Well...

My handy husband doing some measuring.

Right off the bat we had well trouble and had to replace pretty much the entire system... pump, wiring, pressure tank and gauges. It was quite the learning experience and much simpler than we had anticipated. The farm actually has two wells on it (three if you count the hand-dug, rock-lined, hole in the ground that we found in the "freezer building"), and we plan on getting the second well up and running eventually to supply the barns and outbuildings with water. 

This is the "freezer building"... a building that housed two huge deep-freezers and shelves for canned goods. If you look carefully in the lower right hand corner you can see a plastic bowl being used as a makeshift cover over the hand-dug well. The well appears to be about 25 feet deep or so. We intend to get a hand pump for use in emergency power outages, which would render our main well useless.