Country neighbors know the most curious things about neighboring farms.
Apparently, the location and quality of wells on a given farm are a topic of conversation in country circles. My house well is said to be a great well, plenty of water. My secondary well was reported to have not been sufficient to sustain a family household causing the other well to be necessary. But, it might come in handy for the barn and garden. This information comes from neighbors. Not at closing, not in some document – just chatting at the fence. Valuable life skill to be a good neighbor.
My husband has never pulled a well in his life, but he reads and he is very smart. Bernie, my brother-in-law, knows a few good places to send him for stuff and together they make a good problem solving team. When you throw in Jeremy for good measure – they are almost un-stoppable and nearly always entertaining.
So over the last week we have:
- Ran a temporary power line to the secondary well to test it out.
- Figured out the the pump worked, but not fully
- Went to buy supplies
- Pulled the well pump and many feet of water pipe up out of the well
- Went for supplies
- Figured out we couldn’t get all the supplies in one place
- Went for supplies again and received some much-needed guidance
- Replaced several rusted fittings involving torches, ice, freezer time etc.
- Sent the pump back to the bottom of the well
- Re-ran the temp power
- Finally have a functional second well – once we get non-temporary power to it.
This is going to come in handy for the garden – which I hope to have about where hubby is standing spraying water.
More work will come when we have to dig to run the power to it, and dig to run a line to the barn. Can’t have animals until water is secured in the barn.
There is always something going on at the farm!
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