pulling out submersible well pump

Pulling Out Submersible Well Pump No Water.Our water suddenly stopped flowing into our house. David thinks the submersible pump has stopped. It is 15 years old. He first made a tool to hold the hose so he could take a break pulling out the very long hose. It worked great plus he had some help from our son Colin too.
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[@Sylvan_dB]

Wow, at 9:30 seeing that pump come out detached from the pipe... You are so lucky it came up!

[@texasstadium]

Once upon a time in 1999, during a one-day deluge that was the all-time record rain in Juneau Alaska, I pulled a submersible pump by hand from 250 feet. I did it alone at 52 years old. I can tell you that was quite a chore. Walking the pipe the length of a football field and anchoring it in place to allow the next grab/tug at the well head was the biggest challenge. Over the years, my orthopedic surgeon has benefited greatly from these performances.

[@dave_in_florida]

great to see common man do the job. I literally gasped when I saw the pump come up broke off the pipe and dangling by the wires!!

[@ronie1337]

Nice job! Betcha the torque twisting from when the pump started may had something to do with the pvc snapping off.. next time go with a stainless steel short nipple to stainless steel check valve to stainless steel mpt / barb male adpt. fitting. Also add a pull rope on the submersible pump.

[@bababooey7576]

Stainless steel fittings. 2 clamps --all stainless. Double sided tape

[@jimcochrane7826]

Inside the well please use stainless or at least brass fittings on the pump to the black roll. Tape the wires well to the tubing and use a safety rope, just in case things come apart in the well as in your case. I would never use pvc fittings inside a well. They are simply not strong enough to take all the pump starts.

[@OOparker]

Great job. Going to pull mine needed a refresher haven't done it since 2002 before I I had internet. LoL thanks 👍

[@cupwalker24.7]

When Lee says wiggle it just wiggle it ;) ..... Thats what we do Behind the Rig while drilling or pulling back pumps while saying lots of sware words 🙏🙏. Hold your tounge correctly and then it comes free and its the best feeling in the world ...unless the well collapses then it's no fun 😂

[@tracykey9227]

Great "real world" DIY video; thanks for your time sharing it. Imagine your buddy told you the white particles were likely PVC from your scraping up the side of the pump, since it was pulling up at an angle, hanging by the wires; lucky the wires held lol. If the pump was still working, I'd of kept it, being quality is not at all what it was even 15 years ago. Im bout to pull mine to add a check valve at the pump, snice it appears mine is bad or I have a hole in my drop pipe. I bought my house in 05 with the same pump, and it's still working, so gonna drop it back down the well.

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

I was on the edge of my seat watching this lol.

[@williamgarrity9482]

My well is 375 feet deep ,I had a company pull n replace pump some ten years ago. I will do it myself aft seeing your holding wood brace clamp thingy, thanks for sharing. God bless yall real good. From southern MD.

[@PRC533]

at 375 feet, you won't probably be able to pull it up by hand, that's a lot of weight. You can use a 4 wheeler, riding mower or something to help you pull it out if needed, just make sure you have something or someone keeping it from rubbing as it comes out. Also, if it's on stick PVC or galvanized pipe you will need a crane.

[@Nctbgs]

Wow. That looks like it was close to loosing the pump in the well. I didn’t see a safety rope hooked to the pump either . Sure glad those wires held . Great video.

[@roccoelleto9900]

Fantastic DIY video. Will be helping my father-in-law replace his very shortly.

[@deniseandmarkfirestine7443]

Should use stainless fittings to connect to black poly pipe

[@YoMamma-dy8gu]

I'm delighted to see your wood block/clamp device... I had almost the same exact idea! The hinge is genius. I'm going to do the same exact thing!

[@miklby]

The reason it broke is because of the male PVC adapter, it is probably the weakest PVC fitting that there is. I had one fail too. It didn't completely brake but it had a crack and we couldn't get any pressure. What I use is a Close Pipe Nipple and a Female PVC adapter, this fitting is super strong compared to the Male PVC adapter. The Close Pipe Nipple goes into the pump and the Female PVC adapter goes in place where his broken Male PVC adapter was...

[@WeThePeople9069]

Brilliant!! Thank you sir!

[@smtxtv]

Great info. Thx !

[@PapaSpades]

That hinge!

[@boxerdiesel]

Gran bel lavoro! Complimenti. A breve dovrò intervenire sulla mia pompa, il pressostato perde pressione e per fare partire la pompa devo aprire l'interruttore manualmente. Temo sia la valvola di ritegno andata. La pompa è assicurata ad una corda. Dovrò installare tra pompa e valvola di ritegno un cilindro di ghisa contro la corrente galvanica. Dalle analisi pare che la falda granitica sia corrosiva per i metalli

[@TheArmedExile]

Great job

[@christianfigueroa1517]

Next time u wanna check the pump… just test the pump leads by checking for continuity and takin the pump off the motor and that try to spin the shaft…. Theres also a bearing height checker u can order

[@PRC533]

I don't remember if you mentioned the wiring, but if that wiring didn't get replaced it's likely to give you trouble in the near future after being stretched and yanked on like that.

[@terrybraun4175]

Nice video. Although I've never known of a well where the casing does not go all the way to the bottom. Probably not the case here either. I'm guessing since it was pulling from the wires and the wires are on the side of the pump it was not pulling straight up on the pump and that's why it was getting stuck. Another thing is when you treated the well and had the chlorine in the house, I've always been told chlorine will damage the diaphragm in the pressure tank.

[@joevip76]

Quick question please, how long did your new well pump hold up, I've had minenew 3/4 HP installed in in 2021, 2023 got fried by lightning storm. Please just wanted to know if you didn't get a bad pump like i ended up with. 🙏 Thanks

[@ronsmith9218]

Our 2 hp pump and motor weigh another almost 20+ kg or 50 lbs. So you just cannot manually pull that kind of weight without a winch/comealong system. Good luck.

[@johnbutler5208]

Never ever use pvc at the top of a pump

[@andrew-cm3zn]

Never use pvc fittings in well or bores as they break

[@ronjclm8590]

PVC is NEVER anoption for attaching a pump to either end of a submersible pump. Also. I see people installing pumps without a 1/4 inch poly rope attached as an extra safety system in case the pump becomes detached from the pipe.

[@buddyroe]

Didn't need the homemade stop, you should have put the pool shock in before you put the pump back in, now you have acid on your wires and black pipe

[@kingtut5923]

I guess you never watched any other well video , make yourself the wheel

[@HxC_Fragman]

No pitless adapter?

[@PRC533]

those aren't used everywhere.

[@ronsmith9218]

If you have a pichancha (check valve) then the pipe is full of water. If you have 1.5 inch pipe and water weight 1.9 kg per meter. Well is 60 meters so do the math first to know what you are lifting. the other vid pulling pvc pipe up through a sleeve on the tree is what will be needed. And a second carrick bend friction knot will be needed to hold the pipe while you reset the main friction knot. We have a 4 pod 12ft high and a chain winch that pulled the original 2 inch steel pipe using a clamp designed to hold the pipe down low at the ground at the coupling lip while resetting the winch hook, lifting a few meters at a time.

[@mikoro88]

That little pipe can't possibly contain almost 2 liters of water pr. Meter? 😮 If the *inner* diameter is 1.5 inches (3,81cm), the volume would be 1.14 liters/kg's per meter of tube. At 60 Meters, the filled tube (even at 1.5 inch inner D) would only weigh 68,4 Kg. (~150 lbs) 😅

[@talusranch990]

Use stainless only

[@kidbowjb]

They broke the pump off pvc while pulling it up

[@davidbulich1254]

Never use plastic fittings