ncclaymaker
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Mother nature and a three hundred year old solution. Trust me, with everything hi-tech and wrapped in glitz and bangles, how about a pump that does NOT use electricity from a battery or a gas engine to run it. It's called a water-hammer or ram pump. With a four foot drop or head to pressurize the beast, it can lift water forty or more feet, volumes will vary. I plan to install a few to lift about 30,000 gallons of water a day for a planned 90 acre pecan orchard on the farm. It requires no motor, no pump with expensive moving parts to maintain, no electric bill to pay, no taxes to anyone, etc.
Though it is not a solution for every need, it can however, create a source of storable water in remote or off the grid environments where a high lift need must be filled in a practical manner. Use your imagination to apply this innovative idea for creating a water supply away from the stream beds, and driving Smokey and the local tree huggers crazy with your ingenuity. Californicate them for once!
Numerous variables, such as vertical fall, vertical lift, rate of ram pulsation and length of pipe on intake and discharge, will affect the amount of water a ram will pump at your site. Output range is 700 to 1,800 gal./day for a 1-inch ram; 700 to 3,000 gal./day for a 1 1/2-inch ram; 700 to 4,000 gal./day for a 2-inch ram and for a 3-inch ram, up to 16,000 gal. and more. Above figures were determined by actual use of rams in the field. Exact output of a ram at your site, however, will vary according to circumstances. Generally with a ratio of 1-foot drop to 10-foot lift, your pump will deliver approximately 15 to 20 percent of the water that it uses. A pressure gauge connected to the discharge end of the pump will tell you how high the water is in the delivery pipe when the pressure reading is multiplied by 2.31.
A good starting point for your adventure to create a water supply without the battery and pump, try this -
https://www.google.com/search?q=hyd...X&ved=0ahUKEwiQoNGu-unKAhUMKiYKHV4JAQcQsAQIPg
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Though it is not a solution for every need, it can however, create a source of storable water in remote or off the grid environments where a high lift need must be filled in a practical manner. Use your imagination to apply this innovative idea for creating a water supply away from the stream beds, and driving Smokey and the local tree huggers crazy with your ingenuity. Californicate them for once!
Numerous variables, such as vertical fall, vertical lift, rate of ram pulsation and length of pipe on intake and discharge, will affect the amount of water a ram will pump at your site. Output range is 700 to 1,800 gal./day for a 1-inch ram; 700 to 3,000 gal./day for a 1 1/2-inch ram; 700 to 4,000 gal./day for a 2-inch ram and for a 3-inch ram, up to 16,000 gal. and more. Above figures were determined by actual use of rams in the field. Exact output of a ram at your site, however, will vary according to circumstances. Generally with a ratio of 1-foot drop to 10-foot lift, your pump will deliver approximately 15 to 20 percent of the water that it uses. A pressure gauge connected to the discharge end of the pump will tell you how high the water is in the delivery pipe when the pressure reading is multiplied by 2.31.
A good starting point for your adventure to create a water supply without the battery and pump, try this -
https://www.google.com/search?q=hyd...X&ved=0ahUKEwiQoNGu-unKAhUMKiYKHV4JAQcQsAQIPg
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I used to spend the night at a friends cow camp and he had one of these just outside the house... Man was it hard to sleep at night there. tap tap 
