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Wicking beds from IBC scrap

July 21, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

In an earlier post I made a suggestion about what to do with the IBC tote scrap after cutting them up for aquaponics. The suggestion was to use it for making wicking beds. Below you can find the picture of my wicking bed with the tote scrap. A wicking bed is essentially 24″ or less […]

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Putting it all together 4/4

July 13, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

The final step is finally here. It’s taken me a couple weeks of getting all the right supplies and putting it together in the evenings. Not too bad for my first system. So the last step of course is just filling with media, which I’m using river rock. And I also needed to get my […]

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Putting it all together 3/4

July 6, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Well now that I have everything set and leveled, tanks are painted and looking good. Now I’m ready to start plumbing it all up. You can see in one place I used UniSeals. From the fish tank to the sump I’m running hard PVC. And from the sump to the grow beds and back to […]

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Putting it all together 2/4

June 30, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

We finally finished up all the painting today. Spray painting took forever. Half a day yesterday and half a day today. As I mentioned in my previous post I would not use aerosol cans again. Instead I would get a cheap HVLP gun from Harbor Freight. I did find that the grow beds had the […]

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Putting it all together 1/4

June 29, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

Today we spent about 5 hours hunting down the last of the parts we needed. And at least another 5-6 hours painting. One mistake I made. I assumed that the flex seal rubber coating would be a great first coat. It is a dark black, covers well, it’s thick so adds to insulation, best of […]

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Cutting up the IBC totes

June 28, 2013 by Jason Diehl Leave a Comment

So it took me a couple of days after work to get my totes cut up but they are finally ready. I’ll include all the pictures below. Here are a few things I learned along the way. I could use a razor blade to cut the totes. It’ll dull the blade quick, but it works […]

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What to do with tote scrap

June 27, 2013 by Jason Diehl 1 Comment

I finished cutting up my IBC totes tonight for the aquaponics setup we are building. And I was sitting there looking at the scraps and thinking that surely I could use some of that. The resulting scrap was 2 metal bottoms the are like a pallet to be used with a fork lift. A scrap […]

Filed Under: Gardening, Homesteading Tagged With: gardening, IBC totes, raised bed, repurpose, wicking bed

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