This Pump Pushes Water Uphill With ZERO Power - full ram pump install

Thank you to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and making these stories possible. If you’d like to open your own online shop or create a website, go to https://www.squarespace.com/wildweroam for 10% off your first purchase. Installing a ram pump to move our spring water up the mountain has been in the works for about 3 years because this was a massive project! The hydraulic ram pump is a pretty incredible device invented over 200 years ago that can pump water uphill without any source of power, battery, solar -- nothing. The pump harnesses the power generated from water flowing downhill to push a small portion of that water back uphill. I've watched dozens of tutorials on these things and I still don't really get it, on the surface it makes sense, but when you really get into the details its pretty wild that this little pump can move the spring water hundreds and hundreds of feet up in elevation across a massive horizontal distance. The beauty of these pumps apart from the fact that they require zero electricity is that once they are running properly they can go and go 24/7/365. There's virtually no maintenance apart from changing the valves out every couple years which is a pretty cheap and easy job. Currently, the system in our video isn't running full time because there are a couple issues that still need to get fixed. First, the flow from the springs can't keep up with the pump now that its been really dry here for a couple months. This can be fixed either by developing a new spring or two, by switching the size of the pipe coming into the pump from 1.5 to 1 inch, or by installing a special valve called a venturi valve which can cycle the pump on and off automatically. The other issue is that during the draught mice will eat the black pipe running through the forest. In the long term to fix this issue and the possibility of everything freezing in the winter, most of the system really needs to get trenched 4ft down which is an absolutely massive undertaking that I can't justify doing anytime soon. It's a dream come true to prove that the system can work on our land, but it will be another massive project to get it running permanently. Hugs, Dana & Lou