Noises From The Source

Today's the day we clean the source, clean the source, clean the source. The day dawns bright and we await the arrival of the ex-owner and his brothers, one of which just happens to be in the local fire brigade. They arrive in two cars and pull out a large pump they have "borrowed" from the fire station. Having already drained the source down its just a case of taking the concrete lid off and putting a ladder down into it. Now being a natural spring its not possible to just turn the water off and it just happens that the well into it is about 20' deep by about 4' across. Just enough room for the ladder and one person to go down! Oh no not me... Wouldn't get me down there never know what else might be lurking in the depths! The ex owner of the house volunteers ha ha older brothers volunteered him. He puts on a very fetching green all in one PVC suit and takes the suction end of the pump hose down. Soon back up and the other end connected to the pump and off we go. Water pumping out fine until... Water goes over the mains connector.... bzzzzzzz bang and it stopped. No surprise there then. Much shouting and shrugging later two of the brothers jump in one of the cars and drive off. One that is left gets shotgun out of car and decides he might as well see what he can shoot for dinner! Great eh?Made sure I was behind him at all times, they don't have the best safety record in the world and have been known to shoot each other by mistake; SOME mistake huh? Anyway I digress, other two return with a huge floating pump which is lowered down into source followed by ex owner on the ladder. He has to pull the starter cord to get it going. Lots of muttering and not much success! Suddenly a loud pharrrrp echoes up from the hole! Ooops pardon moi, phaaarrp oops pardon moi, must be the strain of trying to start the engine! engine starts, water floods out, closely followed by a red faced French man. The two brothers joking with us saying they expected to see him come out of the source like a rocket with all that gas!!!

Source all pumped out, all we have to do now is wait two/three days for it to fill back up then we can test it to see if we have to do it all again or if it has cleaned all the cowsh*t out. here's hoping.......