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@Americaisarefugeecamp

6 ай бұрын

YOU'RE AN ARIZONA BOY? HMMM KOOL your almost right when it comes to indigineous water sourcing.. You can dig for water in the dessert if you know where to dig .

As a desert dweller, sourcing clean water in an extended emergency has always been my biggest prepping concern. This is great info! I wish I could give it two likes.

This works far better with a three bucket system having a nozzle on the bottom bucket. Adding one medium to each allows you to rinse both the gravel and sand, and only replace the charcoal as necessary. Placing all of it into a single bucket means you need to replace all of it on average once a month (more often depending on how much water you are filtering). Once a month works for a family of four filtering water for cooking, drinking, and rinsing dishes. If you are filtering for bathing as well you will need to change that charcoal more often. Also, adding the plant matter in a three bucket system you should add the plant material on top of the gravel where it is easy to replace. Fill each bucket (we use 5 gallon buckets) at least 3/4 full, place cloth at the bottom of each, and fix a tap nozzle two inches from the base of your charcoal bucket. It's worth it to buy the stainless steel version made for Berkey filters.

@Troys-reviews

6 ай бұрын

He only used a small amount of pebbles on top to weigh the greens down

@LierinEdana

6 ай бұрын

@@Troys-reviews I know. The typical system is actually a three bucket system with (from top to bottom) gravel, sand, and charcoal in each bucket. A faucet/drain is placed on the charcoal bucket so you can drain the clear water into containers. I've tested (and had tested) the water from this setup and it is safe. I use activated charcoal in ours. We store the charcoal and extra sand as well as home test kits. I'm not knocking the setup shown, just pointing out that for long term use an actual three bucket system is better provided you store extra charcoal and sand. Making your own is absolutely acceptable as far as charcoal goes, and sterilizing both your sand and gravel is advised. Adding the two extra buckets and separating the medium layers makes it much easier to rinse/re-sterilize both the sand and gravel for any long term issue.

@Troys-reviews

6 ай бұрын

@@LierinEdana I totally agree with the 3 bucket design it makes more sense to me especially with a large group

@LierinEdana

6 ай бұрын

@@Troys-reviews I know it would be my preferred option as long as I had the supplies. Some people may not, and others may have to either leave theirs or make do until they get home if they are away for any reason. It's always good to have options so knowing how to put any sort of water purification system together is a plus. Like you said, for a large group/family, or if you have pets/livestock, a permanent three bucket system is better.

@kenkozak6428

6 ай бұрын

Wonderfully done! Im making a couple extras for....well, you know, there are going to be more people that need them!

Just 2 side notes. Aloe vera is a very easy plant to grow in most human habitable areas. It requires very low light and water usage. It is very very antimicrobial and healthy for you as well. Secondly. If you have a pressure canner you can convert it into a still for water. The process for use is to heat the water up to around 14 ( or as just under your canners max psi safe operating pressure ) for about 30 to 40 minutes ( sterilization times ) then vent as you would a pressure cooking recipie . After pressure hits 0 wait until it cools off enough for no steam coming out of vent. Reheat until a steady whispy stream of steam comes out. Then attach your copper coil to vent .... Use as much copper tube as you can use a bucket or two or three to cool the coils with. You can let it drip into copper pipe or pot or any other collection pot bucket. ( Raw copper preferred due to health benefits) And that's it. Pure h20

I've never seen a filter made with plants but antimicrobial definitely makes sense . Always learning something new on this channel! Some of those plants serve multiple purposes too so great to have on hand, grow, or have near by.

Best diy water filter video I’ve seen. Thank you.

@deedieducati2272

6 ай бұрын

I agree, and explained very well too! Thanks Kris

This is SO good. I’m hoping to compile things like this for use in a disaster scenario.

I greatly appreciated the information on adding the conifers. Great information.

Thanks Kris- love the way you broke the steps down, Best video on this kind of filtering I’ve seen! ☮️

Shouldn't the sequence be ( top to bottom) 1. Plant material, 2. Pebbles, 3 sand and lastly 4. Charcoal. You want the water to filter through the plants first, then pebbles, then the remaining small particles in the sand and finally chemicals in the remaining water (which implies the order i suggested)?

@paulc7783

6 ай бұрын

That was my first thought too. Pebbles at the top for first stage filtering. Charcoal at the bottom for last stage fine/impurity/chemical filtering

@Junzar56

6 ай бұрын

You would want the plant material on top because you can change it easier before it decays

@jamescecchini9355

2 ай бұрын

You can put the plant material in a filter bag . It would be easier to remove and clean.

@rickdougherty1371

2 ай бұрын

My thoughts as well, as with fuels, the larger media filters first, finer in the end. Please explain why not use 1-plant, 2-gravel, 3-sand, 4-charcoal as this makes the most sense.

@crawkn

Ай бұрын

Very odd error considering he has explained the purpose of the pebbles as being to pre-filter and prevent clogging of finer filtering media.

I found out that many young soldiers in the Vietnam War died early from drinking "sanitized" water by adding bleach tablets to their canteens. Apparently the high levels of chlorine scarred their arteries and thus plaque build up. Even today we shower, bathe, and drink municipal water with chlorine and the deadly fluoride and also consume artery scarring Homogenized dairy products. H202 would be my first choice to treat water.

Thanks for simplifying the process.

I'm going to try this! Thanks, Chris.

Was looking for a filtration system that I could handle making myself as i’m fairly new to SHTF prepping ….and WOW I’m quite blown away by the importance of knowing this information and teaching the skill. What a life saver ..! Thank you ❤

Hi Kris, I’ve been waiting for this type of video for a long time and thank you for it. I’ll heading to the Home Depot in the morning for the materials like gravel and 5 gallons buckets. I still have sands and firewoods at the house. This is time to do it, no more put it a side. Thank you again sir! Dino from Anaheim

Great content, great presentation. This is an achievable goal in a time when we have very little control of what is happening around us. Thanks to you and your team.

Something that I definitely want to try and learn how to do!

Great video on my weakest link. Collecting water is my MOST difficult. I did purchase 2 Water Drop filters and 2 food grade 5 Gal buckets but this extra step is a great backup.

Really nice video - high production quality!

Thank you so much for this type of great information. I appreciate that you put things in plain words and explain & show how to do things. I have heard about these types of filters but always felt I would mess it up and get sick. Now I know I can do this with your instructions. Thank you again.

Thank you kris this information was very important and something I need to know ..stay safe

Outstanding instructional video. Thank you!

Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother thank you for sharing this information

Fabulous kris thank u for step by step what to do amazing 👍🤗🇬🇧

really appreciate this video of instruction! great way to set up filtration for safe drinking water!

Thank you friend. God bless all of you out there, in the world. Stay strong

Thanks for Best Survival Info

Tuning in from Nova Scotia, Canada! Always enjoy the great tips for DIY Chris! Thanks again, and stay safe!

@marymorgan285

6 ай бұрын

Hello Nova Scotia Canada from your Southern neighbor. Stay safe and take care!😄

Thank you for this information very helpful and i grow holy basil and rosemary in my medicinal garden

Awesome video! I love this kind of content.

Thank you, this is really great! Would love to see printable instructions for when we no longer have access to the internet.

Thank you so much for this video. I would love to see a supplemental video demonstrating its use from start to finish. Maybe test the water for microbes and what not before or show us the water under a microscope and after just to see the results as well as PH strips. Maybe show results issuing different water sources and test the water before and after sun exposure and what not. Would be fascinating and super informative. Thanks for all you do!

Fabulous video! Thank you so much

Very informative, and easily built and put away so that it's ready if you ever need it. I would also suggest putting the instructions on how it was built in side the lid. That way if/when you need it you understand how long its good for, the type of water to use (rain water if possible), and how to build another one if that time elapses and you need to build another one. I'd recommend the same procedure = putting instruction under the lid, of a can of charcoal so you know how to make your own if/when you need it.

Great video Kris I think I'm make one this weekend

I love your videos. Thanks for all the useful information. 👍

Like the idea of pre making this filter and just add plant layer when you need to use it 👍🤠

Thank you Kris for the video.

So important. Thank you.

Awesome thanks for this info. So helpful

Great information! Very important information!

Awesome video. Be careful with bleach dosage. We put about 1 1/4 cups of bleach per 1000 gallons of water (on the ships up in the Arctic), then put water through activated charcoal (powdered charcoal will do) to make potable water. Rule of thumb dosage is about 2 drops per quart of water. Buy some pool shock to have a shelf-stable source of chlorine- bleach has a short shelf life. Iodine drops are effective as well (same chemical family). Any higher dosage and you get explosive diarrhea- then you will become a member of a club of certain world leaders. And that is a nasty club to belong to. The SHART club (acronym of two four-letter words, the first starting with "SH" and the second with an "F"). 🤣🤣

Thank you for this!

If the water is too cloudy some aluminum sulphate. (alum) can be added. This will cause the small particles to clump together and precipitate to the bottom. This is known as flocculation and is a process all municipal treatment uses. This is harmless if used in the proper amount and is often used when making pickles. Also investigate the process of charcoal activation with calcium chloride to make activated charcoal which is much more effective than plain charcoal.

Good tutorial on this. I think I'd rinse, boil, and sun-dry the sand and rocks (separately of course) to make sure they start out super clean. I've often wondered why other tutorials didn't use cloth between the layers; glad to see you using it. Was wondering if I was missing something 😂 Also, the additional plant materials are ingenious but let's all sharpen our plant identification skills first. Thanks for the really useful information.

Thank you for this! Shared it! 😀

Thank you, amazing video!❤

It would be good to try this out before SHTF

Good informational video, thanks for sharing, God bless !

Awesome good information! Thank you!

Thank you. Great video. 👍

Very interesting information!

Great info to have just in case

Great "at home" filter with instructions.

Thanks, Kris! I saved it .

Great video! Thanks so much!

Thank you ,,, I really like this,,, 👍

Thank you for this awesome video. I have been thinking about about how to pre-filter waterMy thought is use the system you made to pre-filter and them run the water through my Berkey.

this is a great skill to have. dont wait till it is your only option as there is a steep learning curve in building such a device. learn how to do this now when you can afford to make mistakes......

Nice job 👍

Good information. I won't any fresh or dry plant materials because in the wet and dry periods between use mold will form and jam up the filter elements.

Great info!

I'll give you another easy option here to purify water. A clay flower pot can be easily adapted. This has been done for centuries in parts of the world. There are several videos on you tube showing this

I have a ceramic dome filter thing, but I never used it. This sounds safer and more reliable, considering I have all the stuff. Ceramic..lol guess I need to look that sucker up. God bless and keep safe.

I made this same set up. And I u watched how to make my own charcoal

Thank you!

Thanks

thank you

I used to have a 5 gallon bucket size filter, but found it too small for the amount of water I wanted to filter. I made a rubbermade trash can sized filter and put a spigot in the bottom. Works great! I plan to solarize the water after filtration as well, to save on having to boil it, because firewood is valuable and smoke makes a signal for people to see. So cool that you did a PH strip test! Great video! Now I gotta go watch the one on making charcoal.

I’ve got mine going through denim, sand, charcoal, then a Sawyer Tap on the bottom bucket spigot. If it’s real bad water, I’ll do the pool shock bleach trick to treat it either before or after the filtering.

Great info

You should do a video on wood gas. It allows you to run petrol powered engines without much modification and is a by-product of making charcoal.

this is important info

Thank you

Thank you,

Love it ❤ and thank you…. Question: will filter the radiation from a fall out? There’s some studies on zero water filters about this similar principle thanks

Why are the pebbles (which filter the largest debris) on the bottom, followed by the sand (which filters smaller debris), followed by the charcoal (which filters the smallest debris)? Won't the charcoal filter out all the debris before it reaches the sand and pebbles, thus rendering them kind of pointless and causing the charcoal to need to be replaced sooner?

Good stuff

i watch this channel all the time yet i dont live in a city i live in a forest of new brunswick in canada but all good advise my water comes from underground spring

Love the use of a bar! Lol

Thank you Kris. Best water filtration system I've ever seen. Can we use plain bleach to sanitize the water?

Shouldn't the bucket be large medium on top down to the charcoal? Not the other way round as you built it?

I live by a river, so I'm going to build a pre-filter bucket to run water through before my regular filters. I hope that'll clean it up, and that i don't get sniped pulling a cart full of water

I have a 16x30 foot above-ground pool I am going to try this with. I only use safe chemicals in it in case I have to drink it.

Perfect! I had been looking for this type of DIY filter for a couple of years. I live near the middle of North America by the freshwater Great Lakes, so all of this applies. What about people on this planet who live near only salt water? (Israel uses desalinated water, and Gaza is in need currently)

If you ever break a sun tea jar, be sure and keep the spigot for making a water filter.

I wonder if charcoal used for aquarium filters would work.🤔 Tnx I like the similar system using ceramic filters but the filters are very expensive.

I finally invested in a table top water filter lol. But anything consumable needs to be replaced.

In a pinch could you use clear marbles or small colored glass that has smooth edges (ornamental) for the pebbles. Trying to see what I have without using more money.

This is a really good video "Dogman" here - salt lake city

For the charcoal layer, could I use activated charcoal, like for the fish tank filter systems?

Can you do a video on a distillation device/process?

If i hv essential oil of one of the plants/trees that kill microorganisms u mentioned, will this also be effective? It would be easy to carry and i would not be desperate to find one of these trees.

Would Kingsford Edge Grill charcoal work? Or sand bought in a bag for play sand?

What about play sand that you can buy for a sandbox? Would that work?

P&G sells packets, at a loss, to developing countries that appear to be not much more than Ferric Chloride, Poly Aluminum Chloride, some bentonite clay, and some pool shock to produce clean water. It flocs out everything so you could conceivably drink it out of a clean bucket. Ferric Chloride, PAC, bentonite clay are common products used in water treatment. I'd buy some, but I don't need a few tons, which seems to be a typical min. I would imagine a mason jar of the coagulants would last multiple life times. Pair with some pool shock that you replace every few years, and you have pretreated your water to eliminate most things that would cause turbidity and provide a slight residual chlorine boost to the end product. Put that through your filter..

If making ahead of time can you put the plant material in? Will the olants wilting or drying out affect their performance? Would it work to store the plants frozen in a Ziploc bag until needed?

Question - If I am able to source the materials now, would it be viable to go to the local pet store and secure filtration mediums usually used for aquariums?

Totally left the sticker on the bottom of the bucket at 9:10😂

What about the use of a silver coin for purification?