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power outage no water......
the other night we lost power and also lost water(well pump is electric obv) we live on a farm and i have some of those old style hand pumps poking around but when i went out to them they were also dry......i thought i read somewhere that you can prime these pumps to work somehow if thats true could someone kinda walk me through it im from jersey so all this farm stuff is new to me
The ones I've used have a screw on the top plate. Remove it and pour water in the hole. (you have to be patient, because the hole is small). Pretty soon, pumping the handle will draw water. Good luck!
How deep is the well?
all the wells that I'm aware of do not require priming...the "hand pumps" that you're referring to are probably frost-free spigots... they're not really pumps, just the valve is 3-4' underground... chances are you have a failure of some kind- the breaker is popped at the very least...
I've been on a well for about 13 years now- have had it drop offline twice in that time- once the wire insulation wore thru inside the well, and it was shorting out- the other time a pipe failed inside the well casing, and was audibly "spraying" inside the casing.
If you're on a well, you need to have a local pump service that you can trust to call out- they have equipment to pull the pump out of the well that just isn't practical for a homeowner to have- and a good one won't charge you thru the nose, either...
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ, we are the III%, CIP2, and some other catchphrase meant to aggravate progreSSives who are hell bent on taking rights away...
No, there really are old-school hand pumps that do need priming if unused for a while. There's one at a family cabin, which I've pumped plenty of water from. A completely different critter than the frost-free valve you mention.
But he claims the CS area. Last time I heard water is a long way down around here. Just a thought.Originally Posted by Fentonite
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