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Other half of the lounge room
Into a massive lounge room. This is a 10 by 5 foot slate billiard table.
Down long hall ways with high ceiling with breeze ways installed
And ornate archers into the dinning area.
Enter first the kitchen, with granite bullnose tops.
Wipe your muddy feet into a special floor wire grille
Ramp leading up, designed for old people.
James and Kate remember the country house, but for those who haven't had a tour. Built the house myself, all by myself using a metal pole construction, as the termites nearly destroyed the old 1914 house inside. So it was a renovation rebuild. Cost of materials, 150,000 AUD.
And it mowed the grass easily, without clogging and filled the catcher around 60 to 70% full each time. The wheels were held on OK with split washers, and I was very impressed with the mowing for just 30 minutes so far.
As you can see the grass is over 6 feet high.
We begin with prototype lawnmower III to start the business of mowing really tall grass with a catcher too.
Welding up gates for the orchard yard, which will be in time, a chook yard and vegetable yard, divided into two paddocks 50m by 12 m with a fully enclosed wire roof to keep the wild life off my veggies and fruit trees. Also stops chooks flying away. The metal walls stop rabbits and pigs from entering, the honest one anyway. It's taken a while but the red ants have stopped, after removing over 15 ant nests within 60m of the orchard shed.
That is a most admirable dream, DON'T just leave your few years of hard work too late, like when your are over 60 years old. I could have enjoyed this more, if I started 15 years ago. But it's hard to find the perfect block of land.
Yeah thanks for the mention, if my Son James didn't buy my a phone, I would have one, I use it as a hot spot for this computer, the phone number died long time ago.
Actually this is a lighter version of a cast iron tub. I remember lifting my dad's old cast iron one out, took 7 full grow men to carry it out the house. I can easily lift this one from one end, one person couldn't do that with the older ones. The weight is a good thing, it stores the heat so your hot water in the tub stays hot for a very long time, unless modern cheap plastic tubs.
The tub in the bathroom, hooked up and ready to use.
Final finished view of the claw foot bath tub in the bathroom.
Notice the lever technique to adjust and add metal supports for floor of each claw foot.
Tight fit past front door
Egyptian style, moving a very heavy cast iron bath tub into the bathroom. The tub weighs around 300Kg. Ramp, pulley and lever.
@tkanos If you haven't read my experiences in electrical off grid, I have a huge pile of memories and learnings written down.
Here http://spiritualsprings.org/ss-1603.htm
Some 23 pages on building your own power house and going electrically off grid.
The trick was to remove the rod to both back wheels and the metal plate, so there is no obstruction to the throat, where the cut grass is pushed into. The little wings on your blades cause this affect, so you need the wings just right, not enough causes no windy pushy, too much of a wing causes a huge pile of dust.
Yes I look forward to pushing into 3 feet of grass without a hitch. No clogging the throat.
The slight blue tinge, if this is correct, is a coating on fancy lens, especially camera, to remove the differences in red and blue light as both refract differently to focus sharp images. So this costing makes the image more sharp in focus.
Ready for the big mowing expedition tomorrow at Dululu.
Thanos, no soap making recently LOL
This is the prototype 3, with split washers. Like I said you cannot roll out a software cloud program unless you build it on a Intranet cloud server all over Australia, and test your ideas safely and without company embarrassment. Like I am doing with my lawnmower. LOL Whoever heard of modifying a Honda to cut 3 feet of grass easily?
On prototype 3 I need split washers to stop the bolts from undoing themselves.
Maybe for prototype 4, I might weld brackets to support the wheels more, but for now not necessary.
Prototype 5, upgrade the catcher with a steel plate for extra protection.
So far prototype 2 is working pretty good so far, as a concept in the designing process.
I modified my faviourite Honda lawnmower, removing the rod to back wheels and steel plates to open the throat to handle mowing grass two feet thick. She took it like a dream with no more clogging up. Now I can mow grass three feet tall in a breeze with NO need to clear out the blockages. This reminds me of my Son. You can't develop anything unless you practice first on real prototypes.
Both videos are nice. I used to music so appreciate the skill. As for archery, James invited to his long bow skills. The girl is very good with such shooting skill.
Lyse your hoe made bow, need to be done again. Impressive.
It's funny, nothing flows into the tank as a return, so all the flow is consumed by the 4mm drippers. I suppose if you multiply 100 4mm drippers, you might get 200 litres per minute.
So nothing is returning to the tank.
Had to remove the pumps at base of tank, the one way valve opens immediately when the pump turns off and so we siphon water out, over-watering the fruit trees. So I now have installed a 370W sludge pump, submersible into the tank, not ideal for now, but frogs already in there, so the cover is removed for access.
Yesh Lyse it's working OK. Have purchased yet another large sludge pump, rated at 1100W and 200 litres per minute, trying to water all 90 fruit trees at the same time.
Not sure what mine is in watts ? On average its about 80 amps times 24 = 1900 Watts.
I do plan to add a fifth string of another 20 to 30 amps facing West.=
We now have a multiplus 3000W Inverter for running the bigger loads, like bigger water pumps.
A picture of the new water pump
Flows OK
Upgrade to a new water irrigation pump for the fruit trees. Seems OK
...and all inspired by two little girls mucking up with daddies account on his computer. Love the antics of creation.
Had a long chat about Nina, the pink mouse, almost all pink all over but not quite, and the other students get racoons or a dragon, names unknown. Lil has a friend called Max, and his dog is a pet, name unknown. Phone make funny sounds I reckon and the articulation process makes it hard to decipher what sounds are in each word. But hey it was fun talking to my granddaughter. My Son has developed here with others a nice private chat facility called Salty. All you need is the Salt address of the person you want, a bit like an email only more secure. What a great feature,
Yeah in the Southern world down here the water gurgles down the bath tub in an opposite direction to the water gurgling in the Northern world in the USA. If you face north, East is on your right, but if you face the solar panels from north looking South, than East is on your left.
Is this different in the USA? dunno?
Update on the Ni-Fe battery technology. It seems after two days flogging my battery capacity increased (blue shaded area)
What is a flogging? Turn off solar panels after battery is fully charged. Turn on medium loads (40 Amps) draining the batteries until the Inverter stops, from 29Volts to 19 Volts.
Canada will receive it first electrical use this morning, in just 40 minutes time. Batteries are dead flat yet again, bother.
A close up of the fourth SMART MPPT controller called "Canada" named after the manufacturer of the solar panels.
What they look like on the ground, on their steel frame, a child's play swing set, LOL.
Built more solar panels specifically facing due EAST, along with the other 3 strings facing due NORTH,
Looks like TWTXT has a new face over? Where is the mentions?
Genesis 3:6 LXX and Hebrew and English
Yes, today I found another 6 more nests, smaller ones, I didn't see in the grass. Yes its a war over in our place.
I say, weird. Not much different to the Australian Federal Police hitting the Canberra demonstration crowd for first time in our history, a peaceful gathering of over 10,000 people with 5G Crowd dispersal machine, burning the crap inside of dozens. They complained of headaches, erupted blood vessels, and bleeding to the face, lack of breath, etc.
Yes Lyse, the Arabs know a thing or two about dealing with hot weather.
If you had 8 meat ant nests within 30m of your house and they bite you everytime you walk outside, you might declare war on them. There are still dozens of nests further afield. I just want to walk around without getting bitten all the time.
Red arrow show the hose flooding the pond.
When you remove soil and hear bubbling of air you know you have flooded a nursery chamber, keep digging down until bubbles of air stops, about 3 feet deep. Come back next day and repeat. You are winning the battle if you see ants removing baby pupa and the numbers dwindle from thousands to a few dozen.
How to remove meat ants nest over 3 days. Pick a very hot day, over 40 degrees works best, begin at noon. Flood the nest with water and make a dam, digging and holding dirt to keep water in place, running and brushing ants off your legs at same time. After a while stand in the pond, so ant do not get you as much, and continue digging outwards and mostly downwards.
When you see ants carrying off pupae young babies, you know you are winning. Takes a while, about 4 days and 4 times of digging to completely remove the next. Red arrow shows ant moving a pupae to a new location.
I also exterminate meat ant nests, hard to do... dig a hole, fill with water, step into the water to keep ants at bay, and continue digging downwards very deep. Look for air bubbles, as water floods chambers.
The pipes for the corners, 6 m long and very heavy.
View of the trees and the weed free rings.
The east view, with new gate installed/welded. Metal fence on ground ready to go up.
Other view of the fence.
The shed is going to be big, about 40m long.
The fence is over six feet high.
The new fence, metal on bottom and chicken wire on top, hopefully pig and rabbit proof, as well as dog.
The trees are mostly planted, with weed free rings.
The new orchard yard/shed I am making.
How terrible the floods in North NSW, Govt not helping the flooded victims much. We get no rain here. Much be unnatural and very localized.
Off to pick up four huge windows today.
Your little doggie here "thecanine" is a mere 14 pixels by 13 pixels, that is roughly 4 by 4 of these, about 16 little doggies, yes correct, fitting unto 64 by 64 canvas.
It's a fun challenge isn't it, making little pictures from squares. A TV is made of pixel squares too. To a cat a TV looks boringly stupid.
Yes thanks everyone, the doors look good, hopefully vermin proof.
I would say its the lazy axle, it lifts the trailer when empty and comes on to hold heavy weights when large masses push down on the trailer. Allows you to move the trailer on your own, it essentially has two wheels instead of four. In this picture, the trailer is essentially empty.
Hard to do this in Microsoft Paint, square pixels. Nice job. I used to create icons for apps in here, you have just 64 squares for a picture.
At the moment we have 21 Volt, 70% SOC and drained 100 amps from our batteries.
The voltage is hard to read for SOC, as loading batteries causes them to drop to 20% SOC and under loading them causes them to rise to 70% SOC. So you never really know how much power you have left in practice, only in theory.
Yesterday was the first day of an upgrade to our system with Smart MPPT's, and I received FLOAT by 11 am. Amazing for the first time, the cells were quiet, no overcharging.
Installed the three bifold doors for the pantry, they lock and work a treat, no gaps for cockies or mice.
What do you mean Lyse the tow hitch is not mount high enough? Our car is a Great Wall James, we have owned for some time now.
Close up. Yep you can easily carry 12 drums in our trailer.
Quite an interest in carrying now 12 drums in a trailer. From a distance.
@david Easy to carry 10 drums, on their sides, two and 1 on top is three, taking 1.2 metres, another 3 takes 2.4 metres and the final 3 takes 3.6 metres, my trailer is 4 metres long and 1.95 metres wide, with a steel front another 1.2 metres long. It has a lazy axle as well as another axle, 4 wheels in total. I carry steel beams about 6m long in it, through a door in the front.
Yes James is correct, you cut into the top a square hole, allow the rim for a nice edge to remain, fill the drum with logs vertically and fill with soil, as the log rot away they add long term nutrients and microbial life to the garden. A garden at waist height means no weeds, herbs have defined space, and you fit more in in a metre square of space. Pipes enter from under and water it for you. So a smaller square is cut from below too.
Off to purchase our pantry doors, pick up our new MPPT boxes, and get 10 drums for pots in my herb garden, The drums are the old 44 gallon, and allow the garden to be waist height, so the herbs do there thing without making a mess, and easy to maintain, plus you place logs etc in the drum to release nutrients slowly.
You reckon? How big is your pantry cupboard? I can see 2 dozen baked bean cans for instance, my favorite canned food, would keep me going for 2 weeks LOL
Basement, not yet Lyse, hoping one day, to build a cellar/basement out of hebal blocks and air con the building down to 10% all year round.
