And a young guy working hard and so knowledgeable makes me feel like there's hope for America. I'm afraid that there's about 50,000 useless young adults for every one of people like this guy.
I had a problem with my well. I had two different plumbers come out to fix it. The first guy insisted my well pump was bad and that I needed a new one (a few thousand dollars). The 2nd guy actually pulled the pump up, found the wiring problem and told me my old pump was a quality product and that it would be silly to replace it. At the time, we had owned the house at last 10 years. I have no idea how old the pump is. Still working like a champ four or five years after the plumber came out.
You ROCK! Great job! If I was that customer, having that beautiful red truck + trailer + excavator roll up must be an amazing site for someone that has NO WATER. And all that work from one guy, in 2 hours and 15 minutes with 95 degrees and humidity? Crazy.
For those new to the whole well thing: Good pump guys are BUSY. If you move into a house with a well for the first time, find a good pump guy BEFORE you have issues--pay them to do an evaluation and make a record of what's there so they know what to bring if an emergency comes up and what was done weird or badly originally, and keep their contact number handy. When something eventually goes haywire, you will be miles ahead in getting it resolved. Similar with septic pumping guys for the other end of the water system BTW.
thats all i do at work wells water systems and the treatment systems its amazing some of the shit these poor people paid other guys to do for so much money and then we come out to fix it
How ironic! I have a condition called Meniere's disease (an inner ear condition causing tinnitus, vertigo, discomfort) I had to take manganese suppliments to help with the symptoms. I moved to a community where they're wellhead produced manganese and had to do yearly water main flushing. The 14 years I lived there, I didn't need the suppliments. I now live in an old house in Northern Ontario (Canada) that has a shallow, dug well with a jet pump setup. Nicest water ever! But, I now have to take the manganese suppliments again! You do great work....Keep on keepin on!
I worked with a lady that had Menieres years ago, and that was interesting stuff to learn about, and what debilitating symptoms it can come with. How fascinating about the difference in water making such a difference for you. Just goes to show sometimes we make it more complicated than it needs to be
The Folks around here have been raised on well water, I've helped about 6 people pull out their pump some just a dry well one didn't have the spacers on the pipe and wires so it was swinging in the breeze and wore the insulation off 2 of the wires and shorted it out, an old wheel on an a frame and a quad just need enough room to drive the quad far enough to get the pump to the top
Greetings from Sweden. My pump blew fuses and I it was stuck. I only got the wire, hose and cable out. Pump is still down there. A new pump was put a little above the old pump. It was 165 feet deep. Pump, hose and cable cost about $2000 for just the material. It was a good pump though (Grundfos). I changed from a three phase to a 1 phase pump so the new diameter of the pump is just about three inches. Fits better in the hole.
The customer dumping chlorine in the well is making things worse. Chlorine causes the manganese to drop out of solution. You can use chlorine for iron and manganese treatment but only in small controlled doses. Best thing for him to do is get a filter that contains Katalox which will take out manganese and iron.
Many years ago my pump went bad when I was down with the flu. Even with a friend coming over to help, it was a huge struggle to do what needed to be done, and my well is only 80 feet. A couple of years ago I had a nasty bout of COVID. That was immeasurably worse than the flu that I was suffering when I pulled the well, and the brain fog is very real. I suffered from it for well over a month. The fact that you were out pulling and fixing a well by yourself only a couple of weeks after testing positive speaks volumes to your work ethic and dedication. You are to be commended. Well done. Thank you for sharing this.
One guy uses a lawn tractor to pull the whole pipe and pump out. He says that if something gets stuck it's easy for you to keep pulling and bust stuff especially using an excavator. Just saying because it seems an awful big deal to bring an excavator to somebody's property.
Great work . First the diagnosis, then the lift with multiple 20 yard laps back and forth , change out , pressure sw replacement , all on the heels of a covid bout , in that heat ! Hats off to you man .
Great job. I replaced my pump years back and it was also a one man job. The difference was i had enough knowledge to make me dangerous. After pulling the pump using a tire rim off the wheel barrel and did i tell you this pump is in the basement of an addition and 60 yrs old, needless to say it was a long day off from my real job. I respect you work and trust me I work long and hard to "Not" work on my own pump.😊
I'll never need a well, but couldnt turn this video off. I like watching people work, in a knowledgeable manner, sorting through issues and getting a positive result. Plus you do a great job presenting things on video. Well done.
I was shirtless at a homeowner's house once. He came out and told me how unprofessional it was. I laughed and he got all kinds of crazy and went into the house and called my boss and said I was a real smartass and he said I told him don't worry about me not wearing a shirt. I never said anything like that but my boss fired me because of it. I couldn't even believe it. He told me he knew the guy personally and that he would never lie and that I'm a liar. I was the craziest thing I've ever been fired for. Now that I think about it it's the only thing I've been fired for LOL Love the videos!!
It’s been some years since I pulled poly well pumps, I used a 3 wheel pump puller for Galvanized pipe once, pretty rare they were. I always used place circular wire guides and a Torque Arrestor to reduce the spinning of submersible pumps. And I like how you despite not feeling your best, throughly diagnosed the problem and keeping the pump off the bottom by 15 feet. Great job 👍
Interesting video especially for someone like myself who's never seen anything about well systems. I definitely appreciate your diagnostic skills and decisions to replace the pump and pressure switch. 👍👍
You are a true craftsman, we had a new pump put in but our well is only 40 feet deep here in Florida. The two guys did a great job but I can appreciate your work by yourself. Don’t forget your seatbelt.
good job kid . glad to see a kid actually do work for money . insted of looking like an iiot for views . may you make millions on you tube and your work
Sorry about the covid. I've had it 3 separate times. The last one took my taste and smell away for a year and replaced it with only being able to smell sulfur compounds. About 95% normal again. Those little bugs kill you energy level. Makes you feel like a zombie. Loved the video. Real people like you make the world livable for all of us.
Same here, it's a real bite. Gave me the worst chills and fever I ever had and continued issues with my health. I feel lucky to have survived though as some didn't make it. I had the sulpher taste thing for months where everything I ate tasted like rotten eggs. Gruesome.
if you wear a mask you wont get covid, you dont need to risk not being able to smell or taste food. not getting covid is totally preventable and easy. kn-95s/n-95s does a great job and i have never got covid ever, everyone that i know has gotten it at some point because they are stupid. i remember one thanksgiving family came over and one was "positive" lol everyone tested positive the two days later after that except me because i understood the protocols and was able to apply them in a effective way. there are people with long covid four years on and the symptoms never went away lol google it. "properly follow proper protocols" lol but it works
I had to have my stand pipes replaced up here in Minnesota this spring. We had a dry winter. Very little snow, so it was easy to get to the Red Head. There are two brothers who went their separate ways a few years ago. This is the third time in 40 years that I needed to do this. One brother still uses galvanized pipe. I went with the other brother who uses 20 foot sections of Schedule 80 PVC and stainless steel couplers. I also had the 40 year old pump replaced along with all the wire. This area has a high iron content. When we turned on the pump it looked like oil coming out also. One thing that amazed me was that the water quality improved immensely. The iron has almost disappeared. I redid the pressure tank and the flow is excellent. I like watching how the wells are done down south.
Hello!!! Blessings for your work, I am Robert on this side from the Dominican Republic. I admire your work and although I work in percussion and you in rotation, what we do is almost similar. I work with my father, brothers, we operate a speed star 71 percussion, we also install pumps and repair or replace, not at your level but I am learning many things and mechanisms that you implement to do what we do, I have a channel with our trajectory, I am watching each video that you have uploaded and I have learned a lot too and I hope to acquire more knowledge of what we do. I hope if possible, if possible to ask you questions in the future.
Great job, totally agree on changing the old pump, etc. Hope you get to feeling a lot better soon, some people that get Covid say they still feel weak, etc. for about 6 months. Get well and Take Care ! 👍
Around my area, we have natural gas in our wells. It makes like a slime that can actually plug in the pump and line so tight it takes a minimum of 3 to 4 strong farmers to pull one up to replace the pump every 6 to 10 years. I think I would rather have your manganese problems 😂😂. Great job actually diagnosing and fixing the problem for your customers.
Your knowledge is spot on. I'm glad I tuned in to your channel to learn something about something I don't know about just in case I am ever ending up with a well on my property I'm learning a whole lot, you're number is in my book
Glad you’re recovering. The Covid brain fog is very real and unexpected. Covid had me in bed for about 5 days. Took about two more weeks before I felt like a functional human being again. Take care of yourself and don’t push too hard!
I had three wells I was responsible for when we had rental property. The wells always had issues and worries. We've since moved on from that life to city water and couldn't be happier about it.
My mom's tank rusted through right at the full water level. It would leak for about 30 seconds every cycle, until the bladder came down and covered the pinhole. Took us a while to catch on to that one.
That was great - much appreciate you sharing! Wish you were located near us in Florida, so I'd know who to call when our 32 year in-ground pump stops running eventually.
Good job. Hope you're feeling better by now. Heats a killer especially when you been sick and just recovering. You're keeping your customers well satisfied and that will keep you all busy. God Bless you all for the great help you give your customers.
Sorry to hear about your getting COVID and that your recovery has been such a struggle. Thank you for the videos as I've learned so much from many of them. The black manganese looked really nasty. Sometimes I wonder about the water quality from some of the wells such as this one and I trust there is some type of filtering in the system.
Wish there were guys like you in my area. In the N GA mountains, a lot of the trades in the area are lazy or take short cuts and don't do the job right. Love your videos.
Chlorine eats rubber, that's why bladder tank broke. One or two small capfuls of chlorine is all that is needed once or twice a year. Regards from South
took me a week to recover from COVID. I had nightmares during covid and couldn't eat for a week I lost about 40 50 lb only had hot soup I was able to put down my throat lots of ginger ale/water
Every video you do I watch you make connections at the well head free air. Having done dozens of repairs and feeds this drives me crazy as an electrician. Run pipe for the wire and bring it up into a PVC Jbox. Install a strain relief connector appropriate to the cable. Inspectors fail well heads frequently for such issues here in New York. Further, not installing a simple black button connector on the input and output side of the pressure switch is another fail. They only cost $0.10 each and can be installed without even removing the UF. Other than those gripes I learned allot from
Is he even qualified to do electric connections? Agree that open air connection being dangerous. Who's responsible in case of third party electric shock?
Great job man! As a younger electrician back in the early 80's I worked for a company doing all their pump servicing and it was a great job! Difference was though all the installs in the area we worked in where steel pipe drops on pitiless adapters. Some of the wells we serviced where around a 1000' so pulling those setups required a Derrick truck, we rarely saw plastic drops, 20' lengths of pipe made for some long days. The area we worked in was pretty remote and many of the jobs where several hours driving time. Winters were especially challenging as when temps got down into the -30 range everything freezes up pretty quickly. Great memories and a great job at the time - still Thank Larry Churchill at Northern Pump Supply for the learning opportunity that he gave me! Cheers Mike 🇨🇦
My well was done in 86 and has never needed any maintenance other than cleaning the filter in the house water shot seventy feet in the air when the water was drilled out and the drilling rig shook and bounced until the guy jumped off of the truck ! 1650 deep and was a spring for five minutes after the bit was removed from the casing seventy five feet of solid granite was the last material that came out with the drill it was a perfect aquifer hit the operator said !
Hello Hello , haven't been on site since. A phrase I coined many years ago was. When I need help , I can not get it. When I don't need it , I can't get rid of it. The well on the farm had a lot of that manganese.
That's great work, boss, and on your own? - good job!👏👏👏We have loads of iron in our local water, so yellow, brown crap all over the pipes. Loved the wheel pulley assist you have, and the precast concrete circular cover is the best and most simple system I have seen. Time for a few upgrades here (central Portugal!). It won't even damage the social aspect, when an neighbour's pump goes bad, everyone piles in and we heave it up by hand with the aid of a case of cold beer, bad language and good humour. Be the heck of a lot easier with one of those wheel things though. Thanks, good luck and God bless 🤗🤗
Hi, Australia here: I'm amazed at how many people have wells, but don't catch the rainwater from their roof. I grew up on "tank water", and I have that again now. In the 15 years I've lived in this house I've never run out of water - and we only get about 12 inches (300mm) of rain a year. Why don't Americans have rainwater tanks? AND, rainwater doesn't have all those minerals in it, just a little dirt. Sure, you need to keep your gutters clean, especially in fire season, but that's a pretty simple job.
Dust and bird shit. Roofs are not clean. Where i live, rain water tanks are common but exclusively used for watering the backyard or for cleaning outdoor things. The dust is easy to filter, but bacterial contamination from bird shit not so much.
Great vid, Philip. There's no substitute for experience. I had covid in May for the first time. There was a few days that I was on the verge of being hospitalized because I couldn't figure out how to do the most normal, everyday things. I'm an electrician in my regular life. When I went back to work after 8 days, I realized I was only functioning at 40-50%. Had to have someone check all my work. Mistakes aren't an option with electricity. It took a month or more to feel normal.
I had a similar experience last year when I got it myself. I ended up taking some time to do some other work the boss had for me, he was very understanding and put me to work doing simpler tasks while I recovered. I felt so dumb doing that kind of work but hey, do what you gotta I guess. It took me a little over 2 weeks to get back to something closer to 'normal' I feel for you, that fog truing to keep your head wrapped around what's going on... troubleshooting felt impossibly frustrating for a while.
@VTKingdomsawing oh man you had it rougher than me! I was able to do minor stuff. But anything more physically taxing than a brisk walk had me out of breath. The fog was what really got me. Physically It seems I got quite lucky.
Very Commendable you doin a 1 Man + 2 helper job alone in very Hot humid energy Draining weather + still Covid effects Recovering !! .....Rambunctious energetic Youth but You gotta take care yourself from these complex Virus diseases that Need lots rest & Down time for best possible recovery.....
for you when you have a one man crew on the job, they make a battery operated back up with the RV's. You can put the camera on the wall head and hold the other pipe inside the excavator so you could monitor the hole as back up we need portable so you can see back up your camper. Give you a chance to monitor the top of the wall
Excellent job young man, but make sure you keep an eye on those covid symptoms because I know several people who thought they had gotten over covid only to find out they still had covid.
Don't bet on it. It was documented that a LOT... I mean 90%+... of people who got SARS2 (the actual name of the virus) had no symptoms whatsoever even with the relatively strong strain in Spring/Summer 2020. You most likely have had SARS2, just without severe symptoms.
66 here and never had it and I've been tested multiple times before I has medical procedures. Really surprised the results all came back negative. I remember in Nov of '19 before 'Rona went global I was the sickest I've ever been in my life for two weeks. I honestly thought I was checking out in the beginning of it. I've asked to be tested for antibodies since then and none of the doctors I've had to see for other stuff, or my primary doc would order it. I suspect I had CV19 but I may never know.
Glad to see u back to wrk. How do u treat the manganese of the pipe, pressure wash? Its good to take a look at the whole pipe, i never like splicing..always a wk point..take care of yourself..
Something special about watching someone work who knows exactly what they’re doing.
yup....but some folks get too jealous and DO NOT LIKE IT AT ALL
And a young guy working hard and so knowledgeable makes me feel like there's hope for America. I'm afraid that there's about 50,000 useless young adults for every one of people like this guy.
@ I agree.
I had a problem with my well. I had two different plumbers come out to fix it. The first guy insisted my well pump was bad and that I needed a new one (a few thousand dollars).
The 2nd guy actually pulled the pump up, found the wiring problem and told me my old pump was a quality product and that it would be silly to replace it.
At the time, we had owned the house at last 10 years. I have no idea how old the pump is. Still working like a champ four or five years after the plumber came out.
I've watched a number of videos of this gentleman. He is knowledgeable, experienced, and generally first class. His community is lucky to have him.
The craftfolk that choose to show their work are the ones I want to hire.
You ROCK! Great job! If I was that customer, having that beautiful red truck + trailer + excavator roll up must be an amazing site for someone that has NO WATER. And all that work from one guy, in 2 hours and 15 minutes with 95 degrees and humidity? Crazy.
For those new to the whole well thing: Good pump guys are BUSY. If you move into a house with a well for the first time, find a good pump guy BEFORE you have issues--pay them to do an evaluation and make a record of what's there so they know what to bring if an emergency comes up and what was done weird or badly originally, and keep their contact number handy. When something eventually goes haywire, you will be miles ahead in getting it resolved. Similar with septic pumping guys for the other end of the water system BTW.
i have on hand a new replacement gauge, wire, switch, pipe, clamps, fittings, pump, and tank. the big box store is 1/2 hr. away
I just realized how close he is to me! I've got 3 wells, very possible they drilled them!
Would u consider hiring a hard working new yorker??
@@MichaelPelestano-it4ym Now. Everybody knows that 'New Yorker' and 'hard worker' create an oxymoron! (I am kidding you in a big way!)
thats all i do at work wells water systems and the treatment systems its amazing some of the shit these poor people paid other guys to do for so much money and then we come out to fix it
How ironic! I have a condition called Meniere's disease (an inner ear condition causing tinnitus, vertigo, discomfort) I had to take manganese suppliments to help with the symptoms. I moved to a community where they're wellhead produced manganese and had to do yearly water main flushing. The 14 years I lived there, I didn't need the suppliments. I now live in an old house in Northern Ontario (Canada) that has a shallow, dug well with a jet pump setup. Nicest water ever! But, I now have to take the manganese suppliments again! You do great work....Keep on keepin on!
Is your real name Niel Young?
I worked with a lady that had Menieres years ago, and that was interesting stuff to learn about, and what debilitating symptoms it can come with. How fascinating about the difference in water making such a difference for you. Just goes to show sometimes we make it more complicated than it needs to be
Do you mean magnesium?
Wear ear plug when showering !
@@michael931 no manganese and magnesium are two different elements
Good job. My pump guy left me without water 7 years ago, other pump companies wouldn't come out for 3 months. You can be our pump guy. 😅😂😅😂
You still don't have water after 7 years? DDDDDDDAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG you are a trooper.
The cost of not helping yourself.....
The Folks around here have been raised on well water, I've helped about 6 people pull out their pump some just a dry well one didn't have the spacers on the pipe and wires so it was swinging in the breeze and wore the insulation off 2 of the wires and shorted it out, an old wheel on an a frame and a quad just need enough room to drive the quad far enough to get the pump to the top
Two years for me. Ihs just put it in for free! Ill have water again in a couple days!!! Woohoo@@E85BETTY
Sheesh. Never had a well company fail to come within a few hours when I was without water.
"Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea..."
I was humming about Jed the millionaire when I read your post
*Let's move to Beverly 😂* *yeehawww 😂😂😂*
@@user-rz5di8fv9xMore banjo required in that segment of the video.
Californy is the place they outta be
Jethro is happy about having the cee-ment pond full of clean water again.
Greetings from Sweden.
My pump blew fuses and I it was stuck. I only got the wire, hose and cable out. Pump is still down there. A new pump was put a little above the old pump. It was 165 feet deep. Pump, hose and cable cost about $2000 for just the material. It was a good pump though (Grundfos). I changed from a three phase to a 1 phase pump so the new diameter of the pump is just about three inches. Fits better in the hole.
I had to do the same thing because my pump is stuck. New pump Right on top of it.
The customer dumping chlorine in the well is making things worse. Chlorine causes the manganese to drop out of solution. You can use chlorine for iron and manganese treatment but only in small controlled doses. Best thing for him to do is get a filter that contains Katalox which will take out manganese and iron.
Even ordinary Birm will do the job. I used Birm for years at my place and got about eight years out of it.
Many years ago my pump went bad when I was down with the flu. Even with a friend coming over to help, it was a huge struggle to do what needed to be done, and my well is only 80 feet. A couple of years ago I had a nasty bout of COVID. That was immeasurably worse than the flu that I was suffering when I pulled the well, and the brain fog is very real. I suffered from it for well over a month. The fact that you were out pulling and fixing a well by yourself only a couple of weeks after testing positive speaks volumes to your work ethic and dedication. You are to be commended. Well done. Thank you for sharing this.
Covid ain't no joke for the folks it killed and for the folks it affects.
problems like that always strikes when ur the most busy or sick.
Vitamin D.
One guy uses a lawn tractor to pull the whole pipe and pump out. He says that if something gets stuck it's easy for you to keep pulling and bust stuff especially using an excavator. Just saying because it seems an awful big deal to bring an excavator to somebody's property.
It must be going around again I had it over the weekend
Hope you feel better soon. Rest as much as you can and drink tons of water. Pulling for you!!
Yeah drinking that well water is probably making them sick
First time I’ve ever seen a well fixed. We have a well it’s good to know a little more about it. Good job guy 👍
Great work . First the diagnosis, then the lift with multiple 20 yard laps back and forth , change out , pressure sw replacement , all on the heels of a covid bout , in that heat !
Hats off to you man .
Great job. I replaced my pump years back and it was also a one man job. The difference was i had enough knowledge to make me dangerous. After pulling the pump using a tire rim off the wheel barrel and did i tell you this pump is in the basement of an addition and 60 yrs old, needless to say it was a long day off from my real job.
I respect you work and trust me I work long and hard to "Not" work on my own pump.😊
Great work, you are a true professional and have a good soul, please keep the excellent work up and thank you for making the world a better place.
I'll never need a well, but couldnt turn this video off. I like watching people work, in a knowledgeable manner, sorting through issues and getting a positive result. Plus you do a great job presenting things on video. Well done.
I was shirtless at a homeowner's house once.
He came out and told me how unprofessional it was. I laughed and he got all kinds of crazy and went into the house and called my boss and said I was a real smartass and he said I told him don't worry about me not wearing a shirt. I never said anything like that but my boss fired me because of it.
I couldn't even believe it. He told me he knew the guy personally and that he would never lie and that I'm a liar.
I was the craziest thing I've ever been fired for. Now that I think about it it's the only thing I've been fired for LOL
Love the videos!!
Thanks!
Dude, you rocked it by yourself. Thanks.😊
It's a treat to watch a man who knows his business. 👍🏻
Best Well Man on the internet.
It’s been some years since I pulled poly well pumps, I used a 3 wheel pump puller for Galvanized pipe once, pretty rare they were.
I always used place circular wire guides and a Torque Arrestor to reduce the spinning of submersible pumps. And I like how you despite not feeling your best, throughly diagnosed the problem and keeping the pump off the bottom by 15 feet.
Great job 👍
Cool to see a neighborhood company on UA-cam, doing a stand up job💯
Interesting video especially for someone like myself who's never seen anything about well systems. I definitely appreciate your diagnostic skills and decisions to replace the pump and pressure switch. 👍👍
You are a true craftsman, we had a new pump put in but our well is only 40 feet deep here in Florida. The two guys did a great job but I can appreciate your work by yourself. Don’t forget your seatbelt.
I learned a lot about wells, well pumps, and expansion tanks. And Manganese as well.
Job well done. You know your stuff !
good job kid . glad to see a kid actually do work for money . insted of looking like an iiot for views . may you make millions on you tube and your work
I love hard work so much I spend most of my day watching it on here
Very impressive. Great job. We lived with a well in 1955. I believe it was about 250' deep
I don't know anything about well pump systems - this vid was fascinating and I'm going to watch more
Sorry about the covid. I've had it 3 separate times. The last one took my taste and smell away for a year and replaced it with only being able to smell sulfur compounds. About 95% normal again. Those little bugs kill you energy level. Makes you feel like a zombie. Loved the video. Real people like you make the world livable for all of us.
Same here, it's a real bite. Gave me the worst chills and fever I ever had and continued issues with my health. I feel lucky to have survived though as some didn't make it. I had the sulpher taste thing for months where everything I ate tasted like rotten eggs. Gruesome.
if you wear a mask you wont get covid, you dont need to risk not being able to smell or taste food. not getting covid is totally preventable and easy. kn-95s/n-95s does a great job and i have never got covid ever, everyone that i know has gotten it at some point because they are stupid. i remember one thanksgiving family came over and one was "positive" lol everyone tested positive the two days later after that except me because i understood the protocols and was able to apply them in a effective way. there are people with long covid four years on and the symptoms never went away lol google it. "properly follow proper protocols" lol but it works
Yep, I had the same covid taste for about a year and a half. It sucked bad, couldn't eat much of anything.
I had Covid 3 times, too, but without any long lasting effects. I'm in my late 60s.
FLCCC ivermectin protocol also help long covid
Always kind of wondered how those wells worked. Now I'm a professional Thanks to youtube 😆
I had to have my stand pipes replaced up here in Minnesota this spring. We had a dry winter. Very little snow, so it was easy to get to the Red Head. There are two brothers who went their separate ways a few years ago. This is the third time in 40 years that I needed to do this. One brother still uses galvanized pipe. I went with the other brother who uses 20 foot sections of Schedule 80 PVC and stainless steel couplers. I also had the 40 year old pump replaced along with all the wire. This area has a high iron content. When we turned on the pump it looked like oil coming out also. One thing that amazed me was that the water quality improved immensely. The iron has almost disappeared. I redid the pressure tank and the flow is excellent. I like watching how the wells are done down south.
It has already been said here but I'll say it again. Videos by people that REALLY know what they are doing is REALLY interesting!
Thank you for the education. 2 hours by yourself strikes me as Pretty dam fast. That’s experience skill and knowledge. Good Job!!
Very good young man does his actual job and is worth every dollar you spend
Hello!!! Blessings for your work, I am Robert on this side from the Dominican Republic. I admire your work and although I work in percussion and you in rotation, what we do is almost similar. I work with my father, brothers, we operate a speed star 71 percussion, we also install pumps and repair or replace, not at your level but I am learning many things and mechanisms that you implement to do what we do, I have a channel with our trajectory, I am watching each video that you have uploaded and I have learned a lot too and I hope to acquire more knowledge of what we do. I hope if possible, if possible to ask you questions in the future.
Great job, totally agree on changing the old pump, etc. Hope you get to feeling a lot better soon, some people that get Covid say they still feel weak, etc. for about 6 months. Get well and Take Care ! 👍
This guy is a good craftsman, worth his weight in gold!
Worth his weight in WATER!
Around my area, we have natural gas in our wells. It makes like a slime that can actually plug in the pump and line so tight it takes a minimum of 3 to 4 strong farmers to pull one up to replace the pump every 6 to 10 years. I think I would rather have your manganese problems 😂😂. Great job actually diagnosing and fixing the problem for your customers.
Your knowledge is spot on. I'm glad I tuned in to your channel to learn something about something I don't know about just in case I am ever ending up with a well on my property I'm learning a whole lot, you're number is in my book
Hans Premium water filtration systems get out all of that manganese and other crap no problem. I love my RO system. You do very good work❤
Glad you’re recovering. The Covid brain fog is very real and unexpected. Covid had me in bed for about 5 days. Took about two more weeks before I felt like a functional human being again. Take care of yourself and don’t push too hard!
@@matth5309 It affected me almost identical to this!
Year and a half still getting brain fog for days and bowel issues to boot. Comes and goes without forewarning. Very disconcerting.
Did u take the shot?
@@BoStaggs-cr5lc nope. Never will either. Both my parents did, both had complications to some extent
@@aday1637vaxxed sheep
Bom trabalho, honesto, bem feito e explicado. Tenha ótimo dia e fique com Deus.
I had three wells I was responsible for when we had rental property. The wells always had issues and worries. We've since moved on from that life to city water and couldn't be happier about it.
Loved your logical analysis and professionalism. Well done sir.
Nice work Phil. That well could stand to be fracked just to clean it out.
Great job cobbie and heat 🥵 good man. Knows what hard work is ....we all need to do our part ...keep love alive
You Good .
Man Charlie Brown , you treat your customers righf.
I would have liked to see the pump change out. Very impressive work. Learned a lot from the video. Thank you.
My mom's tank rusted through right at the full water level. It would leak for about 30 seconds every cycle, until the bladder came down and covered the pinhole. Took us a while to catch on to that one.
Great job. Thanks for showing the entire job.
Bro Knows His Shyt!
Great Video!
First time seeing you but I got to tell you I love it. You got a new fan. Definitely learned something here today. I love this kind of stuff
That was great - much appreciate you sharing! Wish you were located near us in Florida, so I'd know who to call when our 32 year in-ground pump stops running eventually.
Excellent work done by a knowledgeable craftsman. Well done.
Good job. Hope you're feeling better by now. Heats a killer especially when you been sick and just recovering. You're keeping your customers well satisfied and that will keep you all busy. God Bless you all for the great help you give your customers.
one man army. what a beast 💰💰💰
A shinning knoght in a red truck 🚒! Great work!
Sorry to hear about your getting COVID and that your recovery has been such a struggle. Thank you for the videos as I've learned so much from many of them.
The black manganese looked really nasty. Sometimes I wonder about the water quality from some of the wells such as this one and I trust there is some type of filtering in the system.
After working with well water for ever you did a fine job knowledge is power 🎉
sorry about recovering from Covid in the heat.....hanging in there is impressive
Wish there were guys like you in my area. In the N GA mountains, a lot of the trades in the area are lazy or take short cuts and don't do the job right. Love your videos.
Next thing you know, old Jed's a millionaire. Californy is the place he oughta be...
😂 Exactly what I was thinking.
I heard the Klampits moved out of Californy because it's too f'ing crazy. They moved back to Tennessee. 😂
Not nowadays 😂😂 run from California.
Did he load up his truck and move to Beverly? Hills, that is? If he has any sense he'll stay the hell outta there now!
@@StickySyrupEverywhereexcuse my ignorance as not from that area - but why is that ? Besides water contamination what are the other risks ?
Chlorine eats rubber, that's why bladder tank broke. One or two small capfuls of chlorine is all that is needed once or twice a year.
Regards from South
Usually chlorine is only put in the well if it is disturbed. Never heard of adding it every year.
Nice job watching from kenya
Definitely the best water mechanic on YT
Awesome video. I hope you feel better soon. At 18:30 I noticed some of the elusive Electchicken droppings in the mud.
Very informative video. I have City water at my house, but I have lots of friends with wells. It’s always been a mystery to me how these things work.
took me a week to recover from COVID. I had nightmares during covid and couldn't eat for a week I lost about 40 50 lb only had hot soup I was able to put down my throat lots of ginger ale/water
@FordExplorer420 I've been drinking green tea for about 3 weeks, it seems to help me. That & Advil for the headaches
I just pulled a pump that was 1979 and still working!
Very impressive! I pulled a 1990 yesterday.
Every video you do I watch you make connections at the well head free air. Having done dozens of repairs and feeds this drives me crazy as an electrician. Run pipe for the wire and bring it up into a PVC Jbox. Install a strain relief connector appropriate to the cable. Inspectors fail well heads frequently for such issues here in New York. Further, not installing a simple black button connector on the input and output side of the pressure switch is another fail. They only cost $0.10 each and can be installed without even removing the UF. Other than those gripes I learned allot from
Is he even qualified to do electric connections? Agree that open air connection being dangerous. Who's responsible in case of third party electric shock?
Great job man!
As a younger electrician back in the early 80's I worked for a company doing all their pump servicing and it was a great job! Difference was though all the installs in the area we worked in where steel pipe drops on pitiless adapters. Some of the wells we serviced where around a 1000' so pulling those setups required a Derrick truck, we rarely saw plastic drops, 20' lengths of pipe made for some long days. The area we worked in was pretty remote and many of the jobs where several hours driving time. Winters were especially challenging as when temps got down into the -30 range everything freezes up pretty quickly.
Great memories and a great job at the time - still Thank Larry Churchill at Northern Pump Supply for the learning opportunity that he gave me!
Cheers
Mike 🇨🇦
My well was done in 86 and has never needed any maintenance other than cleaning the filter in the house water shot seventy feet in the air when the water was drilled out and the drilling rig shook and bounced until the guy jumped off of the truck ! 1650 deep and was a spring for five minutes after the bit was removed from the casing seventy five feet of solid granite was the last material that came out with the drill it was a perfect aquifer hit the operator said !
You need a megger for checking the wire, it will save you time and catch things the eyes miss. Very thorough job!
Superfluous in this case as the fault is obvious. The fault was caused by obvious wear against a clamp due to improper wire placement. Moot comment.
Get well and stay strong ! Thanks for sharing !!
Hello Hello , haven't been on site since.
A phrase I coined many years ago was.
When I need help , I can not get it.
When I don't need it , I can't get rid of it.
The well on the farm had a lot of that manganese.
That's great work, boss, and on your own? - good job!👏👏👏We have loads of iron in our local water, so yellow, brown crap all over the pipes. Loved the wheel pulley assist you have, and the precast concrete circular cover is the best and most simple system I have seen. Time for a few upgrades here (central Portugal!). It won't even damage the social aspect, when an neighbour's pump goes bad, everyone piles in and we heave it up by hand with the aid of a case of cold beer, bad language and good humour. Be the heck of a lot easier with one of those wheel things though. Thanks, good luck and God bless 🤗🤗
Hi, Australia here: I'm amazed at how many people have wells, but don't catch the rainwater from their roof. I grew up on "tank water", and I have that again now. In the 15 years I've lived in this house I've never run out of water - and we only get about 12 inches (300mm) of rain a year. Why don't Americans have rainwater tanks?
AND, rainwater doesn't have all those minerals in it, just a little dirt. Sure, you need to keep your gutters clean, especially in fire season, but that's a pretty simple job.
Dust and bird shit. Roofs are not clean. Where i live, rain water tanks are common but exclusively used for watering the backyard or for cleaning outdoor things.
The dust is easy to filter, but bacterial contamination from bird shit not so much.
In many American areas, it's illegal to collect rainwater. Its ridiculous!
@ So much Freedumb.
Claim it as a Religious Belief.
It gets to cold in alot of the areas for rain water collection to be a primary water source ,
Great vid, Philip. There's no substitute for experience.
I had covid in May for the first time. There was a few days that I was on the verge of being hospitalized because I couldn't figure out how to do the most normal, everyday things. I'm an electrician in my regular life. When I went back to work after 8 days, I realized I was only functioning at 40-50%. Had to have someone check all my work. Mistakes aren't an option with electricity. It took a month or more to feel normal.
I had a similar experience last year when I got it myself. I ended up taking some time to do some other work the boss had for me, he was very understanding and put me to work doing simpler tasks while I recovered. I felt so dumb doing that kind of work but hey, do what you gotta I guess. It took me a little over 2 weeks to get back to something closer to 'normal'
I feel for you, that fog truing to keep your head wrapped around what's going on... troubleshooting felt impossibly frustrating for a while.
@@goosenotmaverick1156 My first few days back to work I couldn't even push a broom properly 😆
@VTKingdomsawing oh man you had it rougher than me! I was able to do minor stuff. But anything more physically taxing than a brisk walk had me out of breath.
The fog was what really got me. Physically It seems I got quite lucky.
Good Job, nicely explained. I used to have a well pump. I now have city water. Thank goodness.
Great Job Dude!!!
Outstanding. Educational and very satisfying. You kick ass young man. I blame your Dad. 💪🏼
Very Commendable you doin a 1 Man + 2 helper job alone in very Hot humid energy Draining weather + still Covid effects Recovering !! .....Rambunctious energetic Youth but You gotta take care yourself from these complex Virus diseases that Need lots rest & Down time for best possible recovery.....
Far out. I care about him too, from that short video.
for you when you have a one man crew on the job, they make a battery operated back up with the RV's. You can put the camera on the wall head and hold the other pipe inside the excavator so you could monitor the hole as back up we need portable so you can see back up your camper. Give you a chance to monitor the top of the wall
thanks for you teaching. you are very knowledgeable in what you doing.
Great job buddy get well soon
I learned a LOT! I also have a manganese problem.
Replacong the pump and turning it back on there is current running through the water into the house. What solution would you recommend?
Great videos, Very easy to understand what the "F" is going on. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
I hope you get well soon. No pun intended. Lol. You definitely know what your doing. God Bless
Interesting repair, from the thumbnail I thought there was oil in the well. Manganese in the water well is rare up here in NH.
Excellent job young man, but make sure you keep an eye on those covid symptoms because I know several people who thought they had gotten over covid only to find out they still had covid.
You done a nice clean job ! Looks great.
Your thumbnail is what got me here.
Question: placement of the sediment filter. Before the pressure tank, or does it matter?
I'm 65 and never had COVID. My wife and kids had it twice each. I hope I never get it. Great job Phillip!😄
Don't bet on it. It was documented that a LOT... I mean 90%+... of people who got SARS2 (the actual name of the virus) had no symptoms whatsoever even with the relatively strong strain in Spring/Summer 2020.
You most likely have had SARS2, just without severe symptoms.
almost 66 no covid either..
Lucky duck.😊
66 here and never had it and I've been tested multiple times before I has medical procedures. Really surprised the results all came back negative. I remember in Nov of '19 before 'Rona went global I was the sickest I've ever been in my life for two weeks. I honestly thought I was checking out in the beginning of it. I've asked to be tested for antibodies since then and none of the doctors I've had to see for other stuff, or my primary doc would order it. I suspect I had CV19 but I may never know.
I came here to say exactly what you said!!!@@christopherkidwell9817
Glad to see u back to wrk. How do u treat the manganese of the pipe, pressure wash? Its good to take a look at the whole pipe, i never like splicing..always a wk point..take care of yourself..