Egon
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Doubt if you can make real leather but it can be grown!
Might not have to pull the pump & rods unless something breaks. The bailer requires pulling the pump & tubing.
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Might not have to pull the pump & rods unless something breaks. The bailer requires pulling the pump & tubing.
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There is a lot of difference between a fresh hide and a piece of leather. You are on a sinking ship.
Egon
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Did you say ships. Some were built using hides.
By the Way an individual can convert a fresh hide into leather.
Hide-covered boat
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I know all about hide boats. I know that nobody wants to admit that Clovis points trace back to Brittany France, because that is 19,000 to 26,000 years ago. It will mess up their land/ice bridge theory about native Americans coming here 12,000 years ago.
But, if you go to town and grab 100 random people, shoot a cow in the head, tell them to dress it and make leather out of that hide...I don't think the odds will be good for you. I can make leather and I do not want to fool with all that in a grid down. If you pull the pipe and oops it moves, break threads off in a collar...no store open to go get another piece of pipe. You're just like all the other replies. Still thinking power outage as opposed to grid down. Have you bought pipe lately? A 4" piece of 26.00 pvc now costs 165.00 before tax. I know you don't need 4" for your system, but other pipe is high too. Steel galvanized, whew is all I can say. I bought some 3/4" galvanized thin conduit a few years ago 35.00 a joint. I had bought several pieces of scaffolding but I didn't have X bracing. I have a 60,000# press so I made some. Most people don't have a vehicle that will handle an EMP/solar flare. Most businesses, including fuel stations, can't either. If one gas station goes out, you just visit the next one. If thousands go out, there ain't but a few guys that fix the electric pumps. And, that is dependent on IF they have power. Carrington event of 1859 burned out the #9 telegraph wire. There are a lot of wired things and computer controls (gas stations, truck stops), vehicles and tractors, parts houses, lots smaller than #9 wire these days. But no, since I live in the only land locked county in a land locked state, boats aren't useful to me for travel. There are some creeks that will get me to the Mississippi, but then I'd end up in New Orleans, and I definitely fer dang sure don't want to go there.
Egon
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Golly gee whizz; that’s a whole lotta mishaps. Makes one wonder how anyone survived before there was a Grid!!
What happens when the block breaks?
What happens when the block breaks?
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lakngulf
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Thanks for all the replies. Even off grid gets above my pay level quickly 
My next steps are to analyze space in casing and determine actual distance down to first water.
I do see the advantage of the simple bucket and rope.
My next steps are to analyze space in casing and determine actual distance down to first water.
I do see the advantage of the simple bucket and rope.
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lakngulf
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Here is my setup. Casing appears to be six inches
ponytug
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Just curious; why do you have jugs of chemicals stored at your well?
All the best,
Peter
All the best,
Peter
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lakngulf
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That's where they ended up. Probably a lot better spots for them
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