RE: An Idea to Reality, Manifestation in Action
@makinstuff that trailer has come out really awesome and could probably provide enough power for a small community of homesteads if they were conscious in how much power they consumed. It really is a great idea (made reality) as a power plant for your homestead.
When you start your homestead I highly encourage you to document the process day by day. I say this not just because it would make a great learning tool for others but also having the record yourself can be highly beneficial in a number of ways.
If you ever need insight on land stewardship, homesteading, spring development (water management) or really anything please feel free to tap my knowledge base. While I have only been doing what I am doing now for six hundred and sixty-five days I have nearly two decades of experience to living similarly to this.
If you are transitioning from a domestic life to a rugged one here is a litmus test that I often advise people to try to discover their own ingrained habits...Go to your kitchen sink and turn both valves off to the water supply to the faucet and leave them off for a day (a week or whatever) and be amazed that every time you need water (even knowing you personally shut the valves off) that you will try to use the faucet.
Cheers and best of luck on your homesteading adventure!
Dude! Thank you so much, that is exactly why I built the trailer to be a central point to accelerate the development of a small conscious homesteaders community. I have a little infrastructure set up on the land, but my first goal is to get a water faucet installed. I have access to the county water line on the land. I have a 270 gallon in tote set up for initial water catchment. I want to demo the building of a hexayurt aircrete structure using pre made forms.
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Awesome! Woot a county water line! That is some luxury right there. The IBC (intermediate bulk containers) work well if that is what you have. Just try to get it elevated if you need gravity water pressure coming off of it or look at a 12 volt DC SHURflo pump. You might already know this but for every one foot of head you get 0.433 PSI in water pressure.
Those aircrete (ferrocement?) prefabs are super nice. I was looking at the ones that use an inflatable canvas form before and they go up Fast!