Water well

[moore_farm]

Anybody dug one with a hand auger

[js2743]

not here because its solid limestone but maybe where you are its sand all way down so if ya got the auger try it.

[Thoughthound]

I have thought about this and it may work if your water table is high and the ground is easy.

But for deep digging, the longer the shaft is on the auger, the more torque will be forced on it.

Seems to me that much beyond 10 ft in heavy soil and you'd twist the auger off the shaft.

Maybe if you swapped the shaft with two inch pipe somehow and welded it on?

[watcher]

I've hit water putting in fence post does that count?

[Windy in Kansas]

I've not done it but have thought about it. I have a good drilled well at my farm so would be doing in in town.

My neighbor had a lawn sprinkler system put in and a well installed. I watched a bit of the well process. They used an auger and several sections of 6 foot length pipe handle to auger down to near final depth. In our area the ground water is at about 25 feet.

They then put a section of casing in the hole and added water enough water to soften the sides of the hole so that they could use body weight down force to move the casing down. They kept up that process until all of the casing was in place. They used short sections and worked from one section of scaffolding. Wish I had paid more attention or even offered to help to get up close and first hand insight.

The lawn is pretty fair sized and the well produces enough water so that only 3 or four circuits need to be used.

We are certainly blessed with water where I live. Many folk install small yielding wells using a driving point. The soil is pretty sandy and they go in fairly quickly.