Nice to see you again, Mike. You've been missed.

Good morning Mike, glad to see you back at it! Have a good weekend!

I've never seen clay so thick and so close to the top .... amazing. Your dog is having a blast.

Thank you for splitting the vidoes up. I cannot sit through one more solar build LOL.I love how the swimming pond is coming along though.

Pro tip for you sir: when using the primer and glue canisters I find it is a good idea to duct tape the two side by side together to minimize the chance of knocking said canisters over...

I'm so glad to see a new video! I hope you are doing well my friend.

I always enjoy watching you work on and fix up stuff. You explain what your doing in real words so I know what's going on. Keep those updates comming.

I envy your abilities to take on anything! Bravo fratello!

I can’t wait for the next video on this project

It’s looking great, can’t wait to see the finished product.

NICE 420 is SMOKING Solar POWER !! Thanks for sharing brother. God Bless.

All that clay Mike got to get a wood fired oven built. Can do it on the cheap with a cob clay oven, can cook pizza in 90 seconds not to mention all the other dishes. Would be a great addition to the cabin 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏

i caught that chuckle sir, couldn't help it could ya :) good on ya with the solar panels my guy everything looks great.

Nice job!! Seeing the clay in that area makes me think of building a kiln and creating and firing unique merch!!

Great job. Looks good. Now to watch that power panel build.

The solar cabana is gonna look cool, love it all. (Kansas)

That’s got to be one of the coolest places to be on the weekend.

Mike, thanks for the view. should work great. once ya got that power board enclosed, and safely in a housing.

thanks for taking us along and show us what your doing. thanks for sharing and have a great weekend as well

Good to see you back at the pond! Looking good Mike! Peace!

Really looking forward to seeing it come together! It will be beautiful!

It's looking good, glad to see the solar coming along!

Looking awesome !!!!

Looks like we have established who is going to be the "boss" of the pond. Which is beautiful BTW!! It was a very informative video Mike. You have a new and different confidence in front of the camera but I still enjoy your humor. The little chuckles here and there. We will see you next time "Weekend Warrior"! Sounds like a Tee Shirt we all might want to purchase should you ever offer one as Merchandise. Best Regards my Friend.

Just watched an episode of Grand Designs, season 22, where the homeowner has a natural swimming pond made. Very cool stuff.

Coming along very nice...stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep dry and warm.

Hi weekend warrior, the pond is looking like an oasis, and a fun place to be.

It's looking good Mike, looking forward to the completed job. This is going to be very nice when finished. My best to you and Sarah< blessings!

Good job that came out well Mike !!

In the meantime, till you install the tracker you can find the ideal angle to the son using a soup can. Set the can on the panel then tilt the panel till the can casts no shadow. That means it is pointing right at the sun.

Thx for taking the time to make the other video. very informative!

Well done Mike--I love how your adorable supervisor helped move sticks at 1:45 - that was really cute--Beatrice fetching her own stick!! :-) See you on the next video, Wanda

I love seeing your place. My great great grandmother was born and raised in Dayton. Till the family moved to St. Joseph. in the 1700/1800's I bet they could have used solar :)

Amazing Solar Power.

Cool setup

You are really good with that digger. Just like the cabin, the pond is going to be a thing of beauty. The process is fascinating.

Keep up the good work Mike!

I really enjoyed the video. I am about to start a project to install Solar for my Outdoor Off Grid Kitchen. Thanks….from the Great State of Texas! 🤠

Looking good!!

It's coming along👍

Ottimo, questo l'ho guardato oggi. Ieri avevo poca energia. 👍👍💪💪 ciao buona giornata.

The pond is looking great Mike.

Great stuff!

Looking good Mike

Thank you for sharing

Great Video Mike. Waiting for the next one 😎👍

You are phenomenal, sir. Above the rest!

Looks amazing. One of these days I’m going to go solar on something just because if your inspiration. Thanks!

Great video, loving the jacuzzi pond

Great video. Very informative. Thank you for taking the time to teach us. Love your channel.

I was just thinking that I haven’t seen Mike in a few weeks. Now here you are!

One tip when using concrete is to remove all the loose dirt from the hole. Otherwise it will shift when it settles.

Always find your videos entertaining and informative. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to produce good quality content.

Excellent work - its looking awesome - I like how you put your heart into a project - Thanks

Looks great

The pond is looking awesome!! Great job brother

Should be pretty cool when your done!

Don't know how you do it, but every step on this swim pond build is better than the last. Excellent work mate - well done.

Good work young man. It is great watching your channel.

I would have kept about a 30 foot clearance from those pines. They will branch out more than you think :) I guess there is always the chainsaw if needed :) Nice cabin!

Great video

Dude this is coming along nicely. I don’t think you ever mentioned that you were creating another solar bank for the pond. This whole time I thought you were going to run it off your existing system. Obviously that was a wrong assumption. This thing is going to be so nice next summer on those hot and humid days.

I found this very interesting

Песик чудесный!!!

love it

It’s looking lovely great work as always

Andrew C would be proud of how far your skills have come on the Excavator.

Amazing crap soil (that grey stuff). Lots of luck trying to garden. I’ve got some like that. As soon as plant roots grow out of the planting hole and hit that, the plant dies. You’re sure getting your value out of that backhoe. 👍🏻

man i love these vids

I like using the red bag cement FAST DRYING ,, I put a 4x4 into the ground 5 foot and 3 bags - I think 3 gallons water no mixing and the 4x4 was firm in 30 minutes

Those metal pipe clamps look like the weakest link in mounting the panels and brackets, I had no idea they would hold that amount of weight, usually you see those large bolt on pipe clamps. That is going to be one nice pond. As always thanks for the video.

Nice set up bro my dream place

Always watching frm Turin Ciao mikey !

Looks great HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃 STAY SAFE.

Bonjour tu à fais du beau travail c'est un beau bassin 🤗🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵 de papy Gilbert de France bisous

👍 Thanks :-)

Posts are plumb, beams are level (sorry it’s a pet peeve of mine). A makeshift plumbob with a bolt on the end of some string would also suffice in a pinch. Things are coming along nicely considering you aren’t able to work on it daily.

Fun 👍🇫🇷

Learned lots from you and this vid, Mike! BTW, you sure are adept with the Yanmar these days… 👍

If you get two more hose clamps and put it underneath the bottom of the two bottom hose clamps of each panel and tighten it to the pole only when you loosen the clamp to turn it it won't slide down

U-bolts on the electric panels and solar panel mounts. Ground system should have a ground rod too.

It's looking good , if anything when you mashed the clay back in around the pole it looked like it's plumb on camera. Can't wait till this project completed . Greetings to your Lovely Bride

those look good not sure how well they would hold up here

2:25 when you speed up the playback, the yanmars movement kinds looks like Harryhausen stop-motion animation

Your right about the pvc glue...plumbers make good money because no one else wants to do it, not because it's rocket science. Cool little panel system but I would probably upgrade the hose clamps to u bolts..seems a weak link right there.

Another tip duct tape your glue cans together so their always together.

I love your videos , but , I will suggest supporting the bottoms f your solar panels before winter as they will , more than likely break through the winter , trust me as I made the same mistake and had to buy at least 6 new panels of the eight that I installed .

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WOW I notice videos get higher view counts when delicious food is in the thumbnail.... What ya make for dinner :)

Czekam na efekt końcowy. Pozdrawiam.

I think my swimming days are over. I would love a water pond like that but only about 2 feet deep. Then in the center, have an adjustable water feature to shoot up so I can watch it and it could also be used for animals to drink out of. Maybe adjustable lights for white or colors depending on the mood or season. You need to drag up some wood for the woodburner for this winter. I couldn't recall if you had a stack or not. When you lit a fire and sat there it was as if we all felt it. As I said before, my grandpa and I would sit by a small fire on old metal green chairs. We'd sit there and he'd just talk about anything and everything. When we would take walks in the woods, his motto was "never walk back empty handed". So we'd always drag some kind of wood or twigs to take back and put with the rest of the pile. I still don't get the electrics of solar and I've tried. All I know is that when I build a new house, it is going to have an electric furnace and a/c. I want enough panels and a battery so that I have a zero electric bill. My electric this past month in Ohio was $330.00. So, as you can see I don't care what it costs to build so I do not have to tie into the electric lines. Thanks for the video!

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Get the MT solar pole mount it can be tilted manually for the seasons

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suggestion... Where the negative connection connects to extention how about a small zip tie thru that hole around connection? Thanks for the videos !!!!

Love the channel. 1 notation i have is did you put some kind of anti spin device on the pole in the quickcrete? If you didnt if you have a few storms roll thru with the wind strong enough it may break the pole loose and itll spin in place. To late to change it now but if this scenario happens you can dig up the clay to where the crete is at and drill a hole thru the pole at a slant and then use a masonary bit into the existing crete and then hammer a piece of rebar thru the pole into the crete. I would do 1 of these on both sides for added strength. Then lastly add more quickcrete to where it covers the rebar and holes you drilled. Hopefully you dont have to deal with this but those panels may act as giant wind catches.

Put a cap on support pole you be surprised how they can fill up with condensation and rain a go rusty inside very fast, :-)

Have you thought of using stainless steel muffler clamps to fasten the solar panel mounts to the pole? I worry that in a high wind that the worm clamps might break. Thank you for making this video illustrating the solar install. I love the whole idea of capturing and using energy from the sun.

"The only it'll do bad is mess with your OCD." Hahahahahaha!

It seems to me that there are so many things you could be doing on the cabin instead of building the pond!