Thank you Tactical Rifleman Team for another video with intelligent and useful information. You are consistently making the common more capable and I am grateful for all you do. God bless.
In my long term bug out bag I have a Sawyer Mini water filter kit and a Hydroblu Go Flow Bag with water purification tabs all in a kit that fits in the palm of my hand. The Hydroblu Go Flow Bag is a 10 liter capacity dry bag with a Camelbak hose attachment that connects to a Sawyer Mini. In a non permissive environment, I just go to the water source, dunk the Hydroblu bag, close it, then connect the Sawyer and gravity filter out of sight. That's the best compact, budget friendly set up I have found. For home, the Berkey is the way to go. Good stuff Carl.
Thank you Karl. Content like yours is hard to find in german. Thanks to DARPA and their internet I can watch your great channel and learn a lot even here in Germany. Greetings from K-town. 🇩🇪
I’m decent on water filtration. I have a Berkey, but I don’t have a house backup for it outside of what’s in my car. Gotta work on that. Things are easier in my house since I got rid of the other humans. 🐕😎
I took my bags of pool shock and put each bag (non opened) in its own mason jar. I labeled each jar with instructions on how much to use. I have a pond that I can pull water out of and treat 5 gallon buckets all day long. I will still put that water after treatment through my Sawyer .02 filters to double the purity of the water.
Great info, thanks for the advice. I suggest everyone research rocket stoves. They are extremely effective and efficient in boiling water using a small amount of fuel (wood, branches, twigs etc). The process to build is very simple and can be done with 4 cinder blocks or a few bricks. Once you understand how they are constructed your imagination will help you create it with whatever you have on hand. God bless you all.
Hey Karl, thanks for the great info! I'm going to go get a Berkey or two for sure. I think another approach worth mentioning would be an evaporative (distillation) setup, like a solar or wood-fired still. Disadvantages: 1) It takes a long time to completely evaporate water, 2) It might consume fuel of some kind if it can't be solar powered, 3) Certain VOCs like pesticides will not be removed (they have a lower boiling point than water). Advantages: 1) It doesn't require filters or chemicals that can run out or might be hard to find, 2) You can skip pre-filtering for things like dirt and sediment, 3) Heavy metals and inorganic compounds like lead will be removed 4) It can be effectively scaled up to process huge quantities of water as a long-term solution.
Very good job explaining that. Exactly the vision l have. Im going to build two of them. Love the way you painted the 2× brace stands green and the pywood board black.
Earlier this year refinanced our home. Got a whole house water filtration system, and a whole house generator. Our water comes from a well and we have a septic system as well.
I knew it! After basic land navigation SF are taught to use Channel Locks on brass other soft fittings Fing them up. 🤣🤣🤣 Repaired dozens of them on Chigos, LGs, other mini splits not to mention the carnage to plumbing. Great info. Ordered a Berkey week ago. Never heard a negative comment on them in all these years. Have had straw/tablets long time. Hopefully will never need them in earnest situation. Have a good weekend!
I really like your videos, but unfortunately you keep missing out on one of the best filters made - the Sawyer water filters. They last forever (if used correctly), and they filter better and smaller than just about any other common filter out there - literally orders of magnitude better. They are also one of the easiest filters to use - they have versions that just screw onto a water bottle (dirty water in the bottle - squeeze to drink), and one of the most affordable filters made. They also have filters that hook to a faucet (I'm not sure how commonly available they are in the US). They don't remove chemicals however, though not many filters really do. Edit: I like that in-line filter for under the sink.
Great information Karl, I'm going to check out the Survival filters. If I do decide to get some, I'll use your promo code. I've been a Sawyer mini guy for years now. Between that boiling and iodine. I think I'm good to go, I have lots of them. Plus I have already put about 7,000 gallons away. In food grade barrels and I bought a 5,000 gallon military surplus heavy duty rubber water storage container. I filled them up with filtered tap water. So I think I'm pretty well prepared for awhile. But I'm always looking to gain knowledge, so I appreciate you taking the time to make this video! Stay safe brother! Alot of the craziness is going on in Kentucky. And it's only going to get worse, the closer we get to the election! I know you and your people could probably take on a small Army! But not necessarily when you're on the road. And were going to need you and the TR crew when the zombie apocalypse kicks off! So stay safe! God bless you and God bless America!🤜🤛🇺🇸
Think next to this, bein able to obtain and safely prepare food from various ways an sources are the most important things. Besides situation awareness and being able to find adequate shelter and protection.. all from scratch if needed. Not too bad
Riots, hurricanes, pandemics, just waiting for the aliens to come in December. Edit: The rioters don’t seem to comprehend that their plywood shields don’t stop bullets or buckshot.
Great Video! Since I have been watching your channel, I have started to prepare. I like that you have a common sense approach towards prepping, not a "world coming to an end" approach! Thanks TR!
Ozonation is another option if you have electricity taken care of. Takes some math to figure out the scaling, but you can go large and small. Sawyer's what I got first, but... I wanted an ozone generator anyway, so. Multi-purpose!!
Thermal distillation involves heat: Boiling water turns it into vapor-leaving the salt behind-that is collected and condensed back into water by cooling it down. The most common type of membrane separation is called reverse osmosis. Seawater is forced through a semipermeable membrane that separates salt from water.Jul 23, 2008
I got me one of them Alexapure gravity filters, ceramic filters and all, stand to put a pot under, all drinking and cooking water comes outta that.... great thing to have a gravity filter of any kind.
After sanitizing with chlorine, I suggest carbon filtering further to help get rid of some of that chlorine once you purify for bacteria and such. Depending how long you go, that chlorine is gonna affect your health.
I think I'm decently prepared in the water department. I got 1 Life Straw and 1 Mini Sawer for each person in the family. Between the straw and Sawer I should have years of water if needed. Been thinking about getting one of those camping ceramic Katadyn Pocket Water Filters but they run around $350~. You got me thinking about that unit again since it can filter 13,000 gallons.
Been using a Berkey for a few years just to have better drinking water and ice; a simple and great system. Also have a couple of the Berkey Sport bottles too. Great video.
As a public health professional, I think this is a fantastic video!! Another quick and cheap way: filter out particulates with a coffee filter and then a couple drops of bleach.
Water purification tabs are good too. I can get by with them for a weekend or camping trip drinking out of a lake. But longer term I use a Zero water filter at home, Mom uses a Berkey and is very good water. Great video, I drink a lot of water so appreciate the importance of this topic!
At onetime Karl I would make my own filters with two 5 gallon buckets, Charcoal, Sand, Grave, and Rocks (not going to get into the layers or drilling holes plus the fittings required as im sure Randy Raw Hide has probably taugh you all this 😊). But it workes great. Now i just use two 5 gallon buckets and drilll two holes in the top bucket plus bottom bucket lid, add a spicket valve to the bottom bucket bottom then use two, Berkey Water Filters and BAM! lol money saved. Plus its a five gallon water filter system for a 1/3 to 1/4 of the cost and 2/3 more water you will have filtered depending on the size Berkey system you have.
Berkey filters are mostly made overseas and don't filter as well or have the filter life of the 100% made in the 🇺🇸 Aqua Rain filter. I highly recommend it.
Karl, great video as always. Very informative and helpful as we near this upcoming election. I've gone ahead and bought a Berkey for the family and all of the Survivor items you talked about in preparation and for camping/hiking worse case scenarios. Thanks again for doing what you do.
Great vid. I had to pause half way through to place an order for an improvement over our current field filtration. I’ve been put out of commission by amoebic dysentery once in my life, in the wilderness of Temagami, Ontario. That was enough for me. It was nice to find a sub-micron field filter. Thanks for the info. (Tacticalrifleman discount code used.)
I don't know if I can trust the well water, so we've been hauling drinking water for a long time, the only benefit is that having a large supply of potable water on hand is daily practice. Stored well, cleaned drinking water can last a few weeks, and it is easier to keep 20 gallons of city water/reverse osmosis or water you cleaned yourself on hand for a short term emergency than to prepare awful tasting pool water, or boiling "only God knows what" water from unreliable sources. Some amount of storage is beneficial for long term potential emergency. As you mention, easier to prepare 5 gallons of shocked water than piecemeal, easier to boil many gallons of water and store them every single time you want some. If things get bad enough to make these things chores, easier to do one task with purpose and have plenty. We have an old Berkey system, your video reminded me to get some new filters. At the very least, those filters, or even some charcoal alternatives, can reduce that chlorine taste. At best, remove those unknown metals and chemicals you can't "kill". Even a hasty sand/charcoal bucket filter is better than nothing, I suppose. Good video, on probably the most important survival topic of all. Too much red meat won't kill you, green meat will kill. If you are thirsty, bad water can only dehydrate you faster. Thanks for making these.
For absolutely pure water you would do some form of water distillation. Basically heat up the water and collect the steam/vapor. Have you looked into different distilling methods?
@@TacticalRifleman Oh ya, thanks for doing these and other videos. I bought the Qore Performance Ice Plates and I really helped me get through some hot days. I also switched from ETS magazines to Lancer magazines. I'm looking into buying the electric Survival Filter now too!
Great topic Carl! Boiling is THE BEST method to purify water. Not sure i agree with you on the bleach though. In SERE we used bleach bcuz it tasted better than the tablets (even w/ neutralizer)...I didn't detect a horrible taste. Ur right that it has a 6 mo. Shelf life before it begins to lose its potency...pool shock is the way to go! Thanks for highlighting such an important topic! The food distribution system in the US is in a crisis... maybe you can spotlight that in the near term.
I ordered a big berkey last week and built a berkey setup last year 👍. Now I want to get some 55 gallon drums. I would have done it in January when I knew this covid thing was coming but I knew I was moving and couldnt fit them with me on the move.
At the market I worked at use to have a big stainless steel electric kettle that looked like that big filter the workers would make coffee for breakfast when we would have our break. For about 8 months all the coffee and tea drinkers would complain the coffee and tea always tastes like ass. Little did they know a Kiwi guy that worked there would throw 4 hot dogs into it every morning as soon as he got to work and 5min before we would have our breakfast break he would go take them out to eat before anyone would see. I thought his improvised boiling method was great the 30 other workers weren't impressed though.
I have several water treatment systems, including a Berkey. Excellent presentation. Consider Roving Blue products that generate ozone as an after treatment. Oxone is more oxidative than chlorine and hydrogen peroxide. I use ozone as a finish, after the Berkey or after field filtration. Once the water is filtered, the ozone will inactivate any viruses that get through the filter. You can also use the portable, battery operated, Roving Blue ozone as a backup in the bush, in the event your filter freezes. Thank you for the presentation.
The water in my town is not drinkable and they told us that boiling it makes it worse so the only thing we can do is take a shower in it and if you boil it a yellow bubbly film will form.
Me - “This is the best water purifier we can get and this could keep us alive in a crisis!” Wife - “But, does the color go with the other appliances!??” Me - (SMH)
Good video. If you really want to be prepared, you need to secure a steady supply of water, about 3 gallons per person per day. You can do less, but you need to keep yourself, your dishes and your clothes clean et cetera. And when SHTF, you might have to do a lot of hard labour and then you easily sweat a liter of water per hour. So: dig a well or put a rain barrel under every rainpipe around your house and try to store something like 1000 gallons to survive a dry period. If you have no water, then you have no water to purify, right?
Sir the burkey filter is used in my country india years ago like 30 years and these days its use is decreaseing very very few left, for auto mated electric filters😅
Great video, you should upload a couple a week ,with the of videos that you've done with the film crew! Too many good videos that haven't been posted Karl @ TR
Many more to come. However, I still have to teach classes, conduct my own ops, and then also spend time with MY family (I'm retired, remember?). So, we'll stick with a minimum of one video a week.
