DIY Backyard Rainwater Harvesting Using Repurposed Food Grade Barrels
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In this video Dan from www.plantabunda... shares with you a simple, effective and affordable way of capturing rain water using mostly recycled, upcycled, and repurposed materials.
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I love these kind of rain water harvesting because it will be very useful for our future generation
Wow this is a nice clean setup. I want to eventually live off grid and it's great to see these type of things and different ways of doing it.
This is one of the best presentations I've seen. Many times the speaker is difficult to understand and this presentation is written format. Thank you.
It's 2024 and I am scared to price it out yet I absolutely love the way you did it! Great video, thank you.
Those barrels are super cheap in my area. They are used for olive oil, so they are food grade and often are $5 or $10 apiece. The rest of this could be added over time
I've watched many many rain barrel related videos.... yours is excellent!!
Excellent video. It's refreshing to see somebody do the music correctly, it was just right.
Great video. Nice music on the background but not overwhelming. Written instructions are the best! Thank you for sharing!
Very well done! The music was cool and not overpowering, and I loved the written format. Concise and to the point. I subscribed.
Thank you for the feedback and for subscribing! Cheers!
I agree!
Perfect video.Concise, straightforward, and to the point. Excellent!
Good job. I will definitely "read" it repeatedly in order to make a rain barrel. The text makes it easier for me to understand the steps. Thank you.
The pull of gravity doesnt increase just because you got it on blocks. Try pouring water out of your water bottle in a second floor vs on first floor. You need a longer hose then more vertical length of hose can help pull water out because the hose is effectively increasing the height of your container. Fwiw.
That statement about increasing gravity made me curse out loud. I think they meant increasing potential energy. But for what, I don't know.
I have the majority of the stuff to do this......THANK YOU for showing me how!!!
greatest and very educative video ever seen here, thanks for inspiring me.
Well done! If I hadn’t already developed a five barrel system, I would definitely incorporate many of your ideas.
Thank you so much. What a great cheap way to collect rain water.
You can just keep adding barrels when you got spare money
Water is too important to waste.
I especially like the compost tea part! Thanks for this vid!
This is quite amazing. Thank you! I'll be using all your tips here.
I'm an amateur when it comes to DIY and you've made this very easy to follow :)
Gonna need those soon, when off grid living becomes a norm for people who oppose government tyranny.
I must say. This was very dope to watch. Don't understand all of it, but my goodness this was dope.
MrTheguy1111 Dope?! Use English, not ghetto slang. You know that YT is an international medium, don't you?!
Holy shit ur an asshole let him talk the way he likes
I'm overseas. Could someone explain the meaning of dope in this context please?
Very resourceful idea,, you value rain water....
Non gutter here. I positioned an old sliding board under the shingles. That led to a clean plastic trash can. Easy peasy. My water was free and in great abundance. Yes, I’d boil and drink if I had to.
This is a very good ide, that is if you have all the barrels laying about and big roof space. A much more convenient and constant water source is to drill a small water well and use that to water your garden, less space is taken up by it and it costs less if you drill it yourself
What about chemicals leaching from shingles ? Like the system but collecting from shingle roof is bad idea .
I plan to run my collected water through a Berkey type filter system for drinking water.
Tim roof and copper gutters would prolly be way better aye
one of the best structure and designed more importantly well presented !!!, have you had any plan to purified to make in drinkable?
Great video, and I absolutely love the music.
Dan Great video, instructions were very clear, and pictures were great. Thanks for this video.
Thank you again for another great learning opportunity. I wish I could do things like this.
You can...all it takes is patience and a little determination
I really aspire to build a system like this. I like diy projects and the way things were described was perfect.
In Aquaponics systems they use swirl filters to run debris free water into the basins while dropping the sediment to the bottom of the filter without screening. The bottom of the filter has a purge valve you open to flush out the debris. Clearly for the amount of water you're capturing you'll need a larger scale swirl filter to accomplish the same job but it would save you have to inspect individual screen filters and scraping them clean.
Very well produced tutorial! Easy to follow & concise. Thank you! I just subscribed to your channel.
I couldn’t even fill half a water bucket, living here in Las Vegas, Dry, dry, dry. Your so lucky 🍀
Elegant setup!
Hahaha my work has food grade barrels all the time they throw out. Probably 5+ 50 gallon a week. I grabbed 3 to use for storage and wash/soak barrels for hide processing never thought of this cool!
And busted ballets are often thrown out.....now the expensive part to but my own land that I can do this to. No apparent wants this stuff outside plus no garden to need it
any you want to share?
Great job, inspiring, plan on doing something like this in the near future
Than you Yahya Ismail! My plants love rain water. Dan
Thanks, easy to create and not very expensive.
Excellent job and well documented, thanks!
Wow I like this & wish I could make it for my home.
Just take it 1 step/ process at a time... easy to get overwhelmed when looking at the entire finished product.
There are plenty of online videos to help... to design, build & repair...some explain well in talking, others using text... I found using fewer adjectives in searches gets more results... i.e. "pvc" vs. "3/4" pressurized exterior use pvc"... narrow it down with adjectives as you start finding needed answers.
EVERYONE makes mistakes... don't let fear of that stop you. Every "oops" is a learning tool for the next time.
Excellent and many thanks! Best I’ve seen !
I really liked your system and every description throughout the video, your channel is great!
I have a question though I can't help asking here, I don't know, maybe I'm missing something:
What do you mean by "By elevating the barrels with concrete blocks or building a stand, the pull of gravity is increased thus increasing water flow through the exit valve"?
The way I see it, putting the barrels on top of a stand has only 2 advantages:
(1) It leaves space space below for pipes.
(2) If the tanks are running out of water, depending on the height of the stand, you would have it a little easier or a lot more regarding the height of the hose (example: if you raised the hose above the water level in the tanks you would find trouble pulling out that water)
Again, the video is fantastic and I can tell you put a lot of work on everything, thanks so much for sharing!
Great Video, enjoy the silence too, like those primitive videos where they don't talk! Thanks for sharing!
Great job!
Please do an update on this system.
Mehn, after my last water bill, I need this, to help with the garden in the summer.
If one can. In an arid climate collect as much water as you can using tarp, roof...during one single rainstorm you can collect enough water till the next rainfall. Every drop counts and is better than watching the rain just drop and disappear. Make American desert green again!
Thanks for the video. I also really appreciate the choice of music, it allows one to focus on the story of the video. Best regards...
Black water pipe flows into Lulu
My method will enlarge the funnel before it flows into the big bucket. I installed the cloth in the big funnel to remove it.
That was a well plannee water collection system! Thanks for the great idea :)
Love your thoroughness and editing! cheers!
Thank you Val! Cheers!
So clever... Poisoning with the plastic
The video is well done .. but I have a question,are asphalt shingles risky for water collection ? I have them too and read up a little on it and it is not advised so tell me what you think ?
This is great stuff. Definitely giving me ideas.
This is a great setup. I have something similar in mind but barrels are crazy expensive here.
Save / bank a little at a time. Use the time until purchase to do the research and homework for your project. Even acquire needed small bits & pieces like pvc cement... washers, plastic etc. so that it is NOT an overwhelming expense... all at once.
GREAT IDEA.............WELL DONE...........
I LOVED IT😁😁😁😁😁😙😙😙👍👍👍👍💖💖💖💖👌👌👌👌👌
great work
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the music, love the info, love the build! well done mate!
This is excellent. I am glad to see your barrels hanging over a bit cuz mine does too and I was wondering if it would create pressure on the barrel. So far so good. Mine is in my hallway! 😏
Great set up thanks for sharing
thank you for detailed instructions
Curious about winter issues
Wow, this is amazing!!
I have a question. I always read that you don’t want to collect rain off a tar shingle roofs cause it lets of some toxins into the water, i realize you’re not drinking this but can it harm your vegetables garden? Great video saving for when I do my rain catch.
Great idea I have some left over
xl metal I beam I think I'll make one
5 ft with a free span on the front and 500 gallon totes on top which can be sourced for free
If y'all just paid attention to your elders, my grandparents have been doing this for 50 years for their garden.
My grandad had two greenhouses and about four sheds in his garden, each with two big barrels for collecting rainwater, so he rarely needed a hose from the house. I remember losing lots of things by accidentally dropping them in the water and them sinking to the bottom.
It would be easier if it wasn't illegal
@@NA-tu9ci well... For 1..laws are just made up... And 2, things are only illegal if you're caught lol.
@@evictioncarpentry2628 I like ur style👍
Good work.
Perfect.
Perfect
I've been living on rain water for a few years now. I even drink it after running it thru a Berkey.
A little careful. They're spreading chemtrails (jets that leave two trials of smoke) in the sky, spreading heavy metals like barrium, aluminum, etc to contaminate sky and clouds.
I can't specify but they're related to illuminati. Why would they do it? Because they want to depopulate.
I'm acting no one. Elaborate your point.
Looks great . I just appliied for a patent on a very unique and effective method of getting all that rainwater to your plants ,. A far better way than than using watering cans .and will be making them obsolute very soon ! Just felt like telling some people this today .
Why would you want a patent on rainwater collection?
Thank you and I subscribed! 😊
Thank you for this! Even I could understand it. I'm saving this video for sure!
Beyond EXCELLENT!!!
Sir- First off, thank you so much for this informative video. I really appreciate the text and the explanations.Two questions:Is PVC pipe freezing a concern in the high desert (3,000-5,000 ft elevation) and if so, how do you protect against that- just wrap the pipes in a sleeve?do you have any issues with algae growth- and if not why, if so, how do you mitigate it, since you do not add chlorine?
To prevent algae growth you need barrels that do not let in light. You can paint the barrels black to reduce it even more.
Beautiful!
80% of my town in alaska including my house does this for our house water, drinking, laundry, shower, toilet. my tank is 12,000 gallons
12,000 galloons, wow thats HUGE.....
@@digimaks pretty standard size in ketchikan for water tanks.
Awesome! I am planning on doing something like this, but with ibc totes.
Nice! The ibc totes can make great rainwater tanks. Let us know how it goes.
Great video. Thank you 👍🏼
While this is a great idea, it might be more cost effective and easier to just get one large IBC tank and forego all of the extra plumbing.
You can also enclose it in a small tasteful shed or covering.
themightyparthos what’s an IBC tank?
@@AverageCarGuy IBC(intermediate bulk container) tanks are those (typically white) plastic tanks you see inside a steel cage. Used for transport of any and mostly all liquids.
That's what we do mate and it works great!
@@twinkyisland We bought our IBC off farmers near us.They sell on the cheap to get rid of them.We have 3 right now catching the water coming out of the gutters and we are going to get another one or two.We survived the "Irish Drought" last summer because of this,more specially our gardens survived as we had loads of water stored up,when the hose pipe ban was started for like 2 months straight.
@Mary Murdock NW Ireland overlooking the North Atlantic.It is our small piece of paradise.
I wish we rained enough to use rain barrels. I have not bothered putting a rain barrel system together because I would probably be real lucky to even fill one half way in a whole summer. Probably not even 1/4 full.
Amazing.
Have a pipe going to the basement and have a carbon filter connected to it and have another barrel connected to the pipe with the carbon filter and it will provide good fresh drinking water in case of emergencies.
Fabulous design and system. My only concern is harvesting rainwater from an asphalt shingle roof. Asphalt shingles have chemicals that can leach into the water. I'm kicking myself in the rear for not building with a metal roof.
Very good! Could you please tell me Where did you get such a big plastic bucket? Thanks.
Thank you for the video one big big question what about the winter time and water freezing? I guess you would not use this system in the winter obviously.
Wow" what a awesome system! ☔ 👏👏👍☔
Good job
Brilliant
I was thinking about making rain catchers in my yard with solar panels. Any ideas? Amazing content btw. When I FINALLY get to my system - I will share as well.
Good video thanks for the great ideas
Overall like the system design, have concerns over roof type (honestly I will not have asphalt shingle roof when I build), and didn't like the idea of having to clean 12 screens - when a screen system could be incorporated in the downpipe - one screen to clean and easier to access regularly.
Randal Lovelace in the UK asphalt roofs are unheard of for houses- I don't know why anyone would think they are a good idea. I guess the disposable culture in the US? Roof replacement here is a once a century job if you're unlucky! Asphalt is used for the kind of garden sheds you buy at a diy store that rot or blow down in a couple of years before the roof fails! The only place you might find it on a house is the flat roof of a bay window, or an older style flat roof rear extension. Even in these places though it is more likely to be replaced with a rubber type or GRP when replaced.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing!
I just went ahead and bought one of those 275 gallon totes and 2 of the barrels to save space. I tarp the tote to keep out sunlight. I use an old athletic sock as a strainer. I have a small gasoline pump and 1 1/2" hose that will move a ton of water in just a few minutes. Works great to water the yard, garden, wash down vinyl siding, cars, the dogs, whatever. You can even treat and filter the water [chlorine] and use it for the swimming pool or bathing or drink it if you had to. AND ITS ALL FREE. SCREW THE WATER COMPANY. Now all I need to do is replumb all the toilets to flush using this system and maybe bury the tote to handle winter freeze.
Very nice video, thanks for the tips. I'm in the process of making rain barrels myself. I just subscribed to keep up with your videos. Thanks again.
Good idea andgreatwork
yes, I like everything, the question here, it would be; how to keep it from freezing , on the winter months!
Unfortunately, with the asphalt roof, there is still toxic chemicals leaking into that water supply. Also, possibly from gutters. So, not safe for edible plants. I wish it was that simple.
Excellent!
Es algo que todos deberíamos hacer.
it's a lovely system but all the pipes would burst at the first frost, so guess no frost where this system is? I plan to do something similar but frostproofed
Buenos días, se aprecia el trabajo dedicado claro. Pero yo con 4 IBC'S de 1200 litros me he arreglado y con menos tubulaciones y conexiones. Más fácil y mejor organizado ya q si quieres los puede remontar a dos y ocupara menos espacio. Saludos y buen proyecto.
Man I love this.
a lot of counties made this against regulations,but if you are out of town enough with a privacy
fence or have room inside your garage.then ta'hell with them,use it to water your lawn/garden
and save money anyway if it's what you want to do.