I am wondering if anyone here has ever tried, or knows of anybody who has tried something like this air-powered drill to make a water-well? I need to get a good source for water at some remote property I have in the Michigan Upper Peninsula. No rock. Sand all the way down although it gets pretty hard-packed once you get down below 5 feet. Water table is only 2 feet down right now and in the driest times about 6 feet. I already dug a well with my backhoe that is around 12 feet deep but the water is horrible. Note we are next to a bog/swamp. So I need to drill a well that only gets water from down deep enough to miss the bad surface water.
Note - I already tried driving a point like many do in the area. I am not sure what the trick is - but I gave up. I keep hammering the threads off the 1" steel pipe when I get down to 10-15 feet. That even with the so-called correct drive-caps.
Well driller - even if he could get a rig back on my land will likely want around $5000 just for a hole and a casing put in. Plus it requires a $300 well permit and up go my taxes probably.
Like I said, it is hard sand all the way down. No rock at all. I am pretty sure a well 40-50 feet would work fine.
I have a gas-powered 4" auger with enough extensions to go that deep. Just not sure if it will really work. It would take a lot of messing around coupling and uncoupling extensions and trying to get the drilled sand up and out of the hole.
I see this rig for sale on the Net. Says it cleans itself out as it goes down. In theory, sounds like it might do the job. But for $700, I want to be dead-sure this thing really works. Cannot say I ever seen one in real life.
Note - I already tried driving a point like many do in the area. I am not sure what the trick is - but I gave up. I keep hammering the threads off the 1" steel pipe when I get down to 10-15 feet. That even with the so-called correct drive-caps.
Well driller - even if he could get a rig back on my land will likely want around $5000 just for a hole and a casing put in. Plus it requires a $300 well permit and up go my taxes probably.
Like I said, it is hard sand all the way down. No rock at all. I am pretty sure a well 40-50 feet would work fine.
I have a gas-powered 4" auger with enough extensions to go that deep. Just not sure if it will really work. It would take a lot of messing around coupling and uncoupling extensions and trying to get the drilled sand up and out of the hole.
I see this rig for sale on the Net. Says it cleans itself out as it goes down. In theory, sounds like it might do the job. But for $700, I want to be dead-sure this thing really works. Cannot say I ever seen one in real life.