We had ours analyzed by someone from Duke University. I’d maybe call a local university or just Google well water testing.
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THANKS GUYS I will have to find a possible reputable honest water tester outfit. There was a cattle farm here years ago before the land was sold in 4 accer parcels. I eat more himilayen salt then I should, its recommended to put in distilled water, I should probley buy a bottle of the liquid mineral drops off amizon recomended for distilled water drinkers, or pill forms.
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LOOKS like a massive flood in slovenia, worse than ever had, almost as bad as all the hurricane we been getting in the southern states. IT sounds like a big peice deal in making for palistine, I don’t know if that deal is related to the peice deal mentioned in the Bible, that later gets taken away.?? THE end of times never looked closer than now days, all the crazy stuff happening on face of GODS GREEN EARTH.
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We can sign up for a free water test, but they try to sell you like a water softener or purification system. you should also get a radon test in your basement.
If your water smells like sulfur it is bacteria. 
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THANKS FOR info reply, I have old single wide trailer no basement, this area is all sand, though not sure how deep. I think my well pipe was about 30 foot deep when I pulled it out few years ago. I don’t think I smell sulfur, I should have it tested probley though.
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What you are looking for is probably nitrites and old pesticides. I think a carbon filter can pull that stuff out.
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My well has rusty steel well casing( if i ever have to have pump pulled I’ll install a pvc casing with bentonite) so i have a washable filter and then a carbon filter before pressure tank. I really need a water softener but anit talked myself into it yet.
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We dealt with that in Dad’s camper when he was living out of it for a year. Had to sanitize the whole water system including the water heater. He used the tank system in the winter so he wouldn’t freeze the garden hose at night. I don’t think that toy hauler ever had it’s tank sanitized. It was odd he only smelled it from the hot water, maybe it just made the smell more “effervescent”.
It was a tossup between actual sulphur being in the groundwater or bacteria, there’s a few sulphur springs in the area that used to be touted for medicinal properties.
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Sodium softened water is not optimal for plants. It’s a small amount of sodium but accumulates in the soil after a while. It’s banned in some states to avoid ground water contamination. Risks to your health are reportedly minimal but I would avoid it and we have water so hard you have to chip it out of the faucet.
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Thanks that makes sense
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To add on top of it, mom was essentially strong armed and fast talked by Culligan to add a salt water softener. We hated it and didn’t even use it a whole year. Made the water slimy. I’ll take my mineral spring water and deal with the lime scale later.
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If you aerate a sulfur well with a misting nozzle it will stop the smell. I just did this with a stinky well on my farm. I used a nozzle from an old pump-up sprayer. In 3 days smell was gone.
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My old house had a drilled well something like 280 feet deep and 165 gallons per minute capacity but it was full of sulfer. I would have to dump a gallon of bleach down it about once a year to clear the sulfur smell. And even at that you couldn’t make coffee with it because it was nasty for coffee.
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I don’t remember having so little to follow on the site before. Everybody getting ready for the winter? I get Youtube on my television and it posts stuff i am subscribed to. I see that Stuie from NZ has been fighting Cancer and posting about it on his site. I still would have like to see if he ever got his gasifier powering a generator. I’m sure that’s a low priority for him now. I hope he recovers. Sounds bad but he seems to be a fighter.
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Well TomH. I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been spending the last week or so on a Unicorn hunt.
The Wife’s back up vehicle; her previous 2007 Hyundai Tucson at 230,000 plus miles seized up a timing belt guide bearing. V-6 DOHC, I’m not going to fix it.
Her traveling nurse primary vehicle the 2014 FORD Edge at 242,000 miles has developed a right front suspension groaning from one of its previous front end sideswipe wrecks. $$$ And the internal timing chain water pump is now starting to seep into the engine oil. $$$$
Any repair time on the Ford and it will now be giving her the keys to my 2003 Camry and then having to ferry the sports playing teenager in the big yellow Penske truck.
So high time to replace the wife’s primary vehicle. Set aside the Ford back as her back-up.
So the Unicorn has been finding; and nailing down a one-owner, low miles Toyota AWD Hybrid for her last vehicle. Not so easy out here far west coast with high milage drivers pinching carbon-taxed gasoline dollars.
We’ve had to wait for someone to die. React fast. And then out bid. Lost the first one by half an hour. No quick enough deciding. Then no, no, and hell no.
Success finally this last Monday.
So the wife now can go from 400 mile per fill-up to 600 miles between fill-ups.
Some of the Urban neighborhoods she travels into; and through, I do not want her stopping.
Ha! Ha! Using the wood in the wood stove for evenings warming.
Steve Unruh
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What to say…lot’s of birthdays lately slowed me down 
Decided to leave firewood load 10 and 11 in the woods. These particular loads sit nicely next to a small gravel road. I can collect them on woodgas, with truck and trailer and it saves me some log handling if wait until spring, when it’s time for cutting and splitting anyway.
Did probably the last chunking before winter three days ago. The new drying trailer is overloaded, drying cribs are full but not much drying will happen until Feb/March. I will have to rely on about 150 dry bags stored indoors until then. Proven approach.
I was about to wait, but…
I haven’t been driving the Volvo for a couple months and the Mazda truck has provided all my needs since then. The Volvo started to run real crappy mid summer and I’ve been procrastinating to fix it. Yesterday I snaked the gasifier outof the trunk. I will have to cut into the heatexchanger to fix an airleak and the hopper is in the way to really get to it. So, I had to bite the bullet and make a mess.
I’m about to light up the truck gasifier in half an hour. Promised to give granddaughter a ride to another birthday party. It’ll be a 40 mile roundtrip. The truck and gasifier have been sitting for 15 hours now. It’s time.
The gasifier finally snaked out of the trunk.
Removed hopper lid and umbrella.
Picked chunks up and shooked char down.
Removed inner hopper wall and funnel.
Cleaned up some crust to get to the bolts, which sandwich down the hopper bottom with the rim/juice splash devider.
Hopper removed.
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Nice, something to follow 
(Instead of fixing my own stuff)
Well, some i’ve done afterall, yesterday i sweept the chimney, something i’ve avoided to long (i really don’t like to stumble around on roofs- im not affraid of heights, im affraid of falling down)
Then there is some chainsaws, and my odd idea to build my own engine…
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Ha, that’s what I used to tell people questioning my paragliding - hights aren’t dangerous… the ground is
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Well, the ground doesn’t scare me, it’s the sudden impact im a little worried about.
And if i take ground in some of my piles of useful scrap… 
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