Like his gently sarcastic, humble, self deprecating sense of humor. I also like how his video is very explanitory, with good detail. Keep them coming.

And your command of the English is better than a lot of people who grew up here in the United States!! Blessings to You and Your Family!!

I became mesmerized watching all of the various steps you encountered. You are the man!

Very comprehensive work! Great attention to detail. Thank you for making this video.

I'm glad to see people still using copper, rather than that cheap plastic PVC, and shark bite crap. You did a very professional job. Good for another 45 years.Thanks for posting.

amazing display of patience and energy.

Great job bringing the old well back to life !!

Thanks for all the pointers

Very informative and oddly quite soothing and relaxing, especially considering you hit some very frustrating obstacles. Thanks!

Just loved through a similar experience. Had to convert a 60 yr old well that had jet pump system over to a submersible system. Every turn was a new challenge. Can’t wait to finish the project, it has been 3 weeks work, but enjoying every minute of it.

I haven't enjoyed a video as much as yours in a long time. JOB WELL DONE!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!!

Bringing my old submersible well back to life. Great job and great video! I wish you were my neighbor! Thanks for this very well done presentation!

love it ..enjoy & u show it all .at 70 i had 3 different wells & pump problems over the years at 3 different places. Now retired living in wet, rainie western WA I have no problems Have no well..I am happy collecting rain water...LOL

Thanks for making this video. I like your pump pulling setup. I will be doing this soon and you gave me a great idea. Thanks!

Oh my goodness! You had one hell of project! Thank you for this informative video

Impressive documenting on such a fantastic task. I loved this video. Thank you and greetings from Portugal.

You remind of my brother. Determined to fix it yourself, no matter what it takes. Great job!

Great video! We are preparing to pull a pump from 190' (210' deep well). We have a pitless fitting to deal with and pull the remainder. Thank you for the instructions!

Wow. Superb documentary. Excellent contribution.

Very detail at work , good job

You take great pride in your work!

This is very fun to watch and I wish I could be as experienced as you are in terms of this type of works Good day to you Sir 👍👍👍

Very nice job. Your insights and approach to problem resolution is very mature. I have come to expect such from peoples of Eastern Europe decent (I assume). Thank you

Thanks so much. Great video. Good work!

Great video. I have walked into that mess more than once.

Impressive Job. You're the Man!

Thanks for the information. I have a well pitless adapter just like yours. I needed to know how to release it and reinstall. Great video, Thanks.

Just saw this video impressed by your diligence and quality work most people are too lazy to put that type of effort in 👍🏼

Thanks for your efforts!

You are the man. Good skill and pro. Thank you for sharing

I applaud the hard working ethics. I shall salute.

Nice work, you know how the saying goes if it aint one thing its ten others!

Great video; thank you!

My respect to you! Thanks for the video!

Great job completing the task. In addition to your obvious skills and creativity, your mastery of subtle humor proves the notion that if you can make people laugh, they will WANT to listen to you. Carry on.

Great job! 👍

Thanks for posting this I have an old well that want to use for irrigation

Thank you for posting this. Just bought a house with a well, and suspect it might need a new pump. Was wondering what was involved with the pump replacement, and thought my pump was "stuck" when I pulled on it's rope. Now I know it's heavy and down there a ways but totally doable. Much appreciated!

Such effort to make your video is much appreciated! I just wish I had your skills to start with.

Thank's for the video!

Great job. So much work. Thank you for the helpful video.

Very clever!

loved the commentary

This is about the absolute best video I have seen regarding repairing a private well. The author is humble, and admits to his mistakes. This shows he's human, and can falter like anyone else. The most important and crucial part is when he shows the run from the well casing into the house. So many "professional plumber" channels never show this, and I do not know why. Showing the details of how the pump electricity and pump piping enter the home's foundation, and how to seal that up, is monumental. Ditto with the secondary pressure switch. Why do these other "professional plumber" fail to show this? Anyway, it was a pleasure to watch this. Well done.

You did a great job, you can reuse the fittings but need to clean them really good/well. You can use CLR to clean them.

Very good video. You do good work on

Evcellant thank you

well done

I have two wells on my property . One stopped working so well company came out. They started pulling out the metal pipe and the pump broke off and stayed in the ground. I decided to just use the other well. Then it stopped working so I paid 3000 dollars to have that pump replaced and I watched the worker do it. That pump was cracked where the pipe goes into it so it was losing pressure. If I can recover from my illness I will use your method to replace the other pump myself. Thank you very much !

Good job.

Dude you are hilarious! Enjoyed the vid and learned something new!

You could also try some heavy duty poly pipe to hang your pump from, makes pulling it a little easier.

Excellent !!!

If i did all this work(and i did) I would never go back with old or even new galvanized pipe. Unless it is industrial grade it will rust badly in 5 years. The threads will pull apart from corrosion. It is a lot easier to deal with black roll tubing and stainless barb fittings. It lasts forever and if you have to pull it out it is easy. Make sure the wires are taped to the tubing completely the first few feet then all the way up every 3 feet or so so they cannot rub against the well when the pump starts. Thanks for your video and expertly filmed scenes.

I'm about to tackle this project at my house this spring. No idea how deep the well is it what type of pump is below. It is 40 years old and is sure to be a chore. Thanks for all of the helpful tips! You did a great job.

Wao well done my friend

Brother great work you inspired me to replace my submersible pump.!!!!

Great video. Hydraulic cement should be used for sealing the cement wall penetrations. It expands as it sets up and locks into the wall. That was probably what you used.

Ahh the joys of owning a home. :-)

You tell the story well but what a great story... Thank You For Sharing... if more people had your work ethics & appreciation for DIY we would have a great world with little need or use for government spying & thievery - they can not help or hurt a man who is competent & independent ~

Good job man

Impressive.

AHHH....the joy of owning a home....and the sometimes seemingly bottomless money pit 💰 you have inherited along with with the previous owners piece-part-patch-jobs that start falling apart only after you get settled in and comfortable....Yes I remember very well...the home inspector said the septic system despite its age...was just fine...what he didn't tell me...the very first load of laundry...would blow the system out....12K later I have brand-new septic system and new sod in the front yard...AHHH...the joy of it all 🚽 💰 😛 ...then came the roof leak which lead to replacing the electrical panel...and not to leave out the kitchen plumbing flood and new flooring... 👍 You my friend are a genius❕ I also learned my lesson with copper fittings 😁 did I mention the kitchen flood❔

Bro.. nice work! I feel your pain.

Be sure to inspect the pressure switch you installed prior to the filters. They are well known to get clogged up and stop working.

Good job. If it makes you feel better, all the problems you ran into are typical of wells and plumbing,

This was an EXCELLENT video! Thank you. I have an unused well pipe in my yard. This house currently uses a fillable 1500 gallon tank for water. Scheduled water deliveries once it twice a month. I was told the wells in the area are bad with high sulfur content. Some people use the wells many,thousands, use delivered water. I am curious if there is water that I can use for my garden and ducks and geese in the old ground well. I was born and raised in the city so wells and septic systems are unfamiliar to me. I just unburied the old, unused well pipe today. Tomorrow I will drop a string with a weight to see if water is even down there. Thank you so much for this video. I now have a much better understanding of a well and pipe and system. Oh, and skunks 🦨 😉. You video is also entertaining and humorous! Just subbed and looking forward to a binge watching to see what else you have been up too.

man I thought I was the only one that had that kinda luck, when you said you had to redo the pluming 5 or 6 times I felt that, lol great video I had to subscribe after all that work

Thanks for making me think, came up with a similar way of doing this job.

This was such an educational video. I have a well that was installed in 1954 and then sometime in the 80's I think a liner was added to it. It is below the surface. The water is orange after the house sitting unoccupied for over a year. We have run hundreds of gallons to see if it will clear up. It is slight yellow now. What do you think ??? The people I have talked to have told me there is nothing we can do and will have to install a new well.

I would have wrapped the copper pipe with some heavy tape PRIOR to sealing hole with cement - should be OK for sometime, but the copper will oxidize and leak eventually

Nice video!

Wow, you are epic!

Nice work bro. I'm dealing with a similar situation. It gives one a lot of respect for the guys that came up with all of this technology, eh?

This video is excellent. I admire the higher level of quality in your work. What size drill did you use to automate the winch? Did you reverse spool the cable on the winch to have it drop on the opposite side? Did you use the drill to lower the cable or use the crank to lower the cable? Nice to see you triumph despite the surprise complications throughout the project.

Thankfully, my pump is a shallow well jet pump, with black poly pipe dropping down a hand dug hole. But all of my galvanized fittings, gate valves, foot valve, and check valve all had to be replaced! $3-400 worth of stuff!

the ladder as a winch was brilliant.

BEA-utiful

McGyver TV show..... Sir you are fearless

A " What else could go wrong ? " project .......Nightmare ! If that would have been me ,,,,,,hide the kids ! I'd been cussing like a sailor that had mashed a toe !! That's coming from a man that thinks he is mostly calm and collected but ..........Damn it man ! My hats off to a real man's video, one that shows it can't all be Gravy. May good luck be with you in your future projects.

Just did mine today! Exact same water lines and exact same pump! Took four guys lifting foot by foot with vice grips, would not recommend lol

Very nice video I'm doing mine soon, don't know what to expect either. It's 40 years old

We had the same problem with the skunk ,except under our house and then in our home. 😂😂

Well... I'd say well done repairing that well

I feel you pain of "what next???"

You got lucky. The A/C cut-off pressure switch you used was at 70 PSI. AND the normal pressure relief valve on a pressure tank is 70 PSI. The only way to test which one will go first is to hold the pressure switch contactor ON and let the pump run until one of them goes off. Also, another way to fill the void on both sides of the wall is with low rise foam. This will fill the entire cavity and will act as a moisture barrier. Cut it off smooth with a long carpet or filet knife. Then you can use the stucco for texturing and painting with a latex paint will seal the cement. Stucco is not required on either side of the wall if painted, just aesthetics.

You are a beast. Master plumber here giving you mad props.

Nice video for DIY. As a professional plumber I would only warn against concrete directly on water or sewer piping. You need a barrier around the copper and poly pipes before concreting them in. Expansion will cause that copper to become damaged over time and form a leak.

Dad's everywhere cheering at @2:03

I have a brand new well to place a well pump in. Although my scenario and your scenario are not identical. I still found your video helpful. I thank you. I have a 260 feet deep well. I'm going to set my well pump at 240 feet. The well tested at stronger than 20 gpm. I am installing a Goulds 13GPM, 2HP, 230V, 3 Wire, 4" Stainless Steel Submersible Well Pump. My internet research told me to use 1-1/4" galvanized pipe. I have 21 ft sections. After buying my pipe, I think I made a mistake. Everyone is using poly down pipe. But all my research said to use galvanized. Especially RC WORST. I hope im not making a mistake. I have a skid steer. I bought a boom crane arm and some how, i hope to have luck in installing 240 feet of piping and a stainless steel pitless adapter. I bought a KWIK KLAMP pope clamp to hold each pipe section for install. And my well pump will be supported by 250 feet of 3/8" galvanized wire cable. I bought a wel x trol pressure tank. If anyone read this and has an opinion, let me know. Thank you for helping.

GREAT work, GOOD JOB. The random wildlife had me LMAO.

Well Done ..... ;-) Good Video

always rap copper pipes with electric tape before putting them through wall or burying them to prevent corrosion and always purge the well before running the water into the house or pressure tank

In Lincoln NE copper in ground lasted about 30 yrs

Excellent. Question: I see you added the second pressure switch prior to the filters. I am wondering why that wouldn’t be your only switch? If it was then it protects the pump from over pressure and if you saw diminished water flow from the filters you would then know to change them. Great job with reactivating the old well and thanks for taking the time to share the process. (For others doing something similar, they could replace the galvanized pipe with modern PVC and drop the weight of the system for a 100’ well to about 50 lbs, which then could be fully assembled horizontally on the ground and then the flexible PVC would allow manually curving the piping and lowering all down the well without the complexity of the winch and pipe fittings. It also simplifies retrieval of the pump if needed in the future.)

I have a 3HP pump that's down about 300 feet. With 1 1/4" pipe. I like your system but worry that the weight of my pipe and pump may be too much for your clamping system. I'm trying to come up with something to use to pull mine. I do have a skid steer so maybe I can use that. Anyway GREAT JOB!!

When you repair any copper pipes, you always use new stuff. The old is just perfect for recycling. Also, any pipe hangers you make use stainless or aluminum metal for corrosion resistance and a more professional look too. The pipe in the well bore should not be zinc as there is cadmium there also mixed in the plating.Other wise you will be drinking the metal which is not healthy to say the least. Either stainless or black plastic should be used for cleanliness. I am not a fan of digging the ditch, but when you have to you just do. I too will be repairing a well for a neighbor this year. Thanks for the heads up to on problems encountered.

I have to do a 700 ft one tomorrow and I'm in need of korewinches and ladders

So much work been done! Is skunk OK or still in trench? :)

With grinder without a cover plate and grinding the way you do you might be saving for some kind of surgery in future. Google the pictures of angle grinder injuries.