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OT Digging a water well

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marvin

06-16-2004 15:10:31




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Other than contracting out to a professional well digger, have any of you been successful in putting in a well to a depth of 50 or 75 foot? What equipment did you use? How long did it take? Here in Washington you can dig your own well and just need to get a permit to do so. You can water up to a half acre without water rights. It was not uncommon in my neighborhood as a kid to hand dig a well down to 25 or 30 foot, but I am not very interested in doing that. I would prepfer to find a cheap economical method to drive a well in.

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JDknut

06-17-2004 09:21:08




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 Re: OT Digging a water well in reply to marvin, 06-16-2004 15:10:31  
Only way you are going to do it up here in the stony glacial soils of Northern NY is to use some kind of drill rig. It is either really tight and hard to drill or really loose and flowing, either way you need a rig to handle the bits and/or the casing.



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T_Bone

06-17-2004 02:44:43




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 Re: OT Digging a water well in reply to marvin, 06-16-2004 15:10:31  
Hi Marvin,

Do a google search as there's many good self drilling website info out there.

Since your needing a shallow well, you might want to consider using a high pressure washer with a "A" frame.

Drill bits are easy made if you weld. You may want to use a combination of high pressure water and a hand rotated drill.

The water comes from a staurated aquafier of sand & gravel that runs into a sump (well shaft) then is pumped to the surface. Theres no open carvens or under ground lakes sitting there waiting to be pumped.

You might want to consider using a jet pump as there good too 80ft at a reasonable cost.

T_Bone

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Mark Krzyzanowski - IN.

06-16-2004 20:29:47




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 Re: OT Digging a water well in reply to marvin, 06-16-2004 15:10:31  
I've hand driven (not dug) 2-1/4" shallow wells up to 30' using the same compression coupling to take the beating of a 100 lb. steel weight I lift and drop on each 5' section of pipe I add, well after my arms should've dropped off. Good workout. I'm not a well expert, but when you start getting beyond 50' deep, I'm not sure that shallow pumps care for that much work, but I think after 75' a 2 stage deepwell is a must (maybe even 50'). You can rent a motorized driver that will set on top of your pipe (the easy way) and drive it, but the deeper you drive, the more likely the pipe will curve off to anywhere but straight down, and the smaller the pipe, the less rigid and the quicker it gets out of shape (curves off). The wellhead on a shallow is pointed so you can drive it (not through rocks or boulders), as opposed to a deep wellhead which is the blunt pickup and lowered down (not driven) after coring by equipment which most farmers don't have. I now have a 4" deepwell that goes down about 100', but the owner before me had it cored/drilled and sleaved so I didn't have to. What is the water table around you? What are you looking to do - fill the bathtub or irrigate crops? An electric motor, an old tractor's PTO?

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Bob

06-16-2004 15:47:05




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 Re: OT Digging a water well in reply to marvin, 06-16-2004 15:10:31  
I have heard of one case where a guy dug his own well and it was a flowing aquifer and he couldnt get it to stop flowing and one neighbor sued him...for flood damage or something. Make sure that if you do this that you dont have heavy underground water pressure. Do you have a well now? Do you live in the city or the country?



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