Fall and winter preps

[TheGrey]

You can go through 5 gals fast plus things grow or it gets stale after time. 011 micron filters like those used in the Sawyer Mini or Lifestraw Home pitchers will clean just about anything bigger than a virus from the source you're drawing from. Get a few of the jugs so you can set up a long gravity feed and not have to wait for clean water when you want it but don't plan on storing all your potable water desires for a long time in them (IMO).

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

[Great-Kazoo]

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

we got a few from the Mormon cannery. Which is still, CLOSED!

[Aloha_Shooter]

Thanks for that suggestion! I'll look up lifestraws.

Personally, I think the Sawyer products are more economical and are thought out for things like using a 5 gal bucket gravity feed.

The Lifestraw Family is rated for nearly 4800 gals and runs just under $50: https://www.lifestraw.com/collection...y-water-filter

The Sawyer All-in-One is rated for 100,000 gals and runs $60 retail (although I got 2 at REI seasonal sales for $25 each): https://sawyer.com/products/all-in-one-water-filter/

The Sawyer also has inline kits so you can insert it along the drinking tube for hydration bladders and replacement filters are very reasonable. So I only need to worry about a single type of cartridge but can use it multiple ways.

One of the things I like about the Lifestraw Home pitchers is that they use a microfiber filter like the Sawyer or their normal Lifestraw products but they add a carbon filter before it goes through the microfiber filter. Nicely thought out design IMO but more for drinking water at the table than the kind of mass sanitized water you want for cooking and cleaning. I use one Lifestraw Home to feed the humidity tank in my CPAP.

[Gman]

I use one Lifestraw Home to feed the humidity tank in my CPAP.

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

[Great-Kazoo]

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

It should. You could (if there is room) set up a purification station. Run water through charcoal, then fine sand, then another tank or bucket of charcoal. Throw in a UV light at the end.

[Gman]

Setup a distillation rig. Boil into steam, condense, and collect.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Does the filter remove the minerals as well?

A lot of them, yes. I saw calcium deposits but only after I'd left the secondary charcoal filter in the pitcher much longer than I should have. The agent that delivered the CPAP had said the instructions say to use distilled water but she used a Brita. The Lifestraw Home is much better than a Brita because all the Brita removes are lead, copper, large mineral deposits. The microfiber filter on the Lifestraw Home (like on the Sawyers) removes particles down to 0.1 micron while (as I understand it) the charcoal filter removes dissolved solids.

[Firehaus]

I bought one of these after reading a review about a guy bringing some water from one of the LA Canals into his office and filtering it with one of these, then drinking it in front of his coworkers. Wish i could find that review, it was funny. But anyway, its nice for piece of mind. Overkill yes, but clean water is important.

https://www.msrgear.com/water-treatm...ier/02370.html


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[Gman]

A lot of them, yes. I saw calcium deposits but only after I'd left the secondary charcoal filter in the pitcher much longer than I should have. The agent that delivered the CPAP had said the instructions say to use distilled water but she used a Brita. The Lifestraw Home is much better than a Brita because all the Brita removes are lead, copper, large mineral deposits. The microfiber filter on the Lifestraw Home (like on the Sawyers) removes particles down to 0.1 micron while (as I understand it) the charcoal filter removes dissolved solids.

We just use distilled water in ours.

[encorehunter]

We purchased a second incubator for eggs so we can be hatching every 12 days or so. Right now we have a lot more duck eggs than chicken, so the ducks hatch every 28 days. We put duck, turkey and guinea eggs in the same incubator to try a mixed hatch. So far it is working, we have hatched 5 ducks, 3 turkey and 1 guinea. I ordered plucker fingers so I can build a whiz bang plucker along with heat shrink bags. Water is always our biggest issue, but qoth controlling run off, we are able to have water for the animals most of the time without hauling it in.
I have stocked up on jars, and our garden is starting to produce. It isn't overly large, but I'm hoping to put up more vegetables than most years. I am trying the tire method for potatos this year and so far it seems to be working. We try to produce as much of our own food as possible. At work, my coworkers always enjoy my 'farm fresh' food. A few have started buying from me, including half hogs and now half beefs.
A root cellar is definitely in the works, but until time frees up, that is on hold. The water well is still in my thoughts, and I'm hoping to get it drilled early spring. It would take a lot of stress off of me and my vehicles. Hauling water in is no fun and expensive.