Besides electricity, does anyone know if there is any to pump water from a 170' deep well?

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431045
5/10/2008 10:41 PM

Re: Besides electricity, does anyone know if there is any to pump water from a 170' deep well?

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Okay for us suburbanites, how do we DIG our well? How big around does it need to be? I think the water level is fairly shallow here in Florida but how does one go about digging one's preparedness well without angering the homeowners' association? Can this be done in a, ahem, subtle way?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 317795

You can drive a sand point to as much as 60 feet down. That is a simple drop hammer, but still makes some noise. Nobody told me that you need to rotate the whole pipe manually clockwise into the threads (tighten). My point broke off when it tried to go off sideways. The rotation is what helps keep the point going straight.

If you are in nearly pure sand, there is a technique for using pressurized water to blast the sand back up. With this technique, you drive a two inch pipe which will be your final well (drop hammer) but no point at all. You run a 3/4 inch pipe inside the two inch full of flowing water. You keep raising and dropping the inner pipe and as sand is pushed up between the outside of the 3/4 inch pipe and the inside of the two inch pipe - you keep driving the outside as the sand is forced out. Less total noise than the sand point system.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431045
5/10/2008 10:57 PM

Re: Besides electricity, does anyone know if there is any to pump water from a 170' deep well?

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Lehaman's still has the hand pumps that can handle down to 200ft but the are not cheap..
[link to www.lehmans.com]

Damn, 600 bucks!

I don't the answer to the questions asked. All I know is that the well guy had to go down 170'. You pay by the foot in well drilling. I assume if he went down that far, that's where he must hit water (?). We have a pipe thingy in the backyard where it was drilled. There's some other component in the basement (the electric part).

With the hand pump, do you hook it up to where the caped pipe thing is (in the backyard)?

I was thinking about storing water in 55 gallon drums (or whatever those big ones are. I was always concerned about bacteria, but then I was think if we had one those Burkee water filters that all we'd have to do is filter the water, and then no worries. Does that sound logical?

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 385176

Chances are the actual distance to water in your well is considerably less than 170 feet. It could very well stand at 50 feet or less which makes a low draw (~50 gallons per day) a much easier answer.

It is very likely that you would need to pull your existing pump to set a hand pump. They commonly use multiple rubber spacing devices to keep the riser pipe steady and centered. These spacer devices would not let the cylinder pass.

You know there are filed well reports? Your state keeps records on all well reports. I would still like to talk to the guy who drilled the well. If it isn't too long ago, he might remember.

As for keeping water safe in storage containers, get some iodine water treatment. A little bit of that goes a long way and everybody needs more iodine than they're getting anyway.

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Monarch
User ID: 427519
5/10/2008 11:46 PM

Re: Besides electricity, does anyone know if there is any to pump water from a 170' deep well?	Quote
Better be careful with iodine, people sensitive to shellfish or dyes(AND DYE TESTS) could have a reaction to that water.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 385176 (OP)
6/12/2008 1:32 AM

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 450387
6/12/2008 1:39 AM

Re: Besides electricity, does anyone know if there is any to pump water from a 170' deep well?

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Lehman's still has the hand pumps that can handle down to 200ft but the are not cheap..
[link to www.lehmans.com]

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 425278

Lehman's has galvanized well buckets that can fit into a narrow well casing and can be raised and lowered by rope. They are only about $43.00. There is another site that sells plastic ones for slightly less. Google well bucket. If you are handy, you can make one yourself.

[link to www.lehmans.com]

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