Distilling Water Off Grid On The Homestead
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2016
- There are many reasons why a homestead or off grid home would want to have the ability to distill water. First off, distilled water is great for the upkeep of lead acid batteries being charged by solar panels. And second, many medicinal applications call for distilled water as well. There more reasons but these are the two that apply to our homestead.
Not to mention that in a grid down event, having a distiller like this would be priceless when it came to producing trade and barter materials in the form of distilled spirits.
Clawhammer Supply sent us this amazing 304 food grade stainless distiller and wanted us to give it a go for our audience. Clawhammer supply has proven to us time and again that they are producing quality products for the end user. I think you will enjoy this video.
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if you coat the lower half, and base of your distiller (and any pot you heat on a wood flame) with the dish soap BEFORE placing on the fire, you will not have to scrub that soot off, it will wash up really easily. I was taught this camping tip when I was a teen. I hope you find this time saving for you!
Drinking distilled water is NOT bad for you. It's all I drink because the minerals in hard water are not assimilable and cause things like osteo-arthritis, bone spurs, kidney stones, etc. Your body needs minerals from food (which ARE assimilable), not from hard water.
You should switch the direction of the cooling water. Those systems are counter flow chillers and work much more efficiently if the cooling water is going in the opposite direction of the steam or whatever else you are trying to cool.
and we call ourselves free........ let me call the feds and get confirmation on my American freedom
Distilling, IMHO, is the simplest and best method for pure water. Thanks for the video.
You can also try putting dish soap on the bottom of the "pot" before placing it on the fire. The soot sticks to it and wipes off easy. Not sure about any heat lose, but likely negligible. It's what we did in Boy Scouts, we weren't using stainless pots or pans though.
That's a very clean well!
If you let the water flow in the other direction the cooling is more efficient, something I learnt in my classes chemistry
As far as i know. The lower yr evaporation temperature , the less contaminants the water vapour will carry with it. But it takes longer than boiling it to steam.
You have a very nice kitchen setup.
Peace to you.
Nice looking system...
Awesome.....just gave me another income producing idea for our homestead.
May I ask why you don't use a Cookstove for canning and distilling now that you have the outdoor kitchen? We had an out side "fireplace" (what my grandmother called what we had similar to your current stove) but we would bring out the cookstove in the summer when we didn't have an additional one for the canning. Using the cookstove really helped with cleaning the pots and their longevity. I'm jealous of the outdoor kitchen it is a cadillac!
I use an air cooled electric water distiller and it has a charcoal filter to remove impearaties. They got expensive so I make my own, but do run water through it 1st or your water will be cloudy.
Very Impressive.
You have 20 PPM straight from the well? You do not have "hard water" relatively speaking.
Colloidal silver is the best! been making it for years.
Why is a distiller required to have a registration number and permit? Our government doesn't want you to have pure water, or wants to know where to go for all the distillers in the future?
i think becuz your buying a still our freedom stops there, uncle sam wants to stop by and see if your making shine or distilled water etc, when they should be running out illegals
Only need to register it if you plan to make alcohol. If you are distilling essential oils or water there is no need. Heck you can by a chemistry distiller off of amazon cheap it runs on the same principle.
You know take a tub of cold water some coiled copper tubing and just submerge the copper pipe in the water Hook one end of the coiled pipe to the vent on your pressure cooker and the other end put into a pitcher or container fill your pressure cooker. Home distiller. Note if you fill with flowers say lavender or roses You have distilled essential oils. Copper tubing ifor this is about 20 bucks.
Excellent. What do you use to connect the copper tubing on the canning vent
Great video
I hope you removed the zinc galvanizing from the sheet metal. The fumes from heating it up are HIGHLY toxic.
Only if your in an enclosed space. In fact most if not all metals when they reach certain temps give off toxic gases.
Most people don't realize that "distilling" is the only way to get true clean water since it goes to gas (no particulates) then back to liquid. Filters, not as effective since they always have contact with the liquid. Usually anything found in distilled water is coming from equipment or catch container.
Lonely Prepper Homestead radiation?
Nat ... While radiation may "kill" unwanted biological items, it doesn't have the ability to "remove" anything from the water ... such as unwanted chemicals and metals, etc. While it's safer to drink with all the gut wrenching biological eliminated, it won't remove things that can still harm/poison your body.
I once heard galvanized metal can not be heated because it will off gas poison from the galvanization process. Anyone heard of this?
Yeah. The vapors released can be very bad for you. A quick google search showed about 800 degrees (which open flame is definitely going to be hitting) to release the fumes. I was a welder and they made us wear organic vapor masks or closed circuit hoods when welding on something they thought was galvanized. Supposed to be pretty carcinogenic.
i know you cant breath gas while cutting it or using it in a smoker, will kill you,so ya i dont get this guy at all
people use to use grates out of old refrigerators but got sick using them in smoke house becuz they were galvinized so big no no
It is the zinc that of gases
You should look into fermentation for food preservation instead of canning, it is more healthy.
Where did you get the recirc pump at?
once done is the water amount the same as when started or is some lost during the process ?
what was the first tax from the federal government, and what was the first and last time a standing president went into battle while being president?
the same reason you had to get a number.
rub a light layer of mud on the bottom, rinses off with water and keeps the soot down.
clever!
dang I was hoping that yield would be higher as I go through about 4 gallons every 10 days to make kombucha
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Do you drink your well water or do you prosses it?
proper paper work, federal fuel permit? what are you talking about? this needs a little clarification. I understand it being a still, it's the fuel permit that I don't get.
Yes please someone explain. I am totally confused. What in hell is a fuel permit? I can go down the road and buy a distillery to make beer/wine/liqueur without even showing a ID. Anyone know what he means by all that?
According to federal law if you are using a still to make alcohol. Fuel or drinking. you have to file paper work with the ATF a small permit is for approximately 10000 gallons and costs about 100 dollars for all the filings etc. If its for home use its easier. But without the permit and following the proper paperwork you can be arrested. It is illegal to distill spirits without the permits. Wine and beer fall under other laws. Federal law allows for 200 gallons of wine or beer a year for home use(no resale). But check the law in your state some states allow for lesser or greater amounts.
Where did you buy all this?
I had no idea you needed a permit to distill water. I was working on a way to make a pressure canner into a still.
Jean Skilling only if you are making moonshine. Not just for water.
One word: moonshine........bad bee
How shameful what America has become. I think the founding fathers are rolling in their graves now that basic freedoms like making your own moonshine is illegal (even after all the events of prohibition).
look up on YT "whiskey rebellion" it's been illegal for a long time.
Indeed. America has been shameful for a long time.
Are you speaking of the same founding fathers that made whiskey the first federally taxed domestic product, thus making moonshine illegal?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
+Pinche Guarito
Nonsense, taxing a product is not the same as completely outlawing it.
But to be fair, I am not happy with their choice to start taxing, and even worse with their response to those who resisted.
Remy Lebeau
I didn't say they made whiskey illegal, I said they made moonshine (non-taxed whiskey) illegal.
Question: how do you keeping the cooling water cool?
You have to switch it out every so often.
An American Homestead
OK, probably quite often depending on the size of your reservoir..
Are you not worried at all about any possible contaminants in the pump?
in the pump? The water running through the pump never gets to the end product. Its just a condenser to cool the steam.
@@Anamericanhomestead, got it. Thank you for clarifying. I've never done distillation, as I'm sure you can tell. I'm still confused a little by it, but haven't dug in and researched the process. I know I should. I've long wanted to learn it and felt a need for it as we've also dealt with cancer in our family.
Wonder how much is d distiller?Thanku for sharing
This one runs about $800 with all the accessories you see included. Well worth the investment and should last a lifetime.
$800 for 5 gallons of distilled water.. and here I thought gasoline was expensive.
I see your store bought water has bugs in it.
You should build a rocket stove for that ?
It's not OCD it's CDO 😜
can you not just take the gasket out?
are you feds, because I hear you have to be sure you have to make sure we have to have all the policies and licenses are followed. why do we have to have equipment that have serial numbers and federal numbers
Yeah you need to make sure you follow state and federal guidelines for owning one of these.
Look at videos on CZcams for BIOSAND. It is about purifying water off grid. Worth checking out!
Purifying water with biosand is making it safe to drink; it removes/kills bacteria and such. Distilling water is something further... it removes all the minerals and leaves you with only pure H2O.
I get that you may want to be straightforward since the distiller was given to you by a company, and they probably will report to the government that they gave you one anyway...but for the average person, especially living on their own property, I'd say give the government a big middle finger and distill whatever you want. Laws are meant for one thing, to keep people in check. A law is nothing more than words on paper, written ironically, by law breakers themselves.
obsolete pharm equipment ;)
American homesteading. .....maybe lose the Foreign made firearm.
Maybe when an American company makes one that is as good as glock, I will.