Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Assuming you are talking about a well that is up a hill someplace? (your 
field is more than 12 feet below the well top?)

I am a slave to technology, so two suggestions:
1. get a 12V battery powered bait tank pump like those on a boat to keep 
bait fish alive. A solar panel to recharge a small deep cycle battery, 
and you are set with a couple of garden hoses to connect it up.

Otherwise, you can look for an old hand well pump in good condition (rip 
one off some yuppie's wall in Denver). Some were designed to just start 
a siphon going and you just had to make sure all the seals were in good 
condition, especially the packing around the pull rod. Make sure the 
hose is disconnected if weather gets freezing, because a connected hose 
will keep water up in the pump head.

Dan
Belgium,WI