Off Grid Homestead After Blizzard Juno & HF Generator Tuneup

The blizzard that was to top the charts in the record books. With winds up to 75 mph. This is the aftermath of blizzard Juno. This is what happened here at the off grid homestead in the wake of the storm.

I was worried about the strong winds more than anything else. A shovel can take care of the snow if needed. Even if it takes days I can handle the snow. I grew up in Michigan and we used to tunnel through the front yard as kids just for fun. We had mazes under the snow and played for hours and hours. The snow used to get up to the roof top at times out back at my neighbor's house.

We had snow forts and tunnels all over the place. In recent years a couple of inches of snow is something to talk about. The days of heavy snow and giant drifts are something of the past for the most part.

So I was only worried about the wind. They had down graded the wind for my area to only 35 mph, which is still scary with all my storage tents.

In the morning I did not know what to expect when I looked outside. But what I found was a total surprise.

I had about half an inch of snow in total. The wind had hit a peak of 3.8 mph in the night and died down to quiet stillness.

The ground was free of snow.

The storm had parted overhead and left me free and clear. The storm was strong and furious in other areas to be honest and fair. But it parted like the Red Sea over my head and left me safe and dry.

NYC got about a foot. Long Island got up to 18 inches. Other states saw over 20 inches or more.

But my God and my mountain protected me from the worst of the storm once again.

It was partly sunny and I was getting a nice amount of solar power coming into my off grid tiny home. This is topping off my solar forklift battery bank nicely today.

I picked up a new spark plug and screw on spark plug clip for my 2 cycle 800 watt Harbor Freight generator. It has been running a bit rough for a while and I am hoping this will help it out some.

The original HF generator spark plug connector was just a piece of stiff spring metal stuck into the spark plug wire. It was a horrible and unsure connection at best. And the spark plug boot was already rotting from less than a year.

I got a screw on NGK spark plug connector with a high quality boot and a new spark plug for my little 800 watt HF generator.

It was a simple fix to remove the old spark plug connector and screw on the new high quality spark plug connector.

The engine fired up on about the 8th pull which is normal for this generator in the cold. It runs well but not as nice as I had hoped. I guess this is just a rough running generator.

I worked a bit on the plumbing plans for my tiny house on wheels. I hope to have two water tanks upstairs and have gravity feed water pressure feeding the kitchen and bathroom with running water.

I plan to fill water tanks from the creek using my truck to haul the tank. Then pump the water into the tanks in the tiny house on wheels.

Gravity will supply all the water pressure I need.

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