Our homestead is buried under so much snow and it still keeps coming down. It started on April 13 as I was working on the compost heap and kept going and going and going......
We had hoped to get our garden started but the snow put an end to that idea before we got much done. It had snowed about a foot the week before and it was just starting to clear off. While I was working on the compost bin we had thunder and lightning and - snow.
The compost is still frozen solid to the ground though so it was hard going. I had to chip and chop away at it. I had a full wheel barrow of chicken bedding which had to go out into the compost. I layered that with some of the older compost in order to mix it in with some aged material.
The other two compost bins are going to be ready to use this year. If we ever see dry ground again.
As I was wrapping up the job, it started to snow. And it snowed hard for the next three days straight. It is still snowing even as I write this. They are saying in town they got 3 feet of snow but I think we only got 2 feet up to the present date - April 16, 2018 at 8:30 pm.
Someone sent me an awesome Veddha Minercase V3 six bay mining rig frame and a box of risers. This is perfect timing because I need to get two mining rigs off the dining room table and the coffee table. Normally I make my own frames but I am not getting out to the off grid wood shop any time soon. The solar panels are under snow anyway so there is no power out there.
I put the mining rig frame together on my electronics channel. You can see the full assembly of my RX 580 Ethereum mining rig here: https://www.diytube.video/video/building-ethereum-mining-rig-on-veddha-minercase-v3-frame
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All we have done for the past four days is to shovel snow. We have a lot of chickens in different pens so we have to keep shoveling them out all day, every day. It is a responsibility that we have to take care of no matter what the weather.
We had purchased some broiler chickens about a month and a half ago when the weather was generally going to be in the 50s by day and 30s by night. But recently it has been 30s by day and much lower at night. Well, about the time we got the birds it turned cold and stayed cold. The broilers are the ones out in the middle of the front yard, which you can see in the photo. They are doing fine though because we are taking care of them.
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he must be sending signals to the pitcher at a wed nite delite church bundshaft.
hey troy have you seen this yet???
Very interesting. I love being off the grid. Thanks for sharing this video.
its a tv show of my homestead :)
Says Troy Reid. Nobody's favourite internet scammer.
How many "top trolls" are there in your head, T~Bag? Me? Jessie? Doc?
Just a bunch of decent folks, who want you to stop scamming and lying your way through a miserable life.
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Of course. Oldcodge, the troll of all trolls.
Says Troy Reid. Nobody's favourite internet scammer.
How many "top trolls" are there in your head, T~Bag? Me? Jessie? Doc?
Just a bunch of decent folks, who want you to stop scamming and lying your way through a miserable life.
Says Troy Reid. Nobody's favourite internet scammer.
How many "top trolls" are there in your head, T~Bag? Me? Jessie? Doc?
Just a bunch of decent folks, who want you to stop scamming and lying your way through a miserable life.
Like this, Troy Reid's longest running Scam......
And if you read above in the blog, Reid writes regarding his "off grid wood shop".....
"The solar panels are under snow anyway so there is no power out there"
This is how the scam works.
Reid exaggerates and skews his narrative.
Referring to the photos I shared,
especially the first photo, the wood shop panels can be seen on the right middle of photo,
there is no way he got enough snow unless he is too lazy to brush the snow off of the panels.
It is clear in these photos, the panels by the house are not connected.
Reid @thediyworld is NOT off grid.
He never was.
This is one of the many parts of his scam to remain unemployed and to be "self sufficient while on a budget",
(as he writes on all his websites and donation platforms),
with YOUR donations and money.
Buyer Beware
Oh, interesting. Nice try but next time you edit my photos to "prove" I am a liar, do a better job at removing the wires. I can still see them going down to the blue container on the ground, which covers the electronics, as we all know.
I mean Really???
You can clearly see the wires in the photo.
"buyer beware"???
We make homesteading videos of our daily lives for your FREE entertainment.
But you harassing us like you do online and in the real world IS criminal!!!
Oh, and yeah, I would say that 5 days of snow, nearly non stop, puts a big damper on solar power production.
actually snow enhances solar power production. one it reflects more light onto the panels and two it keeps the system cold which reduces resistance on the system thus allowing more power generation. but you have never actually run a real system so you wouldn't know this.
So now it's 5 days....??
The title of this blog says 3 days,
And you write 4 days of snow above.
Make up your mind and stick with it T-Liar.
These two screenshots from YOUR video came from two separate people,
BUT yet they show the exact same result......
One cable is DIS-CONNECTED on each panel.
Another one of YOUR LIES exposed!
Troy Reid is ON Grid.
Well, I see the wires. They are very clear on the photos you show.
I just went for a walk outside to see. Yup, those are wires there.
I can see them. They are real.
I see them with my eyes.
I see them on the photo.
I see them connected to the house.
Yup, those are wires.
So what makes more sense.....
The fact that you Claim you needed to walk outside to check the solar panel wires,
Or
Because you felt the need to make it sound like you're right, and I'm wrong here.
Your word doesn't mean shit Troy.
Like I'm going to believe that you actually went outside to check.
If you have a real functioning solar power system,
you would know first light in the morning every day when the charge controller turns on....from the comfort of the chalet living room/mining rig room.
The real way is to prove on video:
Your batteries are still alive and not frozen,
You are making solar energy,
You are consuming solar energy.
But I won't hold my breath.
You have never proven any of this....ever.
You are ON GRID 100%.
Always have, always will.
You’re getting slaughtered in the comments of your video, people have woken up to your bullshit. Even by your bottom of the barrel standards this video completely sucked. What are you trying to achieve? You’re also being totally dishonest by still using the phrase “off grid” when you are more ON GRID than most households in the whole USA.
Just checked the comments. Looks all good, nice and happy. And the words from a troll - bah!!
where did PHILLIP 20 and all of his videos go ??? they are no longer seen on the TURDTUBE VIDEO site
only because you delete anything you dont like over there...
Where? What?
Oh, you mean harassment, aggressiveness and hate?
Yeah, I think the community will have it removed.
i dont see the community removing the truth being told about you here lol or on reddit... nope the only community removing things are the ones you rule over like a good hitler...
Let the world see that you are harassing me openly and I never do anything in return.
I live my life and keep going with my work.
you dont work troy, you ebeg... you steal... you lie... you cheat... you slander... you fraud... you scam... but you most certainly do not work and are very cagey!
why are you so cagey troy?
To qualify to get into Ghoul Tube, you need to be a pedophile like Hanson or a sex offender like Dork.
Little boys also welcome.
You are blind to reality. You think that filming a window screen for 3 minutes while prattling incessantly is entertaining or informative? No wonder your channel is nosediving.
Grade school taunts. Well, that stopped bothering me many years ago.
where did phillip 20's videos go troy ??? no longer on the turdtube video site
Like I said, anyone who spends any time with Troy HATES him.
did you ever stop to think that maybe the kids taunted you for a reason reid?that maybe you were a fukkin pain in the ass when you were a kid and it carried into adulthood?
I wonder if you are thinking of yourself as you write this?
hmmm.
i had a great hs experience. i had friends. had a job 1 week outta grade school that bought my 1st car and insurance at 16 that mommy and daddy didnt buy me. you were the one that said you were picked on in school.those words came outta yur own mouth.yes reid. my hs experience was a ball compared to yours. guaranteed.
So you @thediyworld (or your mommy) bought an electric snowthrower when you moved to Lewiston, MI last year in case you get a snow storm.
You get a snowstorm this weekend,
and the snowthrower is BURIED under the snow,
AND you further state above that "all we have done for the past 4 days is to SHOVEL snow"
You're Always working HARDER....
NEVER smarter.
Snow blower burns electricity. Snow covers solar panels reducing electricity.
Shoveling snow does not burn electricity.
Makes perfect sense to me when we are trying to reduce our costs and become more self sufficient.
Well then, you're more of a FOOL for wasting money on something like an electric snowthrower and not knowing the limitations of your (prop) solar power system.
But we all know.....when your spending other people's money,
you don't care.
Just leave it in the perverbial "snow bank", like all your other props.
Well guess what?
Last year it was all there was available when we were unloading the moving vehicle and they said it might snow.
So I got what was there.
And its my money. Melanie and mine, that is.
oh quit with this offgrid charade. them mining rigs are burnin thru way more juice than you used to. when you were asked about that you said more or less " oh well". so much for your self reliance. nothing could be farther from the truth ya leech.
The thing I do not understand is your petty nitpicking about our lives when it should not even matter how or why we do the things we do.
We show our daily lives on the internet for your FREE entertainment.
If you dont like us, simply go away. Find something you do like.
But harassing us and stalking us online and in the real world like this for years is criminal. Sick. Demented.
It's all lies!
Lots of people follow him around the internet because he's a scammer and a liar.
Think of this as a Public Service Announcement. You're welcome!
One other item of note in this video.....
Reid @thediyworld writes in the description of this YT video,
"The seedlings died from lack of light and fresh air"
The first of many garden FAILURES to come for 2018.
But what is more disturbing....
other than the fact Reid can't grow shit year after year,
is that he has a mail order wife
(bought by YT viewers)
and an infant child allegedly living there as well,
and the seedlings died from lack of light and (of all things) fresh air??
SMH?
Interesting since every single year you guys rant and rave against my garden but yet we are still eating from our garden harvest - even now.
Yet every year you rant and rave......
It will never change.
Such is troll.
Is it getting old eating only tomatoes?
BTW, that your mommy had to can for you.
Ya know, cuz you're self-sufficient and everything.
More than tomatoes, but yes, we still have a lot of those too.
Those poor chickens under that igloo of ice freezing to death. No snow brushed off to give them food or water but they don't need any cause they are frozen solid. All your videos show your animal abuse.
I love snow. I love homesteading.