Crazy Easy Ram Pump Silt Filtration 

For best results use a fine stainless mesh on the intake as debris will just slide past it rather than sticking and clogging.

Seth, this is probably the best ram pump video you have ever made. I believe I have seen all of your videos. This is a great summary; Just add info about the delivery to the water tower storage that feeds the garden from up the hill.

I'm really impressed with what pressure you achieve.

I really enjoyed this video and you are really good at explaining how the ram pump works

I'm very impressed with that system

You have destroyed my hole day ! Im getting no chores done , thank you

Clear explanation .low cost materials

Good job mister verry inspired go ahead i am from Indonesia.

Always enjoy when you put out a new video.

Hey Seth! Great information and walk through! I just did a video on my channel yesterday about saturated Pressure Chambers. I have to rebuild my intake filter soon also. Last year I had a disc filter on the output but it got frozen and broke over the winter. I will be replacing it this season. If you aren't familiar with disc filters, they are really nice for ease of clean out. I have a video on my channel detailing those as well. Keep up the great work my friend! Wishing you a healthy and happy 2020 season!

This is really amazing, thanks a lot!!

Thank you for making it simple. I will be in touch soon for i volonteer in Haiti and Water is a problem

You might consider setting up your storage tank OUTPUT about a foot up from the bottom so you settle silt up there too. I know that would require a reworking of the system, but your drive pipe bucket works so well, might as well use the same concept at your storage tank.

Hey. Where I am, electricity is almost nil to depend on for running electric pumps. I have stream water as you shown in your videos. We have a financial disaster nowadays in Lebanon. So, when matters lighten up I'll buy all parts necessary to build your best recommended ram pump to collect dear wasted water. I really enjoyed watching your videos.

IF you swirled the water coming into the first silt bucket you could remove the particles much easier by the spinning action.

Great content as always!

Hi? Guys good ideas thanks for sharing us...

good job.

You should build a deeper "dam" for your intake water, so silt will have a chance to settle down at the bottom of the dam, and water will be less turbulent.

Hey Seth. Love your channel. Just thinking, have you tried making a mini-dam to catch silt just a bit upstream and before it gets to the mini-dam your intake pipes are placed in?

I'm thinking about installing a rusco spin down between the output of a spring just before the ram pump, to filter out sand and save some wear and tear on the check valves within the ram pump

I have never understood why you don’t create a side pool where the initial intakes are, to aid in filtering, just as you have the bucket really, have your dam as currently is, create a small side pond where you put your twin intakes, and have that side pond water supply come from a high point in your dam area, if that makes sense. Less silt, you can just shovel clean the original dam of silt, not disturbing the side intake pond, a nice cheap project to enhance your intake, just a shovel, some rocks and some elbow grease. 💪 good luck

First off, good job! It seems that you are able to deliver more water to your sediment catch bucket than the outlet drive pipe will handle; as witnessed by the over flow into the sluice. Question: Would it be a bad idea to raise the level of the bucket, like a stand pipe, so that you could increase the head pressure of the lower drive pipe?

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If the stream is yours I would personnaly make the dam higher and raise my inlet accordingly in the proccess of doing this the slit would naturally fall to the bottom of the dam and your water would be silt free

I have to wonder how much helpful minerals and nutrients are in that silt. Maybe it would be worth harvesting for your garden. Not sure though.

At the bucket where the top drain is back to sluice run U should rotate 90 degree drain upside down and install pipe to bottom of bucket so excess overflow pull silt out of bucket into sluice Wont drain bucket Will still work The over flow drain will help push the silt out of bottom of bucket due to slight head in bucket

There is a lot of room for improvement with the bucket silt trap. Bigger would be way better. I'd go and buy a 15+ gallon stock tank at the farm store. Tilt it slightly towards your overflow trough. Drill a 3/8" hole near the bottom of the low side. The idea is the silt will have time to settle to the bottom, and then gradually work downhill to the drain hole. Have the drain hole running all the time, which will keep the silt flushed out automatically so it doesn't build up (figure 5-10% of the incoming water is always bypassing). Place your outflow tube to the pump a few inches below the overflow tube on the low side (much higher than you have). Place the inflow tube from the creek in though the high side of the tub so it's below the water line to limit added turbulence. The idea is the silt will have time to settle out during the 3+ feet of horizontal travel from one end to the other. This will give you way more silt removal capacity. I think what's happening is the bottom of the bucket is filling up with silt until it's going in your pipe to the pump, and then you have silt settling out in all your lines after that. That or your bucket is too small for the amount of flow so it stays too turbulent. You should make it very difficult for silt to get in the lines in the first place so filters later are much more effective.

Would it be possible to daisy chain ram pumps together? Go up seven feet to storage, down a foot to a pump, up seven more feet to the next storage... etc?

I wonder if an automatic siphon would work on the bucket to remove the silt.

Would it help if you have the opening of the one intake face down?

The buil-up pressure tank you always place it perpendicular to the rest of the pump. Can you place it horizontally or at an angle?

If you use a sump pump in a creek it will never get dirty

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Where do you get the wobble sprinkler head. Thnx. Great video.

I use screen as well but I use brass screen and never have a problem with it

So you spoke of the storage tanks too, is there a reason why you dont have the the hose filter on its way from the ram pump up to the storage tanks? or is there no need for a 3rd filter for them?

Can u put limestone in the filter? Will it screen out iron bacteria and manganese?

Your intake has one partially open and one with just drilled holes, do you need an open, which do you like better?

Cut a plastic 55 gallon drum in half top to bottom and use it to make a good deep dam. Of course you do not have to use the entire height of the drum.

Hmm. I'm just wondering if it has a positive effect to put a square plastic tub at your Main intakes. Build in the same design of your round bucket to have space for silt and a easy way to flush the silt out. I think when your intakes lay on the ground of the creek they easily sucks fine silt through the screen. I also thinking of if it's possible to re-use the free silt (shoveld out and dried) for a Sandpit for your child or other things.

@Land to House So I've been watching your videos for several years now. However I have not been able to figure out how to make one of these ram pumps be beneficial for me. This is because though I have plenty of water around, but none of it is moving. I have the entire Lake "O" The Pines approximately 200 yards Out My Backdoor. I have been trying to figure out how I can make that become moving water so I can pump it up to my house? I'm open for hints, ideas, and suggestions? There is a drainage that runs from the street beside my house to the lake however this only has water for the first couple hours after a hard flood rain. We did not get it enough that kind of rain regularly enough to supply the water that I would require. What do you suggest?

I've almost finished constructing my 3/4'' Ram pump and I'm wondering how to make the swing check valve quieter. Would adding a short length of pipe to the top of the swing check valve help reduce the noise without affecting the operation?

What are the materials needed t make ramp pump?

Right on idk why anyone hasn't done this yet, at least that I have seen

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You should have got this filter instead. You can put it in any direction physically, as long as it flows in the direction it says. Horizontal or either of the two vertical ways the bell will point. The reason this one is better is because it has a cap you can remove and the water pressure will clean out the filter for you. Add a ball valve there and you can flush it out and replace cap without it back spraying you or having to shut off the water.

there's some dark water coming out of the output hose.

The first filter in a stream must always be a coanda screen in order not to go crazy. Ciao

Seems to me that a bit more filtration starting at you 5 gallon bucket would prevent more sediment infiltration

It would work better if you esed some plastic sheeting to keep the water in your intake dam.

Why dont you have the filter fitted before the ram pump and then the pump wouldnt get clogged with fine debris/silt

SOME BAFFLES IN THE BUCKET OR SWIRL DOWN MAY AID SOME AS WELL

Hey, I'm from Germany and I find your ram pump very interesting. But the water is not very clean. This creates problems. Small filters are not enough. Have you ever tried a pool sand filter system? Before you save the water? Greetings from Germany! Kai

Doesn't the bucket reduce your head pressure on the drive pipe?

Hey Bro, me I know where to buy the ram pump assembly?

The intakes should be at the top of a deep pool / reservoir instead of sitting right in the silt.

Ok im no expert by any means.but if i put slits instead out drilling holes it would let water in and keep the bigger stuff out.and burying a tote The size of your two intakes and fine screen top where water come into the tote that the lid has slits instead holes this would filter water from the begining and put panty hose on the connections where you come of your two. Intakes to the line this will save you a lot of trouble .put panty hose on your infow at the fice gallon bucket als

At the capture point I would have put the capture tube under sand with small rocks on top of it. May spare you lot of debris all along the system?

I use a similar filter called a (spin down sediment filter) with a clean out valve. There is a video about RUSCOs version at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ad1WetRDSj0.html

use SSteel screen. aluminium wont make it fer...

How come yall comment here without giving the guy a thumbs up !!

Dude clean your bucket.

you need to stop cutting corners or doing short cuts etc !!

Just wanted to say although I enjoyed your video, why are you profiting off of a creation that was meant to be free to everyone. You had me till the end where you're selling a ram pump. People google ram pump and they're super easy to make. Shame on you.