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jamesndarlene
Приєднався 27 лип 2008
A channel about things to do with home and how to save money, make life easier, and be prepared just in case of SHTF. I am very much into anything to do with Solar and saving money, and healthier eating by growing, canning, and dehydrating your own.
Off Grid Chicken Plucker DIY
A short video on an OFF GRID CHICKEN PLUCKER I built. No fuss, nothing to tear up, and very cheap to make. It works great and made chicken processing much faster and cleaner. Just heat water to 145 degrees and dip chicken for about 60 seconds and start spinning, cut the feet off, gut, rinse and your done. I gotta say..... I love it, I wish I had built one years ago! I hope this will help give you some ideals of how to build one for your off grid life style. And if you liked the video give it a thumbs up.
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Free Chicken Food
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A way to feed your chickens FREE organic food that produces a healthier chicken, and a healthier richer egg for you.
Cattle Panel Hoop Greenhouse
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Cattle Panel Greenhouse that I made for starting seeds and maybe over wintering plants in. I am going to try the flower pot heaters in it and see how that works this winter. I have pond plants I would like to be able to over winter while growing some fresh cold weather greens at the same time.
How to wash Lard for homemade Lye Soap
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This video gives an overview of how to use any fat drippings, how to wash them, so they can be used to make homemade Lye Soap. This is a great money saver that produces a great soap from something people would normally toss out. And it has no chemicals, it's all natural.
Berkey Water Filter Life Hack
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A kitchen life hack for the Berkey that sits on your counter and you don't really know what to do with it. Here is a cheap and easy ideal so you can clear up some counter space and make the Berkey easier to use as well. This way you can fit any size under it.
Free Potting Bench Idea
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This is just an idea for what you can make for FREE from pallets. I found many, many styles of potting benches on line but wanted to keep mine simple and free and we really like the way it turned out. We have found this to be very useful this spring and summer! I used no plans just looked at pictures on line and found one I liked and got started and built it in one day. Maybe this will give oth...
This is funny if your a canner!
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This is funny if you are into canning but it's what you should never do! We were in a hurry and the canner still had a couple lbs. of pressure left so I helped it along, and this is what happen. This is why you should let your canner cool off on it's own but I still thought I would post so everyone else could see what happens when you do. Enjoy!
Harbor Freight Solar Charging AA and AAA Batteries
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A quick and easy way to charge your rechargeable batteries using the Harbor Freight Solar panel system (or any solar setup) for FREE! And you gotta love free..... or at least I do! LOL The charger charged the batteries in less than 2 hours so I can charge multiple sets in one day for the kids to use with their Wii and flash lights and other things around the house. This tip is well worth using ...
Chicken Feeder Trick that Saves FOOD!
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This is a hack for the DIY automatic chicken feeders that cost nothing and is also a DIY. It has cut the waste from my chicken feeders down to less than 1 percent. They really do work! And they are made from something we would toss out! If your chickens are wasting food then give this a try!
Chicken Tractor with Coop
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Here is the chicken tractor with coop that I built for my new baby chicks. They are White Rock chicks which are great for eggs and meat. I would say this coop should hold about 10 to 12 full grown chickens. The coop is 4 by 12 by 2 foot. I used hardware cloth rather than chicken wire to help keep critters out. I hope this helps give you some ideals on different ways that you can build your trac...
Composting Toilet DIY
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I made a composting toilet for my shop for next to nothing from pallets and a bucket. I tried to make it look as close to a traditional toilet as possible and make it user friendly also because my wife and kids will be using it to. As of right now I have not seen one made just like this one on You Tube so maybe this will give someone an ideal when they build their composting toilet.
DIY Solar Combiner Box
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DIY Solar Combiner Box on the cheap for our small solar system setup. Been using it for a while now and it's working great so I thought I would share a video on how simple it was to make one since the bought boxes are so high. I bought everything at Homedepot for around 10 bucks or less.
Harbor Freight Solar Panel Setup With Add On
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Here is an update on my Harbor Freight Solar Panel system. I have added a few more panels and added another charge controller. We are making almost 200 watts an hour now so we can use power all day dong without putting a draw on the battery bank.
How to can Salsa the easy and quick way
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Ingredients: 30 -40 Tomatoes 2 lbs onions (1/2 yellow, 1/2 red, I usually add 1-2 additional onions) 5 assorted red bell peppers, green bell peppers or 5 yellow bell peppers 6 -8 jalapeño peppers or add 2 -3 other hot peppers like serrano peppers, habanera peppers etc, adjust to your taste 1 cup lemon juice 1 teaspoons garlic powder 1 teaspoons minced garlic 3 tablespoons salt 4 teaspoons black...
Rehydrating Sweet Potatoes and Canned Butter
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A video I had forgotten about filming last year on rehydrating sweet potatoes and canned butter. We lover our dehydrated potatoes, they are great for pies, breads, or as a side dish.
Cardboard Box Solar Oven Cooking Meatloaf in the winter
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Cardboard Box Solar Oven Cooking Meatloaf in the winter
How to easily install an Electric Fence
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How to easily install an Electric Fence
Doll House Tour of the Doll House I made
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Doll House Tour of the Doll House I made
Solar Cooking Chicken Dressing in a cardboard box solar oven
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Solar Cooking Chicken Dressing in a cardboard box solar oven
Homemade Bio filter and update on my lily pond
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Homemade Bio filter and update on my lily pond
Harbor Freight Solar Panels Wired into my house
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Harbor Freight Solar Panels Wired into my house
Need a bigger inverter!
Thank you for sharing this video displaying your love of miniatures and your daughters! I bought my first dining room set of 4 chairs and a table with my pocket money when my parents took us to visit Toronto and stay in a hotel. I was 9. 50 years later I still remember that long weekend fondly and the dollhouse furnishings collection has grown. (There's a miniature "painting" of Niagra Falls in the dining room and (although not fancy by dollhouse expert standards) the table and chairs still light up my heart. Miniatures are a life long passion and especially so because of the personal connection to the individual pieces. Lovely to see your photos of family in yours.
What an absolute treasure. It’s beautiful. The details are flooring me. You are for sure a wonderful father.
i’ve been making this recipe now for a few years since i found your recipe and it’s the best salsa i’ve ever had
I sure wish you would break it down as to how you hook that little fan up to that solar panel? I can’t see how it connects, or what kind of connector you need to make that work? I really enjoyed this video thank you for sharing!
very nice build!
love this!!!
Amei muito linda.❤❤
This house is absolutely beautiful!!!! You out did yourself and your girls have a loving and caring dad!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Pretty neat! Can you do an update on the pond?
Wow! A lit dollhouse inside of a lit dollhouse. That's really cool!!!
This is one of the nicest dollhouses I have seen.
You did such an amazing job building this!
Wow the times and equipment have changed. This was a beautiful case of getin'er done. Hope you have upgraded over the years our technology has improved dramatically since the making of this video. Still awesome in my book.
So much fun watching older solar vids.... ahhh the evolution of solar...
Nice looking kit. If i go yellow i look for soft light yellow satin. Nobody wants to live next to a banana. Or so i have been told
James, thank you for the great video. do your panels keep up well with the 4 batteries that you have? I am trying to figure out how many batteries to get for 12, 100 watt panels. I want to keep them charged well while running a refrigerator and freezer during the daytime. Thanks again, well done sir!
i love your accent. I'll watch/listen to any video you make. Where is that accent from? Wished I could talk like that.
Your house is going to burn down because speaker wire IS NOT meant for that kind of load! Guess what, your insurance will not pay because your not licensed nor was it signed off by an inspector... Sorry to be a pain in the ass, but your setting yourself up to be a statistic. Hope your house is still there? Good day mate!
James, I love the Victorian doll house. It turned out beautifully!
Is the house still standing? No fire yet
I freaking LOVE IT!!! Thank you! I love the pallet look!
Do you have the solar shed hooked up for lights?
This is a great design. Now that it's been a few years how's it working out for you? I also have another a question: Do you have difficulty getting the bucket out as it sits in there pretty tight.
PRETTY SMART JOB
great dad!!
A dollhouse inside a dollhouse ❣️
Thank you
So sweet how personal you made this.💕💕💕
Can you just give me an idea in mind thank you I am going to build another little building to put my solar panel it it’s going to get one that way I already have four I just don’t have nothing to hook it up yet but if I wanna buy a solar panel from Harbor freight‘s that everything on it and that other round one do you have one you plug all those solar panels and get one of those that way I can work I live in a trailer so we don’t burn that much stuff have a stove oh then we have a fridge And two air conditioners but that is a good idea building a shed bring the stuff in like that I like it I like that idea I said to put on top the trailer the trailer
HOWdy J-N-D, Thanks for the Harbor-Freight system details COOP ...
The bucket is a great idea (and just in time; I’m putting up an electric fence around my darling’s garden as a Mother’s Day present). A question/possible suggestion: If this is going to be a temporary fence, did you consider using the slender fiberglass poles rather than driving in the T-posts; that is, for ease of putting it up and taking it down. (Or maybe using the T-posts just on the end for a little more support.) Any way, just a thought. And thanks again for the bucket idea.
Great video. Thank you. I've looked all over for a lard video all I could find was tallow.
Wow I just loved this. Have two sisters myself and always wanted a dollhouse, and a treehouse. My dad built a toy box probably for the oldest, Beautiful, looked like a car from a circus train with a lion in it, like the animal crackers boxes. He put two drawers in it for smaller pieces like blocks or puzzles. As kids we would empty out the toys and sit in the seat inside created by the drawers, and push each other around for rides. The wheels actually rolled, but we sort if messed them up doing that. Then my younger sister wanted to study interior design or drafting, so dad built her a OOAK custom desk with lots of shallow drawers for her writing instruments and measuring tools, a top that raised up if needed for that angled surface. Put laminated surface on it in her favorite color. She doesn't even appreciate how much effort that took. He didn't build me anything, but if I had told him I wanted a dollhouse, maybe he would have. I spent hours as a kid in the library children's section looking at books about dollhouses, how to build them and their furniture. Took woodshop in highschool, finally bought a small kit four rooms. Got overwhelmed, tried to plan making just a room box from scratch as practice for the house, my husband helped me cut the pieces with our power tools. I have a Dremel and an Xacto knife set . But STILL had trouble actually doing it . Then I saw the completed house in a consignment shop, same kit I had, and bought that. No electricity though. I just needed a little encouragement and help, and there was none of that 😥. Marriage eventually failed Now my stuff for crafting is stolen or in storage, craft supplies missing, I have the house. Need to furnish it because the pieces I had, sofa, shelves, are in storage hopefully. My house is painted and wallpapered, has a fireplace built in too. I wanted to paint my kit yellow with white trim, but it's blue. I want to build a base for It with maybe a basement, and drawers for extra bits and seasonal decorations. Some landscaping. a yard, a tree, with a treehouse?? My kit was a Dura Craft Lafayette model. That company is no longer in business but if you search it you'll find images of one. I am finding tutorial channels showing how to make your own toilets from wood that look like real porcelain, opening toilet tanks and seats and lids too. Amazing artists out there. The electrical still scares me though. I need new glasses if I'm going to attempt to make my own rugs with needlepoint though. Good for you being a great dad. I wonder if you've made two more houses so each daughter can have an heirloom. I hope you've signed the bottom of of the house with the artists name, year it was was completed. Some people suggest photos of where the electrical goes so if any repairs are needed any future owner can find the wires. They really are works of art and should be signed, and insured, each piece
Miniatures and dollhouses - dreaming of them, making an occasional purchase (at thrift stores or online), and making pieces diy - these are therapy. Planning and dreaming about what should go in the house, how it could be made, etc. helped me get through some very rough times. Allow yourself that and experiment. You can do so much with an x-acto knife and cereal boxes and the cardboard from the backs of calendars. You can make a lot of "ceramic" and stoneware by making paper clay. It's inexpensive (white glue, flour or baby powder and water). Paint it with water color and nail varnish. One piece at a time. The elecrical scared me too and so I looked online and found the LED button lights. They are individual, so you have to turn each one on, but like in real life, you usually only use one room at a time, so you only need to turn on the lights in one room and let a desk lamp mimic the sun from outside. The important thing is to do things slowly and enjoy the process. Once the house is finished it's fun to look at, but the real joy is making the interior and treasure hunting for the "perfect" piece. Your comment really touched me and I hope that you find pleasure and happiness soon and that exploring the possibilities of your dollhouse will help you on the way there. In the US, there are lots of opportunities for meeting other miniaturists... All the best to you.
@@patriciaheraty7380 Thank you so much. I've found a lot of miniature channels. There's an overlap with the model train and role playing games people. They all do weathering and terrain. I found an interview with Dr. Ruth She has several dollhouses and plays with them almost daily because it is therapy. A tiny world you can control when real life isn't. I liked the Welcome to Marwen movie too because it's a similar idea.
@@recoveringsoul755 Oh wow, thank you so much for sharing about Dr. Ruth! I had no idea. I just did a search and found an interview with her. Eye-opening and touching. Miniatures have always been a kind of therapy for me - you pointed me in the right direction to find out more, making it scientific. Like you, I also appreciate the role-play and model train crowd. They have a more practical approach to miniatures (practical in the sense that it's okay to be imperfect as long as your imagination knows what you mean). While I'm not a fairy-friend, I do appreciate the Fairy/Elf Door idea that some people create for their children, providing an "entity" to write and tell their sorrows and wishes to around the holidays. Some people are really creative in their "praise and pranks" from and by the elf. Thank you so very much for your reply and info. It means a lot and has been really interesting to find out more. All the very best to you!
@@patriciaheraty7380 did you see the interview with Dr Ruth where she talks about her rough childhood? What I'm learning now is that we can help whatever trauma we're dealing with by creating something with our hands. Some people crochet, some do coloring books, I think cooking counts as an art form, gardening, flower arranging, cake decorating, painting, sculpture, drawing. Anything. We're probably subconsciously drawn to things that we need without even realizing it or understanding why. Good talking to you
@@recoveringsoul755 You are so right! Years ago I read an article about how patients with PTSD are encouraged to knit or crochet - the idea behind it is that your mind is occupied by the routine movement which distracts the "trauma" processing part enough, so that you can just let the deeper emotion flow, even if it is on an unconcious level. The "doing something" physically deceives the brain and lets it process thoughts without the analytics, just flow... I think that creative processes, like you said, give our hands something visually productive to do. I wonder if it is a kind of "soothing" us, so we can process the other thoughts. A friend of mine says she couldn't face the day if it weren't for her doodling/zentangle. Intelligent people are always searching for causality and why... which often is a really positive and solution oriented thing, however, it can also be what stops everything else and then you just get stuck in a loop. Creativity is a bit like, forgive the terrible comparison, a laxative, to get things moving again and not getting stuck ... Forgive me, I had some gruelling stuff for work I had to finish today and it's passed my bed time, (I'm on CET, central European time) so my metaphors are also getting a bit more creative than they perhaps should be and my brain is a bit "fried"... Thank you - I really enjoy the exchange of ideas with you also. Have a great day/afternoon/evening.
Can I ask how much you have invested in this system?
How much power loss is there with that distance.?
Would the system you have power a refrigerator?
Bravo on this project! 👏👏👏 What a great daddy!! 🤗 thank you for the tour! I always wanted one of these! My neighbor had one that was inherited from her momma, that her grandpa built! I loved it! Her dad hooked it up with lights, and some upgrades (new floors, wallpaper, and some furniture pieces), I was always so excited when I came over and they were working on it.
I love it. Do you build and sell them at all? I need one for my guest house.
How long are they good to store?
Very very nice!👍
thanks for posting .. unfortunately, I had no clue how a composting toilet worked. And after watching, I still am at the same point. I have no clue. I think this video is strictly for those who already know how it works.
Is there anything else we can use besides jalapeños. We’re not able to eat those. It will send us to the hospital
You should be so proud of urself what a lovely house 🏠 u will have to do one for each daughter lol so no arguments later on my mum had a house and when she passed I was so upset my younger sis got it. Now I have started 2 houses I hope to have 3 more I have 5 grown kids and I want them all to have one when I pass 2 will be more boyish for my 2 sons to pass on lol so I better hurry up with my building haha x
Beautiful!
Everywhere else I read that if you do a cold pack on tomatoes you need to process it for 40 to 50 minutes this recipe doesn't seem safe
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Good video like the weather proof box...BJ
Great video, thanks for the info and help.
Nice ..