Kevin -
I have a Northern pump installed for irrigation pretty much as you described. However, what I did, rather than tieing up my tractor, I had an old Wheelhorse garden tractor,c.1968, with a 12hp kohler electric start on board. I fab'd a bracket off the nose of the tractor, with adjustability for belt wear and tensioning, and set the pump up for a belt drive off the mower PTO pulley.

Merely pop the belt off from the mower, and push on the belt for the pump. I put a two inch pump on this tractor, item number 10627-C178 from Northern Tool, for at the time $99.00. It carries nearly 8000GPH of water at 5000revs. I have so much water output for irrigating my lawns and gardens, I put a distribution manifold on and have sprinklers all over a two acre lot!

Willie H.

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