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got a late night phone call from my gal, she claims no water coming from well ?, great !!. breaker box is locked, key is here, had to make the late night drive over there, kill the power to well pump. open lid on well house, well pump has fallen over, breaking all pipes leading to pressure tank, sooo..it lost its prime you could say ?! messed up the top of well casing from getting too hot from running dry, but the worse part is..the pick up pipe fell down in the well !. its 1 inch i think ? ( i hope anyway ! ). watched some video's on youtube on how to get these pipes out ?. well..it seems hard at first, until i watched a guy pull a broken pipe out of his well with a tool like the one i made in the picture, only difference is mine is much smaller ?, but the concept is the same !. soooooooo..if any of ya'll run into this problem ?..make one of these tools...it works !..well...it worked on some test pipe i have here at home, same pipe that is down in my well. the concept works off a piviot piece of metal to grab the inner diameter of the pipe, once you drop it down your well..let it get inside the pickup pipe, then give the string ( or rope ) a soft tug..the metal flipper part flips out..wedging the ends against the inner part of the pipe, works on pvc..and metal pipes !. make sure to tie a good strong rope, cable to the tool..YOU DO NOT WANT IT TO DROP DOWN IN THE WELL !.

yeah, thats the ' fetch it ' tool i mentioned, he wants 700 bucks for it ??!!..he can keep it..lol.

Man, first with the Can Am bashing now attacking my Enthenticity, sheesh!!!!😁

The Norwegians and the Irish....The reason the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day is because this is when St. Patrick drove the Norwegians out of Ireland. It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go. Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians). Irish members of IRATRION passed a law in Ireland that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the Norwegians, in hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to flee to a colder climate where their fish would keep. Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows today, thrive on spoiled fish So, faced with failure, the desperate Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders. But, as everyone knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the fish, and they liked it so much they decided to call it "lutefisk," which is Norwegian for "luscious fish." Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something called "lefse." Poor St. Patrick was at his wit's end, and finally on March 17th, he blew his top and told all the Norwegians to "GO TO !!" So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota---- the only other paradise on earth where smelly fish, old potatoes and plenty of cold weather can be found in abundance. The End

That picture was not supposed to get out!🤣

Hey don't forget you rode one of those, and what was your comment after the ride??????

Sorry FF, thought I might as well pile on 😄

They don't by chance still have the original carb on a shelf one could clean and swap out for testing? If this was an EFI machine I would suggest trying the TPS/MAP sensor but I have never had one go bad on a carb model to know if they can give the same issues.

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cool retrieval tool

I think I remember that tower pic ----- our well is 12 ft above sea level and 400 foot deep on a 2 inch pipe and 2 hp motor

Nice! Magivering! I got involed in one..... The way we did it.... Well i walked in on that ordeal just after it started.... So I'm not too sure about what took place before pump ect ect were removed... So ... It was just 3 of us.... They had cutting torches... And needed me to do the hydraulics (front end loader) so i would wait for them to blow a hole straight in the ppe n right out the other side... Then they would stick rebar in the hole I'd let the loader down the rebar would catch on the casing .....they would cut the top half off re chain .... Reel more up rinse and repeat....removed i don't know how many feet of pipe like that (i must have been about 17-19) what made that job fun was the area of the well.... One of the highest areas around @Fishfiles you recall that pic of the microwave tower ? That's a rocks toss away from where the well was... Lol 600 ft above sea level i think ? Got it done... And used the scrap pipe to make some good ol heavy duty cattle panels (toe / finger mashing)

valves are wrong ?, or a bad cam chain ?, or..the valve seats in the head are lose ?.

I think that is " FF " when he was younger , 2nd from the left with his hat off Here is one of the Can-Am elves from my crew in his green suit IMG_5528.MOV

When you can't find the welding shield .... Stick with me for tooltips