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raising water without a pump?

  • 12-09-2010 6:19pm
    #1
    f05bf1c21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    can you raise water without a pump? i need to raise water about 10 feet but have no power and want to do it for a low cost. it is to provide drinking water for cattle. i would be lifting it from a well with a water level 10 foot lower the the water trough.
    i was thinking of brining a pipe from the well straight up into a tree (about 20 feet high) and then bring maybe 3 times the amount of piping back down to the drinking trough ( 10 feet higher than well) i would be hoping that once the pipe is initially full of water there would be 3 times the weight of water going down from the height point than there would be going up to the height point so i would be hoping this would pull the water up the pipe. will this work or whats the best solution?
    any ideas or help would be greatly appricated


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  • #2
    mayo_lad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 563 ✭✭✭mayo_lad


    f05bf1c21 wrote: »
    can you raise water without a pump? i need to raise water about 10 feet but have no power and want to do it for a low cost. it is to provide drinking water for cattle. i would be lifting it from a well with a water level 10 foot lower the the water trough.
    i was thinking of brining a pipe from the well straight up into a tree (about 20 feet high) and then bring maybe 3 times the amount of piping back down to the drinking trough ( 10 feet higher than well) i would be hoping that once the pipe is initially full of water there would be 3 times the weight of water going down from the height point than there would be going up to the height point so i would be hoping this would pull the water up the pipe. will this work or whats the best solution?
    any ideas or help would be greatly appricated
    these links should be off some use to you http://www.dureble.co.uk/index.php/products/show/pasture-pumps/aquamat-2-pasture-pump-/
    http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=31108


  • #3
    pakalasa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    Mayo lad beat me to it. I was just going to suggest a pasture pump. They will lift water over 20 feet, so it should do the job.

    What you suggested with the longer pipe wont work. It's the vertical height, straight up that matters, so even if the pipe is longer, the vertical height is still the same.


  • #4
    Bog Man 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 309 ✭✭Bog Man 1


    Connaught Agri do a solar pump.http://www.connachtagri.ie/index.php?p=100


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