The MacGyver Off Grid "Air Conditioning System"

[@maverick9300]

The main reason this is working so well is that super dry humility level. The old school version of this is a moistened cloth sheet hanging in an entryway or window.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Exactly to both! This can work in various other places and environments, it just takes proper design!✌🏾

[@OfftoShambala]

I’ll try that until I get all my systems in place… I’ve slept with a wet sheet before… but it dries up very fast and you wake up hot and have to get it wet again.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@OfftoShambala I can imagine!😅 we're keeping cool now. But we'll have a better design for the structure. 😉✌🏾

[@homesteadkelli9913]

We couldn't afford to live without our swamp cooler. We do use a generator for a window unit AC in one of our building on extremely hot days and nights. We use the swamp cooler the majority of the time. Awe Nicka is beautiful ❤️

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

She says thank you! But indeed we're not going to be able to live without some sort of cooling. Why the natives here dug into cliffs and dug pits for housing! Thanks for stopping in!✌🏾

[@insAneTunA]

With those temperatures every degree counts. Stay cool and hydrated my friend 👍

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

It does! 82 might sound bad, but with a bit of humidity it felt like being in a refrigerator! It's super nice!✌🏾

[@zanewalsh1812]

​@@GrowTreeOrganicsI'm happy to hear that y'all have some respite from some of the worst heat. Keep growing 💗

[@homesteadkelli9913]

​@@GrowTreeOrganicsyes it's 94° in here right this minute but in front of the swamp cooler it's comfortable and manageable

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@homesteadkelli9913 I can totally imagine... cause that's what we're doing... laying in front of the fan!😅✌🏾

[@msdramamusic]

Get you a umbrella to shade you while you work too. This is awesome!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

We definitely try. It doesn't help when the wind kicks up. It'll be better once we get the vinyl tarps back up top. Appreciate that though!✌🏾

[@kermitefrog64]

Very creative. I always like seeing what experiments people use to keep cool. I live in a manufactured home and I have been trying to keep my residence cool by adding insulation. There is only so much that the California Department of Housing allows when it comes to modifications to ones manufactured home in a mobile home park.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Thank you! I see though, it's sad how limiting the rules are on people making their living space actually comfortable, but also being able to do these alternatives and most of the time cheaper solutions! Thanks for your insight and kind words!✌🏾

[@Nerdy_prepper]

The sweet lil desert kittens made a kitty-o ;) .. Cameo ❤ sweet AC!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

😂✌🏾

[@adityasonakia]

Simply superb! So innovative

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Thank you!😅✌🏾

[@IvicaMilaric]

The chicken wire was an unexpected but great idea!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Thanks! I had to figure out how to keep the shirt against the holes somehow! Just got creative.✌🏾

[@JosephIngram-k2h]

@growtreeorganics you can use yucca for soap and shampoo, just smash the roots or leaves with a rock, add some water and boom, soap suds

[@a_fellow_homesteader]

We have done that! We need to cultivate many more in order to have a good supply and not taking out too many. We do as many natural things like that as we possibly can. ✌🏾💜🌍

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

The sapanin in the yucca is good for adding to compost tea and different spray mixes too! Just as it acts like the soap it helps "spread" or disperse the water and nutrients better, especially into soil! Really helps the water absorb evenly in the soil and dry soil. ✌🏾

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

You don't even need the water pump. You can get one of those drinking water tanks with the gate valve spigot, set it on the shelf, and use gravity to feed the water. You just make a trough of some sort, an old mud tray like what they use to spread gypsum on the wall while they are taping and bedding would work. Then you screw your fabric to the inside of that tray so that it touches the bottom with most of the fabric hanging straight down from the edge. You have that set up below your spigot to catch the water. You can still use the chicken wire or an old window screen to hold the material straight so it does not blow. You fill the trough up to where it is about a 1/4" to 1/2" from the top and let the fabric wick the water down to the rest of the fabric. You can watch it and adjust your flow rate from the spigot and the water height in the trough to make sure you are getting the optimal amount of water for cooling while not wasting it on the floor. Set up your fan like you did in this video.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Oh I see what you're saying. We do have one of those drinking water jugs with the spigot! I'll have to put another one together with that idea in mind! Appreciate that idea!✌🏾

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

@@GrowTreeOrganics Awesome! Not using electricity is always a bonus!. If you want to know a better and more permanent solution that does not require any input at all but works great in the desert, look into windcatchers. They used them in the Persian Empire to great effect. It basically uses natural air flow that happens everywhere to draw hot air out of a building and replace it with cool air that is drawn through subterranean vents which gets cooled by the ambient ground temperature. It is really genius, low tech, no energy usage cooling.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@wesbaumguardner8829 we actually have a similar concept going into the structure. I did an introduction video of what we're doing. Appreciate your comment!✌🏾 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2TFkJVrmJWooKc

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

@@GrowTreeOrganics Cool, tbh this was the first video I saw from you, so I am pretty clueless as to the design of your structure. Best of luck to you on your build!

[@wesbaumguardner8829]

@@GrowTreeOrganics I watched part of your video and it appears that your ground tube is just below the surface of the ground instead of being buried several feet underneath the ground. Are you adding to the grade above the tube? If the tube is too close to the surface, it can actually do the opposite and heat your home instead of cooling it, which is probably not the outcome which you are going for.

[@bigfootsboggybottomlodge4954]

KOOL ! ✌

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Appreciate it! We Gotta keep cool!✌🏾

[@abrighterday508]

That's rough..but free 😊 shoutout to McGyver..I love the photo of Richard Dean Anderson standing next to his car that had broken down..completely ruined my childhood 😂

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

It works at least! We'll have an actual better design and nicer looking when we finish the greenhouse structure!✌🏾

[@abrighterday508]

@@GrowTreeOrganics It was Einstein himself that said imagination is more important than fact! Loves it bro

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Appreciate it!✌🏾

[@allon33]

My trick for working in the heat (while living in the Kimberley), was to cool down in the air-conditioning in my pickup. I would work for 30 minutes, then get in the car for 20 minutes, drink water cool down the body temperature. Then get out there and do it again. Even at 120F I build a garden fence, took two days.

[@allon33]

You need to drop the temp below normal body temperature which 98F

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

I see. Sounds like a pretty good system! Might have to give it a try! Thank you!✌🏾

[@thegiggler2]

Amazing ingenuity!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Appreciate it!✌🏾

[@garytatum8298]

War movies show soldiers used a net overhead with strips of camo cloth that provided camoflauge and blocked some sun. I wonder if those blue tarps from the dollar store could do something similar to let you avoid midday sun? It might need some slits in it if too windy to stay in place. That is just a thought, I have not tried it myself!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Oh I see, that's cool and good to know. The dollar store tarps might be a little chinsy, the sun is intense here, so you might get a few weeks out of it before it starts to deteriorate!? I like the idea though, just finding a durable material is the key I'm sure! Appreciate your insight on that!✌🏾

[@coconutsm0kes]

This is such a great and ingenious use of what you have!

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Thank you! Cheers!✌🏾

[@AndyFetisov]

Awesome channel! Keep up the good work it’ll blow up soon into an income stream. Suggestions, work at first light before anything else and perhaps dig a temporary double cool tube for the tent.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@AndyFetisov thank you thank you! Definitely making improvements on everything to help build our place and the channel! I'll definitely consider what you suggested! Might have to make the video of the 2.0 version!😅✌🏾

[@AndyFetisov]

You have existing cool tubes maybe extend one and relocate the tent, add a layer of straw on the mound so it’s not in direct sun, just an idea.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@AndyFetisov it's funny because Neka was proposing that as well! More so getting one of the rooms now situated and brining the tent into that. Appreciate the collaboration on that!😅✌🏾

[@EarthCreature.]

Love it. Thunderf00t just footstomped 2bit divinci on his light-ray evaporation video. It's brilliant to retrofit gizmos to work in our benefit. Darnit we're human beings and we're smarter than we behave so well done walking the walk on this video.

[@EarthCreature.]

BTW if you use a cloth on the inside circumference to cover the airflow as the water wets it, you'll be able to drastically increase the cooling

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Exactly like you said "we're smarter than we behave" we all have the creative ability to create something different and innovate. And even all the stuff we're doing, this isn't the one way to do it. This is just our way of doing things and how we're utilizing the concepts! Thank you for your thoughts!✌🏾

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Yea I wanna toy with it a bit more, but it's just a MacGyver cooling system. For the earthship I'll make something a bit more "professional" looking😅✌🏾

[@makerofthings]

I saw that too! Thunderf00t does really good work and shows how water is amazing at cooling. I need a thermal camera tbh

[@makerofthings]

​@GrowTreeOrganics keep tinkering!!

[@devekpaid1039]

If you are interested in working further on your cooling, I suggest you watch some videos by Tech Ingredients. they have a few that talk about making your own A/C, he even makes it Solar powered. What you have is usually called a swamp cooler, like you said. it trades heat for humidity. if you would like to get cooling without the humidity, there needs to be a few more steps in the cycle. can't argue with the results, though. stay safe, keep cool.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Nice appreciate that! I actually will be building an actual better design once the structure is finished for inside. This was just something fun to put together and see how it does!✌🏾

[@carolwright7503]

I like a scarf that I tie loosely around my neck and wrists when they soaked in ice water...8pm it's still going to be 90's ..I forgot to shade some of the plants..lost 2 new plants...somedays I just learn the hatd way. Like that you have supplies on hand...

[@carolwright7503]

Oops hard way

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Oh no, sorry about your plants! Always a lesson to learn. Thanks for the scarf suggestion though, sounds chilly!😅✌🏾

[@tigerguitara]

That’s from a pond pump. The extension piece blows the water out the top like a fountain effect

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

I totally know what you're talking about! I actually figured out it's from my clone machine. Like they use for cannabis production that has the container with the pump and the sprayer nozzles. EZ cloner is the one I have. That piece came from my smaller version that I don't have anymore!😅✌🏾

[@makerofthings]

Dont be afraid to artificially lower the water temp by throwing ice in there. Theres plenty of RV-related products for making ice that run on a simple 12v

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

@@makerofthings I didn't show really show me putting ice in the buckets, but I did!😅✌🏾

[@rm6857]

What is the pond's temperature during the night, early morning? When i bath/swim in cold water, i feel cooler whole day.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

We need a pool to soak in! 😅 We've run out of water in the pond currently so the temperature will be hot like the air!😅✌🏾

[@SteveHammer-b3k]

That's a weed growing fan.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

When you know!😅✌🏾

[@mattbrown837]

Wet tshirts are cooler

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

We Do those too, while we're out working!😅✌🏾

[@xianvox22]

Saw this and thought of y'all... The second half of this video might be of interest: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZrWeourd8-jY7csi=Wb0GDbSp9beKbHKH About how one variety of Juniper is not a native species, and how they are invasive, out-compete grasses and deplete the water in the soil. This guy has been going through and removing them to noticeable effect.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

Oh yea, I watch Brian and what he's doing! I have a different opinion when it comes to invasive species and that labeling, part of my opinion is that invasive only means lack of management. But everyone is different on how they approach their land and that's the beauty of permaculture and working with nature. Granted we are cutting juniper down for the build and why I'm selective with what I cut. We want diversity and have a monoculture here so in creating a healthy desert forest, we will need to cut out overcrowded trees and such too make way for the pinyon trees that are growing and for all the pioneer species that we'll bring in, on top of the food forest development. This is project is a snowball slowly gathering momentum and mass. Appreciate you sharing that!✌🏾

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

A swamp cooler in the desert is a great idea. Your design, not so much.

[@GrowTreeOrganics]

I like experimenting, i don't get any points for trying?.😅 We'll have a better design for inside the greenhouse!✌🏾

[@MichaelDeeringMHC]

@@GrowTreeOrganics Sure, 10 points for trying.