Welcome to HUB Farm The dumbest Farm in all of YouTube and I am now standing on the site of what is supposed to be Hoovies Garage 3.0 And unfortunately there have been a lot lot of issues and delays to where I thought I was going to have a building by Christmas but as you can see it is just totally a blank pad. There's been no progress for going on two months now. so today I'm going to give you an update on the farm because there is a lot of bad news, but there is some good news, some progress going on and give you an update on the fleet because I don't have this facility. Uh, space is becoming a major major issue.

So let's talk about this building. I Chose to build a 60 by 100 structure and that the whole reason why I bought this property. it didn't come with the building that I needed. There wasn't anything on the market that met my needs for having a nice big garage.

So I wanted a property with a few acres to build on and it just happened to be a very cool property established in 1895 that was a Farmstead surrounded by the original corn fields that they farmed on and the house absolutely gorgeous but a little bit dated since it was built in the 1800s. So there's some upgrades going on there which I shall show you today in a tour. A lot of progress. but the whole reason I bought the place was to have a nice big garage a big Film Studio a place to keep all of my cars where I can walk out a few steps, pick a car and just go.

So a big open space like this, I' probably jam it full of cars eventually anyway. Uh, but in principle I'd be able to get out any car I want in a minute or two, but that hasn't happened. So let me talk about the process of this building first: I ordered it, put down a substantial deposit and then I got a building permit once I had the site plan and all the drawings. so I paid for that.

that was another few thousand and then I had the concrete guys come out and pour the slab. All that went really well. A beautiful 60x 100 parking slab is what I have right now and then. The building well was scheduled to be delivered and I scheduled out to early November and right before it showed up, a representative of the company called me and said you need to pay by cashier check or a wire and it needs to be there the moment we show up or we will not unload the building and I thought okay, I'm out of town but that's no problem I'll go to the Bank when it opens, you know by 9:00 and bring you the check.

Her response was no, no, no, we're going to be there at 8:00 in the morning. We are not waiting. You need to have the money right then and there like well I'm out of town so I guess I'll just wire you the money but it seemed really aggressive that they couldn't wait or get started unloading and then I would give the money. I thought maybe they've had issues before where people like run them off for property with a gun or something like that I don't know.

So I sent the wire and the building got delivered, but it obviously wasn't the entire building, not even close. it's the steel skeleton of it. basically all all the exterior pieces, the skeleton uh, but none of the exterior siding that I can tell or any of the instulation. So a very expensive portion of it was not delivered yet and I had no idea why.

I thought okay, we could get the building and they start assembling it right away. It'd be up inside of two weeks and uh, well, end of November I'd have a building that didn't happen. The Builder who contracts through the people that sold me the building said I'm waiting on the installation, the sighting, everything I don't want to start building until I have everything because I' start and then have to stop move my equipment somewhere else and then come back I'd rather have everything here in one spot so I can put it all together. so I wait a week check in again, no installation yet I wait another week check in.

No insulation yet So then I start to get a little curious because I paid in full for this building because I thought I was getting the full building and I didn't I paid them for everything and didn't get a full building. So finally I get through I get a response and apparently they didn't deliver the installation because they didn't think I had a dry place to store it which I have two old buildings with plenty of space to store this material but also there is a wait for it. There's a few other buildings in front of me which there shouldn't be because this building's been sitting for over a month. All the Steel's starting to show some crud and corrosion now because it's been sitting in the rain, not put up so it kind of looks kind of crusty now like a hoopie building and well, it is quite frustrating.

But that is the norm when it comes to construction. There's delays and excuses and things and hopefully it all comes together. They assure me uh, January will be the time that the building goes up. They also blame the weather which it has been very, very wet.

everything is very muddy. It is a total mud pit mess right now. Um, so let me give you a tour of what the property looks like right now because like I said, it is a mess. But that hasn't stopped.

The totally separate house construction going on hasn't really slowed them down one bit. they are going full steam ahead knock on wood so I'll show you that as well. Here is another angle of the building. pad the 60x 100 and you can see there's the old barn from the 40s, the old leant to right here and then that really nice bar dominium which is the studio for Good Morning YouTube as well.

and the home of Neix the cat. but uh, the backyard. Holy crap. I Have a mud pit right now.

A really challenging off-road course that only probably the lull could get through. uh, because of the old milking Barn that was here. It was bulldozed and there was just dirt beneath it. but it's been raining so much that uh, well, you can see the ruts The Unbelievable ruts that that machine has brought to the backyard.

But also, it brings mud up to the front because deliveries on the other side of those trees over there and uh, leaves mud Globs everywhere to where all of my cars, uh, gets covered in mud once. I Get the Raptor back. There needs to be a hooie garage mudding episode probably, but it's just such an ungodly mess here in the backyard, but for a good reason. They have been working really hard on the new addition.

Here you can see the original house built in 1895, the shape of it there and from the front it looks totally normal. Totally fine. All the addition has come on the back, which it already had one addition in the80s and now we are just adding more to it. The two big things that this house didn't have: Number one: A proper master bedroom in the 1890s.

Well, different definitions of master bedrooms are or sorry I'm supposed to say primary bedroom now. but uh, they haven't cut out the doors yet. so we'll go in through the fireplace here. So the solution was to take the two-car garage and apartment and make it into a master suite, which is what this is.

So the structure here was existing. It was added on in the 1980s. You can see we used the slope of the ceiling to make sort of a nice big ceiling. The bed will sit right here, have a large shower, bathroom, walk-in closet.

Since we're using existing structure, this isn't obscenely expensive. Basically, we're enclosing a two-car garage and a hobby room and making a master bedroom. and we'll do a cheap detached two-car garage right off the house later. But we needed to feed into it some way because you didn't want to walk through the mud room to go into the master.

That'd be a little strange. And and also we didn't have a proper great room or living room. so that's what this is. This hallway feeds into the master, the main bedroom, and then this is the new edition.

This is the great room or the new living room. and they did this in a really ingenious way. They didn't want to tear down the existing patio that was closed in and then risk water getting into the house. They built this temporary wall right here to keep the house separated to where we could live in it at the same time.

But all this ceiling here that gets knocked down eventually. but they've been building around it to keep water from getting into the house. So Eventually they'll build into the house, they'll get the roof on, and then they'll rip down this old part and we'll have a nice tall ceiling. great room, considerable addition to square footage without spending an absolute Fortune It's still way more than the first house that I built in 2007 to do.

All this about double it, but it's way more reasonable than starting from scratch with building costs right now, so fingers crossed things have not been un reasonable here and we are more or less on schedule now. The pond is another thing where there hasn't been too much progress. Unfortunately, when I went out to start removing these, Cattails I realized how shallow the pond was. in the center, it only came up to well, barely my hips.

Which means this thing will never be deep enough to really not be a swamp right now. There's so much crudes built up over the years that it needs to be drained and dug out properly and then refilled. and they can make the burm continue it over all the way to the end to the edge of the property line because there talks of developing this corn field behind us eventually and we do want to maintain that privacy so it will be a good thing to have and along the border we'll have these Stones which are placed here temporarily. right now there'll be a lot more to sort of outline at least this side of the pond going around smoothing it out U making it look less like a well a phallic thing that it is right now and uh, that'll happen, hopefully sometime this winter.

The people who move the dirt around they are very busy to get people's foundations done last minute, pouring slabs for buildings and such. so the last little bit of warm weather before we get into full winter they're going full speed ahead on that. and then they plan to get to the pond. The other thing that got messed up because of the rain was the repair of my windmill that is totally loose right now just spinning with any wind.

The brake is disconnected, the pump that would allow me to fill up the pond there to the well has broken so it needs a lot of work. About $3,000 and work that I was going to do and document on the YouTube channel but weather F that up. So I do need to reschedule that and the only other thing that has changed and the sun has started to go down so it might be a little bit more difficult to see is all the trees on the burms. The noise is down quite a bit when it comes to traffic thanks to those BMS and as the trees sort of grow in everything that we planted there, we should have a lot more privacy from the road Now from the front, that's what I love about this addition.

The house looks totally undisturbed, the character, its original charm, still totally the same, but now we have everything we would want in a modern house and a lot more size. And it doesn't look like a Mcmansion monstrosity. Unfortunately though, the big issue going through winter is we do not have much in the way of covered parking and I'm losing one space that I thought I was going to lose over and over again. But I'm for sure losing it now.

and also the hanger which we'll visit today is looking mighty full with some hoopties uh, that need some love I'm neglecting them because I can't drive them home because it's a giant mud pit. So let's move on to the location that I am finally giving up the old hoopie barn that I haven't been to for months. Yeah, we're taking the Ultra out and I don't want to have it detailed yet because listen to that. it's just a muddy mess right now so there's no way I would take a nice car down this road right now.

I See, every time we leave we put mud out on the road so we're in considerate of other drivers as well. I would be mad driving an ice car even through that junk, so that's on me. Yeah, but let's head over to the old hoop barn and finally say goodbye. So the reason I haven't been over here very much is the construction has been unreal in one way on this road leading to the old barn.

So it literally has been months since I Visited the cars in here and the one that's been sitting outside for 6 months waiting for me to do some paperwork to get into the junkyard is the Range Rover Sport autobiography and know you don't want to buy it. It's being sold for $8,000 Hopefully still. Uh, because that's the value of the motor in a lot of the parts. Uh, but unfortunately, it has a battery drain that is totally unfixable.

The part is backordered into eternity on this thing, in addition to the suspension acting up and being really stupid. So oh wow, it's been so long since I've seen it. The dashboard is curled up just sitting in the sun and I think did I Oh yeah I just I just left it unlocked. Still smells nice in here though.

Such a nice car. Such a shame that these cars become such pieces of Chunk when they get old. So all right, let's go inside here and see what remains. At one point I had this entire building to myself.

uh, but I didn't need it when I got the new garage at the old house. Uh so I gave it up and just kept this small portion. All right. we'll get some light in here.

Uh, thankfully, only two cars which is what I thought was in here. Uh, the landlord has been adding his own stuff in here for storage the trailer and such. so it's just these two cars that are left inside that I need to get out before the end of the month and if you leave something in a barn long enough, Well, it starts to look like a barn find and I guess this 49 Cadillac's got enough dust on it. uh to look like a barn find? Uh, same with the Uh 911 SC Taret.

You'll see when we head over to the hanger that space is sort of at a premium right now I'm sort of running out of room because of my usual December hooie Tha purchase spre and I thought I was going to have a new building and I don't But anyway, let's end things over at: The Hanger Yes, the hoopy hanger is getting very, very full and unfortunately the cars they look really nice, but they're getting neglected because like you saw, I don't want to drive it down those dirt muddy roads to the house and have limited places to put them so all the nice stuff is mostly sitting. I have to come here and it sort of turns into an A TOA kind of situation where I come here to drive a car and then just put it right back because I have nowhere else to go. There are a few cars that I need to sell like the BMW M6 and the Chevy HHR probably going no reserve on cars and bids at some point. Uh, but there's still I guess some room to keep cramming things in here.

but hopefully I don't get thrown out doing that before Hooie Garage 3.0 is completed. I'm hoping they start like they said sometime in early to mid January and it takes just a couple of weeks. but finishing it out will be a process in itself that's just a bare shell of a building. You see everything in here, all the lighting, all the electrical, the 220 to run the lifts, heat, air conditioning.

so I can be inside round and film. All these things will take time to finish out, plus some kind of flare. Some kind of office like the museum with shme. It's so amazing what he's able to do with that blank old space and the Stradman building, that garage with his back cave and everything else.

Very neat I Need to think of something to do in Hu's Garage 3.0 that is special. but in the meantime it just needs to get built. Thank you all so much for watching and hopefully you had a great holiday.