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The Ram pump died again after getting frozen between hunting season and the first trip of the new year. So I decided not to rebuild it for the fourth time or replace any of the broken pipes.

 Instead I've thought up a new approach. I want to mount a 110 Volt motor driven water pump on the front of the Spring. I'll use some of the 1/2" black plastic pipe going to the 35 gallon tank from the Ram pump. This way there's very little plumbing involved.

 We'll just disconnect the output pipe from the Ram pump, drag the end back up to the Spring and attach it to the output of the motor pump. Attach a short length of plastic pipe to the pump inlet from the bottom of the Spring reservoir with some sort of filter before keep out sand and stuff like salamanders!

 I'm going to put some kind of good filter for the water inside the camp. Maybe before the water goes into the tank or after the water comes out of the tank to the faucet. There may not be enough gravity flow for a filter after the tank. Which kind depends on what is simplest to service and DRAIN WHEN IT FREEZES!

Here's a proposed drawing of what I've worked up so far---this will change a little as I get closer to a final design.

 

 

 

Here's a short video of the first test of the pump using a closed loop in a 5 gallon bucket. This thing has a lot of pressure, it kicked the outlet hose right out of the bucket so I had to tape the hose to a vise grip clamped to the bucket. Click on the picture to start video