DIY Water Filtration System For Cabin Or Camp
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- Lonnie shows here how he built (and how you can too) a water filtration system that is great for a small cabin or camp or even to have for emergencies in town. The total cost to build was MUCH cheaper that the professionally manufactured filtration systems but yet it is every bit as effective since it uses the same ceramic filters as they use. It is a very simple project and uses the tools that you may already have.
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Good video as always Lonnie, I'll add another vote for the Sawyer filters, I used one in Finland earlier this year on lake water that was that colour while out hiking & it worked perfectly (got it about as clear as your ceramic filters). Easy to keep clean & works plenty fast enough when setup as a gravity feed with the help of a couple of adapters & a spare 2 liter bladder to hold the dirty water.
Excellent filtration system! You & Connie & Buck are still alive so it obviously works well.... Thank you for sharing, we can't get far without drinkable water!!!
keep em coming mate, learn so much from your channel and I grew up in the bush... thanks so much for your time and generosity of spirit. God bless you
It is great that you show the product and source of the components, So many U-Tubers stop short and one has a hard time finding the correct products.. Thanks
You got a better price on filters than I . Built one for us good ways back . Been getting letters from our water department for over a decade about our water quality. I opted for the black Berkey filters . I can turn five gallons in about 30 minutes with two . Debated on putting my spares on there but 15 minutes gain didn’t seem worth it. Wish I’d have thought of caterers or supply companies for the buckets . Excellent video. Have a good evening
Yes exactly most dont take out the nasties that make you sick, it dont disinfect the water. If those filters disinfect as well, they are definately worth the money and great set up
Going to build one of these this month. God bless y'all. My sister and I have been watching you guys for a few years now, and love y'alls videos, and learn a lot from them. Haven't saw anything from you guys in a while, hope all is ok. Look forward to new vids soon.
Good luck with your new project. Yes we are fine. Hope you and your loved ones are as well. After doing the video channel for 12 years now we have reached a time in our lives where producing another video just is not the priority it used to be, especially when we consider all the work that it requires. I do miss the interactions with the viewers however. I feel like we have come to have good friends all over the globe through these videos. In the future we may or may not upload new videos. Will just have to see how the Lord leads us.
@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival First off, always follow our Father, you know He'll always steer ya right for good. If you and mrs. Connie feel the videos are not your calling anymore then Thank God for direction. Just know many people learned so much from you guys, and will always appreciate your work. My wife and I have truly enjoyed many hours watching y'alls videos. Especially in winter when it's snowy and cold outside we stay warm by a fire and watch you guys. Thanks so much, and God bless y'all.
Crafty. I envy his children. I think I'd have lots of fun.
there are also tannins in the water down in South Texas and Louisiana especially in the back waters and swamps the old timers call it river tea but it's the same thing as what you guys have there in Alaska. sometimes the swamps are so dark that the water is nearly black but the vegetation there grows a lot more of the year than what it grows up in your neck of the woods. as always I loved your video and I always look forward to hearing back from you. God bless you and Connie
Another alternative to those high priced filters (+ need to buy expensive replacement cartridges) is the Sawyer All in One SP181. Available for +/- $50, depending on source. WalMart & Amazon best prices seen. It's our choice 4 clean water. Million gal guarantee.
Filter & accessories kit. Use included squeeze bag or soda bottles. And/or set up bucket for gravity flow. And/or attach to faucet 4 boil water alerts & to backwash. Includes backwash syringe, when needed.
Look for Sawyer YT demo.
Thank you for sharing an inexpensive solution that works for you.
Tannin - You've probably already done so. Double check to make sure no leaks around gaskets on upper bucket.
Large frying pan grease splatter screen with or w/o piece of muslin cloth will help prefilter water to prolong filter life.
Tip: Spikets can also be obtained from yardsale coffee pots, sun tea jars, old coolers, etc. Check condition & ease of removal before buying. Possible alternative & inexpensive local source.
Thanks for the How To and all the specific information on the filters and spout, My wife and I have a cabin similar to yours and we get our water from snow run off until that quits. we pump the water to a 500 gallon holding tank, we drain the tank in winter and move the tank under cover to protect it from the snow. I have seen as much as 20 ft of snow there.
Take care and thanks for the vid
Great info. All your videos contain useful information, but this one may be the most useful to me personally of your videos I've seen so far.
Excellent vid Lonnie. We have the Royal Berkey at home, live on the mighty Winnipeg River in Manitoba, Canada not far from Lake Winnipeg and have a home filtration system from a gravity fed well on the river (large sand and carbon filters). We use the Berkey as a backup in case of power outages, etc so we are actually getting a triple filtration in the end with our "tea" water (same type of tannin stain as Alaska) and it is crystal clear and oh so tasty. Love your idea for our remote camp setup!
This is an Excellent idea!! I can do these with home depot buckets and lids. 5 gallons at a time. Thanks Lonnie, I never thought of this. I am now!!!
Be sure your buckets are "food grade" plastic. I got my buckets from a bakery and fruit donut filler had come in them.
@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival Gotcha on the food grade buckets.
you can increase the filter time to about 20 to 40 minutes by adding a gasket to the top cover and then clamping it down. add a valve stem to the bucket then pressure rise it with a bicycle pump. most House is water pressure is between 30 and 50psi the bucket should take around 5 to 7 pounds that's about 50 times more pressure than trip feed.
Have you seen the Sawyer filters? There is an absolute .1 micron version for $35 that includes a squeeze bag and filters very quickly. They also have an absolute .02 micron version that is a bit more expensive and slower, but it removes virus as well. The downside is they don't remove chemicals or metals as there is no carbon inside. But being in Alaska, I think it might work well for you. You could always use a carbon filter after the Sawyer.
Ayup, like 99.999% effective on Cyst reduction, (including giardia & cryptosporidium)... ;) Thanks a million for the video Lonnie!
Thank you for posting this, I have been meaning to get a water purifier for some time and as the good wife won a thousand dollars at the casino a couple days ago daddy gets new toys :) I ordered the filters and spigot today and the wife will get me all the pickle buckets I want from her work for free! Thank you you saved me a hundred dollars .I'll use to buy other toys:) That is a very nice cabin you have built :)
Great Video!
It's amazing how people will buy municipal water in a bottle at a convenience store for way too much money and never think about how it's the same stuff that comes out of the tap at home and is recycled river water/treated pee. Meanwhile they fuss about a do it yourself filter system like you are talking about and wonder if it's safe. If you put it in a bottle and put a fancy label on it nobody would question the safety of it.
TUCOtheratt Lol. you are SOOO very right.
Good point - caution - about protecting ceramics & Sawyer from freezing. So easy to forget, if only used once in a while.
Learned that lesson the hard way with our camper. (sigh) Forgot to open 1 valve when winterizing ours. You know the rest of the story for that particular line.
Looks good. The only worry i would have in your situation is freezing. If you left camp for a while and the ceramics weren't completely dried out the ceramic might crack from ice formation. Or maybe small cracks inside that you don't see but leave larger openings for bacteria to get through... also a problem for the Sawyer, but that filter is easier to carry in an inside pocket. Sawyer has a similar two bucket system to yours that they use a lot in the third world.
Lonnie, you are a great American! I've been busy trying lots of your ideas, canvas tent, all night fire, winter shelter and maybe water filter too, I just think your great to share your knowledge. Also are you a year rounder up there? Maybe we (channel followers) should have a camporee or something, that would really be fun! your friends in rural New York, Clint, Jen and kids
***** Thank you very much friends Clint, Jen and of course you kids as well for those kind words. My wife and I just got back last night from a week out at our remote off grid cabin so I'm just now getting caught back up with the comments. Yes we live here year round. We do know a few "snow birds" who head south for the winters but we ourselves just tough it out here year round. This winter though has been a very very mild winter. In fact it seems that we are still waiting to experience winter still. The river that we travel on by snow machine to get out to our cabin is still not froze very well and is a bit hazardous to travel on. I'm not a very social person by nature but I have thought at times that it might be fun to get together with the Alaskan subscribers and viewers (and of course others who could make it) for a campout sometime. I may never get around to organizing such a thing though.
'mornin to All; what an easy way to filter.nothing wrong with the color of that water,wildlife have been drinking it for,Oh some time & they're ok seems ? now the bloopers are the best part.LOL. thanks form sharing your H2O system with us here.
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brilliant video. iv been looking on ebay here in england at the water filtration system's, your talking £240 plus £10 postage. your idea is brilliant. :))
Another awesome video. Just a thought though. The Aqua Pail, which also shreds the membrane of viruses in a manner of speaking, thus killing them, (cant be too careful these days) also filters the water at about a gallon a minute. Just thinking if the method you use now takes 24 hours to fill one bucket, it might take 25 minutes to fill with the Aqua Pail. I love your ingenuity though. Instead of just buying some premade piece of junk you make your own hardware and know its made well! I love that!! You and Connie inspire me.
Holysmokes Lonnie, you were a kid once!! Great video, I hadn't seen this one before... One thing to be careful about is spillover on the top bucket leaking into the bottom on the side edges. If you've got cryptosporidium or girardia in the water, you can infect the "clean" water on the bottom that way.
Hi Lonnie, hey a small amount of tannin is good for the insides. Lol............That's true. To make activated charcoal the posh stuff in the expensive filters just burn the wood at a high temp so the heat drives out the wood impurities to create charcoal to a very high resonance. The kind that sounds really high in pitch like Styrofoam when rubbed or ice creaking. That's all it is. The charcoal from pine tar making in metal containers is the best stuff for the job..................
Take a look at the filters made by Sawyer, they are as efficient as what you are using and they will last for a very long time as you can back flush them when the flow becomes reduced. They also make a series of filters that will take out heavy metals and chemicals if that is a concern. Many backpackers use the Sawyer filters.
See my reply to this comment on your other comment on this video. Thanks for watching. I am very much a fan of Sawyer filters.
Wow what a difference finding the spring made. I watched that video a couple of days ago. 🤣🤣
If its standing water or slow flowing at sourse I would recomend boiling the water after after filtration also
Outstanding tutorial... Great idea! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks so much for the great ideas. I wish I had seen this before I bought the Berkey! Love to see how simple it is to get the parts and put the filter together. Can't wait to try it!
The sawyer filters can be backflushed in the field, so that is why they have the 1,000,000 gallon rating.
We've been using the Berkey System for years (bought the filters "on sale")(use to be inexpensive.) Can you invert the filters and clean them: thereby, extending the life?Excellent job.Thanks,Clark
Compassion international gives away a similar water filter (water for life) it uses a single filter that works fairly quick, but it also leaves the tannic acid in the water. They say that the acid may color the water but is perfectly safe and has no taste.
I have demonstrated their filter by using manure and potting soil. The water comes out tasting great and it always has the slight tea color.
I also have never gotten sick from drinking it.
I quite enjoy watching your videos Lonnie. They are well edited, so I don't have to watch redundant activity. This way you can amble along in your relaxed manner so the viewer can simultaneously digest the visual picture. Your calm demeanors seem to derive from the environment you have such love and respect for. Your proficiency in doing things simply and your knowledge base as well as the absence of advertising all contribute to an enjoyable viewing experience. If my pension check ever stops coming I may have the wherewithal to survive elsewhere, thanks at least in part to your generosity.
Another great video. Blessings to you both.
Excellent DIY Lonnie , Looked like a cow's udders when you lifted it up to show dripping lol
This is great for when we loose power (which is often, ME.) and need to get some quick (and inexpensive way) of Brook Water to drink!
Many (most ?) of those kitchen type filters are for making potable water taste & smell better. Aren't designed to remove bacteria, cysts, etc. from untreated water. Sure hope folks aren't depending on those if/when they have to drink water from any source they can find.
I just figured out how to comment on U tube so this is the first time ever it threw me when you trimd your berd I thought I had the rong Chanel LoL . I like you're no nonsense aproch I don't care about the jonses ! you have a beautiful wife God bless and keep you both safe looking forward to making a hot tent and wood stove! A friend I sent a link to with the bedrole commented that's cool. I had a hunch he didn't know about that and needed to . keep your powder dry an your wife happy God bless
thats a great setup. I could see that working great for any cabin or camping trip.
I would tape the joint between buckets to keep poured water from contaminating the bottom bucket. If you don't you will get sick.
I also would run through another activated charcoal filter that should get rid of the titanic acid.
+Defend your 4A There is no need for all the extra work. This has worked fine for several years now on a part time basis.
Hehe...I was gonna suggest a plastic skirt taped around the base of the top bucket to prevent splashes of unfiltered water collecting on the lid of the bottom bucket but several years without one and no problems...maybe we all just worry a lot more than we need too.
Excellent tutorial, this is something we should all have in a storage room in case The SHTF' someday.......Thanks for this video brother, I'll damn sure put this info to use....You & your wife have a safe one.
Thank you Lonnie!
Very informative!
Blessings!
Great idea.
I intend to use it.
Also the PVC tubing is an option.
Thanks bro.
Be safe
Awesome stuff. The wind isn't too loud, I can still hear you all the way through!
I used food grade buckets and my buckets and lids had a good seal so the tap was very slow cause air couldn't get in the reservoir bucket when you pour water so I drilled 1 small hole near the top and the tap pours much faster . My system cost me $180 with 2- black berkey & fluoride filters (free buckets )
Tenho aprendido muito com teus vídeos, extremamente instrutivos... Parabéns meu amigo.
***** Thank you very much Alexandre. Glad you are enjoying the videos
I would probably add an O ring of some kind between the filter and the top bucket. No matter how how precisely you drill, I imagine a few drops of dirty water could make their way through, and thats all it takes to get sick.
***** You may have noticed that the filters do have a rubber "bushing" seal between the candle filter and the top bucket already. works fine.
Ah okay cool. Love the channel by the way. Nice to see someone with practical, real world advice- rather than some fashion model running around in Belize biting the heads of snakes and drenching themselves in goat urine.
Keep it up!
This is a great idea. How do you do dishes in your cabin? I did not see a sink. Do you filter water for dishes or do you just heat up water? Love your videos. Always such good ways to survive without modern conveniences!
Catwomanmn Thank you. We use 2 rectangular "rubber maid" type plastic tubs for washing the dishes. One is for washing and the other is for rinsing. We don't filter our dish washing water but just heat it up on the propane stove top and use it as is. So far we have been okay and have had no resulting health problems. Our cabin is remote though and there is some thought that "beaver fever" is not **caused** by beaver at all but is initially caused by humans and then the beaver catch it from the humans. It may be possible that the beaver in our lake don't have Giardia or beaver fever due to the lack of human exposure in our remote location. I suppose it might be a good idea to have our lake water tested but we never have done so.
Thanks for being so clear on he specifics, Brother. Very good. - Mike
AWESOME,I WANT TO MAKE A SMALLER VERSION..I BOIL ALL MY TAP WATER EXCEPT FOR COOKING CUZ I USE VERY LITTLE THAT WAY..THIS WOULD BE BEST FOR ME.
I USE ABOUT GAL PER DAY.
I HV ONE GAL TANK RIGHT NOW FROM WAL-MART THAT WAS $5.
HAS SPOUT, HAS ONE HOLE IN LID THAT LOOKS PERFECT PERFECT TO FIT THAT FILTER CANDLE AS WELL... I KNOW U SAID IT WOUNLD BE SLOWER WITH LESS FILTERS....BUT TO KEEP IT FULL AFTER THE SECOND FILL I SHOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP WHAT I NEED..
THX, GLAD FOR THESE OLDER VIDEOS : ) GOOD BLESS U AND CONNIE, LONNIE....BYE BYE
Great video! I am going to check those water filters out! Nice and simple project too! not complicated at all! Thanks for sharing this information! Take Care
Word of warning, those filters tend to break at the base. Check out "Aqua Pail" filter system.it is more like a multi layered granulat filter
Thanks for teaching us how to make this.
I considered going with the ceramic filters, but changed my mind and went with a sawyer bucket filter system because it will filter up to 1 million gallons.
Thanks for another great video. That's a very good idea because I can use the money I save towards other supplies.
nice setup
Many thanks
Great tip. Thanks Lonny.
I may try your filter system using rainwater as my main source. I'll have two 20'gutters catching water.
I found this very interesting and surprisingly simple to make your own water filter system. Do the filters have a rated service life for number of gallons or anything? I can't imagine they'd need changing very often in a low volume system like this. I might make something like this, possibly even adding a 2nd stage with something like charcoal or ion exchange resin. What you mentioned about the number of filters, I thought perhaps if you only had 1 it would get used up faster, as with 3, they are splitting the work of cleaning the water.
I have a small reverse osmosis unit sitting in storage that runs directly off a kitchen sink, it's low volume (as I recall, a few gallons an hour). I used it for purifying water for aquarium use, though I don't currently have any tanks so have no need for it. It's got 2 filters plus the center membrane I believe. Water produced this way has had pretty much all mineral content removed and naturally has a slightly acid ph of about 6. I used to have to add special minerals back in designed for aquarium use, so the water was optimal for a fish tank.
I gave the make and model of the filters in the video so you could try looking them up online if you care to. I do not now remember if there was a rated max gallons. Sorry
Great project Lonnie, on the average how long before you would have to change the filters in the system
I wonder if you were to prefilter through clean sand first, then that filter. if it would look better, and lengthin the life of your filter candles.
Maybe share also; after use (especially with water like that) should rinse or backwash filters. They will start stinking and become a tea bag of pathogens. Doulton recommends use and rinse up to 60 times.
-Can also use those buckets as filters by collecting equal amounts in the top bucket of: 1)1/2" or larger rock (bottom of top bucket)..
2).1/4 rock
3). Sand, or river sand. 4-5" of each, Try to rinse rock/sand obviously before use. Then every so often just replace rock/sand
Hey this helped me a lot! I will probably use this system in the future, thanks for saving me some serious money.
Lonnie! Yet another great video!!
Its a great solution for long term and short. Color isnt a problem now is it. I love it!
Fishcraft lol thats funny!
Ive actually got some of those food safe apple buckets. now they have an even better use. Thanks for the info. Really great!
Dennis Smith Thank you Dennis. You are welcome. From Far North *(Fishcraft)* And Survival. lol
Sounds like they're charging us $125 dollars for what amounts to a couple plastic buckets you can get for free. Nice I think I'll make myself one.
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Do you find that the tanic water clogs those filters quickly? I have an MSR hand pump ceramic filter (backpacking type) that I used on my 10 day solo bear hunt in Southeast Alaska and it took forever to fill my water bags as the filter kept clogging. I finally resorted to just boiling.
I think some people might use a sock or something as a first filter and then use a good filter.
Is such mass of water not going to slowly leak through the gaskets?
Awesome tutorial and video Lonnie. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing Lonnie.. Great Videos.
+matrixi4i You are welcome and thanks for watching.
Awesome video and tips, I will be making one of these as well.
Great job, dude, a very good diy project. So did it say how many litres or gallons it would filter before havng to replace the filters?Great job and perfect for out there buddy. thanks for the vid
nice job Lonnie making one for my house
you live a good life keep making videos my friend
cool Lonnie great idea!! if you had a hand pump to push the water through the filter it would work faster :) LOL keep the vid's coming man great stuff..
Kyle
nice job with the filtration system, I don't know about the fish craft, I haven't seen it yet, lol
+Edwin Dueck Thanks my friend. This is now an older video but we still use the filter each time we are at the cabin during the summer and it continues to work very well.
Each filter manufacturer should have technical info on their sites. Give specs on exactly what's removed from water. Should also give info on micron size of filters - smallest particle it removes from water.
Generally, 3 main filter types. (Not enough room 4 details)
1 Filters potable water 2 remove chlorine, odors, etc. - improve taste.
2 Filter removes bacteria, cysts, protozoa, & some large virus.
2a + charcoal 4 taste
3 Filter removes as #2 plus most virus
3a + charcoal 4 taste
I wonder if a coffee filter pour in funnel would help hold some of that debris and tannan(?) back? Thanks for the video.
+alaskankare Yes that would certainly help with the debris but it would not help with the tannins. You are welcome and thanks for watching.
Here is the link for Sawyer water filtration...I am not connected or paid by them. I am just impressed with the quality for a very reasonable price. they have systems that would suit your needs easily, with a one time purchase and no need to replace the filter.
As a result of many recommendations from commenters on this video, I now am an owner of two different sawer filters. We still use this ceramic candle based filter here when at the cabin during summer because of storing and dispensing convenience. However for mobile back country trips, I now use the sawyers. I actually just picked up the second one just yesterday. It is the Sawyer Mini. My wife and I spent 2.5 weeks on an epic remote moose hunt by river in our canoe this last Fall and ended up harvesting a Boone and Crockett trophy bull moose. But on that trip we took our Sawyer filter. The river water was visibly very silty with much suspended mineral based particulates. The Sawyer filtered all of our water needed out of that yucky river water for teh entire time and did great. *VERY impressive*
Thanks bro stay well
good videos. please get a mic muff for your camera for outside videos
Have you looked at the LifeStraw Family? It's a ready to use filtering system for around 100 bucks. Or what is the benefit of your system over the commercial one other than a small finance difference?
Terrible wind noise. I couldn't hear the voice. In windy conditions you can put a thin sponge over the microphone and fasten it with a rubber band.
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He said he has no trouble with the wind it's on our end. What a DICK !! can't handle the truth.
murray andru he’s doing this for free so maybe he resents your dum ass attitude. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. And chill out.
that looks like a good set up you made their do you happen to know roughly how many gallons it will filter before you have to change it out.
Your better off buying the unit already put together and saving the hassle of making one and you get a warranty also. The filters on Amazon cost $30.00 plus, each. Then there's the shipping costs, so you're up to a 100.00 bucks or so. It's less expensive in the long run to just buy the unit itself.
+Griz Bear Perhaps *YOU* may be better off buying the filter from a store. The whole reason for me making this filter was that I had done my research and found that I could build a high quality filter that is every bit as efficient as the commercially made ones for a tremendous savings in cost.
good job
I wish I could find a food grade silicone gasket seal to replace the rubber one that comes with the candles even though it is in the dirty water, it still bugs me.
There are silicone baking pans or baking sheets etc that have bottoms which are of course food grade flat silicone. One could fairly easily cut your own "gaskets" out of those if you so choose. You may need to double or triple up layers for each gasket but it seems to me that it should work.
Now that the winter is almost over since you made this video, have you noticed any problems with the ceramic filters after heating your cabin in a time of extreme cold? I don't know if you can check inside the casing or anything for cracking but just wondering.
Great vid! I have a good water filter and it does the same it will not get rid of the tannin but its perfectly drinkable :-)
+Atlantic Woodsman Thank you. We have had this now for several years and use it off and on when at the cabin. It is still working great.
thank you for the tip. i may have to try this method.. though would like to try a Secondry phase bucket with activated charcoal
lilly waters Id use a 3rd bucket with a screen between charcoal and several layers of cheesecloth or other type of fiber.
Why did you not get your water first before recording.?
Thank you for your video. Say, did you need to drill a small hole to relieve pressure?
If you are asking if I had to drill a hole in the lid to avoid a suction once the water drained enough, the answer is no. There was no need to as the lids don't seem to seal that well.
love the vid's... I will be honest.. I try some of the stuff you show on here and wish I could try the rest. Thanks for getting out there for us daily grinders and spreading the knowledge.
Works great. Translation - "Noone got the screaming shits"
Very impressed thank you so much ❤️