I came across a study about fifteen years ago that was talking about the small, inexpensive building techniques that made the biggest difference. They were trying to figure out how to build better in hurricane prone areas. Adding construction adhesive to all of the joints in the frame and all of the layers of siding and switching from nails to screws made a massive difference. At the end of the study they found that just by adding those two things to the roof alone wouldn't add much cost, but would save the house up to a direct hit by a cat 3+. If these changes were made to the entire structure, it was even better. A few years after I read this we were remodeling a mobile home. It was interesting to me that this was how the mobile home was built. The frame used cheap 2x3 studs, but taking walls apart was very difficult. There were many times when we just couldn't do it without cutting through the screws with a sawzall. This experience left a lasting impression. My husband and I are planning a small, experimental build and you can bet we're trying these techniques.
This sounds like such a small change to make, without much distraction from the process of building and carpentry on site, yet paying off so much in terms of hurricane resilience. Get the roof part in an instant. For walls and using screws as fasteners I was told this can undermine the shear force resistance as screws tend to be strong in pulling things together, and thus increasing the friction between the two objects, which would help with shear force resistance. However, unlike nails the screws (and especially nutted bolts for that matter) extend or stretch themselves in the process. And that causes them to be less strong for shear or sideway forces. I’m no expert and would love to see the building method in action. Thanks for sharing your thoughts here! Very interesting.
Nice watch. Good luck with your project! You may wanna put up that antenna on a longer mast. Also, run the stuff on pure DC - QRM will reduce. Cheers from UAE.
Geez mate, how hard to install a high pipe at the outset: “The pipe is way too short but I will weld brackets on it and then permanently weld it to the container, and then say it is too short, even though I knew it was far too short before I permanently welded it to the container”.
You can always sikaflex a pelican case to the roof and have it all pass through that. Its a way nicer way to access it and its cheaper. Plenty of room for gromets drilling glands and sealant. And it seals up when latched
Its alot more work, I like what you did, but i think panels need trackers. WHat I think is you can bury the container, build a triangular frame like with the panels, and a large frame on top for the panels with a motor tracker sysytem. I think to get a reliable and adequate amount from solar you need lots of efficiency stacking. LIke adding output from tracking, like high efficiency mppt and inverter. And considering cooling and climate control too. What you have when burying the container, with a few reinforcements for the sides too of course, is a stable temperature, bunker, anchor for panels, and safe to store and do whatever in the 1ft or less even, buried container. THe lid and stairs would have to be made, it is all alot of work with trade offs. Making the system on site with panels would be cool, and even having it made in a shop and deployed with everything already inside the container. Modular bunker.
Camera does not do justice to the steep driveway section where you go onto your property. When I saw it before the drop I thought to myself "This guy is just overexaggerating to make it look dramatic like they do on discovery" but turns out it's much steeper than it looked like
Couldn’t agree more. In that moment I wasn’t sure anymore if my idea was really that great. And with Tina shouting at me I almost lost my poker face. It was scary for a moment!
I wish you both lots of energy for your project. I can't wait to see what you will achieve in the coming year. Stay healthy and take care of yourselves! Greetings from the other side. 👋⚫🔴🟡
I've heard of this before and they say you need a bucket of water and open it under the water (the Surstromming). And then apparently it's even edible... but ah well... I don't need to try it 😀
At least in Germany our experience is that the blueberries don't work. They need acidic soil, like in a pine forest. But nobody has that in their garden... so after two or three years of no yield and the plants being unhappy, we took them and put them into the forest for them to be happy and got us a juneberry. Those are happy and we are too 😀
