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- Tim's Homestead Journal - Purchase a copy of Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Purchase 6 Decks of Permaculture Cards -
- Purchase 12x Decks of Permaculture Cards - Purchase a copy of the SKIP Book - Purchase 12x copies of Building a Better World in your Backyard
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John Daley Bendigo, Australia The Enemy of progress is the hope of a perfect plan
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GOOD DEBT/ BAD DEBT https://permies.com/t/179218/mortgages-good-debt-bad-debt
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- Tim's Homestead Journal - Purchase a copy of Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Purchase 6 Decks of Permaculture Cards -
- Purchase 12x Decks of Permaculture Cards - Purchase a copy of the SKIP Book - Purchase 12x copies of Building a Better World in your Backyard
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Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
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Jay Angler wrote:Are we dreaming here, Timothy??? If so, I'd like one with either a foot or knee control so I can use both hands to do the important stuff, and not get dirty hands on the spigots.
Small-holding, coppice and grassland management on a 16-acre site.
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Jay Angler wrote:Are we dreaming here, Timothy??? If so, I'd like one with either a foot or knee control so I can use both hands to do the important stuff, and not get dirty hands on the spigots.
My outdoor sink is used when processing ducks/chickens/geese, so that hands-free thing has been on my wish list for years now.
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Jay Angler wrote:Are we dreaming here, Timothy??? If so, I'd like one with either a foot or knee control so I can use both hands to do the important stuff
- Tim's Homestead Journal - Purchase a copy of Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Purchase 6 Decks of Permaculture Cards -
- Purchase 12x Decks of Permaculture Cards - Purchase a copy of the SKIP Book - Purchase 12x copies of Building a Better World in your Backyard
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Glad you approve, Tim.Timothy Norton wrote:This is a great recommendation, it was not even on my radar as being something I should look at.
I can't tell you how many times my hands have been covered in something and I HAVE to dirty the handles. I'm going to look parts and pieces but it seems like a straight forward concept!
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"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato
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Jay Angler wrote:For people who don't want to go the foot root, Luke's first picture showing a lever style shut-off is also awesome. If it's fastened down, or is one of the fancier kitchen faucets where a lever handle is an option, some of those can at least be elbow operated .
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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:Consider scrounging the sink -- I regularly see stainless steel with taps attached at the local take-it-or-leave-it, or in the metal recycling bin within easy reach.
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Jay Angler wrote:Are we dreaming here, Timothy??? If so, I'd like one with either a foot or knee control so I can use both hands to do the important stuff, and not get dirty hands on the spigots.
If you ran the water pipe somewhere within reach of your knees, you could use a standard lever-valve to start/stop the water flow...[images snipped]
I probably just broke the formatting and made a mess on that quote, sorry. But thank you so much for these ideas! I'm not sure if I'll make these dreams a reality, but I joined a community garden this year and became part of it's "backend crew" at the composting outhouse. The place we wash our hands after dumping the most recent poop+wood chips into the active composting toter and pumping urine into a large tank where it ages just has circular spigots we turn with our upper forearms, and it would be great if we replaced one of them with a lever so we could turn water on and off with a single elbow or knee. I might look into that. There's usually something closer to the outhouse where most people wash their hands, but we still don't want to touch it with our hands until we've cleaned them.
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Phil Sabin wrote:we make one - but in Europe!!
The electric pump taps are designed for water cooler bottles
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My projects on Skye: The tree field, Growing and landracing, perennial polycultures, "Don't dream it - be it! "
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Nancy Reading wrote:Hands free, foot operated and low tech hand washing.
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Coydon Wallham wrote:To free yourself from pressurized hoses and dirty handles, this can be used anywhere: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S59ULW0?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
I've built two sink setups with this model, the hoses running from a 5ish gallon bucket/pot and to a piece of brake line bent to resemble a kitchen sink faucet and bolted to the opening on a sink.
I like it a bit better than the ones used at Wheaton Labs. Those seemed to produce more water flow per pump, but their complexity also seemed associated with more failures (though mileage on those was also likely much higher). The simple round one also gives a bit of control over the rate of flow depending on how much pressure you place on the diaphragm.
I do like that the pressurized valve ones are all metal though. Whichever one you do use, just be sure it isn't left set up on a night when a hard frost is possible...
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