No More Chicken Chores： Never Freezes + Always Clean (Everflow 3.0)

Happy day in this video. We are building an ever flow chicken water never freezes always clean never needs Servicing no electricity. Let's go You have the saw remember let him get something at Lowe's Thankfully I talked him out of the trucks you let me get the ergo and carry you There he gets here you have the saw if you want to take your kids with you It's gonna be a long time that could very well be the project today. We're not installing a ever flow water We're working with our children installing an ever flow water. Does that make sense? Did you know that blind people can play soccer? I didn't know Olympics. I did not know that if you want to go get our All the one-inch poly pipe we've got over there behind the back shed. I'll get all the tools Could you want to be a man, right? You're a boy right now, but if you want to become a man, you got to be with the men Okay Our philosophy summed up right there. Hopefully I'm not negotiating with Tara. So flam training men Give me patience and wisdom. Did y'all figure this out? You know how you get patience, right? You know how the Lord gives you patience trials Had to get a new torch yesterday. Oh Yeah, we're in business every day is bring your kid to work day on the homestead our child raising Homeschool philosophy is I want them to be productive citizens Give more than they take when they grow up people The boys who grow up to be men The girls who grow up to be women So That means they need to be around what? Men and women and what they do all day. I got all the stuff ready yesterday So you guys don't have to be? Bored to death Me going around fine. Do you see what this does your saw you got your saw? Okay, is your love tank empty? Yeah If you're cold, let's go get in the Sun Come on ponds still frozen even when this pond was absolutely froze over still had a little bit of movement right here The water emptying that's permaculture list. We look to nature to see how we might solve a problem So how do animals in nature keep their water? unfrozen two things gravity and Flow it's always moving. We're gonna adapt that right now to our situation falls coming in handy, huh? Let's break this project up into setting up the intake stage one stage two running the line We're here. We're up here at the pond. It's gonna be our source. How high do you think we're up here? We're not quite 50 feet vertical We're probably 35 Water will flow down through there. That'll be the sec second stage getting the water line all the way to the creek third stage tapping that water line with a an attachment hose to fill up our Everflow water and then the fourth stage would be doing our everflow water and then fifth stage getting it going How long you think it's gonna take buddy? whoa, I Like it aiming for the impossible. I think we'll be lucky if we get it in two hours, but that would be Really cream on the top if we get this done by lunch, let's stop talking. Let's start doing that's what he said 30 minutes ago Go got there with the boat I Didn't think that through what are you trying? Yeah, like that that's not bad we don't have any zip ties up here Do you want me to get zip ties or do you want to use a string? You put this on your end of your pipe. That's it Besides saying we need more holes. Okay. This was already a pre-made thing for a Spring catchment. So let's dig more real quick Get in come over here and get this stick out of here stage one complete I think our filter intake is gonna work great stage two unwinding 400 feet of Poly pipe plus going through a culvert under the road That's the tricky part, but I've got a plan kids are pretty determined to get the project done Then have free time you got to unroll it. You can't unwind it the things you learn just over time and experience One of the major problems here is we're on a dead-end road, it's a public street We can't put the pipe over this it'll get run over the DOT will get mad at us. Hey Lily Yeah, I guess well wait, I Guess she unwinds it. I think I have an idea. I don't know if the kids will go for it Let's do 90s through the culvert. It'd be really clean If you came up to it did a 90 and Then a 90 at the bottom and then shot out. What do you think? No necessito? You up for it? You can go in for us. We're gonna need that just keep on rolling it So good to have all the kids out here Jonah's the only one missing he's gone to work as a grader today Trying this out prepared yesterday for a day project today. I'm liking it Why That's that cannot get this great off so there's no going in it from here could we ever get that great off Probably break it off. So let's um, you want to crawl through the pipe? Okay, we need the littlest person that we think can attach a pipe, okay, you got this All right, you got this And while she crawls through flashback in time many years ago, it's been Early vlog. So ten years. I had the idea to do an ever flow water It came down the mountain from the pond And went into a trough and the idea was it would fill the trough and drain out the other side but what happened to that is If it would fill up the trough, but it would it would drain out the other side ish But it also wouldn't it would if any little thing got in it and you know The chickens getting at it something would get in it It wasn't enough It was a lot of flow because you have 50 feet of gravity from the pond down to the where the chickens were But then you're trying to catch flow again from the trough to the creek and there just wasn't That just wasn't enough fall so the downside of the Waterer wasn't drawing nearly as fast as the upper side and that was a problem It took us three times before we nailed this the second time I'll tell you about in a second our second attempt to whatever flow water, which was pretty doable Most of the winter but it wasn't quite right. I'll tell you about that in a second. She coming You're almost there. I can hear you Oh There you are, all right hand that up through judge to just sign he's got it good job Lily MVP today Those clamps are getting too small. I thought these were bigger These are bigger These are bigger right? Yeah, only a 75% chance. I indeed get it did get everything I need at Lowe's yesterday. The hope is To not have to go to the hardware store today to be able to get this done. You're at that point in our story where? The kids basically want to take over. They don't want to assist I'm the assistant now. Why do you like to take over? We're gonna go along the garden can't dig down here because Septic tank drain filled stage two is complete and I cannot believe it this 400 foot water line Came to right here. We don't have to make a cut. It's just long enough. We don't have to add an extension It came right here and it'll It'll come down through here and drain into our Creek So that's where the water would have went We got to keep the water flowing. So we're pulling water from up there. It's gonna flow through it's gonna It's going to the creek anyway, so we want to put it back there the water We don't use I can't wait to show you how this is gonna work. Stay tuned for stage three on the down end a tee with a What would you call that a faucet attachment? Attaching our hose that hose will meander in there and feed our Everflow waterer Josiah is now putting the shut off which is key Because you want to shut off the water below below this So that water will be forced to come into this and to the Everflow waterer While he's doing that and Lily's calling me let's do history lesson number two second Everflow waterer. I Thought it needs to keep going. We need to have the water flowing and not trap it in a little trough We came up with this wild PVC operation and this thing was like a creek the water was literally flowing through and the chickens would drink of it from Like a creek Austin show show a good bit of footage of us building that and showing that how it works PVC pipe goes here trough goes in there this on the other side. This is how you disconnect it Here comes That's gonna be full of water Give me a lot of pressure on that down Okay Still that worked better than our first one. Just keeping the water flow helped help with our downward pressure problem We worked it so we could have a filter in there. But even so we built a poly face We eventually build a poly face design type cage around this thing and that helped it stay even more freed up But still, you know, you had to kind of maintain it You kind of had to clean it out once a day or whatnot and that's beside the point We don't want to do water chores. Let's go finish up stage three and then I'll tell you about the system I landed upon that was better than all the rest and it's the one we're building upon now for chickens stage three Do you need to heat it up some more? Heck yeah, buddy. I don't know about you guys, but I'm having fun. I can't wait for this next one actually putting together the Everflow system It's different so with our chicken current chicken waterer, it's a big tub it's got chicken nipple on it It's got a connection so that you can feed it with a water hose and that works great. That can work great all Summer so long as it doesn't freeze but it does take electricity Because you have to put a trough heater in there to keep it from freezing There's a better way without electricity and there's a better way without having to even hook it up to the the house water Because this is gravity. This is gravity fed, dude from water off the farm It's not even having to be pumped out of our well zero electricity Power goes out. It doesn't matter. This is still going Power goes out this doesn't matter. This is still on frozen All right He didn't get excited about it like I do Big huge tub the chickens need that much No, but you'll see why we're gonna use such a big one. It'll make perfect sense But first a history lesson I first had this idea when I got these big water troughs for collecting waters on top of the mountain they had these tubes in them and it fills up and then when it calls upon water water cut falls down these tubes and I thought well that could work and we tried it with our pigs I thought if we could get water to come into a trough If water comes in off the mountain and fills up And then there's a pipe in there that drains it down to here that's fall That's a lot. That's a lot more fall than if it were here. You get it That's three three feet more fall water coming in Water going out more fast this time on the downhill pig water But Yeah on real cold days we have to come warm up the nipples but the water kept flowing Even in the freezing Josiah was saying we don't need our Drain line right through here that we just put in this is an inch This line and it might get full of an inch of water This hose is only three quarters of an inch so it can't take it all that means water will build up in this It won't be moving that much. It will freeze the cranks. Let's open a little bit to keep water moving Not all the way enough to where water will still come through here It's a little tricky to teach with people flopping around This stage we're gonna install a drain too So that we don't have to tip this over to get the water out to move it. I got these Union adapters So there it goes like this Don't glue anything yet, too. We're gonna make sure it works. So then you'll cut this That's big enough It's not gonna be how is that gonna stop water from leaking through? There's one on this side this rubber oh This one's probably it right here That's too big Here we go There it is. Oh The bits broken on the end of it replaceable Josiah was able to get that drill bit out Are you able to put another one in and there's none that we have? If we had the right size, you'd be able to do it Okay, that one's too small and this one's too big Try it in this barrel without it that drill helps you keep it straight because if it gets all Catty won't and the rubber washer doesn't cover it. It'll of course leak Is it too big the hole no, it isn't it's perfect. Yeah, you sure it could be a little smaller but it's fine Oh gosh. Oh gosh Did need that Guide that drill guide Slipped around a lot. Hopefully that doesn't you know, open things up to where the washer can't Protect it. Well, do we put the washer on the inside? Never seem to remember this just a rubber washer go on this There's a rubber washer on one side a plastic washer on the other side There's a rubber washer go on the inside and asking Grok the rubber wash hit grass get ring and union fitting goes on the inside Yeah, is that lined up good hit get in you got the The wrench, okay One down one to go And we're missing our washer. Hold on Now attach the ball valve we have to measure it for draining it or you could do that Getting how excited are you for this? I don't you end up doing the water chores. Don't you on the chickens? No, I guess I guess that's why I'm the most excited because I do the water chore and chores on the chicken You want to do this cow to the field next? Well, we don't have to do any water chores out there You guys catch that I said you want to do this cows in the field next he's Jonas Jonas See how you are. Hey while he's sawing this Austin You might as well show the cows ever flow water that we figured out just how you're gonna dance that question again Cuz I bet the audience is thinking it too. Why don't we want run this hose straight to this? Good question I was gonna rig a hose a Poly pipe straight into this but what I found when I did with the pigs If we have a system that connects a flexible water hose like this Guess what Josiah? If this is what connects us to our source Okay, it's flexible and then We can go to move this that means we can move this around to different places inside of here Somebody kind of cut that crooked. Does that matter? No, is that the glue primer? You see what's happening water fills up and it doesn't drain till it comes to the top of this now let's do the lid pipe and then a Male to male you put this on there PVC and then we have a female to female We're gonna put this lid on it. It gets so dusty and dirty in there. Plus the chickens might jump up on it We will keep this open. So keep getting air. Otherwise, it'll create a vacuum and the water won't flow through I don't think it's put some sort of cage over this though This is all we got left of them one inch hopefully this is enough in the greenhouse And make it all the way down to the creek I Feel like we're catching some breaks I was planning to the creek we need to snake that drain line Over here tap into our culvert. We got a culvert running right where I'm standing we ought to dig it up and Drill a hole and put these one-inch pipes into it And then they're gonna be run over when we go out through here to the pig put our drain on and We're going I don't know if we'll be able to turn this on before lunch But it's gonna be closed just drill straight in if we screw up on this We're having to build a whole nother barrel. Wait, I was thinking below it. What do you think? Getting harder Heck yeah, you're going in the stanchion just for fun now Yeah, just for fun. She's been going in the stanchion great lately another wonderful question. Ask it again Josiah Why didn't we that might have worked and I think maybe one day we should try it because this is a lot But the reason is I got I get more fall out of this one I'm gonna have a taller drain line and get more fall. We got to do this Kind of wish we would have done this first. How many three? Yep, just three we built this We built this we built this if these nipples go bad We're starting all over again This is taking two hours to build but it is literally gonna save me Hours upon hours upon hours upon our countless hours of water chores. I gotta set this down for this dance You are welcome future self. Oh, no, what happened? I think we too close to the lip Dude it's not working. It's a washer on that one There's no washer They're washable. I don't know don't get too far though. There's no washer on it. I had the perfect drill bit for this It's not a wash on any of these Papa How did we lose washers you can't leave that one on after all we need it It's the last one we got that's got a washer on it Go get it out of the barrel This may be the biggest chicken water you've ever seen But it's the hardest working one. Okay, Lily has called us for lunch. We are done with stage. What stage are we on? Austin ding it right there Next stage you don't want to miss it's gonna be very exciting. We are going to hook water up to that and then Get water going down our line, man We are literally 20 minutes of work To get this flowing and by the end of the day chicken to be drinking water from gravity fed Water off the farm. Okay, we got to get you excited if we get done with the chicken water I'll give you a bonus. What do you want? You get to play an hour of Call of Duty? on a weekday You like that? That get you excited Or were you gonna sneak and do that? Anyway? Yeah What'd you cook us birdie? Chicken salad and baked beans. We're back at it getting get that chicken out of there I never see a chicken get in a fence if you can grab it. That's a bonus I'll give you a dollar bill if you grab it and we put those wings He's trying. Oh, oh It gave you a second chance. Here comes Josiah two dollars if you get that chicken Attach that Not good We are moments away. We are in the final stage We've already set that in the water and Josiah said well, why isn't it flowing? It's in the water Well, you got it. You got to get it sucking you got to get it flowing and the best way to do that is to fill this hose up with water and then Disconnect it and because there's water in it It starts the gravity flow and it just creates a suck starts pulling all the water out. You got a female to female Garden hose to garden hose. You can tell by the threads. All right, fill it up Well, we could go up there and see it coming out the other end or we could just wait Let's see if it's not leaking too, huh? It's a climb. I Think our pump will do it. What do you think? If that doesn't work, we have to shut it off at the bottom Run a hose up to here And fill it from the top. Do I hear it bubbling? Look When that quits bubbling Water has come through. All we got to do now is disconnect the hose filling it up and turn this on. Let's go. Oh We got a leak why It's what Okay Because we have threaded and everything a little bit of leak right there Oh, no, maybe that's residual water right here Should be going through We can slow it down by opening up our our main water lamp Which is maybe what we'll do once it fills up That's amazing water off the farm. That's how nature keeps its water clean, too Not just I'm frozen but just the movement just helps keep keeps it clean keeps it I'm frozen Why don't we water down these wood chips while we wait? We've got to see if the nipples leak and we've got to see if the drain Works in the meantime, let's get rid of some of this dust. They're just gonna turn it Think I hear it But we can slow it down a little bit we slow it down all the water is being for it's going one inch to three quarter So that's a lot of pressure We can let off some of that pressure By opening this a little ways. Okay, so it's still coming. Yeah, is that enough? There it comes there it comes out Down into our Creek. It's a success No more water chores for me. No more frozen water. No more hauling water. No more cleaning Waterers the Everflow waterer is back push link down below to a Google Doc to all these parts Let me be free