- Ever order concrete before
and not have anybody there to set the posts?
I have!
I screwed up.
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What's up, fish tank people?
Fishtanktv.com, dustinsfishtanks.com bringing it to you
on a Greenhouse Saga Sunday.
How's everybody doing?
I hope you're doing well.
In today's video, we're gonna finally show you
how the building and the greenhouse
look and work together, now that we're rolling.
We're also gonna talk about yet another fail
from yours truly, as my first
and potentially last time as general contractor.
And we're also gonna talk about Santa Claus
and a 900 gallon aquarium.
Okay, so in last week's video you saw
that I actually got approvals pretty easily
from the City of Nicholasville
to extend the length of my building
up from 36 feet out to 39 feet,
which is beyond the scope of my final development plan.
That went pretty painlessly.
Now, it's time to build the building.
I wanna make some notes on the building.
As I said in last week's video,
this building has 30-foot long posts
that go down six feet into the ground.
We had to get approvals on that.
We've got engineered prints, we're good to go.
It's time to start digging.
I went with a wooden building instead of a metal building.
In hindsight, I wish I would'a gone with a metal building.
But at the time, in the spring,
when good weather finally arrives,
it was hard to get any general contractors to talk to me,
much less give me a price,
so I elected to take the bull by the horns
and do the whole thing myself.
And you're seeing how that saga's playing out for me.
However, approvals are in,
it is time to build the wooden building,
and who builds wooden buildings better
than anyone on the planet?
That's right, folks, bring on the Amish!
The Amish are awesome.
Here's why I love the Amish:
the Amish are totally committed to just saying "no."
They are not gonna roll around and evolve
with many of the technological advances
that have come, over the past several hundred,
almost thousand years.
So, it's outside of the scope of this main video,
but it would make a nice Member's Only rant
if you're not checking that out,
you could join the whole YouTube Member's Only area.
I'd make a whole five bucks a month,
and you'd get entertained by funny rants
that I post up on the Members Only area.
My quick take, and part of the reason
I love the Amish is this:
I believe that people were actually happier
in the pre-smartphone era.
I know it's not fish tank related,
but what do you all think about this?
The fact that Amish do not have smartphones
and avoid technology?
I believe people were happier before smartphones.
I want your take in the comments, on that.
Kids and adults these days are growing up
with their whole self-worth revolving around
their online persona, instead of the actual,
in-person human relationships
with people like, I don't know, their family.
Not the Amish.
Check this out.
The Amish guys constructing the building
that is attached to greenhouse 2.0 were fantastic.
These dudes were showing up before 8am,
usually right around the time of the sunrise.
They were driven there by someone.
They didn't come on their own.
And they usually only worked until about 3 o'clock.
Why did they only work until about about 3 o'clock?
Because these folks value eating dinner with their family,
without their smartphones on.
And now it's time to get into a little bit woo-woo with ya.
I've said it before, and I will say it again,
people in life do not get what they want
because they do not know what they want.
I like the Amish because I believe they know what they want.
They want good relationships with their family,
they're committed to their long-standing religion,
and they don't want technological advances
and I'm assuming they're not really
into the whole monetary thing, as well.
I'm not trying to be Amish, but I do admire that.
And one thing Amish don't want to be is: on camera.
And frankly, I respect that,
because sometimes, being on camera sucks.
All the Amish want to do is show up
and do what they do, and have been doing,
for thousands of years.
And what's that?
Building Dusty's pole barn in rapid fashion!
But just 'cause the Amish don't want to be on camera
and don't like technology,
doesn't mean I don't want to mess with them.
I want some Christmas joy, around here.
See what they think about Santa Claus visiting the job site.
Yeah, I like to have a little bit of fun.
I rolled up on the job to see 'em in a Santa suit.
It was awesome.
You should'a seen the look on the Amish's face.
Now, out of respect for those hard working individuals
who threw up the pole barn pretty quickly,
I'm not gonna put their faces on camera.
Just, kinda something they wanted to do.
But I can assure you, it was awesome
to see the look on their face when they see
some skinny white dude roll up in a Santa outfit
about ten days before Christmas.
Why is Dusty in a Santa suit?
You're gonna have to hit the Subscribe button.
Because we're actually gonna talk about
the largest aquarium I've ever done,
at the Newport Aquarium, right around Christmas time.
And yes, folks, it involves a Santa suit.
Yeah, I'm rocking a Santa suit
because our friends at the Newport Aquarium
have what's called Scuba Santa going on, at this time.
But I actually want to talk, just for a quick second,
about what's going on behind the scenes
at the Newport Aquarium while I'm doing all this building.
While the biggest building in my life is going on,
I'm about to do the biggest aquarium in my life.
But before I step foot into the Mekong tank
at the Newport Aquarium,
one of the things I wanted to make very clear
with them was this:
that tank was riddled with algae, you can see it here,
we don't want anything to do with it.
So I had them strip the entire tank and run it.
Even with all of the stuff out of the tank,
they had a seven day blackout,
no lights, no nothing, no water,
just to make sure we killed all the algae.
A couple days before this was shot,
I actually had the privilege of going
with one of the largest aquariums in the United States,
up to Cincinnati, and going rock shopping.
Let me tell ya folks, Dusty got his rocks off
going rock shopping with the Newport Aquarium.
Those guys rock.
They actually had a massive amount of rock available
at this awesome rock yard in Cincinnati.
And I was able to go up and personally select
from a giant pallet of rocks
what I wanted to put in the 900 gallon aquarium.
This is about $600 worth of rock
that we're going to put into this tank
and I am super-duper excited to be working
with this much hardscape material in the 900.
So, do make sure you hit the Subscribe button
and you will get notified when those videos are coming out.
Now, it's time to talk about how I screwed something up.
Shocker, right?
Buy a shirt, support your boy Dusty
while I build this greenhouse.
Ever order concrete before
and not have anybody there to set the posts?
I have!
I screwed up.
I got five yards of concrete coming
and nobody there to set the posts.
This should be fun.
What you're looking at here is just the end wall.
These are smaller piers
that I had to have filled in with concrete,
per the stamped, engineered prints.
(concrete mixer downs out conversation)
I'm learning as I go, Mark, I'm learning as I go.
I screwed up.
I ordered the concrete.
The concrete guy was here.
The guy, Eric, to set the post wasn't here.
We were smart, though.
Luckily, he called while I was on the phone
with Eric, Eric called in at the same time.
So, he said, "Lou, let's pour 'em part of the way full."
And then Eric will come back to finish them out.
So, I only wasted a couple hundred bucks
but it wasn't a good way to start the day.
I was on fire this morning, too.
That's what I get for busting the guy's balls,
Adam, who screwed up the holes originally,
I busted his balls today, on the phone.
And that's karma, coming back around.
So, oh well.
They look good, though.
They're done right, they're measured.
Let me ask you a question.
Back at fail.0, did you think that the lady
would ever come across the street
and lend me a hand, or help me with anything?
Probably not.
It's good to have good neighbors.
Over here, that's my dude Eric.
He's the one building this greenhouse.
He's the man.
Next door is my neighbor Charlie.
Charlie's a no BS dude, he's not trying to be on camera.
But Eric went over there and said,
"Hey, man. Can we borrow your bobcat
to move some of this dirt out of the way?"
Charlie's letting us do it, at no charge.
Good neighbors, better situation, better location,
just better everything, all the way around.
For those of you who liked the quotes and all that,
"for every seed of adversity comes the sequel
of equal or greater value."
I think you'll grow rich.
Yeah, my neighbors are a heck of a lot cooler over here.
It's fun.
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Make it an awesome week, everybody.
Talk to you on Sunday about a 900.
Tank on!
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