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Old 04-27-2008, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by kevadair View Post
Thanks, Georgios. I am interested in electrical pumps for various uses including water pumping, but one of our wells has a high sediment content that burns out any electrical pump we hook up to it. The water is great for our mineral bath/soak, so we would love to have access to it, but the pump to get it out would need to be either hand powered or a mechanical wind pump.

Anyone have any contacts?
There are plenty of companies in West Texas that still sell Wind driven pumps. This area ismainly Cattle country and theranchers use these wind driven pumps to fill the many water tanks that prolifrate the landscape.
Try Googling hardware stores around and about Midland, Marfa, San Angelo, Kerrville, San Marcos, Pecos, etc. Almost any of these mentioned should have both the towers, the fan array and the pumps. They might even have the plans for the installation.
Just as a matter of description, West Texas is know as "Where the cows cut the wood and the wind draws the water".

Good luck!!

Texas Bill
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