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Veryyyyyyy BAD DAY!!!!!

4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
I arrived at work at 5:30AM,my daughter calls and tells me we have no water at 6:00AM.I arrive at home,found pump motor shorted to ground.Pull pump,disconnected motor still shorted to ground.$453.11 and 7 hours of hard labor,replaced piping,wiring,pump and I now have water.Tomorrow has got to be better at least I have my health and I am thankfull for that.

"It was like that when I got here".
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    4wheeler I know how you feel. I went through that last year, except, add the holding tank, AND the line from the house to the well. And yes the next day WAS better.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where can you buy pumps that cheap and what kind is it?
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  • lokdok1lokdok1 Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can relate 4wheeler, I Had to replace a pump in a snowstorm Dec 00 (teenage girls need their showers) I somehow managed to introduce an "iron bacteria?"(thats what they tell me)into the well, now what was once great tasting water is hard to swallow.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    I got 200 feet of 1 inch pipe,200 feet of 3 conductor #10 wire,juquzzi pump 1/2 h.p.,box of clamps,6 inch cover,1 inch elbow and 3 1 inch pipe nipples,3 pipe stand-offs. Pump cost 249.95 and excuse the spelling of pump.Labor was free because I done the work,my father kept the pipe out of way while I was pulling pump from well.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,706 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How do you hold the pipe in place while attaching the next section?

    "Not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door, but it is enough."
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    4-Wheeler, Sorry for your troubles but glad you got them fixed!! It was so nice and cool outside today with no humidity either. It could have happened on a ho humid day!! HA! At least it was easier than what the people that bought my old house just went through. Old well went dry so had to dig a new one. They went 1050 feet and got a quart a minute!! They had no other place to dig on their lot with the regulations in place in this county. They had a 1010 feet of water in the pipe last Friday so stuck in a pump and at least they can take showers and brush their teeth!! GHD
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  • KnifecollectorKnifecollector Member Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Allen, about holding one piece of pipe while attaching the next one. I use a Upsey Daisy. It is a wheelbar looking contraption with three rubber tires on top. One tire has a sprocket and chain connected to a 220v motor. The other tires are connected to a hydraulic jack. You just put the first piece of pipe in the well thru the tires, lock it down using the jack and using a remote switch start letting it down. The motor has an brake so it will lock up when you let off the switch.It has a 12" diameter hoop on top of a 20' galv. pipe to hold your drop pipe vertical. The only time I use it to install a deep well pump is when I going over 500' deep. I use sch.40 threaded pvc in 20' sections on those. Anything under 500' I just use a roll of black plastic pipe. No joints, just a unbroken piece of pipe.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    Right on about the black plastic pipe,continueous length of pipe,putting it in was a piece of cake.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Doesn't anyone drink rain water anymore !!!!!!! LOL

    Thats one of the small down falls for living where's
    there's no city water.................

    My crystal ball says tomorrow will be better.............

    coonass

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • snarlgardsnarlgard Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    * you might get thirsty here in texas where you get 10 to 20 days of rain all year



    SMILE...MAKE EM WONDER WHAT YOUR UP TO
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  • COONASSCOONASS Member Posts: 2,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's why john wayne used shot glasses...........

    *

    We Live in a World of Give And Take, But A Lot Of People Won't Give What it Takes.
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  • john wjohn w Member Posts: 4,104
    edited November -1
    I have heard when you open well for maintainance or pump replacement you are to use bleach directly ino the well for killing any bacteria. How much i do not remember but 1 gallon seems to strike a note. Of course dont drink the watter till all the smell and taste goes away.
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    John,you are right and I did,hey that adds another $1.25 to my bill.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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