Half Inch Ram Pump Build and Install

previously I installed a low-flow intake and a bucket intake for the hydraulic ram pump in this video I'm gonna show you how to build the half-inch ram pump and get it installed so let's head into the shop real quick and I'll show you how to build a half inch pump there are several configurations that a ram pump can be built into but I prefer the linear model so your drive type water comes in pops this valve continues straight pressure tank will be up here and then out the delivery pipe there may be some efficiency differences with this model versus the other I don't know I like this one because it ships well and it's a very simple to build design it's hard to mess this up so this is the pump I'm gonna be using today for my install but I want to show you how I build this with all new components these are the components required to build the half-inch ram pump that I sell at land house.com first of all let's start off with two threaded tees eight half-inch PVC pipe nipples I have a spring inline valve threaded two threaded ball valves two threaded unions and then a brass lead-free swing check valve and that completes the components for the pump itself and for the pressure tank I have a coupling that is two inch a two inch cap a two inch to half inch bushing the threaded end is down here and then it's slip up top a piece of PVC pipe that is two inch and fifteen inches long that's about the minimum link that I would go with for the pressure tank size to fill this to prevent water logging I have a bike tube and this one is a 12 inch kid's bike tire to begin the assembly I'm gonna start from the drive pipe end and move forward I'm gonna take a ball valve put in a pipe nipple and then do a union I like to put the end with the removable piece towards the rest of the palm but it doesn't really matter from there I'm gonna do another threaded pipe nipple and then a threaded tee from there I'm going to install the inline PVC check valve now on these there's going to be a little arrow right here that indicates flow the flow needs to be facing away from the drive pipe so screw that on there from there I'm gonna do another pipe nipple another tee from there another pipe nipple the second PVC union and then from there another pipe nipple with the last ball valve now you notice that the pump at this point is basically symmetrical there's no reduction in delivery pipe from the drive pipe but the inline check valve is going in that direction which means this side has got to have the lead-free brass valve now when I ship these pumps out I leave this foam in the top here kind of prevents clanging around during shipment but you just remove them I get that attached here okay now there is one last PVC pipe nipple and that's going to go here for the pressure tank now to assemble the pressure tank I first like to insert the inner tube into the tank here now the pump will operate without a bike tube installed but over the course of days weeks whatever it may take this will eventually fill with water and the efficiency will be greatly reduced and if you have a bladder like this inside a tank it will definitely keep that water from filling this so I just like to put enough air in this tank in this tube that when water goes in there it can still keep this pressurized but not juice amount of space inside the tank so right there is enough so it's definitely not totally inflated but it is enough that it will help to build pressure in there once the inner tube is installed I use some PVC cement and I'm gonna use this on let's do the coupling first so inside here and then on the outside of the bushing and then slide those together and that will make a great seal next I'm gonna do the inside of this and outside of this push those together you can give it a little spin if you have time and that will really get that cement to lock in there and the last thing is to get the cap on that all right the pressure tank is now complete once the pump is to this point right here I used a couple of channel locks to tighten things down and second ship it like this and it works out very well so when it arrives you just plop that up there and it is good to go now for this install I'm going to be using the pump that I already had out in the creek and I'm gonna go ahead and use this pressure tank because this is the pump I was using with my clear tank to see snifter valve research so anyway let me go ahead and attach this new pressure tank to the old pump here get that nice and tighten and we will head back out to the creek and get this thing installed now that you know how to build a half-inch ram pump it's time to get it installed to the bucket intake so let's get started the drive pipe that I'm going to use is simply just a piece of this half inch black poly pipe you can usually find this at a hardware store I believe even Lowe's and Home Depot carries it I'm just gonna get this attached here to the bucket using this adapter here and it's that simple one good thing about using the bucket intake is we now know that there is no air entering into this piece so now it's time to go to the other end and get the pump installed this poly pipe is 50 foot long and it's gonna have a head pressure of approximately 7 foot here so I'm gonna get this attached in here all right now because the pipe was pulling air through I need to find a stick and just open up this valve let some of the air flow out of that drive pipe and once the air is out the pump will then be able to cycle on its own this is exactly what I was hoping to see with this pump install see the surge effect that's happening out of the top of the bucket every time the pump cycles it's pulling water out through the drive pipe but our low flow intake is still supplying enough water that it is replenishing the bucket every time that cycle happens so it is working very well you may have heard that the more rigid the drive pipe the higher the efficiency of the pump I said you can see this here but with every cycle of the pump the drive pipe will jump and so that's actually a loss of potential and so what I like to do is if you're going to use this poly pipe put something heavy over the pipe such as rocks or you can even use plumber's tape the metal plumber's tape and stake this into the ground if you don't have the rocks available but as you can see the half-inch pump is hammering away quite strong so now it's time to connect the delivery pipe let me walk you through the setup as it is so far so we're going to go from the bottom to the top here is the RAM pump half inch and it is just clicking away it's got a 50 foot poly pipe drive pipe a little inefficiency with this curve here and it's definitely jumping around without any kind of support here on these long stretches you can really see it jumping here I've got a couple of rocks on it as it goes up this way I'm assuming that the drop is somewhere around seven foot comes up here to the bucket intake which as you can see is passing more than enough water then the supply line is also half inch and it is running up this way to the low flow intake that was installed as you can see that is doing very well very little debris getting in there and it is passing plenty of water with minimal dig into the creek that concludes the build and install of the hydraulic ram pump in the next video I'm going to be installing the delivery pipe to take the water uphill and I'm also going to install not one but two inline check valves to see if that can reduce the pressure on the pump and bring water even further uphill so definitely stay tuned for that video thanks for watching and remember if you'd like to purchase a hydraulic ram pump I have four different sizes for sale Atlanta Houston thanks for watching do you want to pump Creek water for livestock or a garden check out the RAM pump this amazing water pump requires no fuel and no electricity to work installation is quite simple just place the pump in the creek run a drive pipe to bring water to the pump and install a delivery pipe to take water uphill to start the pump simply push this check valve down and it will begin on its own running seven days a week 365 days a year to learn more about the RAM pump go to my website lanta house.com I have four different size models for sale and lots of information

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017