Trevor Buck Podcast
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Trevor Buck Podcast
EP 56 - Ned - Michigan State Bird - Logging
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Ned joins the podcast for a Upper Peninsula winter weather update.
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Welcome to the Trevor Buck Podcast, episode 56. We are with the the happiest guy we know in the UP. He loves everything about the UP, especially during the winter. Snowblower, snowblower, CEO of Rhombus Lumber. What's going on?
SPEAKER_01Oh, just loving life.
SPEAKER_03What are you doing today?
SPEAKER_01I'm sitting on my recliner with my cat on my lap watching a Minnesota Wildhawk game.
SPEAKER_03This is great. What's your cat's name?
SPEAKER_00Reese.
SPEAKER_03What?
SPEAKER_00Reese's.
SPEAKER_03Reese's. Is that a youper name?
SPEAKER_00As in Reese's PC's.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay, okay. I would have thought you your cat's name would be Snoop Dogg or something.
SPEAKER_01No, I didn't name her. It's a kid's cat. She's like she's like 14 or 15 years old.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so she's getting old. No, that's cool. I like cats. She prayer for you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she's taking an attachment to me, and anytime I sit down, she's instantly on my lap.
SPEAKER_03Well, you know what they say is cats um they know people. And they know you're a you're a good human.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, she thinks so anyway.
SPEAKER_03Right. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so you were uh you were doing some work uh gym time this morning. Tell me about your your workout regimen. This is awesome.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I wanted to start going to the gym to get over the winter blue.
SPEAKER_03Is it tough?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Oh, I did ever.
SPEAKER_03I know, but it's it's all white and bright and cheery.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah. Yeah, it's white, but it's not bright and cheery at all.
SPEAKER_03It's not.
SPEAKER_01It's like today's been all day, it's been in between snow and freezing rain.
SPEAKER_03That sounds amazing.
SPEAKER_01Great and miserable.
SPEAKER_03Hey, we gotta talk about we gotta talk about you you mentioned that the the robins were uh migrating back up to the UP. How do you feel about the robins coming home early?
SPEAKER_01Retarded Robin? Uh yeah, like why wouldn't you stop somewhere south bigger where there's grass? What are you thinking? There was one when I came on the sauna last night, there was one in the tree.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01Like, you idiots ain't gonna be able to pick worms up here until bloody middle of May. And not later. They're not that bright. Or it's the state bird.
SPEAKER_03Oh, the the the the Robin is the Michigan State bird?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and they're and they're all snowbirds, like the people that leave for Florida in the winter. How do they get this state bird nomination?
SPEAKER_03That is awesome.
SPEAKER_01No, it should have been like a chickadee or a blue jay. They stick around.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's awesome. Hey, you know what? I want to share this with you. Um, I I did a podcast uh previously today with the this fella from up in the UP, Pristine Airbrush. Oh, okay. So he's done a whole bunch of goalie masks. He's he's traveled all over the world painting uh floors for uh NBA uh all-star games and whatnot. Super cool story.
SPEAKER_01Is that uh Lehman?
SPEAKER_03Um who?
SPEAKER_01Lehman?
SPEAKER_03No, no Lehman.
SPEAKER_01No Lehman with an S. But um no, I don't know who I mean I've heard of Christine Airbrecht, but I don't know who it is.
SPEAKER_03Super cool. He's got the you're gonna have to listen to the pod. He's got this finished last name that I can't pronounce, but it sounds like Pillia.
SPEAKER_01Pilia?
SPEAKER_03Pilia. Super cool. And uh he works for Samoro, Laser Creep.
SPEAKER_01Oh. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03But he does some awesome airbrushing, so you're gonna have to check it out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, I've seen his work. Right. I've seen a lot of his work. Yeah, he does beautiful work.
SPEAKER_03Right. We should do a Rhombus Lumber hockey mask.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we should.
SPEAKER_03Right? With like with like one by four tongue and groove cedar on the side?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Come on.
SPEAKER_01So the Rhombus, the the Trevor Buck Rhombus Lumber sauna shards.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01Um, they work really good for gym shards. But I was thinking, you know where you put the Rhombus Lumber mogul on it? For where it was placed, it should say it's it may be small, but it's there.
SPEAKER_03Well, it kind of depends on where your placement was, because sometimes they're random.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you random place. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03Right. We we're not uh real precise with our specs, but uh that's great. And if you want a pair of these uh sauna shorts that Snowblower's rocking, check out the Trevorbuckco.com and we'll we'll we'll hook you up. This is awesome.
SPEAKER_01They really are awesome, but yeah, don't wear them in a sauna.
SPEAKER_03Why you have to you have to wear you have to wear shorts in the sauna these days, Ned.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm pretty proud of you pronouncing sauna properly.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01You didn't think I caught that, did you?
SPEAKER_03I didn't even know I slipped. I'm starting to get all thin, but it but it's it's sauna. For our westerners that speak English, it it's uh it's definitely sauna. Yeah. So hey, I I wanna I wanna tell you this. Did did you hear the uh the episode with Nittin from uh India?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03You haven't listened to that one?
SPEAKER_01No. I never did.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well you better catch up to times, but um he's from India and he speaks very fluid English, and he was wondering what language you speak up on the UP.
SPEAKER_01It's gibberish.
SPEAKER_03Right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. That is super funny. So does he have a big hockey following?
SPEAKER_03He does in India. It's amazing what he's doing, and they're uh, if you didn't know, India has a population of like 1.2635 billion people. Yeah, they got billions. And they're building hockey ranks like crazy. And he's he's obsessed. He he he uh he got into the sport and he's skating like four or five hours a day. He loves it.
SPEAKER_01No kidding.
SPEAKER_03No kidding. You got I can't I can't believe you haven't listened.
SPEAKER_01No, I got I got terrible service out on my job.
SPEAKER_03Right. Are you still listening to uh tradio?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, if you got anything about a five stuff, oh that's funny. I hadn't heard that in so long.
SPEAKER_03Do they still do that up there?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I never listened to regular radio.
SPEAKER_03What's up with that?
unknownOh, I hate it. I used to that advertising and everything was so so terrible. I would b punch my radio out every time I and and the bro country. I couldn't hack it.
SPEAKER_03What's bro country?
SPEAKER_01Oh, the new country music.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay. But hey, give us a snow update. Like, so so for some of us here on the West Coast, it's sunny and it's spring, and there's green grass and it's nice and warm, but what's it like up there?
SPEAKER_01Can I use the language I was using this morning talking to you?
SPEAKER_03Let it rip. We'll we'll beep it out if we have to. Let it rip.
SPEAKER_01No, but but you I snow, honestly, it hasn't it hasn't melted at all.
SPEAKER_03I know, but you like you just act like you hate it, but truly you love it.
SPEAKER_01No, I absolutely hate it.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely hate it.
unknownThere is nothing cool about it.
SPEAKER_01It might be cool if it was like in most areas of the world where it actually started melting in March. But when it's hanging around till God knows when.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01May Hey, we've got we've got ten inches of snow on my birthday, May 2nd.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Okay, no, no, but but but tell me about so you're in the the timber industry. So so tell me about how the snow affects. So when it's snowing packed down, you're able to get out to your areas and and pull logs out, but then when it starts getting soft and muddy, then it closes down, or how how does that work?
SPEAKER_01Tell me how the Yeah, well, I mean, like for us, you you can drive, we're we're working on a swamp, and if there's enough snow, you can just make a trail, stay on top of it, not in the mud.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Or else and of course when it's cold it freezes too.
unknownYep.
SPEAKER_01Um so you got a good solid solid trail to work on, but yeah, as soon as as soon as it starts melting, it's just a muddy mess.
SPEAKER_03So then are you done? Are you done?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03You don't pull out the I thought that's why you were uh getting the skidder fired up. We shared that. That was epic, epic stories.
SPEAKER_01The skidder's still working because um it's cold and snowy uh and we can still get out there.
SPEAKER_03Okay, but so it can't go skid logs out of the mud.
SPEAKER_01Well, you can't. I mean, do you want to run your sawmill through muddy logs? Well float them down that Columbia River like you guys.
SPEAKER_03Right, right. Isn't that cool?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well you can uh you can wash them off in the in the what uh what do they call that lake up there? The superior. You can go dip them dip them in the superior.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I've they used to do log wraps in Lake Superior.
SPEAKER_03Why didn't why did they stop?
SPEAKER_01Uh probably because it was more efficient to do it with trucks.
SPEAKER_03Okay. So then re realistically you're waiting till how long you're waiting before you can go truck 'em.
SPEAKER_01Before what do you mean?
SPEAKER_03Well, when so so the spring comes, it warms up, it gets muddy, and everything gets soft.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, well, I mean they usually take the road restrictions off in the middle of May. Yeah. It's been as late as June.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um but I mean you're the woods the woods roads have to dry up enough too.
SPEAKER_03Okay, when does that happen?
SPEAKER_00You tell me.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so so so so what do you do in the meantime when you when you're not able to drive your truck out there?
SPEAKER_01Um like now we're just decking it up, just piling it up.
SPEAKER_03Just piling them up.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_03Okay. And are you milling them?
SPEAKER_01Not yet. We can't haul them to the mill.
SPEAKER_03Oh. This sounds like a lot of work.
SPEAKER_01It is.
unknownIt's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03Have you thought about a different career besides timber?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, unfortunately, once you get in the logum, it's like uh it either I I haven't decided if it just turns you dumb or if it's an addiction. I'm thinking I'm thinking more that it turns you dumb.
SPEAKER_03Okay, but but why don't you come out here to the West Coast where we float them on the river and there's no snow and come out here and do logging.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I'm gonna I'm gonna come out there and drive practice, right?
SPEAKER_03Right. That would be awesome.
SPEAKER_01You can uh you know that chick that you uh had was she on she wasn't on the podcast. We had that one truck driver.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I I never I never got her on. Nope.
SPEAKER_01No, she wasn't on a podcast.
SPEAKER_03Columbia Distribution, shout out them.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I'm gonna go haul log with her.
SPEAKER_03Right. With a a self-loader truck?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03There's not too many of those out here.
SPEAKER_01No. They're well yeah, I mean out there your weight restrictions are so all like Michigan out there.
SPEAKER_03Right. We have uh we're uh we're pretty strict out here. We're pretty liberal.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03You gotta follow follow the rules and stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, they definitely they definitely uh make and follow the rules out there. Uh up here there's no rules, apparently in a log truck.
SPEAKER_03Okay. That's that's great.
SPEAKER_01No, no, it's not.
SPEAKER_03Oh, shoot. Did you slim's this morning?
SPEAKER_01No, I'm fasting right now.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's right. Tell me about your fasting. So that that was something really impressive this morning you shared me about. You're at the gym, you're working on the upper body, plus you're fasting. So tell me about your fasting, Regimen.
SPEAKER_01Well, I just uh stopped eating last night. Okay. Or yesterday. Yesterday at lunch was the last time I ate. So we're gonna see how long I can go.
SPEAKER_03And you just decided, hey, I'm done, I'm done eating because why?
SPEAKER_01Um, I don't know. I just need to fast, lose some weight, do a body cleanse. Um so my brother Mark, he's uh he did a five-day no food, no water fast this winter.
SPEAKER_03That's not even healthy. That but that's recipe for you can't you can't have water for more than 24 hours and you die.
SPEAKER_01Well, he made it for five days, so he proved that theory wrong.
SPEAKER_03Okay, and what what did he accomplish when he was done? He felt amazing?
SPEAKER_01Well, he has rheumatoid arthritis in his hands, and it it helps that. That's why he does it so often.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, it's it's huge for that. I was just watching a documentary on fasting. Tell me about it. Like at a certain point, your body starts when it starts breaking down the fat molecules, it um it starts producing stem cells and they travel through your body and repair places that um, you know, like cysts, skin tags, um anything. I mean they say it'll pure cancer too.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Huh. So I should shut her down tonight. No no food, no water for five days, and then it'll be empty.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm not I'm not going five days and I'm not doing no water.
SPEAKER_03So Okay, so how how long has it been for you?
SPEAKER_01Oh, it's only been twenty-four hours for me.
SPEAKER_03What are you craving? I mean f family friendly stuff. Of course.
SPEAKER_01I'm craving a cigar. I think I'm gonna go down to the to the gas station and get a honey berry backwards cigar.
SPEAKER_03Cigars are so gross.
SPEAKER_01Oh, they're good. How's uh the honey bear go ahead?
SPEAKER_03Tell me about the honey bear.
SPEAKER_01The honey the honeyberry cigars. Yeah. Man, I love them.
SPEAKER_03Never heard of them. Hey, how's your uh how's your YouTube channel coming along?
SPEAKER_01You were uh Oh, yeah, so anyway, about that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, let's talk about it.
SPEAKER_01I finally got my camera and I took it out to the job yesterday doing some videos of working on that winch, you know, doing my play-by-play and singing a little song. Yep, that was great.
SPEAKER_03That was great content.
SPEAKER_01Right, that was what my iPhone was.
SPEAKER_03And you were in you were in Dollar Bay, right?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03That was awesome.
SPEAKER_01So, anyways, um, yeah, I got back and I was you know, I was looking at all my content.
unknownAll it was is just a bunch of cut-up clips.
SPEAKER_01Apparently the camera only runs for three minutes. So I was gonna send you some cool stuff. Right. And uh, and none of it, I mean, there's some cool stuff, but you know, to be you can they can watch it later on my YouTube channel and it doesn't exist yet.
SPEAKER_03Right. This YouTube channel is gonna be epic. And uh and you're gonna get uh I always pronounce his name wrong. Is it Zeph or Zef?
SPEAKER_01Zef.
SPEAKER_03With a PH or FF PH. PH Zef. Because that guy's awesome.
SPEAKER_01I know.
SPEAKER_03You gotta get him to come on your uh YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_01Well, he was out there the other day. Uh and but I didn't have my camera yet.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_01My boy has a GoPro, but his only mount was he has stuck on the visor of his motorcycle helmet. I wasn't gonna wear that around all day.
SPEAKER_03Well you could.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03Hey, how about uh hey, how about the other guys? The the the machinist guys. What's their names?
SPEAKER_01Oh, Sean and Yeah, you gotta get them on. Yeah. Oh, I'll definitely get them.
SPEAKER_03You gotta get Zef and those guys on, because that is classic youper stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Seriously. It's awesome.
SPEAKER_01I know. They'll all be on there.
SPEAKER_03Okay. You better not let me down.
SPEAKER_01I won't.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01I got the Aya Joe Kameini.
SPEAKER_03What's that?
SPEAKER_01My my partner Joe.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01My login partner.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01He looks like the Ayatollah Khomeini from Iran.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Tell me more. He's got a big beard or what?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah. Okay. He'll be on the show.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01And yeah, we'll have we'll have all kinds of local local talent on there.
SPEAKER_03That'll be awesome. And and not just the local talent, because uh, how about um I never shared in this because I didn't know exactly where I was going, but uh you had some shared some videos of Joey.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03Joey is feeling pretty good.
SPEAKER_01Had a good conversation with Joey. Okay. He said I'm his favorite person.
SPEAKER_03Right. What's he been up to?
SPEAKER_01Oh he he was there watching that uh that hockey tournament all weekend.
SPEAKER_03Oh, he was? So he's a hockey fan.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, Joey always shows up at the hockey games.
SPEAKER_03He's awesome. He's got good uh good energy. I I just I couldn't totally follow exactly what was going on, so I didn't uh I was just like I I enjoyed the videos, but I didn't yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, no. There ain't many of those that you could uh post family friendly hard keep under control.
SPEAKER_03No, the dude is awesome. I know the dude is so awesome.
SPEAKER_01It's just uh Yeah, it's not family friendly most of the time.
SPEAKER_03I mean the the the best one I seen of him was when he was doing little the little jig and he said Justin Bieber don't got anything on him. That was that was the best one ever. And I think he was I think he was rocking the the Green Bay Packer uniform.
unknownOh yeah.
SPEAKER_03Not sure where that came from, but maybe he's a Packer fan.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It depends what day of the week it is, Joey.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01Maybe it's Packers or Vikings or you never know. I'd love to see that do his ward role, though.
SPEAKER_03Wouldn't that be awesome?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That's great. Have you talked to Zeb lately?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03I think he might be out. I think he might be out fishing. He's uh have you heard about his lure?
SPEAKER_01Nah.
SPEAKER_03You have not heard about his lure?
SPEAKER_01No, I haven't.
SPEAKER_03Serious?
SPEAKER_01No, he doesn't post anything on Facebook or Instagram. So how am I gonna know?
SPEAKER_03He's not on those things. But if this lure takes off, me, you, and Zeb are gonna be living in Tahiti. We're gonna retire. We're gonna build the ice rink. We're gonna build the ice rink in Tahiti, and uh yeah, he'll just be selling lures. No, it's pretty awesome.
SPEAKER_01What about can't we go to El Salvador?
SPEAKER_03No, I don't. I'll have to look that up. El Salvador sounds sketch. War war war torn and crime and no, no, it's one of the safest countries now. Okay, tell us about it. Tell us about El Salvador and how you've fallen in love with El Salvador.
SPEAKER_01Well, so they they apparently elected a new uh president that really cracked down on crime, but I was gonna go. But I can't find my passport. I mean, I know it's expired, but it's easier to be new than to get a new one.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_01And I don't know. All I can figure is it had burnt in the house fire back in 2010. So that must be where it's at.
SPEAKER_03Um tell me about your house fire. How did that start? I didn't I didn't know about it.
SPEAKER_01That was back in was it? Yeah, it was 2010.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01Winter of 2010.
SPEAKER_03What happened?
SPEAKER_01I don't know, a wire. So they had put put it on a new furnace and they shoved the ductwork up in between two joists in the basement, and there was an electrical wire there. And they just shoved the ductwork up there and they had put that furnace in probably twenty-five years or earlier, and that wire finally wore through, like right below the living room floor.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_01And started my house on fire.
SPEAKER_03So the the the electrical wiring started your house on fire.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Wow. So this is a public service announcement for those listening. You should always hire a licensed electrician to do your electrical work.
SPEAKER_01And a licensed or a smart um feeding licensing guy to do your ductwork. Not whoever did the ductwork in that house.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so who did the ductwork on your house when you uh renovated it?
SPEAKER_01Uh I hired uh local contractors.
SPEAKER_03Well, give them a shout out. They need business.
SPEAKER_01R RHC.
SPEAKER_03Right. That's awesome. And they probably bought their materials from the High Rock hardware store.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, probably.
SPEAKER_03And then fueled by uh East Fork Pasty Company, you you had a successful renovation of your prop project.
unknownUh-huh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I still got my East Fork uh gift card here. I gotta use it.
SPEAKER_03You gotta go use it. They're open.
SPEAKER_01Well, I know. I know, but I'm fasting, so.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that that's right. You know what's um interesting. I did a podcast earlier this week with a lady from uh Washington Trust Bank. And uh she had heard that the East Fork passed the episode, and she was pretty uh she was kind of touched about Henry's story. You know, when he was working on the train and how it came to him, and that was a pretty cool story, and she was wishing that they could ship him.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But but I had shared with her that East Fork does not currently have the licensing or the credentials or whatever's involved to ship them. I guess that's a whole nother step up. But she was hoping to try East Fork pasty. So, hey, tell you what.
SPEAKER_01Hey, listen start bootlegging.
SPEAKER_03Okay, when you come hey, listen, listen. When you come out here, you gotta get a cooler with ice and get some and bring some out here.
SPEAKER_01Okay, I will.
SPEAKER_03Promise?
SPEAKER_01Promise. Same with the full of rhombus, lumber, tongue, and groove cedar.
SPEAKER_03And Eastwork pasties.
SPEAKER_01And Eastwork pasties. You promise?
SPEAKER_03No. No.
unknownI promise.
SPEAKER_03Okay, hey, let's wrap this up. This was a very special episode with Snowblower Snowblower from the UP. And this episode was edited and produced by Daisy Media. Follow and like and subscribe on Apple and Spotify and give us a five star review. Thank you. Good night.