Wayne PC4 Cast Iron Portable Electric Water Removal Pump, Black

This pump has EXCEEDED my expectations!! I was ISO a lightweight, portable, affordable, weather resistant water pump; to assist in distributing water to a gravity fed irrigation system, in a residential application. . This product went above & beyond those requirements! It's sturdy, it's not too noisy, it's extremely efficient & has got a lot of power for its size & weight. I would 100% recommend this product & am BEYOND SATISFIED with its performance. Also, it was delivered sooner than originally expected. WIN! WIN!!

Bought this pump so I could water my grass with sprinkler from rain barrels. I did a lot of research and watched some reviews on youtube but it was still not clear that it will work in this configuration. My next dilemma was buy local or through Amazon. After 3 trips to local hardware store nobody had it but it could be ordered. I figured if I had to wait I would just get it from Amazon, surprisingly it took only one day to get with free shipping, happy surprise!I have been using this for a month without any problems. I can basically hook this pump up to anything I can hook my city house water line up to and get the same pressure. It has no problems running regular hose nozzle, sprinkler (fan back and forth type, spinning circle type, tic tic tic type, even drip irrigation). Hopefully this pump will last for years. Too many things to list in paragraph form so I listed them.Pros1. Pump is heavy duty and well built.2. It has a nice handle casted into the frame.3. Runs regular hose nozzles with same distance and pressure as city water.4. Runs any of the sprinklers I hooked up to it with same distance and pressure as city water..5. No priming necessary when using a spigot on bottom of the rain barrel.6. Empties 50 gallon rain barrel to sprinkler in about 10 minutes7. Empties my three 33 gallon rain barrels hooked together in about 20 minutes.8. Seems quite to me, I have heard way louder pumps.9. Bushes are replaceable, you can find the kits on the internet.10. Nice brass fittings provided with pump.11. Runs fine on my 50ft extension cord and 75ft of hose.Cons1. Had to prime if you were pulling water out of a barrel which was a pain.2. Gets warm but not hot. I only run 10 minutes at a time. No sure how it would fair in a 1 hour + run?3. Dragging hoses and electrical cords all around.4. Price is little high.5. No problem of pump but inherent to rain barrels is, dirt being pump to hose nozzles and sprinklers. Filter solves that but its added cost.

I use this pump to pump water from my rain barrels . It does the job and has great pressure . Made of good cast iron ! So far so good . Recommend !!

This review is for the Chinese made Wayne PC4 water pump with garden hose fittings. This small, solid and inexpensive pump powers an impact sprinkler used to water my lawn from spa waste water, about once every three months, when I change out the water during cleaning. As a bonus, it is useful as an emergency sump pump, when powered from a small (1 KW) generator during power outages.The cast-iron pump section must be primed before use through a threaded iron plug and it will discharge some rusty water after periods of extended storage. It is driven by a 115 volt AC/DC (runs off either) electric motor that uses brushes requiring changing every 100 hours. Wayne sells an inexpensive rebuild kit, including brushes, that is readily available. I've never needed to use this kit, since my use of the pump is occasional and total use is well under 100 hours. Purchasers should be aware that this pump is NOT suitable for continuous duty, unlike water well pumps, which are AC/brush-less and can run for years with little maintenance.I've measured the performance of this pump and it is very respectable: 40 PSI static pressure, just as specified by the manufacturer. With supplied garden hose adapters attached to inlet and outlet and 7 feet of 1 inch I.D. reinforced spa/suction hose attached to the inlet side (no hose attached to the outlet) the pump delivered 1046 GPH/17.4 GPM at zero lift. When throttled by 5 feet of 3/8 inch I.D. washing machine hose on the inlet (very restrictive) and 50 feet of 1/2 inch I.D. garden hose on the outlet it still delivered 5.5 GPM/331 GPH, at zero lift. Running one impact sprinkler through the more restrictive hoses, it managed to maintain 25 PSI head pressure and drive the sprinkler pattern to about 25 feet in radius (50 ft. in diameter). These figures compare very well to my 5/8 inch garden hose connected directly to a household spigot: 75 psi static pressure and 9.1 GPM/545 GPH.Regarding emergency use, the PC4 starts and runs just fine from my tiny Honda EU1000i generator. A "Kill-a-Watt" meter tells me that the PC4 draws about 7.5 amps (vs. 8 rated) at 121.5 volts AC, or 911 VA. The meter also indicated 775 watts power consumption, which hints that the power factor of the pump motor is pretty skewed (the motor is a very inductive load)as the VA number does not equal the wattage. But this made little difference to the Honda, which did not complain at all.In summary, the Wayne PC4 is an inexpensive, very compact and sturdy utility pump that performs very well when connected to inlet/outlet hoses of adequate diameter. It's ability to run from a small generator and move over 1,000 GPH makes it useful for emergency sump pumping/dewatering. It also functions well as an auxiliary lawn irrigation pump, with enough pressure and flow to drive one (or maybe two) impact sprinklers. The PC4 is more suitable for intermittent rather than continuous duty since its motor brushes must be changed every 100 hours of use. If it did not have this significant limitation, I would have rated the PC4 at 5 stars, rather than 4.PROS: Inexpensive, compact, physically sturdy, very good pumping performanceCONS: Discharges rusty water after periods of non-use, requires servicing every 100 hours of operation

I have used this model for 25 years. Bullet proof. Bought a spare just in case they discontinue the model.

It worked to pump one water heater out and then the next time I used it it leaked like a sieve and continued to leak like a sieve

I've only had it a few weeks but have run it a few times, and it works great.I use it to pump water out of an IBC tote, and it pushes water through 170' of garden hose with great pressure.I use this to water a remote garden and use a Honda generator to supply power to the pump. The pump uses about 900 Watts to push the water out.