My New Ram Pump - AMAZING!
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Couple of tips for you:
When you open or close your gate valves (not the check valves, but the ones with handles on them), back the handle off a quarter-turn before walking away. In the event that you leave the valve in the same position for a long time (like over the winter season, maybe) you may find it necessary to turn the handle in both directions before it comes loose and will let you run it all the way to the other position. This approach does not work for Stopcock Valves (which only swing 90 degrees to open or close). This tip is something I learned at my grandfather's knee... he was a Journeyman Plumber.
The other thing I would recommend is that you get a two foot long "Retrieving Tool", with a plunger on one end and three or four expanding prongs on the other end. I generally soak mine in clean engine oil when they are new (or if they stop operating smoothly). Throwing that into the end of your drive pipe to pull out debris will save you lots of time. It is much more "the right tool for the job" than using a straight slot screwdriver.
That's right about a gate valve. Back the handle off a little bit from a full closure, not only to help loosen it if necessary, but also that when you come back after a long time, it confirms that it is closed. We happened to use 1/2 turn.
I learned this in Sea Scouts, on our boat. This has served me well for a loooong time.
AMEN: Good Idea.
use my shitter snake for cleanout
use olive oil on that instead of engine oil. u dont want engine oil in you water! animals dont like it! a drop of motor oil will contaminate a small stream!
For all us electro-nerds out there, the ram pump works analogously to a boost converter.
The mass of the water in the supply pipe works like an inductor, while the air tube works as the smoothing capacitor.
Very good comparison
Very good comparison
Now that is language I understand. Nice analogy.
My background is more with plumbing and mechanical things. Hydraulic to electrical analogies are helpful.
Somewhere close to the end of the video I had the idea it may work similarly, then I found your comment.
At 9:00 if you can make the mesh into a conical shape then the leaves wont block the mesh (so much).
Oh! VERY good point. And while we are at it, how about a screen at the open end of the stand pipe, Sir?
Sure like the vent pipe for a toilet.
Just to be clear, I mean for the point of the cone to point away from the pipe.
Exactly by thoughts. A "self cleaning" design, often to be found in industrial components.
1) Look to increase the surface in contact with the in-flow, this will reduce the velocity.
2) Or, set up a meshed off pool in front of the pipe inlet, effectively increasing the surface area on the mesh.
3) Angle or taper the end, with the mesh screen, to use the stream flow to dislodge & wash away debris.
The mesh should have as much surface as possible. Sorry, but it was a mistake that you cut the mesh and did not make at least a ball-shaped mesh with a lot of surface. Regardless of that I like your stuff. Keep up the good work.
+trespire exactly.
It's amazing how you talk to each other as if you're still on your early few dates. What a great marriage. Congratulations :)
I've been thinking about these for years, and I just 'got' it. A Step-Up Transformer for water. You're exchanging cfm (cubic feet per minute) flow for pressure. Just as you'd exchange amperage for volts. Watts = Amps X Volts. You use a bigger wire to have no resistance (heating). Here, you use the bigger drive pipe to have no resistance (water friction from speed). It goes into the transformer (pressure PVC pipe), a water-driven piston that converts the momentum (cfm) into pressure (psi, ~20), which waits for the swing valve to close then converts the pressure back into momentum for the smaller feed pipe.
Watts = cfm.
Amps = Pipe diameter
Volts = psi
The magic for me is the 1:7, drop height to pump height. Maybe that has to do with the volume building up in the pressure pipe and the feeding flow rate: you could build up more pressure with a high-flowing, high feet-head feed, going into a larger pressure pipe? If it's too large, it won't 'prime.'
There's a related pumping system, called a trompe, or hydropneumatic plant. Bill Mollison has a video on one, and here's an old video of the one he discusses, in Canada: ua-cam.com/video/UtYLVLkWyGc/v-deo.html
"I don't know what it is with women and machinery." Had me laughing for quite a while.
she is hard working on the top of hill
Similar to what women might say about men not being able to cook or so, LOL
If you're taking too much water why not put a valve on the back half to slow it down a bit?
You're correct, the ram pump has been around for a long time. When I was a teenager I helped a friend rebuild one. Of course the rebuild on this cast iron only amounted to removing the ram (first) valve and replacing the brass valve stem. To my knowledge that same pump has been working for the last 20 years and seems to be in shape to work for another.
Oh, I forgot to mention the date on the cast body of the pump was 1878.
Your old ram pump videos were what got me hooked to this channel ages ago. Nice to see you do more work on those amazing things.
Thank you.
Same for me, glad I stayed!
this "waste" you are speaking of is the energy that is used to make the pump work. There is no such thing as free energy and thus the water is the energy. Hope this helps :)
Wasnt this an open spring before? He just rerouted it for a short distance.
@@wranglerstar gov will have all heads for this tech thay teach us that we always have loss but never talk about
the converted gain we can make from eletromagnets
if u convert all the wast thermal energy around
you u can use it universally as energy u need a true sine wave bipolar like the power comp dose a
true pure sinewave like a grid tie inverter
once the signal is made the system will turn on and
consume wast thermal energy from the
environment and space around you... there is free energy but
it comes from Universal thermal loss and converted into a gain. so a pole Transformer and a
microwave Transformer have a common between each other u can take 2 microwave Transformer provide
a pure sine wave grid tie inverter to it or a true bipolar sinewave that inter acts with nature in
a perfect spherical motion like a flower of life.. if ur home provides this use it as a Source
signal then u can simply stack the Transformers on top of eachother in correct fasion and note
that the 1 wire on the Transformer must stay connected and the other disconnected your only useing
1 wire on the hi side .. so test ur self
2 microwave transformer stacked on top of eachother same
face sides. one side 120 to the wall and the other 120 side to what u want to power and useing the
Transformer just the way it came out the microwave with the wire attached causes the energy in its
perfect spherical motion to converted wast thermal energy to amp for u hot to cold in to out...
should look a bit nuts with u use a form of wireless energy but its interacting with the
environment...this is my work a compilation of Otis car. Tesla. and many other very smart people
nowadays i think i found the gate source and drainif this gets out to much that it works the
power
comp and mib will have our headsdont do this at home warning high voltage yet i cant stop u lol DO
NOT TOCH THE CORES OR THE WIRES OK u will die make sure u dont touch the core if the hi wire is
mounted to it u dont have to mount the hi on the core if u dont want u connect the 1 hi wire to
the same side hi on the other transformer then the core should besafe to handle if nessary
grab your multimeter and prove me wrong
thats what u do i have my whole home on this
and u can take
one of the lows side out the wall and hook it up to other stuff and power it for verry little amp
makeing nature convert and pumping latent heat effect into the device.
and u can have a microwave
hi volt cap in between the hi side and make a system that powers its self
u can flip the switch on
ur breaker and the room stays on up to 2kva
with both lows in the wall this is the zero point that
was taken from us...
Put some anti seize pipe dope on the threads of that union then the next time you went to break it open it will be lots easier
Cody,
Just curious if you ever considered filling a stock tank off of the waste valve from the pump. I'm guessing that water just flows back into the stream bed. If you had your pump sitting over, (or in) an open top stock tank you could capture the waste in the stock tank and use it as a fire fighting reserve. If I remember right you had an above ground pool for that last fire season. The overflow from the tank could be directed back to the stream. Just an idea.
Great videos lately. Been enjoying them.
Jason.
@@dheadhunter413 In theory, it sounds good, but you can't block the pulsing action of the waste valve because it will stop the big pump, so unless the waste valve is over a container that actually *supplied* the smaller pump, it wouldn't really work. Then you have to have enough drop between the supply 'container' and the small pump to actually make it efficient enough to lift the water back up again. Then... *what do you do with the waste water from the small pump??* 😁
@@danw1955 Make a smaller reservoir and pump of course!
@@danw1955 Haha, "In theory it sounds good"... rather: exactly not! 😁
Perpetual motion machine - in theory, it sounds good, but in practice, it doesn't work... Maybe we haven't done enough research yet!! 😁😁😁
@@pwhsbuild You just solved the riddle of perpetual motion! 😁😁😁
@@pwhsbuild We are getting closer to the nano-ram-pump levels in a few more steps.
my amazing father Gregory Blaine Anderson made and used one of these to collect water 1700 feet away and up 300 feet of 45-60% slope in Montana, no gas no electricity 800- 1500 gallons per day depending on head.
How much of the water is being lost though? It looks 1/2 of the water is being pumped out of the pump into the environment. I've never seen one that is not right there at the water. Doesn't all that waste water cause problems?
That waste water is the reason why this pump doesn't break physics. You start with a lot of water at a certain elevation, and waste some (or most, depending on your needs) to get the remaining water to a higher elevation than it was at the beginning
+Dusker... That isn't true. The laws of physics aren't being broken in the same way that a dam isn't breaking the laws of physics. The ultimate energy source powering the pump is the sun. The sun evaporates water and then it rains and the water lands at a higher level than sea level and the water has kinetic energy from running downhill. That kinetic energy is converted to compressed air which forces water uphill. The design of the pump causes a large percentage of the water to get dumped, which is why it's usually right at the source.
When I said problems, I was mostly referring to drainage, land and erosion problems, not problems with the pump.
First of all i was very tired and didn't read your comment very well and so i didn't quite get what you were trying to say. My fault, I'll take the blame for that.
Regarding your analysis,
well you can say that the big bang is the ultimate source of energy then lol... your argument about the sun is partially invalid: it is true that the sun is powering the whole thing (as it does with almost every other source of energy on earth) but the potential energy gained by the water from the sun is maximum when said water is in clouds, and when it rains some of that energy is converted into kinetic all the way down to the ground, and when it sits in a pond it has much less potential energy than when it was in the clouds. So it's safe to say that we can begin calculations taking as starting point the source water body (as it is done in hydrodynamics).
What i meant is that, in a closed system like the earth, you can't transport water (or any body) at a higher elevation without putting energy into it - this would contradict physics because it would gain more potential energy than the kinetic energy it already had (ever wonder why dams don't use the energy they create through their turbines to move the water even more uphill? Quick answer: you can't). So if you just tried to move the water from the spring to higher land using its kinetic energy gained falling you will at most (assuming 100% efficiency in all the system) get it to where it started. However, an amount of water (let's say 1 liter) 10 meters above the pump has the same energy (relative to the amount it would have at the pump's level obviously) as say 0.1 liters 100 meters above the pump. By sacrificing water you gain height. The maths is pretty basic, the equation will be (m1*g*h1) = (m2*g*h2); since g is a constant we can take it out of the equation and we get (m1*h1) = (m2*h2) and you can easily see how changing one value varies the others to make sure the equation is respected.
+Dusker... The Earth is not a closed system. The sun is constantly giving the Earth energy. If Earth were a closed system, it would be near 0K with only remnants of the heat from the core.
I understand that overunity is not possible. It would take far more water to generate the electricity to pump water back uphill than the pump could pump.
I understand that the Ram Pump isn't anywhere near 100% efficient and that the system wouldn't work without that loss of water. The pumps captures the energy in that moving water and then dumps some of the water and then is left with enough energy to pump the remaining water some particular height based on both the amount of energy in the moving water and the design of the system.
Also, some of the water may be coming from natural artesian wells and have a different source (though not ULTIMATELY) of energy..
My point is and was that all that water the pump is losing causes other problems such as mosquitoes, erosion of the soil, growth of plants that like standing water etc. In all of the other instances I've seen of these Ram Pumps, they are at the water source and the loss is no big deal because it just goes back into the stream and is not free to do its evil deeds.
Also, no hard feelings. Sorry if I came off snarky or something. If so, it was unintentional.
I really like how some shots will only be him walking away from a job well done
it really tells what the channel is about, trying to do a job well done,
maintaining things when they need to be maintained,
fixing things when they need to be fixed,
telling things when they need to be told,
showning things when they need to be shown,
teaching things when they need to be taught,
and the list could go on.
He is a person who tries
to spread good things,
not to be selfish,
and this list could go on.
So thank you all of the Wranlerstar family for showing
other people and I great morals, ideas, and things.
You have shown me so many things
that I couldn't have learned from boy scouts
So truly thanks and Godspeed Wranglerstar family,
to you with the love of humanity.
,with that love from
Aiden Saulnier
If this was a cartoon, when he put the pipe to his ear, the water would come shooting out of his other ear ha.
This is the most wholesome comment I have read on the internet in a long long time
as a man who works in the water industry as a mech fitter i enjoyed this video!
I would be wary of using the plastic pump in winter, although it has constant flow i reckon it is likely to freeze and crack, we use pvc-u a lot. We dont even really get that cold of a winter here in england either haha.
Also, when using your stilsons to free the union, take a ball peen hammer and just knock the union without the stillos on. this is usually enough and avoids you having to hit your tools :) nice video!
You are still the only UA-camr I can find that explains how and why the ram pump works and how to build, tweak and repair them. I often refer back to the videos for guidance. Thanks!
Helpful tip for rewinding your trimmer line... there are two holes with a slot cut in them on the button side of the rotor. Those are for holding the line after you wind it to keep the spool tight/prevent jamming. Just pop the end of the line into that notch until you have the rotor secured in the housing. There are also tabs on the rotor that correspond with tabs on the inside of the housing to secure the rotor against the housing, just push in the rotor and rotate until the little slotted holes that secure the line for winding line up with the metal shrouded holes in the housing, you will find that the tabs allow you to move the line into the "loaded" position with ease and prevent jamming while trying to feed out line. You can leave the rotor in this position until you have placed the rotor cap back on the line head. Just give the ends of the line a pull after everything is back together and it will set the rotor in the "ready to feed" position. Cheers!
I have a few ideas for your ram pump. At the inlet, cut the short end of a large funnel to fit the inlet of the ram pump, then put screen on it so the area coverage is much greater and you wouldnt have to clean it near as much. Also for other debris that gets in your could install a tank (5 gal would work) near the inlet with a large watertight opening at the top side about 4" or more so you can simply open the lid and clean it out before anything gets to the smaller pipes and pump at the home. Just put another screen in the outlet side of the tank. The cleanout opening for the tank can be pvc so you can bury the tank just below the surface and still reach it.
Nice idea. Perhaps having the funnel gauze at an angle to the flow so it will shed debris to the side would help too.
I’ve heard of ram pumps for years and knew that they required no electricity but never saw one or had it explained how they work. Thanks
@Mike Robbins
he did explain it well , he didnt mention that it is a fluid hammer , which is how it gets more pressure :-)
The way he loads the string causes the string to twist and bind up.
Load the string by turning the string holder instead of wrapping the string around the holder.
If you put 2-3 wraps of teflon tape over the threads of the union in your drive pipe it will not set up from rust as bad. Someone will always say who put tape on that union the brass seat seals the union it you don't need teflon tape but its not there to seal just to make it easier to disassemble latter on.
Saw you zip on that bit of screen and decided to offer an alternative solution. Take a pvc pipe, 8 inches long and cut slots into it on both sides. File them smooth and roughly 1/8 inch wide. Wrap it with screen and then cap it off. now you have a larger water intake that wont clog as easily.
From a lawn care company owner, soak your weed whip line in water for 24 hours, it dries out eventually and will break easier if not hydrated
pro tip of the year right here!
Someone on the internet that actually helped me out?!!? This is a first
Great job of explaining and maintaining a RAM pump system!!!!
Should there be a screen on the stan pipe or am I missing something? Seems like it wouldn't have gotten clogged if there had been a screen.
Thank you Mrs W for utilizing PPE when operating the brush cutter. It's disappointing to see many videos where people operate weed whackers wearing shorts, flip flops and no hearing or eye protection.
it can hurt if you don't wear the right stuff - I should have added to keep your mouth closed ! don't want to lose a tooth. mrsw
14:07 Just install a wye strainer before clogged valve, remove basket and clean
Thanks for the explanation. I live in Sri Lanka. I assembled a pump, 1/2" and it works. Mostly out of PVC other than the 2 valves. I will be tightening ang glueing all the components tomorrow.
Thanks once again.
This video had invaluable information, in my humble opinion. I loved, and very much appreciated you explaining the concept of a ramp pump at a really basic level!
Thank you, Cody! God bless!
6:08
The quote, since the beginning of time.
It would be nice to catch the "waste water" and perhaps let it collect in a man made pond. Stock it with fish. The grassy are you walked through when finished, could that be dug out and made into a pond?
Read Sepp Holzer's book "Permaculture"; I'm only a very little way into it but one of the first things he talks about is making a pond.
The wast water runs directly into our pond,
does the waste valve have to be left open to work or could it be plumbed to a catch basin or pond?
Wranglerstar you should look into a venturie set up for easier prime could use air pressure and or water from reserve to pull a vaccumn on feed pipe for faster prime if you would like to see what i am talking about pm me thanks and nice video
Or maybe divert it back to where it was originally (if possible)
That's amazing! Thanks so much for posting this video. As soon as I saw the pump clicking away I immediately knew how it worked, but having you explain it helped a lot. Whoever designed this system was a genius.
There are so many technologies lost through the ages where technology out stripped the system, but then when you look at specific tasks something that costs little with very few moving parts is just the most amazing solutions to the problem, its so good to see
Thank you for sharing
Garry
Ram Pump I would like to learn more on the construction...
Really neat. Never seen one and I'm 65...
ua-cam.com/video/A9W0zx2D7aU/v-deo.html
You didn't finish the ram pump May 14th (today) so I watched this video again. 😁
Donny Boon same here.
So is there a reason for no anti seize ? I don't know very much about water lines. Would love any answers
@
Chaz Beed
on his newer videos he does use some copper grease :-)
It took me a bit to figure out where the lift pressure was coming from, but this is a really clever use of the water's momentum/kinetic energy. Thanks for sharing.
I like weed eating too because you get to enjoy instant results. I would caution you to not ever buy Mrs W. a pressure washer, they are incredibly fun to operate and you get amazing results... she'll be spraying everything!
They can damage so quickly! mrsW :)
I remember that string trimmer with a saw blade on it. That thing was an animal.
jason I’ve used both the blade on top of the string at same time, to eat up the darn blackberries, we have in proliferation. Works well to get the grass and heavy vines at same time. 👍🏼
I'm curious , if you have a filtering screen over the intake , how do you get so much debris
into the ram pump ? Especially the size of sticks and pine cones .
i had a thought for low drop areas unsure if it would work as i have not built mine, could you place a pipe before your inlet with a bladder in it to create artificial water height? Or possibly place a waterfilled bladder into your pressure tank? Just curious before i start a build figured i would ask i only have about a foot of drop but need more tgan 7 foot of lift thinking about digging in tge ram pump or pissibly filling multiple holding tanks to feed into the next ram pump amplifying my lift potential
you should also put a screen over your stand pipe because that is an access point for trash in your system
Right. When the pump is not working, that wastgate valve is open, so anything can just fall in.
I laughed pretty hard at your teenager finding the path of least resistance joke, lol
That is how my physics teacher told us how electrons work.
Question. You have a valve on the down side of the pump to shut the water off and let the pressure build up. Since the output is running 40' of head and 300' away wouldn't the line automatically create pressure build up even without the valve. The water would run through the system until it reached a point of level with the source water, then it would create pressure and activate the pump without a second valve?
So quick question what happens when your barrels are full ?
Second can I use spring check valves in my ram pump mine is like the one you made
"there's a pinecone in there every year"
apparently, never considered any kind of filter or mesh basket over the intake.
Or an intake box, which has a fairly large screen so needles etc are less likely to get through the screen.
Always fun to weed wack!
Awesome new ram pump . . . amazing how effective they are.
the japanese weed whackers all have 10 inch saw blades on them, grannies out there bouncing saw blades off the curbs and rocks! A very distinctive sound of summer.
Hello I am just wondering will the ram pump work if the water source is lower than where you want the water to end up in?
Yes it can.
she let's the string get to short before she bumps it on ground
what Cody was talking about at the end, kinda.... really enrages me. this is such a simple, and marvelous invention, yet people still can't get water in some places. meanwhile we got these commercials of lil Johnny in Ethiopia drinking scum water. it's all greed, just 26 cents a day could save Johnny, I'd like to know what they're skimming off the top of it. this comment is a cluster, but it really gets to me.
Indeed
I completely agree but because I build these pumps and ship around the world I have run into another thing that I NEVER thought about. Typically the women are the ones that go out and collect the water and this is an important social time for them to get away from the men. I have heard of ladies getting together and destroying a water pump so they can congregate and carry water together.
+Land to House I've never thought about it like that before. there are so many different points of view on things it's kinda hard to see past your own sometimes, specially when your not there and have never been there.
I'm 24 years young and I been seeing commercials for as long as I can remember about non profit organizations and unpaid spokes person's... blah blah blah. where does it all go? in the last 20 years there must of been millions raised for these causes. the commercials are still saying the same damn things they were 20 years ago. I want to see the change that's taken place if there's any at all.
I know this is all old news and has been discussed over N over again. but that's my point, it's such old news but why don't we know anymore about it then we did years ago? I can't believe... I don't want to believe that someone could put a hungry, sick and homeless child's face on something just to extort money from ignorant, decent people. ugh greed......
+Land to House.
I live in kenya. I have a well 60` deep. how can I get this water pump from you & how much would it cost me? Its really tiring pumping this water physically. There is no electricity in my area. Please assist me.
winfred khalumba hello. The ram pump works on head pressure so I regret to say that it will not pump water from a well. The pump must have a water source above the pump that falls into the system.
Enjoyed your clear explanation!
It took my mind of everything else.
Thank you.
pull off 24 feet (for Stihl professional heads), pinch at 12, stick both ends in the spool at the same time and wind both sides at the same time. when you come to the end, clip the loop, and set the ends in the head! once you get the hang of it, its a lot more efficient!
as for the string going back in, thats usually casue the cutting length needs to be maintained. just tap it bore often, (cutting off a bit excess is less frustrating than re spooling)
Your Spyderco would have cut the string the first time...SPYDERCO!!!!!
Yes then the tip would have broken off,
Booooooooo LOL. Love your channel Cody! And I love my Spydercos and have never broken a tip! God bless you all!
I still love my Scallion
@scoobtoober29 Repeat after me "A knife is not a screwdriver or pry bar."
To me, that knife was dangerously dull. But I would have used a pair of side cutters to cut the line anyway.
just using the energy from a water hammer to pump water.
Physics and engineering are wonderful...
Hi Cody. Thanks for a very thorough explanation of both your system and the workings of the ram-pump. Nice video!
Hey I have a question and I hope someone could help. On my property i have a spring fed creek year round. We dug a huge pong on this property about 50 yards away from creek. The pond does not hold water. Everytime the rain fills it, two weeks later its down to the bottom. Do you think a ram pump would pump enough water to fill a big pond and keep it full? We tried pouring bags on bentonite into it. Didnt work. I heard there is an underground water table which is pulling the water from the pond I guess? Any ideas welcome Please and Thanks.
Laughing so hard! 'Don't know what it is about women and machinery' says the man who made a video with his sister in the kitchen a couple years ago.....
You make a good point, LOL
+Brasso that's a great idea with the break cable instead of using weed eater plastic cable. thanks for the tip I will definitely do this and save a bunch of money on the long run.
You are the best Beth! MrsW
6:15 minutes of messing with the weed wacker before he gets to the subject matter.
And why?
@@rolfpoelman3486 idk why he did that. At work we use a speed feed weed eater head. Takes me 20 seconds to put new string.
Hello... can you tell me what effect, if any, putting a larger cylinder or propane type tank (as you mentioned) on the system would cause? I understand it would take longer to fill the volume of the tank but would it move more water?thanks for your videos.
If you were to put a valve on the output end would it stop the pump if you shut the valve or would It start running again when you open up the valve?
Watching and hearing the weed whacker makes me appreciate my scyth all the more!
You should collab with Jimmy Diresta!
That would be so cool. And plus theirs the whole east coast west coast thing so maybe they could do a wood battle of some kind.
dont think thats a good idea... don't tell anyone i told you but on direst as channel.. he cut up old crosscut saws for projects.. SHHH
+Nate Bennett Diresta legit said ask him in reply to my comment
it was a joke haha
yes i know good man. silly joke
how is this stuff getting in with a screen over the end? do you need a screen or T on the vent pole??
Thanks for explaining how it works! I have watched scotts video I dont know how many times and couldnt understand it, your explaination was perfect! I may have to see about building one for my parents cattle tanks if there is enough elevation change. I would imagine I could have the inlet coming into the tank and an overflow on the tank going right back into the creek so that they would rarely ever have to fill the tank manually from the well.
No doubt that the guy who came up with this got this idea from God only God can give such a wisdom to man praise God
Hi Mr W, please to get Mrs W a proper harness, makes a huge difference and some ear defenders. Love the show.
how do you clean your water for use in cooking, drinking and cleaning?
Please tell me again where that belt can be found? I remember you saying something about it being a fire hose in a previous life. Thanks
A good wife is such a blessing you have a good wife I am bless as well with a wonderful wife
She's still a dream boat.
25min video, title item is in it for 5 seconds.
to be clear, the water source is at a higher elevation than the junction with the 90 degree turn and all the moving parts? and flows down to that point then up to your home & water tower and such?
You inspired me to build a ram pump in my spring, finally have it worked out and have been pumping water to an ibc tote tower with a one inch pump since the last frost. I have had good luck with the check valves with the rubber gaskets in them. Happy to see more of this content!
Hi thanks for the video.
Would you have the components of the pump, size etc? i got the 1 and 1/4 inch inlet. thanks
Question?
I'm curious if you thread the waste gate and flow that ahead of the check valve would that give you a slightly higher flow rate? It's a big what if. But that seems like energy wasted. I would love to have a ram pump but we have no elevation with our water it's all flat for 100 yards.
I love how this works and so glad I found your video. I don't have a spring, pond nor creek but was wondering if a person could collect rain into a large container or perhaps a cistern and then using this system to move the water? Thanks for any info on this idea.
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could you use this to suck water up a hole in the ground? and does that water spurting out the ram just go to waste?
Just wondering, just trying to understand this engine... is it possible for the initial water flow to be captured in a vat, from which it flows into the engine, and the overflow water to be fed into that same vat? The tube would have to be short, as else it will give back-pressure and hinder the overflow valve, but I just hate seeing good water go to waste...
I'm just amazed the pump survives the harsh winters there. As always a fantastic show. God bless you and yours.
This is going to sound odd, but could you collect the water from that large ram to feed another ram uphill towards another source, then use those combined sources to feed another large ram, or feed another smaller ram?
Your ram pump videos are some of my favorites, this one was very well done as well and I look forward to seeing the smaller pump in action.
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So do you mesh each opening for the ram pump? Confused how pinecones and stick get in.
How high can these pump water I need to pump 100metres nearly vertically straight up and about another 80 along a flat at the top to where I live in the UK
If you have to get water from a river or pond and there always level and in a valley how do you get the water to flow to your pump in the 1st place?
Im wondering if you have ever tried putting a check valve on the inlet (drive) pipe just above (upstream of) the waste valve? I'm going to experiment with my 3" pump this spring. I had the thought that if you could stop the shockwave from going back up the drive pipe with a check valve, you could make it more efficient by forcing more energy through the outlet. What are your thoughts on it?
It looks like you don't need any real pressure from the input feed line, just a pound or two and good flow, I take it?
Hey, great video! How long would I need to let it build up pressure, I used a 2 inch drive pipe 58 feet long
New to this homesteading technology...I’m curious if there’s enough pressure coming from the first check valve to pump the water coming from it as well, or would it stop the process if used...just seems like there should be a way of utilizing the escaping water...anyone..???
Can you throttle the discharge down to a trickle or will the pump lose it,s prime???
Man, I love those hydraulic rams. I often wish I had a property just steep enough and with a streamlet, just to play around with those... (and I should start wearing a t-shirt "danger! engineer inside")
So, here's a hint that might help you keeping the inlet clean:
Maybe you can build a kind of gravity filter, with 2 chambers, the 1st with the inlet under water, being fed by the spring. Then you add a vertical bar, which the water needs to flow over to reach the 2nd chamber where the pipe is connected.
The underwater inlet keeps anything out of your pipe that is light enough to float on the surface.
The chambers themselves shall enable any sand or other stuff to sink to the bottom, so they have to be built just large enough to ensure a slow flow.
Should be rather easy to clean out, too if you add a lid on the top. And it could be built from some harder wood to make it halfway "waterproof" so it doesn''t rot away and gives you another nice wood project. :)
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Great Video, i appreciate what you say about moving water... im on a cattle station at the moment, and water is a major concern, we are in a drought and it hasnt rained for 2 years....so moving water around is very important here, we do it with pumps and tons and tons of pipe (the station is 1.3 million acres in size) this ram pump system is a fantastic idea...all we are missing is the elevation factor (its pretty flat out here) although the bore water is under a natural pressure....so it may work..... anyway great video and keep up the good work!!
Would this work hanging from the inside and just below top of a shore well?
Seems like there must be some way to use or put to use all that water that gets pushed out of the check valve. I mean its full of energy and has already been pumped wonder if there is a way that could be put to use in the system
What do you do about water logging the air chamber? Have you tried a snifter? Nice ram in it's total simplicity - no need for the spill valve adjustment as on the commercial ones?
Could a ram pump be used to transport water between storage tanks? I'm thinking a 1000litre tank collecting rain from a barn roof then pumping the water to other tanks and eventually to a watering system to a green house and vegetable garden...
Do you shut the pump down in winter? if so, how do you supply water?
One question, wouldn't you be able to hook an other hose to the upright part of the T pipe (not the pressure pipe) and have it still work, then it would, in theory, fill your water tank twice as fast.
Cool stuff thanks! I have a hate / hate relationship with 2-stroke engines... and who chooses string over blades?
Right here! Saw a guy run weed wacker blade on 5yd dump truck tire on the sidewall. Completely wasted the tire. Expensive day hard lesson learned.
Is it possible to reclaim the water off the waste valve some how? I live in an area where that much water just dumping is not a good thing.