I have been irrigating my orchard until I get my well hooked up and after some experimentation I came up with the following:
2 55 gal plastic barrels on my 2 wheel trailer along with a 1000 watt 2 stroke generator that I paid about $125 for, a submersible sump pump with float switch and a 50 foot 5/8 hose.
I just put the pump, hose and power cord in one of the barrels (tops are removed) and fire up the generator.
With the hose on the level with the trailer it will empty the barrel in about 15 minutes. if you had a 2" hose on the output I imagine it would be several times faster.
I think the pump is a 1/2 horse.
And before I am savaged by the Deerman or the T-guy the generator is not grounded to the trailer, no ground rods were pounded t into the earth and there is no equipment ground.
I jes dragged the rubber hose around and when done killed the gen.
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