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AGelbert

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Re: Sustainable Farming
« Reply #75 on: February 26, 2019, 11:04:04 pm »
I just read all the posts. 🧐 I think I have some equipment that Macho Man needs. 🤔

A must is the Solar Oven, of course! It WILL get food up to 300 degrees F in subfreezing temperatures, as long as the sky is clear. Just angle it directly at the sun. I have adjusting pegs on it for that. The only high tech part of the Solar Oven is the reflective film. While we still have civilization, it's cheap and easy to get (stock up!). The rest is some carriage bolts, wing nuts, screws, plywood, some two by fours and lots of food quality cardboard for insulation. NO, the carboard will not catch fire. Don't believe anybody that tells you it will.

To do routine maintenance here and there, Macho Man, who isn't gettin' any younger, needs to be able to reach high places in more comfort than a ladder provides, especially if he is carrying heavy tools or wood. What he needs is a homemade lift platform. It can be made mostly of wood, though it requires a small electric motor and a strong long metal threaded rod of about an inch in diameter and a secured nut on the threaded rod. The lift platform makes it easy for Macho Man to rake snow off his roof.

It can also be used to trim tree branches or possibly top a tree. I've made a few designs. Some go higher than others and some are all metal.

This is a low tech (no fancy hydraulics) and (just about) zero maintenance piece of equipment. 👍 You just need to keep it out of the weather and keep the threaded rod from rusting with a bit of grease. Animal fat works in a pinch.

Below is a screenshot of them. Some have the "up" and the "down" position on them displayed. The extra area on the wood platform is a "no step" area. It's there just so the thing covers the base when down, but you could just as well not build the "no step" area in the platform, as I did on the all metal scissor lifts. Also, you can put wheels on them, like I did for the Solar Oven, for ease of moving them around.

If you want one, just tell me which one you want. I've numbered them. The horse and barn are from the 3D Warehouse.


A lift platform would be good.  I can put Macho Man on one to work on his Wind Turbine.  Just make sure it goes up high enough, the Turbine is about 40' high I think.

I can put the Solar Oven next to the Smoker in the Outdoor Kitchen.  That still needs a BBQ also.


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I'll e-mail you the solar oven Sketchup file.

I need to go back to the 3D workshop and make a scissors lift that can go 40' high, if you are talking about the elevation of the base of the platform. A man standing on the multi-scissors one I designed  has his feet 12 feet from the ground. Forty feet is way up there and the scissor joints will need some added frame reinforcement guides to keep from wiggling or falling over. That's why the power companies use bucket hydraulic arm lifts to get up to the power lines. I'll get back to you when I figure out how to do that without hydraulics.

To be clear, do you want the base to be 40' high or do you want the shoulders of the man on the lift to be 40' high at the highest point?

To be clear, do you want the base to be 40' high or do you want the shoulders of the man on the lift to be 40' high at the highest point?

He should have his waistline at the height of the turbine.  That way he can lift up or down to remove it or replace it.

You can estimate the height of the turbine from the pics, but I will get an exact figure on that when I finish my current project, which is getting all the gear together for the Musher Banquet Adventure.

RE

The Turbine Motor is at 33' 1 3/16" off ground level.

RE

Okay. Figuring that there are about 3.5' to the platform base from the man's waist, I guess you want the scissors platform base to be 30' high, right?

That sounds like it will work.

RE


Okay. I'll work on it. I'll see if I can find a nice BBQ for you too.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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