Gone Fishing

Finding the wells to work on involves more than just getting a person to go with you. Sometimes it involves actually digging through overgrown brush and getting it cleared away before work can even begin.

Once the brush was cleared, it was determined that the pump had dropped into the well and needed to be 'fished" out.

And "fishing" involved this handy-dandy tool made by Ed. I call it "Ed-gineered". The idea is to push the tool into the PVC pipe in the well, give a twist, and the "teeth" will grab the pipe and hold it as it is hoisted from the well using the tripod we carry in the truck.

Several hours were spent "fishing" then hoisting, but our attempts were unsuccessful because the pump was so embedded in the mud at the bottom of the well.