Pulling Pump On 285' Well
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The pump is a one horsepower three wire submersible and it is set at 285' depth. By definition, the three wire is more desirable over the less expensive two wire simply because of the higher starting torque of the motor. This is achieved by the control box typically installed near the bladder tank inside the house. The components inside the control box include a starting capacitor and a starting relay, either a solid state or in some cases still an electro-mechanical relay. The higher torque is achieved due to the capacitor being engaged with the start winding of the motor during the starting process. The relay almost instantly removes the capacitor from the circuit as the motor starts. The two pole pressure switch engages and disengages the circuit based on the pressure settings. The two wire is essential an 'across the line' motor with the power from the panel box wiring only through the two pole pressure switch then on to the motor. With no capacitor, the torque to initiate rotation is measurably less than that of the three wire. Nuff said.
About the homebuilt rig...It is built out of salvaged materials from commercial HVAC renovations with the exception of the boat winch and the power threader. The boat winch was a gift and the threader was a pawn shop purchase and the gears and chain was from dismantled industrial equipment. The hubs and wheels are from old farm machinery. The "A" frame is 2 1/2" schedule 40 black iron pipe as well as the jib extension. The two legs of the A frame are slipped into 3" black iron A-shaped sleeve that maintains the angles required for the rig in the raised position. The center section of that sleeve houses a third 3" pipe that allows the 12' jib extension made of more 2 1/2" pipe to telescope into and is adjustable by a series of holes. The cable threads through the 8" diameter sheave on the end of the jib and was originally found in the blacksmith shop out on the old home farm in the early 80's. The whole assembly is assembled by use of 3/4" blower shaft material drilled and secured with three point lynch pins.
My well at home was drilled in 1980 and in less than two years, electrolysis ate through the threads of the original galvanized pipe. Five threads of the nineteen 21' foot sections of the 1" pipe had to be cut off and rethreaded. The installing contractor would not honor the failure and charged me $250.00 to pull it and make the repairs... That was 1982 and at that time, I swore to the Missus I would NEVER pay someone to pull my well again. That was the impetus for building this rig....so the scrounging began.....
Not being sure of the weight of 399' of 1" galvanized pipe and pump I opted to build this rig as heavy as the available materials would allow. I'd helped the old man pulling wells as a kid but none were ever as deep as mine. He'd built an A-frame out of only 1 1/4" pipe and mounted it to the bumper of the old 56 Ford F-250 you don't see in the lean-to. A two ton boat winch was mounted across the bed right behind the cab, and I would turn and turn the extended crank to hand pull the well pumps. Of course during those younger years, I only helped him two or three times, but the memory remained while building this much heavier rig. As a matter of fact, I still have the original well pulling rig components for the '56 Ford, the bosses still welded to the stamped channel iron rear bumper.
I should have taken a tip from the gunslingers of old and ground a notch in the frame for each well we've put to rest since this rig was built. I can't remember all of them, but the number of notches would be impressive. Well...at least to me it would. lol.
I have pulled a well by myself but you can tell be the video it is a handful to accomplish alone. The ladies proved to be waaaaay more than adequate in their abilities to be qualified assistants. Willing to listen and learn, they were eager to do their part. Of course to the Missus, this was old hat, and she was good at coaching the other ladies in their respective jobs. What the heck, she's good at bossing me around so why should this be any different.....LOL. O man, I hope she doesn't read that line.....
All's well that ends well, and well, this well has been put to rest. In other words, well, this is one well job that went well. Pardon the punnage redundunancy but it just couldn't be avoided.
I hope you enjoyed my day with the ladies half as much as I did. I would recommend anyone to do the same....except maybe a day spent on the beach with them would be a bit more enjoyable instead.
Great job and nice to see everyone smiling. When you next consider pulling your pump, please think about our very cool product we have called WellHose DIY Drop Pipe. You could do it all on your own next time !!! Cheers
I've heard of the product but haven't used it yet.
What length reels is it available in. Wells typically around here are 400' and over. Sandi was lucky with such a shallow well.
Very creative, very generous, feels so great to help people.
We have pulled too many wells to keep track of now. I started turning the hand crank on a 2 ton winch my dad built into the back of his 56 Ford 3/4 ton pickup to pull friends and neighbors wells. I was less than 10 years old for the first one I can remember. Thanks Calvin for the time you've taken to watch.
Nothing like putting your knowledge to work ,helping others. A great feeling indeed, i bet . "Well" done. 👌
Hahahaha...I like your pun... There's quite a few people that really appreciate a helping hand, and these ladies are no exception. Sandi has been our neighbor for 22 years and worked 23 years with the Missus at one of the local school districts. Thanks for the comment sir, and of course for watching.
Great equipment for that otherwise difficult job.
Good to watch too!
Good Morning sir...with 285 feet of pipe, its beyond pulling by hand...at least for me anyway. This way, it take a little more time, but there's no fatigue and there's little chance of dropping the well pump into the hole. Like I said in the video, this rig is 95% scrap material out of jobsite trash hoppers.
Your ingenuity shins bright and your skill is how to find these days.
Thanks for the kind words. People in the country start out young learning how to figure out solutions to problems. My Dad's '56 3/4 ton Ford had a steel rear bumper to which they welded a pair of thick steel bosses. They took 1 1/2'' pipe and made a similar 'A' frame that hinged on those two bosses. We had a 2 ton boat winch that mounted across behind the cab in the front stake pockets. The handle extended to the passenger side of the truck and was used to crank the winch to do exactly what I am doing here with the power unit and 1/2 ton boat winch.
First time I was the man on the crank was before I was 10 years old. I still have the '56 Ford, the big winch and the casing jack which we used in this video to hold the pipe from slipping while connecting and disconnecting. Over the years, we pulled a lot of neighboring farmers and relatives wells, some very deep and some not so deep.
On a side note, the primary duty of the boat winch was to drag our homemade 16' x 4' flatbottom boat out of the creek and up the bank into the bed of the truck on night time fish gigging excursions. The boat was made of sawmill lumber off our mill and sealed with tar and roofing paint. Fun stuff for a country boy....gigging at night with nothing but a gas light and reflecting shield. See Brett, you done got me started waxing all nostalgic like.....
Making the ladies happy again Tractorman! LOL! This sure brings back memories. Great job. Mission accomplished. Interesting that folks use the individual piping. The A frame winch sure makes things a little easier than pulling. Enjoyed as always! A good day's work for T44. Tomorrow will bring a new adventure. Cheers kind sir!
Good Morning GP, and I was thinking of your well pulling experience with Guy while doing this job. I was hoping you'd take note of the 'pumpjack' used across the casing to hold the pipe. Maybe by the next time you need to pull a well, you or Guy can find one at an antique store or something. This one was my Dad's from many years ago. Btw, the ladies were a pleasure to work with..... Have a pleasant weekend up there in Central Ontario sir.
I've seen great inventions,but nothing,like that where I come from that's called,fabrication 😮😮😮😅😮😮 ,jimmy from west Texas
Thanks Jim for the kind words. It does work quite well. Not as good as the fanciful hydraulic rigs on well service trucks, but it still does the job. We have done quite a number of wells with it over the years. My 90 year old neighbor lady back in the wood even after this one at our lady-friends house. You should see the jib with winch I made for setting trusses with my Case backhoe: ua-cam.com/video/4XvTSEE4-nw/v-deo.html Fast forward to 9:00 to see it setting (iirc) 40' trusses.
Good evening Sir, you are a very well equip technician and you have a great helping crew !!! I'm very impressed to see that you use various connecting tubes !!! Your A frame is outstanding tool to use !!! Sir, you save a lots of money to these friends !!! Cheers Sir and keep up the good works Sir !!! and I did read all you very detail texte and love reading it !!! You were very lucky man working with nice ladies !!!
Good Morning Dave. You're right about the crew !! My Crew Chief (The Missus), did a great job coaching the rookies. LOLOL. She has been there and done that a number of times with me which gave me an easy day...except for assembly and disassembly that is. Have a nice day sir.
@@tractorman4461 LOL !!! Cheers !!! and the same to you too !!!
Fantastic! We need you and your wife to roll over here to Reno, Nevada for a high mountain well 220' deep! What a Beautiful video, Sir!!
Thank you Ron for the nice comment, I'm glad you liked the videp ! Might be a bit of a drive to help you out, but push come to shove I guess we could do it. LOL 220' wouldn't be much of a problem even if it's in 1'' galvanized like most all the old wells are around here. Any more, I replace the old galvanized with 20' sections of pvc with extruded couplings. The Missus is always read for a road trip. Much more than I. LOL
LOL you were like tom sawyer, ...you made it so interesting for them that the ladies took the job over
Hahahaha....now you know, I never thought of it like that. But I think you are right !! They really enjoyed doing the work.
That's a little bit of brilliant !! My pump just went out..I'd love a rig like this just hanging around for such a thing..Instead, I built about s stories high of scaffolding over the wellhead and I've got a winch at the top with the remote down at the bottom. But having something at the ready that can be deployed is pretty handy !!
Hey whatever will work for you is what you need !! I thought about this for a few years while collecting scrap materials from demo jobs at work. You should be able to use a good transmission from an OLD riding lawnmower with a working brake. You need the brake for when you reverse the transmission. Power the tranny with a 110v electric motor.
If you don't use a transmission, you can use a reversible electric motor and gear reduction box powering a boat winch to do the same thing. Its just that this pipe threader showed up at the local pawn shop and I jumped on it quick. You could use any kind of pipe threader, not necessarily this exact type. You could probably use a 12v atv winch but it would be real slow. I added a 3 to 1 ratio increaser to change the 32 rpm of the threader to 96 rpm at the output shaft of the increaser.
@@tractorman4461 You got me there..I wasn't thinking about the speed of my winch. It's a boat trailer winch..allegedly capable of pulling 2000 lbs. I salvaged it from a junkyard..and to be honest, I've only run it once just to see if the motor works. Now you have me thinking about the speed of the winch..and yeah..I follow..they can be painfully slow. Hmm. I wonder now if I can pull this winch apart and maybe connect my hole-hawg drill to it. I got into this position because the well-guy we used for 75 years passed away. He pulled wells and rebuilt motors until he has 87 and lived until he was 95..got bless his heart. The new guys want $5k to pull the pump...WAY too much if you ask me.
@@wxfield I agree that price is steep !! If you have a pump Jack to hold the pipe on the casing AND a reliable helper and a hydrostatic drive lawnmower or tractor you could hang a pulley up top, thread the cable through and down to a rear rim on the mower. The speed of the larger diameter rim would be much quicker even at an idle. Everything has to be secured though and you HAVE to have trustworthy help to set up and use like this. Old farmers used wheels and axles on cars and trucks to power tons of farm tools back in the day !! Good luck with whatever route you take. I don’t know though if the hole hawg has enough torque to handle the load through the small boat winch’s reduction. Might be tough on your wrists.
@@tractorman4461 Thanks. Maybe the hole-hawg won't do it..but the winch in it's current state should..just slowly. That's ok..I have ~200 ft of 1" schedule 80 pipe to pull..if it takes a while, it'll be a lesson learned and I'll have to think forward to the next time this happens.
The best video I have watch
Thank you sir....I appreciate the kind words. We just pulled my son in laws 400' well two weeks ago. You may like these two videos: ua-cam.com/video/egbwpebjX_k/v-deo.html This shows detailed assembly of the rig and ua-cam.com/video/x3Cp8FY-wO4/v-deo.html this one is the actual project. I hope you find these fun to watch.
Awesome job! I sure wish you lived in my neighborhood.
Good Morning sir...I bet some of my neighbors wish I lived where you do too !! Its just a good thing I live pretty much in the middle of the woods. Thanks for watching and commenting David.
Tractorman44 is a really good guy, he lives about 6 miles from me and he know the way to my house pretty good. Sure wish we had a pump-jack when I helped pull Cindy's well, we used two pieces of flat stock with half holes on the edge of them. They were joined at one end and had a latch at the other.
Another great video and a testament to farmer's not wasting anything.
Full disclosure, my wife and Tractorman44's wife are cousins.
@@mdh7812 Hey man how ya doing ?? Next time let me know....I have a space pump jack you're welcome to borrow. Thanks for the awesome comments sir !! ...and no, I don't throw anything away. lol
That is a cool "A" frame setup you got T44!! That works great for pulling the pumps. Nice job! Have a great weekend! Enjoyed the video!
Thanks John. It may look a little crude, but it does what it does quite well. Don't work too hard this weekend and take care my friend.
Nice set up! Nice to have helpers also! Looked like a rewarding day
Yes, a busy but rewarding day for sure !! And nothing broke down at all !! LOL Not that I expected it to, but it is built from 90% recycled structural steel and gas pipe. This was new territory for two of the ladies, but my wife has helped me a number of times before. Thanks for the visit today.
Nice rig you are a genius 👏 thanks for the idea 💡
Thanks Carlos, for the vote of confidence. It's a simple concept built from salvaged materials and powered by a pawn shop purchase. Power supplied to the winch can be by any means. An electric reversible motor connected to an appropriate gear reduction box like a transmission off a riding lawnmower for example. With the right transmission the reverse could be through the transmission gearing instead of a reversible motor. But if that is the case, you have to have a winch that's fitted with a working hand brake on the reel.
I love the old pipe vise I got one exactly the same thing here at home me and my dad used to pull jack style pumps the duplex pumps with the arms on it whatever the Jack pump used to pull those all the time and he got one like that on a auction . The old Jack pump at my dad's is still stuck in the ground his well is 200 ft deep.
Well once you figure out what you have in your well, you're almost ready to start pulling IF your setup is like I just described.
Great homemade machine! Sure does the job!
Good Evening sir....good to hear from you. Thanks for the comment and yes, it does the job pretty darn good. Thanks again !!
Couple of hints; try to cut the wire at the top of the well and just resplice with wire nuts and please have everyone where gloves fingers are hard to regrow! Should replace the hook with one that has a spring clip in case you get a bump in the pull or reset.
Yes, I have a new safety hook for the next time its to be used. I have a pair of gloves somewhere...but dang I don't like to get 'em wet. LOL. My dad was missing one index finger and most of one thumb but that was from a dynamite cap. He lost one eye as well that day. But yes, you are right about the gloves. I just never got used to them. Thanks Brent for the suggestions, but luckily this machine doesn't come out to play very often anymore.
Well, well, well... It seems all your well-made machines have the same kind of paint that holds well over time. Seriously, once you get that rust patina, then it's going to stay the same for decades. I enjoyed your video! I hope this new pump will last well over 30 years. Say hello to the ladies for me, they worked very well!
Hahahahaha ..starting with a pun, huh Joe ?? lol, funny stuff sir. I like that word...patina. Its kinda like me...a bit old and rusty looking. Let Mother Nature take her course. Now I WILL paint something one of these days Joe, and when I do I will dedicate it to you and good ol' Dave !! The ladies will enjoy getting a message from a handsome Canadian...I just know it !! And yes, they all worked very well and hard too. Thank you for the complimentary comment sir and as always take care and have a great weekend !! .....well...what's left of it anyway.
44 good job around here we use plastic pice one piece but rest is the same
Thsnk you all
God Bless All
PaK
There are a few that are installed with that technique here, but I've not had the chance to work on one yet. That type of piping will have to be dealt with using a different technique. You have a nice day Peter and thanks for hanging in there sir and watching.
How's she goin'? Great rig set up and it does a nice job. My pump is down 185 feet and is all black plastic pump. No joints like on this one!!! Great to see the girls were out giving you a hand. I see Sandy wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty either!!! You're a great fella for offering help like you do and you the gear to get the job done too!!! Take care Wendell!!!
I've never pulled the continuous pipe set up before. I think I can do it with just a slight modification of the rig though. Thanks for watching Mike and those gals jumped right in the fray and worked right up to the end. Thank you sir for the gracious comment.
We have to drill a new well here. Our present well is 816 ft. deep. We pulled the pump last year and replaced it with a new one. The casing is the old style and when they put the pump back down it hit at 450 ft. They didn't want to get rough with it, so they were getting water at 450 and they let it be. The old pump was at 550 ft.
The 1st estimate is in at $36,000 to drill the well and use steel casing. I think we will go with poly. That will save $12,000 to $15,000.
Sorry Gary, this comment went to the spam folder. I just found it. Man o man !! I can't imagine those costs or those depths for a well !! I think the pvc casing is better in the long run. No rust flakes to be knocked loose and drop into the water in the future as its pulled again for the next repair. Pvc is indestructible. Hope you get the issue resolved at the most reasonable price !! Of course by now you may be done with the job.
I really like how you design that were the rig if you ever made another video of that and spent a little more time showing that I would really like to build something like that I'm just used a tripod to pull my well out . The tripod was actually the tripod was actually used for pulling Wells I took a winch off of four wheeler and put it up in the top and then in the top of the way of the tripod and we use that to pull my well out it was a little bit short so I made I bought some extra pipes and I bought one extra pipe and I had two of them to make longer legs to extend them out on the tripod so it Stands a little taller. I would like to put the tripod on a running gear or frame with wheels. I have a starter drive winch that would be way more than heavy enough to pull it😊
Otherwise I've got ideas on how to set set up stuff for winch I've got a couple of different kinds of old winches I got one great big one out in the woods it used to be a hoist that went up in the hay mow of Barns and then you could put a big rope on it to pull hay up into a hay mow it was called a hay hoist . It would be great if you just made a video I bought your well pulling rig that would be awesome
I think I've got several well pulling videos that show the assembly of it with descriptions of most everything that went into it. Here's one we did this last summer: ua-cam.com/video/x3Cp8FY-wO4/v-deo.html Here's another: ua-cam.com/video/1nKCOde_I_IT/v-deo.htmlhis one is a full assembly video if I remember correctly: ua-cam.com/video/egbwpebjX_k/v-deo.html It sounds like you have a good selection of materials to choose from. The key is building it to assemble itself and reach to a high enough level to clear the casing with the 21' lengths of galvanized or 20' lengths of schedule 80 pvc.
You’re a kick ass dude. Nice set up. No fear, mine went out and I am all scared to pull it.
Hahahahaha....you get the gold star for the comment of the day Joe !! LOL I pulled a 250' PVC piped 3/4 hp well totally by hand when I was in my 40's. I wouldn't do it again, but I thought it possible and it was. Are you sure its the pump and not just the controller...? My old rig is just made of scrap material and a pawn shop pipe threader.
Interesting machine. I have seen those threading machines at pawn shops but never though of using them the way you did. There is a well 300ft away from my 8 acres that I been wanting to build me a solar setup so we all could use the water. The water table is about 140ft or 160ft from what I can kind of remember so not as deep as this well. I know solar pumps don't pump out as much as bigger pumps but just want to fill stock tanks so wildlife can roam the property. Thanks for sharing the video.
I bought the square drive accessory that fits right in where normally the pipe die would go. That allows adaption to a 1'' square drive to feed the winch input, but is easily removable when the job is done. I built the 3 to 1 increaser to speed up the threading machine to 96 rpm. Its standard speed with no increaser is only 32 rpm and it is way slow for well pulling.
Pretty neat setup there. Looks like the hardest part is getting centered over the well.
After a time or two, its pretty easy. Sometimes there are tree branches to contend with that makes it a problem. I did my 89 year old neighbor ladys well a few years back and had to remove a roof panel and pull through the roof !! Fun day for sure.
Hi Wendell! Great job! And that’s an impressive rig you’ve made there! Looks like that job requires a lot of patience. Thanks for sharing!
Good Morning Martin, thank you for the compliment sir. It was built out of necessity back in the middle 80's or thereabouts out of piping and steel from jobsite dumpsters. The pawn shop power supply is critical to the way it operates. The job is just a bit time consuming but care has to be taken to ensure the pipe and pump isn't dropped to the bottom of the well. That's why the old man's pump jack is so important no matter what method is used to pull a well.
Loved this video
Well, thank you Floyd. I loved doing the job for our lady friend Sandi and her mother. If it was the home made rig you liked, check out this one if you have time: ua-cam.com/video/4XvTSEE4-nw/v-deo.html We are using another home-grown rig and an old back hoe to set 40' trusses.
I had just shown a bit but you showed the whole job.....When I look at you pulling the pipe I was wondering how they would do my daughter`s 600 foot deep well.....that would be a whole day job for sure for just the pull...good one....CHEERS
Good Evening Gator...it would be a whole day job with my little hodge podge rig, but the regular well pullers have a hydraulic set up that is real fast. Some of the deep wells here have the reel of black plastic pipe all in one piece, but I've never dealt with one of them. My well was 19 sections of 21' galvanized originally (399'), but I changed it eventually to 20 lenghts of 20' schedule 80 threaded pvc with extruded couplings. So mine is 400' and my daughters next door is 420'. Hahahahaha...that morning you showed your submersible pump job, I'd told you we had just done my neighbors lady's the Friday before..... Thanks for watching Gator !! Take care mon ami.
@@tractorman4461 That`s all we use here is the black plastic and for a few hundred feet we pull them by hand but the well drilling guys have a hydraulic-driven spool that they just wind up the pipe and wire on but they don`t come cheap...I think the motor at the camp on the pump was just due and it did not get hit....It was given to me and I had it for eighteen years so I`m satisfied....Now the new pump is in there and it`s working well so....It`s all good....CHEERS
Enjoyed video!
Well, the old rig is a little crude, but it has saved me, family and friends a ton of money over the years. Thanks for watching and commenting. I hope to see you hang around a bit. I'm a retired HVAC service tech, btw.
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Bom dia para você também, senhor. Obrigado por assistir e tenha um bom dia. (Google translate)
@@tractorman4461 obrigada amigo. Aqui no brasil. Tenho uma oficina de solda e sou mecanico de motocicletas. Mais o brasil naõ valorisa o trabalhador so pagamos inpostos e mais inpostos . E a maõ de obra naõ esta valendo nada. E uma triste realidade. Onde vc trabalha
@@jceletroeletronica Eu também trabalho em motos, mas não sou um mecânico de verdade. Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki são as minhas favoritas e tenho algumas que precisam de algum trabalho agora. Os mecânicos de motocicletas vivem bem aqui. Especialmente os especialistas da Harley. (Google translate)
@@tractorman4461 friend the brazilian reality and sad. the devalued salary. a lot of unemployed people. we are living a very bad time
Wow! Tractorman44 and his crew of Ladies! Sure is better than a bunch of stinky guys, FER SER! So who is the boss in this case? I think your crew might interest NASA , eh? And that rig you have there is a TM44 patented design? It looked like you all had a great day and helping a friend or neighbor is what it's all about. Just imagine how the world would be if all people were there to help when needed. I saw you posted this last night but with heavy eyelids I knew I wouldn't make it for long and saved it for first thing this morning as I Toasted You and your attractive Crew. I was also wondering if you were outta there or perhaps went back to the porch, such a Lovely porch it is too. After a day like that I'm sure you must have sought out a fine cuppaJO to go with the porch.
Well me self is getting the greenhouse ready for winter and we have even more plants to get in there. Although Alice wants to put so,e of the big ones in the sunroom and there will certainly be lots more light this year. Those big windows face the south and I will often turn on the ceiling fan to cool things off a bit in the winter. It gets the sun about noon and it should be a great BIG screen tv when the deer are walking around the back of the house, I mean right next to the windows. They like to eat the ivy that seems to go everywhere, at least after the white oak acorns are gone. This helps keep it in check and trimmed.
So the green house is under the deck and is 8x19'. I bought some like new storm windows at the Restore for $7 a piece years back and filled in the spaces. I had some old walk in fridge panels 3" thick with metal on both sides for the ceiling, had an old sliding door and screen door. So all that trash comes in handy, as you well know. A friend gave me some corrugated plastic panels from their old green house I installed over the bottom windows and this year I'm taking the shelves down and cover the top with storm window kits you tightened with a hair dryer. It sometimes just gets a bit too cold in winter with all those aluminum frames but not this year. I keep it warm with Quartz heater set at 55. And sometimes I open the door into the room with the big stove. So before doing this I decided to paint a wall in the greenhouse which lead to the frames which lead to the ceiling and another gallon of paint. The block wall of the house was brown but now white. I might just least it out for surgery it so light in there or may be open up a clinic myself. I have drills, glue, pliers, needle nose pliers of all sizes, duct tape and bungees. I could do cheap surgery while you wait, a complimentary cuppaJO included. I'll send a pic soon to give you a better idea. I am editing now since I hit the send button by accident so I guess this means I need more JO. And of course the second cup is held high your way to the Tractorman44, his Crew and Clan and the Engineer with the mostez with a crew of hostezez. And make sure your crew gets lots of JO. You don't want them going on strike! Love, Light and Peace to the clan Headquarters! DaveyJO
Good Evening sir....I'm like you about not throwing anything away. The few times I did, right away it happened to be that particular thing that was needed !! Always saving for a rainy day, and I've got more than enough for a monsoon !! I laughed at the button pushing too soon. On the silly I-phone the send button gets hit instead of the O or P about half the time. Aggravating it is. I had a buddy that build a whole workshop out of those foam filled aluminum walk-in panels. Twelve foot high and pretty doggone wide and deep too. No windows though but he heated that huge thing with a little pot bellied stove. Haven't talked to him in years, but I am sure its still the same. You sure have some projects going on up there in good old Pennsylvania so I'm figuring soon there'll be another batch of pictures coming this way.
You take care old buddy, and don't work too hard and if you do, maybe find a crew of women folk to give you a hand. Good help they are plus they can put on a pretty good feed bag when the job is done !! Tippin the last cup your way sir. Take care and by five in the morning another will be done the same.
Great video! May I ask what is weighting down the opposite end of your pulling rig? Is it still hooked up to your truck?
The two outriggers on the back support the rear and the front of it is just attached to the draw bar on what ever tractor is used. It could be hooked to the truck, but I always have a tractor around. Much easier to align with the well casing with a tractor.
Sweet rig!!! 👍👍👍
Well it surely ain't pretty, but it IS pretty functional !! When I built this one I had 420' of 1'' galvanized pipe and I had to make sure the total weight would give no issue. Most wells all now are 20' sections of schedule 80 threaded PVC and even some are endless lengths of roll tubing !! But I'm using this until either it wears out or I wear out !! (another one in the spam)
I was sitting on me porch and had my cuppaJO aimed your way, my iPad in hand and thought, sure be nice to have a 44 vid to go with my JO. Sure enough, there it was and I raised me cuppaJO higher! How you get those women crews I don't know! Must be your charm, Hollywoods looks and impressive machines I recon. You should do a video just on this topic for those of us who lack women crews. Then we can delight and profit from such adventures. But then we don't have that 44 charm but perhaps you could sell some TM44 masks so we could get some of those women crews interested. I saw this vid before but delighted just as much this time with me morningJO. For this I raise me cup even higher your way and I don't mean I'm standing on me roof, just me porch and with feelin! Can you believe it's Thursday already? Wasn't it just Friday? The way it's going could mean the big dirt nap is just around the corner, or big BBQ whichever one prefers. But in the meantime there's plenty to do and no doubt, you and I will have a repair shop on the other side. I can see it now, St. Peter bringing us a bushel basket of halos and telling us, these damn imports aren't as good as the old ones! And if allowed to take our junk pile along it won't be any problem, no job too big or too small. Lightning welders, can you imagine? Plasma cutting with a finger, cool! And if you cut off a finger you just get another one, no problem! But for now, better get back to it. So I'm sittin here with me JO thinking about the thing that need done so it requires a bit of time in thinking on it so I'd better get more JO it come up with the proper things that I should tackle next. But first, I raise me cup your way once more as I think on what I need to think about to find out what I need to get to it when I discover what it is. I bid you good Thursday goodness, CupsOJO and a Fine Time! DaveyJO
I feel blessed to live near a good pile of lady-folk need and appreciate a little hand now and then. The best times though are the ones where they pin back their ears and jump right into the mix and help get it done !! These two ladies come with a unique story. The mother of our lady friend moved from the big city to the country back in the early 70's and wasn't real 'up' on living in the woods and all that goes with it. The family moved in next to our second farm where one of my uncles lived with his family. He took the young city folks needs to heart and helped them for years and years. Well fast forward and the one daughter (Sandi) ended up working with my Missus at the same school, became close friends and then moved about a mile down the road. So for years and years I've been helping her with all sorts of things, like the well pump, swimming pool pumps, furnace, a/c, electric stuff, hand rails, chimney leaks, lawnmower and ski-doo repairs, trailer bearings and fender repairs.....well...to name a few. I'm sure my old uncle is looking up from down below thinking it kindly that I've assumed his gesture. Since he's passed many years ago I also take care of the mother's occasional issues that pop us as well. Now my SIL has been doing some of the repairs for both too. Just this weekend in DaveyJO fashion, he brought 6 dining room chairs to his shop to re-glue and tightern up all the jointery....all without even a sip of JO....oh, what sacrilege has he committed. LOL !!
Tractorman44 No JO in action while regluing a set of chairs??? Geeeezzzzzzz! Where's the magic? What's the point? Where's the JO? He won't get much of a lady crew without ?JO! This means that he won't have as much pep running away when he screws up! Godda git that vitamin "J"! Thanks for the return TM44 Friend! DaveyJO
Mine has cement plugging the pvc sticking out of the ground. Is that normal?
I wouldn't say that's 'normal', because the casing is usually capped with a removable cast aluminum or steel cap. That casing cap is designed to allow conduit or wires to enter the casing along the side from underground, up into and under the cap.
P awesome I love it perfect job I love the rig that is just a sweet looking old rig man looks bike parts off what parts of an old Manor spreader are some old Implement I love it the excellent job I'm at work right now on my well.
Trying to get the cap off of my well and I can't I don't know how where I'm supposed to hook to to pull it my well is 250 ft deep and I can't don't have any idea where I'm supposed to put whatever in the top seal and cap it's a 6-inch steel casing and I can't figure out where I'm supposed to put the I bolt or something else to hook into the pool of the well I don't know what I'm supposed to put anything I don't remember. I don't remember what I'm supposed to do and I can't find any place on the internet that tells me where to hook on the top of the cap or the seal to start pulling it.
Does your well have a cap with three captive bolts attaching it to the casing ? Do the wires come out from under a little spot in the cap? If so, that comes off to expose a 'pitless adapter' down below the freeze level. At 250', it's probably only 1" pipe. The Pitless adapter has a wedge fitting on the side that slides inside a matching 'V' female notch which then connects through the wall of the casing to the actual pipe going into your home. IF this is what you see....measure from a foot above the the casing to the pitless adapter. It SHOULD have a 1' female set of threads on the top that you screw a 1'' piece of steel pipe into to allow the winch to pull the pump motor/pipe out of the wedgelock of the pitless adapter. If this isn't what you have, describe to me what you DO have. In the meantime, google PITLESS ADAPTER to see how it works. That will help you a lot I think.