As to ‘making do skills’, here’s quick tip about lifting water without mechanical aids:
Keep LOTS of pickles on hand, and when you need to pump water without having the use of a pump, use them to line a ditch to where ever you need the water.
As soon as you open the lower control valve or gate, the water sill start flowing UP to the field, tank, or whatever, because, as everyone knows, dill waters run steep.
Works like a charm!
Yes, I think we can now get you for a violation fo the Mann Act ... cross State Lions with gulls, for Imortal Porpoises.
Oh
DEAR DILL WEEK
what a sour pun!