The Results of My Rainwater Gravity Fed Filtration System | Tapping a Ground Spring | Off Grid Water 

Please turn down the background music, it’s hard to hear the narration. Otherwise, love the channel.

Thanks for talking to us. Your narration makes your work more understandable. Good job!!

Wow! Congratulations. Finding a live water source spring on your property is invaluable. I live on acreage in the Missouri Ozarks, I found out that previous owners had a spring feeding a moonshine still back in the 1950s, but ... someone decided to clear land with a bulldozer 20 years ago and covered it up and it is no longer on the surface. Been looking for it for 7 years now. Don't shy away from making a suitable financial investment in your spring. Year round drinking water is a precious natural commodity. Enjoy your blessings.

I enjoy the narration. Hearing it explained and seeing it done, it doesn't get any better. Look forward to the future cabin build also.

I prefer the narration. It's handy for me as I steal a lot of your ideas for my off grid property.

Absolutely love the narration! Draws me in more and makes me feel involved! It’s the best of both worlds!

Sometimes I just like to watch you work, but I did enjoy the narration.

Don’t change anything your channel is a joy to watch!

Watching your videos is a great pleasure. Please keep them coming.

Love your channel and everything you have done. Background music is fine, your voice is loud and clear to me. Keep it up and thanks!

I also appreciate more narration as it’s interesting to hear the thought processes as you go.

I do enjoy the narration!

As usual, I totally enjoy the video. Steelers look like they are building a good start for this year.

Your videos are truly a blessing....thank you for such great content and allowing us to come along on the Journey via youtube...😎🙏

I liked the thoughtful quiet but enjoy the narrative too. Gives insight into your thoughts.

I like the talking.....as with others, its easier to follow along! Enjoyed it much!

Perfect the way it is. Love the narration!!

I like the narration! It gives us insight into your thought processes, and may inspire ideas from viewers that you may have not considered!

Loved the narration. You have a nice place

Always like your videos. The narration helps. Not too much - just enough.

I really enjoy the narration as well as the background music. Keep it up!

The spring reminded me of my days of working on the railroad. Working on a Section gang in rural Indiana. One day the Foreman said, we'll fill our water keg from a spring. I knew nothing about Giardia. I soon found out. Be sure to filter that water. I wouldn't wish the results of not filtering spring water on anybody. Thanks for the update, and I look forward to the next one.

Another awesome video. I just enjoy all your content. The cabin looks so awesome and can’t wait until next time. Have a wonderful week and as always thank you for sharing your journey❤

I think you did a wonderful job,

Awesome property you have there!! So beautiful.

Love the narration, and enjoy hearing your perspective on things 👍

really enjoy all the videos, but i too enjoyed the narration

I like the narration what a beautiful property.,

I've very much enjoyed watching you as you built your small cabin. I for one like your narration, keep it up, it's great hearing you talk about not only what but why you do things the way you do!

I really like your videos and the narration is a great addition

Loved the video. Liked the music, the content and the narration. Would like to build my own cabin at some point soon.

That’s a really nice property… and no kudzu!! That’s a big win.

Well, I guess I was wrong and not too old to admit it! I questioned earlier if there would be enough pressure to push the water through the filters. Super glad to see it did work. I have enjoyed being along for the build and have learned quite a few things. Great job!

Our spring is a good distance below house site. We have an excellent flow rate so we ran pex from the catchment to a buried 500 gallon tank. Dropped a well pump and it pumps to a pressure tank that’s up the hill in the building . It’s pretty steep elevation from our tank and with the well pump and pressure tank, we have no issues with water flow or pressure. Works good for us. The buried tank has a overflow so the water is constantly circulating.

Thank you for the narration

Love the new format with the narration. 💜

I liked the narration as an explanation of why you are doing what you are doing.

Love the narration!

Outstanding, don't change a thing Thanks

The commentary is a nice touch. You have a nice piece of land my friend!

Keep up the good work. I am closing on a 140ac that backs up to 49k ac in East Tennessee. Can’t wait to explore my creek’s looking for springs

Your Pryenees is missing out on the opportunity to chase the racing squirrel.

Your stories always remind me of my youth. I lived in the city but we did have a large creek very close to my childhood home. My friends and I could play around there by the hour. We explored, we built things, outta branches and small twigs, even dams of a sort, and we always had fun. Thanks for this mini escape to a much larger variety of our childish adventures. A real admirer 👵👋🇨🇦💝

We loved the narration. (and the music). Really enjoy your videos. Thank you.

Enjoy your videos very much. I used spring water for many years, using a dug in bathtub as my collection point. It was easy to cover, and kept most of the debris and critters out, and was easy to clean. You’re doing great, I think you have come up with a good plan. As another commenter said, make sure to treat the water if you plan on using it for cooking or drinking. Thanks for sharing.

This is very similar to what I am going at my offgrid place.

Brother, from a fellow Tennessean you’ve got the right mindset for your spring and being that water comes straight from limestone and you’re so far out in the woods you’ve got to make some good ol’ moonshine for sure even if you don’t drink you owe it to yourself and every other good ole boy 💯! I’m looking forward to your cabin build. Lee from west Tennessee.

Love all your videos

I like the narration. Such a beautiful place you are building on ❤

Enjoy watching your channel, God bless 🙌

Work from the ends on your future cabin…the beauty of wood is it can be always made square, and imo rough cut wood looks better

I like more narration. Explaining what you're doing. Love the cabin

Glad for the narration. Good to know your thoughts &plans. Would love to have any source of water on my property. I have a great well but it is 408 ft deep. In a grid down situation it would be inaccessible. Great channel and great cabin. You are an over achiever!

Like it either way mate, your channel is fantastic to watch, you do great work!! Fan from Australia 💪👍🇦🇺

I think a combination of video and some narration would be great. But it's your videos make em the way you want ! We will still watch them.

I like to hear your narration/thought process. Good luck with this project!

I really enjoyed the video!

It’s always captivating to watch you .. / your explanations are clear & simple. Thanks A LOT for your generosity. ( narration yessss . )❤ from Québec

Everything was great, job well done. Thanks

I have seen smaller dams built on streams and you got the right idea but you should try box the area & add a pipe instead the plastic use rocks & cement like the hydrostatic is good then to keep the water safe run it through any pipe or get a roll plastic water line start like 2" at dam then drop to 1" about half way to the cabin it will help the pressure build up a bit !

Great video

Your narration was SPOT on. Will continue to watch,great photography, Enjoyed it very much. GOOD LUCK.

Narration 👍🏻

You are so right the contaminants of the stuff they spray in the air does come down from the rain they be messing with the whether they need not to do that I'm on the same page you are as far as that blessings to you 🙏👍😊

We’re really wanting to start collecting our water run off from our roof, but it’s Very inexpensive here in Washington state. According to our laws the state owns every drop of water. So we would need to bury our system so it cannot be seen. But I’ve been thinking about how I can route the water to our oversized garage. I enjoy watching your videos, thanks for sharing them.

All good!

Good man. So nice ❤

thought the video was great. looking forward to more. we should all be living like this, simpler, smaller, less.

will you please reference any documentation that shows how and why charring/burning the wood works as a preservation method both above and below ground?

To make it go up into the cabin, you might need a12v pump. Also the more the barrels are full, the more pressure there will be to go thru the filters. If that is where you are going to leave the outdoor stove, you should think about a shelf under the window to put any spices for when you cook. Are you going to build a second bridge in the other ravine? Do you plan on building a power generating wheel on the creek?

loved your videos from the start. had read about the 2x6 cabin construction on line. was delighted to see it work so darn well for you. my most sincere respects for you after you explained why you were doing this cabin build.

10,000 dollar find❤ That paid for the lumber🎉

Love all your videos. Narration was great.

Great video. Narration was a nice addition. It's good to know what you are thinking as we watch. Video alone does not convey the details. Your style is fine.

Thanks for an interesting Video...I would love to have a Spring on my 4 acres..I guess the County has a map showing where the Spring are at....In the 60's we had a Spring on the edge of the road A farmer put some iron pipe for flow & people would go there for fresh water...as time went on people started to put their trash there & I mean 30 gallon size. so the farmer had to clean up the mess in his field before he could farm...it takes a few idiots to ruin it for others...he destroyed the Spring-gone-he warned people but the people didn't listen....I have to find the one 15 miles from me & another on 30 miles from me.....

Great to see all these upgrades you are making. I wonder if the solar battery bank can be used to power a small 12v water pump? How have the summer temps been inside the cabin with just the wood as insulator?

Love the narration. Can’t wait for the cabin build🙏👍

Great job!!! Keep up the good work!! Thanks for taking us along!!

Oh and I forgot you could also get you a 12-volt RV water pump and pump water up to your cabin

My friend did a great job, your forest is very beautiful. May I ask what camera did you shoot with? 😍😍😍

Hell yeah brother it looks like you're drinking moonshine out of that jug LOL I have the same garlic salt shaker also by the way just to let you know if you got any extra property out there I could come and build me one I'd love it out there bro it looks nice and quiet and the whole nine yards

Good Morning. Great to see your video pop up. Your format was very nice. Your videos are always nicely sequenced and the music is a calming backdrop. This content is very interesting and I always appreciate you sharing with all of us. This is information we all may need to know someday. Its always nice to see you taking steps toward your dreams. Was it Khalil Gibran that said something to the effect of "walk toward your dreams and with Bold steps". Cheers!

I disagree with comment about the music being annoying. I thought it was pretty cool. 😊

If you want more water pressure take the barrel spigot off and feed directly to filters and place a shutoff on the hose side. I would never drink that water. To much of a chance of bacterial contamination from birds and animal pee and poop. Nice for other uses. Nice job.

I helped my dad tap a spring on our NC property back in 1971 with a washtub. I was barely a teenager. The tub had a screen over it to prevent debris and he used pvc pipe to connect it downhill to the camper. There were no filters back then so everything was filtered with screen. I have to say that water was COLD and we used it for everything. No one died or got sick. He sold the property in the late 70’s. I’d love to go back to see if it’s still there. The camper is long gone of course.

OK Get as much dirt and rocks out of the way. find exactly where the water is perfeating out of the rock. Build a rock and mortar round wall all the way around. Let it fill with water then leave a over flow spout where you want it ti drain down hill. Make sure you have a good sealed cover no dead mice in water. set solar battery and pump off you go. remove pump when freezing

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Comments are all so good. I guess you need a few naysayers just to keep you humble lol😂

Nice video. 1 Question, how do you combat ticks? I have rural property similar to yours (much smaller in size) and every time I’m out there clearing, thinning out woods or trails, felling trees, I always have a tick or two either crawling on me or attached. I spray but I still get them on me. I had issues with chiggers too but after clearing a few years ago, they seemed to have disappeared. Thanks for sharing and look forward to your next video.

Do you think the 3 inch pipe when full of water will be heavy and push on the 2 in going into the house? A riser clamp could be used to attach the pipe to the cabin so it's not just free hanging there.

Constant background music is just fine for melting snowflakes. Great job on your water catchment system. Don’t listen to the haters, bro. They can always go somewhere else and whine. 😂

What is the distance from the spring to the cabin? Will a pump be required or will force of gravity suffice to get water to the cabin?

Wonder who "they" are that's doing the spraying in the skies and why?

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WHAT ARE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE MAIN CABIN?

Better dig a hole to make a dam underneath the spring..

I like the narration, but sometimes the narration and the music together is a bit much to hear the narration well.

Спасибо! Кто напишет лучший комментарий, от пяти слов? Thanks! Who will write the best comment, from five words?

Atleast one video a week, please. Show us around your farm if you have animals. We all would like to see. If you don't, I do understand. Privacy is very important