Wow! What a set-up for rain water! Amazing! Living off grid is something we would enjoy here in south Texas. We have purchased a massive house generator , waiting for it though. It's been three months of waiting. The concrete slab is done and the hook ups to the house and garage are ready. Just getting ready for the winter and electricity blackouts. Crazy times we live in today, but GOD has it all in control AMEN! Blessings to you and your family Pete.
Looks good Pete! Have you thought about putting landscape fabric down and then river rock on top of that instead of allowing grass to grow between the tanks?The landscape fabric would prevent grass and weeds from growing and the rock would look really nice and clean at all times with zero maintenance. Just an idea! Thanks for the videos!
Thanks, I have thought about it and it would hold the weeds away for a short time. I have an area where I laid out 3oz weed fabric down for my watermelon patch, and the entire area is now covered in grass and weeds. The Grass Roots penetrate right through the weed fabric and right into the ground the weeds here in Texas are amazing.
It may be because the membrane was broken for your watermelons to come up through. I’ve had good success with the heavy fabric and rock myself, used to do landscaping as a side gig. You will get it figured out and will make it work, no doubt. BTW- I don’t think I live very far from you. Just bought some property between Tyler and Jacksonville, been around here my whole life. Good luck with the project!
You could use silage tarps to put around the tanks to keep the grass from coming up. Find a good protector to spray on it. Or cover the tarp with pine straw. Should last a long time.
Hey Pete, we are Jeff and Lorena and our story is so much like yours (We are in San Antonio and working to move to our east Texas Homestead) the only big difference is you are several years ahead of us. If your up for it, we would love to meet up sometime….Take care and God Bless
Coming into your series way late, but if you did want to add a couple more thanks adding a bulkhead fitting, I have a whim of an idea. You could isolate a single tank at a time and get a transfer pump to pump water out into one of the other tanks. Once the water got to a low enough level, you could then add the bulkhead fitting to connect the new tank. Then open up the fittings to then flow water into the new tank. Rinse and repeat into the second new tank. Just a thought if you have the room to move the water
Good morning Pete! Your system looks very nice and neat! Now you have it tied in to your well! What is that for? You can drink it! Love watching your channel! God bless!
Buying heavy equipment like that is only justifyable if you start a business on the side doing that. If you're gonna go that far, get you a small HDD rig, and forget trenching.
Nice set up.
Those tanks are going to be full in no time! Great job.
Wow! That’s a lot of water in a short time. Good to see that working so well.
Great job as always.
Wow! What a set-up for rain water! Amazing! Living off grid is something we would enjoy here in south Texas. We have purchased a massive house generator , waiting for it though. It's been three months of waiting. The concrete slab is done and the hook ups to the house and garage are ready. Just getting ready for the winter and electricity blackouts. Crazy times we live in today, but GOD has it all in control AMEN! Blessings to you and your family Pete.
I'm in California, ur rainwater is like liquid gold to me. We had 2-4 days of light rain this yr.
Looks good Pete! Have you thought about putting landscape fabric down and then river rock on top of that instead of allowing grass to grow between the tanks?The landscape fabric would prevent grass and weeds from growing and the rock would look really nice and clean at all times with zero maintenance. Just an idea! Thanks for the videos!
Thanks, I have thought about it and it would hold the weeds away for a short time. I have an area where I laid out 3oz weed fabric down for my watermelon patch, and the entire area is now covered in grass and weeds. The Grass Roots penetrate right through the weed fabric and right into the ground the weeds here in Texas are amazing.
It may be because the membrane was broken for your watermelons to come up through. I’ve had good success with the heavy fabric and rock myself, used to do landscaping as a side gig. You will get it figured out and will make it work, no doubt. BTW- I don’t think I live very far from you. Just bought some property between Tyler and Jacksonville, been around here my whole life. Good luck with the project!
You could use silage tarps to put around the tanks to keep the grass from coming up. Find a good protector to spray on it. Or cover the tarp with pine straw. Should last a long time.
Great job!! That trencher looks great
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That's a good price on the trencher hopefully it serves you well for this and future projects.
Hey Pete, we are Jeff and Lorena and our story is so much like yours (We are in San Antonio and working to move to our east Texas Homestead) the only big difference is you are several years ahead of us. If your up for it, we would love to meet up sometime….Take care and God Bless
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I think they make trenching attachments for tractors too.
Yep I thought about that but there are areas that I wouldn't be able to get into and would need something small.
Coming into your series way late, but if you did want to add a couple more thanks adding a bulkhead fitting, I have a whim of an idea. You could isolate a single tank at a time and get a transfer pump to pump water out into one of the other tanks. Once the water got to a low enough level, you could then add the bulkhead fitting to connect the new tank. Then open up the fittings to then flow water into the new tank. Rinse and repeat into the second new tank. Just a thought if you have the room to move the water
Nice piece of equipment. You can always rent it out and or do it yourself and make some extra money.
Just turn the taps off to those two tanks and get a sump pump and pump the water into the other tanks, then you can put a bulkhead in the empty ones.
Good morning Pete! Your system looks very nice and neat! Now you have it tied in to your well! What is that for? You can drink it! Love watching your channel! God bless!
Hi Loren, yes we will be able to drink the water once it gets filtered through ceramic filters.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading OK that makes sense! Enjoy watching& listening to you!
I live in Ben Wheeler, I thought it forgot how to rain it had been so long.
Row covers would have been the way to go!
free water!!
Yes the water is free, it's just the collecting part of it that cost an arm and a leg. 🙁
Now you have a trencher that you can rent out. Eventually, it'll pay for itself.
Dang Pete, this rental company is ridicules, what the heck!
Yep very ridiculous and hopefully I won't have to rent anything from them in the future.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading They sure don't care about customer service. Good to know.
If no body sells a 3 in. trench shovel, cut an inch off of the 4 inch shovel...
Yep thought of that already, but I really really want a bigger trencher 🙂
Buying heavy equipment like that is only justifyable if you start a business on the side doing that. If you're gonna go that far, get you a small HDD rig, and forget trenching.