Hand-powered Old Water Pumps
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The pumping station Zeldert is a former steam pumping station in the Eem Valley. The pumping station is located on the municipal border of Baarn with Amersfoort. It was built as a steam pumping station in 1896, after it was washed away at a dyke breach. In 1926 the steam pumping station was replaced by an electric pumping station.
There are 4 old pumps in Woodford, two of which are in Chigwell Road some distance apart and this is the larger of the two there. It's a very busy road but for photographic art (!), I've shown it this way.
I understand there is a local group who look after them and re-paint them annually.
Not been feeling it of late. Our pumpkin is coming on anyway.
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I couldn't find much information about this online, but it appears this facility used to be part of the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant. The IAAP closed down in the early 1990s and most of the property has since been torn down. Part of the property would later become the Charlestown State Park in 1996. This building is one of the remnants that can be viewed from inside the park.
Charlestown State Park
Charlestown, Indiana
Today I went out for a rural sunset, after a bit a light unfortunately a large layer of clouds blocked the real colors. However, this shot was on the way. I couple of weeks agoI racebiked past this pumping station (gemaal) and like the setting a lot.
Hope you have a great weekend and many thanks for your favs, comments and views :-)
Along Highway 33 near McKittrick, California. Huge oilfield.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKittrick%2C_California
How did I miss this?
This is the Flathead River and the Pump House that is part of the Flathead Irrigation Project. The pump house was built around 1940. It intakes water from the river....shoots it up the steep bank and deposits it into the Pablo Reservoir to irrigate hundreds of acres in the Flathead Vally. The Flathead Valley produces potatoes and wheat mostly, with corn and Canola as rotator crops. Along that pipe there are stairs so crews can get up and down the hill for maintenance.....355 stairs to be exact! It's also quite a workout if one wishes to do some stair stepping! :-)
Stay warm all!
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It is that time of year where things might go bump in the night, the chill starts to set in, and the Pump-King awakens. Imagination and senses go wyld. He is coming for you Barbra.
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This is not some hollowed out replica I tried to see if I could move it and it must have weighed hundreds of pounds. Restored to mint conditioned genuine vintage gas pump, Only $4800!
Swanbourne Pump House, Arundel, West Sussex.
The 1846 Pump House was restored through joint efforts by Arundel Castle Estates and the Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society. Official opening - 21st June 2001.
A rusted water pump without a handle greets occasional visitors to this multi-faceted barn that has several additions to the original structure. Few youngsters today can identify with pumps like this and an older adult has to explain to them what purpose they served years ago.
Before we got electricity on our farm in 1949, our farm place had a couple of these and one of them was a shorter version standing on the edge of a white tin sink in our kitchen and was the source for water in our home. There was no switch on our kitchen pump and if you wanted a cool drink on a hot summer day you had to grab the handle and pump up and down until the pump “caught” and started to bring up water.
I was too young at the time to understand the physics behind how a pump could bring up water by simply pumping the handle but I learned not to feel badly about my ignorance as I realized my mother who was 38 at the time didn’t understand it either. She would often have to go outside and yell for my dad to come in and she would advise him the pump was dry probably needed new rings as it would not work anymore.
Dad would snort and find some water to pour down the pump shaft and then give the handle some strong action and it wasn’t long before water would once again gush out.
Our outside pump near the hog shed was another matter. Sometime my dad would have to start a small fire in the winter time to thaw it out before it would work. My older brothers who fancied themselves aspiring Red Skeleton comedians would encourage me to lick the pump handle, telling me the sub-zero winter temperatures made it taste sweet.
(Photographed near Stark, MN)
One of the few remaining water pumps that were dotted around London in the 19th Century.
Seen whilst in a rush to get somewhere else, I took a short-cut and there it was!
The Leawood Pump House was built near Cromford, Derbyshire, England in 1849 to supply water to the Cromford Canal, built some 50 years previously. It is a Grade II* listed building
First, in line, William Laughlin built a three-story log gristmill on the Cumberland County frontier. In order to generate power to turn the grindstone, he built a dam that provided water power equal to that of fifteen horses to turn the waterwheel. Laughlin's was the first mill on Big Spring and it ground wheat and other grain for the people in the surrounding countryside. Laughlin's mill continued to produce whole wheat flour until 1896 when the Laughlin family sold it to the Newville Water Company, which removed the milling equipment and installed a turbine to drive hydraulic pumps that supplied the town's municipal water mains.