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4th February 2017, 07:18 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Just dreaming......
Had a look at a property today, just for giggles. It is about 14 acres with small dam a few trees and this little shed with a small water tank.
The shed is 24x9metres and the tank is 30,000gallon. Plus another 5,000gallon tank on the other side of the shed.
Unfortunately no power to the block, estimated at $60,000 to have power put on or around the same for solar/battery system.
Oh well, will keep dreaming
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4th February 2017, 11:56 PM #2
Perhaps you could ask a uni for their old pebble bed nuclear generator. You've plenty of water to run it
The place looks good for farming rocks....
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5th February 2017, 06:30 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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The rocks in the foreground is an old house site, along with bricks and steel and god knows what else! The shed takes up more room than my whole house block, could you imagine the fun filling it up with wood gear?? [emoji1]
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5th February 2017, 12:30 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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Give it a few months/years and you'll be looking at putting a lean-to on each side to put more stuff in. No matter how big a shed you have, it'll NEVER be big enough.
You end up adding to the hobby list, starts with woodwork, then car restoration, because there's wood involved and a challenge, then metalwork, because you don't want to pay someone to restore the metal work and on it goes.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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5th February 2017, 12:51 PM #5Senior Member
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what are you going to be able to fit in that small garden shed
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5th February 2017, 03:39 PM #6
Room to put in a Terrafirminator:
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5th February 2017, 03:41 PM #7Senior Member
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lol
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5th February 2017, 05:14 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Kryn, I hear what your saying! No car restorations, maybe motorcycles though (can get loads more in!)
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5th February 2017, 05:16 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Love the Terrafirminator Woodpixel! Now where are those gnomes???
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10th February 2017, 11:48 PM #10Novice
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Ya know, 14 acres is the size of my property. With a realistic view a stand alone solar system is viable for maybe 30,000 and less if you can accept a different life style and dropping the city dross. Our home runs a split system (12v - 240v). We haven't paid a power bill in the last 30 years. Work it out. If you are interested I can email you a book -staring at the Sun - that I wrote when I was designing and installing stand alone solar power systems. It is a bit dated but the basics have not really changed. Included with the book are some short stories about living off grid. All this for the princely sum of Zip, Zero, Zilch, Nada.
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11th February 2017, 11:55 AM #11GOLD MEMBER
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That sounds good, will take up your offer of the book. I think it is doable, trying to convince the other half is the tricky part. We have to look at our finances/expenses in more detail.
I have thought for a long time that we as a society are looking at the 240v power system all wrong. In this day and age with all the items available to us off the shelf in 12v systems we could loose a lot of the 240v items we "rely" on and replace them with 12v items quite successfully. I am a big fan of thermal efficient housing, which there seems to be very little up take for within Australia. We have become so accustom to just flicking the switch to keep us cool/warm, it's crazy.
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11th February 2017, 03:17 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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Sounds like a good idea Cal, only problem is getting wood work machinery in 12 V, besides little toy ones for balsa wood.
Wonder what size inverter I'd need to run a 250 amp mig welder
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11th February 2017, 04:03 PM #13GOLD MEMBER
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Yes tools are an issue, will have to learn about wood carving with a chainsaw [emoji848]
Don't fancy using old bow saws and hand tools all the time!
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16th February 2017, 01:31 PM #14Novice
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Hi sent book as email if it dose'nt work we can try again.
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16th February 2017, 01:34 PM #15Novice
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solar
sent book let me know if it fails. Can put it on disk and snail mail it.
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