stone and timber bearings?

Yes, this.

Here are some of the other videos he made on this. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zs-Veb16mZOae2w.html

Definately!

Yes please!!🙌🏽

I'd love to see the technical side, how much head the turbine has, power transmission distances and voltages etc..

lol, why don't you make a video showing your actual competence?...all i see are some gaming sh!t on your channel.

Typically because they live under a rock and will Google it and find it will cost them 20k for some to install a solar panel and a couple of batteries

Did you know that hydro is not as green as most people like to think, and produces C02 and methane? Not the way that Marty does it, but hydro that uses dammed water. www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/06/hydropower-hydroelectricity-methane-clean-climate-change-study

To generate like this requires land and a reliable water supply. I would do the same if I had the resources. Other renewables are not even in the ballpark of hydro generation.

Haha

,,, and he always has a set a bearing with him that are correct for whatever he is working on.

I guess that after 16 years, Marty knows a bit on his « generators » including the right bearings...

No, there's a little known "Kiwi Bearing Bush" that Marty harvests every autumn...often grows next to the Diesel River.

Chris Wills quit your lying...The Maori Warriors use the joints of their victims to carve into perfect bearing o rings

Phark Ue I subbed because u like my humour Hugs and Blessings

Phark Ue what's wrong with a lil cannibalism? Makes great biofuel and grease for the turbine bearings, don't you know Bwahaa I saw some of ur subs, do you grow? Hugs and Blessings

As a scrapper I can confirm this. About 30% of all the washing machines I receive are the same brand as the ones Marty uses for his generators. It's rare that a washing machine lasts more than 8 years.

@@andymanaus1077 replacing the 2 main bearings off a Panasonic frontloader at the moment.6.5 years..good going for a family of 3 adults and 4 kids.but yep agree with you

@@andymanaus1077 My GW612 I bought 9 years ago second hand (coming up 10 years), the previous owners (older couple) had it for something like 5 years. I have had zero problems with it, they told me all they replaced was the control board when they had it and when I picked it up they had it packed in the original box and packing it came in and the machine looked brand new.

Your washer conversion has served you well , caveman still gets the job done . Top man Marty . 👍

@@andymanaus1077 US here... I just finished a complete rebuild/refurb on my 1980 Speed Queen HD Commercial. I bought it used in 1984 or 5 along with a 27k GE commercial air-conditioner for $300US back then and still have both, working. I'm going to sell the A/C. Quite a deal, since both were like brand new then. I just had to do a bearing & main seal replace after 35 odd years on the washer. So, it depends on the washer type, brand and condition of your local water.

@Dan Dan - www.enz.org/moving-to-new-zealand-guide.html , www.enz.org/landinvesting.html .

Pristine waterway, minus the desintegrated bearings. lolll

Yeah, but you forgot to add NO govt fools trying to tell you why 'you can't do that, it won't work,' yak yak yak. Used to be the govt would best help by staying out of the way. Now they want to tell you when you can take a dump, and where. Oh yeah, no spitting on the ground cuz it'll cause soil erosion or some other bs. Good on ya mate for doing it without govt involvement.

NSK all the way

@@MartyT I am most shocked the high quality engineering is Japanese....:)

andyms76 ?

Thanks mate, I'm in the process of helping a friend with a full hydro installation and filming the entire process, I can only do few hours a week so it will take a couple of months to complete

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No this stream has never dried up in the 20 years I've been here

At 61psi that rubber tube would be holding almost twice it;'s rated pressure...safer to cut out the split section and reconnect or use two joiners and a new pipe section.

Every big rock is a solid workbench ;)

People always feel that way. Apparently in the 70s the world felt like it was on fire, mostly the side effect of the baby boom and leaded gasoline creating massive numbers of early 20s angry men. But in the end it just sorted itself. The last century has been a massive improvement in almost all aspects of life. Some are bad (mostly excessive corperate control over our lives), but most people life a far freer life than they once did. TLDR. We can make the future better. When things go bad, we can improve them.

He has in other videos. He had been working in forestry and had planted 500k trees in that forestry career. Earned enough so that that he bought his place as scrub infested vertical acres 20 years ago. Cleared the scrub, cut tracks through and planted 20,000 trees. Built his house and hydro powered it 16 years ago. Once the trees were harvestable he cut firewood and sold it, milled timber and sold it etc etc. So now he is still able to do that but a lot of his time is spent making these YT vids for our enjoyment.

Do you have a link to that video? I’m sure I remember him mentioning that he didn’t build his house in the woods and many of trees on his land that he cuts down in other videos are a lot more than 20 years old. It’s still an incredibly enviable lifestyle.

For the complication..... not worth it. The bearings are very cheap and it also means Marty can check and maintain all the other aspects of the system......

He did this as one of the 1st videos on the channel, with an update a year or so later Updated version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zs-Veb16mZOae2w.html Original. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7ZgjKWoqpu-fqc.html.