"I wouldn't use a pipe bigger than the pipe from your well to the house."
George, let me give you a quick course in fluids. Pressure drop in a pipe is proportional to its length, and inversely proportional to its cross sectional area. What's that mean? In your case you say you have 150 feet of 3/4 inch pipe to your hydrant. And you have 10 feet of 1 inch line from your pump to your house. 3/4 pipe has .56 times the cross sectional area of one inch (.75 squared is .56). So that means you have 27 times the pressure drop from your house to your hydrant as you have from the pump to your house. (distance ratio is 15, divided by the area ratio of .56).
Now if you have a marginal pump, you won't notice that difference because the pump can't flow enough water to generate much pressure drop. But if you own a Miracle Wonder Pump like you say you do, you're cheating yourself by undersizing the plumbing.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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