There is that saying, 'I've done so much with so little for so long I can now do anything with nothing.' You are living the life. My 94 year old mother (now 95) needed a better way to handle her oxygen hose as just stringing it out and coiling it back up was a hassle and it tended to kink so I used the top off a yard wind fan and a wire spool and made a manual hose wind-up stand. The hose pulls out when leaving the room and winds back up at bedtime. No kinking AND mounting the water container on the unit (to moisturize the air) ended water build up in the air hose. No more blowing it out each day.
@@000Krim I have created a new RUclips channel called Flaterthian Makes. This item will be my first video posted to that channel. The picture for the channel is of an air tank storage unit. It holds 9 tall tanks and 5 small ones or 10 tall with 4 smalls. That should be my second video.
I’m reminded of my introduction to neighborhood boneyard protocol, when our neighbor informed me that we all give each other a tour of our boneyards with the understanding that if we borrow something from our neighbor’s boneyard we are obligated to not return it.
How many people in the world are lucky enough to just happen to have a gate from a chain link fence laying around? Well, I DO. Several, actually. And just recently got a solar panel. Thanks for the tip, dude!
He shows mounting the wood to both sides where I would have taken advantage of the leverage to use the fence as the base and levered the wood with solar panels to find the angle and use a board to hold it in place while using the pole mount parts to snug them into place cutting the poles for the distance of the right angle. He could also have gotten creative by using two different size posts that slide together to make it adjustable. All the while this creating a nice method using the least amount of material.
@@ravenmad9225 well make your own luck. 🤷♂️ you have to get out there to find it. Best way to make it is just taking the chance. You might lose your first few tries but those failed attempts might lead you to success down the road, thus making your own luck.
I’ve been binge watching your videos for the past few weeks. All I can say is thank you for the knowledge and expertise you provide. I’ve used a dozen different techniques and applied a lot of your techniques to my forestry business. Thank you. Sincerely a young buck from Maine.
My husband and I are also weirdly addicted. We even put him on the TV in the bedroom, and his voice soothes me to sleep. Didn't tell him that... thought he would be insulted
I want you to know I have been delighted to watch and listen to this cheerful tour of your methods. I have also permitted each advertisement to present itself in full rather than skip so I do hope that helps you somehow keep on doing g what you do! Keep up the good work brother. I am somewhere behind you in similar projects and know I will never catch up. Cheers!
The Princess Bride, best movie ever. I bought my son a t-shirt with the inconceivable quote on it. We were flying out of PDX when one of the TSA agents noticed the shirt. The next thing you know, he and my son start quoting the Princess Bride back and forth and cracking up. Best trip through airport security I've ever experienced. May your solar panels live long and prosper...shucks...wrong show, but the sentiment is sincere. 😅
I applaud your creativity and ability to look at something and see an alternate use for it. But at 6:18, I am totally gobsmacked by the great example of circular logic. I wish I had said that! And don't worry - I will say it, as soon as I file the serial numbers off first!
I scrouge all the materials I can from CL for free, great Idea. I have old 100w panels i got on the cheap and lots of chain link gates and panels, corral clamps work great to put them together too.
I just laid my panels on the ground with one end up a few inches. In the Summer I get lots of power. Not so great in Winter but I plan a rig to elevate to 30 degrees soon.
I love the repurposed items! I do it also. Usually cheaper than the local hardware store, nevermind the long distance drive TO the store. Fence tubes are great for reuse. So are old metal bed frames.
I'm always looking to use something that it wasn't meant to be used for, but it will work just as well. Living in an apartment in the city doesn't allow me to have a large bone pile, but I have a small one in the corner of a closet that comes in handy occasionally.
My uncle was the first in our family to erect and install solar panels. He made an intricate system that allowed the unit to be erected automatically for maximum solar absorption, and conveniently collapsible for heavy winds and foul weather, all based on barometric pressure relayed by his IBM norc pocket version computer, first of its kind. Sadly my uncle passed and took the single digit password with him to the grave that allowed access to the automated retractable system. Forced to manually raise and lower the system, I went to the local gym and hired a body builder. He’s our power lifter.
@ Reading through old diaries, we’ve narrowed it down to a numeric password, and likely the same password he used for his long-term Nigerian investments, off shore open-encryption accounts and a bumble account, which we are assuming is regarding his interests in winged pollinators. He was an avid bee keeper. I’ve been in contact with a code recovery specialist from the Maasai intelligence community and we’re running a series of state of the art recovery tools. Fingers crossed.
"I've never been the type to not use things,for things they weren't made to be used for,just because they weren't made to be used for those things." If it works,it works. Love it.
Very cool! Mounting panels can easily cost almost as much as the solar panels themselves. I built an adjustable DIY mount for 12 solar panels out of wood and uni strut. Then I bought some aluminum ground mounts, anchored them with 6x6 posts in the ground and mounted 12 more panels on them. The funny thing was the cost for each set up was almost identical. If you can mount full size panels for less than $75 each, you’re doing pretty good! 👍⚡️☀️🔋🤩
I put my panels on my wood shed . I seen it done in Maine while on vacation . I live in Arkansas. Works great . Serves 2 purposes . Firewood and solar panels one shed
I made 1 for 4 panels using parts of the aluminum frame from 2 10' Garage doors I had replaced with new ones. I used a 2x4 (Used) to make the end pieces to attach the aluminum rails to. I took aluminum cross braces from those same garage door frames and made cross braces for the long rails for added support. I had added a leanto to my main shed and the 2 4x4 posts for the outside I left extended above the gentle sloping roof. These tops are what I attached the assembly to. Now I have 4 120-watt panels with a good winter facing to power a 1000-watt grid tie inverter. Each panel has a max amp rating of 8 amps. I made 2 pairs of series panels that are then ran parallel to the inverter. The inverter needs 20-52 watts to run. Each single panel gives 17 Vdc. with up to 8amps each. Thisseries config gives me a pair of series panels that give ~35Vdc and each leg up to 8 Amps. At the inverter the 2 parallel lines combine so I can have 37Vdc input with Up to ~ 16 amps with full sunlight. The lean to is southward sloping. Much better out put than the config I had on the roof of the main shed which had east & west facing sides of the roof. Still have 4 panels on the shed roof that feed 2 inverters that need 10-20 Vdc to run on. 1 inverter is 1000 watt & the other is a 600 watt. Both inverters have 1 panel on the east face and 1 panel on the west. All Parallel wired.
I bought chain link fence posts to mount my panels. I first drove the short green gardening stakes into the ground for the south end and 6' green gardening stakes for the north end. Then I ran a pole east to west on the short side and used U brackets to mount a couple of solar panels (used $40 each) to that bottom pole. I mounted another pole at the top (N) side with U brackets. Then so I could change the angle of the panels throughout the year, I drilled holes in my upper (N) green gardening stakes at angle settings for summer, fall, winter and spring. I put a U bracket through one set of holes and ran a cross member pole piece screwed onto the lower pole and screwed into the upper pole, then I can use it to lift my panels pivoting at the bottom and up and down the 6' green gardening stakes to the desired height. U brackets going through the corners hold the panels to the poles. Two panels is the most you want to lift at a time.
I have everything I will ever need in those piles of mine. A simple project can often lead to an extended search that ends up being yet another inventory assessment. Eventually some remarkable things get built but finding what I think I have and happen to want can be problematic. And happily sometimes other solutions present themselves along the way before the original searched for item even gets located.
Funny, different people commenting on a deer. I didn’t even notice. I guess because they’re so common. Almost as common as trees. In any case, I look forward to a follow up video on this topic. Thanks!
I buy the link fence end flat bar as it is inexpensive compared to buying flat bar, it's galvanized so nice for outdoors, for example making custom brackets to fix my wood fence.
Thoroughly enjoy your videos of the flora / fauna / & best practices on the west side of OR. I grew up in NE OR , the Bleu mtns. We have a lot of the same trees. Ponderosa pine, Doug fir. We aint gots “ madrone ? “ nor oak. I haven’t noticed any western larch , also known as tamarack here in the east. Prehaps you have ‘em. & I just haven’t noticed.
We don’t have larch here. it’s more of an east of the cascades tree. You are from a beautiful part of the state. Some parts of Northeast Oregon are about as good as it gets.
If there was trees close enough together one could possibly cut them down and leaving about 8 feet tall then angle cutting them to mount the panels to and have adjustments that might work.
I would like to put it on top of one of my containers, but they are both in the shade where they are. I had actually thought about getting a new container to put where the panels are to mount them on that. Then use it for something else too. Or move one of the other ones. I’m not entirely sure that I won’t eventually do that.
I thought of using the clamps from the gate he took off yet he took them off and had to put them back on. Did he have enough tin roofing lying about? Treat the wood, paint or stain, it's in the weather, and raw wood...
Is your middle name McGyver? LOL, I do stuff like this too. We have to. Everything is too expensive to just throw a way... which has me stopping and grabbing fencing, gates, posts and planks. from others curb piles. We have a "claw truck" that comes by monthly to haul away the really big stuff so we don't have to haul it away to the landfill... so I avail myself of anything useful when I see it. Thanks for sharing this.
I’d be willing to bet that the wood frame would have outlasted the panels especially if you painted them once but obviously your solution is better 👍🏼 Assuming you did your research and I’m certain you did, give us the information on your panels. I have to come up with a better solar system for the Alaska cabin. What we currently have is older and not cutting it anymore. 👍🏼
I really like this idea. When are you going to upload the video on building the frame? I’ve got ~40 solar panels currently mounted on ground mounts and that is a nightmare for removing snow in the winter. I’m interested in seeing what you design. Thanks.
You should have taken the wood and burnt it with a torch to blacken it and make it more water resistant before installing. That will help to keep bug damage/rot to a minimum
I had a piece of chain link fence that I used for my two 100 watt solar panels. I kinda thought I was being a knucklehead by doing it that way but as long as I’m not the only one.😂
If you really want to save some time and money, set the panel on a couple concrete blocks and lean the up against the side of the house, or a fence post, or a big hay bale etc.
You could of fasten the solar panels to the chain links fence. No need for the lumber. And suspended the solar panels from the trees over head at a much higher height then the ground mounts. Simple.
"A tool is not what it is because of its name but because of what you do with it". I got a question if I may. Sorry if you've ever mentioned it before because I have missed/forgotten about it then: when you mention you're starting by truing out the edges of the wood, do you ever check the mill itself is true? I mean, it doesn't matter if it's perfectly horizontal as long as the blade runs parallel to the metal base where the log/wood is placed but, as that base receives some hits from the big logs you work on, do you ever check if it has gone a bit away "out of tune"? I guess the mill itself is really sturdy and that maybe that level of precission may not bother you but, just asking. Thank you!
Yes, I do have to adjust the bed of the mill once in a while. In this case, those boards turned out only true enough. I noticed they were about a 16th of an inch high in the middle. Not noticeable for what I was doing, but the bed is a little off.
@@WilsonForestLands oh, thanks for answering. I would think it's really sturdy and that one would have to really go for it in order to making that bed bend in any noticeable way, but I guess with time and use it has to give a little. Also, I guess it doesn't have all that flexibility one would expect so things were relatively easy but one good hammer... ;-)
my only thought is: is there a reason you couldn't eliminate the middleman and bolt the panels directly to the fence tubes, using those fence brackets?
Mostly because they didn’t line up with the mounting holes on the panels. I would have to drill new holes. Those mounting brackets put uneven pull on the boards when I tighten them down. Those are the reasons I didn’t, but they may not be good reasons. I may look for some different brackets that would make them easier to do what you suggest, it would be nice to have them mounted direct.
Wilson, that set square looks like a proper antique quality one not some POS modern one ! It therefore deserves to be cleaned of rust, painted and oiled ! There's a saying about a man looking after his tools but i cant remember it :/
My dad called his junk metal pile his Magic Pile. You can create magic from the things saved.
👍
4.50- deer walking and checking you work in the background - priceless :)
There is that saying, 'I've done so much with so little for so long I can now do anything with nothing.' You are living the life. My 94 year old mother (now 95) needed a better way to handle her oxygen hose as just stringing it out and coiling it back up was a hassle and it tended to kink so I used the top off a yard wind fan and a wire spool and made a manual hose wind-up stand. The hose pulls out when leaving the room and winds back up at bedtime. No kinking AND mounting the water container on the unit (to moisturize the air) ended water build up in the air hose. No more blowing it out each day.
nice work. they say invention is born out of necessity. you are a text book example
Good old American INGENUITY!
Please can you explain in more detail.
@@000Krim I have created a new RUclips channel called Flaterthian Makes. This item will be my first video posted to that channel. The picture for the channel is of an air tank storage unit. It holds 9 tall tanks and 5 small ones or 10 tall with 4 smalls. That should be my second video.
@@Pascalore Channel link?
I’m reminded of my introduction to neighborhood boneyard protocol, when our neighbor informed me that we all give each other a tour of our boneyards with the understanding that if we borrow something from our neighbor’s boneyard we are obligated to not return it.
Never heard that one, but what a great rule for life!
I am sending photos of treasure to my neighbors now, what a great idea!
How many people in the world are lucky enough to just happen to have a gate from a chain link fence laying around? Well, I DO. Several, actually. And just recently got a solar panel. Thanks for the tip, dude!
He shows mounting the wood to both sides where I would have taken advantage of the leverage to use the fence as the base and levered the wood with solar panels to find the angle and use a board to hold it in place while using the pole mount parts to snug them into place cutting the poles for the distance of the right angle. He could also have gotten creative by using two different size posts that slide together to make it adjustable. All the while this creating a nice method using the least amount of material.
Some guys have all the luck.
@@ravenmad9225 well make your own luck. 🤷♂️ you have to get out there to find it. Best way to make it is just taking the chance. You might lose your first few tries but those failed attempts might lead you to success down the road, thus making your own luck.
I got one or two of those lying around.
You got me with the princess Bride reference, and just for that I'm giving you a thumbs up
I’ve been binge watching your videos for the past few weeks. All I can say is thank you for the knowledge and expertise you provide. I’ve used a dozen different techniques and applied a lot of your techniques to my forestry business. Thank you. Sincerely a young buck from Maine.
It's not only the things he does, but the thought process.... when there is one. sort of.
My husband and I are also weirdly addicted. We even put him on the TV in the bedroom, and his voice soothes me to sleep. Didn't tell him that... thought he would be insulted
“A wheel barrow and a black cloak”… it’s inconceivable!
It'd take a miracle!
I’m glad somebody caught that reference. 😁
@@AlanWgood luck storming the castle.
Just watched Princess Bride with my 7 year old daughter a few days ago. Dropping the reference here made me spit out my iced tea LOL!
Knowing I made someone spit out their drink was well worth all effort it took to make the video.😂
Well, you should feel even better knowing when I laughed, beer came out my nose! 🤧
Thanks for the great idea!@@WilsonForestLands
I want you to know I have been delighted to watch and listen to this cheerful tour of your methods. I have also permitted each advertisement to present itself in full rather than skip so I do hope that helps you somehow keep on doing g what you do! Keep up the good work brother. I am somewhere behind you in similar projects and know I will never catch up.
Cheers!
The thing to remember about electrickery is that if you can see, smell or hear it, you done screwed up somewhere along the way
That is a good rule of thumb, I will have to remember that one.
that's right, don't let the smoke out of the wires, they only work correctly if you keep the smoke on the inside.
Electricity should not be seen or heard
I did not expect a Princess Bride reference here. You are wonderful.
I really like this guy. It's my first tim watching, but he seems down to earth.
The Princess Bride, best movie ever. I bought my son a t-shirt with the inconceivable quote on it. We were flying out of PDX when one of the TSA agents noticed the shirt. The next thing you know, he and my son start quoting the Princess Bride back and forth and cracking up. Best trip through airport security I've ever experienced. May your solar panels live long and prosper...shucks...wrong show, but the sentiment is sincere. 😅
I’m glad at least one person caught that reference. 😁
I applaud your creativity and ability to look at something and see an alternate use for it. But at 6:18, I am totally gobsmacked by the great example of circular logic. I wish I had said that!
And don't worry - I will say it, as soon as I file the serial numbers off first!
I scrouge all the materials I can from CL for free, great Idea. I have old 100w panels i got on the cheap and lots of chain link gates and panels, corral clamps work great to put them together too.
I just laid my panels on the ground with one end up a few inches. In the Summer I get lots of power. Not so great in Winter but I plan a rig to elevate to 30 degrees soon.
out of th box thinker...........I like it
awesome Princess Bride reference
Loved the pet in the background 4:51
Good eye!!
Predators don't make noise. If you talk to the deers, they often won't run
Take care with this storm coming in Mr. Wilson! You should have a lot of windfall to take care of after this one! I hope your panels don’t blow away!
I got a lot of rain out of the storm, but hardly even a puff of wind.
Really enjoy your videos. Great stuff. Thank you. Stay safe in those storms headed your way.
I love the repurposed items!
I do it also.
Usually cheaper than the local hardware store, nevermind the long distance drive TO the store.
Fence tubes are great for reuse.
So are old metal bed frames.
I like how you think. Make sure to ground your gates when done
I'm always looking to use something that it wasn't meant to be used for, but it will work just as well.
Living in an apartment in the city doesn't allow me to have a large bone pile, but I have a small one in the corner of a closet that comes in handy occasionally.
Always nice to have things on hand to repurpose. Good thinking, my friend
Use what you have. Creative and functional.
Nice work ❤️❤️❤️
My uncle was the first in our family to erect and install solar panels. He made an intricate system that allowed the unit to be erected automatically for maximum solar absorption, and conveniently collapsible for heavy winds and foul weather, all based on barometric pressure relayed by his IBM norc pocket version computer, first of its kind. Sadly my uncle passed and took the single digit password with him to the grave that allowed access to the automated retractable system. Forced to manually raise and lower the system, I went to the local gym and hired a body builder. He’s our power lifter.
single digit? how many of them are there?
@ Reading through old diaries, we’ve narrowed it down to a numeric password, and likely the same password he used for his long-term Nigerian investments, off shore open-encryption accounts and a bumble account, which we are assuming is regarding his interests in winged pollinators. He was an avid bee keeper. I’ve been in contact with a code recovery specialist from the Maasai intelligence community and we’re running a series of state of the art recovery tools. Fingers crossed.
Well, if it’s a single digit password, you can only be wrong 9times!
@@mycbr600rrunless the digit is a letter . . . ?
"I've never been the type to not use things,for things they weren't made to be used for,just because they weren't made to be used for those things." If it works,it works. Love it.
Very cool! Mounting panels can easily cost almost as much as the solar panels themselves. I built an adjustable DIY mount for 12 solar panels out of wood and uni strut. Then I bought some aluminum ground mounts, anchored them with 6x6 posts in the ground and mounted 12 more panels on them. The funny thing was the cost for each set up was almost identical. If you can mount full size panels for less than $75 each, you’re doing pretty good! 👍⚡️☀️🔋🤩
I'm waiting to see what's next! I have a gate and a panel. I'm waiting to see how you do this!!!
I put my panels on my wood shed . I seen it done in Maine while on vacation . I live in Arkansas. Works great . Serves 2 purposes .
Firewood and solar panels one shed
I can't wait for Part II.
Excellent use of resourced material! Inspirational
It’s not a junk pile it’s a parts bin
That’s a good way to look at it. I might change the name to the parts bin.
Tonight I'm engineering your solar stand. What a great journey. I can hardly wait for the next chapter.
I made 1 for 4 panels using parts of the aluminum frame from 2 10' Garage doors I had replaced with new ones. I used a 2x4 (Used) to make the end pieces to attach the aluminum rails to. I took aluminum cross braces from those same garage door frames and made cross braces for the long rails for added support.
I had added a leanto to my main shed and the 2 4x4 posts for the outside I left extended above the gentle sloping roof. These tops are what I attached the assembly to.
Now I have 4 120-watt panels with a good winter facing to power a 1000-watt grid tie inverter. Each panel has a max amp rating of 8 amps. I made 2 pairs of series panels that are then ran parallel to the inverter. The inverter needs 20-52 watts to run. Each single panel gives 17 Vdc. with up to 8amps each. Thisseries config gives me a pair of series panels that give ~35Vdc and each leg up to 8 Amps. At the inverter the 2 parallel lines combine so I can have 37Vdc input with Up to ~ 16 amps with full sunlight.
The lean to is southward sloping. Much better out put than the config I had on the roof of the main shed which had east & west facing sides of the roof.
Still have 4 panels on the shed roof that feed 2 inverters that need 10-20 Vdc to run on. 1 inverter is 1000 watt & the other is a 600 watt. Both inverters have 1 panel on the east face and 1 panel on the west. All Parallel wired.
I bought chain link fence posts to mount my panels. I first drove the short green gardening stakes into the ground for the south end and 6' green gardening stakes for the north end. Then I ran a pole east to west on the short side and used U brackets to mount a couple of solar panels (used $40 each) to that bottom pole. I mounted another pole at the top (N) side with U brackets. Then so I could change the angle of the panels throughout the year, I drilled holes in my upper (N) green gardening stakes at angle settings for summer, fall, winter and spring. I put a U bracket through one set of holes and ran a cross member pole piece screwed onto the lower pole and screwed into the upper pole, then I can use it to lift my panels pivoting at the bottom and up and down the 6' green gardening stakes to the desired height. U brackets going through the corners hold the panels to the poles. Two panels is the most you want to lift at a time.
Chain link fence pipe makes a fantastic green house as well.
I hadn’t thought of that. I may have to start thinking about it now, that might be a good idea.
I have everything I will ever need in those piles of mine. A simple project can often lead to an extended search that ends up being yet another inventory assessment. Eventually some remarkable things get built but finding what I think I have and happen to want can be problematic. And happily sometimes other solutions present themselves along the way before the original searched for item even gets located.
Thanks for your expertise ! That Carhart jacket you’re wearing looks like a keeper, I’ll be looking for one 🤔.
I'd be interested in seeing your solar setup as you build it.
This is excellent! Very wise reuse of "assets" !!
6:30 I feel you bro first wall mount I made for a TV I made it out of an old basketball hoop and the frame of the basketball hoop
Damm Wilson, you are a real ideas man. good job!
Ours built of 2x8s and 2x6's. 48v system' 20 years now. Just gotta keep area under and around clean. No sign of rot or fatigue
Funny, different people commenting on a deer. I didn’t even notice. I guess because they’re so common. Almost as common as trees. In any case, I look forward to a follow up video on this topic. Thanks!
Good for you!
😆 I've actually got four chain link dog kennel panels I've been contemplating sending to the scrap yard.
Good thing you got them water bars cleaned out. Got a doozy of a gully washer headed your way.
Good job
Good job.
I buy the link fence end flat bar as it is inexpensive compared to buying flat bar, it's galvanized so nice for outdoors, for example making custom brackets to fix my wood fence.
What about some waterproofing for the wood just to help it along?
Good job!
Thoroughly enjoy your videos of the flora / fauna / & best practices on the west side of OR. I grew up in NE OR , the Bleu mtns. We have a lot of the same trees. Ponderosa pine, Doug fir. We aint gots “ madrone ? “ nor oak. I haven’t noticed any western larch , also known as tamarack here in the east. Prehaps you have ‘em. & I just haven’t noticed.
We don’t have larch here. it’s more of an east of the cascades tree. You are from a beautiful part of the state. Some parts of Northeast Oregon are about as good as it gets.
It's only electricity... what could possibly go wrong... perfect.!
I love it! Justification for my junk piles! 😂❤
You epitomize "I've forgotten more than I ever knew about that."
Enjoyed your stream-of-consciousness style. Subbed.
If there was trees close enough together one could possibly cut them down and leaving about 8 feet tall then angle cutting them to mount the panels to and have adjustments that might work.
Nice job.
Seems like on top of the storage container might make a good mounting location.
I would like to put it on top of one of my containers, but they are both in the shade where they are. I had actually thought about getting a new container to put where the panels are to mount them on that. Then use it for something else too. Or move one of the other ones. I’m not entirely sure that I won’t eventually do that.
Great channel. He sure sounds a lot like Buster Scruggs.
I like the way you think. Just make the most of the resources you have. Why not?
I thought of using the clamps from the gate he took off yet he took them off and had to put them back on. Did he have enough tin roofing lying about? Treat the wood, paint or stain, it's in the weather, and raw wood...
Is your middle name McGyver? LOL, I do stuff like this too. We have to. Everything is too expensive to just throw a way... which has me stopping and grabbing fencing, gates, posts and planks. from others curb piles. We have a "claw truck" that comes by monthly to haul away the really big stuff so we don't have to haul it away to the landfill... so I avail myself of anything useful when I see it. Thanks for sharing this.
I’d be willing to bet that the wood frame would have outlasted the panels especially if you painted them once but obviously your solution is better 👍🏼
Assuming you did your research and I’m certain you did, give us the information on your panels. I have to come up with a better solar system for the Alaska cabin. What we currently have is older and not cutting it anymore. 👍🏼
Yeah, it may have out lasted the panels. I do plan on doing more videos showing what I figured out with the solar.
🎶 Oh Solar Mio 🎶
Currently converting my solar panel rack into a fence.
I really like this idea. When are you going to upload the video on building the frame? I’ve got ~40 solar panels currently mounted on ground mounts and that is a nightmare for removing snow in the winter. I’m interested in seeing what you design. Thanks.
You should have taken the wood and burnt it with a torch to blacken it and make it more water resistant before installing. That will help to keep bug damage/rot to a minimum
I had a piece of chain link fence that I used for my two 100 watt solar panels. I kinda thought I was being a knucklehead by doing it that way but as long as I’m not the only one.😂
Haha hahahaha when you drilled the 1st bolt holes i blew on my screen to blow shavings away.... lmao
Wow you turned the 1X5's into what you already had 1X4's
When is your solar follow up video coming? Thanks
I Love you video
You’ll need to anchor the frame or else wind and snow will raise havoc.
Painting the wood before mounting panels may give extra longevity life to the wood
Should of left the hinges to elevate or lower the solar panels during the different season
Watch out for the darn 🐻s ! Maybe the mud wallow is a pay for view? But there watching you 😮
sawmill is more accurate it acts a jointer as where a table saw will follow the crown
If you really want to save some time and money, set the panel on a couple concrete blocks and lean the up against the side of the house, or a fence post, or a big hay bale etc.
Put motor oil on the wood it will increase its live big time and i got two 350 watts panels and it not enough i need 2 or 3 more
I got a gate laying just like that😂
Bears and electrickery, oh my.
Mint
"What could go wrong" 🤔
🤣😂🤣
You could of fasten the solar panels to the chain links fence. No need for the lumber. And suspended the solar panels from the trees over head at a much higher height then the ground mounts. Simple.
i just built a carport frame to install my solar on top of
I was kinda hoping this saga would devolve into you planting trees that grow from the sun and give you firewood
Aaaah, please direct me to the finished article.
"A tool is not what it is because of its name but because of what you do with it".
I got a question if I may. Sorry if you've ever mentioned it before because I have missed/forgotten about it then: when you mention you're starting by truing out the edges of the wood, do you ever check the mill itself is true? I mean, it doesn't matter if it's perfectly horizontal as long as the blade runs parallel to the metal base where the log/wood is placed but, as that base receives some hits from the big logs you work on, do you ever check if it has gone a bit away "out of tune"?
I guess the mill itself is really sturdy and that maybe that level of precission may not bother you but, just asking.
Thank you!
Yes, I do have to adjust the bed of the mill once in a while. In this case, those boards turned out only true enough. I noticed they were about a 16th of an inch high in the middle. Not noticeable for what I was doing, but the bed is a little off.
@@WilsonForestLands oh, thanks for answering. I would think it's really sturdy and that one would have to really go for it in order to making that bed bend in any noticeable way, but I guess with time and use it has to give a little.
Also, I guess it doesn't have all that flexibility one would expect so things were relatively easy but one good hammer... ;-)
You don't have enough electricity for a table saw but enough for the other equipment you used in this video?
big Red Green energy
I'm trying to figure out if "solar power" in the Pacific Northwest is a joke or a real thing. What's the ROI?
Don't take a-fence, but just use the gates 😂
my only thought is: is there a reason you couldn't eliminate the middleman and bolt the panels directly to the fence tubes, using those fence brackets?
Mostly because they didn’t line up with the mounting holes on the panels. I would have to drill new holes. Those mounting brackets put uneven pull on the boards when I tighten them down. Those are the reasons I didn’t, but they may not be good reasons. I may look for some different brackets that would make them easier to do what you suggest, it would be nice to have them mounted direct.
@WilsonForestLands how inconsiderate of the gate manufacturer.
Mount them on the green house
Wilson, that set square looks like a proper antique quality one not some POS modern one ! It therefore deserves to be cleaned of rust, painted and oiled ! There's a saying about a man looking after his tools but i cant remember it :/
That was my grandfather‘s square. He lived on the coast where everything rusts. While I was using it, I was thinking I should clean this thing up.
I can smell the sawdust and I am in Georgia