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Hello my dear friends ❤

Hello my dear friends ❤

For starters from scratch there generating excellent videos - if your a city dweller and have a desire to live in the jungles lol off grid you might follow along with them - You will learn a lot from the challenges there dealing with -

This is an exlent walk through of matching a truck to the tow - I was an oilfield contractor for yrs and went through trucks like water - All our trucks were diesel or had large gas engines for mountain work - In my case I had others doing the buying for me - My guess is they knew what you know - Those one ton trucks can haul far more than there rated for - It's not legal but we often had the springs changed out in the front and the rear so we could haul fare heavier loads than they were rated for - We did the same with trailers - when the rear axel of a truck is over loaded constantly the axel winds up with a bow in it - it's the same for trailers - In our case we were constantly changing rear axles and tires ,- We often had 100 pound bricks of lead added to the front end cross over bar on the trucks - Instead of inflating tires with 65 pounds of air we inflated them with 100 psi of nitrogen - We just changed out tires long before they had any wear on the treads - I had never given any thought to what you shared in this video - in my case, a load of material was going to a sight and it went - we refer to it as hot shot - those things happened in the oilfields often - I'm retired now but I have 6 trailers that my bussiness had and all the axles are bowed outward on all of them - I'm not saying to do what we did, but I will say, that truck can do some serious mega hauling - Also that engine and drive train will probably last you a very long long time - We changed engines and drive trains out at around 500000 miles on most of our trucks since they were for hauling - In your case there's no telling how long that truck will keep running for you -

It seems like you would have a lot more comments on this channel - I find it interesting all the trials your running into living off grid - the things you comment on are real life issues of living off grid - Most channels just show the solutions to there energy problems - its generaly after they spent thousands resolving there energy needs lol - Once you understand energy and living off grid its easy to manage power needs - You might look into a diaphram pump as used in your camper to pump water from the tank - sureflow and others are good diaphram water transfer pumps that dont need priming - Those high speed centrifugal water pumps dont last long at all - When your back on your property youll just have to figure your power issues - My guess is once your familar with off grid living, you will gain the knoledge and understand of your power needs vs battery bank size, battery charger size & how long the generator has to run on no sun days ect - Solar by itself can become a real challange if its not fully understood - In winter on cristal clear days were i live solar panels only generate 7% of there rated out put at noon day lol - Were your at on your property during winter solar panels can work really well and have decent out put on clear days even in winter - I realy hope your travels go well for you -

I agree the peace and quiet is fantastic which makes all the other stuff kind of go away lol sort of. I’m interested in seeing how well the plastic over the window works. Please do an update on that.

HELLO MY NAME IS Gary. FIRST TIME SEEING YOU GUYS I THINK I’LL hang in there for a while. Where are you guys at right now

You guys NEED to watch a video on the proper way to use a chain hook. You're going to damage the chain which can make it break and fly back hurting someone or you'll need a sledge hammer to break it apart. That goes for hooking onto the chain or hooking onto the bucket of the tractor. Go watch this one --- How to Use a Grab Hook | Quick Tip

Enjoy watching your video.

Reflect tors are for hunting to help find your hunting stand at dark..

Our number one is the peace and quiet! Love it! We'll get there and so will you. So much to do. I had to laugh at the beginning of your video with the rain. Uggh! You poor things!

Ya'll need to get that tall grass cut back -- unless ya'll like making friends with snakes that are after the field mice...

7:00 Ya'll need to add weight to the front of that tractor.

Great land to start with ! Will look very nice cleaned up.

Your inverter, even in idle mode, could use like 80 watts with nothing powered.

Many are not familiar with cable grips - it's a device you can put any were on a cable and pull on a cable - I'll have one eye on one end of a cable - with a 50 ft cable if I only need 10 foot I just set the cable grips on that part of the cable and pull - in the south there often referred to as cable stretchers as for stretching fence wire - older people call them a pork chop because of there shape - It's like a cleat for chain but it's for cable -

I will try not to write a book on this - if your going to be downing trees any amount it helps to have 1/2 lengths of cable from 100 ft lengths and 200 ft lengths - along with 4 or 5 snach blocks and cable gribers - i also have 3 or more 2 ton come alongs - Cable fares out much better than rope - i have 100 ft lengths of 1 inch rope also - im older now and both my sholders have been broken so its not like i can still put on a set of spikes and climb up a 90 foot tree like i could when i was 50 and top it on my way back down - The last tree that i had to take down near my house was a old growth 90 ft pine - It leaned toward the house - i put a cable about 20 ft up on it then - riged up 6 snach blocks and pulled on it with 4 come alongs - i knotched the tree and kept about 100 tons of pull on it with 4 come longs - i pulled it over slowly over a month till it was leaning in the other direction and fell over - Ive done it many times in my life - a half inch cable is supposed to beake at 25 to 30000 pounds but ive never seen that happen taking trees down - When your over doing it a cable can brake - ive seen guys in the oilfield decapitated or cut in half when cables brake - Also ive seen trees fall on guys and kill them - so there is some risk involved - In my case i like dangerous doings lol - You can find cable grips, snach blocks, cable ect on amazon - My dad was born in 1912 and i have cable, snatch blocks, and cablegrips from the 1930s or so - What ever you get will last generations more than likely -

Down here we often use those machines to move trees knocked down on the high ways after huricanes - Just about every one owns a chain saw in our parish - after katrina every one with a machine was out on the highways clearing them so they were passable - It took abut 3 days to clear i guess about 300 miles of main roads in this parish - After a week every ones roads to there homes was acceable - If you wait on the parish, state or FEMA it takes 3 months or so to clear roads or rebuild bridges over rivers - those machines make what we do happen after storms - We make a list of all the drive ways that need to be cleared after storms and clear them - We also clear all the power line right of ways so that when the lineman from other states show up they can quickly restring the power lines - After huricane IDA our grid power was back up in 3 days because of those FTBs clearing roads and power line right a ways -

You are making a movie out of all your adventures right ???? 😊lol - For me it's no my dad was a journalist with many publications - his mentor my grandfather's brother who mentored my dad was also a publisher - on Kindle his books go for $500 each lol - I have the hard copy's - Writers go back over 500 yrs to France on my dad's side the family and the historic info is still sought after - I'll do sort excerpts as these now and then but that's it - I was mentored to be a publisher and heard my dad type story's in the office in our home at night all night every night - I'll let you young people make the movies and write the books - lol I'm retired and I love it -

I've lived in my rv for 10 months thru a Colorado winter, i know the struggle. I finally just installed a diesel heater in my 25 ft rv.. it took a huge load off my furnace and batteries and added some nice supplemental heat, i found a nice balance around 70f, and my furnace only needed to run maybe once an hour for 10-15 min, i recharged my 400ah batteries about every 4 days via a generator

I’m guessing you charging system in not high amps? My lithiums charging off the generator is 80amps. To charge up two 100amp lithiums only takes about 2.5 hrs. When charging off your generator how many amp are charging your batteries?

Awesome looking driveway

Many look to going back to basics or rural life as a way of decreasing anxioty - It doesnt work that way - as for the word of God it says those who rely upon the Lord are able to enter into Gods rest lol - the word Believe in the Word of God means to "Rely upon" the Lord - I have a lot to say on that subject - It was mentioned how the furnace uses up the batterrys - my guess is you have a OEM furnace the use a lot of power - - Our winters are not as long or cold - right now its in the 30s at night - Living in a rural area it doesnt take much to have my power knocked out - normaly i use grid power for heat when im asleep and wood heat for heat and hot water while I'm awake - When the grid is knocked out after ice storms i had used propane and kerosene heaters when i slept - I started using those chinese diesel parking heaters - they work well enough and only burn 25 watts while there running - I had bought 4 of them and spare glow plugs - I do smell some oder off the exaused hot gas going outside and i did have to dampen the fuel pump noise but it is fuel efficient - I have two 8 kw heaters - last yr i had to use them when the powee was out and it was 15° F at night they worked well - On sail boats many use Dickens diesel heaters - they work well also and sence they use a free standing flame they use no electricity and generate no noise - there pricy though - Im Just mentioning options out there ive worked off grid mountain sights were every day it was 10° or lower and nights were minus 30 to 60° for long periods - we used the german version of the chinese parking heaters every were on those sights back in the 1980s - If your a DIY you might look into setting up a belt drive 12 volt altinator - sence the out put and the engine speed can be matched to the power needed the fuel savings can be substantial - A conventional 3600 rpm generator uses 1 gallon of gasoline per 3000 watts generated - were as a inverter generator drops down to 2700 RPms at below 50% load so there is more time to burn the gas so it might generate 6000 watts of power per gallon of gas burned - Much has to do with the speed a engine runs at - so a inverter generator might be 6:1 fuel effecient - were as a belt drive engine running at 1500 rpms might be 10:1 fuel efficent - You can look up interviews with john L Casey the NASA contract sientist - About 10 or 15 yrs ago he wrote a book called Cold Sun, another was Dark Winter , also one called UpHeavel - he had a stroke and stoped doing interviews - By watching him you can have an idea of the changing weather conditions were now in - They are no longer reporting crop losses but in just 2019 the US had a 20 billion bush grain harvest short fall due to weather - Remote oilfield micro wave relay sights have doubled and tripled there on hand fuel to confensate for a decrease in the suns UV out put in the near future - It means there will be more genrator run time - You might look into those things - so as the sun's UV out put changes and solar panels have a noticable out put decrease you will be ready -

I saw comments on lengths of wire from your solar panels - Saying your using a MPPT controler - also your sending a voltage higher than 36 volts from your solar panels to the mppt controler - there will not be much of a voltage drop - With 48 volts there is a voltage drop of 10% per mile of wire - phone companies have used 48 volts DC for a 100 yrs - So the factors on voltage drops are known - In the french quarter in new orleans one of the early power stations was a hybrid on burbon street - It generated 110 volts DC on average for i guess 60 yrs those that lived 1 mile from the power plant in Bourbon st or 5280 ft from the power plant had a 10% voltage drop - so there voltage at a distance of 5280 ft from the power plant dripped down to 99 volts - My grand father often said few noticed the voltage drop - Most Basic MPPT controllers can handle a 80 to 100 volt input from the solar panels - at those voltages there's not much voltage drops to matter - 6 and 12 vilts has a lot of voltage drop - 24 to 36 volts has some voltage drop - at 48 tp 110 volts its about 10% voltage drop per mile -

in rural America rural light plants started poping up around 1880 - at the same time citys were building power plants - Were ever dams were built they added hydro power to generate electricity - When we live off grid were just encountering many of the problems that power companies have but on a small scale - I worked on genrators in the offshore and remote mountain oilfieds for yrs - We always had 2 to 8 back ups on all power generation equipment - Tug boats always had two to three generators - the same with offshore platforms - Off shore Drilling rigs never had less than three generators and some had eight generators with three genrators running 24/7 - Miro wave communication relay stations on unmaned platforms in the gulf of mexico and high remote sights are generaly hybrid - - on a platform in the gulf those hybrid microwave repeaters are geneator powered - There is not the space for enough solar panels - if the platorm doesnt have a fuel supply of natural gas a generator will run 24/7 - On platforms that dont have piped gas or a live natural gas well - Those are set up on diesel generators - the generators will run one hour in the morning and one our in the evening to charge a very large bank of batterys - As a rule a hybrid system will burn 1/6 to 1/10th the fuel of a stand alone generator running 24/7 - Mountain micro wave repeters often use solar panels for part of there power - then the other part of there power comes from diesel generators - Remote microwave repeters in some cases rely on fuel being hauled to them by helocopters - They fill large blatter bags with fuel and might spend several days in a row once a yr air droping fuel to the sight high in the mountains - In 1916 Delco marketed a hybrid rural and farm 32 volt DC light plant - Delco is a division of general motors - The light plants were 32 volts, delco also sold a complete line of appliance that worked off of 32 volts DC - Thats light bulbs, fans, refrigorators, hot plates, water heaters ect - I live in the rural south in 1960 REA was still stringing power lines and many rural and farm homes still operated off a bank of 2 volt cells that made up 32 volts - After all those yrs living off grid had been mastered - Delco Rxide or Gould battery banks used a acid strength of 1.220 in there cells - with the .220 acid batterys. Lasted 40 yrs or longer - If larger battery banks were used with 1.195 acid strength they would last 60 + yrs - Batterys were sized so they were charged once a week all day on friday during winter months and the house ran off the batterys for 6 days - down here during summer fans and fridges run a lot in summer - house batterys had to be charged ali day friday and monday during summer - In the end there is over a 140 yrs of knoledge out there about living off grid with electricity - If you search it out on the net it can be found - you might start with farm house batterys - There is a lot of good data from studys done about farm light plants in the 1920s or so - Ive rode out 20 huricanes on land and seen power from the grid knocked out up to nine months in my area - i go high bybrid at that point till grid power is restored -

Oh yeah, that song sure is fitting

Now that is awesome

First time watching your channel and I LOVED your video! We are fulltimers for past 3 years. Thanks for sharing your Christmas 🎄

Morning guys. Been so busy! Finally getting to watch your new video. Get some fly tape. We are atill having fly issues too. exciting update with solar! We just had a bunch of stuff delivered so we'll be working on ours soon too. Ahh i feel the frustration with the mount. That sucks. I think we are going to build one ourselves out of wood. 22:34 excited for you!! ❤ Good job guys. It will come together!

Nov 22,2024 4 Off-Grid 150 Person Enclosed Liveaboard Lifeboats Fully Inside Of An Amphibious Ship My Cabin On Wheels For Surviving In A USA Ghost Town Away From The Wildlife In Warmth and Safety Year Round Thank You Very Much Plus I See and Love YA TH-cam Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots and Lots

Birch trees grow near ponds and lakes.

Looks amazing

There are big rocks in your black tube!

Is it humid there?

Do you have snakes ,particularly poisonous ones there?

So you will have to buy a different camper in a few years.

It’s a really nice camper!

Hey great start guy's ! Welcome to the off grid world 👍, Good job but before you get full sun looks like you have to take out a few trees, & hey you can screw together some boards to add to your stand, cheap & easy :) I've been 100% off grid for 11 tears & love it, Yes be careful with that PV power pugging & unplugging in the heat of the day !

Looking forward to going through your videos and watching and your new ones have a great day

I think that was a great investment being able to do these things for yourself and saving the cost of somebody else doing it and just the satisfaction is worth every penny😊

is it worth putting the solar panels a tad higher and maybe so they can be rotated with the sun ? Definitely need to burry the cables incase you damage them

First you need to have a transfer pump that's 12 volt if things you need are 12 volt you don't need to worry about 110 volt

Great set up But you need to put the panels up higher, because of rain n snow

You’ll need 1) more sun, equals less trees. Obviously for the solar panels. 2) a second generator, redundancy is the name. More research on your part as far as power consumption, is required. efficiency and usage. More effective batteries w higher amp hours. 100 ft of solar panel wire equal huge power loss power. Buy a chainsaw. I’m in the cold northwest off the grid in a 40’ quintuple slide toy hauler, w lots of sun, 3 generators, yes (3), 200 gallons of premium high test fuel, on standby, ( for emergencies) (2) 120 gallon propane tanks and 10 30 pound propane tanks, all full, I know exactly what my power usage is and never any issues in my 7 years here. Oh btw, I do have a back up micro wood stove and 12 cord of wood and counting. I do have internet, water, waste disposal. And food. And foresight!

Hi guys. Good start on your solar. We have used solar for years on boats and our 5th wheel. You are fighting shade and a little amperage drop due to length of wire run. In the cold weather you will need a lot of power to be free from running the generator so much. When you can afford it, please consider adding at least 3-4 more batteries and increase your solar to a minimum of 1600-2000 watts. That way you can run everything during the day in your 5th wheel and still be charging your battery bank. Otherwise you are constantly running a deficit which will be frustrating. However, for now, it looks like your on the right path. Keep up the good work and be sure to maximize your solar by double checking the angle to the sun and also that the panels are facing due south. And don't underestimate how much shade will impact the solar output. Again, keep up the good work and enjoy your new property! 👍

Looks like 4 bolts on backside holding channel together. Can you remove two and extend out another 6 “?

Sometime God does challenge our character to build up our integrity up so that we automatically just humble ourselves and turn to him faithfully to face life challenges. So Proud of you two, Love your positive persevering attitudes and love your channel. John you are making your wife smile and building on your family's dreams Great Job☝

Seriously the rain though! 😂

Yeah my sister-in-law taught me what to do with these guys (fly's),get out the shop vack and go after them.

I am currently building in northern wi myself. Pembine area. Its beautiful up there.