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    Default Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Those who depend on a well for water should make an emergency well bucket for use during times when electricity is not available. Blessed are those who have a well.

    The bucket diameter should be small enough to pass by the plumbing and electric wires inside a 6" diameter well casing. If you have an emergency well bucket you will never run out of water. Operation is simple. Use a rope to lower the bucket into the well casing until the bucket initially floats, then slowly sinks as the check valve opens allowing water to fill the bucket from the bottom. When the bucket is lifted the check valve closes keeping the emergency well bucket full.

    Here is a link to my favorite design, with pictures of a simple homemade check valve. Material cost for the complete bucket I made was approximately $10.


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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Your website is fantastic! All kinds of homemade goodies that are right up my alley. Thanks Ron!
    I just hope we don't lose power and not be able to access your site!
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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    or install a hand pump



    http://bisonpumps.com/


    I'm having a well put in to offset my cisterns, water is indeed a precious commodity.
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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Don't forget pine branch filter to get any bacteria out if you can't get immediate fire ...


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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Quote Posted by DeDukshyn (here)
    Don't forget pine branch filter to get any bacteria out if you can't get immediate fire ...


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    Here is a link to an information source about this process discovered by MIT engineers.
    Could be a valuable idea if one has a hose clamp and tubing.
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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Loving the plunger washer - very impressed!!

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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Thank you Ron and everybody who has contributed to the thread. I like to think I am pretty well prepared for a disaster but never considered the need for a bucket for a well. Ron, I look forward to reading your website.

    Thanks again, pam

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    Quote Posted by starseed108 (here)
    Loving the plunger washer - very impressed!!
    Here is the video.
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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Also be aware that in an emergency you can survive on your own urine for weeks/months. I suggest you come to grips with this process as it can grant you peace of mind as a gauranteed survival tool that you will have in even the worst disasters.

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    Quote Posted by Ron Mauer Sr (here)
    Quote Posted by starseed108 (here)
    Loving the plunger washer - very impressed!!
    Here is the video.
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    Thanks I will share that on my private social media - that was a joke lol

    I am getting one - its amazing how little water can be used - my new fav thing!!

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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan, a filter and a homemade bucket

    Three days without clean water and you will need nothing else.

    Here are two inexpensive water filters I have just discovered. Both are made by Sawyer and will filter down to 0.1 micron. Water filters come in a vast variety of shapes and sizes, but what impressed me about these filters was cost ($20 and $35) and filter capacity (100,000 gallons and 1,000,000 gallons - that's right 1 million).

    The Sawyer Mini is $20 at Amazon.com or WalMart.

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    The Sawyer squeeze bottle is $35 at Amazon.com or WalMart.

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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Lol, made a vid some time ago to fix the back end for 50 cents, if you poke a hole in the cap you can attach a hose on in and use it exactly the same as the bucket system for a lot less money, you can even lower it into a pond or embankment to get water from down there if you make the hose long enough.

    Heres the vid, yes that's me, don't want the filter and face to be connected to each other, since there's not many sold here and I want to spare myself the trouble of getting robbed, 1 million gallons is a lot of water, 3.5 million liters, lol, I have 2 btw.

    that's me, in my tiny house with my filter, made the vid for a prepper site, its in Dutch but its about the filter, self explanatory



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    Default Re: Water - Have a plan and a homemade bucket

    Ah yes you can survive on urine just don't drink straight from the tap! (sorry if that's too crude humor). Seriously though: urine is good yes but only short time after "being out". Afterwards it has too many bacterias and is harmful for your health.

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