That's a wonderful video Don, very informative and shows great detail how this method works.

I liked the pump too. You see a lot of springs in the Alps set up with similar wooden contraptions.

Only bad part is, his Bavarian dialect is a bit hard for me. So I wasn't always quite sure what he was talking about.

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