Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

We still have our original well pump at our farmhouse. Should be 100 years old. Still works...couple of pumps and you can get ice cold clean water.
Sadly...the handle is from an old broom. Not my doing....previous owners.

You can see part of it in this picture...lower right. I laid the flagstone around it a long while back.View attachment 682803

This may be a source for a proper cast iron handle .. for your pump?

ANTIQUE (CHOICE) of CAST IRON HAND WATER PUMP HANDLES (Choice). | eBay

 

[lostcreekranch]

Just got my call from TEXAS DSHS and scheduled to get my first COVID Vaccine at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Columbus. That's one week from getting on list to vaccination.

It's totally drive thru .. and they will schedule my second vaccination while I'm there.

 

[riptides]

Ouch... another hit to start the New Year. The Drain Field Drama. Looks like the surveys and/or plat information is lacking at the court house. Is what happens in 100 years of ownership and "verbal descriptions".

So, now it looks like I have to get a partial site survey for the drain field/ house/ barn and various out buildings. $$$$

This may be a source for a proper cast iron handle .. for your pump?

Yes thanks. Those appear spot on. Beats an old broom handle.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Ouch... another hit to start the New Year. The Drain Field Drama. Looks like the surveys and/or plat information is lacking at the court house. Is what happens in 100 years of ownership and "verbal descriptions".

So, now it looks like I have to get a partial site survey for the drain field/ house/ barn and various out buildings. $$$$




Yes thanks. Those appear spot on. Beats an old broom handle.

Now you just need to determine proper spacing between the handle pivot and the rod hanger. That dimension will effect stroke length. Is your old handle just broken off or totally missing .. can't tell from your picture.

 

[riptides]

Now you just need to determine proper spacing between the handle pivot and the rod hanger. That dimension will effect stroke length. Is your old handle just broken off or totally missing .. can't tell from your picture.

Looks like it is cleanly missing.

 

[Alien]

We've been lucky with covid here. Only new cases are travellers from overseas that bring it with them. They have to go into quarrantine for 2 weeks on arrival and that's where it shows up.
They act quick with lockdowns and tracing if there is a case. Life is pretty much normal here.

 

[Popgadget]

I’ve always had indoor plumbing, but growing up, we lived in Berks county, close to the Lancaster county line. Our neighbors were Amish farmers, and they had neither electricity or indoor plumbing other than a hand pump in the kitchen. I still remember the smell of bread baking in the wood in their kitchen. They had an outhouse attached to the back porch, so you could stay out of the weather.

On my son’s lot adjacent to me there is still two dug wells with functional hand pumps. One is out in a field, the other is just outside the house.

I did go out and get Kerosene for the heater in the hangar today, it was $3.30 a gallon. The closer, cheaper place hasn’t fixed their pump yet. It’s been down for a couple of weeks.

 

[txdon]

This may be a source for a proper cast iron handle .. for your pump?

ANTIQUE (CHOICE) of CAST IRON HAND WATER PUMP HANDLES (Choice). | eBay

Thanks for the link. My mom has her pump in the garden (yard art) missing a handle. Rip, If you figure out how to measure for the right handle let me know.

 

[txdon]

Just got my call from TEXAS DSHS and scheduled to get my first COVID Vaccine at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Columbus. That's one week from getting on list to vaccination.

It's totally drive thru .. and they will schedule my second vaccination while I'm there.

I made about a dozen calls today, no luck in finding a vaccination list to get on. Texas should learn from Michigan on how to do it.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks for the link. My mom has her pump in the garden (yard art) missing a handle. Rip, If you figure out how to measure for the right handle let me know.

Step one would be to determine what the rod hanger end should be. Single or dual ears?