Anyone got a well pump?

[Nicos]

We have our own well- and apparently the water is pure (ish)

We are wanting to buy a pump so we can water the veg from it.
Can anyone give advice/recommend one please?????

[Bigmallly]

I use one of these. It's supposed to be able to pump 11 metres high but have never needed to pump that high.

Hozelock 3 in 1 Water Butt Pump: Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors

[Jardiniere]

cant advise Nicos but if you do find one (in France) let me know as i still havent sorted out a pump for getting water out of the river yet even with all the brilliant advice i have had on the subject ...its finding a suitable lightweight non electric pump that doesnt cost over 400 euros (saw one in Gamm Vert - looked as tho it weighed a ton and was well over 400 euros and it was a SOLDE ie reduced)

[Pumpkin Becki]

DarkCrow's mum has a pump in her well. Have a chat with him Nicos.

[its hilly]

Don't think it has to be specificaly (sp) a well pump Nicos. Any form of submersible pump which will shift the volume of water required at the rate required will do. Most submersibles have quite a good head height to them. And head is how far up from pump to top of whatever.
Jardinaire, they had a pump (well it wasn't exactly, but I'm not clever enough to explain) ages ago on 'Its not easy being green' which used the water pressure to shift water from a stream. No power and didnt cost much to build, can't remember what the sites name got changed to when the programme ended but stick it in google and it appears, might still have info on there?

[DarkCrow]

Mum uses a dirty water pump in her well, I'll try and find out make and model and get back you, she's had it for a few years now and it gets used daily without any problems so it cant be bad

[Nicos]

Our neighbour was talking about an electric one which is at ground level and you drop a hose down into the well, and the water is sucked up and then off to the crops.

J- if you are looking for a petrol one, I'd look in the UK -We've found stuff like that is 1/2- 2/3 the price as somethig similar in France- and often better quality/make.

Will certainly share any info we get- I think it's becoming a necessity to be honest when we look at the forecast

Any info is helpful please peeps!!

[bobleponge]

Only just got back to France last night Nicos, but am popping to my friends to deliver their pickling vinegar and other such luxuries, in about an hour.
They use their well for everything, and had a pump put in about 4 years ago. I will find out costings, make and model etc and reply before the day is done.

[Hilary B]

Submersible pumps give more results for the same power use than ones that sit at the well head and only the hose goes down.
Our Cisterna in Spain has a perfectly ordinary submersible pump (the sort you can use for emptying water from your flooded cellar, or ANYTHING) current price in a shop known as Machine Mart (they are online) a little under �40.
The one that sits in the river pumping water by water power is known as a Ram pump, plans for making them should be findable.

[Nicos]

Well ( no pun intended)....

Our neighbours seem to think that the water level is a good 30 feet down to the surface of the water- and no idea how deep the actual water depth is.
Do the submersable ones sit on the bottom?
Presumably- since it's not been used since WW2 ,and is 400 years old ,it'll need 'dredging'? Apparently the locals chucked stuff down wells to hide things from the Germans ( OH...a hoard I hear you say!!!....we'd be so lucky).
Don't the pumps get gunged up- or are they fitted with filters?

( can you see I haven't a clue- yet- about wells?)
Thanks so far....
Any more info/advice please peeps!

[Glutton4...]

I think 'submersible' just means it has to be under water, not necessarily on the bottom. You can fit a gauze or filter to most submersibles, with a little ingenuity. We were given a Draper submersible years ago, and used it as a pond pump. It was very powerful, and we had to make a filter to stop it sucking up the fish!

[Hilary B]

If it is over 34 ft ddown to water level then a 'suck up' pump just won't work! A submersible sits as far down as you want it to be (the one in our cisterna is on a long rope, and hangs an estimated 5 ft from the base, since I reckon there may be up to 3 ft of sediment).
If the water 'analyses' OK I wouldn't bother trying to clean it out, you'll only end up disturbing anything that is harmlessly sitting in the base.

[its hilly]

Ours was in a water tank for spring fed water, pumped it up into big tanks in the barn from where it was filtered into the house. Still ended up with brown water when it rained hard . Was hung on a rope so it was about a foot clear of the gunge. Think it had some sort of basic filter round it, but if you put it in a bottomless bucket with muslin or similar over the top and bottom that would work.

If the water 'analyses' OK I wouldn't bother trying to clean it out, you'll only end up disturbing anything that is harmlessly sitting in the base.

What..like a WW2 german soldier

Ram pump..thats the beastie..thanks for that Hilary

[Bigmallly]

Well ( no pun intended)....Don't the pumps get gunged up- or are they fitted with filters?

Not sure if you saw my link above but yes they do have a filter in the bottom. As I only use it in the butts, each butt has a couple of house bricks in the bottom, this way any sediment stays on the bottom.