Why 80 feet deep? That's deep well territory. That gets bored and generally sleeved 4" with a submersed pump that then feeds a 2" well pipe. Yep, $4,000 is a lot of money, especially these days. Why 80 feet? Are you in the hills and that's where the water table is? I have a deep well feeding the house for water quality, but in reality where our deep well is, I would have had to go down probably 50 feet. Down in one of the barns though which is down a hill into a valley, I only had to go down probably 25' for the water table, although I went down 25' plus a 5' well head, 30 feet total...which is wrong. 25' is near max on a shallow well, but since I don't use it much. And for two years, I had a problem loosing prime until it finally sealed. That's what a pneumatic driver can cause if you're not careful. This is a 2" using a one horse pump and I had to use a tractor and load because of the weight of the driver. You figure a 5' section of pipe, drive couplers, and a section of pipe to be driven by the driver and beat to snot, to hoist a pneumatic driver up that high takes a lot of umph, hence tractor loader to lift it and set it on the pipe. Takes about 30 seconds to drive, but the vibration takes its toll and will loosen drive couplers that should actually twist and bind tighter and generally do. I've driven wells by hand as deep as 25', and that's work. Good for that is a once car axle welded to a 100 pound hunk of steel...the axle goes down inside of the pipe, and the whole thing gets lifted and dropped repeatedly on a drive couple that gets beat so bad it can never be used, but saves the pipe from getting beat up. Pulled a 1" well at about 10' plus the well head, replaced with a 1.5" at about 15' plus the well head, and about a decade later pulled it and replaced with a 2" at 20' plus the well head...and sold the house, down all by hand which is a lot of work. This 2" barn well at 25' plus a 5' well head? Pneumatic, but am sure it all twisted and angled off even at 30'. I can't imagine even trying 80', and the pipe that I originally bought from Menards is still setting in a corner of a barn waiting to get used for something someday...but not a well. I have to admit, that when I compared the wall thickness to the wall thickness of the pipe I ultimately used from a well supplier, the Menards was about half the thickness.
My best advice to anyone...learn from MY mistakes so you don't make the same ones.
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