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- Опубликовано: 15 июн 2024
- We are in a drought and things are scary dry.
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Your blackberries thank you! They looked parched! May i recommend that you aim your nozzle at their roots so that they don't get their foliage wet. That scorching sun will burn them when they are wet. What a neat watering system tho! Congrats.
Thanks for the tip!
Gotta love some blackberries! I'm excited to see what you have in mind for another rig.
Sadly we lost a lot this year. Oh well, it happens.
Yes sir add a t conection to your pool for the trash pump to connect to or a section of hose that you can put in any body of water anywhere on your property to fill the tank up. Kinda like the off road firetrucks use to connect to water tanks in remote areas.
I've got a similar idea I'm working on.
Grass does not die during a drought, it goes dormant. Soon as you get enough rain, it will green up overnight.
I really enjoy watching you employ your problem solving skills and the upgrades you develop as you see possible improvements. My dad and uncle (both farmers) made similar modifications or out right inventions meant to fill a need they encountered. As I grew up I realized not everyone can do what you (and they) do.
Our little town has a 6 inch pvc riser that we can pull our thousand gallon nurse tanks under to load water quickly. They also have a 3 or 4 inch metal reinforced hose with quick coupler to load water in from the tank bottom. Firefighting here is strictly volunteer fire depts from surrounding towns, thus multiple methods to load water are needed to accomodate multiple methods of loading fire tanks quickly. Now a couple of the fire depts have bought used milk transport tanks to haul water out to remote fires.
That rig you built is neat, but the tank may be too small for practicality in a fire scenario. A bigger tank on a 4-wheel trailer setup could be pulled by any vehicle.
Imo "free" blackberries might be worth laying in an shallow buried drip tape before next berry season.
I do plan to build a trailer with 2-3 totes, I already have the axles. Thanks for watching
Hi, Andrew! I’m 79 and this is the first time I have seen blackberry bushes in this condition. I pray you get some rain soon. See you at 7:00.
Thank you, we finally got a good rain late last night.
Come to Florida and you can see them like that almost any summer 😅
I don't know what kind of rules Florida has for water catchment systems. But with your house and your shed you should be able to catch a lot of water! But then there's a price for all that stuff! And I'm sure it's not cheap! Y'all stay safe!
While Sta Bil works good, a mechanic friend of mine recommended using the marine grade Sta Bil as it is meant for watercraft. Helps with the ethanol fuel we have. I have never had trouble starting a small engine for as long as I've been using it. It goes into every 5 gallon can of gas I get.
I hope that you never need to fight fire, but it's good to be prepared.
I'm all about being prepared.
Come off the top of your well with some 1 1/2 pipe taller than your tote and 90 over and down with some flex hose to fill your tote faster.
Great video! Praying for rain for yall. We’ve got almost 17 inches this past week just from Mon-Thur. We’re good for a while.
We finally got a good rain late last night, so thankful for it. We definitely need more.
I need to build a fire suppression set up like that, we live next to a large pine forest too and last year drought killed 400 of the trees….
A little trick to keep the hose from coming out of the tote when you are filling it is to ziptie an 8 or 10 oz bank sinker to the hose it will keep enough weight on it to stay in the tote
Our pool was very low, filled it and then got almost 10 inches of rain. South Florida for ya!
Lol, maybe that's what I need to do.
Hi Andrew, good video and hope you get some rain soon. Nothing better than fresh wild berries if they get a chance to ripen so you can use them. Hope your gardens survive this dry time and you can use their yields. Take care my friend. 👍👍❤️❤️🇨🇦
Thankfully we got a good rain late last night 🙏
If I am thinking along the same lines as you, you could plumb in an adapter to your pool pump plumbing to allow you to run your trash pump (or maybe even the pool electric pump, if electric is still intact) to fill the IBC tote, or directly pump from the pool to the fire hose.
I would also look into building a U shaped hose rack and lay your fire hose in there like the way the fire department does on the truck. This will make for a much faster tangle and kink free deployment than trying to unroll the hose in a fire. I have seen these made from composite deck boards screwed together. Round over the sharp edges.
I think you and I think alike. I am now thinking that I am going to build a "fire Hydrant" off of my pool drain empties into my back field. Pool pump does not provide a lot of pressure, but I could soak the edge of my woods pretty quick.
You are exactly right and that's what I am working on.
A tip, if you start watering any vegetation because of drought you need to continue watering every 2 days until you get a soaking rain. Yelp it takes a lot of water because everything is dry and those pine trees are going to get their share too. Good luck. I love blackberry cobbler.
Blackberry cobbler is awesome!
Storms near you tonight, hope you get some rain ! We are in the same boat in Starke .
We got a good rain late last night. Thanks
here in northern Oklahoma having the same problem - some rain early now cant buy one just falls apart about 50 miles away. might add a mounted fitting so you can just drive along and spray and not get out of the tractor and as @johnkirby said a couple of fittings and you could reverse the flow from the pump and fill your tank from the pool or such for fire fighting water fast!!! looking forward to another build have fun and hope we both get some rain
That's exactly my plan from the pool.
We just got a week long flood down here in Florida surprised you guys didn’t get any even though yall are way up north there
We got our first rain in weeks late last night. Still need more, but thankful to have it.
Awesome video. 😊
We go from not having any water to having way too much water to not having enough water. I put little fuel shut off on all my small stuff.
If your gonna use a 1 1/2” for brush fires make a cross-lay for the hose
Just wondering how deep is the water table in your property. If it shallow, maybe drill a well just for filling up your fire fighting rig to water the plants. Another idea is build a rain water harvesting method. Building a pond to hold the water is also a good idea, I think.
Main well is 160ft deep, but we do have standing water on our property and a shallow well there, it doesn't pump fast though.
@@TKCL Maybe the best thing for you to do is to have a large withholding tank.
@@b-lopez394 ultimate plan is to have several totes on a trailer.
I hope you get some rain soon:) I remember when you built this:)
We got a good rain late last night, so thankful.
Andrew, can you double the fire hose over like firemen do for their hoses? easy and quick to roll out and roll up!
I need to look at that technique
ho there nice set up , have a few but not used in years . lots of good of gas will sure be better , i just got some aviation fuel .giving it a try . 3 year life , best to all john
Thank you for watching Mr John
happy Sunday
Hello Adam!
@@TKCL very good idea on watering!
WOW, Thanks for sharing this, we are over in Swannee county and are 15 miles out of town where the fire department is, I may do this, it would be at least a quickie help with a fire TILL the big boys come
Exactly our scenario
Wow that's awesome!! I wonder if you could put a couple of hard pipes welded up to some sort of a bracket with ball valves and operate a left and a right hand sprayer that way all you would have to do is drive around with it and the sprayer running..
I do have plans for something like that in the future.
Good day to all.
Good afternoon
Can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Coming soon
Glad you got a Fathers Day rain shower today. Hopefully that was enough rain to save you work time
We actually didn't even get enough to settle the dust. It went all around us, bummer.
Hope you guys get some rain. I know we need it something terrible in North Mississippi.
We finally got a good rain late last night
make you a long pipe with sprinklers on it spaced out to even cover that hooks up to a hose or dig a line to those locations and bury you some irrigation?
Not feasible due to how much property we have.
How have the berries been after 2 days now? The water help?
They do look better, and we FINALLY got a rain.
Its been so dry here we've had a burn ban in affect we did get a little rain this past week so hopefully that helps but we don't have much of a chance this week so we'll see
We finally got a good rain late last night
I do hope that you get some rain in your area
Thank you, we need it.
Here! LOL Hey, this next week you should be getting buckets of rain
I certainly hope so, we need it so bad.
Try a submersible pump and put it in the pool in an emergency the pool is a great source. And you can refill it while you’re taking from it.
I have one and that's a good idea as well.
I’m a retired firefighter. And the helicopter crews will dip out of pools in a pinch. Downside. We have to go back and refill the pool lol
Is there any chance of putting in a very long drip irrigation line?
Not worth the effort honestly, we have berries all over the property.
Can you reverse your pump and fill the tote from the pool in emergencies?
No, I'd have to bring extra hoses to do that.
Are you saving the berries for the wildlife or do you harvest them?
We eat them, made jam last year.
Would it be worth making a trailer for the fire apparatus? Tow behind the tractor or a truck
That's my plan later on, I've already got the axles.
@@TKCL sweet
Have you ever tried Pri-G or Pri-D fuel treatment? I use it for stored fuels.
Never have 🤔
Did you make that pump mount for the tote or buy it somewhere? I need one
I made it, here is the video. ruclips.net/video/KJWUzvWmdnE/видео.html
Just curious but where do you find one of those huge liquid tote's for liquid's? Thank you.
Usually can be found on Craigslist. Look for IBC tote.
Second firefighters rig using pool water?
Yep
If you run that about once a month, it’ll keep it from clogging up and use ethanol, free fuel
I usually run it every 2-3 months
@@TKCL Check out Motor Snorkel & convert to propane, I converted my gen to propane, & am fixing to convert my 60" pull behind cutter to the same
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How much is it to fill ur gas station
Red tank is 280 gallons and diesel tank is 500 gallons. I pay whatever the pump price is delivery is free.
We go from not having any water to having way too much water to not having enough water. I put little fuel shut off on all my small stuff.
You got that right