[[Image:bucket hoist icon.png|right|80px]]
[[Image:bucket and windlass.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Fatima, Adija and Albertina collecting water from a protected well with a bucket and windlass. Photo: [http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what_we_do/where_we_work/mozambique/434.asp WaterAid / Jon Spaull.]]]
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[[Image:mohte.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Self-emptying mohte with inclined tow path. Photo: FAO.]]
[[Image:windlass.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The mechanics of a windlass used in a bucket/rope system. Photo: [http://docs.watsan.net/Scanned_PDF_Files/Class_Code_2_Water/231-3483.pdf Safe Windlass, Shallow Well.] WHO.]]
pair of bullocks. Two buckets at a time can also be operated with one extra pair of bullocks. It is suitable to lift water from deep wells. The depth may exceed even 30 metres. Two pairs of bullocks with three men discharge about 9000 litres of water per hour from a depth of 15 metres.
===Suitable conditions===
The number of mohtes in use today is still in the order of a million or more, so this device remains of considerable importance in some regions.
===Acknowledgements===
* [http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/ah810e/AH810E05.htm REVIEW OF PUMPS AND WATER LIFTING TECHNIQUES.] Natural Resources Management and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
* Water Lifting Devices, Booklet No. 262. Irrigation: IRS - 1. Inseda.org
* Jane Olley, [http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/Practact/KnO-100410-human_animal_water_lifters.pdf Human and animal powered water lifting devices]. Practical Action. November 2008.