Water Well Pressure Tank Replacement
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- We had to dig out the 40 year old pressure tank over the water well after it sprung a leak!
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To save money on our old barn tear down, Dad invited the volunteer fire department to train and had a BBQ fund raiser. Good luck on all the build projects.
I have never seen an old pressure tank like that. Learn something new everyday! Good video! Thanks
Yeah me neither... BIL's well is in his basement, but it's a packer jet pump (surface pump jet is down in the well, same as my Grandma's well, okay brother's well now since she's been gone since '06). In Texas we just usually put the pressure tank right beside the well bore/pump. I have a submersible pump at my place; bout all they want to do anymore, and I admit a submersible is better in a lot of ways. The BIL in Indiana, his pressure tank is right beside the well in the basement. Keeps it from freezing down there since frost can go into the ground usually 3-4 feet deep, but they've had it go as deep as 5-6 feet in a bad winter. BIL laughed when he saw my pressure tank sitting beside the well for the first time. He asked "how deep is your pipes?" "About 6-8 inches across the yard", he was astounded. Thankfully on the Texas coast the ground never freezes, just doesn't get cold enough long enough.
Next time that tank goes out, you can buy one at TSC and install it yourself. Easy peasy. I bet that job cost a three or four grand by the time it was done with all that dirt work and new pump and stuff. When I drove a school bus, I had a guy who moved into the area and started driving and we became chums, and he had lived in the city all his life so I had to teach him all about how to work on water wells and pressure tanks and points and stuff because he didn't know anything about ANY of that stuff and it's really expensive if you have to hire it all done. If you can fix the easy stuff yourself, it doesn't hurt so bad when you have to hire the bigger jobs done like pulling a well or stuff you can't do yourself. Later! OL J R :)
I am 75 years old and never saw a tank on the well pipe. Even this old guy can still learn new things.
I was gonna say the same thing, I’ve never seen one of those, only the blue ones
I was thinking the same thing, but we are in Texas so freezing isn’t a concern. All of our pressure tanks are above ground and if it freezes we just put a heat lamp on it.
Yes I am soon to be 65 and I have never seen one like that where I live in Kentucky, very interesting.
@@FoolOfATuque Last February Much of Texas had a hard freeze. In the northern part of Texas we had -15 three mornings.
Same here, and I’ve been a licensed water operator for 40 years.
Wow thats interesting. I have never seen a pressure tank outside in the ground like that. Pretty cool
Good to see you as well! Thanks for the update. Didn’t know they did that with pressure tanks that was interesting. Surprised that it didn’t freeze up when it got that cold even underground
How do you clean up that water ?.
Great to hear from you again😉👍
What’s up Ryan greetings from Michigan
Ryan it’s always good to take a step back from some things……so you can spend the time to catch up on the things you need to do and have been putting of and just being able to spend the time looking after your self…….god bless both your self and family….. thank you 🙏
Nice to hear from you again Ryan. Stay warm and hope your new calf does well in the cold.
Thanks for sharing Ryan I have never seen a pressure tank outside like that before.
Hey Ryan!! That's what I hated about wells. They always seemed to have problems in the winter. We switched to rural water seven years ago and don't have to deal with that. Glad you got yours fixed.
The person running that backhoe was very talented!! Nice job!
Like a lot of other comments, I've never seen a tank that goes around the pipe. Seemed to have lasted for a long time though. Great video and thumbs up.
I just replaced my pressure tank last weekend. And I have the exact Rheem Marathon hot water heater, the best kind for those cellar basements, will never rust
Have never seen that pressure tank installation in top of well here in Sweden. Have Happy, Healthy and Prosperous new 2022, Ryan and Family! Seeing forward to your wellmade uploads!
Thank you for sharing your story. happy new year. God bless you and your family.
Hi Ryan glad to see you’re back
I so glad to hear that Ryan I am retired and just watch a lot of U Tube video’s lol
Hadn't seen a tank like that in over 26 years probably. You're gonna love the new tank. A lot less expensive when it goes down.
Nothing like having a bull shooting blanks then all of a sudden have part of the herd pregnant.
Take care and stay warm.
Thanks for the video.
Why do those things happen in the winter? My husband is a plumber and has had to pull several pumps in the past few weeks. Glad you went with the pressure tank in the basement. Much easier to service. Hope you have a great new year.
Interesting...I'm an office professional, I hope your husband makes more than I do!
@@taco44051 We would be fine if only people would pay their bills.
I've seen a lot of different well pressure tanks, but I've never seen one on top of the well pipe like that!
Never seen a pressure tank installed like that on the well casing. Interesting idea but I think I prefer the tank in the house or a heated outbuilding
Interesting design on the old pressure tank. I have seen tanks buried before, but not on the pipe.
Looking forward to more videos! It would be interesting to see the new roof go on.
Ryan. Will not the little calf get trampled in the feed lot And no bedding ?.?
In my experience, the Amish do exceptionally good work.
Great video as usual Ryan. Hopefully no more water issues. 👍
Happy New Year to you sod busters. Sam
We've always had the indoor style in Northern IL and it seems to work well.
When Ryan said temperatures were going to be -13 I assume this is Fahrenheit? Which must be at least -20 degrees centigrade (I’m too tired to work it out properly). That is mighty cold!!!
Here in coastal NW England a cold night is -5C, and tonight it will no lower than +5C. Must make animal husbandry somewhat challenging to say the least.
Thanks Ryan TIME OFF !!!!👍👍👍ABSOLUTELY
That pressure tank was something else. I’ve never seen one like that. Mom’s out in the country and has super hard water that’s full of rust and sulphur. It has the most wonderful smell of rotten eggs!
Yeah there's some jokers in our area that were drilling wells about 300 feet deep and they were getting nothing but "mine water" (full of iron ore and sulfur and smelled like rotten eggs). He was charging about 5X the going rate for a well too. Dad's old 2 inch sand point well went out when the casing finally rusted through after 50 years and he shopped around to find an honest well driller. Guy came out and drilled a 100 foot well and set it at 80 feet, which is where we wanted it. Grandma's old open-bottom 2 inch well is 56 feet and it's TERRIFIC water, mine was an old water supply well for a drilling rig, I lowered a wrench on a string and hit bottom at 104 feet, and it's a good well with good water, being 4 inch I put a submersible pump in it. Can't do that with a 2 inch well-- has to be a packer jet well with surface pump. Anyway, he set the pump at about 60 feet and it's good water. He was telling the tale, he drilled a well for a guy who moved in and built a house across from a rural subdivision and when the neighbors found out how good his water was compared to their mine water, they hired him one by one to come in and drill them new wells at about 100 feet, instead of the 300 foot mine water wells they had been putting up with. Expensive but worth it to have good water! H3ll of it is, there's salt domes around that part of the area that have OIL WELLS that aren't but about 300 feet deep on top of the salt dome! Had a buddy that used to tend them! So OF COURSE they were getting nothing but iron ore and sulfur water! Guy was just ripping people off.
Had a buddy moved out of the city when he retired from the postal service, we drove school buses together. I had to teach him about how to work on and keep water wells going, pressure tanks, points, etc. He was used to "city water" and didn't know anything about it. He had one of those 300 foot mine water wells, but the joker had sold the previous owner some kind of rig that used a small pump to inject BLEACH into the water to "eat up" the sulfur and iron ore so the water was tolerable. He said he'd had to replace that pump and it was over $1,000. Thing was, it also ATE UP THE PIPES and they had installed a 300 gallon galvanized pressure tank in there and it sprang a leak, so we went and bought a $100 40 gallon pressure tank at TSC and I installed it for him, and hauled off the old rusted out tank. His copper piping in there was neon green from all the chlorine corrosion, and the steel pipes were ate up. A year later he was complaining that he had almost NO water pressure in the house and his light bill was high, and I came out and did some checking for him. Couldn't find any leaks but I noticed his pump was running nonstop-- "bet your submersible pump is shot" I told him. He called the joker out to pull it-- no, pump was fine-- the steel pipe was rotted to swiss cheese inside the well casing from chlorine backflow and the pipe had some many holes in it most of the water was blowing out inside the casing and running back down to the bottom of the well. Just crazy. Told him "if this well ever goes, call the same guy my Dad did and he'll treat you right-- this joker is just a rip-off artist!" Later! OL J R :)
Do you have a whole house filter to save your house pipes from rust? Probably a great idea, given the color of your well water.
I rent a water conditioner that filters the iron out for $55/month
That old pressure tank is very interesting, i have never seen one like that! the last one I put in we buried right next to the well!
Great awesome video Ryan , that’s a old tank . Time for a new one
we use cornstalk bales to make a wind proof storage area for wrap-plastic then load it on dump wagon with grapple bucket and burn twice a year with some diesel fuel
Will you be replacing the chimney with new block for the stove to heat your home?
love watching ya from Australia
Sucks you had to get the well fixed but it is what it is glad your making improvements to the house hopefully you can get us some video of your roof being replaced
We had an old shack on our farm growing up that had the pump on/off switch and the pressure tank. It kept freezing and stacked straw bales around it but that did not help much. They moved the works to our house basement.
A couple years ago, the pressure tank blew a seam and water was shooting everywhere in our finished basement. Luckily my dad was here and quickly shutoff the pump. They replaced it within hours with a new one that has like a 50 year guarantee!
nice to see an update!:) Are you planning on going to any auction this winter/spring in your area?I love auction videos.:D
I also enjoyed the home project. Being from down in TX I had never seen a pressure tank setup like your old in ground unit>
Great video Ryan!!! As per usual, anywhere in Wis, IA, or MN., winter seems to be the time you have major well problems. Don't have a clue as to why, but every farm that I've been associated with had well water problems in the winter. And it seemed to be the coldest day as well. Glad you could get it fixed..... thanks for sharing......
Good content. 👍
Going up on the farm it seemed that well problems most always occurred in the winter. Not a fun job in freezing conditions.
This is an interesting video!! Good work
Hey Ryan, have a Happy New Year, and look forward to the content when you have time. You certainly deserve to have time for you, so enjoy it!
So behind you was an electric water heater and a largish filter/softener?
thats interesting how they put the tank round the well. my family business is water well work and those bladder tanks which what is your new one is called has been around for many many years. ive helped replace one dated in the late 70s early 80s.
Having read some of the previous comments, I have to chime in also. I have never seen a pressure tank like that. My older brother, now deceased, was a plumber for many years in a rural area. I wish I could ask him if he had seen one. I have seen pressure tanks in outside well pits but never on on top the casing pipe. Interesting to say tbe least.
It might be adjacent to the sandstone layer, but you've got iron down there to get water that red.
thanks for showing old style pressure tank,, new to me.
Have you considered a settling tank before the pressure tank. to catch the ochre.
Really interesting to watch especially cuz I see them well trucks alot never seen what they do....
Wishing you all a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year!!
If you build a new shed/building for the cows. Put a small heated office/medicine room with a cellar and put the pressure tank in there for the well.
Ryan I hope the water that you get out of the tap does not look like the mud the guys showed.When I was growing up we had well water, it was rust but not like that.
i had the same issue last winter my pressure tank was in a mound in the yard it failed then naturally it was dang cold out so we couldnt even use a bypass to have house water because it froze. thankfully my local plumber let me dig the well case out so they could cut it off and add a extension then they installed pressure tank in the basement, from the quote they gave me digging my hole myself saved me about 2 grand!
Someplace to check to get rid of the wrap would be you local Walmart or grocery store who recycles plastic bags. Usually they are working with Trex decking and will take the bulk plastic. Or contact Trex decking and see who locally around you works with them.
I live in an area with a lot of iron in the water. It builds up in the pressure tanks and wears out the bladders. I don't know if the problem you have with the water will do the same. The advantage to having the tank in the house is it is easier to replace.
Replace our pressure tank and then the well pump. Also replace a 20 ft section of well pipe that had a crack.
You have iron bacteria (red stuff). You can treat the well with chlorine tablets. Depth,yield, amount used to determine how much.
What is this type of well pressure system called? I have the same kind. and would like to know how to work on it. I have had several different well companies come take a look at it and they've never seen it before.
Fantastic job 👍👍👍
Good Video
awsome video ryan thumbs up and shared
Veteran well guy here in indiana, we try to remove all those type setups we can.. they're notorious for leaking and pitless fusing in place.. tough job.. but I have to say.. they did all that hard work and they put galvanized fittings back underground? Cmon Use brass my man!
Had to do our pump a couple months ago and it was 3 times the size of yours
Ryan those Littles one need to be inside well like ( North farmer ) dose it .
I have this system and just had to replace the water line coming off the bottom side of the tank buried about five feet down-do you know what starting pressure is before water or what operating pressure would be of tank like this?
Ours ran 45 minimum to 70 psi
Thks for the reply
I didn’t know the did pressure tanks underground. I’ve only seen above ground indoor tanks.
Seems like that's a trend, water well problems during the winter.My pump went out during the coldest day of the year last year.I felt bad for the guys working on my well.I got 2 propane torpedo heaters going for the guys,ended up they cut me a deal on the bill,for my efforts to help keep them alittle warm,also gave them hot coffee.
Ryan, what is your opinion on banding the 1-3 day old bull calfs versus weighting till they are weening age. We have a small family cattle farm and we found that it is a lot easer working a 50lb calf that is very docile versus a 450lb calf that does not want to work with you and most of the time you end up getting kicked or your foot stepped on at least once during the day working on them .
We use to have our water system an well down by the barn an had a pressure tank replaced in 1997 lil blue. fast forward to 2005 updated our well moved it up by the farmhouse an pressure tank into the basement, could’ve replace it but it was still working until 2 summers ago while having a family party loss water pressure. Lil blue failed 😞 an was full of water so, had it replaced had lil blue tipped down the let it drain . Dad had a metal saw blade to cut the top open to see inside, rust an a bladder which a hole had formed.. Dad said any ideas for reuse? I said how bout a charcoal grill? Great idea! Dad said tuned out to be my late birthday gift🤣😄.
I used to work for a well service company and had to remove old pressure tanks like that and reinstall pumps and pressure tanks and bored water lines and other things
Just a thought, Ryan... I'm from the Scranton, PA area. Everything there is undermined. You said a while back that your farm was undermined... Thus the sinkholes. Now, water in my area is contaminated from the mines. Have you had your water evaluated. might be a good idea. to do it every year or so...
I was wondering if it is an OSHA violation at 8:45. My understanding is that if a person is in a hole, five or more feet deep, then you need to slope the sides or use a trench box.
Perhaps..don't farmers get a break from OSHA on most things?
Must admit as a retired UK HSE inspector it worried me seeing a guy down a hole that deep with unsecured vertical sides and the weight of a 360 Excavator not far back from the edge. I suspect the Amish will not be using edge protection on the roof either, so fingers crossed nobody gets hurt.
@@taco44051 Yes, and my understanding is that it is only for small farmers with 10 or fewer employees. I was thinking it was a well or plumbing company doing the work in the video.
Hopefully the new well tank lasts just as long as the original
Hey Ryan! Happy New Year! I noticed towards the end of the video that it looks like you're wearing a ring. Have you guys tied the knot?
Not yet, it’s a silicone one she got trying to gauge my finger size and just happened to put it on me that morning
Get the comfort fit bands. My ring is titanium with a brushed finish on it. Durable and hides small scratches and such.
What is that a 10 inch pipe
good job man good video
Don't check the bulls until the worst of the cold weather is over and closer to spring turn out. Or at least a little before the bull sales. The cold can cause problems before spring.
That's sad that it happened to you my dad when he built the house he built a we called it a pump shed but had a tank pressure tank and the Wellhead I think we changed the pump in it a couple times through the years but from the well shed to the house that's how we got our water we was raised on well water sorry to see that happen to you my friend especially out there in the cold I've been there and done that no fun that is nice that you had a baby calf a bull one of many yeah I was kind of wondering Ryan about your roof on your house well I guess you're going to get it fixed for sure hopefully close to Summer and yes I like your music 🎼🎸as well well it looks like you're getting it done Ryan I've been watching you for the last four years my friend slow progress but you will get it done I have faith in you take care Ryan and your better half and God bless🙏👍👍👍👍💦🚜 my dad had to have one of those tanks in the Welsh ed2 to keep pressure in the water👍
Great job Everybody, theres always something👌👍🙂
Those white plastic bale wraps could be used as tarps. Could be cut into smaller widths & lengths.
I'm like everyone else never seen a setup like that guess it worked for a long time.
As a city boy I don't know a lot about wells but in view of the various old, abandoned lead mines in area, does the well water ever get tested for lead content? Perhaps it's not an issue. I have no idea.
Bad submersible pump?
Bad pressure tank, sprung a hole.
Hay there u are ty for sharing
Great time to switch out to poly pipe
Asks of course it's winter when then need pulled!
I’ll admit I’ve lived in Wisconsin my whole life and always in a house with a well and I’ve never seen well tank in the ground. Especially when it’s right where the frost would be?
That’s how they used to be. I didn’t know it was quite so large
There is a lot of price increase for steel pipe. I had 3 wells drilled to 600' in the last year. The casing went up $43.00 per ft in the last year. I should have been stockpiling pipe along with fertilizer.
Why couldn't water problems show up in warmer weather?
Even worse than well problems in the cold is septic problems in the cold!!
I'm surprised you aren't keeping the chimney so you can have backup heat. Do you have a non-electric heat source already?
We replaced our 1 inch well pump last year and could not believe it when we saw the date, it was from 1982, which is when our house was built!
I had a house that was built is 1970. The pump was from 1967. They reused the pump from the old well. The motor was still good just needed impellers. I put a new pump in. No use doing it again in a few years.
what you use water like that for and do that in winter time are stupid way to do it
but thats the way for pore farmers ????????
not nice weather to be dealing with water issues