The Most Unique Water Well System Ever Seen! 80 Year Old Electric Well Pump! Trying to Update it.

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In this video My Brother and I work on a near Century old water well that has an Electric powered Pitcher Pump. Although the job doesn't go our way, it was still nice to get out & spend time together working on a system like we used to do many years ago. From a Viewers perspective it's just 2 guys working on a well, but for me it was so much more.
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[@tacoma50]

Worked for 80 years….. until you put your hands on it!

[@williamallen7836]

Except you can't sanitize that old setup. Which negates being able to rent the property out as an AirB&B as the property owner plans on doing. Plus if you rewatch the beginning when the pump kicks in and some of the water leaks to the top, you will see the unmistakable sheen of oil in the water. This is caused because the side of the pump housing is open, and some oil gets splashed out. If the water leaks out at the top, then the oil will leak down into the well when the pump stops. I don't know about you, but I don't like the idea of drinking oil contaminated water or even bathing in it. Just because old setups may last longer does not mean thar it's the best method. It may be robust if maintained, but it allows the well to be contaminated with each use of the pump.

[@barryriem3216]

My grandparents had one. no tank. just a knife switch on the wall. throw it on and out came rusty water. today you pumped tomorrows water. we let it slake off over night. the rust would settle on the bottom. we were left with cool sweet water. I also had one years later. it was my older pump that did not work. some oakum a belt and some grease and it was better water than my newer well. I have not heard that sound in many, many years. what a cool sound. thank you...kind of made me think of hot biscuits out of the wood fired oven...Man Man

[@rex8255]

Let's give props to current and previous owners, who kept up the oil level AND passed on the information of how to do it.

[@stepheneskelson7774]

Just pull the pipe out, change out the leathers and the bottom screen, reseal the threads, put in a new rod, some guide sleeves, put back down the hole and set it right, it'll last another 75 years.

[@funnycatvideos5490]

They don't know how to do that it's before their time so they basically disabled it and now they have nothing

[@kevinroberts9394]

Looked like it was working fine. Just needed to repack the rod seal. The leathers were obviously still good as it pumped up. And it is really hard to pull good leathers. Don't see many of his videos but if his dad is still around he should remember pump Jack's and sucker rod. Last 1 I worked on we pulled over 200 ft of wooden rods. 1 broke and after changing the leathers 3 more times we learned that you have to put it back to the exact same depth in the smooth part of the casing or it will tear the leathers up in a day that jack is not as old as you may think if it is more than 25 foot deep a more reliable system that would have ran almost forever if properly maintained a couple times a year.

[@ronblack7870]

@@kevinroberts9394 customer wanted more volume i bet . 30yrs ago i was in the exact same situation put our rod could be pulled out. 80 ft. it was only 2 inch pump. used 1/2 inch pipe as the pull rod. couldn't get enough water for modern living. maybe 1-2 gal / minute tops

[@stanleyedwards3023]

Early Gould pump jacks used leather seals, these pumps dated back to the 30’s. Gould still makes quality pumps, my Dad was on board of directors many years ago.

[@lancereagan3046]

I used to install and service Goulds Pumps back in the early/mid 1980's.

[@BCHonea]

I love how comments on KZbin bring historical connections like this. Cheers to your pops

[@kd5crw]

They make most of them cheap in China now. Motors too. Sad to see another once good company selling junk and coasting on their name.

[@Look_What_You_Did]

It's just a name today. Another brand purchased by investment firms and gutted.

[@markarca6360]

It was acquired by another company called Xylem.

[@ford2n2003]

It's a rod pump. A wooden rod runs down the center of the pipe and operates a piston pump at the bottom of the pipe. The small broken plunger was an air pump to charge the water tank. An air release on the tank would keep it from becoming air bound. These pumps were very common as deep well pumps from the early 1900's until the 1960's, The part cut out was the check valve to prevent water backflow to the well.

[@dnitchke]

you are absolutely correct11

[@ThatGuyFromArizona]

This right here is what I love about this channel. There is so much knowledge and people happy to share.

[@dennislee444]

nope

[@jasonschannel9017]

​@@dennislee444That's not much of an argument.

[@northface484]

LOL...!!@@dennislee444

[@jeffwxyz]

Took something out that lasted 80 years and still working. It will be lucky if a new pump lasts 8 years.

[@phenry5083]

Good thing modern pumps have no problems lasting 50 years

[@brando12343]

you can easily get 25+ years out of a quality modern pump

[@beingthere597]

I remember that pump and the gawoosh-gawoosh sound it made. When I was a little kid (early 1950's) my grandparents had an insulated pump house on their farm that also served as a root cellar for my grandmother's canned vegetables and jellies. Big green-tint glass mason jars. The door to the pump house was thick and heavy and it was dark inside. I was really scared of that pump. Sometimes when it was quiet, I would crack the door and peek in for an adrenaline rush. When it came on, I would jump out of my skin, slam the door and run, hoping that monster wouldn't break free and chase me.

[@metallchips8569]

I have been machining for 20 years and spent several servicing water pumps for Municipals and Agriculture and goulds pumps are still in business. That pump should go to a museum.

[@HardDriveGuruOfficial]

Thank heavens this equipment is being kept in a collection! Losing such a beautiful peace of history would hurt my heart something fierce.

[@lancereagan3046]

I bet Goulds/ ITT Corp. would love to have that pump mechanism in their museum. Or even the Seneca Falls Historical Society.

[@jailbreakgamin1966]

you want a well thats reliable.. thats rich.. seeing it has been working 80 years ... no crap today would make it 1/3 as long ..

[@marvlb]

We had a sucker rod pump exactly like that growing up on our farm in the 50’s. The leather seals would wear out and we would have to pull the rods. Each rod was about 12 feet long made of cypress cut into a one inch triangle with metal connectors screwed to each end that were screwed together to connect the rods. On one pull my dad lost grip on the rod and it fell into the well. He made hook out of a steel rod and ground a barb on the tip. We fished for the lost pump rod for hours and finally got and the lost rods out. I was so happy to see that rod come up out of the well, I must have been seven or eight years old at the time.

[@snicks50]

I have the same pump on my milk house. I was told it was 92 years old not sure. But still works as of today.

[@danmerillat]

Fixing the seal would have given them a system that'd work another 80 years. My "modern" pump had to be replaced 3 times in a decade.

[@iansmartel5473]

Using wind power before the word GREEN POWER was thought of.

[@vegasfordguy]

This is a perfect example of why you shouldn't try working on something that you don't have experience with. I would have researched how to remove it without beating on it and breaking it.

[@lifeonthelake4367]

Exactly

[@LADYMONA]

Please preserve that old system.

[@chatrkat]

This is probably your most interesting service call, but I always enjoy watching your videos. That old equipment is further proof how good old American machinery was made back when companies cared to, and could afford to built quality products. Most likely original capacitor on that Wagner motor too.

[@samsiryani9023]

Made in AMERICA and that’s why it still hold the test of time. Amazing stuff to see.

[@GrymWorks-A.I.]

The Wagner motor Model G902 K4180 The model # is *G902* The rest is a date code *K=November* *44=1944* *80=8th day* So, Wednesday November 8, 1944

[@MrWolfSnack]

Wow built during the height of WW2. Just 3 days after that motor left the assembly line, the Allied troops bombed Iwo Jima. On the specific day it was made, Joseph Goebbels announced the V-2 rocket campaign.

[@kittyfanatic1980]

I get k4180 no real way to tell without it right in front of me if that last digit is a 1 or 4

[@GrymWorks-A.I.]

@@kittyfanatic1980Thats what I said.

[@Grumpy_Granddad]

Something is either Unique or it is not Unique -- it CANNOT be more or less or most or least UNIQUE - My inner grumpy granddad is coming out here

[@royreynolds108]

The chunk you threw down was the check valve. The sucker rod with the pump on the bottom should have come out by pulling on it. That is the way those pumps were supposed to be fixed or releathered. The numbers on the casting side is the pattern number for the casting instead of a date. Our house in MI had a reciprocating piston pump so the water level was less than 25 feet.

[@ronblack7870]

i had one 80 ft deep

[@buggsy5]

You are limited to about 25 feet only if you have a suction pump, which that pump isn't. I don't know why you were unable to pull out the lift rod. The pump was lifting water, as proven by it building pressure in the water tank, so the piston at the bottom was free. It may be that there is corrosion above and below the area the piston contacts - it wouldn't take a lot to jamb the pipe.

[@austinlloyd9757]

I agree with you a modern pump in 80 years will be fkd every😅5 t 7 years and then replace with more rubbish

[@mikeh.3855]

"hook this in that...and then we're gonna take this ...as a safety...and put that on there as well. okiedoke.". While using a knotted sling. LOL

[@turnbullfl4114]

If I was homeowner, I would have said "Put it back together the way it was".

[@phenry5083]

No you wouldn’t have because that’s the risk you take with wells and you sign off on it before hand

[@williamallen7836]

Why? Do you like an oil contaminated water supply? Rewatch the beginning when the pump kicked in. There's the unmistakable sheen of oil in the water that leaks past the pump. That oil comes from the open side of the gearbox. The oil gets splashed out. If the water leaks past the pump piston, then oil will leak down into the well when the pump stops. I don't care how robust that old system may be, it's a health hazard. Not to mention all the poison from all that rust. It's so rusted that you can't even repack the seals so it won't leak. The old pump had it's day, and Long life. It's time to move on to something that won't posion it's owners.

[@kenwillis8487]

They bought the house to rent out! I know from my past as a real estate agent that the well either passes or fails water quality and flow tests! I’m guessing the well failed inspection or the water samples fails due to oil and dirt contamination! It would have been a condition of the mortgage company that the well was replaced either b4 closing on the property or money was placed in escrow to pay for new well or retrofit of existing!

[@williamallen7836]

@@kenwillis8487 Exactly. Just because an old item is robust, it does not mean it has not out lived it useful life or overall better in it's current use.

[@MIchaelPerkins-bc9zf]

My Mom, born in 1920, used a slightly different term for what you termed the leather wiper. She called it the sucker washer.

[@paulmaxwell8851]

That is the coolest old setup I've ever seen. If it were mine I'd definitely restore it to like new.

[@vickchester4285]

My dad built a pump system using a similar sucker rod pump It was very reliable, and used an electric pump to drive pump. This brought back some very fond and distant memories of my Dad and me working on and maintaining our pump system.

[@retroguardian4802]

Pretty cool. My grandpa was the first goulds dealer in my state. He would get weird products they were testing before pumps settled into what we know them as today. He's got multiple plaques they awarded him with. His name engraved and everything. Being a dealer in those days meant something.

[@lbstilts]

They used to call those "Sucker Rod" pumps in my area.

[@woodhonky3890]

Yep, you fixed it.

[@jaredmiller8740]

"If it ain't broke, fix it until it is."

[@KC2ATE]

I worked at Goulds in Seneca Falls for about 20 years. Neat to see old equipment still in use.

[@user-wn8mg2jh1d]

This thing is Amazing and still working 80 yrs later . I agree with you I would want to keep it as well.

[@bartdaw6681]

Old systems work, physics doesn’t change over time, just our understanding of it. I still like my jet pump setup at our cabin.

[@zanelile8192]

clean area, apply heat, use 2 pipe wrenches. and hammer. Don't give up.

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

My grandfather installed a hand operated well on his property around 1960 with a similar mechanism. The well was 90m deep, the water was around 18m below ground. They lowered a 4" pump cylinder on 1 1/4" galvanized pipe about 24m deep into an 8" well. The piston inside the cylinder was connected by a 3/8" rod to an arm at the top. You could buy these cast iron pumps in the hardware store, they were intended for water depths about 3m, with our setup it was extremely hard to pump (I as a kid was unable to push the arm down, I wasn't heavy enough). Later my dad converted to a submersible 3-phase pump with 4" diameter, we installed a 5" plastic casing inside and filled the gap with pea gravel. Still providing water for the lawn today. I came from Germany, so the house has 400V 3-phase power (230V per phase), and no fancy electronics box, just an old fashioned pressure switch with 3 contacts instead of 2.

[@w124mercedes7]

That old gould pump will probably outlast 2 modern pumps and around 80 years old now. American made used to mean something. America built products that were built to last and be serviced. I have a refrigerator and deep freezer built in the 30s and both work like new. We have a gas stove from the 30s and a pair of gas parlor stoves we use for heat and both work great. Everything was salvaged from. An old mansion and we're totally restored. You cant buy that kind of quality and reliability anymore. I restored cars for over 35 years and restored a 1953 caddilac and after we were done we were amazed how cold the ac system was in that car. On a 110 deg day the ac would freeze you out. Its a shame American made Isn't what it used to be. We used to build the best looking cars and now we build over priced plastic junk . Truly a shame.

[@NemoBlank]

@@w124mercedes7 Hedge fund traitors and crooked politicians saw a way to get rich selling the rest of us out.

[@calebmunch-ae0fp20]

In Mn, those are all over the upper nw corner of the state. They are called "pumpjacks". Our well was over 200' deep, and they do work!

[@farmboycharlie6543]

Systems are pretty simple and repairable by most farm shops will out last a cheap a Chinese made pump. Haverepaired them with leather from old work boots and fabricated metal parts from salvage farm equipment. Our dairy farm well still uses a 3 inch casing under the old windmill. We have upraded it ourselves over the years. Still pumping 2,000 gallons plus a day out of a 30 ft well. Jack pump there was removed back in the 1960's as demands increased. But I still kept one up for inlaws until they moved in 2000. Was supplying a small farm and house just fine for 85 years

[@davidmark805]

That pump needs to be restored and put on display.

[@johnnycotrel7413]

One thing about it which goes for all things is back then when that stuff was made it was made to last unlike all the junk they sell nowadays which companies could realistically put expiration dates on stuff but then people would realize they are deliberately making stuff so that it does break. They will all lie and tell you they don't but common sense would tell you otherwise and even proof like this would tell you otherwise. Last year i changed a hot water tank that was 32 years old. Believe it or not the inside of the tank was clean. They had an above ground well that fed the place, all spring water no filtration system on it. I wish you could have saw that. I lived on a farm as a kid and there were springs everywhere and i would drink those waters all the time, you can't beat water like that. Good luck finding it nowadays.

[@rocarroll1533]

Serviced these deepwell pumps for 45 odd years,many different brands,Anderson, Mcewens,Davies etc,if you didnt have a wind mill you usually had a deep well plunger pump ,not much else before submersibles came into play bar ram style pumps

[@macdude3585]

Out with the good in with the Garbage

[@BRICEN18]

I’d like to recommend some tools. 1. Steel wedge mcmaster# 5775A1 These are great for separating mating surfaces. 2. Ball peen hammer, save the claw hammer for nails. 3. A 3/4/5 lb sledge of your choice.

[@Wyrm1701]

Well, if you want a tale of old water engineering, then when archaeologists first got into the volcanically buried bath house of Roman Herculaneum in Italy, they found a large square-topped valve on a big lead pipe. Cautiously turning this valve (who would be able to resist doing so?) it was found to still work and still be holding some water 1800 years after the eruption buried it in volcanic ash.

[@stevepurcell7266]

My cousin is a supervisor at Goulds pumps located just outside Chicago. Great American made quality.

[@charlestonsclocal]

It’s great showing us this antique well. Sad it was destroyed.

[@calico097]

I’m surprised they just didn’t keep the old well if it was still working. Now they have to drill a new one which is going to cost more money

[@markkowaleski3515]

The pump was made about 35 miles from where I live, Seneca Falls, NY. They're still I business, I used to deliver steel to the factory in the 70's....1970s!

[@donaldswett6210]

Was a pretty common way to convert from windmill to electric pump using old sucker rod system. This being when rural electric power came to be. These old pumpjacks still show up in farm sales up here in the northern midwest.

[@Chisos1]

My aunt was still using her well with a pump jack up until she passed away 10 years ago. I still have the original windmill the jack replaced.

[@aaronbrandenburg2441]

Pump jack is the proper term for the device Shirley Coleman for converting a wind-driven pump AKA windmill operated pump such as these two Electric and yes on the world notification leading to this being converted to Electric Power. Once saw an old systemware firm power had been used as in DC low voltage surprisingly pretty much all the receptacles from the same as well as bulb bases so just be aware out there if you have some antique electrical equipment of various types and other devices check the voltage and sometimes things may be DC only as well. I was call bus and wanted and moved into a farm and what kind of baffled no power they could not find any indication that there was a connection to the grid but clearly at one point there was electricity and of course no meter nor normal service entrance. Even in ancient Antiquated one at all. However there was Warren running all over the place. Was checking things out where there was little white picture just looked in there add the bulb and said aha ha. Salsa appliances said ditto and so on right down to the old Kirby vacuum in the closet. Everything there was designed ran off low voltage DC. And was going around various places of the property shine my flashlight name of the outbuildings and said well there's your service entrance basically a big fuse board literally not even a fuse box just something that looks like more like out of Frankenstein not necessarily typical for the system but every once in a while you can see something like this apparently according to some old guys that still knew about this headband over the years. It was what was referred to as farm power I think it was 40 some odd bowls cannot remember what the voltage usually is. Don't think it was 36 but might have been at one point And the old batteries were still there even some of them still had acid in them! Glass jar lead acid batteries! There was a gasoline generator as well apparently that one was equipped for automatic start the thing is there were batteries but it is could be run by just turning on a load in the generator starting and of course topping up the batteries while in use the idea on that system was the batteries could be used without having the generator run constantly sometimes the generator was just ran by itself and other times it was a combination of batteries and in various different setups. By the way that place also had an acetylene generator for carbine lighting it looked as though they had used both not sure which was first or that originally it was gas but some of the fixtures had both Gas and Electric it's possible some of this was pre-wired for the system before it was installed don't know the full history of the place. For example the kitchens and acetylene gas stove that would have been run from the acetylene lighting plant did the settling generator was in a separate outbuilding that was essentially a big concrete box some people thought these were actually a storm shelter and in many cases were used for this after the system for the assembling lighting plant in head removed for good. Another interesting system that was on the property was using the some people call it Airgas but I'm not sure of the proper term for this. Essentially an underground giant enormous carburetor apparently would have wicks in there to get gasoline to pay for us and there would be some sort of lower possibly a Roots blower in some cases what are would be pumped into there and then the resulting air in fuel vapor what's my back and used for lighting. There was no connection as far as I know to the house with this but there was some stuff that was capped off maybe the acetylene have been used for one part and the other for another or one system superseded the other but I'm feeling they're both working around the same time period and there was a bit different fixtures and sometimes even electric and the two fixtures for these two different systems in the same building so hard to say what happened

[@Petrochemtester]

Still use them for cattle water - out in pasture where there is no electric and no windmill - fill with gas and runs until the fuel runs out

[@kenwillis8487]

I sold real estate for 8 years, any home with a well was subject to testing and inspection. They tested water sample and the tested flow rates! It doesn’t matter if the new owner wants to live there or rent it out, the well still has to pass inspection and be deemed a safe reliable water source! If a well failed inspection there were two options, either the seller fixes/replaces well or they place money in escrow at closing for buyer to use to fix or replace! Usually the buyer and seller would renegotiate the contract price to come to an agreement! Either way I guarantee that well failed either based on flow rates or contamination from oil from the pump!

[@northwoodsguy1538]

I had friends use pump jacks like that powered by gas engine ( ie 5HP Briggs with horizontal shaft) in the Dakotas to water cattle on parcels that are not close to power. Suppose they could use a generator and motor like your setup.

[@davidyansky6605]

Had one similar to this on an old farmstead I bought. I built a new house but still kept the 60' well running for 20 years until the sandpoint failed and it started pumping up mud. It's still sitting in the well house, disconnected but works.

[@duotronic6451]

I would have had you stop, leave the old well intact. Make the call to drill a new well nearby. Make a functioning museum showcase of the old well with plexiglass windows and a spigot for irrigation.

[@christophergould3673]

Old things go nearly forever

[@FreeFinca]

85% of you should help this man out and give him the Christmas he deserves 🎄

[@johnmuir3233]

Well you got the first and last video of one of those pumps running. Still cool

[@pewpewwithtodd8077]

That is older than pre deturmand failure was invented, lol

[@donaldshimkus539]

The wildest one I ever saw was in a very old farm house. Water was pumped by a windmill and stored in the tank on the windmill. A pipe came from the tank to the attic and teed off for cold going down and the other side went into a copper lined box with a float valve (much like that in a toilet) in the attic. I figured this is how they got hot water most of the year.

[@user-or1lu3ku3m]

You pulled the pipe at an angle and were surprised that the head broke off, sheesh

[@donlancaster7306]

We had a windmill pump well it was awesome

[@brandonhoffman1875]

It works like a little oil well with a stand valve and a traveling valve in a working barrel. I’ve never seen one that small.

[@buggsy5]

It may not be as small as the creator is conjecturing. I have seen a number of similar setups that used about a 3" pipe.

[@brandonhoffman1875]

@@buggsy5 it looks small. I have a couple wells that use 1 1/2 inch tubing and it’s bigger than that

[@joemccain5606]

It is called a working head. Has a cylinder on the bottom and a form of one on the top they were used on low output wells. You can use a monitor pump jack and a brass cylinder modified and mounted upside down for the top end.. some folks used Jensen jacks which did the same job but looked like mini oil field pumps.The Great Plains area will keep wellmen on their toes at least they have kept me learning for the last 35 years

[@raccoonvalley5530]

My grandfather house had one like that he converted it in the late 80s

[@davekelley8520]

We have neighbors still using them on 3"casing here in Ontario canada

[@apollorobb]

That piece you cut off was a Check Valve . My Great Grandmother had a converted windmill well hers was a gravity feed style not a pressure style it had an overhead water tank that fed the house . Hers had almost the same gear box it may have been a bit older .

[@iamdesertpaul]

I feel like Hand Tool Rescue would love this. The gismocity with this is incredible.

[@davidbulich1254]

I love that old stuff

[@JoeCdaYT]

That old pump belongs in a museum

[@jefftoombs68]

Both of my aunt and uncles had similar wells.

[@gregorymatre]

I bet that Goule would buy it back

[@adamlynn6648]

The broken shaft is supposed to open and close valve while pumping

[@danbrit9848]

built obsolescence wasnt a thing yet ...that was when things were made right

[@jim7smith]

Shame that was rusted to ruin. Definitely a unique pumping system. Looks identical on a smaller scale to the oil well pumps I drive by in Texas

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

Why did I find it sad to see this old American built pump that still works have to be removed. 😢❤ I also detest air bnb. 😂

[@danthurman9076]

Wow that is an antique, I have removed many of the working head pumps. Never a Goulds. Meyers, Monitor, Air Motor, we're most prominent.

[@rocarroll1533]

Google Track Industries in Christchurch New Zealand, pretty sure they still manufacture a new Anderson deepwell rod pumps,beautifully engineered and smooth running pump gearing

[@jf2487]

its called a rod pump has rods made of wood or later updated to steel usually run about 20 ft. each hase depths of 200-300 ft in depth on bottom is a set of cup shaped leather sleeves that are in the last section has a casing in bottom that draws water from bottom of well thru a stroking motion.old timers would pour bleach down well to shrink leathers to make them easier to pull

[@hermanschepers4739]

Have my granddad's old house and shop. So I inherited the old wooden rods we pulled out in the mid 60's.

[@centheiatrust9153]

The Gould mechanism is called a "pump jack." The pump down in the well is called a cylinder pump. New ones are readily available in a variety of diameters and draw lengths. Draw length times diameter is the amount of water you get each time the rod is pulled up. I have seen people install brand new ones in a freshly drilled well, with an electric motor operating the pump jack, just for historical reasons.

[@donaldshimkus539]

Brings back memories of working on an old reciprocating pump run by electric motor. It was in a basement because the house was added onto in the 40s or early 50s. Two 100 gallon galvanized pressure tanks. They had microscopic leaks below the water lines. I moved away before that became a disaster or someone else got to replace it.

[@markb.1259]

Theoretically... I think you love saying the word... Theoretically!!! 🙂

[@stevelalondejr2183]

Welcome to my world pump jacks, cylinders & leathers here are still a normal well pumping system. You might have fixed that with a different rig, tools & more knowledge of how they work and are put together you had plenty of pull though. I agree with the sanitize aspect to a point and they aren't major gpm units for pumping water but they'll make pressure when right. We have gas in some wells here and these will pump water and gas with a Hoffman 79 valve added to vent gas off. They are like a ship slow and steady time replaces speed/volumes or submersible pump type well system. It was working just needed some care and fixing a new well and system will help a rental system for sure. My oldest now 40 cussed me teaching him these type systems along with jet pumps etc but they make $$ when you are the only one able or willing to work on them ! Get a 6'-8' hoist chain 1/4''- 3/8'' high tensile and make a loop chain save yourself from nylon slingshots! At least you tried that's way more than most would do here and a good pump jacket still works and worth $$ saving getting hard to come by.

[@user-mn8tm9oh1p]

I had one of those pumps in my basement for my outdoor water supply we replaced it but I still have the pump stored in my garage!

[@DaveBooth-qs7sw]

When the deep well cylinder gets stuck in the well causing it takes lots of patience by pulling it up & pushing it down to clear & scrap some of the corrosion from the insides of the casing. It can take lots of time, but eventually with perseverance you will get the deep well cylinder out!

[@RonaldWood-ep7vg]

I would not want you working on my stuff . That system was a bit old but you should have known more . Best if you stick to the modern stuff . I give you a thumbs up because I liked seeing the old but simple pump .

[@whatyoumakeofit6635]

I cant believe this well was ripped out. At the least it could ha e been left alone and used as a secondary emergency or auxiliary well. Or put new seals and refurbish the mechanism and keep using for another 80 years.

[@austinsullivan2136]

They don't build anything to last anymore, lol! The fact that this thing exceeded 50 years is a testament to that!

[@leehwhiz]

With that being a Gould pump, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't still have parts or if not would still have the original design documents to possibly get a machine shop to make a new part.

[@MrWolfSnack]

Gould is still in business. They might still have the blueprints for it, you never know.

[@russwabuda1556]

the broken shaft is on the air pump used to balance the air in the tank, since water in not compressable, air above the water in the tank, compresses to provide a cushion. other wise the pressure would drop to zero with the loss of one drop. this is the theory of cold testing a boiler. the air pump was off set by an unloader that was positioned in the tank at about thee 2/3 way from the bottom. a float would release air if the level got too low. the leathers can be replaced b y pulling the cage up through the pipe, removing the sections of rods as you go. if taken care or the high installation cost is off set by a long service life

[@williambarker7571]

Start with a new well.

[@robertmashburn5321]

Down in the bottom are leathers. They used the casing as the pump cylinder

[@hermanschepers4739]

Cylinder was separate from casing and attached the pipe containing the sucker rod

[@layne3718]

We have this same setup at our farm in a 50 foot hand dug well. still works as a backup. Same style pump, mabye little older.

[@69uremum]

went from having a working well, albeit old it was still functional to having a bunch of broken bits and no water.

[@tonyhudson8698]

Look up Ram pump.. Its self operating just from flowing water.. Shows a whole different type of pumping water.. Cheers from NEW ZEALAND..

[@suespony]

So cool, I live very near Seneca falls, I knew a few people that worked for Gould pump back in the 80's

[@walterochsner8145]

Amazing what you find on old systems, that was state of the art at one time.

[@edcoffin3514]

If it's not broke, leave it alone!!!!

[@KevinKinder-ey9gv]

Put that pump in a museum

[@omadeitz3340]

I have pne of those wells, put in 1912 however it runs to drain the tiling in a massive 325 foot mine tailings pile. We are reworking it to use it for our animal watering system.

[@philipeyraud5316]

its a pumpjack. we had one to water the cattle in the 1940s and early fiftys.