You can absolutely run a pressure washer directly from the spigot on the barrel without the 12v RV pump. At work, we use a 3000 PSI pressure washer from a 275 gallon IBC tote via gravity. We can run the pressure washer for about 2.5 hours on one tank of water. Ideally you want the pressure washer to be as close to the tank as possible and connected to the tank with a short hose, this helps to prevent any restriction in the flow to the pressure washer. The high pressure hose that goes to the spray wand can be several hundred feet long without affecting anything.
What a great project. Not long after we started to go camping, we bought a 30 gallon, food grade, plastic drum for refilling our travel trailer's fresh water tank. We bought a 12v pump and wired it to a 7-way trailer plug. With the freshly filled drum in the pickup bed, we just plugged it into the outlet on the truck's bumper and ran a hose to the trailer. Voila! Fresh water without having to always carry 200ft of food grade hose, or having to break camp just to top off the tank.
FYI I’ve been gravity feeding my pressure washer from an ATV spray tank for years. Use it to spray trees for spongy moth caterpillars. Works great. That’s a cool pump though
Having watched an etcg video in a long time i used to watch daily but youtube doesn't show anymore. randomly ran into this side channel and im all for it.
I have one of these pumps on a little water tank that has a spray wand. I use it for spraying fruit trees. Made a connector to the golf cart battery and drive and spray. Easy peasy. Good stuff EO!
Monday morning, coffee and a bagel. Watching Eric O after hours, turning a sows ear into a silk purse! We are now South Main Plumbing fabricators! Thank you…..
This setup works surprisingly well. Have large storage tanks and a Seaflo rv pump ran off a battery similar to yours. Can turn off the city water, then back feed/flow into a hose spigot to feed into my house and have decent enough water pressure inside my home. Not that I would in an emergency, but could use the water like any normal day to shower, flush toilets, do laundry, cook/clean, etc...
I built this exact same setup a few years back. I put 1 bag of quick dissolving pool salt into the barrel and filled the barrel about 3/4 full and sprayed it around my property as weed control. It worked great. It’s a very handy setup to have for areas where you don’t have water pressure, or to apply special mixtures like salt water. 🙂👍🏻
I’ve got one of those 200 gallon totes I load on the truck and a 12 volt pump like that one. I can run out 75 feet of hose to the pressure washer and it works great.
Where I work we gravity feed our pressure washer off a 330 gallon tote. Works fine. Just have to keep an eye on the water level. Do a couple very large dump trucks and you can run out pretty easily.
They make small accumulator tanks for RV's that you can put on the outlet of that pump if you need a more consistent water flow for your pressure washer, or you just want one to look cool.
I used to pressure wash my boat at a marina that did not have water. I had a 3000psi washer that I ran with a gravity feed. Only needed a couple of feet of head. If you have it in the bed of a truck and the washer on the ground it worked just fine. Depending on how much growth was on the boat (24 foot) I would use between 50 gallons and 100. That was a full hour of washing as I recall.
About 30 years ago i took a 55 gallon steel drum and drilled a hole in the large bung cap and installed a tire valve stem. I removed the small bung cap and installed a 3/4 drain valve and connected a garden hose. Filled it with water and connected a tire inflator running out of the cigarette lighter in my truck. It would shoot a nice stream of water from 50 to 70 psi. But running it over 65-70 psi it would start until the lip at the top and bottom. 😂. It was great for hauling water out into the woods to water small food plots or as an emergency 'small fire' extinguisher. What meaning the fire, but the extinguisher. 😂
Eric in my experience using a pressure washer, I've had pretty good success using a 'Header Tank" which can be any sized vessel you deem appropriate & fit a float valve inside it to automatically shut the "supply" off, then just run a short length of 3/4" hose with appropriate sized normal style garden connectors to the washer(if that makes sense). This eliminates the need for having an "extra" pump.
kind of impressed with that pump. I've been working on my rain capture for irrigation water setup, and bought one of the HF pump with pressure tank setups. works well, but the surging, especially after going through 100' of garden hose, can be a bit annoying. I was thinking of substituting a no-tank pump instead. Now I might try to sooner than expected.
I had one of those Flexi Zillow hoses, well a knockoff anyway. Mainly got it for low temperature days. It worked, but yea, terrible trying to coil it up. They just won't lay flat. On the plus side, it didn't freeze stiff like an icicle on cold winter days. I gave up trying to coil it and just chucked it in a heap when I was done with it.
You'll get more output pressure from your pressure washer if you use that pump versus gravity feed. Definitely what you want if you're trying to clean patio stones and the like.
Just about how I had mine set up, except my 4 drums were on their sides in my truck bed, and I screwed the valve fittings into the bung and hooked the hose to it. The longer it has to pull from, say, if you're pulling off the drum and are away about 50 feet from it with the pump, the more power it will pull. As you have it set up you should get quite a long run time off of a good battery. Great job there. Most RVs come with just a 2.6gpm or such pump, so you got THE DOG. I changed mine to one like that and kept the old 2.6gpm one to pull from my drums, or pull from a creek to fill them if I didn't go home to refill and it worked off of my 4 pin trailer plug pretty well. You should have no problem doing most anything you plan with that setup. Take care.
I had a 300 gallon tote I used to catch rain water. It was 6’ off the ground on a stand. I could run a small electric power washer from it just by gravity feed but not a gas powered pressure washer.
I bought a horizontal water tank from Tractor Supply for washing down dirt bikes at the racetrack. Not free but easy to fill and works great. I just keep it in the back of a pickup. I just gravity feed to a pressure washer but I really like that pump and that it shuts off automatically. There is a Tractor Supply right in Bath, NY. They have all this stuff in stock.
Thank you for the demonstration, I have an off grid cabin and was wondering if this setup would work. Now I can spend the money and tell myself it is not an experiment.
It's always handy to have a way to move water. Now I want to see what you rig up to pump water from a small pond or stream to refill the barrel. Don't say you don't have a pond we all saw the bendy digger.
I don't have any experience with flexzilla air hose, got my air lines from NAPA, not a sponsor, but I really like their water/garden hoses. They have lasted three years now and they don't kink up as easily as other hoses. And....gravity feeding my Stihl RB800, 4gpm, pressure washer from a 250 gallon tank, works like a charm.
My college job used those pumps to apply liquid fertilizer with a regulator and return line setup. This can even be used for something like a portable outdoor shower - i mean why not, it's meant for RV useage.
Made some rain water barrels out of those barrels. Upside down and tapped the bung to screw in pipes and a spigot. Get a solar charger from hobo freight to maintain your battery😊
If it helps eric, I did test the theory of hooking up a pressure washer to a tank of water and it didn't work. I ended up making a very similar setup to what you have here a couple years ago for making a gas pressure washer pretty much stand alone and it works really well for that.
Don't have any experience with Flexzilla water hose, but have to agree with you on their air hose. I refer to it as Kinkzilla. The only way I've found to coil it back up is to straighten it out it's entire length, then spend 15-20 frustrating minutes trying to get it coil back up neatly, until you finally give up and just let it have its way.
As someone who deals with only 100 feet commercial water hose 3/4 inlit I will never coil them up if they not warm they loop so easy but being cold they will not flex and I will just find something round to help looping it and air hose I need them on a rell so much easier
After each use, even w/ plain water, I add an ounce or so of food grade mineral oil directly in impeller. Previous pump seized. New pump w/ mineral oil, no issues YMMV. 👌
Probably would be wise to put an inline fuse on that. Had a similar setup on a battery in my old camper, running one 12 volt light. After replacing the melted wire i have a fuse now.
Project Farm tested plyers and crescent wrenches to see if one way grips better than the other. In both cases, it doesn't matter which way you hold the plyers/wrench! I don't recall whether the tools he tested were metric, or standard.
I was wondering about just dropping your short hose in from the top hole, and avoiding the spigot at the bottom. Maybe self priming would be more difficult at first startup, and winter draining might be more awkward. We have an area of the house I'd like to tie a roof drain into a drum to keep water away from the foundation.
I use gravity feed of about 4 feet to my pressure washer in my farm truck and it seems to be perfectly adequate. 55 drum on its side ratchet straped to a ladder rack on a bucket truck. See how your barrel lids have 3/4" thread in the center? That to a boiler drain
The pressure washer will work on gravity feed because the pressure washer is a pump. Now you have 2 pumps. If you put the barrel in the truck bed or trailer and the pressure washer on the ground that helps with gravity feed too.
That was interesting to hear your thoughts on flexzilla air hoses. I've had a pretty good experience with them. My only gripe with them is that they are a little grabby if you get it caught on something.
4:35 I had that issue with a hose shut off valve I got on the ama zon, the male threaded side wasn't long enough. It's ghetto, but stacking 2 hose washers worked well enough for me without leaks. I've had bad luck with shut off valves breaking and I really wanted to make that one work since it seemed really well built. 5:10 I spoke too soon 😂
I'm the proud owner of a Flexzilla air hose reel mounted in my garage. From day one the hose would never retract without pulling it in and out several times. Come to find out the hose expands so much when filled with air it's like having more hose than the reel can take in. I found this out by releasing the air in the hose before starting the rewind and the hose wound up without a hitch.
Around the farm shop and around the farm we went to all Flexzilla water and air. We love them for their flexibility. Just don’t grind,weld or to torch around them😂
Many pressure washers can also suck water a few feet - so usually you don't need a pump if you just use a pressure washer or if there is anyhow some pressure from the water in the barrel.
Had the flexzilla garden hose outside and over a couple of years, the hose started to mold up in the actual hose material. Ended up throwing out 150' of hose.
I sure wish this video was 7 YEARS old…. Then I could ask if the pump held out and held up to long term use. I have a dozen 55gal water barrels in my basement for emergency use and absolutely hated the manual rotary pump and the 120vac utility pump requires the use of an inverter vs. just powering with a 12v battery. I am using 100ah 12v Battle Born batteries for my fire alarm system, security system and CCTV video surveillance equipment. I have 4(fire alarm has 2 in parallel for longer operation during a power failure. I can just take one of them from the fire alarm system and use with the water pump in an emergency. (they all use Anderson 60a connectors, so it’s easy enough to unplug for a few minutes and return to the system after water pumping work..) The batteries are pricey, but if this works well, I’ll buy another. ($790@) Thanks for your outstanding videos and channel!
They're used in a few million RVs, they do fail occasionally but overall I'd say they're quite reliable, and because there's such a large market they're jellybean parts, cheap and plentiful so just buy 2 if you're worried about reliability (I upgraded my stock pump to a quieter model and keep the stock one as a spare in case the new one gives out when 100 miles from town, like what happened to long long honeymoon 13 years into owning their Airstream while they were in Grand Tetons)
@@andrewfidel2220 Thank you ! Also… stupid question, but can I use the pump using a hose coming down from the top (bung?) holes INSTEAD of installing a valve near the bottom of the barrel. Ha! “Bottom of the Barrel”. Pun not intended, but still made me chuckle. In other words, does the pump have the strength to pull water vs. gravity fed from a lower valve.? Thanks again!
The minimum required inlet pressure and flow is 40 PSI and 4.8 GPM to ensure the washer operates as intended. You could have raised the barrel up 80 feet. Gravity flow through a 1/2" hose gets you 7 gpm. Your solution is probably better.
I checked and those Flexzilla hoses have aluminum end fitting so do not leave the hoses connected to the brass hose bib and hose adaptors or they will corrode and get stuck on.
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You can absolutely run a pressure washer directly from the spigot on the barrel without the 12v RV pump. At work, we use a 3000 PSI pressure washer from a 275 gallon IBC tote via gravity. We can run the pressure washer for about 2.5 hours on one tank of water. Ideally you want the pressure washer to be as close to the tank as possible and connected to the tank with a short hose, this helps to prevent any restriction in the flow to the pressure washer. The high pressure hose that goes to the spray wand can be several hundred feet long without affecting anything.
What a great project. Not long after we started to go camping, we bought a 30 gallon, food grade, plastic drum for refilling our travel trailer's fresh water tank. We bought a 12v pump and wired it to a 7-way trailer plug. With the freshly filled drum in the pickup bed, we just plugged it into the outlet on the truck's bumper and ran a hose to the trailer. Voila! Fresh water without having to always carry 200ft of food grade hose, or having to break camp just to top off the tank.
I was just thinking that while watching and saw this. Brilliant idea.
"What's better than one rubber washer? Two rubber washers."
😂😂 Tell that to the guy that just installed an oil filter with 2 filter rings! 😂😂
@@jimjordan5630that will make a big mess ! No doubt about it !!
When I've had a cruddy day at work, got in late, annoyed, somehow watching Eric mate a water pump to a barrel is strangely calming. Thanks! :D
Just far enough to get the Lawnmower guy
FYI I’ve been gravity feeding my pressure washer from an ATV spray tank for years. Use it to spray trees for spongy moth caterpillars. Works great. That’s a cool pump though
Put the pump in a milk crate, that way you can tote along other water pumping accessories.
You gave me a great idea for running a pressure washer at my off grid cabin!
Got to keep all the toys clean 😁
Hey an RV water pump, that's a good idea. I'll have to remember that for future water projects.
Surprising amount of water pressure from that little pump.
Those little pumps remind me of the water bed era and replacing the heater
LOVE the “After Hours” videos!
Having watched an etcg video in a long time i used to watch daily but youtube doesn't show anymore. randomly ran into this side channel and im all for it.
This isn't Eric the Car Guy though...
Please enjoy this digital cake
It's a shame, mrs. O didn't happen to be walking by, during the test phase LOL.
Ms. Only likes edged hoses.
Wet t-shirt contest, wooooo hoooooo❤😂🎉
@@markrichardson3830 word lol
I have one of these pumps on a little water tank that has a spray wand. I use it for spraying fruit trees. Made a connector to the golf cart battery and drive and spray. Easy peasy. Good stuff EO!
Monday morning, coffee and a bagel. Watching Eric O after hours, turning a sows ear into a silk purse! We are now South Main Plumbing fabricators! Thank you…..
Thats the most homosexual thing ive heard today.
The day is still young. @@mypony7310
This setup works surprisingly well. Have large storage tanks and a Seaflo rv pump ran off a battery similar to yours. Can turn off the city water, then back feed/flow into a hose spigot to feed into my house and have decent enough water pressure inside my home. Not that I would in an emergency, but could use the water like any normal day to shower, flush toilets, do laundry, cook/clean, etc...
Better shut the main off first or you'll be the local water supply for your neighborhood LOL
@@staind288I forgot to mention that.
I built this exact same setup a few years back. I put 1 bag of quick dissolving pool salt into the barrel and filled the barrel about 3/4 full and sprayed it around my property as weed control. It worked great. It’s a very handy setup to have for areas where you don’t have water pressure, or to apply special mixtures like salt water. 🙂👍🏻
Hey there ,and welcome back to the 55 gallon water barrel channel.😂 I love this project.
Nice project Eric O, Thank you for the “Double Tap” this Monday morning, and another Ty for the product links.
Finally a common sense answer to the problem good job
I’ve got one of those 200 gallon totes I load on the truck and a 12 volt pump like that one. I can run out 75 feet of hose to the pressure washer and it works great.
I picked up 300gph pump from Harbour freight. To transfer water from barrel to travel trailer. Works great.
Where I work we gravity feed our pressure washer off a 330 gallon tote. Works fine. Just have to keep an eye on the water level. Do a couple very large dump trucks and you can run out pretty easily.
I love my Flexzilla garden hose. They key is to keep it under pressure when moving it around it it will kink like crazy. By far my favorite hose.
Wife…. “Whatcha doin?”
Me…. “Watching a guy water his parking lot with his new water pump”
Her…. “Is he trying to make it grow bigger?” 🤣
Timely for me as water restrictions are expected this summer due to drought. Have been thinking of combining a rain barrel with a pump and here ya go.
Impressive pressure.
I picked one up from harbor freight.
Eric On cleanest shop in New York !
They make small accumulator tanks for RV's that you can put on the outlet of that pump if you need a more consistent water flow for your pressure washer, or you just want one to look cool.
I used to pressure wash my boat at a marina that did not have water. I had a 3000psi washer that I ran with a gravity feed. Only needed a couple of feet of head. If you have it in the bed of a truck and the washer on the ground it worked just fine. Depending on how much growth was on the boat (24 foot) I would use between 50 gallons and 100. That was a full hour of washing as I recall.
With a black barrel, you can heat it up in the sun for an outdoor shower whilst out in the jungle!
About 30 years ago i took a 55 gallon steel drum and drilled a hole in the large bung cap and installed a tire valve stem. I removed the small bung cap and installed a 3/4 drain valve and connected a garden hose. Filled it with water and connected a tire inflator running out of the cigarette lighter in my truck. It would shoot a nice stream of water from 50 to 70 psi. But running it over 65-70 psi it would start until the lip at the top and bottom. 😂. It was great for hauling water out into the woods to water small food plots or as an emergency 'small fire' extinguisher. What meaning the fire, but the extinguisher. 😂
Eric in my experience using a pressure washer, I've had pretty good success using a 'Header Tank" which can be any sized vessel you deem appropriate & fit a float valve inside it to automatically shut the "supply" off, then just run a short length of 3/4" hose with appropriate sized normal style garden connectors to the washer(if that makes sense). This eliminates the need for having an "extra" pump.
Gravity feeding a pressure washer does work I have done it, you have to get the air bled from the feeder hose and pump but after that it works fine
kind of impressed with that pump.
I've been working on my rain capture for irrigation water setup, and bought one of the HF pump with pressure tank setups. works well, but the surging, especially after going through 100' of garden hose, can be a bit annoying. I was thinking of substituting a no-tank pump instead. Now I might try to sooner than expected.
Man im impressed!!!
That pump CHOOCHES💪💪💪💪
👍👍🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇸
I had one of those Flexi Zillow hoses, well a knockoff anyway. Mainly got it for low temperature days. It worked, but yea, terrible trying to coil it up. They just won't lay flat. On the plus side, it didn't freeze stiff like an icicle on cold winter days. I gave up trying to coil it and just chucked it in a heap when I was done with it.
nice, I use the same sort of set up from the back of my side by side for watering a certain type of "herb" I have growing in the woods.
Nice idea there.
Portable aqua cannon
You'll get more output pressure from your pressure washer if you use that pump versus gravity feed. Definitely what you want if you're trying to clean patio stones and the like.
Just about how I had mine set up, except my 4 drums were on their sides in my truck bed, and I screwed the valve fittings into the bung and hooked the hose to it. The longer it has to pull from, say, if you're pulling off the drum and are away about 50 feet from it with the pump, the more power it will pull. As you have it set up you should get quite a long run time off of a good battery. Great job there. Most RVs come with just a 2.6gpm or such pump, so you got THE DOG. I changed mine to one like that and kept the old 2.6gpm one to pull from my drums, or pull from a creek to fill them if I didn't go home to refill and it worked off of my 4 pin trailer plug pretty well. You should have no problem doing most anything you plan with that setup. Take care.
That’s a neat little pump!
looks like fun toy to have fun for the whole family
I had a 300 gallon tote I used to catch rain water. It was 6’ off the ground on a stand. I could run a small electric power washer from it just by gravity feed but not a gas powered pressure washer.
I bought a horizontal water tank from Tractor Supply for washing down dirt bikes at the racetrack. Not free but easy to fill and works great. I just keep it in the back of a pickup. I just gravity feed to a pressure washer but I really like that pump and that it shuts off automatically.
There is a Tractor Supply right in Bath, NY. They have all this stuff in stock.
you could mount it to a board or a thin piece of metal base just long enough to give you a strapping surface and then ratchet strap around the barrel.
At least you mentioned the word solder. That makes it ok
Yes pressure washer will work on gravity feed but will make short work out of 55 gallon IBC totes work well for that but heavy when full
Outstanding! My next project is rain barrels, well it was a project 5 years ago but now, it's on again. Good stuff as usual Eric O.
Awesome pressure
Thanks Eric! That was perfect timing! I've been thinking about doing exactly what you did with the plastic barrel! 😁
Thank you for the demonstration, I have an off grid cabin and was wondering if this setup would work. Now I can spend the money and tell myself it is not an experiment.
Awesome I want to do the same thing. Great video.
It's always handy to have a way to move water. Now I want to see what you rig up to pump water from a small pond or stream to refill the barrel. Don't say you don't have a pond we all saw the bendy digger.
Are you planing on drive by spraying the lawnmower guy by any chance? :)
😂
HD Velcro is a wonderful thing.
I don't have any experience with flexzilla air hose, got my air lines from NAPA, not a sponsor, but I really like their water/garden hoses. They have lasted three years now and they don't kink up as easily as other hoses. And....gravity feeding my Stihl RB800, 4gpm, pressure washer from a 250 gallon tank, works like a charm.
My college job used those pumps to apply liquid fertilizer with a regulator and return line setup. This can even be used for something like a portable outdoor shower - i mean why not, it's meant for RV useage.
Made some rain water barrels out of those barrels. Upside down and tapped the bung to screw in pipes and a spigot.
Get a solar charger from hobo freight to maintain your battery😊
If it helps eric, I did test the theory of hooking up a pressure washer to a tank of water and it didn't work. I ended up making a very similar setup to what you have here a couple years ago for making a gas pressure washer pretty much stand alone and it works really well for that.
velcro command strip for easy mounting and removal when needed.
Eric O - After Hours.. Two rubbers! Better to be safe than sorry.. Wait you said two rubber washers, never mind..😂😂
Don't have any experience with Flexzilla water hose, but have to agree with you on their air hose. I refer to it as Kinkzilla. The only way I've found to coil it back up is to straighten it out it's entire length, then spend 15-20 frustrating minutes trying to get it coil back up neatly, until you finally give up and just let it have its way.
As someone who deals with only 100 feet commercial water hose 3/4 inlit I will never coil them up if they not warm they loop so easy but being cold they will not flex and I will just find something round to help looping it and air hose I need them on a rell so much easier
After each use, even w/ plain water, I add an ounce or so of food grade mineral oil directly in impeller. Previous pump seized. New pump w/ mineral oil, no issues YMMV. 👌
i love portability. My garage is filled with solar this and battery powered that.
Probably would be wise to put an inline fuse on that. Had a similar setup on a battery in my old camper, running one 12 volt light. After replacing the melted wire i have a fuse now.
Dandy setup Eric
Project Farm tested plyers and crescent wrenches to see if one way grips better than the other. In both cases, it doesn't matter which way you hold the plyers/wrench! I don't recall whether the tools he tested were metric, or standard.
Very handy to have! Cool video!
I was wondering about just dropping your short hose in from the top hole, and avoiding the spigot at the bottom. Maybe self priming would be more difficult at first startup, and winter draining might be more awkward. We have an area of the house I'd like to tie a roof drain into a drum to keep water away from the foundation.
Good video, and it seems to work just fine.
I use gravity feed of about 4 feet to my pressure washer in my farm truck and it seems to be perfectly adequate. 55 drum on its side ratchet straped to a ladder rack on a bucket truck. See how your barrel lids have 3/4" thread in the center? That to a boiler drain
The pressure washer will work on gravity feed because the pressure washer is a pump. Now you have 2 pumps. If you put the barrel in the truck bed or trailer and the pressure washer on the ground that helps with gravity feed too.
That was interesting to hear your thoughts on flexzilla air hoses. I've had a pretty good experience with them. My only gripe with them is that they are a little grabby if you get it caught on something.
How come im just now finding this channel. 😂 ive been missing more Videos of Eric-O
4:35 I had that issue with a hose shut off valve I got on the ama zon, the male threaded side wasn't long enough. It's ghetto, but stacking 2 hose washers worked well enough for me without leaks. I've had bad luck with shut off valves breaking and I really wanted to make that one work since it seemed really well built.
5:10 I spoke too soon 😂
impressive for a 12 volt pump.
I just hooked up my pressure washer with a short hose and it worked fine.
I'm the proud owner of a Flexzilla air hose reel mounted in my garage. From day one the hose would never retract without pulling it in and out several times. Come to find out the hose expands so much when filled with air it's like having more hose than the reel can take in. I found this out by releasing the air in the hose before starting the rewind and the hose wound up without a hitch.
Around the farm shop and around the farm we went to all Flexzilla water and air. We love them for their flexibility. Just don’t grind,weld or to torch around them😂
Now you just need a portable solar panel with a charger controller👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Sure gravity probably would have worked, but when you can add motors and DC power GO FOR IT!!!
Wow that pumps brilliant!
Gotta get me one of those.
Thanks for the video Eric.
Gravity feed works perfect for pressure washer no need for a pump
Many pressure washers can also suck water a few feet - so usually you don't need a pump if you just use a pressure washer or if there is anyhow some pressure from the water in the barrel.
Hell Ya, I would mount the battery to piece of 2x6 mount the pump to it as well use the handle on the battery to move it around.
Had the flexzilla garden hose outside and over a couple of years, the hose started to mold up in the actual hose material. Ended up throwing out 150' of hose.
Nice!
I sure wish this video was 7 YEARS old….
Then I could ask if the pump held out and held up to long term use.
I have a dozen 55gal water barrels in my basement for emergency use and absolutely hated the manual rotary pump and the 120vac utility pump requires the use of an inverter vs. just powering with a 12v battery.
I am using 100ah 12v Battle Born batteries for my fire alarm system, security system and CCTV video surveillance equipment. I have 4(fire alarm has 2 in parallel for longer operation during a power failure.
I can just take one of them from the fire alarm system and use with the water pump in an emergency.
(they all use Anderson 60a connectors, so it’s easy enough to unplug for a few minutes and return to the system after water pumping work..)
The batteries are pricey, but if this works well, I’ll buy another. ($790@)
Thanks for your outstanding videos and channel!
They're used in a few million RVs, they do fail occasionally but overall I'd say they're quite reliable, and because there's such a large market they're jellybean parts, cheap and plentiful so just buy 2 if you're worried about reliability (I upgraded my stock pump to a quieter model and keep the stock one as a spare in case the new one gives out when 100 miles from town, like what happened to long long honeymoon 13 years into owning their Airstream while they were in Grand Tetons)
@@andrewfidel2220 Thank you !
Also… stupid question, but can I use the pump using a hose coming down from the top (bung?) holes INSTEAD of installing a valve near the bottom of the barrel. Ha! “Bottom of the Barrel”. Pun not intended, but still made me chuckle.
In other words, does the pump have the strength to pull water vs. gravity fed from a lower valve.?
Thanks again!
The minimum required inlet pressure and flow is 40 PSI and 4.8 GPM to ensure the washer operates as intended. You could have raised the barrel up 80 feet. Gravity flow through a 1/2" hose gets you 7 gpm. Your solution is probably better.
Arrowhead Brass make the OG hose bib!
Rainman Ray’s is taking notes.
In my experience I found that you do need head pressure to operate a pressure washer. Gravity feed just causes the pw to cavitate.
I'm sure you have a customer who is a plumber, would have greatly helped with this invention.
In competition with your local firefighters with kit like this 👍 😆
I checked and those Flexzilla hoses have aluminum end fitting so do not leave the hoses connected to the brass hose bib and hose adaptors or they will corrode and get stuck on.
Now install a small solar panel on the top to shade and charge the battery.
I love when i get triggered right before eric says people like me are about to get triggered LOL