Endless Water for Under $15. The Frontier System Nobody Rebuilds Anymore.
Titus Freeman Homestead
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A man named Orrin Tullis kept nine people and eleven head of stock alive through the 1934 Oklahoma drought on a quarter-section with no creek on it. He never hauled a drop. He drove a pipe into the ground with a maul in one afternoon and pulled water out of dirt the whole county had given up on.
That system cost him less than a case of bottled water costs you today. And almost nobody rebuilds it anymore.
In this one I count down 15 ways your great-grandparents got water for free — off the roof, out of the hillside, and up out of the ground — with no power, no monthly bill, and no permission from anybody. The rain barrel that catches 600 gallons off one inch of rain. The sand-and-charcoal filter built out of what's in your woodstove. A pump with no motor that runs 24 hours a day on nothing but falling water. The trees that tell you exactly where to dig. And at number two, the one on the thumbnail — the frontier system nobody rebuilds anymore.
None of this stopped working, friend. It just quietly left the shelf, because there's no money in a thing you only ever buy once.
Tell me down below, neighbor — did your grandparents pump their own water? Was there a cistern, a spring house, or a pitcher pump on the porch that nobody ever explained to you? The one that gets the most comments is the one I build next.
Keep the old ways.
#homesteading #offgrid #rainwaterharvesting #selfsufficiency #oldways #survivalskills #wellwater #springwater #homesteadskills #prepping
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Endless Water for Under $15. The Frontier System Nobody Rebuilds Anymore.
Titus Freeman Homestead
1,515 views
👉 Download my E-Book: http://titusfreeman.com
A man named Orrin Tullis kept nine people and eleven head of stock alive through the 1934 Oklahoma drought on a quarter-section with no creek on it. He never hauled a drop. He drove a pipe into the ground with a maul in one afternoon and pulled water out of dirt the whole county had given up on.
That system cost him less than a case of bottled water costs you today. And almost nobody rebuilds it anymore.
In this one I count down 15 ways your great-grandparents got water for free — off the roof, out of the hillside, and up out of the ground — with no power, no monthly bill, and no permission from anybody. The rain barrel that catches 600 gallons off one inch of rain. The sand-and-charcoal filter built out of what's in your woodstove. A pump with no motor that runs 24 hours a day on nothing but falling water. The trees that tell you exactly where to dig. And at number two, the one on the thumbnail — the frontier system nobody rebuilds anymore.
None of this stopped working, friend. It just quietly left the shelf, because there's no money in a thing you only ever buy once.
Tell me down below, neighbor — did your grandparents pump their own water? Was there a cistern, a spring house, or a pitcher pump on the porch that nobody ever explained to you? The one that gets the most comments is the one I build next.
Keep the old ways.
#homesteading #offgrid #rainwaterharvesting #selfsufficiency #oldways #survivalskills #wellwater #springwater #homesteadskills #prepping