You mean literally haul a bucket on the older one, no hand pump?
I have a hand winch. You know turn the handle? It ain’t easy folks.
Bold mine, and snipped many times
WOW, that’s a lot of work, and I though storing a few containers of gasoline was a hassle.
But what if you didn’t do that rotation, you just filled them, sealed them and stored them? What am I risking?
You mentioned mizPullin keeps five cases of water on hand.
If these cases are the standard bottled water, 16.9-ounce, 24-36 bottles to a case, please rotate the cases frequently. If the water will be used within a couple of weeks or so, you’ll be fine. If it’s water that will sit there for a couple years waiting for an emergency, the plastic bottles may not survive. The plastic in the typical 16.9-ounce bottles is much thinner than it used to be, and it has a finite lifespan. Woe be it to the poor soul who sets aside a few cases of those bottles, only to find cracked, empty bottles and waterstained cardboard when an emergency finally arrives.
Do some research to find which bottles are intended to survive storage, or use the prepper trick of saving 2 or 3 liter soda bottles. Wash them out, add water, either tap or filtered, put a couple of drops of bleach per bottle, scew on the caps. Those bottles are designed to hold carbonated water, they are very heavy duty.
~VOW
Sorry, I was unclear: I rotate one bottle per week, so none of the water is more than six months old.
I carbonate water at home. I’m still using/reusing my original SodaSorb bottles. They’re heavy duty but have a warning: DO NOT USE AFTER 5/2016. I’m still using them.
They might be leaching invisible crap into the water. I don’t know how you’d tell – probably you’d need to send a sample for analysis, but I don’t know whether standard water testing labs are equipped to do that sort of testing.
(I do reuse plastic jugs for a while. I don’t think I’m using any that old, though.)