Water Butt Pump

[Rhys]

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

I'd like to know if it provides enough pressure to successfully use a hosepipe. Any advice greatly appreciated.

[Rhys]

[Alan_Y]

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

[woppa30]

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

[Bodolph]

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)

[kenkew]

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.

[Rhys]

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 ;)

[derbex]

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

[Growbe]

Would this be a good solution with a leaky hose?

[derbex]

I run my leaky hose straight off the butt -with no pump. Works fine.

Jeremy

[Svengali]

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

[Rhys]

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  ???

[tim]

At the 3rd stroke, they sent me the correct one!!

[MikeB]

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.

[tim]

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!!

[timf]

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

[tim]

At my age?? Nice thought, though!

[tim]

Mike - would you believe it??
Went to try the pump again today - & the butt was empty. And the greenhouse floor was WET!!

Guess??

[MikeB]

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

[Robert_Brenchley]

The water siphoned through the hose?

[tim]

Exactly what Mike warned about!!