pulling out submersible well pump

Great info. Thx !

Wow, at 9:30 seeing that pump come out detached from the pipe... You are so lucky it came up!

great to see common man do the job. I literally gasped when I saw the pump come up broke off the pipe and dangling by the wires!!

Nice job! Betcha the torque twisting from when the pump started may had something to do with the pvc snapping off.. next time go with a stainless steel short nipple to stainless steel check valve to stainless steel mpt / barb male adpt. fitting. Also add a pull rope on the submersible pump.

Once upon a time in 1999, during a one-day deluge that was the all-time record rain in Juneau Alaska, I pulled a submersible pump by hand from 250 feet. I did it alone at 52 years old. I can tell you that was quite a chore. Walking the pipe the length of a football field and anchoring it in place to allow the next grab/tug at the well head was the biggest challenge. Over the years, my orthopedic surgeon has benefited greatly from these performances.

Inside the well please use stainless or at least brass fittings on the pump to the black roll. Tape the wires well to the tubing and use a safety rope, just in case things come apart in the well as in your case. I would never use pvc fittings inside a well. They are simply not strong enough to take all the pump starts.

Stainless steel fittings. 2 clamps --all stainless. Double sided tape

Great "real world" DIY video; thanks for your time sharing it. Imagine your buddy told you the white particles were likely PVC from your scraping up the side of the pump, since it was pulling up at an angle, hanging by the wires; lucky the wires held lol. If the pump was still working, I'd of kept it, being quality is not at all what it was even 15 years ago. Im bout to pull mine to add a check valve at the pump, snice it appears mine is bad or I have a hole in my drop pipe. I bought my house in 05 with the same pump, and it's still working, so gonna drop it back down the well.

Great job. Going to pull mine needed a refresher haven't done it since 2002 before I I had internet. LoL thanks 👍

When Lee says wiggle it just wiggle it ;) ..... Thats what we do Behind the Rig while drilling or pulling back pumps while saying lots of sware words 🙏🙏. Hold your tounge correctly and then it comes free and its the best feeling in the world ...unless the well collapses then it's no fun 😂

My well is 375 feet deep ,I had a company pull n replace pump some ten years ago. I will do it myself aft seeing your holding wood brace clamp thingy, thanks for sharing. God bless yall real good. From southern MD.

Wow. That looks like it was close to loosing the pump in the well. I didn’t see a safety rope hooked to the pump either . Sure glad those wires held . Great video.

I was on the edge of my seat watching this lol.

I'm delighted to see your wood block/clamp device... I had almost the same exact idea! The hinge is genius. I'm going to do the same exact thing!

Gran bel lavoro! Complimenti. A breve dovrò intervenire sulla mia pompa, il pressostato perde pressione e per fare partire la pompa devo aprire l'interruttore manualmente. Temo sia la valvola di ritegno andata. La pompa è assicurata ad una corda. Dovrò installare tra pompa e valvola di ritegno un cilindro di ghisa contro la corrente galvanica. Dalle analisi pare che la falda granitica sia corrosiva per i metalli

Fantastic DIY video. Will be helping my father-in-law replace his very shortly.

Next time u wanna check the pump… just test the pump leads by checking for continuity and takin the pump off the motor and that try to spin the shaft…. Theres also a bearing height checker u can order

Brilliant!! Thank you sir!

The reason it broke is because of the male PVC adapter, it is probably the weakest PVC fitting that there is. I had one fail too. It didn't completely brake but it had a crack and we couldn't get any pressure. What I use is a Close Pipe Nipple and a Female PVC adapter, this fitting is super strong compared to the Male PVC adapter. The Close Pipe Nipple goes into the pump and the Female PVC adapter goes in place where his broken Male PVC adapter was...

Should use stainless fittings to connect to black poly pipe