To sleep and never wake up, it might be just the trick. Somebody died from carbon monoxide poisoning in a van from a nearby generator in 2019. Sleeping in a closed vehicle above the exhaust doesn’t seem any safer. How can you be certain there are no leaks?Seriously. Using the vehicle engine while y...

This year I'll be sleeping in the back of a U-Haul cargo van and I'm planning to start the engine in order to run the AC during the day if necessary. I'm bringing a 5-gal gas in case I ran out. Now the van will be under a carport tall enough to allow air to flow in-between. I'm also planning to use ...

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Fri Aug 05, 2022 12:03 pm

not to be pedantic, but, do you have 1500 gallons of grey water storage? Just curious how you'll deal with it once it's not clean water any more?

Fair question. We have a gi·nor·mous gray water tank we'll be pumping it to.

For every 2 feet 4 inches of elevation, you get 1PSI from a water column. Let’s say your your big-ass-tank is 7 feet tall. When chock-full, it will start with a whopping 3PSI of water pressure and will progressively get lower with water consumption. Residential water pressure is 30 - 50 PSI, for re...

This year our camp is getting a gi·nor·mous 1500-gallon water tank which according to the vendor has a garden hose type of connection. We're planning to distribute the water to the kitchen and shower sections using garden hoses and something like this: https://imgur.com/a/TLd4GGm Since the water tan...

Sheesh, you’re overthinking this. It’s a 6” bung. Vast! Cavernous! And the IBC tote has a metal frame. 48” x 40” if memory serves. Take a scrap piece of 4’ 2x4 or similar. Drill a couple holes at each end near the 40” mark centered. Zip tie it to the metal frame dead-center balls-on accurate. Run y...

I just got an idea based on Molotov's suggestion. I could use the following PVC fitting: https://imgur.com/a/mifG9iF Then, use a 2ft PVC section attached on the bottom and just "insert" the whole thing through the top opening of the tank. The PVC output width will be smaller than the opening so that...

Thanks everyone!

Just to clarify: I'm not trying to connect the pump to the bottom connection but to the top one.

I want to leave the hoses connected at all times since the pumps will turn on automatically when needed

My camp is renting one of those large IBC gray water tanks from USS: https://imgur.com/a/yffQM1X. We'll have a total of 2 pumps around the camp that we'll use to pump gray water from different places into the gray water tank. My question is: how should we connect the pumps to the port on the top of ...