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Welcome to my channel and i know it's been a while so i'm just doing what a lot of
people do i'm just getting some content out because i have it usually i try to
wait till i have something i have nothing. I have nothing!!!... so this is what you get.
Shug here i just want to give you a little update on things let me give you a little update on my
skin cancer surgery i had basal cell carcinoma
and i had mohs surgery on my left nostril i had a big hole cut out boom
i'm out practicing my mandolin i'm working on a control line plane and i'm
sort of just testing out um my new tenza solo pole that i bought and it's a single
pole that'll hold your hammock and you can hook it to a tree and just use the pole
in lieu of another tree and if you really want you can use two of the poles and the trick to using a
tenza solo or something like is the staking because you have to stake it out so you got
to know your soil and i'm using what are called boom stakes so it's a long stake that goes in the
ground with a pole that comes out and well you'll see i'll show you it's pretty much brand new to me
i think i might use it on the jeep camping trip i'm going on and uh that's just kind of it um just
dealing with life and being retired i mean the thing is since i had this uh plastic surgery on my
nose i've had to go to the surgeon every week so every week to get that sort of check so i've just
been kind of a little bit of a prisoner to the house in that sense because you know it's on my
face and i didn't want to i didn't want that skin to do anything weird but it's taken really well
you can even barely tell right now you have to really look to see that i had a
big hole in my nose uh i had the surgery at the end of march so it's been a little over
well going on a little less than three weeks when they did the plastic surgery to fill this
hole here's a picture of the hole i'm just going to show it really quick it's gross
that's kind of shocking had this big hole and now we're kind of looking right here
so that's where they put the skin in it's filling in i can actually rub my nose now i
can blow my nose that skin is filled in and it's going to take few more months for it to raise up
and start to look fairly normal but already i feel like less of a monster
and it's filling him really good so quite happy with that yeah
so this is the tensa solo right here all right you see this i've got this single pole
that just goes right there and it's the same as my tenths of four
two three four sections and then you have this little top section right here
and your your guy lines go out this way and i could be using amp steel but i wanted to try these
actual poly straps and these go out to a boom stake all right here's what a boom stake is
they have a long this is the large this is the top of the stake right here and that's that's
fairly long that's probably about i don't know 12 to 14 inches long what you're looking at here
this orange section that goes right around here and that's what you sort of stake into the ground
looks like that and then you hook your guy line around it if i unhook this show you the
boom stake that's what this looks like right here long stake holding this bar and then what i'll do
is i'll place this over the end well first i'll do this i kind of do a slippery half hitch i'm going
under so it pulls against itself you want to get as close to the end of the boom stake as you can
so as this steak is pulling forward this is kind of going down on the ground for great support
so now i'll go sit in the hammock and you can take a look at what happens here
all right now we'll try that again from another angle
and i'm even bouncing around here a little bit so they recommend you have two of these guy lines
you don't want them any more than six feet across like you don't want them way out here on each side
closer the better and i have them long because of my sandy soil so the longer this line is
the better support you get like if i were to stake stick out if i was just take it in this short
i would have less strength so i'm going long here and then we have an am still ball
we have am still that goes around the pole you hook it right down at this joint and bring these
down you don't want them up here toward the top and then my continuous loop or continual
to my this is my dutch wear chameleon goes right around that ball to hook it in
and then we're under here got a nice hang
and you want your pole to kind of go at an angle but pretty steep one here has a foot on the bottom
but since my soil is kind of so damp right now it's sinking in which is fine let's put
a piece of wood there to keep it from sinking much more so i'll get in the hammock now
so now i'll get in the hammock again and you can kind of just
you know see if that moving at all
and this is really only my second day of fooling with this i've i've set it up in this soggy
freshly thawed from snow ground with a lot of rain on it and i have very sandy soil back here
so i just i'm kind of just getting in and being kind of forceful to see how great
those uh stakes hold and so far so good looked like they were pulling up but they're holding
and uh just always remember the old adage only hang as far as you're willing to fall
so if i do fall i'm ready for it oh and by the way that is my warbonnet mini fly
sil poly tarp that's just another another option for hanging a hammock if you know let's just say
you wanted to hang close to someone there weren't the perfect trees you wanted to be kind of close
to them or you loved the spot but the trees were like 30 feet apart or 10 feet apart or eight feet
apart and now you you have a little another option that's all it is just another option for hanging
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so that's uh a song called Sapporo written by Sam Bush
one of my very favorite mandolin players and i try to learn a lot of his
tunes because they're complex they're different that one is based around a Japanese scale
and it is tough it's a tough song to play particularly that very first lick after this
kind of has that intro
that's that Japanese lick but then it gets into this
that's a tough lick and i'm still learning it requires that little finger being used a lot but
that's what i do with my time you know i'm just a hack mandolin player i just play
to pick with a few friends and no goal in life other than that
i just like coming out to the studio and working on something that challenges me
try to pull it off and yeah that's all i had about a million mistakes in it but
uh putting it out there anyway because part of the challenge is to try to play that tune which i
can sit down at night and play through it but when you come out and turn a camera on and you know you
become sort of self-aware you know the camera's running feels like the pressure is on just to
get the tune right and i like the exercise because it's kind of like flying control line or juggling
you got to keep your thoughts into what you're doing so the minute i'm playing this
if i start thinking man i'm really playing that good or
i wish i wasn't hitting that bottom string so much
and then my thoughts get off the song and that's when i make a mistake and i have to uh
oh i have to let out some colorful expletives and turn the camera off and start again so that's
part of my fun and now i'm gonna pack for a jeep camping trip next week up north because it's just
i i need to go see what it's like but i know some of the trails are muddy they don't want you on
the spear hiking trail that much because they're saying it's the muddy season and april is like my
least favorite month to camp in because it's just here at home it's just gray it's still kind of
coldish i mean it was 71 yesterday today is like 40 degrees
just gray windy it's been really windy it's been raining playing with my new tens of solo pole
working on my control line airplane the pathfinder coming up with some color schemes with my mclaren
uh livery scheme and today is sunday and the race was in emily and lando
got third place in that race so mclaren came in third so whoo buddy happy day
f1 sprint race bean is so excited about formula one aren't you buddy
oh you know that word don't you you know that word
i'll do my little uh most expensive balancing trick in the world
take that off my tuner
so i got my pathfinder kind of just pieced together here
and i'm just checking my thrust lines and what you do when you build these planes is
that engine line kind of goes through here and i'm just shimming and doing some fitting i've still
got a lot of stuff to kind of fit up and i've just got little shims in there to hold things
and just getting kind of my first bearings on getting this plane in true alignment
and this is the color scheme i'm liking the best so far
probably do a little bit more orange in there and then i just did a lot of sketches based on the
mclaren f1 car and it's kind of a swoopy looking design and what i'm trying to capture is the
the look of the front wing on the mclaren car get that kind of front wing feel but
that's how that's going for those of you that even care at all got an os 46 on the nose
bada boom this is where i've been working so right now i'm working on on the flaps
and gluing some little pieces and some braces in there and that's my elevator and i've got that
put together now and kind of just doing some work over here which is normally my
camping spot but i got everything moved and that is what is going on right here
All secure in sector seven
visiting the old job again
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