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Teach you his trade -- >> hit it! >> you'd better be ready for the fast -- >> hit it! >> -- and the furious. >> you're making too jerky turn. you have the car crooked. it's hard to fix stupid sometimes. >> then -- >> my life's focus is on demonstrating the jetliners should be converted into homes. >> what's crazier than wanting to live in an old 727. >> this of course is the proper sleeping posture. >> how about living round in your own ewok village. you have a tree here. and terrorizing your guests -- >> holy [ bleep ] -- >> with outsized playground equipment. please don't hit the tree. geez....

>> it's a mustang. >> i like the way you say that. >> it's a mustang. >> let's be serious now. >> yeah. >> take a deep breath. and you build it up, rpms with the throttle and the brake. >> there's my tree. >> are you trying to top it real quick? >> i was. is that good? >> no. >> no? >> no, why did you do that? >> i was just trying to fit in. you know, the problem is this helmet. >> these guys are strict. >> this is it, guys. let's see what he's made of.

Issued a shutdown notice and ordered him to stop letting the public into his lofty lodgings. he complied, but by popular demand, he reopened later. >> you are really up a tree here. >> until the following summer when the county then demanded he tear them all down. >> they told you to tear it down. what you do is you built some more. >> yeah, first i showed them it was safe. they said it wasn't safe. there's no way to show you it's safe. i put 66 people on that. two dogs, a cat, and i'm not sure if the hummingbird stayed or not. so that showed him that it met code. >> after several more years o...

Feet from its perch because of a loose cable. >> there you go, that's good. >> got to be close. whew. >> anyhow, that's how you tighten up a cable on a tree house. standard maintenance routine, i'm told. >> now let's go have some fun. >> let's do that. >> michael's engineering skills don't begin and end with tree houses. he's also built a tree-based amusement park here at the treesort. >> when i went to the county back in 1990 and told them what idea i had, most people thought i was kind of crazy to even do this. who's going to come out here in this old hippy community and stay in a tree? >> r...

Oh, gah! [ cow mooing ] i was so sure i was going hit the tree. oh, crap. oh, please don't hit the tree. please don't hit the tree. please don't hit the tree. oh [ bleep ]. please don't hit the tree. wow. that is bananas. funny little thing about the old caribbeaner there. that was a good one. what's next, a stroll on a high wire, maybe some trapeze work? no thank you, i'm ending the show while i can still walk away under my own power. >> thanks for your hospitality. >> you're welcome. >> really good fun. next time an hour southwest of medford. >> come out on a limb and come to out and about. ...