The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Parent's house and place me and DW lived when we first hooked up and quite a few other home's around here have gravity fed spring water and wood stoves, need no power.
We live in a valley now with a artesian well. Be handy if it wasn't leaking underground somewhere between the well and the old clawfoot tub down by the pond it's supposed to run in.
Hmm, just had a thought. Been changing a lot of filters since I replaced the line in the well. Always figured it was because I put it down too deep. I hear gurgling in the pipe going into that tub sometimes when we're running water inside, I bet it's sucking dirt sediment back into the darn well. This whole time I've thought it was sediment IN the well....
Water tastes great though Lol!
Wonder if I should mention it to DW?
She'll make me dig the whole darn line up

Ya know you are going to have to dig it all up.... in the spring. Try to make this next spring.

Power company estimates my return Nov 4th 10 pm.

I have 10 gal of water in 2 containers for cemetery work used one of those last night to water the farm. Will bring to work to refill.

Wood stove is on to boil water for us.

Emptied the standing water in the wheelbarrows to flush the toilet so we can poop.
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That bites!!! You don't even have snow to melt! There isn't a town water spigot around there? For people to get water? We have one at the grocery store set up to make it easy and fast to fill the 6 gallon water jugs, so everyone without water can get some.

Not sure what the spring/well is classified as. This is a google map of the place, my chunk is the part with the dirt (more than the dirt area) the dark blotch above the dirt is the big tree at the cemetery, that is also the very top of the hill. Down lower left, you can see the driveway coming in, house is to the left of the driveway and the barn is to the right, the well house is beside the barn. You can see the property line going around as there is an old right of way road going through there and makes a disturbance in the tree line.

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That is one snazzy homestead.

 

[Kusanar]

That is one snazzy homestead.

I can't wait to get it setup the way I want it and get a new image. That dirt patch was already seeded and growing hay when I bought the place, so who knows how old that pic is.

 

[CapricornFarm]

There is a site that you can to to that will show the aquifers:

https://water.usgs.gov/ogw/aquifer/map.html

It's not the easiest map to read but it will tell you where the ground water is located.

Ran the hoop coop past DH as an idea for the rooster pen in the spring. He liked the idea. @CapricornFarm , are you planning to move your hoop coop utilizing it as a tractor or is it permanent. If permanent do you have it anchored? I'd like to build one that is tall enough to walk into but could be moved around so the roosters can
'free range' in the coop.

It is permanent, i used t posts as walls and anchors. You could use cattle panels on the sides instead, but you might need to use 2x6 instead of 2x4 on the base.

 

[microchick]

T-posts. I can see the logic in those. They would sure stabilize the coop in high wind, and we do have high wind here. I think the highest in storms just this summer was 52MPH gusts. Maybe I'd better cool it on the idea of moving it and just have it stationary and use the t-posts.

We have been tearing out barbed wire fence so we are t-post rich at the moment.

 

[drumstick diva]

OUCH tearing out barbed wire

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do not wear gloves putting wire up but tearing it out I do cannot tie it up with gloves on never could

 

[microchick]

We loosen the 'ties' at the t-posts, let the wire drop to the ground, then hook a chain to it, the chain to the tractor and let the tractor pull it out away from the posts. Easy then to pull the posts. We have been using the barbed wire as anchor material in ravines, throw it in, then throw brush on top of it to cut down on erosion. Works great.

I've got really thick leather gloves with reinforced palms that I use for handling the barbed wire. Still get punctures. But lucky us, there were fences EVERYWHERE when we moved in. Now we are down to just a parameter fence with half of one fence that runs the width of our property left to pull. No I take that back. We found two old fences back in the timber last week that need to go also. Nothing like falling over one hiding in the brush.

 

[pennyJo1960]

nice about here we had the entire perimeter fenced in field wire i just took chicken wire to go the around the outside keeps Ticha in the pom x chi he could walk through the field wire put a fence where we were going to have a garden that is now chicken yard .... other side of the property we had a grove of scrub one apple tree on it's side ends at the neighbors 8 ft chain link and the end of our field wire with chicken wire over that for the new coop

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Used up 5 of the 10 gallons of emergency water I have for the animals so far. I will bring the container to work tomorrow and fill it. It is chlorinated so probably no one including us humans will touch it but I've tried.
Got a shower at work today and my Outlook on life is much improved with hygiene.

 

[pennyJo1960]

sure hope they get it all fixed soon