Definitely the most important part of your homestead infrastructure. You made a really good job of the whole enterprise. A credit to skill and determination, which will last your lifetime. Regards, Stephen.
That is fantastic. Well done, as a child in Cornwall UK a lot of farms had ram pumps and the distinctive clunk clunk noise was part of the sounds of the countryside. Most are gone now, as have the small stream waterwheels. It’s a backwards step I feel.
Jealous of your safe to drink water, nicely done! I’m mentally designing a large solar distiller for my use, as the water is loaded with sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate.
Really gotta get my silt box filter going so I can get my ram pump running again. My ram pump kept getting clogged from the silt. Ours is just canal water but feeds our pond. Lots of muck and silt in our pond from years of neglect.
@ModernRuralCivilian I've been tinkering with the thought of making one out of a 55 gallon drum as the entry point is on our very far end of our property so I wouldn't have to go back there so often to clean it. Although I would love an entire ram pump house like yours as well.
Mark, thank you for the close up on the ram pump fittings. This was a huge help. I'll be having a very similar setup eventually here in rural VA. How much did those hold tanks run you? Also were you able to set them with your tractor or did you need to hire a crane to set them?
@@adamironbender5120 The concrete water cisterns were around $2200 each. You are responsible for digging the hole they get set in. But the manufacturer delvers and uses their crane to set them in the hole. That’s included in the sale price. 💧💧
The spring is only above the first cistern; it drops about 40 feet to the Ram Pump, which pushes it up 100 feet to the second cistern (about 60 feet above the spring) which gives him gravity pressure to the property.
@@colinsmith9208 The water source is too low on our property to be usable via gravity pressure.. So we move it up the mountain to a secondary water cistern that gravity feeds the entire property. 💧
Clean, unadulterated drinking water is EVERYTHING!
@@heatherwitters5904 Water is Life’ 💧
Use the run off from the top cistern to spin a turbine generator in the ram pump house
Definitely the most important part of your homestead infrastructure. You made a really good job of the whole enterprise. A credit to skill and determination, which will last your lifetime. Regards, Stephen.
@@stephenriley9084 Excited to build our farm around this incredible water source! 😊🙏
Future life goals. This is incredible! Mark, you inspire me and so many others. Keep up the great work! 💪🏻 🫶🏻
Yep, he’s living my dream. I’ll continue to live vicariously through him until I have the gumption to do this myself.
@@joshuahasson9687 Appreciate you Josh! I’ll keep sharing the journey! 👊
@@Tr0uble07 Sarah you’re so good to us!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@joshuahasson9687 same here. I hope we both get to live that dream someday. ✌🏻🫶🏻
That is fantastic. Well done, as a child in Cornwall UK a lot of farms had ram pumps and the distinctive clunk clunk noise was part of the sounds of the countryside. Most are gone now, as have the small stream waterwheels. It’s a backwards step I feel.
@@syncrosimon Thank you for sharing the visual description. I can imagine it from here. ☺️
So amazing.
@@VillaRoundabout Thank you friend. I’m obsessed. 🙌💧🙌
Nice work! Amazing.
@@CallMePreet I appreciate your support! Thank you. 🙏
Human ingenuity at its best!
@@SmalltimR 🙌🙌
This thing is really cool! Thanks for sharing it!
@@MrJonroock 🤝🛠️
Keep up the hard work, brother
@@TrevorM502 I appreciate you Trevor! We’re just getting started bro! 🤝🛠️
Truly inspiring man. Love watching your journey! Keep up the good fight!
@@connorgates119 Thank you so much my friend! We’re just getting started! 🤝🛠️
Man I’d love to have this system
Jealous of your safe to drink water, nicely done!
I’m mentally designing a large solar distiller for my use, as the water is loaded with sodium sulfate and sodium carbonate.
@@Vikingwerk Thanks for your support brother! Sounds like you’re working with what you’ve got. That’s the name of the game! I’m rooting for you! 🫡🫡
I love it
@@WildWanderingInWestVirginia thank you friend! 🤝🛠️
Nice work Mark!!!
@@frannappe2719 I appreciate you Fran!
Woo long form videos :) this is Smith.
@@fudaldeath Howdy Smith! Thank you for showing up! 🤝🛠️🙏
Really gotta get my silt box filter going so I can get my ram pump running again. My ram pump kept getting clogged from the silt. Ours is just canal water but feeds our pond. Lots of muck and silt in our pond from years of neglect.
@@andrewrice16 A spring box and buffer tank will work magic for your ram pump! Let me know how it goes! 🤝🛠️
@ModernRuralCivilian I've been tinkering with the thought of making one out of a 55 gallon drum as the entry point is on our very far end of our property so I wouldn't have to go back there so often to clean it. Although I would love an entire ram pump house like yours as well.
@@andrewrice16 A drum will work just fine! Make sure you leave a valve at the very bottom so you can flush the barrel to clean it!! 🤝🛠️
Whats the brown stuff inside the pump house?
Mark, thank you for the close up on the ram pump fittings. This was a huge help. I'll be having a very similar setup eventually here in rural VA. How much did those hold tanks run you? Also were you able to set them with your tractor or did you need to hire a crane to set them?
@@adamironbender5120 The concrete water cisterns were around $2200 each. You are responsible for digging the hole they get set in. But the manufacturer delvers and uses their crane to set them in the hole. That’s included in the sale price. 💧💧
Are you going to install the vintage pump ?
@@jimbritt2874 yes. But I’ve got a couple projects in front of it! I’m racing the season before winter comes!
You should occasionally flush out each or those future dead legs. They can hold some nasty stuff and contaminate your good water
Have you had it tested for micro plastics?
Have you thought of using the water to make power?
@@drewconrad7093 I have. And I will in time. ☺️
What I don’t understand. Why go down the mountain to come back up? The spring source is above the cisterns??
The spring is only above the first cistern; it drops about 40 feet to the Ram Pump, which pushes it up 100 feet to the second cistern (about 60 feet above the spring) which gives him gravity pressure to the property.
The water stops in winter because of freezing temperatures…
@@colinsmith9208 The water source is too low on our property to be usable via gravity pressure.. So we move it up the mountain to a secondary water cistern that gravity feeds the entire property. 💧
@@Vikingwerk appreciate you brother!
@@SethHanson-i4n No. like I said.. The water temperature coming out of the mountain is 54°F. It won’t freeze because it’s constantly moving.