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There's an old hillbilly saying…"when your doing your living" tomorrows are the new beginings, looking forward to your on going progress.
Evan, good luck on your goals for 2023. Your long term goal is also mine. I too have good feelings about 2023.
Wishing you all the best for 2023 and success in achieving all or most of your goals. Looking forward to continuing great videos. Good Luck
"Failure is part of Success" Keep going and you'll be fine! I've really enjoyed watching the transformation of your property as a result of all of your efforts. Thank You both!
Happy New Year!
Can't wait to see how it goes!
Keep Smilin!!!!
Evan, you can still use the plywood for your shop wall. All you have to do is strap the wall horizontal with furring strip or 1×3 👍
Setting goals is very important step.
Have you seen red poppy ranch on you tube? They are completely off grid, They have a good sola set up and have tried a lot of different systems. They have now gotten a good back up generator to cover the dull days.
good luck
Maybe give yourself more time or move the Allis a couple burners towards the front, the restoration of my Allis CA started with a brand new shiny battery box, I took one look at that and up on stands it went, wheels,body panels, radiator all came off only thing left on the stands was engine, torque tube and final drive, I didn't get to use the Allis for a second tractor that spring.
Check out Lumnah Acres, they have built a solar system that powers everything ,and pretty much did everything theirselves. Al is a short guy so he did get his brother in law to help install the panels, lol the guy stood on the ground and was taller than Al on a ladder
I live in Illinois and have read studies that there's about 13 states here in the mid west that include Illinois that solar energy will not be economical enough to make it work. So if you do your homework and still think it will work for you than I will follow your channel.
I really hoped that you did loose many fish, well, we live and learn, so good luck in 2023 on.
What about the vapors from the batteries? When charging they produce chemical vapors, don't they?
I would not have the batteries indoors at all unless I am wrong.
Go for it!
Hey Evan – you didn't tell us what your plans are for your spare time.
Happy New Year to you and yours also !!!!!!!
Onward!
You guys did a great job accomplishing goals for 2022! I think you made some great strides! Thanks for the previous video on how you film and the equipment you use. I don't see that much and it was good information. I watched a youtube channel called Tony's Tractor Attachments Homestead. He has two TYM tractors and lots of attachments. It right up your TYM alley! lol
Hello it was very nice watching you in 2022 even when you messed up. One thing is that you don’t mind showing when you do mess up. Keep keeping it real. Thanks for the way you do things.
Really enjoy your videos they are educational THANKS. How about solar power in the bank barn?
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You can do it !
Kudos to you! I am amazed with the both of you and the amount of work you do in the videos taking into consideration you both have full time jobs. Best wishes for 2023.
I think the Best time for working on Barn is right now, before new steers are arriving.
I put a 27k electric generator on my farm house if need arises from power loss. It will run my home and my separate garage. Had a 500 gallon propane tank installed for it. It's set to run about 15 minutes per week to maintain battery and has only used 20% of the 500 gallon tank for the year. I have a little less than 15k invested. Not sure how much your solar set up will cost you?
You two has accomplished a ton of work together, also, dont forget all time taken to give us videos to follow along with your journey, that also takes a lot of time! Take care both of you and the animals, and a happy new year and we will see you all in the next days of the year 🙂
Wow lot of work to do, Things will get done, Good Luck , Full time would be wonderful,
Ambitious goals are great, If you can do them all, You're going to be lucky. Good luck , and I'll be watching. Happy new year.
Happy New Year
Nice. I completed about 75% of our homestead. Thanks for sharing and being vulnerable enough to share your mistakes
Health insurance will be your biggest problem. It will cost over $2000 a month. 1 of you might have to keep working.
i really enjoy your videos. Thank you. Happy New Year.
https://youtu.be/DtMoJmZwRGw
That was a good review of your year. I think you need to give yourselves more credit. Your videos are full of interesting chores you both take on. I think you did a great job for the year. We enjoy watching all your videos. Thank you for taking the time to produce them.
Love the goals! You both definitely inspire me to keep going on our homestead and accept the setbacks! Happy 2023 to you and your family
Do you follow DIY Solar Power by Will Prowse?
Very interested in your adding solar to the homestead. I think you going to need more panels, especially in the winter. We have a similar property to yours and we first started with 12 KW of solar. Then we added a hydro system in two of our creeks and then 24 KW more solar. You will need enough power generation on your worst day to handle your day time loads and then additional power generation to ensure your batteries are fully charged to handle loads at night. Start pulling from the batteries during the day time hours and you will need to charge your batteries at night. That gets expensive. Good Luck!
I really hope you and your family had a wonderful time mate
You might check out YouTube lumah acres and wild wonderful off grid. They run their whole place off solar. Might get some ideas🤷🏻♀️ love your show!