50L IRONMAN Water Tank

[Maximus Gladius]

The wife and I have been working at setting up our camping experience and the newest addition for this season is the 50L IRONMAN water tank which surprisingly, doesn’t take up any room in the box and is also out of the way, nestled between the T-groove Billie bars.

We’ve taken our camping build slow because we hate wasting money on ideas that don’t work and we are too poor to buy cheap so this season, I wanted a water tank and coming up with finding a supplier and researching most YouTube videos on what overlanders were doing for their water supply needs led us to think of something super unique.

I wanted a water tank that could be out of the way, outside the cab because I don’t want to hear all the sloshing, so I came up with the idea of putting a flat water tank under the bars, because the space is there and the wife and I thought about how we could do this.

Here’s what we came up with.

We have the Billie Bar T-groove system. The brackets under the bars are 4, 3.5” “tent risers” installed underneath. We then have cut 2x4s to fit across those brackets to be the supports for the tank.

The water for the tank will be filter down to .5 micron then will pass through a UV light. 50L is plenty large enough for the two of us and the Great Dane. The filter system build should be complete late next week in time for our first 4 day camping trip booked end of May to June 2.

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[JTGuy]

Caution,, any weight you add will put more stress on a frame that is already prone to cracking. Look at TrailRecon U tube posted today.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Caution,, any weight you add will put more stress on a frame that is already prone to cracking. Look at TrailRecon U tube posted today.

Yes, sound advice. I had seen something similar a couple months back when somebody cracked and bent their frame carrying a load of site seers. I figured I would take a closer look under there and all is well. Most of the weight I carry is at and front of axel and I don’t pull a trailer. The water tank is empty until I’m at the campsite where we would then fill it up.

 

[kb5zcr]

Not trying to knock your idea but if that tank is 50 liters, how many can you actually use? It looks like only about 80% of it would come out of the drain from the looks of its location on the side of the tank.
By the way, 50 liters of water weighs 111 lbs so I wouldn't worry about the weight, lots of guys running much more than that. Heck, I carry 20 gal of extra fuel in the front of my bed all the time with no issues.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Not trying to knock your idea but if that tank is 50 liters, how many can you actually use? It looks like only about 80% of it would come out of the drain from the looks of its location on the side of the tank.
By the way, 50 liters of water weighs 111 lbs so I wouldn't worry about the weight, lots of guys running much more than that. Heck, I carry 20 gal of extra fuel in the front of my bed all the time with no issues.

May have to change the drain location, tilt the angle of the tank or once full, stand it up. Half the fun is in figuring it out.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

Well, this last weekend was our first outing of the summer to one of our favourite camp sites in Kananaskis, AB. What was new to us was using the 50L flat IRONMAN water tank, our own designed water filter + UV light pelican case, molle panels. This is our second year using the ECOTEMP hot water-on-demand system but attaching it the molle panels was a small work in progress to figure out.

We are so happy the entire system worked very well but we saw where things could work better and look cleaner/neater.

We don’t want to see all the water hosing and single filter on the side of the truck. That needs to find a home on the other side of the molle panel. The 12v pump that’s on the other side which pumps water out of the tank also needs a secured place by the tank and is powered by the hitch, 12v trailer plugin. That worked great.

3 other campers came by to check out our system and taste the water and for the next 3 days, came over to fill their water bottles. It tasted that good!

The pre-filter box (before the tank) consists of either straight fit water hose from water services site which comes up from the bottom of the box photo OR can come in at the top via 12v pump suction from creek or lake. Water then enters the carbon filter and goes out through the UV light to the tank.

After the tank, is the second 0.2 micron filter that takes out all else plus any plastic taste that the tank may give off.

We did find that because where the water comes out of the tank, that quick connect location does not allow all of the water to be used so we just lifted the far end of the tank up on some wood which then allowed all the water to be used. We are looking to cap that off and drill another fitting at the top of the cap with a suction hose that goes to the bottom of the tank seeing as how the 12v pump is sucking the water out anyway.

Half the fun is figuring it out and the other half is seeing vision materialize as we put it together.

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