Free Water With A Cheap Home Made Pump

bumpus · #1 04/27/07, 02:43 PM

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Here is a pump you can make which needs no electricity, or gasoline, and you can buy the parts at a hardware store and make it yourself.

Pump water for years and years it's simple.

Home-made Hydraulic Ram Pump

http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/irrig/Equip/ram.htm

http://www.riferam.com/pump1.htm

You can go to Yahoo and type in Ram Pump and see how it works.

bumpus.

bumpus · #2 04/27/07, 03:25 PM

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Does anyone have a Ram Pump on HT and how does it work for you ?

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Rocky Fields · #3 04/27/07, 04:05 PM

Hey.

I wasn't impressed with the flow. I'd rather use a handpump.

RF

bumpus · #4 04/27/07, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Rocky Fields

Hey.

I wasn't impressed with the flow. I'd rather use a handpump.

RF

It pumps 24 / 7 ... 365 days a year after year after year, and needs very little maintenance at no extra cost and no labor.

A hand pump won't do that, and it wont pump
water up hill as high as a Ram Pump either.

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Batt · #5 04/27/07, 07:19 PM

As long as you have a sufficiently flowing water source to start with.

bumpus · #6 04/27/07, 07:26 PM

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It would work good on hill side land, or land with rolling hills if the water was at a high enough level to let it fall a little ... then up the hill you can pump.

If I had water that could fall a hundred feet down hill I could pump it up hill for over a mile with this kind of pump.

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FreightTrain · #7 04/27/07, 07:34 PM

ive thought about building one... my stream is at the rear of the property tho around 1300' away, and its mostly slight uphill to here... i have 480 ' of stream with a drop of about 40'... it only stops runnin during the dryiest times.
I am gonna try to hand dig a well and line it with field stone... somewhere