Good morning!!!!

[sodamo]

Eric, at 118kg 260 lbs each, that’s an idea

 

[daugen]

68°F and .03 inches rain.
A drastic, unplanned shift today. Prepping for my battery replacement.

The area of attention
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While the current set are something of floor based space hogs the new bank will be wall mounted, 3 rows 4 high. Plans pencilled out and off to HD this morning to buy some 11/2 x 11/2 slotted angle.
Part of the challenge is to get as much prebuilt as possible but actual install can’t happen until I remove the existing batteries which won’t be until day of install.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

good luck with this David, that's a lot of weight to pick up, watch your back.
Watching your wallet is another consideration...

picked almost ten pounds of peppers this morning, another lady friend came to help, she and I both can't eat hot peppers but her kids will.
Still left a bunch of poblanos on the vine, and the Anaheims seem almost indestructible. That is one serious producer, now understand why Anaheims are so popular,
probably used in much of the mild salsas out there. But we picked today like a frost was coming, so if I get another crop in a week, fine, if not,
the counter is again covered in peppers. Last batch for food pantry, made it into November. Since March...
Honestly I'll be glad to take a break from this, have a lot of other hobbies to explore.

Gorgeous day out, cool, low humidity, warm sun. Will head back out again in a little bit to mow and blow more leaves.
Then I might take some time to study the Garmin again, see what filters are usable. Went through it once, set the rig parameters,
but road routing options were poor, toll road or no toll road, avoid U turns, ferries, etc. Same stuff I've seen for years.
Hoping they had advanced more. Better AI...

No matter what, I always study the route ahead of time using Google Maps, and even zoom in on some intersections and look at them from above.
If I know what restaurant I'm stopping at for lunch, I'll zoom in and check it out by satellite ahead of time, better understand parking lot issues. Stuff you never
have to think about with cars are standard fare if you drive a larger vehicle, much larger. Will the roof ac, the tallest thing up there, live a full
and normal life? Stay tuned...

If I were smart, I'd rig up my laptop to sit up front, and run live using my Mifi. I don't know if Google Maps has a live mode where it follows your vehicle, but
Garmin is good at that. What I object to is the micromanagement of routing such that it takes you off the preferred route to take a "shortcut". It's the shortcuts
that bother me. Yes, let me route on Google Maps and then upload that to the rv units. I could probably pull that off using the laptop, but again, don't know
if you can get a gps driven feed. Need combo of Google routing and rv software that will alarm if clearance or rv unfriendly conditions ahead.

off to work on leaves

 

[jbrumberg]

It looks like the NE CONUS will seem more winter-like this mid week and the following with both temperatures and weather. Long term weather maps are still all over the place, but there might be periods of snow from the Great Lakes midweek onwards and a possible clipper that may track across NE Thursday/Friday.

 

[sodamo]

Need to pour fist cup of coffee. 37° with cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 43° with rain in afternoon. Pump is out of garden pond. Got last of the things that need to be put away for winter done yesterday. Still need to pick up leaves and make mower and tractor ready for winter. Memorial service for wife at church today. Then my granddaughter will be coming to clean house. That enough for today.

David, $1700 for mounting brackets? :confused2: What are they made out of?

Buckeye, good news on recovery.

Mostly, glad bike is fixed. Enjoy the ride. My bike never left the barn this year. Plan to fix that next year. Hope Panera put something better on the menu. :ashamed:

Drew, how do you like the new Garmin? I got a new one for my car. It has dash and backup camera. Updated all the maps and software. Transferred all my old locations in to it from saved files. Happy with it. Just need figure how to protect backup camera. It just snaps into a plastic bracket. I keep my old Dezl 560 in glove compartment just incase.

Prayers and good wishes for all.

Good Morning All.

Maybe gold plated

 

[sodamo]

Lou, good info, thank you. So many US companies are now owned by companies in
far away lands, and sometimes you wonder "who" a company is any more.

Thomas, may the birthday girl be on a slow roll of happiness today.

I continue to be amazed at what many of you know how to fix/work on.
Sodamo works like an eager beaver on his property, living fully off the grid which I don't think any
of the rest of us do. Am sorry the batteries are failing, that has to be really disappointing. I think we all hope to get
ten years out of quality batteries, especially with today's desulphating smart chargers.
I remember seeing a 950 dollar lithium battery at the rv store, I think a group 31, maybe smaller, and
when I think you'd probably need about thirty of those to work...what a huge cost.
Doesn't Tesla make high end storage banks?

You know you have to spend the money on the batteries, but it should have been five years from now.
This sounds like an early adoption of tech that just didn't work out well.
Sun, wind and water are silent power. Too bad solar panels and windmills aren't attractive, maybe make the windmill look
like a large tree...and come up with green solar panels that work just as well.

Drew, you do make me chuckle.
When I agonized over this purchase 3 years ago, the most weighed factor was these would likely last my lifetime according to published info, not lithium, but over $1200 each plus installation.

The new lithiums I’m getting are just north of $3k each installed. And that is a good price.

Yes, Tesla makes the Powerwall 2. I had 4 on order right after they announced. Info I read is good. Sadly, Tesla never released the off grid version even 3 years later and the grid tied version is not compatible with my system.

Today’s solar panels work nicely, problem is storage.

 

[sodamo]

Impressive Rick. Hot dogs and marshmellows?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

It’s at a large church in the black community, we might be the only white people there, we were last time.

Been in that situation, and had a great time. Sounds like you will too.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

River Ranch County Park — Binkley & Barfield, Inc.

Wow! Our hiking club SIG trail blazing has been asked by the county to help develop the same system we have for the neighborhood. I got the call this morning, exciting times coming.

Over achievers get rewarded with more work.

 

[Thomas]

42F clear sky.

Good day for outside work once the frost disappear,5 hours blowing leaves and branches limbs clean off the side field,looking forward to supper and the recliner some college football.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

68°F and .03 inches rain.
A drastic, unplanned shift today. Prepping for my battery replacement.

The area of attention
View attachment 627221
While the current set are something of floor based space hogs the new bank will be wall mounted, 3 rows 4 high. Plans pencilled out and off to HD this morning to buy some 11/2 x 11/2 slotted angle.
Part of the challenge is to get as much prebuilt as possible but actual install can’t happen until I remove the existing batteries which won’t be until day of install.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

I’d build a rack with channel. Many yrs ago I was PM for a large UPS (2 x 1MVA) that had a large battery room, all racked at least 2 rows high.

 

[toppop52]

Been in that situation, and had a great time. Sounds like you will too.

Turned out to be about half black/half white and my buddy won a nice car cleaning kit, food was terrific as always.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, please stay off of those ladders....I'm out of fingernails to chew off since the Astros demise.....I can't be worrying about you on ladders.

Since you bought it up. I wanted to do something productive so I installed the bracing on the GDO track.



Works great now. No track bouncing, solid as can be. So here is my 2nd YouTube video. Need to adjust open limit a little further. To make sure I unlatch the door first, I unplugged the opener.

Genie GDO - YouTube

Next project is installing outdoor cameras.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

68ｰF and .03 inches rain.
A drastic, unplanned shift today. Prepping for my battery replacement.

The area of attention
View attachment 627221
While the current set are something of floor based space hogs the new bank will be wall mounted, 3 rows 4 high. Plans pencilled out and off to HD this morning to buy some 11/2 x 11/2 slotted angle.
Part of the challenge is to get as much prebuilt as possible but actual install can稚 happen until I remove the existing batteries which won稚 be until day of install.
Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

Which batteries are you going with? Have you seen the Trojan Trillium?

Drew, you do make me chuckle.
When I agonized over this purchase 3 years ago, the most weighed factor was these would likely last my lifetime according to published info, not lithium, but over $1200 each plus installation.

The new lithiums I知 getting are just north of $3k each installed. And that is a good price.

Yes, Tesla makes the Powerwall 2. I had 4 on order right after they announced. Info I read is good. Sadly, Tesla never released the off grid version even 3 years later and the grid tied version is not compatible with my system.

Today痴 solar panels work nicely, problem is storage.

Man I'm really feeling for you having to bite this bullet again. The company that made your old batteries was another hopeful endeavor it turns out. Like Solyndra maybe?

We have a lot of battery PhD's at work. But they're up to their ears in lithium small battery improvement production research right now. They all say to avoid battery backup if you are connected to the grid. Many projects we have are trying to adapt fuel cells to systems to try and get away from batteries. Listening RNG? I have been told to spend your money on generators, if you are connected to the grid, to deal with blackouts.

Since you bought it up. I wanted to do something productive so I installed the bracing on the GDO track.

View attachment 627278

Works great now. No track bouncing, solid as can be. So here is my 2nd YouTube video. Need to adjust open limit a little further. To make sure I unlatch the door first, I unplugged the opener.

Genie GDO - YouTube

Next project is installing outdoor cameras.

Ok, I'm stopping worrying now. I had to put 2 braces on my GDO to hold the torque of the motor unit type. be careful please, glad you're better day by day.

Drew, I'm guessing the "tractor driving up and down the beach" job has so many applications by now, they are going to see how much a candidate might offer to pay them for the job.

Was nice weather, so I decided to cut some firewood..... Well the chainsaw wouldn't start. The little plastic bubble fuel pump diaphragm was cracked/split and I was about to head 37 miles one way to get one, but decided to check the local owned auto parts and they had one. Also had one for my Echo blower too. Pricier than ebay, but got me rolling fast. Maybe they can stay in business an extra 30 minutes now. LOL. Folks, if it's a small engine you count on, please stock a spare.

I taught the boy how to drive the old Gator HPX today, he's got a ways to go to be able to handle it in tight quarters, but it was a start. He was helping me cut firewood. We cut/split/stacked about a half a cord. Don, the little electric log splitter doesn't have enough umph for 20" rounds of post oak. I had to split them in half, with my pink handled maul, before the little electric splitter could attempt to split them. Even then it was touch and go. I must say though, that this would was really hard oak, having died and been fallen down for at least a year or 2. It worked fine on 10" and smaller. Still, it was a big help. Even the chain saw had to work hard to cut through it. Swinging that heavy maul is for young guys....or retired guys that have the time to recoup.....

Some of the wood I cut was infested with wood ants. You should have seen the chickens going after them. It was natural pest control at it's best. Probably killed about 30 scorpions too, coming out of the holes in the bad parts of the tree trunk.

Cooked some steaks, baked some potatoes, had some Cabernet Sauvignon red wine. Said some grace and praise.

Topps, hope you get to enjoy your chicken and dumplings.

Prayers for those in need.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight

 

[txdon]

Kyle on the really big pieces of wood make a cut across the round with your chainsaw about 2"deep where the splitter will push into the wood.

I usually had about 5 pieces on the trees that were really thick and did a chain saw cutter start on all of them at once so I wouldn't have to swing the ax or sledge hammer.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle on the really big pieces of wood make a cut across the round with your chainsaw about 2"deep where the splitter will push into the wood.

I usually had about 5 pieces on the trees that were really thick and did a chain saw cutter start on all of them at once so I wouldn't have to swing the ax or sledge hammer.

good info.

will do.
thanks.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I needed one of those plastic bubbles for a trimmer, got a 10 pack. Bet I can’t find one next time I need one.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 36F this morning, clear, light north wind. Sky stayed clear, wind became moderate with brick gust, then backed off again, and high temp was 63F. Bike ride this morning, was on the Volagi again, brake adjustment worked, fender still made noise. Did get a nap in. Wife wanted BBQ for dinner tonight, so trip into town, and she got her ribs!
Drew, I use Basecamp to do the bike routes, look in the routing preferences section like faster vs shorter, set that about medium.
Rich have a safe and productive trip.
Randy glad you had a good dinner.
Rick get any hotdogs or marshmallows roasted?
RNG good news on no codes in the van, hope you get the squeaks and rattles worked out.
Buckeye, glad you got the opener to work and had the door unlatched this time
Don does the saw cut help with wedges also?
prayers for all.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight

At 2 am I set it back to 1 am. Then an hr later it’s 2am, and I set it back to 1 am. Then an hr later it’s 2am, and I set it back to 1 am. Then an hr later it’s 2am, and I set it back to 1 am. Then an hr later it’s 2am, and I set it back to 1 am. Then an hr later it’s 2am, and I set it back to 1 am. ........

 

[lostcreekranch]

Good evening all. 36F this morning, clear, light north wind. Sky stayed clear, wind became moderate with brick gust, then backed off again, and high temp was 63F. Bike ride this morning, was on the Volagi again, brake adjustment worked, fender still made noise. Did get a nap in. Wife wanted BBQ for dinner tonight, so trip into town, and she got her ribs!
Drew, I use Basecamp to do the bike routes, look in the routing preferences section like faster vs shorter, set that about medium.
Rich have a safe and productive trip.
Randy glad you had a good dinner.
Rick get any hotdogs or marshmallows roasted?
RNG good news on no codes in the van, hope you get the squeaks and rattles worked out.
Buckeye, glad you got the opener to work and had the door unlatched this time
Don does the saw cut help with wedges also?
prayers for all.

"Rick get any hotdogs or marshmallows roasted?"

Yesterday afternoon, on 2nd burn pile, the wind came up when the pile was at full blaze. The grass, near the fire, started burning a bit and while putting it out with a shovel, I felt like my marshmallows were getting roasted. So ... yes?