DIY Ram-pump ( Big home made Ram pump)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2013
- I build this ram-pump of parts laying round in my back yard I only bought the one non-return valve
Keep a lookout on my channel for the DIY project of how to build one of these Ram-pumps .I will do a detail design!
Biggest ram pump I've seen so far, a true work of art and craftsmanship. The noise is a bit of a let down, but the scaled down versions are much more quiet.
great thing is the noise is where the stream is, not the camp...
You seem to have a very practical system set up.
I like the fact that your ram pump is far enough away from the house not to be annoying. Well done!
Thank you for watching and thank you for your comment
Contractor - Builder - Inventor... Thanks! Good video
Thank you for watching and your kind reply .really do appreciate it
You should look to add in an electrical generator to the water wheel. You can derive useful energy from this system too. In fact, if you modified the ram pump you could wind coils on the outside and put magnets on the piston of the pump. The back and forth action will generate a current that you can rectify. There's many places and ways to extract electrical EMF from this sort of system. Even with out that your system is awesome. It's the biggest ram pump setup I've ever seen. Good on you for your productivity and ability to make the land green.
hi sir you have a brilliant idea , if you dont have alot of money you have to make due what you have but i think it is better just to use solar panels thanks for watching
Amazing work
Thank you for watching and thank you for your kind comment
Thank you and a nice system. You could even scavenge electricity off that with some additions? If not already?
Great job I know it's a hell of a lot of work
Thanks , i am looking back now , must say I had alot of energy these days not sure why I don't feel the same it's like all my energy is gone
wow mate inspiring keep going nice ideas well implement
Awesome. I'm currently gathering ideas on how to build one that would work at our property in a very remote Tropical Rainforest.
That is a big pump. Looking forward to learning about the construction of the pump. Thanks.
Thank you for your comment will upload the video soon
this pump is METAL! it actually reminded me of dwemer ruins, a bit. thank you for posting this
Thanks for the comment and thank you for watching my video
that is some nice output coming out that large pipe you opened the valve on....not sure if you need it..but if there is excess water at the top of the hill you dont need....run another pipe down toward the creek and put a small hydro generator station and create some power/hydro...
wow! You have put together an amazing project. Some countries with low budgets could take lessons from you. Thanks for sharring
i am in a low budget country . dont let the media fool you God bless from South Africa
I love your piece of earth, well done, and thanks for the video.
Thank you very much for watching my video , Yes i do live in a awesome place
i do love to watch this kind of video giving me an idea to build my own, but it is much better if you share the making of the Ram Pump and it is more helpful to us. thanks a lot and I do appreciate your effort.
Thank you for watching .... Sorry for not posting the build yet , it is still flood season here and i will only start building the other pump when the rivers water lvl start to decrease ...... I will show the pump build in stages and not the hole thing but i will try my best to keep the stages simple as possible for every one to see
Some thoughts : A ram pump behaves in a mechanical sense the way a step up transformer does in an electrical sense. The electrical step up transformer increases the electrical potential ( being Electrical Potential Energy per Coulomb of Charge, commonly called Voltage ) of the current in the secondary coil at the expense of having less secondary current than in the primary coil. The mechanical energy step up transformer , in this case a ram pump, increases the gravitational potential ( or Gravitational Potential Energy per kilogram of water ) of a smaller volume of water being pumped uphill against having a larger volume of water being allowed to spill downhill . I've heard that some ram pumps have continued pumping for 2 or 3 almost 4 decades without needing repairs while also not needing an external energy source; just the creek itself.
Not a step up transformer but a boost converter circuit
I like your video and the way you are recycling all the water back to the source.
thank you
Great work of water engineering. Way to go!
thank you
thank you for taking the time to post this video
my pleasure thank you for watching
Great video.. Thanks for sharing!
one word needed, Brilliant.
thank you so much sir and thanks for watching
Looking forward to the build video.
Thank you for watching i will do the build video soon , unfortunately its flood season here in South Africa . as-soon-as the water lvl drops and its save to work in the revier i will do the video for you guys
Cool setup cobba
great,I thought I recognised the SA accent, nice video Phillip
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thank you and thanks for watching
Have you watched Jeff lawton...or thought about Aquaponics...
You are lucky to have such good weather...I live in London
extraordinary knowledge, thank you
You should readjust the thermal throckle 1/4 turn for maximum pressure.
RELLY NICE WORK
Thank you and thank you for watching
Phillip, your ram pump is very well built; you are quite a handy man. However, if you keep using stream water for watering of your grass, trees, etc. , the salts from the stream, given enough time, will make your soil dead. Otherwise, really nice work.
+Max Otto Thank you for your comment and thanks for watching
I would like to know where you are located...and...would it be possible to use the outflow of the ram pump to power another...
Very nice Sir! Cheers from Canada.
Hi Druetty thanks for watching and thank you for the kind comment
so nice idea
Gopi Anand Thank you sir for the kind comment and thank you for watching my videos
great video and btw i dont know where that is but its beautiful land ya got there
jedediah fadely Thank you so much , I am very blessed to have a land like this thank you for watching
Nice job
Thank you and thank you for watching
Very nice. Most pumps I see don't deliver the 'waste-water' [coming from the valve] back into the same water source. nice work. A tad loud, I would have to build a foam-block housing around the ram/valve.
Thank you for watching , and yes if you do not live a distance from you pump i think the noise would become quite annoying thank you for your comment
How's the drive pipe held up? Brilliant set up.
Wow! You don't even notice it's working! I didn't expect it to be so quiet.
lol
I have watched all your videos and find them very interesting especially the ram pumps you have built.
Oh and your english is very good, do not worry about people not understanding you.
Hi George
Thank you very much for watching my videos and thank you for your comment
Very cool nice job like the video
Thank you and thank you for watching
Awesome brother! It seems if you extended the water drop over the wheel to the center of the radius you would increase the water wheel's RPM's.
Thank you for your comment and thank you for watching my video
I did not grasp where the original water in the reservoir came from, I see that it goes to the big clanking pump in the stream bed. The water wheel thing seemed to be pumping the wheels waste water up to a sprinkler - I was fascinated & engrossed but got a bit lost. Maybe a diagram on paper showing the major parts at the start and throughout the video ? thank you for sharing - very interested in this setup
Thank You Phillip!! I plan to make a similar size pump with a similar delivery height. I wanted to know how much head (or drop) do you have on your intake/feed pipe?
My water height is about 3meters and from there, the distance of the pipe to my rampump is about 12meters hope this helps thanks for watching
Magnificent
Hello Phillip , I was wondering if you could let me know when your next video is going to be posted , I would very much like to build your model. I have a very large river that runs through my Cocoa farm and would like to have water year round , thanks
i dont know why your comment shows up now sorry for replying now , i have the pump here stored i guess i would make the last video for my youtube guys
at which height can we supply water through DIY ram pump
I am wondering if balancing your water wheel would help pumping a little bit more water.
i sold that thing
I wondered if the speed was the pump/fill strokes. I thought it seemed unbalanced too. Think if you had a public utility that had a bunch a ram pumps filling a really large water wheel. You could get decent power output off of that from the weight. There’s no inhibition from having ram pump after ram pump on the same source...or even in a chain up a hill as long you had enough head and input into a reservoir to feed it. It’s just a real simple overflow drain for the extra. The world’s about to change
I agree with you. Thanks so much for the comment
Hi Phillip,
I think you've got it.
Your are living in a place witch locks difficult and going to transform in in a Paradise!
Respect!!
The only point i would try is to stock the excess energy into Water or compress air and to come away from those ugly polluted batteries banks.
Watt about creating a pond with fishes to use the excess Water and organic material you will produce with the water on the land...
Regards from Switzerland
Peter
Hi thank you so much for your input ? I have an idea on pumping those waters for a quadraphonic system , I think it would work great and i will then recycle the water and have an income of it or do you maybe have a better idea ? what would you suggest ?
Thank you for watching
I gess aquaponics system?
Remember that water is not enough for your plants. Fish are producing the needed substances for your vegetables.
If you have a deep pond you can use the water all year long because the fish can stay in this water during frizzing seasons.
Calculate the deepness of the pond with this formula : 0,1 percent of the altitude your are living.
Example: you're living at 750 m altitude, you will need a pond of 0,75 m deep.
To it, you have to add a half meter 0,5 m creating a zone (1,25 to 1,5 m in our case) in a side of the pond to operate or to extract fishes during winter or to save fishes in case of water losses or extreme heat and water luck.
If you find a way to keep the water always moving, you won't have any problems during winter.
The water better has to travel under ground to keep unfrozen during winter. Earth is warming the water up on a long distance.
New energy source: you can heat or refresh your house with this water if the pond is big enough by using thermal exchange pump.
This will keep your electricity needs on a lower level during summer and winter.
Finally, you need to test the kind of floor you have to be sure water is going to stay depending of the region and the kind of grave... this is a difficult part including the geological risks...
What do you think about this part?
regards
Pierre
Paradise is getting near every day...
Pierre
ducati Switzerland You see i am so thank full that you came across my channel , of all the research that i have done nothing came up like you said it , thank you so much for your knowledge and time to write to me i really do appreciate it ,and thank you dear sir for everything , thank you again and bless you
ducati Switzerland I have a pond here , made of concrete , for heating the water to 17 C i was thinking of using a small low pressure solar geyser or collector and recycle the pond water through it with the use of a small 12V DC pump and have it pumping during day and at night time a was thinking of covering the pond with a thick plastic like the ones rich people use to warm up their swimming pools and hopefully keep some of the water heat inside the pond or what do you think
Sir can u pls help me
What is the ratio of output water( at hight) to the water wasted or unpumped in same time ....
Very cool man very cool. You have an amazing system there. Amazing water resource.
Does the river go higher than your land? A siphon seems like it would work if it does. Or a trench.
Also if you are going to this extent, why not put in a proper turbine? Then pump with electricity and power your life and neighbors life too?
When you use the water I can say that sprinklers used during the day are the biggest waste of water and nutrients. Better off with soaker hoses that are partly buried. Saving all that water pumping could give you the electricity for your life and leave the extra water for the fishes...
Anyways It's easy for me to say from my armchair, good on you for actually doing it!
Amazing
Lrda N thank you and thanks for taking the time to comment
Nice . Two thoughts 1 ) that pneumatic / hydraulic unit , the very heavy closing noise ( metal on metal ? ) would suggest ware , may be a rubber seal ring , would be a good , rather than rebuilding the mating metal surfaces . 2 ) the very vertical drop onto the overshoot wheel ..... most designs seam to hit wheel at a tangent, not almost direct onto pivot point .
Thank you for your comment . actually you cant see in my video ( sorry for that ) but the hydraulic unit actually has a piece conveyor belt between (thick rubber) the units so there is no metal on metal and only a small amount of ware on the rubber itself .
Yes you are right about my water wheel i am still working on it but, it is flood season in my area so cant do nothing
Regards
Phillip Fourie Thank you . Pneumatic / hydraulic ....... very impressed that it is still so loud , even with rubber seal / buffer in it . Would be so great if you could use all that closing force to fick a wheel / generator over , the last 1/2 inch may be and a ratchet / escapment may be ?
Water wheel , bring wheel up to the snout , or bring snout down to the wheel , or extend the snout & let it free fall onto the edge of the wheel .
Were is "flood season" ..... ? you accent sounds in Africa ... south ?
Regards Bob ( London UK )
magna59 Yes i am actually in South Africa, You can use the Pneumatic piston to drive gears , when my pump is pumping water i can stand on the piston with my whole body weight (81Kg) and the pump does not stop the piston keeps on pumping even if i stand on it with no trouble , You have a very good idea, just a little engineering and a lot of thinking thank you for watching .
Phillip Fourie Mmmmm ......... sound like the thing not to stand on when you ' ve got flip flops on ! Suppose one way to go would be fit the disassembled ideas / components of a dynamo / solonoid style to the clap valve, magnets would be good , but it may have to be self exciting , to stop the shock of the closing from knocking the magnatism out of them . But I suppose the logical approach would be to use that force to drive an additional pump element , to get max advantage in the main requirement , rather than frittering is secondary diversions . This I think you may like .......... w^3(dot)youtube(dot)com(slash)watch?v=JfsGXnY9ZGg
I think if you balance the ZM wheel the ZM pump will work a lot better.
tiredfingers99 I is actually a better option . les wear and tear thanks for watching
You use lots of water falling a short height, to make a smaller amount of that water move a higher height than the water is falling from. If 100 liters per minute fall 2 meters, this thing will give you something like 5 liters per minute pumped 10 meters up. That allows you to use the freely-falling water (which costs nothing), to get some usable water pumped to where you need it higher than the stream.
It's more efficient than say, making electricity with the falling water, then running a motor to pump water. This is because you forgo electrical energy loses, and just focus on driving a pump to push water, using water. Losses are only the mechanical loses of the pump that's pushing the water (inevitable) and however efficient the powering side of the pump is. But you're using a mechanism that pretty much can't break, can't overpower itself, has minimal moving parts and is powered by falling water... which you appear to have a lot of!
The simplicity is beautiful. Why wouldn't everyone want to put mother nature to work in this nearly harmless way?
Hey, I had just a few questions? Did I understand correctly ithat the pump feeds water into a storage containter? Is that the one over by the water wheel? My question was, the pump is designed to use waters natural elements of how it works with gravity to buid pressure and in turn, well, harness energy. I wanted to use somesimilar devices to do the same at my house. I live in the city tho, with roomates and it sucks sometimes Iwish I didn't have to go share a bathroom area with them, bu instead had abathroom arjust set up in my room with natural running water, but just placing a bucketor container of water on a pulley system (if I need that.) I thought at first, I would need to find a gas pump to force the water down wards ino my macgyer ass running water system. I don't think I could use this unless I needed another part that just needed the overflow watet to be controlled, but I tried to make a syphon one today that used the pulley system as well, but instead of raising the whole water bucket I wanted to just find a way to push and pull the air,. I was thinking maybe foot pump or something because I tried making a water syphone pump and no water came out the tip it was supposed to. My next try I think is to just place a piece of rubber in the storage container that will start eh whole gravity force thtat gets it in motion, and when someone pulls ont he valve to turn the sink on, it will remeove the rubber, and send the water down throught gravity....
Anybody know what's up?
More power can be obtained by increasing the dia of Water cathing wheel
it is a beautiful pump system. discovered it today. saw a few different ones. different in size and loudness. yours gives a lot of water but it is very loud i guess and i can see the high forces generated inside. every time the water stops and starts moving again you see the pipe shifting a little. do you get failures a lot? i can imagine that valves will break or bolts and flanges will tear after some time. but a very impressive installation. keep it up
you are 100% right , i used to get alot of failures , if you are building a rampump to last you have to spend a buck to have it last thanks for watching
Thats a big ass ram pump!
Pretty noisy too, though...
Thank you for watching . I guess that is one of the disadvantages of a ram pump the noise ;( Thanks for the comment .
looking forward to seeing more details, ram pumps are amazingly simple and effective.
on the tragic subject of racist discrimination, seems reverse is case in So Africa as compared to US, here blacks are called 'african americans' however a young white fellow whose family had emigrated from So Africa was not well accepted in school when he too proudly identified himself as 'african american'.
Well it looks like it is all over the world , I don't have a problem with other races I would say I just want to have my own culture and place to stay , now it is not like that here in SA it is S*it
I don't know why white people are always called racist but here in SA our president sing the song to kill all the whites on TV. so what can we do I don't have a degree to go somewhere international to work stuck here and waiting to get murdered
If you like you can look on RUclips for : President Zuma sing song of kill the boer kill the farmer
But hey on a positive not thanks for watching
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That would be because his ancestors aren’t from Africa, they were Dutch.
If he wanted to call himself a “Dutch American” nobody would object.
William Carr Thank you sir well said
William Carr No, his ancestors were not Dutch. All white people are not automatically Dutch.
William Carr On my mother side her ancestors were Dutch and on my father side his ancestors were French , So I guess I am a mix
I would have thought this amount of pulsing shock would eventually shatter any of the more brittle steel components. Lost of smaller rams would only loss you a tinny bit but you wouldn't get that noise or risk problems from such presser and impact shock. I would very much lover to have that kind of flow of water on my land though.
thanks for your comment
sir and thanks for watching
Looks brilliant does your resivoiur fill naturally ? Were the 2 pumps working i parallel
Hi it dit fill naturally, but I switched over to solar much better but the 2 pumps did work parallel, but the weird thing was I started to pump them differently but after a day or so the 2 pumps stroke sinc some how
I see the water in the creek, but how did you get it to the reservoir for the ram pump? I have a similar situation, but the creek does not have enough 'drop' for me to run a pump. I do have hills next to the creek which would work perfectly, but no way, other than electricity, to get water out of the creek. I like your setup, but still don't understand this part.
Hi ok so how it works is my river comes from higher ground now what I did was a dug out a ditch on the side of the river and kept digging it level along side the river so until I was satisfied with the height from the ditch to the river hope you understand thanks for watching
Se Modificar a inclinação do cano de entrada de d'agua da roda d'água para aumentar a rotação aumentando a vazão de d'água bombeada. Apontar o ponta do cano próxima a roda.
hey bro, nice setup :D just wondering if you're still using the same system, and have you tried a lighter weight check valve? maybe some brass pads that mate with other brass pads at the contact point to reduce the noise? just curious about how these would work. awesome vid, take care.
+lordmcted Hi there first thank you for watching and commenting on my video , to answer your question no I am not using the same system anymore , it still works but I am using a solar pump at the moment , it is much easer and a lot less (1%) maintenance , not sure if you could use brass pads never tried it but I do use thick rubber between the steel plates to make a good seal and to dampen the noise , if you have any other questions please post them I will answer them prompt
can you tell me the location of your ram pump and waterwheel so i can steal them and also can you tell my how strong your reservoir is so i can bring the right sledgehammer to knock its walls down
South Africa just bring some bread you need to feed the poor
Hello, Please tel us how did you make it. I have not yet browsed other vids in your channel. But i would love to see a video about making of this pump.
Hi there Ocean Breeze thank you for watching my video, please have a look at my channel i have a video there on how to make one of these , again thank you for your comment and good luck
Interesting video Fourie.
Your Ramp pump valve sounds as if it's metal to metal contact! The one I have has a half inch thick 7'' rubber diagram that deflects to cut off the water flow and the pump makes far less noise than yours and will probably last far longer! Doesn't yours have any rubber anywhere, to help reduce shock and noise?
yes actually it has rubber plate in my main valve it is still loud , thank you for watching and your comment
looking for my work
if you water your lawn in the day youll just burn your grass unless the Sun isnt out... I always got a kick out of people who watered their lawns in the day and who cut their grass in the day.. their lawns were just brown all summer.
Thanks for sharing the video. I may try to stick to PVC piping for my pump hoping it doesnt make as loud as noise... Yours sound like someone is laying railroad tracks and attracks too much attention.. itll keep the animals away thats for sure.. but only for a little while eventually theyll get used to it.
do you have a pvc system on video please post it on youtube thanks for watching , but i dont use the rampump anymore i use the solar pump less noise
Where did you get that awesomely massive check valve?
from my local hardwear store
thanks for watching
The delivery on top of the wheel needs to be a bit longer.
nice work!!!! can you please tell how m^3/sec is this??? and if make a bigger can increase and WATER SUPPLY (m^3/sec)??
yes bigger is always better and more water at this moment my pump pumps about 5000L/h
very impressed you had such steady flow of water with pipes running everywhere and uphill sprinkler's? are you kidding , maybe give a layout on screen and that way we could follow better ,and I bet if you had draftsman board and a crew with chuck of money you be dangerous lol good job work on ideas just given I would learn even more call it step by step for dummy's lol ok RayRay
thanks for the comment , things are not cheap, but thank you for watching
A ram pump derives its energy from the head of water located above the pump. What is the minimum head necessary to power a ram pump? Is there a flowing water equivalent of a hydraulic ram pump, i.e., a ram-type pump that derives its energy from shallow flowing water?
Can you put your hand next to a 5 dollar bill?
Wish I had some clue what this guy was talking about. Pipe this, pump here, reservoir there, pipe over there, this was broke but it's now it's not, another thing over here. Ugh I have no idea what he's trying to communicate. But indeed a cool idea.
+diggumsmack2 Ram pumps work like this: Water is directed from a higher point of elevation to a lower point of elevation via tubing and gravity. Water flows from the high point of elevation to where the ram pump is down below. The water flows in through the pump and pressure builds up via the slapping of that giant valve, forcing water to wherever you want it to go. For about every meter of elevation from your source you can get about ten meters in return upwards. If your ram pump is two meters below your watersource, you can pump it through tubing back upwards twenty meters. It isn't very efficient but it is always running and it costs virtually nothing to maintain. hope this helps.
+diggumsmack2 Sorry dude i will try to make a better video and post it on youtube , my english is pathetic
but thanks for watching
+Phillip Fourie No, you did great! Don't EVER let stupid RUclips comments get to you. Your designs and completed projects are well-thought out and brilliantly executed. I was imagining how I would like to build such a system for some land I am looking at and your video seems like exactly what I was thinking of. Thank you! I am inspired.
+Travis Anderson hey Travis thank you so much for your input , i know it is a social platform and i was wondering when i will get negative feedback , but i do this videos for people to show them they can build things that work by-themselfs , i hope you win your system dont be afraid to think about a solar pump thanks again for steping up for me you sir have a great day and thank you for watching
I'm from austria/europe and understood all what you were saying with my bad schoolenglish, i learned 35ys back from now!
i dont know every word you said,but with sense of logic i got you!:)
So, no worries and congrats for your great build. Cheers!
That looks like Northern California. Do I see Digger Pine and red dirt? Sierra Nevada foothills is my guess.
richard wysham no sorry . I wished it was in the USA . Unfortunately it's in South Africa
The steel does seem to work best. Very noisy, maybe place under water.
kool.
thank you and thanks for watching
Just a question. Would it not be better to use something like a venturi where your pressue supplies join? Seems like using a tee both supplies are somewhat nullifying each other and would do away with the 90% elbows which constrict flow. Great video and well explained
nostoh thanks for the input and thank you for watching my video and for the kind comment
so your set up can give you both running water and electricity....yeah, this is the design to strive for...
Sounds like Imperial Walkers.
What is exactly name of the yellow round thing? and where can i buy it used
Hi Tony The yellow water wheel is a sort of pump
You can google ZM Pumps it should give you an idea to were you could buy it
Good luck and thank you for watching
Phillip Fourie Thank Phillip!
The rommans were thought to use ram pumps to get water up to their hilltop forts
have you considered a way to harvest the unused water?
Hi thank you for your comment , the unused water ? sorry i cant think of some way to use it for my pump it just flow directly to the river thank you for watching .
Thank you for watching
so its like a 2 stroke engine right?
Colton Morris Some what , it actually is a one stroke engine thanks for watching
Do the air tanks ever get water logged?
no it got a small hole to suck air in everytime the thing rams
all that for 1 sprinkler. it makes sence though. especially if water isnt readily available
Yes a lot of work just for one sprinkler but it is for free
thanks for watching
Hi so would u make a available the plans with dimensions on the drawing
do you know were i can post it for everybody to download ?
Yea please post it
Now all I need is a property with a river....
binuang man ni nga ram pump daghan tubig mogawas
enhance it by adding a dynamo to generate and store electricity :) that will be inspiring...free water and energy.
thanks for your idea and thank you for watching
Good idea
this will attract alot of zombies
Doomsday prepper ? dont worry me too you never know?
I think it was done on purpose . Target practice baby
Lol, zombies...yes, they are here....scavenging....already!
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not sure what you are saying
zm bombas,chilean bomb
beautiful property. Where do you live?
South Africa . thanks for the kind comment
goes that clear water in the sea or in the river????????????????
it goes to a dam and then to the sea i think i can be wrong
How can you pump water into pile at the first time?
+Ngam Ngam sorry I don't understand your question please rephrase it
Good question. You need to create backpressure, which you can do by keeping the valve on the output closed at first, then opening it just a little bit untill the water level is high enough in the outfeed tube to give enough backpressure.
What he said this guy Valeria thanks for watching
bagus cuma lebih baik lagi ditambahkan bentuk susunan komponen pumpa air sepeda motor
ok dont understand but thanks for the input
That would be great if you NEVER have freezing temperatures.
Meand theMrs lol the lowest temperature that we got was -2°
I am very blessed to live here. Thanks for watching
Screw that noise at night!
my neighbours loved that thing