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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: Paul StevensPaul Stevens Date: Jun 1, 2007 18:53
Faye wrote:
> Rather than try to respond to each, I will say thanks to all for so
> much helpful information. The well is in a little well house, but
> with a broken pump on it. We'd get it fixed. It would break. So I
> just gave up trying years back, but this drought has me considering
> options again. I'm going to do the screw and string test just so I
> will at long last know the depth. Our city water went out last week
> just at feeding time. I had plenty of water stored, but still it
> kicked my mind into survival mode, what with the dried up pond, and is
> why I'd like to have a handpump on the well *just in case.*
> Electricity can still be iffy out here at times too.
Pulls water up from a depth of 23 feet.
They've opened a store in Madison, but I haven't had a chance
to check it out, yet.
> Jak reminded me of a set up we had on a well when I was a child.
> There was sort of a gallows looking thing built over the well with a
> long cylindrical galvanized tube about 4-5 inches in diameter hanging
> from it by pulley and rope. You'd drop the cylinder into the well and
> it would fill with water. After you pulled it out, you'd pull a
> circular knob on top to release the water into a bucket or other
> container. That would be a handy setup to have for manual operation
> too, even less work than a handpump. I find myself eschewing modern
> for manual in lots of things these days.
Sounds like that setup would be less dependant on having a
shallow well, too. You could have a welding shop make one
out of stainless tubing and a piece of thin stainless plate.
If you can find a simple check valve (such as a caged ball
that would drop into it's seat and seal the valve as the tube
was lifted out of the water) for the bottom plate, it would
fill easier and might work as a drain valve (now that I think
about it, your circular knob was probably connected to
something like that).
> At one time Cumberland General Store had a variety of pumps, but I
> never knew the well depth. Maybe if I can figure that out now, I can
> come up with some solution for a backup water system. And if I decide
> to go forward, I can contact the folks Jim recommened to figure out
> the how-to.
>
> Thank you all so much.
>
> Faye
>
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Paul Stevens
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