Category: Homesteading
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Heating A Well House With Simple Clean Solar Electric Power! Thermal Energy Storage / TES
I made a video about this project – blog article continues below: Stopping A Well House From Freezing When I moved to a homestead farm in the country, one of the things I dreaded was the well house freezing. A well house is a tiny wooden “house” built over the top of the well head,…
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Don’t Have Matches? I Started A Fire With A Lithium Ion Solar Generator – Was Just Curious!
High Tech Survival In this high-tech age, it seems people often lack the most basic survival gear, but yet they have a “smart” phone, wi-fi and many different gadgets. What if they were stranded out in the woods with only a solar generator or portable power station? Could they start a simple campfire to keep…
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Electric mowers actually work! My 80V DC lawn mower “brush hogging” the weeds
Years ago when electric mowers were relatively new, I bought my first one – but with deep hesitation. It was an 80V Kobalt push mower with lithium ion batteries – and I did NOT think it would work very well. It cost a lot of money. But as a battery and solar enthusiast, I thought…
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No More GASOLINE! 48V Riding Mower Helps With Homestead Chores
For years I used a 48V Ryobi ZT480e zero-turn mower converted to LiFePO4 to mow my grass. But after I moved to a new 35 acre homestead property, I really wanted something cheap with a normal steering wheel (not lap bars). The zero-turn had a trailer hitch, but for transportation, pulling small trailers and other…
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My Simple Solar Pump! and a gray water recycling project starts
I really love water… and pumps… any excuse to play with them I will take. For years, I have wanted to build a gray (grey) water recycling system. Gray water means from the sink, dishwasher, laundry etc. and not sewage, which must never be discharged without proper treatment – that would cause a major health…
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My New 35 Acre Solar Powered Homestead!
After many years of wanting a piece of land so I could scale up my experiments and research, that day has finally come. I have been at this for over 6 months since January 2025, packing and moving my stuff to the new land. Actually, it’s almost the end of summer and I’m STILL moving…
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