Anyone dug their own well...?

[S6PNJ]

Moving day was today, so no 1 job was to look at the well! (ok no 2 job - no 1 job was to look at the sit on lawn-mower!). It's too dark to see down there so I dropped a stone or two - they took about 3 seconds to hit the water so it's a fair way down! Just need to get a weight on a long bit of string and see how far down the water is and then how far down the bottom is!

It looks like this:

Edited by S6PNJ on Friday 13th July 18:25

[S6PNJ]

I finally got my plumb bob to drop down the well to see how deep it is and whilst it is not an exact science, the measurements are roughly 16 meters to the waters top and the water is 11 meters deep! Blimey! Gonner need a bigger pump.

[moles]

How the hell did they dig those things?, they must have had balls of steel going down that deep imagine that caving in on you.

[dhutch]

Epic thread recovery but I have just found this. We are on a relative high, with sandstone bedrock about 6-18" below the topsoil, however generally I think its an awesome idea to use local water for toilet flushing and washing machines.

Even our house, I sure you could get a borehole put in, almost all the farms I know of have them, previous job we did a shop floor moving machine for transporting pumps to the test rig of a bore hole pump company.


Daniel