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Morning Ness.
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Must be nice.
Rolling naked in the snowBeautiful day to play outside.
Good morning GW and everyone else. Just taking my first sip of coffee. Cold and rainy here today for our new furnace ripout/install. Don’t think they will finish till tomorrow. Sure will make me appreciate some heat in this house. Y’all have a sweet day
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I get all I want.... sending snow your way.....
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While we are on the subject, I have a perfectly good well on my spread that I do not use. When my house was built, the well-driller put the well ONE foot too close to the septic field (eg: 99' instead of 100'). Musta pissed of the inspector.
At the time, I gave the pore bastage a break (workin' man) and told him to leave the well and set it up to a turnkey sprinkler system. He drilled another well. I never really needed a sprinkler system, so after a short while I stopped using it.
Now I am going to convert the well into a clean water "dipping well" in case of prolonged power outage -- I can run my drinking water well with a generator, but long term, gas might be problematic.
So I am gonna go get a PVC pipe and make a one-way valve at the bottom. I can lower it down until the hole in the side of the PVC pipe gets under water and the pipe fills up. Then pull (rope) it up and pour out the potable water.
At the time, I gave the pore bastage a break (workin' man) and told him to leave the well and set it up to a turnkey sprinkler system. He drilled another well. I never really needed a sprinkler system, so after a short while I stopped using it.
Now I am going to convert the well into a clean water "dipping well" in case of prolonged power outage -- I can run my drinking water well with a generator, but long term, gas might be problematic.
So I am gonna go get a PVC pipe and make a one-way valve at the bottom. I can lower it down until the hole in the side of the PVC pipe gets under water and the pipe fills up. Then pull (rope) it up and pour out the potable water.
Read it three times trying to figure what what you were doing. I’m not sure I guess what a dipping well is except maybe the old wells that you lower the bucket down with a rope to retrieve water. Will you be using the well if electricity is out for emergencies? Could you hook a hand pump in its place?
I know you have used one of these before…
Get out of my Mind
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Subbie and Roster - Excellent and reasonable suggestion.
Coupla reasons it ain't a "go"...
1. The well pipe is 22-year old PVC alla way down. (this is Floriduh) So if I hung a forty-pound casting with a Tau handle to pump it, I am likely to break the well pipe.
2. Forget the mounting difficulty, just lookit the fargin cost: They are about $150.
3. Without a whole lot more effort and a blue ton less money, I can get sufficient drinking/cooking/washing water easypeasy with a dipping gadget. Water for other stuff is available with a nearby pond and canal, and we store a coupla hunnert gallons in our unused hot tub for emergency potty flushing.
Subbie: We had a green one in the kitchen at the farm. Out back was a red one. We useta take a bucket and fill it half full** take it over to the big wood kitchen stove, and pour it into the container on the side of the stove. That is how we got hot water. I am so fargin old...
**"Half full" --> Pity the stoopit kid that took too much and spilled a bucket of water on the kitchen floor, or slopped it over onto the stove!
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I used the hand pump in our barn to water the animals. I loved this pumps. What kind of a dipping gadget did you have in mind?
Good for making strong Hands
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Great idea! It must be uranium-battery powered, right?
they have battery powered run off a Deep cycle marine battery for short periods
Heck with all your Money, install solar power back up system and fill the well in.
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Back from a nice sunny but a bit chilly walk. Will spend the rest of the day farting around......got to be careful.....the honey do boss is lurking.....
