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[00:01.52] I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth.

[00:07.63] But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking.

[00:16.13] I've been just following the plans and the instructions that I found and that should hold up for a good while. These are a little, there you go. There's some 'shorties.'

[00:25.96] This is about a year into an idea to try and make something out of the logs that are, you know, already coming down across campus and to mill some wood.

[00:36.31] All the insides of the kiln will be painted black, but the roof is clear. So, it's going to let the sunlight in and heat up that space a lot.

[00:44.81] But at the same time, we need fans to be moving that heated and now more humid air.

[00:50.92] So, we're actually going to have some solar panels out in the front and those will power the fans and push that hot air out and through vents in the doors.

[01:02.10] You get that power from the commercial kiln of really, kind of, 'cooking' the wood.

[01:06.33] But you get that same kind of heat-and-cool cycle that you get with air drying outside. Alright, here are two more.

[01:18.02] She's been awesome. She's been a great support. And a lot of things, I think, she's pretty comfortable with.

[01:23.06] She actually also worked in the woodshop this last year while she was enrolled in a program here at the university.

[01:30.50] But before that she was, I think, a little bit on the edges of what all of this was.

[01:36.87] But as I've just come home every day and been really excited about it and talked about what we're doing, I think she's gotten more comfortable with it all.

[01:43.79] Yeah, she's been a great help here. Sure, I can come cut a piece.

[01:50.42] It's been a few weeks now and we've made some more progress.

[01:53.34] We've got the outside coated with some good exterior paint and we've also got the roof on and a few coats of this black paint.

[02:02.38] And let me tell you, it sure is dang hot in here. All we've got left to do is to put some vents in the doors because the fans will be hanging down about here, right?

[02:13.79] And so those will suck air in and push it down and through the stack and that will vent out.

[02:20.17] You know, basically we'll get quite a few logs in here. They'll come up to, you know, about this height, right?

[02:26.54] So, about waist-height and we'll stack those really nicely and we'll monitor those as they dry.

[02:32.39] In this kind of heat, we'll probably see a load of poplar, which you can dry pretty fast.

[02:37.44] We could probably get that out of here in five weeks, which would be great.

[02:41.43] Yeah, hopefully we'll start munching through our good log pile here.