Hauling Water | IT'S A WHOLE THING!
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2020
- Thinking we should totally make shirts that say, "It's a whole thing" because we find ourselves saying that A LOT out here.
In this video we show you how we're hauling water for now, until we get our rainwater harvesting setup built :)
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If there’s anything that makes you appreciate the beauty of water it’s living off-grid! I’ll never again take it for granted. Hope y’all get all the kinks worked out soon. 😊Pam
So true! I was just telling Jonathan that we’ll need to create an outdoor hot ton before winter. As long as we use the old water for plants I’m okay with using that much water sometimes:)
Tiny Shiny Home I miss my hot tub!😄👌🏽
Awesome to see the kids help. Wow lots of work for water good thing it's only about 10 minutes down the road
It’s not as bad as we thought, plus it gives me lots of quality time with the kids to talk:) I’ll take that any day:)
Hi guy's !! I I think that your way of living off grid is the Best thing ever !!! Especially in these times !! I love the way you get your water and everything else !! It's soo Freeing and Pure...lol 👍🏾💪🏾💪🏾 Soo glad your son wasn't hurt by the snake that was a Blessing !! Bye for now stay safe !!! 👍🏾
Thank you so much! It means so much to us when you take the time to comment on our videos. We really appreciate it. We’re having a blast out here and excited to share some of our adventure:)
Love your son dancing while holding the hose! Soooo much fun!!!! Also, the sun appears to be beating down strong. Either you both are sunburned or the heat is giving you that rosy glow 😆😆😆
It’s real hot out here. Trying our best to stay hydrated and layered in sunscreen:) definitely a permanent rosy glow:)
Did that for years. I used a 390 gallon tote on an inexpensive Harbor Freight trailer. Towed it all with my 1974 Ford Courier. Extremely dangerous. Now I have the water delivered 2000 gallons at a time. However when your in the desert you have to get water any way you can.
I applaud your efforts and dedication to your process.
Watched many UA-cam videos from driveway water tank to current…
You have accomplished much.
Greeting from Oregon! , We just purchased property in Pomerene and stumbled upon your channel a few days ago..been binging ever since!
Thank you for sharing your trials and tribulations of learning as you go! A rad journey to follow 🤟 Cheers, Carli
Makes us all appreciate our water a little more. Is there not enough head pressure from the large storage tank to fill the Airstream? Maybe the Airstream is higher than the tank. 👍👍
Yes! We appreciate water so much out here. Not quite enough pressure, though we are at a gradual slope downhill from the tank. We are just using our Airstream as though we are boondocking, which I guess, technically, we really are:)
@@TinyShinyHome , you can use water bladders for the sinks and shower, if you are able to get enough pressure to fill them. I've seen this done in Australian videos. The bladders are stored on shelves above the place the faucet is used, so there is water pressure.
You LOOK like you're having fun ;)
We are! Thanks for watching!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing your journey! You guys are such a pleasure to watch!
Awe, thanks for the kind words.
thanks, that helped a lot.
If you bought a structure about 15 or 20 feet off the ground, large enough to hold the full 2500 gallon water tank, you would have water pressure to your locations. But then pumping the water up would be harder. Nice video, thank you for sharing !!
When you're transferring the water you loosen the cap it's called "venting"
Love the set up! We've made that run from the rv back to the pump a few times to unplug it! Maybe we'll see you around the well share. Finally got our meter set up.
Sweet! We’re hoping to host a gathering in June! We’d love to have you guys over!
The shape of water🌊 is Cubed and that truckload is roughly 2500lbs± ! You guys remind me a little of the folks over at Mylittlehomestead which is a good thing 😂!
Funny story. I ran into them at Walmart a couple months ago and totally made a fool of myself as I ‘fan-girl’ed our. So embarrassing but I was so excited to meet them.
Tiny Shiny Home whoa! That is so cool 😎! They are one creative family 🤘🏼
I'm wondering (haven't sifted through comments nor watched entire video yet, sorry) if you are using your gray water? If I had limited water, I would also consider reusing some laundry water: using wash water for lights first and darks last, in small loads and then use rinse water once for each but reuse the rinse water for gardening or for a toilet if one is hooked up to the septic.
Get an on demand well pump from harbor freight with the 1' inlet and outlet. Then hook up the lines and connect to the city water inlet on the Airstream. Then you dont have to transfer water when the internal tank is low. I do this on a trailer I have in Montana.
We started down this path, but didn’t have a way to power a pump that big off-grid. Ended up building a solar powered water pump house instead ua-cam.com/video/zJiOVsNgYxE/v-deo.html
Wow, you got a water tank in already that is fast, but if you are using that much water you must have gotten your septic in already also!
top off so air pressure pushes down on the water and helps it flow faster
Good to know. I'll be working from those totes to begin with. Me being single and trucking all week.. I won't be using alot. Is there such a thing as shade trees living down here..???
I just saw your video, I think that you are on the way to have a rainwater catchment system, but it would be interesting to have a raised space for your truck to be higher than the tank, and transfer the water with pure gravity.
Great videos!
Thanks, but the physics just don't work. The 2600 gallon tank is 8' tall. No way it would gravity feed, and even if it did it would take 10x as long. We're doing 4-6 runs at a time.
I think he was inferring that you build a ten foot high structure for your truck, with a ramp, then let gravity pull the water down into your 8 foot tall storage tank.
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I'll be moving to Cococino county next spring..was just curious how much meter water cost in the area. I'll catch up on your videos to see if it's mentioned elsewhere in them. Thanks for sharing!
Ours cost $30/mo + $1/1,000gal. We only get between 1,500 and 2,000 per month. By the time you add in convenience fees for paying online it's $40-45-ish.
Hi... I know this is an old vid. But I heard a rumour that if you haul you water... A child 14yrs or older can apply for a hardship drivers licence and they can go for you! I had one at that age (I'm from WY tho) but I live in AZ and heard that type of thing is permitted here. Also if you lose ur driver's license or your vehicle loses its lights or tags are out of date... U can still haul water. Things to look into😎
Yeah. Have been following you guys awhile now and came back to rewatch this video to see how you figured out the well share. Have been looking and searching and just can't find any info, official or otherwise.
How did you find yours? Did someone point the way for you back when you started out?
Finding this kind of information was incredibly difficult as most of it isn't online anywhere. We recommend starting at the local hardware store and asking around, same with any neighbors. Try local facebook groups, too.
How long does 300 gallons last you? How often do you have to go to the well?
Why not transfer from the tote straight to the RV? Shorter hose maybe even just gravity or am I missing something?
Looks intriguing, My plan is a bit different, I hope to use gravity by mounting My main Storage on a 4' platform and closer to My RV, I'll be using two 275 gallon IBC tanks, one for the RV and one for the Trailer I have set up for hauling. Also I plan on a Submersible Pump in the one tank for transfer to My other Tank. I'm going small to start, tight budget, and all our kids are grown, so it's just the Wife and I now.. whoot! Good luck on Your Journey, I'll be watching! 👍 😉
Does the Airstream have a 12v pump for water from the onboard tank? If yes, can you re-route the pump from a garden hose hookup from the large storage tank?
Yes, the Airstream has it's own 12v pump, that's what we're using after we transfer the water into the fresh tank. But it's only run to circulate water internally, it can't transfer the water from the other big tank. In our 5th wheel we had something like that where we could turn some switches and turn the pump into a suction pump. But it's not plumbed or connected that way in the AS.
@@TinyShinyHome I did not mean to use the onboard pump as a transfer. With the amount of water you still had coming through the hose with the transfer pump off you should have enough supply to just use the onboard to pull directly form the large tank. The only draw back is having to leave the garden hose across the ground unless you bury some pipe.
@@ensiv74 I don't *think* it works that way (plumbed to suck from the fresh tank, not the lines), but you've got me curious. Gonna try it at some point soon.
@@TinyShinyHome Just trying to help since your spoiler alert said it did not go well. Not sure how you plumbed the onboard pump to the onboard tank but it may be worth it to install a diverter valve (similar to a garden hose Y valve) and make an outside connection point where you can hook up the large storage tank via garden hose.
How long before you get water at your place??
Most important thing in the dessert.
We plan on rain water catchment. So, whenever we have the funds to tackle that project and whenever we have enough roofs:)
I think you have enough water in you tanks to gravity feed your trailer. Not sure how much pressure your hot water needs. But as long as your water level is higher than your faucets it should work without a pump.
It’s not quite enough pressure. Just trickles out here. Perhaps if we had more water in the big tank? We’ll have to experiment:)
@@TinyShinyHome Have you looked into a pressure tank set up. They work really well and only run the pump when water is being used.
Gravity is definitely the way to go. Even if you bought another IBC and set it up on stilts next to the big water tank, you should be able to create enough head pressure to get to the trailer. Just look at all the elevated water tanks you see on the old homesteads. Wind turbine to pump up into the tanke and then gravity for the discharge. Good luck with your projects!
@@HighDesertHomestead Yeah that's our next project so that we are running pressurized water into the city water inlet and don't have to transfer anymore. But its' also a whole thing. Have to run power to it, create an insulated pump hose for when it gets cold, bury the lines, etc...
Hi All I'm planning to buy some land out in Florence AZ .. how do I find / lookup well shares like this.. seems like a simple solution. Does anyone know how to find this sort of solution? I've spent a bunch of time on google with nothing to show for it.. Thanks
It's...difficult. Very hard to find online - we had to just ask around locally before we got the name of the company in our area. Recommend going to local hardware stores and seeing if they have some kind of services list somewhere.
Did you try letting the water pressure of the tanks volume push water into your airstream's fresh water tank? Doesn't seem like you should have to run a pump. We are in a motorhome with two 3000 gallon tanks. I'm just setting up and don't have them filled yet. But thought I wouldn't need to run a pump. You can also use a compressor to create more water pressure in your tank. just wondering.
Unless you've got a good sized hill you can put the tanks on, you'd need to build platforms strong enough to hold 3000gal tanks up 10+ feet in the air to get any kind of gravity pressure. But even then it wouldn't be enough consistently to work like city water. We did the whole "transfer into our fresh tank each day" thing for a few months, and it was a slog. We ended up building a solar powered pump house with 12v RV pump and accumulator tank. Works great. ua-cam.com/video/zJiOVsNgYxE/v-deo.html
Thanks for your reply to my question. That's really helpful. I put a powerful 12 volt pump in our motorhome that provides excellent water pressure. But was hoping to have passive water transfer from the big tank to keep the on board tank full.
Yeah but then what’s going to keep that fresh tank from overflowing or expanding and cracking? Too much manual attention for me 😂
@@TinyShinyHome may be .. I think I may rethink that thanks to you. 😁
Just a question why didn't you get the water out of the truck and put in the Airstream it probably would have sipherd in to Airstream.. I'm sure there's a reason you're not doing it
It's called air displacement
i am so used to watching all the other arizona off grid people get water delivered, do you save a lot of money your way?
We checked with a few folks and it seemed cheaper. We pay about $45/mo for 2000 gallons - and if we needed more it's only $3/1000gal. So if we scaled it would definitely be cheaper. More than that, though we liked the option to haul it ourselves whenever we needed it and not have to worry about getting on someone's schedule. The only real downside is the time we spend hauling it. Tradeoffs 🤷🏼♂️
How often do you have to fill that tote?
We go though around 100 gallons of water a week. So not very often:)
Your Amazon wishlist doesn't go to your page...
I'm surprised you all don't use walkie talkies to communicate to each other when filling up your rv with water.
We just usually unplug it right at the compartment where the water inlet is so no need yet, but I can see how they could be handy at times.
Just found you all and subscribed today, glad you guys got your property, Tucson here, looking forward to your journey. Check out mylittlehomestead for earth-bag ideas. They have a structure for each of their now adult children, two of the kids are still living on property. They are good folks, give them a watch. Cheers and good luck, will comment now and then.
I follow them:) I actually ran into Bree at Walmart and went total fan-girl and embarrassed myself:) ha
@@TinyShinyHome Awesome, good luck on your adventures. If I wasn't forced to retire early this year, I'd sell my house and live like this. I just can't now sadly. I'll keep thumbing up those videos. I enjoy this type of content over the moronic stuff they show on t.v. these days. Praise whatever for streaming.
I don't understand why you would not just make a big mound of dirt but you're big water tank on top of the mound and then just gravity feed it into your RV trailer and put the tank beside the RV why would you put the tank so far away from there rv anyway that just does not make sense to me
Because we were thinking ahead. The Rv would eventually be moved to a permanent place on the property. ua-cam.com/video/aOD8Fg9C2aI/v-deo.htmlsi=OrkSaKn1QXsmIVVF also, gravity wouldn’t be enough for a family of 6 to actually use day to day.
Are the 6 of you living in that air stream or camping? None of my business just askin.
We’ve lived in the airstream since 2017
@@TinyShinyHome you guys seem like a well oiled machine coupled with a lot of happiness.