Jay you need 55 gallon barrel burred top circle up bottom circle down . Get two 20 foot four inch perforated pipe go out to the right and go out to the left . Filling with stone and rocks The pipe from the house needs to be 4 inch pipe run 20 feet from cabin to barrel . If you do this it will last a lifetime .do it correct the first time save money & time . Jay you can treat the wood on your cabin with cheap redwood stain of kerosene or fuel oil. And it’s done for 20-30 years . I’ve told you this years ago .if you do what we have done , you would be all set . 💙💙💙☝️
Good to be back and ketch your video. Damn Hurricane Helen wrecked Havick here. We took in about 30 inches of storm surge, so many homes wrecked. Anyhow it was great to relax and enjoy the adventures of Jay and Jen!!!
We have an access port for the gray water pit and we have a bucket with wood chips as a filter. We change the wood chips periodically and throw them in the compost. The filter has helped a lot as the rocks were getting plugged up with grease etc
Yeah, if Grease is a problem, need some kind of grease trap. Sometimes that's as simple as a water container where the outlet is lower than the top, grease and oil floats to the top, water exits below the grease/oil level, skim off the grease/oil occasionally.
You can have our rain, we were hit with the tropical storm. High winds, down trees, power outages, and high waters. Hoping to travel up through MI to the UP this weekend!
I get home from work and sit down to dinner and there's a new vid from OG/w Jay and Jen. It's like eating with old friends. Let the rain begin! We've had enough in N. Georgia from that dang hurricane.
We have a 250 gal round plastic septic tank that I drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom. I buried it on top of 6” of gravel. It’s been working great for 4 years now. It also has a man hole cover that’s accessible at ground level so you can check it a couple times a year.
Now that I watched your video I decided to clean my septic out. Just remove the cover, shopvac the grease out then rinse a couple times with water hose. Usually do it once in spring and fall.
Guys you get a WOOT WOOT from me, for the decking it looks amazing, keeping my fingers crossed for rain , we’re getting so much of it wish I could send some your way, tfs x Julie 🇬🇧
We bought another 1600 gallon tank and got more water too.. So this winter we will have 4000 gallons.. And with the snow and tank heaters in them..we should be good for 3 months.. Great video you 2.. That sucks about the septic..we do the 5 gallon bucket system with fine shavings.. Is works great and don't use very precious water
Have you guys did a perk test to see how fast the water drains into the soil? Maybe you guys need to install a bigger leach field so that the water has more of a area to leach into the soil.
I tell you guy’s, squirrels are too smart for me. Yes they love to eat every bit of food you put out and they’ll eat through anything you put in their way. I’ve put everything imaginable on my poles and all they do is jump over it and get on the feeders. I’ve done the oil, grease, car oil so they slide and they got smart and just jump over it. So I hope the slinky’s work. Let us know how they work.
Thank you for letting me know. We spent a lot of years cutting things down to a minimum. I figured I would try leaving a little more in them for a while and see how they do. Thank you
It is so beautiful where you live! Hubby kind of cranky I get that - I am the same when things don’t work properly 🥺 The deck looks beautiful with the stain, your place is so cute!!
Your problem is the grease that is going down there in your barrels. I have the same thing at my off grid place and when I built it, I told my wife try NOT to wash any grease down the drain cause it will layer the dirt under the down where the water drains. This will not allow the drain to work over time. If it does we will have to add on the end of the barrels or redo the system. The videos that I watched in the past before installing mine did say this would happen. You may want to look into a grease trap to add to your system?
I Never wash grease down the drains. I pour it in a bowl until cooled and put it with the trash. Or dig a hole and bury it. I also put liquid soap with degrease in the drain, let it sit for 15 minutes then put hot water in it to unclog it or do this regularly to prevent clogs
A perfectly functional septic tank will hold water. Atleast yours didnt look to have a cap of solids on the top. The vent should help. You may want to add more feild line.
We woke up to no water from our well in Gaylord 4 weeks ago! It took 1 week to get a well guy out. Thankfully, we had our rainwater collection and stored drinking water. 😢 we were told that our water table had dropped 30 feet since 2010!! We have to be very conservative with our well. I am shopping for IBC totes.
Oh love you guys been away for a while not back have to get caught up , thank slinky lol hope it works i've seen other mechanisms that toss the squirrel, Both are very funny . Ya wipe your greasy pans that will Clog stuff up for sure . Nice work on the deck been watching you folks for sometime and only saw you go once for water. Love where you live nothing like traveling down a dirt road . Agree with ya Jen re daylight time. Nice mixed bag video folks always a pleasure to watch.
😂Right! 70 degrees sounds so satisfying, I'm 12 miles from the UT & AZ border. Our weather forecast says another 21 days of 105+ degree temperatures. Stay cool neighbors!
@@ValiantPeony yes we're suppose to be 108° down here. I'm between Phoenix and Tucson exit 200 off 10 by I8. I'm so over being down here. I need some trees & water. I'm a Michigander born & raised until I was 45 @ 60 now I'm done drying out. 😂
As far as squirrels go, they tend to be smarter than us. If you want to see what a NASA engineer tried to get rid of his squirrels, watch Mark Rober and the squirrel video. The first squirrel video is the best. But, the second one shows how smart squirrels are. It’s good to see y’all. Winter will be here before you know it.
Jay, I just put australian timber oil, natural, over rough cut hemlock. Looks good. I have a 20x32 8ft walls with 8/12 roof pitch and did 3 sides using almost 6 gallons. Im thinking i need 2 more gallons for the 4th wall. Do it and you will be happy. I sprayed it with a electric harbor freight spayer. Works great.
Most septic systems recommend that you put a cake of yeast down them once a month it's not harmful to anything and it will eat anything out of there that's not supposed to be there, you simply put it down the drain and let it go.
Alway wipe the grease and oils out of cooking ware for it helps keep the pot looking nice and rust free, plus any grease plugs any kind and I mean any kind of septic system. I love my cast iron, and seldom use anything else. I use my convection cooking as its memory is much better than mine, no more pots that melt cause I went to sleep while its cooking. I seen folks here in alaska who bought those totes for using for something else like you. Some had sunflower oil and others had olive oil. They put it on their decks and homes to help keep wood from curling in the sun..... and we get a lot of sun in the summer. like a twenty three hours and fifty nine minutes of sunlight.... its never ever dark for say two months in mid summer and Fairbanks is twenty four seven for even longer. Of course we get payback as when its getting darker in the evenings,, like say ten or twenty minutes a day sooner as it goes on till where I am at is only about eight hours of light ... well you can still see really well out for another three or more hours and of course by then Fairbanks sees very little light at all. My ex and mother of our kids lives in central N. Carolina. Haven't heard or talked to her in many years. Not going to say how much I still love her or not as its no ones business but the hurricane that has left everyone under water, and imagine cemeteries that have washed away as well. Lost lives by probably thousands when counted..... no water where you are and water for drinking is nowhere to be found where they swim to house to house. I pray many of those who did make it through have quick help and survive this terrible mess.
There are products that treat septic system solids and grease like Ridex (just some bacteria). For longer lasting system would suggest a setup that functions like a true septic tank. Example, two 275-315 gal totes buried with inflow near top of first, watertight T connection between two totes near top of opposite side wall from inlet, watertight T outlet near top of wall on opposite side of 2nd tote with 3" pipe leading out to maybe six 5' long ARC units (30' total length). The first tote catches all the solids, grease and is where bacteria decompose stuff but this tote will occasionally need to be pumped out. This first tote eventually fills with water and the T in this tote allows the water to flow into the second tote but prevents 99% off all the solids and grease from going into the 2nd tote. The T in the first tote has a 4-6" downward pointing 3" pipe and 99% of any solids or grease floating on top cant flow into the 2nd tote. The 2nd tote has a similar T on the outlet for the same reason. So pretty clean waste water flows out going towards the ARC units. ARC units make up a kind of "leach field". They need sandy soil to work (which you seem to have) and are connected in series on a flat horizontal trench then covered with soil. ARC units are relatively inexpensive, cost around $45-$60 (depends on width) for each 5' long section. If you decide ever to have a well and treat black water, two totes serving as a septic tank would be too small and 30' of ARC units would be inadequate, however adding a distribution box after a new last 3rd tote and adding another 30' of ARC units in a new trench may work for a 2 person cabin. Sorry about length.
I was planning on doing that barrel trick for our grey water. Although we wont be there full time. I would say less bacon, but everything is better with bacon! Cheers!
I watch your channel regularly and do enjoy it but i would like to see you make a correction on the price of solar equipment. The inverters and batteries have stayed relatively the same through the past 3 years what has changed has been that copper wirng has doubled but whag has actually be ome half price is solar panels and we have a greag option for an American made panel out of texas sirius panels that are competitively priced. Looking forward to see your corrections. And just so you know I live in southeast North Dakota and I run my house completely on solar and l have found ou i can build batteries for 40 percent of purchased rack batteries .if I would have known how easy it is I would never had bought a ready to use rack battery. Jen is the awesome sour dough 😊
Another idea is you're supposed to put vaseline on the pole so they slip when they're trying to go up, but grease it real, good up and down, so they cannot climb up it all the way up and down it
On my cabin I used 1 gallon of stain to 2 gallons of off-road diesel fuel it smells for a while but I have had no issues with it and I did board in Baton Rough Cut
They make weight sensative bird feeders. The feeder ports close if anything other than birds try to access feed. All of mind are this style. No issues with squirrels since.
Use biodegradable soaps, definitely can't put grease down the drain. We had 2 barrels buried next to our cabin worked from 1963 - 2013 when we sold it. Our septic tank was buried cement blocks.
Thanks for sharing , I really enjoy the content😀 some help if you want it, It’s easier to push water than draw water, You need to have the suction filter submerged 3 times the radius (suction filter) so not to create a water vortex and suck in air, maybe move your pump closer and push the water to the IBC. All the best 😀👍 let’s hope it rains … through the night only💦🌞🌞 🌞 daytime 👍
Don't know much and pardon my ignorance but can you make an irrigation system with your gray water for the plants and grass? I know you don't have electricity but something that the water goes down and out the barrels for that purpose? So your rain water doesn't end fast in a drought.
The only thing I find that keeps squirrels from my bird feeders is using “Songbird Selection” sizzling variety with Habanero! It has the spicy habanero oil, birds like, but squirrels don’t!! The slinky didn’t work for me! Good luck!
They say the real struggles make YOU Stronger! By The Way, Cool Earl Shirt! Dixie Chicks! On a serious Note, Does your Gray water system have a Leach Field? Peace from Northern Indiana
One can acquire a taste for squirrel meat if it is cooked right, BBQ sauce and a bun with slaw. Best with a 22 as a shotgun makes them hard to clean all the shot from. One can acquire a taste for squirrel meat if it is cooked right, BBQ sauce and a bun with slaw. Best with a 22 as a shotgun makes them hard to clean all the shot from. Our zoysia grass is both shade and drought tolerant but we had 6 weeks of no more than a sprinkle a few times and much of our yard turned brown, but I didn't water due to the expense, and knowing it wasn't really dead. Then we had three days of rain from a hurricane and it all turned green again, then residue from a second hurricane with two days of rain. Now I will not be able to keep it mowed until the first frost. You will have snow water soon... I will never build a cabin, but if I used rain water, I would put a wood stove in the attic to melt off roof snow for water in the winter.
On the porch facing the flag .. have you thought of putting up an awning or extend the roof where you can sit under it in rains etc.? .. Consider getting a Victron Smart Shunt and it will read the data and you set it all in their app. Then if there is a correlation setting on the battery and charger/inverter you can set it to the smart shunt ... see if the inverter accepts the shunt too
Your sand has too many fines which prevents the effluent from dispersing through the ground. Our home septic system was lined with fine sand by the builder and the state failed it. We made the builder dig it out and rebuild with coarse “septic” sand. You may need an overflow pipe to the hillside to empty into barrel(s) with large septic stone and course sand. You may need to do this before the ground freezes.
coconut trees have things that go up and eat the coconuts they put a peice of steel or Alaminum around the base you could put grease on it to so they slide off or get some live cadges and trap them then move them long way away that will work
The voltage from your solar panels to the house is 120 except your water pump, which is 12v. How is your wiring run for each voltage from your solar shed to your cabin?
I ran conduit underground from the shed to the far left corner of the cabin. Put a small fusible junction box there and ran the AC to my breaker box and the DC straight to the pump
Jen--Do you correlate bear traffic with birdseed??? My small suburb residential neighborhood is now overrun with raccoon, possum, and groundhogs because of habitat loss in our 2 city parks and adjacent re-builds of apartment neighborhoods. This loss of habitat lost predators: owls, hawks and bats. The squirrel population is out of control. I have not put out bird feeders for 2 years and not even birdbaths this year, because at night everything knocks them over to drink. This is a very busy residential neighborhood. My 80 year old trees can't house them all. The mosquitos are rampant. Your bears are following the other critters paths to check feeder areas. Jay--are you going to put a mesh cover on the septic vent? Nylon net and hair elastic can work until you can cut a piece of screen and use metal clamp. Jay & Jen-- look on clearance for some drip hose irrigation for vegs. In a drought especially, water by hand only at plant base; forget about getting the plant wet. Space out watering to every other day; plants expect drought. Also, mid-season to end of season, pinch off unneeded leaves and entire stems if fruit is not forthcoming. You only need to water what is still giving food. BACON grease is great for dogs, on food twice a month. Don't you keep a jar for drippings for recipes??? More healthy than corn oil. Nice sunset!
Hey Stacia....there is definitely a lot of critters that come looking for Jens feeders, but she puts them away at night eliminate night time visitors. Best wishes my friend
What if you was to nail a board to a tree behind the feeder with screws protruding so you can just screw on full field corn cobs then you could watch both or build them a obstacle course and the reward would be waiting at the end after they figure it out
@@saner6888 at price of lumber they have some real neat chain saw mills using a lawn mower eng, i have a belsaw carriage that would work well and still be cheap
