DIY 5,000 gallon water filter for $50
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Filtration efficiency of 99.99% at 0.9 microns
Filtration efficiency of 99.9% at 0.5 - 0.8 micron
Tested with live Cryptosporidium to a removal of 99.999%
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Do you have to prime these filter first? I bought the same ones and mine don’t seem to be draining at all?
The filters are now 66.00 each.
It's sad newer videos are getting more traction when you've had this up for way longer. Thank you for the video!
if you want free food grade buckets, go to a bakery, especially bigger ones, and they will have them left over from icing... sometimes, they even leave a little icing..... sometimes they even leave alot :)...... they are usually 2 or 3 gallons instead of 5, and some times square, but otherwise the same.
I work at a bakery, and we throw these away all the time. Great advice.
Alot of bakeries use the nice tall 6 gallon bucket.
Me and my wife have this same setup with an extra chlorine filter attached to the bottom of the filters on top and it's worked great!!! We use it to filter our tap water for drinking and cooking. Unfortunately the top (ceramic I think) filters got broken by a nasty fall off of the drier where we keep the setup on. Lol we love it though and the water tastes great! 100% would recommend this to anyone looking for a reasonably priced filter to get away from the disgusting tap water we're told is "ok to drink"! ( gimme a break)
Haha, “it’s okay to drink” really had me so confused! Water is supposed to be pure, it’s contaminated if it has so many things inside of it that it’s affecting the flavor. In which world is contaminated water ever okay??
These filters remove suspended solids, parasites, cysts and pathogenic bacteria (99.99%) and reduce organic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides, organic solvents, trihalomethanes, SOCs, VOCs and foul tastes and odors.
what about well water full of calcium and dirt and metals?
This is a very old technology in india. We buy these ready made filters for 10 dollars here.
I'd be interested in seeing the design, do you have a way to show what they look like or how they make them?
BPA free plastic is a must, if your in a SHTF situation, and you find yourself sick the added chemicals leaching out of the plastic could really harm you, things that a healthy person's body wouldn't be as affected by all at once. Just a thought, great video!
what is BPA? I have food grade buckets and i have lowes buckets? aren't they all the same.
Please cite evidence.
@Geo Jeff - Late replay, but "Food Grade" buckets are almost certainly BPA free if made in the last 5 years.
@Bradley Boulton - Search is your friend, the "Evidence" is years old by now, you must be living under a rock to not now what BPA Free is about. BPA is a component of plastic that has been found to be extremely harmful to life. Google BPA Free instead of expecting someone to do it for you.
This can also be done using stainless steel, stock pots (cooking) & using Doulton filters that also filter out fluoride, which Berkey filters do not. And IMHO, a better spigot, nothing plastic, is in order here for precious water.
Harley Wood, I'd really appreciate hearing your comparison of the filters.
Great, short video! Not a minute of wasted time. I'll certainly share this one!
At Walmart, they have the Stainless Steel Stock Pot with Metal Lid FOR CHEAP..... 8-Quart or 12-Quart or 16-Quart and all you need is the Ceramic Filters and you can make it your own DIY CHEAP + SIMPLE !!!
Great video buddy very simple and easy to understand thumbs up.
thank you.
All of the Amazon reviews say these filters stop working after two weeks.
Did you read the reviews?
then clean them.
The first bucket you need a drain to drain the crap out once in a while
I think you can also use some sort of prefilter fabric to cover the filters to extend the life
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Amazing work.
Would love to see something with 3D printed parts as a next version😎.
All the best.
Actually this idea might be helpful for a lot of people in difficult times like COVID-19.
Great job.
Black filters water
That's a great filtration. Check out my DIY filtration on my channel to see what you think.
Excellent job! Thanks!
I made one of these and the taste is horrible. I built this exactly as described and the taste is bad. Is this normal? If ran probably 25-30 gallons through it and still the same. Feel like I’m just drinking tap water… any one else have the same results?
We built the water filter bucket exactly how I showed him the video and had the water tested afterwards the results were a palling. The system does not work. Hard water deposits were extremely high in the water after we filtered about 50 gallons through it
Excellent, thank you. jas
Awesome!
You have to make a next video where in you test the water with a PPM tester etc., not just say and there you have it. ????? cmon
How would this work with well water that has iron?
Carl Brown there are a bunch of different filters you can attack together to cover a broad range of contaminants. Just search Amazon and I'm sure you'll find what you're looking for. Unfortunately there are a few things such as Fluoride that you'd need a more sophisticated filtration system to get out.
just because you have 2 2500 it doesn't mean itll be 5000..
what do they remove?
They are ceramic filters. If you want to get very specific, you need to know the micron level that you're filtering. but generally these types of ceramic filters will filter out most pathogens and bacteria, metals and other contaminants.
Wonder what would the TDS read on the post filtered water
Does this filter out rust? I have metal in my hard water. Ugh
Taste test? Arsenic is tasteless jack. God help him.
I need filters.. where on amazon, what are they called?
It's in the video description. Here's the link: goo.gl/45X2cZ
What's the TDS on it?
Thanks for the post
I’ve been banging my head off the wall, trying to keep the price of water filtration low, by trying to figure out if a couple of five gallon buckets would do the job, instead of buying the overpriced big berkly (spelled wrong on purpose) type of system. I just did a search to try and find out if anyone else already figured it out. And VWALLA !! Here you are 😁👍🏻 Thank you for this video.
I would re-pack the filters when in storage. Knock that bucket and the filters will snap off at the base. Just saying.
What a great idea. Thinking of doing this but filling the bucket up, run a short tube connected to the bottom and running it to my 5 gallon jug below filling it up for my water cooler.
Quite nice. I am thinking of doing something similar with 3-gallon buckets and 2x7 filter element(s). As a single male with limited counter space/height 3 gallon buckets should be more than sufficient. And while the 10" candles might JUST fit in that size bucket (11" tall, so maybe 10.25" clear) why not use the cheaper 7" candles as the water would not go to the top of the 10" ones anyway? Has anyone tried the trick with adding the hose to the filter to create a siphon and increase the flow rate?
Would this filter salt water or brackish water well enough for drinking?
the filter is also possible to be made. Africa is using clay and saw dust to make these, and is reporting good success.
very good video .... excellent for hunting shack ,,, I prefer a glass/stainless steel container...the plastic is BPA ...that is an endocrine disrupter
Remember food grade buckets. Thanks +silverfoxxee
I believe I covered that at about the 0:37 mark
HarleyWood23 is this good for bad tap water and and rain water? Do I have to boil what comes out?
mary sunshine
No need to boil. If you read the stats on those filters, they filter out like 99.9% of dangerous elements. Is you suspect viral contamination, you could get a more expensive set that has even higher protection. Viral contamination is rare though so might not be necessary
You're the first I've seen drill holes in the lid for the filters to fit thru.
Ha, in canada those filters start at 230.00/pair...
Definitely use food grade buckets
Where is the link? I'm not seeing it.
it's in the video description, but YT recently redesigned that section and it's not easy to find. Here's the link amzn.to/2E61ya0
i thought berkey fluoride filters would clean fluoride without reverse osmosis
Thanks for sharing great video!
, या फिल्टर मेरे पास है पहले से भी लेकिन एक और बना लूंगा डब्बे में
Just looked at the filters from link and they are exactly what I bought except mine are the 10” filters. They do not filter fluoride. What about adding a third filter in the bucket that filters fluoride? I’ve heard mixed things about that. If you have any thoughts about it, I’d appreciate your input. Thanks Harley!
Thanks man. Your plan may differ, but for me these are intended for a scenario where city water is not available and I’d need to filter from creeks or lakes. As such, I wasn’t terribly worried about fluoride. Adding a third filter that removes fluoride won’t stop the other two from letting it through. You may want to return those two and buy the ones that filter fluoride.
* IDEA to keep SPIGOT from getting lost/separated:
Drill a hole in the lid that you've drilled the holes for the filters to protrude thru for the SPIGOT, so during transport /storage SPIGOT does not get lost.
BTW: Best to use Food Grade buckets at this point in time as it's projected the entire power grid will be going down long term (months /years) if or should I say when a EMP attack is launched.
Google "EMP attack". While reading the various hits keep in mind that the "real" threat is not so much a "Military attack: from "nations" /nationstates as in a military attack as our military could respond in kind, but from those dedicated individuals who've chopped off peoples heads while wearing masks that want to kill as many of us as they can.
(Google Solar Flare /Carrnington Event of 1859)
HarleyWood23 Do you have a problem with the lower bucket not breathing and building up pressure? It seems like that would slow the filtration considerably.
will mathis
No sir. Those holes in the lid are large enough to allow air to escape.
Great video...Thanks
Filter model number?
There’s a link in the video description. Here you go: amzn.to/2E61ya0
Are these buckets PVC free?
Have you considered forcing the water through the bottom of the filters, to speed up the process?
someone else suggested that too. Maybe using an air compressor attachment on the top lid would work. great suggestion
I just made the same setup. Water is not coming out the other end of filter. Do I need to prime it?
No. It takes a long time. Fill the bucket and leave it a few hours. Dirty water will be even slower.
Do the filters come with the plastic screw setup you put in the bottom of the first bucket to hold the fingers in?
We could probably use the 3 gal buckets as well.. Thank you for this video! Clean water will be our MAIN priority during a power outage!
@Rob Mintz
Lol, I don't even know what I was talking about! Do you? I mean, "to hold the fingers in"? I don't recall my comment reference.. 🤪
remove fluoride?
depends which filters you buy. There are many that do.
still should boil correct
Thank you for the demo.
This is great!
Dumb question: After your dirty water is filtered, should it than be boiled?
I’m putting one of these water filters together to use with an emergency rain water tarp. My assumption is any rain water that runs through a filter shouldn’t require any boiling.
Domenick Chicko
No. Not typically. These don’t just filter out solids. They also remove nearly all viral/bacterial/chemical contaminants, with the exception of some inorganic chemicals.
@@HarleyWood23 Thanks for the info and the video!
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where did you buy your filters and what it is called?
Ruben M. Rodriguez
There's a link in the description. Here it is again: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C0YPK4K/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=harl0f-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00C0YPK4K&linkId=ca125f5b0acbb5837980c9544e68ef31
What is it rate for as far as micron and virus filtration?
Filtration efficiency of >99.99% at 0.9 microns
Filtration efficiency of >99.9% at 0.5 - 0.8 micron
Tested with live Cryptosporidium to a removal of >99.999%
I like. You
Yaaaas. Great stuff
How often till you replace the filter ?
dukat03
5,000 gallons
Very cool!
Did you run a red dye test? BTW, which Sawyer filter is that?
I didn't do a dye test. That's a great idea. The Sawyer filter is this one: ua-cam.com/video/xtt93TmE8pw/v-deo.html
How do these compare with Berkey's black filters?.
I just went to Amazon to order the filters, but they do not come with the piece you need to attach the filters to the bucket. It would cost $8 to order it from the UK? Where did you get your part? It's very important that we understand that the piece that screws onto the filter to hold it to the bucket, does NOT come with it.. Please help! :/ Thank you again!
cookiemama4
Mine came with them. Did you ask the seller? Pretty sure they're included.
HarleyWood23
I'll ask the individual seller.. The description didn't show it, and many comments said they did not come with the back piece. Thank you! I apologize for not asking the seller directly, before bringing it back to you. .
My bad! :(
PS: I was pleased to see that Amazon also sells the spouts!
no worries. let me know for sure cause that would be a pain. If you find one on amazon that does include it, i'll change the link in my description.
not sure if you want a two-pack, but this one seems to have the wing-nuts. Also, these filter 3,000 gallons each as opposed to the 2,500 that mine does: amzn.to/2shzNzz
Most likely you ordered the replacement filter and not the original filter. jas
Are 5 gallon buckets BPA free?
They can be if you buy the BPA-free food grade buckets
in a crisis, bpa is gonna be the least of your worries, IMO.....
Only your kidneys know for sure..and they won't know for another 20 years...feel lucky...lol..great for the dog and cat...not,my family..the people or company's that make water filters for a living have their results or products approved by the Feds...you don't...And water can affect a persons health over a long period of time...You don't look like a Genius...lol..#imsmarterthenyou
Hey Harley ... thanks for your video! I just bought 2 buckets (no lids available, go figure) and I have 2 candle filters like yours made by Doulton. I didn’t realize when I bought them that they do not remove fluoride. I was bummed. I’ll take a look at the filters from your link. Guess I should’ve looked at that first before posting this lol. I was just really excited to see your video. You explain it simply and clearly... I appreciate that!