from pumped well to hand pump well
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I really like this idea. Thanks...Mo
You will need to determine the static height of the water in your casing. The type of pump and cost is dependent apon how high you will try and lift the water (deep well vs shallow).
Harbor Frieght or your local hardware store should have the hand pumps, the only other thing you should need is enough drop pipe to get to the water and a foot valve to keep it primed.
Are you sure you wwant to go straight hand pump? Might be better to stay electric pump but look at alternate means of powering the pump. Perhaps solar or wind generation. Taking just the pump to hand only may solve one problem but solving the power problem will eliminate several problems at once.
Even if going to manual pump operation it still might be better to go with a transmission arrangement to allo you to switch the pum from hand to electric operation and back.
Watching Nat Geo today they had the prepper show with the guy who made a home out of 8 or 9 containers and one quote from the guy really rang strong to me... "redundancy over reliability". Better to have multiple methods of doing something than switch to one that's perceived as most reliable. You can always use old faithful if/when the primary fails as long as you prepare for options.
Even if going to manual pump operation it still might be better to go with a transmission arrangement to allo you to switch the pum from hand to electric operation and back.
Watching Nat Geo today they had the prepper show with the guy who made a home out of 8 or 9 containers and one quote from the guy really rang strong to me... "redundancy over reliability". Better to have multiple methods of doing something than switch to one that's perceived as most reliable. You can always use old faithful if/when the primary fails as long as you prepare for options.
Solar electric to a large holding tank is what I believe to be the best for me, I just haven't figured out the best way to do it.
