Irrigation pump

Im looking for some kind of portable water pump that I can utilize for irrigating my outdoor gardens. I need a pump I can pack in, hook up, run water, disconnect and take back out.
I was searching some solar pumps but I'm not exactly sure what I am looking for.
I need something fairly cheap. Whether it be solar, battery powered, or whatever. I just need some kind of pump, without spending too much coin! I heard its going to be a hot summer, with below average rain fall!

I have researched a ton of different pumps. What I had in mind was planting my gardens within 100+ yards of a body of water, IE. Stream, Pond, Creek...
I want to find a pump that I can manually pump water from the source to my garden beds. All I need is an idea of what type of pump to look for, or some kind of pump I could rig to make work. I want to just be able to run irrigation lines from the water source, to my garden, and manually transfer water to my spot...

If anyone has any ideas, or have used, or use and pump for irrigation outdoors I would really appreciate some feedback, or recommendations!
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GFam

 

Well if you feel like carrying a car battery go with a bulge pump for a boat that you can hook a hose too.-Bud

 

You could put a five gallon bucket with a hose attached in a body of water with good current.

 

Anyone else?

 

i did a search


and didnt come up with anything inexpensive...sorry..i found the old timey water pumps like outside your house to fill up the troth for the horses...


the only other ways that i know of are what i have seen in the browndirtwater series that i know you have already seen...good luck...

 

NOt sure what you are looking for but have you considered one of the backpack type fire fighting tanks that they use for forest fires? They carry a fair amount and would refill at your water site. Just a thought.:icon_scratch:

 

I will be running a 3/4hp pond pump off a small 2stroke generator($200 total)...my plants will be in 3-5gal gro bags with high flow drippers. I will only be able to make it to the site 1-2times a week to run the pump but can go more if its really dry.....its my property so there will be no wandering people. I wanted to run a solar setup with a timer but the expense to get it setup was over $1500 for the panels, inverter, battery and timer to run a 3/4hp 7amp pond pump......although if its running 24/7 through drippers a smaller pump can be used thus requiring a smaller panel..ect.....ahhh crap I still don't know 100% what I will do for water this season.

 

Your body of water doesn't happen to be uphill from your grow site does it? If it is, you could just set up a siphon system with a cut-off valve.


I don't think you could get much cheaper than a 12v and a bilge pump. I just put a 1000 gph bilge pump in my boat, brand new for less than $40. If you're wanting to manually pump it, I think it would just be easier to tote a few 5-gallon buckets back and forth, less evidence that way too.

 

Get your self a pet Elephant he could suck up water with his trunk and spray it on your plants. Plus you can use the Elephant shit for fertilizer. And they work for peanuts. Just a thought.

 

Hell yeah, if the Flinstone's can use one for their dishes, I'm sure you could use one to water a few plants. How about a fuckin Snufalufagus like on Sesame Street, he always looked high as shit anyways.

 

How would I go about hooking these things up? Or is that what they are made for?


GFam

 

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I don't know if GF is getting the info he needs but I want to say thanks so much for the info!


I have a question though.....


That bilge pump I know it doesn't have a huge vertical rise but will it creat enough pressure to run say 50 drippers?....


What I'm thinking would be a sweet set up is this


solar panel -> battery isolator->deep cycle 12v battery->12v 24/7 timer made from thermostat-> 12v relay->bilge pump.......


the only part I'm not 100% on is the bilge pump able to generate enough pressure to use drippers or do I need to look at something else?....maybe run a 12v to 120v inverter and use a pond pump?.....


sorry GF for the Hijack hope its cool assit:

 

Get a 1000 gph pump, and it will provide all of the pressure you need, probably more.

 

1000gph bilge pump or pond pump?


are bilge pumps reliable? seems they are emergency use only so using them every day for 30min might wear them out fast???....dunno


thanks!

 

I've never had any problems with bilge pumps. I've never ran one continuously for 30 minutes, but as long as it didn't overheat, I don't think you would have any problems. They have cartridge style bilge pumps, where if the pump fails, you just have to replace the cartridge, and not the entire pump. I just replaced the bilge pump on my boat after 5 years. The pump worked just fine, I just upgraded from 500gph to 1000gph. At less than $40 a pop, they're very cheap as far as water pumps go(the 1000gph sump pump on my aquarium cost $150), so might not hurt to experiment with them.
Good luck, and let me know what you come up with. Might wanna check and see if you can find the max. continous duty cycle on one of those pumps.

 

Ok sounds good and ya $39 isnt so bad even if I go through 2-3 during the season....When I start building my setup I will post a thread and keep it up dated right till harvest time.