Well Pump

SBogusta · Mar 24, 2013

Hello everyone,
Maybe someone will have some insight on this problem. I have a friend who owns a pub, and their well pump quit.
They hired a local guy to pull it and replace. He hit a snag on the pull and proceeded to use a bottle jack for close to 20 feet. Then he gave up. The pump is 30 feet down and the poly pipe is still intact. Any ideas?

GeneMO · Mar 24, 2013

Describe "hit a snag"

Gene

schriffs · Mar 24, 2013

A guy I work with had a similar problem, he got a hold of a local guy who pumps septic tanks. He had a camera for inspecting pipes that he could drop down to see what the obstruction was. I think it was a chunk of metal that had been dropped down and wedged in the pipe. Maybe a plumber would have a camera also?

Russ from MN · Mar 24, 2013

The casing can get very rusty at the water table, and if the water moves up and down it can rust quite an area. Most pumps fit fairly snug in a 4" casing. I pulled one once that stuck and I hooked a chain hoist on it and kept turning it with a pipe wrench. I got a new one at Menards that was a little smaller and it went right down.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 24, 2013

Try to push it back down till it free, Then the 1st step is pull the elt wire up tight after the pump is free to move up and down, Then the 2nd step is to work it up and down while truning it clockwise, then work it up and down and trun it the other way. I don"t think you will be able to get it freed up after the guy tryed to jack it up, Was the worse thing he could of done. If you can get it free and the elt wires pulled up and tight theres a good chance it will come up and out, may take 1hr or two Just kept pulling, pushing, and truning. good luck.

showcrop · Mar 25, 2013

The first thing that I thought of was how to push it back down to free it. Then I came up with electrical conduit, probably one inch.

SBogusta · Mar 25, 2013

I was not there when it happened, but they where able to pull about 20 feet by hand and then it got stuck. I guess thats when they proceeded to use a buttle jack and cribbing. The pump is an 80 ft well. There is only 25 ft or so to go.

Thanks Steve

merlynr · Mar 25, 2013

(quoted from post at 04:50:06 03/25/13)
The first thing that I thought of was how to push it back down to free it. Then I came up with electrical conduit, probably one inch.

Get a good mirror and point it so the sun can shine down the hole and may be able to determine what the problem is. I helped a well man a few times and once when someone hit an above ground well head it snapped the pipe and fell about 30'. he put a length of pipe on his cable and attached another length of 2" that would fit over the existing pipe. The 2" pipe had a "dog" on the end and using the mirror he was able to slip the 2" over the broken pipe and pull it all up. Took about a 1/2 hr to get it to line up but it worked. After we got it all put back together he sez "we'll probably be out in a couple of days cause the pump will quit after hitting the bottom" and sure enough we
were back out there putting in a new pump the next day.

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