"Mike" wrote in message
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In article , Lee
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Dear all,
I am looking for a hand pump for water.

Our allotment has no running water and the water butts are nearly empty.
There is a stream nearby which has a small amount of stagnent water in it
but it is a good 5 mins walk away. What I need is a small hand powered
water
pump that I can dump a hose into the water and pump the water up into the
rain barrels...
Tried everywhere, even farmers use petrol or electric pumps nowadays....


Any ideas???


I would suggest keeping a lookout at car boots etc, for a stirrup pump.
These used to be a part of the fire point equipment at every place I was at
when in the army in the late 60s/70s. (also in the navy mike?)

It looks fairly obvious that it is a pump, it has a circular plate to put
your foot on, a metal tube which goes into your bucket, and a flexy pipe for
an outlet, and an up and down pumping handle a bit like a vertical bicycle
pump.

If you find two, I want one.

Steve