Ram pump for water.

redzerologhlen

Was at a Burren life meeting last night and they were talking about providing water on winterages. They mentioned that some farmers had installed ram pumps to pump the water back up hill to a large holding tank to distribute the water from. What I was really wondering was if anybody has one installed or any experience of them on here. How high vertically can they pump water and how many liters a minute roughly are required to run one? The place I had in mind from it is a long way from any electric source so an electric pump is out. Can manage without water there but if I could get it I would be able to make a few divisions which would be great.

6480

redzerologhlen wrote: »

Was at a Burren life meeting last night and they were talking about providing water on winterages. They mentioned that some farmers had installed ram pumps to pump the water back up hill to a large holding tank to distribute the water from. What I was really wondering was if anybody has one installed or any experience of them on here. How high vertically can they pump water and how many liters a minute roughly are required to run one? The place I had in mind from it is a long way from any electric source so an electric pump is out. Can manage without water there but if I could get it I would be able to make a few divisions which would be great.

i have one working on a river . it cost about 600 euro to set up , for every foot of fall going into the pump the ram pump will pump ten foot high so if u have three foot of fall it will pump water 30 foot high and so on , i have only seen another type of pump working and would love to see others working .
P.S u kind of have to see them working to get your head around the understanding of how such a simple pump will pump water 24/7 for free

ootbitb

I am interested in free energy too.

Some useful stuff here

http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?search=water%20ram

td5man

ootbitb wrote: »

I am interested in free energy too.

Some useful stuff here

http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?search=water%20ram

Look on youtube i saw it explained in detail there

redzerologhlen

ootbitb wrote: »

I am interested in free energy too.

Some useful stuff here

http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?search=water%20ram

Good video on it here I thought

tabby aspreme

I have an old cast iron Blake ram working, take a look at GreenandCarter website, there still making them, my one has a 1 1/4 inch pipe supplying it and it will pump 500 gallons a day

tabby aspreme

[How high vertically can they pump water and how many liters a minute roughly are required to run one? The place I had in mind from it is a long way from any electric source so an electric pump is out. Can manage without water there but if I could get it I would be able to make a few divisions which would be great.[/Quote]

You will run one on very little water if I took the valve out of mine and let the water straight through it, it will empty the supply tank and that's through a 1 1/4 pipe, if its running well you should recover 7% of the water that goes through the ram, I have 5 ft of fall in 40 ft of supply pipe and have pumped 400 Metres rising 50 metres but it would do more, having a steel supply pipe is a big help, the slower the pulse the more it will pump but will need more water then

drive it

Connacht agri sell them not sure of the price it was about 2 years ago they had one set up in the yard

6480

drive it wrote: »

Connacht agri sell them not sure of the price it was about 2 years ago they had one set up in the yard

i think they charge 1800 euro

tabby aspreme

The one here was bought for a fiver about 30 years ago, my father modified it to work with a valve taken from an engine, since the interweb arrived I was able to find Green and Carter and put the rubber washer type valve into it again, maintaining it is part of my reps plan

leg wax

saw one working this summer for the first time,one of the lads in the discussion group had one.it was put down into the ground along side his steam to get the fall. it must have been 20 foot down ,water droped in and surplus water drained out via a pipe which went all the way to the bottom of the field.a great idea and he had water back up in his yard.

tabby aspreme

Water ram to feature on how Britian worked tonight channel 4 8 to 9 pm

6480

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Water ram to feature on how Britian worked tonight channel 4 8 to 9 pm

feck i missed it was the programme good

ootbitb

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-britain-worked/4od

38 minutes in.

ootbitb

an old thread but this site has good info:

http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/equip/ram.htm