Had a bad week last week with the big freeze coming at the same time we lost our water in our well. When we moved here and had the well put in is a bored well 24 inch diameter and 22 feet deep. We hit good water at 14 feet and two pumps going couldn't faze it. Now the water level is about 18 feet and the well appears to have filled in to about 19 feet. Our area has been in a drought area all this year, far west central Indiana. Have talked with neighbors and they are all fine with sand point wells but their wells are around 28-30 feet.
I plan to put in a sand point well down to about 30 feet by hand, I need some exercise. It does not look like anything technical just a lot of work and cheap. I don't mind hard work as long as I can save a decent amount of money. The way everything looks if I had not lost the depth of the well I would be fine. Any advice for me in this endeavor will be appreciated, have watched utube videos but trust the opinions of the members here. The soil is sandy and pea gravel for the most part so should not be too bad unless I hit a big rock, got some of them out of the ground when they put in the septic system.
We are getting ready to head for Florida for a couple weeks so hopefully the weather will cooperate with me. Went and bought a 275 gallon tank and poured two of these in the well and found out it runs out as fast as it is poured in. dropped the water pump in the tank and a few fittings later plumed it into the well outlet and into the house, OK as long as the temperature stays decent. Jim.
I plan to put in a sand point well down to about 30 feet by hand, I need some exercise. It does not look like anything technical just a lot of work and cheap. I don't mind hard work as long as I can save a decent amount of money. The way everything looks if I had not lost the depth of the well I would be fine. Any advice for me in this endeavor will be appreciated, have watched utube videos but trust the opinions of the members here. The soil is sandy and pea gravel for the most part so should not be too bad unless I hit a big rock, got some of them out of the ground when they put in the septic system.
We are getting ready to head for Florida for a couple weeks so hopefully the weather will cooperate with me. Went and bought a 275 gallon tank and poured two of these in the well and found out it runs out as fast as it is poured in. dropped the water pump in the tank and a few fittings later plumed it into the well outlet and into the house, OK as long as the temperature stays decent. Jim.