Building, making & growing an off-grid homestead. Slow, sustainable off-grid living.
Husband and wife team who left their construction careers and moved to a 100-acre blank canvas to create an off-grid homestead from scratch. Driven by a desire for a more self-sufficient, environmentally caring, and sustainable lifestyle, Amanda and Corey switched out a comfortable city life to build, make and grow their off-grid dream.
@@Bush_Edge_Homesteading_Aus yeah I think I will… it’ll be a good discussion. Might wait till mid week and get a good convo happening to help people over hump day 😁
I hope you don't get a roasted Peanut. Good work I hope to use a similar set up myself sometime soon in South Australia, great video with no filler. Subscribed
Great video, Amanda and Corey. Many important tips. I think each week there could be a fb post on homesteading group that everyone can link their current RU-vid video to 😂 Tom and Sam just released a lovely video about just starting where you're at too.
Is it possible to go off grid in terms of solar whilst in the suburbs? We’re technically semi-rural, but it’s still more of a suburb situation just with larger blocks. Anyways, I had the goal to get enough solar panels to be able to unplug from the power grid, but someone told me we’re only allowed to have so much of our power hooked up to the solar panels and we still have to stay connected to the grid… This brought my research to a halt, so I still need to get back into it and sus it all out properly, but once being told that, it was a bit deflating. Awesome video, thank you for sharing your story. I don’t know if we’ll ever move to a bigger property, as much as we have talked about it, we ultimately conclude we want to stay close to our family who live nearby, but it’s enjoyable watching other people do it 🥰
@@Bethany.Loveday not sure about transitioning to 100% offgrid in the suburbs but disconnecting from mains power would require battery storage essentially. There’s a lot of solar companies out there that primary do grid connected solar (their business model is around gaining gov subsidies) and don’t really know how to do stand alone systems. My advice would be to either chat to someone who has done what you want to do in the suburbs or talk to a solar supply company that does off grid systems. Lots of people think they know way more about solar than they actually do. Good luck!!
You are SO RIGHT about having and sticking to a budget being FREEING. As a person on a very low income, not by choice atm, making every single $1 work its hardest for me (not those making money off me) for a few years now, has been a very empowering experience, one I wish more people could realise. It makes you get very creative, look for all the ways you can get free stuff, stuff other people are giving away rather than putting in landfill, free community events, concerts, groups... it's all out there, especially here in Perth, Australia. Also learning to value, appreciate and treasure more the things you do have, including experiences with people you love, rather than waiting for the next dopamine hit of buying another thing, has been great. Not always easy, as you say, but great overall. Who knew that using both sides of every piece of paper, not just in your printer, not.buying more pens until the ones you have completely die etc,, can save you enough money in a year to pay for a woodwork course,.like it did for me. Keep sharing what you have and are learning in an AUS context. A revolution, significant change in how a society functions, happens just like this, one person,.one lesson, one inspiration at a time. Not to say we will all go off-grid, or could, but you never know how and with whom what you share will land.❤🎉❤
You are the inspiration! Honestly so many people don’t want to talk about being on a budget, they’re too proud and too much social pressure to show the right trappings of “success”. Success for us is happiness, peace and the time we spend with each other every day ❤️
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead I'm not widely engaged with what is going on socially when it comes to what people have been conditioned to believe as success, other than mostly with my support team, many of whom are in their 20s. Some of what they have shared with me about this has been disturbing, because of how little control of what they earn they believe they can have, what they expect life to 'give them' because that is what the insidious nature of SM has done to them. I'm glad they are open to hearing about other ways of finding happiness and give it a go themselves. As an example, unless you pay for VIP tickets to a concert, you didn't get to enjoy it, are embarrassed by that. Or you NEED to have 30 'designer' perfumes otherwise you are someone to look down on, you have failed. I'm not overinflating these two examples. Tragic. I'll sign off being as I am showing my age on the internet, again.🤣🤣🤣
Nice Job! Simple without being rough. Cutting one wire short on the panel is a great idea, although with all that metal you are passing it through and around I would still recommend some tape.
Great video guys, it’s a bugger I missed it while you were actually live. We get so much information and inspiration from all your videos so thank you. We purchased 12acres on the Yorke Peninsula(South Australia) a couple of years ago and it is our dream to move out there one day. Keep up the great work and we look forward to the next video 👍🏼
Awesome effort!! You and Amanda have the absolute best ways to explain things! I always learn heaps from your vids! Great to see you up and about Corey :)
Looks tha biz, 👌 have you got a tester? We are in tha process of upgrading our fencing inc electric been doing a lot of youtubin for tips, one thing that comes up is put at least 3 ground stakes in dunno if it helps, il be putting ours near a wet area to improve that side of it, Victron ya can’t beat it
@@TheUndisputedGodFather I said to Amanda after she edited the footage that I wish it was as quick as her editing makes it look! But it helps when you’ve done it a few times 👍
With your tensioners: Some have a hole in the fold at the end, between the 2 holes you have tied the wire through. You can save yourself a knot by tying the wire to the post, threading the wire through that hole, through the spindle in the middle and then tie the other end to the other post. You can then slide it up and down to where you want it and It will still tension up the wire the same. I'd loop it around the bottom on the 2nd post and back to the 1st, so you have 2 wires and can get extra tension & strength. Also a good option for a quick tensioner for a fence repair. I'd have a look at Davo's Fencing Clips to make the job easier and Tim Thompson on youtube for fencing and farming tips. I love what you are doing, I wish I had a bit more dirt to play with.
Hey! We did do some build videos and a breakdown of all our costs step by step process to lock up 👍 we don’t have a lot of info on the electrical and plumbing though. We kept it pretty simple. Our house is a rectangle and we put wet areas along one side and ran plumbing along outside of the sips under the external cladding. We’re on stumps so waste pipes are run underneath. Our internal walls are steel frame so we ran the electrical through them and in drop steel frame ceilings. Hope that helps!
Hey Corey, a little tip to save you some time. If you're using ratchet strainers with the hole in the end (which it looks like you are) you don't need to tie it off on the end. Just line up the spindle hole so it's level and run your wire right through the whole thing. Then just tie the wire off each end and you're good to go. Ratchet it up like you normally would.
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead - if you ever build a fence with a really long run of wire you can even slide extra strainers on the wires halfway along and not tighten them. It's like a way of 'future proofing' the fence if the wire sags later. Can be very handy for fences that aren't dead straight and that can be difficult to get tight because they 'snag' a bit as they go around a post or drop through a gully. Spreads the tension out through various sections of the wire.
