Posted by Billy NY on July 23, 2016 at 12:47:59 from (104.228.35.235):
In Reply to: DIY shallow well? posted by Moresmoke on July 23, 2016 at 11:23:05:
I've set a 1000'(length) of 18' deep well points before, they do sink in easily when you have them connected to water from a pressurized 12" main.
I'd also not want to dig in that type of soil without retaining the sidewalls, fine sand is no fun to dig in. I've been in one collapse in fine sand myself. I was holding up a phone line with a rope near the cut, a huge chunk fell in with me riding it down. I held on to that rope and was hanging from the phone line as the excavator operator was spinning back around to get another bucket full. I had to dig another co-worker out who was pinned by a big chunk of it against the opposite trench wall, right up to his face. We were installing a new sewer line through sand conditions, 20' deep or so, the job was a disaster from the start, given the way it was done. They finally wised up, got a trench box, well point system to lower the water table.
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