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Post by Butch Bridges on Apr 17, 2008 7:39:03 GMT -6
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Post by CrosstimbersOkie on Apr 17, 2008 23:48:37 GMT -6
So, you are going to hand dig it? How deep do you think you'll have to go? What will you line it with?
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Post by Butch Bridges on Apr 18, 2008 5:02:17 GMT -6
My neighbors have holes around 120 ft deep. Their water level never drops below 20 ft from the surface. So I hope if I drill down to around 75 ft I will be ok. No, I won't be digging it with a pick and shovel. lol. I'll be using a 4 inch bit driven by an air compressor. Ernest Martin told me this week that in 1948 he, his brother, and another man hand dug with picks and shovels a well just 1 mile NE from where my property is located. They went to about 50 feet if I remember right. When his brother was down in the hole digging, he broke through a rocky crusty layer, and water started pouring in. He had to climb out as fast as he could.
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Post by CrosstimbersOkie on Apr 18, 2008 10:22:14 GMT -6
How deep is bedrock there? You definitely want to be below the bedrock water filter.
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Post by Butch Bridges on Apr 18, 2008 20:16:55 GMT -6
Bedrock? Hum. You know, I really don't know. I will ask my neighbors. Thanks for bringing this up.
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Post by Butch Bridges on Apr 22, 2008 19:08:28 GMT -6
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Post by Butch Bridges on Apr 26, 2008 20:27:12 GMT -6
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Post by avidkamper on May 4, 2008 17:20:32 GMT -6
I dunno Butch, I think maybe I would just have a professional well driller drill the thing, even though its fairly expansive these days. Of course, then again, I am moderately afraid of hard work.
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Post by Butch Bridges on May 4, 2008 20:16:38 GMT -6
Well, I've looked at both sides. Yes, its expensive to have a professional do it, in the Ardmore area its $20 a foot to drill today by a professional. And I may wish I have gone that route before its over, but I just love the challenge. I am all ready to start drilling, got my PVC and everything set, just need more air than my home air compressor will put out, so I guess I'll have to rent one. One that keeps 90 PSI at 16 CFM cost $110 a day or $330 for 5 to 7 days. So I need to decide what to do soon, but I will start drilling before too many days go by. Wish I knew someone who would let me rent/borrow their air compress at a bargin..... I'd be drilling for sure! Anyway, soon.... very soon.
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Post by Butch Bridges on May 11, 2008 17:23:29 GMT -6
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Post by monroecameron on May 15, 2008 21:42:49 GMT -6
Butch,
How did you decide where to locate your well? I'm curious if you used a water witch. When I was 15 in 1961, my dad built a service station in Mannsville and prior to construction he had to dig a water well. I went with him one day and we met a gentleman who witched water.
We watched as he cut two branches from a tree and strip them of leaves and small branches. My dad told him the approximate area he wanted the gentleman to look and he began walking over the ground. On a number of occasions the branches crossed one another and I marked the spots with rocks. When he was finsihed, my dad asked where the most shallow water was and the gentleman told him.
My dad hired a drilling rig and had the well dug on the spot and hit water at either 60 or 66 feet. When the well was finished, my dad poured a one gallon jug of Clorox down the hole and left it for a day.
I've forgotten what the flow was on the well, but it supplied all the water ever needed for the station. It was also good cold drinking water.
It's the only time I ever saw someone witch for water but I have been told by a friend that he witnessed another gentlemen use iron rods to witch water. I've seen it. I just don't understand it.
Monroe
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Post by Butch Bridges on May 16, 2008 5:05:38 GMT -6
Well Monroe, I witched the spot myself. Plus to verify, there was 2 others who witched it, all came up with the same spot, so that is how I picked that particular spot. I used two coat hangers (some use welding rods) bent at right angles to make short 'handles' on each rod. There was no doubt when I passed over that spot, the rods went together and crossed with a very very strong force. I dont understand it either, but I know my great grandmother, Carrie Ida Murphree Miller could witch for water. She is who I get my Choctaw Indian blood.... she was born in 1874 at Blount County, Alabama. www.oklahomahistory.net/carmon/idamiller41.jpg |
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