Stationary Gasoline Engine and Well Pump

This engine produces about two horsepower and is set up to power a pump. Unlike many of the engines here the ignition for the engine is provided by a magneto, a very high voltage generator. The actual pump is the round object that is partially immersed in the water. It is really a cylinder housing a piston. This can be extended into a well with pipe and a small rod, about ½ inch in diameter that lifts and drops the piston. This allows water to be pulled from wells deeper than thirty feet, a limitation imposed by atmospheric pressure. I have helped put a hand pump designed like this one into a well. It has to be pulled one section of pipe at a time, the pipe unscrewed with two large wrenches, two pipe vises are used to pull the pipe, one to pull, one to hold it till the next pull. A hundred feet of pipe and rod in the well weighs about 300 pounds, and it may be full of water.