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When you bury pipes in a trench, you should bury one of those metallic "WARNING! BURIED UTILITIES" tapes near the surface, where you can easily pick in up with a metal detector the next time you need to dig there. You are your own "Dig Safe" hotline.
I didn't say so earlier, but "hiding" that line under all those rocks is a challenge to the Great Irish Engineer Murphy and his side kick the Goddess of Gravity, telling them "there are no flies, no errors, no little potential trouble spots that will ever need me to dig this up again". Both Murphy and that sidekick can be unmerciful when they feel ignored or challenged!
@@montyharder3663 ✅👍👉🙄👌No tracer, no metal detector will pick up ABS.. No memory makes a very bad day for a (soon to be) senior. lol Pro active for memory loss… draw a map and glue it inside a utility closet. Just don’t forget to look before you dig.. lol
@@Kami8705 Yup! I bought property 10 months ago and there's multiple places with PVC sticking up and NO idea where it goes! I have puzzled out one of them with a shop vac, the others are a puzzle. Likewise light switches that turn on... nothing! Complete damn puzzle, it's crazy! When I sell the house I'm in now the new owners will get a thumbdrive of pictures explaining things and showing inside walls from a reno and information on how things work - sheesh!
I'm sure using 90 degree fittings to change elevation will work but best practice is to use 45 degree fittings. That allows the solids to flow more freely and not have the sudden drop at the lower elevation.
That 90° elbow is going to be an issue in the future. It will definitely clog. A 45° elbow would have been a better choice or a clean out drain right there. 🤷♂️ At least if there is any problems you will be able to fix it.
45 or 90 are both to code at least in my state. Just nothing less than 45 deg. If you think about it in a multistory building that’s the only realistic way to get between floors and it works just fine.
I was surprised they didn't install intermediate cleanouts along the sewer run, especially with that 90 degree pipe transition. (looks like a 4 foot drop, more or less). It isn't going to do them any favors.
I'm not a long time viewer (just the last couple of weeks) but I do appreciate the video title change. Not sure if the hate for the other title from some of the commenters were necessary, though it would seem like you got the point that people aren't here for the click bait. Most everyone seems to be here because they just enjoy your content and watching you guys navigate through life. Keep up the good content! Been enjoying it all so far.
I did notice that the eariler comments I had upvoted and commented about regarding the prior title are gone. I do not really like seeing comments deleted when they are legitimate criticism, but I do appreciate that you did read them and changed the title.
@@googacct Whether or not criticism is "legitimate" is a matter of opinion. I think people just need to chill out and stop getting needlessly outraged by insignificant stuff.
No, 2 45s would cause a clog. You want either 1.5-2% of fall or free fall. Otherwise any particles rest in the pipe and the water just rushes over it without flushing the particles. Under 1.5% the flow isn’t fast enough to push particles away.
@@scottcochran384 Plus it appears the line was installed above the frost line with the base of the trench being uncompacted without a gravel liner. The pipe is going to belly and probably freeze.
As much as you will be digging for future projects, Riley should make a tilted grate to sift rocks from the soil. So when he is ready to backfill, he already has a pile of dirt without rocks ready to go.
Actually, a dedicated set up called a "Growler" and several sets of screens to grade different sizes of rocks; the back hoe and excavs are exactly what you need to load and operate one. Some other YTer's along in that same county got one and they thought it was top drawer- it immediately cut sown the amount of outside gravel and fill dirt that was needed to develop that piece of land\, and I believe he helped his "good neighbor debt" using it as well.
We have been watching you guys since you started your move to Idaho. We've loved all your stuff. But nothing was more heart warming than seeing your boy walk down the road and say hi to dad.
I dunno where you found Andy, (and i've been skeptical anyone could add value to your channel) but he's awesome. I love his attitude & work ethic. Absolutely entertaining, not stealing the show, but great sense of humour & i just enjoy seeing Riley & Andy tackle tough projects.!!
I know someone who is going to have a frozen sewer line....these guys... ↑↑↑... The sewer line from your house is not below frostline nor is there enough cover over the downturned 90° elbow for Northern Idaho. Waste water will freeze in layers until the pipe becomes occluded and then the fun begins. I think you should build a welded steel 100' USFS style firetower with kitchen, bathroom, living space, and incinerator toilet on the top of the mountain
Best for off grid is to not mix your shit with fluid, so compost toilet with urine/poo separation is the way to go. And YES, that pipe should have been insulated big time or at least 1 meter deeper, and a heater line inside wouldn't hurt either. I am talking with experience of winters in my Norway home (-35 degrees last winter). If you don't want to go with compost, then have the septic tank close to your house so your house/basement brings heat in to the sewer pipe. Another point: when water is hard to come by, people should realize how much water is (miss)used flushing the toilet. It seems old-fashioned to have a compost toilet, but my experience with it in my self-made camper is really good. No bad smell and when you put fresh saw dust/chips on the bottom and after each load it works really well keeping the smell away. I always laugh seeing people walking with the poo-unit at the campings towards the sewer point to empty them. The smell is unreal.
Always use 45”degrees never 90”to make corners ore turns and you need not so much slope it is beter that there’s a little water inside the pipe Just a little bit of degree of slope is enough. And also make sure that you have maintenance blow true pipes on every straight length so when things get clod you can blow it out. Well good luck and happy digging. Greetings from a ground worker.
Riley, please wear your safety glasses. Eye injuries are the most preventable injury we saw in the ER. Great job. You two have done a lot in 4 years! Ollie is so cute, walking and talking too. Take care. Have fun.
I think it takes an injury before most of us men are willing to put them on. After you get that treatment to remove an embedded metal sliver.....you start wearing them.
Just wanted to say again we love this channel! We completely understand the pressure of having to bend and adjust to changes. You can’t please everyone. Thanks again for all the great content!
Those SHORT 90* bends are gonna be a problem for you. In my area it’s the long sweep 90’s or 45-pipe-45 for code. You need the shallow sweeping beds to let things flow through and not clog up. Sounds ironic yes but it will happen.
Longtime watcher from the UK. It is a highlight to watch your videos on a Sunday. Fantastic to watch you develop your property, see how far you've come, and looking forward to more great content!
Riley. 24:07. It looked like Andy put dirt over the weep hole for the water to drain out of the stand pipe. I’d make sure to put plenty of rock there in case you may use it a lot. Could clog or slow flow enough and then you have a busted pipe quick in the winter. Great accomplishment on the sewer. Those long term projects really can be daunting since it’s not a quick check off the todo list!!
Sometimes the game is just the only game, gotta swing it to fool it... Tho, they could always play the game after 48 hours... but the effectiveness would have dropped according to the various YTer that had revealed their console. (IIRC YT got new tools for SEO for them)
big rocks make good walls. Breaking big rocks: drill with small masonry bit then use Ramset .22cal fired with steel rod hit by hammer. If after just a couple inches of dirt goes down you lay a layer of landscape fabric or plastic along the whole pipe path, then if you ever need to do digging again, you know when to stop with the excavator. i.e. when you hit the fabric.
Like others have said, don’t start with click bait titles like the other UA-camrs who once were awesome and are now shills. Your content is awesome and doesn’t require that nonsense to get people to watch. Also, I like how you showed that you use eco flow for all of these different activities without making the entire video about it.
Ever since the camper van building series, I've been watching you guys and oh my gosh, I can't tell you how excited I am to see a new video from your channel. Love from Nigeria personally I wish I could also do some of these things myself here at home Tops to you guys, so I've been watching you guys for 5 years plus and counting, by God's grace I would like to see the end of your adventures. Yeah, lastly, what of the boat? When are you going to continue the boat series?
On the electric toilet, make an Electric Porta Potty. Build an out house then EcoFlow power the electric toilet. Solar the roof. LED light the inside. Put in hand sanitizer station. Make it movable so you can take it anywhere you work.
Great idea! Make it a double wide. Electric toilet room (and shower?) on one side, Power stations, batteries, hand/face wash station, mirror, countertop reverse osmosis water filter unit, tea kettle/coffee pots, dual zone portable fridge/freezer and mobile restroom control hardware in the other. Foldable/extendable extra solar topside, Insulated fresh and gray water tanks underneath. External charging and water hookups/pumps to optionally take power from your EV, a generator, or other locally available power or water (and to discharge grey water into a trucked in and out tank). Add a Mr. Cool on a timer, wifi, Starlink, and an external pan/tilt/zoom security IP camera for serious next levelness... I like the Sunba Illuminati with its extra vertical tilt angle and 25X optical zoom... Share the mini-split power timer with both sides. 😎
@@Max24871 Add small autostart/stop generator to top off the batteries when trying to burn too many "flushes" or make too much coffee. With clever forward slide and swing out roof panels, along with flip up side and back panels you could easily 9X the "roof space" using RV awning style bracing, and get a couple kilowatts worth of panels attached to a "double wide" Porta Potty. More if you connect a portable external array. For a truck-able mobile worksite restroom/kitchen, you might as well use it to comprehensibly address worksite power needs as well. The electric toilet still makes sense for avoiding having to deal with blackwater at a worksite.
Please put cleanout in the pipe before winter. Especially where the 90 degree down elbow is. And cover it with more dirt as it will freeze, as stated before.
When you reflect how much you both have completed and self taught all the skills you now have, four years is a very short time. Not only that, with Oliver and family and friends,the bond you all have together is priceless. I wanted to thank you for taking me for a great journey as well, learning with you and seeing how to push through to get the results. Congratulations! All the best from Australia.
Make sure and get a lot of dirt surface over the top of the waterline where the pipeline goes down at a 90. I agree that should’ve been 245 not 190 as some others have said, but make sure you have enough to keep the waterline from freezing in the winter time cause I’m sure your freeze line is a lot deeper than most.
Another interesting fun to watch video while sipping my morning coffee. Bringing Andy on makes for fun and at times funny content and the two of you work great together. There you have it another content for your channel, Repairing your newly bought trailer.
Buy you one of those narrow trench shovels with the long handle. Your back will thank you a few years from now. It penetrates in hard dirt much easier and is the bomb for exposing utilities.
I put a backup camera on my skidsteer. It was like $30 from Amazon. The tiny monitor is in the top left corner of the cab. It has made life way easier.
surprised you dont have any inspection joints to clear possible blockages also I think someone said if the slope is too step the liquid all runs down leaving the solids instead of flowing together.
IIRC you are supposed to have a full bubble on the pipe (or at least that the way for grey water/ rainwater run-off) (watched YT/Gate City Foundation Drainage)
@@hardup9809 That's not true. I bought acreage and bought a dump truck, an excavator, a skidsteer and I don't use them for anything but personal property maintenance. I also don't have a youturd channel that pays me to buy all the equipment.
@@evancatlin1839 good point, would be the perfect time to do it. Thankfully, the buildings are close enough for a point-to-point wireless link - still, there's no replacement for hardwired data.
It is too late now, but it would have been a good idea to put colored tape just above the various pipes, lines, etc. that are buried. This makes future digging a bit safer since you will find the tape before hitting the pipe. When my plastic natural gas line was replaced they ran a copper wire above it to help find the line with an electronic finder.
It's amazing how you all get so much done each week all while learning as you go, coming up with new ideas/projects, pumping out videos, raising a child and just doing life; no small feat! Also, great work on making your adds easy to watch and always relatable to your viewers. To all involved, once again thank you for doing this; entertainment on youtube would not be the same without you all
The pipe is too finely buried, at least four inches will rain, and the stone soil freezes for all three feet, and it is not very good to make the angles of ninety degrees and vertical parts ...
I know you guys live in an area with no code requirements (or very few), but most codes exist for good reason. Especially true for plumbing. Generally, water and sewer in same trench is avoided. It’s recommended that the two have a minimum horizontal separation of 10 feet. If you have to put them in the same trench water should be 18 inches above sewer and 12 inches horizontally from sewer. And I never would have put the frost free hydrant right next to the sewer stack. But looks like it’s too late for any of these considerations.
Now that you have a trailer to haul equipment, you may want to make a quilted cover for the front and rear windows. Rocks have a bad habit of coming from anywhere on the roads and this ensures you keep that big front window of the excavator and skid steer intact. Hold them on with tarp straps and you will never have to worry about them!
People never appreciate the level of excitement of having a flushing toilet, until they don't have one for a while. Then it's like Christmas morning as a child when you get one again.
@@AmbitionStrikes i recommend getting niagra stealth .8 gallon flush they also make dual flush version .9 and .5 if you are water conscious but the .8 gallon has good flush score (1000 map) and high water line water line with dual flush version you sacrifice having high water line
@@AmbitionStrikes Riley, I hope my earlier critique is seen as an enlightenment to do better and stay unfouled when the Goddess of Gravity decides to choke on you. I vote for your regular Christmas venture in your warm, indoor, flushing, water closet room! Fred
The original title was "After 4 years we're moving on... Thank you very much." The current title is "After 4 years living off-grid this has got to change"
For burying pipes, we usually try to put sand around it to avoid rocks and so if we dig in that area and we see sand, we know we are near a pipe. I would also suggest compacting it with a vibratory compactor across the driveway or it will sink over time. Compact it after every 1 foot of material added.
I am not a hater, I wait all week for their Sunday video and I see this title, "After 4 years we're moving on... Thank you very much." it ticked me off. They do not even apologize for it. Just change the title and hope it goes away. Instead we get attacked for being haters.
Those tilt trail sure are handy👍 I don't know how big the risk is, but I was told to cover the exhaust when hauling a machine backwards to prevent damage from the wind spinning the turbo backwards. I always do it for peace of mind.
I'm really proud of you guys, you have accomplished so much in such a short time period! And little Oliver's walking and even basic talking is so cute, we really get a kick out of watching him grow up.
Hmm, separating the gray water is a good. Idea ,I use the grey water in a chamber with a submerged UV-C light , and water the lawn to filter the water as it returns from where it came , ;-) . It is Exciting to install the newer 1 gal. Flushing Toilet . I'm. Using the pool to a digester for gas production, soon :-) .
if you run your pipes in the same trench just make sure you have about 1 ft of dirt between them and run sewer on the bottom water line next electric on top this way your water will not get contaminated
Omg the title complaints 😱 😂 nice trailer to do your OWN towing!👍👍 look at lil man growing!😍 good idea rock free first! Well done with friend/assist Andy!🎉
Wow after reading all these comments, I hope you guys learn your lesson, I'd like to think you meant to say after 4 years - of off grid we're moving on and hooking up sewage to city grid, I also was so surprised to see you do this, you just gave yourselves a gut punch for no reason, buy hey to error is human....Javi G.
With all the rocks in your dirt, it might be a good idea to put a sand bed down before laying the pipe and cover it with sand before you backfill the trench.
Amazing to see the backlash the title got..... are prople actually that upset? I couldnt tell you what the title was once i was 5 minutes into the video
The title was a bit "baitish"- I would have watched if it was all boring repair on the dozer tranny! Besides, it was fun watching Riley learn about plumbing- he's at least three times better at waste water than he was five years ago!
When you put a frost free in, put a threaded tee at the bottom and a liner of your sewer pipe around it. You will have to replace that valve at some point. If you can do it without digging it up, it is time well spent now.
Normally in the house sewer (pipe between the house and tank) only use 22 1/2 elbows, never 45 or 90 degrees. Also, it safer to have the tank closer to the house and compact under the house sewer properly to avoid negative slopes in the pipe.
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suggestion for the title of this video...After 4 Years Living Off-Grid This Has to Change NEW TOILET>
Ecoflow has the worst customer service ever, hope you don't have any issues.
Wonderful! *Another* EcoFlow commercial!
Winter projects - Trailer and Bucket refurbishment.
You should check out this song....David Wilcox - Layin` Pipe
When you bury pipes in a trench, you should bury one of those metallic "WARNING! BURIED UTILITIES" tapes near the surface, where you can easily pick in up with a metal detector the next time you need to dig there. You are your own "Dig Safe" hotline.
I didn't say so earlier, but "hiding" that line under all those rocks is a challenge to the Great Irish Engineer Murphy and his side kick the Goddess of Gravity, telling them "there are no flies, no errors, no little potential trouble spots that will ever need me to dig this up again". Both Murphy and that sidekick can be unmerciful when they feel ignored or challenged!
@@fredericrike5974RIGHT?! Lol
@@montyharder3663
✅👍👉🙄👌No tracer, no metal detector will pick up ABS..
No memory makes a very bad day for a (soon to be) senior. lol
Pro active for memory loss… draw a map and glue it inside a utility closet.
Just don’t forget to look before you dig.. lol
@@E77721 it's not even about them not remembering. Some day somebody else will own that property and be trying to decipher what they did
@@Kami8705 Yup! I bought property 10 months ago and there's multiple places with PVC sticking up and NO idea where it goes! I have puzzled out one of them with a shop vac, the others are a puzzle. Likewise light switches that turn on... nothing! Complete damn puzzle, it's crazy! When I sell the house I'm in now the new owners will get a thumbdrive of pictures explaining things and showing inside walls from a reno and information on how things work - sheesh!
I'm sure using 90 degree fittings to change elevation will work but best practice is to use 45 degree fittings. That allows the solids to flow more freely and not have the sudden drop at the lower elevation.
yup
I had the same thought. If any point on that line causes an issue, that'll be it.
That 90° elbow is going to be an issue in the future. It will definitely clog. A 45° elbow would have been a better choice or a clean out drain right there. 🤷♂️ At least if there is any problems you will be able to fix it.
45 or 90 are both to code at least in my state. Just nothing less than 45 deg. If you think about it in a multistory building that’s the only realistic way to get between floors and it works just fine.
And the simplest way to fit between 45 and 90 is the heat the pipe to bend it.
If the slope of the pipe is too steep, the liquid will outrun the solids. Not good.
I was surprised they didn't install intermediate cleanouts along the sewer run, especially with that 90 degree pipe transition. (looks like a 4 foot drop, more or less). It isn't going to do them any favors.
I'm not a long time viewer (just the last couple of weeks) but I do appreciate the video title change. Not sure if the hate for the other title from some of the commenters were necessary, though it would seem like you got the point that people aren't here for the click bait. Most everyone seems to be here because they just enjoy your content and watching you guys navigate through life. Keep up the good content! Been enjoying it all so far.
Kind of annoying they all piled on in separate comment threads.
I suspect you dont know what the other title was.
I did notice that the eariler comments I had upvoted and commented about regarding the prior title are gone. I do not really like seeing comments deleted when they are legitimate criticism, but I do appreciate that you did read them and changed the title.
@@googacct Whether or not criticism is "legitimate" is a matter of opinion. I think people just need to chill out and stop getting needlessly outraged by insignificant stuff.
@@googacct another show of shitty morals.
16:53 you should be using 2 45s instead of 90s for those elevation transitions.
I noticed that too
gonna end up with a "Poo Pile" where the solids drop n hit... will be plugged off soon..
No, 2 45s would cause a clog. You want either 1.5-2% of fall or free fall. Otherwise any particles rest in the pipe and the water just rushes over it without flushing the particles. Under 1.5% the flow isn’t fast enough to push particles away.
@@scottcochran384 Plus it appears the line was installed above the frost line with the base of the trench being uncompacted without a gravel liner. The pipe is going to belly and probably freeze.
@@RoscoeColtrane Pipe needed to be bedded in stone to prevent bellies/backpitch. Should have gone min 5 - 6' deep especially under a driveway.
As much as you will be digging for future projects, Riley should make a tilted grate to sift rocks from the soil. So when he is ready to backfill, he already has a pile of dirt without rocks ready to go.
Plus rocks for stuff too
Actually, a dedicated set up called a "Growler" and several sets of screens to grade different sizes of rocks; the back hoe and excavs are exactly what you need to load and operate one. Some other YTer's along in that same county got one and they thought it was top drawer- it immediately cut sown the amount of outside gravel and fill dirt that was needed to develop that piece of land\, and I believe he helped his "good neighbor debt" using it as well.
Grizzley bars
We have been watching you guys since you started your move to Idaho. We've loved all your stuff. But nothing was more heart warming than seeing your boy walk down the road and say hi to dad.
I dunno where you found Andy, (and i've been skeptical anyone could add value to your channel) but he's awesome. I love his attitude & work ethic. Absolutely entertaining, not stealing the show, but great sense of humour & i just enjoy seeing Riley & Andy tackle tough projects.!!
We had no idea how much we needed an Andy in our lives. 🙌
Is Andy from Lancashire?
Made my Day seeing Oliver walking down the driveway.
You both are Truly Amazing, Oliver is such a lucky kid to grow up with such creative energetic parents.
"It's time to start laying pipe, my favorite activity" 🤣
Yep...every man's favorite activity! Next to bailing hay. Or drilling.
Which leads to the upcoming video title, “Oliver’s going to be a big brother”.
Riley, I hope you tell Courtney that you love her and thank her 100 times a day!
I know someone who is going to have a frozen sewer line....these guys... ↑↑↑... The sewer line from your house is not below frostline nor is there enough cover over the downturned 90° elbow for Northern Idaho. Waste water will freeze in layers until the pipe becomes occluded and then the fun begins.
I think you should build a welded steel 100' USFS style firetower with kitchen, bathroom, living space, and incinerator toilet on the top of the mountain
I am glad I am not the only one that noticed that . I wish them luck this coming winter.
Best for off grid is to not mix your shit with fluid, so compost toilet with urine/poo separation is the way to go. And YES, that pipe should have been insulated big time or at least 1 meter deeper, and a heater line inside wouldn't hurt either. I am talking with experience of winters in my Norway home (-35 degrees last winter). If you don't want to go with compost, then have the septic tank close to your house so your house/basement brings heat in to the sewer pipe.
Another point: when water is hard to come by, people should realize how much water is (miss)used flushing the toilet. It seems old-fashioned to have a compost toilet, but my experience with it in my self-made camper is really good. No bad smell and when you put fresh saw dust/chips on the bottom and after each load it works really well keeping the smell away. I always laugh seeing people walking with the poo-unit at the campings towards the sewer point to empty them. The smell is unreal.
Digging it up in spring to do it again...I love my job so much I do it twice.
Always use 45”degrees never 90”to make corners ore turns and you need not so much slope it is beter that there’s a little water inside the pipe
Just a little bit of degree of slope is enough.
And also make sure that you have maintenance blow true pipes on every straight length so when things get clod you can blow it out.
Well good luck and happy digging.
Greetings from a ground worker.
O yea in the Netherlands it’s against the rules to use 90” turns sorry that’s what amateurs do.
Riley, please wear your safety glasses. Eye injuries are the most preventable injury we saw in the ER.
Great job. You two have done a lot in 4 years!
Ollie is so cute, walking and talking too.
Take care.
Have fun.
I think it takes an injury before most of us men are willing to put them on. After you get that treatment to remove an embedded metal sliver.....you start wearing them.
Those rocks would be great for a retaining wall
Just wanted to say again we love this channel! We completely understand the pressure of having to bend and adjust to changes.
You can’t please everyone.
Thanks again for all the great content!
Those SHORT 90* bends are gonna be a problem for you. In my area it’s the long sweep 90’s or 45-pipe-45 for code.
You need the shallow sweeping beds to let things flow through and not clog up. Sounds ironic yes but it will happen.
Wow!!! It's great! The WORK you have put in made this possible! Go, Ambition Strikes!
A clean out every 100' or 200' is a good idea. Tree roots will sometimes find their way into the pipes when they find water.
Longtime watcher from the UK. It is a highlight to watch your videos on a Sunday. Fantastic to watch you develop your property, see how far you've come, and looking forward to more great content!
Riley. 24:07. It looked like Andy put dirt over the weep hole for the water to drain out of the stand pipe. I’d make sure to put plenty of rock there in case you may use it a lot. Could clog or slow flow enough and then you have a busted pipe quick in the winter. Great accomplishment on the sewer. Those long term projects really can be daunting since it’s not a quick check off the todo list!!
Don from Greham wa-- watched you guys from the beginning- love adding Andy and family to your channel what else can I say-- your the best 😎
Thanks!
Thanks so much James! We really appreciate your support.
I agree with all of the clickbait comments. I watch you guys because you make good, interesting content. You don’t need to bait me.
I can only guess the bait is not meant for loyal followers like the regular commenters, but to attract new followers.
It's UA-cam. You play their game or the algorithm stuffs your content. No people like the Mr. Beast style title cards, but the bots love them.
Sometimes the game is just the only game, gotta swing it to fool it...
Tho, they could always play the game after 48 hours... but the effectiveness would have dropped according to the various YTer that had revealed their console. (IIRC YT got new tools for SEO for them)
big rocks make good walls. Breaking big rocks: drill with small masonry bit then use Ramset .22cal fired with steel rod hit by hammer. If after just a couple inches of dirt goes down you lay a layer of landscape fabric or plastic along the whole pipe path, then if you ever need to do digging again, you know when to stop with the excavator. i.e. when you hit the fabric.
Super cool. No matter the title, I'm watching this dynamic duo. Love yall's work,it is so much more rewarding when ya Do It Yourself.
its actually correct about cutting post tops on a slant water does run off
Like others have said, don’t start with click bait titles like the other UA-camrs who once were awesome and are now shills. Your content is awesome and doesn’t require that nonsense to get people to watch. Also, I like how you showed that you use eco flow for all of these different activities without making the entire video about it.
Lol whats a shill they do this for a living
When backing up a trailer using a vehicle with all-wheel steering, be careful. They tend to jack knife readily.
Appreciate the title change. Unsurprising considering the avalanche of distain.
You are better than clickbait
The RV power hook-up Need breaker also as Disconnect you can buy RV power set up will have 50 amp /w breaker a 30 amp/w and 120 v 20 amp /w breaker
OMG!!!!, HIS almost running already, GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.
Ever since the camper van building series, I've been watching you guys and oh my gosh, I can't tell you how excited I am to see a new video from your channel. Love from Nigeria personally I wish I could also do some of these things myself here at home
Tops to you guys, so I've been watching you guys for 5 years plus and counting, by God's grace I would like to see the end of your adventures.
Yeah, lastly, what of the boat? When are you going to continue the boat series?
That military dump truck is awesome. Great job. I love this channel!❤😊
You have electrical installed already. Try a bidet they replace
the toilet seat and are so handy!
On the electric toilet, make an Electric Porta Potty. Build an out house then EcoFlow power the electric toilet. Solar the roof. LED light the inside. Put in hand sanitizer station. Make it movable so you can take it anywhere you work.
Next Level porta-poty for very remote, hard to service locations.
Sounds like a viable product!
Great idea! Make it a double wide. Electric toilet room (and shower?) on one side, Power stations, batteries, hand/face wash station, mirror, countertop reverse osmosis water filter unit, tea kettle/coffee pots, dual zone portable fridge/freezer and mobile restroom control hardware in the other. Foldable/extendable extra solar topside, Insulated fresh and gray water tanks underneath. External charging and water hookups/pumps to optionally take power from your EV, a generator, or other locally available power or water (and to discharge grey water into a trucked in and out tank). Add a Mr. Cool on a timer, wifi, Starlink, and an external pan/tilt/zoom security IP camera for serious next levelness... I like the Sunba Illuminati with its extra vertical tilt angle and 25X optical zoom... Share the mini-split power timer with both sides. 😎
On second thought... Electric toilet... Should probably put the shower stall outside... ⚡️
You could use that maybe once a day max with how little solar would fit on such a roof. Probably even less.
@@Max24871 Add small autostart/stop generator to top off the batteries when trying to burn too many "flushes" or make too much coffee. With clever forward slide and swing out roof panels, along with flip up side and back panels you could easily 9X the "roof space" using RV awning style bracing, and get a couple kilowatts worth of panels attached to a "double wide" Porta Potty. More if you connect a portable external array. For a truck-able mobile worksite restroom/kitchen, you might as well use it to comprehensibly address worksite power needs as well. The electric toilet still makes sense for avoiding having to deal with blackwater at a worksite.
Please put cleanout in the pipe before winter. Especially where the 90 degree down elbow is. And cover it with more dirt as it will freeze, as stated before.
Wow, tough crowd! Awesome video as always. I'm diggin that man-made creek!
When you reflect how much you both have completed and self taught all the skills you now have, four years is a very short time. Not only that, with Oliver and family and friends,the bond you all have together is priceless. I wanted to thank you for taking me for a great journey as well, learning with you and seeing how to push through to get the results. Congratulations! All the best from Australia.
From Saudi Arab , I am happy for you and wish you the best
Make sure and get a lot of dirt surface over the top of the waterline where the pipeline goes down at a 90. I agree that should’ve been 245 not 190 as some others have said, but make sure you have enough to keep the waterline from freezing in the winter time cause I’m sure your freeze line is a lot deeper than most.
You would think that people who build houses would put a clean out on the pipe in case of a blockage, now they will have to rip up a bit of pipe.
Hey Reilly, put a pair of car mirrors on the skid steer for backing up. I did this on my kubota 4x4 tractor, works great, Love hearong Oliver talking!
Another interesting fun to watch video while sipping my morning coffee. Bringing Andy on makes for fun and at times funny content and the two of you work great together. There you have it another content for your channel, Repairing your newly bought trailer.
Buy you one of those narrow trench shovels with the long handle. Your back will thank you a few years from now. It penetrates in hard dirt much easier and is the bomb for exposing utilities.
you are going to need doors for the Army truck this winter!!!!!!!
I put a backup camera on my skidsteer. It was like $30 from Amazon. The tiny monitor is in the top left corner of the cab. It has made life way easier.
You guys are awesome. I wonder what this place will look like in 10 years when everything is fully set and ticking.
Thank you for posting this on Sunday mornings. I LOVE sitting down with my coffee and watching you work!
Thanks for sharing your Sunday with us! ☺️
surprised you dont have any inspection joints to clear possible blockages also I think someone said if the slope is too step the liquid all runs down leaving the solids instead of flowing together.
IIRC you are supposed to have a full bubble on the pipe (or at least that the way for grey water/ rainwater run-off)
(watched YT/Gate City Foundation Drainage)
Riley does know the correct way to slope a drain line. He talked about it when they did the septic to the shipping container.
"Tight budget" is not phrase I've ever associated with this channel, lol
! Consumption Strikes
For real no one is just going out and buying dump trucks, excavators, bulldozer etcetc
@@hardup9809 That's not true. I bought acreage and bought a dump truck, an excavator, a skidsteer and I don't use them for anything but personal property maintenance. I also don't have a youturd channel that pays me to buy all the equipment.
@@hardup9809equipment is expensive. Just like farmers they are asset rich but probably not very liquid.
@@evancatlin1839 good point, would be the perfect time to do it. Thankfully, the buildings are close enough for a point-to-point wireless link - still, there's no replacement for hardwired data.
It is too late now, but it would have been a good idea to put colored tape just above the various pipes, lines, etc. that are buried. This makes future digging a bit safer since you will find the tape before hitting the pipe. When my plastic natural gas line was replaced they ran a copper wire above it to help find the line with an electronic finder.
Running water line next to sewer line. Big no no, that’s how people die.
It's amazing how you all get so much done each week all while learning as you go, coming up with new ideas/projects, pumping out videos, raising a child and just doing life; no small feat! Also, great work on making your adds easy to watch and always relatable to your viewers. To all involved, once again thank you for doing this; entertainment on youtube would not be the same without you all
Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊 on a flushing toilet. I have watched since the truck camper! Love you guy’s🙏🙏🙏Blessing’s
You should be using gravel around the pipe to protect it from breaking.
The pipe is too finely buried, at least four inches will rain, and the stone soil freezes for all three feet, and it is not very good to make the angles of ninety degrees and vertical parts ...
use heat to bend the pipe to get the turns on the pipe
I know you guys live in an area with no code requirements (or very few), but most codes exist for good reason. Especially true for plumbing. Generally, water and sewer in same trench is avoided. It’s recommended that the two have a minimum horizontal separation of 10 feet. If you have to put them in the same trench water should be 18 inches above sewer and 12 inches horizontally from sewer. And I never would have put the frost free hydrant right next to the sewer stack. But looks like it’s too late for any of these considerations.
Now that you have a trailer to haul equipment, you may want to make a quilted cover for the front and rear windows. Rocks have a bad habit of coming from anywhere on the roads and this ensures you keep that big front window of the excavator and skid steer intact. Hold them on with tarp straps and you will never have to worry about them!
Woohoo! A new septic with a REAL toilet!
It really was the final piece to our home being done, and it feels so surreal!
@@AmbitionStrikes and you had to click bait? Poor choice. You made your subscribers upset.
@@frankd6142 They have had titles like that for years. It generates a lot of comments.
You have power there... put a Toto Washlet on your toilet. It helps keep down the toilet paper going into your septic and makes you cleaner.
You're water line should be above the sewer line...
The baby is WALKING ? Oh that made me feel so good for U2. God Be With You both.
People never appreciate the level of excitement of having a flushing toilet, until they don't have one for a while. Then it's like Christmas morning as a child when you get one again.
This is so true! It still feels a bit like Christmas every time I walk in the bathroom.
@@AmbitionStrikesI do believe you!
@@AmbitionStrikes i recommend getting niagra stealth .8 gallon flush they also make dual flush version .9 and .5 if you are water conscious but the .8 gallon has good flush score (1000 map) and high water line water line with dual flush version you sacrifice having high water line
@@AmbitionStrikes Riley, I hope my earlier critique is seen as an enlightenment to do better and stay unfouled when the Goddess of Gravity decides to choke on you. I vote for your regular Christmas venture in your warm, indoor, flushing, water closet room! Fred
@@AmbitionStrikes Time teach Oliver use toilet
33:30 I think you should ask for them to sponsor you with the LNG/LPG gas model of the incinerator toilet and retrofit your truck camper with one!
Underground tape - danger buried electrical cable below?
18:30 We electricians use something called a Pipe Heater to get around this issue, but I do know the PVC we use is different than what plumbers use.
The original title was "After 4 years we're moving on... Thank you very much."
The current title is "After 4 years living off-grid this has got to change"
daaaaang, that's out right savage click bait title.
The best one was Paul Harrell's "I'm Dead" that he recorded before he died.
45 degree bends are a better choice when running sewer line. Eighth bends are another good choice.
Why not make a portable bathroom for projects with the old toilet.
For burying pipes, we usually try to put sand around it to avoid rocks and so if we dig in that area and we see sand, we know we are near a pipe. I would also suggest compacting it with a vibratory compactor across the driveway or it will sink over time. Compact it after every 1 foot of material added.
Wow, so many haters in the comment section. Don't listen to them, keep up the great work! Yes, I watched the whole video.
Yeah don't listen to your core audience and watch your channel die. Great advice.
I am not a hater, I wait all week for their Sunday video and I see this title, "After 4 years we're moving on... Thank you very much." it ticked me off. They do not even apologize for it. Just change the title and hope it goes away. Instead we get attacked for being haters.
@@frankd6142Yeah this guy just convinced me to unsubscribe.
On the post put a piece of aluminum to cover the top and drive a couple of nails on the side to hold it to the post.
Combustion toilet should go in shop area
Those tilt trail sure are handy👍 I don't know how big the risk is, but I was told to cover the exhaust when hauling a machine backwards to prevent damage from the wind spinning the turbo backwards. I always do it for peace of mind.
1/4” drop per foot.
Please I like your chill attitude, click are doesn’t help
I'm really proud of you guys, you have accomplished so much in such a short time period! And little Oliver's walking and even basic talking is so cute, we really get a kick out of watching him grow up.
So, is Andy a full time employee now? He has been in all of your recent videos.
Hmm, separating the gray water is a good. Idea ,I use the grey water in a chamber with a submerged UV-C light , and water the lawn to filter the water as it returns from where it came , ;-) .
It is Exciting to install the newer 1 gal. Flushing Toilet .
I'm. Using the pool to a digester for gas production, soon :-) .
@14:50 amen brother
Beat me to it 🤣
Oliver isn’t here by accident 😂😂😂
if you run your pipes in the same trench just make sure you have about 1 ft of dirt between them and run sewer on the bottom water line next electric on top this way your water will not get contaminated
Omg the title complaints 😱 😂 nice trailer to do your OWN towing!👍👍 look at lil man growing!😍 good idea rock free first! Well done with friend/assist Andy!🎉
Great job, you both are awesome! Really enjoy your channel!
Y’all make great videos!
Thanks Allan!
The weather changes randomly everywhere in idaho. Not just the north. South has already had snow.
Oh yeah clearly a lot of people are upset about the click bait, tbf I don't think it was to bad, but maybe don't do click bait ever again lol
Wow after reading all these comments, I hope you guys learn your lesson, I'd like to think you meant to say after 4 years - of off grid we're moving on and hooking up sewage to city grid, I also was so surprised to see you do this, you just gave yourselves a gut punch for no reason, buy hey to error is human....Javi G.
Your videos are number one. But the clickbait was number two. 😅
No, thank you for your perserverance through all the projects! You guys rock!
omg you scared me with the title 😂
With all the rocks in your dirt, it might be a good idea to put a sand bed down before laying the pipe and cover it with sand before you backfill the trench.
The title was?????
After 4 Years we're Moving On. Thank you very much.
From my experience you should have clean out spots in a sewar run that long you will need to clean out sometime in the future.
Amazing to see the backlash the title got..... are prople actually that upset? I couldnt tell you what the title was once i was 5 minutes into the video
The title was a bit "baitish"- I would have watched if it was all boring repair on the dozer tranny! Besides, it was fun watching Riley learn about plumbing- he's at least three times better at waste water than he was five years ago!
Yeah its a summy practice, it should be treated as such.
What was the original title?
@@jordanabendroth6458 something along the lines of “It’s been four years… time to move on”
I don't watch for title. Just know it's sunday and time to tune in....
When you put a frost free in, put a threaded tee at the bottom and a liner of your sewer pipe around it. You will have to replace that valve at some point. If you can do it without digging it up, it is time well spent now.
The heart attack that title gave me... I love ya guys, but please skip the clickbait.
Normally in the house sewer (pipe between the house and tank) only use 22 1/2 elbows, never 45 or 90 degrees. Also, it safer to have the tank closer to the house and compact under the house sewer properly to avoid negative slopes in the pipe.