Carrots doing OK
Carrots doing OK
The corn patch so far
What the landscaping effect look like from the back, that tree is a 120yr old avocado in full blossom.
The clothes line is part of the deck, and under roof as well. No more bindi, no falling clothes, no getting wet clothes, easy to hang clothes, no sunburn. Clothes do not fade from excessive UV. The rotary clothes line turns the easy reach out over the deck to a higher place.
I have been working on a cat walk to a laundry deck for Diane.
And watermelon, rockmelon and pumpkin seedlings too
Trusty hoe that dug the corn rows
View of other siderain makes things look fresh
Notice the wire reo mesh that cost me 1000 for allow tomatoes to grow over them, I reckon we have 150 tomatoes in already, about 60m of trellis
The garden and fruit trees are big
My wife Diane and myself ate our first bounty of fruit, large golf ball sized lotus fruit. Nice.
The next gate into new paddock, chooks will have one paddock for 6 months as the veggies grow in one paddock and than the other
More corn plants,
View of corn plants
The rows of corn are 15m long,special soil made for carrots, 30cm of loamy sand
The rows of corn are 15m long
The garden is big, main entry
The garden is big
I lost over 50 corn seedlings due to mice eating the seeds, as the empty hole shows.
I plant the veggies into the rich compost, that cost me 3000 dollars.
Finished the garden shed wiring, took over 250 man hours to do or 36 days. Now I start the growing the veggies, the garden shed houses fruit trees as well as veggies.
THis stuff is very smelly, and gardeners love the smell, like horse manure and compost rolled into one. Notice the beg tent circus affect of the enclosure
Explosive growth on trees after only 2 days receiving the new manure
Big pile of manure
40 wheelbarrows later
Attached some pictures of the new compost I am wheelbarrowing in, some far I have down 90 loads, over 2 days. About another 40 wheelba
rrows to go.You should see the explosive growth in two days with the new manure.
I did achieve the 1 volt drop carrying 80 Amps I wanted to achieve but only for a few hours, it melted.
Built this weird 8 1 ohm parallel resistors and fried one of them. It got too hot handling 1 volt at 10 amps each, 10 Watts gets hot after a while.
Up to the side of the wire netting orchard shed
This person uses music frequencies to explode cancer cells apart.... interesting research.
About 1/2 way through the wire netting process
Close up of the fruit trees
Our first frost, 3 degrees...in the kitchen at 8 am
Mass formation, how the bureaucrats intend to govern us.
Kinda cool over a olive tree clipping wire netting 4m off the ground.
Kinda cool standing on top of an olive tree clipping wire netting up, 4 to 5m up in the air.
Diane takes a long shot
Diane takes a long view shot
Wife took pics of me up on the trolley platform clipping the netting up.
I still have to run the water distiller off the mains, that's why.
Another few sheets on the kitchen ceiling up, as well as the 24 volt ceiling light system.
We had our 16th wedding Anniversary the other day...meal and company was great :) table 6 is Di's lucky number
We had our 16th wedding Anniversary the other day...meal and company was great :)
View from the front end
The third sheet of netting is going directly over the fruit trees.
In about 3 hours, I had advanced nearly half way on the first roofing sheet of wire netting. So the machine is working OK for now.
Welded up the horizontal turntable for the wire netting. Because it moves width ways the progress is much slower, about 1.2 to 1.5 m each time. Not sure how I will navigate over the fruit trees, soon to be a challenge.
I can also place shadecloth over it too and make it frost proof.
View from up the ladder, it's quite a way down (5 metres to be exact). You can see the cable clearly.
Details of the straining of the wire (stainless steel cable) I use three links of chain, cheaper than other techniques, and the rod and nuts are super strong tie downs used in houses against cyclones.
Like so, see red arrow
Using two strong bolts and a 4x2 beam, I make a brace for the ladder, up a pole, to take weight off the pole leaning too much, when I climb up. The second bolt stops the ladder from being pushed over. The rope ties all the bolts to the ladder and pole.
Ready for tomorrow. The platform is very stable, with 5 stabilizer poles help. I also stand on a milk carton as well for that extra height at times.
Ready for tomorrow. The platform is very stable, with 5 stabilizer poles help. I also stand on a milk carton as well for that extra height at times. The red boxy thing in the picture on the trolley platform. The ringlock pliers makes it easy to attach netting to the wire.
Got half of it done, on my first roll, the full length is 48m
The netting is fine
Starting off first time, nervous and scary
Like so, than I wondered does it need bracing too? I slowly wheeled the netting into the place, another 25m further down.
Yesterday I lift the 30+ Kg wire netting up by pulley to fit into it's rolling table.
Here you can see on a late afternoon, I have nearly 4 AMPS coming into the battery system.
Tomorrow will start a manual recharging.
Welded up fencing wire turn table, make it easier to wind out the wire on your own
The wire and trolley as comparison, still another 2m above trolley
The new weld trolley to reach this wire and wire on wire netting, 5m off ground
Where I am up to, with the new shed
Blanketed out the sunshine on these new panels
The house has a blackout, so no welder, I will work on solar panels instead
On another question, my Apacche does not like WIndows 11 naming the root directory as windows-SSD (C)
How do I rename the dictionary as ordinary C:\ drive?
On another question, my Apacche does not like WIndows 11 naming the root directory as windows-SSD (C)
How do I rename the dictionary as ordinary C:\\ drive?
Installed the new Jinko Solar panels, these are on right of photo, and 34V 10 Amps. Plan to use these to create a manual charging system for the Ni-Fe batteries.