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Re: Material: Foot Pump
By:John Roberts
Date: 11/2/2010, 6:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Material: Foot Pump (Joe Whitman)

: Bumping my own post here. I just found this on you tube. It's
: called the Haromony pedal pump system.
: http://www.outdoorplay.com/Pedal-Pump-System
: looks intresting in the video I think he says 6 liters a minute
: about 1.5 gallons, and your feet never leave the pedals. Anyone
: tried this at $30 bucks I am going to give it a try. I will let
: you know what I think.
: Joe

Gnarlydog shows some nice ones on his site. He came to the conclusion they are too slow, too effort intensive and in severe conditions you really need your feet on the footrests. He then goes on to show electric pumps including a system he devised to get them working well. The electric sounds like the hot ticket.

http://gnarlydognews.blogspot.com/

JR

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Joe Whitman -- 11/2/2010, 1:05 pm
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mitch -- 11/5/2010, 1:50 pm
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Will N To Go -- 11/6/2010, 6:07 pm
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Mitch -- 11/7/2010, 10:12 am
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fadedred -- 11/8/2010, 11:47 am
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fadedred -- 11/8/2010, 11:51 am
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mitch -- 11/8/2010, 1:33 pm
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Foster -- 11/9/2010, 11:12 am
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Mike Savage -- 11/10/2010, 5:57 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/9/2010, 5:05 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/8/2010, 2:46 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/8/2010, 12:28 am
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Doug S -- 11/5/2010, 4:04 pm
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Randy Knauff -- 11/4/2010, 5:06 pm
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fadedred -- 11/2/2010, 8:36 pm
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fadedred -- 11/2/2010, 8:37 pm
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Don Goss -- 11/2/2010, 8:07 pm
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Joe Whitman -- 11/2/2010, 1:47 pm
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Joe Whitman -- 11/8/2010, 5:40 pm
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John Roberts -- 11/2/2010, 6:11 pm
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Joe Whitman -- 11/2/2010, 6:31 pm
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JohnK -- 11/2/2010, 6:43 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 11/2/2010, 5:52 pm