Images in Springfield Photo Gallery Page 4

Photo Gallery 4

Images that didn't quite fit anywhere else on the site

2020 indoor Plants

2020, yet another dismal experience with indoor food production.

Area above the kindling-hold

The brickwork was done back in 2015 or 2016 and has aided by increasing additional wall space.

Area above the hot-water-hold

Below the area shown are the hot water heater, reverse-osmosis, and holding tank.

The white unit hanging on the wall is a pre-filter to the potable water.

Wall nooks

When the crates were first purchased, they were needed for moving from the Troy Road location in Springfield Ohio.

At the time they were purchased, I was alarmed by the $5.00 pricetag per little crate.

They've earned their worth over the almost decade here.

Door to Nowhere

The 220v fan behind the door is what prevents me from installing a perfecly fine window.

(super-sic: there's a lion outside)

Functional Column

Area shown in the photo is above the washer/spinner and sink.

Storage Above

Wall allows for a great amount of addional storage space.

New Kubota Pathway

The Kubota tractor has NON-turf-friendly tires.

Instead of making muddy tracks that look bad, we're trying wood chips.

Biodegradable Roadway

Area shown in the photo is a pathway that will someday turn into nutrient-rich soil.

Raising the Grade

By the time I die, this property will be at least an inch taller.

Experiment

This was a surprising, albeit short, experiment with a dump-load.

The small 12v light strip is powered by a wind generator that has a variance of about 0 to 80+ volts (o.c.).

December, 2021 Update: And now a note for anybody wanting to go down the road of figuring out a way to suffice all lower-volt items from a solitary high-energy source, it doesn't appear possible.

I have tried about a half-dozen experiments, mostly using the variableness of the 48v wind-generator's energy.

My initial premise was that if a dump-load was large enough, that all lower-consumers would pull only what they needed and no more.

And although the dump-load could be no better (a steel bar, a.k.a. "heating element"), even the 48v LED lights began smoking.

Still, there has to be a way to do this without circuitry, which is my goal (just because).

Short-lived

The test was performed in the hopes that anything could be operated so long as a large dump-load was included in the loop.

New Battery Bank for Rear Garage

Using an old re-purposed oil-burner housing to contain batteries.

By the way, if I were to harvest all of the instances within this website of where a shout-out was made to the Kubota people for creating such a fine tractor, the result would be one solitary sentence.

Kubota is the bomb.