It was a lift pump with a long rod operating the pump at the bottom... a real bear to assemble, right after he got it working some dirt got in the foot valve at the bottom and he ended up pulling the whole thing up:(
many homes with wells have more than one well. a new well was drilled deeper in the past.
a ideal candidate for a hand pump looks all awesome and retro, and is a back up for no power or bad pump situations:)
Besides what others have said, there are spacers every so often attached to your piping and wiring that go down in the well to keep them from vibrating against the well casing. In other words, there isn't enough room to put more pipe or wires.
Forget it. It isn't worth the effort or expense.
Hank
'Twould depend on the exact details of the specific well - with the right (or wrong, depending on your outlook) combination of pipe size and well depth, you could be talking about moving a water column weighing in at anywhere from a few dozen pounds to more than a ton. Use a real skinny pipe and you get a fairly light water column (for a given depth), but you can only cram so much water through it. Use a big pipe at the same depth for more flow and you need more "oomph" to move the larger, and therefore heavier, water column. Likewise, deeper hole means more water in the pipe so unless you "skinny up" the pipe to compensate for the change in depth, you again need more "oomph" to get the water moving.
down the well
Deep well hand pumps are at the bottom of the well, operated by a rod that you work with a lever from the top of the well. They have a counterweight to balance the weight of the rod and part of the weight of the water column, so they aren't impossible to operate, but getting water by hand from that deep is a workout.
It would be much simpler and cheaper to install a plastic tank cistern, elevated enough to give you some gravity flow. Figure 200 gallons a day for family use, so a 2000 gallon tank would serve you for at least 10 days. You can buy a spun poly tank that size for around $600.
Most folks that can have two pumps. One in Use an one to swap out which is pretty quick if you have the stuff ready. I don;t much care for a submersible under a house etc, It needs a seperaet well house, well made and insulated with switches and heaters and tall enough, if needed and spare pum, small hoist arrangement, and water filter system or softner.
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A well house is the next to last place to install the equipment (under house is worst). You want that equipment where it is easily serviceable and protectedf rom freezing without additional heat. Put the pump controls, pressure tank and filters in the house if at all possible. I worked on these systems off and one for 50 years. Hated every one of those "crawl down into the well houise and try to find room to work" abortions.
Harry K
Ah, the dream well house of the person who has to work in one!!
Harry K
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Depends on the well house. My father in law built one that could be slid out of the way on a steel track. Before that he had one that tilted backwards out of the way.
Jimmie
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And had he put the 'works' in the basement he could have saved all that expense...assuming he had a basement of course. Most reasonable size houses with no basement have sufficient room to install the 'works' in whatever is used for the laundry. Doesn't take much.
Harry K
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