Good job guys. Gotta love the zero turn mower.

All of that great mulch and compost material...My mouth was starting to water... ;)

I just watched a 4 min ad video, they better pay you damn well for that nonsense 😂😂

Wow what a haul so much to preserve.

Nice job, but what are you using for some 'X' bracing before you sheet it?

Lovely harvest 🥰

you can see them snakes coming now

Hi guys, how about putting your chooks in .

You can take a lesson from this. Plants can tend for themself.

We've had such an abundance of rain this year. Mine's growing wildly to.

Don't worry.. I see it's in a different roll.

Can u use the genny for barb wire as well?

Great to see you living your dream guys! A little bit of financial discipline can be the most liberating thing in the world. It's great to know that you are in control of your money and your lifestyle rather than vice versa! Enjoy!

funny this should pop up ,i am doing the same thing but i added 4 footing and 2 more purling hoops extended shed roofline out 6 meters, upper tomorrow finish gett it up

I could just imagine you suping up the excavator to joust with Corey 😂

Nice bit of shade, and a whole bunch of surface area to collect rainwater. You're gonna need bunches more tanks!

Did alot of this stuff 30 odd years ago when i was an apprentice in horticulture. We were installing gabiens every 30 or so meters in seadonal water gullies around 2 to 4 meters deep. We had "cages" made of tennis type fencing that we filled with rock and stacked on top of and beside eachother to create a barrier to slow water flow. After 3 years id gone back to have a squizz at how they worked and that entire gully system was then a permanent creek with green growth spreading out to the 50 meter mark surrounding the gully system. This is southern nsw not far from canberra. I honestly thought it was going to become standard practice back then. Im surprised to see the concept being spoken of as a new practice on a few yt channels and on the ABC. For best results it should be rock and other materials at a minimum 1 meter thick and be just higher than the existing banks as it will settle and sink somewhat. It needs to be done at a few intervals to account for heavy storms than can washout some of the wiers. Theres no real results to see for at least 2 seasons.

I didn’t know one thing about leaky weirs ❤its a brilliant idea 💡

This is awesome. How have you attached it to the shed ???

I'm south of Darkan and Western Power is pestering me to go onto their "off grid" system. They are pulling down the power grid after 50 years and say they won't put up the price??? I'm going to be forced to do something soon.

Taddys are a good sign things are going the right way.

80k wow 😞

I think I’m going to have to purchase a pre-made home it’s too much on my own, but I’m thankful I got to watch the process ❤️

Love this ❤❤❤

You sold your property to buy the land I imagine?

25k for double glazed windows for supposed energy efficiency government green tape baloney - and people wonder why housing is so expensive more and more stars for supposedly nice to have blah blah a bureaucrat to tick boxes - probably double price due to double glazing over normal windows? that's a lot of power to burn to make up that saving especially when people put solar on anyway these days. I did a relocatable house in mid 2010s and if I didn't have a fan on the back porch ceiling I would have had to rip out all the existing windows and double glaze - even though the old 1950s house didn't have any floor, wall and bugger all roof insulation (as got trucked in 200km away) but yeah force the new home owner extra spend on replacing windows for energy efficiency for a house that is marginally different to outside temp in Queensland. I believe the 6 to 7 start requirement adds another 30K to new house builds now and there's no stopping those stars. You can't buy a basic home package for land without spending $300K these days and the home package is extremely basic with imported fixtures and fittings not the fancy European stuff either!

I love this thank you! What an achievement - well done! Will start looking at land in Qld soon. Im a single female in my 30s and i have to admit its a bit daunting doing it alone but Im up for it! 😅

Time for an updte video on your mini swales! Show us how they're doing now.

Great job guys, looks awesome.👍🏻

LOL I had the thought right near the begining "are you going to use some structural grout under the plates to fill the gaps?" and had to wait all the way to just about the end for you to say yep, you're filling it (different product than I'd use, but same reasoning!). Great how-to kind of video here mate. I personally don't really work with steel at home myself, but always using steel at work these days with new buildings and such. Except at work I make a steel company do it all, and I just check they've done it right lol.

Looking good 🥰

Great job guys ❤

Jousting sticks - if you get them half price then its a bargain!

Good video

Hey you a gun on that digger mrs RP🤙

16:30 you and me both. When you’re creating stuff, you zone out and get all zen with the activity and keep on keeping on until it’s done.

Great roundup guys this is just what info would be offgridder people need, FYI for anyone else wind generation isn’t worth it as opposed to solar, having said that there is a company in the USA that looks promising “Harmony wind turbines” 12 volt systems require larger conductor cables, 48 volt can run smaller gauge cable. We installed a ongrid service up around your hill back in the day, standard transformer is a 10kv single phase (SWRE) single wire return earth, I can agree totally it’s not cheap because you can’t auger granite and running overhead conductors up that sort of country isn’t easy. Living Offgrid is a great journey and gives you perspective of how we all should look at life i recon. The meaning Depth of discharge is how much you battery percentage would be say in the morning without any charge going into them. State of charge is what percentage your batteries are charged say from zero to 100%

Great going to look awesome ❤

These days you can buy solar panels that have their own micro inverter screwed to the back of the panel. Some have a dual micro inverter in a single housing. There a great benefits to that. Basically each individual panel has its own AC voltage output that is common in your area. Either 240 volt or 110 volt. The micro inverters last much longer, and you get a much longer warranty because they do not have to deal with high currents like a regular inverter does. The micro inverters are located outside, so there is less fire hazard. Each panel has its own micro inverter so it does not effect the entire system if a single panel gets less sunshine. You can add additional panels to your system or replace broken panels with panels from any brand because it doesn't matter since they all have the same AC output from their own micro inverter. The micro inverters are more efficient, and because their output is AC there are less losses due to resistance in the power cables. And it is much easier and much cheaper to connect all the panels with regular 240 volt or 110 volt power cables instead of having to use very expensive high current DC cables and connectors and fuse boxes and what not. And each micro inverter can be monitored with an app on your phone, so you can monitor the state and output of each individual panel at every single moment in time, anywhere in the world. The panels with micro inverters are more expensive, but I think that it is cheaper in the long term. You pay less for additional hardware that you would need with traditional panels. You get more efficiency and functionality. It is easier to add or replace panels. And it is safer. And it will last longer with a much longer warranty. As always thanks for sharing your experiences. As time goes by technology improves. It is impossible to keep up with the latest and most modern technology since these type of systems are getting installed to last for decades. But I think that it is good to point out that the technology has changed and improved, and that it is getting cheaper as well. So for other people that might be a better and more feasible option. I hope that this bit of information was helpful. A huge 👍

Fantastic topic and break down of content. Very informative and exactly what we are looking into for ourselves! Thank you both so much!

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You guys make a good team. We all get a bit grumpy at times. The result and the level of precision is outstanding. 👍

The wheat belt in WA is a large area. What is your nearest town?

Rates and insurance are huge costs. Can't change those unfortunately. Hard life but so satisfying. Good luck for the future from aging couple, one truly committed and one along for the ride 😅

Finances would be the biggest barrier, especially real estate prices. Farms have greatly increased in price over the last ten years or so. Even marginal or isolated properties now command big prices. This is the biggest barrier to buying a property in 2024. It’s basically impossible for someone starting out to buy a property when the first step on the property ladder could be $350k, a debt that could take decades to pay off.

Love your videos, just recently found your videos. I am trying to be self sufficient. I am on 25 acres in south east Queensland. I have water tanks, septic with seep away. Have solar feed into the grid. Haven’t paid any electricity bills for over a year. Very happy with my setup. I know that technically I am not off grid because I am still connected to the grid with my feed in system but I have bought a battery for standby that I can connect up my house with using a change over switch in case of blackouts. I have started a garden using a Hydroponic method, the water that I use in my hydroponic system doesn’t require any pumps as I have set up a float valve that works on a gravity feed system. It all seems to be working well. Good luck with your project.

The Rocky shirt 👌 Really good rundown.

Well done! I admire your commitment. We did this in the 80s in Queensland on 40 acres and thoroughly enjoyed the hard work, isolation and struggle. The pioneering life was great. Best years of my life and I'm now 77 with amazing memories. Looking forward to seeing your progress. ❤🇦🇺

Great review and re cap guys, thanks for sharing.

I know power is expensive but i dont know how two people consume that much energy at $3k per year, were you growing marijuana in huroponics lol i pay under $400 a qtr for a family of 5 in NSW