good morning everyone the birds are chirping this morning I'm in a good mood although uh
yeah the sun's just getting ready to rise uh I had to set an alarm this morning because
we're getting a rock driveway sometime between 8 A.M and 5 p.m today as sprightly
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that's right welcome everyone nomadic fanatic Eric here hope you guys are doing well it's
uh another another big project here and actually a much needed thing that we need to do and
uh let's let's not wait any longer now that it's sunny and nice it is uh we're gonna have
some Monsoon Seasons come where it's gonna rain really heavy for a short period of time
and uh I have mentioned in previous videos that the soil here and this part of Arizona
it's great when it's dry it's it's perfect however if there's any moisture at all the
clay sticks and you'll have four inches of Clay on the bottom of your shoes and it's
difficult to get off because it just turns into a liquid mud anyway I understand the
importance of having a rock down here on the property so I'm going to be doing a little
bit of prep work here to get a few things ready oh I I also made a change because now
in the summertime the sun is directly above us I mean directly above us so my portable
solar panels are now laying flat to charge what's going on inside here uh just I mean
it'd probably be bumped up like 30 percent better efficiency once I put them flat before
the truck gets here um if you don't follow me on Instagram you might be missing out on
a couple uh very interesting developments going on here it's free you can just join
me nomadicfanatic.tv there and find out what's going on over there uh but yeah so I need
Rock on the driveway I definitely need Rock here in front of Babe the Blue Box in front
of the RV um I got some price quotes when I first moved here and I was not impressed
I'm taking all the information that all of my friends have given me and I've been following
following that away however you could spend ten thousand dollars on rock for this particular
property here or you can do it the nomadic fanatic way and just kind of do it as I have
the money and income to add to it right so you can see at the front of my driveway up
here we'll transition from dirt to the uh Cinders that the septic people put in that
lead up to the end of my driveway right there and then it then it fades away well over at
Vagabond base camp Kevin's got red Cinder everywhere I mean he's got so much red Cinder
Rock and I think it's really pretty with the Red Rock and then the green trees and stuff
like that however um I was looking for a more affordable uh alternative to spending nearly
ten thousand dollars so uh I called a couple companies I found a company here that has
imperfections in their landscape rock they have something called Grizzly run and it's
something that not a whole lot of other people around here have talked much about uh Grizzly
run is is much much cheaper than the Reds red Cinder by about one-third the price actually
it's 350 delivered on a truck a 40-yard truck and I won't say level but he he'll be able
to drive and let it fall out where I want it to so if I say start right there against
the base and then drive this way it'll be somewhat level and then I can mess with it
later right so I just here's my problem is I don't know how many yards of rock I really
need so um I'm I ordered two trucks coming today two 40-yard trucks delivering the grizzly
run gravel and we're gonna start up here and just see how what what that is I want to see
what 700 gets me and then next month we can either add to it or I can plan accordingly
because the whole driveway loop around there also needs Rock but I need tractor work done
before that and everything so I got a lot going on okay let me move these solar panels
though eight hours later well I may have to eat my words here a little bit the whole point
of this was was to try to save a little bit of money and go with a different company that's
a little cheaper and uh so so I made this appointment uh four four days ago and they
said uh yeah you're gonna need to be there we don't know what time it's going to be there
but you'll get a call about 30 minutes out and it's guaranteed to be there on that day
I'm like all right okay so it is it is now for 4 20 p.m okay I just got a phone call
two minutes ago after literally afraid to even leave the property because of this rock
truck and for some reason they decided to wait 40 minutes before they their business
even closes to say oh yeah we've been we've been behind all day we're not going to get
to you today how about tomorrow
now look I could have I could have structured my day a little bit better uh it's not that
I haven't done projects throughout the day I've kept my phone with me my Apple watch
has been on so in case I get a phone call and my phone's away I can talk on my talk
to him but um I've really just been sitting here waiting for this truck to arrive for
eight hours and I find out right at the end that they are not even gonna show up and I'm
a little frustrated about that I'm sure a lot of homeowners have dealt with that with
the cable company or the phone or the internet people saying your window is eight to five
and then at 450 you get a call that says yeah we're not going to make it I I wanted to go
get pizza at noon I wanted to go get beer down at the store earlier I wanted to go for
a ride but I'm parked here all day and you wasted my day I don't know if they could have
told me sooner I don't appreciate it very much but I'm living the country life now uh
uh it is what it is so um I'm gonna give another update here at the end of the video I'm gonna
just keep this rolling we'll try again tomorrow with Spring Mountain materials here and uh
see if they can keep their word and deliver my rock I haven't paid anything yet um but
kind of sucks so um I don't I don't feel good right now I'm I'm a little bummed
whatever let's see they're not up there now oh they're both in my captain's chair the
kitties have been loving what I what I have cleared up here for them these last four totes
need to go into the trailer oh sunshine is bright up there having a solar problem too
here I'll tell you in here in just a minute let me show you trailer Swift getting her
loaded up yeah so everything here inside trailer Swift I can live without I've got another
speaker we've got all my Christmas decorations some other storage things utilities and stuff
like that uh everything in here is gonna go to Show Low soon uh today would have been
a great day to hook up the trailer and go into town uh oh well you know uh yeah plus
I just put the solar back out here as a sense I put all these panels inside and my battery
went down to 60 because I was getting rocked today right here so now here one hour of sun
will try to get those charged back up but I am I'm actually having an issue with the
solar panels on the roof and that is due to the fact that here in Arizona in the daytime
the sun is directly above us for the first time ever with this system and uh I keep flipping
a breaker in the middle of the day uh before I show you that breaker though something strange
happened so I've got 1280 Watts on the roof and you know how you usually see like 80 percent
of that best you'll ever see no I got I forgot what it was like 1230 Watts out of 1280 how
is that even possible Eric it's not the Watts that are getting me though it's the amps all
right so if we take a peek in here that's my charge controller it is a 150 amp charge
controller however this right here keeps popping this is a 100 amp breaker right here this
dual breaker right here so it keeps is popping I'll come out here and it's like that we're
getting no solar because we've exceeded the 100 amps of this breaker right here so I got
to come turn it back on and right now it's going to be fine because the sun is actually
so low we won't even get close to 100 amps but the first time since 2017 when this system
was installed on my other RV that this breaker in the middle of the day is popping so I need
to try to find 125 uh amp doubled in DC breaker which you're not going to find these at Home
Depot oh you'll find plenty of normal household AC Breakers but those are specifically DC
Breakers and uh actually I wonder if that solar place down the road might sell them
I wouldn't do 150 but also I feel like if there wasn't a breaker right there this charge
controller probably has its own protection at 150 if you you know but let's let's just
let's just go to 125 I'll never go over 125 I'll try to find that one and fix that problem
or what else I could do I wouldn't recommend this but I could get a piece of cardboard
and tape it over part of one of the panels just just to bring it down so it doesn't hit
100 amps again that would do it but I think you can also uh damage some cells if you keep
some cells covered over over multiple days of sun I think yeah let's find the breaker
first that's that that's nothing that's nothing I haven't seen any hummingbirds use it yet
but I don't think that it would evaporate that much I think I think the local hummingbirds
have found my feeder I'll have to keep a better eye on it um unfortunately or actually you
know what I'm just gonna laugh uh The Rock people called me this morning at 9am she said
uh I just want to be honest with you I do not think today is going to work however I
am going to put you on the slot for Friday for the very first delivery at 8 A.M which
is something we don't usually do we usually give an all-day window but I'm letting you
know that it won't be there today but on Friday you will have the first two loads at eight
a.m on your property and and all I could really think at that point I was like thank you thank
you for the phone call thank you for not making me waste another day out here um I really
appreciate that professionalism and uh I will see you guys on Friday morning so that's where
we're at it opens up my whole day today and I'm gonna go and close this video out and
we'll try Rock another day but I I am going to fire up the RV for the first time in over
two weeks however I tried and it wouldn't start so I popped the hood Afrida here to
plug in my battery charger and noticed right away under the hood that's not Mouse Poop
that's rat poop I know you probably can't tell in the picture but uh the whole front
area was covered in rat poop that troubles me because that means that this rodent repellent
thing right here does absolutely nothing I've already vacuumed up all the mouse poop and
the RV did fire up so at least there's no wires that have been chewed but when we go
out today as part of my next video uh we're gonna stop at Home Depot and we're going to
look at some both spray repellent as well as a few other products to go under here and
I think I'm also going to wire up a light like an actual not not a solar light but I'm
going to keep the hood open at least through the summer with a light shining down here
non-stop all day all night okay so anyway let me take a shower real quick and then I'll
be working on my next video and I'll see you guys in a few days and we'll go from there
thanks for thanks for sticking it out with me and uh don't forget to jet on over to Instagram
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