How about dropping a small 12 volt pump down the well - why use muscle
power
when you could connect a battery?

He's going to have to put something down the well, anyway -- it's
completely
impossible to pull water from that depth with a hand pump.

it depends what kind of pump you use.

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Of course the problem then becomes how practical it is as a temporary
emergency solution. You can't have the submersible and those deep
well hand pumps in the typical well at the same time.

why not?



The real tragedy here is the OP apparenlty figured out it was the
pressure switch and then still wound up calling a well company
and paying $450. With just a little more investigating and testing
he could have figured it out for sure and replaced it for $30.
Sounds about $300 too high.

yes, I thought that same thing.