Laying 1,000 feet of Gravity-Fed Water Line | Endless Water Part 3

I'm building redundancy on my farm, water being one of the most important things. Could it be that today we get water line down to the pigs? We got the hoses hooked up, ready to go. That's gonna be wild, I can say that. We got chickens though in the squash garden. Squashes are jamming though. This little chicken garden miracle's working. Word on the creek is that we're out of water again, guys. We've been filling water every 2 days at this point, and we have water that's flowing 24/7 just above us.

This is where we start going up the hill. Pigs are behind us. Let's take 2 lines with us. I don't know how far we're gonna get. It's wet, it's bushy, I've got a baby on my back. And 40 minutes till milking. Let's— but let's see what we can do. Cows don't care one bit that we have a water project. They still need to be milked. We're not off to a good start. We haven't even gotten to the bush yet, Henry. I came down this way. See that tag? I don't know if you see that tag, but there's a trail that way. Let's go this way. There it is. There's our line. Reached a stopping point. As much as I want to keep going, probably a third of the way there, we gotta go. It's time to milk. It was just getting peaceful. Homeboy fell asleep. All right, let's head back, Mr. Brown.

Oh no, every time I come down to milk, that baby is nursing Flossie. No wonder she's empty. The question is, did she— did that little calf empty Phyllis too today? Yesterday I think she did, so I forgot to tell Jonah to put both calves up, but Flossie's calves up too. He didn't, so we'll see.

Uh, let's see if Phyllis has milk. She's got some milk, but I still think she got drank on last night. We got a little bit of time left before lunch. We're just gonna nook and cranny farm today, even with time slots. We are to the point where I do want to get a hatchet. There's no chucking right through that with a baby on my back. What is it about these woods? Hacking away, the put Henry to sleep. I gotta get under there. I'm gonna run the pipe under, then I'm gonna go around these beautiful rocks. Our signs were almost there. It's just around the bend, guys. We made it! Here's the tank. We tracked through there with 100 feet of line. Now we can go back down our trail, and then we get more and track it up. The reason we're going across the mountain is because that pig pasture is higher than the pasture over here by 30 feet, so— and we want drop for our future pasture. Down in there. Eric's got this big 225-gallon tank filling. Open the big one if you can. We're catching from the small creek up there. Oh yeah, the overflow, for all anybody environmentally concerned, goes right back to the creek where it came from. We're up here, let's go look at our water catchment, see how it's doing. Don't think we're gonna get pigs— water to the pigs today because you still got to put in the spring box. Up here, and I got to finish the line. So if I finish the line and he does the spring box, we're gravity water feeding the pigs. It's going over the plastic catchment, going down through the holes, catch it in the barrel, going down this overflop with this pipe, drainage pipe, all the way down to our 225-gallon tank. Here's another pipe. We'll bring it up, and if somebody wants to go behind and bring the next pipe up behind this one— all right boys, let's go down to the path, grab some lunch, and do this again probably 4 more times. Although we don't have to go as far every time because You see, we've already gone 100 feet with our line, so we'll carry 100 feet of line every time.

Can we drink out of this?

Not yet. We're gonna— let's get it tested. Let's get our test results back first. What you doing, beautiful one?

I am just, um, like getting these ready to blanch them, and then I'm gonna freeze them. Here, this is just an ice bath. I forgot to take a video of them coming out of the water and into the ice bath. And now they go to dry. Got the fan running on my beans. They are drying. I don't know, they're— I'm just trying to get a lot of the moisture since they're, you know, put in boiling water and then cold water. They have a lot of moisture on them, so I'm just trying to get them with as least moisture as possible to freeze them. It seems like they're all done drying, and now I'm gonna put them into bags. I like to pack them into 1-pound packs. I just put them in a quart-sized FoodSaver bag. Henry woke up a little grumpy from his nap, and so Lily is gonna take over.

All right, we're gonna go to Lowe's. Got 5 kids. 1 man, 5 kids. Here we go. All right, we're looking for a way to connect a regular hose to a 1-inch poly pipe. Here's our line. See if we have any fittings. That's not it, that's too big. I think Jonah found it. We do a 1-inch into our pipe. And then the 3/4-inch threaded male for getting out. This is our score for tonight. We got some stuff to connect the hose, we got some clamps, we got some connectors. They didn't have any of those connectors for getting into our hardware, like our ball valve, our spring box, our tank. We might have enough to get water to the pigs tonight. Tomorrow. We're gonna have to order them online. All right guys, let's go bring our box. I think we have enough. Tomorrow we'll tell. There we go. All right, let's wind it out. We're gonna do 3 lines behind one truck this time. I just got a little bit before supper, but I think we can get these up there. We're not done, but I'm happy. We've got one more One more pipe to go and we would have laid 1,000 feet. So we almost laid 900 feet. We have a few clamps to go. We just ran out of clamps, so we got to restock and go at it tomorrow. Tomorrow we're gonna get water to your pigs. That's right, no more hauling water tomorrow.