OT-pond areation

I'm looking for a way to areate my farm pond and move some water.I bought one of those kasco floats and replaced the pump 3 times last year alone.I'm thinking of mounting a small air compressor on the bank and running a plastic line to the bottom of the center of the pond.I'm tired of paddle boating to the center of the pond and wrestling a pump out of the water.I wonder if one of those septic tank areation vane pumps would work?

there are diaphram pumps made for dugouts or ponds, I use one year round but I would have to look to see what brand it is,

What you need to get is one similar to mine. My pump sits on the shore in a protective housing (I use an upside down hard plastic cat carrier for my housing).

It uses plastic lines and weighted diffusers hooked to the end of the 100 foot hoses. You can either throw them out as far as you can or go out in the boat and put them exactly where you want them.

Mine uses a Thomas pump. I lost one pump in the last year, but can't blame the pump. We had a major blizzard February 1st, that packed the housing with snow and wouldn't let the fans cool the motor.

I got mine off eBay, figure on spending $300 or a little more for a good kit.

The replacement motors are less than $100 on eBay if you just watch for them. DOUG

Try this guy. Doesn't throw water up in the air, it pumps it down from the floating pump to the bottom, setting up a circulation of the whole pond, and it aerates at the surface of the water naturally. It really works. Used mainly on manure lagoons (removes odor completely), but also in farm ponds. Only problem might be price.
Pond aeration

Thought of a small submersable sump pump? Run outlet hose to a floating lawn sprinkler like nozzle.

I use an aerator, I installed it in December 2007 and it runs 24/7 - 365 days a year. I run it in my big pond from thaw to fall. Then I move it to my small pond for winter so the ducks and chickens can get water.
I just rebuilt the pump last week. 3 1/2 years running non stop seems pretty darn good to me. $50 for the rebuild kit.

Price about $500. The aerator is 16 foot deep in the big pond, and 8 foot in the small pond.
The actual pump is a Gast, which are not a cheap pump but they last, we have run them at work for years, either for vacuum or low psi pumps.

I screwed around with sump pumps, floating fountains, etc. Kind of a pain, and they use a ton of electricity. Wish I would have went with an aerator right from the beginning.

I bought my from the link below, since they are in Michigan (local).

One thing I did do, is plumb both ponds to my barn, that way the pump is protected from the weather. Just keep the air intake filter clean and you are good to go ($4 each) I keep a couple on hand.

Rick

oops heres the link

http://www.stoneycreekequip.com/form/aeration3.htm
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google koenders windmills from saskachewon canada ,it areates, AND i never have to chop ice for cows in winter either ,, got a pretty 20 ft windmill here that everyone is proud of , pd 800 ,ten yrs ago at national farmm mach show in louisville.ky

Had my pond now about 12 years. 20 to 25" deep, about 3/4 acre. Being the cheap/thrifty/tight guy I am, I initially tried an on-shore electric water pump with some old pvc to the bottom and another line to the surface for a poor man"s fountain. Didn"t do as much for the pond as I thought it would. Also burned out a pump or two.
Bottom based aeration seems the best, so used an old air tank for capacity, picked up a cheap off brand air compressor and used a soaker hose as my bottom dispersion. Thankfully the cheap compressor had a warranty and I went through 3 in one summer. These and the shore mounted pump were never meant for that type of continuous/semi-continuous use. Neither are sump pumps.
Finally broke down and bought a shore based air pump meant for this application. Still used the soaker hose because I was too "thrifty" to spend the ridiculous amount on the stone. Blew apart the hoses about every other month. I now have the rubber type diaphram dispersion unit in the bottom which doesn"t need cleaning like the stone and the shore air pump in a fabricated enclosure.
Do this. Don"t trip in my footsteps.
Have had this system now for many years and pond has never been better. Very healthy fish too. It runs 24/7/365, even in sub zero winter. Couple summers ago there were a lot of fish kills locally due to drought/algae/etc. Never had an issue.
I got 7 years out of the pump before a rebuild (lady who sold me the rebuild kit this year was in disbelief and put me on their reminder list to harass me for rebuild kits...)
Good luck in your choice.