fact is no matter how many water bottles or even 55 gallon barrels of water that
you have stored up
how's it going guys welcome back to the pilot patriot channel we all know that
water is essential to life
and as preparedness-minded people we
understand how important it is to have
some water stored up for emergencies
disasters and any hard times where a
regular supply of clean drinking water
just might not be available to us and
i've done plenty of videos on
long-term water storage i will put a
link to some of those at the top of the
screen
screen
screen and in the description below if you want
to check those out but the fact is no
matter how many water bottles or even 55
gallon barrels of water that you have
stored up
stored up
stored up eventually that is going to run out
that's why in this video we're going to
talk about something
that's even more important than having
stored water and that's being able to
filter and purify water
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appreciate that now a lot of you may be familiar with
the berkey water filter systems
they are probably the best water filter
systems on the market today especially
for filtering large quantities of water
i will put some links to those in the
description below
description below but the problem with the berkey water
filter systems is that they can be
very expensive especially for the large
ones the big berkey is going to cost you
upwards of 300
what i'm gonna do in this video is i'm
gonna teach you how to build your own
water filter system
with all the same benefits for a
fraction of the cost
using less expensive components so let's
get in here and take a look at how to do
this
this
this all right guys so there's just a few
components you're going to need to build
this system
this system at the heart of our system is going to
be our filters now these are going to be
the exact same filters used in the big
berkey water filter system
each of these is capable of filtering up
to 3 000
to 3 000
to 3 000 gallons of water and they're not only
going to filter out particulates they're
also
also
also going to purify the water and filter out
bacteria and viruses and things like
that
that
that i will put a link in the description
below to the berkey website where you
can look up all the technical
information about these filters if you
want to
want to
want to now there are other companies where you
can order filters just like this
but the general consensus seems to be
that the berkey filters are
of the best quality the next thing
you're going to need and what's going to
house your entire system
is two food grade buckets but you are
going to want to make sure that it's a
food grade bucket and that it's nice and
clean
clean
clean along with that you're going to need the
food grade bucket lids
this is just a regular food grade bucket
lid with the gasket seal inside
now you can do just two of these but i'm
going to be using one of these and i'm
going to be using
a blue gamma seal lid and i'll explain
why i'm going to be using the gamma seal
lid in a minute but that's not necessary
you can just use two
of the regular food grade bucket lids
the next thing you're going to need is a
spicket
spicket
spicket now you can get a spigot like this from
pretty much anywhere
online you can also get them from your
local home improvement store
the one that i'm using here actually
came with the with the berkey
repair and accessory kit and the reason
i got that is because
it also comes with these two plugs now
i'm going to be building this system
with two berkey filters but i'd like to
be able to add more filters in the
future
future
future if i want to and so with these plugs i
can drill two extra holes in the bucket
and this will plug it up
and then in the future i can just take
these out and
add more filters to my system if i want
to
to
to now ultimately the way this is going to
be set up is you're going to have a top
bucket
bucket
bucket that you put your water into and that's
going to be sitting on top
of your bottom bucket that's going to
catch all the filtered water as it drips
down
down
down so the first thing we need to do is
we're going to flip one of these buckets
upside down
upside down and we're going to take our regular lid
and sit it right on top
and we're going to drill holes through
this lid into the bottom of the bucket
and i'm going to try to evenly space
these out i'm going to be doing four
holes
holes
holes for four filters now the drill bit i'm
using is a 3
8 inch drill bit
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[Music] all right now we got our holes drilled
and you can see that these holes are
perfectly aligned they go straight
through our top and
into the bottom of our other bucket next
we're going to drill our hole for the
spigot
spigot
spigot and there are a couple things you need
to consider you want to make sure you
drill the hole far enough from the
bottom
bottom
bottom of the bucket so that when the bucket's
sitting on a flat surface
the spicket doesn't hit your tabletop so
we're going to go about an
inch an inch and a quarter from the
bottom of the bucket and we're going to
be using a 5
8 drill bit for this all right guys now
that we have that hole drilled we'll
just get everything cleaned up
and then we'll get ready to install all
our components we'll go ahead and get
our spigot installed that's going to
come with two washers
and a nut on the back to install it in
the hole that we just drilled
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[Music] now you're going to want to go back and
get that thing good and tight so you
don't have any leaks
we're just going to set this bucket to
the side for now and then we'll get
ready to put our filters in
to the other bucket these filters are
going to have
a wingnut on the end as well as a large
rubber washer
rubber washer so we're going to take that wing nut off
and we're going to feed
the stem of this filter in through the
bottom of our bucket
and the lid of our other bucket
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[Music] once you've got your filter through both
holes you're just going to go ahead and
thread that wing nut on
now for right now i'm just going to snug
it up i'm not going to worry about
cranking down too tight
until i get my other filter in place
that's what it's going to look like once
the filter is installed
now i'm just going to go ahead and
install the other filter
and my two plugs now i've got my plugs
fed through there and i'm just
putting these wing nuts on the back on
the bottom to secure those in place
only thing left to do is put our last
filter in all right guys this is what
the inside of our filter looks like
only thing left to do is to sit this on
top of our other bucket
all right guys now i did mention earlier
that i'm going to be using the gamma
seal lid
seal lid
seal lid for the top bucket that's just so i can
easily unscrew this top on and off
to add more water to the system whenever
i need to
i need to
i need to all right guys now the way this is going
to work is i'm just going to unscrew
my gamma seal lid there i'm going to
pour my unfiltered water into this top
bucket
bucket
bucket and then that water as it runs in
through the filters is going to seep
through and drip down from these two
nozzles on the bottom end of the filters
and drop down into our bottom bucket
where we can then use our spigot to take
the filtered water
from the bottom bucket into our cup or
bottle or whatever we decide to put it
in
in
in you could potentially add up to six
different filters inside this bucket if
you wanted to
but with just the four that i have it
set up for i can filter
12 000 gallons of water before having to
replace these filters
now no matter what your water source
whether it be a pond a river
a lake rain water you have the ability
now to filter
as much water as you want without having
to rely
to rely
to rely on your stored water all right guys now
that's it for how to build your own diy
berkey water filter system i hope that
helped you out if you have any questions
guys please leave them in the comments
below and don't forget to use our links
in the description for all these
components
components so you can build one for yourself thanks
for watching guys
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