Factor E Live Summer Bonus Addition
What do you do when your family visits? We put up a silo. Here is the footage my brother Andy put together of the house tour and silo experience this summer. It’s out of line in time – but it’s the most entertaining that I’ve seen...
Factor e Live – Episode 7
Here is a video update on the solar turbine project and the open source tractor – plus other fruits of Factor e Farm: Stay tuned for the next episode. The front-end loader is already on LifeTrac, we connected the Factor e Liberator CEB press to...
Factor e Live – Part 5 – LifeTrac Takes Baby Steps
We showed the construction of our open source tractor frame in Factor e Live Part 3. Here we show LifeTrac running under the power of its own motor: Next steps: mounting the front end loader, building a rototiller, and mounting a backhoe. In the meantime,...
Factor e Live Part 4 – Digging for Water Completed
In part one of “Digging for Water”, we drilled a hole 85 feet deep, hit water, and tried to insert a 6 inch casing (pvc pipe) into the hole. When the 6 inch pipe didn’t fit, we decided to use a 4 inch casing. Although the 4 inch casing...
Factor e Live – Part 3
This installment of Factor e Live focuses on LifeTrac – the open source, life-time, design-for-disassembly articulating multipurpose tractor/loader. It is the key to powering the CEB Press, permacultural operations, as well as: well-drilling, sawmilling,...
Factor E Live 2
The last two weeks were primarily spent on the well, which is now (almost) finished. So, our biweekly video focuses on our voyage into the earth, in a search for ground water. We begin with a homebrew rig that is difficult to use because we cannot easily...
Factor e Live
Change is continuous at Factor e Farm. You may have seen this post on how our place has evolved from a plain soybean field to rich diversity on many fronts. To record these changes as they happen, we have begun the Factor e Live series. These are videos,...
