I would bet $20 that this handyman was the homeowner himself, lol

I have been a truck mechanic since I was 17, I'm going to be 63 in June. One thing that the years have taught me is appreciation for quality of workmanship and real professionals that do that kind of work. This is what I see in your videos, and I'm very pleased that this level of customer service is still out there. Keep up the good work! Watching this episode was like watching a short movie that kept me hoping the good guys would win, and they did. I was actually very happy for the homeowner, and you both.

Having the right tools = $3000. Knowing how to use them, priceless.

You're the only one who knows how much to charge, to keep the doors open, to pay the overhead, to feed your family. Don't depend on anyone but yourself to satisfy your obligations and you will do fine. Thanks for the vid!

$2500-$3000. Time, labor, the right tools and knowledge.

I had my submersible pump fall into my 400' well. The top of the pipe was at 260 ft from the surface opening. Long story short, I was finally successful in fishing it out by fabricating a harpoon looking hook using a stepper drill bit welded on a 10 ft steel pipe that I was able to guide on top of the 1 1/4 black pipe. I then used another heavy pipe with a stranded guy wire also guided into the first hooked pipe. I would raise the steel pipe about 10 ft and pound the hooked one about 10 times. I then used my boom bucket that I converted to a hoist boom with an electric winch to raise the pipe, wire, and pump out. The harpoon steel end was so tight on the black pipe that I could not take it off, so I just cut it off and still have it as a reminder of my 3-month struggle to get the pump out. It saved me from having to drill another expensive well. All this would have never been possible without my purchase of an underwater camera that was instrumental in finding the end of top of the well pipe and using it to guide my jury-rigged harpoon in place. Never again, just too stressful, but good thing I was retired, and my neighbor kindly shared his water while I worked on my project(or nightmare).😡

The landlord was the handyman.

Just in case anyone was wondering why he changed the plastic bushing…some would think that only the weight of the pump is on it but in reality the weight of the pump AND 212 ft of water weight…that’s why no plastic is allowed …same at the top..the elbow has to be capable of holding up the weight…

@bengrant8890

13 күн бұрын

Plastic fails regardless. 25 years in well drilling.

Great workmanship is priceless. With the skills you displayed, fixing up the poor workmanship of all those that put their hands on to that job, plus machine use time and labor ...No less than $3500....

I would say 3 thousand ..you actually saved him from having to drill a new well

Thanks Bro, you gave me the idea about how to fish out my fallen pump. People were charging more than $1000 for the job and that too not giving any guarantee.. I made the same hook myself and attached a steel cable with it, it got stuck in same way like in your video.. and pulled it out with help of Hydra ... Took me one hour to retrieve it, as it was 300 foot deep down.... Thanks once again for your information.

I got so much more out of this video than how to retrieve a pump. Thank you.

Landlord Handymen have made me a lot of money over the years

This is my new favorite channel! My cousin knocked my uncle's favorite multi-tool down their well. I brought over a strong magnet and my grouper rig with a Penn 6/0 that's spooled with 130lb test Dacron. He's fortunate that their well casing is plastic and the magnetic didn't get stuck. We sleeved the round magnet with a thick wall PVC pipe connector. To hopefully keep it from sticking to any clamps or connectors. I was worried it was going to get stuck and then we would have to pull everything up. It took a bit of fishing around before we felt a slight click on the line. Then up it came... nope! It was an old pair of pliers my uncle dropped down there who knows how long ago. 😆 We never did get the multi-tool. Maybe next time he drops something down there we will get it instead. 😄

@dougiemrfxit7456

10 ай бұрын

Liked your story. Old pliers steel; multi-tool probably stainless steel which will not stick to a magnet. One good thing is you might have removed some rusty taste from the water. Be Safe.

E cellent video! I used to create up front price books for plumbers. (Now retired, occaisionally tinkering with solar wells). For scenarios like this, I used a 3 Step price where the customer agreed to the highest price which would include your crane, camera if needed and X number of capture attempts. Explain all the things you'll try before recommending a new well. Then, explain that you'll start simple, then escalate as indicated. Give a discount for each tier of escalation you DON'T use. This way, you can afford to show up fully loaded for bear, saving trips, and your customer already knows the worst case. By knocking items off the worst price, you get to be the hero because you're clearly demonstrating to the customer that you're trying to save them money. You also have an agreed upon price, even if the pump is stuck. You should also have a flat rate for different components (wire termination, x$ per foot for wire, pipe etc). In this scenario, fishing the pump and replacing the wires should easily command $2k without the crane or hoe. You're not sitting around watching KZread all day. Make every job pay off. You might make enough to invest in an apprentice. 😊

Great job! All the trips the equipment and trip charge 3500 then I would have added $500 for using a handyman first! that is not a job for a handyman.. professionals only like you!!

@gregorymatre

17 күн бұрын

You All don't use a pitless adapter on your wells. They save this type of problems all the time

I just had mt well serviced. The pipe down to the pump had a hole in it so the pump wouldn't shut off. This is the third time in 40m years. This time I had a new pump, wire, and 100 feet of schedule 80 1" PVC pipe, and Stainless Steel couplers. The total cost was $2100.00 Took about an hour. Travel distance about 10 miles round trip. Took place in April 2024.

Great job on that well my friend. You'll never be out of work. Thanks for sharing. I have a much greater appreciation of water after watching your videos.

10 years ago I pulled 280 ft of pipe and pump by hand to help a retired couple I knew really well. I did it for around $150. Ofcourse I am not a professional. I also know I would rather pay a professional if I ever needed that type of service myself. Better you than me is all I can truly say..😂😂😂

Roughly $3200, but as you have mentioned it has a family connection $2400 to $2700. I’m in NJ so price may be a little higher. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a great well company for 18 years and not had any complaints! Plus the lead tech Scott is brilliant, knowledgeable and gust a well rounded person! (Pun intended) 😉 Nice save good job!

@Doubie.

15 күн бұрын

I wouldn’t call ex wife’s landlord a family connection

Congrats you are the right person for the right job. Like the way you handle things. Charge for the equipment used, labor hrs, well pump wiring installation, re-installation of the pump and final check bladder system and equipment Mobilization. This of course to your local charges and fees. Great job!!

I know almost nothing about wells. But years ago a day care center in an old brick schoolhouse lost their water.The pump was tripping the breaker. I found a ground in the pump cable in the well. A friend that also had no well experience and I figured out that we needed to pull that well. It was old and had an iron casing. Sure enough, one of the electrical cables had rubbed the casing, wore thru the insulation and welded itself to it., then broke when we pulled it all out. I wish we had KZread back then. Thanks for the videos you do, I know it helps a lot of people now.

Thank you for sharing, i have used that tool to remove a stuck pump. It saved me a lot of money. By the way, am from Tanzania, East Africa.

in 2008 on our 680' well with the pump being at 220' our pump went bad and it cost us just over $2000 to pull out the pump and replace it. It was right after a very bad 2 -3 year drought in Texas and our water level had dropped 20 feet so their engineer had them drop our pump 20' lower than before. Almeda Water Well Service in Manvel Texas. Excellent folks just like you guys.

I love this Video! You are worth your weight in gold in this one young man!

You sure lucked out grabbing that ground wire! Good job. I was surprised you originally agreed just to fish out the pump and leave the rest of the job to the 'handyman.' I would have expected you to either take the whole job or not at all. You do great work.

@billmonroe8826

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing as well. But as it turned out he's probably got a repeat customer.

@richardbrown8794

Жыл бұрын

Good job I had no idea how to get a pump out

@Dr.JustIsWrong

Жыл бұрын

There is no "whole" job in service work. The old fart is obnoxious but not uncommon.

@Dr.JustIsWrong

Жыл бұрын

@@richardbrown8794 _"I had no idea how to get a pump out"_ Every fishing job is different

@earlestes8649

4 ай бұрын

@@billmonroe8826I got a call once like that where a handyman dropped the two half moon pieces down onto the pump and left and never came back . People had been without water over a month when they called me. I took a ten foot piece of angel iron and drilled a half inch hole in one end and tied a rope and started slamming the pump loose and the owner was catching it when I got it loose. Until we got it up where I could reach in and pull what was left of the pieces and get them off of the pump.. one happy customer for sure. Owner said he would put the new pump in but his wife called me three days later and wanted me to go ahead and put it in, it’s a good thing that they did because the new pump had the capacitor built in where the old pump took the control box. He would have burned the new pump up without changing the wiring around

Not only did you have to fish it out but re-wire it and plumb new fittings. You had to bring in your hevy equipment, fabricate another tool and rework your previous schedules. I'd say, $1,500 - $2,000. You see, your shared knowledge of caution on the well seal has alread saved me $2,000 if ever I own a well. Just because I don't own a well doesn't mean I don't like learning. Thx 4 the great videos!

My well guy pulled my well added 10ft pipe 20,000 and in 3 months came back out and pulled it the pipe they put in had a small hole, another 10,000. I'm just praying it's good now suppose to be under warranty now, but we will see. I have been learning a lot from you. Maybe next, well, guy won't be able to con me. You are great👍

Great content. Been watching your videos. YOU helped us save ALOT of$$$$$ Thank you !!!

I had a two-hose venturi well pump. I converted the well to submersible and installed a pitless adapter. I was in my 60s and did all the work myself. I had a safety rope tied to the pump as well as a stainless steel cable, just in case. The riser pipe was installed with standoffs every ten feet to prevent the wires from rubbing the casing. A mistake many people make is putting in more than one check valve. The only check valve should be in the pump itself or just above it. Why? Because if a lower check valve fails in the open position the water could drain down below an upper valve leaving the pipe full of air. When the pump starts up there will be a huge water hammer that can damage the pump and pipes. I too thought that extra check valves were a good idea until I researched it.

@justins3810

19 күн бұрын

I wish I would have read this before I installed multiple check valves in my well. The last time I pulled it I broke the valve down by the pump so now I only have one at the top of my 400 foot hose. Next time I will probably remove that one as well. The reason I installed them is because I read that there should be a valve every 100 or so feet.

He should hire that shadetree handyman . Mr. Fixit sends him lots of business!

Nice catch! Lucky the homeowner called you, otherwise he may have been paying to drill a new well. I wonder if "the handyman" who dropped the pump in the first place was actually him?

@SpiraSpiraSpira

21 күн бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Many such “handymen” around, lol

Ok,matters not,*u fixed a disaster, well works,price is justified, blessings Wes 🤠

I've installed many a pump over the years and don't need how-to information. But I love your videos. It's nice to see a professional at work, especially an honest, get 'er done kind of guy like you. I'd hire you in a second if I needed my well serviced. By the way, I think you charge too little for what you do. I hope the customer appreciated that. Greetings all the way from central British Columbia, Canada!

Always,always,always good to see a job done properly. Great work.

I love seeing the pride you take in your work

The handyman is probably the one that got him in that mess to begin with.

@Chisos1

Жыл бұрын

Or along with the handyman's "help", the 2019 crew could have been prohibited from doing a first class job by the cheap a$$ed land owner wanting to pay for nothing more than a patch job at the time. You notice at the start of this the owner wanted the OP to only fish the mess out of the hole and then the owners inexpensive handyman would do the rest.

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

@Kent Fowler yup! On day 3 he said for me to go ahead and just fix it all right. So I did just that

@marybilbrey7013

5 ай бұрын

And the handy man is probably who added the 44lbs of pressure in the tank! And why do you have an ex-wife!? That girl's crazy!!

@brando12343

5 ай бұрын

@@marybilbrey7013people seem to have this notion that increasing air pressure in the pressure tank will increase water pressure, they don’t seem to realize that the pump provides the pressure not the tank, all the tank is there to do is allow the pump to run on its proper cycle

@johntilson2535

3 ай бұрын

Don't be too harsh a judge on the handyman. I'm a recently retired one myself. Handymen are capable of a great variety of skilled jobs, usually charging must less than the 'journeymen guys'. Not that there's anything wrong with them! No, this handyman's mistake was thinking he knew how to fix that well pump. While he has the skills to fix it, I doubt he had 'the knowledge'. I can't tell you how many jobs I've successfully completed NOT KNOWING A DAMN THING ABOUT THEM! Yet, I'd come in, explain the process to the customer in great detail and come off looking for all the world a 'professional'. How was I able to accomplish this? In the beginning of my career, I'd ask a lot of questions or go to the library for research. Since the advent of the internet, however? 2 words: KZread videos. Lots of 'em! The moral of this story? DO YOUR RESEARCH before you get 'handy'! 🤣

I seen in the comments you charged him $1900 and seen other people’s estimates. I think you were very fair and probably have a repeat customer for sure. So to me you win

@tjone9

2 ай бұрын

Considering you brought out the truck, I would say 2000. To 2200 would make you decent money with no haggling with the owner. You didn't spend alot of cash. Mostly ability to handle the job. Call me what you may. Times are tough on alot of us. I believe we should be as fair and responsible as cost allows. I have this problem and by weekend over it will be fixed! Good job man! Thanks for sharing..🦅🇺🇸🇨🇱🦅🕊

@ouman28

Ай бұрын

Generally speaking, remember the customer is a SENIOR ADULT (generally on the CHEAP side). I have worked with Senior Adults and 9 times out of 10 they go cheap. They like the F*R*E*E stuff. If he can get someone else later that is cheaper, then he will.

I must agree with $3500 at least your a very talented man and you know what your doing this type of job and trade is Not for the handy man

Congrats on 100k subscribers!

After seeing what you went through, I’d be looking at 3400 because of all the new wiring and all the trips you had to make and the extra equipment I think that’s a very fair price. I love to fix somebody else’s mistakes.

I had a well drilled 200 feet and my wife and I set the pump using one of your videos for guidance. I wouldn't have done that if I didn't believe the well guy was seriously ripping me off. In any case, my irrigation well is working great thanks for that. Nice job on this mess too.

We do the same thing in Ontario Canada, your time is worth something. Insurance on vehicles and fuel. Don't forget the one thing is your knowledge, you got the job done. Good luck on the next one.

SUBSCRIBED Invoice total is $2,165 plus tax. I'm tree service, not a state-licensed well tech, but it's $265 to put a man and a truck at the customer's curb and $350 to mobilize a piece of equipment to a customer site inside my service area, then add the hourly rate on top of that. $265 for showing up plus $700 for the excavator and crane, and figuring 6 man-hours @ $200/hr. (guessed at the man hours on-site) Also could have potentially tacked on a priority charge, but that's discretionary, depending on current workload and potential for solid repeat business. Either way, I would have listed that on the invoice and discounted it @ 100% if you chose not to bill for it; that way, the customer knows what you're doing for him. The tool you made is an owner's investment and not billed to the customer.

Good job, hind sight says why didn’t I start with the rig 1st, but being optimist we always hope for the quick and easy. Minimum $ for this amount of headache on an unscheduled emergency no water should be around $2300-$2500. I would probably have charged a little more because this was not an existing customer, and from the beginning was not willing to pay to have the job done properly. Hopefully he has learned, and you now have a longtime customer. 😜

$3000. Good job on the fishing. Worst we ever had was a stuck pump with 400 feet of rope and wire somebody Jammed 25 ft from the top. Took 40 foot of auger extension and a 4 inch auger to even get enough wire and rope out to get it to move down the hole. Three men, five days with a truck and a SkidLoader with augers. We ended up cutting to pipe off the pump and ramming all the wire/rope to the bottom and hang a new pump. She wanted to pay us more because of all the work but her fishing bill was $10,000. Very rewarding to be able to get her back in water.

That's a $2500 to $3,000 job. The "Brother-in-law" price would be $1500, but only if he shared your political beliefs and you owed him a favor. If not, $2,000 brother-in-law price.

@b100ka

Жыл бұрын

cost of political beliefs have gone up!

@bigred350x9

8 ай бұрын

Highway robbery $800-$1300

@tammyc5511

5 ай бұрын

Great Job, you are so smart

@donhardy9248

3 ай бұрын

@@bigred350x9 Haha. He should've charged $8-1300? Nothing wrong with minimum wage, huh? ...What about his expenses??? Employees, fuel, equipment, and especially his skilled time? Your rates would run this company into the ground! Plumbers and electricians are charging $3-400/hr! And consider the amount the customer saved -- new wells in Central Texas currently cost $65/ft to drill.

@carldrew

2 ай бұрын

@@bigred350x9you obviously don’t run a business and have to pay: for vehicles, heavy machinery, trailers, fuel, maintainance , insurance, licenses, permits, repairs, wages, workers comp, bonding, benefits, social security, healthcare, taxes, parts, supplies, admin, marketing, training, creative thinking, problem solving, custom design and manufacturing, etc. Which is not a problem. Until you are the one that drops the cable and rope down the shaft. At which point you bail, and talent like this guy have to come save the day.

jujst learned a whole lotta good stuff from this video!

It's always nice to see someone that takes pride in their work. Do it right, or don't do it at all. Looked like $1,800 job

@h2omechanic

Жыл бұрын

1849 is what I charged. You nailed it!

@jakebrakebill

Жыл бұрын

@@h2omechanic Lol.. I'd say fair for both parties, but you were the generous one.

@garyfeltman4482

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. $300 an hour is fair for bailing out someone else's screw up!

@roma8111

Жыл бұрын

What I call having to wipe someone’s butt

@tonywestvirginia

10 ай бұрын

@@h2omechanic I was going to guess $2500

Same happened in my friend house , it's only about 60' down or I hope , the pump is connected to a 1" 1/4 galvanized pipe all the way up it's very hard to pull it up I'm trying right now , that's why I'm look at your channel 🤣

I appreciate the quality of your work and your work ethic! I'm not sure I would have agreed to just fish it out without getting to do the whole job, but in the end your hard work and dedication earns you the entire job. Anyway! Skilled tradesmen such as yourself are difficult to find who are honest and fair and do a good job! You should be proud of the work that you do! Looks like a couple of thousand dollars worth of work to me!

@jannejohansson3383

Жыл бұрын

And when you find one, he's using whole day to fix other made errors to even get start to work..

@dannycasto4009

Жыл бұрын

I would charge 1200 to 1500

Our 500 foot well had a wire failure. THANKFULLY, ONLY ONE!!! It has been reinstalled with several torque arrestors and MANY taping points [I watched the ENTIRE process from start to finish].

3000.00 mistakes are expensive! Excellent work!

Total pro at work here....

OK, so I'm an electrical engineer, and I would have charged $5000, but I bill my time out at $500/hr. Given the only option was drill a new well, $5000 seems cheap. Now that I think about it, I'd likely tack on a "you had a handyman try to fix it?" charge of an extra $1000.

@justins3810

19 күн бұрын

My estimate was 5k as well. I'm sure it varies depending on ones location. Lancaster PA is expensive. I swear I paid over 3k just for a pump replacement 10 years ago. Now I do it myself.

I spend a lot of time on KZread exploring ideas, researching problems, and basically trying to learn whatever I can. I am a locksmith by trade, but after turning on English subtitles/close captioning (the girlfriend is sleeping in the other room), and running two or three of your videos at 1.5x the normal speed (some people have so much fluff on their videos or just talk too darn slow) I feel I'm ready to hook up to the boss's well pump, get'er done, and finish in time for him to get his morning shower. Thank you much.

MacGyver the man with all the tools in house homemade ! glad to see a good outcome !

You come up to minnesota and pull wells and you could do videos on some wild stuff. Bad well casings, rust and bad steel pipe and the list goes on.

Veryvery good fantastic

This video really explains the extent of the problems, which can cause the lack of tape to secure the cables. For me, this is one of the best video with concrete examples of troubles caused by the owners to save like 25.00$. THANKS ! for me, you are the best reference in this field. 🍺🍺

Awesome job !

I have a well that needs serviced. I wish you were located in N.E. Georgia. Great video!

I have been working on municipal and industrial well pumps for 27 years. Just recently had a 1000hp, 2300V submersible pump and motor set on 12" schedule 80 pipe, at 850' pump set, go to the bottom of the well @ 1900', with 180' of pipe still on the pump. We spent about one month fabricating a tool to go down to the equipment with 1800' of pipe to retrieve the pump. We got it all out. Then set a temporary pump in the well. About 6 weeks total work time. Over a quarter of a million to do the job.

@dave4882

10 ай бұрын

What kind of tool can do that?

My biggest fear. Our community well, that I manage is 1,150 feet. Pump (3 phase 480v) is at about 950. 2" galvanized pipe, with 3 check valves. We have has to pull pump 4 times in the last five years, ( because of other troubles unrelated to pump quality). Thats way down there. Lol

Handy Andy strikes again!

When I was a kid (75 lbs) in 1967 my neighbor dropped the pump lines with the footer valve into their well they couldn't lasso it to bring it back to the top ( I volunteered) so they (3 big men) tied a rope around my ankles and one around my waste and gave me another rope and a flashlight and lowered me into the well (18" casing) head first about 25 feet. I tied off the lines and they pulled me back up then pulled up the lines.

@steevethekitty759

Жыл бұрын

man back in the day! life was so state forward imss it

@boblamparter3676

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you survived, but they could have lowered you down into an enclosure with no oxygen to support life and you could have suffocated.

@brentsprinkle5646

10 ай бұрын

@@boblamparter3676 This was an active water well not a gas well there was plenty of oxygen no reason for there not to be also we talked during the whole ordeal to let them know all was good.

@randyhawke5341

10 ай бұрын

Still, CONFINED SPACE.... It could have had low O2.... You are/were very fortunate.... But talking the entire time was a good idea....@@brentsprinkle5646

@Orefamilylawncare

8 ай бұрын

No way would I send my kid down like that

I live in the Philippines I have saw these guys drill 90 foot well by hand might take 3 months at a cost of $2000

It is refreshing to see a young man taking on a career in this field of work. You know your stuff and its shows. I would say the handyman is not so handy, good job cleaning up his mess.

@edwardcarberry1095

Жыл бұрын

Yes after watching him work , he knows his stuff! Yes how to charge for that ! Not his doing! But he did fix it the way it should have been.

@Dr.JustIsWrong

Жыл бұрын

Dropping the pump is common for DIYers. Charging is easy, time and materials.

You are a true craftsman.......you look so young for all your knowledge. Its not always how much you worked to solve the issue but how much you know to fix the problem.

I'm in Michigan and I'm an electrical contractor. Based on my knowledge of water wells and labor that was a $3500 job all day long no problem 👍

@smarternu

Жыл бұрын

wow

@AquaPeet

Жыл бұрын

Gosh darn that's exactly what I was thinking!

@edwinhsingmaster9135

4 ай бұрын

3 to 3.5k$ I'm thinking very fair. Would do a courtesy call in 30 days and check tank pressure with quick inspection of well head.

Well I work in the oil field, when equipment is stuck in the hole it is going to be expensive. So I would say with all the equipment you had to haul, and tools to manufacture a $1000 a day wont be far out, plus you were helping out at short notice . By the way once you get two items in the well it rapidly goes down hill from there as you will be aware :-(

Im Australia here, im amazed you people dont have rain water tanks for collecting off the roof. Thats mainly what we use here in rural areas, in fact thats all we have on our farm.

It's not just about using tape in the well. It's about using GOOD tape in the well. Some times those pumps spend a very long time in the well. That tape has to last.

I live in the city here in Auckland, New Zealand and my water come from the water mains pipe ...but I like watching this as I've never knew about water wells before !!!

Nice video!!!

I had a well where the plumber used a plastic joiner. It snapped and Turned the ground into quick sand. Always use a big pressure tank for less cycling, pump will last longer.

Nice to see a professional in action. Moral of the story - don’t trust your well to a “handyman”!!!

@earlestes8649

4 ай бұрын

Some of us handymen know how to do it the right way

@abelrb0306

2 ай бұрын

Bro 😂 why do I agree 💯 with this!

You went above and beyond. How much did you save the customer by saving the well? No less than $2500.

Long story - a well owner heard us talking about well fishing tools and early the next morning I caught him with his fishing rod and line down the well. Of course, the line got stuck and broke off down the well. The rest he cut off his rod and threw on the ground and walked away so we were left to clean it up. I could write a book about this one well's history of endless mismanagement.

Nice job

$2500-3000. 3 trips plus tool rentals at $1k per day, wire and labor

It is amazing that the owner suggested his Handyman, who probably did the pump in the first place, was going to reinstall it. My price would have been higher if they would not have let me replace everything and make it right.

You were too nice to him considering what you had to go through. 3 days, all the time and effort. Welding experience & broad experience. 3 k on the minimum plus materials for not calling you the first time and having to deal with someon else's inexperience is worth more then 3k if you ask me . Great job man for keeping your cool with such a big headache.

nice job

Who taught you to put the hose clamps on with the heads on the opposite sides of the pipe? Well done! No pun intended. For anyone interested, it is just a little more insurance against leakage. The most common place for a leak to form will be where the head of the clamp is. Place the clamps close together, with the heads on opposite sides, and you almost eliminate that. Also: he left the old work alone. Where they used two clamps with the heads next to each other on the old pipe. Probably best, now that it is set from age, if you aren't going to cut some pipe and replace the clamps.

Good job on the SS elbow on the PE. I'm not a fan of brass elbows there. They will wear right through.

Another great video. You answered my question as to if a “good” well guy can fish out the old pump. Thank you very much.

great video

Surely , that had to be on the bottom of the list of favorite customers for a service call :-)

1200 plus the cost of the excavator and operator of it all in between 1500 to 1800 but may be as high as 2300 because i am sure you did more that we saw . great job and lucky not to have grabbed the casing. keep the vids coming

Great video I’m 77 and can’t remember half the stuff you tell us write a book.. or is there one out there?

Seeing how this was related to an X in some way I would have charged a X2 mark up. :)

Should get a decent non-stretch rope. That stretching spring is not helping you in any way. Better to use a cable.. Eh?

Great content. Particularly I was interested in the detailed explanation at the end regarding the accumulator tank pressure settings. You did check it prior to turning the pump on. but I don’t think you emphasize that the diaphragm pressure is checked/set with the tank EMPTY. Maybe your next video that you encounter a accumulator tank issue, you could emphasize that the pressure is set with the tank empty. I could see many DIYers running out to their tank and checking the pressure with the tank full. Again, love the channel!

No water, priceless.

Can't charge what it should have cost. NOBODY wanted to touch it.Priceless.

You did an excellent assessment on the job somewhere in the range of 1500.00 to 2500.00 sounds fare ,I'm not a professional, but you had to improvise.

I remember my father telling me that it takes just as long to do it right as to do it wrong. Hate to see stuff like this.

Good Man for being man enough to keep things civil with the Ex and help out!!! Very Well Done!!!

I would have put my numbers at $4800.00> FYI love the way you present. You're informative, direct and straightforward. Honesty and stick-to-itiveness seem to be your hallmarks. Kudos. Job well done!!