Bruce Urie
The Ventures,CCR forever!
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AH, nice! We have no water in our house as of this morning.....we live out in the sticks, almost like area 51, and rely on a well for water.....
For the last few weeks. every now and then the pump in our basement runs and won't quit, so my Shirley goes down and shuts it off at the breaker box....I then take out the pressure gauge and prime the pump with about 1/2 gallon of water, replace the guage, then start the pump...
This usually works, then we have water again for about five or six days....then..WHAM! Again, no water. Son of a b****!!!!!
So, after priming again today, nothing.....no water, just the pump runs great...so I checked the holding pressure tank....fine at 38 lbs set at the factory, the pressure switch (turns on pump at 40 psi, turns it off at 62psi) checked out fine, the pump fine, bla, bla,..so I guessed it to be the foot valve in the well at the end of the suction tube....
Crap, the lid to our well must weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 million pounds, GEEZE.....I threw my damn back out again after lifting it.....and just MISSED my foot by 1/8 inch after dropping it unexpectantly!
Pointed a light down the well....saw plenty of nice, clear water and the foot valve very much submerged.....wait.......what else???? A shoe, shirt and hankerchief with J. Hoffa written on it! What the hell? Have I solved something here??? Will I be on the front page of National Enquier?!!!
So, Shirley called the well guy, and, well, he showed up this evening and, well, pretty much found out everything was as I suspected....it's the foot valve, the little thingy on the end of the long pipe that keeps the water from flowing back from the pump into the well.....only thing....we can't reach the pipe as it's about 6 feet from the edge of the well top....nice....so he left, and called around 7 this evening and said he'll be out tomorrow morning with an assistant who's not afraid to lower himself down into a 12,500 foot deep shaft to reach the pipe in order to disconnect it, raise it to replace the foot valve......My God, I wonder how much this is going to set us back??? And was that a shark fin I saw down there, too???!!?
So, I've been lugging upstairs to our toilets and sinks some stored water I've put away for emergencies....got about 250 gallons of water in stored containers in the laundry room...all in 6 gallon containers,,let's see, water weighs about 8.336 a gallon at 62 degrees times 6 equals 50.1 lbs
and lugging each container upstairs at 50.01 lbs each equals another long month of excruciating back pain.....well, at least I now have something to bitch about
(again) I'm not looking forwards to someone taking a dump!!!!!!!! More lugging!!!!!!!
Just to show, as soon as I get over the pain in the back, something else happens to start it all over again.....dweeb city, man!
I hate going even one day without a shower....so it looks like bird baths for us today and tomorrow....it was 100 degrees out today, sweating like a pig in sh**, stinky, sticky, and I have to bathe in a little sink I just installed in our bathroom, only big enough for my butt!
Very ugly sight, even the cats ran away screaming!!!!!
And how was your day?
Bruce '87 Grand National
For the last few weeks. every now and then the pump in our basement runs and won't quit, so my Shirley goes down and shuts it off at the breaker box....I then take out the pressure gauge and prime the pump with about 1/2 gallon of water, replace the guage, then start the pump...
This usually works, then we have water again for about five or six days....then..WHAM! Again, no water. Son of a b****!!!!!
So, after priming again today, nothing.....no water, just the pump runs great...so I checked the holding pressure tank....fine at 38 lbs set at the factory, the pressure switch (turns on pump at 40 psi, turns it off at 62psi) checked out fine, the pump fine, bla, bla,..so I guessed it to be the foot valve in the well at the end of the suction tube....
Crap, the lid to our well must weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 million pounds, GEEZE.....I threw my damn back out again after lifting it.....and just MISSED my foot by 1/8 inch after dropping it unexpectantly!
Pointed a light down the well....saw plenty of nice, clear water and the foot valve very much submerged.....wait.......what else???? A shoe, shirt and hankerchief with J. Hoffa written on it! What the hell? Have I solved something here??? Will I be on the front page of National Enquier?!!!
So, Shirley called the well guy, and, well, he showed up this evening and, well, pretty much found out everything was as I suspected....it's the foot valve, the little thingy on the end of the long pipe that keeps the water from flowing back from the pump into the well.....only thing....we can't reach the pipe as it's about 6 feet from the edge of the well top....nice....so he left, and called around 7 this evening and said he'll be out tomorrow morning with an assistant who's not afraid to lower himself down into a 12,500 foot deep shaft to reach the pipe in order to disconnect it, raise it to replace the foot valve......My God, I wonder how much this is going to set us back??? And was that a shark fin I saw down there, too???!!?
So, I've been lugging upstairs to our toilets and sinks some stored water I've put away for emergencies....got about 250 gallons of water in stored containers in the laundry room...all in 6 gallon containers,,let's see, water weighs about 8.336 a gallon at 62 degrees times 6 equals 50.1 lbs
and lugging each container upstairs at 50.01 lbs each equals another long month of excruciating back pain.....well, at least I now have something to bitch about (again) I'm not looking forwards to someone taking a dump!!!!!!!! More lugging!!!!!!!Just to show, as soon as I get over the pain in the back, something else happens to start it all over again.....dweeb city, man!
I hate going even one day without a shower....so it looks like bird baths for us today and tomorrow....it was 100 degrees out today, sweating like a pig in sh**, stinky, sticky, and I have to bathe in a little sink I just installed in our bathroom, only big enough for my butt!
Very ugly sight, even the cats ran away screaming!!!!!And how was your day?
Bruce '87 Grand National
Or maybe two or three?
