welcome back so last video we were talking about the garden here and how it was all planted and
the plants that we planted it if you didn't see it i'll link it up in the top here um go check that
out and uh today we're going to be talking about how we water this garden here because obviously
i have a sprinkler here and we are not on any sort of type of city utilities that being said we don't
have any pressurized water and what do we use to get water to pressurize this uh sprinkler system
so that it does water everything so that's what we're going to be talking about today
okay so we're gonna start at the top of the uh property here our garden is all the way
down at the bottom of this hill here so this hill is probably about um 60 to 80 feet deep
and it's probably got a good uh 60 degree slope on here so water has no problem getting down into
here and now what we do use is a hose to go down there and it's not just your generic um garden
hose that we use down here uh whoever ran this had some extra money to spend of course because
the hose that they're using is uh pretty uh high tech
so that hose runs all the way down to the garden there where i have a shut off valve
and a t so that t there will continue off to the end of the property but also then tee off
towards the garden where i have three other valves that i can turn on and off and hook up
hoses to so let's head up a little bit further into the property so i can show you um where the
reservoirs are now they did have two lines coming from the reservoir and one of which uh came to
came to this hose here however the pipe that was connected to it got crushed and uh i had to kind
of disconnect it and i'll show you kind of what i did with that because the way they ran the system
i'm not sure why they would do uh something like that so if we go into the forest here
so we have reservoirs at the um chicken coop there which i'm going to show you in a second
but what they did was they ran uh two lines and this line here they had connected and it teased
off and goes over the garden uh that i have from the last uh video and they had it connected to
this hose here that i had to cut and this is the one that goes over to the greenhouse there that
was crushed so what was happening was um the water would just go down to there uh to the um
greenhouse side and where it's crushed i would drain out all the water now the reservoirs are
a thousand liters each and i have two and so i have two thousand liters of uh water up there
and whoever thought of this uh ingenious idea was off this tee here where it goes to the the um
garden here i got another top there they used this this little line here and uh they hooked that up
to this t here which ended up going to this other hose and then that would go down to the garden and
even with that i would so not getting enough pressure down there because a lot of the water was
going down the pipe the crushed pipe here so what i ended up doing was um cutting this out cutting
the tee out and then the one that goes directly to the uh the garden i just hooked it up to this
tee here so now i can run uh water to the garden behind me here and as well down to the garden
at the bottom i don't need that one spout there because i can just run a regular garden hose
anywhere and reach that so we're gonna go over now um up the hill here and behind the chicken
coop so i can show you where the hoses come out and then we're gonna go check the reservoirs
and see how that's all tied up and then i'll show you how i fill them as well okay now we're at the
back of the chicken coop obviously the chickens came to say hi uh the rabbits are out here as
well too uh getting some sunshine i had to let them out it's been raining in the past couple
days even though i had their little hutches open they decided to stay in so it's good to
see them out and about so staying on topic here uh these hoses here they come from my reservoir
the black pipe is the one now that i have hooked up and that white one there
i'll show you it comes out of the top of the reservoir and i still haven't figured out
what their intentions were with that hose because as far as i know water doesn't go up um it always
goes down so that's the main line that i have hooked up to that tea that you just saw
and from that tea is all the water going from there so i'll show you the reservoirs
that i have and kind of what i do to uh fill it up and our reservoirs are on top of
our chicken coop here in this opening so i'll take you up there right now
all right we're at the top of the uh chicken coop here uh these are our uh drums of water and
each drum holds a thousand liters or should i say like 980 but who's counting here anyway
so i'll count it a thousand and um i have a hose running from right here and it runs on the top of
our chicken coop here and then is connected right here or should i say stops right here
and so what i do is uh i run a hose from our um pipe or should i say our spring fed water
system i have a little nozzle on the outside i run a hose from there all the way down and just
kind of shove it in the end of the hose and it fills up these two drums at the same time
because they do have the uh t's here and then uh at the bottom on the back end i'm not gonna crawl
uh in there and show you but so out the back and uh at the bottom they have um rigid pipe
coming out to a t so both reservoirs get used up at the same time and that's where that black hose
gets hooked up so it's a really unique system i do get plenty of water at the down at the bottom
of the hill and uh so i'm gonna go show you how uh well the sprinkler works just uh with the uh
gravity fed water system here so you can see that we are sitting probably about 15 feet off the
ground here and then i got that whole slope down to the hill so we really get a good pressure at
the bottom of the hill and the sprinkler works actually phenomenal so let's go check that out
all right we're back down at the garden here so i have a valve right there that i need to turn
on
now i'm gonna get kimberly to turn on the valve all right kimberly go ahead
and now she's gonna turn on this valve you'll check out how this thing shoots on
all right so it's just got to get a little bit of uh the air out and then it's going to kind of uh
just be more consistent and works great so yeah it covers this whole garden here i'm getting a little
wet as we speak so obviously it's uh getting all the air out so yeah i'll cover the whole garden
that i got here and uh i just let it go there we go so let's zoom that in there there you go
nice uh clean water nice uh solid uh pressure can't go wrong with that so thanks for tuning
in the next video i'll be doing is say how to build a milking station for a goat so
if you'd like to see that one just click on the next video i'll post that one up here somewhere
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