[Cob] RE: cobbing in CT.

[Amanda Peck]

I have a couple of friends who use ram pumps--in one case it's quiet, very 
very inexpensive, and (potentially) made with off-the-shelf parts, because 
the owner's a dedicated scrounger and tinkerer.  The other person bought his 
from the high school shop teacher.

Head is just about as important as flow.  Being able to run your pipe from 
the dam to the pump where it won't always get washed away by the wet-weather 
stream after a couple of inches of rain is good too.  I'm lacking all three 
of those at one time of year or another.

But I still want an earth oven down overlooking that stream!

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Marlin wrote:

A water ram will work if there's a very successful spring below the house. 
We had a damn at the spring coming out of the rocks and then used a Hydroram 
(water ram) to drive the water up to the house cistern....then the house was 
pressurized with a tank, but the spring was 1000 feet away from the cistern 
and 30-40 feet, in elevation , below it. The key is to have enough flow at 
the spring to create a damn....