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Pitch

04-01-2002 04:24:28




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I need a bit of advice from you sage's on the board. Putting in a new home the site contractor showed up on schedule and is going great. The drilling guy parked his rig on the lot Saturday last and started drilling Monday got about 15' down and his engine took a dump (old Continental Red Seal) since then he has come out and puttered aruond with it a couple of hours a day but still hasn't got it running. How much patience should I have with this guy? This is a very small community and I really don't want to alienate myself by being a major pr**k but I do need that well in soon. Any advice on how to handle this? I
spent the weekend on the lot with the '49 N cutting and snaking walnut logs to clear the garage area old baby purred like a kitten and growled like a lion when I put the power to her.

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Vic

04-01-2002 10:06:36




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 Re: OT /Well Drillers in reply to Pitch, 04-01-2002 04:24:28  
Is the guy aware of what your schedule is? I guess I'd strike up a conversation with him, ask him nicely when he figures you'll have a well, and tactfully let him know that you really need it by (whenever). Maybe butter him up by telling him that everybody says he's the best, and that you sure don't want to settle another well driller unless he doesn't think he can do it in time.

I'd start out by being a nice guy, and only resort to being obnoxious if all else fails.

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George Willer

04-01-2002 06:14:49




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 Re: OT /Well Drillers in reply to Pitch, 04-01-2002 04:24:28  
That sounds like the old antique spudding rigs they used to use around here many years ago to drill 4 1/4" wells. They took nearly forever. The modern rigs that drill 5 5/8" wells use rotary rigs with much larger engines. I've had a lot of drilling done by a rig powered by a Detroit 671 on the table and an 8V71 on the compressor. He could usually do a 120'well and be gone in 4 hours.

In our area, all the smaller wells have been abandoned because we can't use submersible pumps in them...they grow barnicles and get stuck.

George Willer

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pump man

04-01-2002 07:25:24




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 Re: Re: OT /Well Drillers in reply to George Willer, 04-01-2002 06:14:49  
That is true. It is hard to get a submersible down the old 4" wells. it is even harder to get them back out. Unless you can find a slimline pump, made, I believe, by Grundfos. Not my favorite pump, but works in a jam (pardon the pun) Prefer Goulds and Sta- rite. Pounded wells are not ganerally as deep as rotary drilled wells. The rotaries spin so fast, they can actually miss a good aquifer. Just my 2 cents worth.

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RON/PA

04-01-2002 08:23:11




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 Re: Re: Re: OT /Well Drillers in reply to pump man, 04-01-2002 07:25:24  
But what we have found is that when a rotary misses a good aquifer, it will open up later and you have a higher gpm than you thought you did, as in, one drains down into the other.
As to how long do you wait, small community or not (mine is less than 400) sooner or later you gotta tick somebody off. It might as well be now. Unless the driller is your father in law, let him know that you expect him to work on a schedule that works for you, not just for him. After all you are paying the bill.
Ron

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