Use the Westy tank for personal hygiene and bring a couple or five gallon
jugs of spring water from Safeway/home.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]
|On Behalf Of Rocket J Squirrel
|Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 4:18 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Filling water tank when no hose is available
|(GoWesty connector)
|
|On 08/17/2013 09:19 AM, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
|> All sounds good, Mr. Squirrel.  When I am at a suitable water source
|> such as your river, I just use a bucket.  Pump is more eloquent, I
|> suppose, but also requires more stuff and more doing.
|
|Aye, that it does. But the particular bank I plan to camp on
|on this particular river is quite steep and the water hits
|waist-deep about 6''
|from the "shore." Current's strong, too. There isn't a place
|to stand and dip water. Would need to immerse myself, then
|somehow haul myself and the bucket up the steep bank. Then do
|it a few more times. Thus the pump and hose I will toss in the water.
|
|The pump and its hose are heavier than water. They would sink
|to the bottom and pump up silt if I just tossed them in. So
|I'll use a float to keep the pump up off the bottom. The pump
|will dangle on 2' of hose below the float. An anchor (a mesh
|bag of rocks, really) will keep the pump and float from
|drifting downstream.
|
|I think I've designed this to work. And possibly win an award
|for most complicated way to go about doing anything, ever.
|
|> BTW, what water treatment do you use?  If I am going to use
|the water
|> without boiling, I use chlorine bleach.
|
|I'm going back and forth between chlorine bleach and iodine.
|Both effective, both cheap, both e-z-2-do, but both taste
|crummy. There are other methods but they are not inexpensive
|or don't easily handle larger volumes of water like in the
|Westy fresh water tank.
|
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|Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
|1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
|Bend, Ore.