Rainwater Harvesting - Preparations for Rain
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I especially love this video because this is something I have been wanting to do, however hubby is from a 3rd world country and frowns when I don't use what we have on hand before buying new materials. Watching your videos has been great for our farm, hubby's peace of mind and our pocketbook. Thank you so much for sharing your ingenuity!!!
So glad this resonates with you both. Wishing you abundant rains and excellent storage made out of whatever you can find!
I love how you make everything accessible-and not let perfection stop a person from doing great stuff! I have tried or tried a modified version of several of your projects with great success. Than you for sharing so much of your lives with us!
Very happy to share
I always loved using squares of cardboard for scooping and scraping gutters. Me and a pile of squares can fly on cleaning debris and gunk. Hope ypu get the deluge you need! 💚
Thanks for this note, good idea!
1 inch of rain over 1.6 square feet of area produces 1 gallon of water. If your house footprint is 1600 Sq ft, that's 1000 gallons per inch of rainfall.
@@growinglifeorganic940 no,that's 6000 Sq ft. 1600 square ft is 40 ft x 40ft or similar.
So much love for your approach. I'm a firm believer in the idea that good enough is. Things don't need to be perfect, they don't have to be optimized, pursuing min/max is not a necessity. If a person puts in a rain capture system that's only 50 percent efficient, they're far ahead of where they would be if they didn't do it because it wasn't going to be 100 percent. Do aesthetics matter? Yes and no? If they matter to you, they matter, so put some effort in to make it look good if you need to ;) But don't be put off because you don't know "the best way" to do something :)
Motto: It doesn't have to be "perfect" to be perfectly okay.
Thanks for this, great sentiment!
absolutely right. We always have to ask ourselves, are we simply trying to do what's best for the garden/landscape, or are we just trying to impress the neighbors? Personally, I don't give a hoot in heck about impressing the neighbors ;)
I love the "use what you have" approach. It totally works for me and my garden as well. I reuse as much as I can. Love the video, as usual.
So so glad this works for your needs
Thank you for this educational video. Nice new gutters can come with nice new houses but to be realistic most people who want to collect rain have to use what's on hand. So your video reflects real people with real solutions that many of us are already doing and also gave a whole lot of ideas too. Nice range of gutter options👍
Very glad you appreciate. Yeah, fancy stuff is fine for those who need it, but they can find unlimited videos showing that if they want it!
Love your low tech solutions and using what you’ve got or can adapt. We need rain here in Yorkshire the U.K. too 🌧️
Hoping you get some wonderful rains soon!
Your extra detail from @7:40 to 8:00 or so is like a little pearl of wisdom/experience; it's not too much detail at all.
I've seen neglected gutters with all sorts of plants growing in them. Def a source of rich material there.
We finally just got our hands on an IBC tote like yours, and I'm thrilled about it. I painted ours black to avoid the algae issue, but that's not absolutely necessary.
Lots of little trees growing out of them sometimes, pretty neat to see and definitely not ideal!
@@edibleacres exactly; I've often been tempted to ask permission to clean out those gutters and transplant the tree seedlings.
2:40 if you want to cut plastic: use an angle grinder with a cutting wheel. All the teeth and vibration of saw blades (especially a jig/reciprocating saw) is what makes cutting plastic tough, causes it to break, etc.
Good tip, thank you
Yeah, I noticed when I used a thin grinding/cutting wheel on my angle grinder, it didn't produce a ton of micro plastic dust. Instead, it kind of melted and stuck together, and I picked it off.
So upside-down now. We used to live in the Finger Lakes area but are now in northern Colorado. You are dry and we are drowning after almost 10 days of constant rain (plus some hail) and not much sun and cool temps. At least we don't have any fire danger for a while. Love all your systems and it's great that you show folks that you don't have to spend a fortune to do this stuff. So much on social media is unrealistically "pretty" and expensive. Love your channel.
Same here! Southwest Wyoming and it’s the wettest spring we have ever seen, so much water! It’s been insane! But I’ve been able to practice catching water! No rain gutter so just buckets lined along the house where the rain comes off the roof. We need to get a rain gutter! But the buckets work for now I guess. If the weather goes back to normal (dry) I will have learned how to collect water for sure after this spring! 😂
NE USA here. I almost danced in that rain. We needed it, terribly.
Hi from UK…great video as usual and I love the fact that you encourage people to have a go!!! simply idea’s are usually best. You could call your IBC filter a “ screen filter” a term commonly used elsewhere, i made one that fitted on top of the tank and the leaves collected just fell into an old Tesco shopping basket that a friend caught fishing one day.
Work with what ya got!!!
Always the best, better than all the rest; every drop counts when it is scarce and most important FREE. Cheers
Exactly!
Instead of cutting a pipe in half and using that as the gutter, I bought some inexpensive 10 foot long rain gutter liners to direct water flows. I use them horizontally or vertically to direct water flows from the roof to a desired area in the yard. Thanks for the video!
Your rooster is SOOOO CUTE! Thanks for all the demos and information. We are developing property now and this is one of the major things we will be doing. I've seen the expensive models of diverter and first flush systems and gutters - wondering how we will do gutters on our extremely narrow roof overhang and keep it all affordable. While you say, your ideas are not exactly "elegant", in function they certainly are! As I so so often to my hubby, "aesthetics are nice, but functionality is the most important." Short - "I don't care what it looks like as long as we can afford it and it works!" Your ideas are so practical. Thank you!
Just washed my hands clean of gutter gunk then saw this video haha hope you get a good rain! I really don't want to think about another drought, last summer was brutal here in Rhode Island
A piece of scrap hose cut length ways and put on the sharp iron edge is a good free/cheap option (to avoid getting cut). Love the sound of rain filling barrels.
Very simple and good suggestion, thank you!
Rainwaiter Harvest, well done. West Germany also need water. I started to collect the water from the sink, cooking water and so on. Thank you for another great video.
Good luck navigating!
@@edibleacres I opted for the low tech way.
Buckets and manpower. 😇
The rain is like liquid gold.
Just subscribed. Glad I found your channel. I like your approach, using what you can and being creative and with good simple instructions.
Rain! Glorious rain! We badly needed it here in northern Ontario at the Quebec border - forest fires all around us.
We do whatever works too. Up here the snow rips the gutters off so we just have a row of 20 5-gallon buckets placed under the roof line of our garage. You have given me some goals to aspire to though! LOL.
I enjoyed this video and laughed many times. (Who woulda thought cleaning gutters would be viable entertainment!) Thanks for doing what you do.
Hoping for wonderful rains for you and folks impacted by the fires :(
When it works, its not wrong. Repurposed stuff found free, is as good as it gets. Stewardship is more profound as a result, than an appearance. Have you & Sasha ever done a class for local city gardens?
We haven't done much of that but would like to offer more
Genius raggamuffin Dr Suess system! Love it 👍!
Glad you like it!
Thanks for sharing so glad I get to watch the video, I just put up a 400 gallon but never thought of the leaves and whatever else is coming with the flow into the barrel so I have to go back to it again 👍
Thank you, I have been wondering at how to put some low cost gutters in. This has given me idea. We have had a feast or famine rain here as well so really feeling the need to collect what I can when we have it.
Hoping you can capture a lot of the next one!
Always enjoyable.
Yes! Thank you. (I am SO grateful that I found your channel.)
Facinating. Thank you for producing and sharing.
Very nice! Here. Mid Sweden no rain or even a cloudy day in 6-7 weeks
We got a sprinkle in Michigan. Just enough to settle the dust. Hopefully more rain coming!💦
Fingers crossed
Far end of diy. Love it. Do with what you have. You are awesome Sean
not perfect,,,but it works.....!!!!! used to live in Hudson Valley now in zone 8a ,SE,GA....Rain comes far n few between ,then deluges of flooding.....UGH.started to collect rain.......best wishes
You could preserve your plumbing fixtures and rain water storage tanks even better if you use a window screen underneath all your larger mesh pieces.You'll end up with a lot less particulate matter that is able to get inside your storage tanks and keep them cleaner as a result. That is what I do anyway. (Starting out a dozen years ago,It helped that my rain barrels came with window screen under a lid similar to a Mason Jar's outer lid on top of each barrel.)
Good note. I used to do that but it hasn't seemed necessary, but it's great to know it works for you!
Hope you get that rain. We're getting some but short-changed. The Weather Network has no idea how to forecast. Their models completely miss that it's the sun that causes climate, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc ... Last summer they were dead wrong dozens of times. They're a joke. You're McGyvering on the other hand is top shelf, as always. :)
Thanks for appreciating. All we can do is set ourselves up to store what comes!
I found using a toilet brush from the dollar store worked really well to clear and scrub the gutters at the same time. Simple but effective.
Great note, thank you!
I love your sense of humor! Hook me up with some of that "Gutter Cologne" once you get it to market.
You got it!
I'm jealous! Down here in the mid-Hudson Valley, we got a nice little springing last night (0.15") but no more predicted until another sprinkle on Wednesday. Happy rain collection!
I hope that has shifted for you. Looks like we are coming into warm weather then another round of rain, it is really appreciated
Great video! Yes, it is about empowering people to help themselves. Thanks as always.
Yes! Thank you!
Looking nice and organized. Brave, every time I stick my bare hands in a pile of leaves I get bit, stung, or stickered. IBC totes are so very expensive. I've got a barrel collecting in one side of the house but I need to save up for the other side.
If you look at enough places you may find them for reasonable prices. We have gotten them as low as $50-$75 a piece which is reasonable
We didn't get shit for rain. MI been so dry we haven't had a good morel mushroom season in over 5 years. Been tough keeping up with watering everything this year my permuculture yard is only on its second year but I'm loving it regardless.
Wishing for wonderful rains for you!
I really love these videos, thank you so much for sharing.
You are so welcome!
I do use ’windoow screen’ but it’s for mosquitoes, not filtration per say
❤❤cool, so want to lern more about this type if system, cheers 🍻
Pray for rainGod is a good provider
I always like to see other people's rainwater collection systems. A lot of the same problems I am trying to solve except we have a single huge tank and a single downspout from our whole roof area and we need to filter it a bit better because we use it for the house too. I thought I had a system I was happy with, similar to yours where the water kind of shoots horizontally over a wire mesh and keeps the debris moving, except this spring (for a change) we have had some BIG rains, the water comes hurtling out of the pipe and completely overshoots the intake. Back to the drawing board a little, I think. But definitely making such systems scalable is a little tricky. I would love to somehow funnel ALL the excess into a backup system like a pond one day but that means laying pipes everywhere.
I'm imagining the water shooting past the wire mesh could go into a 4" drain pipe which curves 270 degrees redirecting back to the wire mesh; but maybe the inner wall of the 270 is removed so that the more dense water stays in the pipe but a buildup of leaves maybe falls out. Think going around a curve in a water park slide. Thinking Dyson vacuum cleaners.
@@misterdubity3073 Ha, that's not a bad idea. Actually, what I had originally done was like a "leaf pooper", the mesh is wrapped round a hole in the pipe and the debris is supposed to shoot out of the end, which it sorta does during moderate rains but I like the idea of making it all do a loop-the-loop or something to slow it down. There are a couple of other design problems to tackle as well, I have a first flush but can't get it to self-empty without getting clogged. I also want to explore a bio sand filter as we use this water for the house and organic fines make the water stinky. Keep meaning to do a video on it
@@misterdubity3073 Oh, and I know there are systems like that which rely on centrifugal force but they are quite expensive, I bet something similar can be rigged though.
For your house use, sand and cotton mesh filters, the kind for pools, are widely available and do a great job. Only need uv filter to then make it potable (check local regulations, etc)
Ok a berkey filter of course
@@TheEmbrio I always thought a carbon filter of some kind was needed as well? I will definitely look into those pool filters, problem is any setup has to be capable of receiving LARGE quantities of water when there is a big rain event. For really torrential rain you need a BIG surface area of filter or you are just going to lose most of the water. So what I have been thinking about lately is the idea of just letting the water in the tank unfiltered but then using a solar-powered bilge pump to gradually cycle the water in the tank up, through a filter system, and back down into the tank, but obviously this would happen off-peak when there is no rain and be at a much more sedate pace. I also have a ceramic filter system on the house, but it gets clogged with particulate matter rather quickly and has to be cleaned out fairly often. Pre-filtering while in the tank would really help reduce the load on the filters.
Ever use the shop vac PVC tube for gutter cleaning? Seems like it would be perfect for days when you're scrambling to get ahead of the looming cumulonimbus
I haven't but that could be helpful!
I like the perforated shovel that's in one of the shots. Is that designed for digging around in muck and wet soils?
Yes it is. I'll make a video someday about it, it's a neat tool
This summer is gonna stress test everyone's covercropping, mulch & water catchment & conservation systems. It's gonna get ineresting...& and not in a good way. The declared commercial crop losses this early in the season do not bode well.
@Disabled-Megatron I'm reading drought. The pics accompanying the articles bears that fact out in parts of Canada & the US. Alberta & Kansas for starters.
@Disabled-Megatron Georgia peaches are now lost due to lack of chills hours to set fruit.
Georgia peach crop decimated by bad weather, warming climate
Sam Gringlas | WABE
May 30th, 2023
Oh two ply rain gutters you fancy bugger!
I used a wheel barrow and I think I'm going to break the wheels! not recommended!
How do you keep mosquitoes from breeding in your tank? I’m in Florida and would love to do a system like this but I can see it being a huge mosquito nursery.
You could switch out the screen for something finer when it isn’t raining. Another option might be a small aerator in the tank to agitate the surface of the water.
Go from coarse mesh (mobile, cleans’easily)to window screen mesh (pretty well held on, only qnnual cleaning needed) and you’re fine.
Or use any standing water within 4 days, before the mosquito breeding cycle is complete.
Function is key. "Looks" not so much. That Gutter Patchouli might be some kind of anti fungal, though.
Could be!
I'm going to hell! I have 2 25'x50' barns with no collection set up. I really hoped to have a system by this Spring, but got "busy" with other stuff. But it's on the to do list. I need to find a source for affordable ibc totes.
Same! I got some set up on our smaller outbuildings this year but our big barn just drips it all to the ground.....gotta find some cheap gutter solutions! As far as IBC totes, check with area farms. Im fortunate enough to work at a farm that gets fertilizer shipped to us in them. The company doesn't take them back, they accumulate at the farm and my boss just lets me take them free, worth looking into!
Think about much larger capacity than IBCs if you want to store serious amounts of water. A tote stores, what, a tonne of water? One big rain event and a single tote would be full in minutes, and even if you daisy-chain them and can ensure high-capacity connections between them for fast equalisation, it's still not a great deal (depends how much water you need, I guess). One or two of those big overground tanks can provide WAY more capacity, or round here we dig underground tanks out of reinforced concrete which doesn't work out too expensive.
Think about earthworks to sink that water into the ground as well.
@@fullcircledesignsllc5408 For sure, if our soil wasn't so porous I would have it all go into a pond, but I don't want to use a liner, it doesn't feel sustainable to me. But swales are also an option if they have a handy nearby food forest that would appreciate it. I am on a bit of a hillside and you're not supposed to use swales above a certain incline
@@thehillsidegardener3961, I understand what you're saying. I actually have heavy, heavy clay soil. So any large scale storage would be a pond. I just haven't decided exactly where, how many, and how I want to stack functions. I just got this property last May, so this is only 1 year of observation. The totes, while maybe not ideal in a limitless funds situation, would offer me some degree of catchment to water my small greenhouse and nursery bed without running the well pump. Thank God for tree services. I have a ton of mulch which stores an unbelievable, to me, amount of moisture.
You know I'm into gutter cleaning asmr 😅
Tiny niche but we'll work with it!
:)
Cleaning roof and gutters should not done annually. A pile of dead leaves can corrode your roof and gutters even if it is stainless made. Leaves are acidic.