01/18/05, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Whiskey Flats(Ft. Worth) , Tx
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.....................I wa sitting here thinking about your statement of "metal fabrication" and the thought occured to me that .....there is alot of old 3 and 4 inch drill stem available that could be used to drill a water well . The other idea that occured to me was to take an old axle out of a truck . Then , turn it up on edge and attach a long drive shaft from a small gasoline engine via an old auto transmission . Then you could suspend the axle housing from a pulley like a traveling block on a drilling rig . Now , you could take that old drill stem and cut it up into maybe 8 or 10 foot sections and fabricate a square point of attachment so that the yoke shaft on the diffy housing would slide into that piece of drill stem and then start drilling and lowering the axle house as the bit dug deeper . It would be fun to rigup an Aggie setup and see if it could actually be made to work . .....
.................Actually , now I had an Even better idea!.....If , you're familiar with an Danuser , F8 posthole digger , you figureout some way to to raise and lower it as you added additional sections of Pipe . You'd probably have to use 5 foot sections as the ujoint wouldn't allow much more travel than that . And , the main problem would probably endup being that after you had 50 feet or so of Pipe in the ground the amount of Torque necessary to both Twist and Drill thru hard layers of subsoil would start busting ujoints and sheer bolts . Crazy idea's and fun to think about , yep , fordy.. 
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