CK30 BH being put to work

[IXLR8]

Problem found, and temp patch put in.
About 3' from the end of the sleeve, the sleeve was crushed, it also crushed the well pipe inside it. After 28 years the well pipe finally split. The split is where the duct tape is in the picture. The DT was used as a temp patch to get enough water in the house to get cleaned up for lunch. Neighbor had all the fittings and pipe to put in a real temporary patch. It does look like the old well pipe is the thin wall stuff. Neighbor had the thick wall that I used for the patch. Presently it is holding, I needed to head to Boston an hour ago for work... so the permanent fix, whatever that will be, will have to wait until I get back next week. Thanks for all your thoughts and encouragement, it was a bit frustrating at times. At least I am now comfortable operating the BH within a foot of the house. In the mean time... I will look into Rex's suggestion of the direct bury PVC water pipe.

 

[RexB]

I first read "the well pipe split" and thought oh no, that is the worst news. Then saw from the pics that it was the water line from the well, not the wellpipe in the well casing. Whew.

Replacing the whole line is a good idea Jim, a direct-bury potable water PEX (blue poly) or PE (black poly) flexible water line is I think the longest lasting, easiest and cheapest. I buried ~200ft of 1-inch flex black poly, connected from the wellhead to the shop and house, it takes just a few materials: a union coupling from the well's metal pipe to the poly pipeline, a coupling at your house waterline, a handsaw to cut it, and stainless steel hose clamps like you use on radiator hoses. If you need to splice poly lines together use two of the s/s hose clamps on each side of each fitting to ensure no seepage. Sweeps aren't needed because the line is flexible. Under the gravel driveway I ran it through 2" SCH80 PVC conduit on a sand bed, to keep rocks in the dirt from eventually working down and abrading it.