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Welcome back, folks.
This is Lloyd Creature.
This is Paul McDaniel.
This is Radio Arrow with EKH,
on 104.9 FM to VSKV.
It's Denk and Teggy.
Hope everybody's having a great, wonderful,
first day of spring.
It's spring.
It's spring.
Yeah, nice day today.
I was able to get out and do a whole lot.
It was chilly this morning, but it warmed up quick.
Yeah, it was 49.
48.
49.
I had 37 up in the hall.
37.
Yeah.
But it turned out, turned, turned, worn quick.
Yeah.
Yeah, did.
I started coming out of layers.
But since the last time we was on here,
we've been through what?
Two glizzards and a couple inches of snow and...
Well, just everything in the world.
We've seen 80s.
We've seen 70s and 60s.
All the way back down into the 30s and 20s.
And it's just that time of year again and stuff.
And I remember we'd pay for those 16, 70, 70-degree days.
The stuff is when it's February and it's 50 degrees
and thunderstorm and...
Yeah.
Thunder and stuff.
You were going to pay for those days.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
And we paid for those days.
Yeah.
I was already done with winter.
I was done with it four or five times.
And with all the snow and ice.
And for...
What was it?
20 heavy days.
We had 20 some days of old freezing.
Something like that.
Yeah.
That's just not...
That doesn't just don't happen around here.
Well, you just can't get out and do nothing.
I mean, we had so much ice as what it was, you know what I mean?
I kept tire chains on the...
On the blazer just about all winter just to get in and out of the house.
Yeah.
And then no school and stuff.
Because the roads kept getting covered up and everything.
Yeah.
It seems like it only snows at night down.
I don't know why that is, but...
They got it programmed that way.
I think so.
I'm a big believer that a lot of this crap that we get nowadays is all me and me.
Well, the little Googling was out there waiting on you and asking Google
us that what effect do billionaires have on our climate?
Uh-huh.
You know, the average billionaire puts more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in one day
than the average human being does in a lifetime.
Oh, yeah, I believe.
You know, with their jets and, you know, the yachts and just...
And then they don't care either.
Yeah, yeah.
But they want to take all the stuff away from us.
Well, we're starving to death, you know, they don't care if we starve.
But we can't go there unless they're...
Well, that's not politics, it's just reality, but...
Yeah.
But, uh, so we've been all over the place as far as the weather goes.
We've had a really...
No, it's...
It can't be kind of dry, it's free.
Yeah.
We've had a lot of moisture, but it's not...
A lot of moisture compared to what normal year...
Well, you know, I was able to grade my hill road today, finally.
I've been kind of grading it here in there.
We had a big mud mess come up in it and then...
And it's got a ditch line runs all the way down the main part of it.
And there's water coming out of that bank everywhere.
Oh, yeah, I'm...
You know, and it's normally not this time of year.
So I finally got a ditch all the way down to the bottom where, you know,
got all the water over there and sit out and mill the road.
And...
I want to wait, I've found my big...
My big tractor's got a flat tire on it on the front.
Oh, wonderful.
And it's a forward drive unit.
And so I got to put a new tire on it.
And I've been putting this...
I've used it on all my lawnmowers and tractors and everything.
It's not fixed to flat, but it is fixed to flat.
Slime.
No, it's not slime.
It's better than slime.
Oh, it is.
And...
But it...
I put it in a whole bottle of this stuff and it aired it up and...
And...
Remnant circles like you're supposed to.
So it covers the whole area.
You got so many miles an hour with it.
Yeah.
And...
Four days later it was flat.
Yeah, sometimes that stuff works and sometimes it doesn't work.
Well, so I'm sitting there one day.
I had to spray it off the water hose so I could work on it because it was muddy and everything.
And the hole in the tire is on the side of the tire.
Oh, really?
And there ain't no fixin' that.
No, I had no passion in there.
Yeah, you can't boot that or nothing.
Well, you put a tube in it.
You can probably put a tube in it and everything.
But if I did it, I'm going to probably do it again and stuff.
I don't know how I did it.
But I know I did it and stuff.
So I'm going to have to get that thing fixed.
But...
So every three or four days I'm going to travel to the air compressor and stuff and fill in my tire.
Well, I got a rear tire on that Jeep out there.
It goes low all the time.
I put slime in it and fix the flat and everything in the world.
It's got some alloy rims on it.
And alloy rims leak air.
I don't care what you do to them.
Yes, sir.
On my truck.
Same way.
And stuff.
I have alloy rims on my truck and they leak air.
And stuff.
Talking about tires and stuff.
I had a couple weeks ago.
We haven't been on here in a while.
But a couple weeks ago stuff.
I had a tire that just didn't feel right.
I took it in.
And they only...
They're only 13 months old.
And stuff.
Great traction.
Traded and left it on them and everything.
And they fell out of the ground.
Well.
And so the guy checked the old.
And they fell out of the ground.
The Jeep tires?
Or...
The Jeep tires.
What Jeep?
No, nothing.
The Jeep that way.
Money was.
The Jeep made it.
It was $900 for two tires.
Ooh, boy.
And they're 10-ply off-road.
And stuff.
I pull on trailers.
So I put 10-plys on my truck.
Everybody.
I like to reply anyway.
And...
But they fell out of ground.
And they were...
I don't know.
He showed me on the little tire spitter thing that you put the weight and stuff on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Balance me.
The balancer.
He showed me that tire going around.
It looked like an egg.
What?
Going around and around.
I mean, it felt like I had a driver down there.
I can't go on that road.
So I felt like he was going down a gravel road on the blacktop stuff.
So I wind up getting all four new tires and everything.
It cost me near that much when I got these tires and stuff.
And these are...
They're high-culture tires.
And they're beefy.
And I put them to good use the very next day.
So...
Well, I got good tires on that Blazer now.
And they had it.
You know, I needed brims.
And he said, if you buy my tires, I sell here.
I'll give you the rims.
I said, well, that sounds like a deal.
They're a good solid.
They're an eight-ply.
You know, which is good enough on that Blazer, you know.
It's not that heavy of them up.
But they had good traction and they're solid.
You know, I've been buying tires through Perry.
They're an urban.
And he gets a farm-rated tire.
They're all eight-ply or, you know, they're ten-ply.
Yeah.
You know, and he'll mount them on the rims for me.
I'll have some of them.
That were going to be done better than balance tonight.
Yeah.
But they've always showed up good.
Yeah.
And stuff.
And I was buying four new tires for that truck and stuff.
And they're good now and stuff.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's been rough.
So last week I was trying to get in here last week to do a radio show.
And I come down with Flewet.
I've not had Flewet and I don't know.
12 years 13 years. I only had it once and they gave it to me and so I
haven't taken a flu shot and couldn't tell you when well it's been since
old for UK there's nothing required there. Well that's what gave me the
flu they gave me a shot and I haven't had flu but I got so my son brought it
home. Of course he did and he had it for a week and then he gave it to me and so
I had it for I've had it for about four days bad and then I went to
the earth to the treatment center and they said Mr. Treat you have flu A. Oh great
wonderful. I don't know the difference between them. Flu A is bad. I had been
that sick in a long time and then Sunday night I went feeling good at all and
my chest was hurting really bad I was getting like electrical shocks to it and
my back was hurting and I was like well I've got walking the moaning now.
He's some bad girl. And so go to the hospital they check me for heart attack
and everything. Run cat scans and all this die through me and all this crap
everything and they said oh you got bronchitis too. Oh wonderful yeah and so you
know all this I have quit smoking. Goody for you and I haven't had a cigarette in the
week now. I can stand around you now and talk. But I am on these synthetic
stuff things and it's taking the edge off so I don't have the cravings and that
that that was my always my biggest thing and stuff is good. I guarantee if you
are a cigarette right now you'd probably choke yourself after that. Oh yeah I
have. You would have a craving long. But I've still got bronchitis and everything
I'm still on meds for everything but I feel like one day I feel really good
next day. Well it's gonna come and go into your body. And but I'm finally I'm
finally getting over it kicking the bug on this thing. It's taking a minute I
mean I'm just dying. I stayed hydrated I know I did stuff. I love
cigarette and water anyway but I made sure I was drinking three or four bottles
of water and get rid of the day but I just I don't it's taking a minute to get
over. I don't know why. We're getting older now Lloyd. You don't spring back as
quickly. You know I mean you can give each other crap about getting older stuff
but it is true. Oh yeah it is. Yeah Lloyd I'll be 75 on my next birthday. You
know and I just had to dig a ditch and dig post holes and pack batteries and I
am sore all over. Oh yeah. You know when I 30 years old I you know I'm going full
time stone mason and log house building. You know I'd come in from work I
really go do something else. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's like to do the get out of
chair once I come home. So right now in the houses and stuff I've been doing a
lot of drywall work. Stand up stuff. And with me with broad kinds of stuff I've
been signed away from the sanding and the sanding and everything because I
don't want to. No you don't need to breathe that. But I did go by one of those
really fancy drywall masks and stuff that I'll cover your whole head. Yeah come
down over your shoulders. It's got two big old filters everything and it really helps
but I still don't want to take me to be drywalling right now trying to get over
bronchitis and stuff but it's you know used to you do stuff and you'd never
think about it. No no no. And now you're like hmm that's all I do think about it
and have some. Is that a smart decision or is that a double decision? Well you know
my whole brain function is different now you know stuff that I took for granted
you know I have to really really think about it you know and and I've rewired
my my solar batteries today and I know exactly what I'm doing but I did it wrong
in my brain went to farting and I went to freaking and you know and then I had to
walk away from it for a while and I scratched my butt a little bit and I went back
and I go oh this is what I did wrong and moved the wire or you know and everything
was fine but you know 10 years ago I wouldn't have done that you know when
I made that mistake but the fun parts of getting over I guess. Well you take
things for granted you know I know how to do this and you go on automatic
pilot and you forget to say when you're younger you're actually thinking
while you're doing it. I don't think I was like well yeah I don't know how much
I was doing either of it. But now you're thinking about what you're doing
and you're having to because you remember but oh well fun fun fun but now
Teresa's got this stuff and she got a lot harder much harder than Bubby did
and much harder than I did. Well you know you get out and get
exercising you're not in the air all the time you know what's helps you know
and she'd probably didn't get the exercise you get and it's that she
works on a well she works on a computer stuff but she does a lot of
interviews and basically she's in a share all day long yeah building you know
and so but it she's really taking it hard this time and she says she's never
been this sick in her life and she said you want to go get a flu shot and I'm
like nope still ain't getting the flu shot. You already got the flu what do you want
to shot for and she said next year she's thinking about getting the flu
she said she said she couldn't she don't know if she could live through you know
there's people die from flu and she said she could have been on that she could
have seen that because that she she had a really really well I know Lloyd
that you're against it 100% but I swear by this switch. It kills somebody if you
study on it it kills so much bacteria and viruses that go in your body that if
you do come down a little bit of flu you won't even feel it you know and it
works for a lot of people and it works for me and I know a lot of people that
use different things and stuff but anything that's got apple cider vinegar in it
can't be out well the stuff that it that's the smell alone well you know I put
so much honey in here and then I put peppermint oil in it you know and I put
the elderberry juice in mine too and it just I don't taste the vinegar at all
it's a part honey is what it is yeah it's heard it keeps the stuff down out of
you yeah and then I said my sister got it has got it too right now and she she
she was she's looking for all in extra medicines that her she's she's taking
out of a mechanism right now this stuff and she and she feels a lot better
well you know I take vitamin C every day too I take one medication I take my
thyroid pill in the morning you know it's made out of meat you know it's not
even chemical but then I I get them chewable vitamin C's you know they taste
pretty good in the morning when you first getting up so I have one in the
morning and I have one in need you know and I'm getting double the dose of
vitamin C I need every day which which really helps and then I take a vitamin E
capsule you know which is really helps with your immune system and then plus
every day you know I get at least a swallow a switch or you know I keep it
refrigerator if I wake up in the middle of night and I you know especially in
the winter where you're dry from the wood stove and stuff you get a
mouthful of that and it takes that dryness out of your mouth and you know I just
don't get sick not on plastic or whatever the thing is
it's really don't know Keith and Hayden made work yeah I'm
these and built this I think so oh good boy Ethan but yeah but I'm sure switch
well it's good stuff but I'm not willing for stuff I mean there is some
stuff that I take and stuff that that mullin yeah I take mullin and it's really
good stuff and and different all natural berries and stuff and but I'm out on
the on the vinegar vinegar yeah I'm not or what it is smell or something knocks me
up I just went stocked up the other day I'm gonna make some more so there's some
but it is getting that time of year you are saying you've got plates coming up
right yeah I got my brain well everything's trying to grow in the greenhouse you
know but it dropped cold and I'd put a heater in there and then it gets warm and
I got to turn the heater off and it's just but I've got broccoli probably three
four inches tall I got the Swiss charred coming up in there I got beets I always
start to stuff in the greenhouse and then set it out and I've got Brussels
sprouts and I got two big pans full my left over a little small sweet taters I'm
trying to get them the sprout see if they'll they'll sprout then I of course
my neighbor says and she's she's in a nursing home right now but she
seeded some marigold seeds in a big and I got them in my greenhouse well
somebody little weeds coming up in the I'm using old composted horse manure is
dried up for the pot and so yeah and I don't know what the marigolder what's
the other little green thing coming up in there I'll just have to wait and see
here and have to wait and see if that's the problem but you know I I did turn up
I love turnips and I hadn't been able to get them grow for several years and
then last fall I said heck with it you know I just went about a big handful of
seeds and I started down and every turn up came up I'm still eating turnips I
got about a quarter of a bush old in the cellar yet okay you know and they're
still good and solid and after this freeze after this nasty winter when it
thawed out I went out there and there was turnips out there some of the biggest
baseball still in good eating shape so that's a that's a crop you can grow that
requires very little maintenance and it's excellent food it's good for blood sugar
control and it's got all kinds of minerals and stuff and it there it is you
know I know we're think about adding them to a garden sure also try a last time
on these on here stuff we talked about greenhouses and those need windows
well I still need windows and stuff I haven't found the ones I went exactly
right so I like to find like eight of them that are the same sizes I saw a
whole bunch on the other day they got bulldozed into a hole in the ground oh no
they gave me them solar panels and all that it's coming with a big dozer's
couple buildings there and I thought they'd like to have them windows you know
next thing I know here comes this dozer rolling right over top of it you know
oh man but they were like a thermal pain you know like a little small look maybe
like they'd belong to a house trailer or something but they were brown framed
yeah but there was probably half a dozen number more you know 32 inches
square or something like that you know and they're underground now I've seen
some of them in marketplace and everything and but there's not enough of them
yeah stuff like one person's got this one size and then no person's got another
size so you can't match them up there but you can't match them up here and I
would like to have all the same style you go ahead and frame it up you know
stick them in there you know yeah and so we're working on that stuff and but
would be down in their things so everything's on the stand steel right now but
man I tell you what the grass is growing yeah it wasn't not so bad around my place
but I went down my neighbors today and her grass needs mode oh yeah I'm I've already seen
like three or four people molded yeah that's all one guy today I'm just like don't start
you know once you start it's there every week it's every week well in dead
summer it's like every other day you know and so I know dad's been working on his
more I started buying it up like three weeks ago during one of them coats fails
and stuff just to keep the battery charged so I don't have to go buy a new battery but it's
started it took it a second but it started right up well I've got three
numbers in my barn two of them blocked us one of the seasons one of mine and
then I'm keeping one for a neighbor and the way he bulldozed his property off he
ain't going to need it for the next five years it's a big craftsman but I keep
everything hooked to solar yeah you know and I've got I got one big panel out there and I run
it to one battery and then I got jumpers it runs from that battery to the next and then
jumpers from that one to the next you know and he keeps him keeps him hot all winter that's cool
so once I did I've been working on the heater I was telling you oh yeah that whether you call
that thing an induction heater yeah and it does work and stuff it's real easy it runs off 12
volts DC fans takes two different the one I started the one I made it can run off of just one
fan or I'm put I did put another fan motor on it to help it disperse the air a little bit better I
don't have maybe six bucks in it well cool that's the way you want to go and you can run it off
a solar charger you can run it off solar panel you can whatever I mean well if you get a small
enough solar panel I've got one old solar panel there and it's probably about two-foot square
it puts out like 13 volts yeah so you don't need a controller with it you can hook it straight
to a battery and then that's what I was going for that's that's where you can just go get
you a small panel and you stick it up on the roof somewhere ready a wire to it you just take
going to set it out in a sun put a voltmeter on see what it's doing you know yeah and but it does
work everything and and so we don't have to really worry about as much for the rest of this year
that stuff it for next year I'm a little bit of a couple of them I'm getting the radiators out of
the refrigerators okay stuff so when a refrigerator goes bad usually it's a compressor or something
like that and so don't need the compressor so I take the radiators in the top part of the
the ice box and so you just take that well that's a condenser you know yeah it takes takes
to get them throughout take that piece of metal out with the fan motor and everything just take
that out you don't need it take the radiator out and usually it has ports on it where they just
pop loops and stuff so you don't have to cut it or anything one of them I did have to wind up
cutting everything but I went and got the little pliers to open the hole back up and then take that
out and this is simple and stuff that's all you need and then taking electric motors now I'll
put more instructions on this later stuff I've got all this stuff I know it works now
what do you like school and so I'm going to build a couple of them
Isn't that great when you come up with an idea for something you put it together and it actually
works it does and so it's everybody's like what you just go get an electric heater and put it in
in your motor or in your well you have to buy that and then it's probably going to use a lot more
current and what you've got use a lot more electricity than what you need right and so I'm trying
I'm trying to do it as cheaply and efficiently as I can and it does work so so now I can go build
one of these put this in a garage and when the sun comes up and everything it can stay warm in
there and everything it's it's really good insulated so it will stay warmer in there and
just to have something to work off of or something like that yeah well any kind of little small
heating device if you've got a tight area you know yeah the windy blowing in there you have to
repair the time you know it's going to it's going to heat the whole area so and then the reverse
part of that so since I made the heater you can make an air conditioner oh you know that's
something I've been trying that before you know you tear up you tear open a window air conditioner
that stuff here you got all this big stuff and it's got fan control you got four or five
thing controls you got wires right here right there and where and if you break it down
and put it in a simple form you don't need hardly nothing to make a refrigerator to make a refrigerator
or a cooling device no I mean look at there's all propane refrigerators there ain't nothing to them
no literally the the the big thing for a for a refrigerant compressor is a 12 volt DC small
little motor that's got a pump on it and stuff it's got the inflow pump and outflow pump and
stuff it's all made right there together stuff and and don't take hard you might have 20 bucks in it
probably junk around and not even pay anything for one thing and you can put you can put
free on in it and everything and that's that's really the hard heart and soul system is what kind
of refrigerant you're going to put well the old propane refrigerators they used ammonia
yeah and they mixed it with water and then they had some kind of chemical in there to come from
crowding the the systems in there but you know you got to flame on them but size of a candle
yeah it's heating that up steaming it up in there you know and the water steams up and it takes
the ammonia with it yeah and the and the reason uh I wanted to hear stuff is because in my garage
it's stuff I throw away a bunch of glue and paint every year because it gets froze once it gets
frozen they know good I just got done throwing some away and uh so you know I'm gonna go off to
the big box store and buy my wood glues again and everything and so I built this cooler last year
out of wood and then it's got uh two-inch thick pink foam and then it's got another uh insert in it
and stuff and that's where my glues and stuff go to and then I'll mount the heater inside of it
and it'd be more than enough room in there to mount the heater stuff and then I just run a little
wire out to a solar panel and it will keep everything inside of that box for well and that's
what I'm looking for well you know I just built this battery box for season and put it batteries
in for you know or some of the same where that box needs to be insulated and all and I said
yeah done that's for a battery you know I let acid battery you know yeah if it's got a charge on
it you know it's not gonna freeze yeah well oh yeah but it will you know and so I got to study
on it you know what it takes to freeze what the freezing point of a lead acid battery with a
charge on it is what would you think five degrees something you know no I'd say negative
30 or so 76 degrees below zero 76 so if you got a hot battery in your Jeep out there and it goes
dead on you because it froze I don't think we're gonna worry about that battery
then 76 degrees below zero for a lead acid battery to freeze if it has a charge on it
yeah but if the charge is completely dead in that battery it'll freeze at the same temperature
as water 30 32 a little below you know so that's kind of crazy yeah so I went ahead and insulated
the box anyway just so yeah you know that's good stuff did you put holes in it so the so the
fumes can get out well I put a lid on the summary just open it up a little bit see I my battery
box on that those deep cycle batteries they they're so sealed so tight you know that but yeah
that box is gonna be loose enough that there's any fumes in there and it's outside the house okay
you know and in the summer summer I opened mine I got three sides of drop down on my battery box
and I'll just drop one down you know in winter time close them back up but you know on hers you
know it can just pop something underneath the lid you know that's cool but uh you know we've
been fixing up some solar my neighbor seasons in a nursing home right now she broke her ankle
before Christmas and it went south on her and she's healing up now but she has to be somewhere where
she can be on an IV drip you know every so many hours somebody has to come in change it and yeah
you know she's under therapy every day and figured the nursing home would be the best place for her
right now yeah and so her son I talked about upgrading her solar she only had two panels and
they were on the roof of her house and in winter time she's on the dark side of the man oh wow
yeah yeah and she was batteries were constantly going dead so uh just luckily some guy came down while
we were discussing this and gave me six solar panels nice ones cool and glad he gave him to me because
the time I bought the pressure tree to lumber to build the frames and the wire and the condo it
to put them in and everything else to get it up there it's like $1,300 oh yeah yeah yeah
yeah letting nothing treat it's it's funny because I was watching a that show I've
telling you about last time one here building off grid oh yeah and uh so these these people
were building this nice house off grids and they had to have solar panels and they put
16 solar panels up and then they put uh they had I think 16 batteries yeah well I got 13
panels and 18 batteries and all these big charge controllers and stuff like that and their use
was only about I don't know seven or eight percent of what the the guy gave me these panels
he bought a piece of property you know all this was already hooked up had the batteries and the
batteries were all dead as they could be and but he had a inverter with a built-in charging system
that he hooked to a generator you know and this thing weighs like 60 pounds you know and it was
all I could do to get it off the wall and then some big fancy controller and he was going to run a
220 a deep well pump off of it and the charger and everything was fine for it but he didn't have
the batteries and he didn't have the solar for it and you know and but anyway when I hooked it
up for series and I just used her old controller and her old inverter you know which it's gonna work
this perfectly well oh yeah and not have a big bulky stuff just screwed everything and you know
people do over kills you know yeah they do over kills and stuff because that's what somebody's
told them right you know you know if you actually just sit down and look at the bolts nuts and
everything you don't need this big killers well it's nice to go a little over what you
absolutely need you know yeah but when you start doing the overkill like this you know you instead
of paying you know 80 bucks for an inverter or a hundred bucks for an inverter you're paying
$600 for one you know yeah why yeah you know but now I know you you spend as much as little as
you want to on a solar system oh yeah and the little ones will do just as good as the big ones
well and if you got good sunlight you know you don't really need that many panels it's all in
your storage and your batteries you know you can be able to store that juice yeah and but you
know I learned the hard way I didn't know anything about what I was doing you know when I hooked
my house up and somebody gave me these little harbor freight you know 15 watt panels and I had
two little gel batteries and I had a light bulb and that was about it and I started to say well
you know I need to do a little better you know and I commend some money and the only catalog I had
with Northern Northern Tool Company and they had these 200 watt panels in there for $500 a
piece yeah well I bought three of that's $1,500 yeah well now I've got 10 more panels out there
besides them and I ain't got 80 bucks and all of them and they're bigger you know so you know
you can find them they're out there they are out there stuff and people go buy them stuff and
have good intentions of putting them in and and then not using all the stuff like that and and
stuff so that's it's crazy you know even though hillbilly's like us and stuff and still find
this stuff and put it together and and have electric and stuff like that well I like my electric
now you know I mean you know everybody except for Paul because Paul don't have to worry about it
the stuff my electric bill the farm was $500 one month well it's gone up on everybody
and uh problem is as well and nobody lives there there's no water here running nobody washes
clothes there other than when I get really dirty and muddy and all well what's turning the meter
you know and so what is turning the meter why why was my why was my bill $500 I think they
charge you a minimal whether you're using it or not and then through the summer it's $47
this stuff so you know the only thing I got runs are refrigerator and so they don't really
draw that much no and then the heat so the the heat you know we we talked about this for a few
minutes last time on the stove when when it gets below 30 degrees turn your outside air your
outside heat pump off and let your indoor heater coils well heat pumps aren't that efficient
cold weather they are not efficient anytime if it's super hot out there conditions working wide
open trying to you know now there's but on that off grid show stuff and then a lot of the
articles I've been reading here lately on home-stating outlets and stuff like that a lot of people are
going back to the it's the tube system varying the tube and using mother earth as the warmer
and stuff because the earth stays 50 degrees yeah I'm in the 30s or so much it depends on who you
ask and stuff 23 58 degrees right and stuff well it's a whole lot easier to warm up 58 degree
temperature yeah this try to warm up negative you know if you're freezing outside and you walk
into a house and it's only 58 degrees in that house it's warm in there it's warm in there yeah and so
and then even in the summertime so you're taking the 58 degrees that feels great when it's a
hundred oh yeah it's cool yeah then stuff and so a lot more people are starting to go back to
I'm running tubes and yeah geothermal you know and instead of having the big geothermal whales that
are you know hundreds of feet deep and no you just do trench trench you know yeah good I still
have to go down deep enough to yeah you got to go down I think it's four four to five feet
it's about about about what a regular backhole dig you know yeah and I run you tubes and everything
make sure that water can't get into your tube and run you start a hole on one side of the house
running that tube down in the ditch around the ditch back into the house on the other side of the
house and then put you a inland fan on that stuff so in the winter time 58 degrees will help warm
a house and then the summertime 58 degrees will help cool a house well so that's what I'd want to
do some years ago to bury a line over to that one creek behind my shop it haven't come up underneath
my bedroom floor you don't have a little inland fan in it you know I don't want to do that this
year I still have that that convincing unit that stuff and then we can do that that's doable
I you know it stuff like that's on my list Lloyd I don't have a written list anymore can I be
yeah but it's doable oh yes absolutely and so I need to go down get that old back over that I
had it else you know the the steering pump went out on it yeah and fix it and then I come up
there and I actually trench something oh yeah you know I buried this electric line for Susan
solar you know I had to go 223 buried 10 gauge wires but I took the potato plow on the tractor
and just kind of trench all the way up through there but you started to get in there with the
shovel and clean that trench out yeah then fill it back in by hand and but that
potato plow don't go cut a trench down through the gravel driveway and yeah that rocking ground
and tree roots and but yeah so a lot of people are going back to to that it's geothermal's what
it is yeah so it is yeah and stuff and and one thing that in your favor is you've got a cage
you've got a cage not too far away from your house well it's up there in that cliff yeah
and you could run to to get down and stuff and then catch all that fresh air coming down through
there let's see I get nice where my house is you know it's for that hill there you know there's
actually there's a branch of water on both sides of me and both of them come out of the cave
yeah one of them's right in a cliff line which is on the boundary between me and the neighbors
in Peter cave of course you had to be on my property to walk into it but then the other one's
up on the the Vanderwaltz property it's Johnson cave but in the evenings in the summertime I can
open my bedroom windows and face in that direction and you can feel there be no air moving outside
but yet you feel cool air coming through those windows like it's moving you know and I rarely
ever get hot in the summer you know and I turn a little low fan on I've got Chester George
there about that one window turned a little low fan on there and I've had to actually get up in the
summer and pull a little light blanket on the bed oh yeah because that air coming down out of that
hollow but this time too I want to go in there and just get cold yeah when it's a hundred some
degrees the humidity is well it'll get hot and it'll get hot in them Hollers too with them three
creeks down there you know you get a lot of steam coming up yeah that's a lot of humidity coming
out there yeah but that is that is a thing now that I'm starting to see a lot more of a lot of
off-grid magazines that I read and everything and there's what I read online and videos I've
started to see more of stuff as people are starting to go back and it's it's really inexpensive
what five hundred dollars well you take people like you and me they're good at grubbing around
for stuff you know and we could look at our pal jump and go you know I got a good start on it
right there oh yeah and I had to go out and start to get into the center and start buying stuff you
know it's just taking any any size fan and just take over a hole and then in the in the summer time
stuff take the fan and turn it upside down yeah blow it back down and blow it back the other way
and then you've got heating and cooling and everything so it don't take a lot to make up just a
little bit of difference the stuff so I know a few years back when you came down the hollow not
blowing that insulation in the back part of my house in the in the roof yeah well that's
stuff made a world of difference oh yeah and then my back porch in the in the evenings the
sun comes around the summertime and and hits that porch roof with my bedrooms right on the other
side of that wall well I took that you know the the small sheet to foam board with the aluminum
backing on it and tacked it up on the on the rafters in that porch roof now I don't get that much
heat on that back porch in the summer yeah it reflects it back you know in my bedroom school or
from that I mean there's there's ways you can work things you know to yeah you know that galvanized
metal stuff it looks great on your on your roof and stuff makes everything look old no that stuff
but if it's reflecting sun it's it's attracting the heat and everything so I mean that's why you
know you can use white metal to help block the heat and stuff you can use bloom at bloom metals
actually it's supposed to be the bedroom yeah but then in winter time you want that blackers
you know that's where insulation just in the walls and in the ceilings and stuff you know
and then you have more control over the stuff but you know I've worked in a lot of these
old log houses you know and I found this out years ago the Scottish introduced it you said
bunch of these old two-story log houses and got a little bitty tiny fireplace upstairs in one
of the rooms got big monster fireplace downstairs and the one upstairs is so shallow and so small
you know what good would this fireplace do it's not a fireplace it's an air conditioner okay
what they would do in the summer they'd build a real low little fire they'd keep a little low fire
in there and then on the other end of the house downstairs on a north wall they'd open windows
or doors and there'd be enough a draw from that chimney upstairs that little low fire that it
would start pulling air through the house okay you know they didn't have monster big houses you know
and they'd have a little cool air and in summer they didn't sleep upstairs they come downstairs and
slept and and but there were air conditioners yeah they weren't fireplaces they weren't big enough
to build a nice fire in there that you go and stay warm and try to yeah that was what the
downstairs fireplace yeah well you know right rise I don't know why they even put upstairs in
them all the houses because in wintertime it was too cold up there they all slept on the floor
in front of the fireplace and the summertime was too hot to sleep on there so they all slept on the
floor and yeah we have the old man and I take his old lady and get away from the kids there
once well you know we were we were in a cabin down the Tennessee uh several years ago
so Bubby's little and it was a 200 year old cabin that had been redone and everything and the
bedrooms were upstairs and stuff and we go up there to that thing and we're tired with the
driving on they and Bubby would not absolutely would not sleep in that cabin and so what's
scared him I don't know it probably was all the old photo family photos that they took pictures of
and hanging on walls and it's up scared him probably scared him and stuff and so traces like
what would we do or we would do well little children like that can be sensitive things and obviously
it's like a dog knows things that we don't know you know little children and so so Bubby would not
go to sleep and so we wound up putting him in the car and headed home that night and stuff because
if he ain't gonna sleep there they know you stay in there right and so we put him in the car and uh
he would not go to sleep till about an hour down the road because we was gonna wear it didn't
that he was nervous he was worried about it because what we was gonna do was gonna put him in the car
they fall asleep and then bring him back into the house yeah that's oh no that's not he knew
what he's up to and stuff so uh yeah he didn't he went he made sure he's about an hour or so just
come find out we come over Joe co mountain that night and it was the fogiest that that's a bad mountain
anytime and stuff that was the fogiest I have ever seen anything and I mean these seminars are
pulling off on the side road everybody's getting off the road because it's a fogging area
thesis is how can you see well it's just a big problem that little white one try to come up that
mountain when there's snow on it oh man I tell you what I drove back from Arizona one time in it
57 Chevrolet pickup truck with tire chains all the way from whole Brook Arizona to the foot of
my driveway oh hey and we just made it up to the jellico pass that got to a McDonald's up there
and pulled in there and they had to radio on jellico pass just been closed by the state police
but there was one of that goes in the ditch I mean people were crashed out everywhere he was
that was a long trip but yeah I'd say that'd be a long trip split tire chains but yeah that's
that's kind of cool follow what else can we talk about over here well um you know you heard
me talk about season in a nursing home yeah I just got a text from her son uh she's back home in
the holler cool that's awesome yeah and I thought they were going to keep her for another three weeks
that's awesome stuff so yeah see she's a can she walk around yeah well I'm apparently she
been walking in a walker fairly well I don't know she's gonna be able to get outside or not but uh
let's ask that she feels good about being home but we were gonna try to get her electric refrigerator
before she come home so yeah you know so we'll still get her one but she'll be there to direct us
on how to hook it up and where to put it and all that you know yeah yeah all right Paul we
were supposed to talk about ready well I'm not still not working I've got a job I'm looking at it
and then on drip rock we were starting to meet up this week about it I went and looked at it
whilst before last fall but the weather's been so crappy yeah these people had to come in from
Indiana and they want me to do some work and a job we'd been on we had to shut it down it was just uh
they were just too weird I'm not going to eat details on this it to be the ass yeah we will talk
about that now no but uh yeah the logs aren't even all the way up on both these cabins and now
he's got the amish and they're framing up the dogs rotten and all the additions and now you can't
get to the logs to finish putting them up oh no so I don't know what this guy's got in his mind but
we're not part of it anymore I don't worry about that we're not part of it anymore so that's
right stuff so very few jobs I've ever had to get away from you know yeah I'm finished and
some people you can't work for yeah work with yeah that it is very true stuff that is very true
yeah I hope you had you know good luck with it and hopefully gets finished well beautiful
long cabin happy with it stuff well the the logs belong to his wife and that they're in her family
for five generations oh hey you know not the log houses are passion with me you know I hate to see
them go to ruin so yeah maybe it'll work out all right but anyway I'm out of the job
so money's going out and not coming in and and hopefully the job on drip rocket started here soon
uh you you you always let me tell you now this day in time and even though there's there's people
after it does a lot of hard jobs you say there's a plenty of hard jobs for everybody yeah well I'm
getting a little older now Lloyd then started for me to do some of these odd jobs that I used to
take around it you know but you're at the age now or you could pick a choose if they're there if
they're there yeah I mean I did a little job on on Cob Hill you know jack the floor up you know
went in the cylinder jack ladies floor up I made more money in two days and I made it a whole
week up there on the other job you know yeah yeah they're they're around but you know I like I like
working with the old log structures you know and be you know like staying steady at it and
and you're on the radio so everybody hears you stuff so if you get a long home and it needs
you know fixed up fixed up or or has a rotten log in it and a hundred miles from Cob Hill yeah
it's uh Paul will travel everything short distances now go to three counties and stuff but
Paul is really good stuff he I've went to several of his houses and and he knows what he's doing so
now you know I'm I'm building these houses under roof and stuff you know other people come in and
help my main thing is getting the logs up and getting it jammed out and getting it level and
squaring yeah you know and then you know I need help on the rest of it so yeah but most generally
if I got the equipment I could put a log house up by myself maybe years ago but I did Malcolm
and that wasn't a couple years ago yeah but uh uh Paul's good at what he does and stuff so
I try to be out that take pride in it and stuff you got all the old techniques and everything
like that and you know what you're doing I did one more than nickel-hooking and batteries up to
you got him hooked up yeah I didn't leave the house until I checked it made sure everything was
blinking like it's supposed to stuff but uh you know one of my quest ever since I've been on
this radio stuff is to find all two your electric and stuff alternative electric stuff
for everything yeah and well that's how we met you know I called you and said you know you need
to come look at this I built that little hydroelectric plant yeah does that say you should go
yeah I had it down the the PVC pipe frozen busted on it I even had it running you know so I
I ended up putting a radiator hose on it you know and I had it running here a while back had it
turned on and but doing doing all right cool but since I've got all these new batteries and stuff
you know they've got in that system they charge I haven't had dead batteries all winter I mean
even long cloudy days you know I'll set my controllers down to 12.7 and my batteries are
saving 100% charged but I'm charging at 13.8 which is basically what you charge things at yeah
so uh but I batteries have been fully charged all winter and that's running electric
refrigerator watching TV at night and you know lights on that's cool you know and running some
my shop tools off of it yeah traces ask me the other day stuff she said could I run my garage off
solar and I said yeah you can look your smaller hand tools and stuff yeah work off of it you know
and I said now my player no I can't run around my lathe probably I could run the lathe off of it
but I couldn't run it for a long time yeah I don't think think my lathe would run off of it that
and uh it's played like that and then uh but other than that you can run run off solar and everything
and that's like why you can make me go solar now stuff she says no but you know we need to look
at her possibility because they think about solar you can get the panels cheap enough you can get
converters controllers all that stuff fairly cheap you know your batteries yeah are your expense
you know my battery box has got a little over seven thousand dollars with batteries in it
yeah you know they're not cheap but they're good you know and the way I'm using them
they're forklift batteries and forklifts running like big electric motor back and forth and run
on hydraulic pump and all that stuff I'm not doing that with mine all I'm doing is putting power
into that inverter yeah running basic stuff around the house so the battery should last a long time
yeah yeah and I got enough of them that if four of them went bad on me I'd still have plenty yeah
yeah but I did as I I built the box and then I said well I got some money I'm gonna go ahead
and just fill it up uh-huh and stuff I know we years ago stuff we did a uh uh
solar show or a solar class in Camargo and it was a it really turned out stuff we had a bunch of
people show up for everything and we had a company out of Lexington come on and come over and put
it on and everything and uh just got a little heavy kilowatt hours that your house uses to
figure out what's our system you need right and everything and they got still reaches out to
me from time to time via email and see you know see if we're ever interested in doing something
that's like that or or anything like it well you know like said I'm a electric refrigerator it's
not one of the huge big ones but it's like an apartment size yeah we're doing I'm running my
TV and DVD player and you know I'm running lights all through the house of course I get all LED
lights and all that and uh and I talked to an expert down in Georgia it's uh got a company called
Nature Power and you know this guy's an expert on it and I asked him was talking about inverters
because I need by another inverter and I said how big of an inverter do I need to run what I've
got yeah and he said probably 750 watt inverter or whatever thing you got in in half extra
yeah so these people got by like a 4,000 watt inverter you know and they're yeah they're not using
a tenth of it so uh so it's uh that's cool what's cool talk about Paul well um I know it's that
spring time it's getting out there and stuff I know I've seen one garden over the cloud well
I'm I'm just mind twice now and I finally I said well I need to probably work on my rotor till
already I haven't been run last year I put gas in and pull the three times start right up
yeah so it went out until the little piece of it and hopefully here in a week or two I can say
that's a broccoli plants yeah I need to start doing some groundwork and everything from all the
ruts that I've made feeding cattle this year oh yeah and I've got many miles of them this year
you just put a blade on your tractor and drag it backwards here no I got a uh so several years go
about 15-20 years ago oh it made a drag for my tractor this cross ties or something and it's
got a I-beam in the fruit oh okay something good and heavy and it's got another I-beam turn
the other way uh behind it and then it's got four or five four four raroties behind it yeah
and they're all wired together I got one big cable military cable and stuff for pulling tanks
and stuff and so I got outlets in that new thing and then so it's 10 feet wide 10 feet wide
and so I can pull that to to break up the top layers everything and feel in the holes
and then I'll get I'll go back with the cutting hars come cut them down stuff then I'll run
uh when I got my cutting hars on I'll cut it and then I'll take that drag behind the cutting
hars well you got to ground loosen up with the hars and yeah smooth it out and then uh that way
and it usually takes me oh no six days of doing that and stuff but uh well you know back
years ago you know most time your old farmer I ever come to just had an old wood drag you know
drag and gravel road with and now I worked on dairy farm for a little while up in Maryland
and we had uh cross tie like 12 foot long cross ties drags to just go out in the fields with
them and clean the fields up you know spread the manure out and I've seen one the other day
you got to have plenty of room to turn around there if y'all ever on Facebook there's a really
cool page on there for you do it yourselfers and stuff and I'm part of that group it's home or
homemade it's a Facebook dedicated to making tractor attachments
yeah and stuff and I'm part of that group and everything and they come up with some
pretty cool stuff well I made a gem for mine one time out of small water pipe casing
he used it one time he's been propped up in the barn down there for 10 years now
and stuff uh so I I follow that thing they they had the head on there the other day were
took use tires and tie them together and made a drag for that for busing up the the cow
uh poo and everything that seems like I've seen tires like it and spread out and then I
I have a chain drag it's it's made by a quarter of stuff and I bought it years and years and years
with them chain spread everything out and it spreads them out and stuff it does a really good job
stuff and then uh so we got all kinds of drags and stuff but uh uh follow that Facebook page
follow Eastern techy homesteaders on Facebook stuff I I don't put something new on there every
day but I do if I see something cool I'm like you know somebody else might be able to use this
information well I see my big fancy phones I got here I can't pick down this stuff but well
Nepal my technology please everybody well I like my little home I'm trying to get my dad to go to
a smartphone right now well this has got some smart stuff in it if you know which button to push
yeah and if you're around somebody's got a Wi-Fi hook up and all that you know it but uh it
that's that's a challenge into itself and most you listeners know who my dad is and so uh he's
a little hard headed at times but uh he's still cool but he's still he's back to coming around
he's back to I told him I said man why the stuff that you're looking for stuff could be
fixed if you just go get your phone well this has got to be a smart phone and she just now
granddaughter just taught her how to receive messages on if it takes her yeah she couldn't even you
know you send her a picture and she didn't know how to even stop it oh well technology is not
a bad thing yes it is okay okay the stuff but um because these artists ask me you know I need
You know, a couple of years back, I can't remember which company they sent me the thing
in the mail that, you know, I could get internet.
No, wireless internet.
Yeah.
And I thought to myself, you know, I was always running down to my neighbor's house, he's
wearing stuff online for me and everything, I think, you know, if I had internet here,
I could do that myself.
So I called him up, and I talked to this little woman on the phone, she was out in Nebraska
somewhere, you know, of course.
I told her everything, I said, I was off grid, down in the hall, and I said, I've got
solar electric, and I explained everything to her, I said, can I get wireless internet?
She said, yes, we'll put it in a satellite dish and do all this and everything.
So I made an appointment.
Yeah.
Well, the guy I was supposed to be there, I was supposed to be there, and I finally went
up on the mountain, and he was following GPS, and he was all over the mountain trying to find
me.
And I said, well, I hadn't even put gravel on my hill yet, and I got him to follow me down
on his van.
Yeah.
He pops out of the van.
The first thing he says is, where's your poles at?
I said, what poles?
Well, where's your electric coming on?
I pointed to the solar panels, and he's standing right there, and I said, why is it buried
under the house?
Well, we have to have a pole.
I said, for what reason?
He said, to run our cable one, I said, what cable?
I said, this is supposed to be wireless internet.
You're supposed to put me up a satellite dish.
Oh, we don't do that.
That's way better now.
You know, I've been like 45 minutes on the telephone setting this up.
Yeah.
So I showed him the other way out, and I said, have a nice day.
Bye-bye.
And I'm sort of glad I didn't get it now.
You know, I'd be staring at it all the time.
Instead of watching married with children, I'd be watching the internet.
Well, I don't know which one's worse, but anyway, some stuff is not always bad.
No, I agree.
You know, I mean, there's times when I need to order something to find something, you know,
and it was nice going down and sitting with the Al.
Because he was disabled and he couldn't get out of his chair, and he just both sitting there,
you know, with that little tablet, you know, and ordering things, you know.
And so I'd get him to get the stuff for me.
And they gave him something to do, and then I didn't have to go shopping.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alrighty, folks, we are out of town, Paul.
Again?
Yeah.
Well, I think I've done one so long, I had directions get over here.
There's stuff.
It's been a minute since we've been on the stuff, but hopefully I'll get over this flu stuff.
Well, you know, the weather is telling us up, and I mean, it's just been so much, you know, going on.
See if I can come over here, stuff.
I call for a snowstorm or something.
Who knows what's going on there now?
Yeah.
Look at those.
But I hope everybody enjoyed this and everything.
We'll be back.
Yeah, I did.
Oh, glad to see you again.
Yeah, it's been, it's been, it's been.
I mean, it's been.
Yeah.
I was just starting to think he didn't love me anymore.
Everybody loves you, Paul.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, my dog does.
And I got one on cat.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm going to let you know that.
Yeah.
Alright, folks, we are out of here.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
We'll catch you next time.
Bye.
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