Setting up an irrigation pump - GIF

Setting up an irrigation pump.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...379#post196573
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...663#post212754
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...619#post197547
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post164583
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...939#post164227

I see a problem here; the suction line is the same flexible cloth covered hose as the delivery line. Applying suction to it would collapse it instead of swelling it.

The pump unit is on the end of the hose in the ditch under water and there is a flex shaft running inside the hose. At first I thought, that's a small looking pump, but the part with the V belts connected to it is just a drive unit connected to the flex shaft. Neat idea.