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Wow, I knew that I hadn't many photos of my solar panels, but I know there's at least a couple of short vids with them when I did a panorama of my yard somewhere.

I'll try and dig up some more, but I rarely used the one on the right. The panels on the left are two panels wide and you can gauge how large, or small rather, the entire array was... It powered my entire cabin, 3 Deep freezes where I kept the meat that I killed, one of them a DC freezer - I tried to empty the AC freezers before winter each year because it required a lot of sunlight to run those. My extra large refrigerator was a DC fridge too. There may be pics of that here somewhere as well, or I'll try to screenshot it from a kitchen video.

My garden as you can see, prolly summer 2017, is obviously before I learned the hard way that those cute deer are actually Satan. Eventually, the perimeter of my garden looked like Omaha Beach on D-Day in Normandy with ragged, sharp shards of steel, rebar, and wire fencing guaranteed to impale and break the legs of any deer that dared to jump over the 10' perimeter fence surrounding my garden, which itself was surrounded by a solar powered electrified ribbon fence.

If one does become entangled in that mess, you have to wait for a considerable time until they realize they're fucked and resolve to just calm down and accept their fate - at that time you can shoot them in the heart.

Why? Because if you kill them while the adrenaline is still pumping through their body your venison is going to be less than yummy - to say the least.

So there's other pictures here of my huge, two story cabin, so you can get a picture of just how much those solar panels actually provided me. My battery banks provided enough storage to keep my household running (TV/cellular amp/Internet too) for about 4 days, after which I had to switch to gas or diesel gensets to charge them up.

House lights were a mixture of AC and DC.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #off_grid #Humboldt

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August 11th, 2020 - My final month on the mountain before the fires of the August Complex came and dashed everything away.

As you can see, my bountiful garden was thriving, with more than I could consume myself - it was wonderful.

#tallship #Humboldt #Homesteading #Off_Grid #Jeremiah_Johnson #wilderness #solitude

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18 December 2017, Homeboldt, California.

The joys of cooking with wood fired stoves.

This was my #Stanley_cooker and oven. I even managed to make a couple of cakes in there - now that's a challenge, but once you develop an intimate understanding of working the firebox and valves to maintain the temps you want in the oven, all things are possible.

But it still took about 45 minutes to get a fire going and the stove top hot enough to cook a skillet of 🥓 bacon & 🐣🥚 eggs

#tallship #off_grid

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Looking through the poppies in my garden towards my old #cabin in the mountains of #Humboldt, #California.

These were wonderful times... Before the fires of the #August_Complex.

This is one of my fav photos of my old home in the serene isolation of #nature.

I had a few wonderful years here, before having to #evacuate to a world consumed by fear and uncertainty amidst the calamity of the global #Wuhan pandemic.

18 June 2018

#tallship #off_grid #wilderness #home

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Valentine's Day - 6 years ago today in 2018, living off-grid in in the mountain #wilderness of #Humboldt, California.

Just me, myself, and I, on a sunny afternoon with my wood fired Stanley cooker.

#tallship #Valentines_Day #off_grid

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6 years ago - 01 December 2017, #Humboldt, California.

Collecting as many bucked logs as possible - two or three loads per day of sufficiently seasoned wood while there's still no snow.

First, you fell the trees, then you buck it all up as logs. Several months or a year later, you go back and collect those.

All of the logs are then 🪓 split, and then stacked on the porch and elsewhere.

Nice, dry, Doug Fir, Oak, and Madron for cooking and heating.

#tallship #off_grid

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November 25th, 2017.

Love Seat at the Precipice of it All.

#tallship #Humboldt #scenic #off_grid

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Valentine's Day breakfast, 2018.

My wood fired #Stanley_cooker stove and oven.

Everything is better when it's cooked in an #Iron_skillet.

I baked a few cakes in that oven, which is a real challenge - adjusting the type and amount of wood in the firebox as well as the redirect of the heat to the oven box.

It takes constant attention. The first cake, I had to cut out the center, which wasn't done, like a bundt cake.

#tallship #off_grid #foodpr0n #Humboldt

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Ah... now that was enough wood for about three weeks.

Oak, Doug fir, and Madron, bucked and split and stacked up on my porch like a solid wooden brick, 7½' high x12' wide x 6' deep.

That's a lot of fucking fire #wood!

Everything I cooked and all of my heat came from that wood stack.

#tallship #off_grid #rural_life #Humboldt

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My "mean and ornery" rooster. I punted him several times cuz he's just didn't learn and always tried to flog me.

Last thing I said to him and the other chickens before the fires of the August Complex incinerated everything shortly after I evacuated the mountain with my cat and whatever I could load into my truck was...

"Good luck".

Read the Alt text for more of the story...

#tallship #off_grid #chickens #Humboldt

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December 3rd, 2018...

You can see the massive glow in the furnace.

#off_grid in the remote mountain wilderness of Humboldt, California, miles from the nearest humans.