Thanks guys. I have:
10 gallons kettle (borrowed)
Colman mash tun (which I think is too big for 5 gallon batches. And the PVC filter I think is part of the problem it was raised of the bottom quite a bit)
6 gallon fermenter bucket
5 gallon carboy
4-5 gallon kegs
20# co2 tank
I started the process with bringing 2.75 gallons of water up to 170f then added that to the mash tun. I added the grain, which held at around 147 so I added a half of gallon hot water to the mash, but it still went down in temp to around 144, my target was 152. After an hour I started to sparge, I don't have a sparge arm to I tried to do it with a piece of foil on top so I didn’t disturb the grain bed. The sparge water was 3 gallons at 180 when I start because I figured it would drop in temp.I sparged until I had 6.5 gallons in my boil kettle, but there was a little bit left so I added that as well. At the end of the boil I was at 5.5 gallons.
I am going to try the toilet hose with the metal braiding as my mash tun filter in the future and definitely watch how much water I’m adding. I forgot to mention I added another 1.5 gallons to the sparge because I only got 5 gallons.
Oh and I had Northern Brew mill the grains. They looked pretty good, but what do I know...LOL