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Offline barneys

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water to your shower
« on: January 15, 2012, 05:21:37 PM »
hi i am wondering  the people who pump water straight out of a  river  . do you use a filter before your pump . as where we go camping the water has a bit of floaty stuff in it . its out of a water tank  of a roof under trees .
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Re: water to to you shower
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2012, 06:05:23 PM »
when i did this i was sucking water out of a jerry can, that i had taken from straight a river. i saw plenty of little floaties. really interested in the responses of people that may filter it.
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2012, 06:09:09 PM »
Pump from a gerry can, water may of come from home, a tap at the park or the river. I just have a strainer in the line which only takes care of things that are going to damage the pump.

I dont like to put water back in the creek with soap and the likes, it would need to be a long hose and a good pump to pull it the distance we normally camp away from it.

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2012, 06:20:07 PM »
i am pumping from drums but after  about  5 showers we have  to pull the hose of the heater and  clean the strainer. what iam looking for is something that i could put at the end of my hose so i do not have to pull  my heater a part  so often 
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2012, 06:49:35 PM »
This is the inline strainer I have in my system, came with the shower

http://piranhaoffroad.com.au/index.php/default/power-shower/power-shower-clear-water-filter.html

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2012, 06:57:01 PM »
thanks for that gg patrol thats what i want
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2012, 07:14:50 PM »
The other place to have a look is in the big green shed with the hammer out the front in the irrigation section

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2012, 07:17:24 PM »
lol that description sounds like it came from the abc thankyou
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2012, 05:47:18 AM »
We use a lightweight cotton babies sock stretched over the pump.
10 for $3 from Best and less.
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2012, 01:38:57 PM »
thanks went to the big green shed got the same as that but in black $5.00
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2012, 02:08:02 PM »
Quote from: GGPatrol on January 15, 2012, 06:49:35 PM
This is the inline strainer I have in my system, came with the shower

http://piranhaoffroad.com.au/index.php/default/power-shower/power-shower-clear-water-filter.html

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Jayco's have those fitted underneath ,I also have inline (clip on) filter for dodgy mains water, haven't step to pump from rivers/dam/tanks etc. we usually carry seperate drinking water anyway
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2012, 03:10:45 PM »
I used to use two bits of wood with some small holes and some tie wire .
And I would put the end of the hose between them ( about a foot ) and tie it in so that I could throw it out in the deeper water and it floated with about a foot of hose hanging down in the water so to get the cleanest part .
Also tied a bit of stocking over the end to keep the first lot of bugs out .
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2012, 07:09:05 PM »
Some time ago we paid $$'s [can't remember how much but it was a approx. $100] for a "you beaut" dual cartridge water filter - supposed to filter out all the "nasties".

Result, muddy river water still looked the same! So since then, when I run out of town water, I have drawn the water from the creek/dam etc, let it rest overnight, then syphoned off the clean water the next morning.
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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2012, 07:16:37 PM »
I use a BEST water filter every time I fill my campers water tank

http://www.bestwaterfilters.com.au/

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2012, 08:30:07 PM »
X2 for the sock.

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2012, 07:40:19 AM »
Quote from: GGPatrol on January 15, 2012, 06:49:35 PM
This is the inline strainer I have in my system, came with the shower

http://piranhaoffroad.com.au/index.php/default/power-shower/power-shower-clear-water-filter.html

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I had one of these are they are totally useless. I only ever used my "inlet" in High country rivers that are pretty clean but these filters are too coarse and let large particles through even for those rivers. My sureflow pump kept stopping because it's diaphram got particles in it. I had to strip it down and buy new pump diaphrams 3 times in one year.

I went to a disc filter like http://www.wetearth.com.au/irrigation-filters and have never had a problem since.

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Re: water to to your shower
« Reply #16 on: January 29, 2012, 06:31:50 PM »
Quote from: boobook on January 27, 2012, 07:40:19 AM
I had one of these are they are totally useless. I only ever used my "inlet" in High country rivers that are pretty clean but these filters are too coarse and let large particles through even for those rivers. My sureflow pump kept stopping because it's diaphram got particles in it. I had to strip it down and buy new pump diaphrams 3 times in one year.

I went to a disc filter like http://www.wetearth.com.au/irrigation-filters and have never had a problem since.


Which one did you get? They seem to jump in price quickly.

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