THROWBACK THURSDAY: Generators, Backup Power, Fuel Storage w/ Toolman Tim

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Hey guys, Toolman Tim here. Welcome back to the workshop
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where we create community, find freedom, promote preparedness, and share success.
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Tonight is April the 7th, 2022, and this is episode
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92 of the workshop podcast. And it's great to have
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you guys back here. Tonight we are going to do
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a community feedback episode. Haven't done one of these in
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a long time. Gonna kind of deal with generators, backup power,
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fuel storage, One of my favorite topics, you know that. But,
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as always, before we do that, let's get our announcements
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out of the way. So, officially, I think this is, well,
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this is the first time on my podcast I've announced it,
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but I'm going to be, I'm officially speaking at Prepper Camp.
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That is in Saluda, North Carolina, September 23rd to 25th.
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I'm rather excited about that. I'm going to be teaching
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on the subject of repairedness and The art of home
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maintenance when help isn't around the corner. So I am
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looking forward to that. So if anybody's up for meeting
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in person, come by the Prepper Camp, North Carolina. I
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guess it's the world's largest outdoor prepper exhibition, expo, whatever
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you want to call it. It's like a Comic-Con for preppers,
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I guess. Number two. So next week's repairedness will be
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the last regularly scheduled one for two weeks. Regularly scheduled
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live stream for two weeks. There'll be a couple of
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pre-recorded episodes as I'm going to be in Tennessee for
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the LFTN Living Free in Tennessee Spring Workshop. I'm going
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to be speaking there on entrepreneurship and how it leads
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to a freer life. So if anybody's in the Tennessee area, Nashville,
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for the last two weeks of April, I will be
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around and I would love to do a meetup. And
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beyond that, We are going to start a new segment.
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If you guys follow me on social media, you will
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know that I do quite regularly a Today's Tools segment.
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And it's where I spotlight something I use on a
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regular basis. So today's tool is going to be Mother's
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Vinyl Protectant. And if you haven't used that stuff before,
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you are missing out. It is spring. It's spring cleanup time.
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Your vehicles are probably a mess. And if you're like me,
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but the only time you really pay attention to your
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vehicle is in spring... Get yourself some of this shit.
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It works great. So, why do I like it? Well,
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number one, it smells like strawberries. Number two, it's the
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longest lasting, way better than Armor All. Spray it on
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anything vinyl in your vehicle. It gives it a shine
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and it protects it. And my brother-in-law recommends it. He
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is just an incredible mechanic. We basically brought a little,
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what is it, a 2000 Ranger back to life. It
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had been smoked in, everything. And this stuff made that
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vinyl just beautiful. So if you're looking for that, I
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always put the Amazon affiliate link in my description going forward.
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So you'd be able to get it from the video,
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from the podcast feed, whatever it is. And if you're
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looking for more recommendations for tools like that or products
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like that, go by toolmantim.shop and check it out. Okay.
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So tonight, like I said, I think last week I
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announced that I was going to, Hey Pappy, evening to you.
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And we got Chris Dixon in here as well. I
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think I mentioned that I was going to do cleaning supplies.
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And I was going to do that, but I got
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thinking about it today and I was really, you know,
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I was kind of excited. I started getting a lot
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of questions the last few days about generators and fuel
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storage on YouTube. And I realized it had been, I
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don't know, three, four months at least, maybe longer than that,
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probably since before I started the Repairedness Thursday series, since
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I've done a community feedback episode. And that's where I
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share tips shared from the community and answer questions asked
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from the community. And I started going through them all
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and it discovered, hey, we've got a theme. The theme
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is backup power, fuel storage, and generators. There's a few
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other odd ones in there, but they all kind of
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fall around that theme. So we're going to work our
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way through. I'm going to share with you guys first because, okay,
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you guys know, I believe that the best part of
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building a community and being part of a community is
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all of the information and all of the joint knowledge
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that we can all share together. That's the best part
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about this. And So much of this stuff is things
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that people just kind of pass to me through YouTube
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in passing. And then I throw it up on the
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comments and then maybe some people see it, maybe they don't,
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but putting it all together in an easy kind of
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digest format like this, I love it. It's a way
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where we can all lean on each other. So it's great. Yes.
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And Pappy Cannoli says, it's almost hurricane season again here.
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Tune up time for sure. Yes. And I've got a
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video coming out probably won't be until the 1st of May,
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but it is going to be my generator maintenance kit
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and generator maintenance routine. And it's going to be a
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good one. I've talked about it before, but I've never
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kind of physically had. It's going to be similar to
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my blackout kit, but much smaller. I'm going to talk
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about the stuff I keep on hand. But yes, it
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is tune-up time indeed. So let's start with a few tips.
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Every single one of these came from somebody on YouTube.
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So some of their names are kind of funny, but...
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So the first one, and this one was great. So
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if you guys remember back a while ago, I did
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a video and actually, I think if, uh, Mike Loco, the, uh,
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Filipino nomad, Hey, Liberty late night. Nice to have you
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in here, man. I brag about those guys. If you
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guys don't follow Liberty late night, you need to, I
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had so much damn fun on their show. They're just awesome.
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So yes, I did a show a while back on
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the benefits of a diesel generator and it was Mike Loco. Um,
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the Philippine nomad who asked about it and I did
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the benefits. One thing that I'd never thought of or
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never mentioned in that episode, and I probably won't do
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a follow-up because I don't have enough information, but IDK
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or I don't know on YouTube mentioned the biggest reason
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they've stuck with diesel generators was their ability to make
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diesel fuel from scratch in a shit hit the fan
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situation and to use biofuel. And I thought, wow, that
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is great. Never thought about that at all. so I
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had to throw that out there. If you guys are
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ever thinking about going on and getting a diesel generator,
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there's yet another benefit to going diesel, because you can
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run it off biogas. Now, Jake, if you guys follow
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Ravenwood Acres, if you don't, you should. He's doing an
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awesome series on comms right now. I think it's a
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seven-part series, and I look forward to it every week,
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and he's just talking about emergency comms and building plans. Well,
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this one came out of Was it last week or
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two weeks ago we did the RV repairedness episode? And
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he had mentioned how a mobile RV repair system or
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mobile RV repair business would be an incredible side hustle.
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I never really touched on that in the episode. So
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I thought, hey, you know what? I should really share
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this with people because there's a few things. Number one,
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anytime you want to get an RV repaired, if anybody's
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ever run through this, what do you got to do?
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You got to take it to the RV dealer. And
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I mean, if you live in a big center, great.
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But for me, that's like an hour and a half away.
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And then you got to leave it and you got to,
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you know, take it up with the trailer, hook it up,
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unhook it. Anyway, so from there, he's like, you know,
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this is something you could do. Get out there and
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do some repairs. So simple things like resealing windows or
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fixing doors or replacing broken hardware or plumbing fittings. And
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who doesn't love having someone come to their place to
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do the work for them? So just an idea, if
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somebody's out there thinking, I'd like to start a little
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side hustle, and you've got a little experience in the
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RV end of things, a mobile RV repair service, even
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on simple things, you don't have to go crazy with it,
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would be a great side hustle. There's a guy in
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a city nearby me that does mobile oil changes and
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tire rotations. Another awesome, awesome kind of concept. So Something
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to think about. Take the business to the customer instead
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of making the customer come to you. And you can
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upcharge for that because the convenience factor. How much more
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money are they willing to spend when they don't have
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to spend that money to take it to you, right?
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Next one's from Chicken Hawk. If you guys don't follow
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Chicken Hawk Farmstead on YouTube as well, man, he's great.
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I love him. Good buddy of mine and a fellow
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creator on the Fireside Freedom podcast. So this is more
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of a story, but this comes out of, again, my
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RV repairedness episode, I believe. Hey, Silver Streak. We got
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Silver Streak over in the Element chat room from PBN.
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We are, and I forgot to mention, yeah, we're live
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on five platforms tonight. Facebook, Odyssey, Float, YouTube, and PBN,
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Prepper Broadcast Network. So we'll have questions coming everywhere, and
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it's great. Yeah, so Chicken Hawk says, I picked up
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two tons of mulch on the wrong ball one time.
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Two inch instead of two and five sixteenths. Been there,
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done that. When I went to the dump... I went
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to dump it at the dump. The whole trailer popped up,
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and the only thing that stopped it from going all
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the way was the safety chains. Scared the shit out
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of me. Glad I was not up next to it
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while it was dumping, because that could take your head off.
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He said he has an idea that he'd like to
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paint the ball and the hitch part on the trailer
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the same color so he doesn't do it again. That
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is a great idea. Because, like I said, in the past,
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I accidentally hauled an RV all the way across the province...
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with a two inch ball and a two and five
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sixteenths receiver. So pay attention to that. But that tip
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about color coding with spray paint, man, that is golden.
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So if anybody's done that or seen it done, it's
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also a good idea. I've also seen it where the
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ball was spray painted like a bright orange so that
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it shows up good on your backup camera. But just
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another idea, just a great tip. I love that one.
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This one's from Bobby over on YouTube. This one's actually
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about the cordless heat gun I did a review on
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a little while ago. but he he said absolutely nobody
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talks about the practicality of a cordless heat gun for
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little quick jobs and this was something i hadn't mentioned
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but he uses it for doing a lot of repairs
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and the main thing he uses his cordless heat gun
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for is speeding up epoxy or super glue says he's
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got a wagner 300 that's 26 bucks that he plugs
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in for the big jobs but if you've got a
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small job and you want to cure adhesive a lot quicker,
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then that's the way to go. Hey, that's a great
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tip because I love my cordless heat gun and I
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do use it for a lot of small jobs, but
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I never mentioned curing adhesives. And I thought, Hey, somebody
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could use that. This is another one. We've got a
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few from up for anything up for anything's a big
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part of the workshop community. And they talked about how
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they build their business organically and locally and And I
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thought this was kind of cool. Basically, whenever he goes
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to fill up at the gas pump, leaves one of
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the business cards behind at the gas pump. It's local.
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You know, it's a pretty good chance that somebody who
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lives in your area is going to find it. And
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what's the worst that's going to happen? They're going to say, whatever,
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and throw it out. But that's what business cards are for.
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Free advertising. You hand them away. And he says, it
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basically keeps the business local and usually within a five
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mile radius. That's a great idea. So sometimes we just
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got to think outside the box when it comes to advertising,
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getting our name out there, whatever it takes to get going.
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And once you get going, well, sometimes you just can't stop, right?
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But that's it. Building up a business and getting going
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and just finding a way to advertise yourself, sell yourself,
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get out there. Uh, next Henry from YouTube. This one
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was great. I like this one a lot, but, um,
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talking about, just one, we'll go down here a little
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bit further. Actually, we're going to skip that and we'll
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come back. But Cruz and Kevin from YouTube said, he's
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an ex-pat from the Philippines and diesel here is 40%
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cheaper than gasoline. Go figure. Beyond that, this is a
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pretty cool story. He said, we just went through a
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Cat 5 typhoon and the fuel lines were long, but
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the diesel lines were a lot shorter said, I just,
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so there's yet another benefit to going diesel over gasoline.
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And the whole idea was again, when everybody is out
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there looking to run their generator and the power's out
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or the weather shit, everybody's in lineup and they're all
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waiting for gas. Good chance. The pumps might run out
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of gas right away, but the diesel, well, maybe not.
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And he also said that water-cooled diesel generators last even
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longer than air-cooled diesel generators. So if you can find
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yourself a water-cooled diesel generator, try to say that 10
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times fast, you'll end up having even better value. Although
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I'm sure you'll end up paying a little more for it. Uh,
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this one was really cool. This one came from Charles
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and they said, um, that, so this was, I talked
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quite a bit about whole house generators and And of course,
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you know, the, the permanently installed full backup ones are
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expensive and, you know, a big job to install. And
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they're about the only ones that will actually run full
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on central air units. So he'd mentioned in Louisiana, they
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had a bad storm last year and he has the
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same generator as me, could run everything but a central
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air unit. So what he ended up doing was picking
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up a couple of window unit air conditioners, running them
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off the generator and and was able to get by,
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cool the areas of the home that he needed without,
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you know, running beyond the capacity of the generator. I
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thought that was really great. And then he said he's
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also planning on doing a gas conversion, like I had
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mentioned that I've done on mine. Well, I already have it.
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It already runs on gas, but having it hooked up
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permanently to natural gas is just, it's the cat's ass.
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John from YouTube, this was a great one. This was
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another hustle that I just loved, and I hope you
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guys enjoy this one too. But he said, it's a
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pretty cool story, I needed two brake cables for my
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golf cart. On eBay, they were $ 35 for a pair.
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But he's seen a guy had 20 assorted cables for
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50 bucks. He was the only bidder, and he said
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so far he sold eight cables for a total of $ 300.
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Two cables were worth $ 100 each. And he said, years ago,
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I never bought car tires. I could always find good
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tires on trash night. Yes, and if you're in a
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really hard way, another tip that you can go along,
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but Most car places have recycling bins for the tires. Now,
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they probably won't necessarily give you permission to go digging around,
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but if you're in a hard way and you need
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a tire, I've been known years past when we were
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in pretty poor times to go digging around in those
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recycling bins to find a tire that still had some
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tread left. So if you're in a real hard way
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and you need a couple of tires or a tire,
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especially if you've got a flat and you need to
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repair it, well, it works. I actually had a mechanic
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that He was a shade tree mechanic, like a very
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shady shade tree mechanic. And to save me money, he
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went digging through a recycling bin one night and found
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me a tire that got me on the road and
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kept me going. It meant a lot. So Up For
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Anything says, Here in Central North Carolina, we don't have
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near the snow or ice.
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You do.
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I know that.
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Yeah.
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He said, But I have an old kitty litter bucket
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that you can close that has ice melt in it.
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But he does a 50-50 mix between ice melt and sawdust.
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It helps stretch it out. It gives him some extra... traction,
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and it's a way to reuse a waste product that
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he might not be using otherwise. I really like that
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one too. Hey, Martinson family, we've got a big crew
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in here tonight. It's been a good night so far.
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And then Jake from Ravenwood, once again, says every couple
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of years in Washington State, we have a major snowstorm.
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Usually causes a whole bunch of power outages. He says,
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and then, and this is common everywhere, so it doesn't
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have to just be Washington, but he says, Many people
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run out and they buy brand new generators and they
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use them until the power is restored. And then the
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following spring after storm season's over, they have buyer's remorse
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or they, you know, they want to buy a new
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ski boat or, you know, they got to pay their,
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you know, trailer lot fees for their camper, whatever it
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happens to be. And they're like, well, let's sell the generator.
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So the best time to buy generators and things like
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that is, you know, a couple of months after the
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storm went through when people are like, yeah, it's time
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to offload it. you know, the post COVID thing when
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everybody was done with their canning equipment and their freeze
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dryers and all of that, that was the time to
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buy that kind of stuff. Exercise equipment, I'm sure even
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to this day, you could buy that dirt cheap because
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people want to, at one time there was like a
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worldwide shortage on weights and weightlifting equipment. And now I
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have no doubt you could get a ton of it
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on Craigslist or Marketplace or Kijiji up here in Canada.
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So those were the tips. That was the stuff that
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people from the community, share it out. So if you
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guys have that kind of stuff and you want to
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contribute to this portion or the question, it doesn't matter,
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but my email, therealtimcook at gmail.com, not the fake Tim
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Cook that runs Apple computers, you know, but just send
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me your tips or just post them up on social
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media or link me in something, tag me in something.
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So we're going to dig into the questions now. This
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one was, so Brian said, this one was about Anchor
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battery banks. Now, if you guys use battery banks at
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all for your backup power supply for cell phones, that
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kind of stuff, you want to know, do you really
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need to let them get down below 25% before recharging,
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or is it safe to top them off? So with
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lithium ion batteries, there's really two things that you're limited to,
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and that is charge cycles and temperature. So the first
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thing we'll talk about is a charge cycle. You know,
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most lithium ion batteries, like in those battery packs, they have,
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they're good for between three and 500 charge cycles. And
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a charge cycle for the record is when you go
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from 100% down to zero and then charge it back
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up to 100%. So if you let it go down
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to 50 and then charge it back up to 100
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and do that twice, that would be one full charge cycle.
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So they basically, you know, they come from the factory
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having 300 to 500 charge cycles. So number one, you're
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not shortening the life per se. But if you let
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it run all the way down and then let it recharge,
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there's more of a chance of it overheating. And heat
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and cold are way bigger problems for this. So you're
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better off to let it just go down 25% to
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50% and then top it off. Don't put it in
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direct sunlight. Don't leave it in a hot place. Just
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be careful. Being more careful with the temperature is more
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important than letting a battery bank go dead and bringing
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it back. Now, the one thing you don't want to
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do is let it go completely dead and then let
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it set for months on end. That's when you can
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actually really shorten the lifespan of a lithium ion, especially
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in those battery banks. Even Anchor, the company themselves, say that,
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you know, keep it at least at 80% when you're
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you're storing it long term. So long story short, does
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not matter with lithium ion. They really don't have a
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memory like the old NICAD batteries did. So just remember,
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you're limited to the charge cycle lifespan that they give you,
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and go from there. So from there, Doug says, can
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you leave DeWalt batteries in the charger slots? Wanted to know,
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is it safe to do? Is it a fire hazard? Well,
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I have a ton of DeWalt chargers. So number one,
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I've left batteries in the charger slots all the time.
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Never had a problem. But just because I do it,
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doesn't mean that it's recommended. So I just, I looked
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it up, and especially any of the chargers made in
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the last few years, no big deal at all. They're
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smart enough to know they shut off when the battery's
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full and then they'll go into trickle charge mode when
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it's topped off. So if it's sitting there and eventually
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it discharges just a little bit of the charge life
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in it, then it just tops it back up. The
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four port rapid charger that I have, that thing is
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ultra smart and it does exactly that as well. But yeah, no,
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there's literally no risk because Once it's charged, it shuts off.
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I mean, 20 years ago when you were dealing with
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some of the early DeWalt and Makita stuff, yeah, there
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was a lot more danger involved there. But with the DeWalt,
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and it doesn't just go for DeWalt. It goes for Milwaukee,
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Makita nowadays. Any of the modern lithium-ion batteries with the
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companion chargers, you have no concern about leaving them on
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the charger all the time. And I do. I leave
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a lot of my batteries on that four-port charger. It's
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all I ever use. Mal... from YouTube, wanted to know,
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asking about the plastic jerrycan containers, and how long gas
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theoretically could sit in a plastic jerrycan container. So first off, I,
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you know, none of my gas tends to sit more
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than a year, because I cycle everything out once a
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month for 12 cans throughout the year, so that I
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always have, it's no longer than a year old. And
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I also treat it with fuel stabilizer. Now, if you
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want to use my go-to fuel stabilizer, PRI-G, that stuff
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works like a charm. And you can actually, the company
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actually says you can theoretically keep your gas fresh indefinitely.
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Because as long as you continuously re-treat the gas, so
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every 6 to 12 months, re-treat the gas, no problem
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at all. Now for me, The jerry cans, I would
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just keep an eye on them. I have had a
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couple over the years kind of lose it around the seams.
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So the seam kind of splits and then the gas
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comes out. But that happens very rarely. I mean, up here,
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it gets to 40 degrees Celsius and minus 40 Fahrenheit
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or minus 40 Celsius as well. So the gas cans
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expand and contract. If you live in kind of a
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moderate climate, you'd have no issues. But I have I
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have no concerns whatsoever about leaving it for long term.
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I've used, a lot of my gas cans have been
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in service for seven or eight years now, and some
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of them were used when I found them. The only
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thing I'd keep an eye on would be the rubber
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around the nozzle. Those tend to degrade over time. Just,
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I mean, whenever you're dealing with petroleum products, that's a thing, right?
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Daniel wants to know, says, I have a dual fuel
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Furman generator. Wants to know how hard it is to
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convert the dual fuel to tri-fuel for natural gas. They've
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already got a propane setup. So the reason I brought
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this specific question is there are literally pretty much any
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generator on the market that runs on gasoline can be
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converted to propane and natural gas. And you might not
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realize that, but it basically just bypasses the carburetor, Hey, James.
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We've got James Richter in here tonight. So, it's really
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not that bad. The website, centuryfuelproducts.com. If you go there,
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I will try to remember to get that link, but
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it's centuryfuelproducts.com slash generators slash conversion dash kits. And they
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literally have a conversion kit for just about every generator
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on the market. So, if you want to go to
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a cleaner, easier... easier to store, safer fuel to run
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your generators off of, check those guys out if you
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didn't know it. And they're fairly simple. Now, if you
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want to get a little more creative and a little
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more outside the box, there are a ton of, I
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would say, maybe not fully recommended, but a ton of
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really good videos on how to do that conversion yourself.
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But most of those conversion kits are around $ 150. And
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they're worth it. I looked at a bunch of those
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do-it-yourself deals and they were not, I didn't feel comfortable
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doing it. So, and speak of the devil, there's Loco,
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the Filipino nomad himself. Nice to have you. We've got
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a good crew. We've had a lot of faces through
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here tonight. So Robert from YouTube says, I live in
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South Florida and I have a three and a half
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ton central air unit. I got a natural gas water
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heater and a gas stove. Is there any portable generator
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that can run this without spending $ 15, 000 on a Generac?
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So here's my thing. Most portables out there, most of
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the top end portable generators are kind of in the $ 10, 000
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or the 10 kilowatt range. And that is basically good
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enough to run any household, you know, I mean, other
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than like Leonardo DiCaprio's mansion or something like that. That'll
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run anything you need in a home, except, and the
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big problem is, a central air unit. So if you're
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looking at a $ 15, 000 Generac, those can be, I mean,
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that's super expensive. You don't need to spend your money
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on that, number one. Number two, where I would say
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to spend your money on is, and if you haven't
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heard of these, it's something to check out, they're around $ 500,
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and they're called a soft start for your air conditioner unit.
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So the big issue with most generators, even up in
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the 10 to 12 kilowatt range, the big problem there
471
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is not the running of the central air unit, it's
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the starting of the central air unit. Now, central air,
473
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if you guys are familiar with electric engines and things
474
00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:06.339
like that, when that stuff starts up, there's a huge
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spike in the power, and it's too much for most
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generators to handle, and they just won't run it. So
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what you can get, and I don't know the full
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science behind it, but I believe it has a capacitor
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in there. It basically slowly charges up, and it handles
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that big spike so that your generator doesn't see it.
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That's something to get an electrician to install, but they
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run installed for about $ 500. So if you get yourself
483
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a real good tri-fuel 10,000 kilowatt generator and a soft
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start on your central air unit, you've basically got a
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whole house generator with... the portability and convenience of being
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able to roll it away into your garage and for
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a tenth the price. I love it. I'm a big
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fan of portable generators because it gives you a little
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more peace of mind. It allows you to know where
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you're going to put it. It allows you to put
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it away in a safe spot. It allows you to
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keep it in and out of the elements. Hey, John Palmer.
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Got another fella in here tonight. Nice to see you.
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So the next one here, guys, comes from a Mr. Ross.
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I had a math teacher in high school named Mr. Ross.
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Nice guy, but he was strict. This question is on
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the Big Buddy heaters. If you guys haven't checked those out,
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I did a review this winter. It was right around
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minus 25, minus 30, and I heated my wife's little
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she shed out there, and it worked great. Now, his
501
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big concern was, he heard a lot of people say,
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you've got to buy one with a fan. Well, I
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don't know. I don't necessarily agree with it, but he
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wanted to know, is a fan required, in my opinion,
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on one of those heaters? Now, is it a bonus? Sure.
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00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:49.410
Does it use batteries? Yes. So in my opinion, what
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I like, you know, if you're only heating a small area,
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I mean, you might have a fan on hand anyway,
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but put it at the lowest point in the room
510
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and let, you know, in a corner and let it
511
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come out and up so that the, you know, kind
512
00:28:00.750 --> 00:28:04.630
of the natural convection moves it out. Now, is it
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nice to have a fan? Sure. Could you have a
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small battery fan that you kept behind it? Yeah, you could.
515
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So that if you don't have the fan, for instance,
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or you don't have any batteries, you could still run
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your Mr. Buddy, your big buddy. So I don't think
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it's a deal breaker at all. I just, I think
519
00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:25.160
it's one of those things. It's one more moving part
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00:28:25.579 --> 00:28:28.079
that can break down and one more thing that you
521
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:32.220
need to have backup power for. So yeah, I don't
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think it's necessary. Now this was a good one. I
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like this. Up for Anything, another one on YouTube. said that, Tim,
524
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you've talked about picking up used gas cans at the
525
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junkyard and off the side of the road, but how
526
00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:49.079
do you get used parts for them? Do you have
527
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to improvise them? And I put this one in here
528
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because I got a question earlier this week, and I
529
00:28:56.029 --> 00:28:57.970
can't find it for the life of me. It came
530
00:28:57.990 --> 00:29:01.170
through email or on the website. I don't know. And
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00:29:01.190 --> 00:29:05.890
they basically wanted to talk about improvised gas cans. I'm
532
00:29:05.930 --> 00:29:08.890
not a fan of making my own gas cans. I
533
00:29:08.930 --> 00:29:11.430
just think there's too many things that can go wrong.
534
00:29:12.369 --> 00:29:17.240
But a couple of things. Number one, I standardize. All
535
00:29:17.259 --> 00:29:21.039
of my gas cans are Scepter. S-C-E-P-T-E-R. I think those
536
00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:23.799
are available in the States, but the important part is
537
00:29:24.140 --> 00:29:28.569
standardizing in one standard thing. So if I find an
538
00:29:28.619 --> 00:29:30.930
old beat up gas can, I'm still going to check
539
00:29:30.970 --> 00:29:34.609
it for parts. Can I swipe the vent cap off it?
540
00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:37.450
Can I swipe the collar? Is that medallion piece in
541
00:29:37.490 --> 00:29:39.750
there good? Is the nozzle good? I'm going to take
542
00:29:39.910 --> 00:29:41.589
all those parts and I'm going to put them in
543
00:29:41.609 --> 00:29:43.250
a milk crate that I have in the garage because
544
00:29:43.289 --> 00:29:46.690
I have a milk crate just for fuel parts. But also,
545
00:29:46.750 --> 00:29:49.390
you can buy them. I buy three packs of the
546
00:29:49.410 --> 00:29:52.339
medallions because I lose them. Although, if Chris Dixon's still
547
00:29:52.380 --> 00:29:53.880
in here, he'd give me a great tip on not
548
00:29:53.930 --> 00:29:55.839
losing them. I just haven't got off my ass and
549
00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.390
done it yet. But, You can buy brand new packages
550
00:29:59.450 --> 00:30:02.480
of them. I keep them in the card and put
551
00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.099
it on a nail on the wall so that I
552
00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:07.240
don't lose those parts. That's the best thing. I mean,
553
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.460
have I improvised in the past? Sure, I've used heavy
554
00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:13.119
garbage bags, put it over the top and then just
555
00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:15.599
screwed the lid down for a little bit just to
556
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.700
keep the gas in for a minute. But yeah, number one,
557
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:24.059
I scrounge and save any parts. So if I've got
558
00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:28.660
a gas can that is broken or busted, I save
559
00:30:28.700 --> 00:30:31.660
all the parts off it that I can throw anything out.
560
00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:34.319
And I bought some new O-rings as well from, I
561
00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:35.160
think it was Mr.
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00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:35.579
O-ring.
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00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:37.759
It was a company in New Jersey. They seem to
564
00:30:37.779 --> 00:30:41.460
be holding up good so far. I'm going to keep testing. Now,
565
00:30:41.589 --> 00:30:46.650
as far as improvised gas cans, this is a weird one.
566
00:30:47.049 --> 00:30:49.349
If you guys have followed the survival podcast for a
567
00:30:49.369 --> 00:30:51.910
lot of years, Jack used to have Stephen Harris on
568
00:30:51.930 --> 00:30:54.069
there all the time. And that man is a genius.
569
00:30:54.109 --> 00:30:57.819
He comes up with more ideas. He, He's had, he's
570
00:30:57.859 --> 00:31:00.650
forgot more things than I've ever learned, I'm sure. And
571
00:31:00.670 --> 00:31:04.230
he used to use these, I don't think they were
572
00:31:04.470 --> 00:31:11.269
used food barrels, something they were 15 gallon food safe barrels.
573
00:31:11.809 --> 00:31:13.049
Now I got to look it up. I want to
574
00:31:13.089 --> 00:31:15.390
say it was HDPE, but you need to make sure
575
00:31:15.430 --> 00:31:17.380
they're fuel safe. So look for the proper stamp on
576
00:31:17.390 --> 00:31:19.720
the bottom. And they just, they took a bung wrench
577
00:31:19.779 --> 00:31:22.319
and he used either, I think he just used a
578
00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:26.119
gravity feed shaker siphon for it. But yeah, he used
579
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:28.220
those and he said they were great. They just got
580
00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:31.140
to make sure whatever you store it in is made
581
00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.759
out of the same plastic that your fuel can, your
582
00:31:33.779 --> 00:31:36.640
jerry cans are made out of. So as far as improvising,
583
00:31:37.220 --> 00:31:39.779
like he wanted these, the guy that sent me the
584
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.349
other question wanted to know about basically, you know, they
585
00:31:43.369 --> 00:31:46.690
like the NATO metal gas cans and those are great,
586
00:31:48.109 --> 00:31:50.230
but they wanted to know how to make their own.
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00:31:50.509 --> 00:31:52.269
How would you build this boat in? How would you
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00:31:52.289 --> 00:31:54.990
cut it? And It was just beyond me. I wasn't
589
00:31:55.029 --> 00:31:58.210
comfortable building my own, but I wouldn't mind, you know,
590
00:31:58.369 --> 00:32:03.549
using something that seals properly, that's made for the same purposes,
591
00:32:03.630 --> 00:32:06.519
but not necessarily designed for that. So yeah, there's an
592
00:32:06.579 --> 00:32:10.660
idea anyway, but yes. So yeah, I have found gas
593
00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:13.059
jugs on the side of the road because when I'm driving,
594
00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:16.200
I'm always scanning. You know, I'm always looking for like livestock,
595
00:32:16.579 --> 00:32:19.069
you know, wildlife coming out anyway. So if I see
596
00:32:19.089 --> 00:32:21.890
a blue or yellow or red gas can in the ditch,
597
00:32:22.450 --> 00:32:24.130
I've been known to pull right over and pick it up.
598
00:32:24.690 --> 00:32:27.690
I found two full ones over the years. Those are great.
599
00:32:28.109 --> 00:32:32.579
And then whenever I'm cleaning out bank properties or doing
600
00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:36.440
junk runs for people, I always save the jerry cans
601
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.440
if they're in good shape. And if I'm not sure,
602
00:32:38.660 --> 00:32:41.200
I save them, inspect them. Worst case, I throw them
603
00:32:41.220 --> 00:32:45.480
to the landfill later on. So I hope that helps. Now,
604
00:32:45.789 --> 00:32:48.819
the next one. I love animals. Yeah, so do I.
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00:32:48.869 --> 00:32:50.849
But that's the name of the YouTube user. I like that.
606
00:32:51.289 --> 00:32:54.289
And they wanted to know about how difficult it was
607
00:32:54.769 --> 00:32:59.769
to set up quick connect fuel hoses on generators. So
608
00:32:59.829 --> 00:33:03.690
if you've got a, most generators that are made to
609
00:33:03.730 --> 00:33:07.230
take propane or natural gas have one of those flared
610
00:33:07.309 --> 00:33:10.170
fittings on them. And the downside to that is if
611
00:33:10.190 --> 00:33:12.170
you want to hook them up, every time you hook
612
00:33:12.190 --> 00:33:14.390
them up, they're brass and you need to put a
613
00:33:14.410 --> 00:33:17.650
wrench on them. So you have to wrench them on,
614
00:33:17.670 --> 00:33:19.750
you have to wrench them off. There's always a possibility
615
00:33:19.769 --> 00:33:22.529
that you over-tightened and that you strip out the brass,
616
00:33:22.569 --> 00:33:25.349
because brass is soft, or you tighten it too much,
617
00:33:25.829 --> 00:33:29.009
and you bottom out the flare, or worse than that,
618
00:33:29.069 --> 00:33:33.420
you end up breaking the little nipple right off your generator.
619
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None of that is a good thing. So what I've done,
620
00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.119
and these are all over my YouTube channel, but I
621
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.720
use the quick release natural gas fittings. They cost about
622
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.210
$ 50 for a male and female pair, but they're worth
623
00:33:47.369 --> 00:33:51.339
every penny. I've got a set set up on my barbecue.
624
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:54.319
I've got a set on the inlet to the house
625
00:33:54.720 --> 00:33:56.779
and I've got a set on my generator and they
626
00:33:56.819 --> 00:34:01.190
look just like if you've ever dealt with air compressor fittings,
627
00:34:01.529 --> 00:34:05.390
like those little, you know, quick release compressor fittings. They
628
00:34:05.410 --> 00:34:08.590
work just like that. Put a little bit of yellow,
629
00:34:08.869 --> 00:34:11.630
make sure it's yellow because you want a thread tape
630
00:34:11.809 --> 00:34:15.320
on there, but don't use the white. It's not made
631
00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:17.440
to hold up to things like natural gas and propane.
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00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:19.820
So use the yellow stuff and put it on there.
633
00:34:20.230 --> 00:34:23.469
And then what's great about that, yeah, one drawback, it
634
00:34:23.489 --> 00:34:25.960
sticks out a couple of inches. So just be careful
635
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:28.239
that you don't put something heavy that could fall over
636
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:32.139
and knock on it. But that's the drawback. But the
637
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.860
good thing is, once it's on there, you never have
638
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:36.739
to take a fitting on or off. It's just simply
639
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:39.289
pull it back, snap it into place, pull it back,
640
00:34:39.449 --> 00:34:42.789
pull it out. You're going to end up saving and
641
00:34:42.849 --> 00:34:46.010
extending the lifespan of that gas fitting on your generators.
642
00:34:46.929 --> 00:34:48.530
And who doesn't love, I don't know, I always.
643
00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:52.400
I enjoy using those quick release fittings. I feel like
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00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:54.360
a little kid at Christmas or something. I know it's foolish,
645
00:34:54.429 --> 00:34:58.130
but they work great. And once they're on there, you
646
00:34:58.170 --> 00:35:02.869
never have to worry about taking them off again. Manny
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00:35:02.929 --> 00:35:07.949
on YouTube said, after using a generator with natural gas option, said,
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00:35:08.010 --> 00:35:12.219
do you need to let out the acquired gas safely? Also,
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00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:15.179
when you plug in natural gas, do you just connect properly,
650
00:35:15.219 --> 00:35:17.750
turn on the gas? And once you turn it on,
651
00:35:18.469 --> 00:35:20.250
Can you just keep it in and keep it going?
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00:35:21.329 --> 00:35:24.239
Will the generator contain it within it no matter how
653
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:26.460
much fills up? Says I'm really new at this and
654
00:35:26.500 --> 00:35:29.719
I'm just learning my education on it. So this was
655
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.039
something I had to learn too. And I'm not sure
656
00:35:32.059 --> 00:35:34.059
if all generators are like this, but the natural gas
657
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.989
ones I've used, the way to be safe about it
658
00:35:37.050 --> 00:35:39.369
is I have a shutoff at the house. So I
659
00:35:39.409 --> 00:35:42.489
hook everything up, then I run over, turn the shutoff
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00:35:42.650 --> 00:35:47.530
on or off, and then start my generator. Because Once
661
00:35:47.590 --> 00:35:51.460
that gas flows in there, there's really no way to
662
00:35:51.780 --> 00:35:55.179
regulate it to stop it. So if you were to
663
00:35:55.219 --> 00:35:56.820
leave it running for a bit, you're going to start
664
00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:59.860
smelling that natural gas coming out of your generator. So
665
00:35:59.900 --> 00:36:02.239
the best way to be safe is to hook everything up,
666
00:36:02.739 --> 00:36:05.610
then turn on your main at the house, and then
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00:36:05.650 --> 00:36:09.730
start your generator. Because no, most of those aren't designed
668
00:36:09.769 --> 00:36:12.190
to contain that gas. They don't have like a shutoff
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00:36:12.230 --> 00:36:14.789
in there or anything like that. So that gas will
670
00:36:14.829 --> 00:36:17.780
free flow out if... you're not careful. So if you're
671
00:36:17.840 --> 00:36:19.340
new at it and it, you know, makes you a
672
00:36:19.340 --> 00:36:23.030
little bit nervous, you know, just be careful, hook everything up,
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00:36:23.349 --> 00:36:25.969
test it, make sure it's all hooked up good. And
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then turn on your natural gas at the house and
675
00:36:30.469 --> 00:36:32.400
let it start flowing and then start it right up.
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And then you won't have any worry. And then also
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00:36:35.590 --> 00:36:38.519
leave it running, go back to the house, turn that
678
00:36:38.599 --> 00:36:42.250
switch off, turn the, the, the natural gas shutoff off,
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00:36:43.139 --> 00:36:45.539
then let it run dead. That way you know there's
680
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:48.239
no gas left in the line, there's no gas left
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00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.989
in the generator, and there's nothing to surprise you, like
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00:36:52.050 --> 00:36:55.329
with a barbecue, for instance, the next time you turn
683
00:36:55.369 --> 00:36:58.929
it on. So with my barbecue, maybe not everybody thinks
684
00:36:58.989 --> 00:37:01.329
about this, but have you ever had a big poof
685
00:37:01.349 --> 00:37:03.090
of gas when you go to start it because there
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00:37:03.110 --> 00:37:06.340
was still propane or natural gas in your burners and
687
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:08.940
in your barbecue line? Well, the best way to do
688
00:37:08.980 --> 00:37:12.820
that is to turn the gas off at the source.
689
00:37:13.469 --> 00:37:16.519
let it burn itself through, and then turn off your burners.
690
00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:19.139
But if you turn off your burners first, then you
691
00:37:19.159 --> 00:37:21.860
trap all that gas in your burners, and it's the
692
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.199
same with the generator. You trap all that gas in there,
693
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:25.900
and then all of a sudden you turn it on
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00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:28.300
and it goes, and then you lose what little bit
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00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:29.800
of hair you have left on the top of your head.
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00:37:31.170 --> 00:37:34.190
So yeah, that's important too. Just one of those little
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safety things that my dad taught me that years ago.
698
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And also, side note on propane, maybe you don't know this,
699
00:37:40.809 --> 00:37:46.099
but a lot of the 20-pound, 30-pound propane tanks, have
700
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:48.980
a flow, an automatic flow shut off in them. So
701
00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:52.019
if you crank them open, wide open right away, it
702
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.090
can end up shutting off the flow in the tank
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00:37:55.300 --> 00:37:58.210
or extremely limiting it. So if you end up finding
704
00:37:58.250 --> 00:37:59.590
that a lot of times you go to start your
705
00:37:59.610 --> 00:38:05.730
barbecue and you're not getting a whole lot of propane flow,
706
00:38:05.869 --> 00:38:07.630
there's a good chance you opened it too wide. So
707
00:38:07.670 --> 00:38:10.030
just open it a little bit, light it, then turn
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00:38:10.050 --> 00:38:13.289
the fuel up. Have a good night, Mike. Loco's got
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00:38:13.309 --> 00:38:16.530
to run. Have an unbelievable weekend. Yeah. He's already, it's
710
00:38:16.550 --> 00:38:19.610
already Friday there, I believe. Yeah. So always love. He
711
00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:24.199
is a huge encourager on the social media platforms. I just, yeah,
712
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:26.079
he is a great guy. He's into the telegram group.
713
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:28.539
If you guys aren't in the telegram group, geez, come
714
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:32.340
by and join the telegram group. I love it. Sometimes
715
00:38:32.360 --> 00:38:34.590
we'll have conversations that run for three, four hours and
716
00:38:34.619 --> 00:38:37.489
sometimes we'll go a day without a big conversation in there,
717
00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:40.150
but take your time. Come by and join us there
718
00:38:40.389 --> 00:38:42.750
because it's, yeah, I love it. It's the best way
719
00:38:42.789 --> 00:38:46.610
for all of us to keep up together. Always enjoy it. Okay,
720
00:38:46.769 --> 00:38:50.159
now this one was a good one. No Name from
721
00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:54.199
YouTube because their name was not worth saying. I don't
722
00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:55.880
even know what it was. But they wanted to know
723
00:38:55.980 --> 00:38:59.960
what the proper break-in procedure was for a generator. So
724
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.719
I know, like, I have a good idea of how
725
00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:06.090
this works. But some of this actually just came recently
726
00:39:06.130 --> 00:39:10.389
because I just called Furman. That's who makes my generator.
727
00:39:10.789 --> 00:39:14.539
Had two nice long conversations with customer service. Could not
728
00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:18.039
recommend them more. They were incredible people to deal with.
729
00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:21.719
Loved talking to them. And I talked to them about...
730
00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:24.309
I was wondering if there was any benefit to switching
731
00:39:24.389 --> 00:39:28.329
to synthetic oil on my generator. And they said yes.
732
00:39:28.750 --> 00:39:28.989
But.
733
00:39:29.949 --> 00:39:32.699
with vehicles, when you switch to synthetic, you can go
734
00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:37.900
longer between your oil changes. They don't recommend that with generators,
735
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.800
but what they do say is there's a good chance
736
00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.559
it'll extend the life of the generator even more. So
737
00:39:42.619 --> 00:39:46.139
I am going to switch my Furman Trifuel to synthetic
738
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:48.480
this year because I've had it for a year. I've
739
00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:51.550
only got like 10 run hours on it, so I
740
00:39:51.590 --> 00:39:55.750
haven't gotten near to where I need to be for
741
00:39:56.230 --> 00:40:00.679
the break-in procedure for the initial oil change, but I'm
742
00:40:00.699 --> 00:40:01.989
still going to do it once a year, so we're
743
00:40:02.010 --> 00:40:06.900
going to switch it over. But most generators recommend every
744
00:40:06.900 --> 00:40:10.079
100 hours of run time changing the oil on the
745
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:13.800
regular once things are up and running. But for the break-in,
746
00:40:13.820 --> 00:40:18.059
the very first time, they recommend around 50 hours. And
747
00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:19.880
I don't know all the ins and the outs about it,
748
00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:22.119
but it has to do with, you know, getting the
749
00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.610
seals in the engine seated properly and getting rid of
750
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:27.340
some of the gunk that's in there when it first
751
00:40:27.409 --> 00:40:31.710
starts and that kind of stuff. But so basically all
752
00:40:31.750 --> 00:40:34.650
that's involved in the proper break-in procedure for most generators.
753
00:40:34.690 --> 00:40:37.829
Now I'm going to get, this is what happens, you know,
754
00:40:38.030 --> 00:40:40.550
people who are big into generators, they all have their
755
00:40:40.590 --> 00:40:46.159
opinions on what you should do for a proper break-in procedure.
756
00:40:46.179 --> 00:40:48.300
But what I've done in the past and what they
757
00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:51.679
recommended to me from Furman was simply going half the time.
758
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:57.099
So like I said, their intervals are 100 and they
759
00:40:57.179 --> 00:41:00.750
recommend 50 on the first. So 50 run hours or
760
00:41:00.769 --> 00:41:04.070
a year, whichever comes first, swap out the oil, get
761
00:41:04.110 --> 00:41:05.989
rid of it all. And at that point, so it
762
00:41:06.030 --> 00:41:09.010
comes with conventional or most come with conventional oil. And
763
00:41:09.030 --> 00:41:11.530
they do say that initial break-in period, you should use
764
00:41:11.550 --> 00:41:16.460
conventional oil. And then switch to synthetic if you want to. Also,
765
00:41:16.579 --> 00:41:20.420
swap the spark plug out. Always swap the spark plug.
766
00:41:20.699 --> 00:41:23.800
Say that five times fast. Always swap the spark plug
767
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:26.650
every time you do an oil change. It's cheap insurance,
768
00:41:27.710 --> 00:41:30.610
and you don't want an old spark plug dealing with
769
00:41:30.630 --> 00:41:33.590
the new gas, the new oil, all of that stuff.
770
00:41:33.630 --> 00:41:36.269
So just swap it out. What are they, $ 5? And
771
00:41:36.449 --> 00:41:39.230
if you're doing an oil change and you're spending $ 40
772
00:41:38.630 --> 00:41:40.860
on the oil, you might as well spend an extra
773
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:46.880
five on your spark plug. And that's really it for
774
00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:50.460
the break-in procedure. There's not a whole lot involved other
775
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:53.699
than that. So I had one more question here, and
776
00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:55.079
then I was going to tell you guys a little
777
00:41:55.099 --> 00:41:57.320
bit about my week and a couple other things, but,
778
00:41:58.460 --> 00:41:59.860
and I don't have an answer for this. So this
779
00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:03.280
is for the community. And if Chris Dixon's still in here, oh,
780
00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:04.909
I just give it away. I wasn't going to use
781
00:42:04.949 --> 00:42:06.949
his last name for it. Sorry about that, Chris. But
782
00:42:08.090 --> 00:42:11.929
his question was, is there a clinical name for the
783
00:42:11.989 --> 00:42:17.969
remorse felt after purchasing cordless corded tools? And I couldn't
784
00:42:17.989 --> 00:42:19.260
come up with a good name for that. So if
785
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:20.860
you guys can come up with a good name for that,
786
00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:24.159
I would love to trademark it or something. No, I'm
787
00:42:24.179 --> 00:42:31.599
just kidding. But so basically what he is saying is he, Oh, uh, said, um, Oh,
788
00:42:31.739 --> 00:42:33.340
I'll bring that up too. But yeah, so Chris wanted
789
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:35.639
to know, and a lot of us do this. Sometimes
790
00:42:35.699 --> 00:42:37.610
I go to the store and I'm like, I need,
791
00:42:37.670 --> 00:42:41.690
let's say for instance, I need an orbital sander. And
792
00:42:41.730 --> 00:42:44.050
of course I can get a cheap crappy tire version
793
00:42:44.150 --> 00:42:46.550
for 30 or 40 bucks. You plug it in, it
794
00:42:46.590 --> 00:42:49.019
works great. If I want to spend twice that, I
795
00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.239
could get the nice cordless one. But if I've already
796
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:54.260
spent half, then I'm starting to think, well, I could
797
00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.800
just spend that half again and get a nice cordless tool.
798
00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.659
But in my older days, especially when I really didn't
799
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:01.699
have any extra money to spend, it didn't feel like
800
00:43:01.739 --> 00:43:03.920
spending any extra money, I would go and buy the
801
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:06.059
corded tool. And as soon as I bought that damn
802
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:10.769
corded tool, I was like, well, shit, I really wish
803
00:43:10.809 --> 00:43:13.050
I'd have bought the cordless tool. So if anybody else
804
00:43:13.090 --> 00:43:15.909
has ever felt that remorse of buying a corded tool
805
00:43:15.949 --> 00:43:17.829
and then thought, Jesus, I should have just bought the
806
00:43:18.309 --> 00:43:20.789
cordless version. Let me know. We need to come up
807
00:43:20.809 --> 00:43:23.340
with a name for that because I think us men,
808
00:43:23.380 --> 00:43:26.219
we really suffer from that sometimes. You know, you don't
809
00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:28.539
want to spend too much, but who doesn't just love
810
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:32.119
a cool cordless tool? So Chris said, did you ask
811
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:34.849
about the hydroscopic properties of oil? Most say one year
812
00:43:34.889 --> 00:43:38.550
max for low runtime machines. So I didn't ask a
813
00:43:38.929 --> 00:43:42.130
specifically about that simply because i didn't really know that
814
00:43:42.190 --> 00:43:46.570
i should but yes they definitely recommend it i've pretty
815
00:43:46.610 --> 00:43:50.199
much any generator i've dealt with any company i've talked
816
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:53.599
to they always say one year max and so that
817
00:43:53.659 --> 00:43:55.320
must be it i'll do some digging into that a
818
00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:57.719
little more but but yeah they basically say whether it
819
00:43:57.780 --> 00:44:01.739
sits or runs if you haven't hit your hour run
820
00:44:01.780 --> 00:44:03.719
time so for my firm and it would have been
821
00:44:03.719 --> 00:44:06.280
50 for this year simply because this is the break-in
822
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:11.420
period then uh Yeah, you would basically need to swap
823
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:13.139
it out either way. And that's what they say. And
824
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:16.039
I'm okay with that. I don't mind. It's good practice anyway.
825
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.739
And it's nice, you know, once a year to give
826
00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:23.090
your generator a great look over and figure it out
827
00:44:23.130 --> 00:44:25.849
from there. But yeah, I'm like you guys know, I
828
00:44:25.889 --> 00:44:28.909
do regular maintenance on my generator anyway. And this once
829
00:44:28.949 --> 00:44:31.409
a year oil change and that kind of thing, it's
830
00:44:31.429 --> 00:44:33.670
going to make a good video. It'll be a nice
831
00:44:33.730 --> 00:44:36.369
learning experience for some people out there. And it'll be
832
00:44:36.409 --> 00:44:40.619
information I can share with just about everybody. so now
833
00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:43.769
I want to talk about a little project or I
834
00:44:43.809 --> 00:44:47.369
don't even know what you want to call it, but, uh,
835
00:44:47.489 --> 00:44:50.250
last year, I, you guys know, I put siding on
836
00:44:50.289 --> 00:44:53.469
my garage and insulated it, but there's a few more
837
00:44:53.610 --> 00:44:56.360
upgrades that I need to do. Uh, yet corded. Oh,
838
00:44:56.519 --> 00:44:59.639
that's great. I like that. Anybody else like corded remorse?
839
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:03.179
I just, that sounds like some kind of thing you'd
840
00:45:03.199 --> 00:45:05.969
see in a medical textbook. I like that. If anybody
841
00:45:06.030 --> 00:45:09.070
else has no other suggestions, I'm happy with courted remorse.
842
00:45:09.150 --> 00:45:13.030
That sounds really good. So anyway, we're, you know, it's
843
00:45:13.250 --> 00:45:16.269
quickly warming up here and I'm looking at doing some
844
00:45:16.289 --> 00:45:20.260
more projects, of course, in my backyard. And if Chris,
845
00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:24.000
Chris knows my garage gets rather cold. So my next
846
00:45:24.059 --> 00:45:25.800
step is to put a new garage door in there
847
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:28.500
because I have an old kind of panel wood one
848
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.320
that the bottom, um, track piece or the bottom piece
849
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:34.260
of wood is split in half, and you can see
850
00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:37.409
about three inches of daylight under it, and there's literally
851
00:45:37.489 --> 00:45:41.289
no insulation properties. And I've wanted to do this for
852
00:45:41.309 --> 00:45:43.670
a couple years. We've got a local place in town
853
00:45:44.150 --> 00:45:48.369
that does garage doors. I've called them three times to
854
00:45:48.409 --> 00:45:50.469
come by over the last 18 months to give me
855
00:45:50.510 --> 00:45:55.719
a quote, and I'm still waiting. So I decided, hey,
856
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:59.590
I'm going to learn a new skill. So I have
857
00:45:59.630 --> 00:46:01.809
been saving up for a garage door. And that's something
858
00:46:01.829 --> 00:46:04.510
I wanted to tell you about. This was my, the
859
00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:06.960
insight to how I made this work. So I told
860
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:08.619
Becky I wanted to get a new garage door. And,
861
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:11.059
you know, if we wanted to, we could save up
862
00:46:11.139 --> 00:46:12.980
and get a garage door. Wouldn't be a big deal.
863
00:46:13.659 --> 00:46:15.480
But I wanted it to be something that I used
864
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:19.420
extra money for. So I made it my goal. Excuse me.
865
00:46:21.260 --> 00:46:24.059
I made it my goal to scrounge up money in
866
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:27.630
any way I could to get this garage door. So
867
00:46:27.769 --> 00:46:30.469
first thing I did was when I went to this
868
00:46:30.670 --> 00:46:34.909
latest bank property, I found a really nice toolbox that
869
00:46:34.949 --> 00:46:37.150
fits in the box of a truck. And I probably
870
00:46:37.190 --> 00:46:39.829
could have sold it for more, but you guys, if
871
00:46:39.849 --> 00:46:41.829
you've ever watched my video on how to get rid
872
00:46:41.869 --> 00:46:44.130
of junk, I always say price it to sell. So
873
00:46:44.150 --> 00:46:48.010
I put it up for $ 100 and it sold within minutes.
874
00:46:48.489 --> 00:46:49.889
So that was my first $ 100. Next $ 200 from there
875
00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:57.570
was my empties. I saved whole bunch of empties for
876
00:46:57.610 --> 00:47:01.769
about six months, took them all back and made $ 220.
877
00:47:01.489 --> 00:47:06.460
So that got me a little bit closer. Now, I
878
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:08.360
did mention a while ago, you guys have asked what
879
00:47:08.380 --> 00:47:10.980
some of my best finds were, and I have decided
880
00:47:11.219 --> 00:47:13.539
that I'm holding on to a lot of junk that
881
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:17.380
I did not need. And one of those things, you
882
00:47:17.420 --> 00:47:20.150
guys might go, Boo earns! One of those things was
883
00:47:20.230 --> 00:47:23.329
the Nintendo that I found, you know, doing a landfill
884
00:47:23.369 --> 00:47:25.550
run one time. And it was great. It was nice
885
00:47:25.590 --> 00:47:27.230
to have, but I wasn't going to play with it.
886
00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:30.219
And it was just sitting up on that shelf collecting dust.
887
00:47:30.900 --> 00:47:34.039
So I listed all of my Nintendo, I listed my
888
00:47:34.079 --> 00:47:36.800
Nintendo and all the games that went with it, put
889
00:47:36.820 --> 00:47:39.840
it on eBay for seven days. And I ended up
890
00:47:39.900 --> 00:47:43.800
making $ 863 out of the Nintendo and the games. Now
891
00:47:43.820 --> 00:47:45.579
you don't get all that at once because you have
892
00:47:45.619 --> 00:47:46.940
to wait for it all to show up, but it's
893
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:50.099
been coming in in dribs and drabs. And so I
894
00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:54.590
now have after that and I sold my 3D printer.
895
00:47:54.730 --> 00:47:56.510
You guys are going to be like, wow. Anyway, I
896
00:47:56.550 --> 00:47:59.190
bought that last year. I learned all I wanted. And
897
00:47:59.210 --> 00:48:02.210
I've told you about that with me. Quite often, I
898
00:48:02.230 --> 00:48:04.719
learn things, get bored with things, and then leave the
899
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:08.000
skill behind. And I just, I kept saying, oh, that
900
00:48:08.179 --> 00:48:10.500
3D printer was sitting there kind of laughing at me. Like, Tim,
901
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:12.179
come back and play with me. And I just never
902
00:48:12.219 --> 00:48:15.199
had the inclination or the time to do it. So
903
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:16.949
I said, the easiest way to cure that is to
904
00:48:16.989 --> 00:48:19.130
sell it. So I sold that for $ 200. I put
905
00:48:19.170 --> 00:48:22.420
that in there. And I came across a gift card
906
00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:24.320
in my drawer that I forgot I had. So I
907
00:48:24.380 --> 00:48:27.670
now have enough to buy my garage door and a
908
00:48:27.710 --> 00:48:31.429
new garage door opener. And if you follow Chris Dixon
909
00:48:31.510 --> 00:48:33.730
on his YouTube channel, he just put up a really
910
00:48:33.750 --> 00:48:36.730
good video on replacing a garage door opener. Something I
911
00:48:36.769 --> 00:48:39.380
haven't done before. Wow, Tim, a handyman that's never put
912
00:48:39.409 --> 00:48:41.760
in a garage door opener. Never done a garage door.
913
00:48:42.179 --> 00:48:43.760
So I'm going to turn it into a video as well.
914
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.400
Of course, because that's what us content creators do. But
915
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:49.519
I really want to learn this skill. And I thought...
916
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.900
I asked the lady at the garage door place, like,
917
00:48:55.059 --> 00:48:56.820
give me a ballpark. And she's like, well, I really
918
00:48:56.860 --> 00:48:58.380
need to send somebody out. But she said it won't
919
00:48:58.420 --> 00:49:01.909
be more than $ 2, 000. And I know a year and
920
00:49:01.929 --> 00:49:03.619
a half ago when I first started talking to them
921
00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:05.170
that they told me it wouldn't be much more than
922
00:49:05.190 --> 00:49:08.329
a grand. So whatever. Anyway, Home Depot has a great
923
00:49:08.409 --> 00:49:11.909
one for $ 819. So for $ 1, 000, I can get the
924
00:49:11.949 --> 00:49:14.769
door and an opener and I can install it myself.
925
00:49:15.170 --> 00:49:17.070
I'll get a video out of it and I'll learn
926
00:49:17.090 --> 00:49:20.219
a new skill. So all of that combined, was a
927
00:49:20.239 --> 00:49:23.340
way to save about $ 1, 000, I think, if they'd ever
928
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:25.579
give me a real price and learn a new skill
929
00:49:26.059 --> 00:49:28.219
and create content that's going to bring some money in.
930
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:32.860
And then also this week, I have been working on
931
00:49:33.449 --> 00:49:35.289
a wicking bed. If you guys have never seen a
932
00:49:35.329 --> 00:49:37.409
wicking bed, I think I did one video on it
933
00:49:37.829 --> 00:49:39.750
a couple of years ago, but it was old and
934
00:49:40.630 --> 00:49:44.409
probably short and not very well put together. So I'm
935
00:49:44.429 --> 00:49:45.989
going to be doing a video as I go along.
936
00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:49.989
I'm building a wicking bed for the daycare. It's going
937
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to be a four by eight box. So you basically
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frame it up with pressure treated. And before somebody, you know,
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I'm sure somebody's typing away right now, don't use pressure
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treated for a garden. Well, hang on. If you don't
941
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know how a wicking bed works, you line the entire
942
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thing with pond liner on the inside. So there's no
943
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way the pressure treated is going to touch the food.
944
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So we're building, yeah, so then we're going to put
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it up on the deck. I'm building a new deck
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at the daycare as well. And we're going to line it.
947
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You put the pond liner in it. Then you put
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perforated four inch sewer pipe. You wrap it along the bottom.
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Then you bring it up to the top. You put gravel,
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00:50:27.019 --> 00:50:29.780
cover it with gravel. Put a little like old mats
951
00:50:29.820 --> 00:50:31.840
or something to kind of separate it. Then top the
952
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:35.659
whole thing up with topsoil. Put your vegetables, whatever it
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happens to be in there. Then mulch on top. Then
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you fill that pipe. And the water, if you've never
955
00:50:42.059 --> 00:50:44.360
seen it, is the most wonderful thing. The water comes
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from the pipe. It wicks up from the bottom. So
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what's great about that is here in Alberta, where it's
958
00:50:50.659 --> 00:50:52.820
so dry that if you stick your tongue out, it
959
00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:56.769
turns to sandpaper. So water evaporates quickly. And if you're
960
00:50:56.789 --> 00:51:00.170
trying to water something from the top down, half that
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is lost to evaporation. So I'm going to get it
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down in, you know, I love, I've done wicking beds
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before and they work Yeah, they're awesome. So keep an
964
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eye out for that. I'm doing a video. Ryan was
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00:51:12.190 --> 00:51:15.889
on the other night. Prepper Dad from the Next Generation Podcast.
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He come on Sunday night. And we were talking afterwards.
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00:51:18.349 --> 00:51:19.750
He's like, you should do a video on that. Because
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00:51:19.769 --> 00:51:21.769
I don't know much about wicking beds. So I'll put
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00:51:21.809 --> 00:51:25.769
one of those together too. Chris says, that was a
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00:51:25.809 --> 00:51:27.829
first for me as well. I'm looking at replacing the
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old tin door with an insulated one now. Exactly. That's
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00:51:31.130 --> 00:51:35.809
why mine's a wood door. And it needs to be done. Yeah, so... Sure,
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00:51:35.849 --> 00:51:37.449
I should have mentioned this. I've been told this a
974
00:51:37.489 --> 00:51:42.530
few times by other people, but Hawk here, Hawkins, Chicken
975
00:51:42.550 --> 00:51:44.710
Hawk says, watch out for the spring. It can really
976
00:51:44.750 --> 00:51:46.429
knock the crap out of you. Ask me how I know.
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00:51:47.030 --> 00:51:48.820
I've been warned that it can actually kill people, at
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00:51:48.860 --> 00:51:51.079
least some of those industrial ones. So yes, be careful.
979
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.039
And John Palmer says, garage door springs are very dangerous.
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And yeah, I will be very careful. The video, or yeah,
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00:52:02.420 --> 00:52:04.340
the company I'm buying the garage door from has some
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00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:06.690
really good videos. So I'll do what I normally do
983
00:52:06.710 --> 00:52:08.769
when I'm learning a new skill. I'll watch the video
984
00:52:08.789 --> 00:52:11.539
two or three times, and then I will do it
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00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:14.119
step by step, taking my time. And if I get
986
00:52:14.139 --> 00:52:15.860
to a point where I'm like, shit, I can't remember
987
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.159
what I need to do, I'll watch that video again,
988
00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:21.280
and then I'll start watching other videos from the University
989
00:52:21.300 --> 00:52:24.360
of YouTube where it shows me the little parts that
990
00:52:24.380 --> 00:52:28.150
I don't know. James says, you'll do a better job
991
00:52:28.190 --> 00:52:30.469
on your opener than an installer. The old saying, if
992
00:52:30.489 --> 00:52:33.329
you want it done right, do it yourself. And that
993
00:52:33.530 --> 00:52:37.559
is true. Yeah, it... Yeah, there's no getting around that.
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00:52:39.219 --> 00:52:41.900
The wicking bed that I'm building for Becky, I decided
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00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:45.159
to really, really take my time on this. Instead of just,
996
00:52:45.219 --> 00:52:47.449
you know, doing how you would normally. I just kind of,
997
00:52:47.460 --> 00:52:49.260
when I'm building that stuff around home, just kind of
998
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:52.739
scab it together. It looks good. But anyway, so this
999
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:55.389
one I'm like, you know, flipping the boards around, getting
1000
00:52:55.409 --> 00:52:58.159
everything lined up right, spacing the screw holes out. It's
1001
00:52:58.179 --> 00:53:02.409
going to look spectacular when it's done. But yes, and
1002
00:53:02.449 --> 00:53:04.570
you're right, James. That is, when you do your own job,
1003
00:53:04.590 --> 00:53:07.619
you do a better job. Because I've had people, not
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this company in general, but I've had other companies who
1005
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.400
have done garage doors for me in rentals. And when
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00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:18.139
you're done, you're like, really? Like, okay. But yeah, it is.
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00:53:18.780 --> 00:53:20.739
And Chicken Hawk says he'll hold my beer for me.
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00:53:20.840 --> 00:53:23.860
I appreciate that. Even if it's electronically, you can hold
1009
00:53:23.900 --> 00:53:26.739
a beer for me. But it'll be fun. I'm looking
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00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:28.610
forward to it. Like I said, I always love learning
1011
00:53:28.639 --> 00:53:31.070
new skills. And if you guys have followed me for
1012
00:53:31.090 --> 00:53:32.869
any length of time, you know I like to stack
1013
00:53:32.929 --> 00:53:35.929
skills together. So learn a skill. make a video, save
1014
00:53:35.969 --> 00:53:37.989
some money, and get a new product all at the
1015
00:53:38.030 --> 00:53:42.059
same time. Chris says, oh, they said I got nothing
1016
00:53:42.119 --> 00:53:43.960
on trunk springs, eh, Chris? And he said, I can,
1017
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.320
but the same size door, it will only change the
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00:53:46.360 --> 00:53:48.500
door slats and leave the springs and everything in place.
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00:53:49.360 --> 00:53:51.619
That's not a bad idea. I thought about doing that,
1020
00:53:51.659 --> 00:53:54.769
but mine's so bad, I'm going to replace everything. I
1021
00:53:54.789 --> 00:53:57.590
did some digging online, and this door that I'm looking
1022
00:53:57.670 --> 00:54:01.409
at comes with everything you need except the rear hangers
1023
00:54:02.309 --> 00:54:06.110
and the weatherstripping. My rear hangers are perfectly fine, but
1024
00:54:06.130 --> 00:54:08.409
I'll definitely buy some new weatherstripping once I get it
1025
00:54:08.429 --> 00:54:12.570
into place. Yeah, just one of those things. But yeah,
1026
00:54:12.610 --> 00:54:16.239
so I'm definitely excited about learning a new skill. And also,
1027
00:54:16.699 --> 00:54:19.719
I'm picking up the materials tomorrow. The deck I built
1028
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:23.559
at the house here, 16x24, I'm building one of those
1029
00:54:23.760 --> 00:54:26.820
on ground at the wife's daycare. Because right now it's
1030
00:54:26.860 --> 00:54:28.679
a soupy, muddy mess. So we're going to put a
1031
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.420
16x24 deck in and then cover the rest of the
1032
00:54:31.460 --> 00:54:33.719
yard with a fine gravel the kids can play in.
1033
00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:36.179
It's going to be way better than the grass we
1034
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:38.659
can't keep there because the kids... Well, kids are kids
1035
00:54:38.699 --> 00:54:40.780
and they tear it up and they're like goats, right?
1036
00:54:42.199 --> 00:54:44.510
So we're going to do that. And I'm extending the
1037
00:54:44.550 --> 00:54:47.150
back deck at the house here. None of this is
1038
00:54:47.170 --> 00:54:49.590
going to get done before I go to Living Free
1039
00:54:49.610 --> 00:54:52.369
in Tennessee, the spring workshop. But it's still exciting. I
1040
00:54:52.389 --> 00:54:54.699
like talking about my projects. I'm always looking forward to it.
1041
00:54:55.170 --> 00:54:57.730
And you guys definitely, if you come by the Telegram group,
1042
00:54:57.909 --> 00:55:00.719
share your projects. Just before I got started, I seen
1043
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:02.980
Kerry Brown was building a hoop house today. If you guys...
1044
00:55:03.210 --> 00:55:05.380
Don't remember Kerry. He was on the show not too
1045
00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:11.239
long ago. He runs a handyman landscaping business down in Tennessee.
1046
00:55:11.820 --> 00:55:15.380
Just an awesome inspiration of a guy. So yeah, it's
1047
00:55:15.420 --> 00:55:17.639
a great place where we all brag, guys and girls,
1048
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:20.289
about what we're doing. But we don't mind asking for
1049
00:55:20.329 --> 00:55:24.469
help either. So beyond that, anybody's got any other questions,
1050
00:55:24.550 --> 00:55:28.610
throw them up there. If you're wondering... I forgot to
1051
00:55:28.650 --> 00:55:31.829
mention earlier on tonight, but if you're listening, if you're
1052
00:55:31.889 --> 00:55:35.550
not listening on the Prepper Broadcast Network, just one question,
1053
00:55:35.710 --> 00:55:39.710
why aren't you? There's like more than a dozen podcasts
1054
00:55:39.750 --> 00:55:44.530
a week on all aspects of preparedness lifestyle. It's just
1055
00:55:44.570 --> 00:55:47.079
an awesome channel. And if you get value from it,
1056
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:49.360
go by there and become a member. I'm a member.
1057
00:55:49.380 --> 00:55:52.239
I haven't even logged into the membership website. I just
1058
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:54.500
wanted to support James and everything he's done for me.
1059
00:55:55.769 --> 00:55:58.489
So who follows me up on the Prepper Broadcast Network?
1060
00:55:58.550 --> 00:56:01.949
I do Thursday night and on Friday is my buddy
1061
00:56:02.389 --> 00:56:05.449
Carl A.D. Brown. He has a show called The Strange Truth.
1062
00:56:05.929 --> 00:56:08.789
He talks about faith, preparedness, and of course the news
1063
00:56:08.849 --> 00:56:12.860
stories that nobody else wants to touch. And what do
1064
00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:15.880
we got coming up this week? What's left? Well, like
1065
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:19.159
I said, things are going to be a little bit
1066
00:56:19.219 --> 00:56:21.199
in flux for a couple of weeks. So next week
1067
00:56:21.219 --> 00:56:24.289
will be basically the same. except there won't be a
1068
00:56:24.309 --> 00:56:27.309
live Sunday show because I'm going to be leaving on
1069
00:56:27.329 --> 00:56:29.760
a jet plane and don't know when I'll be back again,
1070
00:56:29.860 --> 00:56:31.980
except I do because I'll be home on the 3rd
1071
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:34.420
of May. We're going to be gone from the 17th
1072
00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:36.719
of April to the 3rd of May. It's going to
1073
00:56:36.739 --> 00:56:39.840
be awesome. But in the meantime, we're going to have
1074
00:56:39.880 --> 00:56:44.179
a Saturday evening live stream, 7 p.m. Mountain Time. I think,
1075
00:56:44.780 --> 00:56:46.369
don't hold me to this, but I believe we're going
1076
00:56:46.389 --> 00:56:49.199
to talk about building an essential prepper library. unless I
1077
00:56:49.280 --> 00:56:51.880
completely change my mind and we do something totally different
1078
00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.460
or if somebody else has another suggestion, but I've been
1079
00:56:54.500 --> 00:56:56.840
working on building a proper library and working on getting
1080
00:56:56.900 --> 00:57:00.570
some suggestions from other people. And then Sunday evening is
1081
00:57:00.610 --> 00:57:02.750
the flagship show of the week where I have an
1082
00:57:02.789 --> 00:57:06.190
interview usually. And it's getting to the point where I
1083
00:57:06.269 --> 00:57:08.670
might have to do two interview shows a week because
1084
00:57:08.710 --> 00:57:10.679
there's just so many good people who want to be
1085
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:13.539
on the show. And so many people who are recommended
1086
00:57:13.579 --> 00:57:16.690
to me that I'd love to do more interviews, but geez, I,
1087
00:57:17.269 --> 00:57:18.869
I'm not quite sure if I want to do a
1088
00:57:18.929 --> 00:57:23.010
fourth episode a week. But this Sunday evening, we got
1089
00:57:23.090 --> 00:57:26.650
Nate LeMaster from Two Chicks Homestead. He's a big part
1090
00:57:26.750 --> 00:57:29.510
of the workshop community, an all-around nice guy. I'm going
1091
00:57:29.530 --> 00:57:32.690
to get to meet him in person in Tennessee in
1092
00:57:32.710 --> 00:57:34.250
a couple of weeks. But he's going to talk about
1093
00:57:34.289 --> 00:57:39.840
emergency communications. So I'm really, really excited about that. And
1094
00:57:40.139 --> 00:57:44.099
real quick, before we close up, what's coming? So beyond
1095
00:57:44.179 --> 00:57:48.030
this week coming, We're going to have... Most everything's going
1096
00:57:48.050 --> 00:57:50.489
to be pre-recorded for two weeks. So there'll be... I've
1097
00:57:50.510 --> 00:57:52.369
got a couple of really cool interviews that I haven't
1098
00:57:52.409 --> 00:57:56.369
played on PBN. Those will be for my two Thursday
1099
00:57:56.409 --> 00:57:59.530
night slots. I've got pre-recorded stuff with guests who are
1100
00:57:59.590 --> 00:58:04.920
on there from... Oh, yeah. So I had... Well, anyway,
1101
00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.500
I'll leave it as a surprise. They're both really good episodes.
1102
00:58:07.539 --> 00:58:11.360
So they're going to be there. And from there, we
1103
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:15.219
are going to have... It's going to be a really
1104
00:58:15.260 --> 00:58:18.489
cool series. I'm quite excited about it. And, oh, hang on.
1105
00:58:18.949 --> 00:58:21.130
We just had a new guy in here, Brett. I
1106
00:58:21.170 --> 00:58:23.550
wanted to give him a shout out. Brett Holmes says,
1107
00:58:23.829 --> 00:58:26.230
I only saw your live stream. You're just wrapping up. Damn.
1108
00:58:26.429 --> 00:58:28.630
That's okay, Brett. And he also said, I left a
1109
00:58:28.670 --> 00:58:30.760
comment on your last generator video. I have a bonded
1110
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:33.579
neutral generator and a transfer switch that doesn't switch neutral.
1111
00:58:33.940 --> 00:58:36.019
I was told that a fix is to not connect
1112
00:58:36.059 --> 00:58:39.679
the ground to the generator. I seen that and I hadn't,
1113
00:58:40.260 --> 00:58:42.780
I don't think I've re-commented on your comment yet, Brett,
1114
00:58:43.099 --> 00:58:47.019
simply because I wasn't 100% sure what the proper answer
1115
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:49.539
is on that. That sounds legit to me, but I'm
1116
00:58:49.559 --> 00:58:51.320
not an electrician. I'm going to do some more digging
1117
00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:52.920
and I'll get back to you, but it does sound
1118
00:58:52.940 --> 00:58:55.360
like it. And they said, don't connect the ground to
1119
00:58:55.389 --> 00:58:58.050
the generator. You know, it could be, but if you
1120
00:58:58.070 --> 00:59:01.210
guys haven't, I just did a video on bonded versus
1121
00:59:01.289 --> 00:59:03.869
floating neutral in a generator. I tried to keep it
1122
00:59:03.889 --> 00:59:06.510
to like less than six minutes. So everybody, you know,
1123
00:59:06.570 --> 00:59:09.510
so it would be simple and easy. And I had
1124
00:59:09.530 --> 00:59:11.889
to do hours and hours of reading and research to
1125
00:59:11.929 --> 00:59:14.190
put that six minute video together. But I loved it
1126
00:59:14.269 --> 00:59:17.610
because again, it was a new concept, a new idea
1127
00:59:17.699 --> 00:59:21.179
for me to learn. But yeah, Brett, if you, it
1128
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:23.300
sounds like you're a subscriber now, but I appreciate it.
1129
00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:25.780
And if you're a Telegram user, man, come by the
1130
00:59:25.820 --> 00:59:29.480
workshop Telegram group and you can share questions and comments
1131
00:59:29.500 --> 00:59:33.019
there too. All the links are in the description below
1132
00:59:33.099 --> 00:59:35.570
for sure. But yeah, so what do we got coming up?
1133
00:59:36.019 --> 00:59:38.260
Like I said, while I'm gone, it's going to be
1134
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:43.070
a short kind of, so it's going to be a
1135
00:59:43.090 --> 00:59:44.829
cool series. I've been wanting to do this for a while.
1136
00:59:45.710 --> 00:59:48.710
It's basically going to be a, hey, I'm scared. I
1137
00:59:48.750 --> 00:59:52.050
want to get into preparedness. You know, insert whatever reason
1138
00:59:52.070 --> 00:59:55.610
you're nervous about because the world is gone, whatever. And
1139
00:59:55.630 --> 00:59:57.650
it's going to be like 15 to 20 minute episodes.
1140
00:59:57.670 --> 00:59:59.369
There's going to be five of them. that you can
1141
00:59:59.409 --> 01:00:01.670
share with friends, and you can also learn from. So
1142
01:00:01.710 --> 01:00:04.030
I'm excited about that. So that's all going to be pre-recorded.
1143
01:00:04.380 --> 01:00:06.760
We've got some other videos coming up, some good reviews.
1144
01:00:07.300 --> 01:00:09.380
But I'm going to take my gear with me, and
1145
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:11.539
I'm going to live stream, hopefully from the beach in Florida,
1146
01:00:11.940 --> 01:00:14.639
hopefully from the LFTN Spring Workshop, and it's going to
1147
01:00:14.659 --> 01:00:17.820
be a good time. But yeah, so yeah, Brett, thanks
1148
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:21.070
for popping in, and I do appreciate you sharing that.
1149
01:00:21.789 --> 01:00:24.949
So guys, that was an hour. Man, that flew by.
1150
01:00:25.210 --> 01:00:26.929
I always love when you guys come by, and this
1151
01:00:26.949 --> 01:00:30.320
was a good episode, something just a little different. and yeah,
1152
01:00:30.500 --> 01:00:32.960
next week will be one more live repairedness, and then
1153
01:00:32.980 --> 01:00:36.769
there'll be two weeks of pre-recorded. So guys, like I said,
1154
01:00:37.550 --> 01:00:39.510
you know, an hour, hour and a half, I appreciate
1155
01:00:39.550 --> 01:00:41.269
the fact that you could spend your time anywhere, and
1156
01:00:41.289 --> 01:00:43.199
you come by and hang out with me, so thank you,
1157
01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:48.519
thank you very much, and as always, stay happy, stay healthy,
1158
01:00:48.920 --> 01:00:50.239
and have a great week.
1159
01:00:59.460 --> 01:01:02.000
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1160
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