Well Bruce, The manual is the first thing I look at while investigating a product. I know the manufacturer of the Honda pump, which is a world class pump manufacturer, that supplies to the commercial/industrial/municipal markets.
Honda-USA picked up a couple of their pumps to market to the general consumer, but these are still high quality pumps.
Then, I compare. Still reading manuals and tech info and bit of number crunching.
The same in a comparable Grundfos pump will get the job done several hours quicker, reducing electric costs, but the pump is about 50% higher in cost. That is well below the budget you mentioned, and the Grundfos has double the warranty.
A dock mounted, high quality, self priming centrifugal with all the crap on a line starter would blow your budget.
I'm a huge fan of Honda motors. I invested in a heavy duty trash pump 14 years ago, and that thing is an absolute monster! Never breaks down even though I don't think I ever got around to reading the manual. I know...I'm a bad boy.
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
They run into a two inch and run about 2500 gallons per hour at ten foot of head. That about 120,000 gallons in 24 hours. I run one in the winter and two in the summer.
They run into a two inch and run about 2500 gallons per hour at ten foot of head. That about 120,000 gallons in 24 hours. I run one in the winter and two in the summer.
I have a fresh water spring fed creek that passes by our pond. There is about 300 acres of run off and tiled land that is fed into this creek.
This fresh water is really exchanged into the pond then out the overflow. I guess what I am thinking a raceway pond is. The water is nice and cold in the summer and mixed with our ponds water.
Attached is a picture of our pond and you can see the creek. This creek starts at the red circle. It runs most all the year but August some years the spring drys up. Last year it did. If you look close at the picture you can see the trenches for the hydro going from the house to the pond and the trench from the creek to the waterfall and the over flow back to the creek. The cool water dumps into the 12 foot end then needs to flow over the center ridge to the deeper end then out the over flow at the surface that is generally warm water.
If you look really close you can see a bridge we have over the creek. My parents bought the farm next to us so I built this bridge for the boys so they didn't need to walk on the road to go to grandma and grandpas house. My oldest son was over visiting grandma when this was taken. He drove the tractor over you can see the orange cab in the drive next to dads truck.
The 120,000 gallons a day is a pile of water and may be over kill, but the extra mass of fish I can raise is much more for the size of the pond. Once I do get a large mass of fish in the pond I need to be on top of it if the power gos out. Our back up generator needs to be ready.
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