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If you’re going to use silicone please use aquarium safe silicone… other silicones have toxins in them.

We studied with Billy Kniffen who was with Texas A&M Extension. I think he trained the guy who wrote those books. We got a book from Billy called Rainwater Harvesting Planning and Installation offered through Texas A&M Extension. It has so much critical information that we call it our rain water bible. LoL! You might look for it! I hope your tanks fill up this summer!

Simple, no pretence, straight to the point. Thanks for the great tips.

Great video! These are tips that would be hard to anticipate without the experience that you've gained the hard way. One of the functions of any pioneer is to scout the territory and report back to the folks following behind. Thanks for breaking trail.

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience with us Jim! It looks like you have your system really dialed in. Let the rain begin!

Why not get a couple of 55 gallon drums, use the first one for a debris filter, the second one fills 3/4 before dumping into your other tanks. Some people set up a diverter, so the first 5 gallons dump on the ground taking all the crap with it, so you just get clean rainwater.

Always wise to listen to folks who learned the hard way !

This video made me wonder why you guys didn't drain the poly tanks while there was no rain and move them closer to shed, so that initial catchment was poly tanks with cistern as overflow? Probably something I'm missing.

You're so articulate with thoughtful presentation that inspires me to do this in the future. Thank you.

There is no substitute for good planning/design 🔥⛈🦠

Such a great, organized, concise video. Seriously underrated channel!

It might be wise to add a cleanable U trap between the horizontal collector pipe and the down-across-up link to the tank farm. Your filters will keep out most bugs and big particles but dust and sand may get through and over time block that underground gray pipe.

Thanks Jim for going over how you have changed your system since the first time you were harvesting rain water. I really enjoyed this.

Great video. One thing I notice is those looooong horizontal stretches of pipe over the cistern. They will sag within a year based on my experience. This may be OK for you and if not, think about support to keep them straight before they kind of melt-sag based on sun :)

Thank you Jim and Jessica for sharing your rainwater harvesting experience. These are very helpful considerations and I appreciate your generosity. ❤

Thank you guys for your time and energy in sharing your journey with us.

Can you show us how much you've collected with the last week of storms? I am so looking forward to seeing the payoff, to all your work, with rainwater pouring into those plastic tanks! :)

Good to see you'll be saving and using you're own water supply and looks good how you've done it to me...I understood why you changed it now from the old system all trail and error but that's how you learn love watching you both always amazing 👏

Thank you both for sharing your experiences in this whole process.

Dreamed of moving out there before I moved. When googling the areas I always saw these gaint green circles. I hope those who can drain wells are listening and reevaluate thier systems. Will check out your other vid and pick up a copy of those books. Thanks

Thanks for sharing! These are super helpful tips and suggestions ....

❤️❤️I love you two! You are so down to earth! 😂😂it’s such a wonderful undertaking!

I hope to build a small system for my garden one day. I appreciate the info. Thank you!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. This will help many!

Beautiful rainbow. Very well thought out, I appreciate the tip about the 90's most.

Nothing will seal the gutter when they are 100" long as the expansion and contraction of the Aluminum is going to either take the joints apart or take the screws loose and then they come down.

Flex seal....yeah baby! Glad you used it.😁

Its so true that you learn by doing and sometimes re-doing.😉 Thanks for sharing, you brought up ideas that I can incorporate into my eight yr old water catchment system. Also love Brad Lancaster's books 📚.

Jim. Excellent video. Straight to the point. Thank you.

Such a ambitious and ingenious system.. just amazing Jim .

jest gutters, live in Oregon have to clean my gutters twice a year they plug up, I know down in your neck of the woods no gutter on any houses you are going the right direction thanks

Curios, have you thought about moving your poly tanks closer to a direct flow and then have the overflow go to your cistern? Just a question since you brought it up. I am interested in moving somewhere to the desert and your videos as well as others are a big help.

It`s always such a pleasure looking at your videos.. I really love all Jess arts, she is so talented. Love all the types of work that you do, we can learn from you. Cape Town South Africa

having the screens like you do now can allow you to remove and clean/replace as needed as well. Great info Jim & Jess!

Great video. Totally agree about Brad Lancaster's books.

To think you could have only put out such an excellent video on water catchment was from all your previous missteps. Nice job!

Thanks Jim one of are customers might try water harvesting her well only yields 2 gpm and she has a lot of horses she has a indoor riding arena 200 by 75 feet and may opt to only use halve of it we get a lot more rain here in Alberta thanks for the tips.

I'd be interested in how much water you end up getting in the underground cistern (during the monsoon season) Also, please answer why you didn't move the poly tanks closer to the end of the shed (between the shed and underground cistern) as that would have simplified your piping considerably

Super good info when I set up my rain water harvesting.

Thank you it was helpful to generate my system in the woods 🎉

Great explanation 🙏

Thanks for sharing this video and your rainwater harvest tips. How often do you sweep the perimeter of the cistern roof to minimize dust and dirt from entering your cistern? Wishing you and Jessica a blessed summer season with abundant rain and moderate sleeping temperatures. Peace brother.

super informative, thank you!!

Thanks for the information. You are absolutely correct about the hard 90's - you want to avoid those, You may want to split to multiple 30's or 45's to make the bends and limit those. Also, as someone else mentioned, I'd move the two tanks closer to the roof. I'd also cover them to try and keep the water cooler and less evaporation. Why the exposed black pipe- is that for cold nights?

Thanks for the tips Mr. Jim. Time to catch some water now! Good luck and keep us updated.

Awesome video thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for your humerus you and knowledge

Thanks for these! Very helpful

Thanks for Taking the time to make this

Jim...great job!!! May I suggest that you form the filter screens over a ball or cone before installing them...that way any debris will deflect and not clog the screen. Keep up the great work...very inspiring indeed.

Thanks guys💯💙

I like making dirt, catching rain and converting sunshine into energy. I have other hobbies but those are among my favorites.

Thanks for the video! Was recently wondering about filtering the water from harvesting which might contain bird poop. Would love to see a video on how people treat harvested water. Thanks!

Here in Florida we put sand point wells in normally down to 20-25 feet and have fresh water on tap,

Good usable information, take care and God bless amen.

Well spoken thoughtful video. Thank you for sharing all these tips. You might have read Geoff Lawton, an expert on water retention for soil.

It looks great! I hope you collect a whole lot of water from your system.

Hello friend, I've watched about 8 episodes of ur efforts out there, & I'm enjoying ur progress, as ur moving along. That 14,000 gallon cistern was an impressive build. Nice design too.***!!! Love Brthrn Jeff B.

super good video!! great info. I hope it makes you lots of money.

Thanks for the video! :)

Good information and tips. Experience is the best teacher.

Thank you.

Thank you for the information guys. I used to do MEP engineering drawings, and the slope is highly crucial to pressure and rate of flow. I'm assuming the angles in the pipes are there to allow easier passage through there. Does it affect the water's ability to travel with ease? Just curious 😀

Great job on this video.

Research is the way to go. Your doing a good job

Tank you for you information

Thanks for sharing! Most of Arizona have desert like environment but I wonder Why people/you don't live in the Northern part like Flagstaff areas??

Good Job there Jim !!!!

System looks great If you find the 4 inch screens building up with dirt They make 4" to 6" PVC adaptors Might help with clogging Also if some of you may have problems thinking these sweeps may be to restrictive In electrical the 4" PVC sweeps have a much larger radius

Great information.

great information 😎

Ha I have a request Please You have a large rain roof With a wet drain to your tanks When you get heavy rain.. With your rain gauge You can monitor the flow in the 4inch PVC. If If hits maximum flow the screened tees in your system should over flow And which ones started / where over flowing If you can keep tract of those numbers That could help some of us designing a similar system.. ,(I have read what the books say their flow rate should be But yours is the real world) 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Thank You

Thank you sir.

Thank you

Thanks for the good tips. If your only water source is rain water you need to have the ability to catch as much of it as you can while it’s raining. We get pine needle build up in our gutters and in the screen that covers the downspout. We lose some water because of it but luckily for us in SE Alaska, rain is not in short supply😂

Me encantó este tipo de reflexión de aprendizaje.

Love yall

Great info, and the editing was awesome

Yep thumps up here too!

Very well done but logical things to think about.

I didn't know that about silicone, thanks!

You should also put a slight down turn on your sheets of iron, this will stop water running back under the panels

Flexible PVC is great for rainwater harvesting. Can be curved and go around bends without needing fittings to make the turns.

Someday in the future, You could expand the roof a bit to cover the RVs, and colect a bit more rain while saving the RVs roof from the scorching sun.

Good suggestions

thank you

Great video

Amazing trailblazing!

Can you get circle large surface area over the storage tank too.?a step system down slopes just to get a water flowing faster.

Enjoyed the show

Jim, if you are anything like me you will do it at least three times before you get it right. The system you have should work well but you will have fine dirt build up in the pipe underground which will be a problem over time. Build a diverter to catch the first flush and this should solve the problem.

how large is your poly tanks and your cistern? and how did you size it because im in a similar situation here in mexico where i have some what similar weather patterens as you do in arizona

Hi guys , I'm far from being a expert like some of the people so I'll just follow along and pay attention . Keep it close , keep it simple.....gotcha👍

At least you are getting some good rain this year, here in Sierra Vista, we didn't get a lot last year. This year is another story as I'm sure you know.

jim , great job on the video

Thx for the video. My question is regarding freezing temperatures. Do you have to insulate pipes to keep from freezing? I am using 55 gal blue barrels and worried about water freezing and cracking my barrels. I havent seen anybody address this.

As a young farmer...you have really inspired

Excellent information but I have a problem with having screened catchers a little ways down from my roof and when it rains really hard they overflow. Somewhere I read that there is an optimum distance between the heights of the downspout intake and the height of the intake on the storage tank. Do you know what this distance should be. The distance between the downspout and the top of the tank is now is about 12". thank you

Two questions... 1) Why didn't you build your pole barn high enough to park your RVs under? 2a) Why drop down to (under)ground level, the ten foot section at the end of your gutter run? 2b) Why not just run the pipe straight across to the cistern and then over to the black holding tanks? (Ok, technically three questions...lol} Thanks and I enjoy your videos.