Developing Off Grid Alaskan Spring Water Source | Part 2 DIY Spring Box

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Hi, We're Craig and Chandra and this week we finish up the natural water spring we found. No more running to town and paying for water! Running at 3 gallons per minute, the spring should supply us with more water then we need. Being self sufficient for water is a necessity for any off grid homestead. This is a big step towards self reliance for us.
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@USAF-777 10 месяцев назад

Craig you got a great sense of humor , love the videos, keep them coming.

@patricksmith3316 Месяц назад

Ive seen people on youtube use rocks and cement to create a dam. It seems to work effectively. 😊 Im ki d of new to your channel. Liking it so far!!😊😊😊

@ouralaskahomestead Месяц назад

Welcome! Glad you joined us. We’ll be finishing it up as soon as we get a holding tank and pump.

@DotMc1993 Месяц назад

You. took my idea at the end. I was going to tell you to go to the beach and fill it with the rocks from there. Small rocks everywhere. Good job!

@charleshutchings3010 10 месяцев назад

We find a spring then dig down to the clay and install a concrete culvert over the spring on end standing straight up. The spring at our camp has been working like that since 1976 with no problem

@Chris_at_Home 10 месяцев назад

Good idea. With all the rain this year much of this water could just be surface runoff.

@robertbartmann8470 10 месяцев назад

Nice work on the spring water source. It's great that the water quality was good. Having that water source will make life a whole lot easier. Happy for you!

@goatstead814 10 месяцев назад

I’m definitely not a expert on this but we watched “North to Alaska’s” channel and they filled the spring with small stone as a filter rock and then laid plastic sheeting over it and covered it with dirt to keep animals out so not get any contamination. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work, thanks for sharing

@Shamustodd1 10 месяцев назад

Watched that too. Some of the things those folks do are wrong but the way they capped the spring looked right to me.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

At the very end of the video Craig addresses that. We did cover it with plastic for now. We want to keep an eye on it for a week or so before we commit to covering it with dirt. Just make sure everything continues to flow good and nothing needs tweaking.

@Chris_at_Home 10 месяцев назад

⁠@@ouralaskahomesteadMaybe dig a big hole, put filter cloth in it then fill it with washed stone. Put a pipe in it and then cover it with filter cloth, some good sand heavy plastic and then good soil. Run the tube into the tank. I wish I had a spring on our remote property. We collect rainwater off our roof. Every 0.1” is 30 gallons in our cistern. I’ve been here a week and it’s rained 2 1/2”. I only store about 300 gallons when I’m here alone this time of year, but in the spring try to fill another tank to get though the dry season. We melt snow in a tank behind the wood stove in the winter. We get plenty of that here.

@marktonthemove 10 месяцев назад

I think N-to-A is going to have problems with theirs. It was already getting sediment through the lower tube and their dam cement never set up and is already crumbling. I think putting the small rocks in is just going to back things up. Two different channels, two different ways of doing it. Hopefully they both do an update in the spring and let us know if their individual methods worked and any changes they needed to make.

@georgea6403 3 месяца назад

@@Chris_at_Home🎉

@debbiemiller7342 10 месяцев назад

So awesome you have water! Great job. Looking forward to the finish

@jefflaliberte4587 10 месяцев назад

Food grade plastic from like an old tank would be best. Every one is an expert after the deal is done. Looks great ..wish I had one.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

Unfortunately those are hard to come by up here.

@michaelferguson7735 10 месяцев назад

Hey guys hru doing, great job as usual I think you should listen to her a little bit more cuz she made a lot of sense on this you putting the mud inside when she said put it outside lol her ideas are great on this project. It's the same metal you can collect rainwater off so think the metal should be good 👍

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! I’ll be sure to have him read your comment 😂

@lucyl2770 10 месяцев назад

PLEASE - I encourage you to watch “This Off Grid Life” and look/watch their video about their Spring Box. They have an immersive pump in their Spring Box that pumps the water up hill (I don’t know to what degree) to a large cistern or holding tank that is close to their house. It’s worked for 2+ years

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

We plan to do something similar but it will have to wait until next summer, those big holding tanks are spendy and you rarely find them used in good condition. We’ll just be carrying it in buckets this year.

@RobinJones-ow9oz 10 месяцев назад

Your husband is so smart. Im glad i found you all. I really enjoy watching you all. I'm from Georgia and love watching theses videos. As always be safe and God Bless. Are you all going to hunt and fish to.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

This year is dedicated to getting the house ready for winter. Next year we will be focusing on solar so we can have some electric, planting a garden, building a chicken coop, definitely some fishing. We’d LOVE to get a moose but we’ll have to see what our freezer situation looks like at that time. The next few weeks are going to be finishing the ceiling insulation, installing the wood stove, cutting firewood and somewhere to store it. Nights are getting chilly and the leaves are quickly turning colors. Winters fast approaching ❄️

@JamesCouch777 8 месяцев назад

You could install a solar system and have the water pumped to the house. We installed one to water our cattle and it worked great even in winter when it got down to zero degrees fahrenheit.

@ouralaskahomestead 7 месяцев назад

I missed this comment somehow. We do plan to install one in the spring once the days get longer. I gotta get a couple of those IBC containers. They’re so hard to find in Alaska and if you do the cost $400 used. I’m gonna try and pick up two while we’re down here in TN they only run $80

@davidasimkosr4641 24 дня назад

Go on line look up Ram pump and build one

@ouralaskahomestead 23 дня назад

I look it up, thanks!

@jknorene9527 9 месяцев назад

From your holding tank use a Ram Pump to go up hill.

@gf3803 10 месяцев назад

Very cool, I'll be re-visiting this video next summer when we try to do something similar to our seep/spring. We are likely going to put in some little solar pump that pumps when the sun is shining and have it collect in a larger tank. Unfortunately for us, our water has a lot of iron so I'm not sure how we're going to deal with that yet. Would like to filter it out someway before we pump it since it will crud up the pipes and such, and we'll need a lot of pipe to pump it up to our cabin....

@arnoldromppai5395 6 месяцев назад

Any distric heath unit supplies water sample bottles you can reqest mailed to you. You open the test bottle carfull not to spill the contents out an fill the test bottle 3/4 full. Mail it back with in 24 hour of sample taken. In the box with the pre paid lable. Fill the form out. You get your heath test back in 2 to 3 weeks no cost to you.. people on wells an spring like my self have it tested every spring after brake up

@deborahmoczygemba3026 10 месяцев назад

Awesome, great job 👍 👏

@user-vo1nl8ne1h 10 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@RobinJones-ow9oz 10 месяцев назад

I watched another video there was another man up in Alaska at the front where them pipes es he put cement in he is now I don't know if that's a good idea. I just watched it.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

Many ways to do it. We try and reuse whatever materials we have available. The metal in the back was leftover from the house roof, the dam metal was some of the trash we found on the property when we got here.

@valeriebostick1913 10 месяцев назад

Good job 🇬🇧😊

@mariezafonte6473 10 месяцев назад

Glad to hear the water is good.Craig is so knowledgeable about construction and building things that will make your lives more comfortable. How far are you from the beach? I thought we saw your son when you first came to Alaska. Is he still there.? Many teens don't want to be part of their parent's channel. Hope the water works for you.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

It’s 1 mile via ATV from our place to the beach. Only 1/4 mile if there were a straight route. I love to smell the salt in the air. He turned 18 and doing his own thing, work a lot. He hates his picture taken so he probably won’t be in any future episodes. He’s doing good though. 🩵

@enchantedmountain5354 6 месяцев назад

Great video, wouldn’t plastic be better to retain the water, or does it make a difference?

@Chris_at_Home 10 месяцев назад

Did you look for any Agate rocks on the beach there? There are plenty to be found with all the volcanic activity across the inlet from there.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

Oh, yes, we’ve gotten lots of them!

@dianehill6612 10 месяцев назад

Great job looking forward to your next video.

@ouralaskahomestead 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for watching

@user-it9tn7io1h 7 месяцев назад

Hay guys if you heat the black pipe up a bit. It will slip on better

@jknorene9527 9 месяцев назад

you can get galvanized poising.

@davidasimkosr4641 24 дня назад

Got a harbor freight they have cheaper hole saw kits !

@ouralaskahomestead 23 дня назад

We love Harbor Freight but unfortunately, none around here.

@jobcacka1330 5 месяцев назад

For a more permanent solution use concrete.

@mortenmyhrmoen7592 9 месяцев назад

🇳🇴👍👍

@michiganjfrog5714 10 месяцев назад

♥

@waderue 6 месяцев назад

no, he needs a hole saw bit

@ouralaskahomestead 6 месяцев назад

Yes, we needed an inch or inch and a quarter, I don’t remember now but it they were sold at locally and Amazon was gonna be eight days and he didn’t want to wait.

@MrLucas1012 10 месяцев назад

Ok… first thing when harnessing a spring is, your spring should flow directly into your covered spring box. From that box you have your overflow and your supply pipe. Your spring box is covered to lessen chance of contamination. Your supply pipe should be insulated, maybe even heat taped to a supply storage tank. You have a tank or cistern in case your line freezes, you still have water. Then after the cistern your filters for drinking water etc…. If your using gravity feed no pumps are needed. You can add pumps, pressure tank , filters etc after cistern.