Clean Out and Interior Demolition Begin on 1950 Barn Revival! 

The spider husk is from when it molted, so you now have a larger spider crawling about.

Cap’n… those cans had to be Church Key opened… Pop tops didn’t come out until about 1975. If they are steel cans that would make them even older… pre 1970. Were they steel? It’s tough to stop hoarding… I still haven’t sworn off. Perhaps we are watching the first step in your 12 Step process??? This is fascinating… I love the forensic work you’ve doing!!!

I'm trying to get caught up on all your projects. I've been under the weather and have a lot. .to watch. Keep them coming. 😊

We live about 40 miles from Ellsworth AFB, home of th B!. They do practice bombing in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Often they will fly over where you can hear them but not see them. It's a most distinctive sound. But once in a while they come by low. The sound is INCREDIBLE. Love it.

Once you get the basement clean and fixed up with door's and window's, maybe add a stairway from the top down to the basement so you don't have to go outside to get in the basement. Just a thought. 🙂

Fascinating project here. You have worked like a one man army after this barn…. and that’s on top the your day job. Unbelievable. Most impressive. You are a machine. As others have said, you do more with less than anyone I’ve seen.

Oh man that Mountain Dew can is worth the whole project! Only thing better is to find a MD bottle! Keep going!

I felt every moment of the "what to keep" deep in my soul. Having done a similar project 2 years ago. We actually used so much of our stash, that I had to buy some boards last year for a new project. But the line between saving anything useful and let's clean it up is just such a battle line!!!! Loving, as always, every minute of this project! Thank you for sharing!

As a person that doesn't like throwing usable stuff away (not a hoarder😂) , I support this video and your work to save this building. So much storage space 😮 😂.

My property is near an Army Aviation Battalion airport. Special Forces fly training and practice missions all the time and we get the coolest aircraft and helicopters flying over the property. It's an awesome air show nearly every weekend!

That ridge line looks SO MUCH STRAIGHTER in recent shots. Amazing.

Binge watched the gym project earlier in the week and been looking forward to this episode for a couple of days. Thanks for all your efforts in making the films and keeping us viewers informed and entertained. It's hard enough labouring single handed.

My OCD was kicking in hard seeing you jump from one clean-up to another without completely finishing the first one. 😅😅😅 Seriously though Captain you certainly are a one man wrecking crew. I’m impressed with the progress you’ve made each video.

Those old cans are in good shape! I have a little collection of old bottles collected from work when digging up water or sewer lines!

We have the 122nd fighter wing up here in Northeastern IN, we get to see the Warthogs practice maneuvers, it's pretty cool to watch. Got to go on a tour of the base a few years ago. The guns on those things are amazing, BRRRRRRRRT!!!

The building starting to look bigger well done sir looking forward to more on both buildings.Thank you for sharing

Keep the souvenirs you find that's history. Thanks for the video

That broom is priceless

You NEVER shy away from hard work Mike, you have my utmost respect as the hardest working man I know of. As a tradesman I fully appreciate the huge amount of work you achieve single handedly despite the timelapse editing 👍👍 Love both your channels, thank you for the viewing joy 👍👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

I was expecting that tote to take the back glass out of the pickup!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, ideas and videos. Gym rehab is coming along nicely. You have to feel great about all you have accomplished. Looking forward to seeing more as your work goes forward. Wishing you and your family the best.

You sure have a lot of work ahead of you, but with your determination and can do attitude, that old gym will look good and solid once again. Love watching you, you say an intro and get right to work, talking as you go. Great job so far.

Can't thank you enough for your continued content.

The gym looks great! That floor is encredable! So beautiful wood! And I bet having the small shop cleaned out is a load off your mind lol! And oh yeah need something demoed call a fireman lol😂😂😂

You could use that nice astroturf in your office, do the floor and walls, help soundproof for a studio too.😅 Coming along nicely. Will be interesting to see what it looks like in a year.

This is fun watching you rebuild. My dad would have gone crazy watching you relocate that stuff to the burn pile. He would try to save everything from my jobs good memories. Stay safe

This is so exciting. I can hardly wait to see what is next. You always leave us in suspicion. It was very nice that your oldest came in and helped. With the clean up. You have an amazing insight of what you want. Thank you for sharing😊

Bleacher bench getting removed - sad but understandable. What a neat project.

Mike your shop is looking better on every video, even I’m excited watching your new shop being rebuilt, can’t wait to see it finished 👍👍🍮🍮😎😎❤️❤️

those air filters are perfect for box fans. 🙏❤💪

The "Wizard of Derby", the man behind the curtain pulling the strings and pushing the levers. Who works from behind a facade of smoke and mirrors from his national headquarters. Go Captain.

I think you have sold me on the value of a Halligan tool. That thing does a great job of tearout

Amazing what you find when you start to do a cleanup,place is taking shape.nice to see one of the kids helping out.just keep it up.great video,just doing what you do best.😎😎😎👍👍👍

you absolutely have my sense of humor ! "quick jerky motions " :)

It's great to see a dream and vision come together, and we ain't even done! Another great video that I thoroughly enjoyed! Thanks Mike! Lee

I am amazed at your confidence in your abilities to attack such a project, most would have passed on this project. Thanks for sharing Capt .

Found you on RU-vid after watching Dig drive diy. Have been following you since. Love the funny comments you say, you had a good one today when you were talking about purchasing the totes.. "a fella stopped asking questions" brilliant. Lots of love from 🇮🇪

Good morning sunshine! Glad to see your oldest helping you out! Honestly I had forgotten that mt dew use to be white & green cans! Oh no Im showing my age! Lol! You should put a time capsule in there when you build it back! Great video! Much love from Henderson Ga USA

Good morning Captain Kleeman

Interesting original construction. Got to love old historical buildings with old wood. There is lots to do, great start.

You are very ambitious. Good quality in my books.

Being a person that will keep things for “ just in case” I can say I feel for you Captain. I wish you could have donated some of that stuff to Habitat for Humanity Restore, the Goodwill of home remolding supplies. But being in a rural community as you and I do. It’s really hard to get it to them. Looks good though 🐶

Im glad that Im not the only one that has and uses a halligan for projects around the house, I still use it at work too but its my personal halligan so it comes home with me.

Save the pop and beer cans that are in good shape. Lots of collectors

This is SO cool….you can probably sell the cans to subscribers, like with some merch? I was thinking you might want to go down a couple holes on the shelf/workbench….considering if you put casters on…it will be chin high.

i work in demolition and love finding old soda/beer cans and bottles. would be cool to make a little see through display with all the souvenirs you find later on down the line😁

Wall art for the office, that's just cool.

You need to make a memorial wall of all of the various receptacles previous gone by era beverages

Slowly but surely getting there, nudge by nudge, I love it !

Its coming along. A day of cleanup is a good motivator

Good God, sir! How much can one man do! Thankfully, we can sit and watch it come to fruition!

first here i hope everyone has a great day everyone be safe today with the weather

I feel your pain about rhe fine line of being a hoarder or being responsible and throwing stuff away. We recently cleaned out my father in laws sheds and there were all sorts of things I wanted ro keep but knew i would never get around ro using a lot of it

Starting with a clean slate is always a good idea. Nice progress today Mike.

I think a fella should have to pay for this upper quality humor content. I feel guilty getting it for free.

Enjoying this series. 1- Forgive me Lord but I have lust in my heart for that prybar you use. Don't ever leave it unattended around me. 2- Tell the Admiral to quit feeding those kids so much, they are growing up way too fast.

👍🏻 This is just getting excitinger and excitinger ! It’s so exciting I gotta make up my own words to describe it 😆

Guy makes me laugh. Good way to start the morning. Keep it up cap.

Maybe take a piece of that plywood and use it to project your back window, pretty cheap preventive mantainence.

If they guys who laid the gym floor could see you now, scraping the rubbish along the floor with the brush/stick thingy. 😂😂

Love the barn project !

Love the old Mountain Dew can. And your commentary while hauling the tote from DP’s yard to your new world headquarters 😂😂😂😂.

Feels so much better when you start to get rid of the garbage, doesn’t it?

Nothing like a coffee and a good ol clean up vid to start your morning 🙂🇨🇦

That old growth tight grain lumber as long as its dry and not rotted is pretty tough stuff .. seems if you could just run those timber screws in there to tighten up the truss it would be fine. carry on, guess we'll have see what happens lol

You should make your own time capsule “display”…interesting things that you find during your repairs and restoration 🙋‍♀️💖🇨🇱

Great job Captain. Is great seeing the progress. You have a great vision with all your projects. Look forward to seeing next episode.

I recommend a headache rack for that white pickup to protect the rear window. I waited until after I broke my rear window before buying one on marketplace.

Good progress young man, this is going to be a great facility for you and the channel, fun stuff, thanks for the update sir.

You know Mike, someone new watching this stuff might believe your setting up a still site for Moonshining! 😂😂 Funny thing is, your going to bring all of your stuff down from the workshop and when you have a new project up there, you have to come to the headquarters to bring it back up! Love it!

You should make a little display case with a few artifacts of the place (like the cans). Make the shelves or backing out of some of those old bench boards and bead boards.

'Pop' comes from the term 'Soda Pop' that describes the sound on opening a bottle of carbonated beverage. In the United States, "soda pop", "soda", and "pop" are commonly used, but "pop" is mostly associated with the Midland states. In the South, people often call it "Coke".

The filters are useful for making a box filter for controlling dust in a shop. 5 filters and a fan, with a frame to hold together.

We're still moving all small baby steps forward is the way to Mike great video thanks

It’s really coming along Mike!! Something I bet you’re getting a lot of comments about is that you need a Headache Rack before you blow out the rear window

I spent today working near Camp Atterbury, and they had 2 c130s out. Never gets old watching big planes pulling tight turns.

Nice progress Cap.

Thank you for sharing!

Great job Captain 💪

That Mountain Dew can must have been used by MBTS. You are doing a great job at WHQ, keep up the good work.

Hi Mike, hate to talk trash about someone else's tools, but if you want an impact driver that will drive screws all day long, pick up a new 18 volt Milwaukee impact driver, you will never regret it. I used to have only Dewalt tools and I have replaced all of them with Milwaukee, best move i ever made. Keep up the good work, I am absolutely amazed that you have been able to raise the roof as well as you have.👍👍

This was a most enjoyable video. I appreciate your speaking to us the exact thoughts on your mind as you pick up items. I call this " The Sanford Decision Process". I just laughed at the difficulty you have at deciding to keep or toss. Creative people all have this problem. I think you should sit down with a favorite beverage and possibly a good cigar and watch this video without any distractions. Ask yourself " realistically, what needs to be done here?" At this point in your life you have boundless energy, dreams and ideas. But look at the future and what is the long term goal. I am 78 years old and this video reminded me me of myself at your age. Since I retired, I struggle with getting rid of all of the stuff I have accumulated. We all have to deal with it or when we die your spouse of family will gave to deal with it. Keep up the good work, I find your videos a great procrastination tool to making decisions!

That green wall covering looks like ideal truck seat repair covering if you had a way to save it. I would add LED lighting to your mobile work bench on one or more corner posts and a hook to hang a long extension cord so you could have good light wherever you roll it. You can't have enough light above a work bench. You've probably already thrown out the material for a good tall work bench stool with a back. My father was a sheet metal worker and welder (I know you aren't but can fake it) and he made a couple and welded them up. I still have one at my work bench. One man's trash is another man's raw material. (that green stuff would be great to cover a seat) You just have to be inventive and innovative. You are that but we will give you ideas.

MIKE, when you start the relamination of the trusses with the timber locs, my thought would be to start working from the plate working across them and back on both sides, and continue to jack up the ridge watching that the rafters don't spew apart at the peak. Course you know what's going on, I'm just a viewer of an interesting operation! Carry on Capt'n!

Looking very good!!

Really interesting to see how the frame for the corrugated sheets fixed to the concrete wall, am really glad the blocks were filled with concrete if they hadn't been I think that building would have fallen over by now. It's going to be a brilliant space for your world headquarters 👍

The DeWalt mid torque 891 is a beast for its size and will be handy for the dump truck too. If youre not sold on the SDS adapter the 891 has a 'sensitive' setting that still blows my DCF887 out of the water.

Nice job, Captain Kay headed in the right direction a flat washer on the lamb screws maybe?

Mike that 3/4 sheet of particle board is very heavy and makes a good bench top. Back when I worked in a lumber yard in 1973, we sold a bunch of that stuff. I was 4 ft 6 inches tall and 96 lbs. trying to help load them into a truck. Not fun. They probably used the osb for covering because it was cheap at the time. Not so much now. Great content, keep it up.

Great work. Great project. 👋🏼🇨🇦 From Montreal Canada 🇨🇦

Man Capt'n, its looking a whole lot better!

C130 One of my favorite airplanes. I love the sound of those turboprops.

Great progress. Love the fake grass....maybe you should lay it on the dirt in the basement ..😂😂

I love that Google Maps shows your gym as "CK World Headquarters" already!! Didn't look like the building would have survived another winter without your impressive work.

I guess the “time capsule” was under those benches. Love seeing that kinda stuff. I bought an old 1920’s bungalow style 2-bedroom house, did rehabbing on it, meticulously pried, pulled nails of old bead board (vertical grain fir), some painted/some not, kept it as well full dimensional lumber. I came handy for repairs in other areas of the house, without a whole bunch of furring out the modern day dimensional lumber. This building is for sure, a diamond in the rough sir. It is looking very nice. Great video, Thank you.

Great progress Mike.

Looking good! It’s clear to me you have a grasp on structural design but I’d like to suggest permanent cables as collar ties. The design of this structure is going to perpetually result in outward lateral pressure on the supporting structure. Just a few cables installed would help mitigate this even moreso than the buttresses in my opinion. They could be installed higher than the ones you have now and I’d prefer to see them like every third truss but I also realize that puts a damper on the basketball. Perhaps every five trusses with shorter/higher collar ties twice in between each of those. Anyway good luck and keep it comin!

Awesome progress Mike. One piece, one day at a time. Stay warm and safe.

keep up the great Job !!

Looking good Cap