Water pumps

Maybell · Member

Water pumps

Vince · Senior Member

I use a bilge pump, bought it from a boating shop

I put a filter on the draw side of the pump and have an inline filter also

Works a treat

Cheers
Vince

Young Simmo · Guru

Hello Maybell, I may be a bit off subject but, I will relate my latest Water Pump experience as a bit of interest maybe, but let's see. We are permanents in the Big 4 Plantation Caravan Park in Carnarvon, and been here since Feb 1999. We have a 3,000 litre septic tank and pump, which pumps our waste about 300 metres down to the waste water evaporate ponds. I put the system in in 2000, and it has been good until recently when the pump failed. Now it gets interesting.

I needed a new pump and went to the Growers, which is a large outfit (Shop) that is supposed to supply and look after the plantations around Carnarvon (WA). For a Davey 1.2 KW Sump Pump they quoted me $369.00. I went down the road to Elders and they quoted me $255.00 for the identical unit. YEP, $114 difference, and being a snivelling, grisseling pensioner, I went to ELDERS.

GO FIGURE.

OK this may be a regular experience around Australia, and I might not be an orphan but, letting off A BIT OF STEAM HELPS ME SLEEP.

SIMMO.

erad · Guru

Depends on how much water you want to pump and how fast you want to do it and how high you want to pump it. I assume that you are talking 30 m horizontally. How much lift? You can get submersible pumps which you simply throw into the water and turn it on. But you have to know what service you are after, because you can get high lift (high pressure ) and low flow or low head (pressure) and high flow pumps. They are different animals. Also, is it clean water or has it got a lot of sand/grit etc in it? More info would help.

Bruce and Bev · Guru

we use a 12v boat bilge pump to transfer water from our ute to our 'van tanks. When we are on a "non-water" supplied site and need to get potable water elsewhere, we carry containers which will carry 120lt. Fill them up, park near the 'van water inlets, drop the bilge pump into each container and use the house batts to operate - no lifting heavy (25kg) containers full of water.

For your use you need a powerful enough pump that not only will it pump as erad says - but also with strainers (for grit and coarse rubbish) and a filter on it - this means you will need a pump with more "grunt" - either a submersible or one that is in-line in your water feed pipe. County hardware shops, Elders etc are good at advising what you need - they do it frequently for their local farmers

Jaahn · Guru

Maybell wrote:
High can any one tell us what kind of pump we need to pump water from a dam or lake for approx.30mtres Thanks in advance

Hi Maybell,

Pumps are like bits of string biggrin How long? how thick ? etc.

There are literally thousands of types of pumps to suit every application, as has already been pointed out. More information please.

12volt/240volt/ petrol ? height(head) to pump up to ? distance and size of pipe ? how much time to run ? Etc etc. Give a better description of what you wish to do.

Young Simmo,

Why do you always shout at everyone ?? Using large and upper case lettering is generally considered shouting on the web emails phones etc. On other forums I go on it is banned !! hmm

Jaahn

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Talk to Onga Pumps in Adelaide.

Cheers,
Peter

Young Simmo · Guru

Jaahn wrote

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Young Simmo,

Why do you always shout at everyone ?? Using large and upper case lettering is generally considered shouting on the web emails phones etc. On other forums I go on it is banned !! hmm

Jaahn

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Jaahn, you obviously have a problem which I call 2%. If I want to highlight something, I will highlight something, got it. Now try and make a constructive contribution, instead of rubbishing other people.

If it is such a mind numbing problem, get the mods to take away all the features like Bold and Font size etc. I promise not to mention DULL, BORING AND COLOURLESS.

dogbox · Guru

Maybell wrote:

High can any one tell us what kind of pump we need to pump water from a dam or lake for approx.30mtres Thanks in advance

30 meters and the most important info would be how high do you need to lift the water (head) then you work out how you are going to power it some pumps suck some push you could have a generator to power the pump with 240 v or battery to run 12 v

Young Simmo · Guru

Maybell, the Davey pump I mentioned earlier, pumps our Septic Tank water about 200 metres in a 40 mm Poly pipe quite easily. At 1200 watts a 2 KVA genset would probably do the job.
Simmo.

Baz421 · Guru

I used to use a Whale in line boat fresh water pump.

I take my genny down to water side, use 12V outlet and can pump through 55-60 m of ordinary hose.

It was a bit slow so I now use my old Shurflo spare water pump for van tie it to a stick with short suction hose. Works well.

I have click fitting to speed things up and pump from truck tanks (normally) into van.