Shane
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard J Rego
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- plankton/small shrimp safe water pumps
>
>
> Hi Moon,
>
> These are large pumps that are PTO driven and tractor
> mounted.
> They are used to pump the cranberries from the bog and onto the
> tractor-trailers that take them to the processing plant.
> What we do is
> stand on the flooded bog and rake the cranberries (they float) into a
> receiving box that is connected to a long piece of hard suction hose.
> The cranberries are then sucked through the pipe, into the
> pump, up into
> a washing unit, and then down a grate into the trailer.
> After the trailer is full, I usually hop onto the
> load and catch
> up the frogs and any turtles that might have gotten through, and toss
> them back onto the bog. Usually before I let them go back
> onto the bog I
> tell them "Hell of a ride, Huh?"
>
> Rick Rego
> MA/New England NANFA
>
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:50:57 EST Moontanman_at_aol.com writes:
> > In a message dated 2/24/03 7:20:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > newzoo_at_juno.com
> > writes:
> >
> > > Hi Moon,
> > >
> > > Don't know about the tiny inverts...but on our cranberry
> > bogs,
> > > our pumps move fish, frogs, turtles, water snakes, etc....all
> > unharmed!
> > > Once in a great while a frog will pass through and get kinda
> > turned
> > > inside out (most likely due to the centrifugal action of the
> > pump). I
> > > have successfully "pushed" the inards back in and watched them
> > swim away
> > > normally.
> > >
> > > Rick Rego
> > > MA/New England NANFA
> > >
> > What kind of water pump are you talking about?
> >
> > Moon
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