Blake's Hydram

[Welsh_red 4,305]

Place I've started trapping squirells has one in the woods with a man made small waterfall by it . The farmer lady reckons during the war the army put them there so they could use them . The woods are near the Brecon beacons . She didnt live on the farm during the war so I think she's just assuming .

 

Anybody know anything about them or their uses . I looked online but most of the stuff is about the modern day hydram

 

[Wildling 520]

Used for moving water for irrigation purposes from what I've read. There's some good YouTube videos showing them working.

[Tiercel 6,986]

A clever man was John Blake, I had never heard of the pump before so just read up about it.

 

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Blake_Hydram

 

From what I have read that pump could still work. This is how they work, interesting stuff.

 

 

 

TC

[foxdropper 17,092]

That's some serious sand bagging in that dam ,fall structure .

[socks 32,253]

That's some serious sand bagging in that dam ,fall structure .

Are they sandbags ??? I know that hessian sand bags degrade when wet after about a year .......

[gnasher16 29,624]

Fascinating seeing how folks minds were working way back before technology took over......clever people.

[greg64 2,562]

there is the remnants of one just below my house , I knew it was a pump of some sort and I always wondered how it worked very interesting

[gnasher16 29,624]

there is the remnants of one just below my house , I knew it was a pump of some sort and I always wondered how it worked very interesting

If that was me id be tempted to try and get it going Greg surely the only moving parts are the 1 way valves so if they could be replaced should it not just work ?

 

Be a good little personal achievement to say you got it working again.

[greg64 2,562]

 

there is the remnants of one just below my house , I knew it was a pump of some sort and I always wondered how it worked very interesting

If that was me id be tempted to try and get it going Greg surely the only moving parts are the 1 way valves so if they could be replaced should it not just work ?

 

Be a good little personal achievement to say you got it working again.

 

I just looked them up on you tube and they are an amazing bit of engineering and only two moving parts .you can even make them out of plastic pipe for very little money , the one below my house is not on my land anymore as the land was split up when the house came up for auction it looks the same as above picture maybe a bit smaller and its called the Vulcan ram and its made in winchester

Edited May 17, 2017 by greg64

[Welsh_red 4,305]

That's some serious sand bagging in that dam ,fall structure .

I did have a quick look and I think they were stones used . I didn't pull back the moss to see properly

[Welsh_red 4,305]

 

 

there is the remnants of one just below my house , I knew it was a pump of some sort and I always wondered how it worked very interesting

If that was me id be tempted to try and get it going Greg surely the only moving parts are the 1 way valves so if they could be replaced should it not just work ?

 

Be a good little personal achievement to say you got it working again.

I'm tempted to have a fiddle with it .

 

Any idea where the water would be pumped to ? The farm itself or to the field for animal water and such

[king 11,664]

I really like the name plate on it.

Maybe it's brass.it would Polish up lovely.

I've never heard of 1 of them before.

[greg64 2,562]

 

 

there is the remnants of one just below my house , I knew it was a pump of some sort and I always wondered how it worked very interesting

If that was me id be tempted to try and get it going Greg surely the only moving parts are the 1 way valves so if they could be replaced should it not just work ?

 

Be a good little personal achievement to say you got it working again.

I'm tempted to have a fiddle with it .

 

Any idea where the water would be pumped to ? The farm itself or to the field for animal water and such

 

i would have thought it was pumped in to a holding tank on the farm

[stealthy1 3,964]

We used to use sand and cement to fill hessian sacks to make bridges over dykes and ditches, in days gone by, built them over large concrete pipes to let the water pass under the bridge, the hessian rots and leaves the imprint of the sack.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Exactly mate, ran out of likes