#215 A Hot Week, Heavy Machines & a Strange Roof Experiment

Okay. And how is that one?

That's good. This also looked good. Or not anymore now. Yea, it's a little... outward i'm curious to the big one a bit crooked that one's perfect this pole also has a lot of mirrors Is this oak or ...? Good question If I order chestnut here, it always has one oak It is the rest of the stand.

It's always very random imagine doing inside work... American oak looks very similar But with the rest, the rafters as well, there's always one that is oak They're very easy with it Okay, two boxes... a bit more to the center

I picked up two machines, but I had to cover them quickly because it's starting to rain. They're cast iron tops so.... They rust very quickly if you keep them wet. It's a new ciicular table saw and a jointer planer, which is a machine to make wood flat and square Um yeah you'll see more of it tomorrow. Keep them dry. And tomorrow we'll put them in the workshop Just in time. you got a good tan farmer's tan enjoy it!

This is Dutch cheese, right? cumin cheese? With herb cheese. oh it is from here? No, garden herbs, but from the Netherlands. These are two grape plants that I ordered.

This is a Solaris and the other one is a Regent, which is a red grape, and they are species that do better in these kind of climate where it's colder They grow in Germany I ordered these from, I think it was Poland. So they look a bit like they just came out of bed. But they've been in transit for about a week so actually they look quite good, I think. So I'm going to leave them in the shade here for a few days. water them and then let them acclimatize, and then they're gonna go in the greenhouse see how they do. I'm quite curious Ah, it already has a wax on top We only need to have the two wheels on a ramp, say here.

Yeah! Yeah, yeah, you're just touching it Trying to estimate how far you can go from there. yea, it's fine like this

I'm going to pull. it's top heavy, right That's it. The nail is out.

Yeah, it's loose in there. Yeah, it takes it comes out like a carpet Going to do a little experiment with the roof stones.

I'm trying to give them a bit of a... more aged color, because they are quite white compared to the other roofs, and that is because these stones have never seen the light of day. They are freshly cut... some months ago, compared to the other roofs that have been there for decades, and those stones have often been found in the ground and harvested more locally, so they have a bit more variety in color. But mostly more moss, more lichen and just more natural aging. And there are a few tricks you can achieve that, making a mixture of an acid, like yogurt, natural acid. and uh mixing it with moss, and mulch, and some dirt. So we're gonna create this mixture, the girls are looking for moss in the forest And then now we're gonna mix it with yogurt and some water. And then put it on the stone, and see how it works.

we'll keep it moist as well It will probably work best on this side! these sides of the roof that are in the forest and get less sunlight, so they color quicker but, Yeah, it's a bit of an experiement, we'll see how it works out We'll do I think we'll do a comparison stone as well, just side by side, one with the mixture and one without and then... After some weeks or months we'll see how it turns out First, we're gonna put some earth.

I planted the vines outside, eventually I wasn't sure in the beginning, but I think outside is better and then eventually as they grow up, I will lead them inside so they can grow underneath the roof, like one vine and lead them one way, and the other can go the other way and they might meet in the middle. But this way I keep the garden beds clean, because I want to plant tomatoes and other things every year If I plant them inside the root system would just get too big. So now I keep it separate. Because over the years they can get really big if it goes well. Let's see, first they need to settle. I need to give them a lot of water in the coming weeks, or days at least, and then let's see how they grow They're just doing their job, they're like oh.

Bye! Uh babe!? Why the light in the house is gone? The light turns off now? They just turned off. Oh... Let me check, that's probably me Do you have another one so I can help you?

Another uh Yeah. You admire the fire? Yeah. doesn't it get hot there? here? No, it's aluminium well it can get hot, but... Turn it around once. But this ...I don't know why this one is not burning at all Full of liquid, it's boiling Oh yeah.

Wow. What? Were you looking for it? I was asking if there's another one so I can help Oh no, this is ... Okay, let's see how it turns out. Here on the forest floor it might go faster than on the roof itself, which has sun in the morning.

But yeah, I'll get back to this in a few weeks the planer trips the inverter before reaching full speed Yeah, that's a bit of a downer.

The planer doesn't want to turn on I don't know what it is. It's a big machine, it needs like 3KW of continuous power, which the Victron should be able to deliver It's a 24 volt system, Multiplus II 5000, so that can deliver 4KW of power continuously, and should also be able to... Run a high startup current for a machine like this, but it turns on and then like after 3 or 4 seconds... like the blade starts to run but then it... There's a system overload on the Victron system, and it shouldn't be there. I even tried it with the generator on as a backup which is 5KW so it should be running. Maybe there's something wrong with the startup capacitor or engine brake or anything in there...

I don't know. I'm gonna have to look into it. Other than that, the saw works. I haven't sawed anything yet, but that runs nicely. And um Yeah, it was a nice week. Thijmen was here, and Fleur. He was here two years ago. Maybe you remember it. He was carrying rocks barefoot. We were digging out the bathroom area in the second cabin. So it's a good time to have them here again. Did a lot of work. All the wiring is done on the solar panels, have to clean things up and then build the other solar stands and that's finished. And I hope I can fix this problem here... So I can move things in here and slowly start working on the second cabin, the roof.