Garden Well Technology?

Question

I live in SE England near Horsham. I have a well in my garden that it in superb order beneath the ground. Brickwork is excellent.
Distance to the water its 25 feet and the well is 37 ft deep. It is a narrow well diameter about 3 ft
There is a pipe that runs up the side of the well, so it must have had a manual pump.
MY question is, Will I be able to pump water up, or will I need a submerged pump?
Can anyone reccomend a suitable pump ,. either submerged or manual and where to get it from
Preferably a cast iron one if manual, to pump water into buckets/watering cans
Does anyone know of a good firm who could fit it out for me, preferably in Sussex UK. I have looked on the web but couldnt find one
Thanks

Answer 1

25 feet is a pretty good lift 33 feet or so is max. If you go with an electric pump, I'd look at a submersible. There should be plenty of those around.

If your just filling buckets and the like a rope and pulley with a well bucket is all you really need.

If I was doing it for myself I'd put in a submersible pump and a pressure tank with a switch, install a sprinkler system and forget about the buckets.

Answer 2

We have a well. It is just a pipe in the ground.
Well not quite that simple.

We have a submersible pump and a one way valve on the hose before the pump.
This is great because when the pump is acting up we can simply move the pipe up and down and it will lift the water.
We are soon installing a savonyah. This is a wind driven pump that lifts and drops the pipe.

Our well is new and has a lot of sediment. This causes it to stop up the pump.

I would set up at least two ways of getting water from the well.
Maybe a bucket system and a
Submersible pump run by solar or electricity.