Installing Starlink in BULGARIA | Off Grid Family #4 

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So glad the fire did not get as far as your house!

Be strong. Remember to work together and not see each other as the enemy. Happy you started your journey 🎉

Granite was a great find 👌

Bulgaria has a very good and professional fire service. Even countries like Israel are considering introducing a system similar to the Bulgarian one. Every year, Bulgarian firefighters help their colleagues in Greece, Turkey and Macedonia. This year was a total anomaly. In Bulgaria, it is generally not so hot. Neighboring Greece found itself in a catastrophic situation with many human casualties from the fires this year.

To prevent our home becoming a fire ball in extreme heat. We always make sure that the grass is kept short in spring time, and maintained that way. we also have a wall around the property [but tin fence would do the same job] and with a house roof consisting of clay tiles it makes the risks less, we ensure the barns have air flow to prevent stored hay becoming combustible and only bale hay up to 20% moisture to reduce the potential for hay bales spontaneously combusting. We also do not keeping scrap materials lying around on the land that could start a fire, but as with all fires it is never guaranteed what the outcome will be, so making sure you have an escape plan in place is important.

You guys are naturals at this! Absolutely loving the updates! Wishing you all of the luck 🍀

I'm so glad you were not affected by those terrible fires. Loving your videos & look forward to following your journey. 🤗

The pacing of the video is really good. The whole wildfire (prob human induced) had me hooked good. I am really glad everything turned out fine. I am really glad you are sharing your experience, hope to see you progress with good tempo and turn the old house into a home. Overall the video was top-notch! Great work! Also, depending on the quality and the signal coverage in your area, you can check if there are any alternatives for an internet connection in the future. The network providers have "Net Boxes", which basically work off of the existing 4G+ network (so like your phone). They come with a router and a sim card. If you have a good signal coverage on your phone, and you are okay with the network speeds, I think it's worthed, since it's like 10-15GBP (25-30 levs) for the unit per month. My grandma lives in a rural area and she is using a "Net Box" and it has worked flawlessly for the past 6+ months. Best of luck Udens!

Thanks loving the videos wishing you and your family much luck & a wonderful new life 🎉

Found your channel and liking the videos. We live in Oklahoma and wildfires have come close to our home several times . We put in an above ground swimming pool with a petrol water pump near by. We use the water in the pool in case there is no municipal water or electricity to fight a fire. Hope this helps as a backup plan.

Hi, firstly like to say that I am enjoying your videos. The fire must have been very stressful, we had a house fire in the village where I am a couple of years ago when it had been very dry, there was no water on in the village to dowse and fight it. The lesson I have drawn from this is to harvest rainwater and store it both for emergencies such as that, save a scarce natural resource, use for my domestic use (with a triple action filter system) and to use on my vegetable plots when i get them sorted. I am at the beginning of my jorney over there and hope to be moving over full time this year at some point. I will be installing two 5000 litre tanks ASAP to collect the water. All the best going forward and keep posting. Howie.😎

Glad your ok ,we built a pond to have for fire incase water stops as we live in on mountain in Canada. Just fence it of for kiddies

I was grinding some rebar on my steps, and little did i know the garden was alight, how quickly it spread, this part of the garden has a wall , so not much burnt, this year, the grass was like hay, we put it out quickly, even though the sparks were not going towards the garden, i learnt my lesson,

Big score with the stone.👍

So glad that you guys are all safe and glad that the fire didn't go far to your house and but i would do fire brakes to stop the fire spreading and build a deep pond to hold water and build a sprinkler system around the house in case of fire and love the videos

get that strimmer out buddy , loving the videos mate wish you all well cant wait for the next one x

Oh from personal experience cut some cement board to cover the windows . My had a small start in a field next to her house . As the fire got bit more intense the heat coming through the glass doors set the neighbors kitchen curtains on fire. . Luck was with the a firefighter saw and got them put out . Also maybe build a dirt berm around the camper . I am not sure how big around it should be .

Great vid guys, can’t believe how good those fire beaters worked… hope all is well from Sweden

Another great video! Scary times with the fires and everything being so dry!😬 Fair play Phil for getting stuck in with the firefighting efforts, especially in the heat! Great job getting the planings too, never one to miss an opportunity aye. It’s great to see you all settling in so we’ll over there and really getting stuck in to things. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Love to all of you, from the Walkers.

you are already locals , when you not shy to take stones from that place , welcome : )

Brilliant

We've had to pay someone to keep ours short because I was so worried about wild fires. So glad you guys are ok 😢❤

Amazing drone footage, awesome video, raw and real, love it and love you guys xx

Coming from the western US, don’t worry about the forest fires, they are natural. Watch how that burnt part rebounds. Personally though, I would absolutely get rid of all that tall grass on your property. You camper beside that tall dry grass would be gone in a matter of minutes. Need to think about and research control burns for the dry season, that is what we do in fire country. Happens every year for thousands of years. I’d also consider a 3000 gallon tank of water on your property to start with and a good pump and hose. Looks like you could set it up on the higher ground and gravity feed it down the property.

I lived near the New Forest for ten years, there were wild fires nearly every week in the summer. The cause was never spontaneous but usually discarded cigarettes.

Nature will always recover.

Wild fires have been so bad in so many places this summer. Western Canada has been hit hard as well. Good luck with all your plans. Hi Alex love your funny faces

Glad you got the fire under control guys. Scary stuff. Also, we saw the star link satellites flying over not too long ago here from the village. Was the coolest thing ever.

Loving the updates guys when is the next one

I love all your plans. Can’t wait to see more videos. Stay safe from those awful fires!

Great video 👍

Excellent video, good luck. The real shame for the fires a lot of them are caused by people clearing land, well certainly in our area. Pay on delivery is very normal in Bulgaria and road chippings make excellent paths and keep weeds down. But you might need a digger to shift it No dig, polytunnel, etc and so on I will watch with interest good luck you have lots to do.

I like your humor of filming 🙂 Nice to see you are already communicating with the locals - I think Bulgarian must be a huge hurdle to overcome, but you are so brave 🙂

Wow, I am impressed with that Starlink kit. Considering installing one at home. Never a dull moment in your content, can’t wait for your next video.

Love watching your videos but makes me miss you ...just a little bit...! So proud of you guys. Glad you are okay! Your videos are incredible and I'm loving watching your journey! Sending so much LOVE to you all!xxxx

I'm enjoying following your adventure, I liked your solar set up video, and this one is good too, so I'm going to subscribe.

Great video , lots of information, good result with the tipped rocks, and also the road planing's ? , very resourceful.

I follow a lot of youtubers in Portugal who have also been dealing with wild fires. difference there is that they have the Bomberos (voluntary fire fighters who use aeroplanes to drop water as well as on the ground) and an app on their phones where all fires are shown. You need permission via the app to burn your own 'rubbish' so that it's known where permitted fires are. Legally they are not permitted to use any kind of power tools due to risk of spark, and forests are also out of bounds due to risk of hot vehicles causing a fire in the dry grass. Pieces of glass in the soil can start a fire if sun hits it just right. Many prepare their land before the fire season, but cutting down all their long grass/hay, clearing old wood and having wide 'fire breaks'. One home steader has his own home made fire engine (water in a large tank on back of a trailer and rigged up to a pump and hose) others have sprinkler systems on their land and minimal if any trees/wood/bushes near their houses.

For fire prevention have a dirt road around all your land and cut your grass down often .

Looking forward to watching your content, have done till now, good luck.👍❤

Did you rent or buy the starlink set up? We are very unhappy with our Internet here. Too little for any remote jobs we applied for. Thank you for documenting all this. And we were super impressed by Phil just going up to the road workers to sort this stuff. We are too shy 😂 Already looking forward to the next video

acted like a true ingenious Bulgarian repurposing the road surface material haha. good man!

Great video - glad the fire got under control. Out of curiosity what kind of remote work do you do from Bulgaria ?

Thanks for all the great videos. I'm really enjoying your story and very jealous (Iat the moment I'm only seeing my house once or twice a year). Do you have more details on Starlink please?

Dont worry about outcome from the fire. In spring everything is going to be Green again. Great that your property is fine. Soon, there Will be a lot of Rain. You are crazy People, Just like me. Enjoy this beautiful land with strange People....

Thats 30 full Megabytes a second. That's a full Gigabyte in 22 seconds. Face time family? You could run microsoft on that connection. That is a very impressive connection.

Need to create a gravel fire track around your land and keep the grass strimmed may also be good to have some barrels of water spaced out and get one of those battery car washers

Doing a great job I envy you id love to do this. I would of got the trucks to start at the pile on a low tilt and drive out would of been way handier.

Unfortunately fires here usually (ok, rather often) start because of people's carelessness and stupidity: thrown away cigarettes still lit, dumped broken bottles working as a magnifying glass, etc. I take my dog for a walk a bit far from the village and this summer I had to run back three times because of the clouds of smoke inside the village. Once I came back to find smoke in my garden, because sheppard kids decided to squat half ruined neighbouring building and make fire inside it to cook smth. Our friend's grandson is a firefighter and he said that in summer they don't work by shifts, both teams work together, and they almost don't have days off. I guess what you could do is to plough your garden along the perimeter, minimum a meter and avoid planting anything in that zone.

Well done for all your efforts and achievements to date, the wild fires are a sobering reminder of how easily things can go wrong. On a practical note will you have to register your uk land rover in Bulgaria at some point?

Against wildfire only thing u could do is get rid of the burnable stuf, gras etc that dries out anyway, ask a farmer with tractor to plow the land clean, and install sprinkler systems arround the important building that u can leave on while u evac, seen a guy in US do this in area with wildfires and his house was the only one stil standing. Ohh and ofcourse avoid wooden structures iff u can iff there is enough stone in the regio to be found i would use that as stone wont burn down easy. and iff u make sure the sprinkler system atleast wettens 10 meter arround the structure it should be fine as the fire can never reach it.

Thanks for your experience with Starlink. I am considering the ROAM package as we plan to travel extensively, and its "only" about 50 Euro more per month.

With the heat the only thing to do is try be as prepared as well as possible for the fires. In the long run it's going to be a constant threat in summer. Not an easy fix, dangerous.

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These barns are usually not so solid and may take a lot more efforts to prepare it for winter. Isn't it better to renovate a room or two in the house instead?

have you received your lichna karta/лична карта, otherwise you cannot re-register your car/campervan/trailer for Bulgarian number plates..

I love Starlink, I have it in the UK. Apologies if you've already answered this but what work do that's solely online?

Did u buy the jeep in Bulgaria 🇧🇬?

Did you order your Starlink directly from the Starlink website or from a local dealer?

Scary thing! I hope no people were hurt from the village?

You got a lot of stuff in your video, actual prices would be helpful.

What happened to the sound 💚

OK how did you get around the 90 day thing

Nothing, I haven't had chance yet.

which region is your house

I was first

'wild fire' = arsonist