Off-Grid Solar Panel Ground Mount - Pt 1 - Augering holes, cutting pipes, and setting in place 

We got holes...."8" holes 😂😂😂😂 . Loved all the giggles. Go Aida 🎉🎉Huge task...but you did it!!!! You rock Tiny Shiny Home family!!!! Need that T shirt 😊

HAHAHA you two are the first people I've seen, that make screwing up look(and sound) like so much fun and so endearing ! enough drivle, you are my favorite homesteaders ! lottsa loove, Annmarie in Oregon

👏👏👏oh boy, oh boy!!! My tiny shiny addiction fix is here! Your channel has the best tunes too😎✌🎶🔊

Nine Nine reminds me of a joke my German Grandmother used to tell us. He seems like a very precocious puppy you would have have to say no no to often!

You always have great music

Looks amazing!! as usual you folks are doing a great job on your homestead. Thanks again for posting.

Beautiful ❤family and the kids are so cute ,I love kids

Your getting thar lota work stay hydrated please love you guys

Very interesting, I’ve helped put up a couple of these and I watched several other people do it and this is the first time I ever saw anyone build the frame suspended in the air and then pour the concrete we’ve always poured all our peers put a pipe in it and then just mounted everything on top seems pretty cool though.

You guys are so fun to watch!

I don't think I have ever heard any of you say sh#t funny. Your so real God bless you I gave been watching since you bought the property

The engineering education your children are getting, even without knowing all the math, is so cool. They’re ruined forever for traditional education. Bravo.

Looking fantastic family 😃😁❤

The way you have done that is rather clever even though it is much more difficult to set up. You are guaranteeing your accuracy which is normally difficult to achieve. Cheers and have a good one.

What a cool idea. Nice job.

Love your music!!! Stay cool!!!

Looking great!

What a beautiful sunset 🌅

LOve the progress! Good job!

Looking good, here's a thought about the concrete: dry set them about a third of the way too lock the poles plumb ; and them add the rest of the concrete wet and mixed. The water in the wet batch will get soaked up by the dry: this will decrease that amount of slump; making the concrete harder. Plus if your going to get rain that concrete will soak it up as it cures reaching maximum strength @30 days (3000PSI) . Start early to get a jump on it, the critical part is get it filled. You can do this take care and God bless amen.

Most beautiful sunsets that you have there.

Two days is really good!

Loved this episode. Music, b-roll, wide shots, drone shots, some Oliver Stone moves right here guys.

Fabulous!! So happy you are getting the Solar Array going🥰

Nine Nine + Dirt + Water 👀😁

My heart just dropped as I saw the sunset behind you and thought oh my they've set it up tge wrong way.... drrrr I'm in the northern hemisphere so we would face them in the opposite direction. Great work guys.

Nothing ever goes as planned.....Did I say never...lol But I'm glad your taking your time to figure out things and get drinks...lol God Bless P.S. Mjack towers are looking good...lol

The kittens are a real plus to your show. I'm trying to catch up with you so really enjoying this build! Wow, way more cement! Fact Totem Farms thank you for helping out! So great to see the progress on the holes for the piers. As always, Nine nine is the clown. The aerial view of the holes looks so cool. Thanks, Ice cream! Those shades look great on you guys. AC in the truck right. I'd go to 3 places! Plasma cutter, real nice. You aren't kidding when you said towers of blocks! Your neighbor is awesome! Good thing you have a child to lower down to get that set screw! I didn't the know about the allen wrench attachment for a torque wrench either! U clamps, How did you find out how to do this set up. I'm interested in solar but not on our roof. We are at the top of a hill where wind blows pretty strong. You said you got the engineering requirements for the size of your piers somewhere. This is really great to see. When we dug our holes for our pig pen they were 34" into the ground to get below the frost line and we had one of our sons get into the hole and he posed for a picture. She did a great job getting your items out of the hole! I'm really impressed with this set up for the solar panels. Looks fantastic! I think it is great that it will rain because mixing concrete is a hard thing to do and cooler temps will help make it a little more comfortable to do. Thanks so much for this video.

At 17:30 nine nine was totally thanking you for saving her from the scary hole 🥰🥰🥰

Dino after dark!!🦖😂

Looking good y'all. Too bad you don't have a rain catchment thing in place or the rains would be a very good thing.

We’re having a heat wave here in Canada, up to 95 F, we’re all melting, not used to the heat. Thankfully it will only be this hot for a few days. Can’t imagine how hot it must get where you are.

I want that t-shirt idea 🤓✌️

woohoo

The slower concrete dries the stronger it will be... the rain will be great for it.

Who needs a magnetic thing when you’ve got a kid? 😂

I saw this stuff on tic tok that is expanding foam for filling holes, and it seemed to me that it would be better then concrete in a lot of cases. Have you seen it as well and if not, maybe you should check it out. I think it was a home depot product. Also, if it hasn't started raining yet, you may want to cover your bags of concrete and make sure their not on the ground.

Im not trying to be judgemental but i think you are working harder than you have to . im not a engineer but i have set fence post i just mixed gravel and quick. Crete filled the hole with dry mix and watered generously. those posts were. Set in 2000 and still standing today .a lot easier than mixing in a wheel barrow

Even though you have lock washers on them it would be better to double nut the brackets...help keep them from loosening from Heat and vibration...

So excited for your progress on the solar! Why did y'all choose to do a free-standing array rather than roof mounted? That sunset was spectacular!

Hey- First, how are you in relation to the fires? I’ve been praying for your protection. Next, July is here and our shed should be on property by the end of this month. Which means we will be on property. Question- how do you protect your water tanks and source from rodents? We have been told that rodents are attracted to water and that they gnaw through everything! This solar section is timely for us. We have two weeks to put in the foundation, wire and plumb the shed, finish the walls, and set up the internet. Whew! We have a tendency to overplan😙

You didn’t have to couple the horizontal bars (cross beams) together or weld them together?

Did you get the concrete set before the rain hit?? Quite the downpour last night!! We had at least one thunderbolt that scared the poop out of me!!

Great Job Gang. I will suggest (perhaps too late) line the holes with plastic to keep the water in the concrete. Seems like overkill on the foundation considering your ground is like concrete anyways. But I do not know your wind loads and how much surface area you are installing. One day at a time. Cheers

Great job! Also, is your truck inspection sticker expired? Looked like May 2020.

Nice be job getting the ground mount ready to go. How much concrete will you need to fill the holes? Take care:

Where did you find the steel poles? Tucson? Which company?

Why not put the top caps on before laying the horizontal pipe? I know it's already done just asking if there was a reason.

Did I miss something or what are the cardboard tubes for...

Watch out for yellow spotted lizards in the hole

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Maybe I’m jumping the gun here , Sonic Tubes for this project or different one. ? 🤔

Great video. I am re-visiting it since I am without a ground mount solution for 30 panels I am planning on putting on my rural Texas property. I have often been impressed with Iron Ridge, but know it is not cheap! Any advice for this sticker shocked retired guy on a fixed income? Haha #FirstWorldProblems

I'd buy a shirt!

How much cost solar system

This is, amongst other things, a huge spending orgy! Seemingly with UN-limited resources at hand. (Read CASH!!!) -------- If you aren't too far from Tucson we just might be neighbors in a few months! After it starts to cool a bit I'll be on my way to do somthing a bit similar to what your doing---- just not on such a Grand scale!!! Very nice job so far!!! An avid, almost rabid, watcher here.

If you had known it would take this much cement, would you have ordered a cement truck to come out!

Poor goats

Would rammed earth work for the feet? Same concept as the earthbags and same mixture just rammed down between wooden forms. You wouldn't need the wooden forms because you have the predug hole walls. It is more work then concrete but cheaper. Maybe concrete for the corners and rammed earth for the center holes. Trying to save on costs ya know 🤷 I wonder even if you could layer it 1 ft concrete, then 1 ft rammed earth, then concrete again and so on. Also consider if you get the chance to have the tractor again to do some digging for permaculture to increase your water table. Create some berms and swales, this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I1Vt8oPCZiE.html Is a really drastic example but very cool. Just brainstorming..

All you guys need to wear hats the sun will agree you a lot faster or should I say make you look older not to mention cancer