Well.......Hell!

[farmersamm]

Drain the system, leave taps open. Don't mind all those nasty deposits on the sink/faucet.......nothing to be done about it. It be minerals in the wawa.

Toddle on out, and take a look at the patient. NO AIR PRESSURE. Aired it up, and It's been about an hour, or so......maybe less. Still holding.
The reason this was brought to my attention was some weird cycling while running water to the gurlz. Short cycling. Could hear it as you walked by the well house (I say house with a grain of salt......more like a hut).

Like I said.........it's holding air. BUT I HEARD A BIT OF A LEAK AT THE VALVE WHEN CHECKING IT. And..........the damn valve isn't replaceable.

This is Okiehoma boys.............make do, and wait till better days come your way. Pulled a cap off a valve on one of the tires on the hay rake. Gots the leetle gasket

Screw that lil' gem on, and check for leaks with soapy water.

More later...................... Have a bad pressure guage, and probably a severely corroded pressure switch standpipe. 40 mile round trip to get new ones

But now K'kins can splash water all over cute lil' body once again. I'll water cows with a bad well, but had to declare a moratorium on showers for my better half.

 

[farmersamm]

BTW.............when you check the air, rock the tank. Should have no water in it......which checks out ok on the tank.

 

[Wdj]

Always keep some of those steel valve caps around for when the core starts leaking and no time to fix it right.

 

[farmersamm]

Verified.

And solved. Checked ok with the Uranus Special Blend Bubble Water.

Now for some quality windshield time........OOOOOOMPH

 

[used red MN]

I see you’re having some trouble with the “white fungus” as some like to call it around these parts. We are experiencing the same right now, 1-2 inches per the guesser of said weather. You better get that hut battened down for next week, I have a feeling we might not be able to swing the North door shut. I think I see some heat tape on the piping etc. so you might be okay then. Otherwise I would recommend finding a 100 watt old time incandescent bulb to put in there, to cut back the chills.
It seems you must be involved in Uranus Inc well repair service also!

 

[runwoolf]

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Drain the system, leave taps open. Don't mind all those nasty deposits on the sink/faucet.......nothing to be done about it. It be minerals in the wawa.

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Toddle on out, and take a look at the patient. NO AIR PRESSURE. Aired it up, and It's been about an hour, or so......maybe less. Still holding.
The reason this was brought to my attention was some weird cycling while running water to the gurlz. Short cycling. Could hear it as you walked by the well house (I say house with a grain of salt......more like a hut).

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Like I said.........it's holding air. BUT I HEARD A BIT OF A LEAK AT THE VALVE WHEN CHECKING IT. And..........the damn valve isn't replaceable.

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This is Okiehoma boys.............make do, and wait till better days come your way. Pulled a cap off a valve on one of the tires on the hay rake. Gots the leetle gasketView attachment 104010 Screw that lil' gem on, and check for leaks with soapy water.

More later...................... Have a bad pressure guage, and probably a severely corroded pressure switch standpipe. 40 mile round trip to get new onesView attachment 104011
But now K'kins can splash water all over cute lil' body once again. I'll water cows with a bad well, but had to declare a moratorium on showers for my better half.

If you don't have the rubber gasket for the cap, a wad of teflon tape will work.

 

[sleepy1]

No being a wise a** But a little bar keeper cleanser will clean the stain out of the sink.

 

[Caryc]

Better keep an eye on it to make sure it's running right. Short cycling like that will burn out your pump motor right quick.

 

[jwal10]

Story. Little brothers' bed was closest to the well house when we were growing up. Little brother wet the bed a lot. Mom noticed it when she checked to see if his sheets needed washing.

The well pump was cycling all night, we had to add air about once a week.

Any way little brother was probably about 6 and he sleep walked a lot. Dad was adding the second story on the old house and he left the ladder there. Little brother was found screaming up there, he had climbed up the ladder and woke up scared.

Well back to the story, when Mom asked if he had wet the bed, his answer was "But Mom, the pump ran ALL night. Mom answered, "yes son, I think it did"....James

 

[wp6529]

Better keep an eye on it to make sure it's running right. Short cycling like that will burn out your pump motor right quick.

Being liquid cooled, submersible well pump motors tend to be pretty resistant to that.

 

[farmersamm]

I see you’re having some trouble with the “white fungus” as some like to call it around these parts. We are experiencing the same right now, 1-2 inches per the guesser of said weather. You better get that hut battened down for next week, I have a feeling we might not be able to swing the North door shut. I think I see some heat tape on the piping etc. so you might be okay then. Otherwise I would recommend finding a 100 watt old time incandescent bulb to put in there, to cut back the chills.
It seems you must be involved in Uranus Inc well repair service also!

Next week we're supposed to see a few days below 0* It's fairly rare around here, but happens occasionally. The freezing rain is the worst. Brings power lines down. REMINDER...........get gas for the welder.

I'd imagine that your climate makes for more resilient people than those in more temperate climates. The cold forces you to work hard to prepare for the Winters. An eye to the future.........with success/failure a real matter of survival.

Down here, people tend to be somewhat gritty. We endure droughts, and some extremely severe weather in the Spring. I think it breeds an acceptance of disaster. After all.........there's nothing you can do about it. It makes for a very wry sense of humor.

Anyways............for the well house, I've had very good luck using a ceramic heater.

Adjust it right, and it will keep a very steady temperature during cold snaps. And.......the ceramic heaters use much less wattage than a traditional milkhouse heater. The heat tape only goes so far to keep things flowing. And, it's rare that it gets this cold down here.

Stay warm up there...........you got bigger nads than I do. I can't take the cold anymore.

 

[farmersamm]

Being liquid cooled, submersible well pump motors tend to be pretty resistant to that.

I'd never considered that. Thank God!!

I've always been surprised at how robust these pumps actually are. We supply the house, and the gurlz, from this well. I pump about 250 gallons a day to the stock tank. Used to pump WAY more than that before we severely downsized during my hay equipment crisis.

I think we suffer a bit from impeller wear. Our casing is going bad, so occasionally there's dirt in the water. I replaced the pump about 8yrs ago. The guy that did it, showed me a bit of tree root on the pipe as he lifted the pump. So, there's been some damage. I forget the entire discussion.........but the upshot was that we probably had to sink a new well sometime in the future. Our water is very good, taste wise. Bad mineral wise. But.......I'd hate to have to drill another one, and possibly get some of the crappy tasting water others in the area have.

Our wells along here are somewhat dicey anyways. There's 2 high pressure injection wells within a roughly 2 mile radius. God only knows what's actually in the ground water. No point in testing it................whadya gonna do about it(shrug).

The operators will tell you that their casing is in excellent shape..........gotta believe them. Yeah....right!!

Down the highway, around 5 miles, there's a man pass over a fence that has/had a sign next to it, saying that it was/is a test well for ground water quality. I've always wondered every time I drive by it.................just what are they testing for......and why. It doesn't inspire confidence.

This is oil country.......... The State doesn't give a damn about landowners that are affected. They pay lip service to it, but the Courts are producer friendly, so it's like pulling teeth to sue for damages.

I NEVER light a match around a pot of boiling water on the stove.

 

[ChasK]

No being a wise a** But a little bar keeper cleanser will clean the stain out of the sink.

Even better would be a little pipe line acid from the dairy section at TSC or equivalent.

 

[farmersamm]

Story. Little brothers' bed was closest to the well house when we were growing up. Little brother wet the bed a lot. Mom noticed it when she checked to see if his sheets needed washing.

The well pump was cycling all night, we had to add air about once a week.

Any way little brother was probably about 6 and he sleep walked a lot. Dad was adding the second story on the old house and he left the ladder there. Little brother was found screaming up there, he had climbed up the ladder and woke up scared.

Well back to the story, when Mom asked if he had wet the bed, his answer was "But Mom, the pump ran ALL night. Mom answered, "yes son, I think it did"....James

Family stories are funny sometimes.

Sometimes they're not.

Grama had a big disagreement with her sons that still lived at home..........she moved to town for a while. This was on homeplace, not the 1/4 I'm living on.

Anyways.........she finally returned home. AND HOME WAS GONE!!!!! The boys had SOLD the house to someone.

So, she was forced to move onto the 1/4 I'm living on. There was a house here that had been used by a tenant farmer back in the 30's. Wasn't much more than a shack. She spent years making it over, into a decent home. It was demolished back in 1990, and the house I'm living in, was built at that time. She only got to live in the new house for about 2yrs before she passed. Damn shame.

The original house on homeplace had been moved to another location, and she was unable to get it back (You'd have to know how it was here in the 40's). Mom had already moved away before any of this had happened. She often asked where the house was, but Grama never told her.

Yeah.....................stories................

 

[farmersamm]

Better keep an eye on it to make sure it's running right. Short cycling like that will burn out your pump motor right quick.

Might be worth a try. We've tried everything else.

Faucets last about 5yrs before they corrode. If you look, you can see the duct tape on the faucet in the pic. The neck pinholed. A DELTA FAUCET!!! I expected more from a Delta.

Any steel piping, like the risers from the water heater, will completely close up during the lifetime of the water heater. Thankfully.........the house is 99% Pex plumbed. Possible rodent damage.......but at least there's no corrosion.

 

[used red MN]

The freezing rain is the worst.

Grew up in KS, so I know about freezing rain. That is less common up here but does happen. Yep, as Henry Blake said on MASH, better keep the brass monkeys in next week.

 

[farmersamm]

Nuther story for you guys. Jwal10 had a good one, so I figured I'd add another........this one is a good one.

K'kins works in the Oil Patch.

Her company was drilling a new well.

One of the investors was hanging around during drilling.

One of K'kins bosses told the guy to NOT stand on the drill pipe that was laying on the ground.

Dood didn't listen.

Guy with a forklift lifted a couple joints of pipe, and the moron fell on his butt because he was standing on that pipe.

Her boss said, when he called her about the situation.............."His azz was higher than his shoulders"

Dood had some broken bones.................. But it was treated as a "funny" by all concerned.

This is tough country, the humor is dry, and the people are just as tough as the country.

You do not get a pass. This is how it is.

The guy is ok, after a stint in the hospital, and now he's btch'n about his share all the time. They don't realize that they share in the expenses, as well as the revenue.

 

[farmersamm]

We took a pair of donkeys from Hank. Hank works with K'kins.

I was a bit curious, and asked him how long they generally live.

He says..............."They live a long time............you ever see a dead donkey?"

We got rid of the donkeys a long time ago...............but we still laugh about Hank's reply. Humor is where you find it, and is based on where you live.

 

[Bruce from Can.]

Even better would be a little pipe line acid from the dairy section at TSC or equivalent.

Phosphoric acid is the stuff.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

A waterlogged bladder tank means you need a new tank,
Air is a temp fix.
The rust may be coming from water getting past the bladder.
The rust may mean you need an RO water filter too. .