He needs to pump about 150 gallons per minute. This is only in the summer months for a small vegetable farm that gets watered 1-2 times a week when it hasn't been raining. I don't know what you mean by restictions, but there are no water rights or any kind of regulations involved.
Is your suggestion that it could be converted to an electric motor? It is not too far off the grid and he could probably get power out there, but I think you would be needing a 10-12 HP motor and maybe 3-phase power. Also one of the nice things about the gas engine or PTO drive is that you can vary the engine speed for how much volume or pressure you need; an electric motor would run at constant 1750 rpm.
I think he was on the right track with the pto idea until the problem of the tractor pto turning opposite direction of the engine cropped up. Since he only has to pump water a few dozen days out of the year the pto power would have been handy and the rest of the time the tractor would be freed up for other work. I told him if it were me I would have looked at either fixing the gas engine or elese find an old 4-cyl pickup truck (diesel?) and use the drive train engine and tranny from that to power the pump.
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