A Better and Easier Deep Well Hand Pump

Before electric power was invented, human-powered equipment dominated the home and workplace. Machines were continually improved to make people’s lives easier. People relied on their hand- and foot-operated devices; all they needed was the machine and muscles.

When the electric motor was introduced, the old ways were abandoned overnight.  Over time, electric-powered machines were progressively enhanced to make people’s lives even easier. We literally depended on electricity, building our homes and lives around its availability. People needed only the machine, electricity and more money.

With no end in sight to the electric-powered era, little advancement was made to hand-powered devices, such as manual well pumps. There simply did not seem to be a reason to ever need them again. They became yard ornaments from a bygone age.

But now, because of increasingly common severe seasonal storms, long-term power outages, possible economic collapse and a host of other uncertainties, the old hand pump has returned.

New designs of traditional hand pumps entered the marketplace, although the mechanical advantage, effort required and capacity have relatively remained the same. Greater depths have been achieved with some of these newer models by greatly reducing the cylinder size, which inconveniently diminished the water yield.  Realistically, these new hand pumps are good only for short-term emergency use unless there are several people available to operate it continually to pump all the water needed daily for bathing, washing clothes, cleaning, cooking, drinking, and watering plants and animals. Take the challenge

Seeing the necessity of a better manually operated well pump, Well Waterboy Products of Couch, Missouri, decided to upgrade, to Pump Up and invent the deep well WaterBuck Pump.

The WaterBuck Pump is an efficient manually operated water well pumping machine with enormous mechanical advantage — well beyond the ability of common hand pumps, but in the range of large-diameter windmills.

The effort required to pump water with the WaterBuck from deep wells is far less than that of traditional hand pumps.  The exceptional mechanical advantage design makes it possible. With the WaterBuck (operating a 4″ pump cylinder), a grandmother greatly exceeds the output of a 200-pound fit man operating a traditional deep well hand pump with a 3″ pump cylinder at the same depths.

Using a simple combination of human shape, motion, weight and strength, volumes of water can be pumped from water wells. Depths far beyond what could even be considered before are now possible with the WaterBuck Pump. www.waterbuckpump.com

This was a guest post provided by Waterbuck Pump

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