Best portable water filter system: Hydropak + Katadyn + Sawyer combined

Awesome 😎

This is the most comprehensive eco system I’ve seen

I prefer to use water purification tablets. Filters' fibres may freeze very easily. If they freeze, filter basically does not work at all

I like this setup. Thank you for sharing this info

Wow, now thats smooth, great kit. Very robust due to how modular it is!

Being off well water again ive taking a look into water stuff again, man some of the new stuff they have is awesome

Awesome set up thank you for sharing great info

very nice set up, thanks for posting

Great setup, and thanks for the info.

I'm guessing you've had the comment ( You carry to much stuff) more than a few times.

I mean just wow, thats a really great set up.

What is your method of keeping them dry to prevent from freezing when in cooler climates?

Thanks for the video.

Love the system. All the inter connectivity is great! Been trying to do this but camelbak has changed their fittings multiple times and they’re not compatible. Sawyer has its own proprietary bs fittings but not compatible with camelbak. It’s not just the QD’s it’s the thread patterns as well that make everything so difficult. Nice Job. Love your vids!

Why is he so obsessed with life water????? Smart water is the best, is he just POOR??

That is a really good system!

Interesting stuff, my water containers all use a normal bottle size screw cap. That includes my dirty water bag so I don't need any adapters. It is quite the cool system with those adapters though! Wouldn't the adapters become contaminated in the prozess though hence using them on clean bottles later on might be hazardous?

Well thought out, as always. Have you ever checked out Modl and their modular water bottle system? I have and love their stuff.

Sawyer pre filter was a cool find

What was your experience with Duckworth shipping you order?? Mine has been ridiculously slow. My first oder back in January took a week for them to ship. I chalked it up to being slow after Christmas. My latest order, according to Duckworth email was to arrive on 3/1/23. One week after I ordered it. Currently it still has not shipped and Duckworth Customer Service has not responded to my email. I'd cancel the oder but I was given a gift certificate to Duckworth. I don't want to lose the order, Powder hoodie at $175.00.

You can also set up a hyrdapak bladder to a source brand tube and quickly refill a bladder on your back without having to take it off. Not your current use case but it works quite well. The only issue that I've run into is occasionally I'll get some air in the system but its possible to avoid.

Thanks for the review and ideas. Wasn't aware that Hydrapak had such options available. Been trying to decide whether to go with Hydrapak or a MSR Dromedary for an extra water carrier. In the Southwest where water can be a premium, always want a spare carrier that collapses when not needed. I don't normally use gravity feed and dislike how the Sawyer and similar products work, preferring a pump style filter. But I have been working on a general purpose Get Home Bag and think a Gravity Feed might be a good addition especially considering the amount of water one might need to filter if I were to break down while off-road in the middle of the desert. Add in a military bladder system like Source of some of the new CamelBack's that have the quick-connect systems and you can put together a nice system for handling water.

You mentioned you have plused it up at the beginning of the video, do you usually go with a 6L filtration setup? Seems a bit much for one person

Have you ever had yours freeze yet? Mine says you're not supposed to use it after it freezes but you would think that the hollow fibers would be fine after freezing as opposed to a ceramic filter that would trap all that water inside the ceramic and expand.

Very well planned! Now with all of the train derailments we need to talk about decontaminating water!

Great setup!

Awesome kit brother, well thought out. Wish I had this in my day when I was a recon scout 1980. I will use this.

GRAYL GEOPRESS.
far smaller ,far better ,plus removes chemicals etc.etc.etc...

Grayl is the best one I found. Might want to check that out.

Do you know what thread size is on the Katadyn 6L bag? I was wondering if that black adapter would also work on a Nalgene bottle and allow you to integrate it into the system. Great video!

I use a very similar set up. Gotten made fun of during Field problems for having it with me. The only things I have different is I use a old school millbank bag in place of your drysak esq dirty bag and different filter besides Sawyer. I’ve had terrible luck with the made on a Monday Sawyer filters. Glad other people have better luck with them than me.

Making what we called ‘smoke water’ at Survival in Fairchild by melting snow over a fire….the flavor packs were indispensable

had a shopping spree and pretty much copied this setup, sorry not sorry

Wait wait, you're saying that the lid on the Keith/heavy cover canteen doesn't work? Isn't that a big deal?

Ypure right nobody jas ever done this before.....at least ive never seen a 25lb water kit before. They must've had to airdrop your firekit in after insertion.

Have you had any issues with the hydrapack quick adapter on the gravity bag leaking? First time using mine this weekend and noticed it dripping

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One thing you left out is how you backflush/clean your filters with that system.

Why did you choose Sawyer versus Grayl or other purification method? I love and admire the good works Sawyer does around the world and I am drawn to how lightweight the system is and the backflush ability but it lacks the ability to clean viruses which drives me towards Grayl. Any thoughts?

Wow, never seen anything as stupid as this.

Best system I have seen so far

Cross-contamination is possible with some of the adapters you've got there. Each end should be labeled as clean or dirty, or you should have a means of sanitizing them between uses.

The colored plug n play I could not find in your Amazon store. Sorry if it was an oversight. Where did you get the colored ones red and blue please? Thank you very much. Very informative.

How do you fill the Katadyn Dirty Water bag without contaminating the Hydrapak valve with dirty water when dipping the bag in water?