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You know, Chase's birthday is December 25th.

He has that maple sugar shack he's never finished off.

We'll meet the guys

and we'll have them finish it while he's gone.

-So it's top secret. -Top secret.

-Top secret. -Top secret.

We'd love to have you help out

with the toy drive.

Six weeks to get over a hundred toys built.

That's a tight deadline.

We might have a problem.

If I can't get this tape out, he's gonna know we were here.

I'm feeling it.

Top elf.

Good thing you came in last night

when it was dark.

Holy smokes.

Look at this thing!

Everybody excited?

Yay!

Man, the holidays are getting close.

Winter is coming.

And, you know, Chase's birthday is December 25th.

-Merry Chase-mas. -Merry Chase-mas.

We gotta do something for Chase, I think.

He has that maple sugar shack

he's never finished off. He's--

Yeah. We started that, like, seven years ago.

You guys started it, but you never finished it

'cause then, you know, we all got so busy.

I got an idea.

What are you thinking?

We're going to Greece for Thanksgiving in two weeks.

-Yeah. -We'll meet the guys.

We'll order the materials

and we'll have them finish it while he's gone.

And we'll have a big reveal when we get back.

So he can finally start making us some maple syrup?

Yeah. After we're done with your brother today,

we'll call Dixie and Jedi

and we'll meet 'em out there and go over it.

So, why are we meeting him here today?

I don't know.

I just wait for him where he tells me to.

That's the story of my life lately.

Whoa. Look at that.

What?

That's cool. Whoa.

Welcome to Central Maine Safaris.

Nice ride.

Hop in the back and our tour will begin.

We've got a special holiday project coming up, so...

-Ladies first. -Oh, we were just discussing the holidays.

Come on, old lady.

I'm gonna crawl right in.

- You're gonna be our chauffeur? - -Yup.

This thing is nice.

Be sure to buckle up.

Cool.

Wow.

- Chase. - Woo.

Today, we are in central Maine.

Our ultimate destination is down in Chelsea

to meet Michelle and Courtney

from United Way of Kennebec Valley.

United Way of Kennebec Valley has a toy drive

to help collect toys for the holiday season.

So we've decided we're going to help out any way we can.

Oh, there they are.

-Hi, Cabin Masters. -Hi!

Hi.

- Hey, guys. - Hi.

My name is Courtney.

I'm the executive director of United Way

of Kennebec Valley.

And I'm Michelle. I'm the director of marketing

with United Way of Kennebec Valley.

Thanks so much for joining us.

And we thought it'd be great to meet you

on the shores of the Kennebec River today.

Yeah. How long has United Way of Kennebec Valley been formed?

We're at our 67th year now.

-Wow. -And we serve

49 different non-profit programs

throughout Kennebec County.

We focus on health, education,

financial stability programs.

So, what exactly are you guys looking for?

So we'd love to have you help out with the toy drive.

Really want to do something for the youth in our community

around the holiday season.

We have a perfect spot for that.

- Oh, yeah? - Tell us more.

So we have a great place at our headquarters

and where we can invite the community.

My team will decorate it, make it really festive.

We know plenty of good carpenters

who are capable of making nice wooden toys.

So, you know,

if we could also make some toys for the toy drive,

we would love to get involved that way also.

Put our little spin on it as well.

I know the kids would love that.

Wooden toys are coming back into fashion.

We were those kids that didn't get the toys

that everyone else got. We got all the wooden toys.

I got a cardboard box and a stick.

Which are a lot of fun.

And, like, how many do you think we're gonna make?

Could you do over a 100?

- We definitely can do over a 100. - -Oh, yeah.

-That'd be awesome. -Yeah.

-Thank you guys for doing this. -Yeah.

And when do you guys normally distribute

to the organizations?

Well, we like to hit it early December.

-Okay. That'll work. -Okay.

To give enough time for, like, wrapping the gifts...

-and putting-- -Oh, yeah, exactly.

So, I think we've got six weeks

to get over 100 toys built,

plan a party,

and get the toys distributed.

-So that's a tight deadline. -Yeah.

- No budget. - No budget.

We have so much leftover materials.

Yeah. We've got plenty of scrap materials

and materials on hand and community members

we can pull in to help with this.

So, I think it's gonna be one heck of a holiday party

and we'll have plenty of toys to give away.

- Yes. - I think we have a lot of work to do, so...

- Get to it. - Let's get out of here.

Let's get to work.

We'll talk to you guys soon.

- Hey, Jim. -Hey, Chase. Good to see you again.

- You too. Thanks for having me today. -Come on in.

Yeah. Come on in.

Today, I am headed to The Woodshaper Shop

of Maine up in Dedham to meet with Jim.

He is a toy-making master.

This is where we make the toys.

We're getting ready to do our United Way of Kennebec Valley toy drive

and we're gonna make some toys,

so I figured the best way to get inspiration,

advice, what to do, what not to do,

from the master toy maker himself.

We got some stuff I can show you that...

is very replicable, if that's a word.

That is now.

Here's a bunch of stuff.

This is stuff that I do in volume.

Holy smokes.

Here's how I do it.

I have a template for everything.

Ah.

-There's a tractor. -Yeah. Yup, yup.

Oh, there's a... little ladder truck,

-helicopter. -Yup.

Let's just lay out two or three of these

-and we'll go through the individual steps. -Okay.

So next step would be over at the chop saw.

Go ahead and section those up.

Next stop will be Forstner bit.

Give that a go.

Gonna have two headlights.

I have two headlights.

-Perfect. -See, I'm learning all sorts of things.

-You are. -This is great.

After looking at Jim's wood shop

and the tools that he has...

- Yeah. - There we go.

... we got a lot of similar tools.

So I've just got to figure out what we're gonna make

so that when we all get together, you know, the whole crew,

we're able to replicate a bunch of toys.

I love it.

So you guys worked on this--

Many moon to go.

Chase's birthday's coming up.

He never got around to finishing it.

So we thought it would be cool if you guys would come in

and just kind of button it up.

Sounds like his happy story.

Today, we're in Wayne, Maine and we're at Chase's house.

We are going to make a plan to fix up his sugar shack

while we are on vacation in Greece.

Chase is actually up on an inspirational field trip,

checking out this guy that makes really cool wooden toys.

That's why we're here right now

'cause we snuck him out here

so he doesn't know anything about this.

-It's top secret. -Top secret.

-Top secret. -Top secret.

So, being his birthday, I think it'd be nice

if we just, like, could bang it out,

finish it off so that then he can actually

come down and use it.

And, you know, we'll benefit in the end

-'cause we'll get-- -Free maple syrup.

-Exactly. -Get syrup.

Chase's got a ton of maple trees out here.

He's tapped them for quite a while.

Just gonna facilitate him to produce some maple syrup

in his off time.

So we're going to Greece for 10 days.

So I think if we have all the guys on it

while we're gone, we can get it to a great point

where he can use it this spring.

-All right. We got a budget? -We do have a budget.

I got Chase's credit card, so whatever you need.

Nice.

- Seriously... - -That was just a joke.

We don't wanna go over $10,000 on this.

It's our gift to him.

Everyone's working with us. But $10K, that's it.

-Sweet. -We have windows left over.

We got a bunch of materials.

A lot of it is all right here.

-Totally. -We need posts. We need pots.

We need sheathing boards.

You guys are gonna go get greasy

and we're gonna stay here and get sticky.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

Nails, hammers, and some abled bodies

and we'll have this done in 10 days.

I found three siding guns.

Nice.

It's gonna take us five days to clean it out

Bazooka. Aw.

Bazooka, he is Chase's first dog

and he pretty much went everywhere Chase went.

And he passed away.

So we put a memorial on the sugar shack,

well, just as a little remembrance for Bazooka.

There's a lot going on.

Yeah, he has all the basic components.

Right there is the stove that he cooks it in.

So it's basically...

it has a big wood-fired boiler

with a stainless steel evaporator on the top of it

and it just evaporates the sap

into syrup.

I do think I might have a couple windows

- we could put up there to get some more light in. - -Mmm-hmm.

Maybe, Ry, if we could put maybe two windows

- in these bigger openings here up high, too. - -Okay.

Definitely, the more that we can open up, the better.

We need six 8-foot PT posts.

We need pots. We need stove pipe.

We need 1 by 12 sheathing.

And then we need

one, two, three, four, five windows.

On the inside, we are going to clean it up.

We're gonna try to organize it.

We will trim out the windows if appropriate

and we're gonna add high-end maple manufacturing equipment

in the right place for him to enjoy it.

Try to use whatever materials he has

because he'd be happy about that.

And obviously, it'll save on the budget.

- We have to buy a little bit of stuff, but yes. - -Not much.

On the outside of Chase's sugar shack,

we are gonna install windows where needed.

We are gonna fix the roof lines,

add front doors, and we're gonna side.

Seventeen feet.

Oh, come on. Ah!

I'm not gonna be able to get this out.

Hey, guys.

What?

We might have a problem.

If I can't get this tape out,

he's gonna know we were here.

Come on!

I'm not going up on that roof. There's pine needles everywhere.

We're gonna be here forever.

If we don't get this out of here,

he's gonna know we were here.

- Oh! - Oh, there we go.

You get all the materials and I'll call the guys.

-Guys, you good? -Good.

-We're ready. -All right.

Let's get out of here before he gets back.

-Yeah. -We got a good start.

I got an idea.

So it goes something like that.

Okay. I just met with Jim up in Dedham.

People always ask why I keep marbles in the workshop.

And he had a lot of great ideas, good advice.

This thing used to keep us busy for hours.

One thing I did learn was that

he starts with a template

and then kind of makes all the pieces and parts.

So when it comes time for assembly,

he has everything together ready to go.

And hopefully, I can translate that

into five good, decent toys.

Just a few tweaks to it.

My father actually was a wooden toy maker

and he had a few good designs

Ashley and I grew up playing with.

One of them was a marble chute

that you put marbles in,

kinds of feeds back and forth and drops into a container.

That one should be good to go.

That's toy number one.

I also had a couple pieces of dowel

that had been shaped into stars and hearts.

Always wanted to do something with those,

so I thought they would be

a good kind of version of tic-tac-toe.

And another was a little wooden duck.

Put a string through with a knob.

Drilled out two holes. You put these wheels on it,

but the wheels are off center.

So that way, when you pull it along, it kind of bobbles.

Brainstorming, I remember a wooden top.

Okay.

Piece of string.

Oh, this thing's gonna go flying.

Just in time. Come here.

You wanna do the honors?

Pull that string.

- What string? - Pull that ball.

- This? - Hard.

Nice!

I don't see any reason why these prototypes

with the little modifications won't work.

The next step really will be

start mass producing the parts.

Yes, I win.

You cheated.

- Hello. - You made it.

So, I'm here today at my aunt Sharon

and Uncle Leigh's house

to make Christmas ornaments.

I told you we are

working with the United Way of Kennebec Valley

and we're doing a toy drive

and then we're gonna decorate headquarters and have a big party,

which hopefully you'll come to.

- Oh, thank you. - But I'm in charge

of decorating the tree.

- As we well should be. - -Oh, yeah.

And I was, like, first president on the dollar,

first people of

So Sharon and Leigh make a whole variety

of Christmas ornaments.

They do a puffin on the lobster claw.

This is a recent eat.

How was he? How did he taste?

Delicious.

They make these really cute Santas on oyster shells.

I got a deal with a local oyster farm

and I would make these

and I would sell them down there.

And the trade was, I would get a half a dozen oysters

for every one I sold.

Oh, I forgot that.

-Oh, really? -Yeah.

That's a good trade.

And they make these really cute lobster buoys.

I like the white ones.

I think the white ones look good

- on a green Christmas tree. - Oh, yeah.

So to make the buoys, you take your buoy,

uh, and you drill a hole in the top.

And then you attach it to the drill.

What?

And then you take the white paint.

This is fancy.

Yeah, it is.

It's the lazy man's...

where the lazy comes from, my nickname.

I've never heard that.

And then after it dries,

you attach an eye hook.

Boom.

Then you pick whatever color you wanna use for your stripe.

-I'm doing blue. -Yeah.

-Turn on your drill. -Yeah.

-Yeah. Yeah. Just-- -Is that we do?

Perfect.

And it goes around

and it makes a perfect line around the whole buoy.

Oh, yeah. There we go. That's wobble.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's so much... that's so nice.

And it's ready too.

Perfect.

It looks good, doesn't it?

Leigh and Sharon are great teachers.

I love these ornaments.

They're gonna look great and add that Maine touch to the tree.

And hopefully, we'll see my aunt and uncle at the party.

To peace on Earth.

-To peace on Earth. -Yeah.

Hmm.

Hmm.

- Hmm. - Hmm.

Santa's little helpers.

-Santa's workshop. -Santa's workshop.

Welcome to the Toy Factory.

- Yes! - Wow!

Looks awesome.

These are the toy prototypes

I came up with for the toy drive

for United Way of Kennebec Valley.

So we've got the marble shoot,

version of tic-tac-toe.

We've got a lobster claw top,

- rocking horse. - These are awesome.

And the old classic pull behind duck.

- Oh, I get it. - I do, too.

What kind of duck is it?

That's a wheelie duck.

It's a wheelie cool duck.

We're gonna try and do 20 of each toy.

Today, it's just a matter of milling stuff up,

ripping it down,

getting as much of the pieces cut out,

sanding the edges, routering the edges,

smoothing everything down,

and then putting it all together.

Today, was just gonna be a lot of assembly work,

you know, just repetitive.

Cutting out the same thing over and over and over.

I wanna make sure we have more than enough pieces for each toy

so we don't have to go back and fabricate pieces.

There's a level of consistency

that comes when you just repetitively make

the same piece over and over versus having somebody else

do it another day.

So, if we can get all the pieces cut out today,

I'll be happy.

One.

Cuts are gonna be very precise.

All these different stations, everybody had their job.

It was like Santa's little workshop in there.

It's so loud.

Everybody's working. It's awesome.

- What? - We got a little workshop.

- Huh? - Do you need any help?

No.

I'm working on milling up the pieces

for the lobster claw top.

So I'm just gonna go through and cut everything to length

and then drill the holes.

And then trace everything.

Very happy with the toy which I selected.

It represents the state in a wonderful way.

I am sanding the dowels after I drill them.

Perfect point.

So it fits into the claw.

I'm killing it.

Top elf.

Jedi.

So, um, we leave on Saturday to Greece,

but I think we're looking good for Chase's project,

-the tap house. -Awesome.

Brad's finished up a job this week,

so we'll put him on that full-time.

But if you guys can come in every once in a while

- and check on him. - Absolutely.

And don't throw anything away.

No, not a... No, nothing.

No dumpster on site?

No dumpster. Yeah. All right.

- Back to making toys. - Okay.

So today, my job was working on the tic-tac-toe boards.

Once we were done with the face,

then I had to cut out

uh, 96 stars and 96 hearts.

One down,

ninety-four to go.

Look at all those stars and all those hearts.

Ninety-six of each.

So the next step is really assembly time.

And there's a lot of pieces that need to be nailed together,

screwed together, glued together.

We'll probably start with a rocking horse

because all the pieces are

sitting on the center table and we need to clear space

to keep moving forward.

All right. I'm on bodies.

- Who wants to screw with me? - All right.

Screw.

Flip.

Screw.

We are kicking butt. We are busting... Flip.

We're busting out some bodies.

I'm the drill sergeant, and they're the drillers. All right.

Oh, you look so beautiful.

We've got Ryan, the four horsemen over here,

putting the bodies together.

I'm over here just taking a seat.

Justin, no horsing around.

Done.

Okay. That's it.

First horse is up.

Oh, that's awesome.

How do you want to tackle this?

Here we are at Chase's Sugar Shack.

Do you want to, kind of, set these off to the side?

Yeah. We gotta keep...

We gotta keep all the sugar,

maple stuff together.

Chase, Ryan, and Ashley, they've gone to Greece,

so we're on a bit of a time crunch,

trying to sneak it in.

Keep in your head where you put stuff

-in case he freaks out. -Yeah.

As you know, Chase is a bit

of a architectural salvage guy.

So putting it nicely,

there was a bunch of architectural salvage kicking around.

So we're just gonna get all organized.

$5 if you ride this unicycle.

Move it over to the other side

of the property for when he needs it.

Basically, we did clean up around

the whole structure, so we can actually get

to what we wanna work on and ready to go for tomorrow.

Right there.

So day two here with Chase's.

Got it.

We got the overhangs packed,

and sheared up with new posts.

We're gonna work on putting windows in

and get it prepped and ready to do siding.

Hold yours in nice and tight.

Perfect.

The boys went through

and they got all the rough openings done.

And we're trying to resource pretty much anything

that we can find on premise.

- Yup. - Hold that.

The windows we had here,

and this is gonna help to release a lot of the steam

that occurs when you're evaporating sap.

A lot of the materials we had here,

because there's a lot of stuff here.

Chase likes funky things.

So I figured that using this door

that's all glass, he would like for light,

and we're gonna frame it flush with the outside of sheathing.

Hmm. He'll have a fixed door window.

I got you.

Woo!

Fancy stuff right there.

It's coming together nicely.

Okay. So Miguel, this is the space

that we're working with here.

Perfect.

Today, we have Miguel coming in

to go over a evaporator setup

and lines for the sugar shack.

So what are your thoughts, Miguel?

A small evaporator, wood-fired,

would be perfect in here.

We could make a system that'll be simple,

so that when he comes home, he can come down

and maybe turn a valve and start a fire

- and he's boiling. - Cool.

Why don't we go check the lines out?

Let's do it.

Well, looking at this tubing,

it's a little bit dated.

And I think we could put in a brand-new system

and try to get all of these trees

and all come down to one line,

and run right beside the sugar house,

and dump right into a tank.

And when he gets home, he can go right to the sugar house.

So, when you tap a tree,

you first tap and it goes into the line

and then the sap is drawn into the holding tank.

From the holding tank,

it's pumped into the evaporator,

and then the evaporator, the wood-fired boiler will

boil off any extra moisture

or water to turn it into syrup.

There is a fair amount of work by the time we, you know,

run all new lines,

get the holding tanks over near the sugar shack

and get the evaporator in.

If we can make it happen, Chase would be very happy.

Hey. Hold on!

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

Okay. Let's paper the front of the building.

Today, we're at the sugar shack.

There's a lot of moving parts to this operation.

- Yeah. - All right.

There's that.

We're trying to get it done

before Chase gets back from vacation.

Oh, slide this way?

Yup.

Hold right onto it.

We got some trim pieces on.

There you go.

Hold that for a second.

Framing.

We've got Jason here on the electrical.

Next step, we've got Francis here.

We're gonna resurface this whole area.

We'll resurface under there,

so it's gravel.

This will all match the whole way out.

And we'll put pavers inside.

There's still quite a bit to do,

but I'm quite sure we can probably pull it off.

All right, Andy.

Repurpose, reuse, recycle.

To save money, the boys are gonna build

some barn doors from materials they found

in Chase's salvage yard.

Oh, those are gorgeous.

So all this will cost is a little bit of time

and some elbow grease.

- Oh, yeah. - Perfect.

We get to be Chase for the day.

So there is number one.

It's gonna be two barn doors.

So build the flats of each door.

Go right on the edge, right on your very edge.

Let's get our framing.

Let's hit your framings together.

Around the edges, you're gonna have to put 45s

to hold the door rack.

Then, we'll cut out small windows.

That looks good.

Oh, that's gorgeous.

Rob, does that say maple syrup or what?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, he says.

Good job.

- You flush? - Yup.

Thank you.

It's day five at the sugar shack.

We're almost out of the sticky situation.

We've got about five days before Chase, Ryan,

and Ash get home from Greece.

All the boys have to do is throw up some trim

and we can start siding.

Nice.

Put your block up,

that tells you where you need to go.

Boom, boom. Done.

The guys are gonna install the doors

and we're pretty much done with the exterior.

Yup. Let's get that one hung.

I know. We're good.

There we go, right there.

Right there.

Yeah, nice, nice.

Okay. Make sure the door is functioning.

- Great door. - It is. It is.

Chase ain't gonna know what hit him.

He'll be like, "Oh, that's way too fancy."

Well, it's a lot different than it did before.

Yeah.

They all did a wonderful job putting this together.

Actually has doors on the front

that look beautiful.

Solid floor, that floor came out nice.

That's gorgeous. Absolutely gorgeous.

We're all wrapped up on the build.

Now it's just time to get all our equipment here.

- Gentlemen. - Hey, guys.

-Jaybird, Miguel. -What's up?

-Dixie. Good to see you again. -Yeah.

-Jedi. -Miguel.

Miguel, nice to meet you.

What do you guys got for us?

You know, my thought was kinda streamline

- everything for Chase. - He's a busy dude, -Yup.

he had two or three places

where he was collecting sap out here,

so we wanna run it all right to the sugar house...

-Bring it all to the house. -...to one tank...

- That's awesome. - ...and make it so he can come home

and just fire up and boil.

We'll give you guys a hand

and get some of this stuff offloaded.

- Yeah. Cool. - Let's do it.

So Miguel's brought us all new sap lines

and tension wire, so we don't have

any sags in the sap line.

We're gonna hook all these tubes

to every single tree.

Right. Barrel roll.

Very nice, very nice.

Okay. Now, pull that pipe

and then we're gonna have one pipe

that brings it all down.

We wanna run it all right to the sugar house.

What's this here, Miguel?

So this one will be the main sap tank

which will drop the...

drop the main line and run the sap directly...

- Yup. - ...into this tank right out of the woods.

Oh, we'll retract this.

Shiny.

We've got two brand new tanks.

One that will run from the trees

- right into the tank. - Yup.

And then one that will elevate

to feed the evaporator.

For the sugar house,

we brought a brand new 18 by 60 evaporator.

So now, where would the tubing come in?

Well, the tubing in the woods

is gonna feed the tanks

right outside of the building.

Then we'll just make one hole in the wall here

from that tank...

Yup.

...right into the evaporator.

There'll be no more collecting sap

up behind the house,

dragging it down here

-and spilling half of it. -Right.

I mean, there's still gonna be work, but it's...

- Yes. - ...gonna be a lot less work

day to day and something where he can come home

and if he wants to boil for a couple hours,

he can come out and just start right in.

He can come down and boil. Yeah.

Pretty much got everything in place.

Just need to have the decorating crew come in

and make it real sugary.

Yeah. They come back from Greece

and we'll be able to turn this over.

Sweet.

We just returned home

from an amazing trip to Greece.

So now, I am in charge of wrapping all of the gifts

that we made for United Way of Kennebec Valley.

So I decided a nice little touch would be

to make my own wrapping paper.

I have some of these rubber stamps,

so I am thinking about doing holiday lights.

I'm just gonna kind of draw out a design

and then with these tools, I'm just gonna dig them out.

So what you're doing is you're digging

the negative space I drew.

This is gonna be the print.

So I need to dig up everything around,

so the print pops.

Let's do this.

For the holiday lights, I took one color,

applied the paint to the stamp.

Ready Freddy.

Stamped all over the paper, switched out my color,

and then just repeated, repeated,

until I was satisfied with the amount of lights

around the page.

I took my marker and filled in

where the base of the bulb is.

So now we're just gonna start making some wires.

Everybody else has a wire?

How about this guy?

And this guy.

There we are.

Charlie.

Do you like my paper? How pretty?

How pretty is it? You love it?

How pretty is it?

- Welcome back from Greece. - -Yeah.

Yeah, you guys did an amazing job

while we're gone.

Yeah, since we got to see Billy Strings

in Copenhagen, we were on a different flight.

Yeah. And so, Chase's flight got in

late last night,

but you guys have outdone yourselves.

-Yeah. -You guys have been busy.

Look at that window. Those doors.

While we were gone, the guys really

just put this project over the top.

-This is so cool. -Yeah.

-They cleaned it up nice. -Wow.

Plenty of storage for him and not to mention

all the new lines and...

Those are all new, huh?

All of it.

Yeah, Miguel and Jaybird really got after

-with those lines. -They did.

-They did a beautiful job. -Wow.

Once everything was done inside,

I had my team come in,

put a few things in there to top it off.

Overall, I mean, like, "What do you really need?

You just need your equipment."

Oh, wow. Nice.

Before Chase discovers this, we should run up to grab him.

-All right. Let's do it. -Okay.

We'll meet you guys back here in a minute.

- Okay, sounds good. - Looks amazing, guys.

Yeah, come out, shut doors, get ready.

- Chase is gonna be blown away. - I hope so.

Haven't got a call from Chase yet,

so I don't think he's seen it yet.

- Morning. - Morning.

What are you doing here?

Wanna go for a walk with us? Gonna show you something.

All right.

Where we going?

Trust us. For once, you have to trust us.

Yeah.

It's a good thing you came in last night when it was dark.

Yeah, yeah.

We were wondering how we were gonna surprise you.

Hey.

Couple of elves right over there.

-Merry Chase-mas. -Merry Chase-mas.

Holy smokes. Look at this thing!

It's amazing.

How did this even happen?

-That's what I wanna know. -A lot of secrecy.

Remember when we sent you up to Dedham

to go get inspired by some wooden toys?

-Yes. -Ah.

We had a little side action going on back here

-behind your back. -You're all so sneaky.

- Wow! - What do you think?

Welcome to Chase's Sugar Shack.

Windows, doors, real posts?

Siding?

- Power. - Power!

So Canadian Jay and his buddy Miguel came

and redid all the tap lines,

so everything is pitched and gravity-fed

to holding tanks on the underside of this.

Wow. Holy smokes.

So you wanna check the rest of it out?

The real surprise is inside.

I just...

It's pretty good right here.

- Oh. - Whoa!

Check that out.

Look at that beauty.

- What? - She just shines.

Yeah.

- Wow. - What do you think?

-Look at that. -Otis.

Were you in on the surprise?

A fan, a little workspace

with the new boiler and evaporator system.

Everything comes in from your tank over here.

It's gravity-fed in.

So everything's hooked up,

it comes into a side tank

that has my float switch on it,

so it will not overflow the system.

Man.

I don't know, this might be too fancy for Chase.

It required that we had

some sort of solid floor.

Yeah.

So Francis' team came in and did the pavers.

Holy smokes.

You'll be thanking us when we get the syrup here.

You're right.

What are you gonna be... use your maple syrup with?

Pancakes and my overnight oats.

I just like chugging it.

It's pretty sweet setup.

No pun indented.

Now, isn't this the time where you thank

the Maine Cabin Masters?

Thank you, Maine Cabin Masters.

All right. Well, Merry Chase-mas.

Hey. Merry Chase-mas.

- How about that? - Thank you. Thank you.

We do have one more thing to do to wrap up

this holiday season, and that's our toy drive.

That's right. Let's go get ready.

-We'll be back in March. -I'll be back.

- I'll be back. - Yeah.

We're all gonna be expecting some maple syrup.

Dixie, you have a Christmas tree farm. That's awesome.

Yeah.

I did it probably 15 years ago.

For the toy drive, my headquarters,

we're gonna make like a... kind of a winter wonderland.

Gussie, pick a tree.

Dixie suggested that we come over to his house

because he has a little Christmas tree farm.

I had no idea. I just...

every time I went over to his house,

I just thought

he had some nice trees growing in his backyard.

This guy's nice and plump.

What do you think? That looks like the one.

-I think that's the one. -I think that's the one.

Falling the wrong way.

Guys, watch out, watch out.

- Boom. - There it is.

That's a nice tree right there.

It'll be the Rockefeller Center of Manchester.

Oh, that's pretty.

Stay. Just some little clusters.

So we have a couple days left before our holiday toy drive.

Looks good, guys.

I'm here today at headquarters.

Oh, come on. Go through.

Ah! I got it. I got it.

My design team is behind me

and we are starting to decorate.

Yeah. And then at the bottom,

we can just kind of like fluff it out.

Gonna take the big tree that we cut down

from Dixie's property, place that on a stage.

And then we're gonna surround that

with all of the wrapped presents that we have.

Thank you.

We were able to use the paper that I made,

And the girls that worked in the retail store...

I got some nice velvet.

You need some nice velvet for that one?

...have volunteered their time

to help us wrap all these presents.

Some of the presents we're not able to wrap 'cause they're so big,

like the rocking horses.

Look at how cute these little horses are.

So we came up with this idea to get a boat,

and then just set all of the rocking horses

into the boat.

Hey, Susie.

This is a full-on team effort.

Everybody's involved.

That was really good.

Okay. Here.

Yeah, you know, we have 48 hours

to make this place into a winter wonderland.

There's no snow, but don't worry.

We don't need snow to make it festive and wintery.

We are going to pull this off.

It's gonna look great.

It's a Christmas miracle.

Aww.

Place looks great.

Like, recognize this?

Oh, wow.

I went down with Leigh and Sharon

and painted a bunch of ornaments.

Looks awesome.

Yeah. So as soon as my design team finished up,

I just had those hand-painted ornaments--

Where's Santa?

I'm so excited looking around here. It looks awesome.

I'm ready to have a toy drive.

- Let's go. - It's gonna be awesome.

Go on up and check out the toys.

Is everybody excited?

All right.

All right. Here, you pull the string, I'll hold it.

-Pull. -Pull.

Hey!

Put 'em in right up here.

-Woo. -And watch 'em go.

You guys make this one or...

Oh, yeah, we made them all.

You be careful though.

Fun, huh?

There it goes.

Hey, out of the way.

You're in the way. Who's gonna win?

Yay!

Don't lose your marbles.

Oh, you beat me. Jack's kicking my butt.

Oh!

Hey, look who's coming?

Santa!

Santa!

Santa!

Yay!

Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas, everyone.

Happy Holidays.

Thank you, everybody, for coming out.

We're happy to work with the United Way of Kennebec Valley,

and Happy Holidays.

- Happy Holidays. - Happy Holidays.

Happy Holidays.