I sure wish people would stop bringing up the government and how they find new ways to jack my taxes. Mine get jacked the maximum by law every year just because they can and I'm sick of it.
Anyway, I will tell you what we did when I was a kid. My grandfather called it a bucket brigade. When grandma wanted a bath each of us kids would grab a bucket, walk down to the spring and fill up. Then we'd walk back up hill to the house which was almost the exact same distance and uphill distance as you are proposing to fill up the tub and the hot water heater tank on top of the wood burning stove.
We all had to bathe in the cold spring water but grandma got hot and cold RUNNING water if you know what I mean.
In my grandparrents later years, after he retired, he got a wild idea to buy a gas powered pump to pull water out of the spring for the garden. He was a great Aircraft mechanic in the Navy but I was the pump Expert having joined up as a Machinist mate. I told him it wouldn't work and I was right. That little centrifugal pump only got the water about 10 feet above the spring level and that was it. It had a suction foot on it so it would not lose it's prime and it still had to be reprimed after each time it was shut off.
He never tried it again because anything that would get the water that far uphill is too expensive. The old hand dug well in the back yard was it for the rest of their lives. It would still be working too if some little vandal hadn't dropped the cylinder in it.
For that distance any decent sub pump should get it but the pressure probably won't be too great. A positive displacement pump of some sort would be your best bet but pumping water with any kind of sediment in it will mean high maintenance and positive displacement pumps of any kind are expensive to begin with.
When I move back up there we are going with a water tower and a wind pump. For me it's the most economical and most effective. Our new house will only be about 15-20 feet above water level and a 50 foot tall tower will keep us real good. I may even make it out of wood just to be different from all the modern farms. I like doing that. We could do a cistern and the wind pump but I like seeing the old wooden water towers we have in this area a lot and want one of my own.
Anyway, I will tell you what we did when I was a kid. My grandfather called it a bucket brigade. When grandma wanted a bath each of us kids would grab a bucket, walk down to the spring and fill up. Then we'd walk back up hill to the house which was almost the exact same distance and uphill distance as you are proposing to fill up the tub and the hot water heater tank on top of the wood burning stove.
We all had to bathe in the cold spring water but grandma got hot and cold RUNNING water if you know what I mean.
In my grandparrents later years, after he retired, he got a wild idea to buy a gas powered pump to pull water out of the spring for the garden. He was a great Aircraft mechanic in the Navy but I was the pump Expert having joined up as a Machinist mate. I told him it wouldn't work and I was right. That little centrifugal pump only got the water about 10 feet above the spring level and that was it. It had a suction foot on it so it would not lose it's prime and it still had to be reprimed after each time it was shut off.
He never tried it again because anything that would get the water that far uphill is too expensive. The old hand dug well in the back yard was it for the rest of their lives. It would still be working too if some little vandal hadn't dropped the cylinder in it.
For that distance any decent sub pump should get it but the pressure probably won't be too great. A positive displacement pump of some sort would be your best bet but pumping water with any kind of sediment in it will mean high maintenance and positive displacement pumps of any kind are expensive to begin with.
When I move back up there we are going with a water tower and a wind pump. For me it's the most economical and most effective. Our new house will only be about 15-20 feet above water level and a 50 foot tall tower will keep us real good. I may even make it out of wood just to be different from all the modern farms. I like doing that. We could do a cistern and the wind pump but I like seeing the old wooden water towers we have in this area a lot and want one of my own.
