Guys any of you seen this deep rock portable well driller??? Its been around for years, has a briggs and stranded type engine. We had a local guy looking at one. Next any of you ever well drilled? Another guy got into a fight with well drilling company and bought an old rig (POWERED BUY FLATHEAD FORDS SAT FOR YEARS) as he had several to do. ME THINKS THEY WOULD BE BETTER OFF TO HIRE WELL DRILLER!!!
- Thread starter JOCCO
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Richard G.
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If I was younger, I would try to build a well drilling rig. We are very blessed here to have plenty of water not too far down.
Richard in NW SC
Richard in NW SC
Russ from MN
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- Location
- Bemidji MN
It all depends on the soil conditions and the water table, some places they will work and some they won't!
Donald Lehman
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Yeah, we are blessed with plenty of water right here in the immediate area. A waste of money to drill a well here. We have four wells on the property and the deepest is about 22 feet. Ironically the shallowest (about 6 ft.) has the highest gpm of the bunch. Don't have much confidence in well drillers. A girl down the road a quarter mile had a driller come in and go down 150 ft. or so and never hit water. Another neighbor went in witched it and found water at 18 ft., brought his back hoe in and hit water at 18 ft. just like he said. he went down another couple of feet for good measure and installed her well. The church across the road had a driller come in and the fool went down 500 ft. before he "hit water". Baloney! 300 yards away at the base of the hill is a spring that is so wet that it is impossible to work the land without tiling. My father used to own that land and I can show you at least one more source of water that is no more than 50 feet blow where the church is built.
Richard G.
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My well is 33 feet deep and a couple of days ago, I irrigated 5 hours and still had plenty of water for everything else. The nearest community water line is over 1/4 mile away and you could not pay me to have chlorinated water to my house. The water system rates keep going up and they just built a monstrosity of a building where people are payed way too much.
Richard
Richard
BarnyardEngineering
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- Location
- Rochester, NY
I remember seeing ads for those "drill your own well" rigs at the local machinery dealer when I was a kid. They looked like scams to me, even then. Same style as the X-ray goggles ads you'd see in Mad magazine...
I have drilled 5 wells with Deep Rock protable well driller to 125 to 150 feet and hit good water and plenty ., you can drill to 200 ft I was drilling in centeral Texas - Its a lot of work comming out of the well easy drilling hitting no rocks just clay and sand I still have the drill and equipment that going to wast - I would read up on drilling and build my on rig a hole lot chepper than the one you buy, you are sold more than you need and you can get the mud pump better price my next one is going to operate off my tractor pto with a hyd pump you can use gas or 1to 1 1/2 water pipe you can buy the drill bits off ebay very good price
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