Living off grid requires adjustment to your city living lifestyle. However, with just a small change, it is worth the effort. The well at the Ranch is 980 ft with sweet water, I've had it tested and it tests way cleaner than city water, without anything done to it. The water tanks sit on the side of a little mountain behind the house about 400 ft altitude, so gravity water pressure is plenty good. The 4 tanks are 5,000 each, for a capacity of 20,000 gallons possible storage. I use an engine driven 2 inch pump to push the water up the mountain when pumping water, and a diesel generator to provide 220 v to run the submerged well pump, so pumping water takes a little effort to get all the machinery operating in sequence. The tanks fill one at a time, with each one connected to a manifold for total control of what goes in, and what comes out. All with 2 inch ball valves. Normal months usage, with guests, who have been "ranch trained" is around 1,500 gallons. That is normal toilet flushes, dishwashing, laundry, and showers included. Showers are "Navy submarine style", you turn on the water, wet yourself down, soap up, turn off the shower head [ball valve at the head so settings are preserved] , scrub down, flip the ball valve back on and rinse. That system conserves a lot of water, both cold and hot. To date, I have never emptied more than one of the tanks in a month of use, but the other 3 remain filled as my backup reserve [it's the desert after all, things can happen, and it's a long way to town.]
A lot of folks that live off the grid live quite well hauling water, or paying someone to haul their water. Those that haul their own, that I've seen, usually max out with a 500 gallon trailer mounted tank [near dangerous load] if they have a truck heavy enough to pull and stop the weight. Many use food grade plastic tanks in steel cages at 275 gallons, which fit nicely in the bed of a pickup and "make a load"... [avoid sudden stops and turns]. Every time they go to town for supplies, they top off the water tank and replenish that way. Good luck, drive and load smart, you'll be OK. Grant On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:46 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Oops, sorry. I was assuming that you would need 1000 gallon deliveries on > the regular. The weekly 100 gallon hauls would be just to extend that. > -Curt > > On Friday, March 19, 2021, 11:41:57 AM EDT, Allan Streib via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I use somewhere on average of 3,000 gallons/month here. That's a lot > more than I'd want to haul in a pickup truck. Of course you could > economize somewhat, but getting down to 100g/week would take some > extreme changes. > > Allan > > Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> writes: > > > 100 gallons = 800#, a good load in a 1/2 ton pickup with it sloshing > around. > > > > Start with a 1000 gallon delivery from a pro and then haul 100 gallons > yourself > > every week to supplement? > > > > And I thought hauling water 100 feet from the pond to the camp was a > hassle. > > Actually the worst thing there was straining and boiling. The rain > barrel is a > > big improvement: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bqpqkmrpLd6m3fUg7 > > > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
