Everything is all fun & games...

Man Minelson, there are very few things that I consider hair pulling events..the water freezing up is one of them.

We saved and put a Simple Pump (it's a hand pump) in last fall. Just in case we lost our water.

I sure hope that everything goes well and you have water sooner than you think.

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With that kind of luck
You need to go buy a lotto ticket ASAP .

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My hand pump use to freeze also . An old timer told me that when filling buckets not to turn it off between fills .Its the turning off and on - off and on - that won't allow the pipe to drain back down . Problem solved ........... well as long as the well doesn't freeze

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Does anyone else keep a light bulb on in their wells or sand point pits? My dad did it for years and now we do it too. Only in the extreme part of the winter.

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One of my deep spigots is frozen and the other is still working. Neighboring rancher told me to clear off the ground around the pipe and put hot charcoal briquets around the pipe and bury them, and the pipe would thaw. We had three weeks of subzero weather and are now warming to mush.

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I wrap mine in heat tape electric to the garage. I had to do this once last winter but it is handy when needed

Every winter, while I'm down in the well ~ eyeroll ~ I tell myself " I guarantee this is the last winter Im crawling down into this hell hole .As soon as the spring thaw arrives , Im insulating ,adding heat tape and hanging heatlamp ."
Every Jan. I ask " What ever happened to that plan ?"

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You reminded me I need to light the stove in my well house.

Wow is it ever nice to hear that other people have pits from Hell. Mine also has the water softener in it. I hand a heat lamp in the pit and it has foam insulation on top.

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glad it worked out well

So will mine come spring thaw ...............

See post #27

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You were super lucky! Im glad for you!

I lived for almost 2 weeks without water years ago.... had to melt snow for everything..... that was the time I had to handwash everything, with a washboard. It is also the time one of my favorite sweaters "broke" comming off the clothesline..... Its also the year I dropped a frozen pair of jeans, and they shattered.

The good news is that its easy to laugh about it now......

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Dagnabbit! This thread jinxed us! We just got rain back, thank heavens, after a week and a half of deep freeze. Am frankly, glad to see it.
So, Tonight, I watered up all the animals, went to the pump house to turn off the spigot when finished. Water outside the pump house stopped, but I could hear water INSIDE the pump house still spraying. Yep. A piece of pipe inside the pumphouse, near to the wall, and connected to the spigot outside, had froze, then thawed, then burst under pressure. Water was spraying all over the insulation, all over the floor. I couldn't plug it, had to turn the well off at the breaker box and now will have to hire a plumber to come over and re-piece or re-weld that section. Mean while, we're back to having no water again...for sure no H20 inside the house for now. Outside - it's drizzle again, so at least the animals aren't going thirsty. Can you say - ":when it rains, it pours?"

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Oh no!!!! I didn't mean to jinx you! Sounds like a big mess dang it!
((((dry hugs))))

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Mine froze up once when the power was off. I talked to the pump man. As soon as the power came back on I put the hair dryer on the points box. In my well house it is a little grey box down on the floor by the pressure tank. I guess there are little points/pistons that move up and down and pull the water? I don't know!! I just know once that unthawed I had water.

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