Ram Pump Height Test

I have installed my ram pump and now its time to see how high it can lift water. I use 500 feet of garden hose as the delivery pipe. Time to see if this ram pump can lift water to the top of my hill.

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[bruce]

great video Seth. this ram pump thing is great. keep up the good work.

[davidt]

Ok, how high up was the intake and how high up was the output?
I didn’t get that

[pwrmx]

Great. Question. You mentioned a check valve in the delivery line. How would that improve the water delivery?

[ayushdept]

What is the distance between source water and the pump, and height between the pump and source water

[zehnsechz]

what was the total elevation gain for the 500 foot of hose?

[bobhogan]

Seth, I need to go 100’ elevation. Will the pump I bought from you work?

[staqzit]

Would the water still get pushed through by pvc pressure chamber volume or would it only go as far as how much rebound the chamber can hold pressured by the rebound? Pls

[jamesmendoza]

Hi sir. I'm from philippines. Your pump reach to 500ft elevation. Is it possible to reach in 500ft if the slope is 30deg to 500ft? Thanks for this video.

[waterforwildlifeca]

Hey Seth, I'm planning to purchase one of your pre-made RAM pumps. Assuming I have plenty of drop, which size should I purchase to get 115' of lift, over ~500'?
Thank you,
Lindsay

[pipper]

Seth, fuel for thought. Could you use the ram pump/s to gain enough elevation to create a Trompe (spelling) or I should say fill a storage container that you could use to create a Trompe.? Your thoughts on the probability would be good to know? God Bless cheers, Les 🙈🙉🙊

[JudasBytes]

what if you make the pressure tank bigger? will the water go further? I need one like this for my farm in philippines

[ElectronGong]

Hi Seth, Great videos! thanks.
I want to use the overflow from a well I just had dug and pump it up to my garden. I"m not 100% sure what the drop is right now, it's a pouring out at a good rate for sure. Right now the well company ran a 1" poly line under ground from well casing and it surfaces at the edge of an embankment. It's probably 4-5 feet lower at the top of the bank from the origin. I could increase the drop significantly, probably 20-25, if I run the drive pipe down over the bank. Right now drive pipe is about 30 feet long. What would be an optimal drop be? Is there a point of diminishing return? I want to pump the water up to a garden which is about 150-200' away and up a vertical lift of maybe 35' or so.

Also I have a bunch of 3/4 poly I'd like to use for the outlet side. since the drive pipe dia is pretty much already set at 1" is it ok to use 3/4" on the other end? I think you said somewhere outlet is usually half of drive pipe dia.

And finally, I had planned on using a 4" pump @ 24" long and am going to try your bucket method routing the drive pipe into a 5 gallon bucket then on to the pump.
Does this set up sound like it would work?
Thanks in advance for any insight you can shed.

[bengrey]

can the water be pumped uphill from a pond or slow moving river?

[robd]

What was the elevation lift from your pump to the end of your hose?

[dandan]

not so much the distance but the footage height elevation understand 1:7 ratio was in your testing... nice job

[drmarine]

Thank you for reply. My drama is i don't have the enough fall from water supply to pump is about 2m drop, at 14m long i'm using 30mm supply hose and 19mm out to 50 feet to what i'm trying to fill. if i open the water out tap full the, the check valve stops working, no matter how much i prime it. it works with tap just a bit opened andt the water is just trickling out.

[drmarine]

I'm impressed. that's a long way to pump water. just a quick question. how long does the input pipe have to be to get it working?

[edsautter]

Ok if I did the quick math right for a 24 hr you get 313 gals or there about. That's impressive. Like these ram pump videos. Thanks.

[christopherstaples]

a plunger valve works better, that way when water comes out the weight of the water will help it come back down :P they self start first go every time

pretty much a rod with an rubber seal on the end, when water exists it lifts the rubber seal blocks the exit, and the water now sitting onto of the plunger acts as the counter weight

[beggsnachin]

Oh boy, I am still here tryin to find answers. Hubs is being... Less than cooperative in this endeavor, which is why I went w the ram pump idea in the first place- I'm not a wood worker, plumber, or electrician. And I have cows and garden to water, and a six ft deep deep or spring well that had issues in summer due less rain, w a backup, of being able to pull from the creek. But the creek has sediment issues, which plug up the sediment filter in the pumphouse...daiky. It all depends on how much laundry, dishes, garden watering and livestock watering I do all at once... How many gallons of water I pull through that sediment filter. The sediment filter gets full, which starves my electric pump for water, which activates a shut off switch, which saves the electric pump from now sucking air. Which means daily, if not twice a day, I am pulling that whole assembly apart while hubs is at work, cleaning out that sediment filter. It's been like this for two years now, and the plumber people, as well as our Dads and everybody else are like "Drill a well". Which will be another couple years bc hubs is passing to fix cars right now to get to work. $10, 000 give or take to drill a well.

So, I'm looking at other options that I can do w my woman strength, like building a ram pump setup, or ram pump in conjunction with a water wheel. Or a water wheel turning a piston pump. We just have a slow, flat, winding creek w very little drop (head, rise ...). Surrounded by steep hills everywhere else, yay. So far we have run 200 ft of inch and a quarter black poly pipe upstream ( crawling through brush, sticks and blackberries... Not fun our creek is way more overgrown than yours and is a yearly maintenance thing to clear out the stuff that gets blown downstream by the floodwaters in winter) . Still not enough drop in that creek to even run the ram pump. My Dad, the mechanic and family McGuyver, too three ram pump I had home and fiddled with it for a while, and built his own version as well, bright it back here.... Put a bucket hooked up to it in to of a barrel (about 3 ft drop) and showed me that yes, it does work, my creek is just too flat.

Back to square one again.

Welp, I gotta go jump in the shower for church, and then with maybe some cajoling, I can get hub's strong body to help my fat body run another 100 ft of pipe. Pain. I should be so buff by now but I'm old. Lol This will take a miracle to convince him. He is already poo pooing it. Again.

I have half a day and then he goes to bed to get ready for work again. Then I'm all alone for the week again.

If this length of pipe nets me nothing, my next plan is a 5 ft tall water wheel on pontoons to account for the rapid rise n fall of creek water level w rains. It rises a few inches w a few days normal rain, then drops to a creek the size of yours, with small two/three ft deep pockets in summer. I have built a small bicycle tire water wheel as a test run, and it gets bogged down when we get a little rain and has to be adjusted.

Anyways, I guess I'm just commiserating. Scanning all your videos and others like it, looking for ideas.