For those saying that there is water being wasted? That is basically wrong. This setup would be fed by a river, pond or spring. Etc etc. The "waste water" is simply going back into the ground. Right where it belongs. But it could also be rerouted into a pond or garden. The possibilities are endless.
I'd imagine you could easily have the check valve inside some kind of bucket or something so that when it vents the water, you could collect it and wouldn't be wasting any water.
most people use them in a stream that is flowing into a pond or something like that so the water pulsing out flows down into the pond where it was headed anyway.
Nice Video with a good explanation of how it works. My grandfather talked of using one of these Ram Pumps in the early 1900's to push water literally hundreds of feet horizontally and over 50 feet vertically to supply an elevated water tank (tower) that in turn supplies the house and farm with water. They put a water ram near the creek down in a gully. Then built up a small damn to create a pool from where they drew the water to feed the pump. To the people concerned about the waste water. The amount of waste water is irrelevant when your taking from a river and putting it's discharge back into the river. It makes you wonder who originally figured this out.
This exact system is found in the pit of the Great Pyramid...an Englishman by the name of Christopher Dunn wrote a book called "The Giza Power Plant" where he goes into the design and workings of the pump in some detail.
I just built my first ramp pump using your guidance, I think your video is very clear and simple. I replaced the pipes for PVC and used two vertical valves made in Mexico, the Italian made valves are more expensive at least in the hardware store where I got them in PR. Thanks a lot.
interesting stuff. i have family members that were deep miners in West Virginia...when a mine was small and remote...remote being defined as electrical service was unavailable...those mines used ram pumps to pump water out of a mine...you've done a great illustration of the concept...keep teaching that kid!!!
I've heard of the ram pump but never saw one. Thanks for the demo. It looks relatively simple. I looks like a lot of work for moving such a small amount of water but I get where it adds up over a day. And, the wasted water at the valve just goes into the ground I guess. Fun.
@Nathan Davies The system is made to be used off a stream so the water that goes out the exhaust would normally just go back into the stream. I think I read somewhere that for every gallon of water it pumps it will take 7 gallons to run the pump.
We have been enduring a severe drought here in SW Minnesota. I live in a rural area and my work takes me to a couple of towns that are in a hilly area. It is fun to come across streams and realize that these are spring feed. I don't have any in my immediate area but there are a multitude of them just 10 miles south and west of my location. This would be perfect for a situation where a person has access to a spring. I live in the flat land so I depend on a well. Good Work as usual!
Very interesting. The concept is very similar to the electrical converters "buck-boost" that can increase tension. The feeding tube act as a electrical coil and the vertical tube with foam as a capacitor. I never realized that this was also possible with water, thanks :-)
Nice explanation, what people are having difficulty with is that you require water at an elevation behind the pump - the elevation and slope allows water flow, which provides the force (through gravity) to the system. You cant just drop this in a well, usually this is set up behind a small dam in a stream - so that you have constant water. The feeder pipe from the dam is then fed down elevation to the pump. If you have a well at elevation this will work, but you would waste a lot of water. If it is set up like most in a stream - there is no water waste - it just keeps flowing down the stream. Excellent video - THANKS!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I have watched a spring dump water over our hill for the past 30 years only able to divert it to a livestock tank. This will give us the ability to capture the power of the head to now divert this water to a large storage tank above our garden, fruit trees and berries. As far as the waste water, i plan on capturing the waste water in a stock tank for our livestock and as a wildlife water source. Thanks again, isn't TH-cam great!!
+TONY BAZINI he's using the house water as a test to see if the system works. Normally the water source comes from a stream or a rain barrel. That way, the water comes from the rain, and is pumped, using gravity, to water fruit trees, or vegetable plants or any other reason you can think of that needs water, without using electricity to get it there. Open your mind and see the reasoning behind the project.
I wouldn't call it waste when that little device is pumping water from a tiny stream 70 ft. uphill to a reservoir that produces water pressure for a home 50 ft above that same tiny stream.
Thank you... I was watching Homestead Rescue and I couldn't understand the concept because it was too quick watching the show... but thanks to you I know now... I can relate this valve function just like how our heart valves work exactly the same way pressure builds and closes a valve and opens the other...
This is exactly where i found this video. Amazing the things you can learn on those shows that can be applied to real life needs. Amazing video by the way 😎
I’m going to try to use this setup to shift flowing water from down pipes when it rains to a tank I have up the back of my block. Worth a shot, thanks.
Yeah that's a very good trial, it can be use to elevate water once electric motor is off of power due to destructive typhoon, and as well as when conserving elect. power. Thank you, thank you!
This is good for a scientific experiment, but if you want to use it for long term utility purposes the flap valve he is using for a clack valve is very prone to wear due to metal slamming against metal. I can sent you a diagram of a cheap to build long lasting clack valve Via email if you want it.
Well done video showing a simple build method. 1. You don't need the foam in the pipe. The compressed air does the work. 2. The principle of a hydraulic ram is you take the potential energy of water at a higher elevation, convert it to kinetic energy as it moves downward due to gravity then effectively reverse that on the output. 3. The variables involved are (mostly): A. Volume of water source (in effect size of input pipe), volume being pumped (output pipe) B. Elevation (head) of water source C. Adjustment of the clacker valves D. You work a trade-off of volume of flow to height etc by adjusting your system. I don't remember for sure but I believe faster allows more height and slower allows greater volume (this may be reversed, its been a while since I've messed with this). 4. You should add a snifter hole Don't take my info as not liking your video, I actually think its great.
for long term use you do need a diaphragm of some sort in the tower pipe, because the water flowing through will absorb the air little by little. I used a latex balloon, and it worked fine for over 2 years.
You are correct. The air will eventually disappear in most cases. This is the reason for item 4 in my original post. A snifter hole will allow small bubbles of air into the system, which will keep it perpetually running. But you have to do a snifter right. Too big and you will waste your capacity as you are pumping water out. Too small and it may plug (though a very small hole of about 1mm is fine). Peoples mileage may vary. If a balloon works though, I say go for it. Simple and cheap is always good.
It was years ago that I built a home made one. I designed my own clack valve out of cheap stuff like washers nuts and bolts, and a pvc adapter. I didn't know what a clack valve even looked like, but the one I built worked good. I just went with an idea that a friend explained to me. I never had to have a shut off valve on the 1/2 inch pipe going up to my camp either. That pump along with a gas burning water heater converted to wood burning, and a 55 gallon drum hung in a tree above my camp for water pressure, I had constant hot and cold running water for about 2.5 years. I was off the grid living rent free. I loved it. I just left the whole set up in the Oregon woods when I went to Hawaii to roof after hurricane Iniki hit Kawaii. , Never been back there since Hawaii. Now I am retired disabled and unable to do stuff like that.
thanks for your small explanation and i appreciate that cause i have a plan to my home town and i used a water electric pump its so expensive and i get new idea from you ..thanks i lot for you sharing ...
Awesome Video. is very clear and very well explained the concept behind it. I've seen complicated explanations of how these work, that were somewhat hard to understand. Yours is simple and easy to grasp. Nice.Thanks.
I like your design, I built one out of SS and I am a happy camper. The design that you have should be at a cost that anyone in a poor country could afford to build.
Todd Hower Interesting take on it: what is normally considered as kinetic energy you are calling "tapping the potential energy". I guess that is not untrue.
@@stormytooman1947 as long as its not steel i can't see it as welding Note: I'm a welding inspector add up ultrasound and xray also, if its not steel i won't see it as a weld .
I made one of these with a home made clack valve. The clack valve was made using a spring and the water sprayed out horizontally about 50 ft downstream between clacks. While I was at work the next day, the clack valve bumped the pump about 30 ft. downstream.
Best explanation i heard so far. I wonder if you could have another set up like that, to catch the "waste water" into a container, and lead it to the original container...
Great question, although i dont have an answer for you as i have only used water weenies for my bladder, i believe 5-10psi would be a good start, if you do plan on using an inner tube i would suggest making your pressure vessel with a screw on top to access your bladder for pressure adjustments, keep me posted if you give it a try,....josh
For those saying that there is water being wasted? That is basically wrong. This setup would be fed by a river, pond or spring. Etc etc. The "waste water" is simply going back into the ground. Right where it belongs. But it could also be rerouted into a pond or garden. The possibilities are endless.
Yes
I'd imagine you could easily have the check valve inside some kind of bucket or something so that when it vents the water, you could collect it and wouldn't be wasting any water.
Can't they make the waste water flow back into the river?
that is what he/she means
most people use them in a stream that is flowing into a pond or something like that so the water pulsing out flows down into the pond where it was headed anyway.
First person to actually explain how this works in laymans terms.
The best most informative presentation I have ever seen on Ram Pumps. Thank you for all the important information.
Best explanation of how a ram pump works...and I've watched them all!
Best Homemade Ram Pump Video i ever saw here on TH-cam! Thank you for the video.
This is the kind of videos should be on TH-cam...neat and explanatory. Thumbs up my man! 😉😎
What a great video. I knew ram pumps were a thing, but I've never seen one and I've been insatiably curious as to how they operate. Great explanation!
Brilliant! I've seen many ram pumps but you have something a bit different and easier to build. The two brass swing valves are the key. Nice job!
Very clear explanation. Thank you
Thank you so much. I've seen complicated explanations of how these work that were hard to understand. Yours is simple and easy to grasp. Nice.
Nice Video with a good explanation of how it works. My grandfather talked of using one of these Ram Pumps in the early 1900's to push water literally hundreds of feet horizontally and over 50 feet vertically to supply an elevated water tank (tower) that in turn supplies the house and farm with water. They put a water ram near the creek down in a gully. Then built up a small damn to create a pool from where they drew the water to feed the pump. To the people concerned about the waste water. The amount of waste water is irrelevant when your taking from a river and putting it's discharge back into the river. It makes you wonder who originally figured this out.
Richard H pyramid were ram pumps but egyptians didnt build them they were much older
Babylonians . . . Originally !
This exact system is found in the pit of the Great Pyramid...an Englishman by the name of Christopher Dunn wrote a book called "The Giza Power Plant" where he goes into the design and workings of the pump in some detail.
I just built my first ramp pump using your guidance, I think your video is very clear and simple. I replaced the pipes for PVC and used two vertical valves made in Mexico, the Italian made valves are more expensive at least in the hardware store where I got them in PR. Thanks a lot.
Great video, saw others where it was hard to understand the principles.
This is the best explanation I've heard. Thanks.
Thanks for explaining this project very well.
The best explanation so far. Good job .. now I can easily build my own. Awesome with only a 4 ft. drop.
For anywhere but off the grid super awesomely done!
interesting stuff. i have family members that were deep miners in West Virginia...when a mine was small and remote...remote being defined as electrical service was unavailable...those mines used ram pumps to pump water out of a mine...you've done a great illustration of the concept...keep teaching that kid!!!
I've heard of the ram pump but never saw one. Thanks for the demo. It looks relatively simple. I looks like a lot of work for moving such a small amount of water but I get where it adds up over a day. And, the wasted water at the valve just goes into the ground I guess. Fun.
The working set up is in a stream, so the " waste water" stays in the stream. This video was a demonstration of how the pump works.
Thanks,for a great demonstration of how water hammer works
Nice homemade, i also have mine at 2" out and installed partially submerged in rice irrigation canal
Great work there ! I will be testing this soon for my farm house.
Well done. Best explanation on TH-cam for how to construct and working principle. Thank-you
@Nathan Davies
The system is made to be used off a stream so the water that goes out the exhaust would normally just go back into the stream. I think I read somewhere that for every gallon of water it pumps it will take 7 gallons to run the pump.
Nice job dude, excellent job explaining. You are one smart guy. THANKS
This is exactly what I was looking for ... thanks :)
Good clear no bs explanation thank you. Awesome set up.
We have been enduring a severe drought here in SW Minnesota. I live in a rural area and my work takes me to a couple of towns that are in a hilly area. It is fun to come across streams and realize that these are spring feed. I don't have any in my immediate area but there are a multitude of them just 10 miles south and west of my location. This would be perfect for a situation where a person has access to a spring. I live in the flat land so I depend on a well. Good Work as usual!
You did a excellent video my friend! Very well explained. Enjoyed it!
great idea…thanks for uploading!
Excellent and easy to follow! Thanks for the great video
Wow!! nice job josh.
Thanks for the info...
awesome example of a working Ram Pump..never seen that much lift displayed. impressive
thanks, I have been trying to fully understand this comcept, you kinda seal that in my head thanks again. plain and simple.
Very interesting. The concept is very similar to the electrical converters "buck-boost" that can increase tension. The feeding tube act as a electrical coil and the vertical tube with foam as a capacitor. I never realized that this was also possible with water, thanks :-)
Thanks for this video I have now an idea to solve my water problem uphill.
I wish you were my neighbor. I love these projects. Your videos are fantastic.
Thank you for explaining how this works. Great video.
Great work...such an amazing off-grid idea. Thanks for sharing
One more time from me guy your RAM pump seems to work better than most I've seen pretty cool man
Good valve/gauge configuration. Thanx for the vid
Good explanation! Thanks. Now I understand how they work!
Nice explanation, what people are having difficulty with is that you require water at an elevation behind the pump - the elevation and slope allows water flow, which provides the force (through gravity) to the system. You cant just drop this in a well, usually this is set up behind a small dam in a stream - so that you have constant water. The feeder pipe from the dam is then fed down elevation to the pump. If you have a well at elevation this will work, but you would waste a lot of water. If it is set up like most in a stream - there is no water waste - it just keeps flowing down the stream. Excellent video - THANKS!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing. I have watched a spring dump water over our hill for the past 30 years only able to divert it to a livestock tank. This will give us the ability to capture the power of the head to now divert this water to a large storage tank above our garden, fruit trees and berries. As far as the waste water, i plan on capturing the waste water in a stock tank for our livestock and as a wildlife water source. Thanks again, isn't TH-cam great!!
+Leo Krick I agree ..You saving the electricity but wasting the water...
+TONY BAZINI he's using the house water as a test to see if the system works. Normally the water source comes from a stream or a rain barrel. That way, the water comes from the rain, and is pumped, using gravity, to water fruit trees, or vegetable plants or any other reason you can think of that needs water, without using electricity to get it there. Open your mind and see the reasoning behind the project.
I wouldn't call it waste when that little device is pumping water from a tiny stream 70 ft. uphill to a reservoir that produces water pressure for a home 50 ft above that same tiny stream.
Thank you for making it very simple for all of us.
Great off the grid work dude keep it coming great ideas are hard to find nowadays
Thank you... I was watching Homestead Rescue and I couldn't understand the concept because it was too quick watching the show... but thanks to you I know now... I can relate this valve function just like how our heart valves work exactly the same way pressure builds and closes a valve and opens the other...
This is exactly where i found this video. Amazing the things you can learn on those shows that can be applied to real life needs. Amazing video by the way 😎
Great! Simplest, clearest explanation. I am building my own soon. Thank you!
I’m going to try to use this setup to shift flowing water from down pipes when it rains to a tank I have up the back of my block. Worth a shot, thanks.
Very nice. I have heard of folks having these but never seen one in action.
Thanks you explained better than most people in a short time 👍🏿
Thanks . I just completed building my ramp pump today. Thanks for the video
Hows it working so far?
Nice Work! Thanks for taking time from your demanding schedual to Produce and Share these Valuable Videos
fantastic system from future
excellent demo
Well done Josh!
Yeah that's a very good trial, it can be use to elevate water once electric motor is off of power due to destructive typhoon, and as well as when conserving elect. power. Thank you, thank you!
Like it a lot - thanks for sharing. Great for distributing water uphill
Building one now, I was showing my daughter your video. Great example you have here !
This is good for a scientific experiment, but if you want to use it for long term utility purposes the flap valve he is using for a clack valve is very prone to wear due to metal slamming against metal. I can sent you a diagram of a cheap to build long lasting clack valve Via email if you want it.
can you send me a diagram of that cheap to build? @jeremiah pierce? dannytamayocpi at gmail dot com
Great explanation ! Great job.
Thank you for sharing...great project..
Nice tips. Sir. Very informative vlog.
Thank you for sharing. It is an amazingly simple technology that is so useful.
This is the best explaination and illustration video. Thank you
Nice presentation with good explanation. Thanks
That's amazing. Great video
Well done video showing a simple build method.
1. You don't need the foam in the pipe. The compressed air does the work.
2. The principle of a hydraulic ram is you take the potential energy of water at a higher elevation, convert it to kinetic energy as it moves downward due to gravity then effectively reverse that on the output.
3. The variables involved are (mostly):
A. Volume of water source (in effect size of input pipe), volume being pumped (output pipe)
B. Elevation (head) of water source
C. Adjustment of the clacker valves
D. You work a trade-off of volume of flow to height etc by adjusting your system. I don't remember for sure but I believe faster allows more height and slower allows greater volume (this may be reversed, its been a while since I've messed with this).
4. You should add a snifter hole
Don't take my info as not liking your video, I actually think its great.
for long term use you do need a diaphragm of some sort in the tower pipe, because the water flowing through will absorb the air little by little. I used a latex balloon, and it worked fine for over 2 years.
You are correct. The air will eventually disappear in most cases. This is the reason for item 4 in my original post. A snifter hole will allow small bubbles of air into the system, which will keep it perpetually running. But you have to do a snifter right. Too big and you will waste your capacity as you are pumping water out. Too small and it may plug (though a very small hole of about 1mm is fine). Peoples mileage may vary. If a balloon works though, I say go for it. Simple and cheap is always good.
It was years ago that I built a home made one. I designed my own clack valve out of cheap stuff like washers nuts and bolts, and a pvc adapter. I didn't know what a clack valve even looked like, but the one I built worked good. I just went with an idea that a friend explained to me. I never had to have a shut off valve on the 1/2 inch pipe going up to my camp either. That pump along with a gas burning water heater converted to wood burning, and a 55 gallon drum hung in a tree above my camp for water pressure, I had constant hot and cold running water for about 2.5 years. I was off the grid living rent free. I loved it.
I just left the whole set up in the Oregon woods when I went to Hawaii to roof after hurricane Iniki hit Kawaii. , Never been back there since Hawaii. Now I am retired disabled and unable to do stuff like that.
Where does the snifter hole go?
Kube Dog I tin in da air chamber where it's needed
great tutorial on your pump. I am going to try it in our pond just to a water flowing. thank you.
Greetings from Greece. Excellent video. I see some good answers you have given above. Nice work. Take care.
thanks for your small explanation and i appreciate that cause i have a plan to my home town and i used a water electric pump its so expensive and i get new idea from you ..thanks i lot for you sharing ...
Nicely done... very good explanation of how its made.
This is a great way of pumping water from the ocean inland to cool off the earth and getting water the areas that don't have water!!!
Excellent work all round :)
Nice explanation, easy to understand, not like hard explanation with braincracking physics, love from india
Awesome Video. is very clear and very well explained the concept behind it. I've seen complicated explanations of how these work, that were somewhat hard to understand. Yours is simple and easy to grasp. Nice.Thanks.
Wonderful Job 👍
Excellent video!
I like your design, I built one out of SS and I am a happy camper. The design that you have should be at a cost that anyone in a poor country could afford to build.
thank you for sharing that.. How very awesome.. tapping into the potential energy of falling water... in the right situation that could be very handy!
Todd Hower Interesting take on it: what is normally considered as kinetic energy you are calling "tapping the potential energy". I guess that is not untrue.
Greetings. May GOD bless you and your family for sharing your expertise.Thanks. Regards...
Awesome video!!
BTW, you were correct the first time... The cap was welded on the top of the PVC, as in melted two different items to form a solid joint.
Dude they use an adhesive glue !!! Pvc glue !!! Its not welding
@@eliasjarjoura445 The two pieces melt and become one: welding.
@@stormytooman1947 as long as its not steel i can't see it as welding
Note: I'm a welding inspector add up ultrasound and xray also, if its not steel i won't see it as a weld .
Sharing knowledge is a good job.............Thanks for ur videos
I'll make one for the folks back home awesome project😍😍😍
This is really cool.
Good jobe.A simple video to understand.
Thanks for explaining how it works. .
Great video.
I made one of these with a home made clack valve. The clack valve was made using a spring and the water sprayed out horizontally about 50 ft downstream between clacks. While I was at work the next day, the clack valve bumped the pump about 30 ft. downstream.
Best explanation i heard so far.
I wonder if you could have another set up like that, to catch the "waste water" into a container, and lead it to the original container...
Awesome pump !
Excellent explanation!
great, got an idea, nice tips. good vibes.
i love this video. thanks for sharing.
great job.!! this is old school.
Great question, although i dont have an answer for you as i have only used water weenies for my bladder, i believe 5-10psi would be a good start, if you do plan on using an inner tube i would suggest making your pressure vessel with a screw on top to access your bladder for pressure adjustments, keep me posted if you give it a try,....josh
Thank you now i understand ur by u. Otherwise other videos was like suck my mind. U are a good teacher. Love u
Excellent video explanation,
Hey, pretty neat. Just the explanation I was looking for.
Good job. :)
Good jobs buddy.👍