How do I haul water to my camper ?

[Happy_Camper3]

I just got my camper placed on my land. It's too far for any local water ..

I plan on leaving the camper there all year


Am I suppose to haul twelve 5 gallon jugs of water up there every weekend ?

what does everyone else do ? I plan on having a well put in after a few years

[mbopp]

Grit dog wrote:
Couple 55 gal barrels in the back of the pickup and a hand pump or little puddle sucker to transfer.

If you're lucky you can get them to siphon feed into the trailer water tank.

[riven1950]

Don't know if this is practical in your area, but if you have sufficient rainfall during the summer you could collect rainwater, especially if you happen to have an outbuilding etc in addition to the rv to increase surface area for collection. Could be filtered some and used except for drinking. Many similar systems in use in Mexico / Central America / Islands where water systems are not reliable. Of course you must have enough rainfall / collection ability to justify the system. Just trying to think of something no one else mentioned.

[RinconVTR]

nitrohorse wrote:
Use Reverse Osmosis. You can recoup the water from your grey and black tanks.
That will save you the amount of water you must haul.

Cool idea, but not practical. This would require 2-3 prefilters ahead of the RO filters, which I dont think you would want to ever change without a gas mask and rubber gloves! And, the sheer number of prefilters required would be a $$$ shocker.

You also need contant line pressure to run the RO, meaning your trailer pump would be cycling all the time as water is filter and it filled the small stoarge expansion tank.

Worst of all, many solids would remain in the tanks and slowly harden at the bottom, much like a septic tank, if they are never drained/flushed.

Sorry for the long winded take down, but I wanted to squash this before someone really spends money to try it!

[RoyB]

The tank can be almost anything in the back of your truck. A empty 30 GALLON BLUE TOTE with wheels doesn't weigh hardly anything.

You can carry this is the truck bed real easy and use any number of 12VDC PUMPs to transfer the water... No big effort on your part at all...



Then get another one those TOTE tanks (different color or PAINT it RED to know which is waste water) and use it to haul off all of your waste water. Just be sure the tote is bigger that the tank you are emptying so you don't over fill it and mess up the back of the truck bed...

The Flojet 18555-000 Waste Water Pump is a great waste water kit that will connect to your trailer waste valve and transfer to the tank in the back of the truck...


Don't get caught pumping waste water on the ground... Not worth the fine...

Just my thoughts
Roy Ken

[skipnchar]

There are basically only three ways to get water into your RV. The EASIEST is to hook up to an existing water source but doesn't sound like that's possible in your case. The NEXT easiest method is to take your RV to the nearest water source and fill it. One of the beauties of RVs being so portable. The last and least favored is to carry water to your RV for use on the site. You can use about any METHOD of carrying it you like. Probably the lowest cost is to purchase 6 gallon plastic jubs (Wallmart at a cost of around $7.00 each) and the MOST costly would be to purchase an appropriately sized water tank for the back of a truck. YOu lcan siphon it (almost free) or add a water pump like the one in your RV for a modest investment in the pump and somewhat larger one in the tank.

I ALMOST always use a combination of taking the RV to the water source plus carrying more water than the RV can cold (6 gallon jugs) but I let the exact method depend on the situation.

Good luck / Skip

[nitrohorse]

Use Reverse Osmosis. You can recoup the water from your grey and black tanks.
That will save you the amount of water you must haul.

[Jack_Diane_Free]

I have a 25 gal water tank that I put in the back of pickup. Fill with water and use 12v transfer pump.

[liquidspaceman]

Happy.Camper wrote:
I just got my camper placed on my land. It's too far for any local water ..

I plan on leaving the camper there all year


Am I suppose to haul twelve 5 gallon jugs of water up there every weekend ?

what does everyone else do ? I plan on having a well put in after a few years

Unless you have a Magic Water Machine, anything you do is going to require either the manual labor of transferring the water by hand and/or using large barrels/containers plus some kind of truck/atv/etc to haul it in.

The only other option would be some kind of pump and piping leading from water source directly to you or a well.

This is the reason why remote locations are not popular real estate because it takes hard work or lots of money to get water in easily.

[firemedic08]

We have a Friend who Uses a Totewith lid From Walmart, that he Plumbed a 12 Volt Pump into and uses that to fill his. He has had a permenant Lot for years and still uses this method instead of drilling a well. Works great.

[thirtydaZe]

take this opportunity to get a nice atv and tank trailer. :thumbsup:

[Grit_dog]

Couple 55 gal barrels in the back of the pickup and a hand pump or little puddle sucker to transfer.

[Bionic_Man]

I have one from High Country plastics for when I boondock. I used a spare water pump to transfer. Works great.

High Plains

[2oldman]

Happy.Camper wrote:
Am I suppose to haul twelve 5 gallon jugs of water up there every weekend ?

Only if you want to do it as cheaply as possible and work your buns off. I had custom tanks made at watertanks.com

Water tanks in bed