Yea I think this is what I was looking for as well.. The concept of a trash pump is awesome, and I'm glad they tend to include their own filters.. but I think I need to construct something similar to what you did - to prevent any sediment or sludge from getting into my irrigation system and clogging it up.
This video is brilliant. Looked for hours for just this set up. Your method worked with the exact same pump with silt and sludge. We ran 100 ft. hose to garden. Bucket with screen was the ticket. Thank you!
Excellent video! This is exactly what I was looking for. I want to water my garden 350 ft from a creek. I just bought the harbor freight pump with one inch line. I’m hoping it’s enough volume. I tested it and it pumps water much faster than a garden hose. I plan on reducing the one inch to two 3/4 hoses and sprinklers. I love your idea of using screen on the outside that covers all of your drilled holes! The weight works perfectly. Thanks for sharing your idea. I’m hoping to get a bumper crop of vegetables this year using your bucket idea. Thanks for sharing it!
@@underdogoutdoors Do you use metal or fiberglass screen? I was thinking of using two buckets-outer one with crushed stone 3 inches from the bottom then the other bucket inside that one with the screen sandwiched between the two. The two would be zip tied through holes so they can’t come apart. Just a thought.
@@porterbrass It's a metal screen, but never rusted so must be aluminum. Even fiberglass screen would work. I don't think you need to go overboard with the bucket, since it's a semi-trash pump, should be ok, however- sounds like the gravel would work unless it gets clogged with mud, then heavy to clean out. The bucket I've been using hasn't clogged or had any issues in a few years, & the pond does have muck & sludge on bottom.
@@underdogoutdoors I’m trying to figure out the rubber you used for gaskets. I think that I have a 1/2” thick utility rubber farm stall mat I can cut that will work. What size are your drilled holes and how many? Looks like 1/4” diameter and many of them- maybe 4-6” spacing?
@@porterbrass I used rubber gym flooring from walmart, they sell it where they sell the home exercise stuff, looks like a jigsaw puzzle, flooring locks together, it's light. I don't think it matters if it's a tight seal, since it's a semi trash pump. the holes are 1/4 inch, & I randomly drilled a bunch of holes all around the bucket.
This is a motor pump for medium dirty water. The motor pump for very dirty water has a fastening of the front cover of the pump on quick-release fasteners
Try "no seize" for the area that get Seize together. Longer hoses too. 150; if your doing irrigation. Line one should be long, and than they get shorter where you move your lines. Over 50' is hard to work, 100 is ok. 150 is still manageable. 200' is a very hard job to roll up and out, but better pressure and no calcium build up. Use CLR or Vinegar to clean the metal parts. Get a routine. Clean one section per week. Easy to say, harder to do. Dirty oil rags work well for cleaning and greeze.
If you need more pressure, or if you get some bigger heads. Trash pumps don't have much PSI.. I have a Pacer Econo Ag SE2UL e950 transfer pump that gets 50 psi and 195gpm max, which is big enough to run even big guns (up to 150 size) very well. Your small sprinklers dont use much PSI so they run pretty well.
You could water both the grass and your garden if you used a single 2" sprinkler off of Ebay. Not only that, it will throw out way more gallons a minute and get the job done faster. saving you wear and tear and gasoline. They are relatively inexpensive, only like 60 bucks and are a worthy investment. Just need a stand for it.
@@underdogoutdoors www.ebay.com/itm/303701882397 Here's a link! Hope it helps. They are very nice sprinklers with good distribution and a long throw. Right now you are bottlenecking the pump quite badly. I think you'll get a real kick out of the amount of water it'll be throwing out.
Can you link the exact item you purchased in your video description? I am a new employee that company but I haven't seen that product yet in stock yet.
Thanks for the comment, I don't know the exact link. It's from Harbor Freight Tools, and it's a 2 inch trash pump, or semi trash pump, my apologies as I haven't paid much attention since I purchased & installed. Been working trouble free for years now.
I am hoping to use the exact same pump to irrigate my yard from a small creek. I figure i'll have to dig a little section out and to get enough depth, the water flow is pretty substantial, just very shallow and only two or three feet wide. love the bucket filter idea. How many sprinklers are you running at a time and approximately how much hose are you using. Thanks for the video!
Great video. Can you tell me the psi you are getting from the pump? Also, can you clarify if you are running multiple sprinkler heads at one time? Thanks :)
Thank You! I wish I knew the PSI? No clue, however, it runs 4 sprinkler heads pretty easily. Also, been using same set up a few years & still working, use it almost every day unless its raining.
@@brandonsmith5658 It makes zero difference on the water level, on this particular small pond. I used 4 sections of 2 inch hose, $65.00 per section. So besides the pump, the cost was $260.00. I also used a few hardware items which were inexpensive from Home Depot, like the pressure washer filter (about $12), the brass manifold type splitter, and the PVC reducer & brass coupling to take the 2" hose down to garden hose size (about $5 each). Plus a few lengths of garden hose & sprinkler heads that I already had laying around. The bucket I used as a filter was just an old bucket I had laying around. All together, I'd budget about roughly $330 bucks besides the pump for this project.
Hello Matthew, I used a pvc reducer from home depot. It did take some time to piece together. All the parts are in Home Depot, plumbing department, if I can backtrack & figure out, I will post.
No relief valves far as I know- it's simple as it gets, I don't know the spec's. I run 3-4 sprinklers at a time with no issues. I think the key is to run the 2" hose close as possible to the point you reduce to smaller hoses. Hope that makes sense.
Asking because i got a fairly large garden about 2 acres and at the highest stop in about 60ft above my lake . I'm woundring it I will blow up the pump lol
I'm not sure, but if you go to a 3" hose & pump, will likely be more pressure. I don't think you have to worry about blowing up the pump either way- but I guess I'm not an expert.
Yea I think this is what I was looking for as well.. The concept of a trash pump is awesome, and I'm glad they tend to include their own filters.. but I think I need to construct something similar to what you did - to prevent any sediment or sludge from getting into my irrigation system and clogging it up.
Yes, agreed. This system has been working for me.
been researching to improve my irrigation setup. I really like your bucket filter. Thanks!
VERY NICE!!! I like smart, ingenuitive people! You're a credit to UA-cam! You make it worth while wading through a lot of things put on here.
Thank You so much for the kind words!
This video is brilliant. Looked for hours for just this set up. Your method worked with the exact same pump with silt and sludge. We ran 100 ft. hose to garden. Bucket with screen was the ticket. Thank you!
I'm so glad it helped you! Thank you for the feedback!
@@underdogoutdoors hello what are the specification of this generator
@@simonebiu8553 I believe it's a 2" semi trash pump.
Wonderful, thanx a lot
Excellent video! This is exactly what I was looking for. I want to water my garden 350 ft from a creek. I just bought the harbor freight pump with one inch line. I’m hoping it’s enough volume. I tested it and it pumps water much faster than a garden hose. I plan on reducing the one inch to two 3/4 hoses and sprinklers. I love your idea of using screen on the outside that covers all of your drilled holes! The weight works perfectly. Thanks for sharing your idea. I’m hoping to get a bumper crop of vegetables this year using your bucket idea. Thanks for sharing it!
Very glad it helped! Mine has been holding up for a few years now. Good luck!
@@underdogoutdoors Do you use metal or fiberglass screen? I was thinking of using two buckets-outer one with crushed stone 3 inches from the bottom then the other bucket inside that one with the screen sandwiched between the two. The two would be zip tied through holes so they can’t come apart. Just a thought.
@@porterbrass It's a metal screen, but never rusted so must be aluminum. Even fiberglass screen would work. I don't think you need to go overboard with the bucket, since it's a semi-trash pump, should be ok, however- sounds like the gravel would work unless it gets clogged with mud, then heavy to clean out. The bucket I've been using hasn't clogged or had any issues in a few years, & the pond does have muck & sludge on bottom.
@@underdogoutdoors I’m trying to figure out the rubber you used for gaskets. I think that I have a 1/2” thick utility rubber farm stall mat I can cut that will work. What size are your drilled holes and how many? Looks like 1/4” diameter and many of them- maybe 4-6” spacing?
@@porterbrass I used rubber gym flooring from walmart, they sell it where they sell the home exercise stuff, looks like a jigsaw puzzle, flooring locks together, it's light. I don't think it matters if it's a tight seal, since it's a semi trash pump. the holes are 1/4 inch, & I randomly drilled a bunch of holes all around the bucket.
This is a motor pump for medium dirty water.
The motor pump for very dirty water has a fastening of the front cover of the pump on quick-release fasteners
Nice. I need to figure out how to put garden hoses on my one inch pump
Excellent video great good creativity
Try "no seize" for the area that get Seize together. Longer hoses too. 150; if your doing irrigation. Line one should be long, and than they get shorter where you move your lines. Over 50' is hard to work, 100 is ok. 150 is still manageable. 200' is a very hard job to roll up and out, but better pressure and no calcium build up. Use CLR or Vinegar to clean the metal parts. Get a routine. Clean one section per week. Easy to say, harder to do. Dirty oil rags work well for cleaning and greeze.
The bucket filter is an excellent idea.
Thank you. I have never had a clog since I "invented" (lol), the bucket filter.
Just what I have been looking for.
If you need more pressure, or if you get some bigger heads. Trash pumps don't have much PSI.. I have a Pacer Econo Ag SE2UL e950 transfer pump that gets 50 psi and 195gpm max, which is big enough to run even big guns (up to 150 size) very well. Your small sprinklers dont use much PSI so they run pretty well.
Try replacing the couplings with the cam lock adapters, should speed up the process
You could water both the grass and your garden if you used a single 2" sprinkler off of Ebay. Not only that, it will throw out way more gallons a minute and get the job done faster. saving you wear and tear and gasoline. They are relatively inexpensive, only like 60 bucks and are a worthy investment. Just need a stand for it.
Thank you, I will look into that!
@@underdogoutdoors www.ebay.com/itm/303701882397
Here's a link! Hope it helps. They are very nice sprinklers with good distribution and a long throw. Right now you are bottlenecking the pump quite badly. I think you'll get a real kick out of the amount of water it'll be throwing out.
Awesome
Nice video
Nice vid. Perhaps some Molly B anti-seize would work better than grease? Thanks for sharing.
I love how your using a binaural beat as the background music
Really helpful! Thanks for posting
Can you link the exact item you purchased in your video description? I am a new employee that company but I haven't seen that product yet in stock yet.
Thanks for the comment, I don't know the exact link. It's from Harbor Freight Tools, and it's a 2 inch trash pump, or semi trash pump, my apologies as I haven't paid much attention since I purchased & installed. Been working trouble free for years now.
I am hoping to use the exact same pump to irrigate my yard from a small creek. I figure i'll have to dig a little section out and to get enough depth, the water flow is pretty substantial, just very shallow and only two or three feet wide. love the bucket filter idea. How many sprinklers are you running at a time and approximately how much hose are you using. Thanks for the video!
How did it work out? I have a similar sized creek I want to pump from.
I need like that
Would Teflon tape prevent the corrosion of the couplings?
Yes, I believe that would work, although I haven't tried it yet.
can you tell me about the algae from the pond? is it unsafe to use on vegetable garden?
I find the vegetables grow extremely well, I've had no negative issues.
Can this machine used to irrigate crops of high lands like hills where water source is at least 100 meters below?
I've never tried it, it may be possible, but not sure.
Thanks so much for your response.
Nice
Great video. Can you tell me the psi you are getting from the pump? Also, can you clarify if you are running multiple sprinkler heads at one time? Thanks :)
Thank You! I wish I knew the PSI? No clue, however, it runs 4 sprinkler heads pretty easily. Also, been using same set up a few years & still working, use it almost every day unless its raining.
How much was this type of setup minus the pump? And does it make a big difference in water level of pond??
@@brandonsmith5658 It makes zero difference on the water level, on this particular small pond. I used 4 sections of 2 inch hose, $65.00 per section. So besides the pump, the cost was $260.00. I also used a few hardware items which were inexpensive from Home Depot, like the pressure washer filter (about $12), the brass manifold type splitter, and the PVC reducer & brass coupling to take the 2" hose down to garden hose size (about $5 each). Plus a few lengths of garden hose & sprinkler heads that I already had laying around. The bucket I used as a filter was just an old bucket I had laying around. All together, I'd budget about roughly $330 bucks besides the pump for this project.
Model name?
That's the pond ever completely drain when you're using it
No it never drains at all Torrell, it's stream fed so water is constantly coming in.
How many feet of 2" discharge hose are you using prior to reducing down to the splitter with the garden hoses?
60 feet
Will a trash pump be damaged if it runs dry for a short period of time say 1-2 minutes?
I never tried it, but I don't thing so..
Yes the ceramic and rubber seals will heat up and be damaged even in a short time frame.
Harbor Freight says to not run dry for more than 10 seconds.
What size sprinklers are you using, and how many of them will the pump run?
Standard garden hose size lawn sprinklers, not sure the size, standard Home Depot purchase, but I can easily run 4 at a time with good pressure.
How far can this pump push water, I need to pump water to my parents home which is about 300mtrs from the river and abit sloppy.
Not sure, I'm only going about 1/3 of that, & slightly uphill, but still has very good pressure
can you use it in many hours
Yes
Can you show us what parts you used Togo to regular water hose line for the sprinklers..?
Hello Matthew, I used a pvc reducer from home depot. It did take some time to piece together. All the parts are in Home Depot, plumbing department, if I can backtrack & figure out, I will post.
Any pressure relief valves on it? What’s the GPM rating on the pump. I’m agonizing over which pump to buy to get enough pressure.
misterb1080 GPM is 158 and no pressure relief on the pump Don’t know what the pressure of the pump is
No relief valves far as I know- it's simple as it gets, I don't know the spec's. I run 3-4 sprinklers at a time with no issues. I think the key is to run the 2" hose close as possible to the point you reduce to smaller hoses. Hope that makes sense.
Why the diaphragm?
It's been a while since I set it up, I believe the diaphragm is better at moving solids without getting clogged.
why do you call it a trash pump?
That's what it is called, I believe it can pump up to a certain size solids, perhaps 1/2 inch pieces of debris with the water.
How much lift can you get out of a setup like this??
Asking because i got a fairly large garden about 2 acres and at the highest stop in about 60ft above my lake . I'm woundring it I will blow up the pump lol
I'm not sure, but if you go to a 3" hose & pump, will likely be more pressure. I don't think you have to worry about blowing up the pump either way- but I guess I'm not an expert.
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