PTO Irrigation Pumps And Elevation Changes

One of the hardest jobs is moving water around in hard to reach or distant areas. First off it is extremely heavy item to move over any distance at all. Getting a pto irrigation pump installed on your truck can make a huge difference on how quickly you can get to each point delivering water. Their are many types of pumps you can attach to your pto shaft. The difference between the two types of irrigation water pumps are; a centrifugal pump uses fan like blades or a screw to create high and low pressure areas to pull water in and push the water out.

Centrifugal pumps can use two wheel or multiple screws with meshing blades to add more flow but still suffer the same limitation on vertical height they can move water. Suction lifts use air pressure and vacuum negative pressure to pull or push water, and again they are limited on vertical height they can move water as well. Berkeley pumps have a great selection of pumps for most jobs you might need done.

Remember that water pumps are always limited by how far up they can push the water, around 25' up elevation at sea level, so if you need to move water higher then that you will need to stage several pumps to get it done. The reason for this in a brief summary is water molecules are sticky, and like to hold onto each other.

You can see this when you fill a glass full of water and the water can even be higher the the level of the glass and still not spill out because the molecules electrical charge is holding onto each other. So in effect when you try to pump water, the pump is in effect fighting this attraction and after 25' in height the change in air pressure in the elevation will stop further gains. That can get very expensive to buy multiple pumps. however with a pto pump powered by your truck you can move through each stage quickly if needed.

It is very useful for bringing water up out of a low ditch to fill a tank or trough, or removing water and pushing it up over a dike or levy from a seep or leak.