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From: "Jim Lewis"
Subject: [IBC] Disaster strikes :-(


Returned from 11 days in Arizona (GREAT vacation!) to find
that
the pump on my well had burned out about 4 days into the
vacation.

It wasn't a watering system, Dale. It was my well. The thing
that gives me and my horses and my wife's aunt and our garden the
water we need to drink and otherwise survive. If it had been
something as simple as a defunct watering system, our
house-horse-cat-dog sitter could have coped

Ok, didn't realize you were using a house sitter ( as I do) you didn't
mention that. I assumed ( wrongfuly I guess) that you were using a watering
system which couldn't water when pump went out.
I know all about water pumps, tanks, softeners, etc. I've had one since 1979
when I moved to Menonite country.....


However, I've used an automatic waterer for years and years and
years with no problems. The "secret" is to install new batteries
when you leave -- whether the unit "needs" them or not.

What I think the secret to watering systems is....
is to stand there and watch them water!....
cause when you leave....
that's when they screw up.


labor required to pull the old one up from 230 feet below the
surface then put the new one down to 230 feet below the surface,
probably not. Sorry.

I'm kind of suprised you need to go that deep in Florida for water ( deepest
I've had was 170 ft, one now is only 75) or do you need that deep to get
quality water? Without salt :)
Dale

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