Excellent system. Thanks for the detailed description. I currently have two barrels connected together. I I like your connection method a lot. Many people connect their barrels at the top, but I think it's better to connect them at the bottom.
By connecting them at the bottom of the barrels, rather than towards the top, you are risking a problem with any of the hoses or connections draining the entire array. Connect them near the top of the barrels and you greatly reduce the amount that would be lost if a seal fails. However this will require a tap on each barrel.
Not knocking your design, but they should be connected at the top. Much more simple to connect with water hose sections/couplings. Closer together, less expensive with less chance of draining leaks. Overflow?
As Blethigg said, if you connect at the top, each barrel has to have its own tap. Otherwise you would only have about one useable barrelful. Because these are all connected at the bottom, you can get all the water from the one tap.
Excellent system. Thanks for the detailed description. I currently have two barrels connected together. I I like your connection method a lot. Many people connect their barrels at the top, but I think it's better to connect them at the bottom.
A "circle cutter" is called a hole saw. There are differnt types, some are cylinders with barbed edges, others are called paddle bits.
Great system! Thanks!
By connecting them at the bottom of the barrels, rather than towards the top, you are risking a problem with any of the hoses or connections draining the entire array.
Connect them near the top of the barrels and you greatly reduce the amount that would be lost if a seal fails. However this will require a tap on each barrel.
And doing that you lose capacity as anything below that is trapped
Yea, Good for you. Wish you would have provided info so other people could do it with out have to searching all over the earth for the hardware.
Where do you divert the overflow?
Not knocking your design, but they should be connected at the top. Much more simple to connect with water hose sections/couplings. Closer together, less expensive with less chance of draining leaks. Overflow?
As Blethigg said, if you connect at the top, each barrel has to have its own tap. Otherwise you would only have about one useable barrelful. Because these are all connected at the bottom, you can get all the water from the one tap.
How does the air escape? Once the water level reaches the top of the fittings the air in the middle barrels has nowhere to go.
Why are the pipes at the bottom? Something is wrong here.
Add a few drops of dishwashing soap to each barrel and mosquitoes will not be able to survive .
I did not see provision for overflow???