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I just started my water collection experiment.
On many sites there are various methods listed for collecting rain water. But none of those posts ever seemed to provide an amount of water collected. They were all theoretical.
Some of the more elaborate, whole home collection systems would provide some data as to the quantity. But I was more curious as to the effectiveness of the water collection gear in my BOB. I need to know it can be relied upon to actually collect a decent amount of water.
Well, as expected, it then didn't rain here for a month. It just now started raining so I ran out and rigged it up.
The premise is that it is not suppose to fancy and is only from the things in my BOB-Truck. Here's what I used.
42 gallon plastic trash bag- BOB
1 Gallon water jug- Found in Truck
Pocket Knife
1 Rock- found in the yard
I popped the hood and slammed the trash bag under it to hold the top of the bag in place. Then I used the knife to cut a good hole in the top of the water jug. I shoved the bag into the hole to form a downward sloped triangle to taper the collected water into the jug. I did have to use a box to raise the jug up a bit. But I didn't slice the bag open to make it larger and longer. Had I done this, the box wouldn't be needed because the bag would have been long enough to reach from the hood to the ground. I also placed a rock in the jug to counteract the weight of the water in the bag to prevent it from tipping over the jug and dumping out any collected water.
It is 2:30 PM now and it is lightly raining. Almost just a mist.
I will report back with the result.
Chin
On many sites there are various methods listed for collecting rain water. But none of those posts ever seemed to provide an amount of water collected. They were all theoretical.
Some of the more elaborate, whole home collection systems would provide some data as to the quantity. But I was more curious as to the effectiveness of the water collection gear in my BOB. I need to know it can be relied upon to actually collect a decent amount of water.
Well, as expected, it then didn't rain here for a month. It just now started raining so I ran out and rigged it up.
The premise is that it is not suppose to fancy and is only from the things in my BOB-Truck. Here's what I used.
42 gallon plastic trash bag- BOB
1 Gallon water jug- Found in Truck
Pocket Knife
1 Rock- found in the yard
I popped the hood and slammed the trash bag under it to hold the top of the bag in place. Then I used the knife to cut a good hole in the top of the water jug. I shoved the bag into the hole to form a downward sloped triangle to taper the collected water into the jug. I did have to use a box to raise the jug up a bit. But I didn't slice the bag open to make it larger and longer. Had I done this, the box wouldn't be needed because the bag would have been long enough to reach from the hood to the ground. I also placed a rock in the jug to counteract the weight of the water in the bag to prevent it from tipping over the jug and dumping out any collected water.
It is 2:30 PM now and it is lightly raining. Almost just a mist.
I will report back with the result.
Chin
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