As a hard-working American or just as an American your work ethic your ideals the things you're trying to do one of those things that make you feel proud to say I'm a subscriber to red poppy Ranch
Hello Red Poppy Ranch, your property looks awesome, congrats. Also love the work your doing. As for the solar panels, great idea. I have solar panels on my house, have not paid for electricity in 2 yrs. we are "tied in" to the grid, but make more than we use. Keep up the great job on the land and videos.
i feel the same way when going to our property. when up there i feel so diffrent the stress and pressure of city living is gone and i feel at peace. i work all weekend on the land and cottage but funny thing is it doesn't feel like work to me and just a good feeling to look at the daily project to see the progress. your property is looking great and comming along nicely. does Tyrell have videos on his place too?
Put panels on roof of shop and batteries in a. Shed off the shop. Panels will be high away from tree interference. Just an idea!!! Trees just keep growing. Good Luck, Vinny PS My favorite shows I enjoy are Gunsmoke & The Rifleman. Just great family shows and I'm serious, my family thinks I'm nuts, maybe I am but that's what I liked. Happy to hear I'm not the only nut. Very excited for you!!!
Get some seeds in the ground man. No reason why all those kids and mom can't start a dinner garden. What you grow you don't pay for and you know it hasn't been sprayed with anything... ps the devil is in those "minor details"...good luck.
Watch over the next few times you are there and look for shading. You are on the correct path keep the batteries close to the panels to keep the DC short as possible. Just insulate the battery box. You may also want to look into solar trackers but not needed. Good luck
@Red poppy ranch The more I watch your videos is the more I fall in love with your land. That is awesome that you have the ambition, drive, and dream to build where it is harder to build in order to get the better outcome. I wish you luck in the future. By the way I notice when I go hiking sometimes trees lean to water, sometimes they lean because of the slope, sometimes because of wind/ excessive snow, and sometimes because of sunlight.
maybe make a temporary location for your solar panels until you build the shop and put the panels on top of the shop. Wouldn't have to cut down anymore trees.
The enviroment has its own plan and creates an ecosystem that works for any given place.Be careful that removing to much foliage could create a eroison nightmare down the road.
Voltage drop over that distance? from panels to home....... Also, during the evening and night the prevailing wind will be down the canyon, I've seen groves of trees "lean" down-wind over the years, just a thought...? My family settled in Grantsville from England --- do you understand what I'm saying?
Deserthunter Mike we have just moved from Utah County in Spanish Fork, where the wind out of that canyon was so predictable you could set your watch to it, having moved to northern Utah, we still get wind up here, it's just not predictable, but the wind up here is seriously intense, 50+ mph for 15 min at a time, my guess is that the trees are leaning from the "big" more unpredictable wind storms.
You're right, I've seen entire groves of tree bent and some knocked down by storms you never hear about, even to the point of tornado force winds that will put down several acres.... As a kid we lived in front of Millcreek canyon, you're correct, by the minute you could tell when they would come.
You know that if you keep yakking and advertising about all that good, in ten years there's going to be a major highway going right in front of your property. For years it has been studied that the best light collectors in nature are those old spruce trees. Design, shape and layer solar collectors like a spruce tree. Also can be used to heat water and stay warm enough for battery storage.... and stick a vertical wind turbine on top. Oh well, just thinking.... And having been a non-Mormon living in SLC, have no idea why I should be here to begin with.
..... not so much flat landers, but southern bottom landers. You're in what's considered the balmy banana belt for those say in high plains areas like N. and S. Dakota where for two weeks in January it'll get down to -30 or -40 F with the wind howling 60 mph. Most Californians only last about 3 yrs.... about the time it gets cold and they can't start their cars or the plumbing on their house freezes up, they're outta there. Most of the major cities in the northwest are becoming overpopulated and they could easily enjoy moving into your area....
Liking your journey, staying tuned. P.s. be careful up there, being alone can be a challenge if something was to really go wrong. I hoping that you have cell phone service there. See you soon.
You need to think about putting your battery bank inside your shop to keep them out of the cold. Batteries don't like cold weather and don't produce well when cold.
I believe Dirtpatchheaven visited a solar genius while traveling thru Texas. I took a quick look thru her videos but didn't see a link grrrrrr This guy owns a store that sells everything but the kitchen sink -- unique items -- some people would call it a junk store -- and he runs it all on solar. He's the guy to ask especially since you would have the batteries close to the panels. I know of people who have placed their panels a good distance from their house -- one guy in NY put his panels about 1/4 mile from his house and does not have problems. Of course the cost of the line (I gather you would be burying it) might be an obstacle.
