Appalachian People How they got Water back in the day and still do
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- A look at of some of the ways how people in these mountains got their water back in the day and still do in many places. Thanks for watching. Rain water Barrel LINK: • How to make a Rainwate... NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts
My house is on a spring that was tapped back in the late 1800s by cowboys. It runs dry for about a month at the end of summer but it's the best water
Awesome!
Check out the National Geographic video titled , 50 years ago, This was a wasteland. He changed everything.
Have the water tested for radon
Radiation
Before u bathe or shower
@@thabigshow69 still be better than the city's water full of crap
Me too! Same scenario except it was built by ex slaves who fought for the north in the civil war and were given land in exchange. The land The Lord has now blessed me with!
I grew up a long ways from Appalachia (Manitoba, Canada) but so many of your videos bring back memories. One room schools, outhouses, and hard physical work were all part of my first twenty years. People nowadays may not believe it but it was a great way to grow up. Love your videos.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I actually remember these things. In fact my grandmother's house still has an old "root cellar" that has a spring running through it to keep the food cool if not downright cold. There is also a two-hole outhouse still standing about 100ft from the house that my grandpa insisted on using even after a bathroom was installed in the house.😂 I wish I could go back to those days, I sure miss them.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Your grandpa sounds like mine
Sure miss him
Very well said sir. I remember the "hard times". Looks like they are doubling back on us. History DOES repeat itself. Wishing you the best.
History my not always repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. Mark Twain
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Many folks believe this is just the start of something beautiful. Be patient.
WWG1WGA.
@@fee8255Too many weak "people", (Whatever "gender") to go as WE. Brandon just signed in 30 MILLION taxpayer dollars to hand out free crack pipes to "Prevent infection and promote "racial equity"". BUT WE will have water, the hard way, while They drink the Kool-aid. Peace.
Hard times , hell that was the easy times back then you didn’t have work over 40- hours a week just to pay a water bill . I’d rather go back to Mother Nature Natural resources instead !
I absolutely LOVE the way you bring American history, and more importantly, the lives of people who lived before us, to life..,
Thank you !!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
You’ve blown my mind ! This the one I’ll be watching over and over again!!!!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
When I was a little 3-5 years old girl, I remember riding up and down on a pump handle!! About 6-7 years ago, I was hand washing clothes by scrub board, wash tubs. I did that for about 2-3 years. In the winter, it was horrible how bad the cold weather was on hand washing clothes!! I love listening to you talk! You sound like me! I'm from Georgia, live in Cheyenne, Wyoming now!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food. The rule of 3’s. Another great Mr. Donnie educational and historical video!
WOW! Well put. Thanks for sharing my friend.
That's total BS lol I can hold my breath for close to 4 minutes and I've only been doing breath exercises for like 3 years. There are men who live on boats off the coast of Thailand who can dive to the ocean floor and hold their breathes for over 7 minutes. There are people (with extra fat stores of course) who have went over a year without eating! Personally, I've only made it about 3 weeks but that's because I have daily responsibilities that must be fulfilled. As for water, look at what people do when they dry fast. I don't remember the record for that but I know of at least 4 people who have documented dry fasting for a week.
Also check out Wim Hof if you haven't heard of him, he's an amazing and inspiring human being!
From snorkeling and free diving, I've stretched the air part to five and a half minutes.
@@Sunshine_Daydream222 These are obvious average recommendations, but good recommendations none the less. They are intended to keep the average person alive. The rule of 3’s has been used by survival experts for years. No BS
Donnie, you're a great story teller and historian. What you produce is as good as and better than professional productions of multi million dollar production companies. Thank you for your videos. Thank you for bringing tales and histories of Appalachia to my phone and tablet. You're a cool dude! 😎 I 💕 love 💕 your videos.
Wow, thank you! Thank you kindly friend. Your very welcome.
He’s right. It’s as good as any professional documentary.
An old man in the Ozarks went across the highway to get his sprang water. The man from the Health Dept came along and put up a sign saying the water was unsafe. He told the old man drinking that water would kill him; the man replied he knew it would, 'cause that was what killed his Pappy, but it took 96 year to do it.
😀 Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks Mr. Laws for reminding us how easy we have it today. I am old enough to remember the things you showed us here. Took me back many a year to when I was young and visited my grandparents who lived like you showed. Personally, I think it was a better time. Stay healthy sir.
Enjoyed this one Donnie. We had gravity water from a spring up the creek until I was in 8th grade-such good tasting water. My husband used to work in well drilling. I've always been mesmerized by the waters of the mighty deep.
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing Tipper. God Bless my friend.
im originally from south wales uk. i now live in crete greece. i am so found of how it was when i was young (and upset at how things have changed) that i decided to go in search of the old world and found it here. we have a small bit of land and grow our own food. we are in the process at the moment of planting fruit trees in the field. im loving this channel and also subscribe to yours. thank you for sharing your knowledge. please stay the way you are and live the honest life. love from crete
@@owenthomas5876 - hey Owen, that sounds amazing. Greece is where I'm going to retire, I've already set myself up with property, etc. I'll be up north though in the Chalkidiki area, Chicago is nice but no longer cutting it for me. I love Crete by the way, I've been there twice.
I love spring water.Growing up in West Virginia I was fortunate enough to have water from a drilled well because I grew up in the 1970-1980’s.I still knew of the old ways of getting water.Had relatives that still got their water the old ways.Long story short.I miss the taste of a particular spring on our property.Heavenly water that was fit for the Lord himself.
@@adspur Thanks for sharing my friend.
The good ole days brings back a lot of good memories it's a shame we got to pay a small fortune to have water today in our homes and it tastes pretty bad.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Spend many summers on my grandparents farm in the Appalachian hills of south eastern Ohio. No running water or indoor plumbing. Wood stove for cooking, potbelly for heating and a spring about 30 yards from the house. I carried two buckets of water at a time on a slippery rock path about 4 times a day. Hard living, good food and slept like a log with crows squawking and waking me up to the smell of bacon frying downstairs. Lord I miss those days.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My daughter has been in Athens 6 years.I have enjoyed exploring and learning history and geology of area .SE Ohio is a special area.
We greatly appreciate you taking your time to express our days gone by Donnie. I'm more than half your age and still did this work when I was younger and to today. I keep the spring houses cleaned out on my family's parcels of land, it comes in handy when they're calling for bad weather. I'm lucky where I can take a 5 gallon bucket and a few big drums loaded in the bed of my pickup to tote around. You're down to earth type of fella and one I'd have the pleasure of sitting down with to reminisce. God Bless you Sir
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'd like ke to know more about the spring house
I walked a 1/2 mile to the top of the spring to fetch jugs of water home, used a hand pump with a well, packed wash water from the creek for laundry and even dug a couple outhouses. I even helped dig a grave in an old cemetery. That was a bit scary because you were never sure if you were going to come across another grave in the process. Thankfully we didn't. :)
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Me and two cousins hand dug my great-grandmother's grave. My great-grandfather's grave was so close we ran into black sludge seeping into her grave from his. Back when he was buried (1920's) they didn't bury them so deep so we had to stop shy of the depth we wanted to go. I was about 15-16 years old.
I live in the foothills of Appalachia. I have a 1200 gallon tank under my house that I catch rain water with. I have a hand pump in my kitchen that pulls from that tank. Rain water is my only water source. It works quite well.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Grandmother had a house built with a well inside it. It was working over 80 years later. Then the city annexed the land and tore the house down.
@@warrenpuckett4203 That is sad my friend.
@@warrenpuckett4203 Now *that* would be amazing!!
My grand parents farm where I live today ,we caught rain water off the barn roof to a cistern 3000 gallon capacity, had a electric pump that brought it to the house,during dry times we had a big flat bed truck that we would roll a 1000 gallon water barrel onto chain it down ,go over across the farm on that highway to my uncles house where they had built a block house a pipe that came out of the mountain with a plastic 3 inch pipe that ran down next to the barn that had a cut off valve, run pipe into barrel on truck,and in about a hour it would fill tank ,haul it back to house gravity unload into cistern, old block house still there,bust old cistern had collapsed after I move and replaced the old house ,I had city water put in after I move here, used the same system to water tobacco beds with a long soild pipe with holes drilled in it to water the beds to pull tobacco plants to wet ground to get the ready to plant ,just drive along side beds pulling forward and backing up until wet enough to pull .
Heck Donnie, most of the farms my family owned and lived on for years all had wells. It was a big-time improvement when electric pumps came along and pushed the water into the house for the kitchen and bathroom. I too have drunk my water from a bucket and a ladle. I've spent a lot of time hand pumping water into 5 gal buckets to water the stock, and chickens, many of trips involved. Never gave it a second thought, it was just part of life son.
For us it was my friend. Most now days don't know what we are talking about. Thanks for sharing.
@Pat Luxor Thanks for sharing my friend.
@John Hughes - We had to hand pump water to fill two 5 gal pails (6 times) and carry it (just for the barnyard livestock) 2 times a day, first thing in the morning and just before supper at night, every day of the year. And that was after filling those same pails while they were dry with chop and carrying the chop to the feeding troughs for all the barnyard livestock. The chicken and pigs got the most of it but the milk cows got about 3 cups each to give them a little extra nutrients for their milk. It also helped encourage them to come in for milking just before breakfast and supper. Timing is everything. Keeps the work and chores on a tight schedule. Meals for us also at a specific time, too. 😊
@@sheilam4964 WOW! Thanks for the story my friend.
@@sheilam4964 THANK YOU!!!! A Tight Schedule...specific timing...for daily life. A critical component for accomplishment, achievement, potential success...in most all of our lives....before, then, now and in the future. Thank you Shelia M for putting this unseen, seldom spoken bedrock practice...into words in this context.
Donnie, you bring back memories and if there's ever been told the truth, you my friend tell it like it is or was but I'm one of those guys who think life was so much easier without all this technology we have today.
We are to depended on it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Easier?
AMEN. At least we used our own brain./ muscles to survive. Nowadays folks ask an electronic device...pathetically so
Easier right up to the point you rupture a disk, or your wisdom teeth impact. Or if one is a female, run into a pregnancy complication.. modern medicine sure has improved quality of life.
When I was a REALLY young kid I remember taking the pony and farm cart to a spring about 3/4 mile up the road to get water. We used that for drinking, for us and the critters. We did have a hand pump out near the barn, but that water was kinda rusty, so we boiled/sieved that & used it for bathing, dishes, laundry and whatnot. Later on we got us an ole truck which my pawpaw would drive to the spring & I'd fill the jugs. On one hand it was nice b/c going to that spring in the rain/cold/snow/dark in that pony cart really stunk, and you stayed warm & dry in the truck - but I kinda still miss the pony and cart days. As a little kid, it made me feel useful, like my pony and I were actually contributing something of value to our family. Also: I don't have the gift of dowsing, but my neighbor can do it. He helped me find my septic tank that way when I first moved in. Great video, thanks so much for sharing. I'm glad I found your channel. I really enjoy it! Lots of memories!
Awesome! Welcome friend. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing.
I love your videos watch them every night please keep posting love from Ireland keep safe 🇨🇮💚☘☘☘
Good depiction of the old ways Donnie. And your right we just might have to go back to them old ways.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Brings back memories! Both sets of Grandparents lived in Scott Co. VA. Mom's Dad ran a pipe from the spring up on the mountain to their home he built about a half mile away. No pump, just gravity. An old dipper hung on a nail above the kitchen sink, everybody drank that delicious cold water from it. The house is still occupied today, probably still use that same water.
My other Grandparents had a hand pump in the yard. The water tasted bad and smelled from sulfur. I remember filling jugs from the Clinch river for drinking water.
I have memories of all us kids lining up for a bath in the old washtub and going to the outhouse. We did have toilet paper, however, didn't have to use the Sears catalogue!
Thanks for another fine video, Donnie!
Awesome Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thanks for teaching us how things used to be. In some ways, times were simpler back then… in other ways, times were much more difficult. It’s good to ponder and appreciate such things.
So true! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm an "older" lady. I've been able to douse since I was a little girl. 😊 Thanks for another great peek at the past.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Excellent job Donnie you brought back memory that I hadn't really thought about in years but it seams to me we were both raised the same way. Thanks for the memory's
Well said! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Wow! Memories. I helped dig two wells as a kid, one in 1956, the other in 1959. They were both 48 inches in diameter. One was 29 feet deep, the other 48 feet. I don't advise it as an easy way to make a living.
My dad picked the first well's location from his memory of where a small creek used to run when he was a kid. The timber had been cut in the 1920s and the land planted in pasture. The water table then sank over time and the creek disappeared. We had built chicken houses for 32,000 chickens and needed an extremely reliable water source. We hit the old, sunken water table at 27 feet, but could only dig two feet more before having to quit. The water filled to ten feet deep and stabilized. We never came close to pumping it dry.
The second well's location was picked by my uncle using a divining fork. I secretly thought they were useless. We hit water at 45 feet and I stopped laughing at him. You can climb to the top of the nearest hill and see the Appalachians from either well.
WOW! I know that's hard work. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Your voice is so perfect for these videos. I have always felt like I was born to late. I love the old ways..
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm in Canada and when I was little we'd spend the whole summer at my grandfather's cottage, that he built. We had a hand pump at the kitchen sink and had to pump it a hundred times to get the water going, I remember doing that with my brother. I remember when I was a bit older seeing my grandfather go to the end of the dock and buttering the motor with a butter knife, he must have been greasing the pump for the water. We used to wash in the lake, my mom would give us a bar of soap. Trees as far as the eyes can see.
There was a dump we'd walk to through the Forrest, no garbage pickup and at night you could hear the bears rummaging around. My Dad would get up first and light the wood stove so it would be warm enough to get out of bed on the chilly mornings.
We used to all gather to watch the thunderstorms come across the lake at night. The water was crystal clear, it left your hair soft as silk. When we moved here I learnt that we had soft water there and hard water here, big difference.
One thing too, before they had a refrigerator they had a metal box deep in the earth with a cover to keep the food cold.
Did you do that too?
I miss those days so much, we were so free.
Awesome story. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you, Donnie, for your videos of Appalachia, it's people, it's time and history. For showing us how living was in the mountains and reminding us of all the knowledge our ancestors had to have to exist. I also enjoy the music you put in your videos.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Our farmstead was located down in a valley… we had two hand dug wells that never went dry. The one for the house was 28’ deep and the one for the barn was 32’ deep.. they were about 200 yards apart and barn well was due East of the house well. Always had Good, cold water available.
There also was a spring about 400 yards east from the barn well that just bubbled up out of the ground and ran year round…
Also good cold water…..we eventually dug a small pond that the spring kept filled… when the interstate came through inearby, they they cut through the ridge, and dynamited to bust up the rock. This destroyed the flow to our stream as well as that to that of out neighbors pond about half mile south of us.
Great information, Don.. brought back some nearly forgotten memories. Thanks
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Mr Donnie laws love your history I too have family in East Tennessee it's been over 40 years though since I've been down there I was a kid lots of fond memories someday I'll get back there I know a lot has changed I think about it all the time I was six or seven wow how time flies remember all the lightning bugs fill in the trees up at night so beautiful such a beautiful state and it's a little bit of me keep them coming good job I love listening to your voice good day
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
The people back in the day worked hard at everything even getting the water they used. Great job Donnie. 👍👍👍
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Enjoy your stories of those good old days. What an ancestry we have. Those old folks were tougher than nails My dad found water for quite a few wells. We are so spoiled in this day and age
Thank so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yes we are
This brings back a lot of memories...I was 16 before we got running water in our house. We had to carry water from a spring a mile away. There was a spring box built over the spring to keep trash out of it and a pipe coming out of the side where the water came out. That water was as cold as ice and clear as a crystal. I miss those days in a way...things were so much simpler back then...When I was a kid helping to carry that water, I didn't know we were poor folks...didn't really matter a lot. We had something to eat, we had a lot of love for each other to go around, and I didn't have a care in the world. It would be great to go back and relive a few of those days again. Thanks so much, Donnie...it seems we are on the same wavelength on a lot of things!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm in the Ozarks in Missouri, and we're not quite as isolated as all that, but well water is a thing for all of us, and it really is the best water. I found what looks like an old hand pump in just a random spot in the woods on my property, with no real reason for it to be there. Theres no ruins around it or anything, and it's down in a holler, so I can't imagine anybody wanting to pack water up out of there. It's pretty rugged out there too. It boggles the mind, but I do want to return to it and see if it works. I found it in a pretty dry time of year, so I didnt even test it. I wish I knew how it came to be there though, and why. Tiny remnants of a time gone by.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
You're in my neck of the woods or I yours.
@@DBAllen we'll call it yours. I'm originally from Texas. Lol
@@DBAllen And I'm from that area just across the AR line. We got our water from a spring, or if we were at my aunt's house, we hauled it up out of a well. Pure, ice-cold water.
@@mistyize Nor am I. I'm a Cornhusker transplant.
Howdy Donnie- we’re fortunate enough to have a good well here. Prices for having a well drilled has gone way up
compared to when our well was drilled. This old farm has several well and a couple cisterns on it. Thank ya for sharing this. God bless
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I miss having a well. We had one run into the house, and an ole pump well for when the power went out. I sure do miss the country living. Thank you for another interesting video! 🙏🏻✝️
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hoping this generation has paid attention to those who lived in rougher times,it looks like times are fixin to get hard again and they'll need to learn to survive off the land. 😉 Thank you for sharing, I was raised on "sprang" water and we were taught to always hold the glass up to the light before drinkin to make sure nothing was floating around in it. Every summer our spring dried up and had to be hauled in.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yep, those little frogs fight every inch down your throat. We used a skimmer before dipping the cup.
Mizz Mary I really hope you are right. Everyone needs to know how to find good clean water. Even how to collect water,even in large cities. Water is absolutely life, without it your body doesn't function correctly. And I know people who never drink a drop of just water. It's tea,coffee, cola drinks etc. That's not a good solution,plain clean water is really needed everyday. I hope people who know and remember teach others how to find water or gather water. I wonder someday soon if this will be a requirement just like it was years ago
@@2WOLFS Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 thank you 😊
Great video, brought back a lot of memories. We lived up on the ridge and had a cistern. We actually had to have water hauled from town in a big truck to our house. I remember when I was a little chap, my sister was just big enough to start washing dishes as one of her chores. We had a old hand pump in the kitchen and our cistern was under the house. Being a child ...she figured she could just pour the dish washing liquid down in the pump and when she worked the handle .....she would get soapy water. It ruint all our drinking water, me and daddy had to drain the cistern, crawl down in it and scrub the walls with bleach to kill the the soap. She didn't know any better being little and all, but it made a big job for us. We caught rain water in a 55 gallon drum at the corner of our 75 year old log house. That's what we bathed and washed clothes with. I still have a scar on my right knee where a bur in that old wash tub cut me taking a bath. I'm 55 years old but remember it like yesterday. Good ol West Virginia. Thanks for a great video.
WOW! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I got blood poisoning in my foot the same way.
We lived outside a little town called Berger (in Missouri) and i remember going across the field to visit Deola and when we were there if we had to go we had to use the outhouse. She made the best cookies. We had another neighbor that lived at the top of the hill. They had an apple cider mill they would give us butterscotch candy. Going to school we had to walk a mile just to get to the bus stop. The bus stop was right by a bridge with a train trestle over the bridge. My brother and sisters would play till the bus came. One time my brother John caught a fish and he wanted my sling for the fish. Mom told me my dad had taken John with him on the tractor and we were sitting down to eat when they heard the tractor start up. There was John on the tractor(eyes as big as saucers) I had broke my arm trying to copy my sister. Debbie was swinging from the top bar of the swing set and i decided to do what she did and fell and broke my arm. We loved it on the farm playing in the pig pen(no pigs). We had cows, horse's,chickens and 2 geese. We loved it on the farm. Those were best days.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I live about 25 mi from Berger in Gasconade county
Appreciate ya again Mr Donnie. Yep I remember going to my Grandma's house and had ole out house and drawing water out there well in the back yard. Take care my friend.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I remember as a little girl when I would visit my Granny and Grandpa in Eastern Kentucky being so fascinated by their well and outhouse. So much fun to take a bath in a tin bin , with water from the well, heated up on the stove. By the way, the water tasted so good.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 you are welcome. Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.
@J.P. Ball PharmD my ancestors and all my family are from Martin County, towns of Inez, Beauty, and Wolf Creek area. Both my parents are from there , and all my relatives. I grew up in Illinois , even though I lived in Kentucky as a young child, I now live in Florida, but have a lot of family in Kentucky. Have such wonderful memories of spending Summers down there as a child.
I remember the well outside directly behind the kitchen at our home. I still see it in my memory so vividly. It was huge with a roof. A large stainless steel bucket with a rope. The water was so good. The water today is NOTHING like the way the water tasted before all of the polluting of our earth.
Our bath was one of those tubs but ours was a long one. I sure wish I could drink from that spring again. We have a water problem here on the Colorado River. DRYING UP. I worry for the future of the American West. We are under water restrictions as of January 1. Lake Powell is gone. The area I'm in only sees rain maybe two days a year. Water is life. Thanks, Mr. Donnie for a great post!! 👍
Awesome story. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Your channel is the best ever! I’m always learning from you.
Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie.
Yeah, I’m good at dowsing also and have been for 40 years. The last time I predicted water was at 87 foot and the water appeared at 90 foot. The driller said it wasn’t there but he was shocked to find it. I use brass rods and have never been wrong. Thanks for your story.
WOW Thanks for sharing my friend.
My daddy tapped into mountain water right behind our house. It was always cold and plentiful. Best water I’ve ever tasted! We had plumbing in our house but we always got our drinking water out back.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
My family's farm in Virginia had a natural spring that just came up from the ground and still after hundreds of years being there.. still providing us with "The best tasting water around said by many locals in the area who over the years drank from the same spring! Virginia is for Lovers!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Enjoyed, enjoyed I did. Thank You Donnie, history of our past is something we just don't want to forget.I had a well drilled,piped, pump installed,and ready to go in 1980,for the cost of 1400 hundred dollars,can you believe that. I have no idea what it would cost now.Thanks again and have a Good Evening 🙂.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Sandy soil in Florida, high aquifier, we "drilled" wells with threaded pipe, a hose attachment and a high pressure pump. Water pressure cut a route, pipe followed (sometimes with a little help) and bingo, water! Doubt it would work today though.
Great video Donnie! I can relate so well to some of it. We have an artesian well in my community that’s been running for over a hundred years that people still use. My granny would send me down there with a bunch of milk jugs every couple of days to fill up and pack back home.
That's some good water. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Visiting my Grandparents in the Appalachian mountains while growing up, I was blessed with many memories of using an outhouse, The fondest is of having zero toilet paper and being about 50 yards from the house to where nobody hears you begging for toilet paper. Good times ! :}
😀 Thanks for sharing my friend.
At least there was a outhouse...in the 60s I drove a friend to Darlington, SC and spent the night. Needed to go and found out there was a little perch with no walls behind the barn over a creek. An experience I'll probably never forget.
I grew up with a out house didn't have running water or plumbing until I was in the fifth grade and them old out houses were terrible in northern Minnesota you froze doing your business in the winter and the stink and the flys in the summer time
@@jeffreyhershey5754 Thanks for sharing my friend.
Had to be so rough, yet at the same t ime, so satisfying, awesome video!
Yes it was! Thanks for sharing my friend.
When I was 6 years old, I was taught how to use dosing rods made out of coat hangers by my pawpaw. One day, my stepfather needed to find the waterline to repair it, I took on the challenge, and it was found. Within days the water line got fixed.
Awesome!
I have actually done this using coat hangers to find water and it worked every time. People thought I was nuts until they saw the results.
Hi Donnie - Wow what a great vid! I remember going coon hunting with my dad and we would drink out of the brooks. I wouldn't do that today for sure! Very sad. Your comment on history repeating itself is so true! once again thanks for all of the great memories.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Even in isolated areas of the northwest, giardia is in the water along with other unhealthy stuff. I hear that's happening in Alaska too. Domestic dogs carry giardia and other wild animals pick it up.
Great video Donnie, thank you. I really enjoy you sharing these old mountain ways. My neighbor still has a pump on their property and it still works!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandmother was born in 1896. By the time I came along, she was in her 60’s and owned a 160 acre farm in NC. Her farmhouse was built in the mid 1800’s by my great-great grandfather. She still used an outdoor well that we hand pumped buckets of water from. She had a “grainery”, a large barn, a “wash house” which is where the bath tub was, used a wringer washing machine, a wood stove in her kitchen, had a smokehouse and a huge veg garden. She also had a cow, horse, 2 pigs and a lot of chickens! It was my favorite place in the world and enriched my childhood beyond belief. These wonderful older family members were as tough as nails! Love your videos!❤️
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories with us. Thank you. God bless you.
I was in the middle of the 7th grade before we had a toilet or any inside plumbing at all. It was wonderful. Thanks Donnie, for sharing all the memories!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Brings back a lot of good memories to life. Thank you for sharing the old ways and knowledge that would otherwise be lost. We can’t let it be lost because as you say that history has indeed repeated itself for millennia.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks for sharing this with us it reminded me of my grandmother she had to get water from a spring until they dug a well she had to carry water all of her life and she had a bucket and dipper I always remember she would say don't drink over the bucket. I would love to have some now city water is not as good. God bless you for sharing all your great videos. Have a blessed night
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Get a Berkey water filter to run your drinking water thru
You will be amazed how much better it is
Donnie. thanks so much for sharing these wonderful stories of the Appalachian Mountains. My wife and I are blessed to have two bold creeks on our property. They run crystal clear all year round. They do get up in heavy storms from time to time, that is just the way it is. Where they come together makes for a good fishing and swimming
hole.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Really good video
A couple personal stories, I’m 68
A very dear friend and mentor of mine, in the 20’s and 30’s , grew up in the ozarks near, Theodosia Mo. built their cabin close to a spring, channeled a running branch by the cabin where they used it for drinking water, and kept their milk can submerged to keep it cool.
My great uncle, in the 50’s, 60’s would take a tractor and trailer, about 8 large barrels, drive about 3/4 miles to a community well. He’d pull buckets of water, one bucket at a time. Fill those barrels with water. Then back to the house, where he’d siphon the water into a tank in basement. Then use a pump to run water to a kitchen and bathroom sink. He’d repeat the same water trip every couple weeks.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos…it brings back so many sweet memories from childhood. ❤️
Glad you like them! Your very welcome.
Great Video. They bring back alote of memory's. Grandparents had the sestear out side. As kids we loved to go out and get the water. Then out squirrel hunting the old spring we would always head to to get a cold drink. Thanks again for a trip down memory lane. God Bless You
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Our family likes watching your videos. We learn new things and appreciate better the lives people lived and still live in those great mountains of Appalachia. Thank you for sharing.
Your welcome my friend.
I used to ride my Tennessee walking horse past the well diggers house , thanks for bringing back good memories
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I am so glad I found your wonderful channel, thank you for taking the time to put out these invaluable stories.
I moved to the Kii Mountains of western Japan from Florida when I was fifteen years old with my dad and I’ve been here ever since (18 years now).
Even though I was dragged here by my single father I always had a deep love and interest in the culture and traditions of back home, old rural America.
Especially the mountains because they resemble where I grew up over here, one thing I notice is there are many many similarities between these unlikely cultures, be it the folklore and way of life, you wouldn’t think so but it’s true.
Over here the mountain witches would be what’s called “Yamanba” literally mountain old woman.
All kinds of mystery here in these mountains and valleys as well…
My favorite is the “Tengu” long nosed mischievous mountain spirits that in one way of seeing it are actually ship wrecked Europeans that hid in the hills etc.
It’s actually a lot more complicated and interesting but you get the jist of it.
Anyway, looking forward to all the new stories to come, thank you.
Great story. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you Donnie for this video and the storytelling you’re very good at it.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love to tell people we had "running" water when I was a kid back in the 50s. We run to the spring and run back to the house. Love my life back then. Thanks for bringing the old days to light again. North Georgia boy and prayers for your continued good health and more videos.
Awesome my friend. I heard that. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
This video brought back so many memories from when I was a little girl. Thank you, Donnie, for the smiles I got today!
Your so very welcome my friend.
Donnie, there's not much i can say that hasn't been said. But there are folks right now that get their water from a well and haul it to the house. You go back in our hills far enough, and folks will be surprised to see how people still live to this day.
That's so true. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another beautifully made video, thank you. I am at a loss to understand why you don't use water off the roof like we do in Australia? Not in the cities, for sure, but out-of-town were the pollution is very low. I have been on tank water all of my almost 64yrs and never had any illness from it at all, and no chemical treatment either.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
i live in indiana and i drop roof water into a 400 gallon underground poly tank . its plumbed thru the basement wall into a shallow well pump , pressure tank , and h2o heater . i have no hesitancy to drink it and in fact its good for beermaking because it has no chlorine or chemicals . rainwater is in fact distilled water . i trust a little dust off the roof more than i trust the treated crap that comes from town or the rural water company . my water bill is only 30 bucks a month if i were still connected , but that isnt the point -- self sufficiency is the point .
@@searcymasonry Awesome setup. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks Mr Donnie!!!😊❤
You are so welcome my friend.
Donnie. My dad was a well driller. Love well water.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Great video Donnie.....so many conveniences are taken for granted in these modern times .....My Grandparents used an old hand pump on the well on their property (and had the out house as well )....it makes one to realize just how much water is necessary to get through day to day.......Thanks Brother...
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Your so very welcome my friend.
My great grandparents house in Kentucky had an abandoned coal mine where water had come in. For awhile you'd have to walk down the hill with a bucket and get it but then they put in a pipe and pumped it up to the house
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I loved everything about this video.
I'm from West Virginia, born and raised with no intentions of leaving because of the awesome people here.
I can tell the narrator is one of those awesome people.
God bless.
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
My husband uses dowsing rods! And yes, they do work. Growing up in Pennsylvania, there was a spring ( a pipe in the mountain side along the roadway). Everyone stopped and got water there. Then the township stopped it, claiming it was dangerous. Moved to Tennessee, and in my area there is a spring...a pipe in the mountain side along the roadway, and yes, everyone gets their water there. Here on my property we have a dug cistern by the previous owner, and we have the well that we had dug. In the back part of the property, there is a spring that the locals said made the best moonshine. Oh how I LOVE the history of this area. I can't get enough of it. Love your videos!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
This video is wonderful and I truly love the music 🎶 ❤ thank you so much for these amazing videos.
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Donnie you ever heard of a spring race? My great grandparents farm house in the mountains Ashe county NC, not far from you but in the kitchen the water came in by pipe from a spring up the mountain and ran through a trough made out of rock and concrete 2' wide by 5' long in the kitchen and they kept the butter and milk and cream and anything that needed kept cold
Yes I have my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I bought my land back in 85, had a well drilled to 100ft, didn't cost to much back then, it was rated at 20gal/min. I eventually (20+yrs ago) put in a solar powered pump, one of the best decisions I've ever made, haven't run out of water yet. I pump about 200ft up the hill into a holding tank. That's here in north eastern CA, I was born in WV and raised out here, I always wanted to go back, but I'm now in my 70's and have family here. It is on my bucket list though.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Another great trip to memory lane. Thank you Donnie I still have my parents old water bailer that we used to drawl water from a 40 ft well to do laundry when the rain barrels ran dry and I still have the calluses on my hands. Miss those days.
That's awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Another great video. I'm pld enough to remember those things. When you mentioned the water powered mill I got excited. I hope you are going to do a video on that. We still have an old griss mill near by that they still use. Mainly for demonstration, but its still good to see it run. Stay safe and healthy.
Thanks friend. I will do a video on them later. Thanks for sharing.
in my indiana county , im guessing early 19 century , various water driven mills in a few locations were the ' industry ' and often employment of the time . the mills sawed lumber , ground grain , and even ran textile machinery .
Thanks for making me remember, Donnie. Lived in a 4 room shack with no running water. Filled up two pails every night from a hand pump only about 25 feet from the house. Glad now that I grew up the hard way. Been watching the trucker protest in Canada starting to snowball and it will make its way down here before long. No telling what's going to happen this year. Getting ready.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie , good video. Up here in Canada we call it “ witching” to find water underground. I’ve seen the old boys use dogwood and willow twigs. Now mostly the metal rods like you use. 👍🏻
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks for the look into the past it seems rough but it was simpler time I miss them so
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I worked for two brothers and one of the things we did was lay tile or replace waterlines.
On many occasions, the older boss would forget to put the battery on his sensor/detector gizmo.
And he would just take a couple of marker wires and bend them at 90° and walk with another handful of marker wires and he would mark out exactly where the waterline would go.
I never seen one time where he missed.
Thank you for your video sir.
The way that you speak, and your demeanor, pulls many people in. It’s safe to say many people can hear it in your voice that you’re a good hearted fellow.
Thank you.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 You’re welcome sir. And thank you for being adventurous and sharing those mountains and your journey with everybody.
Priceless…..
@@fee8255 Thank you friend.
I would love to come up there some day and just look around at the old home place I enjoy things like that. I'm 37 and I used to enjoy my grandmother telling me things they used to do. I miss her so much.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
My grandma had a spring fed well at the base of the mountain. It was lined with stone and she kept a piece of corrugated metal over it to keep out leaves and whatnot. She would lower a bucket with a rope tied to it to get water for her needs.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hi Donnie
I tried finding water (witching water they called it up here) and could not do it. Dad had me try it at our house build when I was about 8 to 10 years old. I watched a man make both a Y branch and a set of coat hangers hit two spots with both (the best one was dug also but ended up too close to the septic system).
Years later Dad and I set up to have my house built between us and contracting out a good portion and I asked a Brilliant Millwright (who had the gift) if he would come and witch my lot (he would not accept money because his heart was too big as with most good men who deserve the largest amount of credit of anyone that you could possibly meet in a lifetime).
On my word... He found the spot... He found it with both the wires and the Y Branch. I saw with eyes that were amazed the wires turn and the pull and the the Y branch want to pull his arms forcefully to the ground....
Now here is what I hope you can repeat Donnie. This man had me stand in the water spot and said I am going to grab your wrists... the Y branch and coat hangers in turn both immediately seemed to want to pull me into the earth arms first. Please test this as true.
Thanks for being a Good man Donnie
Donnie
WOW! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
“Well, Donnie, you’ve finally lost it”... you are a hoot! Thank you for your fine, wholesome videos! I love them!
Thank you friend.
I love history and you have some great videos - I enjoy your channel. I have never been to TN, but my family lived in Tennessee for quite a spell (coming from Scotland in the mid 1700's). My great uncle Ephraim fought and died in the Civil War. 7th Regiment, TN Infantry, Company K, CSA. The family finally made it out here to Colorado and tried to strike at rich in the gold fields120 years ago.
WOW! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I spent some time living in a small village in Spain in which even today, donkeys are still commonly used for transporting goods and people. I rented this old stone house, painted brilliant white on the outside to reflect the intense summer sun. To my amazement in the kitchen was a trap door, which covered a deep hole well. The water was absolutely clear and cold, and a water quality kit confirmed it was perfect for drinking. All my visitors seemed to take great pleasure from drawing a bucket full of fresh mountain water.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Brother it is an absolute Delight listening to you telling these old stories!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 listening to these true stories are very humbling to me I remember this old well house my grandmother had when I was a kid I miss it so bad
So many wonderful memories of a PUMP and a WELL at my grandparents home! When we went to their house, I felt like it was more fun than Disney World, today! HA! At one grandparent’s house they had a PUMP down by their lake. It wasn’t easy lugging pails of water up the hill to the house! But, it was the best tasting water I’ve ever had in ALL my 69 years. My other grandparent had a WELL behind the house. It had a crank where you would lower the bucket up and down in it. The main thing I remember is your life being threatened if you forgot to put the lid back on top of the WELL hole!!! I remember something being said it was because the cats would get in the WELL, if the cover was left off! That wasn’t a nice thought to me as a child. Thanks so much for the pictures and telling about how life was. Which really wasn’t that long ago!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Great video Donnie. I'm old enough to remember people winding water out of the well with a well pulley, rope and bucket.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I get peace and joy from watching your videos. Have always had a deep respect for the things of God and Nature. Much appreciation Mr. Law for this presentation, as well as others!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I saw an ingenious water supply on a lockhouse on the D&H Canal. It was fed by a spring, about 500' above the river bottom. At the collection point, it had a tapered wood pipe, about 6'' diameter. Then a series of graduated pipes, constantly tapering smaller and smaller. When they reached the house, the last pipe was about 5/8'. He had better water pressure than I do and I'm on city water. Those wood pipes were over 150 years old and still functioned perfect. Both my Grandparents homes had wells but they were tainted. They used this water for washing and livestock. Both caught rainwater in cisterns for drinking and cooking. Mom's mom still had the hand pump in the kitchen. You'd have to keep a can of water next to it to "prime the pump." Thanks Donnie
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Very interesting. Makes you wonder how so many folks today would survive with so little knowledge of mother nature and true survival
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I think we are headed right back there which I somehow think that wouldn’t be such a bad thing at least for those who can adapt and realize what they do and do not need. Thank you for your channel. I really do enjoy it. ♥️♥️♥️
I pray not my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
I've fond memories of the spring about 50' from my grandmothers house near Boliar, W.Va. It was always cold, but never froze. The mineral content was just right. So much so, it was actually delicious to drink. I'd flounder myself especially on hot summer days. I delighted in packing it in for my grandmother, she was an excellant country cook. Those hand made biscuts & gravy were an undescribable delight! She had a root cellar cut into the side of the hill, that never got above 40 degrees, ( refrigerator temperature) She kept it packed full of all kinds of canned delights. My earliest moments were akin to paradise on Earth. We would get up just prior to daybreak, & drive into the logwoods in my uncles 46 Dodge 2 ton truck, with a log rack fixed on the back. No such thing as a chain saw then, only machine was the truck. Crosscut saws, double bit axes, 10 lb. sledge hammers & wedges, to cut & prepare mine props to sell to the coal mines. Leftovers were good firewood.Good water, food, & a hard days work made you feel like the "King of the World!" The years past, & Paradise faded away. the spring dried up due to underground mining. The water turned bitter before it dried up due to acids leaching into it. Work dried up, the old folks died, & the living had to travel elsewhere to find paying work. Now long retired, God has blessed me with my own personal paradise. My tree farm in east Texas has a 675' drilled well with abundant delicious water. I attribute that healthy start I got in life for what health I do have in my old age, that & of course God's grace. I mostly shun modern convienences, I simply don't need them. Have to have a few for my wife's sake. The window AC unit comes in handy, forecast is for a high of 109 degrees today.
WOW Thanks so much for sharing your memories with us my friend. I understand about the taste of the water it makes all the difference. God bless you.
Your stories are so heartwarming. My grandfather's crops in Western Kentucky failed 3 year in a row. He packed up the family and moved to Detroit. He had an accent that made it hard for him to socialize; like you, he fought with other children. But, he got strong. He went back to Kentucky at every chance he could. Your beautiful accent brings back loving, joyous memories of visiting Papa and Grandmau in Detroit or vacationing in Kentucky. So much love. And the food, well I make a lot of Grandma's recipe and my husband has a waist to prove it. From the bottom of my heart ❤️ Thank You So Much for your stories! Many blessings.
That's awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing your story my friend.