@@jesp999 Ours is a 2019, we have had it now for five years and driven 35,000 miles. We bought it after I watched a KZbin video made in England comparing the Kona and the Niro EVs and at that time the Niro was a little bigger than the Kona. I think now they are the same size. Our normal grocery store run is a total of 80 miles round trip. In the summer we do about two of those trips and then we plug it in to our level 2 charger. In the winter for high speed driving (75mph) we will get 3.1 miles per kilowatt hour, so you can go about 180 miles if you start with a full charge. Of course you will seldom charge it to 100% and you will never want to drive it to 0% (although we did once and arrived at the house in turtle mode). I think a Niro EV could be an excellent used car to buy. We have never had any problems with ours. You would want to have at least level 1 charging where you live or work. There is a whole laundry list of features that are available on newer models like the Kia EV9, but they are more expensive and less efficient. The newer Niros have some improved features as well.

@@RobertZullo Thanks, it was an interesting project

@@jimjoh9376 The way I do it is with a piece of 1/4 inch inside diameter fuel hose (2 to 3 feel long). Turn off the fuel shutoff valve. Detach the existing line, attach the new piece of hose (I do not use a clamp on the temporary hose) and stick it into the empty gas can. Turn on the fuel shutoff valve. It takes a couple of hours to drain. Reconnect the original line. Then put about a cup of gasoline back in the tank and run the generator until it runs out of fuel. You want all of the gasoline out of the system for storage.

@@joeking433 Just personal preference. I have a charging place in the house and another in my barn, so the holder works well. If you want to be able to charge while moving around the kind with the usb-c might be better. I got some of those for a grandchild in college, but when using them they did not like how the batteries die with no warning.

@@TopDog8762 Any number can be charged at a time

@@Kullioking yes, I watched a guy in Britain mowing something quite steep and grass covered. But, with my equipment and the rough ground this is steep enough. I have several times had to crawl back up part of the way using the bucket. Thanks for watching

Yep he would have a fit in my paddocks

I have watched a couple of videos of making hay on steep slopes in Austria. Why is the ground so smooth? It is like a tilted golf fairway. Is it that way naturally? I am in the coast range in oregon. We have rocks and of course stumps in various levels of decay.

@@gregpalmer9949 oh we have a lot of rocks. The fields look like this because they are farmed for good 1000 years.

@@davidpalmer3383 One gets a cleaner cut pushing since the wheels have not flattened the grass, however it means you have to drive all twisted around which is awkward with the seat belt on.

@@williamlocklear1283 Glad it helped, and I am certainly glad that I stumbled upon that solution.

@@tristanwhippet6514 This is my son’s plan. He is in the suburbs. He is now spreading the chips around the oak trees in the back. Probably at some point he will send the chips off with the yard waste. He is filling the yard waste bin now with really big pieces.

@@rwolhar There are lots of different approaches one could use. My favorite would be a very small helper, but some people put in an access port. I could not find any anchors that I thought were strong enough to attach to the fiberglass from the top. Thanks for watching.

@@davidpalmer3383 Thanks for watching. Made in China

@@mytube30005 My electric locks use a 9 volt battery. The tricky thing with the Hixon 1.5 volt AA batteries is that when they die they just die, no last words. I would not use them in anything like a door lock unless there were at least four batteries. Then when one of the four crosses the voltage threshold, the group voltage will drop to 1.12 and you will get a low voltage warning.

@@MauVoch thanks for commenting, so far they have been pretty good, especially if you want high voltage or nothing.

Great, thanks for commenting, it has a lot of features, I have looked at another lantern I have seen at Costco, but I already have a bunch of lanterns.

Great, I think you are right to want to have it ready by July 4. I have mine reassembled (after winter) and full of water but I have not gassed her up and run it so far. I wonder if there is a way to add a picture to a comment, my Cox Reel arrived after I made the video.

Thanks, it was a fun project

The starting load is good to know. I have been thinking about battery systems and starting load is certainly a consideration.

Wow, all I saw on the specs sheet was 10A and didn't even consider the starting Amperage. Guess I need to reconsider the generator size. Thanks, and glad I saw your comment.

@@frankies-1389 It will operate just fine on a normal 20 amp 120 volt home circuit. What size generator were you considering using?

@@gregpalmer9949 3500 running watts 4300 starting.

@@frankies-1389 Ran without any problem from a Bluetti AC300 3kW (6kW surge) power unit. Bonding neutral to ground and to a ground rod may be required to manage stray interactive electrical currents, if otherwise there would be a floating neutral. Freezing temperatures will destroy the pump housing... have since installed a pitless adapter on the well casing and moved on to a submersible pump install.

Thanks for asking. Do a search for “greg palmer, CET fire pump”. I need a better channel name. Also if you just click on my name (channel name) and then again, and then again - you end up at a list of all forty? of my videos. When I started “greg palmer” just found me and a minister.

Thanks for your comment, I have changed the title and search parameters. Changing the bracket makes changing the battery very easy.

@@gregpalmer9949 Thank You and I also changed the bracket like you suggested

Thanks, when I started to think about a video and ordered the chuck, I did not have any idea how I would feel about the chuck after I experimented with it.

I think it went pretty well. Later in the winter I did another project and video where I installed larger deck cleats by the stern. For that I pulled bolts and backer blocks into position with wires. For the motor mount there were eight studs and for the cleats only two bolts. I think either is better than cutting an access hole. Thanks for commenting

Thanks, I would like to do another one if Oregon ever installs the chargers necessary to travel to the East from here. There is a power farm in eastern Oregon that the news said was the first place in the country to have wind, solar, and battery storage. We are a long ways behind Europe and China.

Well, you had my sympathy until you implied you fed ducks. I have a neighbor who feeds the turkeys. I think the turkeys would want to live here irregardless of any feeding. The turkeys and the buzzards are the birds we are most aware of.

@@gregpalmer9949 these are domesticated Muscovy ducks. Gentle and sweet as a bug

I can not remember exactly what that bolt does, but with the gas tank off it was no problem to drill and move the bolt to the left so that the head does not keep the battery from sliding out. It might be just fine to leave the bolt off. I have a jump starter with a battery and air compressor and inverter and changing that same size battery is an ordeal. I have done it twice (about every seven years) and each time I have a pile of unused screws. Thanks for watching.

Thanks!

It is not that I want it to loosen if turned counterclockwise, this chuck would just do that. When you drill holes do you really reverse the bit while pulling it out? Why do you like that? I might try that if the bit was stuck, but if it is not stuck, I want it to keep rotating clockwise as I pull it out to clean out the chips.

I sent an email and picture to duckworks.com. They said they had a section of West Wight Potter 15 and 19 parts but not those corner pieces. I looked at the ones on my daughters boat and it looks like they are made from the next size larger edging. Write again if you find a solution please

Thanks for checking Greg.

Very interesting. I just tried them in a little AM/FM radio. The Hixons worked on FM but not AM. Everything worked with alkaline. These batteries are not the answer for everything. I use two in the tv remote and my best use case is a single battery in a hair trimmer.

Thanks. I talked to my nephews (2) who are firefighters when designing the system

I just re scanned two of the manuals. The pump according to the manual has a combined lift and push distance of 115. Water pumps can push water up a lot further than they can lift (suck). The Harbor Freight manual only gives a combined number, but a “Shallow” well limit might be 30 feet in depth. Perhaps some one else knows. I have a well that is 150 deep and it has a submersible pump. The pump is down near the bottom of the well. It does not suck at all, but pumps up (lift) several hundred feet. A further caution: the 115 feet of lift for the shallow well pump is the point where flow and pressure have dropped to zero. On my installation in the video, the pump sucks about 10 feet and pumps up about 80 feet for a combined lift of 90 feet.

I bought the version without the pole and things keep changing. I was going to do an updated review of the Koham, but it is not currently available for sale. Both the Koham and the Scotts 7.2 volt are working well after two winters of pruning. There is now a 20 volt Scotts also.

I went to one of the local HarborFreight stores and the display pump had a much larger nut on the priming port. It looked about an inch across the hex flats. So if you have that type the female thread could be almost anything. On my pump, I have just learned that the thread size is 1/4 inch - NPStraight. They are straight pipe threads which apparently exist, but I never saw any before. They do not carry any at HomeDepot.

@@gregpalmer9949 thank you. I ourchased the pump and went to Ace to get a valve and pipe. Worked great. Great idea tha k you for the video and the great idea

I have only used the Hixon battery with the Hixon charger. They are still working well together. Hixon says you have to use the Hixon charger.

yo uso un cargador genérico, sin marca, para 8 baterías simultáneas y funciona a la perfección con las Hixon AAA y AA.

Thanks for commenting. For such simple machines there. Is more going o than you can at first see

Apparently there is a dedicated Integrated Circuit for 3.7-volt lithium-ion batteries to deliver 1.5 volts. Okay, now I understand the extra cost (and presumably fire prevention).

Yes, last week I had to make the same trip in a gas powered pickup truck and I really missed not having regen. Gas cars seem so primitive.

Just a response. If it is fairly flat then no problem. At our place we pump about eighty feet up and four hundred feet over to get to the top of our drip irrigation lines. We are pumping through 3/4 and 5/8 garden hoses. The height, the distance and the diameter of the water lines are all factors. You can increase the flow rate by using 1” or larger flexible water lines. However, If you are going up vertically beyond the capacity of a pump then you will need to have a storage tank that you pump to and then from. The pumps are rated for how high they will pump, be aware that the limit by height usually only has a trickle of water.

Thanks, I think accurate dimensions are important (sometimes) and the dimensions shown on Amazon were for the box it came in.

A little water goes into the green tank, so that the water can push on the air bladder to create pressure. You can compress air and other gasses, but you can not compress liquids. Thanks for watching

I just walked over and looked at the two batteries in my Hixon charger. One green light above each battery and one small green light for the charger. They are all charged and waiting to be used.

@@gregpalmer9949 thx but But it turns out that I do not use lithium batteries

I am not sure how to measure tapered pulleys. You might measure the one you have or ask a supplier to match the size. Enoitalia got right back to me last year when I emailed them: [email protected] or their website is www.enoitalia.net. The bearing that was rusty last year when I took it all apart is a :6204 2RS and measures 20mm bore by 47mm diameter by 14mm thick. I continue to worry about the steel bearing, but so far all I am doing is being careful while pressure washing.This year I gave all of the plastic bearings a small shot of grease and then wiped off the surface.

thank you for your reply! I was asking for the measurements of the pulleys because i wanted to buy them separately (i have a eno 3 manual). i emailed enoitalia and they answered all of my questions.@@gregpalmer9949

Thanks for watching and commenting. Luckily I have not been able to use it on a fire, but it works very well watering trees also (at a fast idle and diverting much of the water back into the tank).

It has a pressure switch. When the main on/off switch is on it will pump until the pressure gets to about 50 pounds and then shut off. As you use water the pressure decreases until you get to about 35 pounds and then the pump turns on again. If you run out of water or the pump loses its prime the pump will keep trying anyway which is not good for it, but does not ruin the pump the first time it happens.

@@gregpalmer9949 thanks!