Small Creek Ram Pump Install

hi i'm seth of land a house and this is a ram pump it's a water pump that requires no fuel or electricity to operate only flowing and falling water i'm here at one of my local parks with a very small creek i'm just assuming somewhere around the 3 to 4 gallons a minute range and i'm gonna go ahead and install this pump and we'll see how well it operates with this low-flow water source for this super simple setup I have 45 feet of half-inch PVC I have the RAM pump on a board to keep it upright I have a garden hose it's somewhere around 50 foot and then I have this clear tubing which I'm going to be using as a water level to see how much head pressure I have from a source I'm gonna use right here and just go down to the end of the hose and see how much drop I have so the first thing we want to do is use this tube and find out the head pressure we're working with I'm gonna use this little pool of water as the source so it's going to stick this in here just put a couple rocks on it to keep it from moving around now I just want to lay this in the creek bed I'm down here at the low end I need to siphon the water up over some of the rocks up top so I'm just gonna suck a little bit of this air in to get it started alright that should do it I hear it gurgling out now now that I have this tube full I can pick the tube up and see this the water level is actually right about here and if I were to measure from this point down to the ground that would be my head pressure value I'm looking at right at three and a half feet here which is great for starting a ramp up now it's time to get the drive pipe in the creek now I accidentally forgot a connector so I'm only gonna put 35 feet in the water here should still give us plenty of head pressure to work with this is a very temporary intake I'm gonna place a flat rock in the sand and put this drive pipe here on top of that rock to help prevent sand from getting into the Titan and then I'm just going to build a makeshift dam around here to build the water up a little bit the temporary intake is under this rock here I want to note that any time you see the drive pipe that kicking up a little bit for instance on top of this rock here you're going to want to move that down because an air pocket will be created that will prevent the pump from working properly same goes with places like this right here if you can just drop that down a little bit it will work so much better looks like the pipe may have already started itself here which saves us a little bit of siphoning issues very nice flow rate should work quite well for the pump let's go ahead and get it hooked up now typically you would want to make sure all of these components are glued together but for this simple install I'm just going to be using this directly into the pump here without gluing the fittings okay there we go now when I open this we'll see water come out of the waste valve all right now to get this pump going all I have to do is push on the waste valve a few times to build pressure in the pressure tank notice how the delivery pipe is closed over here because we have nothing attached to it I'm gonna use a garden hose as a delivery pipe just going to simply screw this on here now whenever I open the valve here it's gonna stop the pump and that's because it has lost back pressure but it has filled the garden hose to get the pump going again I have to take my garden hose further up the hill to create more back pressure down on the pump now I'm just gonna push the waste valve and see if the pump will work on its own I'm seeing that I get a few good cycles and then it stops again that means I'm right at the line where I have enough back pressure so if I add a little bit more height it will work I've increased the amount of lift by about five more feet so I'm just filling that extra bit of tube there with this water intake is right here comes down 45 feet here's a piece I added to get that extra 10 feet to the pump which we determined was about three and a half feet of drop comes up the delivery pipe and I can see the water climbing up here as it goes along which is fun and a clear tube might be a bit hard for you to see but the water is right here climbing up almost there each cycle it climbs up about six inches which is fun here alright here we go and there's the output this high above the water we're looking at somewhere around 10 foot or better above the source which is down over there now in this setup you would definitely want to have a screen over the intake and you'd want to lock down this drive pipe a lot more than I have to here but for a very quick setup I think it worked out really well thank you so much for watching if you want to check out the RAM pump I have four different sizes available at land house calm and on Amazon link in the description down below thanks for watching be sure to hit that thumbs up and subscribe and I'll see you in the next video

Channel: Land to House

Views: 40,373

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Id: TnPDBwA3FWo

Length: 7min 41sec (461 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 15 2019