Hand Water Pumps: A Guide

[@marshallmarshall78]

We have a hand pump well available for total grid down. We also have 600 gallons of water stored in two food grade totes. Working on a rain catchment system. Two ponds near house as last resort. We use Berkley system for all of our drinking water from our regular well water. Thank you very much for the great video.

[@PaulStringini]

This video was more informative than anything I watched all day. Thanks.

[@stacysmith6779]

I'm subscribed to many informative channels. I've found your channel just recently. You are quickly becoming a favorite. So much wonderful information. Thank you!

[@stevenscott5814]

I installed a simple pump in a 275 foot well several years ago. It works well, but requires over 100 pumps if I have not used it in a week. The company insisted that it should hold a column of water and not require so many pumps. I had the well installer pull it out and reinstall it six times. We pressure tested every pipe seal and Simple Pump even sent a replacement pump and replaced several leaky pipes. However, it still requires well over 100 pumps if we have not used it for a week or longer. I don’t care how strong or well-conditioned you are, 100 pumps is a lot of work. I also pressure tested the pump that is in the water after we replaced it. It leaked when applying enough pressure to equal a 275 foot column of water and is likely the cause of the pump not holding a column of water.

[@fredflintstone6163]

Been living without plumbing or power small farm thirty years

[@fredflintstone6163]

Have rainwater and gravity system and swallow well and bucket and rope well dug about one hundred and eighty years ago😊

[@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558]

@@fredflintstone6163 I'm interested in living and volunteering on a small farm in exchange for food (and for multiple day visits also a place to sleep) for as little as a day and possibly up to as much as a month on the kind of small farm/homesteads that mostly operates without electricity, mostly even without off grid electricity. Could you recommend any way to find such farms/homesteads? I'm basically interested in farms that use (at least to a significant extent) the kind of alternatives to electricity and fossil fuels that the old order Amish use, but it wouldn't matter to me at all whether the farm was Amish or not. I'm just interested in temporarily experiencing and learning from living a roughly similar lifestyle. Thanks!

[@meyerstead349]

I appreciated this video because it covered every aspect of manual well pumps, and ever question I could think to ask. Thanks so much.

[@LaLunaDiavolo]

Great video, thank you

[@Turtleyme333]

This was a very informative video. Thank you ❤

[@mayamachine]

I live off grid, I only hand pump my well. I use Heller-Auller, fabulous, never freeze in Northern Maine. way cheaper than Bison pump. This is the pump Amish use. I have pumped waterv at 24 below zero, I put up a Rhino prefad 5x10 shelter for a pump house.

[@DimaB-mz3cd]

How deep is your well ?

[@az55544]

radium content of well water has nothing to do with depth. Can you please be more specific about why hand pumps would be an issue indoors?

[@HigoWapsico]

Brilliant

[@JAYWAY1982]

Y’all should upload more. I live in AR too. I just uploaded a short video on a coop that solves a lot of problems. Do y’all still have chickens? Check it out.

[@timothyjohnston1549]

Inherited a property (derelict?) In the Philippines (Manraya). Local option & no power,

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

👍

[@thomaswilliams5831]

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