Learn the Simple Trick to Restore Your Water Well!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- today, I had to do a little bit of redneck engineering.
the problem? well. no, seriously, it was my well. unfortunately, the water in the house just STOPPED.
time for some troubleshooting, starting with the easiest thing first, the circuit breaker, good. continuing the troubleshooting until... the pump needs to come out of the ground. NOOOOOOOOO.....
upon removal of the pump, something was different from last time I had to pull this pump. it didn't want to come out. it felt like it was stuck in mud.
well, sand, but that is still not good.
I ended up having to clean the sand out to get my well back up and serviceable, and that brings us to this video, of how to clean out a water well.
#well cleaning
Cleaning out a water well
blowing out a well
/ @tibbs_farm
Thank you for this video, very helpful and appreciated. I have the pressure of a power washer stream, not the same pressure like last year, and the air suggestion, I thought of and one said, no , you need water, well, water is hard logistically to get, you need the tank for the water and so on, I will try this, thank you
I hope this helps
73 years old, pulled my sum pump out of 180 ft well by hand. Could only dream of 80 ft. USMC
Semper Fi.
My disabled neighbor's pump is sitting just about 250. I hope that thing never goes bad.
USAF.
@@Tibbs_Farm Good luck brother. Be safe and well, no pun intended.
Same to you
Awsome Tibbs thanks for sharing! Honest DYI I subscribed..
Thanks for the video actually something anyone can Handel if they try having exactly the same issue here hope it works for me
I hope it works for you too
I watched a ton of Air Lift videos. Youre the first one that really walked through what you did. I have a 250ft well with 50ft of sediment (hit sedinent at 200ft) and waterline at 70ft so I'll be renting a 185CFM compressor and using HDPE 200PSI pipe since its going to take some serious lifting power for me. But this was super awesome info for me to get started.
You are welcome, and I hope this works for you as well as it worked for me.
It was my first year with Wells.
I had to put bleach and drain.
Do you think I could use bleach and borax then drain?
Thanks for your attention to these matters.
Fine Strong work.
I do not know about borax.
But you absolutely can use SCENT FREE bleach.
For my well, I used 1 gallon. That is for the water volume of my system.
@@Tibbs_Farm
Thx
It’s always best to send a point down, no shat gets in just discoloured water for few mins pumping at first, lasts for years, then when it slows down you pull the pipe with point on out and re clean the filter, put back in and you got fresh running water
Look up Air lift pumps and you'd be able to clear all the sudden out of the bottom of your well overtime but chances are you might have to put in liner in your well but are lift pump at the bottom could buy you some time lifting all the sediment up and out
I will look into that
You might be lucky and you're well casing might be intact and you may just need a filtered well casing insertive but as a temporary fix you might just have to run an air lift pump every couple of weeks to suck out the sediment to save your pump
I have a covered well infront of my house. If I access this well I don’t have to pay for this water right? If I don’t have an air hose what else can I use? I’ll also pray about it in case I don’t hear from you.
Unfortunately I don't have the answers for you. It is my understanding that there are some states that are trying to regulate well water consumption.
But if you live in a free state then you are correct, the only thing you pay for would be the electricity you use to run the pump to supply you the water.
I don't know all of the ways that they use to "cover" a well, but some of the ways are pretty permanent and would require a new well to be dug.
I will try to think of a way to blow out a well without a aircompressor, but if you don't hear back from me, I haven't come up with an alternative way.
Again, I am sorry I wasn't more helpful.
"well", we tried it. Had to put a 4" PVC inside our 8" casing & put the air hose in the bottom of the PVC. Be careful because the PVC & air hose will sink. Ours sunk 4 feet and too a day+ to get them out using a wrench. Still have to have a new well dug though!
I am sorry to hear that.
I have an old well beside my newer one I need to do that to
It would be awesome if you could get that old, well functional again.
@Tibbs_Farm it's about 15 feet from the newer one.
It has a concrete sistern a tank and a in take pump that I'm sure is shot bases on corrosion.
I found some one inch irrigation tubing around the property. Not connected. I'm going to back pressurize those to find out where they were terminated at
That's what she said
Thanx
Whats air compresor did you use ,tankyou
When I get home, I will have to look at what it is, but I can say that it is a 60gal upright air compressor that I bought at Northern Tool circa 2009. In fact, it was literally the last one of this kind they had, [I got the display model, no paperwork] haggled them down to about 55% off.
Ok tanks i have a 27 gal 5 hp tink it will work or will the air lift work have a ⅜hoes want to put on the water hoes.
@Impermeabilizacionesinc well, to be completely fair. I didn't think my puma 60gal was going to actually work.
It still amazes me that pushing air down makes the water shoot up and not just bubble up.
I am having a hard time understanding why the air by itself just come up & leave the water down? Because the air bubbles would instantly rise up out if the water.
Don't worry, I also have no idea exactly how it works. Like if I sit down and think of it, my brain says, it is just like as a kid blowing into a straw, your cup doesn't make a geyser
Not yet
As the saying goes, the early bird gets the worm.
Not yet?
Thanks for the comment.
This actually reminded me I need to get on to the computer to add the end screen.
Thanks again.
Magic is also called PSI..
Call a septic tank guy to suck it out.
The septic guys in my area only have septic sucker's, i don't want that in my drinking water
@Tibbs_Farm Understand that, if you have and factories that make food, anything with grase/ oil they have tanker pumps that come in and suck up all liquids in their holding tanks. Just a thought, good luck on your project.
But this was just sand that filled in the well.
The well drillers wanted too many thousands to fix my water.
So I gave this a try
You didn’t tell us how many feet of sediment you removed.
Oh... you are right.
This well is 84 ft, however when I pulled the dead pump, the well only measured 31 feet.
So that is 53ft if my math is correct.
Sorry, I haven't had my morning coffee yet.
The discussion about the sediment starts at 3:10 (ish)
Use pex
The last time I dropped a pump into this hole I used pex
Just call a professional people,so many things that you can screw up by doing it yourself.
Well, unfortunately, I didn't have the 6 thousand dollars that the professional quoted me.
Never know unless you try. And thanks, but I try NOT to outsource my sustainability and self sufficiency to others. Thats how you wind up boxed in and kneecapped by the systems themselves. FAR too many people have outsourced their safety, security, sustenance and even their entire viability regarding their being able to sustain life in general. Dont be just one more bovine, milling about with the herd. Break free, find your own path and KNOW what true liberty is a living free is all about. Otherwise, you're just one more cog in the masses of a hivemind
You talk to much and not showing propaly how it works
You are not wrong, I didn't plan this video out as well as I should have, and honestly, it was an afterthought. I was concerned with trying to fix my water and realized after the fact that this info could help others.
If I have this issue in the future, I will definitely make a proper video on this subject.
U did fine
I appreciate that