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Rural/Farm Life

FirstLight

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1. ...an old fashioned hand pump?

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Fri Feb 7, 2025, 05:11 PM

Feb 7

I guess you would have to have a bypass so you could switch off electricity and use a manual pump. We used to have one decades ago on our ransh, it was like circa 1900. but it had a wheel crak and you could get it going pretty good once you broke a sweat.

Ugh, don't miss those days at all. Hard work!

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