[AT] Off Topic Goulds piston pump

[Larry Goss]

Lots of wells work that way,including most oil wells where the oil level is a couple miles under ground level.  That makes for a loooooong sucker rod.

Larry

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From: "Jason" <dejoodster at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:07:03 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic Goulds piston pump

It could be like how windmills work where the pump head is at the bottom of 
the well and connected by a rod, but the pump machinery is at ground level, 
or in the case of a windmill, above.

Jason DeJoode
Eagan, MN



> All I'm saying is my parent's well is about 250' and the original pump
> was not submerged.
>
> David
> NW NC
>
> On 6/6/2012 2:26 PM, Larry Goss wrote:
>> It is a physical impossibility to LIFT water over one atmosphere of 
>> pressure (around 28 feet).  You can push it with a submerged or jet pump, 
>> but you have to have the actual pumping action (jet, turbine, cylinder, 
>> etc, within 28 vertical feet of the top of the water for it to do 
>> anything.
>>
>> Larry
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