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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: dannyonthefarm on July 07, 2009, 11:51:45 pm
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Hi can any one help me with the title of a TV show?
It was about a couple or a family that moved from a town (London I think) to a smallholding in west Wales. It was on the lines of early river cottage with out the cooking.
The reason I want to know is there was an episode where they installed a pump on to a waster spring that worked off the flow of the water to pump the water if that makes sense. I am trying to find out what type of pump this is.
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i think i remember this; was the pump constructed from cane or wood? i think they also made their own fuel from waste chip oil recycled? or are we thinking of the same program?
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I have no idea what the tv program was , but the type of pump may have been a hydraulic ram pump !!!
http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/Equip/ram.htm
hope that helps a bit ...
cheers
Russ
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I think the pump was made of metal. Something you can go and buy. I don’t think it was hydraulic ram pump. It was connected to a natural spring that was on there land and it pumped waster up to some filters that they made; it was for there drinking water.
I am not sure about the chip oil it dose sound familiar but was that river cottage?
I can remember they built something for pulling tree stumps out of the ground.
And they built a wind turbine
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The Good Life maybe? lol
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hydraulic ram pumps are usually made of metal ...hydraulic in his sense is referring to water , not hydraulic oil type pumping . Hydraulic ram pumps just use the water power to pump water uphill ,or wherever you want it pumped !!. There are some you can see on youtube working. Many people make them at home , but I think you can buy ready made ones now days ? C.A.T. have one running into one of their ponds ( well they did last time I went there !!) .
http://www.cat.orgy.UK/index.Temple?refer=index&inti=1
It may be that what you saw was something different though , CAT , has lots of info on all sorts of alternative technology , hence the name ..... ;D
cheers
Russ
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was that the series with dick strawbridge in ? of scrapheap challenge fame
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try 'it's not easy being green' they moved fronm london to cornwall/devon
they used a system that the presure of the spring water created a presurise value that forced the water uphill to a storage tank.
It involved lots of blokes (young and old)with no tops on and lots of mucking around with water and blue pipes.
Check out the bbc Iplayer if you can old episodes are on their of it.
Linz
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it's not easy being green, they used the very type of pump you are talking about on that - i think it's still available on the BBC I Player - just checked - no it's not :-(
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I think rustyme is right it was a hydraulic ram pump they used, when I looked at the picture it looked nothing like the one in the program but now I have read up on them it sound exactly like the pump that was used in the TV show.
Thanks rustyme.
I would still like to no the name of the show if any one can remember it. I think it may have been on a Sky channel like UKTV living
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http://www.newhousefarm.tv/project=Water_and_Waste
that is the website for the Strawbridge family etc and the link goes direct to the section on the pump .....I didn't see the program so have no idea if this is the right website !! But it does talk about ram pumps . There are loads of youtube clips of ram pumps in different situations all over the world . I Have a book on making them , bought at the CAT
http://www2.cat.org.uk/shopping/product_info.php?products_id=365&osCsid=33
I am not sure if that is the same book I have , mine is hiding somewhere at the moment !! My situation doesn't require one really , and a wheel working a pump from the river, will work better than a ram , not enough fall/head for a ram on my land.
cheers
Russ
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try 'it's not easy being green' they moved fronm london to cornwall/devon
they used a system that the presure of the spring water created a presurise value that forced the water uphill to a storage tank.
It involved lots of blokes (young and old)with no tops on and lots of mucking around with water and blue pipes.
Check out the bbc Iplayer if you can old episodes are on their of it.
Linz
Ah Linz, you and me must've been watching for the same reason LOL! ;)
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Ah Linz, you and me must've been watching for the same reason LOL! ;)
haha
i think they put that in for the women audience lol.
Am currently watching day 2 of Torchwood (enougth said )!!!
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JB wouldn't do you much good Linz , he is gay and married to a bloke ......ha ha ha ::) ;D
cheers
Russ
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lol, not a fan of JB at all, sorry to brake your illusion. lol
He comes across as being up his own @rse no pun intended
Linz
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Isn't another option (or is it the same thing) called an artesian well?
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no illusions there Linz ...lol... I know what you mean about JB .. he is a bit tooooo much , full on .. look at me type...as for being up his own ....well .. he is up someones !!!!! :o :o
cheers
Russ
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I am not sure about the program that you are talking about but I am quiet sure that in the episode of It's not easy being green that they installed a solar powered pump to pump the water into the house.
They also have a web site about the series and the inevitable book.
kind regards
Joe
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It is not it’s not being easy being green that I am thinking of. This program was about a couple I think they may have had young children. I would say they were in there late thirties may be early forties. They moved from a town and I do remember there farm was in west Wales.
I think it stared just after river cottage and only ran for one or two series.
I think the programme was called the The Farm but when I look on the internet for it all I get is hits for the stupid channel five show The Farm the one with the B list celebs.
I can’t use a solar powered pump as the pump will need to lift a head of water over 20m
The pump is not that important as I am only play with the idea off taking water out off a stream that runs though my bottom field up to my stables and other field for drinking water for the animals and watering the garden. The important thing is the name of this show as its driving me mad trying to find out what it was called.
Cheers Danny
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Hi,
I remember the programme now you have gone into more detail.
It will also drive me mad now as I can't Bl**ding remember the name either.
But as soon as I do I will come straight back to you.
Kind regards
Joe
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Down at the farm?.
I seem to remember they had 1 child and had a baby a few weeks after moving in.
She was always carrying the baby on the front of her even when she was making jams etc.
Am I on the right lines?.
Kind regards
Joe
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Hi,
I think we might of found it!!!.
Try going to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3194688.stm
And you can also serch
Downshifting - one man's tale
PLEASE let me know if this is it as I would like to stop searching and go to bed as it is now 2.01am only joking I am only happy to help.
Kindest regards
Joe :) :) :)
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I think we are thinking of the same programme Joe but I am no sure about the article you found I don’t think it’s the same people from the TV show but Thanks for trying.
Danny
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Hi Danny,
I am still looking but so far this is all we have come up with!.
I as you am not convinced this is the same either.
Kind regards
Joe :)