Sunday, June 8, 2008

Maintenance time for truck and my body

It has been a month now and I am amazed how long it takes to get anything done.
First and foremost I had to take a stress test
to check out some chest tightness I had three months ago. Happy to report all is well, but scared me into a diet and have lost 30 pounds so far.

Next I have this RV tow truck that can carry all kind of weight.
For over a year I have been thinking about how to carry extra water and extra waste. One of my genius sons, Nick, came up with the idea below, and he got it done in less than two days. I can now live off grid very nice for over two months.
There are two 65 Gal tanks, one on each side. I think we could have fitted 85 gal tanks, but this works fine. The really genius part, besides how to mount it, was fitting a air chuck on each tank. The truck as 125 lbs of air, so a small regulator set to 10 lbs - no need for any pumps. Its so simple. Works great. 10 pounds of air has pumped the waste tank over 20 feet high with no problems.

Top is the driver side water tank Have not finish

ed plumbing it yet.
Next is to mount the wind generator on the truck. I have a flag pole shipping this week. Should work fine and easy to set up.

Oh, one more thing. I am now a mac user. After 15 years of unix and loving it. It's far easer and just as powerful.

My goal is to leave this month for Winchester Bay, OR. to see some good friends and do some Sand Dunes ridding on the small KTM. Thrn up to the Columbia river george for some fishing and back to the coast with the Roving Rods to fish and crab.


3 comments:

Steve and Nancy(aka Morningstar) said...

Good idea the tanks. Wonder where you have seen that before? They look great and you will like not having to move to dump.

Apple? XXXXX I knew there was something strange about you !! LOL

Padraic and Willie said...

The tanks is my future project for a long time. Nice idea with the air.

Padraic and Willie said...

the apple computer are nice...