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FlyingVRanch

06-21-2003 04:40:31




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I am thinking of fabricating a 3-point water well drill so I can punch some small, cheap,wells in my pastures for my cows. Most wells would be less than 50 feet. I am considering using the jet technique where I would wash down PVC pipe by using a pump.No rotating is necessary here. My ground is all soft clay and sand. I would need to build a hoist rack for the pipe on back of the tractor similar to a real drilling rig. Has anybody ever heard of such an arrangement, and does anybody have any suggestions or ideas? Thanks in advance!

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JDknut

06-22-2003 16:19:45




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 Re: Water well drilling implement in reply to FlyingVRanch, 06-21-2003 04:40:31  
Your idea would work if you had a shallow water table, no rocks in the soil, and the soils were a relatively loose sand with little fines. A company called Deeprock of Alabama used to offer home well drilling equipment in Popular Science. This has a rack to handle driving and jetting pipe. It maybe could be adapted to mount on a tractor. I have never seen one, because up here in the stony, glacial soils of St. Lawrence County, NY, only a full-sized drill rig would work. You would have a hard time jetting clay without rotating the pipe with a wash bit or chopping bit on the end, altho the technique would work in sand. A easier thing might be to drive a well point at the end of a steel pipe. You might be able to adapt a tractor mounted fence post driver to do this, and then add a rack or something to help handle the pipe. You'd have to be really careful because this equipment is dangerous. You can do a well point anywhere the water table is relatively shallow except in hardpan, glacial till, or rocky soils. Just my $0.02, but I worked for a geotechnical drilling company for many years and also have friends in the water well business.

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Irv

06-21-2003 19:18:05




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 Re: Water well drilling implement in reply to FlyingVRanch, 06-21-2003 04:40:31  
I am trying the same thing - I will let you know tommorrow how it works out. Irv



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FlyingVranch

06-22-2003 05:30:32




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 Re: Re: Water well drilling implement in reply to Irv, 06-21-2003 19:18:05  
Very cool! Please let me know how that works out as I have only read about it, but have never tried it. Thanks!



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Irv

06-22-2003 17:10:14




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 Re: Re: Re: Water well drilling implement in reply to FlyingVranch, 06-22-2003 05:30:32  
Not good today. I went down about 13 feet and it just stopped. Instead of sand, I am getting small rocks. The water is clear otherwise. The small, under 1/2 inch rocks came up ok - the large ones apparently won't. I don't think I have enough pressure to blast out the larger ones. I am trying for something else - I will try pounding a point in now. Ugh! Irv.



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