EASIEST WAY to daisy chain water barrels (low cost and effective)

Catching rainwater for your garden is very economical. There’s no electricity, no where in tear on your well pump. Everything works with gravity so it’s very reliable

[jaswas]

This is freaking awesome. With all the money I’ll save on fittings I can get more barrels. Thank you very much. Subbed.

[steelesarahruth]

This worked perfectly! So much easier (and cheaper) than the other methods I found for connecting multiple rain barrels

[cellblock]

Yes it works great. I used a pool cleaning pipe and work really well since more water can flow through. My barrels are open from top so did have much difficulty. Used ziplog bags with small stones and zip tied it to on end of the pipe so it does not come out wile I was filling the other end but once the system is set it stays in place. Thanks for this great tip saveed a lot of money and made maintenance so easy since nothing is glued

[bl]

I was skeptical from the video pic but when I saw what you were actually doing, makes perfect sense. Nice idea

[douglaswindsor]

The nice thing is you don't need to have the barrel close to each other mine is twenty feet away from each other they still equalize

[greenearthblueskies]

Thanks so much. I had barrels, just couldn’t afford all of those required fittings. This is more economical for me

[billp]

Thanks so much!! It's hard to find info on connecting barrels from above. Most of the pictures show barrels connected at the bottom. I didn't know if it was even possible. Thanks!

[ml]

Been looking for this for a while. Thanks :)

[janestewart]

I liked this idea, but didn’t have any luck with this method and it grossed my water in the rain barrel. I went back to installing bulkhead fittings about 4” off the bottoms, and linked 5/8” hose pieces (I added new end fittings) between each barrel, using water splitters to daisy chain them together. It works so well for me!

[misterlarryb]

I am amazed and confused! When I heard "syphon" I thought you had to prime the system each time it rained. I definitely should have taken a hydro-dynamics course or watched more Mr. Wizard (or Bill Nye for you younger folk!). I'm trying to catch up and understand water levels and pressures and open vs vented systems... but then I'm famous for overthinking things. This definitely "opened" up some possibilities! Now if I can just figure how to apply this to a downspout diverter so I don't flood my foundation. Thanks for inspiration and ideas!

[familyfruit]

First time I've seen this done with BREAD!

[booz]

Thank you for this informative video. I would like to add my recent experience. I find that I don’t need to make sure that my hose is filled with water for it to flow… seems as though when it begins to rains, and as the first barrel filled up … so did the hose inside it. Once first barrel was full, the hose pushed through water to the next barrel automatically.

[bossdog]

Neat trick with the bread. Had to sub just for that.

[janestewart]

Thank you for this! I'm trying to do these on a budget and this will help! I just love learning new tricks like the siphon & bread plug.
I did want to ask how you keep mosquitoes out as I didn’t see any kind of screening. Mosquito dunks? Could I drill out the interior threaded bung hole cover and silicone it in place?

[jaswas]

I also suspect it doesn’t matter how long the hose is as long as it is filled with water to chain to other barrels around the yard.

[robinm]

How long is your hose? My barrels are exactly like yours and they sit side by side like yours as well.

[jamesgould]

Two questions for you: What's the diameter of the ag hose? Also do you need to put 10 gals. of water in each barrel or just the one barrel? Thank you

[shamachelon]

Hi! New here, quick question:

Do you have a video on the (i assume, but can’t quite tell) mini storage you did to allow rainwater runoff? Or how to do a water catchment system

[ndawg]

SPIGot not SPICKot
Great tip gonna try this on my six barrels.

[torimarshall]

Is there another name for "agricultural pipe?" I'm having a hard time finding it, whatever it is.