Endless Water To Pasture (No Electricity or Pump Required)

First, we set up this water-collecting weir at the very top of our mountain in this little stream. This is just a piece off of an IBC tote. It's a framed cage over a little, I don't know, 20-gallon plastic water tank. Wire mesh— any of the silt that washes in there won't get through. The water comes out into this 1-inch pipe, makes a turn, and goes— this mat is actually concrete screwed into the rock. Anyway, let's go back down the hill following the water line. I don't know, 25 feet lower. Comes down into this tank, show you inside, get the debris out of it, fills it up. We have an overflow pipe, see it? 1 inch. It, it comes all the way up to the top here, so this tank has to get full. Water exits out of that pipe, goes down, and you can see the flow rate right now. We've got a great flow rate. Here's our water feed line. Goes on down through the woods. It's called Carolina Water Tank, local company. It's plenty of water for a day, 2 days, 3 days, really, for the whole farm down below this side of the creek. 114 feet elevation drop. I'm back down at the bottom of the mountain. Well, not quite. There's the creek. You see it? Here's our pipe so far. There's where we just were, trying to orient you. Let's spin around. We got the cows and the sheep on a hay balm over there, pigs healing that land over there, and this is the bridge. Now we're having to run this hose across the creek, and that's just not ideal. So we need to service this side of the creek from that water collection. Let's get some supplies Hopefully by the end of this vlog we'll be tapping that water. Hey, how cute, everybody's sitting here eating breakfast together. Lily, where are the case with all the drill bits in it? Last time I saw them, they were right there and they don't know. You had them last. They're not here. Henry, come on, bring your rake. You can plant seed later. He's been looking for his walkie-talkie. I got it. Will you go now? You got your walkie-talkie. What's wrong? Look, the wire's alive. Okay, hold on, it's just one. Oh my gosh. Stop. Ooh, it's a long antenna. Is that good? Hey, you said you knew where the tools were. Can you go show me? You said they were in the dirt room. Okay, is it in there? It's in here. Okay, show it to me. I don't think he knows what he's talking about. You want to carry this? He's going to use old Leatherman as the tool. Okay, hop in, my little buddy. You want to sit on my lap? I'd love that. Oh, I see. Being on an Averse Permaculture Homestead, we have a lot of abundance and redundancy. We also have a lot of problems. Oh my gosh, you guys really wanted at each other, huh? Not the worst problems in the world. This means we're gonna have piglets in the fall. Generally don't like to do that. She's wanting out of there. Why don't you come over there? Look at what he did to this Tartar gate. This is a metal gate. Look at that. Wow. Okay, note to self: he can bust through a metal fence if he wants to get to a lady. You coming to help me? Yep. Good deal. Distractions out of the way. We are here. This is 1-inch poly pipe. It ends here. We should probably drain any remaining water. It's shut off up higher. Step 1: loosen the hose clamp. Okay, let's heat this up so that we can pull this adapter off. Move it along. Don't overhold it on there. You got to keep it moving or it heats it up too fast. There it goes. Now we have this male-to-male adapter. Can you see that, Lily? Mm-hmm. All right, Josiah, bring me— let's unroll one of those lines, please. 1-inch thick poly pipe, 100-foot lengths. All right, step on that. Now we're gonna have one person step on that, then we're gonna— we're not gonna untwist it like this. We're not gonna undo it like that, although it's tempting. It stays twisted. We have to unroll it. Look how badly that kinked. Is it the other one just gonna kink if we attach it here instead? Happened just when we tried to put this on. Let's connect these guys. You bring this? Yeah, yeah, buddy. It was in your bag. It was in that bag the whole time. I've been using my Leatherman. Doing another male-to-male connector. Make sure you put on your, uh, hose clamp before you start doing that. You put this on there Okay, then you can't just slide your hose clamp on. Now you can just slide your hose clamp up having the proper tools. This one's ruined. What do you mean ruined? It doesn't spin. Oh, what happened? It's getting there. It got smashed and then run over or something. I like this. I like how this ended up. This is going to be our first water point. We've got two today, so this pipe threaded in, goes in right here. Kids can even open this. Eventually, after we have our water line here for 3 years and haven't moved it, we're gonna bury this. Last one until we get some supplies. We are going to put an end on it to where we could attach a hose to this. Let's see if we can get water down to our pasture. I'm thinking it's gonna work. You guys think it's gonna work? Yeah, go just keep driving. Oh, there's a leak. Yeah, I think one. Okay, really? Okay, back it up. There is a leak. Just duct tape it. Can't we just wrap tape? That doesn't work. Oh look, there's another. All right, well, we got water here. Hey, come all the way to the end. Boy, you can hear it. Whoa! We are about to water our cows and our sheep and our horse. No electricity, no pump, just good clean fresh mountain water. Becca? It works. We just got off the grid with our water to the cows. I'm calling it a week. Happy day. See you guys on Sunday.