Your an animal! Pete, have you ever taken on small projects? Go big or go home I suppose. Thanks to you, my family and I enjoyed Gagootza’s this season for the first time in many decades. We are grateful to you and your wife for the seeds and your generosity. Be safe and well and best of luck with your water plant :)
Awesome, glad you enjoyed the cucuzzas. Remember to save the biggest and longest one for seeds. Just let it ripen on the vine until it turns brown and hard thick shell, then just keep it in your garage or inside until you're ready to open it up and get the seeds out.
I am enjoying your journey. I have done a rain water system too. (2) 5,000 gallon poly tanks behinds my barn. I added a complete filtration system and dual pumps for potable water.
Hello Pete! Watching your video reminded me of Life Uncontained when he did his water system. You might want to watch his videos, he did the same thing with these very large containers. It was amazing! Hope this helps you out. Blessings from south Texas.
If your using gutter guards for rain water collection, then first flush diverters and overflow skimmers are essential to prevent sludge from building up inside the water storage tanks.
Looks pretty good, Pete. Y'all have heavy water there in Texas though. In the rest of the world a US gallon of water only weighs 8.34 lbs. Close enough. Rock on, brother.
Pete it would look a lot cleaner and more functional if you faced two back and front ports towards each then t the center of each set and tie them together. I---I just a thought, just fascinated with all you have accomplished.
Are you going to put float switches in each tank to control the water pump? If so, make sure you use a floating extractor filter in order to avoid clogging your irrigation system with debris. RAINFLO has everything you’ll need in order to determine the pump size and connect it to your Rain bird irrigation time clock.
Ooh nice tractor…we’re searching for one that doesn’t cost a fortune lol. Can I ask where you found it? We are in East TX, Zavalla specifically and currently building our off grid home.
Wow Pete I am impressed your able to level your ground without building a frame 😁 where did you get your water tanks ? and did you study a book to learn how to do this? If so please share which one as hubby wants to do same on our place with tanks for home and tanks for garden and animals. Thank you for vid
The links to the tanks are in the description under the video. You can order from them and find the closest place near you to pick them up or have them delivered but it's very expensive to do that. As far as leveling the ground, you can eyeball it and then use a long 2x6 and a level on it to see where your high and low spots are.
Have you seen the Harbor Freight shallow well pumps? They have one for about $ 170.00. Thats what I have on my place in the Texas Hill country and it works great. Plenty of pressure and it has its own pressure tank. I use it on are house trailer for showers and washing dishes. It did freeze this pass winter but I have it on the outside near the tank. You can buy three are four of these before you spend the amount they want on some of these pumps.
After dealing with the bacterial and minerals in the well for my new house (Old well) I am pivoting to rainwater for supply. How much have you determined you need for water a day? Here in North Texas we have gone 30-40 days with out rain.
Check out this site. I use the iron and manganese back washing filter and it works great. www.cleanwaterstore.com/well-water-testing-well-water-treatment.html
Rain water is fine to drink. It seems like in the USA there is a general fear of drinking captured rainwater. Most Australians living on farms drink, bathe and wash in and with captured rainwater stored in water tanks. I’m 50 years old and while I have a few issues, none of them come from growing up on a farm and drinking rainwater. In fact there is a general feeling rain water is superior to water from any other source,
Imagine how much more chill and happy folks would be, if they just had a tractor
Pete you are awesome thanks for the content
Lots of good information in this video, thanks Pete.
Glad it was helpful!
We're getting ready to do this too, neighbor. Good timing. Thanks for the dirt endorsement. 👍🏼
Thanks for video, this is what I have wanted but didn’t know how to explain to my husband
Wow! Lot’s of work. Good plan do do it right the first time. Looking good!
Pete manifold the tanks together they will fill up all equally and have an over flow for the excess 👍🏻
Great video, Pete
Your an animal! Pete, have you ever taken on small projects? Go big or go home I suppose. Thanks to you, my family and I enjoyed Gagootza’s this season for the first time in many decades. We are grateful to you and your wife for the seeds and your generosity. Be safe and well and best of luck with your water plant :)
Awesome, glad you enjoyed the cucuzzas. Remember to save the biggest and longest one for seeds. Just let it ripen on the vine until it turns brown and hard thick shell, then just keep it in your garage or inside until you're ready to open it up and get the seeds out.
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.
Hello Pete. OK, waiting to see the finished project! Be well.
I am enjoying your journey. I have done a rain water system too. (2) 5,000 gallon poly tanks behinds my barn. I added a complete filtration system and dual pumps for potable water.
I am preparing my water tank and water supply projects too. But your tanks are so big.
Love the channel and look forward to seeing the next in this series
Thank you
this is a very nice project. I can’t wait to see more
This looks like an interesting project Pete, I am curious to see how you get it all plumbed up....good luck.
Hello Pete! Watching your video reminded me of Life Uncontained when he did his water system. You might want to watch his videos, he did the same thing with these very large containers. It was amazing! Hope this helps you out. Blessings from south Texas.
Thank you, I will
Awesomeness! Way to go
Blessings
Thanks so much!
If your using gutter guards for rain water collection, then first flush diverters and overflow skimmers are essential to prevent sludge from building up inside the water storage tanks.
Looks pretty good, Pete.
Y'all have heavy water there in Texas though. In the rest of the world a US gallon of water only weighs 8.34 lbs.
Close enough. Rock on, brother.
👍😂
Pete it would look a lot cleaner and more functional if you faced two back and front ports towards each then t the center of each set and tie them together. I---I just a thought, just fascinated with all you have accomplished.
You can also set it up so you can charge the pressure tank with a hand pump.
Are you going to put float switches in each tank to control the water pump? If so, make sure you use a floating extractor filter in order to avoid clogging your irrigation system with debris. RAINFLO has everything you’ll need in order to determine the pump size and connect it to your Rain bird irrigation time clock.
I'll have the pump in the garage drawing water from all the tanks.
Ooh nice tractor…we’re searching for one that doesn’t cost a fortune lol. Can I ask where you found it? We are in East TX, Zavalla specifically and currently building our off grid home.
Pete - have you thought about some kind of filter screen/collecter to keep leaves and debris out of your tanks? Looks great.
Yes I'll have gutter guards, first flush, leaf eater and another screen in the tank inlet.
Wow Pete I am impressed your able to level your ground without building a frame 😁 where did you get your water tanks ? and did you study a book to learn how to do this? If so please share which one as hubby wants to do same on our place with tanks for home and tanks for garden and animals. Thank you for vid
The links to the tanks are in the description under the video. You can order from them and find the closest place near you to pick them up or have them delivered but it's very expensive to do that. As far as leveling the ground, you can eyeball it and then use a long 2x6 and a level on it to see where your high and low spots are.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading thank you for that info will look into it I do have a trailer to haul .
Have you seen the Harbor Freight shallow well pumps? They have one for about $ 170.00. Thats what I have on my place in the Texas Hill country and it works great. Plenty of pressure and it has its own pressure tank. I use it on are house trailer for showers and washing dishes. It did freeze this pass winter but I have it on the outside near the tank. You can buy three are four of these before you spend the amount they want on some of these pumps.
Thanks, I've been looking at a few brands but haven't decided on a pump yet.
After dealing with the bacterial and minerals in the well for my new house (Old well) I am pivoting to rainwater for supply. How much have you determined you need for water a day? Here in North Texas we have gone 30-40 days with out rain.
12,000 gallons just barely got us enough water to water our garden for three months, watering twice a week. Watering about 35 trees and 6 garden beds.
Check out this site. I use the iron and manganese back washing filter and it works great. www.cleanwaterstore.com/well-water-testing-well-water-treatment.html
Wouldn't having a well be a better solution? TIA
A well is a good option too. But we just decided to collect rain water instead.
I’m just curious on why are you didn’t want to Bury them
These tank can not be buried or they will collapse when empty. I will only be burying them about 12 inches, enough to cover the pipes connecting them.
Do you have a plan for in case you have to drink this? Do you need to disinfect it, or just let your gut biome take care of it?
We have three options, boil it or run it through ceramic filters or run it through a Berkey filtering system.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading you've really thought this through!
Thanks
Rain water is fine to drink. It seems like in the USA there is a general fear of drinking captured rainwater. Most Australians living on farms drink, bathe and wash in and with captured rainwater stored in water tanks. I’m 50 years old and while I have a few issues, none of them come from growing up on a farm and drinking rainwater. In fact there is a general feeling rain water is superior to water from any other source,
is that an east texas accent?
sounds like New England to me