Join us as we transform an overgrown 160 Acres Farm into an Off-Grid, Sustainable Living Homestead. With bumps (and bruises) along the way, Tim and Natalie, plus our two daughters and Grandpa Barry, literally build a house from the ground up. Along the way, we'll share tips and tricks on our Solar Power System, Rain Water Collection & Harvesting, Home Improvement, Beekeeping, Chickens, Livestock, Gardening, Tools and Equipment, and many others pertaining to our Off-Grid Living. This will be a Unique Home, we see it as our Off-Grid Home and we are doing it DIY.
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Thank you for making this video. I am installing an ACIQ ductless mini split (27k with three 9k air handlers). Not surprising is that these units all seem to be made by the same manufacturer. Mine looks identical, and in investigating the installation manuals of a bunch of other brands to seek more instruction, even the manuals are identical! We have geothermal central air, but we added a sunroom and an office for one unit. We augment the 2nd floor mainly to boost our bedroom at night and keep the rest of the house at a minimum. The third unit will be used for our 3-car garage. I am doing all the work, and feeling like the lack of plenums and direction for DIYers is frustrating. I, too, must fabricate the supply and return plenums. Dealing with the drastically different sizes of these air handlers can be overwhelming. Thank goodness I stumbled upon your video. It is a lot of trial and error.
Maybe but this eliminated all but two hydraulic hoses that lead up to the bucket because now the controls are remote controlled. And the old Hydraulic manifold wasn't working properly. And this was a brand new pump system vs a 40yr old one. It all needed and upgrade and I still use it today with the same electric motor setup
I just have the one I recently acquired. Years ago I bought a Sears radial arm saw from Goodwill for like $20 it was pretty rested up and I had in mind that I would break it free of rust. I ended up finding a better one so I ended up kind of donating the other one to a tool guy at a used tool place. But I retained the stand. I'm thinking that stand is going to be the home for my hive.
I'm planning to build some top bar type hives in the fall. They seem much easier to work since everything is at one height and I could raise it up to a comfortable distance off the ground so I don't have to bend over at all.
I wouldn’t really rely on a $20 bee suit, but yes beekeeping is not expensive. I have a friend trying to tell me the same and he doesn’t get why I always do the opposite of everything he says I should do
I've had that suit for years now and it's still in ok shape....little dirty though. As long as the material is baggy you won't get stung. I do have a $300 full suit yet I've been stung wearing it too.
That is EXACTLY what I plan to do. In the series of videos the last few days when I built that monstrosity on top of my farm truck to get a salvage freeway ladder up close enough to the bees to get them in the box you'll see the pallets that I stacked under the ladder. Some of those are hardwood and that's where I'm going to get the wood for my upper box.
Subscribed. Mr Bezos forgot to include the gloves so I used canvas backed leather palm gloves which I found out the hard way do not protect. I only got one sting that way. Went and bought some goatskin ones from HoBo Freight and I got one sting that made it through and a couple of dozen Stingers stuck in the goat skin. I think I spent about $160 for a hive that I didn't really understand a smoker that I still can't ever have smoke when I need it I'm good at making smoke until the moment I need it but that's on me it came with a hive tool probably the same suit you're wearing and 10 frames with that plastic medium that my bees I just nabbed tonight aren't at all interested in. I'm thinking of taking the plastic out and replacing it with some of their comb to get them going. I didn't choose B life it just chose me in the last couple of weeks
My wife and I just started beekeeping this spring. We caught 3 swarms, housed them in hives we picked up on Craigslist. I threw away some frames that looked worn out. But one swarm came with some fresh built honeycomb. I felt bad to waste their work. We moved some big sections over to an empty frame and held them in with rubber bands. Make sure you pay attention to which way is up. 😂 Mine were connected top and bottom so I was a little bit confused after laying the comb down.
I've been wearing probably the very same suit for the last 4 days as I cosplay as a cautionary example to potential beekeepers. Not a single bee penetrated that suit and I definitely angered them up a couple of times.
ok, $25 bee suit, how much for a box, how much for a comb tray, how much for a queen, how much for land to put the bees, how much for the gas it takes to go check them
Right? -Average low end 10 frame hive: $150 -Average cost for a medium super with frames: $60. -Average nuc price: $250 (OR package $180) -Smoker: $25. -Low end honey extractor: $200. -Yearly cost per colony in mite treatments and beetle traps: ~$80. But yeah, the $20 suit definitely lowers the bar for getting into beekeeping here. 😂
We think the pipe collapsed. There was a void several feet down that we got stuck on and that's probably where it fell apart. Worth a try but was a clear failure. We still have to try the same thing with the other well but our rainwater collection system has been working fine so there hasn't been an urgent need to yet.
@@Off-Grid we are doing rainwater catchment as Northern Nevada too. We are in process of constructing a modified Earthship style home on top of a mountain.
He was probably drunk. In hummingbird feeders, the natural yeast in the air mixes with the sugar water and turns into alcohol and birds love it. True story.
If the system is already installed and your trying to figure it out you can simply disconnect the "A" wire, turn the system on and see which unit does start up. Then do the same process for the remainder units.
Instead of building up the dirt, you should have considered digging down 6 feet and layering the ground with gypsium, gravel, sand and dirt. Much better drainage. On my property I dug down 15 feet and applied the same material works like a dream.
That wouldn't be a good idea. Any nail driven to far breaks the protective layer meaning water could get in and if that happens the sheathing will start to swell and loses it's structural integrity. One tube of liquid flashing isn't that expensive. It probably cost me $600-700 to seal all the nails and any penetrations. A drop in the bucket compared to having to replace sheathing.
