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We've done two wells here. The first was dug with a backhoe. Twenty two feet down through sand and clay. We lined it with six four foot diameter crocks and pumped with a shallow jet pump in the basement. That served for 19 years. The water supplied both house and barn.
When we became concerned about slowing refresh times, we called in a rotary drill. He went down a total of 120 feet in about two hours. He drove 6 inch casing about 30 feet into the sand stone. We installed a submersible pump about 100 feet down and were able to cut the water pipe off at the old well and connect it to the pitless fitting on the new well casing.
I can still access the old well and used it to flood the ice on the small outdoor rink I made for our grand daughter last winter.
Best
Les
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Best
Les
My train of thought has been replaced by a bumper car.
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