[AT] Off Topic: Well Drilling

[charlie hill]

Mike what kind of soil do you have and do you have a lot of natural stone to 
deal with?

It sounds like you have a good flow of water.  Your water vein is somewhere 
around 54'
but the water is rising in the pipe up to 14.5' is the way I interpret that. 
That would mean
you could pump from your existing well with a hand pump and that's good!

Now days wells are supposed to be sealed to keep ground water contamination 
from seeping in
around the well casing.  That would make me tend toward drilling a 2" or 
larger casing that I could seal
at the top with concrete.  Then you can drop in a 1 1/4" pipe for your pump.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:29 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic: Well Drilling

  Those pitcher pumps are exactly what I was hoping to install, also a
lot  of good advice from the well driller. I was able to locate the
drillers report from when they put the well in at our house. Our well is
only 54' deep and the static water level is listed at 14'6". I'm hoping
that this means I won't have to drill much more than 20 ft or so to get
a decent well. From reading the advice from the well driller, it's a
little hard to tell whether he uses one or two pipes, one as the casing
and a smaller one to connect to the well with a sand screen on the end
of it, or just the outside casing for the well. Will have to do a little
more reading as the time gets closer to do it. Thanks.

Mike M

On 3/13/2013 9:00 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Mike this is the best advice I've seen on that site yet.  It's by a
> professional driller.
> http://drillyourownwell.com/Advice-from-a-real-well-driller.htm
> He fills in the details on how to know when you've hit water.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: charlie hill
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 8:29 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic: Well Drilling
>
> Mike here are a couple of old style cast iron pitcher pumps.
>
> http://www.agrisupply.com/HEAVY-DUTY-TALL-CAST-IRON-PITCHER-PUMP/p/66844/&sid=&eid=/
>
> http://www.agrisupply.com/Hvy-Dty-Cast-Iron-Pitcher-Pump-Open-Spout/p/40132/&sid=&eid=/
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:47 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic: Well Drilling
>
> Thanks Charlie, I spent some time looking at the videos, as I plan on
> doing something like that this spring. I wish it would have shown how to
> install a hand pump because that's what I would like to do. We have a
> pasture in front of our house that is too far for hoses, and hauling 5
> gallon buckets for the horses is a PIA.  It would also give me a source
> of water in case of a protracted power outage.
>
> Mike M
>
> On 3/12/2013 11:07 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>> A while back we talked about drilling our own shallow wells.
>> I happened across this web site this morning and there is some
>> great information in it that might be valuable to some in the group.
>>
>> http://drillyourownwell.com/
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