Dryin' out!

I have been doing a ton of research over the past couple weeks (well, months, really) about a dehumidifier for my basement. It's really wet down there, even after the gutters. (They helped, but didn't solve the issue.) What I've got is a good case of rising damp and a super porous foundation of dry-laid field stone and some roughly dressed granite.
I knew that manually emptying a dehumidifier wasn't going to work to fix the problem, because I'm not home to dump it so much of the time. I looked into dehumidifiers with pumps, but they all got terrible reviews. It seems that you can dehumidify or pump, but you can't do both, economically, with one machine. I agonized over this, because even cheap dehumidifiers aren't cheap, and I hated the idea of spending money on something I knew going in was likely to break.
Then one day, a happy accident of key word searches yielded a different idea. If a combo dehumidifier and pump stunk, what about separate gizmos? It's not like I'm trying to dehumidify a finished space, I don't need this to be pretty - I need it to be functional.
That led to me purchasing:
• a Frigidaire 70 Pint Dehumidifier,
• a Little Giant Automatic Condensate Removal Pump (with Safety Switch and 20ft. Tubing.)
• a 25' heavy duty extension cord
• and a 10' garden hose (that I needed to cut down)

After a lot of reading and a little monkeying, the rig was rigged! And it worked!

That's not a leak, that where I splashed water when I was pouring it
into the little pump to make sure it worked.
(It worked.)

I don't have a reading of what the humidity was when I left on Friday morning, but it was so moist the water was condensing on the water filter cover attached to the radon system and dripping to the floor. I left it running continuously to try to draw it down hard, and by the time I got back on Monday night, it was down to 60%!!
I have the machine set to 45%. We'll see if with all this rain the little machine that could can get there.
I'm afraid of what the electric bill will be, but it'll be cheaper than the house rotting from the inside out.

The hole is good for something!
But I need to get a longer hose to get it further away from the house.

So that's the expensive and thrilling conclusion to the saga of of moisture issues in the basement. With the addition of a fan in the crawl space, hopefully it will be well and truly under control.