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  • Water pump? (really basic advice required!)

    There are taps provided on my site but my lottie is a fair way from the nearest one. I shall need either a humungous hose or many, many trips with cans to adequately water my crops.

    However, I have drainage ditches on two sides of my plot. Can anyone advise me on some sort of pumping mechanism to utilise this? Preferably manual/low tech! I have 'Little House on the Prairie' style pictures in my head but little clue where or how to start organising this in reality
    I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery
    My heart going boom boom boom
    "Hey" he said "Grab your things
    I've come to take you home."

  • #2
    I'm only thinking of Westerns now, range-war stylee, but are you allowed to extract water without 'owning it' or some sort of license? *shrug
    To see a world in a grain of sand
    And a heaven in a wild flower

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    • #3
      Originally posted by smallblueplanet View Post
      are you allowed to extract water without 'owning it' or some sort of license? *shrug
      I doubt there'd be any serious objection... but given I'm an end plot and would have to carve a path through brambles to the water, it would amaze me if anyone ever noticed.

      Best I don't start on whether water is something that anyone can claim to 'own' anyway!
      I was feeling part of the scenery
      I walked right out of the machinery
      My heart going boom boom boom
      "Hey" he said "Grab your things
      I've come to take you home."

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      • #4
        Okay, there you go now!

        So don't blame me when Severn Trent come round with a bill!
        To see a world in a grain of sand
        And a heaven in a wild flower

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        • #5
          You certainly can't remove water from streams and rivers without an abstraction license.

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #6
            They're literally drainage ditches - the water drains off the lotties, goes into the ditches. They don't feed from or go to anywhere else.
            I was feeling part of the scenery
            I walked right out of the machinery
            My heart going boom boom boom
            "Hey" he said "Grab your things
            I've come to take you home."

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            • #7
              Hi

              Thanks for bringing this point up; our lottie has no water except for some foolhardyly dug wells; really makeshift and in my opinion, quite dangerous.

              The council were supposed to provide water, but its taking time to 'get around to it' - so I might have to enquire whether these wells are legal.

              As a Nebosh qualified H&S non-expert; I would close any construction site with them, so why is it acceptable on a lottie; with just a sheet of wood covering it???

              Anyway Seahorse; can you not just use a bucket to scoop up the water?

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              • #8
                Yeah, a bucket on a rope is plan B Just thought a pump might be a bit easier and less wasteful.
                I was feeling part of the scenery
                I walked right out of the machinery
                My heart going boom boom boom
                "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                I've come to take you home."

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                • #9
                  You can get a pump which is run by a drill? But whether a cordless drill would have enough power to pump much...?!
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                  Last edited by SarzWix; 24-05-2008, 10:15 AM.

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                  • #10
                    Sarah - you're a star

                    *runs off to look at cordless drill spec*

                    *runs back*

                    Ours is 1150 but we don't need 10m so re going to give it a go.

                    Worth a try for that price. I might just owe you a pint there Sarah.
                    Last edited by zazen999; 24-05-2008, 12:10 PM.

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                    • #11
                      That's interesting Sarah! Cheap options too.

                      I was picturing myself doing it all by hand

                      Would love to hear how you get on if you try it Zazen.
                      I was feeling part of the scenery
                      I walked right out of the machinery
                      My heart going boom boom boom
                      "Hey" he said "Grab your things
                      I've come to take you home."

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                      • #12
                        We looked at 2 in Machine Mart; and the guy sucked his breath in and said no chance - not for a well.

                        So, we'll get one anyway and give it a go...were a bit despondent when we came out; but never mind.

                        the thing is, the one that looked as if it would do it didn't seem to fit a normal hose; so we need to do a bit more looking into it.

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                        • #13
                          Bloke at the allotments uses a one similar to this for emptying his water butt (which collects water from his greenhouse roof) into his 1000litre bulk containers. Seems to work fine!

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                          • #14
                            Hmm, gone from no hope to loads of choices; guess tomorrow I'll have to look at spec.

                            Thanks Snadger.

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                            • #15
                              A little thought that i had whilst walking with him in the corner is if it not to far from ditch to your plot is dig a hole put water but in hole then then get some spouting and fasten to some post's and have it ending over the water but (now you know why the hole)and do your trick with the bucket and rope and pour water in to spouting and gravity do's the rest if the water is not to deep in ditch dig hole in bottom of ditch and walla jacob
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                              Ralph Waide Emmerson

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