Question about my well

[angrychair]

Anyone have an idea how to keep water flowing from my well if we no longer have power and no generator, just purely a manual/no power process?

[FirstLight]

1. ...an old fashioned hand pump?

I guess you would have to have a bypass so you could switch off electricity and use a manual pump. We used to have one decades ago on our ransh, it was like circa 1900. but it had a wheel crak and you could get it going pretty good once you broke a sweat.

Ugh, don't miss those days at all. Hard work!

[angrychair]

3. Yea, thats what I figured

Just not sure where I would buy such a thing or what it would take to make one.
Just trying to figure out, with everything going on, if the worst happens how to do I continue to access water in my well.
Never considered such a question but apparently now I do.

[Timewas]

4. Where to buy

Lot of options on Amazon.

[Timewas]

2. Hand pump

Is one way, another would be to look into 12 volt or solar powered pumps.Actually 12/24 volt battery operated along with solar charging would be best

[angrychair]

5. Excuse my ignorance

As this isn't really my wheelhouse. I mean the mechanics of it I can figure out once I get pointed in the right direction. But when you say hand pump is that something I can pick up at tractor supply or even Amazon.
I assume I could set it up inside the house, were the plumbing comes to the current pump.
As I said in the other post, nothing I would have ever thought I'd need to figure out but given the state of things it's better safe than sorry.

[Timewas]

6. check

Tractor supply, Home Depot and Amazon. Another idea would be a cistern system, depending on where you live and local laws.Back in the day they had cisterns under the kitchen area and a hand pump mounted on the kitchen counter near or at the sink,only good for drinking water and such. There are ways to drill your own shallow well and install a hand pump also. A lot depends on your local water levels and such.

Many good "How To" reels on You Tube

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Get a long rope, long enough to get down to the water, and get a long narrow cylinder that is tailored to go down a well

hole (galvanized steel bucket (or cylinder)), attach the rope to the bucket, and lower the steel bucket down the narrow wellhole, it'll fill up w/ water and you simply hoist it up, water included. You'll be able to hear or feel the bucket down the hole fill up.

Then you hoist the bucket up. Empty the bucket by pulling the tab at the of the narrow steel bucket you lowered into the well, while you hold the bucket into another bucket for the house.

Of course you have the rope off a circular round thing over the well hole, that's anchored into the wood frame that is built over the well hole. I forget what we called this, the rope would wrap around it, and we would store the rope in the smokehouse, and when drawing water, we would get the rope and well bucket out, lower it into the wellhole, get the water hoisted up once it filled up, empty it, and then put it all away until the next time you used it.

[Kali]

8. rig up a solar panel

lots of solar pumps here in ranch country