Gin pole and hoist for my Bckhoe

[Frank S]

Brings back memories from about 20 years ago. I had an old Allis Chalmers Hdg6 track loader probably from mid fifites. Had a 2 1/2" thick wall tube welded on the back of the bucket. We had been on 2 week vacation and on return home had no water. We wete on 10 acres in the country. The well was 160 feet deep with submersible pump. I stuck a 20 foot length of 2" pipe in the square tube and hung a pulley with a rope from a chain hooked in the end and raised as high as it would go. I made an adapter to screw in the pitless adapter and pulled the pump with the whole lengjt of pvc pipe still in place. The new pump was about $300. The emergency service call and pump mark up to replace it that I did not have to make would have been about $1700.

Thanks you just reminded me, I need to pull my well again sometime this winter the gin pole will make it a lot easier than the last time I pulled it by hand with a block & tackle