Winter Chores living OFF-GRID on a MOUNTAIN!

[@Jamesjghome]

I admire your dedication to being organized: mentally emotionally and practically

[@tracyt4327]

From mountains in Arizona - We have eucalyptus wood. It's the hardest wood West of the Mississippi. Absolutely fantastic wood for heating. No ash. No smoke. HOT heat. Love it!

[@andreww7938]

a greenhouse kiln. good idea

[@Anna-RF]

Love the winter updates! Thank you! Here in Ireland at -6C our aloe Vera plants got frozen outside, had to bring them inside the house, imagine at -20C 😮 the snow looks amazingly beautiful though!

[@ChickennGritss]

Use your leaf blower on the light fluffy snow. All the best to you Curtis you have a great channel many excellent ideas

[@goodlifegreenscapesbrecken5928]

That works on very light and very little snow. Over 4" and it simply can't beat a proper snowblower. We'll average 6-10FEET of snow per season. With multiple feet in single overnight accumulations.

[@SugarCreekOffGrid]

Our winter here in Tennessee started out mild as well. Last night our coldest temps in 40 years we got 8 inches of snow alot for Southern Tennessee. Looking forward to the live

[@WattsMiner]

Also, you can have multiple inverters on one batt bank so you could hook up a solark or eg4 18k as a redundancy that also comes with more mppt's. Use a bypass to your home ac when and if your other two go down. The DC side gets extra strong and you have backup ac when you need it.

[@Jamesjghome]

I like your “all the above energy sources “ again, you make to much sense ‼️

[@mary-anncarleton7578]

That's cold. Wood Stove for indoors all the way !!❤❤❤

[@danphillips4590]

4F last night

[@ayo3able]

Ouch 😬

[@FisVii77]

yeah don't make the mistake of waiting a day to get it off the panels I made this mistake this last snow fall and I'll tell ya the icy mess really really sucks at the bottom of the panels I'm waiting for a warmup ;) got to stay on it or you'll be without some of your precious production. ;)

[@jackieroberts6316]

Thank you.

[@standpat6]

Put a light in the coop on a timer to give the chickens 14 hours of light a day and they will keep laying all winter.

[@shermdog6969]

I like to give them a break. Let nature be nature. I freeze dry and water glass for the month i don't get enough eggs. But yes a light works.

[@silverjohnson3163]

😊 love it

[@seaday123]

really enjoyed this one curtis. Maybe it was the snow but I think it was the content!

[@davedave8608]

cold stimulates new beard growth.. Oss

[@Jamesjghome]

Bearded men makes sense, yah hey dare, pun intended

[@SJA-ox3hs]

IBC totes for firewood and a hen light for eggs

[@woodworks2123]

Love these updates with little nuggets of info. I just got an old lister diesel generator. It works ok but going to strip it clean and grease everything and replace seals and filter. These proper old ones are great theres so few parts you dont have to be a mechanic to give it a go. Its less efficient but old enough it can run on anything so plan is used veg oil and clean it using pork gelatine. So quick and easy. Thanks to robert murray smith. a uk clever clogs that puts out a ton of content on different ways to generate power, heat etc. Well worth a look to anyone interested or living off grid.

[@ding_dong_and_charile]

Epic

[@Jamesjghome]

Shout outs from north Michigan. Can you please confirm that you are propagating ⁉️ we need desperately MORE Curtis Common Content

[@goodlifegreenscapesbrecken5928]

Newer model machines need AT LEAST a minute of turning key (glow plug) on and off and immediately back on. Older machines have a glow plug button that can be held for a minute or two when it's wicked cold like this

[@chrisdaniel1339]

You mentioned in another video that you were planning on adding a 4th solar array, what if when you did made two independent systems to power your house. That would mean dividing your battery bank into two . So you would have two solar arrays, two solar charge controllers, one inverter, and half the total battery rack as one independent system and you would have the same components on a second system so that if one inverter goes down or another component you still have the other independent system to power your home until the other system is repaired? In the US Larch and Douglas Fir are sold as one in the same as their properties are nearly identical.

[@bk-of8iv]

what is your wood stove brand? heard of blazeking cat stove, very efficient with soft wood , it will pay itself within few years if not less

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Blaze King Boxer. I have two. Getting a bigger one for the house, probably the King or Princess. Blaze King is where it's at.

[@roxnwine]

Hey what is the thing you are using to scrape off your panels? I need one for mine. Tennessee got 8 inches which is crazy for this area.

[@goodlifegreenscapesbrecken5928]

Push broom is how I sweep my truck. Its the only. Obviously, carefully, if it's a heavy duty broom with metal parts.

[@firstsecond-ft1qg]

Have you ever considered a gasification reactor to convert wood to heat and electrical power?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Many times.

[@quickquote1568]

Wise choice choosing that Schneider Electric, Low Frequency, transformer based inverter charger. It will produce a much, much high surge capacity and a far longer life expectancy than those Cheap Chinese made, lightweight, high frequency, transformerless, inverter chargers that everyone else is selling.

[@Kalevanpoika]

Dude, you need a woodshed. A simple wooden building, perhaps made from planks or even better, logs. You can have gaps between the planks so air circulates in the building and wood dries well. Also if you live self-sufficient, you need a brick or stone baking oven in the centre of your home to serve during the winter as a backup or main (free) heat source and capacitor and for cooking as well. Google a typical finnish baking oven and you will understand. It's a large oven that stores heat in the stones/bricks. Must have imo since wood grows itself and you can create the fuel yourself. By rotting your firewood outside in some shady shelters is dumb and lazy. The wood loses its energy potential and it's just terrible to pick it from under the snow rather than from a dry woodshed. Keep up the good work!

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Ya, I need a lot of things. One step and thing at a time.

[@spawacz000]

👍🏻

[@Jamesjghome]

WHY DON’T YOU COVER GREENS INSIDE GREEN HOUSE ⁉️ we get a delta 10 degrees warmer and protection

[@KonstantinKnapp21071997]

Great video Curtis, I was wondering what fuel type you are using for your generator and what model generator? I saw an old video where you where reducing EMF radiation for your old house, I was wondering why use a Tesla as they also emit EMF?

[@offgridcurtisstone]

It's a Yanmmar and it's diesel. The Tesla emits less radiation than any downtown of any city. Considering that we don't spend days in the car, it's nothing we're concerned about. EMF exposure is most dangerous over sustained periods of time. We have so little up here in the mountains that overall, we encounter little to no EMF compared to living in a city.

[@KonstantinKnapp21071997]

Thank you for the reply, makes sense about the EMF. Thank you for the great content.@@offgridcurtisstone

[@kshane5575]

Why did his inverters go down?

[@CATSG2007]

Hey Curtis have you heard of TMG greenhouses? If so what are your thoughts?

[@overlordsshadow]

almost anything TMG is garbage.

[@goodlifegreenscapesbrecken5928]

Weird I got un subscribed.

[@chrisw3106]

Looks like way too much for way too little

[@Jamesjghome]

I hate you, you make to much common sense. (Love yah) from north Michigan

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[@cryptonewbie3699]

i can't understand why nobody using steam engine to power the electric generator , especially while you have to burn fuel to heat up your house ,,, steam power is the most efficient