We are getting ready to do a new shop and rain harvesting Found your video and saw the mountains in the back! We are in Cochise County so very close to you. Thanks for the video.

thanks very much for taking the time to do the videos. Im looking to build my own workshop and you have been a big source on information and mostly, inspiration. I´m not shure if I will be able to finish it as nice as yours, but I´ll do my best. best regards from Argentina. Cheers

Have always loved that cistern setup Joe. So much so, I broke down and purchased your Culvert Cistern Course. EXCELLENT JOB!!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Shawn! Please let me know if you have any questions from it. I think Derek made a pretty darn thorough outline and pdf to accompany the video but just in case we missed something just let us know :) Joe

Although your property is in AZ and mine is in MI. Dry verses wet, You have put out some great videos that will work great on my property. Thank you for the work to put these out.

I have been binge watching your videos. Very informative, good presentation-- well done and thank you for sharing.

Awesome video as always, like that your a humble and caring guy. You've got a great outlook on life !! Blessings for you and yours.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks I appreciate that craig! blessings to you as well :) Joe

awesome set-up guys !! that's one huge rain water harvesting !! thanks for sharing

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Great job as expected Joe. Much cheaper than the plastic tanks and looks more rustic too. Hope it fills up before winter strikes.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Charl! I'm hoping so... but right now it's looking like our monsoon is just about finished... lol... murphy's law for sure :D

Geweldig. Je video's zijn altijd interessant en kwalitatief erg goedhartelijke groet Job

I rent an apartment in a city but I truly connect to your videos.

Love your ideas and energy!! makes me want to move back to the country! like today!!

Really enjoy your rain catchment system videos!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks so much Nicole! I hope to make more as i modify and make changes to my system:)

Nice, clean install. Thanks for sharing Joe.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Mr Rain!!!

I can barely put thread through the head of a needle...and you think of and do all of this amazing stuff...GOD LOVE YA MAN !!!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

lol... thanks!

Great video. Thanks for sharing the concept.

Another great video! Awesome footage and editing. I love the cistern water collection system. Looks cool and gets the job done!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks David!

I love your videos and the descriptions are great. Such good clever ideas I look forward to trying some of these out on my own little farm. (Though it is in Colorado and that is more of a trick than one might think.)

"Or gals"... lol, don't forget us gals! Looks awesome...of course! And the rinky dinky piping looks great too ;-) We have a contract on the house! Finally! AZ here we come!!!

Always love watching these videos. Keep them coming.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks james!

I really liked the way you reinforced the base with that iron mesh and rebar! Awesome project, as always!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Dimitri! concrete work is cool when it's all done.. but during the process... not as much fun...lol

Thanx! Great idea. I haven't thought of that for my cistern. And, the pipes look fine as is.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Jaye!

Love these cisterns, will definitely have to put some in.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Philip!

Mahalo for response. Keep up the videos. Learning a lot from you

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks so much for checking it out Archer! :) joe

Man, I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for the great, informative videos.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jerome! I appreciate that... and sorry this is so slow of a response :)

very nice work and very well done

Enjoyed. Good to see your subscriber base, is increasing.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks SNRF! I'm happy to have it installed... but sadly it's looking like we may not have any more rain for a while... darn Murphy's law;)

As always nice video, hey saw your greenhouse in an ad for the company that provided the plastic for it. Nice to see stuff like that. Told my wife " hey I know that greenhouse, saw the video of Joe building it. Good job - Jeff

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

lol... yes I need to go to the store so I can pick up one of the issues :)

Joe, great project. Since you were using good PVC pipe with glued joints you could have gone underground with your fill pipes and come up from the bottom. That way fewer of your pipes are exposed and leveling from gutter to tank is un-important. You could also be further from the shop. Thanks for the video. Greg B.

Keep up the great work on these water storage videos cause I am real close to putting in a small system of my own. Thanks for the inspiration!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for checking it out Chick a Woof! joe

awesome build, man! that thing is gonna hold A LOT of water. in terms of video making: great shot of you in the cistern ... super cool. you're now the envy of all rain-barrelers

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Spencer! Lol... yes, that shot is credit to my wife :)

Brilliant... Great ideas and great effort...God bless you !! Best Regards from Brazil...Pablo De Oliveira

Hey man, your videos are great. Awesome job.

Nice setup Joe... I like the removable piping... I am sure you'll find a good use for that overflow water as well... Thanks so much for sharing... I hope it works out well for you !

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Hey where's my favorite mad scientist??? lol..... I like the ideas you come up with :) btw... I harvested honey yesterday and didn't get one sting.. until I went out to the strainer bucket in the middle of the night to pick up one of the empty combs I had broken off.. a bee was under it where I placed my finger. I thought i was off scott free this time ;)

@BumbleBeeJunction

6 жыл бұрын

I really like the cistern ! I have no idea why I had it in my head that it was a buried in-ground cistern... Sorry I sorta rushed through my first response... Lets see... Mad Scientist... Bury a 4" pipe full length at 90 degrees to the overflow and tie it to it... Cap both end... Drill 1" holes about 8" apart in the top... Cover the holes with burlap... Cover the pipe with a thick layer of firewood... Then 8 or 10" of dirt... Then you will have a Hugelkulture (spelling) bed with the wood acting like a sponge, and the pipe (with the holes at the top) acting as a back-up 4" reservoir roots will find eventually... Or the humidity will feed... CAUTION - since this is a drinking water source, a check valve would be in order, just to avoid even the notion of a bacterial backflow...

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

lol... that's more like it! Hugelkulture it is... or maybe a living roof with an aquaponics set up in the tank...lol..jk... but actually I have thought of doing one of these with a much wider diameter 4' culvert to act as a fish pond... but the concrete of that size diameter would negate the cost benefit... but still cool ;) lol... you spur good brainstorming in me :)

@BumbleBeeJunction

6 жыл бұрын

You could skip all the piping... Dig a trench... Line it with one of your vinals... Run your overflow into it like a pond... Make a overflow gap in the liner at one end... Back fill it with firewood... Then cover with the 8 or 10 inches of dirt... Still a hugelkulture (sp) bed but with a lined reservoir, little risk of backflow, and no additional piping... I can see it working just as well....

Nice job! Thanks for sharing with us. Greetings from Brazil!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Abel! great to hear from Brazil!! Joe

Great job buddy!

Great stuff as always Joe! Cheers!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Steve! Hope you guys are holding out well down there :)

Very interesting project! That ought to add a lot more water to your home. Thanks for sharing this.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks John!!

"Friends with Tractors", allways nice to have. Nice and helpfull video too ;)

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

yes for sure!!

@OligosFew

4 жыл бұрын

@@homesteadonomics where did you buy the culvert? I have looked and looked for larger culvert at this point I've begun to believe its easier to find a gold bar in your front yard than to locate large culvert.

LED seed warming mats can also be used to cover a small clay pot then placed down on a large clay saucer with a larger clap pot with a notch in its lip for the electrical cord placed over it to create low voltage warmers you can operate off a solar panel set up to heat a workshop trailer home or green house.

Great video. That is an awesome shirt you made too.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Daniel! My friend monica sells them as part of her business. I'll put a link to her store in the description:)

Really these are amazing ideas and works well done 👌🏼

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks so much!

Great video mate. Thanks for sharing.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks KL!

As always love the video. Blessings. Blessings

Great job, as always!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Mark!

Great video!

Well done Joe! I like it 👍 Ron1

Excellent video again. What will this water be used for?

This is the video I was waiting for thank you. I want to use this system in kenya at a friends farm, agin thank you👍🏽👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome to hear Fadsad! good luck on the build and let me know if you have any questions!! joe

Love your work. God bless!

Forgot to mention, you might want to place a 'plug' on one side of the lifting points on that container and fill the corner with spray foam being careful not to let it overflow too much from the open side. This will prevent wasps and hornets from building their nests in there. Learned from experience ! Foam can then be trimmed and painted to match. If using a solvent based paint try priming the foam with several coats of a water based moisture sealant then use your regular solvent based paint on top. Great videos! I am using a military comm shack as my workshop. Bought it used and it came complete with AC and DC power hookups as well as an ECU rated at 45000 BTU's. main problem is that it needs three phase power to run. At least the lights work!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea.. I have been thinking about it because I know it's only going to be a matter of time before the birds, wasps, bees, etc, start to take up show in there. And your shop... that sounds really cool!! I think I've seen those on public surpus .com from time to time. Really cool option as a shop... espcially with teh options it comes with !! :) Joe

@Subgunman

6 жыл бұрын

The Comm trailer came with some of the shelves that held radio gear. They used shallow Unistrut channel laid in horizontally along the length of the container every two feet from base to ceiling so shelves could be positioned as needed. Four inch steel wire duct was run horizontally above lower Unistrut shelf support providing multiple 120 vac sockets as well as the military Cannon connectors for 28vdc power for radio gear. They use a custom made SquareD power panel that has three separate systems in one, 3Ø 120 vac 60 Hz, 3Ø 120vac 400 Hz, and 28 vdc. Power inputs are monitored by a meter panel that can be switched between the phases for both 60 and 400 Hz inputs with volt meters and cycle meters for each input. DC monitoring is via two tip style jacks that you can stick any multimeter probe into ( this is something I want to change by adding an on board meter. The DC power supply is based on a HUGE 3 phase transformer and rectifier pack with average size capacitors for filtering. This is fed by the 400Hz input. It takes a lot less effort and filtering to convert the multiphase 400Hz input to DC. Massive problem I have encountered is the slides that the ECU SST on are rusted and need to be replaced as well as the hinges on one of the two doors were seized and broke when they were forced open.

I can't wait for the hoophouse update.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks... looking to make some changes to the inside upper growing area to give me more room to work with.... but that probably won't be until late Oct or Nov before that video comes out

Wow good job my man I really love watching your video very interesting

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Tina!

Great job!!!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Daniel!

I may have missed it, but did you cover how to filter out the bird poop from your water supply as it runs into those 2" PVC pipes from the roof? With a cistern, you can set up a settlement tank for that, and I have seen many other ways of dealing with it.

Awesome video! After a few years, is the Blue Max still adhering to the galvanized metal and doing it's job?

Great video with a lot knowledge shared. What about the cap on the cistern, did you make that?

Your neighbour Al seems to be a really nice person.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Super Nice for sure! I always take him some beers and return it with a full tank... then we end up chatting for an hour or two. We've got a lot of the same interests and he has probably forgotten more knowledge than I will have :)

Awesome video Joe! I think if I installed this at my place in Virginia the HOA would have a fit! thanks for sharing!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Zac! ...lol.. yes that would probably not go over well...the 'blue hairs' that control the HOA like order for sure ;) I used to live in once before we moved to our land... and I think they would just walk with a clip board around the neighborhood looking for weed violators just for fun.... ;)

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

... and by weed violators I mean the non-medicinal kind...lol... but I'm sure they'd look for the other kind too ;)

@robertl.fallin7062

6 жыл бұрын

The College Woodworker .... live in Va. Have farm in blood and relatives farming. No problem with EPA, HOA , USA, STATE OR COUNTY. I DONT GET THIS BIG BROTHER THING .

@robertl.fallin7062

6 жыл бұрын

Me thinks you made a informative video.. wish I had thought of using a culvert in this manner!

Gosh I wish I had a handyman like that.

Hi mate inwatched your other video of pallet wood raised garden beds I was wondering how long does they last as i made in my back yard but i am concerned about front as i dont want them rotting away in few months

This should be code for every house and building in LA

What will you do to increase the size of the 1 1/2"Ø overflow if you end up having to increase the rainwater liters to 3"Ø? I think that 1 1/2" Ø OF line will be giving you troubles . Lots of gurgling and air locking..

You must be a little OCD, you don't miss a single detail. Great looking Job! Good editing and camera work.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

lol.. I don't know about OCD.. some things I am on and some I'm like ...eh, good enough....lol! Just depends on the project:) thanks for checking it out:)

I wonder if the top of the cistern could be designed in order to catch more rainwater? I love the sound of that word...RAINWATER. Here in San Francisco, California as well as pretty much the entire state of California it has been dry and drought like. There was some heavy rain in the springtime that brought early snowmelt and last weekend we got a thunder storm. And just one more thing, "I'm just singing in the rain, singing in the rain". Great video Mr. Homesteadeconomics.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, they absolutely can... just by putting a small lip on the outer edge and funneling it to an inlet hole. Every little bit counts :) I have intended to do that on my poly tanks as well... but like some projects it's been one that 'i'm gonna do..' for a while...lol... but eventually I will and your comment just reminded me that I do need to do that:) thanks Richard and great to hear from SF... I had my first cosmopolitan at a place called the Red Room back in 2000... really good :) Joe

It looks great next to the shipping container shop. :)

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

I agree... looks even better than I thought:)

Joe, I'll bet you could add years to the life of the tank by coating the bottom edge , everything near the concrete with your blue goop before setting it in concrete. Good luck, Greg B.

Thanks for another great video :)

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks GM!

How do these do in colder climates where it would freeze all winter? How do you use the water? Is this even a possibility? Thanks!

nice job. I was looking forward to seeing this come together. Personally the PVC looks fine to me.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks! I really will just be painting it more for UV protection.. it goes pretty quickly in our sun (no clouds or humidity to filter the sun) ;)

@tshooter4419

6 жыл бұрын

Good Point.

Great video 👍🏻

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks jesse!

Interesting to see culvert cistran rain collectors. Been awhile to see it again. You can take a warm bath with sun heating the water.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

I like em a lot.... but believe it or not, they don't really heat up the water much at all. too much volume when full to make a change. the dark poly tanks warm up the water more.

@yackfzay6224

6 жыл бұрын

homesteadonomics Must be the Arizona weather. I remembered in Thailand people wait 4 in the afternoon to bath.

Nice job. I'm typing as I watch. Is there a top and how do you keep out insects?

Does this have a lid, If so how did you construct it?

Mmmm, yess.. That sweet rain wah wah. Lol thanks for sharing

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!!

Wow that’s amazing

Is there any concern doing this in Utah where the ground will freeze every winter? Do I need to worry about pipes bursting or anything?

I just started Watching your videos after searching for videos on chicken coops and I'm hooked!! Where do you get your tanks? I'm interested in becoming a self sustaining farm and would love more info on where to go for water collection equipment!

What's the head pressure on this. I planted 80 fruit trees in my pasture and want to run irrigation off of one of these I need atleast 7 pounds of head pressure for my drip system to the trees, do you think it will work or do I have to run power to a pump?

I am a retired plumber and rule number one is never ever use galvinized pipe as it will form rust scale on the inside and eventualy be blocked with rust. Donald

Please do plant a forest in the desert, begin putting sapplings in the ground and water them with your amazing rain water catch system.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

trying little by little... probably won't have a forest...but definitely more trees each year :)

Do you just go to a roadwork supply company to get the galvanized culvert? What about the lids?

Are there particular reasons why you went with a culvert tank instead of one of the various plastic tanks that so many use?

I'm going to google it, but going to ask anyway. Does anyone know how long to store/cycle the water out?? I'm just curious, since you wouldn't do that for well water, if you would need to do it for stored water. However, I'm assuming that well water is not stagnant and somehow "moves".

there you go way to go... i make detention systems for a company in ma that make this culvert pipe...

can the water in this culvert use for drinking?

Excellent

ok ....how did u get in and out of the tank ?

Where is the link to pick the unit up with straps and 2 x 4s?

Why use this steel rather than just plastic like you have before? Is it just for looks? Seems like a lot more work and time?

what does thea culvert made of?

Very cool. Bear Down!

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks Henry!

Question from Australia? Don't you have a rainwater tank supplier ? We use steel like yours or rotomoulded 2,000 gallon?

How did you make the lid?

Seeing a lot rain water dripping of my own storage units: do you use the top of the culvert also for harvesting? Thx for your vids.

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

I plan to add a lip to divert water in but currently there is now harvesting on that lid.

Did you put a lid on the cistern? If not, any concern for mosquitos, etc.? In any case, another great and informative video! Thanks

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

yes, there is a lid on there. My buddy who I got the culvert from had a custom one made by an HVAC company. Not really a mosquito concerne with the lid on:)

For sure

Nice Cisternery, I'm finding the culvert and concrete kind of expensive compared to poly tanks here in Texas. Regional costs may vary...

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

thanks! yes, the prices range greatly. Here the cost is about on par until about 1500 gal... then poly tanks become a better value. but I also, just love the look of these too ;)

This might have already been addressed, but I'd just be curious if you guys had flooding plans. I mean anything over a quarter meter of water you'd be standing in. (I'm realizing why the metric system sounds so weird, heh) We had a situation like that in Korea in '86 during a monsoon. We sandbagged our place and it worked surprising well. But there was as much as a good 3 or 4 hundred centimeters of water or so you would have to slog through in some places. In Seoul.

Nice cistern. We are working on an off grid property. Making the adjustment from grid life to off grid has been challenging. I would like to install an underground cistern to use with my well. Do you have to treat the water in the cistern if it is coming from a well? How often do you have to get inside the tank and clean it?

@homesteadonomics

6 жыл бұрын

I usually clean my tanks once a year. as for treating the water from a well... that all depends on the quality of your well water. some don't and some folks do. Hope that helps:)

@TheHandsOnChannel

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

fantastic