Really enjoyed the comments as you were talking about the couplers. I heard it in my head as if it were a narrator. ‘Oh those look easy enough that’s a great idea’ Narrator ‘it was not a great idea’
Keep it up your doing great I like to see a industrious young feller such as yourself do good because there are so many young people these days that have no idea the value of a good days work and the satisfaction of doing it yourself so i say again you are doing great
If you attach a T on the bottom pipe and a shut off valve (the 3" pipe) and connect a clear pipe to the overflow, via another T you will have a gauge and a quick way to tell how much sediment is in the bottom of the barrel. A shut off valve will enable you to empty the barrel without having to unscrew it.
Hi. Always 'unroll' pipe, cable and stuff from a coil. This is easier with two people Unroll pipe like yours along the ground and hold in place in the sun with sandbags or similar. Never pull the pipe, cable or whatever to the side, pulling off a long spiral. On smaller bore pipe and cable, poor handling like bad unrolling, can kink and prevent the pipe from ever laying flat. Great series of videos - keep em' coming!
Great Job! That was a heck of a job getting that hooked up and leveled out! I had a 2" poly line with hose clamps, on hot days it would work off the barbs even with hose clamps, I used 1" drywall screws on each side of connection to hold it together. Yep, poly pipe needs a propane torch wrestle those connectors in. Our Ag store had a PVC to Poly connector. Probably want to bite the $ bullet and put a valve on the sediment drain.
It was quite the task! More poly pipe wrestling in the next part too. I made a 1 month of use video to see how much silt was built up. Only 1/2" on the barrel base.
Along the poly pipe you can install air release valve. Once a while you can release any air trapped inside, without worrying air pocket to back pressured your water flowing down hill. This way you can maintain optimum pressure at all time.
Hope you are planning on using those blue multi piece high pressure couplers from your bench in the previous video. They are the only type of coupler we use for high pressure applications on our farms in South Africa.
It looks like you have great water flow in the middle of summer time. Will be interesting to see what it looks like in Winter..... Could probably add another Barrel and Micro Hydro unit to it
In early spring it was flowing at 40+ gpm all the time. Now it's flowing 29 gpm. Just ordered a few smaller nozzles to fine tune things. That video will be after the series as an upgrade. Looking to settle with 250 watts as the base level.
Nice set up , we did one similar, but a more simple design, never rigged our tank up like you , we used only 2 high pressure 80mm 90° ďegree bends , 1 fitted to the bottom outlet of the tank, which is a screw on , this is so you can remove it to clean out the tank & 1at the bottom, connecting the tank outlet to the water pipe, that way , you dont need all those coñnections you used , & no need to build a stand to support the outlet piping , it all sits on the ground like the rest of your pipe. We had one 50mm feeder pipe into the top of the tank with a gate valve fitted, that way you can shut off the water to the tank, to do any maintenance if required & a 50mm open overflow pipe fitted to the side at the top of the tank, simple & effective.
Hey Seth.! What micro hydro system would you suggest for a 1 inch line with about 12ft head? Thanks for the time if you find it! : ). I may have 1 1/2 continuous flow.
I wonder how well that polypipe will handle being clamped on from the outside by those couplers cuz they're intended to have a coupler that goes inside of them not clamps on the outside of them
cap a piece of that pipe and stand it up on end and pour in a gallon of water, and then measure the depth of the water with a tape measure. Divide your 20 feet by the previous result and you'll know how many gallons in 20 feet. Multiply that by 8 and know how many pounds of water over that bridge. you can do it for the full 1100 feet too.
if you ever have to unroll poly its much easier to stake or tie down the end and roll out like a tractor tire it will save fighting with it from trying to twist
fyi there is some plastic plumbers tape that would work really well for strapping the pipe to the wood. plastic against plastic, so it doesn't wear. :D lookin awesome!
Greetings my friend, loved the vid, I do have a couple tips, that could have made it easier and will in future additions or repairs.. A small propane torch works great in heating the black pipe so you can bend it easier also it will slightly expand it to get it on fittings, then clamping them.. Another thing, weather permitting is to pour a slab where the tank is and your table.. That would make it easy to hold down.. I don't know how bad weather can get there, I am a bit worried that a bad rain could cause your table to fall, pulling the line out of the barrel.. Sorry if i sound to be criticizing you.. I only want the best, I applaud anyone and everyone trying to get off the grid and be self sustaining.. There are many other vids that people are sharing showing how they have done it, many are a bit over thought, still they work quiet well.. A little sag in the line is fine, still you will want most of it to be stiff cause the ram pump can cause that line to jerk . A few steel rod pounded into the ground and the pipe secured to them will eliminate most of it... I read you used barbed connectors, That is what I would have strongly recommended.. PVC pipping up to your ram pump would work best, but they also do not hold up well to very cold temps...
Thank you for watching! I have a torch now! It makes things so much better! Barbara fittings are the best for this... I found that the hard way. We have had one rain that sent 400 gpm over the screen intake. Handled it like a champ!
Laying the pipes out for us was a good idea. I would actually take a 2 x 4 and drill holes in the end of it and do one of those for each end so you could stretch them nice and straight with a little tension on it and put some blocks or some thing on the two by fours just all them down I always see people trying to lay that stuff out when it’s still all curled up and wonder why they don’t just leave them out first like you did.
Land to House I was surprised how well it worked. Every time you watch somebody use that pipe they use it coiled up and kind of force it and I always wondered why nobody just laid it out in the sun to straighten out.
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you sure like to do things the hard way, my advice to viewers , mull it over for a few days, ask yourself is there a better way to do this, the easiest way is rarely the best way, all that wooden framework ridiculous. ps. i have done a few hydro schemes, i lie in bed at night thinking all the options...
I do like to try the easy way first and then have more hydro content fixing the problems. The current system has been running non stop for 5 months (I stop it in winter.)
@@LandtoHouse if you put plenty of thought in to it you would achieve both goals, trying your best, theres not much that you do is perfect, if you aim for perfection you should have a good outcome, which can usually be improved on, you will still be able to make video's and earn a bit of income. people watch these videos for guidance to do things properly, if you have the skills you should help them...
This is one of the few channels that I would love to see a hour long video
Thank you. That means a lot. I'm not exactly sure what I would post for an hour.
Oh yeah
Land to House maybe a longer video of working on the micro hydro series
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Really enjoyed the comments as you were talking about the couplers. I heard it in my head as if it were a narrator. ‘Oh those look easy enough that’s a great idea’ Narrator ‘it was not a great idea’
Bahaha yes those are not going to work . . .as much as I wanted them too.
Thanks so much for sharing! I'm working on a homemade hydro generator my self it's tuff to get it all figured out thanks for your help.
Keep it up your doing great I like to see a industrious young feller such as yourself do good because there are so many young people these days that have no idea the value of a good days work and the satisfaction of doing it yourself so i say again you are doing great
Work like this sure helps the sleep at night. Thank you. The system really has worked well. More updates this summer.
If you attach a T on the bottom pipe and a shut off valve (the 3" pipe) and connect a clear pipe to the overflow, via another T you will have a gauge and a quick way to tell how much sediment is in the bottom of the barrel. A shut off valve will enable you to empty the barrel without having to unscrew it.
Good idea. A sight glass basically. I just filmed a 1 month after install video and there was maybe 1/2" of silt.
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Can't wait to see the end product, you have a lot of work tied up in this project !
It was months of work. But over the past 45 days it has saved $20 + on power.
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Thanks again Seth. Hope that tropical storm over there hasnt hurt all the great work. Looking forward to the next video
The storm seems to have missed us!
Hi. Always 'unroll' pipe, cable and stuff from a coil.
This is easier with two people
Unroll pipe like yours along the ground and hold in place in the sun with sandbags or similar. Never pull the pipe, cable or whatever to the side, pulling off a long spiral. On smaller bore pipe and cable, poor handling like bad unrolling, can kink and prevent the pipe from ever laying flat.
Great series of videos - keep em' coming!
You work very hard Sir. Not many workers these days
Thank you. I do enjoy working on these projects.
Great Job! That was a heck of a job getting that hooked up and leveled out! I had a 2" poly line with hose clamps, on hot days it would work off the barbs even with hose clamps, I used 1" drywall screws on each side of connection to hold it together. Yep, poly pipe needs a propane torch wrestle those connectors in. Our Ag store had a PVC to Poly connector. Probably want to bite the $ bullet and put a valve on the sediment drain.
It was quite the task! More poly pipe wrestling in the next part too.
I made a 1 month of use video to see how much silt was built up. Only 1/2" on the barrel base.
Squirrels love to chew on that type of pipe. We used it on a mountain spring. Bury it a few inches to stop them.
Along the poly pipe you can install air release valve. Once a while you can release any air trapped inside, without worrying air pocket to back pressured your water flowing down hill.
This way you can maintain optimum pressure at all time.
Air release valves would be handy. At the moment it takes about 20 minutes with the turbine off to purge the air out.
Hope you are planning on using those blue multi piece high pressure couplers from your bench in the previous video. They are the only type of coupler we use for high pressure applications on our farms in South Africa.
It was my intention to use them. Sadly I have the wrong schedule poly pipe. The couplers were too big and slipped right off the pipe.
Congrats man. Your children are adorable!
They really are. They want to help so much.
It looks like you have great water flow in the middle of summer time. Will be interesting to see what it looks like in Winter..... Could probably add another Barrel and Micro Hydro unit to it
In early spring it was flowing at 40+ gpm all the time. Now it's flowing 29 gpm. Just ordered a few smaller nozzles to fine tune things. That video will be after the series as an upgrade. Looking to settle with 250 watts as the base level.
This video is not in the hydro playlist. If tou wanna add It. Nice work.
Nice set up , we did one similar, but a more simple design, never rigged our tank up like you , we used only 2 high pressure 80mm 90° ďegree bends , 1 fitted to the bottom outlet of the tank, which is a screw on , this is so you can remove it to clean out the tank & 1at the bottom, connecting the tank outlet to the water pipe, that way , you dont need all those coñnections you used , & no need to build a stand to support the outlet piping , it all sits on the ground like the rest of your pipe. We had one 50mm feeder pipe into the top of the tank with a gate valve fitted, that way you can shut off the water to the tank, to do any maintenance if required & a 50mm open overflow pipe fitted to the side at the top of the tank, simple & effective.
Try some pvc glue on the joiners for extra strength.
great job sir, creatively
Hey Seth.! What micro hydro system would you suggest for a 1 inch line with about 12ft head? Thanks for the time if you find it! : ). I may have 1 1/2 continuous flow.
To undo polly pipe I tie the end to something heavy then roll it out like rolling a tyre. Standing inside the roll.
Just love watching this series's,♥️
Thank you. I hope to do an update series soon. Probably February.
I like your setup but the last one I worked on you have to check every few days squirrels love that kind of pipe
I wonder how well that polypipe will handle being clamped on from the outside by those couplers cuz they're intended to have a coupler that goes inside of them not clamps on the outside of them
Stay tuned to the next part of the series to find out... spoiler alert: A giant geyser... haha
it all looks good
Thank you!
cap a piece of that pipe and stand it up on end and pour in a gallon of water, and then measure the depth of the water with a tape measure. Divide your 20 feet by the previous result and you'll know how many gallons in 20 feet. Multiply that by 8 and know how many pounds of water over that bridge.
you can do it for the full 1100 feet too.
I like the Orion couplers you are using. But, I'm concerned the hose will collapse. If it does, put a thin wall stainless or brass tube inside.
In the next part I replace these with regular barb fitting. They work so much better.
if you ever have to unroll poly its much easier to stake or tie down the end and roll out like a tractor tire it will save fighting with it from trying to twist
cool mate id love to try Micro Hydro power
fyi there is some plastic plumbers tape that would work really well for strapping the pipe to the wood. plastic against plastic, so it doesn't wear. :D lookin awesome!
Thank you! I will do more research. So far this has been making 200kwh a month. Or $30 savings.
Greetings my friend, loved the vid, I do have a couple tips, that could have made it easier and will in future additions or repairs.. A small propane torch works great in heating the black pipe so you can bend it easier also it will slightly expand it to get it on fittings, then clamping them.. Another thing, weather permitting is to pour a slab where the tank is and your table.. That would make it easy to hold down.. I don't know how bad weather can get there, I am a bit worried that a bad rain could cause your table to fall, pulling the line out of the barrel.. Sorry if i sound to be criticizing you.. I only want the best, I applaud anyone and everyone trying to get off the grid and be self sustaining.. There are many other vids that people are sharing showing how they have done it, many are a bit over thought, still they work quiet well.. A little sag in the line is fine, still you will want most of it to be stiff cause the ram pump can cause that line to jerk . A few steel rod pounded into the ground and the pipe secured to them will eliminate most of it... I read you used barbed connectors, That is what I would have strongly recommended.. PVC pipping up to your ram pump would work best, but they also do not hold up well to very cold temps...
Thank you for watching! I have a torch now! It makes things so much better! Barbara fittings are the best for this... I found that the hard way. We have had one rain that sent 400 gpm over the screen intake. Handled it like a champ!
@@LandtoHouse What is a Barbara Fitting?
Ha barbed fittings.
How much did 1,100 ft of 2” pipe cost? Where did u get it?
It was right at $1200. I used a local plumbing store. If you buy in the north east there is a store called Menards that has it for even less.
@@LandtoHouse is there a scientific reason for using 3 pipes from the penstock to the “reservoir” barrel or is that just common practice?
to unroll polypipe, much easier if you anchor end and roll out like a tyre
"dad why did you do it" cute :D
Haha she is so funny.
Do you have to worry about freezing temperatures?
We are going to find out in a couple months!
Loosen the clamp at the poly and rotate it so the bolts and clamp don't hit your hand when moving the valve.
In the next part I remove those all together and use Barb fittings
Great job!!!!
Thank you. This part was really exciting.
That's great video
Thank you. This one was fun.
Your daughter scared the crap out of me I thought she was a mountain lion behind you
Hahaha more like a ninja turtle or Sonic the hedgehog....
So just a thought hot water heater and a pump temp hook up a loop pump hot water threw it and stretch it straight. Jmho
Did your supervisor just told you off for throwing the product??.. WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOL...
Yes working under that supervisor is very tough
Should have contacted a maple sugaring supplier and got that tubing in one roll
Unrolling 1100 feet of 2" by myself would have been quite the task!
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Laying the pipes out for us was a good idea. I would actually take a 2 x 4 and drill holes in the end of it and do one of those for each end so you could stretch them nice and straight with a little tension on it and put some blocks or some thing on the two by fours just all them down I always see people trying to lay that stuff out when it’s still all curled up and wonder why they don’t just leave them out first like you did.
It was far too cold to be doing that but I was anxious to get started. Laying it out for a week really helped get the pipe straight.
Land to House I was surprised how well it worked. Every time you watch somebody use that pipe they use it coiled up and kind of force it and I always wondered why nobody just laid it out in the sun to straighten out.
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you call plumber's tape is actually called strap iron
Strapping iron or plumbers tape. Both are interchangeable.
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1100feet = 335m ... wow
The perks of being an adult.
your children is so cute
Haha yes they are.
You need to roll the pipes out
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you sure like to do things the hard way, my advice to viewers , mull it over for a few days, ask yourself is there a better way to do this, the easiest way is rarely the best way, all that wooden framework ridiculous. ps. i have done a few hydro schemes, i lie in bed at night thinking all the options...
I do like to try the easy way first and then have more hydro content fixing the problems. The current system has been running non stop for 5 months (I stop it in winter.)
@@LandtoHouse if you put plenty of thought in to it you would achieve both goals, trying your best, theres not much that you do is perfect, if you aim for perfection you should have a good outcome, which can usually be improved on, you will still be able to make video's and earn a bit of income. people watch these videos for guidance to do things properly, if you have the skills you should help them...
I would make the argument that there is nothing I've done that is perfect. Even years of work and I still learn new things every day.
too many money involved.