Solar Tracker Broken After Crazy Wind Storm

Ajouté : 2026-05-14

[00:00:40]Hey everybody. Good morning.

[00:00:47]It's actually morning. Uh we got a busy day  like always. Uh we're going to get some stuff done. You know, it's springtime. We get some  crazy weather here, some crazy winds up here on top of the hill when it's uh no leaves on  the trees and the temperatures change a lot, you know, so you get these fronts that  come in. We had quite a few trees fall uh the last few days and unfortunately we have a  an issue with our unfortunately we have a issue with our tracker. Uh, you know, people have  given these trackers a hard time over the last few years due to them being high maintenance  or having issues with the mounts in the ground or breaking. Well, ours kind of broke, but it's  not really the tracker's fault. Check this out.

[00:01:54]So, we have this Y or V here that holds this whole head unit onto the base. Uh the what  happened is look, our bolt backed out.

[00:02:12]So, our nut is sitting right there on the ground  right there. It must have shook the nut fell off the, you know, it this thing does teeter a lot  when the wind blows. I don't I also don't have the wind sensor set up, which I should. So,  it goes back to flat when it gets windy, but uh it does go back to flat at night, but the  wind sensor is just sitting on the ground here, so it doesn't actively work as well as it  should. I don't know where you're supposed to mount that. Uh, you know, you can mount it  on a pole. You can mount it somewhere close to the tracker. But anyway, so the tracker didn't  break because of its lack of strength. It that stupid nut busted off or or backed itself off  and then the pin or the bolt backed out. So, I'm kind of in a sticky situation here. This  thing is heavy, but not It's not terribly heavy, but it's he too heavy for me and or for Jen and I  to lift up. So, I'm going to go get neighbor John.

[00:03:25]Uh we're going to come here and see if him and I  could get it back up and centered or uh maybe take the whole head off. Disconnect a couple things.  Take the whole head off and then we can see if I can weld, which I don't weld. John welds. But  uh see if we can weld this little crack here.

[00:03:53]We have to obviously bend it back up and then I'm  probably going to try to weld it because I want to learn how to weld anyway, but I want his advice. I  don't think I could weld it very well with it all put together and the head on it. There's paint on  it, so I have to like I have to wire brush all the paint off. I just want to get his advice because  he's pretty good at welding. You guys saw him weld the leg on our wood stove. uh cast iron weld even.  So, uh he obviously knows more than I do. I want his advice looking at my welder real quick. So,  but he's got a busy day. He's got a lot going on.

[00:04:34]Uh he's got some exciting new stuff going on in  his life and I don't want to eat up any more of his time than I need to. But I do need another guy  here for, you know, maybe a half hour. So, anyway, I'm going to head up there. I'll see you probably  when we get back here. uh and figure this out.

[00:04:56]All right, guys. I got the muscle here. Everybody  say hi to the neighbor John. Yo, in the comments, let him know that uh you guys appreciate  him as much as I do. I kind of explained the uh tricky situation we have here. So, uh, so  I didn't go get John in vain and waste more of his time and hold the camera. You guys  are going to stay right here. Okay. Let's see how this works out. So, my question is,  should I unhook the wires? Yeah. And take it off and put it on the ground. How heavy is this  whole thing? Is it pretty heavy? It's not that heavy. Look at that. Cuz each one of these  panels weighs like probably weighs a couple hundred lbs. But two guys should be okay. Real  quick, that's the only thing holding on right now is this pin. Oh, I see. Or the bolt. I  mean, probably. Yeah. So, if we tilt it up to get it out without me falling down this hill.  Yeah, I think you don't have to come out there.

[00:06:08]Come underneath it more. Come right here and we'll  lift it from the center. Are we all detached?

[00:06:17]Don't pull or or sink. I don't know if we can grab it here. How heavy is this [ __ ]  thing? It's pretty heavy. Yeah, pretty heavy. Let's tilt it back this  way. And even if that way if we can tilt it and just get it upright and we  don't have to lift it. Lift it, you know, just lift it for a second. Set it down on those  two tabs. I just scoot it here. We'll be fine.

[00:06:49]I know. I'm just saying. I don't know if  I can really get in center here because this is all soft and put it this out of the  way. Step on the brick. Step on that [ __ ] Let's tilt it this way. Let's tilt it. Which  way? This way. See if it'll just teeter this way. There we go. Now we can just kind of lift  and set it on those ears. This is out of the way.

[00:07:23]Set it down.

[00:07:31]Now I don't have to lift it. I'm getting it  back up there. I probably just have to take the panels off of it. Yeah, that's just  the biggest pain in the ass job in the entire world. Those clips do not work.  Maybe if I just took two of them off, it would help. So, as long as it  doesn't put too much torque on those grab here. There we go.  Where we going? I don't know.

[00:08:05]Hold that, John. Get that. Get it. Just hold  on. Just be right here if you need it. Yeah.

[00:08:12]No rush. Take your time, right? Hopefully  it won't be a big gust of wind. Yeah.

[00:08:19]All right. Going to hit that, isn't it? Let's go closer. Which way? closer to  the Let's Lift it up. And there.

[00:08:34]There you go. There we go. Cool.

[00:08:41]Easy. Thanks, sir. All right, guys. So, long  as that long as the wind stay down today, I guess we were going to plant stuff today. So  maybe today we'll be fixing this. I was going to ask I got only thing I have to do here is ask John  about my welder cuz I'm not going to ask him to do this cuz it's not his journey. I can weld that  for you. You can if you want but I don't want Do you got I got that little welder. I don't know  how to use it though. I welded the wind turbine like a year and a half ago and it's held. Yeah.  But if you you don't have to do it right now, but I didn't know if you wanted to do it right  now. May as well just get it done with. You don't mind? No. I didn't want to have too high  of expectations from you. Grind some grind some paint. All right. Well, let's get let's just get  going then. Yeah, guys. You guys aren't going to learn to weld today, but I am a little bit.  And John's going to help me out. Are you sure you got time for this? Mhm. Okay. All right.  No more dillydallying with the camera. Here's what we have. Here's the before. Again, this  only broke because the uh bolt had a nut here.

[00:09:59]Nut fell off. The wiggling back and forth.  The bolt backed out. We lost our bolt. So, uh hopefully I don't think this is pretty sturdy.  I do have another one of these towers. Do you?

[00:10:13]But it would be more work to take it off of  that, which I don't even think it would come off because the bolts are all crooked in the  concrete, than to just weld this, I think. So, John offered kind of. You may not be showing them  the end result depending on how welds. Hey, but yeah, but wait, they watch they saw your your weld  on the cast iron and they were all impressed. Oh, I bet. So they it was pretty pretty looked like  a professional like a machine did it. Yeah, I don't know about that. So we did break a actuator  too, but you know small sacrifice. So all right, let's go get into these things. Yeah. Questioning  my wife's choices. Yeah. Where's there?

[00:11:16]Now, I've only used this once, and I have no idea.

[00:11:22]I might have bought the $40  one rather than the $20 one.

[00:11:38]Do I look like I know what I'm doing? You mind  if I film this little titch? Go for it. Well, that bolt can be your grounding, too. Yeah.  Although it's not super clean, but All right. So, so John didn't know what he signed up for here.

[00:12:02]It actually probably did. I  also don't know what I'm doing.

[00:12:08]All right, guys. So, so the speed of the wire coming out of that is  important. Is that what I'm gathering? Yeah, that's your amps, I think. All right.

[00:12:35]I'm not going to look at  that cuz my eyeballs already.

[00:12:45]It's not going to be pretty. I  don't I don't want it to be pretty.

[00:12:55]Let me know if I'm on fire. Okay.

[00:13:17]How's that going? It's not pretty.

[00:13:27]Can I help somehow? Like  other than holding the camera, can I help somehow? Um, no. It's kind  of like even if it involves me holding the helmet on your head, you might kind  of struggling a little bit with that.

[00:14:11]I'm just going to blame the  the welder, the tool. Yeah, that's fine. You could blade whatever you  want. You can blame whatever you want.

[00:14:24]You blame me cuz most of the time it's my fault.  So, hey, it looks good. Can I show it up close or you not want me to? Well, I don't want any  professional welders. Why are you welding? Oh, I won't show them then. I won't show them then  because there's one guarantee in life other than what they say death and taxes is if you do  something on YouTube that is the last thing that is 100% guaranteed uh is that people will  comment stuff like that. Oh yeah on YouTube. So, it's you can you'll get you'll get about 300 to  400 fantastic, wonderful people that will comment, uh, great job, but then there's about two or three  sour pusses that'll, you know, try to try to drag you down. So, welding is one of those things where  people really like to critique it. Yeah. You know, even if they've only welded one time in their  life. Yeah. I've welded one time in my life and I assume it's harder to weld upright as well.  Yeah. Like right if you're puddling or does it not drip? Like it probably doesn't drip cuz it  hardens up fast enough. Yeah. It's still harder to do than you know. Yeah. At a table or this metal's  super thin. It's like like welding a tin soda can, right? So if that makes it I you know I was  honestly impressed with this originally with you know it's not super thick but it held up  pretty good. I don't think it would have had any issues at all to be honest with you if uh  that bolt didn't fall out but who knows. You know we had all uh you guys saw in one of the  last videos when we did the outdoor kitchen.

[00:16:10]We took the wind turbine down. Uh the wind was  just howling. So the next two days were crazy like that. We had trees down everywhere. Chair  or patio chairs were blown off the table. I mean, I don't know. You'd have any damage at your  place? No. That big beach tree that's about to fall on your house is still there. Still there.  Okay. It's leaning the opposite way, son. Okay. I know. I just had to say it. All right. So, there  you go, guys. Good. Even if uh John does want to, you know, be conscious or self-conscious, the  GoPro doesn't do real good close-ups anyway. So, it's not going to be in in uh up close  micro close-ups anyway. So, all right, cool. Uh less yakking, more doing here. So, are  we putting this back on? Probably should. Yeah, he's here and I've already talked  enough. So, let's go. I don't know that Yeah.

[00:17:46]Don't go too much. You okay?

[00:17:55][ __ ] Beep beep beep beep.

[00:18:11]All right, guys. John saved the day. I did not  expect to have this completely fixed today in one hit. So, yeah. Uh, so this is normally  where I start my bribing with maple syrup, but again, John makes his own maple syrup  now. So, I guess, you know, beverages. Yeah, we'll uh we'll figure it out later.  So, all right. Thanks, John. Yep. So, everybody give John a big thank you uh  in the comments for me, please. And yeah, so this guy's always had a little bit of a sway  to it. But anyway, we got a new actuator. We're good. I'm going to get John home and we'll  catch up with you guys in a little bit.

[00:19:07]We're not going to say it. We're not going  to talk about We're not going to talk about the flurries that are falling out of the sky  right now. So, you just say that I'm jealous of anybody that has temperatures warmer than 50,  which is pretty much everybody. Yeah. So guys, uh we were downstate a week ago and we doing some  family stuff and we made an executive decision uh because the weather is so poor and we  didn't have the greenhouse completed like a month ago. Yeah. Uh we spent a few dollars at  the greenhouse. So maybe next year we're going to plant a lot of stuff. We're going to plant  a lot of stuff from seeds. So all the squash, vegetables. Yeah. But we bought a lot of  stuff. Yeah. We bought peppers and tomatoes because to start them now would Yeah. be  fruitless. Yeah. They would still grow, but they'd be later. Maybe we'll maybe we'll  split some and start some fresh. But anyway, we got a couple of uh flats of vegetables and  a couple flats of flowers. Mhm. So, again, bought stuff because we need to start growing  it in like late February, early March in order to be able to use it in the time period we want  to and the greenhouse wasn't ready for that. So, hopefully next year. We can do that. We can do  that and then we don't have to spend money. Yeah.

[00:20:44]And uh we're going to unload it right now cuz  we got a few hours before dinner time. Couple hours before dinner time. So, here we go. Here's  a truckload of stuff. I couldn't there. This one's tricky. And you might notice that this isn't the  Blue Woods truck or Jay's truck cuz well, a mouse decided to chew on some wiring in Jay's truck.  So, it's at the shop cuz that's what happens.

[00:21:24]I got all sorts of good stuff though. I got  some I got blackhead susans that Jay likes.

[00:21:30]They grow really pretty in a vine. So, I'm going  to stick them in the greenhouse for a couple weeks and hopefully I can put a couple of them in a  pot and they'll look really awesome. And I got some straw flowers and I got some Cuban flowers.  I think they were called cigar. Cigar plant. Well, yeah. They're called cigar plants or kubano  presidente or coupea. They're all like the same thing. They just get called different.  Well, these are supposed to be really good for the hummingbirds. So, I'm going to stick  these in the greenhouse and hope they get a little bit bigger over the next few weeks before  we stick them out there. Cuz last year I had one, but I stuck it in the ground just like this  and it didn't really ever go anywhere. So, I'm hoping if it's been a warmer temperature  in the greenhouse for a couple weeks, it goes somewhere because I want some cool  hummingbirds more than LA more than last year.

[00:22:43]These are a very rare vegetable called uh patunia  habanero or patunias and this is habanero. So So Jen got flowers too. Yes. Because I have tried  to grow patunias from seed before and they take forever in a year and a half. Yep. So the  greenhouse downstate close to the airport has some amazing prices. Yeah. I think flats like  this are nine bucks. Yeah. rather than 15 to 20, which they are up at different green houses after  three other people buy them and then resell them, you know, middlemen. So, we buy them directly from  a a place down south of the Detroit Metro Airport and we get a pretty good deal. Yep. So, when we  go see family, we stack up. The place is called Blocks Greenhouse. Yep. Have you ever been there?  I know a lot of you guys will probably ask. So, if you've been there, let us know in the  comments. Blocks is the best. Baskets are like $9 instead of like 20 25 or 20 or you  know, so they're really cheap. So, don't beat us there next year and take all the flowers.  But that's that's where we get them. Our good friends told us about that place and we've been  going there the last few years. So, and uh yeah, we got a whole metal uh cabinet full of stuff,  too. So, let's get some of this stuff in there.

[00:24:34]So, I think we're just going to set  these on the beds for right now, right? Uhhuh. Um it is a little bit warmer in  here. It's probably primarily cuz of the wind, right? No wind. Yeah. We might have to  like put some plastic over the dirt so we can burn all the like seeds  that are coming up through it.

[00:25:08]I thought we keep studying here forever.

[00:25:47]that in the camper. All right, guys. There's our  haul. Let's go check it out. I'm pretty excited.

[00:25:51]I always get a little giggly this time of year.  It's a little hard to get giggly when it's 39° out every day in May. But, you know, normally it's  like in the 30s at night and 60 during the day, but now it's 40 during the day and 25 to 30  at night. So, it's causing a little bit of he hecticness and uh everybody in Michigan  can feel it. Everyone in Ontario, I'm sure, just unmotivation. Unmotivated. Yeah, we're  I don't like being like whiny or, you know, downer in videos, but it's literally the middle  of May and it's it's not been nice. Like everyone else like we had one well we had one or two weeks  like a couple weeks ago, but we thought it was going to be good, but now it's really hurt. It's  going to really hurt the growing season. Yeah, we can't catch a break. Like even on the  forecast, it doesn't look nice, guys. It's uh it's going to be 50ish, but that's like for  one hour a day. Yeah. And then it the big thing is that it's cold at night, so nothing's growing.  Like you guys could see there's not a leaf to be seen on the trees. There's nothing growing. We  got we got a little bit of the trout liies and uh trilliums coming out, but they're not even  coming out yet. And it's really late for that.

[00:27:16]Yeah. It's just hard. Yeah. So, don't mean to be  a downer, but just real life. Yeah. So, let's go show you our haul. That's at least exciting. And  we're ready to go. We can start planting stuff in the greenhouse. We're going to switch some  stuff up in the greenhouse, too. Come check it out. Look at that. First plants in the greenhouse.  Those are That is not where any of it's going to go. No. But that's where it's going for now. We'll  get some hooks. We're going to get some more 2x4s.

[00:27:47]We're going to have plants hanging everywhere  for Jenny. There's going to be hanging baskets so they're beautiful. Come here and tell them all  about what's in your mind. I don't know what's in my mind. Just flowers. Lots of them. Hopefully  a big garden oasis, right? Mhm. We'll get some more. We got these boards going across here.  We'll put some extra boards across. So, uh, we can hang baskets everywhere. And then I want  to put some gutters, like gutter size stuff along here up high. And I want to put like strawberries  in them, like right probably along where the woods at so it just covers that up. But we could  put strawberry plants and they'll grow down.

[00:28:40]And then we're gonna We got the stuff a couple  weeks ago. We just haven't built them yet. Uh, we got the stuff to put shelves. We want to  put like 1 ft shelves right here to put some seedlings or plant some seeds. Plant all our stuff  that we can grow from seed still like our squash, right? Mhm. We can grow squash, cucumbers. Uh,  what else can you grow from seed? Green beans, stuff like that. Get that all started here in  the next. But it's not but it's not going to grow good anyway when it's in the 30s anyway. At  least it's a little warmer in here though. Yeah, it is. I checked the sensor. It wasn't working  yesterday. So, I don't know what the temperature in here actually is right now. But we should  put it down here where the plants are at.

[00:29:34]So, it reads where what the temperature is down  here. Show them what else looks. So, flowers, perennials, baskets. Here's all our veggies. I got  an entire tray of jalapenos this time. 30 jalapeno plant peppers, habaneros, and then a variety  of peppers. We're going to do some random stuff this year. We're going to grow some uh lettucees  and some cabbages that we don't normally plant.

[00:30:07]I got two whole trays of tomatoes. One whole tray  I think of Romas so we can do a lot of salsa, right? Yeah. We got to get some more dirt to put  on the hill. I think you should like roat till on the hill and get all that everything turned  in there real good so it's not just on the top.

[00:30:24]Yeah. And we're going to we're going to grow less  squash this year because we don't eat it all. We can't eat it all. No. It took up like always grow  we always plant like five. We always buy like 10 plants and figure like half of them will die and  then a none of them die and then you have like 50 spaghetti squash or 50 spaghetti squash. Yellow  squash. Yeah. And yellow spaghetti squash we'd be happy with. Yellow squash is like the only thing  that we always get a stinking ridiculous amount of and we don't like it eat it just on its own. Like  we'll eat with zucchini or zucchini and broccoli, but like where's our zucchini? Then no one else  wants it because they all have it too. Yeah, we need zucchini to do well. Not yellow squash cuz  I like zucchini. We're going to grow more stuff.

[00:31:12]Make bread out of zucchini at least. Yeah,  we're going to grow more stuff that we eat, which is more tomatoes and peppers. And then we're  just trying some of this stuff. We got some early cabbage. Got some kale, which we'll put in our  salads to be a little healthier. Got two things of kale. Got early. Then we got some red cabbage.  What else? I got some something cool, I thought.

[00:31:40]Oh, I got some cauliflower. Got a couple rows  of cauliflower. Oh, I got some Brussels sprouts.

[00:31:49]Brussels sprouts I'll eat, but that's the only  thing right there I'll eat. Jenny likes Brussels sprouts. How do those grow? Do they grow in the  ground? Now, they grow Brussels sprouts grow like two or three feet tall and then they just  looks kind of like a big pepper plant and then the little balls are right on the stem. We grew  those a couple once down state and they grew, but the balls never got bigger than like a marble.  Interesting. I like Brussels sprouts. Yeah. So, we'll see if we can get those to grow. Read up  on those a little bit. And lots of flowers. Lots of flowers. I got lots of perennials. I'm trying  to fill up the hill with lots of perennials. And Blocks has I can get a whole flat of one quart  size per pennials for like 15 bucks. It's like a steal of a deal. Yeah. So I just buy a flat of  them each year and chuck them on the hill and I usually lose five or six of them each year, which  is just going to happen. Just the odds. Yeah.

[00:32:56]Eventually the whole hill will be filled which  will be exciting. Yeah. If you guys are buying stuff at Home Depot and Lowe's and Bordines, you  guys are getting ripped off. Definitely need to go to blocks if you live or find a actual  greenhouse. So, cuz each plant you're going to sit here and be like, "That's $1,000 worth of  stuff." It's like $200 worth of stuff. Mhm. So, and and we bought a few more things for family  and this and that. We spent a little bit more, but we got gifts for moms and baskets. Like all  kinds of good stuff. Like four of these baskets would be $100 at Home Depot. Yeah. Or the green  store or the blue store. You get baskets there for like 10 or 15, but they're like puny and like  half the size. I used to get them and then I found out about blocks. I'm like, ah. So go to Bloxs  if you are in Michigan or even like northern Ohio Toledo border. Just drive up to Bloxs because  it's worth the money. I promise you. And they have the they have the Eastern Market I think down in  Dearborn too, which I've never been to, but that's where everyone else goes to their flower get their  flowers. So maybe they're even better deal there.

[00:34:07]So where do you get your baskets and your flats  at? And how much do you pay for them? Did we get a good deal? I think we did. I mean, when we used  to go to the green houses like around here, it was like 15 to $17 just for like one flat. Yeah. And  they weren't as nice looking. Yeah. The vegetables were all like half the size and the flowers were  all half the size. These are all like bountiful and beautiful. So, we always make sure it's part  of a trip when we go visit family. Yep. And next year we will have all of our tray. Uh we're going  to build them this year. We're going to build them probably in the next video or two and get prepped  for it cuz we still got to plant a lot of stuff from seed but not cucumbers as much. Plant some  sunflowers here soon so they start growing cuz I really want to put a bunch by the between the pole  barn and the woodshed. And I tried to do it last year but squirrels and stuff ate them cuz they  were all little. So, I'm hoping if I can start them in here and then transfer them out and once  they're a few feet tall, it won't happen. Yeah, we'll see. One more question. Uh, what would  you guys do with this space? I think Are you going to put some sunflowers here? I think. Are  you going to put some baskets? What do you or like buckets or uh pots? What are you putting  here? I don't know. I might put some sunflowers here just to see. I mean, if I put a sunflower  right here and it grew all the way up to there, that's what I was thinking. That'd be like bad  ass. It'd be a what? That'd be 12 14t 14t tall sunflower. That's pretty. It would stay nice and  happy in here. Yeah. Like they seem to like it when it's really warm and lots of water and I  could keep it wet and it would stay really warm in here. Get lots of sun. When I've had success  growing really tall sunflowers before, that is what it was. Lots of water. Hopefully hopefully  the bear doesn't know how to open the door or break through a window. So, no, he just comes up  and tries to eat my sew it. Sew it. Jenny did just forget to take those couple sewits down. You guys  saw the bear in the video. And I been doing put them away for about a month and just that night  Yeah, I forgot. I forgot there was two sewets. I forgot and I saw the bear on one of my cameras and  I was like, "Oh no." So we went, we started making lots of noise so that way he took off. Didn't grab  him. And he did grab one of them unfortunately, but he left it right there by the mind if he clean  stuff up on the ground. That's what the turkeys do. But anyway, we're yakking. But yeah, so things  are start gives us joy. Yaking. Yaking. Right now there's in the greenhouse at least it's not windy  and it's 5 to 10 degrees warmer in here. So let's go put your Jenny's got to go put that metal  shelf up. We got to go put that up too. Yep.

[00:37:14]We got that's going to protect of the shelf for  the bird feeders cuz they were in a plastic tote and the darn red squirrel chewed a hole in it  and gets inside of it and makes a mess all over the pool barn because he carries seeds. So we are  taking preventative me measures. Right. Yep. So, we're going to probably just wrap this video up  showing you nice peaceful fiddling with that. So, we appreciate you guys hanging out with us, right?  And uh maybe we'll catch you in the next video.

[00:37:41]Mhm. All right. Bye. Bye. This All right, guys.  Don't be mad at me, Mr. Indecisive. I'm just making a better decision, I think. So, I'm making  a decision that's better for our situation. Um, guys, I struggle with trying to make things as  off-grid or uh self-reliant as possible. Most self-reliant way of doing things would be to have  a wood stove in here, right? Mhm. Cuz we can chop our own wood, keep this greenhouse warm. But truth  of the matter is, uh, I'm not going to come out here enough to maintain this wood stove for the  month or two that it needs to be warm. So, I think we're going to pull this out of here. It takes up  a lot of room. And we're going to put a propane ventless uh heater in here. So, what that's going  to do is let us just run it. It's going to cost us a few hundred dollar in propane every year,  but every greenhouse you see has automatic heat, right? Even that greenhouse we just went to, all  of them had uh like they had heaters and I asked Jason what they were running on and I could see  in between every rows of green houses there was like four 100 lb propane tanks. Yeah. So, it was  nice and warm in there. And it's just easier to maintain that than this cuz a wood stove you  have to come out like every hour on the hour necessarily come out just to maintain another  fire when we're already maintaining one inside when we could maintain a propane one from like an  app on your phone, right? You can kind just turn it on and leave it running and then it's got a  thermostat on it. So it just keeps the greenhouse at a certain temperature. Well, and nowadays  they probably do have something you can just like the Mr. cool where you can maintain it from  the phone, which is cool cuz then it's just less being out in the cold for us. It's more so just  so it'll work cuz we're not going to be able to keep a fire going in here for 2 months to keep the  greenhouse alive. Yeah, that's if you're in the middle of nowhere greenhouse in Alaska, maybe. But  even then, uh you know, like a shop wood stove, we're just using propane. I'm 99% sure that's  how we're going to go. Maybe I could leave this in here and just put a propane heater near it and  then we could decide which one to do, you know, but this takes up a lot of space. Not really,  but it takes up a good amount of space and I just want it to work and I don't want all our  plants to be relying on me coming out here and tending to a fire. I already do that for a month  with the wood with the maple syrup and I enjoy it, but I'm not going to be able to do that  for a greenhouse for 2 months, right? So, I think we're going to go buy those. They're not  expensive. They're like a couple hundred for a propane heater. They're easy to install cuz you  don't need any ventilation. They just vent in here and then the moisture from the propane would be  good for this, too. So, it's like a win-win. And uh yeah, so don't don't hate me. If you have a  different idea or a better idea than that, let me know. Uh there are different styles. They don't  have to be like those little wall units. Like we could use the ones that are in a greenhouse that  have a fan on them. So, maybe we could find one of those for a fair price. Yeah, we'll look into  it. Yeah. So, give me some suggestions. This is obviously we're obviously not going to need a heat  source in here this year because it's going to be in the 20s the next couple nights, but I think  this will hold the heat enough to where it's not going to freeze. All our plants aren't going to  freeze. Yeah. So, but next year and this fall, we'd like to extend the season. So, if  you got some good ideas, let us know.

[00:41:26]Let's set it down.

[00:42:18]Go up to Northern Michigan. Don't do it.  Look at that, guys. Right? Look at that.

[00:42:35]Nice metal cabinet.

[00:42:41]We'll seal up good. No plastic for squirrels  or little critters to chew through. And all my bird feeders can be away and safe  from Yogi. Now that it's Yogi season, now Jay's pullbar can stay a little cleaner  and I can still enjoy the birds. Win-win. Yay.