Our first frost, 3 degrees…in the kitchen at 8 am

https://youtu.be/ppbhL8m29_g

Mass formation, how the bureaucrats intend to govern us.

Yes we had 3 degrees in the Kitchen, and remained that cold until 9 am.

Kinda cool over a olive tree clipping wire netting 4m off the ground.

Diane takes a long shot

Wife took pics of me up on the trolley platform clipping the netting up.

My electricity bill for where we live for 100 days of consumption was $200, we consume around $2 per day or about 6 units of power per day, not sure why its that high?
I still have to run the water distiller off the mains, that’s why.

Another few sheets on the kitchen ceiling up, as well as the 24 volt ceiling light system.

We had our 16th wedding Anniversary the other day…meal and company was great :) table 6 is Di’s lucky number

View from the front end

Notice the toms, like putting up a canvas tent.

The third sheet of netting is going directly over the fruit trees.

Maybe, I am off to town today to purchase a dozen wooden toms to prop the structure up, its sagging under the weight, the wire is stretching I think?

Wow, if I buy the Ni-Fe battery system 48Volt, this would give me 10 amp Hour battery at 48 volts and cost me $1,200 for the batteries including delivery charge, and the total weight would be 25 Kg ! And get this these batteries last forever, a 100 years. You can run them down dead flat no worries and overcharge them again. And mow all day, who mows for a full 8 hours these days?

I add to that, I purchased a 18V cheap electric trimmer, ripped the battery bit out, hooked up a 12 metre cable to an old car battery on 12V, and cut anything I like with it, the machine ran at 60% of its strength due to the reduction of the voltage, never was strong enough to break the whipper cord, and while a little less powerful in cutting, I ran the system all day. The only thing that was a little inconvenient was lugging the heavy battery around in 12m increments. On the plus side, I have never changed the whip cord. It’s great.

In about 3 hours, I had advanced nearly half way on the first roofing sheet of wire netting. So the machine is working OK for now.

Welded up the horizontal turntable for the wire netting. Because it moves width ways the progress is much slower, about 1.2 to 1.5 m each time. Not sure how I will navigate over the fruit trees, soon to be a challenge.

Correct, the building is rabbit proof, pig proof, and soon will be bird proof. Than I can grow my 60+ fruit trees, run my chooks, do my veggie garden without wildlife interfering with it.
I can also place shadecloth over it too and make it frost proof.

View from up the ladder, it’s quite a way down (5 metres to be exact). You can see the cable clearly.

Details of the straining of the wire (stainless steel cable) I use three links of chain, cheaper than other techniques, and the rod and nuts are super strong tie downs used in houses against cyclones.

Like so, see red arrow

Using two strong bolts and a 4x2 beam, I make a brace for the ladder, up a pole, to take weight off the pole leaning too much, when I climb up. The second bolt stops the ladder from being pushed over. The rope ties all the bolts to the ladder and pole.

Ready for tomorrow. The platform is very stable, with 5 stabilizer poles help. I also stand on a milk carton as well for that extra height at times. The red boxy thing in the picture on the trolley platform. The ringlock pliers makes it easy to attach netting to the wire.

Got half of it done, on my first roll, the full length is 48m

The netting is fine

Starting off first time, nervous and scary

Like so, than I wondered does it need bracing too? I slowly wheeled the netting into the place, another 25m further down.

Yesterday I lift the 30+ Kg wire netting up by pulley to fit into it’s rolling table.

Sunny Queensland Australia, Darren, but its terribly cold at the moment, 12 degrees C. Our winter.

Yes thank you, hopefully it’s going to work today.

On the first trial , no change in battery capacity, I suspect the current was too low, around 60 Amps instead of 80+ Amps.

Wired up the Jinko Solar panels to manually charge my batteries.

Here you can see on a late afternoon, I have nearly 4 AMPS coming into the battery system.

Tomorrow will start a manual recharging.

Welded up fencing wire turn table, make it easier to wind out the wire on your own

The wire and trolley as comparison, still another 2m above trolley

The new weld trolley to reach this wire and wire on wire netting, 5m off ground

You barely see the wire (red circle)

Where I am up to, with the new shed

Blanketed out the sunshine on these new panels

The house has a blackout, so no welder, I will work on solar panels instead

Very cold here, 5 degrees yesterday, max of 20, tonight it’s 3 degrees in the kitchen, might have to look into having a wood fire stove put in place?

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes you should, a great idea

Yes hoping the manual charging system will restore my Ni-Fe batteries, I will charge them for 8 hours at 34V and 80 Amps, lots of water bubbling and H2 give off for sure, really kick the life out of them. No controlling of the system, no MPPT. Just plain charging.

I plan to use this extra 34V at 80 Amps for rainy or cloudy days, and for running an invertor straight off this system if that is possible? Does anybody know if you can run a 2000W invertor on 34 Volts (24 V system) using around 50 amps?

Your’e very helpful, so can I fit Linux Mint on a Flash drive stick, and install it that way?

On another question, my Apacche does not like WIndows 11 naming the root directory as windows-SSD ©
How do I rename the dictionary as ordinary C:\ drive?

You can also see the shadecloth I placed over the court yard to protect the Paw paw trees

Installed the new Jinko Solar panels, these are on right of photo, and 34V 10 Amps. Plan to use these to create a manual charging system for the Ni-Fe batteries.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks bro, Just one query…I thought the unix systems such as Android phones are cannot get a virus, how would you write one when there is no root directory and all the file locations are virtual?

Another query how difficult is it to learn UBantu this is a system that doesn’t get viruses? One would save on the software?

So for (2) continued, Can the cheaper machines do what I want?

This Lenovo machine asked me to install a PIN to identify the administrator, how do I remove this?
Also how do I disable all updates ?

Thanks everyone.

James we also lost you phone number, as my wife phone is a new one too, the old SIM didn’t transfer over very well.

My old Lenova Laptop died. The Hardly Normal techo saleperson got upset with me and walked off. I must be a hard customer. So all you techo wizards out there some questions….

(1) Can a Android phone get malware or not, when you go Internet banking, I told him it is near impossible for viruses to harm an Android phone….and it you bothered to make a malware virus it could not do much for the attacker, on a unix based system with secure banking? Am I write, or is my techo salesman right?

(2) Windows 11 S version (simplified version) cannot and will not allow executable file packages to unpack on your C drive? Wow, why bother having a computer like this? All it does is surf the Internet with it’s pre installed software…. He said something like it run things slowly if your tied?? I do not run game packages, so I get the speed issue if your a modern geek on gaming…but I use my machine for doing Paint, NotePad and I also run FTP Cute software to upload txt files. I also use a Flash app to run fla video

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