Survival Unlimited Hand Pumps

I had not seen those before.

Model 100L - Pump assembly and 1.5" cylinder with lever handle $700.00

5-year parts guarantee

And it says that it has 3 internal parts which wear-out [the piston u-cup seals & the pump head's rod seal].

Your welcome.

We have searched before, trying to find a hand pump that would go down to 70 feet.

In our search we saw that once you go past 20 feet the price shoots up drastically.

So I am interested in any hand pump that can handle a deep well for under $500. And I understand that 70 feet is not truly 'deep'. Many folks here have wells that go to 300 feet, or deeper. So I am certain that finding a 'cheap' hand pump would be important to many of us.

So the water in your well is 70 feet down? How far is the bottom of the well? I had a well that was 200 feet deep and the water was at 20 feet when it set for a while. In fact that is the well that I use every day.

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I forget the exact number, the well casing goes down to like 190 feet. The water in the well is at around 68 foot.

If it came up to 20 or less than any of those cheap shallow pumps would work. But once the water is deeper than 20 foot, you have to shift to a 'deep' pump.

In this area, any time that you dig a 2 foot hole, you will get water in it. Most of the time the ground is fairly wet. But the surface water is loaded with tanins [from the forest]. So for non-potable water you could dig a 10 foot deep hole and lift out brown tea-looking water. But for potable water you have to go a little deeper.

I am sure that our deep water hand pump and cylinder were less than $700 (of course, this was 10 years ago). What I did was have my Dad order me a Baker-Monitor pump and cylinder from a plumbing supply wholesaler (my Dad was a plumber). My brothers and I pounded in a 2" sand point. One great benefit of a deep well hand pump is that is works flawlessly all winter long. The leathers on a shallow well pitcher pump will freeze solid during the winter making its use extremely difficult during much of the year.

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