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Digging a Shallow Well
« on: July 28, 2019, 05:27:25 PM »
Not sure why I found this...but it is very informative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYPRMm8Arw
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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2019, 11:21:40 PM »
may I ask what the video has to do with vintage chevrolets ????????

SUPPOSED TO BE A CAR SITE.

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« Last Edit: July 29, 2019, 09:28:36 AM by madmike3434 »

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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2019, 10:14:40 AM »
may I ask what the video has to do with vintage chevrolets ????????

SUPPOSED TO BE A CAR SITE.


MIKE

Mike, about the same as you posting the miniature scale buildings you made (which I liked). General discusions/hobby sections are fair game here. If your not interested....don't open thread. Besides, it's Ed's site and he can post any damn thing he wants.


Ed, I always heard the old timers around here taking about hand drilling wells up closer to the river. I never quite got the picture of how exactly, thanks.
My buddy does water witching just like that 'ol boy in the video. He came over to my place before I had the basement dug trying to locate my old abandoned water well. His dowsing rods indicated the same area I thought, (outside my basement footprint. He also indicated the water line and sewer. I knew he was right there because I knew the location of them. He had me try the dowsing rods, no movement out of these hands.  Fastinating to watch him though.

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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2019, 01:07:35 PM »
This is cool ED, Thanks.
My dad was a well driller in Texas in the 50s. They were cased 12" irrigation wells and MUCH deeper and quite a bit bigger during digging. He witched with what ever he had, forked tree branches, coat hangers...Once I saw him use wire that was hanging on a fence post. He only dug one dry well that I know of and it was dug where the customer wanted the well not where Dad told him the water was. He had a old cable rig, a Sputter, that had spent it's early days in the oil fields. It had two cables, one for the bit and one for the slush bucket. It basically pounded the hole into the ground. He quit drilling when the cable broke and he lost the bit 280' down the hole. He fished for it for several days. Sense the rig was worthless without the bit he got his brother to help. They ran the bit cable down and Dad got in the slush bucket and went down and tied onto the bit. That night the well rig was sitting in our yard with a FOR SALE sign on it. He went back to machine and mechanic work.
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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2019, 01:46:30 PM »
About 6-7years ago there was an estate sale NW of here. In the vehicle lot (sunk about 5inches into the ground) sat an '30/31 model A truck water well drill rig. It was similar to the one I posted pic of, but much more thought out streamlined and all of the equipment still on board. There must have been about 6-8 different drill heads, many extention rods, tools etc. I must have spent 40mins checking all the do-dads on that rig. Looked as if you could start it up you could go right to work.
Shame was the guy that won bid was an iron scrapper.  :(

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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2019, 02:01:12 PM »
may I ask what the video has to do with vintage chevrolets ????????

SUPPOSED TO BE A CAR SITE.


MIKE

Mike, about the same as you posting the miniature scale buildings you made (which I liked). General discusions/hobby sections are fair game here. If your not interested....don't open thread. Besides, it's Ed's site and he can post any damn thing he wants.


Ed, I always heard the old timers around here taking about hand drilling wells up closer to the river. I never quite got the picture of how exactly, thanks.
My buddy does water witching just like that 'ol boy in the video. He came over to my place before I had the basement dug trying to locate my old abandoned water well. His dowsing rods indicated the same area I thought, (outside my basement footprint. He also indicated the water line and sewer. I knew he was right there because I knew the location of them. He had me try the dowsing rods, no movement out of these hands.  Fastinating to watch him though.

I know WHO owns the site I just thought it unusual to post non car related thread. 
As far as the award winning scale buildings I used to make, had no idea I had posted pictures of them on here and if so WHY ??????
At least nobody is screaming about non pre 64 era content on here.

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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2019, 06:52:32 PM »
No biggie....
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Re: Digging a Shallow Well
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2019, 11:39:15 AM »
That old well rig is cool. Dad's was quite a bit bigger on a 5th wheel set up pulled by a late 30s Reo. There was a 40s Ford flatbed with a 500 gallon water tank for turning the diggins into slush and a four wheel welding trailer with both arc and gas welders and lots of other tools. Even then it may have been worth more as scrap. An important tool was the ever present case of dynamite that sometimes sat between my brother and me on the back car seat.

I have a posthole digger that is an auger like the well driller used. Too many rocks here to use it. After a few inches of top soil what isn't rocks is clay. I need a supply of shear pins the use the tractor driven digger. Even in good soil that guy did a lot of work!
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