Saturday, February 28, 2009

Pumping station


Age old water pumping station:
Age old typical water pumping station build during british rule in india. Ages ago there were no electric motors in use to water plants or crops. Only diesel engines were used to suck the water from the river. The disadvantage of diesel engines were not powerful enough to pump the water to a longer distance. So our grandpa's decided to built a station which can pump the water with out any mechnical device. As a result, the below shown pumping station was designed and built.

Pumping station working concept:
Water will be sucked from the river using diesel engine and hiked to the top of the pumping station which has a small tank at the top which will then release the water. The speed of the released water was speed enough to reach a longer distance.

Day before the Harvest

149th Day of my Paddy field: