(800) 853-2651
SHOP NOW

artesian wells, anybody have one ?

Yes, have one in one of my fields. It was an old test hole drilling for coal. It was drilled long before I was born. It has a field tile running to it and has been fixed a number of times because it keeps falling in. The last time I fixed it I thought I would see if I could stick my shovel down it. Before I knew it, only six inches of the shovel handle was sticking out. Almost lost my shovel! I took a six inch piece of flexible field tile and stuck 3 or 4 feet down the hole and installed a new six inch pipe to the creek. Has worked for 4-5 years. By the way, 80 feet down is 8 ft of coal.
 
Yes, we have 2, one fluctuates with the water table and varies from 3 ft below ground level to 50 gpm at 2 ft above. The other one is plugged and if you shut the pump off and hold the hose 10 ft up in the air water still comes out!
 
Yes--a few different friends have them on their property. In all cases, they're partway down a hill where our local blue granite bedrock is fairly close to the surface and an underground vein of water travels along the rock. One friend has a well tile where 5 feet down the water comes in and goes out in a steady stream--they just dug down, set the tile on bedrock, and ran a line to the house. Been using it for 15+ years and it never goes dry or overflows.
 
My brother-in-law has one. He added a pump and pressure tank to make the pressure a bit more consistent, but when he first moved in to his house the artesian pressure was all he had.
 
Yep,and a good one.
125' deep drilled well, 25 gal/min, don't know how much pressure it can actually build,dead heading it got 35 lbs of pressure before it blew the boot of the casing.No pump.
A hose feeds it a 1/3 ml to a cistern with overflow valve at the house.From there it is pumped to the house and corrals
Also piped from the well to 2 water troughs in the pastures and it stays open year round,continues flow over,no pump no heaters needed.
 
A fiend had one. Run his whole dairy farm from it for years. About twenty years ago his cows were looking for water one day. Checked his well--no water. Ground underneath somewhere had shifted and shut it off. Had to dig a three hundred foot deep well for his dairy.
 
Here in the North-East, depth dose not seem to matter.
My Artesian well is about 300' deep and they told me that I was getting 95 GPM.
My sister next door @ the same depth only gets 3 to4 GPM.
We both live at the same elivation ( about 60' above the sea.)
 
You"re probably in an area where the water runs in "veins", that is, individual channels or porous places under the ground.
Your well probably hit a larger vein, carrying more pressure and flow than the one your sister hit.
 
Between my pet Sasquatch and those danged little artesians, I cant leave any booze in the shop refrigerator, they clean me out every weekend.

Danged varmints!!!

I would take a pet monkey or coon over this bunch!!

Gene
 
The city of La Grange MO has one on the river front open to the public, I can t stand the smell but it is clean safe water.
 
Fellow I know had a good artesian well, so built some fish ponds to utilize it. Put fish in the ponds, next morning they were all dead. Turns out that the water was super-saturated with nitrogen because of high pressure underground. Solution was a flume with rocks and broken up concrete blocks, before the ponds, to agitate the water enough to get rid of the nitrogen and replace it with oxygen. Worked fine, then.
 
this is my neighbors springhouse ,is that like an artesian well?
a34186.jpg

a34187.jpg

a34188.jpg
 
Was driving along a country road with Grandpa when I was young, about 10 or 12, when he pulled over in the middle of nowhere, (SE Kansas). Said he was thirsty. There was a tin can sitting atop a fence post and he grabbed it and leaned down and got a big drink. Told me it was an artesian well. No smell, very sweet. Just wish I could remember where that was!
 
Hay Bison;
If you have 35# plus water pressure and good flow you could conceivably install a 1K hydro generator, and make a little electricity also. Check out www.microhydropower.com This is a small privatly owned company, owned by Paul Cunningham and his wife. Great folks. Check it out, It's eiser than GEICO and a very doable DIY project. My e-mail is open if you want to see pics. of operating units.
 
'Fraid the little artesians are a thing of the past. Olympia brewery closed 20 some years ago (they still make it somewhere, and it isn't any better now than it was then)- the "artesian" fountain out front quit at the same time. Asked a high school friend who worked there where the artesian water was going- he laughed and said the artesian water quit in the 50's, and they had put in a little pump to keep the fountain going. Last guy out of the building, shut off the lights. . . and, oh yeah, the fountain.
 
I have to wonder about the well here.
We are up on a plain at 800ft overlooking Lake Huron at 576ft.
Neighbours all around have 250-375ft deep wells into the bed rock with the water approx 100ft down Approx 90ft of clay and gravel over burden on top of the rock.
The previous owner who drilled the well didn't go as deep to save money.Actual depth unknown but rumoured to be 160ft.
For some reason the water here rises to within 20ft of the surface?
Ground water here flows west towards Lake Huron from the west side of the Niagara Escarpment1400-1600ft. Which runs north from the Falls and up the Bruce Peninsula.
No sand or gravel in the water but I'm wondering if this well is surface water about the bed rock. Instead of water from the bedrock?
Well will flow all day at 15gpm and only drop inches.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

T
Stormont engineering Tunbridge Wells kent
Replies
2
Views
2K
tonyparks6930
T
F
oliver oc3
Replies
0
Views
224
Farmerwright97
F
W
Sheppard SD3 no fuel one cylinder
Replies
3
Views
308
Trkr
T
K
Massey Ferguson
Replies
1
Views
240
Jim.ME
J
N
Rock pulverizer
Replies
0
Views
409
Navajo350
N
Tractor Parts Tractor Manuals

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Copyright © 1997-2024 Yesterday's Tractor Co.

All Rights Reserved. Reproduction of any part of this website, including design and content, without written permission is strictly prohibited. Trade Marks and Trade Names contained and used in this Website are those of others, and are used in this Website in a descriptive sense to refer to the products of others. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy TRADEMARK DISCLAIMER: Tradenames and Trademarks referred to within Yesterday's Tractor Co. products and within the Yesterday's Tractor Co. websites are the property of their respective trademark holders. None of these trademark holders are affiliated with Yesterday's Tractor Co., our products, or our website nor are we sponsored by them. John Deere and its logos are the registered trademarks of the John Deere Corporation. Agco, Agco Allis, White, Massey Ferguson and their logos are the registered trademarks of AGCO Corporation. Case, Case-IH, Farmall, International Harvester, New Holland and their logos are registered trademarks of CNH Global N.V.

Yesterday's Tractors - Antique Tractor Headquarters
Website Accessibility Policy

Back
Top