I thought this was kind of a cool product idea and am kind of gathering input and experiences on it - a solar hot water heater.
http://www.permies.com/t/57410/energy/Solar-water-heater-plans-safe
We raise chickens (and a toddler), and hot water is just something we gotta have access to around here. Has anyone ever built a system like this?
I have even pre-ordered a couple of these.
Won't be out till May tho. :(
Noe I just hope they actually deliver!
My reason for building this was that Last season I started growing my own transplants for the first time and it went horridly, until I made a make shift chamber and it went like hot butter on toast. Previously I had a local greenhouse grow them out for me. Because I was in the middle of the farming season when I needed to build this I took several short cuts to get it done quick and extra cheap, I did a very crude test before doing it this way.
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Hi there,
Thank you for documenting this tool. The price difference between your tool and a coolbot is significant ($300 for a coolbot at the moment).
The Philippines also has a nice tracked kubota compact harvester called the DC-60. http://www.kubota.com.ph/our-product/dc-60-2/ -On Alibaba it looks like it costs about $15K US FOB
Just to present the new version of the culticycle from Farming Soul ; "Bicitractor" after 5 weeks of work in camp Poc21 www.poc21.cc
A new prototype will be made this winter and we hope to validate them with farmers for 2016. Then the manual will be on-line
Video : https://youtu.be/9eR1MeL12bk
Pictures : https://www.facebook.com/farmingsoul
These brackets are designed to be welded out of 2" and 1 1/4" * 1/8" steel bar stock. and spaced at 25.25" apart. Next step is documenting the cultivator side bracket.
The pioneer homesteader this references can be found here http://pioneerfarmequipment.com/homesteader.html
I found out that John Deere started offering a chinese made combine starting around 2013 (with a John deere diesel engine) with green paint to the Philippines for around $39K US
Very interesting to see that they will offer this scale of equipment in other parts of the world. It would be nice to see it here in the US. Evidently there is one parked at the headquarters in Illinois but not available for sale. http://www.deere.com/en_US/docs/Corporate/fans_visitors/publications/plowshare_issue33.pdf
A couple other links