Doing Laundry In An Off Grid Disaster Zone? Staying Clean During Helena's Aftermath
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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I have a clean 5 gallon bucket w/ new toilet plunger.. and a jar of powder soap . I work mine like a butter churn....and in my stores I have several 5 gallon Jerry cans . In my hide spots. Wringer salvaged from g maws old hand crank. Wash. So cutting a hole on the top on the lid gives room for plunger. Rem like butter churn...😊😊😊
I also have a plunger style for doing laundry, if I have something really dirty I will use that before putting it in the washing machine
Thanks ,i will remember this one for a emergency, i never thought of that one😁
They thought you were crazy to buy that? Know look, you sure did show them. I'm lucky to have power, and I wish you the best of luck. I must be as bored as you because you're doing laundry, and I'm waiting on results. Wish you well and the best to come. Stay safe and keep on making it. Prove to them how a country boy can survive.
This might be the best comment I have gotten in a while- Thank you!
It's not dumb if it works is a great motto to have
I ❤ the laundry alternative.
Hang in there! When the going gets tough, the tough get going!
God bless North Carolina.
God bless and help all the people effected by these brutal storms of late. 🙏🏻🇺🇸☝🏼
Mountain Folk are some pretty resilient people, we will come back stronger
@@FarpointFarms yes you will!
Hang in there...I am over here in murphy NC. We got out lucky...Our area is sending you lots of supplies...Thanks for the videos...
Thanks- send some to the areas surrounding Asheville, they are really bad off and will be for a very long time
Praying for you all. I use Dr Bronners Sal Suds for kitchen, laundry, and all purpose cleaner. 🙏🏻🙌
I didn’t have power for 2 1/2 weeks after Hurricane Wilma hit Florida. Luckily I had a generator to get me through.
Now that is a very long time to be without power. I know Florida is used to that kind of stuff, but man. How do you prepare for that kind of stuff
Wilma was bad and it came through about the same area as Katrina a month or so earlier. Our son was down with a crew helping to clear up tree debris for a couple of weeks.
I got that Oupes Battery after Erik recommended it to me. And it has been a great battery for when I go Camping off grid. It lasted the whole camping trip without needing to be recharged. One time I went for 5 days and it was getting low after then. But also great to have as a backup.
The Oupes ones we have were great other than slow to charge- They worked great for what we needed
I use one of these at my house overseas. It's called a Panasonic dolphin. Like you said there's many variations of similar units. Extremely simple to use and repair. Brand new it was $150. You can get them in the US but they jack up the price.
This one was perfect for what I needed it to do
These are the best hurricane after action rrports. Keep up the good work .
Thank you
The Marines teach how to hand-wash with a scrub brush and soap and water, hanging up to dry. There's always that to fall back on.
We do have a washboard if times are really tough.
@@FarpointFarms wash boards don't work well at all compared to laying soaked clothing on a flat surface and rubbing laundry bar soap on them then scrubbing them with a slightly stiff cleaning brush - I became tired of buying new Maytag washers so I started washing my clothing by hand 20 yrs ago -
It's not hard at all with a brush and work jeans last 10 times longer -
Mechanical washers brake the fibers up also dryers.destroy the clothing fibers -
The lint screen catches destroyed fibers -
@@FarpointFarmsanother is do not put clothing in a pot your heating water in -
Do not boil clothing it will destroy them and discolor them -
one bar of Zote bar soap will last through many sets of clothing -
My wife uses that from time to time- She says it gets the clothes cleaner
I lived in the desert for 4 1/2 months doing my laundry in a 10-15 gallon plastic tub. Soak, soap and scrub, change water and rinse, hang up to dry. Oh and showers were the same way haha. God bless y'all.
Wow ...thats an anwesome unit...good thing you thought ahead and set up for off grid ....came in handy---hope you get power back soon
We did finally get it back 9.5 days later. Some of our neighbors 1 mile away still don't have power
We use buckets and a plunger thing. The key is to do a little bit every day. I soak some clothes the night before and wash the next morning. It has worked well, but I wouldn't want to do this forever.
We have that as well, we usually use that when we have really dirty clothes that we don't want to put in the washing machine. It works great and a great workout
@@FarpointFarms Definitely a great workout.
3:13 The other thing grey water is good for is your lawn. The old laundry soaps in grey water were even better for it.
The patch of grass there is a little greener
Get ya an old dryer drum and hook it up to a gear and crank and you can spin stuff just about dry before hanging them on the line. You weight the drum and get that thing spinning full speed (you have to ratchet your hand crank or don't weight the drum, it'll try to knock you out. You can chain it up to a bicycle on a stand and the ratchet is taken care of and you'll really get that baby spinin!) and you'll have dry clothing in no time.
If we are able to go 100% off grid, I might have to look into that.
Saw an episode of Red Green where they turned one into a wood chipper. Went about as you would expect from Red Green.
I had one of these and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT BETTER THAN ANY WASHING MACHINE IVE EVER OWNED. BUT-Spin the clothes after you wash them, in the right-hand side spinner /dryer, then back into the left side with rinse water, then spin/dry on the right side again to get the rinse water out of them. Your clothes feel better and last much longer if you thoroughly rinse the soap from them.
New subscriber, new to your channel. Another option for smaller washing is using a large salad spinner. Does a great job of spinning out a lot of water. Hang to dry. Have done this with delicate hand-washing for years. Works great. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for the Sub- I was surprised on how well this worked, I just wish that the spinner could handle more than what it does.
Now that's a great idea Eric I'm going to have to check into one of these
It is a great little machine
@@FarpointFarms It sure looks to be Thank you for this video
Great Video!
Thank you
These are great items. However, a lot of us, who were not on city water, had no water to wash clothes. It was something I had never considered or planned for.
Good point, too bad that you were very limited on water
If you can get some baking soda added to the wash, that will help with the odor problem.
Yes, and a measure of the cheapest vinegar to the rinse water. You don't smell the vinegar when they are dry.
Those are great tips, thank you for sharing that.
Now that is cool. I hadn't seen that before. Looks too small for pants, but should be able to do shirts.
I have used cat litter containers for flushing toilets before. Works quite well as long as you have a functioning drain. Former gf lives in a trailer park where the water main keeps breaking. She had four cats, so I kept the litter containers and kept them full of water.
The containers are handy-- You can wash jeans but just 1 at a time
That washer would surprise you. I had one for 1 1/2 years and loved it. The only thing I couldn’t wash in it was comforters or bedspreads. In fact I would rather have one of these over my 2800.00 set I have now. This washer will get every speck of dirt out your clothes. 😊
Make it happen, Eric😊
Clean clothes can help brighten the mood. Thanks
I've been wanting one of those for the camper so bad
They work great for what they are
I mean, these might be great for single person tiny homes in third world countries or whatnot.... but people don't really understand how efficient modern washers really are. My LG 5.0 cu/ft. combo unit will wash and spin about 10 times that amount of laundry with way less hassle and only about 250 Wh consumption.
Soaking the clothes for 3 min before washing will give them a deep clean as the fibers have had the time to open. Also Charlie soap is chem free, good for the environment and requires just a very small pinch of soap.
good to know- Thanks for sharing
Those machines are ok - but there only good for light washing -
I went to work in the offshore oilfields in the early 70s - the rigs I worked on did not have a washing machine - we took a barrel cut in half and filled it with hot water -
Then soaked the clothing in hot water - then we took our pants and rubbed them with laundry bar soap and scrubbed the pants with a brush and then rinsed them out and hung them out to dry - when you wash as stated jeans last 10 times longer also on laundry bar of soap can last months -
Just wash in the afternoon and hang clothing out and let the water run out during the night -
They will dry during the day -
If you ring them out they dry stiff - if they drip dry they don't get stiff when dried -
It takes about an hour to hand wash 6 sets of clothes -
Amazon has wash funnels they work well for regular soiled clothing -
We have one of those that we use for really dirty items that we don't want to put in the washer. It works great
That's amazing Eric go wash your dryer ask for for like socks underwear t-shirts towels but how good is it with pants
It works well for pants, you can only spin 1 pair at a time.
Neat Unit
It is a great little unit
Was looking at those have a park model camper in bathroom has a closet with hot an cold water hookup but would need one with a pump to drain but perfect for you hope power comes back on soon
We did finally get power back on, some of our neighbors about 1 mile down the road will be out much longer. They had 200+ trees come down. (no joke on that number, it's awful)
@@FarpointFarms Holy smokes, 200 trees is a career.
They do have a version with a pump
Why not get 2 food safe plastic water barrels a 50 gallon and 60 gallon ,smaller one is inside bigger one and you basically make a pedal powered front loader washer and hook it up to a bicycle ,gears and chains and human pedals it . Ypu get laundry washed and exercise all in one
Maybe if we had to do it long term, that would be good option.
Hey Eric we need another MRE taste test video 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't know if my stomach can handle that any time soon
@@FarpointFarms LMAO One of the best
Lol😂@@FarpointFarms
Banana smoothie for the win!
@@barneymm2204 🤣
I didn't know this existed.
It is a cool thing to have.
Flim critic in the window at 3:43
Ha- she can be very judgemental sometimes. She was wanting to make sure that I used enough detergent
Even hang clothes in the rain
My goodness Farpoint Farms will be peddling smoke alarms and fire extinguishers at the gates of H-E double L. A true salesman.
I'm not selling anything here. We've owned this thing for 3 years now. I just thought it was a good time to show it to people that are now more aware that disasters happen. What do you do for a living by the way? Just curious since your sitting on a pretty high horse spewing trash right now what kind of clearly knoble and free job that you have?