"Larry Jaques"
wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:18:22 +0000 (UTC), James
Waldby
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:18:02 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:13:10 -0500, Don
Foreman wrote:

http://members.goldengate.net/dforem...e_knob_grabber

Cool, but I still think a small access door
would have been the easier
of the solutions. You'll need one if anything
ever goes wrong, right?

In
http://members.goldengate.net/dforeman/first_cabin_visit/
the enclosure looks like a tall square tower,
apparently only
with a top cover and top access. (Don wrote,
"climbing inside
that structure ... requires ladders both inside
and out".)

There's a valve near ground level -- for which
he added a (4"?)
PVC-pipe-plug hatch -- and a vertically-oriented
valve higher up.
The PVC hatch and the valve_knob_grabber allow
operation of both
valves.

I suspect that if something goes wrong with the
well, a small
access door wouldn't give good enough access --
one might have
to take a side off the enclosure. The obvious
thing to do,
instead of making a small access door now, is
let the current
building rot, and then make a better enclosure
with a big door.

By "small access door", I meant "man-sized, but
not necessarily
36x84", eh? Keyword "door" vs "panel", I
guess.

Now that I think of it, I'd install a ball
valve, too.

Aren't we having fun rebuilding Foreman's pump
house for him?
titter

Yah, what if we all showed up at the same time to
"help" ?
heh heh .... ;)}