Very cool, great for monument cases filed with water.?ÿ I got the crew a small battery powered vacuum cleaner which also works well for that.?ÿ There are lots of cool battery powered tools now.?ÿ I found the trick is buying the same brand and sharing the batteries which is the expensive part typically.?ÿ Thanks for sharing, Jp
I can see using something like this when you know you're going to encounter a bunch of swamped monument boxes, but I only encounter them every once in awhile, so keeping the battery charged would be a problem for me.?ÿ I carry a very basic bilge pump -- it's little more than a plastic tube with a manual piston, a check valve and a couple of hoses -- and it's ready to go whenever I need it.?ÿ The hose connections are crude and leak quite a bit, but it does the job.
Years ago I bought a really nice (and spendy) manual diaphragm bilge pump.?ÿ It works great with clean water, but bits of gravel cause the check valves to leak, rendering it useless.?ÿ The cheapo plastic one works even with mucky gritty water, so that's the one that lives in my truck.
Two words. Stream Machine. Rarely clogs, and even when it does, it??s easy to take apart to clean out. Just squirt a little WD-40 in it every few months to make it work smoother.
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Huh . . . I've always used a shovel (which I already have).?ÿ Shovel nearby sand/gravel/dirt into the box, stir it up with a big spoon/trowel (which I already have) and then scoop the mud out.?ÿ Batteries not included.
Could be fun to have the squirt gun along though . . . kinda like the 4 iron for the random found golf ball . . .?ÿ
I do fine with a turkey baster for monument boxes. Works well, no batteries.?ÿ
This would work well for changing out the water in my 50 gallon fish pond.
