Water for off grid hunting cabin?

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For those who has off grid hunting cabin what do you use for water supply?

Anybody drill their own well or perhaps the easier sand point well?
 
Not off grid but we don't have running water. We bring bottles and blue jugs from home and I am lucky that there is 3 small lakes within walking distance to get water for showers and what not, we just reuse old water jugs from the grocery. I also had a "water wagon" built with a 50l sprayer type barrel and a diaphragm pump that I was going to use to fill up at the lake and bring it back to fill one of those 1000l water containers but we don't use enough water to need it. I'm lucky enough in my area that I can have bulk water delivered, so that is an option for filling the 1000l each spring if I ever need to. My neighbor had a sandpoint put in maybe 10 years ago, said it cost him 6k, he seems to be happy with it.
 
There is a spring about 100 yards from my cabin that I have considered developing into a source for water as right now it is a mucky seep that develops into a little stream. However, the rain we collect off the steel roof has more than met our needs. Walking down the hill to get water just seems like unnecessary effort. Our drinking water is filtered rain water. It's not so good in the 2nd week of November, though. We keep a couple full blue jugs in the cabin for when the rain barrel outside is liable to freeze. Previous camp had an insulated/heated space to store rain water that was up high to allow a gravity system.
 
at my camp I collect rain water in 2 250 litre tanks. I twined them together and hooked them up to a 12 volt rv pump we have a shower sink toilet and that pump keeps up no problem. when we're low on water I throw a submersible into the lake and fill the tanks
I know of some other camps that put lines down I to the lake and pump it up but they need the generator on all the time my 12 volt pump works just fine.
 
Drinking water I bring from home. Our local community center used to have a spigot but closed it down when COVID showed up.

As for shower, toilet and sinks, I've had it with lake water in my systems - tired of the scum that gets left behind. Next year I am going to try and dig a well.

How are you guys filtering the rainwater?
 
12v solar with an automotive battery, diaphragm pump pulling from the lake. Built in pressure switch, expansion tank up hill and a propane instant water heater for the shower and sinks. Fly in with drinking water or boil and brita
 
I have three remote hunting cabins, I use a pump powered by a generator into a 50 gallon plastic reservoir mounted high for gravity feeding to the kitchen/WR. We rigged float valves in the reservoir and auto on/off on the generator. When the reservoir gets down to 1/2 full it automatically refills. If we are going to be gone for more than a week we drain the tank and refill on return.
 
Thank you for all the great ideas.

Anybody knows how to locate water and how dowsing work and how to find the depth?

Even non potable water for shower, washing hands etc is al I am after.
 
Spcamno said:
Thank you for all the great ideas.

Anybody knows how to locate water and how dowsing work and how to find the depth?

Even non potable water for shower, washing hands etc is al I am after.
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Dowsing is an artform in itself, only used it once to find a cable at an airport. Maintenance guy there was a big believer and got me to do it. Still skeptical, but not as much.
 
I have a neighbor here that dug his own well. Just went out with a shovel and did the deed. Now it has to be said that hitting water here is pretty easy. I live atop a huge hill, but water depth is close to the surface. His well is 15' deep. I have an old dug well behind the house here that's at 13' and had not run dry in that last 20 years. I think it was pretty close a couple of years back though.
Our moose camp is on a swamp, so our rough washing water comes from a well tile set in at the swamps edge and brought in by pails. We also have a rain tank filled by the roof gutter that runs the tap in the kitchen.
We go in by ATV and trailers, so taking in drinking water is no big deal.
At my first deer camp, we hauled water up from the lake, and brought the drinking water. But then we found a friendly neighbor that let us get water from his well.

Showers? what's that?;)

We do have a shower set up at the moose camp. It's an old shower stall with a hand wand in it. Water is pumped with a 12V pump from a bucket that's heated on the wood stove.
 
We bring in a blue jug of water and leave it all season, topping it off from a dedicated jerry can that we bring back to town. That's for drinking water. Outside we have two large rain barrels that we use for washing up.
 
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