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Lazy WP

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I have a well that the previous owners used for the house, years ago it sounds like. I started to pull it last April, and dropped it after I had already removed 2 joints of pipe. Today I fished out the rest of it, and found I have about 30 feet of water and the well is about 105 feet deep. Now the casing is only 3 inch so I am somewhat limited as to the submersible pump I can use. Previously they had a pump jack and cistern on it. All the wire going to it has been scavenged so I would need to run another power line to it. Approximately 1500 feet. All it will be used for at this point is livestock water, and most of it can be gravity so I don't think I am going to put a pressure tank in. I like Grundfos systems and have used them on ranches I have been on, but they are a bit pricey for 4 horses and 15 calves.

Can I get by using something like this?
Pump
 
For that price I would check into some of the newer solar well pumps and have a tank set up simple and pretty cheap last I looked. You do not need a real high GPM set up and having it flow 24/7 can help keep it from freezing up
 
You can use a pump like that without a tank as long as you do not put a pressure seitch on it. Just a plain on-off switch that you need to be there to turn water on or off. Did that for years at Grandparents house. And where we are freezing is common in winter so we used a frost prof hydrent where water came out of ground. In summer kept hydrant turned on all the time and just used the switch to shut pump off, In winter put the handle down after every use. If you only got a bucket of water at a time you did not leave pump running to forget to shut it off.
 
I would agree with Old, 1500' run is a waste.

I think another poster put info on his remote solar pump.
 
I never have been able to search for an old thread. I thought there was a thread a couple weeks back about solar, but can't find it.
 
Can I get by using something like this?
Pump
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That pump resembles a lot a cheap 4" pump I bought from a different on-line shop called Vida.xl this summer. Not branded the same though. The first pump ran 2 seconds and stalled. Sounded as if the motor was stuck and it heated up but no way it could have sucked any sand or something in. I had it returned and received a new one on guarantee. This one ran maybe 2 minutes before exactly the same happened to it. I returned that one too and got my money back. Found a used Grundfos which I paid the same for and it runs as expected.
 
I would also recommend a solar powered stock tank pump. They work well for just livestock drinking water. The only draw back is sometimes in really cold cloudy weather the solar panels will not charge the battery enough. My son has one and once in four years he had to use a portable generator to charge the battery twice over a ten day period.


Here is a link to the brand he has:

https://shop.rpssolarpumps.com/collections/livestock/products/rps-200-solar-well-pump-kit?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIk-2y3YKT5gIVy4CfCh26oQf8EAQYAiABEgI6hvD_BwE
RPS solar livestock water pump system
 

Lazy WP, you would spend a lot for 1600 feet of wire. In order to not have excessive voltage drop you may need 6 gauge wire.
 
My calculations say #4 at 5 amps and #2 at 10 amps, that will take big wire.

I would guess it originally had a transformer out there.
 

not familiar with the small 2 1/2" pumps but do have one setup without a pressure tank, it fills a reservoir using a float ball switch.

We powered a 1 1/2 hp pump in a spring feed reservoir back in the 60's by running a pair of #6 copper wires 2200 ft under ground, pump lasted 29 years.
 
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