#27 Cranes, Stones and Sourdough bread

There are the goats going. See it? Just in between the trees. What are you doing? Ah, ----. Cabins, they have this view. That direction, which is beautiful. But this is kind of different. They have those two layers of the mountain. And the big one in the back. It's quite beautiful. It is. Do you know how high these mountains are? Yeah, about 20... 23, 24, that one. The ones in the back are 25. The first one there is 2200. I climbed it like last week. This one? Yeah, you see like a little tower? Yeah, I see it. It's a cairn. They call that a little... It's like a bump. Yeah, that's what I climbed. You can hike that. It's a long hike. It is? Sometimes I do a little bit with the car. Because there's a road where the tree stops. There you can see there's a road. Yeah. So you can go pretty far with the car. And then you walk the rest up. Oh, it's a hot day. It is. In the valley it's crazy, I can imagine. Yeah, it's like 33. There's more elevation. When you look at the videos, only the videos, everything seems to be a little bit flatter. Yeah. And when you're here, everything is more elevated. Like the cabin is more down, the tent is more up. You can't see this on a normal video shot. It's very difficult to capture. Yeah, it is. Especially if you shoot with a wider lens. If you shoot wider than 35mm, which is the perspective of the human eye, it's the same as the human eye. But if you do it wider, it makes it already flatter. If I make it really wide, those mountains look very far away. Here, I can show you on the camera. Yeah, so this is 35mm. You can look in the camera. So this is the depth the human eye perceives, right? Yeah. But if I film like this, you cannot show everything. No. But you can see I'm going down, and the mountains are still high up there. But if you zoom out, so this lens goes to 16mm, which is very wide. Ah, yeah. But, you know, so you can show the mountains, you can show that I'm walking here. Yeah. But it's not a true perspective, right? Those mountains are much closer than you see on the camera. They are. Even on the small screen, they look so far away. Yeah. And it's beautiful, because I can show what I'm doing here, but you can even show the weather, the clouds, if the clouds are beautiful, for example. So it's a great way to show everything, but it's not accurate. No, it is not. This is the sixth bread I think I've baked here. The first three failed, pretty much. The last one was really good, but it was a different dough. Semolina. Semola, I think it's called here. Yeah, over here. No. It's a bit more yellow, and I think it's a coarser grind, which makes it very easy to work with. And this is normal 00 flour. I think it's called here. Yeah, normal flour, some sesame seed. Sourdough starter, but it's not a very strong starter, so I've added some dry yeast as well. It's a very simple recipe, about 70% water. I don't measure it, I just kind of feel the dough if it's good, but how sturdy it was I think was 70... No, probably 65% water, or 60 even. Wetter dough is usually better, they say, because it has more moisture, so it has more ability to rise in the pan. But it's difficult to work with when the dough is wet, because it's sticky, and this is fairly easy. The pan was... So I think this is slightly overcooked. It's a little bit black here, and here on the sides actually, that's interesting, and not on the bottom, and also not on the top. It's quite evenly cooked, but slightly overcooked. It was in there for 50 minutes, which for bread is a little too much, but if I take it out earlier, it would be undercooked. Yeah, 40 minutes, 35, that's a good time for bread I think. But the fire was slightly smaller, I had less coals. Depends on the wood also, it just really consumed the coals, they were gone pretty quick, so that was also a thing. But it's fun to experiment, you know. To make bread, it smells amazing, looks great, and I'm sure this one tastes good as well. I'm gonna cool it down a little bit more, and then we'll eat it. So what is this? Hummus. Hummus? Hummus. I never ate... You never ate hummus? I don't know what it is. You know what, when I was 20, or 21, I never ate avocado. Ah, yeah. I was aware of. I'm going to try it. You know when you're... Yeah. Coming from a small town in the Netherlands, you don't eat avocado, right? It's maybe the same in Germany. It was in Amsterdam, when I started my graphic design job, people were putting avocado on their sandwich, and I was like, what is that? Don't you have peanut butter? So the first thing we need to do is, we need to replace the winch, because this winch is dangerous, when there's a lot of load, it doesn't block. It should block, but it doesn't. Ah, it spins freely, okay. That's 300 kilo hanging on there, it's hard to stop it. So I've got a 12 volt winch, and I'm going to put it on there. And then I have a battery too, and the battery is going to go off. Yeah. I'll do some quick solutions, and see how the crane performs, and then later I'll make some more permanent. Yeah. And this can stay in place, isn't it? It's kind of bursting, but that's okay. Can you hoist it a bit more? Yeah. Sound? Where do you hear it? Ah, here! That's a problem, I mean, so this is not attached to that anyway. So how could that happen? Because it's pulling this metal further. So you think there's movement, because these beams don't, I mean this is a strong connection, these two. Yeah. But this one was already weak. Yeah, it was. There were like these ones all over it. So do you think it's flexing? Because most... This one not, only this one, this part with the winch. That's funny. Ah yeah, I have to open it. You know what is also not a bad idea? It's to move this one to here. Yeah. Because that already, we also don't have the problem that it's going to be too close. Yeah. Otherwise, yeah, it's just too close, isn't it? To the tripod. The winch? No, this pulley. Ah, this one. We put it here. The only thing we have to do is to drill a hole. Yeah. It is pretty close, that's true. But let's go a little bit further with this. And it needs to be symmetric, like straight up. I can lift it up. It works. Okay, here we go. You need to lift too. Yeah. It's hard. Yeah, like this? A little bit up? Again? Yes, yes. Down. Yeah. No, I mean, now we have to use the... Ah, the winch. Yeah. Very nice. Right, man. We've done it. First time. Thank you. It works. With a bit of sweat. Wow. It's going to look good. Yeah, and all the wood colours are going there. Lighter. Yeah. Same as the shower box, the panelling is very light. Doing some sausages in the carbonara. Yeah, that's good. Which is not a carbonara, of course, but I don't have enough bacon. Yes. Smells good. Yeah, it's very good. Is it good? Yeah. to hold it up. One second. Yeah. The battery is running. So it did run empty. Do you have the battery tester? Yeah, it is right there. Real battery. Yes. Do you have the voltmeter? I think it's good while you're there, you measure it, because I want to know the difference. So this is 12.6. Good. I'm going to go up. What's the winch? It's 12.3. Yeah, 12.4. Which one does it want to go? Two. Four. At least it's not going heavier. Take your time. Yeah, you're good. Oh, man. It's looking good. Slowly, slow, slow, slow. Let it down. Let it down, good, good, good. One second. Yeah. Well, I can't lift it higher. You can go down further? No, because I'm losing the counterweight. The stone is the counterweight, and I can't just put it higher. Oh, yeah, right, okay. So then you need to lift it up a bit. Lift it up. Yeah. Down. Yeah, I'm going to take stones out, okay? Yeah. It's probably the best way now. Try to keep it down. Yeah. Keep it up. Yeah. It's not moving anymore. Me too. You just did it. Zonder. Cheers. Cheers, man. Good work.