A sump pump is a pump used to remove water that has accumulated in a water collecting sump pit, commonly found in the basement of homes.
(Sump Pumps) Sump pumps are responsible for pumping excess ground water from the basement to the outside of the home. For those of you that have ever experience water back up in your basement, you know all about how much cleaning is involved and how much damage can be caused.
a suction pump for removing liquid from a sump
A cork or buoy supporting the edge of a fishing net
(float) the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
A thing that is buoyant in water, in particular
A small object attached to a fishing line to indicate by moving when a fish bites
(float) the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
(float) be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
1986 My first job with Mr. P - gathering water for the floats
Top:
Left- Look (view) from Mr. P's Pier
Right- Mr. P's with his truck
Bottom:
Left- Mr. P's oysters (this is a float)
Right- Mr. P with his other truck & garden.
I hooked a sump pump to the dock, and pumped water into barrels that were loaded on the back of a truck. Once we filled all the barrels, we went back to the floats (wooden boxes that held oysters/crabs/peelers, soft crabs) and emptied the barrels of "fresh" water from the river. PVC pipes hung above the boxes and sprayed filtered water into the boxes. I was 8yrs old and was paid in soft crabs = GOLD. Once he gave me a $50 dollar bill, and I hauled ass home with it. Demanded mom get in the car and take me to Toys R Us immediately, where I purchased the Cabbage Patch Twins I had so badly desired.
Mr. & Mrs. P were the grandparents I never had.
I shot these photos with my fisher price camera @ the tender age of 8yrs old.
New Sump Pump
We suspected that the old sump pump had died so we replaced it with a new 1/2hp unit rated for 4200gph. It took over six hours to remove all the water. The swing blade was used to keep floating debris from getting sucked up by the new pump. The orange extension cord leads to a shop light at upper left and plugs into an outlet in the "ceiling" of the crawl space.