What Preps are you doing this week

[pseudonym]

Thats a very impressive tent-and-stove combo

Thankyou. A 2 man comfortably without the stove, 1 man with.

Mainly used for expedition type trips.

For Base camping, My 8-10 man version is luxury.



Either way, I'm not getting cold

[tigs]

looks good but would have a ground sheet in there as well , bit of insulation always helps

[pseudonym]

looks good but would have a ground sheet in there as well , bit of insulation always helps

The pic was taken in my garden as the seam sealant was drying, but thanks anyway

[Stasher]

Dried onions sound very useful. Where do you get those? ?

We have recently discovered these

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/ ... =254983218

you can get them at morrisons 70p a tin

Not bad, not bad at all

[Decaff]

They look fab, I was buying small boxes of dried onions and decanting into glass kilner jar with oxy absorber, took 6 boxes I think! This looks economical.

I popped out earlier and got a few cleaning bits for the stash, clothes, sponges, sprays and liquids. Bathroom bits, cotton wool, buds, liquid soaps, ibuprofen, paracetamol, and various other bits.

[Briggs 2.0]

I need some rain to test my revised rainwater system. I've never known the South West to be so dry!

[Hamradioop]

I need some rain to test my revised rainwater system. I've never known the South West to be so dry!

Hi Briggs, is that a pumped system? If so what are you using?

[Devonian]

I need some rain to test my revised rainwater system. I've never known the South West to be so dry!

Are you using any sort of pre-filter to reduce sediment and leaf material entering and clogging the main filter?

[Briggs 2.0]

@Devonian.

Did you see my post about fitting a Sterasyl Ultracarb ceramic filter under my kitchen sink? Well, the reason I did that is because the 0.1 micron Ultracarb was not really working in my gravity fed off-grid system, I think there was too much resistance for the the water to flow under gravity with only a metre of head.

So, I've revised my off-grid collection.

Stage one is the pre-filter. Water from the guttering flows into the long down tube. A float in the tube rises as the water rises and then the float seals off at the tee-piece. This means the first 2.4 litres of really dirty water is filtered off. The water then flows by gravity as in the first photo I posted. The first tee piece on the slope has a chlorine block in it to kill off any nasties, it then flows into the white filter housing that you can see. This has a .5 micron sediment filter and this does work under gravity with only a metre or so of drop. By the time the water gets into this first barrel it has been filtered to .5 micron and shocked with chlorine. This is a potable 200 litre container and I have 2 of these linked together.

The Ultracarb filter needs pressure so the next part of my revised system uses a standard caravan type 12v water pump to draw water from these first water butts, through a 10" filter housing with a Doulton Sterasyl Ultracarb ceramic filter, through a UV filter and into another potable container. I've tested this and it works perfect in practice so the next stage will be to modify a plastic toolbox to house the filter housing, pump, battery and connecting hoses. I'll post up some pics when I've got that made. I like the idea of it being in a portable plastic tool box because if push came to shove, you could draw water from a puddle and filter it.

I've switched to the Ultracarb filter because I want to use chlorine in the first stage of my water storage and the Ultracarb filter removes chlorine. I tried the Doulton Ultracarb under gravity but it was causing a backlog in the gutter pipes.

[Stasher]

I need some rain to test my revised rainwater system. I've never known the South West to be so dry!

This looks fantastic, I particularly liked the kettle perched on the side!

Rain is becoming a very real issue for us, the well is extremely low (the water pump is only just submerged) and the stream we have been pumping water out of over the summer for the animals/polytunnel etc is now 'just' running. There are people in the village who have not had water now since June, because most houses have agas/rayburns this means they have not been running either because they need water circulating. We need water to fall now and in a steady, constant manner or it's off down the river for us to pump water.

It also means my thoughts about buying a twin tub are fast becoming a 'must have' purchase.

Are you already on your own water supply Briggs, or do you have access to mains?