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Pump for cleaning out pond
I use a shop vac to suck the yuck off the bottom of my pond, but it fills up
in about nine seconds flat, and then I have to dump it and start over, a tedious and tiring process. What I want is a pump with a hose or wand on one end to suck mucky water from the bottom, and a hose on the other end to deposit it where I want it. I guess it might be a small version of the industrial pumps used to drain water from flooded areas. Does anyone know about such a thing? Thanks, Harriett |
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On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 16:18:22 GMT, "Harriett Wright"
wrote: ===I use a shop vac to suck the yuck off the bottom of my pond, but it fills up ===in about nine seconds flat, and then I have to dump it and start over, a ===tedious and tiring process. What I want is a pump with a hose or wand on ===one end to suck mucky water from the bottom, and a hose on the other end to ===deposit it where I want it. I guess it might be a small version of the ===industrial pumps used to drain water from flooded areas. Does anyone know ===about such a thing? === ===Thanks, ===Harriett === After reading the threads on sucking up mud etc out of the ponds bottom, I had an idea and tried my "Sand Sucker" A sand sucker is nothing more than an air powered vaccuum (uses air from an air compressor), used in foundries to suck loose sand out of molds, and in industry on a larger scale for emptying drums etc of the contents. My sand sucker has a 1 1/2" diam inlet tube (flexible) and discharges out through a cloth filter bag. I used a bag I fashioned from an old swiming pool skimmer net I had laying around, which wound up about as large as a 5 gal pail would be sizewise. It worked great. Water was actually forced out of the debri with the exhaust air during the process and only the sediment was retained in the bag, which was easy enough to empty. HOlding up the thing with 5 gal of damp wet muck is a job though, but perhaps an extension hose on it would wok so you cold place the bag on the ponds edge during cleanup. Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wife, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. |
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I use a swimming pool vacuum leaf trap, vacuum hose, and an 1800 or 2400 gph
mag drive pump and recirculate the water to the pond, or to the filter. You can see it at http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/pondpage4.html. It works great, gets rocks, sand, oyster shell, leaves, some algae, and a lot of other debris. -- RichToyBox http://www.geocities.com/richtoybox/index.html "Harriett Wright" wrote in message ink.net... I use a shop vac to suck the yuck off the bottom of my pond, but it fills up in about nine seconds flat, and then I have to dump it and start over, a tedious and tiring process. What I want is a pump with a hose or wand on one end to suck mucky water from the bottom, and a hose on the other end to deposit it where I want it. I guess it might be a small version of the industrial pumps used to drain water from flooded areas. Does anyone know about such a thing? Thanks, Harriett |
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"Harriett Wright" wrote in message ink.net... I use a shop vac to suck the yuck off the bottom of my pond, but it fills up in about nine seconds flat, and then I have to dump it and start over, a tedious and tiring process. What I want is a pump with a hose or wand on one end to suck mucky water from the bottom, and a hose on the other end to deposit it where I want it. I guess it might be a small version of the industrial pumps used to drain water from flooded areas. Does anyone know about such a thing? Thanks, Harriett I clean my stepmothers pond with my shop vac which has a side outlet that can be opened.....I then just put the vac on it's side propped up and I never have to empty. I couldn't imagine having to shut it off and dumping it every few seconds. Dave |
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