The Dodge would carry more weight that the Chevy, the suspension is stiffer. Good move to use both totes though, makes filling the storage tank quicker. Rain catchment comes to mind...lol The goats sure love their treats! Love ya'll ❤️
I have a compost "bin" the back portion of my yard .... Leaves, grass clippings when mowing my yard, kitchen scraps and I scrounge discarded Fruit & Veggies from my neighborhood grocery store. . . plus, coffee grounds & ash from my fireplace.
Y’all may look into a couple of water storage tanks and use the rain water off your roof with gutters and pvc pipe and collect water that way and maybe it will save you time and labor with your spring system you are using. It’s just a suggestion from a old Texan.
I have a dehumidify that produced 4 to 5 gal. A day. And then I put that into my 125 gal tank and then pipe to to my burkey and free it for drinking and the rest for showers. Theirs is two of us and two cats and 3 /60lbs dogs also if its rains in have a roof gutter that sends water to my in let you the tanks
I’ve been learning composting past few years and I’m slowly getting better. I have 2 huge black bins one for kitchen waste the other for chicken but it’s too small for that so it’s also kitchen waste and I have 2 ground piles. One for fresh the other aged. I put soil on 🔝of what I add seems to speed up the fermentation without any bad orders yay 😁! I do a lot of mixing as well Been trying to make enough compost for my ground garden boxes Love composting ❤!! Really improves garden 🪴 productivity! Yay 🎉 show more videos of composting. Go for it! 😊
Regarding water, you should contact a local college or university and request to see a hydrology map of your area. A state agency will have one. It's preferable not to use surface water do to animals and other bacteria.
I spose 4 you ud want several avenues for your water problems why not have two hoses say in the winter one is empty so when one freezes you just use the other hose sounds crazy but hey you have a backm up plan and its simple unless you can bury the lines but thats not really an option in your area. or having several cisterns or small ponds u build to collect water. near your home n you cant have to many of them large water tanks you haul ur water with I think they are pretty cheap to rather then labor intesive pond building putting them in strategic places to catch runoff is also a good idea.
IBC totes come in 2 sizes that I know of. 275 and 330 gallons. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 lb. You are either hauling 2282.5 lbs or 2739 lbs with each load. Those trucks both look to me to be 3/4-ton capacity, that's 1500 lb. My stepdad had a 3/4-ton Dodge Power Wagon. He sent my mom to the sand and gravel place to pick up a ton and a half of mortar sand. It bent the axel. It also made noise like your Chevy. You need a way to unload full totes. Set it on the ground and let it gravity drain into your tank while you take an empty to fill up.
Dig you a shallow well with hand pump or electric pump. I bet you could find water in less than 15 feet. Blow cavity out at bottom of well and should work. I've put down 5 on my property .
Compost, take some from the bottom of the first pile as an inoculant and make sure your compost piles are covered. Soggy compost becomes anaerobic, stinks and won't make decent soil amendments. Greg, smart move with sawdust, blending it into chips will actually speed up the composting process. Same goes for anything you add, smaller pieces speeds the composting. I'm on the "wet coast " where "red wigglers" or those called "Tiger worms" are native here. I built a worm composter indoors (no it doesn't stink if I don't use any animal products, citrus, allium family scraps) and I get those beautiful worm castings. Cheap, 2 fairly large totes, one drilled for air, drainage, the other to catch the "worm juice". Sawdust works, some form of grit (worms need grit) and one lid with holes for air. Katie can just put peelings, moldy vegs cut up fairly small into the bin, you get great non-toxic worm castings. Comment about being "grossed out" phooey,worms in the kitchen likely would be far more gross to some.
A well driller that is familiar with your area should be able to tell you if a drilled well is feasible. Get a set of skid forks for your tractor, you'll be amazed how much that you will use them.
That noise on yer truck is the universal joints on yer driveshaft when under a heavy load they do that because they need grease but at this point I would change them and save yourself a catastrophic break down.
I like your article on composting, but if you want really spectacular results for your garden you should do research on biochar. It can quadruple your output. Making and charging biochar is not difficult nor time consuming. Try it, you'll love it.
When I lived in the continental states, I had my compost pile at the top of a gentle nole and kept water running over it... the juices from the compost followed a little ditchline I kept open with a garden trowel and planted my garden according to which plants could stand the strongest fertilizers. Pole beans and sugar peas, loved it as well as my cucumbers and squash plants... oh yes, zucchini grew so fast that unless you seen it, just no one is going to believe it. Lettuce and other small green type tasty treats.... spinach n beats.... I loved beats just for their greens. If it had a bulb, it was in this area to be grown to exciting sizes and speed. That ground until the compost, wouldn't keep a dandelion going... odd thing is, is dandelions do best in poor soil with their root system going down to reach fertilizer rich soil could be found and make the dandelion healthy. I used a poor analogy there. Well Greg and Katie, so happy when I see you post videos, worry about the negative nancys out there making it hard for the two of you to continue youtube. Your both highly respected and loved by this old man who only wishes his body could still handle this lifestyle.
I remember when you hauled that pipe from the pump there through the bush around the trees back some months ago before winter hit. Always working hard you two!
I have a deumitfire that makes 4 to 5 gal a day for two people, 2 cats and 3 60# dogs. Water is put into my 125 gal tank and pipe to a burkey to filter the water and the rest is used for showers Also I have a gutter I put up just before it Russ and its catch water and its fills my tank also.
I think you need a trailer or something so you could fill two totes instead of one at a time as you have to set up the pump and hoses / maybe a trailer with two totes and the pumps and hose all together
You mentioned hand digging on some hills, can you rent a DitchWitch? And get it back in there. Not sure how much of a pain it would to get it back there and could it cut through all the roots you will find in the ground. Good to see it will be buried by next Fall.
Hi Katie and Greg. I hope you did not get negative thoughts about composting. I did not look. I have seen barrels that one rotates a little every few days and the input door acts as an output door. If the Chevrolet truck has grease fittings, that might be all that it needs. That is what it sounded like to me. I do not know when they stopped using them. Have good days!
Go for raised beds. Easy on the back. Deters some rodents. Look at designs for drip watering and underwater storage recirculation. Save water and time. Opportunities for water storage. Main issue is pine needles and floating debris. Water off the roofs - goat/chicken sheds, main house with downspouts, low rise roof in a cleared area, sloped for runoff to run to a sunk tank, through natural filter medium.
Love the denim dress and think that black dress would be perfect for travel as you can change it from casual to dressy. You had me laughing - hungry bottom😀
I keep telling you guys to keep buying the water rights to that creek and slowly start digging down 48" from it to your place with 1" plastic Tubing that you can attach to a Pump then pump the water across to your place, you might be able to do it even if you do not own all the properties? Peter
Not sure how far away equipment rentals are but if you can rent one of those walk behind trenchers that might work in the hilly portions, it might save you some hand digging
So long as it's well insulated and the water is moving then the constant influx of 'warm' (liquid) water should prevent it from freezing ... this may mean you'll need to 'waste' water by having an overflow (insulate this too as it's the most likely point to freeze - idealy the outlet should be underground in a soakaway)
Yay!!! I’m so stoked I sent you that video in Instagram, and I really hope that the pump will help you tremendously since you won’t need solar or electricity for it!!! Love you guys, and it’s always awesome to see you!! 😁❤️
Walking around holding a dousing wire made from coat hanger with plastic straw fit in as handles to reduce friction where held. You just don't know where a spring is hiding on the side of a mountainous terrain. The animals know too where there's water. The walking around with the goats holding a dousing wand is good exercise
You can go to your local hardware store and buy heat cord to go around if you’re using PVC pipe From your water source to your house I can’t be that expensive
Do a compromise on the garden beds, mill boards 12 inches high to form your beds, line the insides of the boards with roof membrane that will extend there longevity. Lower beds don’t dry out as much and don’t require as much watering. 1x12’s make great bed sides and you can mill them yourself. Send Greg to work and when he comes home you have milled and built your garden beds. Katie I’ve watched you work and am impressed with your talents. Think ahead, plan for the future, work smarter not harder. If a tractor can do the work use the mechanical advantage.
Don't use roofing membrane, it's a petrochemical product that can leech into the soil. Better to use the garden cloth membrane, yes it's plastic but doesn't have oils or chemicals to leech into the soil. I used 2X10 lumber and put a quick stain on both sides.
There is or was a UA-camr of grid og . In Indiana (?) He made a compost tankish septic tankish thing a 4x8 by 4 foot deep cyber lock tank with recycled windows on top angled for sunlight and a vent pipe (I'd extend higher 10 feet plus . It's all 100 feet plus from his home. He flushes a normal toilet the sewage is kinda cooked in the tank no washing machine. But in 7 years of flushing his toilet he had 4 inches in the bottom of the tank the rest evaporated away . I'm thinking 3 4x4 tanks use one tank untill full and switch to another by the time the last tank is filled th first tank should be well cooked into compost soil
Great video you two although Katie I'm sorry for the chicken I know what loss of a loved animal is but we have to remember we are all here for an undetermined time and life has to go on remember the love you shared with animal or human. Thank you for sharing your lives with us God bless
We devined a well at 18 feet everyone here that has wells is at 300 plus feet we used a backhoe dug down as far as we could and did the rest by hand...it's now 5 years old and supplies all we need...we had it tested and has a little salt in it like we had a water softener and has 2 grains of hardness....for those who think composting is gross a live to far away from how food is made...you get more sun in your yard and you may be able to put up a solar array on the north side of your garden area so it's not so far away ... also if your going with raised beds you may check out wicking beds, they water from underneath, easy to build and a lot less evaporation so you won't have to haul so much water ...I live in the Wyoming black hills and it's arid here and I'm planning on building some this year
Do you own the property where you pump water from ? Cos why not have the solar pump at that place and then just wait a day or 2 for it to be filled up ? Buy a 90 degree fittings so that the hose can be secured on top of the crate with a hook. If the water is not restricted when pumping it might go faster ?
I had to laugh about the smell of your toilet compost. I just said how odd it is to say that our toilet smells nice. Our recent shaving bucket is full of fresh pine, and it smells amazing when we put it into our toilet.
Water is so important. You have no idea how important till you don’t have it. I hope you can figure out a good source that is cost efficient and less labor intensive. Compost is important as well. Covering it also speeds the whole process. It’s fun watching you work!! Even fun watching you compost. Raised beds are best, especially for your back!
Planer shavings have been the best performer for adding carbon to compost for me so far. Chips are great for greywater pits and laying down for paths/trails. The fine sawdust I spread thinly over large areas to help it break down.
Why not a water capture system, with large tanks (using water from the gutter and probably eventually a garage. It may be easier especially if you don't go on land you do not own. (it could also be a lot cheaper...)
It would probably cost a lot less to run an above ground insulated/heat traced piping CW line to/from the creek. The frost line is probably pretty deep where you’re at so the trenching would be a pretty big undertaking, not to mention that you will probably be cutting through tons of roots and killing trees. I’d build a small pump house near the creek with a jet pump and a pressure tank, may need another booster pump install a media based sediment/separator in the pump house. Not sure how far you need to go or how much head you’ll need for the pump but I have a similar system on my property.
I got a trailer it will take four totes but i only take two just in the summer for garden and flowers .haul it with my G M very slowly ,i think i will try putting one in the 1/2 ton and the two on the trailer closer to the tail so it takes weight off the truck i hope .Yes so hard when you loose any animal.All the best guy's well done
Our well is 245’ deep, no sign of water, and was told it is like a river underground. Have it “witched”. We did. Don’t think you don’t have water available just because you can’t see the signs. I think the biggest drawback these days is cost. 😁
Good morning guys hope you guys have a great day keep up the good work what are you guys going to do with the bus are you guys going to keep the bus or turned that into a chicken coop have a great day 🐶🐶🏡💙😄💙🏡🏡🐶
Great video as usual. In our area, we have a lot of ponds with PVC hookups for fire trucks. It's a hydrant of sorts but not pressurized. Instead, it simply replaces a longer suction line that would be needed to reach the pond without getting the firetruck stuck. I was curious if something like that could be set up where you get water from so you could leave your pump in the back of the truck and simply connect the suction hose from the pump to a quick disconnect on the PVC pipe which would then run down to the creek. Just a thought that could make life a bit easier.
I'm searching right now for my off grid retirement property. As far as water goes existing well is a plus for me a good well on the property more than doubles the value to me . I likely will not pay to drill a well . When I was young I watched a guy spend $35,000 on a well that produced less than 2 gallons per minute. In Puget sound wa. I seen him do that 3-4 more times developing . One of the wells hit natural gas and that's not a good thing . Without infrastructure it's not usable and there wasn't enough to spend the shitload of $$$ . I have no desire to gamble on wells. Any land I get will have existing water or I'll haul it . Some area's like Arizona they can have water delivered to your home cheap a years supply of water can be cheap as city water.
As much as you can dig a three-foot trench and drop two-inch PVC to insulate the existing water line to keep it from freezing.
We got here by accident and we liked it a lot! We stay longer 👍. Greetings from Poland from our habitat 😀
Welcome!
You could use your chickens around the compost and they will scratch it up and move it around and then their droppings will help too
The Dodge would carry more weight that the Chevy, the suspension is stiffer. Good move to use both totes though, makes filling the storage tank quicker. Rain catchment comes to mind...lol The goats sure love their treats! Love ya'll ❤️
I have a compost "bin" the back portion of my yard .... Leaves, grass clippings when mowing my yard, kitchen scraps and I scrounge discarded Fruit & Veggies from my neighborhood grocery store. . . plus, coffee grounds & ash from my fireplace.
Y’all may look into a couple of water storage tanks and use the rain water off your roof with gutters and pvc pipe and collect water that way and maybe it will save you time and labor with your spring system you are using. It’s just a suggestion from a old Texan.
Pretty sure in the sub zero temps in Canada the water would freeze might work for Summer though.
I have a dehumidify that produced 4 to 5 gal. A day. And then I put that into my 125 gal tank and then pipe to to my burkey and free it for drinking and the rest for showers. Theirs is two of us and two cats and 3 /60lbs dogs also if its rains in have a roof gutter that sends water to my in let you the tanks
Or rain collection off roof
I personally love the goats !!! They are awesome
Hello. Craig. And your. Lady. About compost. Make it as wide as you. Bucket. On your. Tractor work smarter. Not. Harder. Good. LUCK.
Not the most "exciting" video, but sooooo full of useful information. This was a great addition to the library; thanks!
Good morning y'all from the south of Texas. Keep smiling and share happiness wherever you go.
Hi guys! I suggest a set of detachable forks for your tractor bucket. Some of those logs would squash you.
I’ve been learning composting past few years and I’m slowly getting better. I have 2 huge black bins one for kitchen waste the other for chicken but it’s too small for that so it’s also kitchen waste and I have 2 ground piles. One for fresh the other aged. I put soil on 🔝of what I add seems to speed up the fermentation without any bad orders yay 😁! I do a lot of mixing as well Been trying to make enough compost for my ground garden boxes Love composting ❤!! Really improves garden 🪴 productivity! Yay 🎉 show more videos of composting. Go for it! 😊
Regarding water, you should contact a local college or university and request to see a hydrology map of your area. A state agency will have one. It's preferable not to use surface water do to animals and other bacteria.
Katy if your wondering why the dirty brown water in that is from you sticking that dirty brown hose into the tank.
You guys are amazing. I watch a video every day.
I spose 4 you ud want several avenues for your water problems why not have two hoses say in the winter one is empty so when one freezes you just use the other hose sounds crazy but hey you have a backm up plan and its simple unless you can bury the lines but thats not really an option in your area. or having several cisterns or small ponds u build to collect water. near your home n you cant have to many of them large water tanks you haul ur water with I think they are pretty cheap to rather then labor intesive pond building putting them in strategic places to catch runoff is also a good idea.
I think a new waterline is in order come spring .Seams you've sprung a few leaks. Nice job on the compost bin Greg.
OH, AND SNOW MELT OFF THE ROOF IS SO EASY TO CAPTURE FOR GARDEN WATER....
IBC totes come in 2 sizes that I know of. 275 and 330 gallons. A gallon of water weighs 8.3 lb. You are either hauling 2282.5 lbs or 2739 lbs with each load. Those trucks both look to me to be 3/4-ton capacity, that's 1500 lb. My stepdad had a 3/4-ton Dodge Power Wagon. He sent my mom to the sand and gravel place to pick up a ton and a half of mortar sand. It bent the axel. It also made noise like your Chevy. You need a way to unload full totes. Set it on the ground and let it gravity drain into your tank while you take an empty to fill up.
Dig you a shallow well with hand pump or electric pump. I bet you could find water in less than 15 feet. Blow cavity out at bottom of well and should work. I've put down 5 on my property .
dig a pond out //and make it deeper at 1 end,- to your home /pick -up water line
Compost, take some from the bottom of the first pile as an inoculant and make sure your compost piles are covered. Soggy compost becomes anaerobic, stinks and won't make decent soil amendments.
Greg, smart move with sawdust, blending it into chips will actually speed up the composting process. Same goes for anything you add, smaller pieces speeds the composting.
I'm on the "wet coast " where "red wigglers" or those called "Tiger worms" are native here.
I built a worm composter indoors (no it doesn't stink if I don't use any animal products, citrus, allium family scraps) and I get those beautiful worm castings. Cheap, 2 fairly large totes, one drilled for air, drainage, the other to catch the "worm juice". Sawdust works, some form of grit (worms need grit) and one lid with holes for air.
Katie can just put peelings, moldy vegs cut up fairly small into the bin, you get great non-toxic worm castings.
Comment about being "grossed out" phooey,worms in the kitchen likely would be far more gross to some.
My father in law worked a siphon over a hill from a spring. He put a piece of rail road rail on the dozer blade to break up the soil to bury the pipe.
I fully agree on that Chevy command
Wonderful job your doing. Thank you for sharing your story.
It looks like for now, rain water is your best option. It would be cleaner and less trouble most of the year.
A well driller that is familiar with your area should be able to tell you if a drilled well is feasible. Get a set of skid forks for your tractor, you'll be amazed how much that you will use them.
in the North country , those white cute animals are called hares I believe, especially the snow shoe hare in particular.
I've seen enough vids that shows that a insulated box works for the pump such!
That noise on yer truck is the universal joints on yer driveshaft when under a heavy load they do that because they need grease but at this point I would change them and save yourself a catastrophic break down.
I like your article on composting, but if you want really spectacular results for your garden you should do research on biochar. It can quadruple your output. Making and charging biochar is not difficult nor time consuming. Try it, you'll love it.
When I lived in the continental states, I had my compost pile at the top of a gentle nole and kept water running over it... the juices from the compost followed a little ditchline I kept open with a garden trowel and planted my garden according to which plants could stand the strongest fertilizers. Pole beans and sugar peas, loved it as well as my cucumbers and squash plants... oh yes, zucchini grew so fast that unless you seen it, just no one is going to believe it. Lettuce and other small green type tasty treats.... spinach n beats.... I loved beats just for their greens. If it had a bulb, it was in this area to be grown to exciting sizes and speed. That ground until the compost, wouldn't keep a dandelion going... odd thing is, is dandelions do best in poor soil with their root system going down to reach fertilizer rich soil could be found and make the dandelion healthy. I used a poor analogy there. Well Greg and Katie, so happy when I see you post videos, worry about the negative nancys out there making it hard for the two of you to continue youtube. Your both highly respected and loved by this old man who only wishes his body could still handle this lifestyle.
Great idea, sounds like an awesome garden
I remember when you hauled that pipe from the pump there through the bush around the trees back some months ago before winter hit. Always working hard you two!
I have a deumitfire that makes 4 to 5 gal a day for two people, 2 cats and 3 60# dogs. Water is put into my 125 gal tank and pipe to a burkey to filter the water and the rest is used for showers
Also I have a gutter I put up just before it Russ and its catch water and its fills my tank also.
Wow Spring around the corner and house almost finished....things going forward with the gardening, animals always around...pretty cool 😊
Idea saw dust and chip on bottom and chicken ware on top so rain washed it thru saw dust
I'm 73 and very proud of you two for doing what you have done.
I am 76 and would like to do what you two have done. 👍👍😀😀
The best off grid video ever
I always enjoy the interaction with all your critter friends especially the goat hikes. Great video
hello this off grid life its is randy and i like video is cool thanks friends randy
use compressed air to blow out the line after each use in the winter then you can still use it
I think you need a trailer or something so you could fill two totes instead of one at a time as you have to set up the pump and hoses / maybe a trailer with two totes and the pumps and hose all together
I see Greg still loves his 20 oz hammer LOL @15.50
Sounds like a drive shaft problem maybe a u joint. On the chevy.
Thanks!
You mentioned hand digging on some hills, can you rent a DitchWitch? And get it back in there. Not sure how much of a pain it would to get it back there and could it cut through all the roots you will find in the ground. Good to see it will be buried by next Fall.
Katy the Shocks are Rubbing maybe if replace the rear shocks it would help.
Look up there's a big Hornets nest above where your solar panel should be.
I put a tarp over the compost , then it goes faster and its gets the right temperature
yes i have compost bin also
You still need to take that adapter off the bottom of the tank so you can use a piece of 4” pvc pipe to dump the water at the house
Hi Katie and Greg. I hope you did not get negative thoughts about composting. I did not look. I have seen barrels that one rotates a little every few days and the input door acts as an output door. If the Chevrolet truck has grease fittings, that might be all that it needs. That is what it sounded like to me. I do not know when they stopped using them. Have good days!
Yah I’m going to have to build a new compost bin I’ll be on the look out for some nice pallets
Ashes from stove good in compost pile as well.
Go for raised beds. Easy on the back. Deters some rodents. Look at designs for drip watering and underwater storage recirculation. Save water and time. Opportunities for water storage. Main issue is pine needles and floating debris. Water off the roofs - goat/chicken sheds, main house with downspouts, low rise roof in a cleared area, sloped for runoff to run to a sunk tank, through natural filter medium.
Hey, us older models (me being a 1956 model) have lots to say. Your old truck is just chirping it's opinion. 🤣
Love the denim dress and think that black dress would be perfect for travel as you can change it from casual to dressy. You had me laughing - hungry bottom😀
I keep telling you guys to keep buying the water rights to that creek and slowly start digging down 48" from it to your place with 1" plastic Tubing that you can attach to a Pump then pump the water across to your place, you might be able to do it even if you do not own all the properties?
Peter
Not sure how far away equipment rentals are but if you can rent one of those walk behind trenchers that might work in the hilly portions, it might save you some hand digging
So long as it's well insulated and the water is moving then the constant influx of 'warm' (liquid) water should prevent it from freezing ... this may mean you'll need to 'waste' water by having an overflow (insulate this too as it's the most likely point to freeze - idealy the outlet should be underground in a soakaway)
Yah the ram pump you will need to build a small house around it with insulation
Yay!!! I’m so stoked I sent you that video in Instagram, and I really hope that the pump will help you tremendously since you won’t need solar or electricity for it!!! Love you guys, and it’s always awesome to see you!! 😁❤️
Kkk
So amazing video thank
Walking around holding a dousing wire made from coat hanger with plastic straw fit in as handles to reduce friction where held. You just don't know where a spring is hiding on the side of a mountainous terrain. The animals know too where there's water. The walking around with the goats holding a dousing wand is good exercise
I've done a good search on my property and found nothing. We have a plan, the squeeky wheel gets the grease!
You can go to your local hardware store and buy heat cord to go around if you’re using PVC pipe From your water source to your house I can’t be that expensive
I shed tears and it not even my chicken, rip Breda❤️😢
She was a good ol gal
@ 13:22 have seen that you have the gravity feed figured out / NO PUMP NEEDED
Do a compromise on the garden beds, mill boards 12 inches high to form your beds, line the insides of the boards with roof membrane that will extend there longevity. Lower beds don’t dry out as much and don’t require as much watering. 1x12’s make great bed sides and you can mill them yourself. Send Greg to work and when he comes home you have milled and built your garden beds. Katie I’ve watched you work and am impressed with your talents. Think ahead, plan for the future, work smarter not harder. If a tractor can do the work use the mechanical advantage.
Don't use roofing membrane, it's a petrochemical product that can leech into the soil. Better to use the garden cloth membrane, yes it's plastic but doesn't have oils or chemicals to leech into the soil.
I used 2X10 lumber and put a quick stain on both sides.
There is or was a UA-camr of grid og . In Indiana (?) He made a compost tankish septic tankish thing a 4x8 by 4 foot deep cyber lock tank with recycled windows on top angled for sunlight and a vent pipe (I'd extend higher 10 feet plus . It's all 100 feet plus from his home. He flushes a normal toilet the sewage is kinda cooked in the tank no washing machine. But in 7 years of flushing his toilet he had 4 inches in the bottom of the tank the rest evaporated away .
I'm thinking 3 4x4 tanks use one tank untill full and switch to another by the time the last tank is filled th first tank should be well cooked into compost soil
Great video you two although Katie I'm sorry for the chicken I know what loss of a loved animal is but we have to remember we are all here for an undetermined time and life has to go on remember the love you shared with animal or human. Thank you for sharing your lives with us God bless
We devined a well at 18 feet everyone here that has wells is at 300 plus feet we used a backhoe dug down as far as we could and did the rest by hand...it's now 5 years old and supplies all we need...we had it tested and has a little salt in it like we had a water softener and has 2 grains of hardness....for those who think composting is gross a live to far away from how food is made...you get more sun in your yard and you may be able to put up a solar array on the north side of your garden area so it's not so far away ... also if your going with raised beds you may check out wicking beds, they water from underneath, easy to build and a lot less evaporation so you won't have to haul so much water ...I live in the Wyoming black hills and it's arid here and I'm planning on building some this year
I had a well drilled after 10 years of the water dance it was 10k and that’s not to mention the solar set up I would need to run it …
Ram pumps rock no energy needed / as far as freezing as long a water flows it doesn't seem to freeze
Do you own the property where you pump water from ? Cos why not have the solar pump at that place and then just wait a day or 2 for it to be filled up ?
Buy a 90 degree fittings so that the hose can be secured on top of the crate with a hook. If the water is not restricted when pumping it might go faster ?
I had to laugh about the smell of your toilet compost. I just said how odd it is to say that our toilet smells nice. Our recent shaving bucket is full of fresh pine, and it smells amazing when we put it into our toilet.
Water is so important. You have no idea how important till you don’t have it. I hope you can figure out a good source that is cost efficient and less labor intensive.
Compost is important as well. Covering it also speeds the whole process.
It’s fun watching you work!! Even fun watching you compost. Raised beds are best, especially for your back!
Look great
Planer shavings have been the best performer for adding carbon to compost for me so far. Chips are great for greywater pits and laying down for paths/trails. The fine sawdust I spread thinly over large areas to help it break down.
Why not a water capture system, with large tanks (using water from the gutter and probably eventually a garage. It may be easier especially if you don't go on land you do not own. (it could also be a lot cheaper...)
I compost I use my chicken coop shavings and their poop along with kitchen scraps
Ya u can still dig a well jus so u kno as well you should build a water catchment system so atleast u have a bunch of ways to get water
Good job guys
It would probably cost a lot less to run an above ground insulated/heat traced piping CW line to/from the creek. The frost line is probably pretty deep where you’re at so the trenching would be a pretty big undertaking, not to mention that you will probably be cutting through tons of roots and killing trees. I’d build a small pump house near the creek with a jet pump and a pressure tank, may need another booster pump install a media based sediment/separator in the pump house. Not sure how far you need to go or how much head you’ll need for the pump but I have a similar system on my property.
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I got a trailer it will take four totes but i only take two just in the summer for garden and flowers .haul it with my G M very slowly ,i think i will try putting one in the 1/2 ton and the two on the trailer closer to the tail so it takes weight off the truck i hope .Yes so hard when you loose any animal.All the best guy's well done
Raised Garden beds are awesome and easy!! Good choice Katie
You need to replace the u joints on the drive shaft.
The pallet compost setup is awesome! We are definitely going to build one this summer. Great video!
Our well is 245’ deep, no sign of water, and was told it is like a river underground. Have it “witched”. We did. Don’t think you don’t have water available just because you can’t see the signs. I think the biggest drawback these days is cost. 😁
Wow! Very interesting video. Thanks to the author for such quality content.
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A half ton Chevy, but that is almost a ton of water in that tank.
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Great video as usual. In our area, we have a lot of ponds with PVC hookups for fire trucks. It's a hydrant of sorts but not pressurized. Instead, it simply replaces a longer suction line that would be needed to reach the pond without getting the firetruck stuck. I was curious if something like that could be set up where you get water from so you could leave your pump in the back of the truck and simply connect the suction hose from the pump to a quick disconnect on the PVC pipe which would then run down to the creek. Just a thought that could make life a bit easier.
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As far as water goes existing well is a plus for me a good well on the property more than doubles the value to me . I likely will not pay to drill a well . When I was young I watched a guy spend $35,000 on a well that produced less than 2 gallons per minute. In Puget sound wa. I seen him do that 3-4 more times developing . One of the wells hit natural gas and that's not a good thing . Without infrastructure it's not usable and there wasn't enough to spend the shitload of $$$ .
I have no desire to gamble on wells.
Any land I get will have existing water or I'll haul it . Some area's like Arizona they can have water delivered to your home cheap a years supply of water can be cheap as city water.
well it would do that if you would but an overload strings leaf in it and help with the weight
Build a cover for your tractor.