Rain Collection - Quick Deploying Rain Catchment 

1 minute in, I knew this was what I was looking for. 2 minutes in, I decided I needed to try this in my condo with Dollar Tree shower curtains. 5 minutes in, I'm like "I want to be like this guy when I grow up" lol

10 gallons within 6 minutes...Mother Earth is very generous.....good vid.

I love that this can be done without worrying about any contaminants from asphalt shingles, and if you have a garden in place, the posts wouldn't even be noticeable! thanks!

It was surprisingly satisfying to watch the rain flow and collect in that bucket :)

Love the video, very helpful! Can you do a video on different ways you purify that water for drinking in emergency situations?

Thanks to you and your lovely wife for standing in the rain to finish the experiment! Great seeing it in action after reading about in your book.

Brilliant! By just installing a second collector to the "opposite" side you reduce the waiting time by half.

Thank you. I am poor and need things to be as simple as possible. Best video I’ve found for rain water collecting yet

thanks for your video, i copied it exactly and it works a treat, my tarpaulin came from poundland, some string i had and some branches as poles, oh and a brick, total cost £1 cheers Mate.

This gives me the idea to use an umbrella with some broken "arms" to help collect rain water. I can open the umbrella, poke a hole near the apex of it, and sit it upside down on a bucket. Weight it with a rock, if necessary. It won't collect as much water as yours did, but it's a pretty simple thing to do and since I already have a broken umbrella, it is basically free. Thanks for the inspiration with your invention!

Cool idea and it eliminates the need for first flush as opposed to a roof catchment system, considering the tarp is clean and stored indoors. Food for thought.

Nice video. Maybe lose the rock and get an S hook with a few links of heavy chain. It won't displace as much water and probably make changing buckets easier.

Great idea it’s always good to know different ways to collect water. Thanks

For collecting cleanest possible rain water so far this is the best solution on RU-vid. I’m gonna be setting one of these up in the back of the property really soon because my thing is cleanliness a lot of people are using roof water for the garden and if you send that in for water testing it would terrify you and you would never want to use it in the garden ever again. But this is a clean alternative and it is super easy

Thank you John and family! God bless you

Greetings from Ireland, and much appreciate your information you have shared...Thanks

Thank you very much, what dedication you have!!! Keep warm & dry. God bless you!

I looked at other videos on collecting rain water and lost interest in the first few minutes. I clicked on your video and was so happy to finally see such a practical and simple way to do it. Thank you and God bless you and your wife for helping others learn survival skills 🙏! I've become a subscriber of your channel 👋👋👋!!

Oh yeah! It’s just what I was hoping to find. It’s affordable and beautifully effective in it’s simplicity. Thanks for the great details on how to space the T bars and how to keep the tarp stable. Awesome video … thank you so much.

Bless you for doing this! Now for those living in an apartment complex with a balcony but no access to earth to put poles in, here's some off-the-cuff thoughts on a variation. Feel free to comment with improvements--this is very rough drafty! 1) Buy two poles long enough to brace against the apartment wall and extend out past the balcony wall. Put a screw-in hook on the end of each, and another hook on each lower down. 2) Make some kind of arrangement to stabilize the other end. You might use "My Grip" plastic to make a kind of foot, or carpentry, or crochet a pocket to loop over a hand-weight, or whatever works for you. You might have to saw the ends of the poles to meet the wall at an angle. 3) Have heavy objects available that you could put on your balcony wall to keep the poles in place when in use, if you have a stucco balcony wall. If it's more fencelike and open, use velcro straps. 4) When it rains, pull your poles out from under your couch or wherever you have them stashed, hook the ends of the tarp, and extend them out of the balcony, far enough apart to keep that end taut. Position your pole-holders. Put the feet of the poles against the apartment wall somewhat closer together. just like the man says above, and hook on the lower end of the tarp. Follow all of his procedures with the rock and bucket etc.

Just what I was looking for. Perfect demo. I'll have this set up soon! Thank you sir!

Wow! I've been thinking of this for years. Only I planned on an inverted umbrella/teepee type collecting tarp system. I'm glad I came across someone like you that has similar insight. Good job!

you guys are troopers. thank you for the video & for your service.

Success! I almost didn’t deploy because we were only expecting a quarter inch and got that or half that per NOAA. It rained overnight so I couldn’t monitor. I only put out a gallon bucket. It overflowed so I don’t have an accurate measurement. The tarp and four Upost cost me under $50, I had the other parts, paracord & mallet & bucket. Very exciting. Thanks!

This is perfect for me, thank you!!

Excellent video! I've been planning on setting up a tarp to collect rainwater in my back yard for drinking, filtered and purified of course. I have several fencing corners that will provide three corners. I just need one post. Seeing your in action has got me inspired again.I like your nylon tarp better than the stiff blue tarp I was going to use. My city water is fine. We also have a filtering system with reverse osmosis. The city water comes from the ground and has dissolved minerals, especially calcium that pass right through any filter. Iced tea made fro the city filtered water gets very cloudy when cold. I experimented with rainwater collected from my roof. Even after filtering through .2 micron silver-impregnated ceramic filter with activated charcoal the rainwater still has a slight brown tint to it. My tea made from it doesn't get cloudy when cold. I want to avoid the roof-caught water. The tarp will eliminate the dust, pollen, bird droppings and dissolved roofing chemicals from the water.

Thanks from Atlantic coast Canada. Great idea for easy set up for community gardens.

Thank you for making thus video. I have a community garden space where they have a 6 foot height structure restriction and don't provide water on site. This will be a great quick and low cost solution especially since I already have all the materials!

excellent idea. I was planning in setting up gutters and spend a bunch of money. I think I can scale this up with a bigger tarp and barrels. Thanks man!

Just the solution I need for my block in super dry summers and wet, Frosty cold winters in southern Western Australia. Thank you for sharing.

Good Vid Bro. in the bush it is amazing how fast i can fill all my water containers, and even have a tarp reservoir in a 15 min. Florida afternoon cloudburst.. Thanks.

Thank you for your great videos and your service. Semper Fi!

Greetings from England. Found this through a Skilled Survival article. Excellent demo

excellent video. with a simple set up like that you can catch around 40 gallons per inch of rain..more than most people would think !

I like this video. It is easy & economical to assemble and so much to gain.

This is just what I needed. Thank you

very informative,thank you sir,,,from Albany NY

Great video! We live in the country, and use a rain barrel, but I can see setting one of these tarps up, too!

Just ordered a locking tin box from your site John. Denise was extra helpful. Keep up the good work. Jason from Colorado P.S. The video was informative and relaxing!!

7:50 aww thanks man you so considerate about wasting our time, not like we got much to do right now lol

This is perfect!!!!! I always collected rainwater for my plants. Our new house had metal pipes inside the regular drain pipes then buried into the ground. So I was really bummed. Thanks for this.

Excellent video. Thank you.

This is exactly what I was looking for Thanks for demonstrating.

This is the best DIY rain collection system I saw in the internet. I'm gonna make one like this but I'm gonna use just 2 poles instead because I'm gonna attach it to the picket fence. Should my wife tell me it's unsightly or doesn't want the pole permanently planted to the ground, I'll have to put cement on the pole's feet so it will be sturdy and I can move it around. Instead of a bucket I'll use a 45 gallon bin, the square ones. I'll be using the water for my aquarium. Thanks for uploading this sir and more power to your channel.

Yes, thank you Denise!

Just what I needed to see. Thank you so much!

Thank you John, great idea!

Great idea and such an easy set up!

Excellent Video!!! Thanks a million!

Amazing. Thank you for sharing your skill.

Love this video thank you so much. I’m going to try this weekend

Wow! That is the most ingenious thing I've ever seen! Those green posts are sold to hold up fencing and you can get them in any store like Home Depot or Lowes. This is great! Thank you for this video. I will be buying what I need for this instead of a rain barrel which would be catching bird poop and other junk from the roofs of my buildings out back.

Genius! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

This would work really well for people with narrow lots with a fence on both sides - making a funnel across your whole backyard.

Smart idea, yet so simple! Thank you for sharing. Gonna try this in India..

Good idea John, thanks!

I want to call you RAINMAN! Im going to have to try this soon. Thank you, sir☔☔☔

Just what I needed in my rental situation. Thanks soooooooo much!

Perfect just what I needed

The sound of rain hitting a tarp always reminds me of Boy Scout Camp.

Wow! You did great on this video! Kudos to you and your wife, getting soaked just so you could show us. Thank you!

Nice video, ty for the water gathering tip.

Excellent video.

This is excellent thank you!!!

Perfect! Great idea!

Love this video. Can you please make a video how to expand this system to create overflow into larger containers such as barrels?

Awesome video!! Thank you so much!

Oh, my gosh!! 14: 27 we find out the camera gal is getting sloughed in the downpour!! Way to go man!! Really some great ideas!! At my (gutterless) home, I could plan ahead and use 50g drums to collect!! You really are an inspiration!! TY

Just the video I was looking for!

Thank you, I will be using this method until I can build a rainwater catchment system.

Another excellent video. I don't know how youtube promotes videos, and how good videos can get views, but this vid should have more views, and your channel overall should have more views, orders of magnitude more views. KEEP MAKING VIDS!

Thank you very much!

Great idea ,will try this for April rain ,greetings from Kenya machakos

Brilliant! Thank you! Even I can manage this.

Great experiment John.. I need to practice with this method.

This was oddly satisfying watching!

Good video John!!

Love the video man, thanks a lot

Very cool!

Super idea,cheap and best 👌👍

Great job mate!

Good video and ideals. I'm looking to use a regular overhead tarp at a campsite. If it rains, I want it set up to collect clean rainwater directly for potable use. I don't think I'll need that steep of setup. The rock idea is a gem though.

Very useful. Thanks

Cool video! Thanks!

By adding springs to the ropes would help stabilize the tarp in case of a sudden gust of win.

Soooo doing this now thank you for great cheap idea for my house plants.

Fabulous Idea

This is how i plan to catch drinking water , preparing for the worst but hoping for the best with this Corona Virus crap... Thank you for posting , cross your fingers for this old lady

Very nice.

Thank you sir. 🙏🙏

Thks for sharing!

Thank you!

thanks for the demo sir

Well done. Nice...

Understood. Thank you kindly

👍 I think the main thing of this video is having poles you know you can tie a tarp to. If you could do a makeshift pole setup then that would be vey useful.

I really liked this video! It was personable, and it proved its point. I want to do something like this, but more so with shorter... "prongs"? Something maybe a foot off the ground. Probably not just a foot off the ground, just because it does need to be higher than the bucket, but still. Very short.

I love beautiful people like you! God bless you and wife😍🤩

why do you remind me so much of Doc from Z Nation. I love it! Thank you for this video and I will try this

Awesome!