Add hand pump to Well

[Egon]

I thought the maximum ‘water lift’ was about 10 metres or 30 feet. How are hand pumps pumping beyond that?

The well has pump cylinder set below the water level and activated by a pump jack and sucker rod. It lifts the water rather than pushing. It’s a positive displacement pump. There are many different valve arrangements depending on circumstances.

 

[CobyRupert]

The well has pump cylinder set below the water level and activated by a pump jack and sucker rod. It lifts the water rather than pushing. It’s a positive displacement pump. There are many different valve arrangements depending on circumstances.

The pump (cylinder and piston) is at the bottom of the well, right? And it’s a long rod that extends to the bottom? If so, I’d call that pushing water up the pipe.

My understanding is: If the pump is at the top it, like a classic hand pump, it can only “lift” (suck) water about 10 meters.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Seems like it would be easier to just fire up the generator.

Power outage and grid down are two different things.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

That’s the term used for equipment used to clean out debris from a well bore. It’ readily available. Instead of slick line I should have said cat head. MOTORIZED CATHEAD KIT | acker-drill-company

Motorized things aren't there in a grid down situation. Just a power outage, yes you can have motorized things. We are talking grid down, not outage.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

The well has pump cylinder set below the water level and activated by a pump jack and sucker rod. It lifts the water rather than pushing. It’s a positive displacement pump. There are many different valve arrangements depending on circumstances.

Too many sealing thingys to deal with in a grid down. Bucket and rope is the simplest way to get water from a deep hole in the ground. Right now, buckets, check valves, rope, pulleys, are available. I've never dug a well. I have drilled them with only a pipe wrench to turn the bit, water hose pressuring the top of each pipe as we went down. We didn't have running water for the process. We had a tank on a trailer made for doing tar roofs. But it had a pto pump and we pulled with a tractor and filled it at a creek.

 

[Egon]

The pump (cylinder and piston) is at the bottom of the well, right? And it’s a long rod that extends to the bottom? If so, I’d call that pushing water up the pipe.

My understanding is: If the pump is at the top it, like a classic hand pump, it can only “lift” (suck) water about 10 meters.

The water is lifted on the pump up stroke.

Pushing on a sucker rod means you get to replace the tubing and rod very very frequently.
Sucker rods usually come in short lengths that are screwed together. Some may be a continuous rod.

 

[Egon]

Too many sealing thingys to deal with in a grid down. Bucket and rope is the simplest way to get water from a deep hole in the ground. Right now, buckets, check valves, rope, pulleys, are available. I've never dug a well. I have drilled them with only a pipe wrench to turn the bit, water hose pressuring the top of each pipe as we went down. We didn't have running water for the process. We had a tank on a trailer made for doing tar roofs. But it had a pto pump and we pulled with a tractor and filled it at a creek.

The rod pump is pretty reliable and is very uncomplicated.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

The rod pump is pretty reliable and is very uncomplicated.

He was talking grid down. No spare parts available. So the simplest with less parts.

 

[Egon]

He was talking grid down. No spare parts available. So the simplest with less parts.

Ain’t hard to cut leathers for the pump.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Ain’t hard to cut leathers for the pump.

Now we have to add a course on making leather. Well over 99% can't make any. Plus you have to pull pump tube and succer rod.