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  • From: Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] shallow well pump
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:57:06 -0500

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







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