Along with my micro hydro system, I have 34 solar panels that produce roughly 11kw. I looked into all kinds of alternative energy when I decided I wanted to get off the grid as much as possible. I quickly realized the money I would spend on wind would be much better spent purchasing more solar...
Thants for all the advice. I guess I should have mentioned that in fencing off 35 acres and the majority will be high tensile wire. The wood fence is just in front of the house so it looks nice.
So , I’m building a fence for horses. Im getting the local sawmill to mill the boards for me. (Hemlock) My question is what should I treat the boards with? don’t want to use actual paint of course. I assume just a stain of some sort?
I researched it throughly beforehand. It is a non navigable waterway that dries in the summer so no aquatic life and we actually own the water rights for years back to boot.
Here is my weir I built and the coanda box to catch the water. Also two of my 5 solar arrays and the battery bank. For some reason Indont have a good pic of my inverter/ solar charger etc..
and a pic of the house which isn’t exactly frontier roughing it but it is out I. The country and secluded
Sometimes solar isn’t the best option for some peoples situation but for my household it makes perfect sense. We live on top of a mountain and don’t use air conditioning at all. We don’t need it. We also get a ton of snow and we are the last on the power line. We lose power quite often. So, I...
I didn’t know a lot about it when I started either. I mean I could change a receptacle and basic things like that but this project was certInly a “learn as I go“ type of thing.
So I haven’t posted my progress in a while so I thought I’d update you guys.
I FINALLY got the leaks fixed which was difficult and to be honest a bit expensive . But I finally got the hydro online last week. I still have some issues with turbulent water entering the penstock at the Coanda box...
Rockbadchild,
I have ran many different tires on my Super Tenere over the years and by far the best tire I have found is the Heidenau Scout. I can literally get 12 k out of a rear tire. All three of us in the pic above are running them. I put on a new one before we headed west and after 6300...
The Tenere is absolutely bullet proof. my buddy on the right in the pic has ridden his out west 5 times with no issues at all, just a flat tire. Mine has 45k on it with zero issues.
The wind protection is decent but not excellent. You can get larger wind screens and they seem to work great from...
I just got back from riding with two friends ( all of us on Yamaha Super Tenere’s ) from West Virginia to Banff National Park in Canada. Then over the Rockies to Revelstoke Alberta then back to West Virginia. 6,300 miles in 10 days !
Shoutout to my buddy on the right. He’s 75 years old and was...
I did have one of those underground fences (around the whole 30 acres, ugh!) it stopped him for quite a while.then he figured out if he gets a run straight out the road through the open gate it only shocks him once. I’m hoping the fence slows him down enough to shock him all but good.