This one lasted 9 years in a 300 foot hole.
Wife told me in a panic, we have no water last night!
UGH! I thought for SURE the well was dry but we've had feet of rain!

After calling a friend to come inspect it, we determined something was up with the pump.

So after 2 hours of lifting out the pump it was out.
$600 in parts later I have water!!
Bob got the first shower...

Been there, done that, thrice.

Pulled a pump once in February. That sucked, too.

We did ours two years ago. Had to pull 1/4 of the roof off the well house to get the crane into it.

Had a pro do the pump, though.

How did you attach the pipe to yout "t" handle to pull it? Is your pipe plastic?

My pipe is steel, and there is no way in hell I could lift 300' of 1" steel pipe by hand.

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Originally posted by ArtieS:
We did ours two years ago. Had to pull 1/4 of the roof off the well house to get the crane into it.

Had a pro do the pump, though.

How did you attach the pipe to yout "t" handle to pull it? Is your pipe plastic?

My pipe is steel, and there is no way in hell I could lift 300' of 1" steel pipe by hand.

There is a Pitless fitting with black pipe all the way down.
It has a place to put some kind of pull.

Oh it was HEAVY! VERY heavy!
It took us 2 hours to pull almost 300 feet.

I miss well water but don’t miss wells.

9 years on a pump? That sounds short. We’ve had ours for 27 years and I suspect that’s one of the many next things to go. I’ve always wanted to replace it with a higher volume pump. Mines 300’ down too.

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Originally posted by BRL:
9 years on a pump? That sounds short. We’ve had ours for 27 years and I suspect that’s one of the many next things to go. I’ve always wanted to replace it with a higher volume pump. Mines 300’ down too.

Looks like lightning blew out the side of it.
And it limped along for a few days.

It took 30 minutes of free fall to put the new one down in that abyss.

We’ve replaced our pump twice. Both times my wife panicked, discovering it early morning. Power, water, and sewer are easily taken for granted until there’s a problem.
Both times I. Allied a local plumbing business around 6am, and both times vans started showing up before 7! Less than an hour, and we had water again! The second time I asked for a larger pump and trouble free since!

well at the shop is only 210 feet, and that pump has been replaced once, as well as a few repairs to the line to the house ,
that is once in 45 yrs or so


here at the house, we have not had to do that yet, and it is about 75 foot deeper, and only 22 yrs old,

not looking forward to it, when it is needed

The worst part was pulling it up.
It was at least 60 pounds for two of us to pull against.
I could pull for about 2 minutes than had to stop.
I'm making a pipe puller wheel for next time.