After we tested the water in the well last weekend with Marty and Heidi, Marty got inspired to research and design a well pump for us. He emailed Mick many times during the week with different ideas, put together what he hoped would be a working model, and drove down Sunday afternoon to test it out.
Mick lowered the pump into the well.
The air hose and the water hose were tied to a rope, just in case they had ideas of losing themselves in the well.
They turned on the air compressor.
The engine worked great!
(I love watching the two of them work together.) :)
And before too long, water was spurting out of the hose!
The pump had worked on the first try!
Mick immediately started to fill buckets, with his eye on our drought-ridden plants.
The water comes out in spurts as the air pushes it up.
Roscoe contributed as he usually does.
They then moved the cistern within reach of the pump hose and started to fill that up.
Gallons and gallons of water that can irrigate our plants, without Mick filling up 5- and 6-gallon buckets in the bathtub.
The hose really bucked as the water came through.
The clamp kept the bucking hose in place as the cistern filled.
The pump worked on the first try, with plenty of time for sitting and chatting and enjoying beer and sausage. THANK YOU, MARTY!!
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