We find a spring then dig down to the clay and install a concrete culvert over the spring on end standing straight up. The spring at our camp has been working like that since 1976 with no problem
Nice work on the spring water source. It's great that the water quality was good. Having that water source will make life a whole lot easier. Happy for you!
I’m definitely not a expert on this but we watched “North to Alaska’s” channel and they filled the spring with small stone as a filter rock and then laid plastic sheeting over it and covered it with dirt to keep animals out so not get any contamination. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work, thanks for sharing
At the very end of the video Craig addresses that. We did cover it with plastic for now. We want to keep an eye on it for a week or so before we commit to covering it with dirt. Just make sure everything continues to flow good and nothing needs tweaking.
@@ouralaskahomesteadMaybe dig a big hole, put filter cloth in it then fill it with washed stone. Put a pipe in it and then cover it with filter cloth, some good sand heavy plastic and then good soil. Run the tube into the tank. I wish I had a spring on our remote property. We collect rainwater off our roof. Every 0.1” is 30 gallons in our cistern. I’ve been here a week and it’s rained 2 1/2”. I only store about 300 gallons when I’m here alone this time of year, but in the spring try to fill another tank to get though the dry season. We melt snow in a tank behind the wood stove in the winter. We get plenty of that here.
I think N-to-A is going to have problems with theirs. It was already getting sediment through the lower tube and their dam cement never set up and is already crumbling. I think putting the small rocks in is just going to back things up. Two different channels, two different ways of doing it. Hopefully they both do an update in the spring and let us know if their individual methods worked and any changes they needed to make.
You could install a solar system and have the water pumped to the house. We installed one to water our cattle and it worked great even in winter when it got down to zero degrees fahrenheit.
I missed this comment somehow. We do plan to install one in the spring once the days get longer. I gotta get a couple of those IBC containers. They’re so hard to find in Alaska and if you do the cost $400 used. I’m gonna try and pick up two while we’re down here in TN they only run $80
Hey guys hru doing, great job as usual I think you should listen to her a little bit more cuz she made a lot of sense on this you putting the mud inside when she said put it outside lol her ideas are great on this project. It's the same metal you can collect rainwater off so think the metal should be good 👍
Your husband is so smart. Im glad i found you all. I really enjoy watching you all. I'm from Georgia and love watching theses videos. As always be safe and God Bless. Are you all going to hunt and fish to.
This year is dedicated to getting the house ready for winter. Next year we will be focusing on solar so we can have some electric, planting a garden, building a chicken coop, definitely some fishing. We’d LOVE to get a moose but we’ll have to see what our freezer situation looks like at that time. The next few weeks are going to be finishing the ceiling insulation, installing the wood stove, cutting firewood and somewhere to store it. Nights are getting chilly and the leaves are quickly turning colors. Winters fast approaching ❄️
Very cool, I'll be re-visiting this video next summer when we try to do something similar to our seep/spring. We are likely going to put in some little solar pump that pumps when the sun is shining and have it collect in a larger tank. Unfortunately for us, our water has a lot of iron so I'm not sure how we're going to deal with that yet. Would like to filter it out someway before we pump it since it will crud up the pipes and such, and we'll need a lot of pipe to pump it up to our cabin....
Glad to hear the water is good.Craig is so knowledgeable about construction and building things that will make your lives more comfortable. How far are you from the beach? I thought we saw your son when you first came to Alaska. Is he still there.? Many teens don't want to be part of their parent's channel. Hope the water works for you.
It’s 1 mile via ATV from our place to the beach. Only 1/4 mile if there were a straight route. I love to smell the salt in the air. He turned 18 and doing his own thing, work a lot. He hates his picture taken so he probably won’t be in any future episodes. He’s doing good though. 🩵
PLEASE - I encourage you to watch “This Off Grid Life” and look/watch their video about their Spring Box. They have an immersive pump in their Spring Box that pumps the water up hill (I don’t know to what degree) to a large cistern or holding tank that is close to their house. It’s worked for 2+ years
We plan to do something similar but it will have to wait until next summer, those big holding tanks are spendy and you rarely find them used in good condition. We’ll just be carrying it in buckets this year.
Any distric heath unit supplies water sample bottles you can reqest mailed to you. You open the test bottle carfull not to spill the contents out an fill the test bottle 3/4 full. Mail it back with in 24 hour of sample taken. In the box with the pre paid lable. Fill the form out. You get your heath test back in 2 to 3 weeks no cost to you.. people on wells an spring like my self have it tested every spring after brake up
I watched another video there was another man up in Alaska at the front where them pipes es he put cement in he is now I don't know if that's a good idea. I just watched it.
Many ways to do it. We try and reuse whatever materials we have available. The metal in the back was leftover from the house roof, the dam metal was some of the trash we found on the property when we got here.
Ok… first thing when harnessing a spring is, your spring should flow directly into your covered spring box. From that box you have your overflow and your supply pipe. Your spring box is covered to lessen chance of contamination. Your supply pipe should be insulated, maybe even heat taped to a supply storage tank. You have a tank or cistern in case your line freezes, you still have water. Then after the cistern your filters for drinking water etc…. If your using gravity feed no pumps are needed. You can add pumps, pressure tank , filters etc after cistern.
Yes, we needed an inch or inch and a quarter, I don’t remember now but it they were sold at locally and Amazon was gonna be eight days and he didn’t want to wait.
John 6:48-51 King James Version 48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Gods blessings over you .
Craig you got a great sense of humor , love the videos, keep them coming.
We find a spring then dig down to the clay and install a concrete culvert over the spring on end standing straight up. The spring at our camp has been working like that since 1976 with no problem
Good idea. With all the rain this year much of this water could just be surface runoff.
Ive seen people on youtube use rocks and cement to create a dam. It seems to work effectively. 😊 Im ki d of new to your channel. Liking it so far!!😊😊😊
Welcome! Glad you joined us. We’ll be finishing it up as soon as we get a holding tank and pump.
You. took my idea at the end. I was going to tell you to go to the beach and fill it with the rocks from there. Small rocks everywhere. Good job!
Nice work on the spring water source. It's great that the water quality was good. Having that water source will make life a whole lot easier. Happy for you!
I’m definitely not a expert on this but we watched “North to Alaska’s” channel and they filled the spring with small stone as a filter rock and then laid plastic sheeting over it and covered it with dirt to keep animals out so not get any contamination. Just a suggestion. Keep up the good work, thanks for sharing
Watched that too. Some of the things those folks do are wrong but the way they capped the spring looked right to me.
At the very end of the video Craig addresses that. We did cover it with plastic for now. We want to keep an eye on it for a week or so before we commit to covering it with dirt. Just make sure everything continues to flow good and nothing needs tweaking.
@@ouralaskahomesteadMaybe dig a big hole, put filter cloth in it then fill it with washed stone. Put a pipe in it and then cover it with filter cloth, some good sand heavy plastic and then good soil. Run the tube into the tank. I wish I had a spring on our remote property. We collect rainwater off our roof. Every 0.1” is 30 gallons in our cistern. I’ve been here a week and it’s rained 2 1/2”. I only store about 300 gallons when I’m here alone this time of year, but in the spring try to fill another tank to get though the dry season. We melt snow in a tank behind the wood stove in the winter. We get plenty of that here.
I think N-to-A is going to have problems with theirs. It was already getting sediment through the lower tube and their dam cement never set up and is already crumbling. I think putting the small rocks in is just going to back things up. Two different channels, two different ways of doing it. Hopefully they both do an update in the spring and let us know if their individual methods worked and any changes they needed to make.
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You could install a solar system and have the water pumped to the house. We installed one to water our cattle and it worked great even in winter when it got down to zero degrees fahrenheit.
I missed this comment somehow.
We do plan to install one in the spring once the days get longer. I gotta get a couple of those IBC containers. They’re so hard to find in Alaska and if you do the cost $400 used. I’m gonna try and pick up two while we’re down here in TN they only run $80
So awesome you have water! Great job. Looking forward to the finish
Food grade plastic from like an old tank would be best. Every one is an expert after the deal is done. Looks great ..wish I had one.
Unfortunately those are hard to come by up here.
Hey guys hru doing, great job as usual I think you should listen to her a little bit more cuz she made a lot of sense on this you putting the mud inside when she said put it outside lol her ideas are great on this project. It's the same metal you can collect rainwater off so think the metal should be good 👍
Thank you! I’ll be sure to have him read your comment 😂
Good job 🇬🇧😊
Great job looking forward to your next video.
Thank you for watching
Your husband is so smart. Im glad i found you all. I really enjoy watching you all. I'm from Georgia and love watching theses videos. As always be safe and God Bless. Are you all going to hunt and fish to.
This year is dedicated to getting the house ready for winter. Next year we will be focusing on solar so we can have some electric, planting a garden, building a chicken coop, definitely some fishing. We’d LOVE to get a moose but we’ll have to see what our freezer situation looks like at that time. The next few weeks are going to be finishing the ceiling insulation, installing the wood stove, cutting firewood and somewhere to store it. Nights are getting chilly and the leaves are quickly turning colors. Winters fast approaching ❄️
Awesome, great job 👍 👏
Very cool!
Very cool, I'll be re-visiting this video next summer when we try to do something similar to our seep/spring. We are likely going to put in some little solar pump that pumps when the sun is shining and have it collect in a larger tank. Unfortunately for us, our water has a lot of iron so I'm not sure how we're going to deal with that yet. Would like to filter it out someway before we pump it since it will crud up the pipes and such, and we'll need a lot of pipe to pump it up to our cabin....
Glad to hear the water is good.Craig is so knowledgeable about construction and building things that will make your lives more comfortable. How far are you from the beach? I thought we saw your son when you first came to Alaska. Is he still there.? Many teens don't want to be part of their parent's channel. Hope the water works for you.
It’s 1 mile via ATV from our place to the beach. Only 1/4 mile if there were a straight route. I love to smell the salt in the air.
He turned 18 and doing his own thing, work a lot. He hates his picture taken so he probably won’t be in any future episodes. He’s doing good though. 🩵
PLEASE - I encourage you to watch “This Off Grid Life” and look/watch their video about their Spring Box. They have an immersive pump in their Spring Box that pumps the water up hill (I don’t know to what degree) to a large cistern or holding tank that is close to their house. It’s worked for 2+ years
We plan to do something similar but it will have to wait until next summer, those big holding tanks are spendy and you rarely find them used in good condition. We’ll just be carrying it in buckets this year.
Did you look for any Agate rocks on the beach there? There are plenty to be found with all the volcanic activity across the inlet from there.
Oh, yes, we’ve gotten lots of them!
From your holding tank use a Ram Pump to go up hill.
Great video, wouldn’t plastic be better to retain the water, or does it make a difference?
you can get galvanized poising.
Any distric heath unit supplies water sample bottles you can reqest mailed to you. You open the test bottle carfull not to spill the contents out an fill the test bottle 3/4 full. Mail it back with in 24 hour of sample taken. In the box with the pre paid lable. Fill the form out. You get your heath test back in 2 to 3 weeks no cost to you.. people on wells an spring like my self have it tested every spring after brake up
Go on line look up Ram pump and build one
I look it up, thanks!
I watched another video there was another man up in Alaska at the front where them pipes es he put cement in he is now I don't know if that's a good idea. I just watched it.
Many ways to do it. We try and reuse whatever materials we have available. The metal in the back was leftover from the house roof, the dam metal was some of the trash we found on the property when we got here.
Don’t cut off flow from behind the dam is where u want to catch it
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Hay guys if you heat the black pipe up a bit. It will slip on better
Got a harbor freight they have cheaper hole saw kits !
We love Harbor Freight but unfortunately, none around here.
Ok… first thing when harnessing a spring is, your spring should flow directly into your covered spring box. From that box you have your overflow and your supply pipe. Your spring box is covered to lessen chance of contamination. Your supply pipe should be insulated, maybe even heat taped to a supply storage tank. You have a tank or cistern in case your line freezes, you still have water. Then after the cistern your filters for drinking water etc…. If your using gravity feed no pumps are needed. You can add pumps, pressure tank , filters etc after cistern.
Line the wood reservoir with plastic them rock inside if needed
What are you guys going to do to keep it from freezing?
Nothing. This video was from last summer. It kept flowing all winter just fine.
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I had a salad for lunch a Hershey bar or 2 for dessert 😂😂
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no, he needs a hole saw bit
Yes, we needed an inch or inch and a quarter, I don’t remember now but it they were sold at locally and Amazon was gonna be eight days and he didn’t want to wait.
Can’t find part 1. Please post link
Did we find a Spring on our Alaska property? | Part 1
ruclips.net/video/JBZhMlNGaeM/видео.html
@@ouralaskahomestead damn. What did I do to deserve this!?!? Talk about ask and you will receive! Thanks so much! Great job
Are you worried about rust at all ?
He replaced it with rock
For a more permanent solution use concrete.
John 6:48-51
King James Version
48 I am that bread of life.
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Gods blessings over you .