Home made PVC water pump

[bobodu]

I'm just gonna post the lnk because it was hard enough to get it right over at MBN....
This is going to run a waterfall for my wife's soon to be water feature.
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Here's the link to the windmill I built. Total cost for the windmill was $150 ,mostly for the lumber and the pump was made for around $50.

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[bx24]

Have you got the whole thing put together yet? How much lift do you think you will get with that pump?

I bought a re-built Chicago Aero-motor off eBay for $800 and I am trying to talk a local farm into selling me their non used tower to me.

My water table is only about 10' down and I would like to pump it into a tank whose top is about 15' off the ground. This is a long term project and I don't expect to get to it until next year sometime (first I have to dig the well and build the tank)

Great idea for what you have come up with

 

[bobodu]

I would suspect an Aeromotor would develop a good deal more power than my first scrap pile attempt at wind mill design. So I don't see any problem with your mill and this pump.
I haven't gotten to assembling the thing yet or even testing it under wind power,but I'll have it in a barrel under the tower pretty quick!!
Then I gotta start digging her darned pond........(sigh).

 

[Therios Pendragon]

That sounds like a cool project. If I can ever get the page over there to load, I will put this on my "Must do" list...