We have a well pump that has gone out, it's only about 12 years old and has worked up to a couple of weeks ago. My husband and I found out it was going to cost about 3-5000.00 to fix it. So we tried to fix it ourselves-not having a clue what we were doing! When we tried to take the bolts off of the top of the well head a couple of them fell down in the well, and then we figgured out how we to pull the pipe and now it is stuck, we have been told there is nothing we can do to get out the old pump, and that we would have to drill a whole new well. We can pull the pipe out about 4 ft then it just will not budge! The pipe will go back down all the way, we have tried to pull it from diffrent angles, however we are not able to pull it from straight above.No matter what it still gets stuck in the same spot, about 4ft up. We have talked to a couple of well contractors and they refuse to come out, stating that we just need to re-drill, and this would be a waist of thier time and our money. We have been told by a neighbor that the well is about 350-400 ft. deep, we purchaced the house as a forclosure so we have no information on the well at all. We cant affored to re-drill and this problem is going to cause us to loose our house. any ideas on how to dislodge this pipe? What will happen if we just cut the wire and let the pump stay in the well, can we then put a new one in? Will this contaminate our water?

I have yellow water from my well especially after alot of rain.I have a surface well and also a water softener.Sometimes there is a sulfer smell also .:wall: