don't worry about that but i'm going to close this video up guys i've still got
tons and tons of work to do here on the rv but i'm doing it at my pace and doing it the way i
feel comfortable so you guys be well from jax and i we love you we'll see you soon bye guys
bruh