ID this type of farm BRIDGE, please - Page 3

 


I do but I'd love to see a cite that would prove me wrong.  I have a use for
such a beast.


A stream can certainly be used to do that with a hydraulic ram but the
stream must allow the water to drop into the ram not just flow past it
gently like the water does in a slow moving irrigation channel.

I'd certainly be very interested to see a pic of any hydraulic ram that
works as you say it will.  I can't see how  a slow moving stream can make
use of the water hammer effect that gives the 'ram' its name but I'd
certainly like to know more details.  Can you post a cite please.

 


The system I referred to sat right on the edge of the stream.  The
stream was a 'gentle one'.  The input pipe ran a distance up the
stream so I guess you could say 'dropping into the ram'.  Yes, there
has to be an elevation difference but there is no "dropping into the
ram' in any sense the normal person would use.

You could look it up on the 'net.

Harry K

 

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Sorry Harry K but I'm tagging onto a response from Billy.  (Thanks Billy for
responding as otherwise I wouldn't have seen this)  I have not ever seen any
post from you Harry on this subject but your comment suggests that you have
written something on this before.  I have seen no other post from you other
than this reply from Billy.

As I mentioned earlier, a stream can indeed be used to operate a ram.  And
indeed it can be used in just the way you describe.  But as I also wrote
there MUST be a drop.  That drop does not have to be like a mini waterfall
immediatley above the ram.  It can as you mention come from a considerable
distance upstream (usually by pipe) to allow for the drop into the ram.
Any 'normal person' with half a brain cell should be able to figure out that
water flowing to a ram downstream from an intake pipe forms a 'drop'.  And a
'drop' there must be (at least there must be a drop unless they have
inveneted something new that no longer operate using water hammer
principles)

 


Aha.  The post I was replying to read like you were saying there had
to be something like a mini  waterfall.

I dunno why you can't see my post.  Perhaps you have me kill filed?

Harry K