Author Tom Moates With His Home Built Hydraulic Ram Pump

This pump has provided water for his family's off-grid homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the past five years.

The Complete Hydraulic Ram Manual

Tom Moates is a well known writer whose articles have appeared in the U.S., Canada, and Britain in such magazines as Country Journal, Harrowsmith Country Life, BackHome, and Old House Journal. He is the author of "Poetry In Motion", a how-to build your own ram pump article which ran in the April/May 1996 Mother Earth News magazine.


The Homestead Press is pleased to release the new edition of THE COMPLETE HYDRAULIC RAM MANUAL by Tom Moates. This revised edition of the popular guidebook includes 28 updated illustrations by graphic designer Chris Legg. It thoroughly explains the workings of the non-electric hydraulic ram water pump, walks the reader through site analysis, explains in detail how to build a new improved version of the pump, and includes many other useful sections like a trouble shooting guide. Combining straightforward text and easily followed illustrations, the book explains the details of how-to build and install your own ram pump which you construct from standard pipe fittings. If you have a site for a ram pump, it is the best water pumping system for independent living and complementing renewable energy systems like photovoltaics.

BackHome Magazine just featured a new Hydraulic Ram Pump article by Tom Moates in the May/June 2001 issue!

ORDERING

To order THE COMPLETE HYDRAULIC RAM MANUAL by Tom Moates send check or money order for 14.95 (US) + 2.00 postage (or 4.00 for priority mail) to:

P. O. Box 440

Floyd, Virginia 24091