{"id":203973,"date":"2026-08-10T20:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203973"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:35:03","slug":"getting-a-small-water-system-up-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203973","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Small Water System Up and Running.  Hewn Feature, Week Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Thank You for joining us this evening.  This week we have some video clips of our efforts this week and we also leveled out one of our water storage tanks and getting ready to go into &#8220;production&#8221; where we will at least have sanitary, clean water for dishes, cleaning, showers etc.  Probably not going to be used for drinking water until we have in in use for awhile and can get water tested etc. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"936\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5-wehjo3DA\" title=\"Getting a Small Water System Up and Running\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There was a widespread power outage in our area yesterday that backed up our rendering and posting of our weekly video is being posted a day late this week.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing on in our batch processing topic from last week.  In many instances you can get cost savings from running batch processing systems to start off with.  For our water system we have two 300 gallon tanks were were are going to fill one.  Dose it with a bit of chlorine, filter it and finally hit it with a UV light to get it finished off and ready to go.<\/p>\n<p>As that 300 gallons is being used we will fill the second take dose it etc.  So it will take us a few minutes each week to keep it running but our start up costs on the system are only a few hundred dollars total.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily we have good seasonal springs on the parcels we are working on.  Where the Chainsaw Cabin is there is several gallons a minute coming out of the hill behind the cabin for several months a year.  From August till November there is still water but not high volume or ideal.  <\/p>\n<p>Next year we would like to put a large storage tank at the top of the hill that we can fill from the spring when is fully flowing to help get through the drier months.<\/p>\n<p>Not a fun topic but one that has to be dealt with .  The traditional route can cost you thousands or tens of thousands of dollars.  Going forward that can still be an option for you but let&#8217;s get you going on your project now.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for joining us for week two.  Next week we finally start working on finishing up the Chainsaw Cabin.  On projects such as this though getting your basic systems in place is just as important at the structures especially in the good weather months. <\/p>\n<p>But it is August and winter will be here before you know it.<\/p>\n<p>About hewn.co<br \/>\nAt Hewn we are going take you on a journey to see if it is still possible to build a functional, small homestead that anyone, even someone making minimum wage can build and own. We are going to try this in California no less. Join us as we attempt to build an off grid, solar powered, rustic, pioneer style homestead.<\/p>\n<p>#OffGrid #Cabin #HewnTV #TinyHouse #Pioneering #TinyCabin #HewnCo @hewnhill\u2069 #CompostingToilet #ChainsawCabin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Thank You for joining us this evening. This week we have some video clips of our efforts this week and we also leveled out one of our water storage tanks and getting ready to go into &#8220;production&#8221; where we will at least have sanitary, clean water for dishes, cleaning, showers etc. Probably not going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GX011229.00_00_01_12.Still002.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203977,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203973\/revisions\/203977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}