The Practical Woodsman
Education • Travel • Preparedness
The Practical Woodsman is a way to share love of the wilderness, as well as my observations, thinking, and approach to what folks today are calling 'bushcraft' and 'survival'. The focus is on what is practical, as well as pointing out certain things being demonstrated by 'bushcrafters' today that are not practical at all.
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November 19, 2025
Rust Water/High-Iron Water

On various occasions, I’ve mentioned that we had a well when I was growing up that was practically unusable. We could use the water from it to flush commodes inside the house, but that was about all. For all of our drinking, cooking, and washing, we brought up our water in buckets from a little freshwater spring down the side of the mountain.

The reason the well water was mostly unusable is that it contained too much rust, or iron. I took the attached picture here while on that walk in the woods with my daughter the other day, specifically to show you all exactly what this sort of water looks like.

If you ever come across water like this in the woods, you’ll know it has unusually high iron content if it appears orange like the water in this little runoff area here.

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