Built this last night going to build a few more pretty handy light for emergencies or just camping just a mason jar {wide mouth pint} and a burner kit soldered it together in about 20 minutes time
Posted on 09/07/2012 8:09:12 AM PDT by Kartographer
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“The instructor lives in Driftwood, TX and was telling how he has a 6,000 gallon rain water catchment with filtration system that he uses for all of his household needs.”
When I lived in New Zealand, anyone outside a major city used a catchment, including us. We never had a problem (but NZ is rainy) and we drank tap water. As a prepper, if I could, I’d have one now.
To everyone that ask about my hand drilling a well. I found a 8” post hole auger that used a 3/4 black pipe as the stem.
It had a pipe tee at the top with a wooden handle 3 feet long through it. I used this auger and twisted it to a depth of 22 feet by adding 3/4 pipe sections to it as it got deeper. With this auger, you have to lift it out every 6 inches or so to empty it so it’s a lot of work. with a hand pump your limited to about 25 feet of draw. I found some 4” pvc perforated well casing and placed it in the hole and filled in around it with pea gravel. I hit a gravel seam and water at 14 feet where I live. I can only pump about 10 gallons but it refills in a few hours. I water my garden with it and I think it will be enough to live on if need be. I sealed the top with a 5 gallon bucket filled with cement with the 4” caseing through the bottom of the bucket filled with cement and mounted the pump on top. I wired rebar in the bucket before filling it with cement. when the cement was dry, I cut off the plastic bucket.
I would get some of those big, flag plastic containers such as can be found at Walmart, etc. Those will stack better than buckets. The plastic buckets are really for storing food ... and I would still use those for food.
Thought I’d PING you over here, there’s some good discourse on the Weekly Thread!
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Built this last night going to build a few more pretty handy light for emergencies or just camping just a mason jar {wide mouth pint} and a burner kit soldered it together in about 20 minutes time
Make your own Lanterns with mason jars and this adapter a #2 lantern kit and a glass chimney and you can make a lantern like i made above for about 8 bucks !
Nice work. SHTF trade good/skill for sure.
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