2023 wheat crop goes in & more solar panels are about to be installed
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- October is always a busy month on the farm with next year's wheat crop being drilled and the OSR starting to show some potential. There's some more solar panels going in too..
Waiting on the next spin-off channel 'Stanley's Kennel'
Brilliant idea tbh 😁👍👍
"..you join me in better field where I'm retrieving a stick"
That could be entertaining. Have you seen the dog harnesses that you can fix a go pro camera on for a dogs-eye view?
Or Kenny's Spaniel ?
Great thought, well done. 😅
Farming great, Solar exciting, Stanley beautiful! Thanks for the positive update Harry.
Hi Harry Love watching your farming practices but the solar is fascinating please do more on that.
Doesn't Stanley just make you smile! Wonderful. Great job on the farm Harry!
Nice to see nature's back on side, for the time being at least, after the Summer droughts. We're still looking into solar power for the house but, unfortunately, most of the roof area faces East/West which isn't ideal for optimum performance but may still be worth it. On a MUCH smaller scale I fitted some solar powered fans in the greenhouse and shed and they certainly made a difference in the blistering temperatures we had a couple of months back. In addition to cutting energy bills there's also the free energy "feel good" factor with solar and wind power.👍
All new homes should have solar where possible and it should be made affordable for retrofitting. All that free energy from the sun and we've not utilised it enough. Shameful.
Glad it’s all going well 👍 Stanley is a star ⭐️
Another great episode of the best farming series on RUclips and liking the side story of the renewable power generation 👍
Everyone I know that has put in a wind turbine has to a man said:. "I thought it was windy here until I put in that thing...."
I think you can create another channel, Harry's dog.
Living in a flat and even I am considering mounting solar panels from my balcony. Not going net zero but I am also considering an a/c for the summer and only running the a/c from solar.
Stanley has his own instagram...
Net zero doesn't exist
Always my first watch of the evening, such an education into farming, keep em coming Harry/
Harry I’m interested to know if there is the possibility to put ground solar on a mechanism to tilt them throughout daylight hours to maximum surface area of panels in direct sunlight? Or does it add very little efficiency?
I have seen that on some small commercial installs in sweden. Both tilt and rotation, but the panels were bigger. Maybe 2x2 or 3x3m.
@@Panzax1 It is probably more relevant there, with Sweden being such a long way from the equator.
Don't forget to give us solar reports in the dead of winter. Interested to see what they manage to squeeze out.
The positives outweigh the negatives, solar PV works 365 days of the year regardless of cloud cover.
@@terencereeder9830 Yes, but greatly reduced.
@@terencereeder9830 Too much heat or too little light can greatly reduce the efficiency and they also degrade over time, compounding the afore mentioned problems.
There's also great difficulty and expense in recycling the heavy metals out of the panels, so much so that many just get tipped (see the problems California is currently facing due to massive rollout twenty years ago, with no real long term plan on what to do when they came out of service).
There's definitely utility in them, in some applications, but it isn't as cut and dry and made out.
last week I come across a company that spent 30k on a solar insulation normal ROI is 3 to 5 years for companies due to high power prices ROI 1 year
Every new house or industrial building should be fitted with solar panels by law . These big building companies could do it , and still make money, over 400 houses built in my area in the last 3yrs and not a single one has a solar panel.
Brilliant video.
DNO is Distribution Network Operator
Great stuff. BTW DNO stands for Distribution Network Operator (not district). There is the "transmission network" owned by National Grid which sends power from big power stations around the country at 400 or 275 kV. Then there are various regional "distribution networks" that carry it further at 132, 33 and 11 kV, until it finally reaches premises at 415 V 3-phase or 240 V single phase.
Or if your unlucky you have a site on a 6.6kV circuit where the transformers are like rocking horse shite 😒
Yea, National Grid plc, the for-profit multinational corporation which uses that purposefully misleading name in order to fraudulently gain public support for their schemes to get taxpayer money.
Ace video Harry always great to learn more about the farm and how solar is going to work, Stanley is a star all good stuff look forward to the next one 👍
How is it possible to spray a weed killer and keep the oil seed rape healthy, how comes it doesn't die along with the wheat ?.
Get thee sen down charity shop and buy an XXXL gown te hide that beer belly pal
Thanks Harry, i love seeing how good solar is in a practical sense.
Impressive fast turnaround on the editing. Great video as always. Thx Harry.
Another great vid Harry! Life and seasons on the farm are so interesting..Time too for Stanley to have his own series...?
Really great video Harry - informative, interesting, and great to watch. Thanks!!
Love every minute of Harry's farm. Great job on the solar and wind farm. Please tell me you have battery storage for your energy production
No, he doesn't as explained in an earlier video. Too expensive at the moment and he wants to see how it does through the winter 👍
@@digitalimager4946 ah fair play, missed that one! Cheers
Nice to see the Range Rover being used again, would love to know if it feels a step backwards after the defender or actually the opposite? Enjoyable video as always, but please let us know how it feels to have your old friend back as the daily farm transport.
Good catch up video Harry. Was wondering how much rapeseed was lost in 22 harvest despite spraying sealer due to the hot weather drying out the seed pods and bursting while harvesting? Seems it's a crop of many difficulties. Nice to see Stanley making an appearance. Bullys love a few spins and a charge around when excited.
Love the solar stuff Harry. Any update on the miscanthus project?
Wait- 1000kw ≈ £500?
You pay £.50 per kw?
Omg
I'm on holiday it's raining nothing to do ,Thanks Harry !
Thanks for the update, Mr. Metcalfe, your enthusiasm is boundless. 👍 All of your diverse farm videos are great; solar panels, Mr. Mark the master dry stonewaller, Mr. Toby the estate fence master, cows, alpacas, one year it's flooding, next year it's a dry as a bone, and it goes on. It's all great stuff. Would have been great to have some drone shots while Mr. Walker was drilling, maybe next time. Thanks again!
I really like these regular streams and so informative about every day farming life. A real education of how it all works. As mentioned in a previous comment it would be great to see how the solar energy side of things pan out during the winter months. Great work Harry, looking forward to the next episode.👍👍
I love your dog what make is it its an English Bull terrier only small is it crossed with a Rack Russell I was born in a small Wiltshire town and always thought of myself as a country person but I am surprised how little I now about farming I have learnt a lot since I started looking at your videos keep up the good work.
Looks like a standard bullterrier to me, a small one I don’t think it’s actually a miniature bull terrier
I wonder what Harry's thoughts are on the new direction of farming under the new PM?
Always fascinating to hear from the farm. I work in energy and have an 11.5 kWp solar array on the our house (domestic in town setting). We’ve been all but energy independent from April through to the end of September and soo much interest from friends and work colleagues. Are you going to have battery storage? Ours only arrived in July but makes such a difference
battery is a must....
Love your videos and your enthusiasm for Farming and Automobiles.Thank you.
Great video and a lovely cameo from Stanley! Our old bully has turned 11 this year and despite still being an utter clown, she is starting to get a little grey around the eyes! 👍🏻
Do the panels produce any power when there's a fullmoon?
Really interesting video. Will you sell the Oilseed/Canola forward/lock in futures on part of it?
Hi Harry, great video as always, re solar, we were over at Rapture & Wright, they do hand printed fabric in Evenlode, she installed solar last year and has a very positive experience, it covers all her drying cost, significant savings at the moment, really impressive what you have done and I’m sure you well be very pleased with it in the future.
Love Stanley. Every Farm needs a Terrier. I live on a Farm with a JRT.
Also busy here sowing wheat. 1350 acres going in. Boss sowing with me rolling and spraying pre em. OSR also looking a bit small. Had very little rain here all year. South Northamptonshire
Brilliant video harry thank you 👍🏻
Excellent Harry.
Looking promising on all fronts😏
Bit late to the comments, but do you have an app/website to monitor or track your solar production, realtime? I use Solar Edge which I find extremely useful generally, but specifically for checking peak output or individual panel reliability, and for exporting comparison reasons. E.G. what my panels generate, compared to what my supplier say we exported. Bull Terriers 😆, just the best dogs!
I have absolutely no idea about farming but I do remember helping our friend burning the stubble when I was a kid we’d go up to their farm all the time when it needed to be done. So is there any benefit to burning the stubble vs rolling it in?
Didn't they ban stubble burning in 1993?
and the seagulls going after the worms keeps the crows off the seed
🎵Harry Metcalfe has a farm,
Ee-aye, ee-aye, oh.
And with alpacas, Stanley, a wind turbine, and now huge solar arrays to accommodate, he's gonna need a lot more verses. And a bigger boat.🦈 [Barn. Whatever.]
How long will it be before the solar panels have paid for itself? At the current 35p Kw/h that equates to £350 worth of electricity, around £19 per day over those 18 days. - Quite impressive
That a beautiful old house Harry. Don't be spoiling the looks of it. That was my trade before I retired. A stone mason.
Loved watching as usual. Thanks for sharing Harry!
Harry, why not make a covered parking bay by raising the solar panel 2 metres?
How long until Stanley has his own channel for his antics? Stanley’s Farm…coming soon….
I know it's a small sample, but if you take the $500 solar savings from 18 days in moderate sun conditions, and extrapolate to 365 days (roughly 20x), you'll have saved $10,000. Not bad at all.
No surprise the wind turbine doesn't perform well given it appears to be situated so poorly, it being close to large trees and the farmhouse, along with it being sat on such a small tower. Though it's only a baby in terms of small farm turbines it would likely have produced far better placed out in the middle of an open field on as large a tower as practical. The surrounding trees and farmhouse will be making for a turbulent and wind shaded dead-zone of an area. Two of the farms I work for have the still small but much more capable Gaia Wind GW133 (11kW) turbines on 18 metre towers (monopole & lattice) located out in the middle of nearby fields. Those generate on average approximately 27,000 and 50,000 kWh/year respectively, with the latter being very-much optimally located high up on the moors, and the former somewhat lower down with not-so optimal surrounding terrain. How these might compare to your own site I couldn't say as it would very much come down to average wind speed and siting for that specific location, but I'd quite expect 4x the 3000-4000 kWh you've been seeing from that Proven.
Always interesting. Always informative. 👍
Bel video. Bravo. Bei mezzi.
👍👍👋👋💪🚜🇮🇹🔝
If you can 'save' £500 on your electricity in just 18 days, it begs the question; How much do you spend on electricity in a year (on average)? It might be worth building your own power station.
Which is essentially what you're doing.
Chemical Harry. Farming must have been a challenge without chemicals :-)
With you solar panels and wind turbine, how much energy can you store for backup?
Thanks
Barry
Harry, solar doesn't work in the UK without governmental subsidies because of geographical location and weather. Search a world map of global horizontal solar radiation. This will show you that the only parts of Europe that solar will work economically is Southrn Spain, Southern Italy, and Western Turkey. Your higher energy utility costs are due to the irratinal approaches to introducing renewables in the UK energy grid. I am all for renewables being part of the energy mix but it has to be done in a way that is economically ands envrironmentally sound.
I love the glimpses of Harry's Panerai.... would make for an interesting video all on it's own.
As always very interesting, both from what's been planted and how the crops are growing and the update on the Solar.
You have a very nice house (I wouldn't expect anything less!) and no doubt it's Listed which means you wouldn't be allowed to put solar panels on the roof anyway but I'm sure I don't need to tell you that. Ground mounted solar panels are easier to maintain and clean thus, if you have the space which you do, they are better than roof-mounted. Thanks for your videos - so much better than the BBC...
Just popped over from a Porschefest at the garage and find the same enthusiasm..... An enthusiasm for life and all its joys 👍
Great video always explained spot on, love this channel be very interested to see how the solar panels turn out 👌👌
Love Stanley! One of my favourite dog breeds
hi do you know what type
@@redauwg911 English bull terrier...
@@pw191164 thank you very much
Having the Range Rover back just feels right.
your going to need to keep those panels clean on your shed. You would be surprised how a thin layer of dust will quickly diminish your solar output
The tower on that wind turbine looks way too short Harry, dare I say.....
Solar and wind generation is great where you have plenty of space. I have concerns that properties with no space will struggle when gas prices go massive...
Watch your hedges they ll need cutting allow room for that.
Watch aslo they'll cast shade....
So your turbine needs a electric motor to drive it??
Ummmm, sure I got that wrong some where,,,
Hi Harry. Was it (harvest 2022) a good year for wheat? I thought the summer drought really hit yields?
Very informative. Who installed the turbine?
Thought we needed land to feed us Gues its a better way to make money than worrying what crops are going to make Wooying really
harry..youre missing the 'tts' in your narration of the word install...hahaha
Harry found myself watching your farm videos more than the cars so interesting. Keep it going.
How do you cultivate the OSR and thin it out? Cultivate perpendicular in rows?
At around 9.58 I thought you were going to show us a ground source heat pump.
Always a great video, thanks Harry
Love how the dog looks where you are digging.
Always enjoy your video’s. My family is considering solar on our warehouse roof. Your video has warmed me up to the idea.
do it! why not?
Collect, store and use the rainwater too?
It would be nice if you could elevate the ground-based solar panels to create a shaded outdoor area. Not sure if sitting under that make kW is HSE compliant though
It would be good Harry if you would explain a little about the machines you use. HP, weight, width, tyres, seeder details, seeder width etc.
Please could you put a link to the people who did the turbine on the farm.
THanks Harry, really good to follow you
Informative as ever. Thank you Harry.
Did you require planning permission for your ground solar array or is under 9m2?
Seagulls don't *tell* their mates. They *yell* at their mate. Incessantly.
Do you think a more established OSR crop attracts the pigeons more?
Spinning Stanley should have his own channel.
I for one am very interested in following your solar pv installation and if possible your monthly figures. Are you going to install battery storage and a smart hot water tank or a thermal battery for your hot water.
I had the same problem with my first field of osr, be interesting to see how it turn out. Great video btw
Love the updates on the solar panels, please keep them coming 👍
Keep chickens underneath the solar panels.
Fascinating as always!
Hope you do one of your costs breakdowns on the Solar and outputs. Thanks.
Really interesting roundup again.
Haha Roundup great pun!
Let's hope it doesn't all break down like it did during the summer 😂