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Just a recap here to start. I have been at the new jobsite near Calvert,TX for 52 days. No electricity or water for that entire time period. My Generac 6.6 kw propane generator has run 210 hours. I have been in boondocking situations before like at Cranfills Gap. The electricity inches closer The difference here at Calvert was we thought electricity would be available within 2 weeks of our arrival. Well, that Continue reading Back on the Grid
These house batteries are getting on my last nerve. I was not exactly completely up to speed on all the intricacies of large AGM batteries and spent some time this weekend researching the proper care of AGM batteries in an RV application. One battery compartment on the Old Girl I have a pair of 250ah 8D AGM batteries which should give me enough juice for 24 hours of fairly heavy use when I am boondocking. Continue reading My Last Nerve Sometimes I think of our projects as a battle- a battle against The "fixed" water crossing the elements and a battle against the terrain. Having access to earth moving equipment gives me an advantage of “fixing” things to make life easier. The drive way into this location was a mess when I first pulled the Old Girl into the property. An improper culvert installation had caused the driveway to Continue reading Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain? I have had several ask about what the inside of the Old Girl looks like. After my Tobacco Road post , the requests multiplied. I guess my quips about a couch on the front porch and a car on blocks made them think maybe the interior of my RV looked like a bad episode of Hoarders. So this is my tell all. I will preface it by saying I am not a neat freak Continue reading Function Trumps Aesthetics Wednesday morning I woke up in my RV and the gray light was just starting to seep in the windows. An insistent beeping had awakened me… the Norcold refrigerator yet again! WTF? Deja Vu. This sucked! Shaking off the sleep, I looked at the Trimetric and it showed 11.2 volts. How could that be??? I had gone to bed the previous night with adequate ( I thought) amps banked in the batteries. Obviously not! Rain Continue reading OCD Behavior in the Boondocks One of the common questions I get is ” Are you scared to be by yourself way out in the middle of nowhere when you boondock?” In a word, NO. I may offend some of my more liberal leaning readers, PETA advocates and other causes with acronyms in lieu of meaningful names but it just is what it is. I don’t even think about apologizing for my viewpoints any more. I am Continue reading Non-specific Critter Control |
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