[AT] Off Topic: Well Drilling

[Mike]

It's clay for the most part, there are rocks, but not an overabundance 
of them, I'll have to try that method this spring, it would sure make 
things easier.

Mike M
On 3/13/2013 11:01 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> 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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