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Pasture pump

  • 03-04-2011 1:17pm
    #1
    zetor 4911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭


    Anyone have any experience of the pasture pump. Are they reliable and does the stream have to be deep for it to operate?


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  • #2
    David brown
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    is that the pump that cattle push with head and can drink from


  • #3
    Bodacious
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    zetor 4911 wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of the pasture pump. Are they reliable and does the stream have to be deep for it to operate?

    Never heard of this.. i take water from stream to drinkers/ ball valves all down hill and all i have to do in spring is fill the pipe using old 3/4" hand bilge pump and gravity feed after that tie the pipe end to concrete block say 2inches above bed of stream:)


  • #4
    moy83
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    David brown wrote: »
    is that the pump that cattle push with head and can drink from
    Do you use them ? I'd wonder do all the cattle cop on to use them or is there the odd dumbo that will never figure out how to bing on more water by pushing it


  • #5
    David brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 130 ✭✭David brown


    your right. basiclly the deeper water the harder it is to push.couldnt get small cattle to use.cows,just about. wouldnt recommend it at all


  • #6
    zetor 4911
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭zetor 4911


    David brown wrote: »
    is that the pump that cattle push with head and can drink from

    The pasture pump is also called a nose pump.


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  • #7
    Bizzum
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    zetor 4911 wrote: »
    Anyone have any experience of the pasture pump. Are they reliable and does the stream have to be deep for it to operate?

    We have one of these.
    I always get the impression thet the cattle get the bear minimum amount of water they require. Nonetheless, get it they do. I know a farmer locally with a large suckler herd thatb uses them too.
    Did an empty bucket into the stream bed an use this as a sump. You can tie the intake into the bucket, up off the bottom of it to allow silt deposition, and clean it out an odd time.
    We find ours reliable insofar as it always works, and it isn't near as stiff to pump as it was when new!


  • #8
    TUBBY
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    have a couple of them working out of a river. About a 6ft pull upwards but works well. Spaldings do them for round 230 i think . like the previous post said, the pump is not as stiff now as 3yrs ago when new but has never let me down.
    think all the cattle have it copped at this stage. doesnt give huge volumes though.


  • #9
    reilig
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    Mine is a spaldings too. They recommend teaching cattle to use it before they go out. They recommend 1 pump per 10 cows and calves in order to have adequate water supply. This year will be my third year with it. The cattle have it figured out at this stage - even the calves figure it out within a day or 2.


  • #10
    Mad4simmental
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    Anyone ever take apart their pasture pump? Have one here gone stiff. When you push it in it won't return. I don't want to take it apart and knock sumthing about wrong. Thanks


  • #11
    MickeyShtyles
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    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    Anyone ever take apart their pasture pump? Have one here gone stiff. When you push it in it won't return. I don't want to take it apart and knock sumthing about wrong. Thanks

    What make is yers?


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  • #12
    Mad4simmental
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    MickeyShtyles wrote: »
    What make is yers?

    Lister pump. It could be 20 years old to be fair to it. Worked %100 up to now just gone stiff.


  • #13
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    Lister pump. It could be 20 years old to be fair to it. Worked %100 up to now just gone stiff.

    Have ya a pic of it?
    If it was me I'd chance ripping it.
    All I could find online was membranes.


  • #14
    Mad4simmental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    MickeyShtyles wrote: »
    Have ya a pic of it?
    If it was me I'd chance ripping it.
    All I could find online was membranes.

    Feck it I'll give it a lash. I'll stick up a picture of it tomorrow. Cheers


  • #15
    greenfield21
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    The base of our sunk slightly last summer and the pusher would not return, think it's very sentsitive to levels. But after 20 years its probably something else.


  • #16
    Mad4simmental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭Mad4simmental


    MickeyShtyles wrote: »
    Have ya a pic of it?
    If it was me I'd chance ripping it.
    All I could find online was membranes.

    Forgot to take a pic. It's a fairly simple set up. Just a membrane inside. Allot of sand and dirt built up behinds the membrane. Cleaned it out and she's the finest now.


  • #17
    MickeyShtyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,371 ✭✭✭MickeyShtyles


    Mad4simmental wrote: »
    Forgot to take a pic. It's a fairly simple set up. Just a membrane inside. Allot of sand and dirt built up behinds the membrane. Cleaned it out and she's the finest now.

    Hup ya boya!
    Ye'll be ripping everything now at the sign of malfunction!


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