IronEater
The IronEater is the flagship product of Big Iron Drilling’s water treatment division.
Generally, water treating equipment installed on well water, dugout water, surface water and rural water supplies in general, just does not work very well. The reason there are so many problems with rural water treatment is because traditional equipment for rural water is designed to treat city water, not rural water.
Rural water contains precipitates such as iron, manganese, precipitated H2S and even tannin. These precipitates are not being removed effectively from the media bed with traditional water treatment equipment.
Also, hardness found in rural water is usually way, way higher than in city water. So, it’s no wonder that when you install water treating equipment that’s actually designed for city water, it doesn’t do the job properly.
As a result in Canada, there are tens of thousands of water treatment units that are fouled to the heavens with the precipitates of iron, manganese, H2S, tannins, etc. In the United States, there are hundreds of thousands of these units not working properly for the same reason.
The IronEater is a very remarkable product that addresses the problem of bed fouling.
Basically the IronEater is a jet pump that increases the speed of the water inside of a water treatment vessel very substantially and in combination with other products in the media bed, the precipitates are effectively removed from the bed and bed fouling does not occur. Bed fouling has been problematic for years and years ever since the advent of filtration equipment dealing with the removal of precipitates from water.
Even before the days of running water, our great grandmothers or great, great grandmothers did a far more effective job of dealing with iron than is being done today. In fact in the days before running water, they did not want to go to town with rusty stains on their blouses or on their husband’s shirts and so what they would do, they would pump three or four pails of water four or five days before wash day and put these pails aside out of the reach of dogs so they wouldn’t lap up the water or where the water wouldn’t freeze, and let the iron oxidize to let it settle out.
Come wash day, they would delicately pour the water, most of which had the iron settled out, through usually a flour sack which had been folded once or twice.
Then the precipitated iron that had not settled out would be filtered out by their iron filter, which was the flour sack. Eventually not too long after using it, the flour sack would get fouled up with iron. When the flour sack was washed, it did not wash effectively and so it was not functional as an iron filter anymore. By that time, there was usually another flour sack around and the old one was thrown away.
The bottom line was the iron was effectively removed from the water and Grandma didn’t have the iron problems. She did everything manually but she at least didn’t have iron.
Living in the modern world is very frustrating when it comes to dealing with the precipitates in water. The IronEater has come to the rescue and solves that problem. Big Iron Drilling has a number of patents in both Canada and the United States and units with patent pending that involves the IronEater and we are very proud to have this product and it does an excellent job.
The function of the IronEater is explained in different areas of our Web Site. We will be happy to supply further information and give you an evaluation of your water problem and what the parameters are when removing iron and other precipitates from water.
Patented Canada and the United States.