Shell;
Does he mean that the hose goes in the water 8' or does he mean that the total length of hose that goes down the pipe is 8'. Suggest that he turn the pump on and watch the water level to see if it drops any significient amount. If it does drop, note how far and time how long it takes to rise back up.

Jlisenbe.

You use short pieces of pipe.
What I think happened most often is, going back to the days of a manual pump, the kind you in the movies, before electricity, before indoor plumbing, people would dig the well close to the house. Sometimes they would dig it next to the back door then build a porch over it. Then they would have the pump on the back porch. Later own they would put an addition on and the well ends up under the house. Sounds like this is such a situation. Since there is a basement, the well may have just been dug in the basement. Hopefully they put a cover over it with a pipe and fill in around the pipe and that it is not just a pipe in the ground.

He said the hose went down 8' and wouldn't go any further but couldn't that be because of the drive point I think that's what is called

Is he putting the hose down the well or the pump piping? Sounds like the well casing. Sounds like you got a 8' well. Can he tell high the water level is with the pump running?

Guys! This is getting ridiculous! We have three pages full of posts and we're no closer to a answer then we were on page one. What do we know? 1) He's been pumping dirt so that tells me the well's silted up or his well point's too deep. 2) Sounds like the inlet to the pressure tank's plugged up,(did you open up a boiler drain and check the pressure coming out?). 3) I don't think you'll find the fault in the pump or the tank. You have a well that's silted up.( in my book). And 4) as one of the experts suggested, call in a well man so he can tell you exactly what you'll need to put things right because without being there we can't. I wish you all the luck in the world. Tom

I was under the impression that the only time they had dirt in the water was with the original tank, but with so many posts I might have missed that. At any rate, Speedball's comments were "well" stated. Bring in a pro. I would ask you to let us know how it all works out.

OK well you we got it running this morning 2 days ago we put muriatic acid in the pipe going down to the well left in for 2 days went today and put baking soda down there and it came up like a volcano with all kinds a junk did that a few times hooked up the pump and it all took off like it was suppose to the tank filled up and got to pressure then the pumped kicked off thanks for all your help Shell

Glad you solved the problem. Thanks for letting us know how the whole deal worked out. Never heard of the acid/baking soda solution. Your wellpipe was obviously occluded. With no more wellpipe than you would seem to have, I'd consider replacing it as soon as I got the time to do it. But then again, "If it ain't broke...".