Hi Dave! Here in Portugal, i Think, In order to get the things done, you need to appeal to the heart of the people in the municipality, So they understatand your actually conditions and what you are trying to do and what is project, in order they to stay sensitized with your project! Have a great week! And GO Go go!! The Sun will shine!!
Yeah! even if he enjoys going to the a shower outside his land, or the toilet situation, you can totally dramatize the conditions and blame it that you cant get stuff done without the road, electricity and address, since the hardware store wont do deliveries, also you could ask Matia's wife to do it, they tend to do stuff faster when a lady in need asks them.
Yeah if you can sell them the vision. You’ve chosen Portugal and it was the best choice, bringing the potential out can put the country in a better light. You’re patience is inspiring, hoping for positive things to come.
That's not true! an Apartado, does not work for electric and internet services, besides to have an apartado you have to get NIF, and for that you need an Address People think that everything is easy just because...(not you)
It's actually funny to see northern people finding out how Portugal works. Usually up north things are very organized and structured and stuff just works, but down here it's frustratingly different. I immigrated to Portugal 2 years ago hoping for this "European" way of doing stuff, only to find out what you guys are experiencing 😅
Just a few thoughts. 1) I think slowly people could stop by and begin to develop some primitive garden, plant some seeds. 2) few people could begin collect, organize teer down the buildings to prepare for rebuild, or just simple repurpose material to finish some part of the building. 3) You could concider gravity batteries, since you have slopes, that could be a good form of storing energy. 4) You can buy used solar panels for much, much cheeper, that could be concerned and potentially good beginning. Hope some of this can be usefull.
I would advice to go for Grid. Because over time, we all expect the grid becoming much greener. And setting up now with a complex wind/solar combined with big batteries, might be a bigger form of waste (both environmentally and your own resources). Remember your long-term goal is, is learning new things to pass on to others and the next generation, not to be an example for perfection, today.
Pols and wires also have a finite lifespan. So it depends on how far is the grid and how much load he needs. Here in Latvia🇱🇻 we have ~12¢/kWh of which ~5 is for the grid, ~5 is for electricity, ~2 tax. Installation and administrative costs of the grid can be comparable to an off-grid solar PV system. Andy from the Off-Grid Garage put together a cheap battery pack :) For a 3 phase system, it would take at least 3k€ for the batteries. Ready-made batteries easily would be double the price :) For winter a Biogas CHP unit could be an option.
People don't just go for solar or other off grid systems to be environmentally friendly, they also want to be off grid for self sustainability. There are quite some problems with larger grids depending more and more on solar/wind. It get's more and more unstable. Governments don't scream it from the rooftops but we might need to transition to a system where our use will depend on the availability instead of the other way around. My long-term goal with a piece of land for coming generations would definitely be to become more self sufficient.
Ask some local farmers to lend you goats to start eating the brush and weeds. You also might try borrowing or purchasing a tractor with a front loading bucket or backhoe. You could regrade the road yourself!
Stay off-grid. Solar, wind, water, and wood power for the small base load, and a 3-phase military diesel generator to power the big tools in the workshop and perhaps the oven, which don't run very much. That giant commercial refrigerator is a liability. Swap it for a chest freezer modified for fridge temperature controls. 100 times more efficient. Also add a two burner induction cooking hob. Works great with cast iron pans.
It is really inspiring to see how far you have gotten from basically having no plan and what seems like little direction to where you are in your most recent updates (first saw one of your more recent updates in my feed). Well done, and probably you should send a huge thankyou to those who helped you get to where you are now.
keep on Dave, you can deal with that. I would go 100% sure for grid, as soon as you can, you need it to work properly, to develop the land and build. Maybe you can start building a kind of wood ceiling or place to be outside in the rainy days and to have more space (near to the vans, workshop and temporary kitchen), something temporary to be more comfortable (like the one for the bike but more pro). Try to spend most of time making the space as much as comfortable and prepared to work/living until the containers can come. Good luck!!!
Greetings from Turkey. Most of your Pro machines need 3phase electricity and it would be a real challange to handle it with going offgrid. So i think first you need a grid for an easy start. And then getting hybrid (solar + wind + grid) and then getting into offgrid would be a good transition for infrastructure. Hope municipality prepare the road for containers asap. Hope for the best. 🙏🙏 Good luck on project kamp journey. I really would love to help if things possible.
Actually, MPPSolar(.com) for example have Solar chargers/inverters with three-phase true-sine (which is important if you want to use anything else than lights and phonechargers) which you can hook up to lead-acid batteries and solar pannels. this would be pretty easy to build and it woud work for the powertools.
Maybe it could be a good idea to contact a company who is doing solar deployment and make a deal, they can use some of the land to make a solar farm, and in return you could have connection to the grid for free. Maybe even cheeper solar electricity.
Find some big rocks fill the wash outs in the road. Cut the bushes back. Be a productive member of your community. Hugelkulture, terra preta, and bio char all work great to grow food. Every bit of wood you cover will give off it's b.t.u. value to keep soils warm. Chain link fence with some weigh on it pulled behind a vehicle will grade your road after you fill in the wash outs.
If your budget allows it may be better to have the road cleared by a private company and then stay in constant communication with your camera municipal to then be on top of the roads maintenance and added to their yearly maintenance schedule. This is often the way in Portugal. You can wait sometimes years for the social services and need to do an initial private investment to get the ball rolling and fit into your ideal. The work will be done eventually, this is true, but the timeframe of the camera municipal can be detrimental to your project’s moral and momentum. Boa sorte. Good Luck.
Side step the problems, work on the stuff you can do. That thorny bush looks like bramble which should produce a very nice crop of blackberries in late summer. You could use some of those trees you chopped to give that bramble bush some climbing frames to make harvesting easier. Now is the ideal time to get some fruit trees and bushes in. Any delay over a few weeks will delay your first crop another year.
how about leaving the work-station in town for as long as you're not connected to the grid or decide to go full off-grid. meanwhile you could make yourself known in town recycling there already... realy love what you're doing there!!!
We just bought property too. An outhouse, point well, and fire pit are my first projects on the property. Our electric poles are all label and the electric poles is what actually gives you your address. If you go with dc electric look at boat stuff. You can wire up few Stubblefield coils to charge batteries cheaper than solar. Plus solar end of life is very dirty to recycle. You can buy sheds here cheaper than shipping containers. Get a dehumidifier for container to help save electronics in container. Condensation in containers is bad.
Dave, 1 - at the land purchase documents that register you are the property owner you find the land address. At least the street name. Then with it you can go to the nearest CTT post station and request the correct zip code from the location of the property. 2 - at property you need to install a mail box with the name of Project Kamp but l believe that because you're at a remote location outside the village the CTT can install it at the main road access (so a bit out of the property) these are specific mail boxes for postmen 3- an alternative is a P.O.Box (Apartado)... You can get these at CTT closest post office and use One Army address for registration. Then you provide energy, telco, and other providers the P.O. Box Address. Things aren't so complicated... But you are not being well advised. Contact me and I can help you overcome this very fast.
don't be to nice on your containers, they are just big metal boxes ;) you could 'build' a crude wooden sledge under it, get a big tractor and a big chain... (i think you get it) (and afterwards the road is wider!)
Best way to get ur address is as someone already said go to municipality services and ask for ur land tax bill. In Portuguese is call IMI (Imposto Municipal sobre Imóveis) Rita should know about it. Ur adress is there. Next for electricity you need to go to the supplier in this case EDP with the address and ask for the connection. As you don't have a building you only need to say its for agriculture for example for an engine for a well water. The road is best if u could do it urself municipality takes ages around here in any matter
i guess its time for preaparing soil and planting seeds. you could trace roads on property and certain areas. you should make latrine and shed. dont waste your Time 😊
I think you might have bigger problems than those, but I hope you have been well advised when bought the land, and checked all of the permits. Since you are in good terms with câmara municipal (local council/municipality) you can ask about zoning, building permits, protected areas, fire regulations, if your ruins are legal, or illegal, etc. You need to be aware of planning restrictions and civil code/law before you do anything, because even your containers and camper vans might need a permit, let alone anything more structural and permanent. Planning and ordinance regulations and laws cannot be ignored and can be mind boggling, but the câmara municipal will help you. I hope the last year has allowed you more progress and has given the project new hope and energy! Don’t lose heart and good luck!
I grew up in a solar only property because of such problems with hooking up to the electrical network. It was basically cheaper to place a solar setup. I’m sure it will be handier to be plugged-in but do expect high setup costs and bureaucracy nightmares next to the monthly costs after all that. Make the exercise of calculating how much power you’ll need on a regular basis and if you can power that with solar it will be worth it, anything of higher power like a welding machine can be powered by a generator of 3,6kw. We didn’t have the problem of an address but because the house was so remote all mail went to the Junta de Freguesia, that kind of service is quite normal in Alentejo maybe you can check if it’s possible there. For the internet connection it’s also quite easy to have a weatherproof 4G modem/router and hook it up where the connection is best. Vodafone gives you unlimited 4G for 30€ per month in Portugal, NOS has similar rates and MEO a bit costlier. I’m very interested about your project. If can help with anything, let me know!
you don't need solar all the way, you can build wind and hydro generators cheaply from scrap with minimal tools. biggest problem might be storage, if you can get your hands on used lead gel batteries that would help immensly for the bulk. used forklift batteries might be a good source. for the power tools it's good to use wet batteries though, they have lower internal resistance so higher currents are not as critical. of course you don't need as many batteries if you have a grid. i'm a bit curious why you don't tow the containers over the bumpy road with a tractor instead of waiting for the road to be fixed so a lorry can co there. there must be people with a tractor around. you should definitely get a tractor, you can retrofit it to run on used plant oil instead of diesel. same goes for your van if it's diesel powered. lastly, for an internet connection it might be worth while checking if you can get a line of sight to the town from your property. if so, you can get internet access somewhere in the town (buy a cheap flat with roof access) and forward it over wifi with some good directional antennas. a few kilometers are easily achievable, ask some people in the freifunk community to help out.
It's totally understandable as we have had these challenges in starting construction of our business place in an industrial zone a bit more down in the center out of used shipping containers. We've made our mailbox and also the structure of electricity counter out of scraps. Let us know if we can help. Good luck.
I set up a solar system that is connected to the grid and I didn't need a project, just a shed for the fuse boxes and also you are obliged to put in solar hot water. I was glad it worked out for me. I hope you can get set up. Also, maybe you just pay for the machine to come and do the road. It's a lot quicker!
Maybe you shouldn't wait for municipality to clean the road. You have a lot of people willing to help you. Make it by yourself, even if it is a public area. Wait for municipality in some countries is waste time (a brazilian tip 😁)
@@janosvarga962 Some of the work Dave could do is clearing the bushes that are growing over the road. The roots are in Kamp soil, and it will be easier to dig the water channels to prevent the rain destroying the new road if the bushes are not in the way.
Welcome to the bureaucracy and inertia of the public services in Portugal...I hope you don't lose your motivation because of that. From a portuguese PS. I would like to contribute to your project
Hi, I have a few suggestions for you.. For the road cleaning, if it's a public road, then it is up to the municipality to clean it, but if it's considered private, then you need to do it yourself if it's your property... Get in touch with the Social Security Services and lay you project in the table. If you can get then to consider it a social project you will be able to apply to public funding. Someone suggested a "apartado" as a means to solve the mailing issue... That's a P.O.Box, so it solves posting, but still doesn't allow you to get electricity or internet. Was the land considered "constructible" or "agricultural"... if the latter then it will take some pushing on... Again, reaching for social services and letting them known you are actually living IN the land can help speed things up. Best of luck for your project
I don't know how it works in Portugal, but you own the land.I would put up a letterbox at the entry to the property and send yourself a letter! There are ruins that have had electrical installations, they had addresses before!
Go to the courthouse and look up your property tax. You might have to get a copy of your deed to see what your lot number is etc. then ask to see your tax bill. The address should be on there. Put out a mailbox, write your address on it, and as the other brilliant person said “send yourself a letter”. Do this once every other day until there is a pile of undelivered letters sitting on the postmasters desk. They take delivering the mail very seriously so you know they will lose some sleep over it. Then go into the post office and ask why your mail hasn’t been delivered. I believe this will work to get you an address ❤️
we are in sweden and feel we have similar challenges.. such as getting power, water, address sorted out, etc etc.. and we are not even living remote .. its ridiculous and frustrating..
About the road and the overgrown bushes: Ask around the neighboring land owners about what you can do about the road and bushes / 'whine to the municipality' by explaining the whole situation, exaggerate if necessary your living conditions, etc... and if you have a possible plan on what you can do (DIY) if they permit you tell them (since it won't cost them money they might take that into consideration and get back to you fast). Still you might need to go and bug them a bit to get things done. İf it won't be a problem (like getting fined) make a non permanent solution just to let the local transport pass: -e.g. fill the holes with big non sharp stones and earth, then put a wood plank or something similar on top when passing with the car (kinda like the solution when the car is stuck on the mud or something) which you can take out if necessary. - - About the bushes, only cut the ones that are blocking the road yourself (most of it won't block the transport from passing), it is most likely that the local transport then can pass through there by going slow.
Most problems go away as long as you have money. In our city, they will either ask for a rush fee, a processing fee, or a guardianship fee. I hope it's just red tape over there, and not a form of corruption by sitting on your requests, which is basically their job.
Notice you have a few building around the land. Could you not clear one out, put tarpaulin or something over the top given a bigger space to live in. especially if it has a fire place in it. Help keep warm and cook.
frozen water pipe could be of metal tubing.. apply heat with gas torch or a 12volt 15watt silicon heat patch/warp used by beer brewsters to keep reservoir container warm.. to level rough terrain without a digger dozer? gas powered hole augers can remove dirt faster than manual labor.. as for do or die electricity, run gas generators - charge 24volt battery banks - run pure sine inverters.. all that if online mail gets shipped to location? also rather than sit around have people show up and bag dirt for an addressable earth'bag domicile.. actually we the internet want to see if an earth'bag home would be faster than municipality moves.. just thoughts..
On regarding energy and local adress. Daniel Silva already give you an hint. However, if you intend to have a phisical mail box near your home, that you be possible. On isolated places with few houses, mail boxes are put althoger in a single location where all get their mail. For energy (didn,t went on all comments bellow ...) I'd some delay problem to rebuilt my house. Cheap things come with that kind of problems. However, you've a simple solution. Already with some structures in place and willing to rebuilt them you can ask a power line NOW with the argument you need power to go ahead with house's reabilition. I've done the same. Because it takes time ask it a.s.a.p.
Hey Dave! Just fill some large bottles/jugs (20-30 l each, so that you can still move them) with hot water in the evening, pack them into the van, they will keep it OK overnight. A nice campfire in the evening is always good anyways, and you have a good pile of firewood. Oh yeah and fck the municipality, if it takes that long, you're better off hiring someone with a bulldozer, so that you can move on!
Good luck with your challenges. I would think a diesel generator for the three phase electric and solar and or wind for the rest of your electrical needs, then you can stay off grid.
Precisely. How often are the big metalworking machines actually running? Not so often that a generator is a major source of pollution. Mostly he needs lights and battery chargers.
Guys perhaps trying the angle that because the road and path are in disrepair emergency vehicles, like the firetruck, wont be able to get to your place in case of a fire/emergency. Also you could try and get to the people in charge buy going to the fire department first and asking around if they know who is incharge of those types of jobs and tracking them down.
Do you have some plans for the grasslands? Soon you will have to mow them if you don't want to lose them. Maybe a neighbor can help in exchange for free hay until you can do it yourself.
Animals are great for that too. Sometimes farmers are happy to put their cattle on your land for a couple of weeks. It comes with free fertilizer and entertainment while waiting for the bureaucracy too :-D
@@MM-ih4rj This is a good idea, goats will eat anything except big trees. I have read about people renting teams of goats to clear abandoned gardens, don't know if anyone local to the Kamp has some hungry goats.
Just a crazy thought - why not make a mailbox and put it by the main access, then wait for the postman to drive pass and show them the mailbox = address :)
I live in Spain just in the Portugal frontier, here you need to have a "leverage" so sue them for denying to clean the road. If you sue them the next day it will be clean.
And after that... everything you actually need the junta or municipality for is going to be a tough project. Just adjust to the local way of getting things done is a better option. You don't want the municipal against you, especially on a project like this where everything already is "uncertain", against all standing procedures and without any actual plans for the future. There are literally hundreds of these initiatives of foreigners all over Portugal because somehow the idea is that PT isn't the same as other EU countries and designated pieces of land for other purposes than just agriculture or simple nature can be turned around to urban land (building dwellings). That's why you see so many Yurts, campervans, so called "temporary structures" etc. Still you need a permit to live on the land permanently in whatever structure you put up. (after you went to the process of getting a building permit). I live here in PT for 14 years now, seen so much "initiatives" start without any clue of laws and rules, thinking "it will be alright".... and no matter how well intended some of these initiatives are, more and more locals are getting negative about it as they see people from abroad starting projects (and sometimes get away with it for years) out of naivety, while no Portuguese could ever get a permit to even build something on his or her own land even if it's owned for generations, or even build an extension for an expanding family. In a lot of municipalities rules are interpreted differently, depending on the current political preference and elected major, they could let you get along with what your doing, after the election a different major could turn up with a bulldozer because whatever one has build up is illegal.... In this casa I see that there's a ruin on the land that seems originally from before the 1950 tees... so there's a possibility to get a declaration of "not needing habitation license", still you would need all the permits to restore or rebuild on the same footprint. (taken in account all modern building regulations on safety etc.). If you have a "restoring" or building permit you can get temporary "project electricity" but in the end the electric system has to be signed of by a certified electrician before you can get actual electricity with a meter connected. It almost looks like in Portugal things work like in any other EU country.......
I don't know how's the situation in Portugal, but have you considered CHP(Combined Heat and Power)? If there's a gas pipe around, you should be good even in cold days. CHP is a car engine fueled with natural gas, hooked to a generator. The hot water produced by the engine cooling is used for heating and consumption and electricity can be used for whatever you want. And it's kinda clean.
Annoying "challenges" haha. People could start work on clearing out the ruin and removing the old roof, then planning and getting approval for rebuilding the roof. I really love your project and am thinking of something similar. Not sure yet. I believe we really need to prepare for a future that is a lot harsher than today and that is best in a community. People are going to get squeezed out in the coming decades. Growing enough food is one of the basic challenges but also finding ways to produce more of the basic necessities locally. Tiny houses, solar power, water treatment, heating. I'd go straight for solar panels and batteries and for heating in the winter bury a huge water tank thermal battery that you heat up in the summer and use in winter. Cheapest way to do heating costs. You need to have enough solar panels for winter so you'd have more than enough in summer. That's a big project of course.
Have you considered hydro electric if your stream is big enough.or wind power. I can recommend Kris Harbour vlogs on RUclips. Good luck with the project.
I own one here in Mexico, but "plantas" are expensive, like 300 dlls a day for heavy stuff, and if they need a small one I bet they might feel bad using gas/diesel to sustain themselves) specially the kind they will end up needing to power up big equipment (which they are not doing atm), right now they only need basic electricity, so they could perhaps invest just enough and get a couple of panels, since there are just a couple of people living there so it wouldn't be all that bad, and they can use them later, but they need the grid to really get going. Also it sucks that they cant get their containers there, I imagine they are paying an storage fee, hopefully a cheap one :(
@@danielmiranda2126 When the workshop-container arrives, they will want to whip out the machinery to start building.. That will be tough on just a couple of solar panels; that would require a solar farm!.. 😉😁 I guess that the connection to the grid may still take some weeks or (let's hope not-) some months..
Hey Dave, Your energy looks a bit low. That can happen, especially with those rough conditions and administrative slowness. Sure it will all come alright. Cheers
The world around was setted to change, by the 18th of December last year! The same as the Beargarlic has gone out, last year, in the end of February, in this year it was now in March! Go and count the days! You know that the ice is the ECI, the EGG of EYE! Look into the story of YMIR, I came on yesterday! We here in the near of Frankfurt, it is hot, like around 20 degrees! No cloud no rain! Please bring us the ICE with drones to us! I LOVE your work and I want to meat yo!u Dave!
Think about the technical support you could have! But also NOT! All these burocracy is totally too much! It is all here, you just need the coreact handlings, between US humen beings and the companies, those want the work from US, our time and ideas! NOT with me, my imagination costs those companies a lot, in the future! Are you interested in building this faster up, then possible?
Which part of Portugal you are located? Looks colder for this time of year, unless you are up north or by the Estrela mountain because I watch other youtubers living in central Portugal (between Castelo Branco and Fundão) and they are having better weather than you.
I have watched a few videos of folks bu6ing land in Portugal and they all have a problem with the local authorities. As the young Portuguese have moved away from rural areas you'd think the local authorities would want people who want to make it work.
Don't burn - compost, Internet via Satellite or 4G for Internet ( 4G dongle with external directional antenna ), Generator for Power until Solar/Grid installed. Talk/Deal with a local Farmer to deliver the containers. Develop your neighbour network make local contacts. Start your garden while waiting for the other stuff to arrive. Permaculture... Permaculture... Permaculture... has solved all these issues before get reading. Good Luck !
Technically Speaking, the world Poles have shifted in the last 2 years.. to a 6Degree angle, plus there have been more than a dozen volcanic eruptions that have produced these types of climatic changes around the world. which has cause some cracks in the Antarctic iceberg shifts. for some information i go to a website called Earthsky.org to find the information useful (see earth tab if you do visit)..at the moment its 82F or 28C in Singapore... thankyou for your hardwork, stay safe.. GOD BLESS.
about timelapse cameras I benn using older android phones they are usually verry cheap on online basars if they have cracked glass but otherwise working screens there is few free timelapse apps which works great with lot of settings also can work as securitty cameras if you have wify even year old phones are cheap, one with "nightmode" have good sensors even for dark enviroment so you can better see it is not like cameras specially designed for night timelapses but it works good enough for longer timelapses it need powerbank, ideally app which works with screen off to save power
Hi there ,your Portugees friend Matia is a god send , she will help you very much , she is also very pretty ;) lol . For the road , could you not ask around farms near by and offer to pay them for clearing your road . As for electricity , i would go solar , wind and water generated electricity if possible , go off grid as much as possible, no bills for electricity ;). if you wait for the local councils to help you , you will wait for ever . i am hoping that in the future i can also buy land in Portugal , maybe 4 or 5 acres of land to grow food and also wood land , a nice quiet , peaceful place . i will be watching your progress , many thanks , Chris .
met zoveel groen en de noodzaak om het bij te houden ivm brand , zou ik voor een houtgas generator gaan om de solar te ondersteunen. Voordeel is dat je die ook zelf kan bouwen uit oud ijzer.
How about learning Markdown and migrate user feedback (including the banned ones) into Academy ? Lot's more useful than putting your life on RUclips :-) Whilst on it, PreciousPlastic still needs a forum and a wiki - since v4 it's kinda rotten away. With Discord all we've got is some weird chat for trespassers but nothing to build on :-)
Hi Dave! Here in Portugal, i Think, In order to get the things done, you need to appeal to the heart of the people in the municipality, So they understatand your actually conditions and what you are trying to do and what is project, in order they to stay sensitized with your project!
Have a great week! And GO Go go!!
The Sun will shine!!
Yeah! even if he enjoys going to the a shower outside his land, or the toilet situation, you can totally dramatize the conditions and blame it that you cant get stuff done without the road, electricity and address, since the hardware store wont do deliveries, also you could ask Matia's wife to do it, they tend to do stuff faster when a lady in need asks them.
Yeah if you can sell them the vision. You’ve chosen Portugal and it was the best choice, bringing the potential out can put the country in a better light.
You’re patience is inspiring, hoping for positive things to come.
go to santa comba dão post office and ask for an "apartado". It's a way of getting an address without having a physical place yet.
You can also use the OLC system from google. It's more and more accepted by online shops / companys and you don't need a traditional address.
Daniel, good job at problem solving. 👏
That's not true! an Apartado, does not work for electric and internet services, besides to have an apartado you have to get NIF, and for that you need an Address
People think that everything is easy just because...(not you)
@@ruimiguelchocas Indeed. Only works to get mail or packages
PO BOX?
I think Dave undervalues the opportunity to sit on a chair next to him and wait 😁
'hurry up and wait'
It's actually funny to see northern people finding out how Portugal works. Usually up north things are very organized and structured and stuff just works, but down here it's frustratingly different. I immigrated to Portugal 2 years ago hoping for this "European" way of doing stuff, only to find out what you guys are experiencing 😅
beauracracy thy name is belgium too - a lot of time wasters in every governing systems world over.
Just a few thoughts.
1) I think slowly people could stop by and begin to develop some primitive garden, plant some seeds.
2) few people could begin collect, organize teer down the buildings to prepare for rebuild, or just simple repurpose material to finish some part of the building.
3) You could concider gravity batteries, since you have slopes, that could be a good form of storing energy.
4) You can buy used solar panels for much, much cheeper, that could be concerned and potentially good beginning.
Hope some of this can be usefull.
1) Perhaps even a permaculture food forest. I was wondering whether to put it on the grassland or replace some of the existing forest with such 🤔😄
@@brokkoliomg6103 well, both can be a good idea, question what is the plan for the development of the property :)
Wow gravity batteries are very interesting. thank you for the recommendation
@@crispyfufu723 you are welcome :) hope you can use the idea. If you need some help with it, let me know.
Greenhouse to start seeds and to extend season...
I would advice to go for Grid. Because over time, we all expect the grid becoming much greener. And setting up now with a complex wind/solar combined with big batteries, might be a bigger form of waste (both environmentally and your own resources). Remember your long-term goal is, is learning new things to pass on to others and the next generation, not to be an example for perfection, today.
Pols and wires also have a finite lifespan. So it depends on how far is the grid and how much load he needs.
Here in Latvia🇱🇻 we have ~12¢/kWh of which ~5 is for the grid, ~5 is for electricity, ~2 tax. Installation and administrative costs of the grid can be comparable to an off-grid solar PV system. Andy from the Off-Grid Garage put together a cheap battery pack :) For a 3 phase system, it would take at least 3k€ for the batteries. Ready-made batteries easily would be double the price :)
For winter a Biogas CHP unit could be an option.
People don't just go for solar or other off grid systems to be environmentally friendly, they also want to be off grid for self sustainability. There are quite some problems with larger grids depending more and more on solar/wind. It get's more and more unstable. Governments don't scream it from the rooftops but we might need to transition to a system where our use will depend on the availability instead of the other way around. My long-term goal with a piece of land for coming generations would definitely be to become more self sufficient.
Ask some local farmers to lend you goats to start eating the brush and weeds. You also might try borrowing or purchasing a tractor with a front loading bucket or backhoe. You could regrade the road yourself!
Stay off-grid. Solar, wind, water, and wood power for the small base load, and a 3-phase military diesel generator to power the big tools in the workshop and perhaps the oven, which don't run very much.
That giant commercial refrigerator is a liability. Swap it for a chest freezer modified for fridge temperature controls. 100 times more efficient. Also add a two burner induction cooking hob. Works great with cast iron pans.
Yeah and did you know you can make your own diesel?? With a couple of water basins with algue!
It is really inspiring to see how far you have gotten from basically having no plan and what seems like little direction to where you are in your most recent updates (first saw one of your more recent updates in my feed). Well done, and probably you should send a huge thankyou to those who helped you get to where you are now.
keep on Dave, you can deal with that. I would go 100% sure for grid, as soon as you can, you need it to work properly, to develop the land and build. Maybe you can start building a kind of wood ceiling or place to be outside in the rainy days and to have more space (near to the vans, workshop and temporary kitchen), something temporary to be more comfortable (like the one for the bike but more pro). Try to spend most of time making the space as much as comfortable and prepared to work/living until the containers can come. Good luck!!!
Greetings from Turkey. Most of your Pro machines need 3phase electricity and it would be a real challange to handle it with going offgrid. So i think first you need a grid for an easy start. And then getting hybrid (solar + wind + grid) and then getting into offgrid would be a good transition for infrastructure. Hope municipality prepare the road for containers asap. Hope for the best. 🙏🙏 Good luck on project kamp journey. I really would love to help if things possible.
Actually, MPPSolar(.com) for example have Solar chargers/inverters with three-phase true-sine (which is important if you want to use anything else than lights and phonechargers) which you can hook up to lead-acid batteries and solar pannels. this would be pretty easy to build and it woud work for the powertools.
Maybe it could be a good idea to contact a company who is doing solar deployment and make a deal, they can use some of the land to make a solar farm, and in return you could have connection to the grid for free. Maybe even cheeper solar electricity.
Find some big rocks fill the wash outs in the road. Cut the bushes back. Be a productive member of your community. Hugelkulture, terra preta, and bio char all work great to grow food. Every bit of wood you cover will give off it's b.t.u. value to keep soils warm. Chain link fence with some weigh on it pulled behind a vehicle will grade your road after you fill in the wash outs.
If your budget allows it may be better to have the road cleared by a private company and then stay in constant communication with your camera municipal to then be on top of the roads maintenance and added to their yearly maintenance schedule. This is often the way in Portugal. You can wait sometimes years for the social services and need to do an initial private investment to get the ball rolling and fit into your ideal. The work will be done eventually, this is true, but the timeframe of the camera municipal can be detrimental to your project’s moral and momentum. Boa sorte. Good Luck.
Side step the problems, work on the stuff you can do. That thorny bush looks like bramble which should produce a very nice crop of blackberries in late summer. You could use some of those trees you chopped to give that bramble bush some climbing frames to make harvesting easier. Now is the ideal time to get some fruit trees and bushes in. Any delay over a few weeks will delay your first crop another year.
how about leaving the work-station in town for as long as you're not connected to the grid or decide to go full off-grid. meanwhile you could make yourself known in town recycling there already... realy love what you're doing there!!!
We just bought property too. An outhouse, point well, and fire pit are my first projects on the property. Our electric poles are all label and the electric poles is what actually gives you your address. If you go with dc electric look at boat stuff. You can wire up few Stubblefield coils to charge batteries cheaper than solar. Plus solar end of life is very dirty to recycle. You can buy sheds here cheaper than shipping containers. Get a dehumidifier for container to help save electronics in container. Condensation in containers is bad.
Dave,
1 - at the land purchase documents that register you are the property owner you find the land address. At least the street name. Then with it you can go to the nearest CTT post station and request the correct zip code from the location of the property.
2 - at property you need to install a mail box with the name of Project Kamp but l believe that because you're at a remote location outside the village the CTT can install it at the main road access (so a bit out of the property) these are specific mail boxes for postmen
3- an alternative is a P.O.Box (Apartado)... You can get these at CTT closest post office and use One Army address for registration. Then you provide energy, telco, and other providers the P.O. Box Address.
Things aren't so complicated... But you are not being well advised. Contact me and I can help you overcome this very fast.
don't be to nice on your containers, they are just big metal boxes ;) you could 'build' a crude wooden sledge under it, get a big tractor and a big chain... (i think you get it)
(and afterwards the road is wider!)
Best way to get ur address is as someone already said go to municipality services and ask for ur land tax bill. In Portuguese is call IMI (Imposto Municipal sobre Imóveis) Rita should know about it. Ur adress is there. Next for electricity you need to go to the supplier in this case EDP with the address and ask for the connection. As you don't have a building you only need to say its for agriculture for example for an engine for a well water. The road is best if u could do it urself municipality takes ages around here in any matter
Nice👍🏻 try this
i guess its time for preaparing soil and planting seeds. you could trace roads on property and certain areas.
you should make latrine and shed.
dont waste your Time 😊
I think you might have bigger problems than those, but I hope you have been well advised when bought the land, and checked all of the permits. Since you are in good terms with câmara municipal (local council/municipality) you can ask about zoning, building permits, protected areas, fire regulations, if your ruins are legal, or illegal, etc. You need to be aware of planning restrictions and civil code/law before you do anything, because even your containers and camper vans might need a permit, let alone anything more structural and permanent. Planning and ordinance regulations and laws cannot be ignored and can be mind boggling, but the câmara municipal will help you.
I hope the last year has allowed you more progress and has given the project new hope and energy! Don’t lose heart and good luck!
Looking forward to seeing more of this project once the municipality gets off it’s backside! Fingers crossed that happens soon. Keep up the good work!
I grew up in a solar only property because of such problems with hooking up to the electrical network. It was basically cheaper to place a solar setup. I’m sure it will be handier to be plugged-in but do expect high setup costs and bureaucracy nightmares next to the monthly costs after all that. Make the exercise of calculating how much power you’ll need on a regular basis and if you can power that with solar it will be worth it, anything of higher power like a welding machine can be powered by a generator of 3,6kw.
We didn’t have the problem of an address but because the house was so remote all mail went to the Junta de Freguesia, that kind of service is quite normal in Alentejo maybe you can check if it’s possible there.
For the internet connection it’s also quite easy to have a weatherproof 4G modem/router and hook it up where the connection is best. Vodafone gives you unlimited 4G for 30€ per month in Portugal, NOS has similar rates and MEO a bit costlier.
I’m very interested about your project. If can help with anything, let me know!
3 phase just use 2 motors. Hook one up to turn the other. We had to do that in our pole barn to get 220v for drill press.
you don't need solar all the way, you can build wind and hydro generators cheaply from scrap with minimal tools. biggest problem might be storage, if you can get your hands on used lead gel batteries that would help immensly for the bulk. used forklift batteries might be a good source. for the power tools it's good to use wet batteries though, they have lower internal resistance so higher currents are not as critical. of course you don't need as many batteries if you have a grid.
i'm a bit curious why you don't tow the containers over the bumpy road with a tractor instead of waiting for the road to be fixed so a lorry can co there. there must be people with a tractor around.
you should definitely get a tractor, you can retrofit it to run on used plant oil instead of diesel. same goes for your van if it's diesel powered.
lastly, for an internet connection it might be worth while checking if you can get a line of sight to the town from your property. if so, you can get internet access somewhere in the town (buy a cheap flat with roof access) and forward it over wifi with some good directional antennas. a few kilometers are easily achievable, ask some people in the freifunk community to help out.
It's totally understandable as we have had these challenges in starting construction of our business place in an industrial zone a bit more down in the center out of used shipping containers.
We've made our mailbox and also the structure of electricity counter out of scraps.
Let us know if we can help.
Good luck.
I beleive now is a good time for gardening season ;)You'll just love it in a few month!
I set up a solar system that is connected to the grid and I didn't need a project, just a shed for the fuse boxes and also you are obliged to put in solar hot water. I was glad it worked out for me. I hope you can get set up. Also, maybe you just pay for the machine to come and do the road. It's a lot quicker!
Really useful to understand some of the challenges. Probably the cold is not an issue now and took you by surprise! Great videos thanks.
Maybe you shouldn't wait for municipality to clean the road. You have a lot of people willing to help you. Make it by yourself, even if it is a public area.
Wait for municipality in some countries is waste time (a brazilian tip 😁)
Then they fine you for something because you did it... Like vandalism.
@@janosvarga962 Some of the work Dave could do is clearing the bushes that are growing over the road. The roots are in Kamp soil, and it will be easier to dig the water channels to prevent the rain destroying the new road if the bushes are not in the way.
The weather is getting better, hang in there friend
HI, great project. For the heavy machinery you could get a generator. :)
Welcome to the bureaucracy and inertia of the public services in Portugal...I hope you don't lose your motivation because of that. From a portuguese PS. I would like to contribute to your project
Hi, I have a few suggestions for you..
For the road cleaning, if it's a public road, then it is up to the municipality to clean it, but if it's considered private, then you need to do it yourself if it's your property...
Get in touch with the Social Security Services and lay you project in the table. If you can get then to consider it a social project you will be able to apply to public funding.
Someone suggested a "apartado" as a means to solve the mailing issue...
That's a P.O.Box, so it solves posting, but still doesn't allow you to get electricity or internet.
Was the land considered "constructible" or "agricultural"... if the latter then it will take some pushing on... Again, reaching for social services and letting them known you are actually living IN the land can help speed things up.
Best of luck for your project
I don't know how it works in Portugal, but you own the land.I would put up a letterbox at the entry to the property and send yourself a letter! There are ruins that have had electrical installations, they had addresses before!
The question probably is that is it's an unamed street at a non registred pplace how can the mailman find you?.
@@fimdomeio9447 You find out how local adresses work and you invent on. In a small community like that, the postman will allready know where you are!
Go to the courthouse and look up your property tax. You might have to get a copy of your deed to see what your lot number is etc. then ask to see your tax bill. The address should be on there. Put out a mailbox, write your address on it, and as the other brilliant person said “send yourself a letter”. Do this once every other day until there is a pile of undelivered letters sitting on the postmasters desk. They take delivering the mail very seriously so you know they will lose some sleep over it. Then go into the post office and ask why your mail hasn’t been delivered. I believe this will work to get you an address ❤️
we are in sweden and feel we have similar challenges.. such as getting power, water, address sorted out, etc etc.. and we are not even living remote .. its ridiculous and frustrating..
About the road and the overgrown bushes:
Ask around the neighboring land owners about what you can do about the road and bushes / 'whine to the municipality' by explaining the whole situation, exaggerate if necessary your living conditions, etc... and if you have a possible plan on what you can do (DIY) if they permit you tell them (since it won't cost them money they might take that into consideration and get back to you fast). Still you might need to go and bug them a bit to get things done.
İf it won't be a problem (like getting fined) make a non permanent solution just to let the local transport pass:
-e.g. fill the holes with big non sharp stones and earth, then put a wood plank or something similar on top when passing with the car (kinda like the solution when the car is stuck on the mud or something) which you can take out if necessary. -
- About the bushes, only cut the ones that are blocking the road yourself (most of it won't block the transport from passing), it is most likely that the local transport then can pass through there by going slow.
Most problems go away as long as you have money. In our city, they will either ask for a rush fee, a processing fee, or a guardianship fee. I hope it's just red tape over there, and not a form of corruption by sitting on your requests, which is basically their job.
To have electricity you can build a small shed and try to request for the company to hook it up, same thing with the adress. Just an idea, think of it
Notice you have a few building around the land. Could you not clear one out, put tarpaulin or something over the top given a bigger space to live in. especially if it has a fire place in it. Help keep warm and cook.
frozen water pipe could be of metal tubing.. apply heat with gas torch or a 12volt 15watt silicon heat patch/warp used by beer brewsters to keep reservoir container warm.. to level rough terrain without a digger dozer? gas powered hole augers can remove dirt faster than manual labor.. as for do or die electricity, run gas generators - charge 24volt battery banks - run pure sine inverters.. all that if online mail gets shipped to location? also rather than sit around have people show up and bag dirt for an addressable earth'bag domicile.. actually we the internet want to see if an earth'bag home would be faster than municipality moves.. just thoughts..
um carinho e admiração do Brasil. conteúdo incrível!!! help pro algoritmo hehehe. abraço!
Always go for solar. Be offgrid. Be independent. Btw what is the size of your land?
On regarding energy and local adress. Daniel Silva already give you an hint. However, if you intend to have a phisical mail box near your home, that you be possible. On isolated places with few houses, mail boxes are put althoger in a single location where all get their mail. For energy (didn,t went on all comments bellow ...) I'd some delay problem to rebuilt my house. Cheap things come with that kind of problems. However, you've a simple solution. Already with some structures in place and willing to rebuilt them you can ask a power line NOW with the argument you need power to go ahead with house's reabilition. I've done the same. Because it takes time ask it a.s.a.p.
Hey Dave!
Just fill some large bottles/jugs (20-30 l each, so that you can still move them) with hot water in the evening, pack them into the van, they will keep it OK overnight.
A nice campfire in the evening is always good anyways, and you have a good pile of firewood.
Oh yeah and fck the municipality, if it takes that long, you're better off hiring someone with a bulldozer, so that you can move on!
Good luck with your challenges. I would think a diesel generator for the three phase electric and solar and or wind for the rest of your electrical needs, then you can stay off grid.
Precisely. How often are the big metalworking machines actually running? Not so often that a generator is a major source of pollution. Mostly he needs lights and battery chargers.
Amazing project, beautiful videos!
Guys perhaps trying the angle that because the road and path are in disrepair emergency vehicles, like the firetruck, wont be able to get to your place in case of a fire/emergency. Also you could try and get to the people in charge buy going to the fire department first and asking around if they know who is incharge of those types of jobs and tracking them down.
should you maybe start collecting construction wood from the forest on the land?? Felling trees, debark, seal the ends and pile-up to dry?.. 😉
How much is the overall height of the small river on the property? + which quantum of flow do you have in wintertime and spring?
Welcome to Portugal! All is very slow and complicated in the municípios 😭
Start with putting up solar yourself. Don't wait because it's dangerous waiting to long.
looks like temperatures are going crazy at your place everyday 😁
If you are still living in your van try adding a sailboat wood heater.
Do you have some plans for the grasslands? Soon you will have to mow them if you don't want to lose them. Maybe a neighbor can help in exchange for free hay until you can do it yourself.
neighbor is going to mow this year. No long term plan yet..
Animals are great for that too. Sometimes farmers are happy to put their cattle on your land for a couple of weeks. It comes with free fertilizer and entertainment while waiting for the bureaucracy too :-D
@@MM-ih4rj This is a good idea, goats will eat anything except big trees. I have read about people renting teams of goats to clear abandoned gardens, don't know if anyone local to the Kamp has some hungry goats.
@@EmyrDerfel simple solution right :) At my parents' house we used some horses to mow the lawn sometimes :D
Just a crazy thought - why not make a mailbox and put it by the main access, then wait for the postman to drive pass and show them the mailbox = address :)
i'm wondering what kind of housing you're planning to build? Shipping container, earthbag, straw bale?
Have you thought of creating an Amazon wish list of the things you need and things that would be great to have?
Placing the workshop next to the electricity poles maybe a quicker way to get electricity.
I live in Spain just in the Portugal frontier, here you need to have a "leverage" so sue them for denying to clean the road. If you sue them the next day it will be clean.
And after that... everything you actually need the junta or municipality for is going to be a tough project. Just adjust to the local way of getting things done is a better option. You don't want the municipal against you, especially on a project like this where everything already is "uncertain", against all standing procedures and without any actual plans for the future. There are literally hundreds of these initiatives of foreigners all over Portugal because somehow the idea is that PT isn't the same as other EU countries and designated pieces of land for other purposes than just agriculture or simple nature can be turned around to urban land (building dwellings). That's why you see so many Yurts, campervans, so called "temporary structures" etc. Still you need a permit to live on the land permanently in whatever structure you put up. (after you went to the process of getting a building permit). I live here in PT for 14 years now, seen so much "initiatives" start without any clue of laws and rules, thinking "it will be alright".... and no matter how well intended some of these initiatives are, more and more locals are getting negative about it as they see people from abroad starting projects (and sometimes get away with it for years) out of naivety, while no Portuguese could ever get a permit to even build something on his or her own land even if it's owned for generations, or even build an extension for an expanding family. In a lot of municipalities rules are interpreted differently, depending on the current political preference and elected major, they could let you get along with what your doing, after the election a different major could turn up with a bulldozer because whatever one has build up is illegal.... In this casa I see that there's a ruin on the land that seems originally from before the 1950 tees... so there's a possibility to get a declaration of "not needing habitation license", still you would need all the permits to restore or rebuild on the same footprint. (taken in account all modern building regulations on safety etc.).
If you have a "restoring" or building permit you can get temporary "project electricity" but in the end the electric system has to be signed of by a certified electrician before you can get actual electricity with a meter connected. It almost looks like in Portugal things work like in any other EU country.......
It seems to me that you have a river on the property. You could combine the solar panels with a hydroelectric turbine
bureaucracy is always tiring. Keep fighting!!!
I don't know how's the situation in Portugal, but have you considered CHP(Combined Heat and Power)? If there's a gas pipe around, you should be good even in cold days. CHP is a car engine fueled with natural gas, hooked to a generator. The hot water produced by the engine cooling is used for heating and consumption and electricity can be used for whatever you want. And it's kinda clean.
Since you have a creek on your property: Have you thought about a water wheel/turbine to produce electricity?
Maybe you can work with a "fixer" for your needs with the municipality. They know who to talk to ;-)
Annoying "challenges" haha.
People could start work on clearing out the ruin and removing the old roof, then planning and getting approval for rebuilding the roof.
I really love your project and am thinking of something similar. Not sure yet. I believe we really need to prepare for a future that is a lot harsher than today and that is best in a community. People are going to get squeezed out in the coming decades.
Growing enough food is one of the basic challenges but also finding ways to produce more of the basic necessities locally. Tiny houses, solar power, water treatment, heating.
I'd go straight for solar panels and batteries and for heating in the winter bury a huge water tank thermal battery that you heat up in the summer and use in winter. Cheapest way to do heating costs. You need to have enough solar panels for winter so you'd have more than enough in summer. That's a big project of course.
Have you considered hydro electric if your stream is big enough.or wind power. I can recommend Kris Harbour vlogs on RUclips. Good luck with the project.
regarding electricity: maybe ask around for a temporary diesel-generator until the grid gets connected?
I own one here in Mexico, but "plantas" are expensive, like 300 dlls a day for heavy stuff, and if they need a small one I bet they might feel bad using gas/diesel to sustain themselves) specially the kind they will end up needing to power up big equipment (which they are not doing atm), right now they only need basic electricity, so they could perhaps invest just enough and get a couple of panels, since there are just a couple of people living there so it wouldn't be all that bad, and they can use them later, but they need the grid to really get going. Also it sucks that they cant get their containers there, I imagine they are paying an storage fee, hopefully a cheap one :(
@@danielmiranda2126 When the workshop-container arrives, they will want to whip out the machinery to start building.. That will be tough on just a couple of solar panels; that would require a solar farm!.. 😉😁 I guess that the connection to the grid may still take some weeks or (let's hope not-) some months..
@@ikerstges yeah they need the grid :(
Hey Dave, Your energy looks a bit low. That can happen, especially with those rough conditions and administrative slowness. Sure it will all come alright. Cheers
Look into micro hydro setups when doing your research.
The world around was setted to change, by the 18th of December last year!
The same as the Beargarlic has gone out, last year, in the end of February,
in this year it was now in March! Go and count the days!
You know that the ice is the ECI, the EGG of EYE! Look into the story of YMIR, I came on yesterday!
We here in the near of Frankfurt, it is hot, like around 20 degrees! No cloud no rain!
Please bring us the ICE with drones to us! I LOVE your work and I want to meat yo!u
Dave!
Think about the technical support you could have! But also NOT!
All these burocracy is totally too much! It is all here, you just need the coreact handlings, between US humen beings and the companies, those want the work from US, our time and ideas! NOT with me, my imagination costs those companies a lot, in the future! Are you interested in building this faster up, then possible?
Chill
Has a Dutch... do you have your bike with you? :) Cycling from Santa Comba to Viseu is amazing!!! Amazing bike path! !!
Which part of Portugal you are located? Looks colder for this time of year, unless you are up north or by the Estrela mountain because I watch other youtubers living in central Portugal (between Castelo Branco and Fundão) and they are having better weather than you.
Do you have insulation panels for your windows and windshield? That would definitely help your van temperature.
I have watched a few videos of folks bu6ing land in Portugal and they all have a problem with the local authorities. As the young Portuguese have moved away from rural areas you'd think the local authorities would want people who want to make it work.
Don't burn - compost, Internet via Satellite or 4G for Internet ( 4G dongle with external directional antenna ), Generator for Power until Solar/Grid installed. Talk/Deal with a local Farmer to deliver the containers. Develop your neighbour network make local contacts. Start your garden while waiting for the other stuff to arrive. Permaculture... Permaculture... Permaculture... has solved all these issues before get reading. Good Luck !
Technically Speaking, the world Poles have shifted in the last 2 years.. to a 6Degree angle, plus there have been more than a dozen volcanic eruptions that have produced these types of climatic changes around the world. which has cause some cracks in the Antarctic iceberg shifts. for some information i go to a website called Earthsky.org to find the information useful (see earth tab if you do visit)..at the moment its 82F or 28C in Singapore... thankyou for your hardwork, stay safe.. GOD BLESS.
about timelapse cameras
I benn using older android phones they are usually verry cheap on online basars if they have cracked glass but otherwise working screens
there is few free timelapse apps which works great with lot of settings
also can work as securitty cameras if you have wify
even year old phones are cheap, one with "nightmode" have good sensors even for dark enviroment so you can better see
it is not like cameras specially designed for night timelapses but it works good enough
for longer timelapses it need powerbank, ideally app which works with screen off to save power
Hi there ,your Portugees friend Matia is a god send , she will help you very much , she is also very pretty ;) lol .
For the road , could you not ask around farms near by and offer to pay them for clearing your road .
As for electricity , i would go solar , wind and water generated electricity if possible , go off grid as much as possible, no bills for electricity ;).
if you wait for the local councils to help you , you will wait for ever .
i am hoping that in the future i can also buy land in Portugal , maybe 4 or 5 acres of land to grow food and also wood land , a nice quiet , peaceful place .
i will be watching your progress , many thanks , Chris .
Matia is the itallian guy owning the yellow van..... I think you mean Gita :-)
@@markhanoi1478 Rita
@@markhanoi1478 lol, Yes i meant Gita lol
i meant Gita is pretty lol ;).
met zoveel groen en de noodzaak om het bij te houden ivm brand , zou ik voor een houtgas generator gaan om de solar te ondersteunen.
Voordeel is dat je die ook zelf kan bouwen uit oud ijzer.
run dave, run!
love it. !!!!
Did you get any further with organising electricity?
Perhaps get some isolation for Matthia's water tap.
Challenge 1: portugal being portugal
Hi, how much head do you have on the stream that runs through your land?
This is an old barn.see it from bricks how its made.they are made for summer to be cold inside.
this gives me "Galt's gunch" vibe
Nice vid, Cool project!
Keep it up. And safe the cute abbandon cottage
i love youre content
I am surprised that there is a winter in Portugal?!!!
Internet you should try maybe to get Skylink, that satellite internet...
Wow, frost! Where in Portugal are you situated?
How about learning Markdown and migrate user feedback (including the banned ones) into Academy ? Lot's more useful than putting your life on RUclips :-)
Whilst on it, PreciousPlastic still needs a forum and a wiki - since v4 it's kinda rotten away. With Discord all we've got is some weird chat for trespassers but nothing to build on :-)
In the short term can you rent a mailbox at the local post office?
How do you buy and get container to Portugal?
Great Scott!
how about building permits?
you should have bought a pomoly tent and stove.
Do they not have a word for mayor?