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Curmudgeonland...home Of The Old Farts Club

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LittleDabbie said:
Stoned but not that stoned...


got ahold of the repair guy i guess the well's in this neighborhood are notorious for their 4" pumps getting stuck inside the well and unable to remove, so he said theres a chance we may need a new well .....


Own your own home they said, Dream house they said...

Anyone remember the move Money pit. . .
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The pump should be inside a casing. In sand they can get stuck, but I've gotten them loose, even on really deep wells. Cowboy skill set has to include the ability to fix submersible pumps & windmills. If I was closer, I'd come give you a hand. How deep is the well?
 
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LittleDabbie said:
Stoned but not that stoned...


got ahold of the repair guy i guess the well's in this neighborhood are notorious for their 4" pumps getting stuck inside the well and unable to remove, so he said theres a chance we may need a new well .....


Own your own home they said, Dream house they said...

Anyone remember the move Money pit. . .
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Hey just trying to help
 
#18,145
Hippie said:
LD, you're gonna love dementia. My mother asked me yesterday if I had a brother. She forgot her own first born son.
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Oh its already lovely...My poor mom is loosing here sanity over it..

So the repair guy just left, 187$ richer for him..

The pressure switch (little box that sits down by the water main in the crawl space) was i dunno fucked i guess? He said something about 247 Volts, which I don't recall if the us is 120 or 240, but 247 is too much i guess.. I dunno tbh.

So he put a new switch on and did whatever he hada do and walla water is back! :D

yay!

thanks cowboy for your offer to help I'd prolly have called you first thing! :D
 
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Howz it weed nerds? Looks like another day in paradise here. Ive got some fence to build, then im going fishing.

Many times the pressure switch will stick. You can tap it with a screwdriver handle and itll start working again. A new one is $35 at the store.
 
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If'n you'd mentioned that an hour ago, you'd saved him $152!
To tell the truth, I wouldn't know anything about in ground well pumps, either. Mine's still an old Shetler, made in the mid 70s three miles from where I live, and rebuilt a few years ago. Best pump they ever made. The old man built the business just after WWII, it grew and thrived. He died, the son took over, sold out to a big company that basically ran the company into the ground by cheapening up everything, and went out of business.
 
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For all you fishing farts!
 
#18,152
mendel said:
I was busy sleeping an hour ago, and saving him $$ isnt my job.........its his..........:eyepiece:

We use grundfos pumps and motors here, pricey but longterm quality. Neighbor has a little windmill rig, so we do our own well work.
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I dont claim to know much about well pumps but i wudda got on the Internet and done a lil diggin myself....
 
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Hippie said:
If'n you'd mentioned that an hour ago, you'd saved him $152!
To tell the truth, I wouldn't know anything about in ground well pumps, either. Mine's still an old Shetler, made in the mid 70s three miles from where I live, and rebuilt a few years ago. Best pump they ever made. The old man built the business just after WWII, it grew and thrived. He died, the son took over, sold out to a big company that basically ran the company into the ground by cheapening up everything, and went out of business.
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Could it have been A & W Plumbing ? If so that was the wife`s uncle`s business, sounds like it.
 
#18,155
omfg it never ends around here...

Dads still fucking crazy as shit, no idea what his blood sugar levels are can't get them tested.. Can't get him to drink water very aggressive.. Emotional out bursts that are even less coherent.. Talking to him self talking to people who are not even here... Thinking very strange shit is going on when infact nothings going on but his mind is loosing control..

Had enough of this all night last night / today calling EMT's .. Hospital can deal with this shit. Im not a fucking nurse!
 
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A few years back, a 3 of my son's friends were struggling in school. Their parents gave me guardianship. They'd given up. Four teenage boys were stacked in a small bedroom.
Four years later, I'll watch the last one receive his diploma, in an hour or so.
It's been a long road, but the day is finally here.
 
#18,157
Sounds like ya done 'em proud, Goldie.

It gets nothing but worse, LD. Going through the same shit myself. Thought it was bad watching the old man rot out with cancer. This is ten times worse. Made the kid promise she'd put a bullet in me if I ever got that bad.
 
#18,158
If that were a legal option, Id prolly have the gun half cocked already...

EMT's got him back to normal with IV's and glucose..

Hes never acted like this with low blood sugar before its always been different.. So i dunno urging him to get tested for alzhimers and dementia but thats like trying to get a cow to slaughter its self then cook its self then eat its self....
 
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It`s hell to get old, but the alternative is even worse. The last 3 years have kicked my ass, I be feeling my age now, never did before. My head`s still screwed on right, at least most of the time. My father in law is 94 or will be in a month and he`s in a nursing home because of mental issues, not physical ones. He has to be in a lock down facility cause he keeps packing a suitcase and saying he`s going back to Michigan, don`t know how, but he`s going. He`s only been there a couple of months, but needed to be there a couple of years ago. But with her mom and brother and wife living there with him they resisted as long as they could. They found him, in the middle of the night, sitting in the middle of the street. It was getting out of control. Nobody wanted to, but they did what they had to do.
 
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