Bamboo well pump - GIF

**Altair** · Dec 29, 2020, 10:51 PM

Bamboo well pump.

Previously:

Camel-powered irrigation - GIF
Tractor-mounted irrigation pump - GIF
Shake-starting a siphon - GIF
Simple irrigation siphon - GIF
Unloading massive diesel water pump from plane - photo

**IntheGroove** · Dec 30, 2020, 06:58 PM

So what do you do for work? I'm a check valve...

**marksbug** · Dec 31, 2020, 10:23 AM

now it's time to build a windmill....

**jatt** · Dec 31, 2020, 05:53 PM

Can you order one of these on Ebay?!

Ok the kit comes with:
1 check valve
1 counterweight
1 drive mechanism
Some bamboo and poly pipe

Even has intuitive controls

**CharlesWaugh** · Jan 2, 2021, 11:39 PM

The 'Poverty Trap' is brutal.

They only have their own time to spend instead of money.

It takes three of them a half hour to pump the same amount of water any one of us could pump by flipping a switch for 30 seconds.
Their time is spent in very low-level tasks, which devours their time, which is the only true riches we have (as far as building civilization).

Sigh . . . it is truly a broken world.

**mklotz** · Jan 3, 2021, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by CharlesWaugh

The 'Poverty Trap' is brutal.

They only have their own time to spend instead of money.

It takes three of them a half hour to pump the same amount of water any one of us could pump by flipping a switch for 30 seconds.
Their time is spent in very low-level tasks, which devours their time, which is the only true riches we have (as far as building civilization).

Sigh . . . it is truly a broken world.

OTOH, hand some high school quarterback a piece of bamboo and task him to get water out of a hole. Hand these impoverished folks a piece of modern junk and I'll wager they can think of a dozen ways to repurpose it in the time it takes a quarterback to google its original use.