#97 50 Amp RV outlet install, new building updates!

Welcome back everybody. Today is going to be one of those videos I told you about. It's kind of an all over the place video and if you stumbled across this looking for a how to hook up an RV plug video, this probably isn't it. Although I'm not saying you can't learn something. Welcome to the channel. If you're new, I kind of do lots of little projects around our place. Gardening, tractor work, electrical work, woodwork, things like that. It's just kind of a day and a glimpse into our little homesteading life. So behind me I've got a temporary power pole here. This is what we put in years ago when we first got the property and it's where we hooked our camper up originally when we started developing the place. I still have it even though I have 200 amp service to the building now and I'm going to use it as temporary for a little while longer then pull it up. It used to run over to the shop. It's not there anymore and I'm going to kill all that power that goes over there. So I'm going to get this pole up here before long and wire up our new shop, which I'll tell you about here shortly, off the 200 amp service out of the building here. And eventually when we go to house we'll just run another 200 amp service over to that. So today I'm going to start this video off by hooking up a 50 amp RV plug here. This is a 100 amp service. The only other thing that I will have currently running on it is a 30 amp pumping well. So I'll still be under the rating for it. The reason I'm doing 50 amp instead of the 30 that I have running to the other camper since it's about to go is because if you've watched the channel, you know that camper got totaled due to a tornado that tore everything down. Luckily my wife's brother has been very generous and he's going to let us use his fifth wheel RV for a while, which is a much higher amperage service. That's why I've got to put the 50 in until we can find something locally that's suitable for us. Just kind of having a hard time finding any camper right now that's not extremely expensive or just junk. So maybe we'll stumble across something eventually. So that's where we're going to start the video, do a little bit of work in the garden, talk about some upcoming things. I just finalized something a few minutes ago on the phone for the new building. So a lot of exciting things happening. Appreciate y'all watching. I went out and bought some of this six gauge wire and you've got to use three conductor I found out because you're not running 240 to the camper, you're running two 110s. So it's got to have a neutral. Think of it as just running 110 in a house. So it took a little bit of getting used to. Now I'm hooking it up to a 240 breaker. You're just essentially running two 110 legs out with a neutral that's common between them. I'm going to hook it up with some of this old flex loom here. I bought some of these old compression fittings. So it should be relatively watertight. Then I'm just going to move this box over to the new building and run the wire a different way. We'll talk about that in a little bit. Luckily, this is labeled pretty well. White, which is your neutral. You have an X and Y, which is your two hots, your red and black. They can go either side. It doesn't matter. Again, this is 110 volts, 110 volts sharing a common neutral. Then you have your ground, which screws to the back of this box. I just took it out for convenience and you can see I've already done run one ground wire into there and I'll connect it to my breaker panel that has a ground wire. It's run to two rods in the ground. All right, so there's my finished product. The ground hooked to the box, the incoming ground, grounding the box out. Like I said, it doesn't matter which side, your red and your black or hot, either side. Then your white neutral, just hook it up to where it says white. So when you look to the outside of the plug, the round one's always ground. You have a 110 hot on either side and then a neutral. We'll go ahead and kill power to everything. Get y'all to look at this. Let me know if this is just a Florida thing or if y'all have this where y'all live. If y'all can see in there, it's so dark. Just tons and tons of dead ants. Our ants here, for some reason, love getting in electrical components, especially the points on a pumping well. There's a lot of times we'll be, especially in the summertime, trying to take a shower. All of a sudden, we don't have any water. You go out there and there's just wads of ants in the points on the well and it'll no longer make contact. It's just crazy. I mean, look, I don't know if it's the electrical current that gives off, if there's some heat in there or exactly what it is. All right, so there it is. I don't know if you could see with this thing being so shaded, but I got my red and black hooked up to my 50 amp breaker, got my neutral hooked up to the incoming white tape neutral lug, and I got my ground also hooked up to that bar right there. Now, I'm going to be killing this 30 amp breaker because if I didn't, technically I would be, let's see here, 10 amps over what this box would have. So I'm going to kill the 30. I'll be cutting that wire off underground once we hook up this other camper, and then I'll just be running this 50 and this 30 out of this 100 amp box. All right, well, I'm wired up, ready to go with 50 amp service whenever the fifth well gets here this weekend. And like I said, this is strictly temporary. That's why I didn't make it look any nicer than it is. And you're probably wondering, why don't I just use the plug I already got over there or use that wiring and just wire it up differently? And that's because I don't have near the right size gauge wire ran over there. Again, running 30 amp service and that little pull behind. These new fifth wheels with dual ACs and just everything else they got going on in them, they need a lot more amperage. That's why they get two runs of this 50 amp here. So it's a tremendous amount more wattage and amperage that you can carry. So that's why I had to beef it all the way up to that six gauge wire. And that brings me to the next point. I'm sure there's a lot of you that watch the channel that have 50 amp RVs. This is new to me. I've got to make about a 60 to 70 foot run from my building to where my new building is going to be, to where we're going to temporarily park this RV. What size wire do you recommend? Reading online, some people say you can get away with six gauge, but that's kind of a long run. Think about beefing that up to four gauge. So if you've run any length of wire, say a little over 50 feet for a 50 amp service, what size do you recommend? All right. So like I said, this is all done. So let's talk for a minute. Got some stuff to share for the channel. Then I'm going to show you a couple more things. We'll get into gardening. So as you come down the building, the shop here, that's where the pole barn used to be, unless you're real new to the channel. And I'll just quickly hit on the point that we just got hit by a tornado, lost our four-year-old pole barn. It totaled the camper. Insurance company's coming to get that. So that's why I'm doing what I'm doing here. But I've been talking about putting up a new pole barn and had a lot of different ideas. We've been toying with some crazy stuff. So this pole right here is out here for a reason, because I've been out here just trying to visualize. I have decided that I'm going to put a much larger pole barn this direction. So it's going to kind of run just like this building here, just long ways this direction. And the reason we're going to do that is I'm away with everything that you see here, the wiring, the plumbing, everything. So all this stuff will go under a new pole barn. I'm going to smooth all this out. So we've got some tractor work coming up. I'm going to plant this in the same grass that the yard is in. And there is a reason why I'm going to do that, because in the future, the house is going to go on the other side of that pumping well. It's where we've always envisioned it. So when we're on the back porch, we can look out over that pasture back there and watch our horses, cows, goats, whatever we have in that. Well, the barn here, the pole barn was always kind of an eyesore. I'm going to clear out that tree here before long, chip all that up. That's what I'm going to layer the garden with, at least start. So we're going to have a nice view there. But now the more I get to looking about it or thinking about it, we were given an opportunity with this blowing down to kind of rearrange things. So all this is going to go away. That's going to be grass. And you'll have this nice, beautiful view from the house over here, just looking out across the pasture. And some of this eyesore tractor equipment will kind of be tucked out of the way now over here underneath the new pole barn. So if you can envision with me here for a second, the new corner of the pole barn is going to be right here. And I'm going much larger. You know, they always say build bigger than you think you need. I thought that last 1800 square foot pole barn was huge. Biggest thing I've ever owned. It doesn't take long to get stuff up underneath it. You know how that goes. So I'm going to do the buy once, cry once right here. I'm trying to get this over-engineered. Actually, I just closed on it this morning and it's about to start being built. And I'll explain all that in just a little bit, but let's envision here for a second. This is the front corner of the pole barn. It's going to run 42 feet that way, 80 feet that long. So almost twice the size of the last one, not quite, but very close to it. And the reason I'm going so large is because the last 20 feet is going to be out in the pasture. And I'm actually going to have a fence that's going to tie into the barn. That 20 by 42, I'm going to put a horse stall in there for Tiffany. She's always wanted horses and I'll build a little tack room in there too. And I'm going to kind of design the stall to where I can put a middle divider in it. So either going to be one gigantic horse stall, or we can have multiple stalls down the road. And that tack room, I'll probably put my garden equipment, shovels, rakes, things out in there, because it'd be pretty large size too. We might stick some feed in it, you name it. So I'll explain more of this design later, but we figured we'd go ahead and kill two birds with one stone. We already knew we was going to build a little horse stable out here in the future. So why not go ahead and put it all under one roof now. It cuts the cost down. It's built once. I'll come back later, pour the slab, and then I'll build the stall, the tack room, things like that. So that'd be something pretty neat for the future of the channel. So if you can see right here, the reason I'm putting the building so far away from this building is because I still have envisioned building a skinning rack here. This is where I go clean my fish on the outside so I can put scales on the ground. And I'm thinking about tying a skinning rack across from this building to this building that will be running right here. And I want to leave enough of a gap that grass stays there. So whenever I'm spraying, you know, blood or whatever it is down, I want it to go into a nice grassy area. Everything underneath the building, I'll kill that grass. And eventually I may rock all that in just financially. This is a big hit right now, so can't do everything that I'm dreaming of. So that's the plan. 42 foot this way with a gap here so I can still kind of use my fish cleaning station and clean animals here. And the other reason I want a gap here is so I can easily, so I can easily pull out of the front of the building here, drive back there, grab tractor equipment on the backside, and not have to drive all the way around this shop that you're seeing here. So it just gives me quick access to the backside. So what you're looking at over here, that hump, I wish this was more level ground, but it's just the hand I've been dealt. That hump right there is kind of about where the fence is going to be. And the barn is still going to run on the other side of that pasture fence. And again, that's where I'm going to put a slab or some sort of foundation for the horse stalls. Got to do a lot more research into that, the tack room, et cetera. So I'll wind up with a 42 by 60 here for all the tractor equipment. And there'll be a 20 by 42 over there, what's left of it for one or two horse stalls and a small tack room. Well, I tell y'all what, I feel like I've blabbed on a bit too long. And if you're new to the channel, I promise I don't tend to talk this much, at least I don't think. So we'll have a lot more projects coming up. I'm probably going to go ahead and start another video today, because I told you there's some pretty exciting stuff I want to show you in the garden, especially if you watched the last video. I've just got a few little things I want to do, but something I really want to show you. So we'll cut back into that with a pretty quick episode coming up. Thank y'all so much for subscribing and watching. Again, we just hit a thousand subscribers. Pretty awesome. It's keeping me motivated, keeping me excited to do a lot of new things, a lot of new editing. So thank y'all so much for that. I can't believe that you find this little life interesting, but I'm glad you do. Thanks so much for watching.