Tag: belt

Lifting & Cutting Old Well & Borehole Pipe Work

We have an interesting job on at the moment. We first went to see the well which had all its old pumping equipment still in place minus the old wind pump which has long gone except the bottom tower stands. On measuring the well it only had 1 foot of water which seemed very strange Read More

Well Masters Old Stationary Engine

This is our stationary engine which we use to test our belt driven well water pumps. It is a 1938 Ruston and Hornsby 2 1/2hp APR model. Read More

Very Old Belt Driven Well Pump

This is a project we done last year. I have uploaded the video now to show the working of an old pump. This was before it was stripped and rebuilt. There would have been a rod which would have been connected to a hand dug water well pump to pump water from the well. There Read More