Need advise on Hypro pump

Kernopelli · May 9, 2008

I am looking for a new way to water my garden, flower beds and trees this summer. Last year I would simply drive down to the pond and get a scoop of water with the FEL and dump it where ever. I want to adapt a pump to the PTO on my tractor and use a hose to do the watering this year. I have been looking at Hypro 6500XL pumps at the local ag supply and see you can get PTO adapters for them. Can I use this pump to accomplish my goal?

Can I run a hose off the intake side of the pump with the other end in the pond and not have to worry about priming it every time (anyone know if these are self priming)? Also, if all I can find is a CCW rotation pump, can you configure the internals to a CW rotation? Will these pumps supply enough pressure to run several (or even just one) sprinklers using a 5/8 garden hose? The specs say at 1000 RPM it is rated at 50 psi/ 16.5 GPM or 100 PSI/15 GPM and so forth up to 300 PSI/12.7GPM . So, I would say running several sprinklers should be no problem, probably even excessive but from anyones experience with these type pumps is it realistic?

Thanks,

DavidPerry · May 9, 2008

Pump specs

# Max. flow: 9.7 gpm/36.7 lpm at 540 rpm
# Max. flow: 18.2 gpm/68.9 lpm at 1000 rpm
# Max. flow: 21.8 gpm/82.5 lpm at 1200 rpm
# Max. pressure: continuous 100-150 psi/6.9-10.3 bar;Max. pressure: intermittent 300 psi/20.7 bar

Hypro Pumps - Series 6500 - Features

Roller pumps are positive displacement and self priming. Centrifugal pumps usually move a lot more water but are not self priming. You need a pressure relief valve on positive displacement pumps.

What is the elevation difference to the garden?

How far does the water have to travel laterally? A larger hose / pipe would reduce or minimize hydraulic friction and pressure loss.

What is the rated flow of your sprinkler heads? Quite possibly, it would not support even 1.

Why would you want it to rotate CW?

Bird · May 10, 2008

You can buy those pumps already set up to rotate in either direction. The spray rig I used to have had a 6 roller Hypro pump and was powered by a 3 hp Briggs engine through a "transmission" that reduced the rpm. And it had to turn the opposite direction for what our tractor PTO turns.

However, I also learned that those pumps are held together by 4 bolts. You can simply remove those 4 bolts, take everything apart, turn the impeller and shaft around, and put it back together with the shaft out the other side of the housing, and you're ready to use it turning the other direction.