You've never seen a farm water system like this...cheap, easy no electrical required!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- You've never seen a farm water system like this...cheap, easy no electrical required! Today we'll be working with @Land to House on our passive cattle watering system. We'll install a ram pump, discuss how it works and show you how to build one for yourself! Hope you enjoy this bit of technology and education! Link to ram pump: amzn.to/2tJlfzc
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Hey brother, your personality alone, is what makes this video even that much better.
Thank You!
Nice job! There is a story I heard about years ago. Some people were hiking in the hills in Northern California were gold mining was a hundred years before. They heard this strange clicking noise and found a old ram pump that had been still pumping water from over one hundred years before. Awesome.
That's crazy!!
Damn he seems like a happy country boy. He reminds me of one of the best friends ive ever had .the man never had a bad day or a bad word to say about anyone. God rest his sole.
Did he explode from repressed rage?
Alot of those guys know life is hard and figure being mean only makes it harder.
Suggestion: On my farm in Yadkin County, I had a lot of horse pastures with the same type hydrants. I ALWAY had water problems coming from the elbow at the bottom of the hydrant. At first I took a 4 x 6 and cut out enough in the center of the 6" part to recess the pipe then covered with straps. All this was in hopes of the hydrant getting bumped and twisted causing the elbow to break off. Well it worked a little. Then I stopped using pvc elbows and went with brass elbows then connected to my pipe. Problem solved! So in the long run, I highly suggest all your elbows should be brass. Saves a hell of a lot in digging back up to fix a water leak. I now live on the Southern Outer Banks and use the same method to supply water to my sheds, greenhouse and several other functions. Take care my good ole homeboys!
my father and grandmother had ram pumps on a farm they owned in the southern U S south of you they had maybe 3 hooked below the pond dam for pumping water to the old farm house where we lived when i was 4 yrs and still remember ,a good way to have water at a higher location oh i am 72 respect to you for you and the farm great job.
Thanks William
300 year old technology solving the problems created by 50 year old technology. It is so great to see how we are getting back to the most natural way of doing things.
You can hang the screened inlet on a 'float device' about a foot below the water level. The inlet will stay out of the mud and near the cleanest water at the top of the source. You could drive a vertical pipe into the lake bottom at the deepest point to keep the screen/float properly located. One psi of pressure will raise the water 2.3 feet. SO If your pressure gauge shows 48 PSI the water coming out of the faucet was about 110 feet above the gauge. Since you used a vertical pipe/tank for the accumulator it is Not necessary to install a rubber bladder. Because aspirated air will always rise above the water in the accumulator, thus providing the desired cushion effect for the pressure surge. Thanks for Sharing your Project.
I liked your comment cause you sounded so smart! Unfortunately it's Greek to me!! :/
@@diannevaldez8670 When you learn Greek you can come back and you may understand.
@@williamterry3177 yeah I might have to buy a book or something. It's too bad you find such satisfaction spending your time working on trying to bringing people down and discouraging anyone.
Fantastic video. So simple but works. Old school ways are the best.
I enjoyed watching this project I've always been a supporter of free and no electricity
Great job guys👍
Smart farmers always are the best citizens. Thanks for sharing. I wanted to do this for my grandfather in E. Texas in the 1960's, but I couldn't find the materials and an accurate description. Just getting the cows out of the creek bottom would have solved huge problems w/ them getting stuck in the mud when calving, etc. I hope every farmer in the world who can use this checks it out.
I've seen several versions of this on UA-cam. It really seems like a great option for homesteaders that have a source of water near by.
Yes for sure! I use mine for watering the garden. . . Or the patch of dirt where I wish plants would grow.
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Hi chaps, my granddad used one for all his farm water from late 19th century until he died in 1950's.
Yeah ram pumps are great passive water supply. I learned how years ago from Engineer 775. He is awesome for water issues. He also will come set your whole house, or fire lane installation.
Ram pumps homemade cost $60 to build your own. I use a $1pool noodle in my air bladder.
Hope you enjoy your ram pumps Josh! I know I enjoyed mine.
Denise Wilson
I have been following Engineer 775 for a long time and find his videos very helpful...!
I’m courious about your build using a Pool Noodle.
Would you mind sharing your build...?
Thanks for your time and help with this.
Have a great day and be blessed.
Engineer 775 is great for his water projects. I also enjoy them. I have used the pool noodle in a clear pressure tank to see what happens. The closed cell foam collapses when the pressure is above 45psi. (easy for a ram pump with closed delivery pipe) Thanks for sharing.
@@troystutsman1400 If you would like to see what happens to a pool noodle with clear pressure tank you can see that on my channel. I found that the noodle collapses when the pump reaches a certain pressure. The closed cell foam does not bounce back as well as I would like.
This surely is technology to be proud of!! Non intrusive, non polluting, using the power of the earth only, WOW!! Surely this should be recognised for innovative thinking and could be used anywhere on the planet where theres flowing water. I think this is imaginative thinking along the same lines as Archimedes' screw.
That was very cool and what an amazing way to move water around the property. Holding tanks will only make the system even better. 👍👍 🚜-Woooooo!!!
I agree. A nice tank on the hill will give plenty of water.
I saw one of these pumps about 30 years ago as a kid, I didn't really understand how it worked. Then I got a homesteading book "Back to Basics" and learned how. It still doesn't get old watching and talking about them. Such a cool piece of technology!
Thank you sirs!
These are the kind of people who populate the fly-over states. Innovation, planning and a work ethic are required here. They obviously make good choices on a national level as well.
The kind of folk agenda21 wants gone
I first read about this technology in the mid 1970's. An old-timer at work told me about how his uncle used ram pumps on the farm years ago. You get accustomed to hearing the rhythm of the pump and occasionally it will miss a beat. Not to worry. Good video, as usual.
Its good to hear stories like this. More farms need to use the ram pump.
Another excellent video! Thank you for your efforts guys. I raise grass fed beef on rotated pastures in Michigan. 8 1/2 months this year with no hay. I move portable tanks around the farm in order to prevent mud, a similar concept. It's a pain but works well. I bet you have a good spring source or 2 also. I use minimal equipment and biggest tractor 13 HP and a 1969 JD 140. I also tend to congregate the cattle in smaller areas to feed or water to collect and use their manure for the next growing season. Red wiggler worms help make a lot of compost. 457 bushels of corn from one area this year. I retired from USDA SCS/NRCS from Ohio, California, Virginia, D.C. and now Michigan. Held every job from an civil engineer, agronomist, IT specialist and county mgr. Whenever utilizing natural water sources, be sure to check with local, state and federal regulations and any new ordinances. Many areas are now implementing caps on water extraction from any ground water sources. New ex-urbanite neighbors love to turn in us farmers also. We are fortunate here to have ground water at 8-10 feet. Simple point wells work very well here with a simple hand pump.
My brother had neighbor who decided he wanted a pond. Not a landscape type pond, a pond. So he dammed up a drainage area. You guessed it, water eventually just evaporated and/or was absorbed into the ground. Next he arranged to have a clay bottom put in. He found rain water wasn’t enough to keep it as high as he wanted. Not to be deterred, he arranged to use his house well to fill it. Now my brother got upset. In his area, the wells when he put his in had to go down about 220 ft., 20 years later with double the new homes you had to go down 300-340 feet. In summer, with this guy running his well 24/7 to fill a pond, my brother sometimes had little to no well water. He complained to the county and state and got a dig a new well answer. Wells cost $10-15 thousand, with all kinds of red tape. And no, asking the neighbor to stop did no good. They asked me, I got details of their water usage and how and when it happened. I suggested they switch to high efficiency water use washer, dishwasher, add efficiency to their taps and even consider replacing their toilets to low water flush. They wouldn’t give up their beloved toilets, but new appliances on sale with other discounts and my dad redid shower heads and faucets. Problems solved for less than $1,200. Plus the lower electric bill to run the well pump over time paid for the appliances. They also used less detergent, less wear and tear on clothes and a wash took 30% less time. They were happily back to laughing at the neighbor and his failing pond.
Glad you can get the ram pump to work. I bought 2 from him &so can't get them to work. I'm so bummed.
remember you need head pressure and drop...that's all you need....but if you don't have adequate drop which gives head pressure...you won't pump my friend. Seth is a great guy and a wealth of knowledge....contact him and he'll be happy to help you
Are you serious, Josh? (N.C. boys are the "heat!") This is the kind of stuff that just makes you beam about innovation, and helping your neighbor. 'Awesome video, and congratulations!
Hay Josh, excellent production, I was introduced to a bras model RAM in 1962 and my friends pumped to a cement cistern beside their barn, worked all winter in cold weather.
Dave
This looks like a great idea. No electric to worry about if it goes out.
Back in the 1950s my uncle had a Ram Pump to supply water for everything on his farm!
Great video... love the free flow and amazing engineering of a natural water supply. Keep up the good work!!!
I would forget the frost free hydrant go with those push connectors much cheaper, can install alot of them so you can move tanks easy. I live in MI and have used these for 15 years with no problems
I worked at a Plumbing company in Mount Airy N.C, and the owner had a a "thing" for ram pumps. He bought a collection of new old stock rams, from a 1/4 inch display model( with a glass "bulb"shaped chamber!) size to a 3 inch inlet giant model. I piped a cattle farm with a normal submersible pump once, and for reference ,100 head of small cattle thrived on 1/2 GPM- it overflowed in a submerged U pipe to feed another watering tank down hill from the first, then downhill from the second to a third tank. 3 tanks of drinking storage, spread far apart. On hot days with large cattle it took only 1 GPM to satisfy the need. The 3 tanks were several hundred feet apart. The bottom of the first was higher than the top of the second, etc. These were homemade concrete tanks with two 1-1/2 " galvanized nipples poured in place, one on each end about 1 foot from each inner edge of the tank. The inlet nipple was flush with the bottom, the outlet had all the threads above the concrete floor. We simply used a coupling and a cut length of pipe to establish the outlet U bend height ( one elbow horizontal, a short nipple, an elbow downward.) The water height will be at the bottom of the horizontal nipple. I thought smaller Galvanized pipe could be used in the tank, but the cattle are strong! 1/2 GPM is 720 gallons every 24 hours.
Was just up at the stockyard in mt airy a few weeks ago...great town!
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer You need to come to "Mayberry Days" in September. Find out about it at visitmayberry (dot) com.
This is an awesome video Josh.
I live in deep South Texas.
(Brownsville,Tx)
There is a lot of sandy murky water under ground.
I don't have a farm and right now I don't think I need a pump but this is interesting. I really enjoy your videos. I am still waiting for you to put out a CD man.😁 Really love the sound of that acoustic guitar.
Thank you for taking us along in building your family farm.
It is good to see how the Lord has been blessing you n family.
Your videos are inspiring. Even though I probably won't do most of the stuff that you show. But your videos are inspiring to make me do other stuff around the house
(I'm a truck Driver). So I'm not home very much.
Be Blessed my friend.😇👍
Good Times!!
Aaaiight?!
Who the hell hit the dislike button they must work for the electric company or electric pump manufacturers very good idea
bhaaahahhahha
This might be one of your most important videos yet. Great job guys.
Thanks Walter...much more on water systems to come!
I agree haha. Having water on the farm without power will be a lifesaver.
What an amazing piece of kit! This is great for livestock and irrigation.
Keep em coming 👍
Don't bury your poly pipe! Just lay it out under your fences. In 1 or two years the thach will cover it up and you won't even see it and it will be shaded in winter, but MUCH easier to fix when it leaks, and it WILL leak. I used 300ft rolls of poly pipe and connected them with 3/4 inch pipe T pieces and installed a hose bib on each joint. With a 50 or 100 foot hose on your Hudson valve should be able to read anywhere you want.
Good video, I enjoy your channel.
One gallon per minute is over 1400 gallons per day .. more than enough! Very nice!
Amen....read through some of the pessimistic comments down there...OMG! So many experts...one guy said a cow would drink 50 gallons of water per day bhahhahha.....we'll keep improving on this system until it's full on rock star!
This technology is been used for for decades in mexico central and South America...the reason is because is cheap and don't need electricity ...nice video
I really enjoy watching seth and his genius ram pump systems!
Saw your gift over on @northcountryoffgrid today
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer awesome! have you got your sticker yet?
Thanks!
Everyone should have free water and not need to pay for it! I just installed a well and a solar pump to get my free water in my homestead. Nice set up guys
Thank you! That’s exactly what we were looking for so that we can rotate our cows pasture!
The ram pump can also be used as a air compressor.. You add a valve near the top of the air chamber and run a air hose off to where needed.. To aerate a pond.. Fill a tire.. Etc.. Pressure amount depends on size of pump.. Yep"Yep"
This is pretty cool but my favorite part is a 17:13 when the cat tries to push over the Benjamin Moore Paint bucket.
That is bloody AWESOME mate.. greetings from South Australia...THANK YOU !!!!!
Hello my friend, I had seen this type of pump a few years ago on a tv program and forgotten all about it. Still not really sure how it works, just glad for you it does.
I have a feeling that Josh will be using this a lot more in the future. He is great at showing things in more detail once he has used them for a while.
I missed Physics 101 in High School. They were busy teaching us some other social nonsense.
Technology causes people to forget what life was like before. That’s why it’s so important to keep history alive.
Man, I just got super educated here! Great video, guys! I’m doing this and when I do I’ll purchase it already made to support! ✊🏼✨
I bet some of those NASA boy's would say what ! This is the answer to a lot of problems on my little place. Thank's Josh , the man's got a sell coming his way..
Thanks for making it so clear everyone could understand even me. I just wish my pond wasn't at the very bottom of the property.
Props to both of you guys. I never knew this existed. Gonna do more research on the "how" this works. Amazing!
Thanks for having me on the farm! Great video.
Fill up your storage tank at the highest level near your cattle and gravity feed it down hill to your water troughs as the cattle need it. There are animations on UA-cam of ram pumps if anyone needs a fuller description. Well done guys I like these friendly videos.
Actually, I've seen and used a system almost exactly like that on my family's horse pasture. It's been there since the 80's.
Awesome system, never heard a swing valve before. Thanks
Wow. I’ve learned something again from you Josh. Good times wooo 👍🏻
You are awesome you are down to earth it is hard to find people like you love you man!! God bless you
Awsome ,hey Stoney you need to put caps on all those fence post that you built last year, I see it on all your videos. I'm a retired fence builder and believe me they need caps on them. Thanks for the video.
I watched his videos before I started watching yours. He know his stuff.
Thank you. I am still learning daily.
I saw an episode of Moonshiners on the Discovery channel not long ago and they were using a ram pump to get water to their still site.
I watched that clip. It was funny watching them try to get the pump working.
Connect your ram pump to an approximate 1500 gallon storage tank and then you can gravity feed to a job's Mega flow float or to one of the 2 or 4 ball waters that I mentioned to you They will work with only a few pounds pressure On a job's valve Like you could actually have a couple of storage tanks M pipe to various locations in your pastures using a plausen valve, and move the 2 hole waterer from paddock to paddock with the minerals in rotational grazing
Great Presentation bro, keep it coming, keep it coming.....Much Obliged & God Bless.
I see that Donkey:)) Smart play. Donkey is better than anything to fight predators and makes a shitload of noise when alarmed as well:))
Around here in south Mississippi Iv never really Seen pastors broke up into sections like that but when I took a trip up to Missouri I seen a few pastors on hills that were split up like that and I did see mud in some of them sections
Stick around brotha....we're gonna teach ya how to do it right.....of course showing the mess ups along the way!
Stoney Ridge Farmer you know I’m here for the long haul brother
Trevor Holland, "pastures", not pastors lol. Thought you were talking about some weird preachers there for a minute.
KJ haha
When I was a kid we used an old standard Mazda motor to prime an orange grove and pump water to the trees. It was loud. But it worked. Dont ask me how, I would just help PRIME it. I just can't explain it.
You need a 1gal. milk jug w/handle and cap. tie paracord to the end of the filter and the handle on the jug suspending the filter in the water column.
Wonder if you would explain more about what you have in mind. In the video, not where where a 1 gallon jug would fit.
Great Idea I heard them working !! all over farmlands !!!
These are commonly used by the Amish since they reject electricity and they are both low cost and easy to maintain.
Not sure if you have beaver issues in your area. If you get beavers in that pond, stop using it immediately to feed your cattle until the beavers are killed off. I'm not sure on the medical term but beaver fever is what it's called around here. I have heard of trappers getting it out in swamps and be in the hospital for a few weeks, but I have seen cattle drink out of infested ponds and die from it. Just a heads up. Thanks for the great videos.
Josh, I don't think you covered the subject enough that what makes the ram pump work is the "flow" of water. You will need to run the outlet of the pump to a tank or cistern for collection and storage. All extra water will just spill into a bypass or overflow to return to the creek. It looked to me that there was about 1/2 to 1 gal/min coming out of the spigot. That flow will be sufficient to keep a 100 to 300 gallon cistern full for your animals for a while. I am not sure you will be able to have the spigots in line with the delivery pipe to the cistern and the system work the way you want in that the line to the cistern needs to be flowing all the time.
Josh, your property is looking good! Congratulations on a job well done.
Hey Josh, I ain't trying to burst your bubble, but, you still need to put the Teflon tape on those plastic threaded barbs. If you don't, they will still leak no matter if they are temporary. Everywhere you have a leak, you will end up with a big wet area and it will just turn into a mudhole. It could also mean your pond goes dry long before it should. I'm 66 years old and have used black plastic pipe for years. I don't know who told you that you wouldn't need a thread sealant but they were wrong. It is a whole lot better to do as you are going than to wait and end up needing it done later. It is always better to do it right the first time. Ain't no fun having to lick that calf over. Just some friendly advice from someone that's been there and done that.
Yep, The plastic fittings have a tendency to bite into the pipe making it difficult to disconnect. Teflon tape is cheap.
Josh, I sent you this video when you were work on the pond drilling holes in that white pvc pipe. I had sent you this video because I though this was a better idea to get water up hill. Thanks.
I live in Ontario but my wife is American .... I love the fact you promote products and people who are American ! we try to do the same (Canadian / American) Your content is great .... HOWEVER my wife gets your intro song stuck in her head and I make fun of her for randomly humming the Stoney ridge farmer intro lmao
bhahhahha....too funny. I used a different song this time from way back when we did the hog processing 2 years ago
Great guys, love to have a friends like them. Thanks for this great video
So, if I'm certain on how this thing works. The water source must be higher than the ram pump to take advantage of the stored energy in the fall of the water from the source to the pump? Also Josh, this spring you need to get some gold fish for your stock tanks to keep the skeeters down.
The stock tanks are temporary...and I agree skeeters will get bad if I don't have specialized tanks...great comment thanks so much!
Stoney Ridge Farmer
You mentioned getting specialized tanks...
Would you mind sharing what kind, where from,
ect...?
Thanks for your help.
Have a great day and be blessed.
Stoney Ridge Farmer so water source must be higher than area intended for use? My pond is much lower than land I would send water too.
@@billm5005 No .... The water source needs only to be higher than the pump! (You could even put the pump in a purpose made sump .... but the sump would soon fill with water! .... See my own post a bit further up this page, I think.)
Great I learned something today. I do not believe I have heard of this concept. As long as you have a free source of water looks like it should work just fine. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Yes as long as that water is flowing and has some drop it will run 24/7. I ran a pump for 6 months .... before my neighbor turned it off haha
Love this!! At all our holiday homes these ram pumps were the source...now I know how they work! 🥳
I'm a fan of 'land to house'.. the videos inspirations me more and help me to pump water into my farm.. by the way, I'm from MALAYSIA..👍👍👍
That’s awesome!
Definitely something everyone should know about.
I'm pushing 60 and have used these (while visiting rural locations with my family) on and off since I was around 10 and NEVER realized that I was using anything other than a standard water spigot like what was on the side of my house at home!! I can attest that set-up differently, these systems can really BLAST the water pressure out! I suppose due to longer runs of pipe up a steeper elevation and/or with the use of cisterns. :^)
Thats great! When Josh gets his tank on the hill he will have plenty of water for those cows.
Another quality video... Thanks Josh
That is the slickest deal I’ve seen lately, Nice Work and Free Pumped Water!!
I have a feeling Josh is going to really enjoy the ram pump on the farm.
That is some good stuff right there!!! Seth gets 👍👍up!!!
Great video. Although it's obvious that you lose some water through the waste valve, it would be good to note that the 1:7 ratio also applies to the amount of water pumped vs. the amount wasted. Many people will think you're getting something for nothing if you don't point that out.
Having a cistern to fill would be great. As someone pointed out below, Wranglerstar uses one of these. He fills a cistern while water is plentiful. Of course, if the waste flows into a lower pond, you still have access to all the water.
Arkansas Pilgrim
There is no reason that you couldn’t hook up some piping
to the waste valve to send that water either back to the pond
or to a holding device, either one you’re already pumping to or
a completely different one.
This would prevent wasting all of that water.
@@troystutsman1400 how do you send the wasted water back to the pond after it had descent those 7 feet down? You would have to pump it back, right?
With what pump?
I also thought you should recapture the waste water. The pond would empty in less than a month unless it is fed by a large spring.
@@maryhornbostel6959 I think the pond is spring-fed. The reject water from ram pumps usually flows along the path it would normally flow through if the pump wasn't there. The ram pump just takes some of it and diverts it to where you want to use it. It's only "waste" in that it doesn't get diverted to where you want to use it.
I've seen bigger trickle valves that produce much much water & psi i guess its all about the size of the trickle valve look at those videos they are pretty awesome
Good to see Seth again, a small reunion ...looks like you 2 had some great times.👍
We really had a blast. Josh is so full of energy all the time.
Brilliant!! Love this!!
Such an interesting and simple old fashioned tried and true principle!!
Thanks for this Josh!! Keep it up Budd!! Whoooooo!!!
Your enthusiasm is awesome. This is an amazing pump...
Wow this is definitely a life-changing for people who live off-grid I would definitely make sure that the Crockers about this
hey Tim, ram pumps SUCK lol ...you need a constant water source flowing
like that pond will pump dry
lol...hey Doug...I'll be in Missouri next month!!
Very nice! Have a brook with about 50ft head on our property. May use this for a waterslide in the future, thank you.
It’s clever how the pump works
Congratulations on your new well
How about put the filter on some kind of floating device where the float is about 2 ft above the filter where the filter stays submerged about 2 ft underwater that way you're not sucking up algae off the bottom of your pond or any impurities the cleaner water this is awesome
Yeppers...a great idea...we will be rebuilding this pond dam later this year...moving some trees and increasing the size of this "water storage" area....when we do that a nice float will be a must! Thanks for the input brotha!
I'd say 6in under water. Not enough flow to cause a whirlpool and when pond is low takes longer to bottom out and suck mud.
That was my first thought when he threw that in the pond.
Nice setup for a pump unit. Thanks for sharing the idea with us. Stay safe.
I really love that expertise so how can I get all the equipment so I can close my irrigation farm and I would like if you could get to Tanzania and look at the environment and what it would be like to get some advice from you. Thanx you.
Now that's worthwhile video, thanks for posting.
The explanation of how this all works was about as clear as my nose in mayonnaise.
@Bobsyouruncle Wilson BRILLIANT! Thanks to you, I didn't need a handkerchief.
Josh will have more details on the pump as he uses them. If you do want more info on how they work I have over 100 videos on my channel showing them in action. I even talk a bit more on his install.
This may be the best video on the UA-cam, IMHO
Good video
guys thank you for sharing this informative video. watching from makati city philippines.
Love your videos
Yay Stoney, I bought one of these from Land to House about 2 years ago. I still have to set it up!
This is great...
Have a great evening ⛄⛄⛄