xmas

Staying at my brother in laws holiday place in Papamoa for a few days, It will be darts and cards everyday, so plan to relax. Otherwise for the days off at home I will try and get to my permission for some bunny bashing.

no mate us poor people cant afford the road and petrol taxs  let alone the fuel to evan go to town these days let alone go for holiday mate,but some good news tho just been given a bullock and wagon,so maybe when we fixed wagon up bit and caught the bloody bullock and trained him we mite go away next year eh!! 

yes you can register it as a farm wagon. you can travel up to 50k from the registered address. plus no Warrant of fitness required

that sounds like a very nice way to spend the holidays

Mike, how's your solar system working?

Love it, that's great. Even though the turbines are a little unsightly, I love the concept of using wind and sun to generate power.

we eventually want add 10 more solar panels and extra battery capacity so can go totally off grid and just export any eccess power back into grid if cant use it ourselves,i have a smartdrive washing machine motor am converting to a generator and will eventually hook that into the system as well,to give us ablity to generate constant half kilo watt even when no sun and at night etc,this will help keep batterys charged evan when not generating from solar for some reason,if had known bout salt water batterys when put in this system would have used them rather than the lithium batterys we have now,lithium may be the darling of the modern greenys but has its issuses for sure in an off grid power system,its not the best battery system for long term off grid use as lithium batterys are not as good as made out to be and have much shorter life span than salt water batterys ,which last for 20/30 years compared to approx 10 years for lithium batterys,we get free replacement lithium at 10 years max or replacements free if they fail as one ours has just done after only 18 months in use,after 10 years providing they are still working lithium we are told should still be working at approx 80%,but not sure believe that going on current experiences,our system garrenteed for 20 years with full service and replacement componants as or if needed,so no costs to us for that time period i guess we will just have wait n see how it works out eh!!