Free Power for 16 years from a modified Washing Machine / Water Wheel
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 พ.ค. 2020
- I've been living off grid for the past 16 years, I make my own electricity using an old washing machine I found at the dump.
I rewired the smart-drive washing machine motor to generate electricity, the generator is rotated via a water driven Pelton Wheel ( Hydro Turbine ).
Water goes into the intake, creates pressure due to the difference in height between intake and outlet nozzle. Water comes out of the nozzle at 60psi and spins the pelton wheel which is attached to the modified washing machine motor (now a generator).
The generator puts out 3 phase ac voltage which is passed through a 3 phase diode block rectifier to change it into dc, it is then fed directly into a 24v battery bank, a 24 - 240vac inverter is connected to the battery bank, 240vac travels up the power lines to my house. I can now power all my 240vac household appliances from the inverter
It makes enough power to heat my water and run all the appliances in my energy efficient house as well as most of the tools in my shed.
Occasionally I have issues with it and need to go down to the stream to problem solve, a small price to pay to avoid paying a power bill.
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That thing has spent more of its time on Earth generating electricity than washing clothes.
Welcome to 2030 You will own nothing and you will be happy!
@@KoDeMondo well you own quite a lot of stuff so...
@@KoDeMondo that would really gonna happen so learn all you can
@@KoDeMondo shit in 2030 weight have to pay for unpolluted air 😂
Don't let anybody ever tell you what ur supposed to do King.
Plot twist: This guy's plane went down 16 years ago and instead of calling for help he decided to just chill.
Lol right. Broke out the societal matrix by mistake.
Let me guess: The plane was hit by an airborne washing machine.
He didnt find TH-cam, TH-cam found him.
Plot twist twist: the guy filming this perished many years ago, Marty T is a sudoname for a TH-cam channel that's just profiting off the found footage of an engineer servicing in the wild like that film Martian, later to be discovered by Holiwood and moneytised further.
1 question. How did he get the internet? INCEPTION SOUNDTRACK PLAYS.......
The fact that this guy is probably powering his washing machine with another washing machine is quite meta.
That is impossible lol.
@@massinakmin8340 No it's not?
@@DEATHTRUTH A washing machine needs at least 1000 watts of power to run. So you need 3 generators (washingmachines) with this setup to power 1 washingmachine.
@@massinakmin8340 The batteries allow those kind of loads temporarily.
@@DEATHTRUTH Yes, that will make it possible.
Anytime you can generate free power using discarded waste material is a big win.
While everyone else would look for a big waterfall, Marty sticks a pipe in a tiny little creek and powers his entire home. Much respect.
Guess you could run a city on a good fall
@slydog4949
Batteries would make up the difference in production and demand. 14kw a day is pretty damn good.
Your looking for pressure in a system like this, not volume! Great little system congrats.
@@wiggitywhitefox ever hear of a place called Niagara falls? Same idea bigger scale
slydog4949 You obviously know nothing about off-grid living or how electricity works!
The wonders of the internet hey.. this dude would normally be up there all on his own yet here 3m of us are, leaning over his shoulder watching him do this. Crazy!
Welcome to 2030 You will own nothing and you will be happy!
@@KoDeMondo - They are planning some rotten stuff for us. It's going to be an interesting next couple years.
It's less a wonder and more a convenience.
We forsake our real wonders in trade of this convenience.
@@BeaternPlays It is a wonder, because the Internets allows us to experience what under normal circumstances most people would never see or do in their entire lives.
@@noname-oe9jy relax weirdo smoke a joint
"It'll probably outlive me but it's on the way out". Such a casually jarring statement. It's already irreversibley dying but still has more life left than any of us will ever experience.
We're all irreversibly dying.
Pertaining to this earth maby So But to Kingdom of GOD not a chance
@@davidvon3058 Already have enough jehovah's witnesses dropping pamphlet on my door dude.
@@davidvon3058 cool story bro
@@bhutwheyttherismor86 just speaking the truth
A detailed run through of the build would be pretty awesome.
He's got em
My relatives were generating their own power 40yrs ago - running a full dairy farm totally off grid here in NZ; and my sister had a generator made from an old air con unit sited under a waterfall on her farm in the Kaimai ranges 30 years ago. Good old Kiwi number 8 wire garden shed technology. So when people tell me off grid is a myth in this age of technology advancement- I tell them they have no idea what they are talking about.
Wut?! There was power 40 yrs ago...? Did they invent it?
And there are so many ways to optimize these kinds of systems to use less actual electricity consumption (whether on grid or off). Besides the usual wood stove, if you get sun in yard/property, you can make Solar heat collectors (either air or water) pretty easy. The air ones are super easy.
You can do cooling with passive, Solar regenerated Evap/phase change systems using a blend of water and methanol. At night, you can radiate heat energy out of tanks of water into the sky, etc, etc all without expensive Solar panels, batteries, etc though you do need some energy for pumps and/or fans for some of these systems.
Justin do you know how to make everything work, got a scheme ?
It's not a myth, just not for the faint of heart.
It's also not dependable.
Droughts do happen - freezing water does happen.
Either of those will render small hydro power heavily reduced or useless.
@@mnomadvfx that more or less depends on your location when it comes to droughts or freezing, working for 16 years is pretty damn dependable imo
“It beats paying for power anyway.” The understatement of the day.
Sure if only 3 people would build this thing near his shit, the creek would be empty most of the time.
He can only do this because others dont.
300m pipes? 400m wires? At least a line of 700m He is using just for himself. While others live on 50 square meters and share the other streets and places with many people. Like we as humans havent took enough land from animals and mother nature, better exploit the rest of it as personal money saving method.
@@Hans69Wurst Isnt there any whales left to save?
@@Hans69Wurst chill
@@Hans69Wurst "Sure if only 3 people would build this thing near his shit, the creek would be empty most of the time."
So the water just disappears into his generator never to be seen again? You are pathetically ignorant. The water from the creek/river goes right back into it to be used by anyone else.
"300m pipes? 400m wires? At least a line of 700m He is using just for himself. "
I bet you are taking the items you are finding on sale somewhere and providing everyone in your entire neighborhood and city with complete access to them? The local children, homeless, and elderly all have complete access to your computer 24/7? Oh right, you aren't. You are an accusing trash hypocrite demanding things from others that you never would do yourself.
@@Hans69Wurst How dumb do you have to be to make a comment like this... I mean speaking strictly from an ecological standpoint, this was a massive step forward not backwards. This guys is producing enough energy for himself with a 98% safe method and a 100% 'clean' method. All the water he's using is being returned to the stream, no petroleum was burned to produce energy, no fracking, no drilling, no major damming or water redirection or continual retention. As long as the wires are properly wrapped, there is no damage done to the the ecology of the area.
This guy’s playing Rust in real life.
I was just scrolling, waiting for this thruth to appear...
hahahaha ...... oh man i was thinking the same !!!!
I was the 600th like.
just watch out for those wood piles...............
One day you will move out of moms
This is the type of person and people this world needs. Never relies on the government or wasteful cost for energy. Brilliant !
He should be a teacher, these are the things that we need to have our kids leaning. 🇺🇸❗❗
@@zenastrang4442 no, you learn the theory (eg ohm's law, gravitational potential energy etc) , and then apply it as necessary...that is what this guy has done.
Learning is supposed to be about _how_ to think, not _what_ to think.
@@njones420 That's only one way to do things. It's fine, but there are others that work better for some/most people
@@troyesivan4416 That doesn't make sense...
explain how you would teach people to make electricity, without understanding the fundamental basics of electricity?
Here we have laws against such things lol. We cant even use solar panels 🤦♂️
I consider myself a pretty smart guy and then I remember people like this exist.
You are pretty yes pretty
Right...
Necessity is the father of invention
It's pretty simple.
Minus his pressure induction with the reducer.
I would of never thought of that
@@heliarc5186 k
All I ever want in life is a piece of property like this
so do I...
Jej, took me my whole life, but I have a small piece of land 5 acres much like this, on the side of a mountain, valley below & other mountains across the way. It is beautiful but it takes getting used to. Lotta wild animals & it feels like you're in a zoo with no cages 0.0
Good luck. I've been looking for 20 years. Getting property like this, that you can actually afford in America is like winning the lottery.
You can do it.
He's living the life. Freedom from the Man and society
BRO YOURE THE MAN SALUTE MY BROTHER AND FELLOW COUNTRYMAN GOD DEFEND OUR FREELAND✌️❤️🇳🇿💪
Imagine this is the type of stuff was practically taught in school
Exactly, they teach stuff that's not relevant rather than domestic skills.
Actually generators are taught in every physics class, but most of us tend to ignore science classes.
Most 16 year olds (me included) wouldn't pay attention to this
The basic concepts behind this design are taught in every school.
They teach about magnetic fields, it's up to you to really learn it or just pass the exam by the skin of your teeth.
I am 83 and you are a dream to me. Thank God for wonderful people that can think for themselves. ❤️
Traveling through the woods one day....you stop listen...yes it’s a washing machine...
HAHAHA!
….on the spin cycle!
I’d be wondering if I stumbled into an underground drug lab and quietly GTFO.
I'd be to dam curious after seeing the drill attached to an angle grinder head I would be trying to look it over to figure it out then I'd GTFO
Constantly in spin cycle
Casually pausing the mission to explain about the Matai was great.
I’m amazed at how reliable these are. I worked at a company that serviced around 10 “small” commercial plants and there was always some little thing to deal with. That being said though a lot of our equipment was from the 1940s-50s. It’s amazing how long those machines last, most of our failures would be smaller components. Hydropower remarkable stuff.
By “small” I mean most of our units are under 250 kWh. Our intake pipes are big enough to walk around in if that gives you an idea of the difference between commercial vs home setups like this. Most of the hydro in the U.S. northeast is smaller setups like that, the big stuff is mostly up in Canada like hydro Quebec or out West.
In Norway the electrical grid is 95% hydro. All the excess energy that we are unable to store is exported to Europe. Whenever it is to cold for the powerplants to run we rely on import.
This has got to be one of a handful of off grid videos that has been able to back up their claims and prove concepts. Well done!
Yes, he does his homework and gets things done well. In the US, we still have nincompoops trying to prove that an amplidyne is a "perpetual.motion machine." Of course, you can't tell THEM that it is not, else you'd be branded a communist or something.
He has proved nothing, this is a video that shows a water feature and he claims it makes 480W, rrrright!
what do u mean back up their claims? this is just a cheaper version of hydro electric dams.
@@Drenov what makes you think it couldn't achieve the output he claims?
@@TD-wi1zh A vacuum cleaner uses about 5 amps at 120 volts. 5 amps at 24 volts is about one fifth the power. That turbine sounded about half the speed of a vacuum cleaner so I think the output is feasible.
This lad has been fixing old field ornaments in a calm, mellow way ever since I've started watching the channel, and now he decides to drop a micro hydro project which has been operating for longer than any I've seen on TH-cam?
I'd double-subscribe if I could.
THIS!
Hahaha
Theres a lot of this sort of power generation out there but we usually dont say much about it.
In the old days those type of motors where hard to come by and I got mine from old tech Mainframe computer systems and used UPS backup batteries from Telco sites when they are decommissioned, huge heavy lead acid units in 2 to 6 volts per battery in the old days.
Then as tech infiltrated home appliances you couldnt sneeze without tripping over an LG or Hitachi direct drive washer, AGM batteries and better became cheaper as did Inverters and even solar panels and charge regs etc
Water is the best and probably only true sustainable small scale power generation and with a good weight gravity feed does exactly what Marty's system does with minimal fuss and bother.
@@tony66au interesting. I was under the impression that solar can be viable these days. Perhaps it depends where you live?
@@tony66au What minimum vertical fall and water flow would you say make these systems viable? I have access to a stream that drops about 60-80' with good flow in spring and fall. Also would have to winterize here. (Ontario, Canada)
One thing that 2020 has taught me, THIS GUY HAS THE RIGHT IDEA .
I don't need a page from your book l need the whole book bro...GREAT JOB..
I love how the captions translate trickling water as (Applause)
I love running the captions. Some of the funniest stuff they never said happens.
Maybe that's why we love applause
You should try watching police shooting videos everytime there is a shootout an a scumbag criminal gets it ... "applause"
Hey you want some fun with captions? Watch Pewdiepie's music video for 'Bitch Lasagna' and set the captions language to ASL.
*_When I tell my new Aussie mates about good old Kiwi ingenuity, they look at me kinda strange like... Well now I can simply point them to this video... Well done Marty._*
I guess your mates never heard about John Britten then.
Welcome to 2030 You will own nothing and you will be happy!
Plenty of Kiwis punch above their weight over the decades in engineering etc, just like Australians. Necessity/isolation is the mother of invention. Same reason why a lot of outback farmers etc are the same.
@@basstard13 Or Bob Semple
You are a good aussie, us kiwis don't normally say that 😁
“That’s pretty much all there is to it” 😳 he says to the rest of us with two left hands 😜
Hey I left is my right talk about yourself😀😃😃😄
im left handed
Mate you’re a legend. Human ingenuity truly amazes me. Sending love and respect from Australia. Cheers mate
Australia? FBI? umm....
@@AmorDeae ?? Not aussie? Not genuine?
It's a matter of time until a Starbucks opens near his inlet pipe.
Say it isn't so!
and Bill Gates, Big Corps and their minions in our government...make it illegal because they don't like people being sovereign, self-sufficient and empowered...
itll be awhile is my guess on that
@@LeChristEstRoi Because Bill Gates wants everyone to fall for their stupid lies. Like the Digital ID or the Vaccine, Heck no! I am not going to ever take the vaccine if it ever gets mandated, that's why I want my own electricity so I don't have it turned off if I don't accept the government's mandates. The government is scared that they will lose people because they will not be able to then collect much taxes from people and they will lose money. HAHA, HECK YOU CORRUPT GOV!
@@brave1.0 I think most of us feel the same, and are ready to boycott the corrupt gov!
I’ll never look at washing machines the same way again.
You mean you will never look at electric motors the same
I also made a system very similar to this. I hope to get longer bearing life by washing the grease out of the new bearings and repacking with the best synthetic grease I can find. I fitted a slinger on the shaft to throw the water off before it gets to the seal which hopefully helps. My wife is a potter and made long tapered ceramic jets that don't wear out and work well. My system runs at 60 volts (48 volt battery system) and is otherwise much the same; same advantages, same few problems! Cheers!
Do you sell it (the extra power)? that's what i would do, clean energy. 0.27 cents per Khw so 0.9*0.27*24*30 = 174.96 euros a month
Dear Marty:
I want to appreciate your ispiration.
I bought a little farm in the fields and nedded to cut the grass.
I opted for the "Marty Solution".
Bought a $50 Briggs Stratton grass cutter and I am ready to repair it...
Regards.
“Electricity companies hate this man with his one special trick” :-)
To be fair it’s a trick that only works if you have your own perennial stream with a good fall. Which virtually none of us do.
Click here!
In the US you wouldn't be allowed to do this without special permission (read: money) even if you did have all the right conditions on your property.
@@RazielXSR I doubt that. At 24V there is little to no training, certificates or inspection required in most cases.
@@frantisekzverina473 You think? I mean they have even made it an offense to collect rainwater without permission (again, read: money), so I figure at the very least you are stuck paying for water rights to even set this up.
"Power companies hate this on simple trick!" 😂🤣
Brilliant!!! I love seeing people like this who can take someone else's trash, and turn it into something else.
Yes, he spent a little time, money, and effort to put it all together, but it's paid for itself MANY times over.
Genius!
This man has figured out life.. Bringing power to a place off the grid without a generator is pure genius !!! Can't wait to see more on this gem of a channel !!! Thank you for sharing this amazing tech.... God Bless 🙏
When people ask how are you doing and you reply "living the dream" you're actually telling the truth.
When people ask how are you doing your washing your wife says.... ??
Not my dream. I could get along with that at all. Rather him than me.
When an electrical engineer creates his own grid and lives off it.
This is legitimately my dream, I wanna learn how to do this shit
@@Aerostorm56 Go for it man good luck
@@Aerostorm56 gonna be hard though, apart from making them, you have to consider maintaing them, upgrading them, securing them, environmental awareness, getting proper licenses and other shite
My recommendation would be getting out of urban areas and find remote areas like this video, that's just the start.
Just sharing, I support your idea and would also like to do them but in a smaller scale.
Its Just Like That do i have to find and buy the land? Or can i just like sorta claim it mine?
You mean a Mechanical Engineer
Marty I enjoy your videos very much. I live in a big city in the USA. So many people here just have no idea what life off grid is like. Take it from my perspective. You're very blessed. Thanks for sharing some of your journeys with people. I'm sure it's a win, win deal for you and many other people.
This is genuinely amazing. I have always enjoyed making things and I wanted to be an inventor growing up. Seeing this just makes me so happy. Thank you for sharing this with us!
TH-cam needs an algorithm that connects singles based on an aggregate of the channels they subscribe to, and video content they enjoy. #thisman
We used conversations instead of algorithms to see if we were compatible.
Judging by divorce rates, it wasnt super effective.
Touché.
More’s the pity.
This is an idea I fully support.
That would be excellent if you think about it and what interests people
they already do that. what’s up?
Never thought of this as a mech engineer to use an intake upstream and accelerate the little water downstream by reducing friction losses using pipes.
Thanks for your upload. My mind has opened.
@@JohnSmith-yv6eq I'm a little confused - first you say it has nothing to do with the friction of the stream bed, and then you say that every rock the water bounces over on its way down dissipates the energy. Don't those two basically add up to the same thing?
for a minute every time a watch this channel I think "I can do that" and I feel proud of my self....then reality set in
just droppin a comment to support this dude's journey
I was first made aware of your Hydro system after watching " Motorcyclist get ambushed by an angry ram "...6+ years ago now. Time flies!
This should be an entire industry! Clean it up - hire an industrial designer, make it compact, light, easy to install, and sell it. You'll make a fortune AND help save the world!
You mean, electrical generators from water wheels? It's been an industry since the 30s. What you mainly see is big dams feeding big water wheels worth big generators, which are more efficient and can power many houses for less cost overall.
Not allowed. That shit would be axed off the map and you would never even remember it happened. Government will help you set up payment plans to your power supplier so you shouldn’t even think about it. 😷
I would love to see his home and see what all that hard work looks like. Ingenious!!
prolly looks like a scrapyard
I've become obsessed with this channel. It's great all-round.
Fern 'roots' .... man, those things will grow through your ears if you sleep too long!
Lol imagine hearing a washing machine in the middle of the forrest
If a washing machine in the Forrest starts its spin cycle and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
I wonder how the constant sound affects the plants in the region.
@@Axodus the plants are very much annoyed about that noise 🤬🌱
@@e.c.listening326 That's not exactly the effect I was thinking of.
@@Axodus I know that 😄
Watched this video a few times over the years. I just love the idea of going to a scrap yard, grabbing some parts and making a hydro-electric generator out of it. If I'm ever fortunate enough to afford my own land I would look to do something similar. You wouldn't even mind doing the maintence on the equipment because of the savings and the freedom it gives you especially with the cost of energy these days.
watched a video of you showing this a fair few years ago and a video of it melting itself to bits as a bearing wore out... great to see it still going and working for you so well for you!
WOW!!! This brother truly has it figured out! I can only hope to be like him some day! Love your drive and wisdom my man! 😉👍
I like your grasp on reality. The old tree, the way you worded it's lifespan along side of yours shows me your intelligence, water generator aside. My dream come true (owning property like this with 50M head flowing year round). You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.
Well said .
This is brilliant, this is the kind of knowledge I want. To be able to use it to benefit myself in such a practical way. Well done sir, I take my hat off to you!
Blows me away what people can due with a bit of ingenuity. Very very cool man. I take my hat off to you.
The power company of the Future should be no power company.
@Nemesis Idk about you guys but electricity is pretty freaking great and my bill is usually $35 a month. Not bad considering what I get out of it. Imagine living 150 years ago where electricity wasn't so accessible
@@mtnmotoadv $35 a month? You're very lucky.
look at turkmenistan where antiquiteq exist and communiste gouvernement give it free actually. Ancien people have free energie. Look at Jon Lev YTi Channel.
@@mtnmotoadv It widely varies on the cost of where you live... I live in MO and my company charges me $13 service charge, fuel charge and county tax just to have electricity. This averages around $20 a month just to start. My bill for a 1500sqf single story 3 bed 2 bath house is around $200 a month. When its real cold or real hot they increase their rates almost double and call it extreme temperature charge.... In 2018 from Nov to Feb my bill was around $400 a month because of this charge. Average bill is 900 to 1000 kwh.
Welcome to 2030 You will own nothing and you will be happy!
Just when I didn’t think I could get more impressed by the things you do. That was really amazing to watch. Thank you.
Man, i'm an undergraduate electrical engineering student and your project is just awesome, really inspiring. Congratulations, great video.
Right off the bat I’m just imagine this guy going back for his camera every time he drives by on the quad lol
What a beautiful part of the world you live in Marty !
I very much like the way you re-purpose things too.
I am quite impressed with all the safety and backup considerations. Bravo mate, cheers for sharing.
Beautiful land. I've seen this concept before but not with the ingenuity he used! Thanks for sharing with us!
So glad i found your awesome videos Marty. Thank you. Top job on your beautiful property!
Something tells me, I could learn more in a week just hanging out with Marty then I could in a year of trade school. Northing against trade schools, but some people are simply unending sources of solid information and, more important, attitude. Good stuff, my friend, good stuff!
You could leanr how to make a video, I don't think that you would learn how to make a water turbine
trade schools are good for the basics but other than that it teaches you nothing. worked with a few guys that easily got 95-100% on their school tests but could barely function on theire own with a simple task. on the flipside i worked with one guy that had to do every year of electrical training 2 or 3 times. he could complete basically ANY task in a decent amount of time with nearly perfect work. if you dont have hands on experience knowledge doesnt help much :)
@@Drenov they meant by being there in person with him, you could definitely learn whatever he is building
@@Drenov on his other channel he shows how it was built. Quite easy as well if you have a little smarts.
You jealous or something?
@@TD-wi1zh What other channel is that? Got a link?
Impressive hydro-electric generator Marty T, you even have built-in back-ups and failsafe. Constantly amazed at the power of running water. Very enjoyable having coffee on Sunday morning with you mate. Thanks for sharing.
Mate this is awesome stuff 👏 from the heavy machinery to making life more comfortable at home, you've got it all mate 👍
That's awesome! Here in the States, you get a citation for molesting the wild life for building something like that.
Kudos
No.you get a citation for taking profit away from the cabal
Change your location. There are plenty of places you can find to run a set-up like this in the U.S..
People make excuses all the time to remain in the rat-race.
In the usa the land and original people are so badly raped I dont know if it will ever be repaurable.. we are not allowed to Be inguinitues because the investors overseas would lose money
almost speechless from seeing your ingenuity and how you are able to get things to work. I'm really impressed
If I ran across all that piping/tubing in a remote, Mountainous area like this I'd be looking for the Moonshine Still, lol.
or the weed grow..
Either of you probably shouldn't. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh……… :)
doesnt sound too smart i heard cartels have people guarding grows with aks especially near harvest time
@@lolalex556 I don't think you'll find too many of those in new zealand
Or a drug den.
I'm glad he's willing to share his experience 😀
I reckon if you had a big enough dump to root around in you could build New Zealand's first space station!
@Chris Jackson please be trolling
@@derrickmoses1507 Interesting last name.
It isn't flat, it's a plane.
Engineering never accounts for curvature regardless of scale.
The Sun appears to go down but so do clouds and anything else in the sky moving away from our line sight
Polaris never moves in the sky. True North.
'Gravity' can be explained more simply through density.
Science has been undermined through abstract mathematical frameworks which don't actually apply in reality.
Earth is a plane realm much larger than we are told.
The real troll is the world manufactured before us.
We already have a space station we dont do anything with it but we have one
Well, NZ is now building rockets and sending satellites into orbit so it's just a matter of time
@Chris Jackson how old are you grow up
I’m very impressed with the amount of time and power he’s been able to get out of a washing machine impressive
People who are amazed by this and see it as pure genius I don't think they are mentally grasping the hardwork it takes to live that way and to have that kinda freedom.
Yeah one drawback of having my own power generator, if it stops working I can't just call up the power company to sort it, I have to figure it out myself. it doesn't break down often these days though
@@MartyT yeah. I have a bug out spot and plan. I'm a city boy so I spent several years training and learning to live off the land and harvesting all my own water, power and food. It's a very satisfying life and a ton of hardwork. Hell, just shut the water off to the regular American family home and their quality of life will change tremendously. But anyway i tell people I know about it and the simple machines I've made and they just think it's so neat. Their like "ohhhhhh yeah free electricity" and I'm like no. Nothings free. They don't take into consideration how every little thing becomes so much harder when you remove modern accommodations. Put it mildly. I know I can do it. I have before. But I really hope I don't have to use my bug out spot and plan under real circumstances. I'd much rather continue being a city boy that has a nice spot for hunting fishing camping and hiking. I really love my electricity, air conditioning and running water at the push of a button or twist of a knob. Most people don't understand how much they take that for granted. Looks like you're doing well at it though. Good job.
I was here for the video when you first installed it. Seriously impressed its still running! Would of only given it a couple months at best.
Props- this was one of the coolest things I have ever seen on TH-cam. Amazing repurpose DIY that has lasted the test of time. Incredible.
Wow, I saw the video of this setup years ago but I didn't make the connection when I found your channel last year. Glad to see it's still going strong!
That whenua though!! Papa kainga o nga tangata whenua .Awesome mahi bro loving the off the grid 100%
Off grid living is very enviable and looked at very favourably. In fact it is not everybody's cup of tea. It is a very tough life and needs a lot of discipline and strong will power. Salute to you Marty👍
"But this one's on its way out" "it'll ONLY be here for another couple hundred years" that is crazy 🤯
Marty, you´ve been blessed with a really large height difference on your creek. That builds up the pressure you need. It´s great. I own a plot of land in a similar place, and hope someday to build a dam and get enough power. However dry season is almost 6 months long. Thanks for this.! Great video.
It’s amazing what a little bit of ingenuity can do. I’m very impressed by your water-powered turbine. It’s a great set up and from what you’ve said, it appears to work like a champ and do the job very nicely. Thank you so much for sharing and I look forward to seeing more of your content. Cheers!
You're a wonderful McGueyver and The A team all put together!!! You are AWesome!
Your ingenuity really impresses. I didnt think there was enough water flow to run a toaster.
Talk about woods that look pre historic !!!!!! Marty is a very self sufficient man....I usually learn something from Marty but I don't mess with electricity. stuck the butter knife in the wall socket to many times as a kid
Anything under 50volts in non lethal. Don't be afraid
After having my own secluded mountain top home and waterfalls much like yours I always dreamed up Ideas like this but used generators instead as the EPA man can fine you for modifications to your own mountain creeks and rivers in the US.
Thanks for the treck , it left me homesick. Loved the video and your gen set ideas.
Video starts and I'm immediately getting Aotea vibes. And of course, he's a kiwi! Sick set up mate.
Started watching with the excavator and stayed with since. Interesting stuff man. Keep it up
Me too
Same here. I've watched every video since.
Exactly the same to me. Watched all of his vids meanwhile (even the older "pre excavator" ones). 😁
Best regards, luck and health.
Me too 👍
Same here.
The world needs more of such men.
Wow I remember the video you put up 6 years ago. I must have watched it a dozen times. Awesome it’s all still running
In genius! I am from West Virginia, America. At a place named Beckley. Lot's of ridges. Coal country. A few people that still live in the middle of nowhere that might be able to use something like this. Mountain People. Very rural close nit people still. Laid back and slow living for the most part still. Thanks. Enjoy and be blessed. :-)
Seems the most valuable thing is the land itself.
da rivah!
Very impressive on so many levels. Here I was thinking you were on grid power.
i wish i can do stuff like this but i live in a apartment . thanks for letting us peek over your shoulder .
I love the way that sounds once it's back up to speed
Hats off to you Marty T, thats some real MacGuyver style shit you've got going on there!
Lol, MacGyver needs to be added to the Oxford English dictionary!
His name has become synonymous with bodgy, homemade resourcefulness!😅
That's a real nice system Marty, love the elevated garden on the patch in the pipe. Great video, thumbs up.
Awesome brother!
Totally impressed with your set up! Much respect from USA
That was so cool. That sounded righteous when it started back up. Good job and thank you for the cool video!
Dude just casually says "This tree is 5-800 years old"
Damn I forgot how old trees can get
Google something called Pando.Will blow your mind.
@@sharpe227 old tjiko is estimated at 9500 years! trees are amazing
the earth we are sleeping on is billions of years old
search for "Tree of Souls", it's the famous tree
@@f.b.lagent1113 no its not