Tennessee Living

Four minutes all about the L5 American Landmaster, power, pulling, gas mileage, 4X4, hitch, winch

Property update, roads, lumber cutters deck area clean-up, roads, work progress, bulldozer (YES IT'S FINALLY BACK). Sorry I'm out of breath in the first couple minutes of the video. :) I was running up the road with the goat.

Landmaster, toolbox, gas, tools, start of a road

My solar power and battery setup, which wires to use and how to wire it. Cost: (All the solar panels, the kit, the hub all from Harbor Freight in Dayton ) 100 watt Thunder Bolt Solar Kit (Max 500 watts) $169.00 (on sale) 100 watt Thunder Bolt Solar Panels X 2 = $174.00 (They were on sale) 400 watt Thunder Bolt Solar Hub = $18.00 200Ah Renogy Deep Cycle AGM Battery 12 Volt = $377.00 DO NOT BUY THIS BATTERY IT'S GARBAGE - IT WILL NOT HOLD A CHARGE. Plus Tax so about $798.00 that's about $32.00 less then one month of gas for the generators.

The creek on the property after a about six days of rain. Two days heavy rain.

A small update on my progress, what I do to get rid of the thousands of stumps and tree tops after clear cutting 29+ acres. 8 AH lithium batteries to run the pumps, new lithium charger.

Small update on the property and the newest animal to just show up and stay!

Second day of snow in April getting nothing done but burning wood. They really need to do something about this dam GLOBAL FREEZG. LOL

Living in the Woods on the Property - My setup, solar, batteries, inside and outside the camper, water, bathroom, use of the free wood!

Black Bear on the wildlife cam on Moccasin Creek, Spring City Tennessee mountains.

Another update on the property, location of roads, houses, shop and barn. At 6:32 the goat! :)

Building a root, branch, small tree rake for your bulldozer blade for only $130.00.

Adding a BIG rain ditch to stop the road from washing out during heavy rains.

Traded in the 3515h Branson tractor for a 4815Ch enclosed cab and more power.

Starting the Branson 3515 Tractor at 18 F after being buried in the snow two days.

This is one of my longest videos. I tried to cover different types of solar panels and what they do. PWM, MPPT charge controllers which is better for what conditions. Solar batteries AGM - Lithium which is better and why. Camper battery setup, breaking generator starter battery from lights, frig, heater battery.

Fuel trailer, pumps, mods to trailer, weight management on the trailer, small property update.

Update on electric added a sub-panel to have 110 volts in the camper all the time. Added a 3000 watt Insta-Hot hot water heater. New camper skirt for winter plywood, solar panels modded for winter sun.

What I did to un-freeze all the water in the camper and keep it from freezing in the future. In temps -5 F to a windchill of -40 F. During the 2022 Christmas cold fronts.

How to wire in the solar panels, how to charge the batteries on limited or no sun light. Just how hard it is to really charge a 200 AH battery. They say 600 watts of solar for five hours will charge one battery. Which is just NOT true. 600 watts for 12 hours won't give them a full charge. And they charge the best if NOTHING is using them during the charge. All day with 600 watt panels and about 5 hours of generator gets them close.

Changing the Branson rear tire, getting off the tractor and back to the truck. Cutting down a tree to make an A-frame to drag the tire on.

Arctic storm January 14 - 15 2024 on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. And the only thing that started on first try was the Ford pick-up!

How to break rock adding a rain ditch to stop road wash out. Yes GET A BIGGER HAMMER! LOL

Culvert - Drain adding another 20 feet using a coupling I made from the pipe.

Part 1 or 4 Building and cutting roads through the woods. Starting with just an idea or GPS of where you want to start cutting in the future roads.