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Larry and his well.

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IaGary

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Just wondering if you got that well moved yet?

I think cutting a trench and dragging it sidways was still the best option.

Gary
 
Haven't got it moved yet . Been way to wet to try ! We got dumped on again today . Do you think when it quits raining every day I should wait till some of the water drains out or try to save it all in the move ?
 
A better way!
just pipe the top of the wellhorizontally to the new site, put on a frost proof hydrant at ground level, and back fill the area with a quarter million cubic yards of top soil. at 4' deep, that should be tapered into the surrounding contour. (you might need to raise the fence! JimN
 
i just seen a news bulletin where a levee broke somewhere in missouri from a muskrat burrowing a hole is that anywhere near where old lives?
 
My neighbor was moving a well, and he didn't get it chained down on the trailer too good. When he went by my place, it came loose and rolled off. It must have shattered when it hit the ground, cause now my road is filled with potholes!
 
Gary: I think Jim N has the best idea. Most of those old wells were put where they are based on the advice of a guy with a devineing rod, who found a seam of water. Those guys were quite specific on location. I've known a few folks that dug 10' from the pin point area, and came up with a dry hole. Like Larry they didn't like location of proposed well.
 
Where I want to move it to is higher than where it sets now . Would you dig the trench the same depth and if so I guess add more casing to the top or bottom ? I would think the bottom to have the newest down deep ?
 
Larry,be careful with the well.You need to wear a Personal Flotation Device (PFD).Three guys near here loaded a well on a truck to transport to another site last week.A car pulled out from a side road and when they braked to miss it the well tipped over.Washed all of them out of the truck and two are still missing.BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.
 
Thanks for the tip but a truck isn't necessary I only want to move it about 100 yards . If that proves to be to big of a problem I would just be happy with 35 yards to get it out of the field and just in the edge of the woods .
 
Well If you dig a ditch 75 yds from the well you have,at an angle to the base of the existing well and pipe it from there you would get double storage capacity thus getting two wells with one pipe.
 

My uncle Nugene hired a fellow to use one of them devineing rods to find water, He was walking along and that rod dipped down so hard that it threw him over a 4' fence and a strand of bob wire.
 
I had to move my father in laws well 66 miles. He built it out of rocks and did a very good job of it some 50 plus years ago. After he passed on the family didn't want to leave his handy work to some stranger so I had to move it to one of the wife's sister place in another city. It was pretty heavy but I didn't break it or lose a stone.
 
Best idea would be to wait until cold weather sets in,and the water is frozen solid.I think you could get a better grip on it.
 
Larry I was wondering if you would let me borrow your well to water my garden? Everything is about to dry up here. You could ship it UPS and I will pay the shipping. I could ship it back to the new location. DH
 
Larry

Len up Nord in Michigan. You got to get that IDF out of the golf course where he WORKS and have him come over for a few minutes. You remember when he put up 4500 square bales of straw on an afternoon after his day job.
He could hook up one of his few hundred JD'S and have it moved in no time. YOU do have some CARPET around don't ya.
He also has a fat lazy cop HIVC buddy who lines up workers who might help.
 
you guys all want to work too hard!

everybody knows if you want to move something heavy you hook a log chain on the drawbar of the tactor and loop the other end of the chain twice around the thing to move. if its a really heavy load you use low gear, and keep the diesels at at least 1500 rpm to avoid lugging it and bending the crank.

whats all the fuss about? It's a 2 minute job!
 
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