Simple Rainwater Harvesting Rig (Upycled and DiY)

We've had a 55 gallon drum for half a year and never made a rain water catchment system... until this weekend!

I kind of wish we had more hours in the day! Juggling time is a very difficult thing to do when you're building a homestead from the ground up without much of a financial capital!!!

A couple weeks ago we got our Off Grid Home delivered and between working in the city and only goinh to the property on weenends... we never got around to maming any sort of rain water harvesting device!!!

And of course now the rain has stopped!!!

I wanted this post to be in response to @offgrid-online's Off-Grid Contest... but I have been so busy preparing our move off-grid, that I unfortunately missed the deadline!!!! Oh well maybe next time... go ahead and check out the reslults, you may get inspired to enter the next one too!

Here's what I did:

1. I cleared the tiny gutters (u-channel on the roof of the RV) from debris.

2. Made a funnel out of a plastic bottle by cutting the bottom out.

Then, I realized the funnel needed to be smaller than the irrigation tubing I was going to use (We have about a hundred feet of it laying around from the previous owners. Score!). For the flow of water, it is best to always think about how to minimize leakage. The top piece should slip into the bottom piece, gravity and flow will keep liquids from leaking at those seams.

I got a water bottle with a smaller mouth piece thay fit nicely into the opening of the tubing.

3. I used tulle as a screen for debris on top of the funnel. The tulle was left over scrap from our DiY wedding back in 2012. Oooh we're starting to pack on the years there!

4. The niple of the bottle had something, I decided to cut out of the way of the flow. I'm not really surw what it's for, maybe just reinforcement?

5. Using gorilla tape (that's really the new and improved duct tape... I do everythong with that stuff, when i can! It also helps working in the movie industry where half used up rolles of tape get thrown out and I collect!), I taped up the seams and the funnel, with it's tubing to the RV, right under the tiny gutter.

I can't believe, he was able to tear it off the roll... that is some tough tape! He's a great little assistant.

Not one of my neatest jobs on the tape front!

6. Once that was all set in place and looked good enough to hold at least through the next couple of weeks, I placed the blue 55 gallon drum (also salvaged from the dumpster of a film set!) Approximately where I wanted it, to dry fit the tubing length.

If I may suggest dry fitting the tubing or whatever you use before fixing it to the gutter, is a good idea!

7. I slipped the irrigation tubing through a rubber band, then through a hole I cut out of the center of a small square of tulle.

8. While keeping the tulle and rubber nand from sliding off I fed the tubing into the barrel, stretched the tool over the hole and attached it by slipping the tight rubber band just under the threads where the hole is.

9. Using my trustes gorrilla tape, I taped the tulle to the tubbing and exammined the finished product!

You see how thebrubber band holds the tulle in place, there under the lip where the threads are?

Here's a quick video:

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