Rain water harvesting on the homestead - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Just went and picked up four 3000 gallon rain water harvesting tanks. We'll be collecting the rain coming off our 40'x60' metal building and using it for the garden, greenhouse and emergency water. ⬇⬇⬇Tank links below⬇⬇⬇ Click show more.
3000 GALLON NORWESCO DARK GREEN PLASTIC VERTICAL WATER STORAGE TANK: www.ntotank.co...
PLASTIC VERTICAL WATER STORAGE TANKS: www.ntotank.co...
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Thanks Pete! I’m retiring from the Army and we’re looking at properties now for our homestead. Rainwater harvesting is definitely on the list of things we want to do. Thankful to learn from your experience!
Best clean and jerk that I have seen in some time. 👏
Awesome Pete! 12k of water should last through any drought year! Great job sir!
Enjoyed the video. Your right, water is the difference between success and failure on the homestead.
Like ur improvising adapting and overcoming!
I am real curous as to how you are gonna pipe this sucker together. Looking forward to upcoming episodes.
Jeez Pete... you looked like you were playing some demented midway game at the fair with those tanks! lol! Very cool. I'd like to eventually capture water as well. Thank you!
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Impressive, Pete! 👍 I'll be watching for your future videos on this project.
Pete, amazing! Go big or go home I guess. Best of luck with the rain collection system. Waste not, want not. Given the resources and space, it certainly seems like a wise investment.
Thanks, Pete! Just moved to Troup, TX and you've really helped me figure things out. Appreciate all the work you put into providing us with this valuable content!
Dang Pete, That's more water than all of California has right now! Wow, that's going big for sure, your not playing but you sure seam to be having some fun with it. You have definitely set the bar, Thanks!
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Duuude! That is a lot of water storage. Everything is bigger in Texas.
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Well Done
You handled those tanks pretty well by yourself. I and another person took a bit longer how to manhandle two slightly larger tanks. We went a different route to get them standing up, but your way is probably safer.
Great job Prepper Pete B, looking forward to seeing that pad and gutters go in. 👍👍💚💙💛🚜
Thanks 👍
Awesome! We are planning a similar setup because every time it rains I keep thinking, “Man, we should be collecting this stuff!”☺️ lol. We’re in East TX too.☺️ We get so much rain here!
Been thinking about a similar project, great ideas for moving them around..
We’ve been checking these out. Your project couldn’t have come at a better time. Thanks Pete. Can’t wait to follow this.
My clock turns way too slow. I never would have thought to pull that trailer out from under the tank lol. Happy to see you soldering on brother.
WOW THANK U
Another wonderful project is loading, thank you Pete, again I will learn a lot.
Awesomeness... Cannot wait to see this journey! Thanks Pete
This will be fun, glad to see you posted, 12k gallons, that’s a lot of agua
Pete, the is another good one. I am planning on setting up a 7500 gal. system and your other video on plumbing help me out a lot with my setup. Thank you and keep them coming.
Awesome 👍
Thanks for all your videos. Very helpful and informative !!!!
WOW! Pete those are some BIG tanks! Can't wait to see you put it all together! That will be great! God bless y'all! ♡♡♡
Thanks so much
Epic !
Nice set up. Love the infrastructure.
Thanks!
Sweet! Can’t wait to see what you do with those!
Men and their toys!
i got mine from home depot had to look at several stores till i found some in stock
Glad to see you beat the funk you were stuck in. I had faith that it would be short lived.
Nice video. I just received a 2100 gallon tank from NTO and working on the same idea, just on a smaller scale. Thanks for your work.
Glad your state allows you to collect water
I'm doing the same thing, but decided to get the 5000 gallon tanks and make it an even 20,000 capacity.
Excellent project
i would have the tanks set up as two seperate systems so if something happens to one , it doesnt effect the other.
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Great idea Pete, looking forward to more videos on this and how you put it all together.
Thanks 👍
Thanks this is going to be cool to follow along. Correct on the rainfall. We have had floods here in Alabama too. Interested to see how you manage water issues on the homestead for your garden.
I like this idea, we live in Mount Pleasant Tx and have land in Talco, where we plan on building an off grid homestead. What do you think about the water tanks at Home Depot? Where do you live? Thanks for any advice you have.
A 2500 gallon norwesco tank at home Depot is $1700 and at NTO the exact same tank is $1,617 but is two and a half hour drive for you one way. You might be better off just getting it at home Depot.
Hey Pete, like the channel. Water is everything here in Texas. looking forward to enjoying your channel. We did homestead on 15 acres north of Austin but over the years down sized so we could travel. We are still homesteading just smaller scale. Check out our site. Mike
This guy just pushed 405 lbs X 2 like nothing!
make sure you install a first flush system, to prevent most of the dirt/debrie from the roof getting in your tanks.
Not stupid, scary
looks like all those years of power lifting are still paying off pete! i missed it if you said it, but are you going to keep those tanks on the ground or put them on a short stand? raising them up some will allow you to take advantage of the density of water seeking its lowest level. you will get an immense amount of pressure with no pump or electricity. also will allow you to use piping under the tanks and keep them away from decomposing elements. cheers man and remember, it is not 'prepping', rather a way of life!
Thanks, the tanks are just too big and will weigh an incredible amount of weight unless I build a raised concrete platform. I will be putting them about a foot in ground to keep the pipes from freezing on the winter and the tank water will be pumped out with a shallow well pump with pressure tank in the garage.
A water tank is an almost required attachment to any farm building in Australia. However they don’t seem to be common in America. Are tanks not used much there because of cold winters freezing water in the tanks and busting them?
Yeah not too popular here but more in the southern US where it's warmer and they don't freeze in the winter.
Crossfit - Pete style.
Never do by hand what you can do with your tractor.
That tractor bucket would have flipped those up easily once they were on the wood frame....just saying.
I’m in Kentucky, how would I set these up and keep them from freezing up in the winter or is that possible?
They do sell special tanks that go under ground but it's s bit more expensive to go that route. But you would have to drain the tanks if your winters have temperatures below freezing for long periods of time.
Can't your solar surface also be used to catch rain? A pump and a float switch to full tall container.
I could but I would need 5 different gutters, one for each horizontal row of panels. There's an inch gap in between each horizontal row.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Or, silicone between panels?
Pete good planning ahead. I don't know the mean winter temperature where you live but are you planning to bury part or all of each tank to prevent freezing or breaking??
Yes I will be burying the lower portion of the tank and pipes about 12 inches. We do occasionally get a few days of crazy cold weather in late winter.
Cha ching
Thats coming nex for me too, Pete what part of Texas are you, I am in Kingwood.
If you mean kingwood Houston Tx, then I'm a couple hours northeast of you.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Good to know, so ur near the border to Arkansas then, I used to take golf lessons in texarcana. Great videos Pete, I am a few years behind but learning!
How big is the area of your farm Sir?
I have roughly 15 acres that are not totally wooded.
@@petebeasttexashomesteading WOW...thats huge and beautiful
Once you get your cisterns in place, you should contact your insurance company and see if you can get a break on your insurance for having a water source for firefighting.
Because we have a pond close to the house, we get a break.
We have two water wells we are hoping to start pumping into a cisterns, this will be in addition to our water co-op we are a part of.
Sorry to hear about your garden, we are battling a lot of water this year in Smith County Texas also, always something. So we roll with the punches.
Pete, another project?!
Yep, gotta have a source of water if my well pump goes out.
Very, very expensive.
Very! expensive I know.
Good thing you don't live in Colorado!
We lived in Colorado for a short time, thanks to my work transferring me there, so glad we live in Texas now where you don't worry about the water police.
In Colorado you just have to use the right terminology, these would be fire suppression reservoirs 😊
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UA-cam does this so they can make money
Thanks Pete! I’m retiring from the Army and we’re looking at properties now for our homestead. Rainwater harvesting is definitely on the list of things we want to do. Thankful to learn from your experience!