"Poor Man's" Portable Water Pump

"Poor Man's" Portable Water Pump MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pumps 26-6-8 After seeding a large area of grass and planting 1,100 new trees and bushes, Charles Hoyt, Medina, Ohio, needed a lot of water to keep everything alive. Instead of lugging a pump around behind, he put together a "poor man's" portable pump that mounts on a 2-wheel trailer. He uses it to pull water out of a nearby pond. He built a 2-wheel trailer with an offset axle, then mounted a 2 hp gas engine on front and a water pump off a GM 350 cu. in. car engine on back. The engine shaft-drives the pump by means of a shaft off an old Weed Eater trimmer. He uses his garden tractor to back the trailer up to the pond and pulls on a rod attached to a spring-loaded ratchet to lower the offset axle until the pump is submerged in the water. He pumps the water to a set of four lawn sprinklers. "I use a volume pump, not a pressure pump. But because it's all dead ending, and heading off at each sprinkler which restricts the flow, it creates enough pressure to run four sprinklers at a time.. "I used an old circular saw blade to make the ratchet that's used to adjust the height of the pump. I mounted the saw blade on the offset axle and welded a short length of steel pipe to the side of it. To lower the axle, I just stick the rod inside the pipe and lift upward, which takes tension off the blade and allows the axle to pivot down." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Charles Hoyt, 7124 Spencer Lake Rd., Medina, Ohio 44256 (ph 330 722-2213).

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