Justin RhodesAbundant Permaculture, LLC · Boss

Quick Connects Make Water Chores Funner

Name: Quick Connects Make Water Chores Funner
Uploaded: 2023-01-11T01:04:51+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Justin Rhodes
Description: In this informal, instructional homesteading video, the presenter introduces quick‑connect fittings as a way to speed up and simplify water‑related…

11 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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In this informal, instructional homesteading video, the presenter introduces quick‑connect fittings as a way to speed up and simplify water‑related chores. He demonstrates how to install a female quick‑connect on a hydrant and a male quick‑connect on a hose, allowing hoses to be swapped quickly without unscrewing threads. He then shows adding a quick‑connect to an automatic waterer so the waterer can be filled, detached, and the same hose used for other tasks, preventing wear on plastic threads. Throughout, he emphasizes the convenience, flexibility, and fun of using quick‑connects for any homestead water system.

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Get in! Where are you at? You help me do this video? Yeah! Homesteaders, have you ever heard of quick links? Let me show you. Every little thing you can do to make chores more fun and quick and easy, I'm all for. Let's put a female quick connect on this hydrant. Let's put the male on this hose. Then you can easily connect it, disconnect it. The cool thing about that is that hose goes yonder, this hose goes over there. Let's put a male on this one, and you can quickly interchange between the tube. Coming for you, trough. One second. Turn the fence off. It was off. You want your automatic water hooked up, but sometimes you want to use the hose, and you don't want to screw in and out of this automatic waterer too much because it's plastic and you'll wear out the threads. So if we put a quick connect on it, attach your hose, fill up the waterer, detach it, use it as a hose. Every hose must be quick connect.