We spent the weekend building a spring box to catch the water from a natural spring on our property. This is our main source of water as the cabin is completely off the grid.
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We Had Sevier Flooring about 12 Years ago And we had our Spring box fill up with Silt and Had to Jackhammer And Use Liquid Grout to Break the Rocks And Build Another one Past the Floodplain....And Works Great Ever Since..No Leaks 🎉
You look so cute and beautiful and hard working and innovative too. Much love from kenya Africa. You have just gained a subscriber from Africa kenya. You guys are such a wonderful family...
Gramps after WWII at sea went to the mountains - found a house w a hand pump well in a hand dug hole, so cheap. But there was a big spring on absentee neighbors land, made a deal to use it for 3 houses. About 30 feet below seeps he built a concrete 3 sided tank. Built a cover. Hooked pipes to that. Water ran over surface over a 1000 sq ft area depending on season. Yes animals birds leaves plants bugs all sorts of stuff also "used" ) contaminated water. We seem to have lived through experience. He planted water cress in tank pool. I'd go up hill w him & "help" clean it out every yr until he couldn't then I was old enuf to flip the lid off & do it myself. Also pulled out most weeds growing in seep field, raked off fallen branches, most leaves. Big trick w springs is DONT MESS W AREA WATER IS SEEPING OUT OF. It's coming out there cause pressure above is less than water pressure below. You cover w gravel etc like I see lots do eventually u get silt pushed between gravel until soil level builds up to the point it's so heavy water can't force it's way up. Unless there's enuf flow to keep pushing silt out & you have gradated your rock real good etc. Even your pool will let water push silt into it building up over seeping water possibly capping it off. Digging silt out should be done carefully so as to not disturb micro channels in earth gravel rock & bedrock. Hence Gramps & others in area building collection tanks BELOW the spring field. fyi water flowed to big collection tank further down hill for silt to settle & surge capacity. You can do this now w flushable sand filters & even add automatic chlorination systems.
Was wondering what type of cement. Also how do you stop the water from going under the block wall you folks made. I'm in south western Tennessee and we have rocks and chirt. Any insight would be awesome! Great video, thank you for sharing!
Young Lady, You did a fine job. Only thing I think you could have done differently is dig your trench so the first layer of blocks would be about 3/4 below the surface. That would stop most of the leaks. It would be a lot more work but worth it in the end.
Yes. I found this confusing as they kept calling this a spring box. In other videos I have seen the spring box was a box the pipes from the spring fed into to collect silt and then send pure water down to the collection tank. With the setup they have they are likely to get all kinds of junk in their tank.
First time on your channel so in the dry season are you getting any water? Nice the big people letting the little people help,most tell their children to STAY OUT OF THE WAY.
Thanks for watching! Yes, we are still getting water in the dry season. Flow is a little slower, but still enough to supply us with what we need. We try to get the kids involved as much as possible... it's not always easy or pretty, but its worth it to us to have them be out doing these things with us!
Of a curiosity, especially as I plan to build one of these on our property, how do you deal with hard-freeze times? Seems like that PVC would split? Do you insulate the pipe(s), or keep continual flow going, or...??
Hi Jerry. We mainly use our cabin 3 seasons, so when the temperature drops in late fall, we take the PEX tube off, empty the blue bin, and let the water run out of the PVC which makes it way down to a nearby creek. Because the water is constantly moving it never freezes in the PVC. Note we are in western PA where it is in the teens and 20s most of the winter months. Not sure if this would hold true in a colder climate.
Hi Jodi. We used mortar, but ended up going back and filling some spots with hydraulic cement later on that the water penetrated through on the bottom of the blocks. If we did it again, we would probably use all hydraulic cement to allow it to set faster.
Great job girl. Shame dudes sat there and watched u work. I could t do it. I would t be an observer. Hard work is good for u. Cardio and strength. Neither would hurt…. Nice house. Nice family.
