A Couple Thoughts
anonymous
March 2 2010, 10:28:11 UTC
On water wells. Your great grandpa Ike Gregory. Had the ability to find water with a forked willow tree branch. If you remember I could find unmarked graves with the forked metal rod from a grave side wreath frame. You could get the vill together as a community project and dig the well by hand.They need water right ? If you remember us telling you kids about the well dad,Scotty,Gary and I dug by hand on Alice and Scottys place ? I was 14 and Scotty and I together witched that water with a willow fork. Dad said we couldn't find water cause we werent papaw. We said true but grandsons of a man that could. We found water. We got Scottys wrecker. Welded a steel box about 4'X 4' hooked it to the wrecker tripod and started digging. We hit a water trickel at 12'. And lost it at 15'. We hit a good flow at 20'.We ended up using concrete septic tanks and concrete culvert pipe and turned it into a cistern.We preformed a concrete slab and dropped a pump down it.That was almost 46 years ago.Scott and Alice sold that farm a couple years after I etsd from the Army.The water was still running cold and strong when the place sold. I bet I could go there now and it would still be pumping water. You could find some pipe at least 4" diameter.Have it welded in a tripod with a tire rim or smaller wheel. Have at least a 4'x 4' metal box welded with eye hooks on each corner.Hook it to a tractor or a pair of oxen and start digging. Make the hole bigger than you need in diameter.Dont let anybody stay in the hole when your bringing it out.Then ride the box back down.You would have the whole community involved. Just a thought. A wascally,wabbitt tip. Always bring the doe to the buck never the buck to the doe.He will kill her. Another thought could you get some of the farmers to lend you a cart and a couple cows to pull it ? Start BBD' taxi service...Have a good day daughter. Dad
Re: A Couple Thoughtspc_2009March 2 2010, 10:57:11 UTC
Well, they have organizations here that do the borehole digging. And a borehole and a well are two different things. A borehole needs to be dug to a large water table, sometimes over a hundred feet into the ground and that's too deep to do by hand. The people do dig their own wells here and it's a numerous-person affair.
Water isn't just sitting around underground here, though - it's simply not here. And what is here is too deep to reach by hand. And the pumps for the boreholes are REALLY expensive - like 500GhC (about $300 - which is a LOT for a place like where I'm working). We'll try to figure out something because it's becoming a slightly desperate situation. The dams and creeks the people go to are beginning to dry up as the rain takes longer to come.
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Water isn't just sitting around underground here, though - it's simply not here. And what is here is too deep to reach by hand. And the pumps for the boreholes are REALLY expensive - like 500GhC (about $300 - which is a LOT for a place like where I'm working). We'll try to figure out something because it's becoming a slightly desperate situation. The dams and creeks the people go to are beginning to dry up as the rain takes longer to come.
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