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john_bud said:
Mornin John,
Well rigs go for about $800,000
Yeah thats what I said too !Strange but true !
Well Drilling - North Texas
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Mornin John,
Well rigs go for about $800,000
Yeah thats what I said too !Strange but true !
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I had this guy do some pump service for me a few years ago. I don't know what his drilling prices are, but he showed up when he was supposed to. With contractors these days, showing up when they say they will means an awful lot.
Madewell Well Svc
Address: 5972 Jackson Rd, Krum, TX 76249
Phone: (940) 387-4357
Madewell Well Svc
Address: 5972 Jackson Rd, Krum, TX 76249
Phone: (940) 387-4357
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I wanted to keep this story separate from my first reply.
When I bought my house some years ago, I woke up one day and had no water. I went out to the pump house and found that the breaker was tripping (something was shorted down the hole). I was travelling quite a bit at the time, and arranged for a well water outfit to come out on the weekend to fix it when I'd be home. The next weekend the guy didn't show up.
I travelled again the next week, so we rescheduled again for the next weekend, again the guy failed to show up the following weekend. We rescheduled again for the next weekend.
The next weekend they were supposed to arrive at 10 AM. They didn't show up and I called, they were running late and would be there at noon. Didn't show up at noon, called him, said they were still running late and it would be 2 pm. To make a long story short, a well service truck pulls into my drive at 7 PM. Two kids, one 13 and the other 14 jump out. It seems the kids got lost driving to my place, compounded by the fact that they had to take back roads all the way, because neither of them were old enough to drive. A minute later a guy pulls into my drive in a fancy car. He climbs out and comes over to greet me. He has shiney rings on every finger, starch pressed shirt and slacks, fancy boots and hat and smells like a french #$&*.
Obviously, alarm bells are going off in my head. I show him the well house and pump controls and he asks if he can borrow my multi-meter to check the electrical. He does a little checking and then starts saying that something isn't correct with the power feed to the pump controls. he can't figure out that when he checks between the three wires, he has 220 between two of them, but then only 110 between one or the other and the common.
I'm smart enough, so I ask him "what's the deal slick?", before I get ready to send him packing. It turns out that he was a bail bondsman and his brother, the "well driller" was running late fishing a pump out of someones well after the homeowener backed over the well head.
Smartly, "slick" decided we'd wait until his brother arrived. Thankfully, his brother was pretty sharp and found a short in the wire 40' down the hole as we began to pull the pump. We fixed it and put everything back together. We decided that they'd come back on Monday and pull the entire length and replace some pretty rusted pipe sections and string new wire to the pump.
I never saw them again. I also was never asked to pay a dime (I was going to pay after all the work was complete.)
When I bought my house some years ago, I woke up one day and had no water. I went out to the pump house and found that the breaker was tripping (something was shorted down the hole). I was travelling quite a bit at the time, and arranged for a well water outfit to come out on the weekend to fix it when I'd be home. The next weekend the guy didn't show up.
I travelled again the next week, so we rescheduled again for the next weekend, again the guy failed to show up the following weekend. We rescheduled again for the next weekend.
The next weekend they were supposed to arrive at 10 AM. They didn't show up and I called, they were running late and would be there at noon. Didn't show up at noon, called him, said they were still running late and it would be 2 pm. To make a long story short, a well service truck pulls into my drive at 7 PM. Two kids, one 13 and the other 14 jump out. It seems the kids got lost driving to my place, compounded by the fact that they had to take back roads all the way, because neither of them were old enough to drive. A minute later a guy pulls into my drive in a fancy car. He climbs out and comes over to greet me. He has shiney rings on every finger, starch pressed shirt and slacks, fancy boots and hat and smells like a french #$&*.
Obviously, alarm bells are going off in my head. I show him the well house and pump controls and he asks if he can borrow my multi-meter to check the electrical. He does a little checking and then starts saying that something isn't correct with the power feed to the pump controls. he can't figure out that when he checks between the three wires, he has 220 between two of them, but then only 110 between one or the other and the common.
I'm smart enough, so I ask him "what's the deal slick?", before I get ready to send him packing. It turns out that he was a bail bondsman and his brother, the "well driller" was running late fishing a pump out of someones well after the homeowener backed over the well head.
Smartly, "slick" decided we'd wait until his brother arrived. Thankfully, his brother was pretty sharp and found a short in the wire 40' down the hole as we began to pull the pump. We fixed it and put everything back together. We decided that they'd come back on Monday and pull the entire length and replace some pretty rusted pipe sections and string new wire to the pump.
I never saw them again. I also was never asked to pay a dime (I was going to pay after all the work was complete.)
redlevel
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Depending on what is covered in the "$30 to 40" a foot, that sounds pretty reasonable to me. What diameter well are you talking about? You said for irrigation purposes. How much volume of water? One hundred gpm? Five hundred gpm? One thousand gpm? When someone says you can hit "good" water at X00 ft., are they talking about good for residential use or for irrigation. On one of my farms I have a residential well that is 170 ft. deep. It yields about 12gpm with a one-half horse pump set at about 110 feet. I also have a ten-inch irrigation well that yielded 650 gpm when it was drilled. It has about twenty-five feet of stainless steel screen and a turbine pump. It is 565 feet deep. This well, as are most irrigation wells around here,is also gravel packed. That is in the Coastal Plain of Georgia.
I recently had a well drilled at my wife's homeplace. The driller hit rock at 118 feet and broke into an aquifer at 450 feet. The total price, including pvc casing and submersible pump was $4800. This particular driller guaranteed 3gpm or you don't have to pay. They say that is the absolute minimum for a residential well. This well actually yields about 15gpm with the one-half horse pump. The driller said I could easily pump 100gpm without drawing the well down. This is with six inch casing and one inch column.
My point is that for, say, an 8" diameter well with slotted pvc screen, or better, stainless steel screen, that doesn't sound like a bad price at all. If the price is just for a 4" hole in the ground and you pay extra for casing and screen, it sounds pretty steep. There are a lot of variables.
I recently had a well drilled at my wife's homeplace. The driller hit rock at 118 feet and broke into an aquifer at 450 feet. The total price, including pvc casing and submersible pump was $4800. This particular driller guaranteed 3gpm or you don't have to pay. They say that is the absolute minimum for a residential well. This well actually yields about 15gpm with the one-half horse pump. The driller said I could easily pump 100gpm without drawing the well down. This is with six inch casing and one inch column.
My point is that for, say, an 8" diameter well with slotted pvc screen, or better, stainless steel screen, that doesn't sound like a bad price at all. If the price is just for a 4" hole in the ground and you pay extra for casing and screen, it sounds pretty steep. There are a lot of variables.
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Check with your local water utility company. They sometimes have a small rig that they use and you may find someone there who is willing to do "weekend" work. It all depends how much water you need but you'll usually find some shallower than 800' if irrigation is all you want it for. Also consider digging a pit (pond or lake), using a smaller, shallower well to fill the pit and a bigger pump from the pit to feed the irrigation sysyem.
Thanks for all the help and replys guys!!!!
Excellent information.
All I know at this point is that the well, free and complete with pump and PVC casing is that price. They don't expressly guarantee that the well will produce water but if it doesn't they will drill another for you in a different location. There are two outfits here, Moser drilling and Earth Tech. My dad had Earth Tech drill his well and they had to drill it 3 times before they hit a good flow. His well is about 50 gpm or so, I believe. Not sure the diameter of the casing.
The tip about sharing a well is a good one. My brother and I live next door to each other and we will most likely go in half and share the well.
I don't really know much at this point, as you can see, except that the price sounds steep but I may be way off base.
Jinman, yes Prosper is definitely growing. I lived in Frisco 10 years ago when the only thing there was the Hacienda Ranch restaurant and Home Depot. Now you can't tell where Plano ends and Frisco begins!
Prosper is still "country" compared to that but there are definitely signs that the growth is coming. I am lucky to have 3.5 acres with my brother's 3.5 right beside me. At the back of my lot there is a wooded area that is really big and we've made this our camping/hammock/rope swing/BBQ/hangout area. To the back of that is Wilson Creek, a limestone bedded creek that runs all the way to McKinney for about 25 miles or so. We take the kids out there and ride around in our Polaris Ranger for fun.
Prosper is nice but the city is coming!!
Thanks guys.
Excellent information.
All I know at this point is that the well, free and complete with pump and PVC casing is that price. They don't expressly guarantee that the well will produce water but if it doesn't they will drill another for you in a different location. There are two outfits here, Moser drilling and Earth Tech. My dad had Earth Tech drill his well and they had to drill it 3 times before they hit a good flow. His well is about 50 gpm or so, I believe. Not sure the diameter of the casing.
The tip about sharing a well is a good one. My brother and I live next door to each other and we will most likely go in half and share the well.
I don't really know much at this point, as you can see, except that the price sounds steep but I may be way off base.
Jinman, yes Prosper is definitely growing. I lived in Frisco 10 years ago when the only thing there was the Hacienda Ranch restaurant and Home Depot. Now you can't tell where Plano ends and Frisco begins!
Prosper is still "country" compared to that but there are definitely signs that the growth is coming. I am lucky to have 3.5 acres with my brother's 3.5 right beside me. At the back of my lot there is a wooded area that is really big and we've made this our camping/hammock/rope swing/BBQ/hangout area. To the back of that is Wilson Creek, a limestone bedded creek that runs all the way to McKinney for about 25 miles or so. We take the kids out there and ride around in our Polaris Ranger for fun.
Prosper is nice but the city is coming!!
Thanks guys.
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My ex-boss had a really high quote for a well on his farm. He looked at the cost and for half of it he went to an equipment auction and bought a drill rig, drilled his own and about 20 others before he sold the rig for just what he paid for it.
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$30-$40 per foot drilled
I just started a thread on my drilled well and they are charging $9.00 per foot and they went 625'. At $30-$40 per foot I would of had a heart attack or told the wife we were going to carry water from the river and build a water tank.
He did say they would be going up next year because of a well tax the state or county is adding. But it was going to be more like $12.00 per foot next year.
I just started a thread on my drilled well and they are charging $9.00 per foot and they went 625'. At $30-$40 per foot I would of had a heart attack or told the wife we were going to carry water from the river and build a water tank.
He did say they would be going up next year because of a well tax the state or county is adding. But it was going to be more like $12.00 per foot next year.
I to just found out that I'm having to install a new well, the old well casting which was two inch galvanized pipe has gone bad leaking water out under pressure. The leak seems to be down about ten plus feet so a new well is in order. This old well has served us well for over 40 plus years. The galvanized casing in down 383ft and the total depth of the well is 600ft thats into lime rock.The esimate for a new well with tank and pump is about 5000.00 here in Coastal Georgia.
Wow does this thread hit home. I am a chicken farmer in East Texas and started to drill my own wells to save money. You can read more about my story on my website A1 Water Well Drilling and service. I have been charging $14 a foot plus equuipment cost and set up and I am not making a killing at that price. I would make killing in East Texas at $30 a foot but I think that I might loose money at that price in your area. You see in East Texas we drill with mud rotary. We use mud to wash up the cuttings that the bits produce. We have what is called unconsolidated formations. These are sand and shale formations with multiple layers of water. We can drill pretty fast most of the time. A typical borehole in East Texas will only encounter limited amounts of rock. If I had to drill through hundreds of feet of rock it would take me weeks and cost a fortune. I bet the guys in your area use air to drill. This takes a larger initial investment and cost more to operate but it is very fast in consolidated rock formations. With a down hole hammer and air you can drill through hundreds of feet of rock in a day. I bet that the differences in equipment and formations are the main reasons for the price differences. Hope this helps...feel free to contact me. I really enjoyed reading through the thread!!
