Good way to get memory out of a hose: toss a spray nozzle on the end and close the nozzle so that the hose gets capped. Pressurize the hose as high as you can manage, ideally a good 60psi+. Higher the better. Stick the hose in full sunlight and leave it all day, maybe a couple. The pressure plus heat will do wonders to remove the memory in the hose. Something old like that, it may not be possible to completely remove it, but it should reset it a decent amount.
Neat idea for sure! The only challenge here is that I don't ever connect hoses to a house line. I think my folks have a spigot I think on their house but it's been so long! Great trick to know about...
Awesome profile pic! However, I had to do a double-take because I have a picture, of myself, just like that, well almost..... the sleeve of my coat was a different color. lol I remember that day well because it was EXTREMELY cold on the day. My hand nearly froze off.
"Perfectly level roof" made me almost spit out my coffee. I love how I can watch your videos for new ideas on my own place, but also get a good light hearted laugh. I really appreciate your sense of humor. I'm sure it's hard for it to come out when filming permaculture videos (not really a comedy laden topic), I find the same thing making my videos. Often I think... people probably think I'm this super serious guy, meanwhile I don't take life too seriously, and am always joking around. I very much see you as the same way, and love these little moments where I see funny Sean poking through. Cheers, and happy weekend!
@@edibleacres I think, those "perfect" guys probably discourage more people, then they get started. It's much more ensuring to hear (and see) that it is better to start, even if not everything is planned out, not everything looks picture-perfect, and maybe a few things don't grow, work out the way we thought they would, or even fail completely. Especially some permaculture people can get really intimidating by implying, that EVERYDAMNTHING needs to be designed to a T, or everything will fail... So, I planted a tree in the "wrong" spot. What is a wrong spot, anyway...
None of our outdoor structures are very "professional" looking. And I like it that way ☺ Knowing that my hubby and I have worked together to build and grow what we have is a great feeling. Never be embarrassed! ❤️ Thank you as always for the inspiration!
Thank you for this video! I was so inspired that I went out in the rain, dug a mini-pond, and attached a hose to the run-off from my ICB containers into the garden. It was our first solid rain shower after 7 weeks with almost nothing. After the 3 ICB containers were filled, I didn't want to lose a precious drop.
My wife and I love your way of life and we appreciate all of your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and inspiring so many people. We look forward to seeing what’s next.
I love this. The slow, continuous solar pumping offers a super efficient way to move water to a header tank. It's like depositing a penny in the piggy bank every day and taking it out when you need it. I can see using this to move water in an aquaponic system, an evaporation cooling system, or even for non-potable water for a house. My wife wants a pool in an area where we have no power. A rig like this that pumped into the top of a barrel sized slow sand filter could keep the water clean.
"I should be embarrassed, but I don't care". LOL 🤣 I'm sure I've said that to myself plenty of times over the years. I wonder if putting a vice on the kink in the hose and leaving it in the sun during the Spring/Summer would do the trick.
On my farm we use a similar system (we took inspiration from one of your old videos) with a couple of old bathtubs and it works really well. It feels great to be able to give a second life to objects found at a junkyard. We also use bathtubs as wildlife ponds :)
I envy your storage area!--but in a good way. Skillcult did a video capturing a swarm of honey bees and he displays a similar ethos: use what you have. use problem-solving. the response to the problem can be low input, least amount of fuss and $$ with the caveat that you have done some planning by laying by some materials that "speak to you". You are blessed with so much water!
What a great idea! Thank you for letting us in on your workings. I learn something valuable everytime. I also thank you for being open and showing how you do things like the battery connections. That is empowering! I really appreciate that. Cheers!
@@edibleacres I won't consider your make-do contraptions sloppy just because they don't look new and expensive. Sloppy has a connotation of careless attitude. Yours is far from careless, in fact it's well thought out and implemented in the most cost effective way. As for 'good enough', that term is not good enough to describe your efforts. It should be translated to 'it works'. We need to change our use of words away from connotations defined by the artificially affluent culture around us.
And that is why I watch, you should not care, it works for you, we all do what works for us. Am glad to get ideas and even motivation from you. Thank you for all you share.
"Sloppily but good enough" You're playing my song :) There's an adage Joel Salatin uses "80% is perfect". I'm building our new poultry house and it's exemplifying these ideas ;) Would actually be easier if I were a little bit more patient and a little bit more precise. Less having to fudge for errors... but there it is ;) My primary building aesthetic is "it works" ;)
I absolutely love your ideas and transparency!!!! This would really come in use for people whose land floods often to be able to utilize it for later in the season.
@@edibleacres I feel that will truly get a good response as so many are struggling. Especially being taught how to do things the right/proper way without a arm and a leg!!!
OMG that baby again. Don't ever get rid of it. Hey, I'm not sure if you remember (or watched) the old 80s cartoons. It was a common thing for them to hide some easter egg in the cartoon. I seem to remember one being in the He-Man show? Basically once per episode a character would show up hidden somewhere and you had to look out for it to spot it, in the 0.5 seconds it would be on screen, hiding behind a tree as he ran through the forest, hiding behind a garbage can, etc.. This baby billboard remind me of that. Every time I see it, it makes me laugh. It's just so absurdly bizarre, I love it so freakin much.
Imagine unfolding a billboard 8' tall and 14' wide and realizing it is a baby head... That was a fun surprise for me. The decision to face it out or in was a pretty easy one :) Ha!
I love how you re-purpose everything and that's a brilliant use for a battery that can't hold enough charge for a vehicle. What variety of pear are you growing up there? Our Bartletts fruited and the fruit got killed by a late frost again so I probably need to start growing a more cold hardy variety.
It might not be what you planted, but rather where you planted! I had to do a lot of research after moving north from FL. I was quite surprised that fruit trees should not be planted where they will get extra warmth. They need to be prevented from early budding, blooms, and fruiting. For example, instead of planting on the sunny south side of the house, where heat is stored in walls and released, they should be on the north side where the sun doesn’t warm the building. Of course, it may also be the variety, lol. Look for chill hours and compare. The farther north you are, the more chill hours your trees will get. I don’t recall ever seeing a chart that ties grow zone to chill hours, but maybe there is one out there. Anyway, I hope my comment helps someone.
More pear varieties seem reasonable to me.. The more variety the better! This old battery wouldn't turn a car engine over but if you ask it to provide 1/1000 of the power it can do so for many years it seems!
You are using time as your ally. With the pump, that puts our a slow stream, time will fill that tank. And if it overflows eventually, the water goes right back into the environment from whence it came, right? Lovely ideas. I have a huge circular stock tank. I may just set it up as a "pond" close to our barn and catch the water off of it. I've also considered scrounging up a used above ground pool, and using it for water catchment. Adding a small pump like yours would add to the fun. :)
I love the pump... I just work in the general area on a day when I set it up to fill a tank and keep a little ear out for any struggling sounds or suspicious quiet :) Other than that it just plugs along and then waits for another rain to lift and store that energy and life for a lean time. I'd like to keep expanding this process, maybe someday get to a point where the tanks are also growing floating crops, too!
Looks like good planning, thank you for sharing! 😊 wondering if ducks playing in the water would make another type of Fertilizing the beds? However, thinking you don’t really need it because the chickens have their systems.
This connection can cause a short circuit current from the positive to the negative connection of the baterry and burn it out if the charge gets bypassed the pump.
Hi Sean. I'm wondering how your IBC totes are doing? I got a hold of a grimy one that I've been working on cleaning out, but most of what I've seen online is working with these pristine totes. Have you had any issues with watering your garden with them?
It isn't ideal to get dirty or nasty totes, but its what I had to work with initially. They had strange heavy duty soap in them, so I let them fill and then sent most to the edge of the road a few times, it dilluted over time and is a non issue now. Not ideal but better than them being thrown out.
Curious, do you have any additional problems with mosquitos from the tanks? I know the biology from the in ground ponds probably help chance out the larva but was wondering if that happens in the metal tanks?
This pump, I can't remember exactly but I want to guess around 30 watts... If you had a 500 or up to 800 GPH bilge pump I'd say a 75 watt panel in a nice sunny spot would really get you there.
Great little solar pump set up, just to clarify was the battery just an old car battery? also do you run the pump off the battery or mainly off the solar panel, and if so how long does it run with no sunlight?
The battery came out of a car (was considered dead but still had some life) Mainly from the solar panel, with the battery buffering as clouds come through. I try not to run it at night or with a very cloudy day.
Crunch the numbers: 360 gallons in reservoir, 5 gallon bucket fills in 2 minutes. So 360/5 = 72 buckets equivalent needs to go in at two minutes each meaning after 144 minutes so a little under two and a half hours that trough / reservoir should be filled. Not bad at all!
It's the amps that do injury to a person, not the voltage. DC is potentially pretty dangerous, even at "low voltage". Not that people shouldn't do this kind of thing, totally on board with it, planning on a pump to raise water from my pond at the bottom of the slope with our primary gardens to storage at the top of the slope. Intention is a solar powered pump, probably will need to have an appropriate battery and housing. Just don't do things that complete the circuit across the battery terminals through You! :)
You would have a little better pump speed and height potential by maximizing wire diameter to the pump and using tinned (for corrosion resistance) copper wire for your battery power take off , rather than the steel wire. But of course, your system is working well and was probably from materials already available! If you go to raise the cistern height, a little attention to those details might make the difference between zero flow and some flow.
Thanks for these notes. I'm sure there are MANY inefficiencies that we have at play here, but the net effect is still pretty darn acceptable. Good to know I could dial in the bits quite a bit, though and get more from this system without buying all new.
You could cut a piece off that hose where it is twisted, and put on a three piece set of garden hose joinerconnectors. There are different types. Here is one of them: www.lazada.sg/12-garden-hose-pipe-joining-mender-repair-leaking-joinerconnector-adapter-3651220.html
"I should be embarrassed, but I don't care!" - lol, gosh I love that attitude!
Awesome! 2 of my favourite channels are interacting :)
Good job everyone. Would love to see you guys have a chicken compost system too eh. 😁
Good way to get memory out of a hose: toss a spray nozzle on the end and close the nozzle so that the hose gets capped. Pressurize the hose as high as you can manage, ideally a good 60psi+. Higher the better. Stick the hose in full sunlight and leave it all day, maybe a couple.
The pressure plus heat will do wonders to remove the memory in the hose. Something old like that, it may not be possible to completely remove it, but it should reset it a decent amount.
Neat idea for sure! The only challenge here is that I don't ever connect hoses to a house line. I think my folks have a spigot I think on their house but it's been so long! Great trick to know about...
Awesome profile pic! However, I had to do a double-take because I have a picture, of myself, just like that, well almost..... the sleeve of my coat was a different color. lol I remember that day well because it was EXTREMELY cold on the day. My hand nearly froze off.
"Perfectly level roof" made me almost spit out my coffee. I love how I can watch your videos for new ideas on my own place, but also get a good light hearted laugh.
I really appreciate your sense of humor. I'm sure it's hard for it to come out when filming permaculture videos (not really a comedy laden topic), I find the same thing making my videos. Often I think... people probably think I'm this super serious guy, meanwhile I don't take life too seriously, and am always joking around. I very much see you as the same way, and love these little moments where I see funny Sean poking through.
Cheers, and happy weekend!
It's important to not take ourselves too seriously. There are enough folks showing 'how to do it' perfectly and we need some more fumbling :)
LOL
@@edibleacres I think, those "perfect" guys probably discourage more people, then they get started.
It's much more ensuring to hear (and see) that it is better to start, even if not everything is planned out, not everything looks picture-perfect, and maybe a few things don't grow, work out the way we thought they would, or even fail completely. Especially some permaculture people can get really intimidating by implying, that EVERYDAMNTHING needs to be designed to a T, or everything will fail... So, I planted a tree in the "wrong" spot. What is a wrong spot, anyway...
None of our outdoor structures are very "professional" looking. And I like it that way ☺ Knowing that my hubby and I have worked together to build and grow what we have is a great feeling. Never be embarrassed! ❤️ Thank you as always for the inspiration!
Doesnt look like a zen garden but with a lot of steampunk engineering huh?.
Thank you for this video! I was so inspired that I went out in the rain, dug a mini-pond, and attached a hose to the run-off from my ICB containers into the garden. It was our first solid rain shower after 7 weeks with almost nothing. After the 3 ICB containers were filled, I didn't want to lose a precious drop.
My wife and I love your way of life and we appreciate all of your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and inspiring so many people. We look forward to seeing what’s next.
I love this.
The slow, continuous solar pumping offers a super efficient way to move water to a header tank.
It's like depositing a penny in the piggy bank every day and taking it out when you need it.
I can see using this to move water in an aquaponic system, an evaporation cooling system, or even for non-potable water for a house.
My wife wants a pool in an area where we have no power.
A rig like this that pumped into the top of a barrel sized slow sand filter could keep the water clean.
I think you could have a pump with a float switch and a direct connection to a panel that just runs when there is sun. No fuss or monitoring that way!
"I should be embarrassed, but I don't care". LOL 🤣 I'm sure I've said that to myself plenty of times over the years.
I wonder if putting a vice on the kink in the hose and leaving it in the sun during the Spring/Summer would do the trick.
On my farm we use a similar system (we took inspiration from one of your old videos) with a couple of old bathtubs and it works really well. It feels great to be able to give a second life to objects found at a junkyard. We also use bathtubs as wildlife ponds :)
Awesome idea. Nice to think about old containers to hold water and help wild friends.
I envy your storage area!--but in a good way. Skillcult did a video capturing a swarm of honey bees and he displays a similar ethos: use what you have. use problem-solving. the response to the problem can be low input, least amount of fuss and $$ with the caveat that you have done some planning by laying by some materials that "speak to you". You are blessed with so much water!
What a great idea! Thank you for letting us in on your workings. I learn something valuable everytime. I also thank you for being open and showing how you do things like the battery connections. That is empowering! I really appreciate that. Cheers!
Yeah. So many videos showing perfect connections. I don't have the gear or skills to do that, so it's good to know sloppy is still functional.
@@edibleacres I won't consider your make-do contraptions sloppy just because they don't look new and expensive. Sloppy has a connotation of careless attitude. Yours is far from careless, in fact it's well thought out and implemented in the most cost effective way. As for 'good enough', that term is not good enough to describe your efforts. It should be translated to 'it works'. We need to change our use of words away from connotations defined by the artificially affluent culture around us.
And that is why I watch, you should not care, it works for you, we all do what works for us. Am glad to get ideas and even motivation from you. Thank you for all you share.
"Sloppily but good enough" You're playing my song :) There's an adage Joel Salatin uses "80% is perfect". I'm building our new poultry house and it's exemplifying these ideas ;) Would actually be easier if I were a little bit more patient and a little bit more precise. Less having to fudge for errors... but there it is ;) My primary building aesthetic is "it works" ;)
I absolutely love your ideas and transparency!!!! This would really come in use for people whose land floods often to be able to utilize it for later in the season.
I want to experiment more with simpler/lower cost storage tanks made of old plastic and the like for folks without access to the 'proper' tanks..
@@edibleacres I feel that will truly get a good response as so many are struggling. Especially being taught how to do things the right/proper way without a arm and a leg!!!
i have the same pump,its come in handy many times. it works surprisingly well.
They're really amazing.
Conrad Homestead sent me to your channel and it’s wonderful!
Great. Welcome!
OMG that baby again. Don't ever get rid of it.
Hey, I'm not sure if you remember (or watched) the old 80s cartoons. It was a common thing for them to hide some easter egg in the cartoon. I seem to remember one being in the He-Man show? Basically once per episode a character would show up hidden somewhere and you had to look out for it to spot it, in the 0.5 seconds it would be on screen, hiding behind a tree as he ran through the forest, hiding behind a garbage can, etc..
This baby billboard remind me of that. Every time I see it, it makes me laugh. It's just so absurdly bizarre, I love it so freakin much.
Imagine unfolding a billboard 8' tall and 14' wide and realizing it is a baby head... That was a fun surprise for me. The decision to face it out or in was a pretty easy one :) Ha!
What were your original intentions for that billboard?
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I love how you re-purpose everything and that's a brilliant use for a battery that can't hold enough charge for a vehicle. What variety of pear are you growing up there? Our Bartletts fruited and the fruit got killed by a late frost again so I probably need to start growing a more cold hardy variety.
It might not be what you planted, but rather where you planted!
I had to do a lot of research after moving north from FL. I was quite surprised that fruit trees should not be planted where they will get extra warmth. They need to be prevented from early budding, blooms, and fruiting. For example, instead of planting on the sunny south side of the house, where heat is stored in walls and released, they should be on the north side where the sun doesn’t warm the building.
Of course, it may also be the variety, lol. Look for chill hours and compare. The farther north you are, the more chill hours your trees will get. I don’t recall ever seeing a chart that ties grow zone to chill hours, but maybe there is one out there.
Anyway, I hope my comment helps someone.
More pear varieties seem reasonable to me.. The more variety the better!
This old battery wouldn't turn a car engine over but if you ask it to provide 1/1000 of the power it can do so for many years it seems!
@@edibleacres Thank you for giving me a reason to buy more trees!
@@Mulberrysmile Thank you for your thoughtful reply and great info.
You are using time as your ally. With the pump, that puts our a slow stream, time will fill that tank. And if it overflows eventually, the water goes right back into the environment from whence it came, right?
Lovely ideas. I have a huge circular stock tank. I may just set it up as a "pond" close to our barn and catch the water off of it.
I've also considered scrounging up a used above ground pool, and using it for water catchment. Adding a small pump like yours would add to the fun. :)
I love the pump... I just work in the general area on a day when I set it up to fill a tank and keep a little ear out for any struggling sounds or suspicious quiet :)
Other than that it just plugs along and then waits for another rain to lift and store that energy and life for a lean time. I'd like to keep expanding this process, maybe someday get to a point where the tanks are also growing floating crops, too!
I got 2 of those galvanized tubs for 25 bucks once in perfect condition from a pet store that was closing down. I couldnt believe it.
Love this i need a few bilge pump you make this look so easy.
It really is quite easy
What is "yoga ginger?" I can't find any reference to it. Thx.
Myoga ginger
I like 'Yoga Ginger'! I should call it that! But yes, it's is Myoga Ginger I'm talking about.
Sorry, like so many of the plants on your channel, I'd never heard of it before.
Awesome! Would you hand dig ponds on any sort of slope, or just mostly on flat-ish land?
On flat land it seems very easy and straight forward, but I think on a sloped site it could be quite doable.
Great idea of putting boards in the water tanks for squirrels to get out. Thanks for sharing. Your friend Bryan.
Very easy thing to drop in as an after thought. Believe me, I learned the hard way to do this!
Looks like good planning, thank you for sharing! 😊 wondering if ducks playing in the water would make another type of Fertilizing the beds? However, thinking you don’t really need it because the chickens have their systems.
Great video thanks for the information! I found a new 1100 GPH bilge pump on ebay.
They have been really useful to us for sure.
Simple, useful and cheap..... I'm IN!
Love the old cob, how long has it been there?
If you look back it was some of the first videos he made. I think roughly 8 years.
Something over 10 years. He was going to live in his cob house then he met Sasha who had her own house and the rest is history. ;)
This connection can cause a short circuit current from the positive to the negative connection of the baterry and burn it out if the charge gets bypassed the pump.
Hi Sean. I'm wondering how your IBC totes are doing? I got a hold of a grimy one that I've been working on cleaning out, but most of what I've seen online is working with these pristine totes. Have you had any issues with watering your garden with them?
It isn't ideal to get dirty or nasty totes, but its what I had to work with initially. They had strange heavy duty soap in them, so I let them fill and then sent most to the edge of the road a few times, it dilluted over time and is a non issue now. Not ideal but better than them being thrown out.
Good of you to think about our furry and feathery creatures.
Curious, do you have any additional problems with mosquitos from the tanks? I know the biology from the in ground ponds probably help chance out the larva but was wondering if that happens in the metal tanks?
We can screen them out once in a while if need be. Bats are pretty alive in this landscape so that helps quite a bit.
Amazing bro,, 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 same dream, am working towards this aswell, & how many watts does the 12v pump request to work properly?
This pump, I can't remember exactly but I want to guess around 30 watts... If you had a 500 or up to 800 GPH bilge pump I'd say a 75 watt panel in a nice sunny spot would really get you there.
Great little solar pump set up, just to clarify was the battery just an old car battery? also do you run the pump off the battery or mainly off the solar panel, and if so how long does it run with no sunlight?
The battery came out of a car (was considered dead but still had some life)
Mainly from the solar panel, with the battery buffering as clouds come through. I try not to run it at night or with a very cloudy day.
Great ideas! If you had a little more height it would be possible to extract a little electricity back off a teeny generator.
Interesting.
Crunch the numbers: 360 gallons in reservoir, 5 gallon bucket fills in 2 minutes. So 360/5 = 72 buckets equivalent needs to go in at two minutes each meaning after 144 minutes so a little under two and a half hours that trough / reservoir should be filled. Not bad at all!
Thanks for the number crunchin'!
Yes, it is also 72 buckets of water I didn't have to lift from below ground up and into the tank!
Any time I dont have to use the hand pump, I'm happy :)
Do you use that greenhouse in the cob house? Is there a video on that thing?
Look up 'cob cottage' in my videos and I've got some OLD videos showing that process...
Ponds- how do you combar mosquitoes?
I'm a freegan too!
Great!
Do you have problems with mosquitoes when the weather gets warmer?
Sometimes, but bats and ecology seem to deal with them well.
How do you control mosquito larva in the summer in those large tanks? A few fish?
We may put some fish in there, or have a little wire mesh we can skim with and feed the larvae to plants.
@@edibleacres , good strategies, both. Thanks
It's the amps that do injury to a person, not the voltage. DC is potentially pretty dangerous, even at "low voltage". Not that people shouldn't do this kind of thing, totally on board with it, planning on a pump to raise water from my pond at the bottom of the slope with our primary gardens to storage at the top of the slope. Intention is a solar powered pump, probably will need to have an appropriate battery and housing. Just don't do things that complete the circuit across the battery terminals through You! :)
Thank you for the clarifying notes!
another vid I missed still katching up lol
You would have a little better pump speed and height potential by maximizing wire diameter to the pump and using tinned (for corrosion resistance) copper wire for your battery power take off , rather than the steel wire. But of course, your system is working well and was probably from materials already available! If you go to raise the cistern height, a little attention to those details might make the difference between zero flow and some flow.
Also, minimize the wire length from battery to pump whenever possible. Any length will drop voltage, so the shorter the better for a pump!
Thanks for these notes. I'm sure there are MANY inefficiencies that we have at play here, but the net effect is still pretty darn acceptable. Good to know I could dial in the bits quite a bit, though and get more from this system without buying all new.
9ft x 3ft x 2.5 ft = 67.5 cu/ft = Approx. 505 gal. : )
(Conversion done online cu/ft to gal.)
Thanks :)
@@edibleacres Of course, it has rounded corners and I'm not good at calculus, so ...
Sloppily but good enough...you summed me up in 4 words!
You could cut a piece off that hose where it is twisted, and put on a three piece set of garden hose joinerconnectors. There are different types. Here is one of them:
www.lazada.sg/12-garden-hose-pipe-joining-mender-repair-leaking-joinerconnector-adapter-3651220.html
Thanks for this note.
And I thought *I* was growing too much garlic!
I bet neither of us are :)!
I kind of likish your videos. Kind of learnish and kind of entertainish
Ish that!
Would give you three thumps up if I could...! :-)
Schucks!