I'd like to use my butts to water the plot with a hosepipe connected - has anybody else using the Draper Watter Butt Pump as shown here:
http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=123690&Referrer=AffWindow&source=affwin (http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=123690&Referrer=AffWindow&source=affwin)
I'd like to know if it provides enough pressure to successfully use a hosepipe. Any advice greatly appreciated.
Looks Good its just a shame its Mains electricity. It would be Ideal if it could be ran off a 12v car battery.
Cheers
Alan
Nice idea, I looked a bit further and thought of getting one of the drill powered pumps, there is even a picture of them running one off a cordless drill. Not sure how long my wimpy B+Q cordless drill would last though but at less than £9 I may try it...
http://www.tooled-up.com/Product.asp?PID=13941
I'm running a Draper surface mounted pump off a 1w generator. Pumps at approx 3000L per hour and that produces sufficent pressure to push through 50m of standard hose pipe and then about a 15-20' jet. Quickly checking the figures for the Draper submersible runs at 2200L per hour so about 2/3 strength - I'd guess it would be fine 8)
Rhys, water pressure can come from having a decent head of water and nothing else. I use a roof fed water flow to top up a wheely bin with a hose outlet at the bottom. It's good enough.
I decided to buy one of these pumps and will hopefully receive it within the next week - I'll let you know how I get on - I'll have to pray for the butts to thaw first though ;)
Lash your drill to a car battery woppa -did it with my old 9.6v B&D when the charge ran out and it worked fine.
BTW -this advice is worth exactly what you paid for it ;D
Would this be a good solution with a leaky hose?
I run my leaky hose straight off the butt -with no pump. Works fine.
Jeremy
I used a drill pump to clear out the bilges of my (very small) boat. A cordless drill just wasn't enough power, and I had to resort to a mains-powered drill
JeremyB
Got my pump delivered and tested it this morning - its very good, motor is extremely quiet and the pressure is good.
I'm going to install two more butts to have a total capacity of 1100 ltrs of water - hope it will be enough for the summer ???
At the 3rd stroke, they sent me the correct one!!
Installed and ran my water butt pump on Thursday. Friday morning on checking my waterbutts (6 in total, interconnected) I found them to be empty. Problem was, I had switched the mains off but hadn't disconnected the hose which was laying coiled up on the ground, the water had syphoned off via the pump and hose. Tip - switch off the water flow tap fitted to the pumps swan neck when not in use - (only just over 900 litres, onto my potato bed, shouldn't need watering again until July ;D ;D). I found it had enough pressure to power a sprinkler.
Good thinking!!
But here's a good one? We have a tap to control the flow? Which I need for feeding a dilutor. So I asked the chappy about cutting off the flow. He said today that the flow must be unrestricted!!!
I'm awaiting further comment!!
tim
just a thought you could tee a bleeder valve into the circuit for for dilutor so any excess pressure id put back into the water butt
At my age?? Nice thought, though!
Mike - would you believe it??
Went to try the pump again today - & the butt was empty. And the greenhouse floor was WET!!
Guess??
Quote from: tim on April 27, 2006, 20:06:11
Mike - would you believe it??
Went to try the pump again today - & the butt was empty. And the greenhouse floor was WET!!
Guess??
No I give in what happened ;D ;D ;D ;D
The water siphoned through the hose?
Exactly what Mike warned about!!