Batescrew/Gallery

From the workshop & the field

Project photography from the Tocumwal workshop and from installations across Australia and overseas. The images that don't fit on a brochure.

2002 → 2025 · workshop · install · service

The gallery.

The full photo gallery currently lives on our parallel Squarespace site — 249 images across pumps in the workshop, slide-rails being lowered, sites in flood, and pumps that have been running long enough to have changed colour at the waterline.

Highlights from the archive include: Pump 208 before and after rebuild (the 9/11 axial pump installed in 1958, first serviced January 2019); Wangaratta City water-treatment works pump after 28 years' service; Hopevale far-north Queensland in flood; and a pile of sticks pumped through a strainer in Kununurra, WA.

A representative sampling of categories is laid out below.

Sampler

From the archive.

Indicative tiles · linked to the full gallery

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A 9/11 axial pump installed in 1958 came in for its first service in January 2019 — sixty-one years of continuous duty. Before-and-after photos of Pump 208 are on file in the gallery. Our oldest running pump was installed in 1952 and carries serial number 6.

Some pumps can sit idle for years and still come back to life. Others run twenty-eight years between services, like the Wangaratta City water treatment works pump.

Pump rebuilds →