Cistern Installation Overview
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What happens here
The presenter briefly shows footage from a previous video detailing the installation of the cistern. This includes excavating a large pit using a tractor with a backhoe, leveling the base with sand, tamping the sand for stability, and then carefully lowering and positioning the 1,000-gallon cistern into the pit before backfilling around it with fill dirt. He emphasizes burying it deeper than the frost line to prevent freezing in winter.
Goal: Understand the general process for installing a large underground cistern.
Tools and materials
- Fill Dirt N/A — Backfilling around the cistern
- Sand N/A — Creating a level and stable base for the cistern
- Skid Steer Gehl — Moving and spreading dirt
- Tamping Tool N/A — Compacting the sand base
- Tractor with Backhoe John Deere — Excavating the pit for the cistern