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rugercpl
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2012 19:41
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cooking? cleaning? showering?
How do you keep it fresh if it hasnt rained much or in a while?
Also, how are you handling overflow when it does rain a lot and the barrel fills up? if the one i plan to have fills up and overflows, it will spill out onto my deck along the side of the cabin. the cabin is above ground with a bit of a downhill slope, but id like to devise a way to divert it further away from the side of the cabin
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countryred
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2012 20:01
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My idea is to run it into an underground cistern tank from the barrels. You could run it through some under ground pipe to farther down the hill.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 27 Jul 2012 20:37
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Irrigation only at present.
Storage for personal and cabin uses runs into the problem of carrying the water through the winter without freeze damaging the tankls, piping and other equipment.
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TheWildMan
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2012 16:12
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I rely on rain for my water, i live at my cabin year round. i use it for watering crops, showers, dishes, drinking, etc. I treat with Solar UV or a .02 micron filter for drinking. i have 5 barrels out and usually i have no overflow since i use it too quick. though i do keep 5 gallon jugs on hand to store for later use. in winter i keep a barrel near the wood stove, it stores less in winter but a 55 gallon drum of hot water takes a long time to cool down so it helps radiate heat after the fire dies out. only need to run the stove 2 times a day at most this past winter (Live near Canada)
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Just
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# Posted: 28 Jul 2012 21:52
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Look back in some of the older threads in this catigory lots of what you want .
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CabinBuilder
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# Posted: 29 Jul 2012 23:10
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Washing, showering, watering garden and plants.
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