Ideas for Carrying and xfer of water to fresh tank

I pull two two of these filled 7 gallon blue water jugs:


in my little red wagon.

Wagon is useful for firewood and Granddaughter also.

And I use my water pump in my trailer to pump into the freshwater tank. I used some valves and tubing from water heater bypass kits to allow pump to do both chores (pump water into trailer for use and with some valves changed - pump water into the fresh water tank from the blue water containers.

Ed

When I know the spigot could be a distance I carry 300' of that flat hose + 50' of regular white hose. Has served well a few times. Get some wheels if you are going to lug much water very far BTDT.

I hardwired a 12V RV water pump in the pass through, which is next to the fresh water inlet. Inlet of the water pump has a SS dip tube and plastic tubing, outlet is a water line to the fresh water tank inlet. I fill a 7 gallon water jug at the campsite water and back at the trailer put the dip tube in the water jug vent and turn on the pass through pump. Repeat as necessary. 7 gallons is easy enough for me to carry around as needed and gives a decent amount of water. One trip is usually good for a days water, occasionally a second trip is needed.

Sure solves the biggest problem for me, lifting the water jug high enough and long enough to dump it into the tank through a funnel.

kalynzoo wrote:
When I upgraded my original ShurFlo I gave the old one to my friend who often dry camps. Mounted on a board the Shurflo clips on the battery and pumps the water from a Sparklets bottle into the MH. Works for him.

This is what I do. I don't have the luxury of having lots of room, as many of you do. Spending more than 40 years of tent and backpacking, my RV life follows the same rule, "anything going into my pack has to have at least two uses or more." I have a back up for my mounted Water Pump and it provides service as an auxiliary water pumper.

On my many exploring treks, on my motorcycle, I often take a 6 gal Wally World water jug with me and fill it up at potable water sources to bring back to my boondock location. These Jugs are transferred into my Potable Water tank via my ShurFlo aux pump mounted on a 12"X14" board, with filter. One of the enjoyable things about boondocking is not needing to go into town, even when something fails (redundancy/backups).

Also, the higher flow pumps, like the Home Depot model showed previously, pumps so fast I couldn't keep up with picking up the jugs, pouring into a dedicated 5 gal potable water bucket (that has a bulkhead fitting, with a short hose is attached, and then to the Water pump) setting down and picking up another one of my 6 Jugs to pour into the 5g transfer bucket.

When needing extra "things" for boondocking, I often ask; "What are you doing to conserve, to lessen your needs?" In this case, Potable Water?" I have a Water Bottles (Bicycle Bottle/Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce Bottle) next to the kitchen sink (use for washing hands/Rinsing glasses n' stuff) and the toilet (to rinse down the fluids and Solids) without needing to turn on the faucets/water pump (less gray water too). Many go out for boondocking (not going into towns) for weeks, I go for months. Water Conservation stretches the need to replenish, a potable water supply, exponentially.

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Happy Prospector wrote:

Mootpoint wrote:

We use this system with a 12v pump when gravity won't do.
I also have one rigged with connecters to my macerator. Simply pump in waste water reattach macerator to tank and pump out at dump station.
DO NOT get the tanks mixed up!!!!!!!! :S

I was just curious, do you use your bladder tank for black waste also or just grey water?

Both.
I pump out both every 4 to 5 days. After dumping, I pick up fresh water in the other. I have used this system at Quartzsite quite a bit.

Mootpoint wrote:

We use this system with a 12v pump when gravity won't do.
I also have one rigged with connecters to my macerator. Simply pump in waste water reattach macerator to tank and pump out at dump station.
DO NOT get the tanks mixed up!!!!!!!! :S

I was just curious, do you use your bladder tank for black waste also or just grey water?

JnJnKatiebug wrote:
I use one of these, Portable RV Fresh Water Tank and it works perfect. No pump needed.

We use this system with a 12v pump when gravity won't do.
I also have one rigged with connecters to my macerator. Simply pump in waste water reattach macerator to tank and pump out at dump station.
DO NOT get the tanks mixed up!!!!!!!! :S

Queens Carriage wrote:
you could use the pump in the MH just put in a couple of T's and valves.

or.....

If you got a winterizer inlet you can always use that. No custom plumbing needed other than to extend your winterizer inlet tube to desired length to suck in more water. Just turn the fill valve to on and turn on the pump.

I haven't read all the suggestions, too lazy.....but I'll answer anyway. We bought a $30.00 (3 yrs ago) pump from Harbor Freight. Works great and I swear, fills the tank faster than just using the hose and faucet. And we have the blue barrels, too....one for fresh water and one for emptying the grey/black tanks... :)

I bought a 12volt pump, cut the wires and spliced in a 7 way trailer plug. Then I bought a 50 gallon ag drum from Tractor Supply and the system has worked great for years. Hook the drum to the pump and the pump to the trailer. Plug in the pump and you are moving water!
C