I’m looking for recommendations on how to properly route water UP a mountain from a water source below. I’m sure I will need to use a water pump of some kind but without electricity, I’m unaware how I’ll accomplish this. Wondering if anyone has experience doing this and if they could recommend a pump, a way to power it, tubing/piping involved and other things that would be used like timers or drip fittings. Thanks!
Sounds like application for island electricity system. Do you plan to use batteries, solar panel or wind turbine?
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There is one kind of a water pump (old) that sends water up a hill and you run it like you want it, the system is a valve that takes water in free fall (like a cascade of some sort) and the pressure sends it up… But it uses no electricity.
I saw a documentary on Netflix about hillbillies from the appalachians and they used one there, it was about two guys heading out to the mountains and getting lost in order to survive, and making knifes and making oil from animals and such… Good documentary but, i saw a water pump there that needs no electricity!
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woah what doc. is that?? i must watch it!
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They show it here in one of the episodes, yeah…
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I don’t think this is the idea your looking for but here you go. If you can get two or three 55 gallon water barrels uphill you can stair step them into each other which would get you 110 to 165 gallons of water. If you run irrigation line from the lowest barrel to the garden, then you can run drip lines off these to the plants. The soil where the plants are has to have lots of airation to keep root rot away. This can be upgraded with battery operated controllers such as Rainbird. They are sold at Orchard or Homedepot. This might give you ideas any way.
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solid idea for hooking up some tropf blumats for long time use!!
https://blumatsystems.com/
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I forgot to mention the filling part. 
This is the part that isn’t good. Without a truck your packing water on your back or in buckets.
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Rent a gas powered water pump, a 2 inch hose will move a few thousand gallons a day. store the water in bladders or in drums. If you need alot of water to store, dig a hole and line it with plastic,
Depending on access, you can just call a water truck to bring you water. When I was living in a remote location, I had a 1000 gallon tank for water. It didnt cost much but access was relatively easy and there’s lots of potable water. Mebby you could get non potable water if its just for irrigation.
But irrigating with your stored water… not sure how you want to do that. Growers choice… all depends on your budget.
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Wheel pump, with a check valve is formable in lift often used where ram pumps can’t reach. Require much more volume but less flow then a ram. Wheel height and and pipe diameter determine lift and output. It really depends on the stream capabilities versus desired lift.https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FmN9iLNHGOYI%2Fmqdefault.jpg&f=1
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solar panels would be my solution … how did you end up solving your problem ?