In my last column I wrote that, on occasion, painted steel bladder tanks will rust from the outside in. In what might be a coincidence, I had an occasion to change one of these just a few days after I wrote that column. This also might be called the typical pump man’s service call and many of those are untimely.
In mid-September, my wife Shirley and I spent a typical Sunday out for dinner after relaxing and watching the football report shows. It was a beautiful evening and I fired up my John Deere Model 445 - 22 horsepower lawn tractor. I was enjoying cutting the grass at a normal clip when Shirley came out of the house and made a beeline for me. Now this usually is not a good thing, and it wasn’t. She said that a customer only a few miles away had problems with water pressure and wanted me to come over. I shut down the tractor and called the fellow who does not have a really good knowledge of his system and, for that matter, does not need to.