I have been a truck mechanic since I was 17, I'm going to be 63 in June. One thing that the years have taught me is appreciation for quality of workmanship and real professionals that do that kind of work. This is what I see in your videos, and I'm very pleased that this level of customer service is still out there. Keep up the good work! Watching this episode was like watching a short movie that kept me hoping the good guys would win, and they did. I was actually very happy for the homeowner, and you both.
Great workmanship is priceless. With the skills you displayed, fixing up the poor workmanship of all those that put their hands on to that job, plus machine use time and labor ...No less than $3500....
That's a $2500 to $3,000 job. The "Brother-in-law" price would be $1500, but only if he shared your political beliefs and you owed him a favor. If not, $2,000 brother-in-law price.
@@bigred350x9 Haha. He should've charged $8-1300? Nothing wrong with minimum wage, huh? ...What about his expenses??? Employees, fuel, equipment, and especially his skilled time? Your rates would run this company into the ground! Plumbers and electricians are charging $3-400/hr! And consider the amount the customer saved -- new wells in Central Texas currently cost $65/ft to drill.
@@bigred350x9you obviously don’t run a business and have to pay: for vehicles, heavy machinery, trailers, fuel, maintainance , insurance, licenses, permits, repairs, wages, workers comp, bonding, benefits, social security, healthcare, taxes, parts, supplies, admin, marketing, training, creative thinking, problem solving, custom design and manufacturing, etc. Which is not a problem. Until you are the one that drops the cable and rope down the shaft. At which point you bail, and talent like this guy have to come save the day.
E cellent video! I used to create up front price books for plumbers. (Now retired, occaisionally tinkering with solar wells). For scenarios like this, I used a 3 Step price where the customer agreed to the highest price which would include your crane, camera if needed and X number of capture attempts. Explain all the things you'll try before recommending a new well. Then, explain that you'll start simple, then escalate as indicated. Give a discount for each tier of escalation you DON'T use. This way, you can afford to show up fully loaded for bear, saving trips, and your customer already knows the worst case. By knocking items off the worst price, you get to be the hero because you're clearly demonstrating to the customer that you're trying to save them money. You also have an agreed upon price, even if the pump is stuck. You should also have a flat rate for different components (wire termination, x$ per foot for wire, pipe etc). In this scenario, fishing the pump and replacing the wires should easily command $2k without the crane or hoe. You're not sitting around watching UA-cam all day. Make every job pay off. You might make enough to invest in an apprentice. 😊
I had my submersible pump fall into my 400' well. The top of the pipe was at 260 ft from the surface opening. Long story short, I was finally successful in fishing it out by fabricating a harpoon looking hook using a stepper drill bit welded on a 10 ft steel pipe that I was able to guide on top of the 1 1/4 black pipe. I then used another heavy pipe with a stranded guy wire also guided into the first hooked pipe. I would raise the steel pipe about 10 ft and pound the hooked one about 10 times. I then used my boom bucket that I converted to a hoist boom with an electric winch to raise the pipe, wire, and pump out. The harpoon steel end was so tight on the black pipe that I could not take it off, so I just cut it off and still have it as a reminder of my 3-month struggle to get the pump out. It saved me from having to drill another expensive well. All this would have never been possible without my purchase of an underwater camera that was instrumental in finding the end of top of the well pipe and using it to guide my jury-rigged harpoon in place. Never again, just too stressful, but good thing I was retired, and my neighbor kindly shared his water while I worked on my project(or nightmare).😡
I seen in the comments you charged him $1900 and seen other people’s estimates. I think you were very fair and probably have a repeat customer for sure. So to me you win
Considering you brought out the truck, I would say 2000. To 2200 would make you decent money with no haggling with the owner. You didn't spend alot of cash. Mostly ability to handle the job. Call me what you may. Times are tough on alot of us. I believe we should be as fair and responsible as cost allows. I have this problem and by weekend over it will be fixed! Good job man! Thanks for sharing..🦅🇺🇸🇨🇱🦅🕊
Generally speaking, remember the customer is a SENIOR ADULT (generally on the CHEAP side). I have worked with Senior Adults and 9 times out of 10 they go cheap. They like the F*R*E*E stuff. If he can get someone else later that is cheaper, then he will.
This is my new favorite channel! My cousin knocked my uncle's favorite multi-tool down their well. I brought over a strong magnet and my grouper rig with a Penn 6/0 that's spooled with 130lb test Dacron. He's fortunate that their well casing is plastic and the magnetic didn't get stuck. We sleeved the round magnet with a thick wall PVC pipe connector. To hopefully keep it from sticking to any clamps or connectors. I was worried it was going to get stuck and then we would have to pull everything up. It took a bit of fishing around before we felt a slight click on the line. Then up it came... nope! It was an old pair of pliers my uncle dropped down there who knows how long ago. 😆 We never did get the multi-tool. Maybe next time he drops something down there we will get it instead. 😄
Liked your story. Old pliers steel; multi-tool probably stainless steel which will not stick to a magnet. One good thing is you might have removed some rusty taste from the water. Be Safe.
You're the only one who knows how much to charge, to keep the doors open, to pay the overhead, to feed your family. Don't depend on anyone but yourself to satisfy your obligations and you will do fine. Thanks for the vid!
Great job on that well my friend. You'll never be out of work. Thanks for sharing. I have a much greater appreciation of water after watching your videos.
You sure lucked out grabbing that ground wire! Good job. I was surprised you originally agreed just to fish out the pump and leave the rest of the job to the 'handyman.' I would have expected you to either take the whole job or not at all. You do great work.
@@billmonroe8826I got a call once like that where a handyman dropped the two half moon pieces down onto the pump and left and never came back . People had been without water over a month when they called me. I took a ten foot piece of angel iron and drilled a half inch hole in one end and tied a rope and started slamming the pump loose and the owner was catching it when I got it loose. Until we got it up where I could reach in and pull what was left of the pieces and get them off of the pump.. one happy customer for sure. Owner said he would put the new pump in but his wife called me three days later and wanted me to go ahead and put it in, it’s a good thing that they did because the new pump had the capacitor built in where the old pump took the control box. He would have burned the new pump up without changing the wiring around
Or along with the handyman's "help", the 2019 crew could have been prohibited from doing a first class job by the cheap a$$ed land owner wanting to pay for nothing more than a patch job at the time. You notice at the start of this the owner wanted the OP to only fish the mess out of the hole and then the owners inexpensive handyman would do the rest.
@@marybilbrey7013people seem to have this notion that increasing air pressure in the pressure tank will increase water pressure, they don’t seem to realize that the pump provides the pressure not the tank, all the tank is there to do is allow the pump to run on its proper cycle
Don't be too harsh a judge on the handyman. I'm a recently retired one myself. Handymen are capable of a great variety of skilled jobs, usually charging must less than the 'journeymen guys'. Not that there's anything wrong with them! No, this handyman's mistake was thinking he knew how to fix that well pump. While he has the skills to fix it, I doubt he had 'the knowledge'. I can't tell you how many jobs I've successfully completed NOT KNOWING A DAMN THING ABOUT THEM! Yet, I'd come in, explain the process to the customer in great detail and come off looking for all the world a 'professional'. How was I able to accomplish this? In the beginning of my career, I'd ask a lot of questions or go to the library for research. Since the advent of the internet, however? 2 words: UA-cam videos. Lots of 'em! The moral of this story? DO YOUR RESEARCH before you get 'handy'! 🤣
Just came accross you videos a few days ago its great seeing how honest you qre with ppl. Also nice seeing how clean all your work is keep up the great work my freind:)
in 2008 on our 680' well with the pump being at 220' our pump went bad and it cost us just over $2000 to pull out the pump and replace it. It was right after a very bad 2 -3 year drought in Texas and our water level had dropped 20 feet so their engineer had them drop our pump 20' lower than before. Almeda Water Well Service in Manvel Texas. Excellent folks just like you guys.
I know almost nothing about wells. But years ago a day care center in an old brick schoolhouse lost their water.The pump was tripping the breaker. I found a ground in the pump cable in the well. A friend that also had no well experience and I figured out that we needed to pull that well. It was old and had an iron casing. Sure enough, one of the electrical cables had rubbed the casing, wore thru the insulation and welded itself to it., then broke when we pulled it all out. I wish we had UA-cam back then. Thanks for the videos you do, I know it helps a lot of people now.
I love Fishing Trips !!!! Those Are the Easy easy Days . It's a Relief for me sometimes to not be covered in Sweat, mud , tears 😂 rock cuttings , Hearing a Hammer slam all day and rig running Ground contamination etc etc . Fishing trips are great and camera trips !!!! Nice clean professional skilled labor 💪 good job !!
Nice catch! Lucky the homeowner called you, otherwise he may have been paying to drill a new well. I wonder if "the handyman" who dropped the pump in the first place was actually him?
Your knowledge, ethics and ingenuity are to be commended. I hope you charged your customer accordingly for your time and effort. I am a city guy with no knowledge or need for a well.. But I love learning about all things mechanical.
Kudos to you. I greatly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great videos. I've always been intrigued by the deep well technology and you are truly an expert. I will continue to follow your vids. Kudos to you!
Not only did you have to fish it out but re-wire it and plumb new fittings. You had to bring in your hevy equipment, fabricate another tool and rework your previous schedules. I'd say, $1,500 - $2,000. You see, your shared knowledge of caution on the well seal has alread saved me $2,000 if ever I own a well. Just because I don't own a well doesn't mean I don't like learning. Thx 4 the great videos!
I appreciate the quality of your work and your work ethic! I'm not sure I would have agreed to just fish it out without getting to do the whole job, but in the end your hard work and dedication earns you the entire job. Anyway! Skilled tradesmen such as yourself are difficult to find who are honest and fair and do a good job! You should be proud of the work that you do! Looks like a couple of thousand dollars worth of work to me!
After seeing what you went through, I’d be looking at 3400 because of all the new wiring and all the trips you had to make and the extra equipment I think that’s a very fair price. I love to fix somebody else’s mistakes.
You are a true craftsman.......you look so young for all your knowledge. Its not always how much you worked to solve the issue but how much you know to fix the problem.
I had a well drilled 200 feet and my wife and I set the pump using one of your videos for guidance. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't believe the well guy was seriously ripping me off. In any case, my irrigation well is working great thanks for that. Nice job on this mess too.
Now I'm aware what can go wrong and what can go right and it sucks to have no water so I've been watching your videos apply the stuff you do to may 200ft well
Great content. Particularly I was interested in the detailed explanation at the end regarding the accumulator tank pressure settings. You did check it prior to turning the pump on. but I don’t think you emphasize that the diaphragm pressure is checked/set with the tank EMPTY. Maybe your next video that you encounter a accumulator tank issue, you could emphasize that the pressure is set with the tank empty. I could see many DIYers running out to their tank and checking the pressure with the tank full. Again, love the channel!
$3000. Good job on the fishing. Worst we ever had was a stuck pump with 400 feet of rope and wire somebody Jammed 25 ft from the top. Took 40 foot of auger extension and a 4 inch auger to even get enough wire and rope out to get it to move down the hole. Three men, five days with a truck and a SkidLoader with augers. We ended up cutting to pipe off the pump and ramming all the wire/rope to the bottom and hang a new pump. She wanted to pay us more because of all the work but her fishing bill was $10,000. Very rewarding to be able to get her back in water.
We do the same thing in Ontario Canada, your time is worth something. Insurance on vehicles and fuel. Don't forget the one thing is your knowledge, you got the job done. Good luck on the next one.
My well guy pulled my well added 10ft pipe 20,000 and in 3 months came back out and pulled it the pipe they put in had a small hole, another 10,000. I'm just praying it's good now suppose to be under warranty now, but we will see. I have been learning a lot from you. Maybe next, well, guy won't be able to con me. You are great👍
I had a well where the plumber used a plastic joiner. It snapped and Turned the ground into quick sand. Always use a big pressure tank for less cycling, pump will last longer.
Congrats you are the right person for the right job. Like the way you handle things. Charge for the equipment used, labor hrs, well pump wiring installation, re-installation of the pump and final check bladder system and equipment Mobilization. This of course to your local charges and fees. Great job!!
Thanks for the info. we just had a major battle with a "birds nest". i.e. 180' of balled up wire and rope. BTW...Our local well driller charges $150 hr. for service work, same goes for our plumber. Thanks again!
Good job, hind sight says why didn’t I start with the rig 1st, but being optimist we always hope for the quick and easy. Minimum $ for this amount of headache on an unscheduled emergency no water should be around $2300-$2500. I would probably have charged a little more because this was not an existing customer, and from the beginning was not willing to pay to have the job done properly. Hopefully he has learned, and you now have a longtime customer. 😜
I spend a lot of time on UA-cam exploring ideas, researching problems, and basically trying to learn whatever I can. I am a locksmith by trade, but after turning on English subtitles/close captioning (the girlfriend is sleeping in the other room), and running two or three of your videos at 1.5x the normal speed (some people have so much fluff on their videos or just talk too darn slow) I feel I'm ready to hook up to the boss's well pump, get'er done, and finish in time for him to get his morning shower. Thank you much.
I had a well company come out and quote me on replacing the screen and foot valve on an old 2" well. They couldn't do the work because the well was underneath an overhang and the well casing seemed to be broken somewhere in the well because it moved around and felt loose. They charged me 500 dollars just to tell me the well was shot and needed to be replaced. I moved out of the place and decided to rebuilt my property which had a fairly new 4" well that pumped up and worked perfectly. I since used the property for a cannabis farm and use quite a lot of water without any issues from the well (knock on wood).
I thought all you had to do was retrieve it and the, um "handyman" would take it from there... Yeah right! I know how that usually goes. Great job, thanks for sharing.
It is refreshing to see a young man taking on a career in this field of work. You know your stuff and its shows. I would say the handyman is not so handy, good job cleaning up his mess.
You did a great job. I've have had well trouble for 6 years,it seems like I keep getting it fixed over and over and over.each time costing me 1,200 or so. This time myself and a friend fixed it for 375. The pump would come on and cut off so fast non stop when running water. A neighbor came over and reset the pressure switch that didn't help then he checked the bladder tank and said there is the problem. When pushing on the air valve water came out. Yeap bad bladder. So another friend and I replaced that tank the next day.re pipe it.re primed it and down drain the water lines. Now if my pump would have went bad it would have cost 1000 dollars for pump. It's been 4 weeks now and all is good. My pump is a 1hp upright deep well pump. I dont like the pump.but I think it's like a 4 inch hole going down around 100 feet.
I have been a truck mechanic since I was 17, I'm going to be 63 in June. One thing that the years have taught me is appreciation for quality of workmanship and real professionals that do that kind of work. This is what I see in your videos, and I'm very pleased that this level of customer service is still out there. Keep up the good work!
Watching this episode was like watching a short movie that kept me hoping the good guys would win, and they did. I was actually very happy for the homeowner, and you both.
Having the right tools = $3000. Knowing how to use them, priceless.
Thank you for sharing, i have used that tool to remove a stuck pump. It saved me a lot of money.
By the way, am from Tanzania, East Africa.
Great workmanship is priceless. With the skills you displayed, fixing up the poor workmanship of all those that put their hands on to that job, plus machine use time and labor ...No less than $3500....
$2500-$3000. Time, labor, the right tools and knowledge.
That's a $2500 to $3,000 job. The "Brother-in-law" price would be $1500, but only if he shared your political beliefs and you owed him a favor. If not, $2,000 brother-in-law price.
cost of political beliefs have gone up!
Highway robbery $800-$1300
Great Job, you are so smart
@@bigred350x9 Haha. He should've charged $8-1300? Nothing wrong with minimum wage, huh? ...What about his expenses??? Employees, fuel, equipment, and especially his skilled time? Your rates would run this company into the ground! Plumbers and electricians are charging $3-400/hr! And consider the amount the customer saved -- new wells in Central Texas currently cost $65/ft to drill.
@@bigred350x9you obviously don’t run a business and have to pay: for vehicles, heavy machinery, trailers, fuel, maintainance , insurance, licenses, permits, repairs, wages, workers comp, bonding, benefits, social security, healthcare, taxes, parts, supplies, admin, marketing, training, creative thinking, problem solving, custom design and manufacturing, etc.
Which is not a problem. Until you are the one that drops the cable and rope down the shaft. At which point you bail, and talent like this guy have to come save the day.
E cellent video!
I used to create up front price books for plumbers. (Now retired, occaisionally tinkering with solar wells).
For scenarios like this, I used a 3 Step price where the customer agreed to the highest price which would include your crane, camera if needed and X number of capture attempts.
Explain all the things you'll try before recommending a new well.
Then, explain that you'll start simple, then escalate as indicated.
Give a discount for each tier of escalation you DON'T use.
This way, you can afford to show up fully loaded for bear, saving trips, and your customer already knows the worst case.
By knocking items off the worst price, you get to be the hero because you're clearly demonstrating to the customer that you're trying to save them money.
You also have an agreed upon price, even if the pump is stuck.
You should also have a flat rate for different components (wire termination, x$ per foot for wire, pipe etc).
In this scenario, fishing the pump and replacing the wires should easily command $2k without the crane or hoe. You're not sitting around watching UA-cam all day. Make every job pay off. You might make enough to invest in an apprentice. 😊
I got so much more out of this video than how to retrieve a pump. Thank you.
I would say 3 thousand ..you actually saved him from having to drill a new well
I had my submersible pump fall into my 400' well. The top of the pipe was at 260 ft from the surface opening. Long story short, I was finally successful in fishing it out by fabricating a harpoon looking hook using a stepper drill bit welded on a 10 ft steel pipe that I was able to guide on top of the 1 1/4 black pipe. I then used another heavy pipe with a stranded guy wire also guided into the first hooked pipe. I would raise the steel pipe about 10 ft and pound the hooked one about 10 times. I then used my boom bucket that I converted to a hoist boom with an electric winch to raise the pipe, wire, and pump out. The harpoon steel end was so tight on the black pipe that I could not take it off, so I just cut it off and still have it as a reminder of my 3-month struggle to get the pump out. It saved me from having to drill another expensive well. All this would have never been possible without my purchase of an underwater camera that was instrumental in finding the end of top of the well pipe and using it to guide my jury-rigged harpoon in place. Never again, just too stressful, but good thing I was retired, and my neighbor kindly shared his water while I worked on my project(or nightmare).😡
I seen in the comments you charged him $1900 and seen other people’s estimates. I think you were very fair and probably have a repeat customer for sure. So to me you win
Considering you brought out the truck, I would say 2000. To 2200 would make you decent money with no haggling with the owner.
You didn't spend alot of cash. Mostly ability to handle the job.
Call me what you may. Times are tough on alot of us. I believe we should be as fair and responsible as cost allows.
I have this problem and by weekend over it will be fixed! Good job man! Thanks for sharing..🦅🇺🇸🇨🇱🦅🕊
Generally speaking, remember the customer is a SENIOR ADULT (generally on the CHEAP side). I have worked with Senior Adults and 9 times out of 10 they go cheap. They like the F*R*E*E stuff. If he can get someone else later that is cheaper, then he will.
Landlord Handymen have made me a lot of money over the years
The landlord was the handyman.
This is my new favorite channel!
My cousin knocked my uncle's favorite multi-tool down their well. I brought over a strong magnet and my grouper rig with a Penn 6/0 that's spooled with 130lb test Dacron. He's fortunate that their well casing is plastic and the magnetic didn't get stuck. We sleeved the round magnet with a thick wall PVC pipe connector. To hopefully keep it from sticking to any clamps or connectors. I was worried it was going to get stuck and then we would have to pull everything up. It took a bit of fishing around before we felt a slight click on the line. Then up it came... nope! It was an old pair of pliers my uncle dropped down there who knows how long ago. 😆
We never did get the multi-tool. Maybe next time he drops something down there we will get it instead. 😄
Liked your story. Old pliers steel; multi-tool probably stainless steel which will not stick to a magnet. One good thing is you might have removed some rusty taste from the water. Be Safe.
You're the only one who knows how much to charge, to keep the doors open, to pay the overhead, to feed your family. Don't depend on anyone but yourself to satisfy your obligations and you will do fine. Thanks for the vid!
Great job on that well my friend. You'll never be out of work. Thanks for sharing. I have a much greater appreciation of water after watching your videos.
You sure lucked out grabbing that ground wire! Good job. I was surprised you originally agreed just to fish out the pump and leave the rest of the job to the 'handyman.' I would have expected you to either take the whole job or not at all. You do great work.
I thought the same thing as well. But as it turned out he's probably got a repeat customer.
Good job I had no idea how to get a pump out
There is no "whole" job in service work.
The old fart is obnoxious but not uncommon.
@@richardbrown8794 _"I had no idea how to get a pump out"_
Every fishing job is different
@@billmonroe8826I got a call once like that where a handyman dropped the two half moon pieces down onto the pump and left and never came back . People had been without water over a month when they called me. I took a ten foot piece of angel iron and drilled a half inch hole in one end and tied a rope and started slamming the pump loose and the owner was catching it when I got it loose. Until we got it up where I could reach in and pull what was left of the pieces and get them off of the pump.. one happy customer for sure. Owner said he would put the new pump in but his wife called me three days later and wanted me to go ahead and put it in, it’s a good thing that they did because the new pump had the capacitor built in where the old pump took the control box. He would have burned the new pump up without changing the wiring around
I love seeing the pride you take in your work
The handyman is probably the one that got him in that mess to begin with.
Or along with the handyman's "help", the 2019 crew could have been prohibited from doing a first class job by the cheap a$$ed land owner wanting to pay for nothing more than a patch job at the time. You notice at the start of this the owner wanted the OP to only fish the mess out of the hole and then the owners inexpensive handyman would do the rest.
@Kent Fowler yup! On day 3 he said for me to go ahead and just fix it all right. So I did just that
And the handy man is probably who added the 44lbs of pressure in the tank! And why do you have an ex-wife!? That girl's crazy!!
@@marybilbrey7013people seem to have this notion that increasing air pressure in the pressure tank will increase water pressure, they don’t seem to realize that the pump provides the pressure not the tank, all the tank is there to do is allow the pump to run on its proper cycle
Don't be too harsh a judge on the handyman. I'm a recently retired one myself. Handymen are capable of a great variety of skilled jobs, usually charging must less than the 'journeymen guys'. Not that there's anything wrong with them! No, this handyman's mistake was thinking he knew how to fix that well pump. While he has the skills to fix it, I doubt he had 'the knowledge'. I can't tell you how many jobs I've successfully completed NOT KNOWING A DAMN THING ABOUT THEM! Yet, I'd come in, explain the process to the customer in great detail and come off looking for all the world a 'professional'. How was I able to accomplish this? In the beginning of my career, I'd ask a lot of questions or go to the library for research. Since the advent of the internet, however? 2 words: UA-cam videos. Lots of 'em! The moral of this story? DO YOUR RESEARCH before you get 'handy'! 🤣
Just came accross you videos a few days ago its great seeing how honest you qre with ppl. Also nice seeing how clean all your work is keep up the great work my freind:)
Great video!!! Thanks for taking us along. It's nice to see problems like this and also Solutions just in case this ever happened
You do good work 👍🏽
i subbed. i have a well pump and you are very knowledgeable on the system. i learned a lot thank you
in 2008 on our 680' well with the pump being at 220' our pump went bad and it cost us just over $2000 to pull out the pump and replace it. It was right after a very bad 2 -3 year drought in Texas and our water level had dropped 20 feet so their engineer had them drop our pump 20' lower than before. Almeda Water Well Service in Manvel Texas. Excellent folks just like you guys.
I know almost nothing about wells. But years ago a day care center in an old brick schoolhouse lost their water.The pump was tripping the breaker. I found a ground in the pump cable in the well. A friend that also had no well experience and I figured out that we needed to pull that well. It was old and had an iron casing. Sure enough, one of the electrical cables had rubbed the casing, wore thru the insulation and welded itself to it., then broke when we pulled it all out. I wish we had UA-cam back then. Thanks for the videos you do, I know it helps a lot of people now.
Again Thanks for your help. I got my well working. Wound up replacing the well pump.
Great job!
Awesome job 👍
Good job. Well done.
Mr Handyman looked happy at the retrieval. Mr Proman did a great job.
Great work.
Excellent job.
I love Fishing Trips !!!! Those Are the Easy easy Days . It's a Relief for me sometimes to not be covered in Sweat, mud , tears 😂 rock cuttings , Hearing a Hammer slam all day and rig running Ground contamination etc etc . Fishing trips are great and camera trips !!!! Nice clean professional skilled labor 💪 good job !!
Ur shop is so nice!!
Thanks for the great video
You are so,good! Great video
You are extremely knowledgeable.
Great Video... Will watch more...
Great job in getting that out and resolved. Love the quality and detail you put into your work. God bless.
Good info on that bladder tank pressure!
Am from Cameroon. This video is so helpful. Thanks
Nice job. I don't even have a submisible pump (shallow well) but I learned a few things.. Like making that retrieval tool.. awsome!
Found it very educating
Nice catch! Lucky the homeowner called you, otherwise he may have been paying to drill a new well. I wonder if "the handyman" who dropped the pump in the first place was actually him?
Your knowledge, ethics and ingenuity are to be commended. I hope you charged your customer accordingly for your time and effort. I am a city guy with no knowledge or need for a well.. But I love learning about all things mechanical.
Kudos to you. I greatly enjoy your videos. Keep up the great videos. I've always been intrigued by the deep well technology and you are truly an expert. I will continue to follow your vids. Kudos to you!
You're doing a great job man! when in doubt call the H20 Mechanic, thank you for the video!
Nice job
Well done, earned a like and sub.... Thanks for the explanation about the proper amount of air pressure.
another great job, I am learning so much - great content, thank you
I love this Video! You are worth your weight in gold in this one young man!
Not only did you have to fish it out but re-wire it and plumb new fittings.
You had to bring in your hevy equipment, fabricate another tool and rework your previous schedules.
I'd say, $1,500 - $2,000.
You see, your shared knowledge of caution on the well seal has alread saved me $2,000 if ever I own a well.
Just because I don't own a well doesn't mean I don't like learning.
Thx 4 the great videos!
I appreciate the quality of your work and your work ethic! I'm not sure I would have agreed to just fish it out without getting to do the whole job, but in the end your hard work and dedication earns you the entire job. Anyway! Skilled tradesmen such as yourself are difficult to find who are honest and fair and do a good job! You should be proud of the work that you do! Looks like a couple of thousand dollars worth of work to me!
And when you find one, he's using whole day to fix other made errors to even get start to work..
I would charge 1200 to 1500
MacGyver the man with all the tools in house homemade ! glad to see a good outcome !
Quite educative content. I have learnt alot
Awesome job I like analog tools myself .. batteries eventually go bad or the tools act up. Great job
Great video
Good Man for being man enough to keep things civil with the Ex and help out!!! Very Well Done!!!
Fantastic job done again
Another great video. You answered my question as to if a “good” well guy can fish out the old pump. Thank you very much.
Very good video. You are indeed a teacher.
After seeing what you went through, I’d be looking at 3400 because of all the new wiring and all the trips you had to make and the extra equipment I think that’s a very fair price. I love to fix somebody else’s mistakes.
First-time watcher. You were great 👍. I'll be watching. Good job 2all 🥶 🐲
great thanks
Surely , that had to be on the bottom of the list of favorite customers for a service call :-)
You are a true craftsman.......you look so young for all your knowledge. Its not always how much you worked to solve the issue but how much you know to fix the problem.
Good work 😎
Sure was nice to get that extra help at the pump lifting.
Been on a working well for 4 yrs . Never had to work on it but i know i will eventually. Lsarnjng a lot.
Thanks learned a lot
Always,always,always good to see a job done properly. Great work.
Nice!!!!😊
I had a well drilled 200 feet and my wife and I set the pump using one of your videos for guidance. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't believe the well guy was seriously ripping me off. In any case, my irrigation well is working great thanks for that. Nice job on this mess too.
Highly reccomend plastic wire bushings we always use them every 15 feet.
find your videos very interesting, greetings from Queensland Australia
Now I'm aware what can go wrong and what can go right and it sucks to have no water so I've been watching your videos apply the stuff you do to may 200ft well
Great job! That was a LOT of work due to a customer error. I would say charge by time and material. You deserve it, you do great work!
Great content. Particularly I was interested in the detailed explanation at the end regarding the accumulator tank pressure settings. You did check it prior to turning the pump on. but I don’t think you emphasize that the diaphragm pressure is checked/set with the tank EMPTY. Maybe your next video that you encounter a accumulator tank issue, you could emphasize that the pressure is set with the tank empty. I could see many DIYers running out to their tank and checking the pressure with the tank full. Again, love the channel!
Great to watch a guy work who knows his stuff. Awesome job! Thanks for the vid.
$3000. Good job on the fishing. Worst we ever had was a stuck pump with 400 feet of rope and wire somebody Jammed 25 ft from the top. Took 40 foot of auger extension and a 4 inch auger to even get enough wire and rope out to get it to move down the hole. Three men, five days with a truck and a SkidLoader with augers. We ended up cutting to pipe off the pump and ramming all the wire/rope to the bottom and hang a new pump. She wanted to pay us more because of all the work but her fishing bill was $10,000. Very rewarding to be able to get her back in water.
We are putting a well in and loosing the pump is something I worry about. I've subscribed!
Total pro at work here....
We do the same thing in Ontario Canada, your time is worth something. Insurance on vehicles and fuel. Don't forget the one thing is your knowledge, you got the job done. Good luck on the next one.
Nice.
It's always nice to see someone that takes pride in their work. Do it right, or don't do it at all. Looked like $1,800 job
1849 is what I charged. You nailed it!
@@h2omechanic Lol.. I'd say fair for both parties, but you were the generous one.
I agree with you. $300 an hour is fair for bailing out someone else's screw up!
What I call having to wipe someone’s butt
@@h2omechanic I was going to guess $2500
My well guy pulled my well added 10ft pipe 20,000 and in 3 months came back out and pulled it the pipe they put in had a small hole, another 10,000. I'm just praying it's good now suppose to be under warranty now, but we will see. I have been learning a lot from you. Maybe next, well, guy won't be able to con me. You are great👍
I had a well where the plumber used a plastic joiner. It snapped and Turned the ground into quick sand. Always use a big pressure tank for less cycling, pump will last longer.
Good job
Congrats you are the right person for the right job. Like the way you handle things. Charge for the equipment used, labor hrs, well pump wiring installation, re-installation of the pump and final check bladder system and equipment Mobilization. This of course to your local charges and fees. Great job!!
Thanks for the info. we just had a major battle with a "birds nest". i.e. 180' of balled up wire and rope. BTW...Our local well driller charges $150 hr. for service work, same goes for our plumber. Thanks again!
Great content bud !
Good job, hind sight says why didn’t I start with the rig 1st, but being optimist we always hope for the quick and easy. Minimum $ for this amount of headache on an unscheduled emergency no water should be around $2300-$2500. I would probably have charged a little more because this was not an existing customer, and from the beginning was not willing to pay to have the job done properly. Hopefully he has learned, and you now have a longtime customer. 😜
I spend a lot of time on UA-cam exploring ideas, researching problems, and basically trying to learn whatever I can. I am a locksmith by trade, but after turning on English subtitles/close captioning (the girlfriend is sleeping in the other room), and running two or three of your videos at 1.5x the normal speed (some people have so much fluff on their videos or just talk too darn slow) I feel I'm ready to hook up to the boss's well pump, get'er done, and finish in time for him to get his morning shower. Thank you much.
I had a well company come out and quote me on replacing the screen and foot valve on an old 2" well. They couldn't do the work because the well was underneath an overhang and the well casing seemed to be broken somewhere in the well because it moved around and felt loose. They charged me 500 dollars just to tell me the well was shot and needed to be replaced. I moved out of the place and decided to rebuilt my property which had a fairly new 4" well that pumped up and worked perfectly. I since used the property for a cannabis farm and use quite a lot of water without any issues from the well (knock on wood).
I thought all you had to do was retrieve it and the, um "handyman" would take it from there... Yeah right! I know how that usually goes. Great job, thanks for sharing.
Nice tool you made. I would round off the tips some so it have a harder time perforating casing.
It is refreshing to see a young man taking on a career in this field of work. You know your stuff and its shows. I would say the
handyman is not so handy, good job cleaning up his mess.
Yes after watching him work , he knows his stuff!
Yes how to charge for that ! Not his doing! But he did fix it the way it should have been.
Dropping the pump is common for DIYers.
Charging is easy, time and materials.
You did a great job.
I've have had well trouble for 6 years,it seems like I keep getting it fixed over and over and over.each time costing me 1,200 or so.
This time myself and a friend fixed it for 375.
The pump would come on and cut off so fast non stop when running water.
A neighbor came over and reset the pressure switch that didn't help then he checked the bladder tank and said there is the problem. When pushing on the air valve water came out.
Yeap bad bladder.
So another friend and I replaced that tank the next day.re pipe it.re primed it and down drain the water lines.
Now if my pump would have went bad it would have cost 1000 dollars for pump.
It's been 4 weeks now and all is good.
My pump is a 1hp upright deep well pump.
I dont like the pump.but I think it's like a 4 inch hole going down around 100 feet.
Great job. Lucky to have tradesmen that are both bright and ingenious. My guess is around $2800.
I worked for a water district in the Cali Desert, you should try that with a 250 HP pump 700 feet deep.