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[dixiebeast]

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Yep!! I LOVE THEM SO!!

Not the best pic but as you see...such a nice soft blue color!!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Pretty!

 

[KrisH]

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The pressure tank air bladder may need refilled. it may have a slow leak. a friend of ours filled theirs with a tire pump every other month until they saved up enough to buy a new pressure tank.

Robert

PS here is a link that may help http://www.sprinklers4irrigation.com/en-us/pg_75.html

Thank you for the link. I had found that web site and it has been useful today.

Oh geez! What a day we have had with the pressure tank!

I have mentioned that I never work on the well? I mean, I really do tons of stuff around here already and fixing the water to run perfectly has not been a major concern with all the other stuff I do but today I drug DH down to the well house and commenced to figuring out how we should get this thing in great shape again. Since my Dad passed away DH has been rather lost in keeping it going as well as it should.

Last winter he bought another pressure tank because he said the other one was no good. Thank goodness he just unhooked one and attached the other and left the older one just sitting there in the well house. (Daddy built the well house to look like an outhouse. He had a great sense of humor!)
So I unhook the newer tank as it was holding at 30 psi and dropping it to 25 changed nothing, not to mention it had no water in the tank. Forgive me if I am dense but all the web sites I read said that water was supposed to be in these tanks and it made sense to me but ours was empty.

I unhooked it and took it out side and turned it over. DH took all the connections off and we realized there is a rubber plug in the bottom of the tank. How is the water to get in there? I checked the air pressure in the tank again. 25 psi.

Really, I have no idea about this stuff. I came back to the house read everything again, trotted back down to the well (why do my legs not look like a marathon runners????) and I proceeded....and please don't laugh....to have DH drill that dang plug out!
Whoops.

So now that I messed up one pressure tank that was holding air very well (still have no idea how water is supposed to get into the tank with that blasted plug in the bottom) I turned to the old tank that also said it had 30 psi in it. We attached it back to the pump and turned the pump back on. I lowered the psi to 20. The water still runs the same as before but I think I can feel water in the tank now.

Next, after DH gets up from his nap (poor baby

) we will see about adjusting the spring again because I haven't a clue where to go from here.

Thank you everyone for your input as I am about as lost as they come when plumbing or electricity is involved.

one more thing to check...

D. Electrical problems
a) Improper connections at control box. If color codes were not kept the pump will attempt to start on the run winding and will not be able to continue running
b) Low voltage. 230 volt pumps will run on 115 volts but not very well and will cut out and reset.
This happens when one pole of a two pole circuit breaker has tripped. Pull both poles all the way to off, then back to on.


from http://www.greenroadfarm.com/wells.html#selection

 

[Moonchild]

ok LET's PLAY Roo or Pullet .... Chicks are 8weeks old.
This I think is a BRxBlueJG Pullet photo 1

This one's a BOxBlueJG I think it's a Pullet Photo 2 ?.?

Another pic of the same chick photo 2 x 2

OK Middle Chicken is a BOxBlueJG I think is a Roo, but it's a week older photo 3
Bottom chick is the BRxBlueJG...Top Chick is a BRxBlueJG and it's a BlueBRmix(I think its a Roo too???)

Better Picture of the BOxBlueJG older chick sun bathing Roo or Pullet??

Sorry about the photos The only time I can get pics of them is at night mostly...

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Oh my! All this well pump help and I am extremely lost already!

Thank you for helping me try and figure this out but I can't decide what needs to be done at this point. I do animals, not machinery!!

Okay, you guys are great and I will tell all of this to DH as soon as he gets through cooking supper of fried (batter made with fresh cows milk and fresh eggs) homegrown chicken (don't look, Susanne, you know this crazy chicken lady does eat her own!), homemade mash potatoes with fresh cows milk, fresh garden tomatoes and garden peas from last spring (my neighbor's, not mine). Now you see why the well isn't as big a deal all the time. And why we all look like we do!

I have customers and egg deliveries in the morning plus 4 boxes of hatching eggs to ship out so I am not sure when we will get back to the well. It is running (limping) still as we made no head way today at all. Can't wait to try all you all have told me to do.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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I sure hope you still have water and the problem is fixed soon. I admire you trying to fix it.

Lisa

 

[Larkspur88]

My guess on the photos would be girl, girl, and boy. I can't tell on the ones in the background of photo 3. I'm only saying boy on the 3rd because I don't see a tail yet which I think if it were a girl it would have already developed.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Yancy, you know each and every one is a girl! Girl, girl, girl!

Kidding! I wish I could say that for sure though. Bless your heart, I know you want them all to stay.
I want to say girl, girl, boy.
I know the one that looks like it is sunning is a boy. Look at those eyes. It is hard for me to tell in the photo with all three. Photo 4.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Yep!! I LOVE THEM SO!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/102105_phone_pics_010.jpg

Not the best pic but as you see...such a nice soft blue color!!

Very pretty pair!! I do love the color!!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Here is hoping they are all girls for you!!