The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch / @TenaciousRanch / Steampunk Penny / Penellope Logue / Phillip Matthew Logue - Don't cry because it ended, laugh because it's still getting worse.

[stupid frog]

Doesn't everyone off the grid use internet and watch disney+?

 

[Gone Ham]

They got a new fucking Oven (Archive)

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According to @Nothoria (no clue who it is) Frozen Beef Patties was the first cooked food on it... Never change

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Side note, I never realized how autistic and out of control the dog population is, as they numbered the dogs(Archive).

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Also notice the lack of bottom teeth on the left side of the dogs mouth. I don't exactly think a dog barely over a year old should have that...

 

[Jump]

They got a new fucking Oven (Archive)

Another fancy appliance that needs 120volt ac to run (the oven part).
To bad there isn't such thing as ones that don't need any grid power at all to run. Oh wait, there is. Even homedepot has them.
Not as bling looking I guess.


They spent more for something less practical.

 

[Gone Ham]

Another fancy appliance that needs 120volt ac to run (the oven part).
To bad there isn't such thing as ones that don't need any grid power at all to run. Oh wait,I was wrong. Even homedepot has them.
Not as bling looking I guess.
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They spent more for something less practical.
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Wait, is the oven gas-heated, or electrical?????

 

[Jump]

Wait, is the oven gas-heated, or electrical?????

You can light the top burners with a match.
But the oven is computer controlled and has an electronic igniter. You can not use the oven with out 120volts ac powering the stove.

The plain black one I posted above has no computer and uses AA batteries for the igniter. It doesn't plug in.


And why the red fridge over a propane or DC one? It was retro and cute.

 

[Spooky Space Kook]

It looks like there's fucking mold starting to grow by the vent above the stove. Bet those fuckers are to lazy to bother cleaning that shit out. One can only pray it's black mold.

Spoiler: Mold

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Still amazing that these guys refuse to do anything to acknowledge their off-the-grid/very-tenuously-on-grid situation. It's like the indoor troons have no clue where they're living, and the outdoor troons just ignore it and try to kick the can one day further down the road.

Not saying they should be ashamed they don't have a composting toilet, but there are so many things that would actually be helpful and would also make good optics: water storage, greywater irrigation, normal composting, greenhouse, canning food and/or digging a root cellar. These guys just act like they're in the middle of a city until they go outside.

If I believed their story, I would expect them to use a cash influx not only on a bunch of Chinese slave-made plastic tat, but to say "oh finally we can get that hand crank mixer; that'll reduce the power draw," or a fancy new indoor clothes dryer. Instead, it's gun parts, stickers, and toys.

Man, I'm looking at this site and half this stuff seems like a complete no brainer to have out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with shaky electricity and supply lines (At the rate they eat vehicles, I wouldn't rely on going into town for bread on the regular). Its not like they're short on griftbucks, they really don't have an excuse.

And instead they buy an oven that'd seem overly nice for a downtown condo, much less a rural ranch. While I'm confident they have no fucking concept of 'budget' and think that the money is just gonna pour in infinitely, you'd think they'd at least triage the spending onto actually critical things and then trickle out the rest to the stupid shit like that. They could even write off some of the more 'rustic' solutions as preparing the tranch for siege. You can bake bread in a dutch oven, and all that needs is a fire.

 

[SIGSEGV]

It looks like there's fucking mold starting to grow by the vent above the stove. Bet those fuckers are to lazy to bother cleaning that shit out. One can only pray it's black mold.

Spoiler: Mold

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Are you sure it's not a yeast infection?

 

[Iron Hamster]

You can bake bread in a dutch oven, and all that needs is a fire.

Don't need a fire at all. I'm sure the 3 that sleep together dutch oven each other all the time.

 

[Coccxys]

It effectively illustrates just how much of a larp this is. A lot of people who start out in the homesteader, sustainable self-reliant lifestyle don't really know what they're getting into regardless of how many youtube videos they've watched. Felling, bucking, splitting, and drying a few cord of firewood is work, but it's not that bad when you spread it out. Except you have a million other more immediate projects to do on the weekend and after work. Suddenly the days are getting shorter and fall is fast approaching. Now you're going to have to buy some preseasoned because you don't have time to get it done. Hopefully friends can help you out. You also didn't fell those pines and grind the stumps to make it less of a pain in the ass to get the quad in and out of the hardwood stand. Oh yeah, the quad is down. Trailer is broke too.

If they're committed, they persevere and learn. They'll take their lumps along the way as everything seems to go wrong, but they'll figure it out or they'll quit. Most likely they'll scale things back and their dream will take longer to realize than they'd hoped. They can't go on social media and scream nazi rape to get what they want for free. They won't just have unlimited amounts of cash to buy their way out of the shitty situations they find themselves in, unless they're the trustafarian types.

Almost as if communities exist for a reason. You know so one person can concentrate on producing food while a other concentrates on fire wood and can trade those items so everyone gets what they need.

 

[Miss Misery]

Man, I'm looking at this site and half this stuff seems like a complete no brainer to have out in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with shaky electricity and supply lines (At the rate they eat vehicles, I wouldn't rely on going into town for bread on the regular). Its not like they're short on griftbucks, they really don't have an excuse.

And instead they buy an oven that'd seem overly nice for a downtown condo, much less a rural ranch. While I'm confident they have no fucking concept of 'budget' and think that the money is just gonna pour in infinitely, you'd think they'd at least triage the spending onto actually critical things and then trickle out the rest to the stupid shit like that. They could even write off some of the more 'rustic' solutions as preparing the tranch for siege. You can bake bread in a dutch oven, and all that needs is a fire.

I mean the dome is heated with a wood stove (or at least they have one and use it, I'm sure they have a propane heater for when they're too lazy to deal with a fire) and the great thing about a wood stove is you can heat your house with it AND cook on it. Hell I prefer to cook on my wood stove in the winter (or spring...I made grilled cheese on it last night).

 

[one_time_user]

I want weekly oven photo updates. I call 2 weeks before that new oven is so filthy it's a health hazard

 

[S.C.U.D.]

They got a new fucking Oven (Archive)

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Big ass propane tank on the property and they get an electric stove. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

I was thinking exactly of Amish country, but that's just plain old natural gas. Lots of them get it absolutely free which is enough for the few things they use it for. LNG is transportable and pretty energy dense. Natural gas is really good for heating, things like dryers, cooking. Cooking would seem to be really important for these douchebags, at least if they weren't probably just gobbling down Hot Pockets cooked in a fucking microwave, of all things, possibly the single worst appliance you could use offgrid.

A low power (lowest you can get is 700w) microwave isn't too bad for occasional use such as baking a potato or heating water quickly. Just remember to unplug the fucker after each use. Microwave LED displays are always on for some bizarre reason so the piece of shit is constantly chomping power, and LED's take lots of it. Also, flat screen TV's and computers are notorious "energy vampires" as well. And then you have that new stove which is also sucking shitloads of power 24/7. That "so cute" shitty retro fridge probably wastes shitloads of power too. And it's all hooked up to that horribly slapped together solar battery system. At least the resulting explosion will incinerate the troons and with it the smell and the Transformers and hopefully put the alpacas/chickens/dogs/wtf out of their misery too. Afterwards the state of Colorado will declare Troonobyl a Superfund site and fence it off for the next few centuries.

 

[Taylor Swift's Ghostwrite]

IIRC from Kevin's thread, they had 9 dogs but one was given to a nephew.

Its too many large dogs, and there were 2 original and the others were puppies. I hope they got them all fixed after that but I have my doubts because they're dumber than a box of rocks. That means 8 dogs and 7 cats indoors. The smell + the troons themselves must permeate them in such a way that the people around town know when they're in the same store but not the same aisle. Also that alone, without the alpacas and sheep and ducks would be pretty animal hoarding of them.

I hope the top dog decides he is now the farm alpha and attacks them. I'll take top hats for that one with pride.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

Everytime you convert from one type of power to another your wasting the little energy you have.

Solar panels make DC. Batteries store DC. That part of the system you can not change. So the simplest thing to do is to just try and find things that run natively on DC.
Inverters can turn DC in to 120volt AC but they are very inefficient and draw lots of amps.
Because of the popularity of solar there are now lots of choices for DC appliances. Also DC stuff is popular with RV's and boats.

Lots of times the thing your using runs on DC anyways. Its just using a stepdown transformer. Look at anything with a "power brick". Read the specs on that brick. It might say something like:
INPUT 120volts AC
OUTPUT 12volts DC

Stuff that runs on 12-14 volts DC you can normally get away with ditching the brick and running directly off your 12 volt battery system.
You can of course get "car chargers" for your cell phones and laptops. Much better then running an inverter to go from 12DC-> 120volt AC-> 5volt DC.

I've been thinking about this as a future offgrid fag myself. This old laptop uses one of those stupid bricks, but I can't seem to find a 12vDC direct adaptor. The thing that REALLY pisses me off is my old LG flip phone-if you try plugging the USB charging cable into any USB port other than the 120vAC one supplied with your phone, the phone will simply spit it out and give you a stupid error message, something along the lines of the phone not recognizing the charge source. And of course the optional car charger costs a fortune.

To really do offgrid right requires a level of knowledge and savvy far beyond troon level. You have to get yourself a Kill-A-Watt which is a little device that measures an item's AC draw, then go around and measure every single fucking AC item in your house. Then it's numbers crunching time. You have to figure out the right inverter (or inverters) to handle the load you'll be subjecting it to. Then you have to translate that into how much DC you'll be drawing from your battery setup. And don't forget the charge controller too. What wattage/amperage will you be getting from your solar panels and wind turbine? Will it be enough to keep your batteries fed? Are your panels 12v, 24v, 48v? And how about your wind turbine?

The troons are just plugging in shit willynilly without having any fucking clue about the capabilities of their electrical rat nestsolar power setup. Eventually Troonerdome will 41% itself and take the degenerates with it.

 

[AnOminous]

I hope the top dog decides he is now the farm alpha and attacks them. I'll take top hats for that one with pride.

I hope one of them gets a shitbull as a penis substitute, because apparently all troons need one of these, and it goes on a crazed rampage and kills every single one of them in a berserk rampage.

 

[Ghostse]

I've been thinking about this as a future offgrid fag myself. This old laptop uses one of those stupid bricks, but I can't seem to find a 12vDC direct adaptor. The thing that REALLY pisses me off is my old LG flip phone-if you try plugging the USB charging cable into any USB port other than the 120vAC one supplied with your phone, the phone will simply spit it out and give you a stupid error message, something along the lines of the phone not recognizing the charge source. And of course the optional car charger costs a fortune.

To really do offgrid right requires a level of knowledge and savvy far beyond troon level. You have to get yourself a Kill-A-Watt which is a little device that measures an item's AC draw, then go around and measure every single fucking AC item in your house. Then it's numbers crunching time. You have to figure out the right inverter (or inverters) to handle the load you'll be subjecting it to. Then you have to translate that into how much DC you'll be drawing from your battery setup. And don't forget the charge controller too. What wattage/amperage will you be getting from your solar panels and wind turbine? Will it be enough to keep your batteries fed? Are your panels 12v, 24v, 48v? And how about your wind turbine?

The troons are just plugging in shit willynilly without having any fucking clue about the capabilities of their electrical rat nestsolar power setup. Eventually Troonerdome will 41% itself and take the degenerates with it.

Honestly if you're going to static OTG the correct thing to do is have a water source you can run a hydro turbine from. Hydropower solves your water and your power in one go. Only down side is cost & install, but if you have proper non-seasonal spring you have 24/7 power. And if you're going super ghetto, you can convert an old washing machine motor into your dynamo.

If your spring is seasonal, or not enough flow, you can use an upstream water tank with a solar/wind powered pump to act like a battery; the pump sends water to uphill storage. When you need to run your hydro, you drain the tank.

I'm not sure how these troons are running their HVAC but investing in a good geothermal heat pump will also save you tons on heating/cooling. The downside is that it usually can only move so much thermal energy - you won't freeze or fry, but it you'll need a sweater in the winter and cool drink in the summer.

 

[Big Meaty Claws]

Big ass propane tank on the property and they get an electric stove. You can't make this stuff up, folks.

Propane tank might as well be a prop with how much use it most likely gets anyway

That poor fucking little weak ass generator must be constantly on edge to explode with all of the Tranches electrical "Needs"

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

A full grown mountain lion is about 3 feet tall at the shoulder. They can jump 18 feet vertically and 45 feet in distance with a running start. Speaking of running, their top speed is 40 miles per hour. And while they can't sustain that speed for long, they're ambush predators and extremely stealthy - they don't NEED to be able to run for a long time because they're going to hide and wait for you to get close enough to pounce on from behind.

Regarding manlets, while most fatal attacks HAVE been children, notable adult deaths include a trail runner, 5'8" tall and 130lbs who was killed by a 3 year old 80lb female mountain lion with cubs. The runner actually fought back and got away for a bit, but it attacked again and killed her. In 2018, two "men" were riding their bicycles and a mountain lion attacked them both; one got away and the other, 5'8" and 200lbs, was killed by the 4 year old, 100lb male cougar. And speaking of cyclists, a trail biker, 6" and 175lbs, was killed by 2 year old, 110lb male.

Mountain lions usually prey on things larger than they are; they mainly eat white-tail deer, mulies, and elk.

Deer are slightly taller at the shoulder than a cougar and weigh 150 to 300lbs.

Elk are over 5 feet at the shoulder and weigh between 600 and 1000lbs.

They'll also take down a bull moose, which is 7 feet at the shoulder and weighs 1500lbs.

(Note for our Euro friends: What you call an "elk" is what we call a "moose". You don't have elk there anymore, so just imagine a big fucking deer.)

In comparison, an alpaca is about 3 feet at the shoulder and weighs 150lbs.

As for feral pigs, this data from 2017 is interesting:

In the 2016 – 2017 hunting season, tag sales decreased 2.2 percent from the 53,430 tags sold in 2015. Furthermore, 4,637 wild pigs were reported taken, representing a 8.9 percent increase in the number of successful tags returned from the 2015 season of 4,223. A total of 52,256 wild pig tags were issued making overall successful tag return 8.9 percent. The top six counties for pig harvest were: Monterey (24.0%), Mendocino (9.1%), San Luis Obispo (9.0%), Sonoma (8.0%), Kern (7.7%) and Tehama (7.5%). These six counties accounted for about 65 percent of reported take.​

Feral pigs are generally found in the edges of the Central Valley and coastal regions, specifically they like oak savannahs, woodlands, and chaparral. They don't live in mountainous/alpine regions (they don't like snow) or deserts or places where there aren't a lot of trees/shrubs for cover. They also tend to live on private land (since much of California's public lands consist of habitats they don't like) which can make access for hunting difficult. There's no point in free access to BLM land for hunting when your quarry isn't there.

Again, 52,256 boar tags were issued and only 4,223 were filled. There are plenty of people who want to hunt boar, they're just difficult to bag; tree huggers have nothing to do with it. You can even use dogs to hunt boar in CA.

And the forest service has better fucking things to do than chase a bunch of pigs around the forest. If you hadn't noticed, massive parts of California tend to catch on fire yearly.

The puma (Puma concolor, same species as North American cougars/catamounts/mountain lions) population in Patagonia will prey on guanacos (Lama guanicoe), a wild llama species. Seeing as guanaco and llama are bigger than alpaca it stands to reason that a young cougar trying to establish its own territory might give the tranch alpacas a shot were there still vegetation around.

Oddly enough the trancheros' shit land management may be keeping their ballooning herds safe from predation.