Cliffs notes: -The Freightshaker dropped an injector on the way home from our last big job and went into limp mode. I wasn’t terribly worried as I had planned for this motor going out and had purchased a “good running...Continue reading
A Day in the Life of an Off-Grid Solar Installer
This is our project journal — field stories from off-grid solar installs around Northern Arizona. The 4 a.m. starts, the parts that don't show up, the problems solved on the fly, and a behind-the-scenes look at how these systems actually get built — plus a bit of life on the fringe along the way. Originally posted on the River Daves Place forum; you can read the full thread here.
While I’m on the subject of Ol’ Yeller, I’ll take you guys through some recent repairs it underwent.
The old roll n lock bed cover that was 15+ years old was done. This was a replacement that I had been avoiding for some time because it’s expensive and time consuming, but I couldn’t ignore it any longer. Here...Continue reading
Something pretty cool happened a few days ago.
Our main solar parts supplier made a sort of year end thank you video for all of their professional customers, and it just happens to very heavily feature Denise and I and our work. And fun fact-I shot all the...Continue reading
And because I’m apparently on a roll this morning- even cooler than the above video is THIS one!!
You guys may recognize this location. It’s a project we have been very pleased and proud to have been a part of and we think this video is pretty awesome! (And once again, I’m pretty tickled that my drone footage...Continue reading
So this is sorta solar related.
Denise and I wanted to give one of our long running customers a house warming gift. It’s kinda a big deal for them because they’ve been trying to finish their house and get moved in for YEARS, and they have...Continue reading
A couple days after Christmas, Ol’ Yeller was busy on a local little job.
Hanging this sign that you got a sneak peek at earlier. This farm stand belongs to one of our neighbors. She specializes in sourdough based baked goods. As I write this, I just finished gorging myself on one of her...Continue reading
As usual-we’ve had a lot going on and I’ve not had time to really update much here.
One thing we did back in December was go to a customers place where we did a pretty cool install about a year ago and add some more batteries to his system. This install is fairly unique-at least for us...Continue reading
November 14, 5:20 AM.
I have the race exploder warmed up at the shop and doing last-minute loading up that should’ve been done days ago for what was to be the opening day of the 2025 cow elk hunt. Denise had drawn a tag,...Continue reading
The last few days of the hunt in sort of desperation, Denise and I even split up-she took the race…
The last few days of the hunt in sort of desperation, Denise and I even split up-she took the race exploder with the rifle and I took this side-by-side. We were never more than a couple miles apart, but it...Continue reading
What do you get when you combine about a dozen service trucks, more than a dozen service techs,…
What do you get when you combine about a dozen service trucks, more than a dozen service techs, more than 20 people, at least five different companies, all working long hours frantically in the same limited space, and a really...Continue reading