Improvised Water Filter Part 1
June 19, 2009 by admin
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Nice video! It’s not that this is so hard to figure out, it’s just that it’s so easy that I (and most people I guess) don’t think along those lines.
Again, maybe that’s because we’re not used to, or don’t have to in todays society.
Anyways, keep up the good work, love your channel.
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Addendum to my last: Dig a Gypsy well 3-4′ from the stream. Let it fill, empty and use the next lot of water for your filter. Should be relatively free of nastys.
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Glad to see that your washing off the charcoal first. The white stuff on it is potash. I am given to understand that potash is poisonous to humans.
Also i’m surprised that you didn’t layer it as bandana, charcoal, fine gravel and then corse.
As a suggestion: If you have a fire dig a scrape & heat up some rocks to cook the gravel in it. Should sterilise them quite nicely.
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Another good thing to toss in there is pine tree “sawdust” as another layer for the anti parasitic properties and if you have any silver available (I keep bullion in my wallet) you will want to toss that in there to kill everything else. As for toxic chemicals I’ve read that powdered clay is the best filter specifically red if I remember correctly. Awesome vid!
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The natural filter is really the ground including the microorganisms there. They help to filter the water as they pick up things that otherwise would have ended up in our system.
A filter like that in large scale can if filtered slowly remove 60-70 % of E.coli
Adding clean ash (from natural vegetation) to the recipe would improve it further, if you have any. Then you would be reaching near 100% E.coli filtering.
Adding rusty nails will help reducing arsenic.
Great video!
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Thasts a good idea but if you had opportunity to boil the substrate you could just boil the drinking water instead eh? But this might give opportunity for extended filter use later thanks!
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2. I’d really hate to run into a problem like that in a wilderness situation. That could quite possibly kill a guy.
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Awesome video! Love the basic idea but I do have one question. Wouldn’t it be better to throw the gravel and sand into your cooking pot and boil it for a while before putting it into your filter? There must be a lot of microscopic organisms in the sand and some of them may cause diarrhea or worse.
I have that on the mind since I just got over something, probably related to food poisoning. Mass diarrhea and throwing up. I’ve never thrown up anything green before, Till Monday that is.
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Well brother Most of them came from overseas and were not expensive, the new ones are done by my brother in law (Free), and I already have a colledge degree so I guess it will be okay-I am over 21! WAY OVER!
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love your vids – though I have to say you’ve spent alot of money on stupid tatooes that probably cost you more than a years worth of college education
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“Hasn’t killed me yet…”
LOL. Love it.
Thanks for sharing, bro. Keep up the awesome work!
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Great info, Dave, as always. Three questions, though: do you get the silt/sand from the same pool/area you get the water? If there is cryptosporidium (or any other contaminants) in the water, wouldn’t they also be in the silt? Would sand from a spot away from the water work any better or would I be taking my chances with that as well? Keep the great vids coming! Your channel is the first one I check each day!
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Brilliant !!!
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blast that squirrel Dave! a tasty treat.
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Fascinating. Thanks.
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you could suspend it from a couple of proped up branches and make a couple more filter out of these and get a lot of water out of these!