btpaints
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Hi Experts,
Here is my dilemna, about a month ago, my well pump died following a few months of pressure loss and an already old failing pump. Decided that at 180' deep it was not worth it for me to try to do myself, so I called the Well company out, they did a few basic tests, then determined it was in fact the pump. They started to pull the pump (I was here and helping for this part.) The pump came up fairly easily the first 110' snagging a little here and there by no serious problems getting it up this far. At this point, we were no longer able to move the pump up at all (this is the point I had to go out for awhile) I figured in the hands of a half dozen "experts" this should be a breeze as there was only 70 feet left to go, got home a few hours later to see a temporary Cistern sitting in my driveway and was told that the pump was stuck, it would not go up and would not go down and my only option left was to drill a well at the ultra reasonable price of $16,000. This is clearly not an option. I went and looked at the pipes they left in my yard and they are all clearly broken, as well as the wires to the pump and the poly rope attached to the pump, there looks to be about 130' of pipe sitting in my yard which means there should still be 50 feet of pipe left on the pump. I am struggling to see why we could pull this pump up 110' by hand, have it get stuck and not be able to tap it back down, now they are pressuring me to drill the new well that I don't have the money for and I am stuck with this other well with the pump stuck. Is there a way to free the pump and drop it in and put another pump in above it? I am deperately in need of water and advice. The well casing is 4" steel, and ultimately I would like to replace the pump with a skinny pump and carry right along with having water, it is obvious to me that the well company does not want to have to mess around with this, but now they have left me with a huge mess and are assuming no liability, if I knew this would be the outcome, I would have opted to save the couple thousand dollars and screw it up myself, rather than paying someone to screw it up for me. I apologize if I sound bitter but the pressure is really on me to get this fixed. Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions or insight.
Here is my dilemna, about a month ago, my well pump died following a few months of pressure loss and an already old failing pump. Decided that at 180' deep it was not worth it for me to try to do myself, so I called the Well company out, they did a few basic tests, then determined it was in fact the pump. They started to pull the pump (I was here and helping for this part.) The pump came up fairly easily the first 110' snagging a little here and there by no serious problems getting it up this far. At this point, we were no longer able to move the pump up at all (this is the point I had to go out for awhile) I figured in the hands of a half dozen "experts" this should be a breeze as there was only 70 feet left to go, got home a few hours later to see a temporary Cistern sitting in my driveway and was told that the pump was stuck, it would not go up and would not go down and my only option left was to drill a well at the ultra reasonable price of $16,000. This is clearly not an option. I went and looked at the pipes they left in my yard and they are all clearly broken, as well as the wires to the pump and the poly rope attached to the pump, there looks to be about 130' of pipe sitting in my yard which means there should still be 50 feet of pipe left on the pump. I am struggling to see why we could pull this pump up 110' by hand, have it get stuck and not be able to tap it back down, now they are pressuring me to drill the new well that I don't have the money for and I am stuck with this other well with the pump stuck. Is there a way to free the pump and drop it in and put another pump in above it? I am deperately in need of water and advice. The well casing is 4" steel, and ultimately I would like to replace the pump with a skinny pump and carry right along with having water, it is obvious to me that the well company does not want to have to mess around with this, but now they have left me with a huge mess and are assuming no liability, if I knew this would be the outcome, I would have opted to save the couple thousand dollars and screw it up myself, rather than paying someone to screw it up for me. I apologize if I sound bitter but the pressure is really on me to get this fixed. Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions or insight.