This brings back some great childhood memories 🤩. When I was about 10, I’m 74 now, my parents bought a big chunk of land ….Lots of trees, a creek, vineyard,well & electricity…. With 4 kids we lived in a small hunting cabin annnd had an outhouse 😂 My dad build a big 3 bedroom home & a tiny home for my gdad 😊. We had cows 🐄 chickens 🐔 & lots of wildlife. Watching your fam doing this makes my ❤ feel all warm & toasty. 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
I put a pool noodle in the crack of the tail gate and truck bed when I am unloading mulch ,sand,or gravel. Makes clean up and unloading easier. Just something you may want to try. Enjoy watching your progress.
It's nice to see y'all again. I couldn't watch you after Nine-Nine. On Oct 10,2022 I had to put down my beloved Nena. 😭 She had kidney stones that were too big to pass and I couldn't afford the surgery and he advised not to do the surgery because they usually come back. She was in so much pain and she and I cried together. She's no longer in pain but my heart still is. I loved my Nena more than my family because she never hurt me... She only loved me. I still feel her beside me in bed. Lord heal our hearts. Thank you Jesus. ❤️🙏🙏🐶
You just make me smile...I love watching your videos and the way that the whole family is involved in the projects. As a Canadian living on the east coast of Canada, I don't know much about Arizona and love learning about the weather and the environment. I especially enjoyed learning about the berms and swales and how you are changing the landscape to maximize the loss of water. This is the first year that I have used a rain barrel, and I am amazed at the amount of water I have been able to capture. Look forward to each video.
God bless you! Your teaching and homeschooling your children life skills survival skills living skills that are so beyond what they teach in the public school system. God bless you! You have golden hearts!
Well done , Jonathan, Ashley, and family! Looking forward to seeing tiny shiny airstream parked in place. Thanks for all the great videos! I've gone back and watched every one that I could find on RU-vid - your channel is my favorite by far! 💖💖💖
So exciting to see all the progress you are making! Your videos are educational and fun to watch you. Thank you for sharing your adventure with us. TSH is one hard working family ❤ Love you all ❤️
Guy i love all your videos also i would like to say how lucky your kids are to have such a fantastic Mum and Dad. By the time they are grown they will know how to do so many things for them selves
Your brains must be stretched to the limits keeping up with what you need to do and how you need to do it!! 🤯🤯 I’m speechless watching y’all work! I seriously can’t wait to see what’s next! The spoiler alerts were awesome, but I would have totally sawed that board off!!
You all make it look easy, but I know how much thought, and re-thought you put into this. It’s going to be so exciting to see it completed! Have a Happy Halloween, guys!! 🎃
Just a little piece of advice. Put water in your septic system holding tanks. If you don't the first big rain you get, the tanks will float up to the top. Even with being covered up with dirt and gravel. I've seen it happen without water several times.
Yup -- my grandparents put in a huge plastic septic tank for a mobile home they weren't living in yet. A good rain saturated the soil and floated that bad boy up out the ground -- broke all the plumbing, etc. -- major no bueno. :(
The water won't stay. Both tanks have 12 holes on the bottom. But...I always thought that such tanks are filled with stuff like activated charcoal and sand as the first filters and only the last one in line has holes to let the water into the ground.
@@ws4860 -- I think that would be more like a filter for drinking water and would plug pretty quickly with graywater. Septic tanks are designed to separate solids (heavy solids sink; floating solids float) so that only relatively clear water enters the drainfield. There is an option where graywater must percolate down through a sand filter (a 5 gallon bucket for example) so that hair/lint and food particles are trapped on top of the sand. As needed, one can remove any solids to the trash and add more sand. :)
@@sail4free1 You are right, activated charcoal etc. is mainly used in drinking water treatment. But let's think about it further ... first of all, I like that TSH thinks of the animals and spreads the gray water underground. But then what happens to it? At some point it gets into the groundwater and into the plants in the area. We have learned that the trees and shrubs in this area in particular have very deep roots. Shouldn't you pre-filter and return the water as pure as possible and send the biofilter to a disposal company from time to time? After all, you still want to be able to enjoy your property 100 years from now. (Although I also believe that corresponding laws will come at some point anyway). I like your idea of the 5 gallon bucket, alternatively you could fill the barrels yourself with a layer of sand and a flat stainless steel screen cut to fit to hold back hair etc. That would also counteract buoyancy. Disadvantage: you would have to dig up at least the first barrel up to the opening. ;) :)
I love you family getting in to the work as a team, yet still having fun. I have been watching the French drain you tubes and note their use of geofabric to stop silting of the drainage stones. It may be worth a look when considering your next septic and grey water systems to get a really long life out of them. Having to redo this after a time will be harder and a perfect pain. Love your work ethic and willingness to take on the challenges of bringing dreams to reality.
FYI AZ is not the Only state that says kitchen sink water is black water.. NEW Mexico says kitchen sink water is considered black water. The code department in Silver City, NM ( Grant Co) explained this to me earlier this year & I now understand why. Guess I agree 😏 Like your projects. Well done. Admire that motivation.
This is sad. You live in the desert, you have had 10x the rain I have had during the summer/fall. I'm impressed that none of these projects have led to an emergency room visit (aside from Ashley's eye). Nobody has fallen off of any roof, no surgeries..I'm impressed.
Oh my gosh. I was thinking the same thing today. Every time my husband goes to the garage to work on a project I pull out the first aid box (huge fishing tackle box) and have it ready to go. Every time. d
I am absolutely gob-smacked at how much hard work you guys do. I know it must feel REALLY good when you accomplish each task. Love sharing your journey with you all!!
You could have used galvanized hardware cloth on top of the gravel with a layer of landscaping fabric on top. Then put on the soil. This is what I did and it's lasted over 20 years.
I love how you are willing to tackle these new projects, learning as you go! Digging holes and trenches to below frost line is not easy! We have to go 4 ft to sink a clothesline pole or sonotube footing. It's only a hole and I always want to quit at 3ft....surely this is deep enough! And moving that gravel/stone is not easy either, though you make it look so. Kudos to you and the kids!❤
Another one in the bag (dirt)! You guys are making so much progress. LoL 😂😂😂 I know we are seeing it in a different than real time. Still it's amazing to watch. Once it's done it will be so splendid and give the Airstream so much protection. Love all the stuff you do.
Did my share of rock shoveling out of a truck bed. We realized quickly that a heavy tarp placed under the load of rock made it easier to get all the rock out cleanly. Added bonus is once the pile in the truck bed is low enough we just grabbed the front and pulled it over to move the rock back. Once that rock pile was light enough just pulled the tarp and rock out, no rocks to pick out of the tail gate gap. And the last bit of rock could be pulled to its dump spot and roll the tarp out from under. Then do it all again, hope this helps you before you finish all those loads of rock.
Have I told you before how much I love watching these videos. My mind: 1- Wow, the education their children are getting!!! 2- Forget the kids. The education I am getting. I find myself googling many of the terms you use. 3- This is a HUGE endeavor with so much planning. I can see that you really have to plan out the order that you do things to limit redo and wasted time. 4- You guys work so well together. It has been said that home renovations are one of the biggest cause of marriages breaking up. Either you don't fight/argue/disagree/debate/fight OR you are incredible at editing these videos. 5- Do you have a "work for food" ethic with your kids? They must never fight/argue/disagree/debate/fight OR you are incredible at editing videos. I need to prep a cup of hot chocolate and a bowl of popcorn for the next installment. d
Bonjour la famille. like a love-letter from a dear one far from home, how nice to see the smiling faces of the Cochise County Aéroport people. each day, a 14h, my time, like waiting for the postman to come, i search for a new vidéo. today, i was blessed with a vidéo. talk about the thrill of the back-fill. looks might fine. eldest daughter on the back of the truck, silhouetted against the dimming of the day, was a nice cinematic moment. bravo to the vidéographer. waiting to see the parking of the Tiny Shiny Home in the Aéroport. who will have this privilège ?
You are right, WV doesn’t consider sink water black water, however our grey water systems have to be constructed to the same specs as a black water septic system. And you have to be certified by the health department for installation. We are behind the times when it comes to reuse and conservation.
Don't know anything about building attachment water system but I am enjoying what you are doing it's amazing you guys killing it happy Halloween be safe God bless
I see you working with round shovels all the time, don't you have any square ones? Have you ever worked with them? They make life so much easier for certain jobs, like shoveling gravel off a truck bed, leveling out a patch of ground, etc. Oh, and leaf rakes, great for finish work. Beautiful engineering for a mini-drain field. I would have made one upgrade; after laying your plastic barrier over the top of the drainfield, I'd have tucked in the sides and put down like 4" of dirt before trimming. Thus reducing the possibility of sand getting past and creating a mini sinkhole due to settling.
I think you've got some pretty awesome kids. Most of the kids I know might be excited to help with all these projects, but after a while, they'd be begging to get out of helping.
That was great to see your building of your gray water system. I'm so glad you got it filled in before the rains came! That was a ton of gravel! Too bad the plywood wouldn't come out of the hole but you worked around it. Jax is such a jokester. Having his face down near the dirt and saying "trench." Ocho is so cute! I really like that you have two barrels, one as back up for the other, and then a leach pipe too. I'm sure you know to never put grease down your drains. We watched how to take care of our septic system and even latex paint can clog your septic system and especially grease! They say to space out your water usage to just to let the system have time to drain. That looks like a system that will last a long time!
Its a gorgeous topic to chat about 🙂 Nice job.... get your little fosa septica teabags ( I know this is grey but you should still use them) at the ready, 1 every week is recommended and if anyone has any antibiotics at all you need to restart the septic tank as they kill all the nice poop eating microbes off.....The biggest problem with all Fosas grey or black is they can pop out of the ground if not vented, fatbergs and getting rid of the liquor , its a total nightmare where we are due to being on rock, no where for it to go so it has to be pumped at 2am every day to a part of the garden a long way from the house and its used to "water" that area , loads of trees and shrubs there and boy they look good....by the morning any lingering smell has gone totally.....23 years and counting with Fossas.💩💩😤😁
Fabulous work!! As we continue to travel in our tiny shiny home--most of it boondocking--we often wonder, "what does tiny shiny home do with their gray water?" If you would be willing to share, we'd love to know what you've been doing since you moved onto the land. Also, are you planning to plumb the urine diverter into the gray tank when you move?
Glad to see your using sch 40 pipe. There is a problem with your fitting it look you installed a pressure 90 in stead of a drain fitting that will let you run a sewer cable for cleaning.
This is so interesting! I like the way you handle frustration with humor. I'm wondering what you've been doing with the gray water in the Airstream? Or did you put in a septic system and I missed it?
Did you check your type of eucalyptus? It is my understanding that they take over the root systems for many many feet underground, preventing other plants and trees from growing. From what I have observed where I live, that is true.
Watching you guys work is exhausting. Lol. You need a trailer that can dump the material. You have a future of moving material from point a to point b. Treat yourselves to at least easy unloading. It's just a thought.
If you ever find yourself in the plywood predictment again. Taking loop a rope around it pull it to one side with your truck or tractor, then go to the other side and do the same thing. It should walk itself right out going back and forth!
You do realize they make these gasket like things that act like bungs on the barrels. Pretty much water tight and forgiving as heck about contour surfaces sealing. Simple press in fittings, silicon for comfort not necessity. It's just another thought.
I would put at least 2 feet of water into those tanks to alleviate any upward pressure in the case of a heavy rain. They could float otherwise. I think I would have used cider block rather than plastic barrels.
State of Tennessee considers grey and black water the same. So Arizona is not the only state. Now, that being said.. it is a very common practice here that people just simply dump grey water straight into the ground
Hopefully soon. With the price of gas and distance to anything where you live it will probably save you a ton of money. How many truck loads of fill did you have to get for this last project.
Cool , Videos About The Cover For The Trailer. Question , Are You Going To Mount The Solar Panels From Tailer To The Roof Of The Cover Or Use The Ones You Have For The Solar Shed ? Keep , Them Coming.
The panels on the Airstream will always stay in case we ever need to move it or use in an emergency. The big solar system has been powering the Airstream for over a year, though, and that will continue with this building (electrical video coming later)
My parents would have told me one time to stay away from that hold. Not saying you had to tell your kids more than once! But then they would have told me if you fall in you going to have to figure out how to get to the doctor your own self! I never fell in cuz I believe what they said! Lol
