A windmill and a round stock tank on flat, dry plains under a pale sky

Out here, water comes first.

Water well drilling, pump service, and the electrical that keeps it running. Based on Kermit Highway in Odessa.

A windmill and stock tank on the Llano Estacado. Photographs on this page show West Texas and country like it, not K-Bar jobs.

The tap is dry. Or the tank is.

When a faucet coughs air or a stock tank keeps dropping, the cause is usually one of three things. The pump, the pressure side, or the power feeding them.

K-Bar works on wells and the electrical behind them, so one call covers both halves of the problem.

Call (432) 556-7418 and say what you are seeing. A clear description on the phone can save a trip.

Water running from a steel pipe into a stock tank while Hereford cattle wait on bare ground — When the pipe stops running, cattle notice before anyone else.

Hereford cows and a calf drinking from a round galvanized stock tank — A galvanized tank on a dry pasture.

The deck of a truck-mounted water well drilling rig parked on a gravel yard — A truck-mounted rotary rig. The truck has to reach the spot, so the road in matters as much as the site.

Drilling a new water well

A new well starts with where it goes. Away from septic lines, reachable by a rig truck, close enough to bring power.

Depth, casing and cost depend on the ground under your place and the water in it. Those answers come after a look at the site, not before.

Building a house, adding a pasture, or replacing a well that gave out? Start with a call.

A drilling rig mast raised over a livestock water well in a Texas pasture

A bank of white, broken caliche rock with dry grass on top

A straight caliche road running across flat grassland to the horizon

Left, a rig set up on a ranch well in Baylor County. Right, caliche, the hard white layer close under much of West Texas.

Pumps, pressure tanks and controls

Low pressure, spitting faucets and a pump that kicks on every few seconds usually point to the pressure tank or the switch.

No water at all can mean the pump, the wire down the hole, or the control box. Each has its own fix, and guessing gets expensive.

A stainless steel submersible well pump with its blue cable, lying on a floor

A grey pressure tank and an electric pump on a concrete pad beside a metal building

A tall stainless pressure tank in a pump room with gauges and wiring

A submersible pump, which lives down the well. Above ground, the pressure tank does the work between pump starts.

Power to the well

A pump is only as good as the wire, breaker and panel feeding it. A tripped breaker that keeps tripping is telling you something.

Because K-Bar handles the electric side too, nobody has to point at somebody else.

A wellhead with a valve beside a pump control box mounted on a post — A wellhead and its control box.

Solar panels on a steel frame inside a fenced pasture, powering a remote pump — Remote tanks are often pumped by panels like these.

A ranch entrance with a steel gate frame and a cattle guard on a flat, empty road

What helps when you call

The address, or which gate and which road get a truck to the well.
What the water is doing. None, low pressure, air, sand, or a pump that keeps cycling.
Whether a breaker has tripped or the control box shows a light.
The well depth and pump age, if you have the paperwork.
Gate codes, and whether stock are in the pasture.

A dirt ranch road curving past an open pipe gate through dry brush — Directions that say "second gate past the cattle guard" are worth more than a pin on a map.

Windmills still water a lot of pasture

Plenty of stock still drink from a windmill and a tank. When the wind lays down for a week in August, an electric or solar pump usually carries the load.

A windmill beside a lone mesquite tree on bare, flat ground under a deep blue sky

A single windmill on an empty plain under a grey, streaked sky

A windmill and wooden tank stand in tall dry grass under a mottled sky

A windmill and a stock tank on dry range below a mesa

A windmill next to a white steel water storage tank against a blue sky with clouds

Windmills on the South Plains and in eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado and Arizona.

Call K-Bar

(432) 556-7418

Fax: (432) 333-6661
Address: 3220 Kermit Hwy
Odessa, TX [ADDRESS-VERIFY: confirm with owner, ZIP missing]
Hours: [HOURS-PLACEHOLDER: owner to confirm]
Directions: Open in Google Maps

A windmill silhouetted against a low sun over dark brush

Or send the details

Tell us where the well is and what it is doing. We will call you back.

Several restored windmills silhouetted at dusk with the sun behind thin cloud