Well being drilled tomorrow, anything I should look for?

[Flatheadyoungin]

drill baby drill.......drill baby drill.......

sorry, i had to.......

 

[riptides]

drill baby drill.......drill baby drill.......

sorry, i had to.......

Pretty soon we will be drilling each other........

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

washington has been doing a lot of that to us over a long period...

how'd your well go?

Pretty soon we will be drilling each other........

 

[3RRL]

Hope your well digging went "well".
It has to be the most exciting event on your property. It was for us. We've had our well in for over 3 years now and I sure don't miss hauling water in 5 gal jerry cans up to camp. Water on your land changes everything.
Here is our website when we had our hard rock well installed.
Well Drilling Photos
We had to go 442 feet but got 100+ gals a minute, so it was worth it.
Again, good luck and take lots of pictures and a video of when he hits "THE BIG ONE".

 

[Tororider]

Well they got the well dug today. 52 feet down and making lots of clean water. Apparently that is par for the course in our area. They are going to let it dry out overnight and come back and trench to the barn tomorrow and hook up the holding tank and yard hydrant.

While they were drilling they guy who did our driveway from the excavating company stopped by. He mentioned that they were really slow right now. Hrmm... maybe we can get a septic done before our big fall party and hayride on Oct 18th.

I am really looking forward to water at the property. Everyone has said it is the biggest change on the property. Immediately to me it means that we won't have to lug 300 gallons of water from my parents to the farm in the back of the pickup when we want to water the trees or pumpkins(which have been eaten by something the last couple weeks). And maybe be able to water the food plot much more easily. I will keep you updated on the hope of a septic.

Oh yeah, and I will try to post a couple pictures.

 

[jinman]

Well they got the well dug today. 52 feet down and making lots of clean water. Apparently that is par for the course in our area. They are going to let it dry out overnight and come back and trench to the barn tomorrow and hook up the holding tank and yard hydrant.

Congratulations! Glad your well is done. It's hard for me to believe that you will have water from only 52' down that is not very hard. I suspect you will be treating it before long. . . but heck, if not, you have a real stroke of luck. I also think most shallow wells pump 10 gpm or less. That's what I had at a house I owned in Virginia when my well was only 27' down. The water was very hard and pumped only 7 gpm. I had to keep a softener on it to get good water, but it met our needs. I hope yours is a little better. On the property I grew up on in Denton, TX, there were springs everywhere and we had a dug well down just 30'. We never treated that water and it was great. It was hard, but had no bad taste.

 

[Tororider]

Got the pipes in today and the yard hydrant. He said that the well will make about 25 gpm and the 3/4 hp pump will only pump 18 gpm so we should be good. He said it will be hard, but it gets harder the deeper you go around here. Apparently this area is known for its hard water. They are coming back to drop the pump in tomorrow and hook up the electrical and then we will be all set. Looking forward to it.

 

[GaryQWA]

Pumps come in two parts, the motor and the wet end. The wet end is rated in gpm and the motor in hp. To size a pump you figure the peak demand gpm required at the TDH (total dynamic head) of the system and then select the HP to get the job done.

IMO, a 3/4 hp is overkill in a 52' deep well that should have the pum pat 42' off the bottom, unless you are at like 5000' or higher elevation. Under say 1500' a 1/2 hp 13 gpm would be fine and deliver about 16 gpm to second story fixtures at 30/50 psi. Pumps move water from the static, or dynamic, water level in the well. With your recovery rate gpm, you won't be pulling the static water level down.

 

[leonz]

Well they got the well dug today. 52 feet down and making lots of clean water. Apparently that is par for the course in our area. They are going to let it dry out overnight and come back and trench to the barn tomorrow and hook up the holding tank and yard hydrant.

While they were drilling they guy who did our driveway from the excavating company stopped by. He mentioned that they were really slow right now. Hrmm... maybe we can get a septic done before our big fall party and hayride on Oct 18th.

I am really looking forward to water at the property. Everyone has said it is the biggest change on the property. Immediately to me it means that we won't have to lug 300 gallons of water from my parents to the farm in the back of the pickup when we want to water the trees or pumpkins(which have been eaten by something the last couple weeks). And maybe be able to water the food plot much more easily. I will keep you updated on the hope of a septic.

Oh yeah, and I will try to post a couple pictures.

Asking as certified well driller:

Did they drill and drive at the same time using compressed air to flush out the cuttings from the well bore or did they drill th ehole wet with a mud drilling rig?

What type of casing did they use threaded or welded to together or plastic?


Shallow wells always risk surface contamination from surface water run off, especially if the casing is not sealed with concrete or bentonite clay, etc.

What did they use to seal the casing at the surface?

The leach field for your septic system has to be a minimum of 100 feet away from the well casing. the further the better of coures so if you have the room to put if far from the well head you should do it as running the long pipe from the tank to the leach field or sand filter is no problem-I have done it.


I think you mentioned installing an old aermotor ?
That involves a lot of preparation work. Each leg of the of the tower will require a pad foundation straight out from that leg of the tower and will need to be below the frost line.

The tower legs 3-4 will have an angle iron bolted to the leg and it will need to be secured to the slab with nuts and studs set/imbedded in the concrete to secure it to each slab the slab must be below the frost line as well as you will have a large amount wind load to anchor against. Aermotor has a slab size chart length/width/slab thickness for it windmills. use a formed foundation, rebar, and mesh with a concrete vibrator-that is a must as you will be burying a cured slab do not bury it before it is fully cured. A very high bag count sand mix is easy to work with for simplicities sake.

The mill will need a slab around the well casing as well to protect the well head as water will be drawn out of the well all the way to the surface through a packing gland and being pumped to a tank or a pump jack head. There i smore to know if you would like to know more.

Do not oversize the pump as you will starve the electric motor and burn it out-the casing if six inch diameter will hold 1.5 gallons per foot.

Also be sure they install a water sleeve to cool the electric motor as the motor is at the bottom of a centrifugal well pump and the water must pass the motor to cool it.

The same goes for using torque arrestors and wiring guides etc. Also do not use electrical tape to hold the wire to the drop pipe as toulene will leach from the tape into the water supply. Use heavy exterior use zip ties for that job-the black ones.


Also use a heavy polypropylene rope to attach it to the rope eye on the pump and not to the drop pipe, tie the excess around the exposed well casing above ground.


If you wish to really use the wind mill as a water pumper a steel drop pipe can be used with the electric pump on the bottom when you have no wind.


A gravity drop water tank can be installed in the loft of the barn very easily if it can handle the load per square foot.

 

[Tororider]

The 3/4 hp motor is what my dad decided he wanted, along with the 52 gallon holding tank rather than the standard 31. I guess he figured better to overdo than underdo it I suppose.

I believe they wet drilled it. They had a big tank on the ground right next to the drill so that is my guess. They also blew it out with air, so I am told.

They used a plastic casing. It is sealed with bentonite. The septic will be about 150' away I believe, I know for sure it is farther than 100'. With regards to what they used to fasten wires and things of that nature, I was busy keeping my two little ones out of harms way so I didn't notice.

I do know that the hose puts out a ton of pressure coming off the yard hydrant. Thanks for all the help, I will try to get some pictures up soon.