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Sure, just remember the nearest regional airport is 75 miles away, and the nearest major airport is in Houston 160 miles away

It does make things nice, at least most of the time, we have a lot of pine trees here, the pool is about 35 years old, just had to replace the roof over it for the first time last year (well it really should have been replaced 3 or 4 years ago), the long term economics of it really are not that...

Well I found a new use for mine, the controller for the swimming pool pump got zapped by a power surge over the weekend so until the replacement arrives in a couple of days I am using the pump to keep the water circulated in the pool.

The best source I have found for fire hoses (if you don't have a brother in law that is a fire fighter, etc.) is ebay, I bought the 75 Ft 1.5 inch hose seen above for around $50, it is 20 years old, but appears to have spent its whole life in a fire cabinet somewhere and looks like new, but was...

Well here are the long awaited pictures of the pump connect to a fire hose I took these this afternoon with the help of my son who is holding the hose. For scale the fire hose is 75 feet long and suction hose is 25 ft, and pump is operating about 8-10 feet above the water level in the pond...

The twist type plastic nozzle I bought to try this out is rated at 36-39 GPM (straight stream vs 45-90 degree) at 25 psi, 50 GPM at 50 psi, and 66 GPM at 75 psi. It has a straight stream range of 36 ft at 25 psi, and 50 ft at 75 psi, which to me sounds like enough stand off range for any likely...

Ok for those of you that may buy one of these pumps in the future, I tried mine out today, filled it with fuel and oil, and put about a gallon of water down the outlet fitting to do the initial prime per the TM. I then connected a 25 ft suction hose with a strainer on the end and tossed it into...

I will let you know next weekend, have the nozzle, but the hose I ordered did not make it here in time for this weekend. Ike

I bought a 25 foot suction hose and inlet strainer for it at Tractor Supply on the way home tonight, cost about $40 for both and the hose is even green, it was marked as 1 1/2 NPT and seems to screw onto the inlet port fine. For the outlet I am getting a used 1.5 inch NST firehose with nozzle...

There are more listed around here going off next month, not sure about freight to you though. Ike

here is a photo

Well I bought a new toy from GL in the auctions that closed Tuesday, it is a 65 GPM fresh water pump in an ASK housing (measures about 2x2x3, so about the size of a MEP-701a, maybe a little smaller) powered by a 4HP Yanmar L40 diesel engine (NSN 4320-01-338-8010 built by Schleyer Pump) . I was...