Anybody know anything about pulling wells?

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The water pressure was real low, so we were going to pull the well and put in new pipe and a point. A neighbor knew how to do it, so we traded a kitchen stove for his labor and expertise(we got screwed). Tried using his jack(kind of a high lift unit)and some chain and couldn't get the pipe to budge. Another neighbor came over and tried using hydraulic jacks and pipe wrenchs, still no movement. Hooked the pump back up and now no water, we primed the pump about 10 times. Any ideas? Suggestions?
 
coffeedart67 said:
The water pressure was real low, so we were going to pull the well and put in new pipe and a point. A neighbor knew how to do it, so we traded a kitchen stove for his labor and expertise(we got screwed). Tried using his jack(kind of a high lift unit)and some chain and couldn't get the pipe to budge. Another neighbor came over and tried using hydraulic jacks and pipe wrenchs, still no movement. Hooked the pump back up and now no water, we primed the pump about 10 times. Any ideas? Suggestions?
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I've watched it done but don't really know anything about it. How deep is it? 2-300 feet of pipe with a pump hanging on it will weight quite a bit. IIRC the method used around here consists of a truck with a winch and boom setup. They pull it up one length of pipe, use a special clamp to hold the top of the next section, take the first section off, pull the next section up, repeat.
Dallas
 
Oop's my bad. I forgot to mention it is in the basement. The pump sits on top of the floor. We are thinking that it is only 20 foot sown or so.
 
Something is not right here. I can pull my well pump and all by hand and its 77 feet. Are you sure how deep it is? Take the cap off and drop a piece of twine with a large bolt on it down the well and then measure how deep it is. Are you sure the well did not collapse?

Jack
 
Sounds like you have a jet pack style pump. Are there two plastic hoses running from the pump into the well? I agree with Coyote Jack. I pulled 150 foot by hand. Have a rope with with a loose double slip knot to tie it off when your hands need a break. If you can't get it to move I would agree that the well caved in or something.
 
Oh and if you do have a jet pack you now have dirt in the orifice down in the well. That is probably why you have no water.
 
And...(Boy I am sounding like an expert but I am not) Take the pump apart I am going to guess that your impellers are getting loaded up with mineral deposits. You clean the impeller you will be surprised the pressure.
 
Low pressure to me means pump problems like dartnabout said. Can you hook pump to a known good volume of water to test for pressure??
 
is this a submersible pump? (Pump up top or down inside in the well?) Submersibles invarably have a torque device in the well which could be hanging up

How (da##) deep is this thing? Hell, if it's 400 ft of metal pipe, that's gonna be heavy.

On the other hand, if the pump is up top, and you can't pull it with a jack, "you gots trouble." The well has probably collapsed somehow "down there" and crushed the pipe.
 
The pump is above ground and has a tank on it, by the description it sounds like a jet pack. We dropped a weight on string down the well and it only went about 15 foot or so. When they pulled the well for the cattle yard it was only around 20 foot. Today we are going to try and drive the old well pipe down (have about 2 feet above ground)and see if we can't free the pipe to pull it. Figure it is worth a try and we can't end up any worse off than we are now.
Last night went to get water from the cattle yard (separate pump)and the cistern was froze.
 
I would try another pump first , before hauling it up .Possible foot valve problem also , i pulled my father inlaws up one time to replace foot valve and the black hose was full of pin holes . Had to replace hose and valve.
 
coffeedart67 said:
The pump is above ground .
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There are two types of jets, a "shallow" and a "deep" jet

A shallow jet pump has the jet inside the pump, so only has one pipe into the well. This should be a simple one pipe deal with a foot valve (check valve) at the bottom

A deep well jet has the jet at the bottom, part of the foot valve, so has TWO pipes down.

(A jet works like an aspirator, bug sprayer, paint gun. Some people call them an extractor..........The pump uses some of it's energy to pump water through a venturi, which creates a vacuum, sucking water in from the screen in the check// foot valve. Other than submersible, this is one of the few ways to pump water more than 20 some odd feet)

Whether in the pump or at the bottom of the well, this is the jet. The pump output pumps into the port at bottom left. Water comes around, curves the other way, and goes through the center of the nozzle. This shoots water at high velocity to the left into the suction pipe which is connected to the pump INLET at top left. Water is drawn from the foot valve into the port at the right by the vacuum that is formed

IT IS POSSIBLE and probable that at some point you will get rust, crud, debri into the nozzle and plug it up, causing the pump to "not suck" LOL
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If this is a shallow well, using 1" or smaller pipe or so, hell, you should be able to pull it out by hand. Sorry to say, sounds like something collapsed "down there."
 
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