Mining dirt cheap with dead forklift batteries and busted solar panels A while back I met a guy on Facebook Marketplace, a tree fell on his house and he had 30× 300W solar panels he needed gone. I rented a U-Haul and bought all of them for $30 each. I had a friend Joe who works on forklift batteries help me get started. He told me anything below like 60% gets scrapped and the scrap price is dirt cheap for what you’re actually getting. He ended up hooking me up with two 500Ah 24V forklift batteries for free, which was huge. I rented a $100 truck, the company loaded it with forklifts, and then up in Maine my cousin has a Kubota so I got lucky unloading it. I also grabbed some UPS batteries that are 12V, wired them in series to get 24V and then paralleled them, and then paralleled that with the two 24V forklift batteries. Total comes out to about 1500Ah @ 24V. The UPS batteries cost me $600 for 500Ah, which is crazy cheap. I’ve got some land in Maine so I just started throwing panels out there, nothing fancy.…