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Old Nick wrote:

Just abit late maybe. But The bilge pump will struggle to fill that
tank. Give it a go, but it will be at best way under rated flow. They
are meant to work at 3-4' of water head.

I ended up using an old drill strapped to a 1x8 and a drill pump, the
kind that goes in a drill chuck. I have 110 in my truck. I took the
empty barrel to the creek bottom, drove right on down into the gravel
bed and hooked up the drill pump and dropped a hose over the side of my
1 ton 4x4, the other end went into the barrel in the bed. It took about
25 minutes to fill completely. I then drove back to camp and repeated,
except the tower barrel was a tad higher and the bottom barrel was a tad
lore, more on this later. The tower barrel has a single bung in the
bottom side and a vent in one of the top bungs covered in metal "lint
screen". The bottom bung goes to a PVC pipe down to a T, one goes to the
cabin, the other to a spigot. I would have pumped from the truck bed to
the tower, but hunting got in the way, so I had to drain the barrel in
the bed to one on the ground so I could use the truck. Anyway I ended up
pumping from the ground barrel to the tower barrel with the drill pump.
It pumped 50 of the 55 gallons into the tower tank before it reached
it's maximum head. But that was just fine.

Later I will add a second bung to the bottom side of the barrel for a
hot water line. I'll be using a RV propane hot water heater. But that is
a whole nuther story!

Thanks everyone who contributed in "learnin" me something!

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