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Welcome to Bowman's Woods. Many of you may know us from our Cruising Off Duty channel where we did predominantly sailing videos. We still plan to sail but our new adventure is that we bought 155 Acres of woodlands and are planning to document building an off-grid homestead. We will be harvesting some trees in the forest to make firewood to heat our home and water with an outdoor wood boiler and get almost all of our electrical needs from solar panels to allow us to live completely independently of the main grid. We will delve into firewood production and plan to have a greenhouse and grow as many vegetables that we can and supplement that with chickens and perhaps more. Come along as we go into new and uncharted areas for us.
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This is part 3 in the series following our build of an ICF Solar ICF-powered off-grid house build.
In this episode, we show the 2nd ICF floor of the house being completed and the roof being installed. We also received the Heatmaster G10000 wood boiler and placed it on its pad ready to send hot water...
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I live in a trailer while we build an Off-Grid solar-powered house. I have various types of Renogy solar panels of all different sizes and I have never had any problems with any of the Renogy Panels so I feel that they are a top-quality product. I just received a 400W Solar Briefcase that has many...
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This is Part 2 of the solar-powered off-grid ICF house build. In the previous episodes, it covered the ground preparation and the in-floor radiant heating pipes being installed before the cement floors were poured in the house and attached massive garage. This episode covers the ICf walls being created...
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This is an introduction to our off-grid house build. In this episode, we flashback at the many steps of the building process we have been through and will show you the steps we need to finish to complete this solar-powered, wood-boiler-heated house.
This is an introduction to our off-grid house build. In this episode, we flashback at the many steps of the building process we have been through and will show you the steps we need to finish to complete this solar-powered, wood-boiler-heated house.
The new property needed a gravel driveway. I tried to use my compact tractor (TYM T574) to move the top soil. That was a mistake. To do a good job you need a backhoe or a excavator. Lessons learned. How I will do things differently in the future.
The new property needed a gravel driveway. I tried to use my compact tractor (TYM T574) to move the top soil. That was a mistake. To do a good job you need a backhoe or a excavator. Lessons learned. How I will do things differently in the future.
Here is my off-grid setup. I live full-time in a trailer completely disconnected from city power or water. I live off of solar power connected to solar generators or off-grid power stations. Most of my solar generators are Bluetti. The mail solar generator I use is a Bluetti AC200L but I often supplement...
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I was planning to use this massive Dewalt construction fan inside my 40’ HC SEACAN if I used it as a workshop but in 32c heat, it’s now become my savior in the living trailer.
I was planning to use this massive Dewalt construction fan inside my 40’ HC SEACAN if I used it as a workshop but in 32c heat, it’s now become my savior in the living trailer.
We are total Newbs when it comes to buying a tractor or any farm related equipment. After lots of research we decided on the TYM T574 with Cab along with 6 attachments to connect to the tractor. 1) Front End Loader bucket 2) Pallet Forks 3) Root Rake Grapple 4) Wallenstein Skidding Winch 5) Box Blade...
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So, we have made a hard turn from the original plan to live full-time on a sailboat and travel the world. The boiling point in hostilities in the world made us re-think this idea and we decided it was not a good idea anymore. So we decided that if we could not live off-grid on a sailboat the next best...
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The Renogy 220W folding solar panel, also referred to as a Solar Briefcase, is the perfect mobile solar solution. Folded up the 220W panel is fairly small and at 15lbs it is easy to carry with you if you are camping or going off the grid. It has all the attributes of glass panels as it is IP68 water...
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