You've never seen a farm water system like this...cheap, easy no electrical required!

free water Seth from land a house today's video is gonna be awesome guys hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer and today we've got a guest here on the farm the Guru himself the master of the ramp-up hold that thing up man classic what an introduction and what I'm wants to have a ramp up so we have Seth here Seth is with lanta house yes land a house gotcha and he has a YouTube channel he's located here in North Carolina we like working with local guys and he's the Guru of the RAM pump so if you guys don't know what a ram pump is it's that passive way to pump water uphill and we're looking for a passive solution here on the farm to get water systems in place for our cattle so we can start intensively grazing and moving our cattle to smaller paddocks so we've got about 85 acres of usable pasture and we want to split that into one acre paddocks grazing cows one day on each paddock all the way throughout the farm so we've build soil we build the farm and we build a passive water system so today we're going to take you with Seth and Seth is going to show us how Ram pumps are built and we're going to take one and put it to work here on the farm all right [Music] [Music] [Applause] this is the coldest day of the year so far the perfect day to work at water whenever I left my house we had about a half inch of snow in the mountain and it was 18 degrees it's perfect time for playing in the creek Creek so I'm gonna leave it to Seth here I'm gonna get behind the camera let Seth describe what the ramp pump is how it works where the water goes in where the water goes out and then we're gonna assemble one for you guys so you can understand it and then we're gonna put it to work here on the farm we've got a whole bunch of poly pipe we're gonna lay out the poly pipe and we're gonna show you how we're pumping water I guess up about 20 feet from our upper pond that we built this is a temporary setup this is experimenting this is what farming is all about finding simple ways to solve problems that stop mud production on your farm and stop the cows from damaging your land so I'll let Seth talk this is a hydraulic ram pump it's actually a rather old technology pushing about 300 years the same guy that invented the hot air balloon came up with this concept very little moving parts has a waste valve which as you can hear is hanging open by gravity and then it has an inline valve here that goes into a pressure tank or an accumulator and that's basically all you have to have to get the RAM pump to work so the concept is you've got a water source coming down your Creek and it has drop or head pressure and that is going to be what powers the pump so the water comes down and it slams the waste valve closed when that happens a pressure wave is generated some of the water is shot back up to the source but some of the water is sent into the secondary valve right here when that happens pressure is built up in the pressure tank and pushed out on the delivery side when that pressure wave shoots back to the source and into this valve this waste valve falls back open again and so it waits for the water to come down and activated again so we'll actually be able to see it and hear it pop-pop-pop-pop as it is building pressure and pushing water uphill so the RAM pump is a passive water pump with the power of falling water and the RAM effect we're able to pump water at a one to seven ratio so for every one foot of drop into the pump we get seven feet out so if you had a 10 foot waterfall you're looking at 70 feet vertical so we'll be able to water the cows here on Josh's farm passively no fuel electricity and this pump will be able to pump water anywhere on the property so what we're going to do today with this Ram pump we're gonna go over to the upper pond we're gonna hook into the pond we're going to show you how it works we're gonna assemble a ram pump to show you how it's all assembled and also seth has a website what's your website again Lanta house.com you don't have to think about it you can call Seth and you can basically order this thing either pre assembled or disassembled and it's basically just the same cost as it would cost you to build it yourself and you've got a pro that's building it in somebody to lean on in case you have any questions which is super duper awesome so today we're gonna put up a temporary water system to bring water to the upper side of the pond to the upper side of the farm without electricity awesome let's get busy so we're here at the back of the Komodo we're down here in the woods were behind the pond down the way this is gonna work is we have 300 feet of poly hose Wow he's hooking up the ramp pump down here I'm gonna be unraveling this poly hose and basically we're gonna put a hose bit of a typical hose bib on the end of it all this pipe will be buried at some point this is a temporary setup for today just to see if we have enough pressure enough head pressure here to pump passively up to the top of the farm that took 10 minutes to unwrap it's gonna get dark on the fan all right tools into the woods 3/4 inch poly pipe goes through the dam got a handful of tools and off we go this is our screened intake it's a piece of schedule 43 inch pipe with a bunch of holes I'm going to wrap some window screen around it and on this end I've got the 3/4 inch supply line that will go to our pump if debris gets into the pump it will stop it so it's really important to have a filtered intake [Music] Oh winded man we got some Hills going on here so Seth is down here in the woods again Seth is with land a house I want to give him a big shout-out for coming up here giving me some education giving you guys some awesome education he's getting ready to hand the filter and the pipe through to me and we're gonna feed it through into the pond runner on in there buddy I gotta go down there let's have some fun with this I am inverted as they say on Top Gun I hope I don't drop the camera in the water so here's our filter what we'll do for a good time on YouTube so we're gonna toss this out into the fine okay that's it that's good so we are approximately four feet out into this pond good graces the pond is somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty six inches deep right here so about three foot deep right here so we shouldn't pick up too much trash and it's not sitting directly on the bottom oh good times be sure you stick around to the end and we'll show you how it's all assembled this is not going to be the permanent setup this is testing basically just to see if we can get enough pressure from a ramp up to what are the cows up on the top of the hill without having to expose them to the water shed this is the hydrant pretty simple way this thing is designed this is the valve on the top of it all brand new and shiny cost about 50 bucks this is the valve at the bottom so the way this works is there is a shaft that runs down into here so this goes above the ground and from about this point here it goes under the ground our frost line is around 16 to 20 inches here so basically we would bury from this end all the way through to here what we're going to do is hook up a 3/4 inch pipe connector right here and this is where the water would drain out so in other words when you turn this on that's how it works turn that guy on it releases the valve down in the bottom when you turn it off all the water in this pipe drains all the way down and comes out into a little gravel pit in the bottom there and that's what keeps this thing from freezing in the cold winter months cool once we've set it up permanently these will be all over the farm on the edges of the fence line in order to have temporary water to every place we graze our cattle awesome now this is a low pressure system this is what hooks into our poly pipe and this is what hooks right into the bottom three-quarter inch pipe threads okay very simple if this were permanent I would probably put teflon tape on it here's our valve sitting right here Sun is going down on us we're gonna put two or three zip ties on here just to hold her in place and get our poly pipe all hooked up down here on the ground poly pipe we're just gonna press fit this on we'll come back and we'll put our hose fittings on once we install this permanently this pipe this hose will go clear to the end of the fence line we're talking another thousand feet for giggles here what here's what we're gonna do I'm actually cutting this three-quarter poly and we're pressed putting a pressure valve on here right there we're gonna see what kind of pressure we've got Seth's bet is around 40 psi with the water turned off which I would be very impressed and that may blow apart some of these fittings that we've just pressed into place here biggest issue with the fittings is making sure that we are paying attention and we don't allow air into the system as it goes into the RAM pump so a little bit of air in the system up here is no big deal again we'll come back and put those clamps on all this we're fighting daylight here guys this is hooked to a valve so I can turn it on and off so we're gonna turn it off and then I'll turn it back on once we get everything all full of water our source has been putting water we've got a hundred foot of three-quarter inch poly pipe coming to the pump and we need to siphon the water through the pipe here so let's go ahead and get that done hopefully not grab a mouthful of water there can I hear it now now we got something going yep yep so if there's air in the RAM pump it will stop the pump because the RAM is gonna find the closest open air source now you're saying there's an o-ring that has to be in place right here we'll get a big leak right yes exactly okay tell me what you're gonna do here before we start it because I'm super excited okay so whenever I open the drive pipe here this valve is going to slam closed from all the pressure and we're going to have to build back pressure in our delivery pipe over here so when first when I open this water's gonna bypass everything and fill this pipe until it matches our source water at that point then we're gonna start clicking the waste valve here until it starts running on its own so pop closed this pipe is now filling up with water you can actually hear it yep and I'm here at trickling it's pretty awesome now it's a three quarter inch Inlet and it's a half inch outlet okay so now if I start pushing this valve the waste valve down it's going to keep slamming closed and depending on our back pressure issue we may start here but you can see how forcefully this thing slams closed to make sure the pump is working right we can close the delivery which makes it an infinite amount of back pressure so the issue we're running into Seth is telling me and I'm standing in a big puddle of mud but the issue that Seth is telling me is that we're only about eight or ten feet higher than the pond right now we didn't have enough poly pipe to reach you know 15 feet up we've got somewhere in the neighborhood of how many feet six to eight feet of drop maybe more guessing somewhere around six okay pump water over forty foot guy vertical if there's not enough pressure pushing back down on the pump it's just gonna squirt water out and stop gotcha since we don't quite have enough back pressure pushing down on the pump I'm introducing friction by almost completely closing the delivery pipe so now it's only living a little bit of water through and basically pushing back against the pump so we should see some water at the top now let's go check it out we're at the hose bib and we got no water right now yes Eric go ahead yeah baby free water pulsating free water that's awesome man so 50 bucks worth of RAM pump and a little bit of poly pipe and we've got water without a pump super rad SuperDuper awesome now this is kind of just a trickle right here but we really don't need a whole lot of water going to these waters for these cows we just need to keep a little bit of water going we can put a float valve in here that'll open and close slowly or we can fill our tanks up and put a little overflow valve so the water that runs in the tanks will go right back into the creek we'll just run it right back down the hill into the creek and that way we're not wasting water we're not interfering with the watershed and we're getting free water for our cows a passive system no electricity right there it is you saw it here not gravity-fed ram pump it this is our pressure gauge we're gonna turn it on here we go Seth bet 40 pounds we have 40 Wow 48 pounds 48 pounds of pressure almost 50 that is awesome so 50 psi it's a very low flow rate that's okay we're only talking three quarters of a gallon to a gallon per minute but how much water are your cows gonna drink awesome man that's super cool and we could always put a cistern up here at the top of the hill a water tank in other words to store water so if we want to pump it up the hill store the water and always have it we'll always have it man I just can't say how cool this is very educational very fun the best education we're gonna get here is how to build a ramp pump here in just a minute the parts you need to build a ramp pump are a ball valve pipe nipple the Union another pipe nipple 80 pipe nipple to a swing valve pipe nipple inline PVC spring valve nipple another one of these tees pipe nipple up to a pressure tank which has a bushing coupling PVC in this case it's two inch and then a cap up top down here I'm reducing with a another bushing to a nipple to a union another nipple and then lastly a ball valve in commercial Ram pumps there's a snifter valve in this model I use a bicycle inner tube to put inside of the pressure tank fill it up till it's really tight and then put the tank together it's going to act as a bladder so that it's gonna push back on the water as the pump cycles for all the threaded joints I use some teflon tape and for all of the PVC parts with the pressure tank I use PVC cement high-five this bump man hug dude thanks land to house right yes land to house land house calm you can buy your own ramp pump for basically already put together is that right yes reassemble preassembled for what so what's the cost on the rand pump like we have right here the three-quarter inch I've got four 115 115 alright so I was a little off on the 50 bucks we spend about two hundred and fifty bucks on fittings and pipe and stuff like that and we bought the wrong size fittings because we were gonna run this another three or four hundred feet up the hill but whoopsie Seth I just want to thank you so much for coming to the farm I appreciate it I appreciate all the education you're providing for everybody everyone go check out lay in the house local North Carolina boy he'll be back he'll be working on the farm some more man we're gonna have some fun we're gonna put Ram pumps in every body of water on the farm to passively water our cattle awesome we'll see you guys next time on the Stoney Ridge Farm channel I hope you enjoyed this check out Seth land the house man good stuff just to get old country boy good time thanks a lot see you next time found a like button subscribe hit the fill icon but my bag Cheetos whatever see you next time [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right folks eight chins you notice that water baby-free water today's video is about how to get free water pump stops yep you killed it

Channel: Stoney Ridge Farmer

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Length: 19min 18sec (1158 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 26 2020