I meant to put a comparison chart of the tests at the end of this video but forgot (it was late). So I put it on my Raspberry Rock FB page: facebook.com/raspberryrockoffgridcabin As of this morning, the e-coli tests still look fine.
It’s pretty important to do this testing in the spring/summer - I’m not sure how much more bacteria would be present then but I assume the winter weather keeps it low. Better safe than sorry!
I loved the dubbed narrative. It was very funny. Thanks so much for sharing your lives with us. Russell you sing really well!! Merry Christmas and I wish you a happy and heathy 2025!
Should of done all this in the late spring and summer NOT ideal to do this in winter but good luck Always come to hour channel when I need a good laugh. God bless be safe Jim from Michigan
Hey Russell...I put a light bulb near my outside pipe which helps keep it from freezing. Plus, turn your faucet on to drip a little in the sink. If you can, put up some simple underpinning around the cabin to prevent wind. You could just use a sheet of ply boards for that for now all the way around the bottom of the cabin for now , or since you have a saw you can do permanently in the spring. Or pick up rocks and use some concrete mix to stack them . My moma and daddy plus others made rock houses and churches with the local rocks. Turned out, they're still standing after 60 + years and look great. That could be a nice project for you and CG. Your water won't freeze then. ❤
This is just a thought for the future of your cabin you might want to run your drain out from underneath it so it's not rotting your beam as well as washing your foundation out from underneath it
Double your barrel depth and backfill around to raise the ground level around the well. Drill the hole to fit the cord through the barrel and then use a pool noodle around it to seal it. Make a foam cover that seals tightly by placing foam over the top and tamping the foam to create a template/ copy of the barrel top. Cut it a couple inches wider then cut half the thickness from the foam to form fit into the top of the barrel. Use the cords and wire in a simple outdoor on/ off switch out by the well and you can leave the cord in place and lose the remote.
Thanks for the video Russel ! We have a 7 foot deep, hand-dug springbox well at home and we use lake water at our cabin. I stopped testing for coliforms & e.coli ten years ago. I simply assume that bacteria is always present and treat accordingly. At the cabin I boil all drinking water before filtering through a carbon block (like a Berkey.) I can easily get the water from our well to test negative by shock chlorinating the well, the storage tank and opening ALL outlets until I can smell the aroma of bleach in the water at each outlet (including the hot water lines and outlets.) Once the system has chlorine circulated throughout I leave it to "soak" for at least 48 hours.
Additionally, I'm so proud of you building your well. Now, buy you a holding tank and buy a pump to have great water pressure for the cabin. Put the holding tank with pump up at the cabin. That way you're not emptying the well water tank all the time. Hope you understand what I mean. I have this and I'm pumping water 400 yards up hill.
And put that holding tank as high as you can, pumps like everything else seem to act up at the most inconvenient time, if it fails with a high tank all taps continue working with reduced flow/pressure. Happy Xmas all!
I have a water fountain that has a solor pump wire . I notched out a place in the lip of the water bucket and it works great. Great video . Merry Christmas and Happy New year 🎉
I forgot to say, that the beginning of your video was awesome. Lol, the commentary! I watched the show. ❤ And thank you. Wether y'all see this comment or not, I have learned something. Here is my tip. When you make cocktails, you're doing it right. Easy, right? Not exactly. Get, I mean, "try", a metal shaker to mix the drinks in, first. You pour the ingredients in that, over ice, put the lid on, and shake shake shake. It allows the flavors to blend. Then you pour the cocktail out through the lid of the shaker, into a glass of ice. Sounds dumb, I know. It it makes a difference. 😂 Cheers! Keep up your lifestyle and here's to a good year, 2024. 🍺
Hey Russel. We had a similar setup at our hunt camp. We had a buried line right to the cabin. The way we kept it from freezing was, we added a swing check valve just after the pump. Just make sure the and valve stay upright and below the water level.. Once the pump started, the pressure would close the valve and once the pump stopped, the valve would drop and the line would drain.
Better every time you video. I have a suggestion for hydro, if you have electrical skills, one could cut the electrical cord from the pump and install a On, Off, switch box and place it in a plastic box with lid and a weight inside to keep from blowing over or getting wet. Also, the pump is great but the hose you have does restrict the flow so a larger plastic pipe could be installed with a coupling to be able to uncouple to allow the water to flow back to the pump and the other end for filling water container's could be emptied to rid them of freezing. This would allow you to keep plugged in all the time and to fill jugs and drain lines to avoid freezing. For short term fix on black tile and blue barrel on the inside of plastics where they meet place a thick plastic all the way around and seal with man's best friend DUCT TAPE. Hopefully these might be useful to you, stay safe and keep up the good work.
Merry Christmas! The cocktail making was nice. My wife and I do a cocktail advent calendar for the last couple of years. We've just discovered that there are a lot of mixed drinks we don't like. May the New Year be all you want it to be!
Yes❤ you two, really liked this video of "What happens off camera" Russell you and the better half are awesome. Me, sitting here having a few cold ones myself, cheers🎉😂❤
VERY IMPORTANT you need to make sure you seal around the top of the well very tight to make sure a mouse or other rodents do not get in and die in the water. If that happens the well will be contaminated and will be unusable.
Looks like you're making progress Russell. Slow and steady wins the race. There's no shame in taking your time and doing it right. Nothing worse than doing something and having it fail right in front of you. You might have to do some tweaking next summer.
Get yourself a plug in that comes with a small remote control that way you can turn it on or off from the cabin or well we use them for our Xmas lights or my tractor block heater. Run the water through a Styrofoam filter it will take out the sediment and do a drinking filter before using for consumption.
Russell, You made a nice choice with that submersible pump. I kind of thought the heaving might be an issue. Brass mending plates should help. How far are you willing to go with water retrieval? Rolling 200' of hoses sounds like a pain. Even with the Wizards' help. Is that pump powerful enough to reach the cabin? How about some kind of pipeline directly into the cabin. If the pump is up to the task, you can install a suitable check valve that would drain the pipe when not in use. Although with the cabin at a higher elevation, it may not be necessary. I know you're knowledgeable in electrical. You could possibly wire the pump to a switch in the cabin. Would the be convenient? Hell yes. But like I said, how far you willing to go? Something to think about. As always, keep up the good work. Peace ✌️
Russell, I have drank from my well...all my life... and I think there would be nothing to worry over unless you are downstream from horse barnyard or sewage discharge.... from what I see your well is drinkable with no problem..... enjoy the good life... LA Tampa
Hey Russel and Alicia. I hope you two had a lovely Christmas. Regarding your water tests, the lighter coloured swatch, even though it didn't have splotches, contains more bacteria in it. Stay safe! You two are awesome! 🤗🥰
Merry xmas.. Great video, Russell and city girl. I suggest that if you're going to cut the pump wire plan on giving yourself an extra foot or two. Creat a junction in a weatherproof box with an exterior switch. Simple on/off! Looks like the water is quite decent, and because you had extra filter fabric, you could have used it to lap the joint between black and blue prior to backfill. Maybe come spring you could address that and it would compensate for the frost heaving. Hi to city girl..
Use your test strips on the pure well water, not, the filtered water. We have mostly limestone rock in Tennessee. We don't have to filter our water for drinking here. Sounds like you hit some great water! Merry Christmas guys ❤
Very nice to see you pay attention to Willow too, I feel you give Junebug more love and care All wants attention and love!!! Use dynamite to get a B I G hole in the dam!! I have seen some do that and the beavers left!!
That place where you put your ladder to brush the snow off the solar panels, since you have to do this all winter, every winter, you should build a walkable ledge where the ladder is leaning against. Then build a ladder to climb up to the ledge. This way you have room to move, and if you lose balance, you are not free falling to the ground. I bet it would not be that big of a project, but it would greatly increase efficiency and safety for the task of brushing off the snow. If you build it right, it should not affect the view out the front of the cabin either.
I have a similar remote switch, all you have to do is bring the actual power plug down to the join of your extension cords plug it in there and seal up the bag with zip ties the remote will easily connect with its plug now being so much closer to the well
Hi Russell, just a suggestion, you can kill two birds with one stone if you were to cut the water pump cord close to the well which would allow you to drill a hole through the blue drum that is just the size of the cable then reconnect the cable with a switch. This would let you turn the pump on and off right at the well. You could put the switch on a post with the extra cable you have.
Hahah loved the narration at the start ,, Russel , Id get permission to blow a couple of the beaver dams up , They are destroying everything or talk to the MNR, Maybe they can scare em off. Look's like things are going to work out for your well that is awesome pump you got works very well too eh. no more paying for water cant get much better than that. Will you eventually insulate your waterline and bury it it up to the cabin. Nice to see City Girl out at the cabin Hey City Girl. Interesting watching test.
I would suggest getting yourself a couple hundred ft. Of 1/2-in polyline and rope or steel cable. Depending on if you want to just test it out or make it permanent. And in an arch run the rope up from the well to a tree. At the highest point you can reach with a ladder then in a downward slope towards the cabin deck having the line stretched tight in that Arch then zip tie the polyline to the rope in the air and connect it to the pump so that it will pump it up and over towards the cabin. Then you can fill your jugs or your interior tank if it's on that side. Or connect the garden hose to it when you're filling the tank. Then as soon as the power is cut and the line is open at the deck and it will automatically drain back into the well and a little bit of water should trickle out onto the deck or towards the cabin and the system should not freeze in theory as long as the line is constantly sloping down towards the cabin or down towards the well with no check valves in the system to stop the water from flowing backwards when the pump is not pumping
Using pvc components…go with a vertical pipe (connected to the pump) and a threaded 90 degree out the side of a drilled hole in the blue plastic. Would be kind of a spigot to attach the hose to.
Frozen pipes! Wow, Russell is doing a voice-over! Crotch shot! Yay cocktail christmas eve! No pants party. Mixing cocktails is alot of work. I didnt realize you can buy a cartoon of peach juice.
Great video. You two were so funny making cocktails and story telling. I'm surprised you could even focus on Die Hard. wishing you all, dogs included a very Happy & Healthy 2025. Hugs UK. Keep making longer videos.
Try an old school trick to thaw out your drain pipe. Pour a cup of molasses into the sink...because it's so heavy and the sugar content is so high it melts its way down through the frozen water. Works everytime but you have to be patient.
If the sump pump your using in your well has no foot valve your hose will drain back when the pump turns off. Make sure your hose has no low spots as the water will settle and freeze there. My system is set up this way and it doesn't freeze at -20°f.
need to use a sterile container for your samples. really don't know what is in the plastic jugs. suggest a glass container sterilized and collect directly from the well. hope this helps.as a kid we had lake water and sent samples to state monthly. i' HAPPY NEW YEAR
I can’t remember what the name of the place was but you can get bottles from them and they send them to a lab and they test your water at no charge. I think if you ask some of your friends who are on wells or some other source of water that isn’t treated they might be able to help you with a local place
They sell all kinds and sizes of wind-up hose storage things on amazon or maybe even locally at your hardware store? Though if you have more of a specialty needs, then maybe your friend can design it for you. I hope you can have your well professionally tested, at least the first few times. There can be toxins in there that you don't have a test for? (Such as, one of my nieces and her family in the hills of Northern California were renting a house that was on well water, and eventually learned they'd been drinking jet fuel in their water. The owners had to do a bunch of stuff to clean and purify it.) I grew up on well water. Before my father got into the business he eventually got into, he used to design and build wells. But I was just a little girl at the time, so I don't remember much about it. Other than I loved our well water better than when we were finally incorporated into city water. I do recall when we still used the well, he tested it regularly, but also hired the city water disctrict to test it periodically. It was sooooo tasty. Best water ever had, other than back in the day before so much pollution everywhere in this country, the delicious mountain trout stream water, naturally filtered. Anyhow, glad you have the well working. Kudos to you.
OK, I keep chiming in here, but, yes, drill a hole near top of well tank for your hose and electric. You can use those big washers, etc to hold it in place. Then drop your pump in so it wont hit bottom, at least 4 feet above bottom. Bury your hose at least to freezing/frost depth in a line to cabin. You've got your big machine for digging. Your local county farm agency can help you for free with info and your water testing
Use your WiFi to turn pump on and off remote, I’m sure you have starlink running, get a WiFi controlled switch, hook it up to your WiFi and then use your phone to turn it on and off
I meant to put a comparison chart of the tests at the end of this video but forgot (it was late). So I put it on my Raspberry Rock FB page: facebook.com/raspberryrockoffgridcabin
As of this morning, the e-coli tests still look fine.
It’s pretty important to do this testing in the spring/summer - I’m not sure how much more bacteria would be present then but I assume the winter weather keeps it low. Better safe than sorry!
Spring is the ideal time, after the snow melt. If you have considerable surface water you should test it several times throughout the year.
I like your narration, so far I've found it really amusing and you have a great sense if humor.
I loved the dubbed narrative. It was very funny. Thanks so much for sharing your lives with us. Russell you sing really well!! Merry Christmas and I wish you a happy and heathy 2025!
Wow, wonderful video!!
So glad your well is working out great. Enjoyed the testing and the cocktail making.
Nice to see both of you!!
I love it when a plan comes together. Good work.
Your voice over is Great! You put some real ad-lib .humor into it. Almost glad the real sound didn't work. Happy New Year!
Should of done all this in the late spring and summer NOT ideal to do this in winter but good luck Always come to hour channel when I need a good laugh. God bless be safe Jim from Michigan
Hey Russell...I put a light bulb near my outside pipe which helps keep it from freezing. Plus, turn your faucet on to drip a little in the sink. If you can, put up some simple underpinning around the cabin to prevent wind. You could just use a sheet of ply boards for that for now all the way around the bottom of the cabin for now , or since you have a saw you can do permanently in the spring. Or pick up rocks and use some concrete mix to stack them . My moma and daddy plus others made rock houses and churches with the local rocks. Turned out, they're still standing after 60 + years and look great. That could be a nice project for you and CG. Your water won't freeze then. ❤
This is just a thought for the future of your cabin you might want to run your drain out from underneath it so it's not rotting your beam as well as washing your foundation out from underneath it
Double your barrel depth and backfill around to raise the ground level around the well. Drill the hole to fit the cord through the barrel and then use a pool noodle around it to seal it. Make a foam cover that seals tightly by placing foam over the top and tamping the foam to create a template/ copy of the barrel top. Cut it a couple inches wider then cut half the thickness from the foam to form fit into the top of the barrel. Use the cords and wire in a simple outdoor on/ off switch out by the well and you can leave the cord in place and lose the remote.
Thanks for the video Russel ! We have a 7 foot deep, hand-dug springbox well at home and we use lake water at our cabin. I stopped testing for coliforms & e.coli ten years ago. I simply assume that bacteria is always present and treat accordingly. At the cabin I boil all drinking water before filtering through a carbon block (like a Berkey.) I can easily get the water from our well to test negative by shock chlorinating the well, the storage tank and opening ALL outlets until I can smell the aroma of bleach in the water at each outlet (including the hot water lines and outlets.) Once the system has chlorine circulated throughout I leave it to "soak" for at least 48 hours.
Additionally, I'm so proud of you building your well. Now, buy you a holding tank and buy a pump to have great water pressure for the cabin. Put the holding tank with pump up at the cabin. That way you're not emptying the well water tank all the time. Hope you understand what I mean. I have this and I'm pumping water 400 yards up hill.
And put that holding tank as high as you can, pumps like everything else seem to act up at the most inconvenient time, if it fails with a high tank all taps continue working with reduced flow/pressure. Happy Xmas all!
The Panorama cocktail looks like a tequila sunrise cocktail. You could have saved ice by just making one cocktail and then dividing the cocktail.
Yup Mine draws approx 6 gallons every 2 hours into my 300 gallon cistern.
I have a water fountain that has a solor pump wire . I notched out a place in the lip of the water bucket and it works great. Great video . Merry Christmas and Happy New year 🎉
SUPER cool that you are getting so much water out of that well. Will help you a great deal with shower and washing dishes and cooking water.
Loved your video! I love the longer videos! Always interesting, funny and informative!
I forgot to say, that the beginning of your video was awesome. Lol, the commentary!
I watched the show. ❤ And thank you. Wether y'all see this comment or not, I have learned something. Here is my tip. When you make cocktails, you're doing it right. Easy, right? Not exactly. Get, I mean, "try", a metal shaker to mix the drinks in, first. You pour the ingredients in that, over ice, put the lid on, and shake shake shake. It allows the flavors to blend. Then you pour the cocktail out through the lid of the shaker, into a glass of ice. Sounds dumb, I know. It it makes a difference. 😂 Cheers! Keep up your lifestyle and here's to a good year, 2024. 🍺
Love the running commentary. In the beginning of the video. Lol ! Thanks for sharing your days activities.
Hey Russel. We had a similar setup at our hunt camp. We had a buried line right to the cabin. The way we kept it from freezing was, we added a swing check valve just after the pump. Just make sure the and valve stay upright and below the water level.. Once the pump started, the pressure would close the valve and once the pump stopped, the valve would drop and the line would drain.
Better every time you video. I have a suggestion for hydro, if you have electrical skills, one could cut the electrical cord from the pump and install a On, Off, switch box and place it in a plastic box with lid and a weight inside to keep from blowing over or getting wet. Also, the pump is great but the hose you have does restrict the flow so a larger plastic pipe could be installed with a coupling to be able to uncouple to allow the water to flow back to the pump and the other end for filling water container's could be emptied to rid them of freezing. This would allow you to keep plugged in all the time and to fill jugs and drain lines to avoid freezing. For short term fix on black tile and blue barrel on the inside of plastics where they meet place a thick plastic all the way around and seal with man's best friend DUCT TAPE. Hopefully these might be useful to you, stay safe and keep up the good work.
Yes, you should be able to move the smart plug to the baggy where the extension cord meets the pump plug to get it closer for the remote to work.
Good Lad. Too much fun. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome content. Love watching your videos.
Merry Christmas! The cocktail making was nice. My wife and I do a cocktail advent calendar for the last couple of years. We've just discovered that there are a lot of mixed drinks we don't like. May the New Year be all you want it to be!
Happy new year Russell and city girl.❤.
Love the longer videos Russell and City Girl it was wonderful to see you again❤❤🎉 Take care love birds😊😊😊😊❤❤
Yes❤ you two, really liked this video of "What happens off camera" Russell you and the better half are awesome. Me, sitting here having a few cold ones myself, cheers🎉😂❤
Hi Russell water looks pretty clear 👍
VERY IMPORTANT you need to make sure you seal around the top of the well very tight to make sure a mouse or other rodents do not get in and die in the water. If that happens the well will be contaminated and will be unusable.
Beautiful there but I’m glad we don’t have that much snow in Mississippi.
Happy New Year to you both!!!
Looks like you're making progress Russell. Slow and steady wins the race. There's no shame in taking your time and doing it right. Nothing worse than doing something and having it fail right in front of you. You might have to do some tweaking next summer.
Happy New Year both of you. Thank you for all the great uploads in 2024.
Merry Christmas and congratulations you have cleaner safer water than 90 percent of us.😊
Get yourself a plug in that comes with a small remote control that way you can turn it on or off from the cabin or well we use them for our Xmas lights or my tractor block heater. Run the water through a Styrofoam filter it will take out the sediment and do a drinking filter before using for consumption.
Russell, You made a nice choice with that submersible pump. I kind of thought the heaving might be an issue. Brass mending plates should help. How far are you willing to go with water retrieval? Rolling 200' of hoses sounds like a pain. Even with the Wizards' help. Is that pump powerful enough to reach the cabin? How about some kind of pipeline directly into the cabin. If the pump is up to the task, you can install a suitable check valve that would drain the pipe when not in use. Although with the cabin at a higher elevation, it may not be necessary. I know you're knowledgeable in electrical. You could possibly wire the pump to a switch in the cabin. Would the be convenient? Hell yes. But like I said, how far you willing to go? Something to think about. As always, keep up the good work. Peace ✌️
Your well videos are great and you are doibg great❤❤
How close to the cabin can you get you car/vehicle?
Russell, I have drank from my well...all my life... and I think there would be nothing to worry over unless you are downstream from horse barnyard or sewage discharge.... from what I see your well is drinkable with no problem..... enjoy the good life... LA Tampa
Happy New Year to you both!
Hey Russel and Alicia. I hope you two had a lovely Christmas. Regarding your water tests, the lighter coloured swatch, even though it didn't have splotches, contains more bacteria in it. Stay safe! You two are awesome! 🤗🥰
Good job 👏👏👏👏
Happy holidays and well dang where is your handsome brother should have had home helping to test water hehe 💚🎄💚
Merry xmas.. Great video, Russell and city girl. I suggest that if you're going to cut the pump wire plan on giving yourself an extra foot or two. Creat a junction in a weatherproof box with an exterior switch. Simple on/off! Looks like the water is quite decent, and because you had extra filter fabric, you could have used it to lap the joint between black and blue prior to backfill. Maybe come spring you could address that and it would compensate for the frost heaving.
Hi to city girl..
Use your test strips on the pure well water, not, the filtered water. We have mostly limestone rock in Tennessee. We don't have to filter our water for drinking here. Sounds like you hit some great water!
Merry Christmas guys ❤
Russell...we need more narration videos. Hahaha... That was great!. Willing to count on fingers, just like the rest of us 🥰
👍 Good subject a good effective way of having good drinking water.
When your head goes in the toilet bowl it's called a swirley. There, now that's something you know! Lol. Merry Christmas y'all. Love the videos.
Very nice to see you pay attention to Willow too, I feel you give Junebug more love and care All wants attention and love!!! Use dynamite to get a B I G hole in the dam!! I have seen some do that and the beavers left!!
That place where you put your ladder to brush the snow off the solar panels, since you have to do this all winter, every winter, you should build a walkable ledge where the ladder is leaning against. Then build a ladder to climb up to the ledge. This way you have room to move, and if you lose balance, you are not free falling to the ground. I bet it would not be that big of a project, but it would greatly increase efficiency and safety for the task of brushing off the snow. If you build it right, it should not affect the view out the front of the cabin either.
I have a similar remote switch, all you have to do is bring the actual power plug down to the join of your extension cords plug it in there and seal up the bag with zip ties the remote will easily connect with its plug now being so much closer to the well
Well and pump "Very nice"!
Hi Russell, just a suggestion, you can kill two birds with one stone if you were to cut the water pump cord close to the well which would allow you to drill a hole through the blue drum that is just the size of the cable then reconnect the cable with a switch. This would let you turn the pump on and off right at the well. You could put the switch on a post with the extra cable you have.
Lovely long videos
Hahah loved the narration at the start ,, Russel , Id get permission to blow a couple of the beaver dams up , They are destroying everything or talk to the MNR, Maybe they can scare em off. Look's like things are going to work out for your well that is awesome pump you got works very well too eh. no more paying for water cant get much better than that. Will you eventually insulate your waterline and bury it it up to the cabin. Nice to see City Girl out at the cabin Hey City Girl. Interesting watching test.
I would suggest getting yourself a couple hundred ft. Of 1/2-in polyline and rope or steel cable. Depending on if you want to just test it out or make it permanent. And in an arch run the rope up from the well to a tree. At the highest point you can reach with a ladder then in a downward slope towards the cabin deck having the line stretched tight in that Arch then zip tie the polyline to the rope in the air and connect it to the pump so that it will pump it up and over towards the cabin. Then you can fill your jugs or your interior tank if it's on that side. Or connect the garden hose to it when you're filling the tank. Then as soon as the power is cut and the line is open at the deck and it will automatically drain back into the well and a little bit of water should trickle out onto the deck or towards the cabin and the system should not freeze in theory as long as the line is constantly sloping down towards the cabin or down towards the well with no check valves in the system to stop the water from flowing backwards when the pump is not pumping
When I used too drink years ago rum and eggnog at Christmas with a stick of cinnamon
Fantastic Stuff. Thx Man
You, ll need some dry run protection for that pump. For that to work, the electrical cable will need to be cut, so 2 gromets will do it nicely
Russell. Put the plug in part of your remote in between the zip lock bag connection. Be alot closer. And make a more permanent waterproof cover
Using pvc components…go with a vertical pipe (connected to the pump) and a threaded 90 degree out the side of a drilled hole in the blue plastic. Would be kind of a spigot to attach the hose to.
Spring water is usually safe , especially if it's running fast .
Happy New year from Sharbot Lake 🎉
Frozen pipes! Wow, Russell is doing a voice-over! Crotch shot! Yay cocktail christmas eve! No pants party. Mixing cocktails is alot of work. I didnt realize you can buy a cartoon of peach juice.
Great video. You two were so funny making cocktails and story telling. I'm surprised you could even focus on Die Hard. wishing you all, dogs included a very Happy & Healthy 2025. Hugs UK. Keep making longer videos.
being as many beaver you have there my concern would be giardia ..aka... beaver fever
29:18, that kind of view is what makes everything worthwhile
Try an old school trick to thaw out your drain pipe. Pour a cup of molasses into the sink...because it's so heavy and the sugar content is so high it melts its way down through the frozen water. Works everytime but you have to be patient.
If the sump pump your using in your well has no foot valve your hose will drain back when the pump turns off. Make sure your hose has no low spots as the water will settle and freeze there. My system is set up this way and it doesn't freeze at -20°f.
You may want to use separate water for each test as chemicals from the test strips get into the water and can change your results.
need to use a sterile container for your samples. really don't know what is in the plastic jugs. suggest a glass container sterilized and collect directly from the well. hope this helps.as a kid we had lake water and sent samples to state monthly. i' HAPPY NEW YEAR
happy holidays russel
I can’t remember what the name of the place was but you can get bottles from them and they send them to a lab and they test your water at no charge. I think if you ask some of your friends who are on wells or some other source of water that isn’t treated they might be able to help you with a local place
They sell all kinds and sizes of wind-up hose storage things on amazon or maybe even locally at your hardware store? Though if you have more of a specialty needs, then maybe your friend can design it for you. I hope you can have your well professionally tested, at least the first few times. There can be toxins in there that you don't have a test for? (Such as, one of my nieces and her family in the hills of Northern California were renting a house that was on well water, and eventually learned they'd been drinking jet fuel in their water. The owners had to do a bunch of stuff to clean and purify it.)
I grew up on well water. Before my father got into the business he eventually got into, he used to design and build wells. But I was just a little girl at the time, so I don't remember much about it. Other than I loved our well water better than when we were finally incorporated into city water. I do recall when we still used the well, he tested it regularly, but also hired the city water disctrict to test it periodically. It was sooooo tasty. Best water ever had, other than back in the day before so much pollution everywhere in this country, the delicious mountain trout stream water, naturally filtered. Anyhow, glad you have the well working. Kudos to you.
Oh my the start of this video was so funny!
Could you put blue skin waterproofing in your barrels I should seal it up for now but it might be hard to get to stick if the surface is wet
Flex Seal is not considered potable safe, meaning it should not be used on surfaces that come into direct contact with drinking water❓❓❓
By the way, I LOOOOOOOOVE the long videos! No need to apologize. 😀
OK, I keep chiming in here, but, yes, drill a hole near top of well tank for your hose and electric. You can use those big washers, etc to hold it in place. Then drop your pump in so it wont hit bottom, at least 4 feet above bottom. Bury your hose at least to freezing/frost depth in a line to cabin. You've got your big machine for digging. Your local county farm agency can help you for free with info and your water testing
Ya all are too cute! 😂🎉❤
Hey Russel. Have a Great 2025. Looking forward to the new year. Thanks for all your work.
Use your WiFi to turn pump on and off remote, I’m sure you have starlink running, get a WiFi controlled switch, hook it up to your WiFi and then use your phone to turn it on and off
Fill the ice tray with hot water, and it will freeze faster.
Greetings from Northeast Ohio. When you’re filling the water jug, so water is going uphill. Put the jugs on the ground
Manganese is an issue here in Nova Scotia, I think those tests maybe be area specific...or did one of the tests include manganese?
Russell gonna get some New Year's Day snow
Why don’t you insulate?
Thank you Russell.. beavers will mess things up .. just saying if we need fresh running water 💦
I think you should protect that wood beam with aluminum foil to prevent wood rot.
Gettn the cabin ready for City Girl to retire & live there?? Lots to do for sure! 😊 flooring, plumbing, etc. 😅
If you any purex or Clorox pour some that in your well . Google how much you need to add to purify the water.
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Can’t you run the black insulation tubing on your hose to insulate
Just put a notch in the top of the barrel to run the cord and hose through ...
Why was the black well tile not long enough so the blue barrel piece could be eliminated?
Almost like a tequila sunrise!
And, off to a meeting! ✌
I mean You have a private digger, You could dig a 1,5-2 foot trench to the house to make sure the water line doesn't freeze
HAAHAHAHAHA thats not deep enough... And His mine-X is too small for the Rock ledge He is on..
nice pump
Add you a longer drain pipe to run out from under the house.
I loved fish sticks. The water testing is a little long.