Back At the Wedding Venue! Grundfos 5SQF-80 Solar Install!

[@nick540g]

Iron bar and Post hole digger without gloves - you are a BEAST! Your 48" and 72" measurements have been a basic tool for building structures for thousands of years. A 3-4-5 triangle will always form a perfect 90 degree angle.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Hehe thank you! I’m just too hard headed to go get gloves😂. Yep some quick numbers can sure make things perfect!! Thank you sir for the positive vibes! Much needed!!!!😀

[@Motorizeify]

Beautiful day. Beautiful place. Thanks for showing the solar setup.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Yes it was!!!! Love Fall in Oklahoma!!!! Thank you for watching!!!!

[@winterhorse290]

Don’t worry about any wind noise, your vids MORE than make up any “noise” 🤪

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you so much. I have went crazy trying to edit it out. Getting better microphones for sure!!!!!! Thank you again for the kind words!!!!!!!

[@darrellwilliams1343]

Another great one at the wedding well doing fine job.enjoy your channel.always fun to watch both of you trying to have good times.wind weather and conditions can't be controlled your positivity can you both do it well👀👍🏻

[@OkieWindmiller]

Haha thank you!!! Sometimes it’s tested tho for sure!!!! Thank you for the kind words!!!!!

[@johnsmart3587]

What a cute and hansome couple. We could do with a long version, if you wish. All good from So Cal. Thanks!

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you!!!! Well this would have been long if so much wasn’t removed due to wind sound. Ugh it was horrible. This was a very hard edit and I’m still not happy with the video, but I did all I could! Thank you so much for the kind words and for watching!!!!!!

[@gordiehattrick]

Love watching your videos!!

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you so much!!!!! Sorry this one is so late, just been working nonstop for the last week on the 14 footer! Video coming soon!!!!!!

[@johnsalmon2501]

Another great video! Beautiful day in Oklahoma. You could use your 5 gallon bucket to get flow rate! Looked like 30 gallons per minute! Thanks for the video!

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you!!! Why didn’t we think of that!!!!!😵‍💫 It was for sure making crazy water!!!! Thank you for watching!

[@mrclaus859]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting Guys

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you Sir!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@raytravis4097]

G,day you guys .good job..............cheers from Australia.......

[@OkieWindmiller]

G,day mate!!! Thank you kind sir waaaaaaaay down in Australia!!!!!

[@bobtucker8875]

Great content guys 👏.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you sir! Thank you for watching!

[@toddodell2904]

Great video always interesting.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you so much! Sorry for the sound quality on this one!

[@russelltrupia4479]

I have been waiting for this video, another clean work area. Thanks for another awesome video guys.👍👍

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you for your patience!!!!!!😀. Mama is the clean one🤣!!!

[@bartolomejimenez2138]

Es un trabajo extremadamente duro !! 🤗

[@OkieWindmiller]

Yes it is! But great work!!!! Thank you!!!!!

[@waylonhartwell]

I think you should look at purchasing a ratcheting wire Crimper, it is much much kinder on the hand and does a beautiful crimp

[@OkieWindmiller]

What! I’ve never heard of that!!! I will for sure!!!!!! My hands ain’t what they used to be! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Thomas-bv9mn]

Always amazed that people have a well service man dig post holes at $50 an hour or more.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Yep, but it’s part of the job. I wouldn’t want them doing it. It’s part of the job satisfaction of seeing the whole thing as something we did……. Thank you for watching!!!!

[@courseysfarms3437]

Awesome setup, great work

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you so much!!!!!!😊

[@jackreed3445]

Great video. Nice rig. jack

[@OkieWindmiller]

Hehe thank you!!!!!!!!!!😊

[@gkeyman565]

Great video. have a great day

[@OkieWindmiller]

Thank you!!! You too!!!!!

[@Johnathan-ib3qh]

Another great video..wind was causing audio problems but this is oklahoma yall lol....always good to see solar bringing water to the surface but I still love the windmill power better.

[@OkieWindmiller]

I hear you!!!! Maybe now that there is water flowing, they will want the windmill fixed up. Doubt it tho, because it has that rustic, 100 year look that they’re going for…..we shall see! Thank you for watching!

[@sganvik1291]

Another educational and entertaining video! I learn a little bit more with every video I watch with you and "Momma"! Why do use 1" pvc (20' sections) instead of a continuous length of "poly" pipe on these solar pump installs? Thanks for the education and entertainment!

[@OkieWindmiller]

Well I don’t use much of the roll pipe like that. The sticks are easier to deal with and more robust. All that is my personal opinion tho. It hurts my back pulling roll pipe out, so I set it up for the future in case I ever have to pull it. Thank you for your kind words and for watching!

[@sganvik1291]

@@OkieWindmiller Thanks for explaining your piping choice. Just want to learn 😉

[@OkieWindmiller]

You’re welcome!!!!

[@SteadyCreations]

Great to see that much output from their well. I only get about half that much. Of course my panel is 15 yrs old so I'm wondering if it will do better to upgrade the panel. Thoughts? Great video y'all. 👍😎👍

[@OkieWindmiller]

Yep! You can check the voltage and see. They lose a little every year. Panels have gotten better every year. That’s so cool that 15 years later it’s still doing its thing. Thank you for watching!!!

[@steventiry8701]

You may want to keep an eye out for a hand auger(not motorized) to cut through that Oklahoma clay. I have only seen them in four and six inch augers. Making the hole bigger is easy after that. The red clay is not as bad as the brown clay in the northeast part of the state.

[@OkieWindmiller]

I actually think there was s an old one hanging in that barn! Rounded tip with a cutting edge? Maybe 1” pipe as the handle? It was old! They were around for many years! Thank you for the suggestion and watching!

[@tfoley455]

Man, I feel you on the hard ground. I have built more fences in the last month than I have in 2 years, and we have had very little rain

[@OkieWindmiller]

Yuck that’s not cool! Sounds like we both need a skid steer to haul around with us!!!!!!

[@petereade4936]

I wonder why you put in a pole for the panel when you have a tower you could bolt it to. And love your videos! All the best on a lovely spring day from New Zealand

[@OkieWindmiller]

Great question! So I try not to have any part of the solar system in contact with the windmill tower just in case of lightning strike. Or take precautions and grounding, but it’s never fail safe. So, we keep everything separate. Thank you for asking and for watching WAY down in New Zealand!!!!! 😀

[@earnestburditt9867]

I see you using a chipping bar to loosen the soil for the post hoe digger. Would using a long 1/2 inch or larger bit to loosen soil be easier with a hammer drill. Before Using the post hoe digger? In hard soil.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Maybe! There are only so many tools I can cary on the truck tho. This is the first hole(of many) that I had a hard time with. Good suggestion tho!!!! Thank you!

[@russellbrackett2465]

Ever think of getting a small gas powered auger drill. Quick and fairly inexpensive?

[@OkieWindmiller]

I have one but just never mind digging by hand, but doubt it would have worked here. Would have been awesome to have with me while there tho to try it! I would have tried anything! 😀

[@montylatham739]

It didn't show putting in the ground rod but you said you drove it in. I put in an 8' ground rod without a sledge till the last 1'. Jab the rod into the ground add a little water then jab some more, repeat. After a minute the rod will go in with just it own weight by up and down motion like rig.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Oh good idea! Yep this one was just a 6’ rod luckily. This ground is soooo hard, should try that next time!!!!! I start with a t-post driver, then finish with a 12 pound sledge. 😀

[@fillg]

Would one of those small gas powered augers do anything for you for digging holes or is the ground too solid?

[@OkieWindmiller]

Normally they would work fine, I just don’t like using them……. I have one, and highly doubt it would have worked in this situation. My sharp bar was having a hard time getting through it! Crazy!!

[@JamesNunn-ub6nh]

The easiest way I know to dig a post hole, is to let the wife do it, and have a seat in the shade. Lol.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Hahahahahaa man good one! I will try that one next time!!!!!! I will have 2 black eyes when it’s over tho!!!!!!!!🤣

[@JamesNunn-ub6nh]

@@OkieWindmiller she might start carrying a baseball bat.

[@randywilson6869]

After watching your video of you doing that stripping job by your self and you singing that song I want my baby back home wore me out. That was a tough job especially by yourself. I’m glad momma is back home and is letting you help her lol

[@OkieWindmiller]

Haha you got that right! Thank you for watching. It’s always easier with her around!!!!!!!

[@TerryWaitman]

I'd be investing in a gas powered auger!

[@OkieWindmiller]

I have one, but man, it seems like if it’s not soft or sandy, it won’t dig! I even bought a 2” bit to start the holes with, nope! I e replaced the teeth and everything. It’s not the gas auger, it’s the ground. Although, if the ground is somewhat moist(any at all), it does fine. But this compacted dry rocky clay is crazy right now. Thank you sir for watching!!!!

[@George-rt6hl]

I just left El Reno. It’s a small World.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Hahaha yep it really is!!!!!!

[@pauljuhl5566]

if you add soap to your water it makes it EZ to dig try it.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Oh I have to try that!!!!! Thank you!

[@brucemorris6319]

I’ve cured the ends of post hole diggers trying to dig a hole in hard dirt

[@OkieWindmiller]

Ugh man that’s when we need a skid steer!!!!!!!😀 This ground was crazy solid! Thank ya for watching!

[@phatzgunderson]

If we were friends, I'd call you "two wrenches".

[@OkieWindmiller]

Bahahahaha we are friends now!

[@andrew-cm3zn]

You would get a kick in the bum for laying that bar on the ground in Australia as it will get really hot quick

[@OkieWindmiller]

Hahahah true! I did that only for the camera because so many viewers tell me a bar sticking up in the air is a dangerous one………🤣! Thank ya buddy from down under!!!!!

[@randylinn502]

OSHA, kinda like c.limbing the tower without a safety harness...

[@OkieWindmiller]

Exactly, which I’ve gotten much better at!!!!! I dusted it off and it’s back to getting used!😀

[@rickpalmer9518]

Its hard to hear your words with back round music ok on high speed

[@OkieWindmiller]

Sorry. I was trying to edit out the wind. All I could do was add background audio to fill the dead spots. It was horrible sounding.

[@jimmiependergraft9291]

Maby you need a post hole digger.

[@OkieWindmiller]

Haha I do for sure!!!

[@earnestburditt9867]

With the permission of the business or venue, include their contact information in case some wants to use them. It would help them get work maybe and give them some free advertising. Always good to pay it forward..... (The world is full of kind people. If you can't find one be one...) I got that quote from a Christian radio station...

[@OkieWindmiller]

Can do! I figured what I said was enough, and it’s not hard to look up a company these days. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@curtisharlan9230]

How many children do you have

[@OkieWindmiller]

We have 2!