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BBS: the Crystal Mountain BBS
Date: 05-17-92 (12:54) Number: 4169
From: ROBERT MARSH Refer#: NONE
To: DON KULHA Recvd: NO
Subj: Water pumping Conf: (16) HomePwr
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Hi, I have some ideas to throw out about what pump Jack to use, Where we live
here in Missouri, REA only came in to a lot of areas in the late 50's to
early 60's, so lost of pre-REA stuff is still arround and shows up at farm
sales. A very popular method of pumping water was the pump jack, which could
be driven by a gas motor, a wind mill ( in the few good wind sites here ), or
an electric motor ( or even by hand in the event of 'power' failure ). We
wanted to use this technology, initialy on the grid, because it was cheap (
ours was given to us, we have since picked up two spares in GOOD condition
for under $25 ) long lasting, reliable, able to be fixed by us ( the working
parts of the pump, while down in the well can be
pulled by hand up through the 2" drop pipe, everything else is up above
ground ), and able to be driven by a DC motor. The only drawback is the rate
of flow, they max out at about 3 GPM. We have a large hill up from our well,
we put a 360 gal. stainless milk tank in a ( to be ) insulated tank house at
the top, it gives us 30 PSI, and over 400 gal. as fast as we can use them,
before we are down to the 2.2 gal ( for our set up) per minuite flow. These
are old, but we have had NO problems in 5 years of operation. They are heavy,
shipping would be expensive, but this might be an option to think about.
....................Robert
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