How to make a PVC Water Hand Pump to use when you have no power

Lady Apprentice.com ^ | 4/8/11 | Lady Apprentice

[Kartographer]

How to make a PVC Water Hand Pump to use when you have no power April 8th, 2011 | Author: Lady Apprentice Today we will learn how to create a PVC hand pump to get the water from your well when you have no power and how it all works. I have a few plans to show you on how to make them, which we will get to later, but first let’s understand how a PVC hand pump would work, or most any pump for that matter.

If you look at the picture below you can see for yourself how it works.

[Kartographer]

I can’t think of any bucket that you could easily find/buy that would hold as much as a 3’ long 3” in dia. pipe.

[Kartographer]

Thanks for the good info!

[Kartographer]

"I have no business calling myself a prepper."

Not at all. You'd be surprise how many people would in an extend shtf situation would suffer from thirst with 30-40-50 gallons of water just sitting in their water heaters.

[Kartographer]

Here’s a pump you can use to bring running water into your house/cabin/BOL

Home-made Hydraulic Ram Pump

http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/equip/ram.htm

[BobL]

“Not at all. You’d be surprise how many people would in an extend shtf situation would suffer from thirst with 30-40-50 gallons of water just sitting in their water heaters.”

I’m with you, Mr. Legend (in my book). I’m actually fairly well prepped, but I do have limits. My personal goal is to make through an Argentina-type crash and be able to live without power or fuel for a while - mostly to be comfortable, while everyone else waits in lines or brings jugs to the water truck.

For that, I can do ok - I have 4+ years of everything that I can think of, other than food (only 6 months of that). I even have spare water heaters (still empty, of course). I can collect rain water from my roof (i.e., no overhanging trees and 4 inch hoses that connect to the downspouts), have a Katadyn - actually 2 of them as the replacement filter element costs almost as much as a complete unit - have multiple gasoline and propane stoves and lanterns - pool shock and other chemicals, lots of other stuff.

What’s been really neat about the whole experience is that the consumable stuff that I have (and use anyway) has gone up in price dramatically just in the past 3 years, so locking up 10k in that stuff has been the second best investment of my life (shorting Countrywide was the best).

[pterional]

Narrow bucket with a small flapper valve in the bottom.

[TEXOKIE]

Dear yefragtuwrabrumuy,

I used your link and was pleased to see a lovely image of the Archimedes screw. However the info about the use of water with a vehicle was not on the page. Would you be willing to post a link to the proper page for that water-in-vehicle info? I went to the web site (which I have bookmarked) but could not find what you were referring to.

thanks a lot!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Moving water by vehicle is not from a web link, but experience. The US army uses 5 ton trucks to move as little as 500 gallon tanks, with strict rules that tanks are either to be empty, or full, because if they are half full, bad things can happen.

One trucker was driving with a tank almost full, and his brakes got white hot and started to smoke. He had to use almost all the water in the tank with a pump and hose to cool them down.

So I’ve really no idea where to find a resource for this, other than Field Manuals, or talking to an experienced water haul trucker. Though there’s probably a lot more lore to it than I know.

[TEXOKIE]

Thanks for the info! I had not understood that it was not at the link you reference. Thanks again!

[The Cajun]

BOOKMARK.