This winter a lot of water was all over the fields of Denmark. An extremely wet and relatively warm winter made many fields overflown by water. For this reason it was urgent for a farmer on Lolland to have his 52-year-old Lykkegaard pump repaired when it broke down earlier this year.

The pump has not been removed from the pump housing for 38 years. But it has so far run flawlessly - that is, right up until now.

The majority of the pump could easily be reused after repair. But one part of the tube was corroded and it needed a new propeller.

The propeller has been changed to a brand new one, milled here at the factory designed from the old drawings.

But we could replace the part of the pipe that needed to be changed both faster and cheaper for the farmer (and for the climate) by using a pipe part from one of the pumps that we have previously dismantled.

We save the parts that are intact and can be reused. And that was the farmer's luck. The pipe is red though, and the pumps we are sending out today are, as you probably know, black. But there was no time for us to paint it over – and when the water is gushing and has to be pumped away, it is not the color of the pump pipe that is decisive either.

So now the pipe has been given a new life in an aging pump on Lolland.