smokingtundra
New Member
Well spoken, Valveman. As a diehard do-it-yourselfer, I will say that in this case I was extremely happy that I didn't try it on my own. Renting out a boom truck for probably two days, on top of obtaining/making the specialized tools for pulling the pipe would have probably cost me close to the labor charges anyway.
It is true that in Alaska many things are more expensive, and you just have to sort of suck it up and bear it. From talking with the drillers, sounds like things are pretty slow for them right now....living from check to check. (At least thats the way they made it sound.) It's too bad they had to insist on their own box, and give me a little white lie about it. At least tell me the truth, and say you only use your own parts or whatever. Or, I guess he could have let me use the box I purchased, but creatively added $60 to the bill. They did tell me a story about a job they did for a fellow, whom afterwards insisted that one of their pipe wrenches belonged to him. After he insisted, the drillers said 'OK..', and promptly added $60 of labor to the bill to cover the pipe wrench.
I would be interested to see if I could purchase pump/motor, control box and other supplies over the internet at a discount, and have one of the local installers put it in for just labor costs. Something tells me it the local outfits wouldn't go for it.
It is true that in Alaska many things are more expensive, and you just have to sort of suck it up and bear it. From talking with the drillers, sounds like things are pretty slow for them right now....living from check to check. (At least thats the way they made it sound.) It's too bad they had to insist on their own box, and give me a little white lie about it. At least tell me the truth, and say you only use your own parts or whatever. Or, I guess he could have let me use the box I purchased, but creatively added $60 to the bill. They did tell me a story about a job they did for a fellow, whom afterwards insisted that one of their pipe wrenches belonged to him. After he insisted, the drillers said 'OK..', and promptly added $60 of labor to the bill to cover the pipe wrench.
I would be interested to see if I could purchase pump/motor, control box and other supplies over the internet at a discount, and have one of the local installers put it in for just labor costs. Something tells me it the local outfits wouldn't go for it.