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Remember you can use a shopvac to start the siphon. It will pull the water very quickly over 7' of lift.

You might want to consider installing an intake basket to keep debris out of the pipe.

this whole project is really cool. I like the fact that you tried a ram pump. I don't know if that could help you with your drought, but I suggest you to plant trees on the south side of your pond. Trees will shade your pond and that can really really help with evaporation. My parents had a palm tree close to our pool, and when the tree was removed, the pool went up 3°C consistently. If you manage to select the trees properly according to your location, and the conditions (humidity because close of pond), I think you could even get some fruits, or things like that. And reduce evaporation, as a win-win.

These ram pump / siphon videos are awesome! It reminds me when I worked at a water utility in Florida years ago, we were tasked to pump water from a large canal to a drier canal system at a lower elevation (and over a berm). There was no power nearby, so the options were expensive diesel-powered pumps or a siphon. We went with a siphon made out of 12" pipe and were able to get the desired 500 gallons per minute, at a greatly reduced cost.

2,563,200 gallons per year at 12 seconds per gallon.

Keep us posted. With fall rains that pond should fill! The hockey rink is gonna be a bit bigger this winter…

I have worked with that type of piping before. If you use a small propane torch to heat the end of the tubing just slightly, the fittings will go in much easier, but the most important part is that the hose clamps will make the tubing conform to the fitting much more tightly. Just a little heat goes a long way.

Great work Adam. Great help filming Doug. Another great video. Hopefully this will bulk up the pond.

That’s just awesome! Four gallons a minute isn’t nothing to sneeze at…for free! I watch that kid in NC that digs those mud holes everywhere ( he does a great job), but you have a beautiful spring and creek feed pond which has clean water that you can see, your pond looks sweet, hopefully you can keep the siphon clear and flowing and you should have a big ice rink this winter…so you can work on your slap shot!

Loved this video Adam. The ram pump was really cool and has its place but the siphon really seems to be the solution you needed. I hope you keep us updated on the progress. -Darrin

You could use a hybrid of the two pumps. You would just need to put a couple of isolations in the hydraulic pump, so that once the discharge pipe is full you isolate the pump. The swing-check valve would prevent backflow down the hill. Once the mass of water is flowing downhill to the pond there will be a suction generated in the stream. You may need to build a larger pool to place the suction hose/foot valve.

Great video. Awesome land .All good things to you and yours!

Really good news, hopefully it works out for you long term. Maybe a screen filter box on the pickup and a ball valve on the top to winterize the pipes.. Glad you tried it out and it works.

I really enjoyed the ingenuity and willingness to try out different methods as you found out about them and testing to get the optimal solution. It may not have all the "fancy" aspects of figuring out the details beforehand, but this is solid engineering and going through the iterations to make the best design for the circumstances. I will also recommend finding out about the "water rights" issue as you don't want that BS to bite you in the butt. Great video and I like the "down home" quality of the projects and execution!

That’s a huge improvement, Adam! It should get your pond level back to normal before long. As another viewer suggested, a filter basket at the end take will keep debris from plugging up the plumbing. Thanks for sharing!

You should consider a rough stone dam of a couple of feet and a weir on the intake end. It will buffer against fluctuations in the stream flow and possibly breaking the siphon.

Awesome! cant wait to see how it works out over the weeks.

Very cool brother. I love the simplicity of the siphon. It’s amazing to see you employed over such a long distance

Dude you gotta do a week from now update! See how much more full the pond is! That’s insane flow!

Good job Adam. Hopefully between the siphon, fall rain and less evaporation it will be full for ice skating this winter.

About filling up the pipe. Prepare a bucket with a pipe and valve at the bottom. Hang up the bucket and connect it to the T. Fill the bucket and open the valve. This gives the air a place to escape and you can add water easily. There is a story an Italian friend told me. People where very proud to have a natural spring in the middle of his hometown. But one day, without any indication why, the water stopped. They started to investigate the problem and it turned out the "spring" was a siphon build over a near by pass to a lake on the other side of the mountain range. The ceramic pipe was destroyed after the road over the pass was rebuild. The hole system ran for over 300 years with so little overview that it was forgotten. 🙂

Good vid love the pond updates.... be good to see the creak inlet noe the pipe is running of that pool it's in keeps up with the siphon.

Great work! Very satisfying! I hope that little stream will give you enough water so that the siphon never stops! If you ever find it pulling more than it can supply, you can always close off the ball valve some. Hopefully that won't be needed. 👍

If you have a mobile pump why not just do a straight pipe from creek to pond and start the siphon by pumping from the pond into the creek and then turning off the pump and letting it flow in reverse? Seems simpler and all your steps to start it are in the same place. You don't even need a valve on the creek side, just a filter.

I am so glad that you tried the siphon. I mentioned in another previous video that you might be able to siphon, and then I caught this video which was actually made before I made that comment. So, I wasn’t trying to be a “DA” in the previous comment. I am glad that you can get water to your pond. Good job and congratulations. 👍💯👏👏👏

Very cool systems Adam, both the Ram pump and the siphon. Never heard of a ram pump before. Hopefully that siphon will have the pond back to where it was or even more by winter for your ice activities!

You might need to excavate out a small reservoir area in the creek and filter the inlet. Hats off to you and whoever suggested this idea! Should help tremendously

I *KNEW* I would see Doug in there, and there he was... !!! ha ha THANKS, good work, Jim in Jax, FL

I reccomend that you replace the Cap with an Additional Ball Valve so when the temperature drops, you can drain the Siphon Open the "top of the hill Valve" to stop the siphoning action to drain the water, that would keep the FREEZE from damaging the Pipes and Valves! To help the "Feed End" filter it with a $0.99 Nylon Stocking to keep the smaller debris out. Unless filtering is not "warrented" on this project...

I never knew I could be so interested in a pond. LOL The pond episodes have been great, highly enjoyable.

Great job! Love your detailed vids with clear explanations. Good luck.

Adam, I am really happy for you right now! I keep watching my pond drop without an option until the weather changes. Nice upgrade

That’s great & should help solve your pond issues! 🤞👍

Every state is different, but siphoning water from a stream could cause you legal headaches. My grandfather used to irrigate a few acres on our land by pumping out of a stream that flowed across our property, but our riparian water rights were seized by the state in the early 2000s. Now they'd fine or imprison us for doing such a thing. Hopefully you don't have that problem in your state.

That's great Adam! We don't have a spring to siphon from but in a short rain burst yesterday, we captured enough run off water with our gutter system and other capture methods to raise our 1/3 acre pond 2". The things we do for our ponds!

I have seen people use a shop vac to start a flow, no need to fill the pipe just a valve at the point where the elevation is lower than the source where the vac can be connected.

🥰 SO glad the siphon worked GREAT for you! But don't you have another buried line to the pond. Even if it's smaller, you could tie them in parallel for more Pull-Power thus more total flow 👍😎

This is really fantastic videography! Been there, done that! But you have all the tools with you and left out the 20 trips back to the barn/house and truck rolls to the hardware store. :)

Adam, I'm glad to hear Doug in the background, as you couldn't won't a better assistant. All the best in your endeavors.

Good luck. Hopefully some good fall rains will get that thing filled back up for you.

Hello from Chicago! Hope you give us quick updates every video, just to tell us how it's doing and maybe a progression of pics of the pond to see how it's filling up.

Man, that siphon really sucks! 😜

Wow awesome video. Thanks for the education. Lots of hard work are finally paying off for you

You need to give us a look at that sweet bridge across the creek! Congrats on 100K subs!

Always enjoy seeing an accountant in gum boots ... all the best from Arkansas!

Use a little heat on that hose when connecting to barbed fittings, plus the hose is softer when you tighten the clamps and makes for a better seal.

no need a second hose, use the in the inground hose and maybe use fittings if want to have dual function. As I said in your pump video you should build a small dam ( 1or 2 feet of water) at the source and a flow control at the pond to prevent sucking to much water and draining the source to fast. Basically, DO NOT forget how many gallons the source will give. i noticed that you are testing quite a distance above the pond, so if you test at the discharge point at the pond you will find a faster rate due to the increased drop in elevation. Also, Remember moving water freezes at lower temps. NICE VIDEO.

If you end up having to charge (prime) the siphon often you should look into a venturi charger. I imagine you could power the pump with a small 6 or 12 volt battery. Basically you shoot water into the pond feed and it pulls a vacuum on the stream feed and pulls the water up.

Love it! Well done.

Ingenuity works every time, good job Adam.

You can take the spring out if the Foote valve and put it back on to prevent debris from getting into the line. Getting something caught in the line would really stink.

We have a gas powered 2 stroke water pump that looks like a mini generator, with standard garden hose fittings. We always did this method when filling our pond from the lake. Turn it on full blast, let the air purge, then quickly unscrew the intake and throw it in the water with a bolt around the end as a weight. we then would take the metal filter thing it comes with and put it on underwater fast

Hasn’t that turned out to be a pleasant surprise!

If you have an oil suction pump for removing oil from an engine or differentials or similar thing like that. I have a chamber one that I used to suck the air out of my pump for the lake and it works amazing and I believe it would also work well to start your siphon at the top by closing the ball valve at the bottom and sucking all the air out of the creek section

Nice work Doug!

If your source is higher than your outflow you don't need a siphon action at all.Just stick your pipe under the water and it will gravity feed. There are miles of pipe strung out through out the mountains here. If you want more head pressure use rocks to back up your water source just a small bit and place your pipe as close to the bottom without clogging it and the additional water pressure from the more volume will increase your flow.

I would say that it might be a good idea to dam up the creek so you will have enough depth of water to siphon from. Just a thought.

Here's a crazy idea don't mess with pipes freezing all the struggle and headache make you a drainage ditch from that Palm from your creek to the pond with that ripper on that tractor.

Great pick up Adam. Some rain with that hope you get to see the over flow work

Great work and great videos!

As a suggestion. Get a propane torch. Blow the heat inside the poly pipe just to soften it. Then, insert your fittings and hold steady for a minute. That let's the barbs seat into the soft poly for a positive seal. The double clamp it. Clamps should be opposite or opposing.

From Aussie: You mentioned that you lost most water to evaporation. There are now some excellent evaporation reduction systems available. They are used in different locations here in Aussie. Unfortunately they are not cheap but are very effective. Cost averaging the investment over 5-10 years versus the water loss, it might make you think about the investment is worth it, especially as all the climate change ppl keep saying we will have warmer weather patterns. Just food for thought, for long term viability of the property.

That’s great can’t wait to see the pond full! From ohio

That's a lot of water from a siphon. Awesome 👍

The big question is: will the creek support that much of a drain or will it dry up?

plant a stick at the water edge to check progress I guess, looking good!

I would use a closed tank of some type instead of the IBC container. Then once it is full and the supply line is full you would not need to fill the line going to the pond. It would make working on the system easier.

Could you put a Y fitting and run two lines from the top of the ridge down to the pond and achieve twice the flow? The weight of that water running down to the pond determines the flow rate, but one intake can handle 10x the current volume. Seems like it would work to fill the pond more quickly without running two lines the entire way. At least to get the pond filled a bit quicker leading into winter.

😳🤯 Great video, but my brain just blew up!! 😅😅

Let's see that's 12sec. to fill 1gal. of water. Hmm !! 60min. ÷ 12 = 5 or 5gal. per min., or 300gal. per hour, or 7200gal. per day, or 50400gal. per week, or 2620800gal. per year. GREAT JOB TEAM !! 🐾 Montréal 🇨🇦

Ram pump to the tote as a standalone, , use previously buried line o to the tote with a ball valve, tee in the creek side, when you need to start the syphon, open the ball valve to the tote, once pipes are full, close tote ball valve and no need for pump...

you should submerge your discharge. Submerging it will prevent air getting back into the pipe (thus breaking the vacuum), creating an airlock condition.

Hi Gary here I think if you create a dam in the spring, this will create a bigger head of water that = more head = more pressure if you put the outlet at the bottom of the dam

That’s the ticket Adam! Good job!

Loving these QUICK updates.. Rather than like 1 video every 3 weeks

Woo hoo puts a siphon on you tube amazing!

That’ll help for sure!

When you stop the siphon, don’t break vacuum, just close the discharge valve so you don’t need to prime it every time.

You may also find it useful to have a bucket the outflow fills into at least until the pond is more full just to prevent air from reentering the system.

Nice work and awesome!

Hi Adam, I always used a short riser (4 inches?) at the discharge end of a siphon to ensure no air was able to enter the line.. sort of like an 's bend' in your loo..

Excellent improvement, Adam. Two questions: 1. How did you determine how to size your siphon system? Especially diameters of fittings and hose. 2. Is your creek a reliable source of water throughout the year? Given you've been dry and are siphoning 5 gals per minute I would say yes but this is only one snapshot in time.

Had a thought. If you were to add a tee upstream and downstream of your ram pump and tie those together with a ball valve, could you use the ram pump to start and then switch over when flow gets going?

Still got questions about water rights. Especially since you’ve increased your draw. Just stuff you double check before the authority having jurisdiction gets involved or any land owners downstream get their lawyers involved. Hope it works out

I would add that there is two things I would do if it were me. 1. add a weir to the stream bed to create a deeper pool to draw from and reduce the possibility of sucking air which could reduce or eliminate your flow 2. There is no reason you can’t run both the siphon and pump for a time to get the pond depth up to what you want. Adding the three water sources together gives you almost 8 gph. That’s about 4 million gallons a year.

Maybe install a water level gage in your pond with fine increments and measure levels daily to monitor accumulation, leaks and evaporation?

In response to people saying you could put a valve instead of a cap on the re-charge tube. I was thinking the same.. So the solution to that would be from the T junction, pointing upwards, replace the cap with a valve, as others have said, but if you keep going, on top of that value you have a container with more water in. (Small one will do, like a beer pitcher size). I'l just referring to this as 'the jug'. This would: A) allow filling up the pipe for re-charging since now you are filling into a MUCH bigger receptacles, B) if the value DOES start to fail slowly over time, it would just be sucking in MORE water, not air from the jug.. (until the water in the jug runs out) C) rain water would/could refill the jug. You could even use the ram pump for filling this up, giving you a purpose of this ram pump.

In this you can indeed just use gravity. Otherwise one can scale up your ramppump. I saw examples of this. Just scale up to industrial size. Not an one inch pipe but 10, 15 inch.

Well done, gents!

Adam, could you please let Doug know that my neighbors house is for sale here in Silver Springs, Florida 😊. Not too far from Daytona Beach an excellent snow bird option. You guys are great

I have made several. The ez way is to put a pitch pump on the down hill side 1-2 ft of drop

I find it so funny you used an electric pump to prime the pipes my friend you have a ram pump right there

Now you have all the air out of the system I'd be putting the strainer/one way valve back on.

All you had to do was pump pond water back down to the creek with the suction end submerged and then once the line is full shut off the pump and the flow will reverse.

Thank you .

Well if it ran that long then the creek has more than enough water flow. Wonder if it’s got enough for a larger line or maybe run a 2-3” siphon line to run when needed. Could just use it to get the pond full quicker then take it apart afterwards and leave the 1” line.

0:10 why not one of these? 1) floating solar panels 2)' shade balls' like LA did on their reservoir

If you can do it, do it to it... It works better as a siphon... Good job... run both the pump and the siphon...

A very interseting set of videos. Perhaps you could set up the ram pump to start the syphon process. Well done.