How to pump water between 2 tanks, type of pump and size

[Specialized29er]

Hi Folks, I need to transfer rain water between 4 tanks and am wondering what would be a suitable pump and the size to go about this.

The tanks that has the water in them are old well rusted corrugated tanks with an inch outlet at the bottom and the new tanks are 3,000L poly type with a 3 1/2 inlet right at the top that I can poke the 3/4 hose through.

When I'm done transferring the water, latter I'd like to use the pump to pump water from the new tanks to a small claim miners hut and to a wash processing plant.

The pump will need to be electric and best would be one with a 10amp plug.

I know nothing about pumps and would like to have some knowledge for when going to purchase the pump.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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[Beardy]

Pretty much any pump will do the job to transfer the water from tank to tank. The question is how much water flow and head you need for your miners hut later.
If you want cheap and cheerful the Bunnings Ozito work fine and I have a EBay special in my shed that works a treat too but have fitted a multi stage Davey pump to run my house as it varies the flow rate to accommodate a number of taps being used at the same time.

[Chesand]

I have an Ozito pump on my tanks in the yard. I have had it about 2 years now with no problem. I use it only for watering the garden and washing the cars so may not be suitable for your long term use.

[Wrongwayfirst]

Any pump will shift the water between the tanks. So the information you will need is distance from water source to hut, height difference from water to hut and location of power.
types of pumps. Basics
submersible - goes directly into the water and pumps low volume not very far. Flow rates start about 50 litres a minute Manually switch on at power point but can have a float attachment which turns them off when low water/no water.
centrifugal - will lift (suck) and will have a higher volume and slightly greater pressure. flow rates start about 100 litres a minute manually switch on/off at power point
automatic - pressure pump Will pump water further and higher but lower flow, flow start about 20 litres a minute. Auto operation tap turns pump on and off.
spend could be $100-200 for a submersible $300 for centrifugal $400 for pressure pump. The more water the more spend.
generally the hut will need low flow shower/toilet/sink all need about 20 litres per minute (each) so if you need to run 3 taps at once you spend more on a pressure pump approx $500-600

the more info you take with you the better, work out what your minimum water usage and potential maximums
cheers

[Specialized29er]

Thanks for the information guys, much appreciated, I'm going to go with a decent no problems Davey pump and the 2 x 3,000L tank outlets will be at the same height as the taps in the hut.
I'll have a tap at the kitchen sink, 2 in the shower, one at the workshop/shed and one at the processing plant.

Today after getting back from the claim, we have to go out and erect new datum corner posts and take photo's for the Mines Department to finish off all the new ownership paperwork we'll stop off at the best of our pump businesses and see about the Davey pump and fittings and within the next week ( luckily we have the 500 klm Outback Queensland round trip rule ) we'll head on out and transfer the water, connect up the tanks and run the poly pipe to a temporary shower with water fed from a pod tank and wood stove heated water and to an old 1960's Main Roads caravan with a single tape and a line to the start of the shed build and these will do while were in the process of building the 10 x 5 hut.

We have got to get busy with the building of the hut because we really only have 6 beautiful cool weather months out this way to build anything but being a mine claim theirs no noise restrictions so during the 6 hot months the building and underground mining can be done of a night.

There is no town water at the claim so we'll have a gutter on every roof to capture water but should the water supply run low we only need to travel 10 ks and tank in 1000 lts of water at a time.

We both being 60 and both being made redundant from working with the Qld Government for 30 years this is our early retirement lives for about 5 years and then we'll head to the coast to see out the remainder of our days.

A couple of pics, one of the tunnel were digging and a blue star sapphire we had polished.

https://i.postimg.cc/xj5hZ2ry/MC-4089-Shaft-Tunnels-1.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/kMKm4Ztk/1-Recent-Rubyvale-Star-Sapphire.jpg

[russ57]

Sounds like a great adventure :yippee:
Hope it works out really well for you both. Have fun...