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Posted by JerseyMike on February 4, 2007, 9:43 am
>
> > I'm not getting the setup. It seems like if you had a deep well
> > (submersible) pump, you wouldn't need one at ground level.
>
> Right. I didn't know the right words. Someone mentioned the piece at the
> ground level is a riser spigot.
>
> > It may just
> > be a shallow well pump, In any event, if you allowed water up the pipe
> > and into the pump housing, if probably froze at the top of the pipe
> > and in the housing. If you can do it yourself, do as Ed suggested with
> > the pump. The pipe feeding the pump may be frozen near the surface as
> > well and need the torch. Also be careful not to drop that pipe down
> > the well. Tie a rope to it before you disconnect it. If you can't do
> > it yourself, I'd call well people first,before plumbers
>
> I did the torch thing until my legs froze off last night. I don't think
my
> torch was big enough to do anything but thaw a localized area.
>
> I'm going to make one last ditch effort by setting up a sawhorse/tarp
house
> around the spigot and put some heat lamps out there. If that doesn't
work,
> then a well repairman will be summoned.
>
> Thanks.
try some electric blankets laid on the ground and over the spigot cover the
blankets on the ground w/ hay then cover the hay w/ a couple horse blankets
or tarps but NOT plastic.
mike........
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