You guys ever seen pumps like these? We are working near Corcoran Calif. and these are everywhere. Used to lift canal water to irrigate they only lift the water about 4-6 ft. The one mounted on the Cat is a D7. Wonder how many GPM? The tubing is about 36".
I've seen 14" and 16" p.t.o. pumps on Ag tractors for pumping flood water, pretty neat to see it going.
Very interesting looking units. Don't have nothing like that in my area.
Archimedes Screw I'm guessing it has something like an auger in the pipe that goes in the water. Based on a Archimedes Screw. We got something like that here called a Water Hog here but they are not movable. These things will move an insane amount of water. You can kayak out of the discharge. Mounting one on a driveable undercarriage is a great idea. Thanks for sharing.
For the Deere fans, also the hyd. drive, looks just like the piston motor for the elevator on our 623's
Are those auger pumps? They use a lot of auger pumps here, though they are not portable.
These pumps are on the 120,000 continuous acre Boswell Ranch on the Tulare Lake Bottom. The larger pumps are rated at 24000 GPM @ 12' requiring 100 -120 HP The smaller PTO type pumps are rated for 12000 GPM @ 12' requiring 70 -80 HP The pumps are an AXIAL Flow design. The Trailer pump with its own engine is called a MOON Buggy, it is self propelled to move it from check to check. The engine and pump assembly are mounted on a turntable to rotate the pump and diffuser plate 90 degrees to either side of the trailer. Each check is 380' wide and 1 mile long this is used to irrigate corn, alfalfa, wheat, safflower and cotton.
Correction the 30" 24000 GPM pump requires 160 -180 hp
Thanks for the info norcal, you muat have some experience in the area.
My Father-in-Law has a 16" pump we put on a John Deere 60 and it takes all that 60 has to run it. I couldn't imagine a 36", that would move some serious water. I will get some pics of it when I remember.
The self propelled ones are a MARVEL to watch. They actually move down the irrigation ditch and field un attended and flood the whole field. Pretty sweet.
D Pete, yes the family has some interest in the area. Dullie that sounds like a Valley center pivot system. The pumps that D Pete posted sit in one spot some times for days flooding a 380' wide, mile long check. If the system moved as it was pumping it would wash out the borders as it crossed them and the system is not capable of supporting the 30" discharge pipe full of water. The moon buggies do have a self propelled feature, but are only used for jocking the pump around and moving it from check to check. This is the shop that builds them http://www.sawtellerosprim.com/homelarge.htm
What kind of wind do you have out there? Around here the wind is bad about stacking water on one end of bigger checks when the rice is small.
No they weren't zimatic or center pivot. They were like the above, had a plate on the discharge to keep from blowing the windrows apart. traveled down the canal that was dug perpendicular to the windrows. seen it outside of Bakersfield
Roddyo the water doesn't get deep enough as it is moving through the field for the wind to push it around, except for the head of the field the water is only about the depth of the tops of the stubble of fresh cut alfalfa. Dullie not sure what you saw, but knowing the pumps that were posted above and the application they are used in. With the pumps being self propelled operating at a 24 hour set change the pumps would be sitting on top of the borders for 42 minutes, this would for sure wash out the borders in between checks causing all the water to end up in one corner of the field.