bordercollie050
Member
Hello everyone!
The home I purchased has a well inside a concrete pit that is pumping dirty water (the pit was flooded a bit after the recent thaw and surface water entering the well may be a problem).
I would like to pull the pump to replace the piping and also get a look inside the casing. I have a 1500lbs hoist over the pit all ready to go. my questions are.
1. to pull the pump do i just loosen the cap bolts in the picture and attach my hoist and start pulling?? I was told the pump is about 120ft down - about how heavy is this going to be and when I loosen the bolts will the pump/piping fall without the hoist attached?
2. What's a good way to prevent a pit from flooding? I noticed the concrete walls do have some cracking. Should I go in with some tile cement (really sticky) or something and try to make watertight or should I just have the pit removed?
3. The pump has a red/black/yellow wire - I'm guessing the pump is 220 volt, if I wanted to just run the pump how do I know which wire is ground? (the control box looks shot).
Any advice is appreciated!!
The home I purchased has a well inside a concrete pit that is pumping dirty water (the pit was flooded a bit after the recent thaw and surface water entering the well may be a problem).
I would like to pull the pump to replace the piping and also get a look inside the casing. I have a 1500lbs hoist over the pit all ready to go. my questions are.
1. to pull the pump do i just loosen the cap bolts in the picture and attach my hoist and start pulling?? I was told the pump is about 120ft down - about how heavy is this going to be and when I loosen the bolts will the pump/piping fall without the hoist attached?
2. What's a good way to prevent a pit from flooding? I noticed the concrete walls do have some cracking. Should I go in with some tile cement (really sticky) or something and try to make watertight or should I just have the pit removed?
3. The pump has a red/black/yellow wire - I'm guessing the pump is 220 volt, if I wanted to just run the pump how do I know which wire is ground? (the control box looks shot).
Any advice is appreciated!!