Water Pumps

[Mark Ducati]

I didn't want to hijack my own thread so I started a new one...

I always wanted my own well, and I wanted a hand pump at that... the guys I talked to here locally quoted me something like $4000 bucks for the hand pump! And that didn't included drilling the well.

I saw the link to bisonpumps.com...



$1547 for a 200ft well pump? For that price, I'd pay for it out of my own pocket to hook it up to our community well system.

[jojo]

thanks for posting the link. even though i have a 5 acre pond, i have been thinking about getting a well drilled. didn't expect them to be so expensive. to drill my well is gonna cost me $16 per ft @ average 150 ft in my area.

[aliceinchains]

So here is a question. Say they have to go over 2 hundred feet to find water. Do they make a hand pump to fathom that.

[Moebrown20]

So here is a question. Say they have to go over 2 hundred feet to find water. Do they make a hand pump to fathom that.

Yes, they do: http://www.survivalunlimited.com/handwaterpumpdeep.htm

I'm thinking about one of them myself

[old Grump]

You can go as deep as 300' for a hand pump but be aware that the deeper you go the more you have to work to get the water and the less water flow you will get. Some pumps are better than others but the good ones pay for themselves if you are needing to use it daily.

To determine your well depth use this link:

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/cat.../ec/ec1368.pdf

Depth isn't just determined by where you first find water but how deep is the well head. You need to find the happy zone between so you don't get caught up in fluctuating water levels during heavy draw down times by heavy users like bottling plants and irrigation systems that use wells to water truck farm crops. To shallow and you can be left dry, to low and you could be sucking mud.

In my case my water table is down 28' but my well is 156'. The top water is high in nitrogen and phosphates. The deep water is good out of the tap.