If you want to see more than just a Geopress and want to see my current get home bag click here for that video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecWcpr1229yrZWQ.html

Putting the GeoPress on the ground and using two hands to leverage bodyweight makes it much easier to filter. Plus loosening the cap as Trooper said. Loving this channel - keep up the good work!

I realize that we don't know each other and I want to comment on your bugout bag video, just haven't had the time yet. Please understand that I mean NO disrespect, I just want to help people who are beginning their journey into prepping, bushcraft and/or survival. I was an Eagle Scout, Airborne Ranger, Sheriff Deputy and current first responder team leader. I also teach preparedness, bushcraft and survival. I have been using a Grayl Geopress for a couple of years and yes it works great, they are also one of the few filters that prevents virus contamination. To use the Geopress first loosen the cap so that the air can escape, then press the bottle down with both hands. Bugout bags should have multiple ways of treating water, to include purification with chemicals or ultraviolet light, disenfecting wiith heat by boiling (with a single wall bottle or cup) and filtering like with the Grayl.

❤ don't worry about being, "boring" my friend. i found the video fascinating

Also a Millbanks bag for prefiltration! With a shoulder strap w/velcro and caribiner you can double attach the millbanks to the outside of the geopress! When hiking/camping I always carry sawyer, iodine crystals, chlorine as well. Sometime the geo filters are on sale for 24.00 instead of 30.00. I like to pick up a couple when they are.

Nice test of the Grayl. Been using mine for years and love it.

Thanks Dade for doing the tests and recording it for us. I just got the Grayl Titanium Ultrapress, so it is good to see the system work.

As well as opening cap 1/2 to 1 turn, place press on the ground and use body weigh with both palms on either side between lid and handle. Also you can use food grade silicone grease $5-6.00 tube very lightly on the gasket/seal to make it easier. DO NOT USE ANY TYPE OF OIL it will destroy any filltration systems. I have a spinal cord injury and this is how I do it . 😏

This was awesome. Thank you.

Love the geopress. Self reliance outfitters has a stainless steel nesting cup built specifically for the large geopress. Highly recommend

I use a Geopress, I love it! Works very very well. In fact I’m headed into the mountains of SE Oklahoma in a few days to do some backwoods camping for the Thanksgiving holiday week! Hanging out around the campfire with friends, enjoying nature and living off the land for a week! Leaving society behind! D.T.O.M. FTG!🏴‍☠️

Open the cap bro when pressing

Keep up the good content man you used your money and gas to prove to us about this product I myself carry a sawyer mini and all of its contents stuffed in a Nalgene with a couple coffee filters and a stainless steel nesting cup but after this video the Geopress kind of looks like a nice investment 👍

Looks like you forgot to Crack the lid to let air out. Making it easier to press the filter down.

I carry the geopress myself. Have been thru four filter replacements so far... I like it better than a sawyer, but not as much as the katadyn... So geopress works extremely well in it's pricepoint.

When filtering the water you have to losen the cap- also you should let the river water sit for awhile for sediment to sink to the bottom.

I carry a Milbank Bag with My Geopress. It saves the filter.

Fantastic video, love you traveling around and testing the water. If you want an inexpensive cook kit, the Walmart Stanley cup will fit the Grayl Geopress.

I just ordered the new titanium model. Looking forward to adding to my EDC.

great job bro. thanks

The Geopress fits nicely into the Stanley 2-cup Cook set (WalMart $15) if you leave the cups at home and set the Stanley in one of WalMart's Stainless Steel ($5) cup, which the Stanley's lid will also fit. There is room to slide 4 or 5 ladies' knee-high nylons (20 for $7) over the Geopress, then use one of them fitted inside the outer shell to pre-filter. I carry mine in an Orca (Amazon $22) Tactical Water Bottle pouch which gives me room for an Esbit Stove and fuel, a stainless spork, a Ferro Rod, a Hot Lips pad for drinking from the hot cup, and a plastic bag with coffee, tea, bouillon powder, matches, salt and pepper.

They now have a titanium version of the greyl to make it lighter. You can use the cup on a stove.

I just got in the covert black geopress 2 days ago, yet to filter its first cup. I'm sure the use I'll get from it will be what replaces my hiker pro filter.

Gotta vent the top on any Grayl. If you want the filter to last the full time you need to pre filter sand and big stuff out with a tee shirt or cloth. You do those two things, will save your life.

Mines on the way in the mail I can't wait

Very helpful

Glad to see you upgraded to a grayl filter . Yes the purchase price is steep .. think about this what if you was possibly 3 days out from home like I find myself often .. due to circumstance I may wish to remain covert in my journey home .. boiling may not be an option ,, waiting 30 minutes for tablets may not be an option ..the grayl is right now and highly effective .. how ever I do keep those alternatives as a ready option also .. forgot to sub earlier .. if you’re interested check out South Georgia budget bushcraft ,, I’m an admin there .. we would like to have you aboard ,, and you can most certainly share your videos there

I bought a smaller version, Ultrapress in Covert Black, came with a one-way valve in the filter which is nice because I always drink water with electrolytes. Really cool piece of kit and I can't wait to be drinking sewage water when the governmen-- [REDACTED].

maybe make sure the geopress cap is vented, and if so, dont push down onto it sealing it off. Kinda hard to buy into any of this testing when you clearly dont understand how to even use the product...

Bro I like your channel, watching you use the geo press was painful. I have 3 of them all for different bags and now the full size titanium. You have to open the lid when you press so it’s not that hard. Think about , watching a grown man press that hard … many women or younger kids could never use it. Therefor they would only market to men? No. I did the same thing but went back and watched videos and fig it out. Anyway, that’s all. Not talking sht or anything. Mad respect for ya and your content you put out.

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A few suggestions for your videos which may help. Get a mic with a wind shield or film the talking bits inside. I know you said it might make it more interesting doing it in the field but with the wind, jars rolling and etc it didn’t have the desired effect. Also what test strips were you using? Info would allow people to research them and see the conditions for use, effectiveness etc. You should have done 5 sites as the more data you have the more validity the results. Small data sets don’t really tell you much and don’t allow for margins of error etc. A map showing where you took the samples from would also have been useful. Farmland, urban, industrial areas will have different pollutants and different levels. The cold water may have had an effect as it the low temperature limits bacterial growth. The test strips were hard to see so a better explanation of what we were looking at would have been nice. You said it was faint so possibly the cold had an effect? With low levels of bacteria the Grayl may have been ok with higher levels who knows? Also bacteria is only one contaminant that can cause problems. You mentioned viruses, chemicals, heavy metals which can all cause you to get sick. Maybe you could have sent off water samples to test for other pollutants? Just some thoughts and not meant to sound negative, apologies if it does. I’ve watched a few of your other ones and I like them.

Definitely recommend loosening the cap, it makes pressing quite a bit easier.

Your mason jar is cool in all but there’s a better way. Get you a millbanks bag and a hank of paracord and tie it to the grommet. You can grab a liter of water in hard to reach places buy throwing it or lowering it down to the source. Then reel it back in and hang it up. The sediment will naturally fall and you can pour the clear water off the top into the geopress. For me waiting for the water to drip through the canvas bag takes way too long. Check it out and enjoy.

Crack the lid to let air escape and it is much easier to compress. Home boy.

It says clearly on the box to open the lid before pressing

I love mine

Maybe you do a running test life after "x" amount of uses?

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The question is filter life. I recently bouggt one and a spare filter, it was like $33 just the filter.

I think you supposed to like open the top just a little that way it's easier to push down at least I think I remember someone saying that on KZfaq but you may want to read the directions maybe it will tell you in there ... Just thought I'd pass it along to you I don't have one yet but I will soon.. lol

Sorta like a coffee press for water...meaning the way it operates? My first time seriously looking at this thing

Loosen the cap when pressing down

You have to open the cap when pressing

would your Saywer filter the water the same?

Another GREAT VIDEO! I have the GeoPress system too: I live in South Florida and while we may have “great weather” (most of the time), that warm weather (and hot in the Summer …continuously 90+ degrees with high humidity = lots of unwanted critters in our waters: worst is brain eating amoeba SOOOO I’m not messing around with my water filter:GRAYL GEOPRESS……now all I need is muscle power to push it through 😂

I think the price tag is a big bargain. The other lower priced filters simply can not compete with what the GP does. Have to compare apples-apples. And what price can you place on clean water to drink.

Wow, inflation is absurd. I paid $60, year and a half ago.

Loosening the cap is the right way to do. I don’t understand why nobody knows that?

Definitely loosen the cap otherwise your going to blow seals

grayl is the fastest most convenient.

I dont think an old person could press that

Dude open the cap on bottle need a air to work don't force it like that! What a hell you thinking

I recently purchased the grayl geo press and was really let down to see that with the zero water tester tested tap water tested exactly the same straight from the tap as it did after putting it through the geopress... Then with the ionizer test where you put 2 electrodes in the water it didn't do any better than the tap water... The zero water filter by contrast did very well. I searched the KZfaq for similar test and apparently no one is doing this.

Interesting that you do not trust other independent studies to prove that after more than a year of sales the Geopress does do what it says, If other people got sick from drinking the water you think it would still be on the market?, and yes it does work better when you loosen the pour cap. Sorry the instructions do not provide better pictures.

I’m a weirdo in Canada. I won’t be subscribing

I use mine every single day. Filters are cheaper than bottled water and i even filter the tap water in hotels and everywhere i travel