We Weren't Prepared For This

[@spacecase0]

I suggest to people that they turn off their electricity and water for a weekend. It is amazing what they learn in the first 15 minutes

[@backwoodshomestead482]

I agree, maybe even should be mandatory. My kids could do it, no problem, but when their phone battery dies...holy nightmare!

[@tkilg7169]

Hopefully you won't lose a pump every time you get lightning. Two things. 1) Surge protection for your electrical (and make sure electrical and grounds are set up correctly). 2) In case of a widespread extreme emergency, a manual pump for your well. They are pretty expensive, but might be worth it for that bad disaster.

[@nyannyan123456]

My last house, I had a well pump issue. It turned out it was the wires going down the waterline. Every time the pump turned on it would twist in the casing. This caused the wires to rub bare and short. New wires and a good tape job I was back good as new.

[@claytoncoolidge992]

Everyone is talking about expensive pumps yet everyone forgets about the pitcher style pumps. They make some cool ones that offer the ability to actually attach pipe so u can hook it in to fill things in the house. Its hand operated and takes 2-3 gallons of water to prime. When I was growing up we had an old artesian well that we had to replace when we bought the house. So once we moved in I helped install an old cast iron wash tub and drilled a hole and mounted the pump to the side of it and hooked to the old well. Pour a couple of Gallons of water to prime it open the valve and start pumping and after a few pumps you would have a the water you could want

[@1768ify]

They are no longer every day items, and a good reliable one is going to cost a lot more than you might think.

[@1shirleynewman]

When I was a kid they had a cistern under the house that call rainwater off the roof. The water was used for laundry and other things, like washing dishes.

[@TheUserid82]

Store water as high as you can so when you have no power you can use gravity to feed it to where you need water. Just remember to take the weight of the water into account as water is heavy in bulk amounts.

[@PatrickWagz]

Good advice, in both aspects.

[@ronhart4166]

I am sure the well pipe was placed behind the retaining wall for appearance and so you do not trip over it. I do not see why you would have to move your entire bed. Likewise, I would suggest digging around the pipe a couple feet and adding gravel. Or making a gravel spillway. If you have room and your location is right. I would install a cover over your well also. My mothers well was struck by lighting twice in one year here in Florida, many years ago. So we built a well house over it. I believe it was a10x10, and it allowed for room for her water softener and her salt and such. The well has never been hit again. I would also like to add. Rainwater catchment is a good idea. But I find, more importantly, it is to have things to store water in when you are raising animals. My chickens are watered in two ways. I have a 50 gal drum set up with PVC pipe and watering cups. This provides my 20ish chickens with water for weeks. I also am big on water gardens. So I have multiple small ponds that my dogs can have water. I use preformed pond liners for water gardens, and I have a 150 gal pond liner in the chicken run for MORE watering opportunities. Congratulations on your new homestead ! I personally love coming up with ways of sustaining my small property. As you know. It takes time for all, so happy homesteading !!

[@kikigamble4315]

Hi. Consider a composting toilet, a Berkey water filter when using stored water for indoor cooking n personal use. Yep, when building your animal sheds, set up water collections off each roof just for the animals. Looking forward to seeing what you build. Peace to you and yours

[@danieltaylor5231]

I thought you'd struck oil there for a second.

[@SuperWhatapain]

Gorgeous place. I pray your problems resolve easily. Florida..... sea level well Haha. Has it's own problems

[@JamesCouch777]

We keep a spare pump and have generators and also a solar pump system. We try to be prepared.

[@ronyerke9250]

If you're going to use that plastic (HDPE?) barrel for standby water, it would be best to make an enclosure for it, or at least give it a coat of paint. Ultraviolet light can make it brittle and a sudden failure can cost you your entire reserve.

[@salmonhunter7414]

Pond water with a filter think it would be fine. Maybe even for showers and stuff.

[@ronhill2]

Install a large water storage tank fed from the well to give you a water store.

[@benthere8051]

Surge protection, Surge protection, Surge protection Wranglerstar installed a good manual pump - check that out How deep was the well? How much was the new pump? A 330-gallon tote and an aux pump would be a very handy thing to have. Good generators became very important last winter and the price went up accordingly.

[@robertmarino2158]

Living in the mountains , I learned many valuable lessons about what you are going thru , it's not fun , be prepared , it is costly & a pain , I had the well re- wired , put in more installation on walls in pump house , winter was the worst , snow , cold , hail summer time , loss of power , heavy , heavy rains ! Plan ahead it will pay off , be smart , good luck ! My wife at times would go to castle rock Colo. To stay with her son , I survived , I had to !!!

[@zorgguyeagle]

You need a whole house surge protector.

[@lizhaydon2250]

A generator for your appliances would be smart before winter. It would also run your well pump. I'd think that's more important than a tool.

[@ericsumnicht7829]

Nice content today Pastor Todd. Appreciate your thoughts on preparedness. 🙏

[@loganv0410]

"yucky" water for animals: Have you ever seen the chunky stuff animals routinely drink when on pasture? Backup water: I use IBC's (yes I check for original contents) hooked to a 110V pump with its own pressure switch which I hook to the pressure tank through the drain valve. Works great. Pressurizes the existing house plumbing system.

[@SSLFamilyDad]

I was thinking of something like this, good to know

[@WalkScripture]

We are currently on about hour 36 with no water after the lights flickered. I think our next move will be a trip to replace the gauge and pressure switch and if that doesn’t work, the call to the well company will be placed first thing tomorrow. Water collection has become a priority like you

[@wildmanargo]

Glad you got it fixed

[@BalticHomesteaders]

What about pumping into a cistern higher up that can then be gravity released when needed?

[@joelhowe]

I'm glad to see you got everything sorted out, but that's a tough few days! As someone who lives in Canada, I'm very interested in your ideas on year-round water collection - looking forward to hearing about it in a subsequent video. Thanks for sharing and reminding us all of the importance of being prepared. You've moved a few things up my list, too!

[@wizard3z868]

A whole home surge protector at main panel and check on your ground rods to main panel as well as nothing wrong with driving one close the well head as well and connecting it to the pump

[@ontogeny6474]

I sure know what that feels like to go without water for an extended time. We had to go deeper with our well and it took a bit to muster up the resources. (Wound up at 800' deep) There was a lot of hauling during the interim. I'm currently in the process of going 100% solar on the well. You can do this even if you have a 240v pump. Make sure your inverter has the beefy transformer (called low frequency inverter). It's an investment but I feel well worth it. I also recommend an above ground storage tank. This can provide emergency reserve water should the submersible pump stop working. Someone in the comments mentioned a whole-house surge suppressor. I've installed one and strongly recommended for others as well. Didn't mean to go long here. :D

[@charlesvaughn5055]

Could you explain what made the well water so black as he was washing it out Thanks have a great week end and week

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Silt and sediment that collects at the bottom of the well. He used so to clean all that out before putting the new pump in.

[@toddhower8215]

great video thanks for sharing Have you considered putting in a hand pump well. hand pump well is on my list of this to try

[@BS.-.-]

With today's wire prices I would be praying it's the pump and the wire is fine...lol. actualy I would more than likely replace the pump if it's on the ground. Catching rain for your garden and animals will greatly lower the wear/use of your well.

[@judymckerrow6720]

I don’t remember if you mentioned you got your home inspected before you bought it? It’s easy to say what you should or shouldn’t do so I’m not going to say anything except OH BOY! 💚🙃

[@Z-Ack]

The well pump guy was extra informative and insightful..

[@notreallysure99]

What about a backup hand pump for the well?

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

How does that work? I am interested.

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

@@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm Wranglerstar on his channel had one put in

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

@@larrykluckoutdoors8227 Thanks

[@justinb8584]

What about the water stored in your hot water heater? Probably has enough for your animals and toilets for a couple days. Remember it’s just hanging around whenever the well is down!

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Great point!!

[@Tsuchimursu]

My water pipe once burst while I was stuck doing 12h work days, in the middle of winter... I had no time or energy to do anything about it until the weekend. I just filled a few buckets before I shut the pump and went fora week without showers and tried to minimise water usage... it was quite brutal.

[@zadzilko]

Get a sanitary well cap

[@frrapp2366]

we have a well unfortunately it on the south end of the farm we have over a mile of pipe between it and the house (only good water in any amount) every time we have to open up the well we pour a gallon of clorox down it and run it for a couple of hours, garden or yard works good we also bought a generator big enough to run the pump. And yes you need small containers of water around and gas for the generator, mower, tractor, vehicles, ect . sorry it looks like the new property wasn't quite a cream puff that it looked like at first

[@SSLFamilyDad]

Yup and this house never looked like a cream puff, lol we new what we bought:) a 50 year old house in need of lots of work

[@frrapp2366]

@@SSLFamilyDad well thats life for you but if it was perfect what would we do with ourselves good luck and have fun while you work on stuff

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

@@frrapp2366 Exactly I agree. Some people are glued to the TV others like to be part of life not a spectator.

[@mainelyelectric]

Does the power to your well pump run over the mile distance? Wow that is a far run for a pipe.

[@frrapp2366]

@@mainelyelectric fortunately no we live where most roads are layed out in mile grids ,s section dividedin to 4 quarters we have 2 adjoining running north and south we drilled wells in 3 spots when dad bought the farm but 2 North wells didn't have much capacity, we have 2 - 30ft cattle tanks and 6 hydrant s or manholes with faucet s in them. 2 1/2 in pipe for most of the system we put rural water hookup at my dad's house but still had to run it a little more than a 2/4 mile but had to cross the creek luckily the county road crew were working on the bridge and had a big trackhoe to dig through the creek for him . We even hit an old dam tat dad said as there as a kid they ran pigs down to it during summer to cool off but had silted in he had forgotten it was there even lol life is fun right .oh btw I just had to replace the pressure switch on my well this morning got home last night late and No water the price of having your own well😁

[@cookiecrumbles4024]

Rain water down spouts will help with watering animals and cut running of toilet and clothes washing. We got a blue barrel that catches which goes to the four big plastic iodine containers which are covered in black plastic soon to have wood covers as well. Cut off $60. Dollars on the city water bill . We might not have animals here but son is prepared for cut off of utilities if that was to happen.

[@ericvallandingham5113]

I had a cistern at one of my homes and it was great for everything but drinking.

[@jangrahame4891]

This was God's reminder to have those preparations made before winter sets in.

[@davewaggoner5525]

Just curious Todd how you got your loan approved with that well? That's going to catch everything as low as it is. Keep fixing stuff..more things will pop up!

[@remthewanderer]

Does mortgage appraisals actually look at things like well placement?

[@lovenotes5299]

@@remthewanderer Nope, not in the country

[@backwoodshomestead482]

Banks usually require an appraisal, and at least some require a home inspection. The home inspection would catch wiring problems, not an appraisal. I personally think the fee for a home inspection is well (no pun intended) worth it, and have ordered one in the past when we bought a 140 year old house.

[@lovenotes5299]

@@backwoodshomestead482 I don't know if it covers a well in some states,or even septic tanks in rural areas. People are going for no mortages,to be debt free.A few ,have payments on land not home.

[@cheesygal]

I wish I could say I can’t relate. We moved to a rural property 3 years ago. Also in AZ so not a lot of rainwater except for monsoon season. We’ve found that priorities set themselves in place. 😂😂😂 also, we usually have these events on a Friday night.

[@WinSomeLoseNone0]

No ground wire on the well pump is not a good thing.

[@sandman3749]

Hello from Texas. Think about a lightning arrestor in the electrical box.

[@Sylvan_dB]

You're lucky the well breaker tripped. I came into the house after a power outage to the smell of burning plastic accompanied by frying bacon sound, with smoke pouring out of my breaker panel. I held my breath and turned off the main breaker and it all went out. Burnt the pump breaker contacts and ruined a total of 4 breakers. I hate to think what would have happened if I had not arrived when I did. That was a few years ago. After rewiring the breaker the pump worked fine until this year. It would sometimes pop the controller overload, and impedance test showed leakage to ground. Finally it wouldn't run at all after pressing the reset, so had to replace the pump.

[@lambition]

Couldn't you have well company extend that well casing? That would been easier and possibility cheaper solution then moving retaining wall.

[@davek6630]

Did you turn this in on insurance? Hopefully it was covered. Add a whole home surge protector to your main electrical panel.

[@PatrickWagz]

So, how deep is the well pump? Did you need to run new wire from the well to the panel since you were missing a ground wire? Why did he flush all the debris out of the well casing? Was the debris b/c the well cap was so close to the ground? Thanks!!

[@SSLFamilyDad]

I still need to run a new wire from the house to the pump and he always flushes the pump out while he has it out. That dirty water is pretty normal, the shaft is over 100’ but the well doesn’t sit all the way at the bottom so it is always sucking in clean water

[@Truthandlight66]

Brace yourself another weeks worth of rain coming.

[@theresad6990]

Perfect time to get some rain barrels in place. :)

[@chevy6299]

Plenty of examples of people living off rain water on KZbin.

[@GrizzlyGroundswell]

Be the water, ~ Bruce Lee

[@stevenV57]

Black gold, Texas tea.

[@olivier2553]

A 500 gal tank is not that expensive, feed the tank from the well and install a surpresor to feed the house

[@christineortmann359]

Maybe your insurance would cover some of that cost. Glad you’re up and running again. We put in some shallow ponds collecting sump pump water along with a whole house generator, it’s great peace of mind.

[@garygoldstein327]

Thumbs up. Enjoyed the show.

[@rustblade5021]

you are a very brave man.... after seeing all the things that deranged previous homeowner did, i would run screaming. is there a single thing they didn't mess up?

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Glad you are up and running

[@deborahlehman8617]

Thank you for showing the part about them blowing out your well, we had something done like that recently and we were not home when it was done so this helped us understand better, did the well guy tell you what made the water black??

[@SSLFamilyDad]

It is just sediment, mostly iron in our area

[@LawrenceHanson-b9s]

I was told not to use chlorine tablets in my water and my 30 gallon drums I bought because it wasn’t great to drink

[@davidcrowson4745]

👍👍

[@remthewanderer]

Oh man… the poison ivy on that tree at 2:49

[@augustreil]

That needs a Machete !

[@SSLFamilyMom]

He took his chainsaw to it shortly after….we are enjoying watching it wilt :D

[@remthewanderer]

@@SSLFamilyMom I live next to a park that is COVERED with it. Green gobbler vinegar weed killer is awesome! Stock up on tegu wash and lotion and you’ll be all set!

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

Goats love eating it. I went from a poison ivy jungle on my property to zero now. Thanks to my goats.

[@judymckerrow6720]

What exactly was wrong with the well?💚🙃 Are you going to need to have your water tested to make sure there isn’t anything evil in that water, it LOOKS like it was exorcised, with that black junk spewing out of it, but you never know? I don’t know if would want to be drinking the water? I would flush, not brush with it.💚🙃

[@angelaanderson5360]

Think of countries that don't have a first world problem like that. They have to walk miles to bring water to their home.

[@judymckerrow6720]

Yikes I thought our water was bad😱💚🙃

[@waylonhartwell]

Are you ordering a simple pump to add to your well now?

[@rare_wubbox360]

Interesting.. what about solar+ battery Jack Richard style.. so you get rid of a chunk of dollars, but all worries

[@MrDave8539]

I’ve lost a pump from lightning and homeowners insurance covered it.

[@SSLFamilyDad]

They will but it was the same price as the deductable

[@lovenotes5299]

A few people i have heard, that when lightening struck, it blew out all of their LED bulbs

[@SSLFamilyDad]

We had several blow but not all of them

[@lovenotes5299]

@@SSLFamilyDad Good, now may the time to get extra bulbs stocked up, just in case. You never know until stuff happens.

[@MrWayneploof]

Last week i had to replace my well pump it was only 3 years old

[@salmonhunter7414]

Rain or snow melt.

[@michaela1655]

Looks like you have an oil well on your property

[@adriabak7942]

Was this storm last Saturday? Afternoon?

[@WanderingHead91367]

Wow. A house with so many undetermined items...did someone forget to hire a home inspector? title search? permit search? It really seems that you need to stop and figure out if this structure is up to code.

[@stonesourG6]

I don’t understand why the water wasn’t clear? Why was it orange (I’m going to assume that was iron), but then black?! I’m confused as to what the guy was doing, with the “flushing”?

[@SSLFamilyDad]

The rust is just from the iron pipe, and the black was silt and sediment on the bottom of the well he was cleaning out

[@jehu5813]

I find it hilarious that so many people in the comments think they can tell you how to live your life and the mistakes you have made. The arrogance is strong in the comments.......

[@nemmrrc]

Bible verses at end of video are most welcomed

[@richardjellis9186]

I would discharge that battery power back up that you have, at least 3x a year. Just down to about 20%, then back up again.! And just hope you don't get a power cut whilst you're doing it.!🙄!...🤣

[@ernestholbrook1898]

Why didn't you take water from your hot tub or jacuzzi to flush your toilets

[@corinnem]

Looks like you found oil. lol

[@ajlewis9454]

That house is a money pit! You should've kept the farm!

[@SSLFamilyDad]

The farm was a money pit too! Lol

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

Heck no and not be able to share all these improvements.

[@andrewslagle1974]

yup!

[@bobbg9041]

You got goats and chikens in the house?

[@niccat7051]

The well guy was a miserable man wasn’t he 🙄