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Some are contact (affect only the area applied) and some are systemic (are adsorbed into the tissue and move about the plant on their own). Good to know which one you are using.

Quite a few insecticides for controlling caterpillars available at local supermarket / nursery / bunnings etc. Few (if any) registered for use in hops, but most will work. Use at your own risk. edit: For example I use Yates tomato and vegetable dust to successfully control caterpillars in my...

up, up and at-them!

Great potential going to waste there. ... At the very least you are using a bicycle powered dynamo to charge your soft battery powered equipment? edit: Just saw your amended post , that's more like it!! Whack that power in some batteries and power your mill.

soft. Surely you have some bicycle parts laying around?

Use your legs to drive more than one thing.

and two legs . Think laterally.

Giggity giggity. Get yourselves a can of 'toughen up' gentlemen.

drop in some of the nice new Powerade, that will sort out your salt requirements; https://www.powerade.com.au/products/ion4

WEAL was extremely kind to donate a used mill to me recently. My slightly Ghetto (okay very ghetto) solution .. is to mount it on a plastic chopping board from Kmart ($5) - with a suitably sized rectangular hole cut into the middle of it.

Mad variation here .. Dr Rudi is healthy and has climbed 4 metres to the top of the trellis already!! Tettnang not far behind. EKG has come up about 20 cm and has gone all yellow and looks like it's about to die.

You could easily boil 4 x 5L pots on a normal stove-top. A multiple bay "bain marie" would be ideal for small multiple mashes if you could pick one up cheap. .. .

siphon from the top if possible, don't drain the fermenter from the bottom..

Do you let the temp come up a bit towards the end of fermentation? This will encourage the yeast to finish the job and clear things up up a bit. After about two weeks controlled temp I let the fermenter sit at room temp for a day or so... Clears it up.

how do you transfer the beer from the fermenter into the keg?

Rainwater can already have a fair bit of salt in it, depends how far you are from the sea and which way the prevailing winds come from...

I don't mind cloudy beer, in fact it's quite nice thinking about all the nutritious goodies in there. Having said that, usually if I bottle a few keepers from a cloudy keg and pull them out 6 months later for a taste - they are often very quite clear indeed.