[Applause] you probably know what this is but if you don't it's a check valve I got this at a plumber supply for 16 bucks what a check valve does it only lets water flow one way see the arrow is on it that's the only direction water will flow you look in there there's like a flapper in there [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so welcome back everybody Mike here today I just have a quick little video on a siphon system if you need to move water in your outlet end is lower than your inlet a siphon is a great way to go everybody knows that however sometimes it can be a kind of a pain in the neck getting it started and getting it running but I have a really good way to do that and what I'm trying to do down here is lower the water level in the pond about a foot and a half two feet before it rains again the trash rack out there is all plugged up if you watched yesterday's video I'll put that right here you'll see what I'm talking about and this summer I'm going to fix this and change this all around so I don't have to deal with this anymore but what had happened is we had a bunch of flooding and snowmelt the water came over the dam and it could have got pretty bad I could have lost a pond so all I'm doing here today is a little insurance policy I'm gonna lower the water level a couple feet once I can get out there I'll clean that rack off and I should be good until spring summer when I can fix this thing but anyway let me show you how this system works you can see out there where the standpipe is it looks like a beaver hut or something there it's a mess but anyway the way this siphon works that end you have a check valve so that prevents water from going back into the pond you only let water come this way right here's where you charge the system and the only reason I put this pipe on right here is just so you don't have to bend over as far when you're filling it another good thing to do is you can put a check valve on here instead of this plug and a check valve works well but in the wintertime even if it's open and there's just a little bit of moisture in there that thing will break for sure so this time here I'll just use one of these and I just screwed it to a couple boards there to keep everything the way I wanted it and that's it so I closed the discharge end open the inlet filled it with water just from the pond with a bucket close this up tight you don't want it sucking air now we'll get down to the bottom and open it up now I got to do is open this up so remember you're in let in you need a check valve so when you're charging the system the water you're putting in the inlet is not just running into the pond that keeps the water from doing that at the outlet end you need a cap or plug or ball valve or something like that to close it up while you fill this up charge the system once it's filled up close this tight open the outlet and you're moving water so anyway this is a very cheap and easy way to move water I used a two inch pipe here and it moves quite a bit of water but you could use any size pipe that you wanted and it will work exactly the same way so you know if you're trying to get water for your garden or whatever there's a thousand different reasons you'd want to move water this is a pretty good system as long as your outlet end is lower than your inlet end this is a way to go and I don't have to come down here and keep you know filling up the pump with gas or anything like that this thing will run until the water level gets below the inlet and it will shut off if I want to shut it off before that all you do is open that inlet cap open it up it'll start sucking air and it'll shut off but that's it so if you enjoy these videos please click subscribe hit the like button and share them with your friends thanks