bobseyes.net Dailey blog that most of these videos come from. Four wheeling and kayaking around the western United States. My daily life living in the redwood forest of the Pacific coastal mountains.
We had a problem. With bugs and Mosquito going up the pipe. So we extended our pipe and turned up the end. So water fills the entire pipe. So that bugs and stuff can't get up it and lay eggs.
i didn't expect to have watched this all the way through... it was really interesting. You haven't lived unless you've drank fresh spring water from a mountain..
Right on Stanley, I've had the prevalage of having my house plumbed with spring water and being able to sample about ten springs on the property when I'm out in the forest. In some ways, drinking spring water is the only way to get real water. :O) Thanks for commenting. Bob
@@bobseyes Amen to that brother, you are most welcome and thank you for posting a fantastic video! do you mind if I ask, are you in Northern California?
Hi Bob. I hit the like button but it didn't register. Nice to hear the sound you can't hear with just pictures. Thanks for your efforts making the video.
Looks fantastic. I have some land in Kentucky and can hear a little water going underground in one area. Thinking about doing something like this as well.
Hello Bob, I have been following your blog daily for quite a few years, BUT recently have not been able to connect to your site. Are you still writing blog and did something change? Thanks, CarlGeo
Hi Carl, My blog crashed when an automatic update failed to load. I've been trying to fix it and I think I've just messed it up more. My blog host has agreed to look at it on Monday, so I hope they can fix it up. Bob
I have watched nearly every video about tapping a spring and your method is far superior to the springbox style IMHO. I will try to replicate here in southwest Virginia. Thank you so much for posting this. I appreciate the tips like the stainless strainer and not making a pool of water for critters and bugs and microorganisms to contaminate it. Simple but genius!
It is interesting that my method is about the only one that does it this way on RU-vid. I originally did it the other way but kept trying to improve things until I got it this way. Good to see you see the advantages in this method. Just about everything using this method is improved from the other method. Once you use this method, you'll see even more advantages to it. Bob
I do not see how this treatment is sanitary. A heavy rain will wash down the hill and into your cutout. A piece of plastic over the rocks will not keep out contaminated ground water. Now if the entire cutout was capped with clay and then buried, maybe.
Most of my spring taps are not in a place where water washes down the hill, but in a hole in the side of a hill. However, my purpose was to show you some new ideas that you can adapt to your needs, so if you think you need clay over the tap, do it or maybe some kind of roof might work in some situations. And by the way, the plastic bags I use are put in like shingles, and covered with dirt, so things just flow over the top of the tap. Dirt is a natural filter, it's what the water flows through to get to the tap. All the other spring taps are way less sanitary than this method. This method's footprint is so small, it is far less likely to get contaminated than what most people do to tap a spring. Much less surface area. The main difference in this method, compared to most of the others is this. Most of the other methods dam water up so you get a pool. This method works just the opposite. It lets all the water out into your tank so there is far less places for contamination.
I can fix most stuff as I've been schooled in most of the trades throughout my life. I've gone from ranch mechanics to clean room integrated circuits and most stuff in between. Good to hear from you Barb. Bob
Awesome Bob, how did you find them? Apparently they are incredibly secretive. I thought they nested in old redwood stumps, like some condors-bit how can they stay safe from predators on the ground? What general area did you find them, of course not expecting to reveal any clues that may endanger a disturbance, thx for ur great videos.
What the old timers told me long ago was they thought they nested north of here along the coast. The first one I found was on our property, maybe forty years ago. I've hunted for that nest again but couldn't find it. It was in a hollowed out cut down tree, redwood stump. These two nests, I found down at Jenner while doing some hiking around while kayaking. They are about a hundred or so yards apart by big, huge rock outcroppings. Predators are a problem, but most things wouldn't mess with them, if they were smart. I did see the remains of one chick, one year, that the nest was close to the river shoreline that I think the river otters got as the otters had a pullout where they went to shore for breaks that was right near the nest. I believe I did tell exactly where the nests are in one of my old bobseyes.net posts. I think a biologist did do a study on them that likely found the nest from my posts as I found rock ankers up on the rock where I think he installed to sit in, to study them as it overhung their nest. I spotted a guy up there once but didn't know that's what he was doing until I found the ankers later. From what I can see, they nest right where we live. They've been around for years and years nesting and we more or less moved into their nesting areas. A very interesting bird which I think may be way ahead of us. To start with they don't pay taxes. :O) They glide more then they flap to fly, and they don't build nests and just find a good spot. What they eat, they don't have to pay for and there will always be dead stuff and they use the wind currents to fly around and look for food and get to where they want to go. I once watched about three hundred of them come together and do a real social thing to get drinks in the river. I don't think people have a real understanding of just what these birds are capable of. Bob
@@bobseyes Thank you. I do enjoy watching the TV’s ride the air currents to see how long they can soar without flapping. It’s kind of a nice meditation. I hope everything is safe for you and yours during this deluge. The Laguna de Santa Rosa is amazing right now and hopefully having a positive impact on the River.
Beautiful video and entertaining narration. I'm a new paddler who lives right at the mouth of a river a bit North of you. The Smith River. It's unaltered and we also have a ton of seals basking there every day!
Hi Ron, You live in a good place to paddle. I've only done a little padding on that river, once when I was headed to Oregon and planned to come back but so far haven't made it. I've checked out most of the rivers north of me and up into Oregon a ways in my travels. I hope to get back up to the Smith eventually and some of the other rivers also. Paddle on, Bob
During the king tides, the big waves might wash in the sand from the ocean closing the mouth. King tide means big waves. If so, the river will rise and where the seals are now will go under water, but they will just move to another spot on the beach. Bob
Nice one, Bob. Better intro. Palaski is a great tool but could be a dangerous walking stick. I do love to follow animal trails so thanks for sharing. BTW, like the beard.
