Mission Accomplished - Ram Pump Pt 4

The Ram can handle all our gardening and livestock water needs. There a lot of ram videos out there but few that show the inner workings of the pump. I replace all the gaskets and re-install it and get it pumping to 90 feet in elevation.

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Education

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• Ram Pump
• homesteading
• water projects

[jasonmushersee]

That looks more dependable than a stainless steel deep well pump. The screen tends to plug with sand and or black magnesium on mine.

[engineer775]

@jasonmushersee The ram is dependable but much more susceptible to the environment, especially freezing on the delivery side as the water moves slower that and if not protected it will freeze. Thanks for watching!

[Shameful26]

Great information! Thanks.

[engineer775]

@Shameful26 Thanks for watching!

[CPTNoahdog]

Really cool, and my brother in law is the smart one and we will be working on the same we have a good sized creek close to the house and he is as interested and I am at getting one of these Ram pumps going. Thank you for sharing with us. Now we know.

[engineer775]

@CPTNoahdog Thanks for watching!

[ThirtyAcrePrep]

As always, this is outstanding information. Thanks so much for all the ideas and instructions, you're making my development of my new property easier.

[tmaxx189]

<<paused at 1:57.... thank you lol i wasnt going to keep watching

[flamedrag18]

ok, where's the adjusting of the home built pump? in part 3 you said you'd show how to adjust both the consumer and home made ram pumps.

[clnmyjts]

very cool information... thanks

[HomeDistiller]

what do you do with the overflow? you could make a pelton wheel generator and make a little power

[sbeer6er]

I wanna to build one sooooo bad!!! i'm guessing I have to pump the water up about 100ft

[flamedrag18]

so what does changing the speed near the end of the video do? you said slower means more water, but what does faster do? more pressure for more distance to outlet?

[sailingsolar]

Very cool. Not to mix apples and oranges. Have you entertained the possibility of having a small hydroelectric system. It appears that you got some head but being spring fed not much volume..Do you have an idea on your flow rate year around? The more head one has the less volume one needs, for the same output. Just wondering. Thanks for the videos, very nicely done. SS

[readyren]

I always like seeing old technology still working in our modern world. Do you have any Archimedes' screws going on the retreat?

[AppalachianFreedom]

Thank you sir!