That spring is a great find. Your care in protecting it from erosion will pay significant benefits in the coming days. 1500 gallons per day of clean water is worth all of your work and more. Great job!
Thank you! I think with well drilling prices being more competitive back east, a lot of folks don't bother with the springs because they are more maintenance and more likely to be contaminated from commercial farming. However, growing up as a kid in Pennsylvania near the susquehanna River, i remember we stayed in a cabin several times that had a spring fed water system. The spring was above the cabin, so it was all gravity fed. Worked out really well. Hopefully we have long-term success with ours here in alaska 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 The farm house on our farm is fed by a hand dug well that’s about 10 to 12 feet deep and it’s gravity fed. My Grandfather dug the well and the trench which is 300 yards to get the water to the house. Still working today
Wow, that was a big chore but it will pay dividends for years to come. I enjoyed your battle to get the skid steer to the spring head in the previous video, a lot of perseverance, but again you won as a team. Thanks for a very informative video on how to recover a natural spring and protect it from contamination. Water is so essential for a free life on the homestead. I'm looking forward to more videos.
We as kids dug in a clay area used for drainage. It was already leaking but we dug out. Let settle and it was the most delicious natural cold water…… Thanks for the Memories.
Subscribed about a week ago. Your channel is very enjoyable as well as interesting. This video was interesting and I am now waiting for the rest of the project to be completed. You two are very hard workers and must sleep very well at the end of the day. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
Welcome! Thank you for your kind words 😀 We will have another video coming soon with more spring development. We certainly stay busy with projects, so we will continue to have plenty to share. Thank you for watching!
The pipe you are talking about pulling on the bottom i would just cut it and place a threaded end pice so you could cap it incase you need to drain it at some time
I wasn’t sure how it was going to work, when you and Chris started but now I understand how the water (spring) is working. Can’t wait to see more videos. If you don’t mind I am sharing your videos.
Instead of a dam, it more or less works like a funnel to direct the water where we need it. We will have another video soon showing how we pipe the water from our spring into a catchment system . Thank you for sharing the videos! We really appreciate it! ❤️
And your probably looking like 200 ft to get really clean water, that spring will be amazing water, , what a great find on your land guys, your willow friend
Excellent video. Improvisation is a key skill set living off grid and you clearly demonstrated your ability to improvise. I guess if I had a critique it would be concern about the filter inside your dam filling with silt and the soil above tour dam collapsing. The spring is clearly an excellent resource and you have put it to work for you. Good job!
Hey Chuck! Thanks for your input 👍 we are hopeful the washed gravel and backfill stabilize the sediment erosion, but time will tell. We will not accept failure, and we will once again improvise and take corrective action if the need arises! 😄
New subscriber watched all the vids you have done such a lot in a short period of time well done looking forward to house build take care of love your 🐕dog.👍❤
Looks like a new channel Y’all will do great keep posting your subs and views will gain substantially! You guys remind of ambition strikes! Exciting to see what you all bring us! I live in West Virginia. Feels close to home to watch you guys!
You should cap the lower/main pipe temporarily to allow the water to build up until it comes out of the overflow pipe. Not only to test the dam's waterproof integrity above your main pipe, and functionality of your overflow system but to get any extra sediment and soil that could've gotten onto all that river rock. I also would've installed a filter on the overflow pipe so the river rock doesn't get sucked into it. Great job. You've earned a subscriber.
Hey, thanks for subscribing, we are glad you enjoyed the content. We should have explained the dam purpose in more depth during the video. On a natural spring cap, it is important not to raise the water level in a dam like a dam would increase water level in a river. By doing so, the spring will eventually dry up because water searches for the easiest path of flow and will come out of a new location. This dam is only acting as shallow funnel, and the rock walls' primary job is to hold back the washed stone filter package we put in place. If the lower pipe ever does plug and water comes out of the upper pipe, it would be very important to unblock the lower pipe as soon as possible to prevent drying up the spring seep.
@@northtoalaska2022Thanks for that reply. Very interesting. By that logic, would it have been more prudent to dig a small hole (1-2') below the site of the natural spring and then put in a dam/pipes so as to decrease the change the spring would find an alternative path down the terrain?
You guys are an inspiration. You’re making it happen! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make these videos, what with everything else you have going on. Hi from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts!
Some of the purest bentonite clay comes out of Wyoming. Bentonite poultice saved my dogs leg from being amputated. He had an infection that went into his bone. He lived to be 16-18 years old. We got him as a rescue. Miss my Indy.
Check with the drilling suppliers up there or even drilling companies. In Va we had a supplier called Driller services and this is where I would get all my bentonite from. #20 size is the best cat litter ever. @ $11/50lb bag was a great savings.
@@martjebicker9168 We went on vacation out to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. We stayed in Shell Wy at the base of the mountains. There were many Bentonite mines in the area. Before they would mine they had a crew of Archaeologists do testing for Dinosaur and other fossils buried at the mining location. If they found any it was big money for all involved. Anyways im interested in knowing how you used bentonite to help heal your beloved doggie. Did you use it as a poultice to draw infection out? Im glad it worked for you! Dogs are the best!!!
Thanks for explaining every thing so well I'm watching here in ENGLAND UK and find your build very interesting also think you are a great team All best Wishes
Hey youngin’s I grew up in Alaska I was 5 moving there from Fl. in 1959….. WOW so must has changed y’all, you two MAKE good memories cause when your old like me now…. Love hard, work harder, commit to each other till death do you part… a solid foundation is key… please state your names, might have missed it sorry.. Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl.
Hello, Rev. Paul! We are Chris and Katie, and we have not really properly introduced ourselves in the content. We only have our names on the video description. I bet the road to alaska was very treacherous in 1959! From what can gather, it has changed here a lot since then. What an adventure that must have been. Thank you for the kind advice 🙂
Yes it was, WWII Japan straifed the roads so the roads were built like snakes on the ground switch back man. I lived through the 1964 Good Friday earthquake a 9.2 by todays scale. Jumped crevices opening & closing all around me & girlfriend. More later on that, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Rev Paul, Eustis Fl.
Hi! New subscriber! You have a great resource in that spring! If you have trouble with the pipes plugging, you might try getting a plastic sump well and drilling a few hundred holes in it. Gravel outside, gravel inside, cut tight fit holes for your pipes. If your pipes aren’t plugging, way to go! Water is life, and working is living, and you nailed the water issue on the first try.
It is a great resource and has provided a lot of relief to have clean water within walking distance. We will make an update video soon but so far it has been great 👍 the holes in the screen are large enough to allow silt to escape. The silt has been collecting in a spring box that we installed after this video. It only takes about 5 minutes to empty silt from the 7-gallon spring box. Thanks for watching!
Recently subscribed, like your channel a lot. The only problem I see backfilling it with one inch gravel is if the underground veins bring new silt then you may have it build up behind the rocks and it will slow down or block off the stream and you can’t see it easily with the gravel.Anyway it looks to be working for now.
Hey, welcome, and thanks for following along! 🙂 From our research on spring development, it is possible to have sediment buildup inside of the cap. The stone is supposed to help stabilize the area. Time will tell, but more than likely, the spring will need to be cleaned out on occasion.
You are doing a great job with your channel. I watch a lot of the UA-cam Alaska channels and moved to Homer this summer. I think Homer is a great place for a UA-cam channel and no one else is really doing it. Lots of ideas for content here. Great place for labs too! Maybe my chocolate lab will meet up with yours one day.!
Thank you for your kind words 🙂 and congrats on your move to Homer this summer! We fell in love with this area and knew it was exactly where we wanted to be. We often visit Homer for groceries or the hardware store! We also really enjoy the spit for the great unique food on occasion. I bet our labs would love to play on the beach together. We can not keep benelli out of the water he has a blast out there! If you recognize us out and about, let us know. It's a small world down here!
@@northtoalaska2022 you might considering getting a drone for aerial views. Great addition to a UA-cam channel and it will help you understand your property and the surrounding area better!
@craigmartin1727 we actually do have a drone! But, as you know, it's been non-stop rain and/or wind. On the sunny days, we work all day trying to get everything done. 🤞Hopefully, some nicer weather will lead to having more time to grab some drone shots!
That's liquid gold there, that saved you what, probably the best part of $20,000? Or more. That changed the perspective of a lot of things 🎉 congratulations!
Great video! Wasn't sure what I was getting into when I started watching but became enthralled and loved seeing the clear water coming through the pipe! Would really like to know what the final tests came out like. Looking forward to your next video and will start the search for your earlier ones.. 🙂 Regards, Mark (South Africa)
Hey Mark! We are glad you enjoyed the content ! 😀 we should have another video on the spring water soon, we need to complete a long water line for it now to our cabin site.
I highly recommend installing filters that filled out more than what would be needed and also I would recommend continuous testing so if things get in there is a much lower risk
It's a very tough move coming from the lower 48. We hope that you can reach your goals and make the move. We wish you the best in your future endeavors!
That is a great idea! If you get a chance to watch our second part of the spring development you can see we covered the dirt mound in moss! Hopefully, it grows over top to stabilize the soil 🙂 thanks for watching!
If you haven’t already, from experience in tHe spring maybe get some seed like grass and tap it into the soil to create roots and make the soil even stronger. Just a thought.
Just finished watching all your videos and all of them are👌🏻👍🏻. The only thing is that your skid loader scares me to death with the grappler on. I have a vivid imagination and I can see some prehistoric monster with huge jaws trying to get me!🤯😊 Greetings, Sara from South Africa🇿🇦
Hi Sara! Thank you for watching! We are glad that you enjoy the channel. 😀 I can see how the grapple would resemble a creature with large jaws! South Africa is beautiful 😀 I am grateful to have been able to travel there several years ago.
A clapper type check valve on your top pipe will keep wild life from crawling up the pipe into your clean water collection area thinking you built them a new home.
Excellent job on this water supply project. Will you plant grass on top of it to decrease erosion? Not sure how much rain you might get before it can have some mature and thick ground cover? May it give you all the water you need for many. years to come!
The spring has been a huge asset, it's still a lot of work to get the water at this time but once the project is complete it should be perfect for our needs. We did end up transplanting moss on top of the berm this past fall to help with erosion. Hopefully, it helps out.
Interesting like a sideways well. I wonder if it would be good to tack the wood and moss back over . Like a giant bio filtering sponge. If you have cattails I bet those would really stabilize the mud around the dam and would collect any silt and seem to be able to handle some sudden rushing water.
The cattails are a fantastic idea. We will have to look into doing that. We have cattails down by our creek. We didn't show this in the video, but afterwards, we went back and covered everything in nautral clay. We've had several torrential downpours, and it's held up. 😀
You should cover both of your exit pipes outlets with a fine screen box to prevent the entrance of rodents or bugs into your spring pipes. If you use screen rolled into a cylinder or formed into a box, it will prevent nuisance clogging, as might happen if you just put a flat piece over the end of the pipe directly. Your pipes, now above the ground with cold air all around them, may freeze in winter. You should insulate or bury your bottom supply pipe.
Hello, great suggestions. This was an incomplete project. We addressed all of these issues in the next part of the project. We should have a video out on that at the end of the fall.
After the spring box that will collect silt it goes to an insulated container...instead of burying the line feeding the house if you drill a small hole in the line just forward of the pump. Since the lien runs uphill when the pump shuts off the water in the line will back flow to the insulated tank...no water remains in the line to freeze ....just a suggestion to save a lot of digging.
As a temporary option I've used this method before. Because the water drains downhill to the insulated water storage container it won't freeze in the line as long as the drainage is all downhill with no dips where it can collect. The pump will push more water uphill than the small hole will squirt out in the insulated container. Worth a shot if you don't get to digging the ditch this yer before freeze up
Just discovered your channel on this particular video & I love what you done by utilizing the downhill overflow deposits from a spring 💦head further up in elevation. Using this old method for doing this is absolutely smart on your part. As well as a lot cheaper than having an excavator dig it out and adding a manmade stainless Steel Spring Box & then adding another one further on downhill. I Love ❤️ the way you’re doing this, this is very similar to the way many of my ancestors done theirs in the hillsides of mountains🏔 in the Appalachia’s of NC near Tennessee. I have a question, as well as it may also be a good idea 💡 for ya & you may have already done ✅ this or plan on doing this. Are you gonna buy rolls of Black Flexible Well pipe to Cap into this pipe & bury it all the way to the new spring box you’ll be installing ? I heard you say you’d be adding pipe to run it down hill into a spring Box. You may already know that it’s much cheaper to buy the rolls of Black flexible Well Pipe in several hundred feet rolls. Then If you don’t have one already or haven’t already U could rent you a ditch witch or tiny backhoe and dig a trench and bury the pipe it all way to your new spring box down hill. My sisters preowned cabin in the mountains had the exact same set up, a spring on a hillside & it was fed to her cabin by the same PVC type black Well pipe. It ran wide open Year round with ice cold water. Also another fond memory was My Great Aunts house in the mountains. I loved to go there as a kid & I’m old enough now to be you guys dad. But back in the 60’s I loved to go to her house because she had a old crank telephone 📞 that actually worked which was so cool. But the coolest thing was the room beneath the house & I’d Make a B Line to that room first thing when we visited. Aunt Rausie’s 2 story house was built right over her water 💦 Spring Box. She had a This place where the wide wooden floor planks was a hinged door 🚪 you lifted up. Beneath the floor was a concrete set of steps that went beneath the first floor of the house with concrete on both sides of the steps that went down to a door 🚪. Behind that door was a room that was her concrete food storage cellar beneath the house. I’d say the room was 8’ wide X 16’ long & she had it stocked full with mason jars of canned food from her garden! But what I rushed down there for, was the drinking dippers and that cold water 💦 in the spring box!!!! Mmmmmm Mmmmmm ice cold and delicious mineral spring water 😋. Inside that door 🚪 at the foot of the stairs on the right just inside was a concrete box! It appeared to actually be part of the concrete wall also. So I assume the concrete was poured at the same time the concrete walls was & that was the drinking water spring head. It was her mountain side spring piped right up into the concrete holding tank in her Cellar. It never overflowed, & i didn’t know why I was a child so I thought it was magic water 😂 plus I didn’t understand gravity & physics then & why it always stayed the same water level. But I ask her why was that room so cold like it had A/C with no A/C ? She said my cold spring water keeps my cellar cool & that’s why she stored all her canned Mason jars of food from her garden down there to keep it fresher & last longer. She said that spring box in that room kept her cellar about 50-55 degrees year round in summer & winter. So I thought that was very neat l, and I still think that’s an ingenious idea. U guys are gonna have a beautiful place, I love to see the process and progress of channels like this! Sending my best regards and God Bless You!!!! 😁👍🏼
Hey cc 😀 this story about your great aunts place with the spring house type cellar is incredible! I really do love the thought of a concrete spring house. That would be so great for storing food. We had to slightly delay the completion of our spring project because of the cold weather coming up, so we switched our priority to the cabin Fondation because of freezing concerns with our concrete. I will give you a hint of what we have done since this video, we ran 2 inch pvc a short run down to our spring box and we now can collect water directly from the spring at this time. We were not able to locate the black well pipe local in one inch, so we used flexible 1 inch pex pipe from the spring box on. We plan to rent an excavator to Burry the flexible line from the cistern under ground up to our cabin build site very soon, and that should give us completed content to have a full video on that project, we try not to drag projects out over too many videos. We have run into a few unexpected issues with our cistern idea that we will cover in that video, but we have a solution. It is just a higher cost than originally anticipated. Thank you for sharing your experience on natural springs with us 😀 we are looking forward to completing ours!
How about if you got small excavator shovel and dig a hole and put concrete pipes in it with pea gravel around and with shove you could go deeper to have more water storage. I know it mud but maybe even a power post hole digger might help the put a small building or box over to keep clean just a idea🥰
We will have another video soon showing how we piped the water collection downhill to a spring box and how we plan to collect it 🙂 thanks for watching!
Do you plan to do rain collection? That's what I do here in the Philippines. Here in the mountains there is no water supply. I collect enough for showers and washing. We get our drinking water from a nearby spring.
It is possible, but with the spring producing almost 1500 gallons of clean water a day, we will probably focus on further catchment and usage of this source.
Yo Super interesting I live in SOUTH AUSTRALIA on edge of Simpson desert our water come through a pipe from Murry river about 500klm ,,,, Lucky fellas CHEERS
We are very grateful to have water so close by, It is challenging here, but living on the edge of a desert sounds really tough when it comes to getting a water source! Does your river ever dry up in a drought ?
🤣 It is very muddy down there! And the non-stop rain just won't let it dry up any. Colorado Springs is SO beautiful! We absolutely love it out there! Thank you for watching 😀
I can`t wait for spring! its refreshing to hear a beautiful woman talk smart. I`m digging it! Good Job guys! Keep it going!
We are ready for spring too! Thank you 😊
You created your own artesian well!! And it should not freeze. Great job guys!!!
Thank you! We are hopeful that it will not freeze. If we have an issue, we will try to update everyone on how it went after wintertime 🙂
Nah, just refurbisht.
Thanks for a great explanation of the spring.
I really appreciate it.
Mac
Glad you enjoyed it, Mac! 🙂
Interesting, look forward to your future process!
We will have more to share on it soon 😊
That's really great to get that water supply! Would love to see you put out more videos.
Thank you! We think so, too. We will have more content coming soon 😀
That spring is a great find. Your care in protecting it from erosion will pay significant benefits in the coming days. 1500 gallons per day of clean water is worth all of your work and more. Great job!
I agree! We are very grateful to have it. Thank you for tuning in ! 🙂
A great video, I appreciate the detailed description of how your system will work. Thanks for sharing.
We are glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🙂
Muskage is what we called it out in the Denali flats. Great video! I was a young kid in a helicopter flying all over AK out of wainwright long ago 🤙
Just now discovered this channel and I’m liking it so far. Subscribed
Hey , thank you for watching! we are glad to have you along 🙂
Another quality video, very informative. Something you don’t see people doing in the lower 48.
Thank you! I think with well drilling prices being more competitive back east, a lot of folks don't bother with the springs because they are more maintenance and more likely to be contaminated from commercial farming. However, growing up as a kid in Pennsylvania near the susquehanna River, i remember we stayed in a cabin several times that had a spring fed water system. The spring was above the cabin, so it was all gravity fed. Worked out really well. Hopefully we have long-term success with ours here in alaska 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 The farm house on our farm is fed by a hand dug well that’s about 10 to 12 feet deep and it’s gravity fed. My Grandfather dug the well and the trench which is 300 yards to get the water to the house. Still working today
Our whole farm is fed by spring boxes we built. And I'm in NY.
Wow, that was a big chore but it will pay dividends for years to come. I enjoyed your battle to get the skid steer to the spring head in the previous video, a lot of perseverance, but again you won as a team. Thanks for a very informative video on how to recover a natural spring and protect it from contamination. Water is so essential for a free life on the homestead. I'm looking forward to more videos.
Hey, we are glad you enjoyed the content! Thank you for the kind comments, we are very grateful to have the clean water source 🙂
Developing the spring is going to be a great benefit for the homestead.
It has been wonderful to have! We should have an updated video on how it has worked out for us soon.
Cool project, that will probably work out great for you guys.
We are hopeful 🙂
Awesome job. You can't beat the water from a Spring. I like how you did this.
Thank you! We are enjoying it and very grateful to have it! 🙂
We as kids dug in a clay area used for drainage. It was already leaking but we dug out. Let settle and it was the most delicious natural cold water…… Thanks for the Memories.
Haha, it's hard to beat fresh mineral spring water taste! I'm glad we could rekindle some great childhood memories 🙂
Wow that does look clear!
Stop on by, and I can refill your Fiji water bottle for free 😉
Great job on securing water for your homestead... Thanks for sharing
We are very thankful to have it! Thank you 😃
Have enjoyed watching you building the and restoring your spring .
We are glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Alaska are a incredible place to live enjoy your channel.
We think so, too 😊 Thank you for watching! We are glad you enjoy our channel. More content is coming soon!
Subscribed about a week ago. Your channel is very enjoyable as well as interesting. This video was interesting and I am now waiting for the rest of the project to be completed. You two are very hard workers and must sleep very well at the end of the day. Thank you for sharing your lives with us.
Welcome! Thank you for your kind words 😀 We will have another video coming soon with more spring development. We certainly stay busy with projects, so we will continue to have plenty to share. Thank you for watching!
Great job, the water looks so clean
Thank you! It is crystal clear 😁
The pipe you are talking about pulling on the bottom i would just cut it and place a threaded end pice so you could cap it incase you need to drain it at some time
I wasn’t sure how it was going to work, when you and Chris started but now I understand how the water (spring) is working. Can’t wait to see more videos. If you don’t mind I am sharing your videos.
Instead of a dam, it more or less works like a funnel to direct the water where we need it. We will have another video soon showing how we pipe the water from our spring into a catchment system .
Thank you for sharing the videos! We really appreciate it! ❤️
That's super cool. Glad you have a good spring to develop.
Yes, we are very grateful to have it!
I had a spring when I lived in Kentucky. It was the best tasting water.
The slight mineral taste is so refreshing!
@@heatherclayton-callaghan4270sounds like you and I grew up in the same family 😊. I grew up very similar to you.
And your probably looking like 200 ft to get really clean water, that spring will be amazing water,
, what a great find on your land guys, your willow friend
Hi James! We are very grateful to have the fresh, inexpensive water source 😀
Just a big boy playing in the mud. Awesome job!
😅 thank you!
they say you can/t teach an old dog new tricks, but you sure enlightened me on this video. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
@@northtoalaska2022 i did.
Excellent video. Improvisation is a key skill set living off grid and you clearly demonstrated your ability to improvise. I guess if I had a critique it would be concern about the filter inside your dam filling with silt and the soil above tour dam collapsing. The spring is clearly an excellent resource and you have put it to work for you. Good job!
Hey Chuck! Thanks for your input 👍 we are hopeful the washed gravel and backfill stabilize the sediment erosion, but time will tell. We will not accept failure, and we will once again improvise and take corrective action if the need arises! 😄
Enjoying watching the “just the two of us” working together on your Living Journey. 🥰🥰
Thank you 😀 we are glad you are enjoying our videos!
New subscriber watched all the vids you have done such a lot in a short period of time well done looking forward to house build take care of love your 🐕dog.👍❤
Welcome, and thank you for watching! We have been staying busy, but we will be starting on our cabin soon 😀
And thank you! 🐕 his name is Benelli.
Looks like you two did a really great job with that - I'm eager to hear how the water tests over time
Thank you! It looks promising. We are hopeful that it stays consistent 😀 🤞
We dug up a septic drain line where they used straw over the drain rock to keep the dirt out. After 20 years the drain rock was clean as You can be.
That is interesting. Thanks for sharing 👍
This is the first video I've seen. I really liked it. Now got to go from beginning and watch all.
Thank you for watching! We are glad you enjoyed it. We have more content coming soon! 😀
Nice job! Looking forward to see how this all works out
Thank you! More on the spring will be coming soon. 😁
Looks like a new channel
Y’all will do great keep posting your subs and views will gain substantially!
You guys remind of ambition strikes!
Exciting to see what you all bring us!
I live in West Virginia. Feels close to home to watch you guys!
Hi! Yes, we are a new channel 😀 thank you for your kind words!
Happy to see more folks living there dreams.
You should cap the lower/main pipe temporarily to allow the water to build up until it comes out of the overflow pipe. Not only to test the dam's waterproof integrity above your main pipe, and functionality of your overflow system but to get any extra sediment and soil that could've gotten onto all that river rock. I also would've installed a filter on the overflow pipe so the river rock doesn't get sucked into it. Great job. You've earned a subscriber.
Hey, thanks for subscribing, we are glad you enjoyed the content. We should have explained the dam purpose in more depth during the video. On a natural spring cap, it is important not to raise the water level in a dam like a dam would increase water level in a river. By doing so, the spring will eventually dry up because water searches for the easiest path of flow and will come out of a new location. This dam is only acting as shallow funnel, and the rock walls' primary job is to hold back the washed stone filter package we put in place. If the lower pipe ever does plug and water comes out of the upper pipe, it would be very important to unblock the lower pipe as soon as possible to prevent drying up the spring seep.
@@northtoalaska2022Thanks for that reply. Very interesting. By that logic, would it have been more prudent to dig a small hole (1-2') below the site of the natural spring and then put in a dam/pipes so as to decrease the change the spring would find an alternative path down the terrain?
You guys made an awesome spring catcher for fresh water. I love it.
Thank you!
You guys are an inspiration. You’re making it happen! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make these videos, what with everything else you have going on. Hi from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts!
Hello from Alaska! Glad you are enjoying our videos 🙂 It does take quite a bit of extra effort but we enjoy sharing them with everyone!
If you have leaks you can buy bags of bentonite clay. This is often used for sealing up ponds. Non toxic. Looks like your on the correct path!!!
I actually tried to locate Bentonite clay in my area but was unsuccessful. We used it back east to plug a leaking water dam. Works great!
Some of the purest bentonite clay comes out of Wyoming. Bentonite poultice saved my dogs leg from being amputated. He had an infection that went into his bone. He lived to be 16-18 years old. We got him as a rescue. Miss my Indy.
Check with the drilling suppliers up there or even drilling companies. In Va we had a supplier called Driller services and this is where I would get all my bentonite from. #20 size is the best cat litter ever. @ $11/50lb bag was a great savings.
@@martjebicker9168 We went on vacation out to the Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming. We stayed in Shell Wy at the base of the mountains. There were many Bentonite mines in the area. Before they would mine they had a crew of Archaeologists do testing for Dinosaur and other fossils buried at the mining location. If they found any it was big money for all involved. Anyways im interested in knowing how you used bentonite to help heal your beloved doggie. Did you use it as a poultice to draw infection out? Im glad it worked for you! Dogs are the best!!!
Y'all some smart people, love your channel! Both entertaining as well as informative.
Thank you ❤️
That is great for you both 😊.
Thank you! 😀
Thanks for explaining every thing so well I'm watching here in ENGLAND UK and find your build very interesting also think you are a great team All best Wishes
Thanks! I'm happy to hear you enjoy the videos 🙂
You two are Awesome!!👍👍
Thank you! 😀
Hey youngin’s I grew up in Alaska I was 5 moving there from Fl. in 1959….. WOW so must has changed y’all, you two MAKE good memories cause when your old like me now…. Love hard, work harder, commit to each other till death do you part… a solid foundation is key… please state your names, might have missed it sorry..
Rev. Paul, Eustis Fl.
Hello, Rev. Paul! We are Chris and Katie, and we have not really properly introduced ourselves in the content. We only have our names on the video description. I bet the road to alaska was very treacherous in 1959! From what can gather, it has changed here a lot since then. What an adventure that must have been. Thank you for the kind advice 🙂
Yes it was, WWII Japan straifed the roads so the roads were built like snakes on the ground switch back man. I lived through the 1964 Good Friday earthquake a 9.2 by todays scale. Jumped crevices opening & closing all around me & girlfriend. More later on that, thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
Rev Paul, Eustis Fl.
On the overflow I would put a cap with holes drilled in it to keep any rodents out of the spring. Good job guys.
Hi! New subscriber!
You have a great resource in that spring! If you have trouble with the pipes plugging, you might try getting a plastic sump well and drilling a few hundred holes in it. Gravel outside, gravel inside, cut tight fit holes for your pipes.
If your pipes aren’t plugging, way to go! Water is life, and working is living, and you nailed the water issue on the first try.
It is a great resource and has provided a lot of relief to have clean water within walking distance. We will make an update video soon but so far it has been great 👍 the holes in the screen are large enough to allow silt to escape. The silt has been collecting in a spring box that we installed after this video. It only takes about 5 minutes to empty silt from the 7-gallon spring box. Thanks for watching!
I did subscribe, and I’m gonna look forward to future videos. Keep up the good work.
Thank you , we really appreciate it 🙂
Good luck you 2 . happy trails
Thank you!
that side by side is badass looking!
Recently subscribed, like your channel a lot.
The only problem I see backfilling it with one inch gravel is if the underground veins bring new silt then you may have it build up behind the rocks and it will slow down or block off the stream and you can’t see it easily with the gravel.Anyway it looks to be working for now.
Hey, welcome, and thanks for following along! 🙂 From our research on spring development, it is possible to have sediment buildup inside of the cap. The stone is supposed to help stabilize the area. Time will tell, but more than likely, the spring will need to be cleaned out on occasion.
Great video
Thanks for watching 🙂
this was so cool!
We are glad you enjoyed 😉
You are doing a great job with your channel. I watch a lot of the UA-cam Alaska channels and moved to Homer this summer. I think Homer is a great place for a UA-cam channel and no one else is really doing it. Lots of ideas for content here. Great place for labs too! Maybe my chocolate lab will meet up with yours one day.!
Thank you for your kind words 🙂 and congrats on your move to Homer this summer! We fell in love with this area and knew it was exactly where we wanted to be. We often visit Homer for groceries or the hardware store! We also really enjoy the spit for the great unique food on occasion. I bet our labs would love to play on the beach together. We can not keep benelli out of the water he has a blast out there! If you recognize us out and about, let us know. It's a small world down here!
@@northtoalaska2022 you might considering getting a drone for aerial views. Great addition to a UA-cam channel and it will help you understand your property and the surrounding area better!
@craigmartin1727 we actually do have a drone! But, as you know, it's been non-stop rain and/or wind. On the sunny days, we work all day trying to get everything done. 🤞Hopefully, some nicer weather will lead to having more time to grab some drone shots!
Вы молодцы ребята. Очень дружная и трудолюбивая семья. Всяческих вам успехов и счастья в личной жизни.
Thank you for the kind words! 😀
That's liquid gold there, that saved you what, probably the best part of $20,000? Or more. That changed the perspective of a lot of things 🎉 congratulations!
Yes, it is! We feel very fortunate to have the almost free water source. I am hopeful that it is a good long-term supply! Thank you 🙂
Great video! Wasn't sure what I was getting into when I started watching but became enthralled and loved seeing the clear water coming through the pipe! Would really like to know what the final tests came out like. Looking forward to your next video and will start the search for your earlier ones.. 🙂 Regards, Mark (South Africa)
Hey Mark! We are glad you enjoyed the content ! 😀 we should have another video on the spring water soon, we need to complete a long water line for it now to our cabin site.
Good job. Dig a little trench in front of dam then cement the stone into a wall cement thick it will harden under water
Great job you to, fingers crossed it works for you. Hard work ,pays off. 😊
Great team here can't wait to see more content
Thank you! Whenever we have enough complied entertaining content, we will share it with everyone 😀
Keep it up I’m loving it.
That is good news running water and clean to awesome
Yes! 🙂
I highly recommend installing filters that filled out more than what would be needed and also I would recommend continuous testing so if things get in there is a much lower risk
I wish i could convince my family to move to Alaska
It's a very tough move coming from the lower 48. We hope that you can reach your goals and make the move. We wish you the best in your future endeavors!
Awesome job. The only thing I might add is some moss on top of the dirt fill, to help prevent erosion.
That is a great idea! If you get a chance to watch our second part of the spring development you can see we covered the dirt mound in moss! Hopefully, it grows over top to stabilize the soil 🙂 thanks for watching!
Thank you, it was nice
Glad you enjoyed the video 🙂
I like it!! Very impressive!❤️❤️✌️✌️
Thank you! 😀❤️
I hear if you put your outhouse right above the spring, you get naturally fertilized water for the garden!😊 hope this helps you on your journey
Sounds delicious 😋
😅😂
If you haven’t already, from experience in tHe spring maybe get some seed like grass and tap it into the soil to create roots and make the soil even stronger. Just a thought.
We ended up transplanting a lot of moss on top of the berm. We will find out in the springtime how well it is doing!
Just finished watching all your videos and all of them are👌🏻👍🏻. The only thing is that your skid loader scares me to death with the grappler on. I have a vivid imagination and I can see some prehistoric monster with huge jaws trying to get me!🤯😊 Greetings, Sara from South Africa🇿🇦
Hi Sara! Thank you for watching! We are glad that you enjoy the channel. 😀 I can see how the grapple would resemble a creature with large jaws!
South Africa is beautiful 😀 I am grateful to have been able to travel there several years ago.
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Water is a life challenge it looks good
Yes, it is! Thanks for watching 🙂
Great video again. Hope u putting gauze over the overflow ends to stop creatures from climbing inside and multiply
Well done 👍🏻
Thank you 🙂
good video!
Thank you ! 🙂
Awesome 🫶🏼
Thank you! 🙂
Good job.
Thanks!
A clapper type check valve on your top pipe will keep wild life from crawling up the pipe into your clean water collection area thinking you built them a new home.
This is true! Our next spring video will show the finished project and how we ensure there are no issues like this 😀
Love how he lets his wife speak without interrupting her. Real man!
Good idea.
Thank you! 🙂
Excellent job on this water supply project. Will you plant grass on top of it to decrease erosion? Not sure how much rain you might get before it can have some mature and thick ground cover?
May it give you all the water you need for many. years to come!
The spring has been a huge asset, it's still a lot of work to get the water at this time but once the project is complete it should be perfect for our needs. We did end up transplanting moss on top of the berm this past fall to help with erosion. Hopefully, it helps out.
This is amazing!
Interesting like a sideways well. I wonder if it would be good to tack the wood and moss back over . Like a giant bio filtering sponge. If you have cattails I bet those would really stabilize the mud around the dam and would collect any silt and seem to be able to handle some sudden rushing water.
The cattails are a fantastic idea. We will have to look into doing that. We have cattails down by our creek.
We didn't show this in the video, but afterwards, we went back and covered everything in nautral clay. We've had several torrential downpours, and it's held up. 😀
You should cover both of your exit pipes outlets with a fine screen box to prevent the entrance of rodents or bugs into your spring pipes. If you use screen rolled into a cylinder or formed into a box, it will prevent nuisance clogging, as might happen if you just put a flat piece over the end of the pipe directly. Your pipes, now above the ground with cold air all around them, may freeze in winter. You should insulate or bury your bottom supply pipe.
Hello, great suggestions. This was an incomplete project. We addressed all of these issues in the next part of the project. We should have a video out on that at the end of the fall.
After the spring box that will collect silt it goes to an insulated container...instead of burying the line feeding the house if you drill a small hole in the line just forward of the pump. Since the lien runs uphill when the pump shuts off the water in the line will back flow to the insulated tank...no water remains in the line to freeze ....just a suggestion to save a lot of digging.
This is a possible option 🙂 thanks for sharing
As a temporary option I've used this method before. Because the water drains downhill to the insulated water storage container it won't freeze in the line as long as the drainage is all downhill with no dips where it can collect. The pump will push more water uphill than the small hole will squirt out in the insulated container. Worth a shot if you don't get to digging the ditch this yer before freeze up
Muddy dog, loves it
He loves the water and mud! 😅
Good job
Thank you!
Looks like a Dam fine job! Or maybe a Fine Dam job... 😁
Thanks 🙂
Well done
Thank you 🙂
Thank you!
Just discovered your channel on this particular video & I love what you done by utilizing the downhill overflow deposits from a spring 💦head further up in elevation. Using this old method for doing this is absolutely smart on your part. As well as a lot cheaper than having an excavator dig it out and adding a manmade stainless Steel Spring Box & then adding another one further on downhill. I Love ❤️ the way you’re doing this, this is very similar to the way many of my ancestors done theirs in the hillsides of mountains🏔 in the Appalachia’s of NC near Tennessee.
I have a question, as well as it may also be a good idea 💡 for ya & you may have already done ✅ this or plan on doing this.
Are you gonna buy rolls of Black Flexible Well pipe to Cap into this pipe & bury it all the way to the new spring box you’ll be installing ?
I heard you say you’d be adding pipe to run it down hill into a spring Box. You may already know that it’s much cheaper to buy the rolls of Black flexible Well Pipe in several hundred feet rolls. Then If you don’t have one already or haven’t already U could rent you a ditch witch or tiny backhoe and dig a trench and bury the pipe it all way to your new spring box down hill. My sisters preowned cabin in the mountains had the exact same set up, a spring on a hillside & it was fed to her cabin by the same PVC type black Well pipe. It ran wide open Year round with ice cold water. Also another fond memory was My Great Aunts house in the mountains. I loved to go there as a kid & I’m old enough now to be you guys dad. But back in the 60’s I loved to go to her house because she had a old crank telephone 📞 that actually worked which was so cool. But the coolest thing was the room beneath the house & I’d Make a B Line to that room first thing when we visited. Aunt Rausie’s 2 story house was built right over her water 💦 Spring Box. She had a This place where the wide wooden floor planks was a hinged door 🚪 you lifted up. Beneath the floor was a concrete set of steps that went beneath the first floor of the house with concrete on both sides of the steps that went down to a door 🚪. Behind that door was a room that was her concrete food storage cellar beneath the house. I’d say the room was 8’ wide X 16’ long & she had it stocked full with mason jars of canned food from her garden! But what I rushed down there for, was the drinking dippers and that cold water 💦 in the spring box!!!! Mmmmmm Mmmmmm ice cold and delicious mineral spring water 😋.
Inside that door 🚪 at the foot of the stairs on the right just inside was a concrete box! It appeared to actually be part of the concrete wall also. So I assume the concrete was poured at the same time the concrete walls was & that was the drinking water spring head. It was her mountain side spring piped right up into the concrete holding tank in her Cellar. It never overflowed, & i didn’t know why I was a child so I thought it was magic water 😂 plus I didn’t understand gravity & physics then & why it always stayed the same water level.
But I ask her why was that room so cold like it had A/C with no A/C ? She said my cold spring water keeps my cellar cool & that’s why she stored all her canned Mason jars of food from her garden down there to keep it fresher & last longer. She said that spring box in that room kept her cellar about 50-55 degrees year round in summer & winter. So I thought that was very neat l, and I still think that’s an ingenious idea.
U guys are gonna have a beautiful place, I love to see the process and progress of channels like this! Sending my best regards and God Bless You!!!! 😁👍🏼
Hey cc 😀 this story about your great aunts place with the spring house type cellar is incredible! I really do love the thought of a concrete spring house. That would be so great for storing food. We had to slightly delay the completion of our spring project because of the cold weather coming up, so we switched our priority to the cabin Fondation because of freezing concerns with our concrete. I will give you a hint of what we have done since this video, we ran 2 inch pvc a short run down to our spring box and we now can collect water directly from the spring at this time. We were not able to locate the black well pipe local in one inch, so we used flexible 1 inch pex pipe from the spring box on. We plan to rent an excavator to Burry the flexible line from the cistern under ground up to our cabin build site very soon, and that should give us completed content to have a full video on that project, we try not to drag projects out over too many videos. We have run into a few unexpected issues with our cistern idea that we will cover in that video, but we have a solution. It is just a higher cost than originally anticipated. Thank you for sharing your experience on natural springs with us 😀 we are looking forward to completing ours!
Good job on cement guess I should finish video. But hope trp help🤗
Thank you!
How about if you got small excavator shovel and dig a hole and put concrete pipes in it with pea gravel around and with shove you could go deeper to have more water storage. I know it mud but maybe even a power post hole digger might help the put a small building or box over to keep clean just a idea🥰
We will have another video soon showing how we piped the water collection downhill to a spring box and how we plan to collect it 🙂 thanks for watching!
You should try panning some of the gravel/sands around the spring for gold
awesome video! just curious what tests you guys ran to assess water quality? In what ways was your water 'better' than the spring water? Thanks!
Do you plan to do rain collection? That's what I do here in the Philippines. Here in the mountains there is no water supply. I collect enough for showers and washing. We get our drinking water from a nearby spring.
It is possible, but with the spring producing almost 1500 gallons of clean water a day, we will probably focus on further catchment and usage of this source.
You can also use small river rock in the base
Interesting! How much land do you have ??? Spring will save you as lot of money in water issues... God Bless
Yes! Wells need to be deep in this area to get clean water. Big $$$ savings
Have you ever thought about making a corduroy road down to the to the springwells or even in the mud bog
After the spring project is 100% completed we will let the forest overtake the trail.
WOW! this is another example of which came first the chicken or the egg.
Which*
We may never know. Thanks for watching.
Yo Super interesting I live in SOUTH AUSTRALIA on edge of Simpson desert our water come through a pipe from Murry river about 500klm ,,,, Lucky fellas CHEERS
We are very grateful to have water so close by, It is challenging here, but living on the edge of a desert sounds really tough when it comes to getting a water source! Does your river ever dry up in a drought ?
Looks like a muddy mess.😀hi from Colorado Springs 😀
🤣 It is very muddy down there! And the non-stop rain just won't let it dry up any.
Colorado Springs is SO beautiful! We absolutely love it out there! Thank you for watching 😀