Which is why most of us are pursuing that (land ownership) as a goal. Stop trying to feed the world, just feed yourself. The world can do what it likes. Generate your needed income in other ways. One of my favorite quotes comes to mind:
“A farm is not a place to grow wealthy…it is a place to grow corn.”
― Andrew Lytle
“Where there is a will; there is a way.” Especially when what is in the way is plastic.
I finished up my stuffing a larger common group U-1 battery into our biggest inverter-generator finally today.
The small undersized more expensive motorcycle type one it came with, has died now in it’s 3 year.
I can pull start this unit barely on good gasoline once I modified it; dropping the pull handle down to the engine for a longer full torso-twist pull:
The wife must have the electric starting. I’ll need that too when operated on woodgas also.
Lots of plastic had to be cut away and pieces removed; to make room for the U-1 as the 2nd picture shows. No way to make the bigger U-1 internal hidden. I tried and tried. Had to extend outwards.
Then a careful cut and knife shaving job to get the sound and directed cooling flow cover back on:
One thing on these enclosed quiet inverter units is the outer cases and panels must restrict and direct most of the drawn in air flow first past the inverter-electronic package.
Operate open; and the wattages you are asking worked, you then will overheat the inverter. it will fail sooner, versus later.
Regards
Steve Unruh
I like how tidy it came out, but curiosity has me: why not a cable connection through the side cover and a remote battery? Just to keep that critical airflow moving correctly, seems it would have been easier to gasket a bulkhead connecter
Yeah. Building an external front mounted battery box would be the more sensible way to go alright. What I’d recommend now.
Donno . . . I had convinced myself that I COULD remount it internally. Then once I started carving way plastic . . . you know . . . stuffing a small block Chevy V-8 into a small Toyota pick up, eh.
A fever or a fervor I guess. Some of the red on the cardboard is knuckle blood spots.
I think I can. I think I can. I DID IT! (Kinda, sorta’).
S.U.
Paint the top half of the battery red but as it is looks pretty factory to me. Nice job.
Ha! Ha!
Instead I will be making the red plastic side panel more black.
I am not happy with the positive and negative battery terminals, outside, naked. This makes me afraid. The wife with metal broom handles . . . The two still squirrelly, 10 and 11 yo girls . . .
So I’ll be farming out a crescent section from a tire side wall and riveting on as a liftable (for jumping access) rain-flap safety/bump-guard down over the batteries top.
Also I am still looking for brass wing-nuts; or finger-able knurled nuts for the terminals bolts.
I really want to paint the whole thing a mottled flat dirt brown. Ugly-fi it; for theft prevention. This is actually half the wife’s bought and paid for. She takes unkindly my “improving”, make-disappear ideas.
S.U.
Several thousand hectares on Ovsinsky:
The offbrand batteries seem to die within a year after the warranty expires.
Having the posts out, I would put a cover over them, but it isn’t necessarily a design flaw because you can easily use the jumper cables to start it as the posts are easily accessible.
For the lawn tractor, i will probably put a LiFe battery in it the next time and be done with it. The cheap ones are 99 dollars with claimed 400CCA, 8a capacity. It isn’t used in the winter and self-discharge makes no difference with the battery pack jump starter. I don’t have to worry about trickle charging it in the winter to preserve battery life.
Built one of them thingies, what they are called?, for wifes wild roses to climb on.
Used two fence poles, but they usually rot and break at ground level, so, a much needed cleaning of the hopper juice container solved the problem.
If you showered with the same stuff you soaked the poles in you should live well past a hundred. Probably won’t be bothered much with company or marital relations though.
Exactly Tom, i escaped the thick, black stuff, but soaked my pants in the thin, brownish-yellow hopper juice, the most smelly part.
I totally repel wifes, mosquitos, small animals, even plants seems to pull away from me 
Bill Clinton could certainly use some of that stuff. 
Trellis stakes.
I’ll bet your treated stakes, would work superior for staking vampires too.
My Wife has been salting garden slugs every early evening now. I tell her I cannot stand near because of their screams of burning agony. She is just so unsympathetic protecting her grow starts and ripening strawberries.
S.U.
I’ve tried it against snakes, but it doesn’t work. Do you have any tips on how to keep them away from the greenhouse?
They are called trellis’s as steve mentioned. I initially thought you meant the roses were rotting off at the ground, and you were showing off a new use for the trellis. Hanging your pretty hopper juice container on it would make the wife happy, I presume, at least you hung something up. 
Iron phosphate kills them. It screws up their calcium metabolism. It looks like a commercial version, Sluggo, uses 3% iron phosphate and wheat gluten as the attractant. They eat it then go elsewhere to die.
Slugs are attracted to yeast so beer traps are used a lot but you can just use anything with yeast.
I never like the idea of spreading salt all over because it builds up in the soil then prevents plants from growing.
Well, ants keep snakes away, but personally, i think i prefer snakes?
Hedgehogs are also good to keep snake population down.
