You mean one like this?Once it is primed a standard,"Pitcher Pump", would have no problem pumping from that depth. I had one for years pumping from a depth of 72 feet.
If so, you're dead wrong... you cannot pump water deeper than about 33-34 feet with a pitcher pump. For anything deeper than that, you will need a submersible pump. The part that actually does the pumping must be at the bottom, not the top, that way you're creating positive pressure to force the water up as opposed to a vacuum.
My father in law lives in Morgan County, and when they got connected to city water about 15 years ago, I helped him install a hand pump like you show, on his old well. It's 57 feet deep, and it takes some pumping, but he's 78 now and can bring the water up just fine with that hand pump. Uses the water for the garden, and to wash his truck. Doesn't drink it anymore because of some stuff in it though. Traces of Chloridane I think.
I would be quite surprised if you could do it because you would be defying the laws of physics.If you dump enough water down the hole to properly prime it you would be surprised at just how far you can pump it.
I think those of us that actually understand the concept are well aware of that fact.OK everybody calm down about the pitcher pump not being able to pump that far.
It isn't how deep the well pipe is sunk, it is how deep the water table is. If you sink a pipe in the ground 100', but the water table is 10', you are really only pumping 10'.
Think about it, even without a pump on the top of your pipe, the water in the pipe would rise to about 10' below the ground.
It's like putting a drinking straw in a glass of Coke... The Coke goes up in the straw until it is level with the rest of the Coke in the glass.
Just because your parents' well is over 100' deep, doesn't mean the static water level in the pipe is over 100' deep.
Look into it and you will see I am right.
Yup, everybody grabs two buckets and walks to the nearest source each morning. Pretty inconvenient, but part of life in early America, how fitting we will go out in the same way....What about something like this?
Bison Deep Well Hand Water Pumps
My families property out by the lake has two deep wells. I've been wanting to get a hand pump "just in case", because we all know whats going to happen when water quits coming out of the tap.
Yup, everybody grabs two buckets and walks to the nearest source each morning. Pretty inconvenient, but part of life in early America, how fitting we will go out in the same way....
I know exactly what you're saying, but it's apparent to me that you don't comprehend what I said in my post.Just because your parents' well is over 100' deep, doesn't mean the static water level in the pipe is over 100' deep.
Look into it and you will see I am right.
I know exactly what you're saying, but it's apparent to me that you don't comprehend what I said in my post.
Yes, the static water level in my parents well is over 100' deep. The actual well depth is over 200'.
Getting back to the questions I asked you, and you avoided, how many wells have a static water level within 25' of the surface?
Not very many, and if they do have a static water level that close to the surface it's because it's a shallow well, and the static water level is from ground water seepage. That water is most likely not safe to drink.