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>>>My parents have an old submered pump well. the pump >>>quit several years back, since they also had city >>>water they never fixed the well. How would you >cheaply >>>pull the pump and use as a bucket well. I believe the >>>caseing is 3 or 4". It has a tank so I assume it is a >>>deep well. Over a hundred feet. thanks for any help. >> >>Lehman still makes the narrow buckets. >><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >>href="http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailma >i >>n.jsp?itemID=97&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=well+buc >k >>et">http://www.lehmans.com/shopping/product/detailmain >. >>jsp?itemID=97&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=well+bucke >t >></a> > >In answer to your real question, how to pull the pump, >there are a couple of ways to go: >1. Easiest and best way is to get some teenagers over >there and start pulling it up. Four or five people >could make short work of it. If there is a steel pipe >going down there, then you would need some sort of saw >to cut off pieces as you brought it up. >2. If you are by yourself, get someone to help you. >Then you can make up a clamp from two 2x6"s maybe a >foot to 18" long. Carve a groove in the wood pieces >for the pipe to fit in and make four holes for big >(and I mean BIG) bolts to fit through. The routine is >bring up "some" pipe, loosen the nuts, move the clamp >down, the retighten the bolts. The clamp makes sure >you don't drop it. >3. If it is tooo heavy, then you can make a FOUR >(three is not stable enough) legged stand over it from >2x4"s and use a come-along or a chain fall to pull it >up. Clamp as decribed in 2, above.

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